Establish a local and grid power distribution in the house and never connect the two.
With some planning (not unlike grey water for the lawn) it should be possible to move many home services from the grid to local.
The most obvious to me are battery charging stations for phones, tablets, CARS and more. Automobile batteries are big and have a dedicated plug. Use the local plug on a sunny day and the grid plug as needed. Hot water and home AC+ventilation are other big power consumers.
Electric autos are interesting because with correct configuration they can be both local home storage as well as stored fuel for transportation.
If you do RPN then there is no option to use a TI calculator.
I wish HP would revisit the older HP-21 just add a modern display perhaps an E-ink display or pixelqi.com technology display.
To me the most interesting idea would be a USB link not too different than the BeagleboneBlack where you can interact with a web browser (and charge the batteries).
Plug the USB link and the calculator keyboard and display are fully mirrored. Unplug it to take into a test. To qualify for a test it would need a serious reset button that does the right thing.
In this case the calculator could be as full featured as the HP41cv or the HP-48 and beyond.
Emerging markets... likely need enterprise class equipment too.
....snip....
SDN is coming, and the likes of Cisco are terrified of it. So would you be if your own executives thought it was going to cut your company's value in half.....shop....
Hmmm..... SDN... I cannot comment on the "cut value in half" but they seem to have a toe in the waters. Of interest big Cisco hardware has few if any honest competition. One of the keys issues is provisions for "legal" wiretaps. Legal taps in contrast to the NSA vacuum it all up problematic processes.
The high end seems secure(ish} but the machine room is under attack. Note the interesting project that Facebook has undertaken where a router at the top of the rack seems to be the keystone for machine room nework redesign. The performance and bandwidth of modern computation hardware and modern disk (SSD) bandwidth is moving some key performance metrics down to the rack one, two, three router hops and an equal number of bandwidth edges closer onto the rack.
This is obvious as a post digital transition impact (predictable if your eyes are open).
In a time period that was 5% of the life of a TV virtually all TVs were made obsolete. More interesting to me is this made moot a lot of tube technology patents and vastly increased the value of current flat TV patents, sort of. I should note that when I finally replace my big flat panel many of the interesting patents will have expired or been cross licensed.
The result of that is virtually all households replaced their older but still working fine TVs with lower power flat panel devices.
We are going to see the same thing in the CFE and LED lighting industry when the new lamps have a 10 year life in contrast.... "Typical incandescent bulbs last 1,000 to 2,000 hours. But in speaking about LED replacements, lamp life is routinely quoted as 25,000 to 50,000 hours." (per the web).
A 25x increase in life if true will have astounding impact on the viability of companies making these lamps.
Now that we know the final orbit path Nova Scotia would have been the best place on North America to see the satellite. Alaska might have been cool too.
Of interest there were no visual sightings of the final decent (so far).
The more I think about the decent of large package satellites the more reason there is to design for reentry perhaps non-reentry.
With autos the design strategy is layers designed to take a licking shed energy and protect the internal occupant area. With satellites it makes sense for the reverse and by design minimize the ability of the components to protect any large internal mass. Perhaps something like exposed straps not unlike barrel hoops that while strong would burn up very quickly so the internal bits would spill and fly apart. Such a design would not decelerate masses like mirrors and tanks before exposing them at maximum velocity to reentry. Other tricks might employ plasma channels to allow generated plasma to cut the satellite apart from the inside out.
Science like this is way cool. As big a fan as I am of deep space discoveries by the Hubble and tiny space discoveries by the LHC this satellite looked at the earth. Foundation research like this may help with understanding all manner of earth local disasters and non disasters....
Now let us hope we do not get smacked back into the stone age by some random asteroid.
It's not gravity that's the problem - it's air resistance. Earth's atmosphere doesn't have a distinct edge, and you have to get pretty frelling far out before the particle count drops low enough not to matter to things going 10,000+mph. Certainly a lot farther than the measly few dozen miles to low Earth orbit.
Well the orbital path does make large parts of the globe safe.
That is why Carly and I are flying my jet to Nova Scotia just to be safe.
... catch fire more than Japanese or European cars. Its got nothing to do with fuel type. Its down to poor engineering.
Or simply decades of relentless improvement.
The first automobile patent in the United States was granted to Oliver Evans in 1789. (google search) The first gas powered car was invented by Karl Friedrich Benz around 1885 to 1886 in Germany....(google search)
Woops before gas power there was steam and electricity.
Still this is interesting and important if you are an engineer but it is clear the industry is 'after' Tesla. The real threat to the auto industry is the Tesla distribution model that has all the dealers in the US up in arms.
As I think about the issue I am reminded how dangerous large battery assemblies are in submarines and also in central offices of POTs telco companies.
I suspect there will be a lot of pressure on Tesla. Tesla is in the best position to upset the auto makers apple cart and to some degree big oil, yep a lot of vested interest folk will be after them.
Still it make sense to review the product. A big pile of batteries should be well protected.
The NTSB does a good job on aircraft accidents.... but this is new turf... who knows.
If one provider takes on coverage for "suspected losing cases", then they will go out of business, especially if their competitor is always only taking "profitable cases".
Try reading TFA. Pay attention to the part where (as in the summary) they explain the shift away from an all risks pool to a preferred risk pool.
Next, learn something about why healthcare is so expensive, because you clearly have no fucking idea. Hint: it is related to the business model of the insurers, not the actual cost of the delivering the care. If it were, all those other countries who are delivering better healthcare for far less money would not be doing so.
These are all reasons for Obama care. Sadly the Affordable Health Care Act is missing all the above and more. Further the insurance companies saw the flaws in the act and are gaming the system seven ways to Sunday.
IMO, it seems that at this point this legislation made things worse not better.
This article makes a good point. Anyone that has applied for insurance know that they know more about you than you might remember. They know your parents life death siblings life death.. it goes on and while they gather more info the more they charge.
The best analogy is the old 21tables in Vegas and Reno. Old in the sense that it is pre card counting days. Those casinos that watched card counters would stopped dealing the full deck. They would shuffle quicker if anyone on the table would double their wager. The five deck shoe... same they would shuffle closer and closer to the beginning of the shoe.
These rule changes after the first deal did not keep the odds equal to the old odds. The house odds improved... dealers that could count cards would deal out the shoe or deck when the odds tipped to the house and would shuffle when the odds tipped to the player. Between the house counting cards and the house reading player action the odds moved a lot.
Remember insurance is all about odds.. If they can "profile" you as an individual they can change the rules. i.e. force you to be happy to play with some cards left over after they made a Pinochle deck from some standard 52 card decks.
Without knowing where you are it may be possible to communicate via WiFi balloons. With sufficient height it is possible to reach well beyond the 20 miles that the curve of the earth imposes.
Ultra light aluminized Mylar permits antenna gain and up/ horizontal isolation.
Pringles can antenna links..... for the hill country.
Modern chip solutions have such improved signal to noise and low power profiles that the big expensive micro-wave tower solutions are less interesting than they once were.
There is a lot that can be done but there is a chicken and egg marketing issue. However with the advent of $50 boards like the BBB and Pandaboard the exploration of this is at hand.
I'm thinking more like crushed like a marshmallow in an infinite pressure pressure-cooker.
Or pummeled to death by other matter falling into the black hole.
Or die from the radiation.
Or die from being absorbed into a star falling into said black hole.
Or from the smell of shitting their pants in the space suit once they realize they're falling into a black hole.
Or just from lack of oxygen, dehydration, or starvation, as it's a pretty long trip from here to the nearest black hole. 1600 light years is a long trip, even at the speed of light.
In addition any external mass like the space ship or any maneuvering jet reaction mass would accelerate to the point of generating astoundingly short wavelength ionizing radiation and the proteins of life would be totally denatured.
I would discount the smell of poo in the pants as being fatal, stuff happens as we all know but not fatal except for those that aspirate their vomit and die of pneumonia. Aspiration pneumonia is a big risk even if a drowning victim "recovers" a trip to a hospital is a good thing to do.
Hydrogen gas is quite safe, if a tank is just punctured, it will remove itself harmlessly from the vicinity.
Not really. Among other things, the flame is invisible, which surprisingly is a major safety issue.
Beyond that, the main problems are storing enough of it (because it is so light) for reasonably long times (because it leaks through normal metal tanks).
The main problem I see with fuel cells is the nature of the fuel and how efficiently it gets converted to power that moves a car.
Too many processes fiddle with hydrocarbons or coal to generate hydrogen. This is often not efficient or an improvement to the greenhouse gas loading of the atmosphere. Might be wrong but the power plant stacks are tall so they can flush their gasses as high as they can so the gas is as far from sensors as it can be.
Fuel cells require very pure inputs. The fuel need not be Hydrogen but all sufficiently pure fuel is a pain in the ass to manufacture and ship to a fueling station. Of them all hydrogen might be the safest to live close to. Safety is relative, larger volumes and higher pressures contrive to be dangerous.
The ideal set of solutions is complex but for one there is a need for improvements to commercial and residential zoning laws. Too many folk commute hours in their infernal combustion vehicle and only do so because the commercial business park is an hour away from residential housing.
Do the math... a cubical is perhaps 7x10" per employee yet the home for that employee is vastly larger when a family is considered. Rentals and ownership confuse the entire thing.
I am reminded about "owing your soul to the company store". Laws that addressed abuses... hobble the system today.
While I can reply close to my previous post, toss this into "Google" "Specialized DUI and drugged driving training such as Standardized Field Sobriety Testing"
I get +900 results consider that this short little letter is one of a thousand, perhaps thousands.
Working that job made me realize that schools *must* have a personal finances class which goes over budgeting, avoiding scams, and setting up an affordable household.
Yes. I might note that the financial shell games that schools and local governments play make me doubt that schools and local governments understand money and finances at all.
I recently saw the below. Note how there was no mention of "your tax dollars". Note that the locals spending the money did not have to levy the tax but rather benefited from a larger taxation organization. Because the money is a 'grant' the only option is to spend. This spending at more than arms length makes it so very hard to budget and act responsibly. No wonder the national debt is beyond comprehension and beyond reform:
The below quote is not from the previous poster but is from the local web....
....POLICE DEPARTMENT RECEIVES GRANT FOR SPECIAL TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT AND CRASH PREVENTION
Activities that the grant will fund include:
Specialized DUI and drugged driving training such as Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST), Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE), and Drug Recognition Evaluator (DRE).
DUI Saturation Patrols
Motorcycle safety enforcement
Distracted driving enforcement
Seat belt and child safety seat enforcement
Speed, red light and stop sign enforcement
Warrant service operations targeting multiple DUI offenders
Compilation of DUI “Hot Sheets,” identifying worst-of-the-worst DUI offenders
Stakeout operations to observe the “worst of the worst” repeat DUI offender probationers with suspended or revoked driver licenses
Purchase of speed measuring and preliminary alcohol screening devices
Funding for this program is from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
I might add that in war it is common to dehumanize the enemy and call them by some vilify-able arms length name. It seems to me that "grant" and other "program funding" names are being substituted to free those spending these often outrageous and large funds from the moral responsibility that they should be exercising. Further local elections do not have the reach to put an end to this shell game.
Demand that ALL funds be accounted for and that local expenditures fully account for all expenses as if the money was local.
Perhaps this could be used to figure out exactly how deadly limnic eruptions are triggered.
These can be lethal but it seems to me that a partial solution is possible.
What if one had the equivalent of an inner tube float with a longish dangling PVC or equivalent pipe. A solar powered air pump can then push air as deep as the power budget and mechanics permit. Down through a small diameter hose inside the larger PVC pipe. The bubbles that then rise from the depth can carry problematic CO2 saturated water from below not too different than a percolator coffee maker. In some cases the resulting flow would become self sustaining and either generate a warning or dissipate the risk.
Like I said... lethal but perhaps inexpensive to mitigate.
As long as there are patents on software and processes, the patent trolling will never really end.
Yes, One should note that the patent office may be sitting on a partial solution that is in effect in the bio/ medical community.
It is obvious to try some things i.e. paperclip out of steel wire, copper wire, plastic... while a paperclip might be an invention making one out of a long list of things obvious to try is not an invention to justify an additional patent.
Most interestingly many of the process patents are trouble because there is no way to know how the internals of a system work without breaching a company firewall or going on a fishing expedition perhaps to expose trade secrets and thus eliminate competitive advantage that the secrets imply/ bestow.
By making a clear declaration of violation at the outset some of the fishing can go away. However letters threatening legal action need to be called what they are.... extortion. Extortion is a criminal act and needs prosecution in contrast to civil court proceedings.
Many tolls mail dozens perhaps hundreds of letters demanding fees with FISA like gag clauses. Gag order clauses making invisible the abuses some trolls engage in should be illegal. Fees collected via coercion should be refundable when a patent is found to be invalid. The refund risk makes no-contest decision payments an ideal court filing.
Many here recall the FUD of running a Linux system when the SCO–Linux controversies were flying. Many paid what feels like extortion to me. These individuals and companies should not be anonymous and should be able to stand up as a class demanding repayment.
Well this is still an improvement if only because it opens the discussion.
It is moderately safe to expect that Bruce is not an NSA shill. That does not eliminate the ability of a large organization to convince or coerce any individual to have a view that they would like you to have.
Businesses, developers and others should look hard at Bruces comments on an airgap in his most recent news letter. Legal organizations should also take a hint here.
Paranoia does strike deep, just do not be buffaloed by the quagmire out in the fields this spring.
Slashdot Mirror
So do not connect to the grid.
Establish a local and grid power distribution in the house
and never connect the two.
With some planning (not unlike grey water for the lawn) it should
be possible to move many home services from the grid to local.
The most obvious to me are battery charging stations for phones,
tablets, CARS and more. Automobile batteries are big and have
a dedicated plug. Use the local plug on a sunny day and the grid
plug as needed. Hot water and home AC+ventilation are other
big power consumers.
Electric autos are interesting because with correct configuration
they can be both local home storage as well as stored fuel for
transportation.
If you do RPN then there is
no option to use a TI calculator.
I wish HP would revisit the older HP-21 just add
a modern display perhaps an E-ink display or
pixelqi.com technology display.
To me the most interesting idea would
be a USB link not too different than the
BeagleboneBlack where you can interact
with a web browser (and charge the batteries).
Plug the USB link and the calculator keyboard and
display are fully mirrored. Unplug it to take into
a test. To qualify for a test it would need a serious
reset button that does the right thing.
In this case the calculator could be as full featured
as the HP41cv or the HP-48 and beyond.
Emerging markets ... likely need enterprise class equipment too.
....snip....
SDN is coming, and the likes of Cisco are terrified of it. So would you be if your own executives thought it was going to cut your company's value in half .....shop....
Hmmm..... SDN... I cannot comment on the "cut value in half" but they
seem to have a toe in the waters. Of interest big Cisco hardware has
few if any honest competition. One of the keys issues is provisions for
"legal" wiretaps. Legal taps in contrast to the NSA vacuum it all up problematic
processes.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/cisco-sdn-splash-coming
The high end seems secure(ish} but the machine room is under attack.
Note the interesting project that Facebook has undertaken where a router
at the top of the rack seems to be the keystone for machine room nework
redesign. The performance and bandwidth of modern computation hardware
and modern disk (SSD) bandwidth is moving some key performance metrics
down to the rack one, two, three router hops and an equal number of bandwidth
edges closer onto the rack.
This is obvious as a post digital transition impact (predictable
if your eyes are open).
In a time period that was 5% of the life of a TV virtually all
TVs were made obsolete. More interesting to me is this
made moot a lot of tube technology patents and vastly
increased the value of current flat TV patents, sort of.
I should note that when I finally replace my big flat panel
many of the interesting patents will have expired or been
cross licensed.
The result of that is virtually all households replaced their older
but still working fine TVs with lower power flat panel devices.
We are going to see the same thing in the CFE and LED lighting
industry when the new lamps have a 10 year life in contrast....
"Typical incandescent bulbs last 1,000 to 2,000 hours. But in
speaking about LED replacements, lamp life is routinely quoted
as 25,000 to 50,000 hours." (per the web).
A 25x increase in life if true will have astounding impact on the
viability of companies making these lamps.
Now that we know the final orbit path Nova Scotia
would have been the best place on North America to
see the satellite. Alaska might have been cool too.
Of interest there were no visual sightings of the final decent
(so far).
The more I think about the decent of large package satellites
the more reason there is to design for reentry perhaps non-reentry.
With autos the design strategy is layers designed to take a licking
shed energy and protect the internal occupant area. With satellites it makes
sense for the reverse and by design minimize the ability of the components
to protect any large internal mass. Perhaps something like exposed
straps not unlike barrel hoops that while strong would
burn up very quickly so the internal bits would spill and fly apart.
Such a design would not decelerate masses like mirrors and tanks
before exposing them at maximum velocity to reentry. Other tricks
might employ plasma channels to allow generated plasma to cut the satellite
apart from the inside out.
Science like this is way cool. As big a fan as I am of deep space discoveries
by the Hubble and tiny space discoveries by the LHC this satellite looked
at the earth. Foundation research like this may help with understanding
all manner of earth local disasters and non disasters....
Now let us hope we do not get smacked back into the stone age by some random asteroid.
It's not gravity that's the problem - it's air resistance. Earth's atmosphere doesn't have a distinct edge, and you have to get pretty frelling far out before the particle count drops low enough not to matter to things going 10,000+mph. Certainly a lot farther than the measly few dozen miles to low Earth orbit.
Well the orbital path does make large parts of the globe safe.
That is why Carly and I are flying my jet to Nova Scotia just to be safe.
TFA seems to place all the faults on Google.
Fact is, Google is not the only one who is crawling the Net. Yahoo does it as well as Bing, among others.
If the Google "bots" can be tricked into doing the "heavy lifting", so can the Yahoo "bots", Bing "bots", and "bots" from other search engines.
Do not forget the NSA bots. The Chinese NSA equiv bots.
The French NSA equiv bots....
The FBI bots....
Election funds are a money pit.
I can think of no better way to drain the value of bitcoins
and line the pockets of elected officials brothers in law.
Most corruption is the vast media funds where art and air
time are purchased through family shills.
... catch fire more than Japanese or European cars. Its got nothing to do with fuel type. Its down to poor engineering.
Or simply decades of relentless improvement.
The first automobile patent in the United States was granted to Oliver Evans in 1789. (google search)
The first gas powered car was invented by Karl Friedrich Benz around 1885 to 1886 in Germany....(google search)
Woops before gas power there was steam and electricity.
Still this is interesting and important if you are an engineer but
it is clear the industry is 'after' Tesla. The real threat to the auto industry
is the Tesla distribution model that has all the dealers in the US up in arms.
So now feds are the experts on high-tech cars?
Why yes... I read it on the web.
As I think about the issue I am reminded how dangerous
large battery assemblies are in submarines and also in
central offices of POTs telco companies.
I suspect there will be a lot of pressure on Tesla. Tesla
is in the best position to upset the auto makers apple cart
and to some degree big oil, yep a lot of vested interest folk
will be after them.
Still it make sense to review the product. A big pile of
batteries should be well protected.
The NTSB does a good job on aircraft accidents....
but this is new turf... who knows.
Identify the search and redirect to MS.. perhaps with a message "merci.... bing".
If one provider takes on coverage for "suspected losing cases", then they will go out of business, especially if their competitor is always only taking "profitable cases".
Try reading TFA. Pay attention to the part where (as in the summary) they explain the shift away from an all risks pool to a preferred risk pool.
Next, learn something about why healthcare is so expensive, because you clearly have no fucking idea. Hint: it is related to the business model of the insurers, not the actual cost of the delivering the care. If it were, all those other countries who are delivering better healthcare for far less money would not be doing so.
These are all reasons for Obama care. Sadly the Affordable Health Care Act is
missing all the above and more. Further the insurance companies saw the flaws
in the act and are gaming the system seven ways to Sunday.
IMO, it seems that at this point this legislation made things worse not better.
This article makes a good point. Anyone that has applied for insurance know that
they know more about you than you might remember. They know your parents
life death siblings life death.. it goes on and while they gather more info the
more they charge.
The best analogy is the old 21tables in Vegas and Reno. Old in the sense
that it is pre card counting days. Those casinos that watched card counters would
stopped dealing the full deck. They would shuffle quicker if anyone on the table
would double their wager. The five deck shoe... same they would shuffle
closer and closer to the beginning of the shoe.
These rule changes after the first deal did not keep the odds equal to the old odds.
The house odds improved... dealers that could count cards would deal out the
shoe or deck when the odds tipped to the house and would shuffle when the odds
tipped to the player. Between the house counting cards and the house reading
player action the odds moved a lot.
Remember insurance is all about odds.. If they can "profile" you as an individual
they can change the rules. i.e. force you to be happy to play with some cards left over
after they made a Pinochle deck from some standard 52 card decks.
Except to ID "you" a face scan is not needed.
More interesting is an attire scan.
Zoom in on that watch.. if $15 Cassio classify
as a pennypincher. If prewashed blue jeans +$ if
old and faded two year old jeans -$...
Scan for passive inventory tags..
But faces... no
Without knowing where you are it may be possible to
communicate via WiFi balloons. With sufficient height
it is possible to reach well beyond the 20 miles that the
curve of the earth imposes.
Ultra light aluminized Mylar permits antenna gain
and up/ horizontal isolation.
Pringles can antenna links..... for the hill country.
Modern chip solutions have such improved signal to noise
and low power profiles that the big expensive micro-wave tower
solutions are less interesting than they once were.
There is a lot that can be done but there is a chicken and
egg marketing issue. However with the advent of $50 boards
like the BBB and Pandaboard the exploration of this is
at hand.
I'm thinking more like crushed like a marshmallow in an infinite pressure pressure-cooker.
Or pummeled to death by other matter falling into the black hole.
Or die from the radiation.
Or die from being absorbed into a star falling into said black hole.
Or from the smell of shitting their pants in the space suit once they realize they're falling into a black hole.
Or just from lack of oxygen, dehydration, or starvation, as it's a pretty long trip from here to the nearest black hole. 1600 light years is a long trip, even at the speed of light.
Yes to the above.
Spaghettification is one component of the end game. The gravity delta from head to
toe would tear a human into a true mess.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification
In addition any external mass like the space ship or any maneuvering jet
reaction mass would accelerate to the point of generating astoundingly short
wavelength ionizing radiation and the proteins of life would be totally denatured.
I would discount the smell of poo in the pants as being fatal, stuff happens
as we all know but not fatal except for those that aspirate their vomit and
die of pneumonia. Aspiration pneumonia is a big risk even if a drowning
victim "recovers" a trip to a hospital is a good thing to do.
maybe if you merkins ate less fibre ...snip clip....
The mind boggles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkin
Not really. Among other things, the flame is invisible, which surprisingly is a major safety issue.
Beyond that, the main problems are storing enough of it (because it is so light) for reasonably long times (because it leaks through normal metal tanks).
The main problem I see with fuel cells is the nature of the fuel and how efficiently
it gets converted to power that moves a car.
Too many processes fiddle with hydrocarbons or coal to generate hydrogen.
This is often not efficient or an improvement to the greenhouse gas loading
of the atmosphere. Might be wrong but the power plant stacks are tall so they
can flush their gasses as high as they can so the gas is as far from sensors
as it can be.
Fuel cells require very pure inputs. The fuel need not be Hydrogen but
all sufficiently pure fuel is a pain in the ass to manufacture and ship
to a fueling station. Of them all hydrogen might be the safest to live
close to. Safety is relative, larger volumes and higher pressures contrive
to be dangerous.
The ideal set of solutions is complex but for one there is a need for
improvements to commercial and residential zoning laws. Too many
folk commute hours in their infernal combustion vehicle and only
do so because the commercial business park is an hour away from
residential housing.
Do the math... a cubical is perhaps 7x10" per employee yet the
home for that employee is vastly larger when a family is considered.
Rentals and ownership confuse the entire thing.
I am reminded about "owing your soul to the company store".
Laws that addressed abuses... hobble the system today.
While I can reply close to my previous post, toss this into "Google"
"Specialized DUI and drugged driving training such as Standardized Field Sobriety Testing"
I get +900 results consider that this short little letter is one of a thousand, perhaps thousands.
....snip....
Working that job made me realize that schools *must* have a personal finances class which goes over budgeting, avoiding scams, and setting up an affordable household.
Yes.
I might note that the financial shell games that schools and local
governments play make me doubt that schools and local governments
understand money and finances at all.
I recently saw the below. Note how there was no mention of "your tax dollars".
Note that the locals spending the money did not have to levy the tax but rather
benefited from a larger taxation organization. Because the money is a 'grant'
the only option is to spend. This spending at more than arms length makes
it so very hard to budget and act responsibly. No wonder the national debt
is beyond comprehension and beyond reform:
The below quote is not from the previous poster but is from the local web....
....POLICE DEPARTMENT RECEIVES GRANT FOR SPECIAL TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT AND CRASH PREVENTION
Activities that the grant will fund include:
Specialized DUI and drugged driving training such as Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST), Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE), and Drug Recognition Evaluator (DRE).
DUI Saturation Patrols
Motorcycle safety enforcement
Distracted driving enforcement
Seat belt and child safety seat enforcement
Speed, red light and stop sign enforcement
Warrant service operations targeting multiple DUI offenders
Compilation of DUI “Hot Sheets,” identifying worst-of-the-worst DUI offenders
Stakeout operations to observe the “worst of the worst” repeat DUI offender probationers with suspended or revoked driver licenses
Purchase of speed measuring and preliminary alcohol screening devices
Funding for this program is from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
I might add that in war it is common to dehumanize the enemy and call them by some vilify-able
arms length name. It seems to me that "grant" and other "program funding" names are being substituted to
free those spending these often outrageous and large funds from the moral responsibility
that they should be exercising. Further local elections do not have the reach to put an end to
this shell game.
Demand that ALL funds be accounted for and that local expenditures fully account
for all expenses as if the money was local.
Is the settlement a tax or do the individuals
and organizations wronged get compensated.
In the end some legal firm will make a killing.... Hmmm killing is illegal.
Perhaps this could be used to figure out exactly how deadly limnic eruptions are triggered.
These can be lethal but it seems to me that a partial solution is possible.
What if one had the equivalent of an inner tube float with a longish dangling PVC
or equivalent pipe. A solar powered air pump can then push air as deep as the
power budget and mechanics permit. Down through a small diameter hose inside
the larger PVC pipe. The bubbles that then rise from the depth
can carry problematic CO2 saturated water from below not too different
than a percolator coffee maker. In some cases the resulting flow would become
self sustaining and either generate a warning or dissipate the risk.
Like I said... lethal but perhaps inexpensive to mitigate.
As long as there are patents on software and processes, the patent trolling will never really end.
Yes,
One should note that the patent office may be sitting on a partial solution that is
in effect in the bio/ medical community.
It is obvious to try some things i.e. paperclip out of steel wire, copper wire, plastic...
while a paperclip might be an invention making one out of a long list of things
obvious to try is not an invention to justify an additional patent.
Most interestingly many of the process patents are trouble because there is no
way to know how the internals of a system work without breaching a company
firewall or going on a fishing expedition perhaps to expose trade secrets and
thus eliminate competitive advantage that the secrets imply/ bestow.
By making a clear declaration of violation at the outset some of the fishing
can go away. However letters threatening legal action need to be called
what they are.... extortion. Extortion is a criminal act and needs prosecution
in contrast to civil court proceedings.
Many tolls mail dozens perhaps hundreds of letters demanding fees with
FISA like gag clauses. Gag order clauses making invisible the abuses some trolls
engage in should be illegal. Fees collected via coercion should be refundable
when a patent is found to be invalid. The refund risk makes no-contest decision
payments an ideal court filing.
Many here recall the FUD of running a Linux system when the SCO–Linux controversies
were flying. Many paid what feels like extortion to me. These individuals and
companies should not be anonymous and should be able to stand up as a
class demanding repayment.
Well this is still an improvement if only because it opens the discussion.
First time I've seen no comments show up a few minutes into a Slashdot story going up.
Are most other people, like me, scratching their heads and trying to wrap their minds around this? :)
Sort of -- it takes time to digest this stuff.
I got stuck on "melt away".
I thought for sure the correct process was -- sublime.
Paranoia strikes twice...
The only answer is to trust but verify.
It is moderately safe to expect that Bruce is not an NSA shill.
That does not eliminate the ability of a large organization to convince
or coerce any individual to have a view that they would like you to have.
Businesses, developers and others should look hard at Bruces comments
on an airgap in his most recent news letter. Legal organizations should
also take a hint here.
Paranoia does strike deep, just do not be buffaloed by the
quagmire out in the fields this spring.
If you are Google you do not want Chrome to be the part that
busts open XP.
XP with no applications but one XP might be as secure
as Win8 and a full treasure trove of applications by who
knows what is on them.
MS has got to get Mom&Pop companies off it ASAP.
Other than a disconnected system that prints reports
for the book keeper XP is a blunder.