it will take forever to find clever words... by which time these bands of oil well be fossilized and generations 10000000 years from now will be trying to figure it all out.
However barges of muck dredged from channels in bays as well as up and down the Mississippi can be used to cover these layers over and would help in a near sighted way.
It never ceases to amaze me how many apparently well educated people ( I am assuming of course that most people on/. are well educated either formally or informally ) just don't get it.
There is a razor fine line a parent walks between giving a child the freedom to express themselves and explore and grow and.....snip...
+1 yet it should be known that as the current laws read the risk of ending up on the wrong side of the law is getting more and more real.
When a husband is prosecuted for 'spying' on his wife because he discovers her infidelity on their shared computer the handwriting is on the wall.
Be warned we have elected some IDIOTS establishing our laws -- to whit "Christopher Lee resigns from Congress amidst Craigslist sex scandal" Continue reading on Examiner.com
Yep and the police chief is in trouble for being a co-conspirator. It does depend on the specific state and local laws.... But it is a wiretap and when connected on line to a service like Facebook that crosses city, state and county lines... there is little doubt that federal wiretap laws apply -- as far as I can tell.
Heck my cell phone has an IP address across the Mississipi river.
They're not passing a law, they're making rule of employment. You want a job with us, you don't badmouth us. That's perfectly reasonable, whether a private or public employer. If an employee doesn't like it, they can quit. It's that simple.
Yes they are but a contract cannot "trump" the law. Employees have rights under the constitution that cannot be mandated away by an employer.
Ask any sweat shop employee will understand...
The devil is in the details... but it appears to be that town officials should be given a red card and ejected from the game for a list of fundamental governance issues that if printed on paper would cause the Great Sahara Forest to vanish.
Oh Egypt... a land where your words were lost but for a small stone with three versions take heart.
Take pictures, document them. 8.5x11 glossy with a PARAGRAPH of writing on the back tells us the truth as you see it. Small pictures well selected are good.
Do not listen to CCN or FOX... For one that twit Pierce what is his name is getting tiresome in his bias and bating of "guests". Guests that may now feel abused and more hostage than guest.
The big value of "The High ground" needs to include the view that permits the direction of artillery and air strikes. It is not all about gravity well issues and has not been since black powder replaced bows and arrows. A 175 gun has a max ordinate much higher than Everest and a range of 32,800 meters... so most any mountain top is "in range" yet the high ground is still more desirable and defensible because of targeting advantages.
This the big value of moon based telescopes. As a remote imaging platform the moon would be very stable permitting precise pointing. The lack of wind and lowish G forces permits very large aperture optics. This includes microwave and millimeter imaging in addition to optical and IR.
Low power lasers would assist precise targeting and a rail gun would quickly bust a hole in objects that current laser technology could not.
Low earth orbit has many of these advantages but large aperture devices are partly limited by the size of current rockets. As the multiple mirror earth based telescopes have shown big is possible and someone will figure out how to stack a pile of mirrors into a dimensionally stable/ adaptable frame that gives high resolution as well as light bucket properties.
Two things come to mind.
+ rail guns
+ big honking telescopes.
The lack of infrastructure will slow any deployment but not stop it. There was a blog or something about ow hard and difficult is to build a toaster without global resources so it will be HARD to build anything interesting on the moon (or Mars)
Some time back, there was a judgment that allowed police to trawl through the entire contents of a hard drive if they had a subpoena for one person's data from the drive, so I was wondering if....snip...
And what if the drive was a massive distributed file system like Google or Yahoo?
Not even a file system but a distributed data base. Perhaps an Oracle RAC resource.
And in EU there are data replication issues so the services may be forced off line
because no live replicated data exists.
Might take the Lustre of it when the electric bill arrives.
Because he asked it is clear he is making a change to
an existing contract/ work agreement without offering compensation.
One of the test for an exempt from OT employee has to
do with the lack of a schedule (i.e. time clock). There
are other tests but this one is important.
Since the company is not profitable it is silly to demand
more $$ but it is not silly to demand compensation and
considerations. You might get title to the chair, laptop, and other
assets in lieu of OT compensation.
Bottom line if the company is not profitable ya all
need to make an honest assessment to see if the
company can honestly become profitable.
It gets tangled when the bank does not know.
I have seen legal actions follow executives cross
country where the company obtained loans
from a bank based on cooked books.
Filing for bankruptcy does not mean closing the doors.
Employees should know how powerful a labor lean
can be.
Run when the CEO has his girl run out and get his
check certified at the bank --- then all the other checks
bounce.
Long days can be more productive but not for sustained periods of time.
Cattle, sheep and goats are the most efficient harvesters of
range and pasture grass.
The next study will discover that the large number of
plastic containers needed to keep the bugs from escaping
consume too much plastic and this counters the saving
observed in the previous study.
I will sidestep the health issues of bacteria in the bugs
requiring special caution....
Last time I was in Mexico you could buy fried grass hoppers
to crunch on. I think tourists were the most common
customers.
USA has 90 guns per 100 residents, Sweden has 30 per 100....snip...
I hate statistics.
How many guns does an individual own.
One could wonder if one person in 100 owns 90 guns
of if 90 persons own one gun.
If we do not know the intersection rate of armed wackos per 100 count
we are pissing in the wind.
Many wackos know the difference between right and wrong. And
many are happy sleeping in a box but that is food for another rant.
Lets put the man on mars stuff on hold and put some money
and brain-trust into mental heath. Not witch hunt TSA stuff
but honest mental health research.
This twit was ejected from the local JC for being unstable.
His parents were notified that he could only return to
school after he got a clean bill of mental health....
That never happened.
Today mental health is the step child of the medical profession
and even more so in the eyes of health insurance.
I can get someone to run a scope up my behind and look
for colon cancer and all the treatment that might result from
that... But not so for mental health.
The plot is thicker than that...
All the new versions will have NEW copyrights and will
constitute and establish a "method" to ban the
distribution of free works from history and generate
an income stream often mandated by school reading lists.
You just created a link between Los Angeles and Las Vegas that would be as reliable as wind power. Some days, or even hours, there might be a steady link. Sometimes the link would be down.
However, even assuming that you are right, and that there was bumper to bumper traffic....snip....
Yes. Your point is on point.
The bandwidth would be way less than
existing optical fiber yet it would link
autos and small communities with little effort.
Traffic need not be bumper to bumper. All you
need is line of sight to headlights and tail lights.
Then supplements this Interstate wireless mesh by digital on and off ramps. In an ideal case the
number of auto/car hops would be modest.
And in a town the mesh would be much denser
and the cross sectional bandwidth would be
quite high. Again with local on and off ramps
to backbones.
A key value is that 2G; 3G; 4G solutions will
clearly be unable to address the wireless wants
that many have. Something like this would
be able to support basic data and voice... with
some spare bandwidth to support store and forward
technology like email and even video playback (sans streaming).
All this reminds me of the building of the interstate highway system.
Many many town centers were bypassed and then withered and died. Towns not bypassed prospered.
Oh and BTW unlike trains the interstate highway does not pay real estate taxes on the right-away and stations (buildings). It also bypassed all the main street real estate value robbing individuals and families of their legacy... but estate taxes would have flushed that.....
You are speaking of Mesh networking which is absolutely the way to go to help create a truly anonymous infrastructure beyond the controls that we so despise right now. However, you can't link Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Phoenix with Mesh networking....snip....
What if automobiles had low power Network devices with front and back facing antenna? There are not too many times when you can drive any of the interstate highways between major cities and not see both head lights and tail lights.
With ipv6 and GPS info some very interesting things could be done.
Pray tell what version of Windows the box was running. Or tell what software service was hacked by someone to a bad end.
Does it get more interesting if the system involved was a virtual machine running in such a way that a backup picked up all the services and law enforcement was unable to deny any further services.
That's not the way things are run, he's just an uninformed twit. In most, if not all states, you agree to surrender to breath testing at the discretion of law enforcement as part of getting your license. Courts tend to interpret the power a little more narrowly than cops would like, but if they have even the slightest reasonable suspicion, you're not going to get anywhere.
An on-the-spot judge is new, though, and is going to be problematic. We take separation of powers pretty seriously here. A judge is not a police officer, and shouldn't be acting like one. The commingling is going totrigger a massive legal fight.
Judge acting as a police officer is a critical point. NOT one to be lost....
As traffic gets increasingly congested and becomes more stop and go the seat time is the real limit.
Urban sprawl is ultimately by commute time not miles.
More apropos today is the massive drag provided by the lack of liquidity in the housing market. Since many home owners would be unable to qualify for their existing loan they are unable to swap their current location for one closer to home. Jobs and labor pools including technical talent will need to be local.
Manufacturing will be clobbered as the number and income level of many manufacturing jobs cannot justify a company getting involved and relocating talent. That will be executives only...
As others indicated there is a jurisdiction issue with a German company and the US Sherman AntiTrust Act.
The important bit I see is that these LARGE patent portfolio groups hides the very real fact that many patents are obvious and should not be granted a patent.
i.e. if a patent for smearing foo on vitrified pooh was developed independently by two, three.... twenty companies the idea is most likely not worthy of a patent. Perhaps more importantly if 90% of the companies involved in the same business of "bar" encountered the same problem and clean room solved it in the same way the patent is not valid because it is obvious.
The anti trust issue should not be lost because the massive size of some companies so dominates an activity that even obvious solutions go uncontested because the business practices so fully limit the market that the number of engineering eyes looking at a problem is thus constrained.
An example is the large number of cell phone patent cases. The number makes it obvious (to me) that when the only N (=small) companies building a device discover that a patent is at issue -- the fact that near 100% of those in the business stumbled on the same solution to the same problem define the idea as an obvious solution and not a unique invention...
It is rare to see a long list of defendants in patent cases but a long list where many clearly developed the solution independently is "proof" that the idea is obvious. A long list may have a count of two when the list of companies in the business is near two.
An interesting corner case is university based research where laws protect the university while they research and tinker with technology that would put "companies" in legal trouble.
The Mountain Pass rare earth mine uses froth floatation, a water intensive process. For goodness sake get some facts right. Even in the high desert, we have these things known as "pipes."
Yes pipes and recycling. When I was at the mine in the '60s they were water constrained.
Time to stop before we begin to sound like economists and Obama.
Yes sir. In two weeks the desert has seen rain that qualifies as a record.
Millions of gallons -- does qualify as a record. rain fall in the desert is a funny thing. Some years you get some and most years nothing..
One thing that is important is how easy it is to detect a leak if Thorium or Radium is contained in the material. Compare and contrast one gram of Thorium and one gram of lead (or As) in the context of detection and environmental impact.
What we in the world must understand is that our spinning disks spin on and seek with rare earth magnets. Yes, processing material like Thorium and Radium should be sequestered but not vilified. This is not a reactor making isotopes.
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it will take forever to find clever words ... by which time these bands
of oil well be fossilized and generations 10000000 years from now
will be trying to figure it all out.
However barges of muck dredged from channels in bays as well as up and down the Mississippi
can be used to cover these layers over and would help in a near sighted way.
It never ceases to amaze me how many apparently well educated people ( I am assuming of course that most people on /. are well educated either formally or informally ) just don't get it.
There is a razor fine line a parent walks between giving a child the freedom to express themselves and explore and grow and.....snip...
+1 yet it should be known that as the current laws read the risk of ending up on the wrong
side of the law is getting more and more real.
When a husband is prosecuted for 'spying' on his wife because he discovers her infidelity
on their shared computer the handwriting is on the wall.
Be warned we have elected some IDIOTS establishing our laws -- to whit
"Christopher Lee resigns from Congress amidst Craigslist sex scandal"
Continue reading on Examiner.com
Yep and the police chief is in trouble for being a co-conspirator.
It does depend on the specific state and local laws....
But it is a wiretap and when connected on line to a service
like Facebook that crosses city, state and county lines... there is
little doubt that federal wiretap laws apply -- as far as I can tell.
Heck my cell phone has an IP address across the Mississipi river.
They're not passing a law, they're making rule of employment. You want a job with us, you don't badmouth us. That's perfectly reasonable, whether a private or public employer. If an employee doesn't like it, they can quit. It's that simple.
Yes they are but a contract cannot "trump" the law.
Employees have rights under the constitution that
cannot be mandated away by an employer.
Ask any sweat shop employee will understand...
The devil is in the details... but it appears to be that town officials
should be given a red card and ejected from the game for a list
of fundamental governance issues that if printed on paper would
cause the Great Sahara Forest to vanish.
Are there any engineering schools in N.C.???
Heck they should be ALL over this.
To be an engineer you MUST demonstrate engineering
competency. Kafka would be proud...
Oh Egypt... a land where your words were lost but for a small stone
with three versions take heart.
Take pictures, document them. 8.5x11 glossy with a
PARAGRAPH of writing on the back tells us the truth
as you see it. Small pictures well selected are good.
Do not listen to CCN or FOX...
For one that twit Pierce what is his name is getting tiresome in his
bias and bating of "guests". Guests that may now feel
abused and more hostage than guest.
The big value of "The High ground" needs to include
the view that permits the direction of artillery and
air strikes. It is not all about gravity well issues
and has not been since black powder replaced bows
and arrows. A 175 gun has a max ordinate much higher than Everest
and a range of 32,800 meters... so most any mountain
top is "in range" yet the high ground is still more desirable and
defensible because of targeting advantages.
This the big value of moon based telescopes. As a
remote imaging platform the moon would be very stable
permitting precise pointing. The lack of wind and
lowish G forces permits very large aperture optics. This
includes microwave and millimeter imaging in addition
to optical and IR.
Low power lasers would assist precise targeting and a rail gun
would quickly bust a hole in objects that current laser
technology could not.
Low earth orbit has many of these advantages but large
aperture devices are partly limited by the size of current
rockets. As the multiple mirror earth based telescopes
have shown big is possible and someone will figure out how
to stack a pile of mirrors into a dimensionally stable/ adaptable
frame that gives high resolution as well as light bucket
properties.
Get the high ground.
Two things come to mind.
+ rail guns
+ big honking telescopes.
The lack of infrastructure will slow any deployment
but not stop it. There was a blog or something about
ow hard and difficult is to build a toaster without global
resources so it will be HARD to build anything interesting
on the moon (or Mars)
What the heck is the format change all about.
Some time back, there was a judgment that allowed police to trawl through the entire contents of a hard drive if they had a subpoena for one person's data from the drive, so I was wondering if ....snip...
And what if the drive was a massive distributed file system like Google or Yahoo?
Not even a file system but a distributed data base. Perhaps an Oracle RAC resource.
And in EU there are data replication issues so the services may be forced off line because no live replicated data exists.
Might take the Lustre of it when the electric bill arrives.
One of the test for an exempt from OT employee has to do with the lack of a schedule (i.e. time clock). There are other tests but this one is important.
Since the company is not profitable it is silly to demand more $$ but it is not silly to demand compensation and considerations. You might get title to the chair, laptop, and other assets in lieu of OT compensation.
Bottom line if the company is not profitable ya all need to make an honest assessment to see if the company can honestly become profitable.
It gets tangled when the bank does not know. I have seen legal actions follow executives cross country where the company obtained loans from a bank based on cooked books.
Filing for bankruptcy does not mean closing the doors.
Employees should know how powerful a labor lean can be.
Run when the CEO has his girl run out and get his check certified at the bank --- then all the other checks bounce.
Long days can be more productive but not for sustained periods of time.
Cattle, sheep and goats are the most efficient harvesters of range and pasture grass.
The next study will discover that the large number of plastic containers needed to keep the bugs from escaping consume too much plastic and this counters the saving observed in the previous study.
I will sidestep the health issues of bacteria in the bugs requiring special caution....
Last time I was in Mexico you could buy fried grass hoppers to crunch on. I think tourists were the most common customers.
snip...
USA has 90 guns per 100 residents, Sweden has 30 per 100. ...snip...
I hate statistics.
How many guns does an individual own.
One could wonder if one person in 100 owns 90 guns of if 90 persons own one gun.
If we do not know the intersection rate of armed wackos per 100 count we are pissing in the wind.
Many wackos know the difference between right and wrong. And many are happy sleeping in a box but that is food for another rant.
Lets put the man on mars stuff on hold and put some money and brain-trust into mental heath. Not witch hunt TSA stuff but honest mental health research.
That never happened.
Today mental health is the step child of the medical profession and even more so in the eyes of health insurance.
I can get someone to run a scope up my behind and look for colon cancer and all the treatment that might result from that... But not so for mental health.
The plot is thicker than that... All the new versions will have NEW copyrights and will constitute and establish a "method" to ban the distribution of free works from history and generate an income stream often mandated by school reading lists.
You just created a link between Los Angeles and Las Vegas that would be as reliable as wind power. Some days, or even hours, there might be a steady link. Sometimes the link would be down.
However, even assuming that you are right, and that there was bumper to bumper traffic ....snip....
Yes. Your point is on point. The bandwidth would be way less than existing optical fiber yet it would link autos and small communities with little effort.
Traffic need not be bumper to bumper. All you need is line of sight to headlights and tail lights.
Then supplements this Interstate wireless mesh by digital on and off ramps. In an ideal case the number of auto/car hops would be modest.
And in a town the mesh would be much denser and the cross sectional bandwidth would be quite high. Again with local on and off ramps to backbones.
A key value is that 2G; 3G; 4G solutions will clearly be unable to address the wireless wants that many have. Something like this would be able to support basic data and voice... with some spare bandwidth to support store and forward technology like email and even video playback (sans streaming).
All this reminds me of the building of the interstate
highway system.
Many many town centers were bypassed and
then withered and died. Towns not bypassed
prospered.
Oh and BTW unlike trains the interstate highway
does not pay real estate taxes on the right-away
and stations (buildings). It also bypassed all
the main street real estate value robbing individuals
and families of their legacy... but estate taxes
would have flushed that.....
That would never work by itself.
You are speaking of Mesh networking which is absolutely the way to go to help create a truly anonymous infrastructure beyond the controls that we so despise right now. However, you can't link Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Phoenix with Mesh networking. ...snip....
What if automobiles had low power Network devices with
front and back facing antenna? There are not too many times
when you can drive any of the interstate highways between
major cities and not see both head lights and tail lights.
With ipv6 and GPS info some very interesting things could
be done.
Should I wait for the book.
How is it that there is a smaller and smaller
number of good books.
Cool -- way cool.
This is one of the cooler pictures I have seen in forever.
Astounding.
Pray tell what version of Windows the box was running.
Or tell what software service was hacked by someone to a
bad end.
Does it get more interesting if the system involved
was a virtual machine running in such a way
that a backup picked up all the services and
law enforcement was unable to deny any further
services.
That's not the way things are run, he's just an uninformed twit. In most, if not all states, you agree to surrender to breath testing at the discretion of law enforcement as part of getting your license. Courts tend to interpret the power a little more narrowly than cops would like, but if they have even the slightest reasonable suspicion, you're not going to get anywhere.
An on-the-spot judge is new, though, and is going to be problematic. We take separation of powers pretty seriously here. A judge is not a police officer, and shouldn't be acting like one. The commingling is going totrigger a massive legal fight.
Judge acting as a police officer is a critical point.
NOT one to be lost....
Time for a Scotch... Thanks santa.
As traffic gets increasingly congested and becomes more
stop and go the seat time is the real limit.
Urban sprawl is ultimately by commute time not miles.
More apropos today is the massive drag provided
by the lack of liquidity in the housing market. Since
many home owners would be unable to qualify for
their existing loan they are unable to swap their current
location for one closer to home. Jobs and labor
pools including technical talent will need to be local.
Manufacturing will be clobbered as the number and income level of
many manufacturing jobs cannot justify a company getting
involved and relocating talent. That will be executives only...
As others indicated there is a jurisdiction issue with a German company
and the US Sherman AntiTrust Act.
The important bit I see is that these LARGE patent portfolio groups hides
the very real fact that many patents are obvious and should not be
granted a patent.
i.e. if a patent for smearing foo on vitrified pooh was developed independently
by two, three.... twenty companies the idea is most likely not worthy
of a patent. Perhaps more importantly if 90% of the companies involved
in the same business of "bar" encountered the same problem and clean room solved
it in the same way the patent is not valid because it is obvious.
The anti trust issue should not be lost because the massive size of some
companies so dominates an activity that even obvious solutions go
uncontested because the business practices so fully limit the market
that the number of engineering eyes looking at a problem is thus constrained.
An example is the large number of cell phone patent cases. The number
makes it obvious (to me) that when the only N (=small) companies building a
device discover that a patent is at issue -- the fact that near 100% of those in the business
stumbled on the same solution to the same problem define the idea as
an obvious solution and not a unique invention...
It is rare to see a long list of defendants in patent cases but a long list
where many clearly developed the solution independently is "proof"
that the idea is obvious. A long list may have a count of two when
the list of companies in the business is near two.
An interesting corner case is university based research where laws
protect the university while they research and tinker with technology
that would put "companies" in legal trouble.
The Mountain Pass rare earth mine uses froth floatation, a water intensive process. For goodness sake get some facts right. Even in the high desert, we have these things known as "pipes."
Yes pipes and recycling.
When I was at the mine in the '60s
they were water constrained.
Time to stop before we begin to sound like
economists and Obama.
Yes sir. In two weeks the desert
has seen rain that qualifies as a record.
Millions of gallons -- does qualify as a record.
rain fall in the desert is a funny thing.
Some years you get some and most years nothing..
One thing that is important is how easy it
is to detect a leak if Thorium or
Radium is contained in the material.
Compare and contrast one gram of Thorium and one gram of lead (or As)
in the context of detection and environmental impact.
What we in the world must understand is that
our spinning disks spin on and seek with rare
earth magnets. Yes, processing material like Thorium and Radium should be sequestered but
not vilified. This is not a reactor making isotopes.