This is a special case necessitated by the fact that the District of Columbia is not part of any State.
Not really, the example parkways are not in the district, they are in Maryland (BW) and Virginia/DC(GW).
Another example is Skyline Drive, but I chose the DC parkways because of their similarities to Interstate highways and my personal familiarity with them.
The District has its own police department, who mostly function as any other municipality.
There's roads (interstate highways) that are funded with Federal money and have to meet Federal interstate highway standards, but they're entirely governed by the states. There's no Federal highway patrol to catch you doing something wrong on these roads.
Slightly off-topic, but still interesting: There are absolutely general-access Federal highways which are patrolled by Federal law enforcement. A few in particular around Washington, D.C. (e.g., the Baltimore/Washington Parkway and the George Washington Parkway) When you get a ticket one one of those, it's issued by the US Park Police, and you go to Federal court. (I know from personal experience).
I'm going to guess that you don't really have any formal sysadmin experience. Otherwise you'd not be surprised at all about those unlikely regressions that show up on seemingly minor updates.
As to auto-update, care to suggest anyway to make that work without giving users admin rights?
It's only perjury if you file a takedown claiming a file is something you don't have the rights to
...which is exactly what happened in this case, assuming you agree that Warner's agent knew or should have known that their automated tool was subject to error.
Climate control systems and water heaters and dehumidifiers automatically regulate their power use to the requirements. They do not use maximum power continually.
No, really?
Let's just leave it as we disagree as to what the nominal load of a house is. Because this is a stupid argument.
(I looked at my own electric bills, which back me up. But who knows, maybe you live somewhere that you don't have to heat, or use oil/natgas/whatever)
"Each Bloom Energy Server provides 100kW of power, enough to meet the baseload needs of 100 average homes or a small office building... day and night, in roughly the footprint of a standard parking space. For more power simply add more energy servers."
100kW for 100 average homes? What exactly are they smoking? You can't even run a hair dryer in all 100 homes for that.
how are american lives more important than russian lives, or any other?
The point that the poster appeared to be making was that NASA is responsible for American lives, not Russian lives, and NASA tends to be pretty darn rigorous about these sorts of things. So if it puts American lives at risk, NASA will have to sign off on this, and NASA won't do so unless it meets with their satisfaction.
Plus tire wear is probably highly correlated with road wear, which is kinda the point.
Mr. Motorcyclist here. I'd like to strongly disagree.
Tire wear is highly correlated with the performance characteristics of the tire, the care and maintenance of the vehicle, and the driving characteristics of the driver. A good set of racing tires on a sportbike will only last a few thousand miles even for an only moderately aggressive rider, but I'm reasonably certain a ~500lb motorcycle is not causing significant damage to the road.
Similarly with high performance auto tires. I believe (though I'm too lazy to look this up) that semi truck tires actually last a fairly long time, because they're fairly hard rubber and their radius is so great that the number of revolutions per mile compared to a car tire is significantly lower.
This is exactly the problem. Most of these proposals are coming because such taxes won't work on electrics, or don't generate enough income with higher and higher efficiency gas/diesel vehicles.
There's no political will to increase the fuel taxes, and no easy mechanism to apply them to electric cars.
I don't understand. You have to follow a person on Twitter in order to see their twitter posts, right? So if this audience of millions isn't interested in DARPA, why would they follow DARPA on twitter?
They're already following other people on Twitter. They aren't reading RSS feeds. Thus, seeing what DARPA is up to on Twitter fits with their existing workflow.
Corporations that big have a VP of Strategic Planning or some such in charge of IPv6 migration and their schedule is not based on some random hardware delivered to a readiness lab.
Well, my bet is that at some point Mr. VP of Strategic Planning is going to involve at least one network engineer (as the GP claimed to be). And said engineer will probably have to, you know, test things to make sure they work in a lab somewhere prior to actually executing the IPv6 Strategic Plan. So I don't really get where you're going with this.
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Who's policing Congress?
That's simple, the American people. And we consistently tell the Congress that we approve of their actions, in spite of what we tell pollsters.
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Rule #1 of HIPAA: If you misspell it, you can't speak authoritatively about it.
I used to eat microwave popcorn but my lady won't let me own one.
Since we're asking "Out of curiosity" questions, why exactly is she opposed to microwave ovens?
This is a special case necessitated by the fact that the District of Columbia is not part of any State.
Not really, the example parkways are not in the district, they are in Maryland (BW) and Virginia/DC(GW).
Another example is Skyline Drive, but I chose the DC parkways because of their similarities to Interstate highways and my personal familiarity with them.
The District has its own police department, who mostly function as any other municipality.
There's roads (interstate highways) that are funded with Federal money and have to meet Federal interstate highway standards, but they're entirely governed by the states. There's no Federal highway patrol to catch you doing something wrong on these roads.
Slightly off-topic, but still interesting: There are absolutely general-access Federal highways which are patrolled by Federal law enforcement. A few in particular around Washington, D.C. (e.g., the Baltimore/Washington Parkway and the George Washington Parkway) When you get a ticket one one of those, it's issued by the US Park Police, and you go to Federal court. (I know from personal experience).
Yes, that's what the original poster was saying, and it requires actual effort on his part to do so.
It's irrelevant because you are talking theoretical, and this thread started out with a practical question.
I understand your point, but it's irrelevant, we were discussing Firefox.
I'm going to guess that you don't really have any formal sysadmin experience. Otherwise you'd not be surprised at all about those unlikely regressions that show up on seemingly minor updates.
As to auto-update, care to suggest anyway to make that work without giving users admin rights?
Yes, they are. At least, on Amtrak. See: http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer/AM_Content_C/1246044325520/1237405732514
Perhaps you know something I don't, but I've never heard of broadband over catenary or broadband over rail.
Despite Feynman turning a carefully constructed whitewash into an exposure of that flawed process NASA is still suffering from it fifteen years later.
The Rogers Commission Report was 1986 -- so it's 25 years. :/
It's only perjury if you file a takedown claiming a file is something you don't have the rights to
...which is exactly what happened in this case, assuming you agree that Warner's agent knew or should have known that their automated tool was subject to error.
Climate control systems and water heaters and dehumidifiers automatically regulate their power use to the requirements. They do not use maximum power continually.
No, really?
Let's just leave it as we disagree as to what the nominal load of a house is. Because this is a stupid argument.
(I looked at my own electric bills, which back me up. But who knows, maybe you live somewhere that you don't have to heat, or use oil/natgas/whatever)
How many people run hair dryers 24x7?
A lot fewer than those who run their 7kW+ climate control systems 24x7. Or water heaters. Or dehumidifiers. Etc.
I was curious what a Bloom Box is. So I looked it up. From http://www.bloomenergy.com/products/:
"Each Bloom Energy Server provides 100kW of power, enough to meet the baseload needs of 100 average homes or a small office building... day and night, in roughly the footprint of a standard parking space. For more power simply add more energy servers."
100kW for 100 average homes? What exactly are they smoking? You can't even run a hair dryer in all 100 homes for that.
how are american lives more important than russian lives, or any other?
The point that the poster appeared to be making was that NASA is responsible for American lives, not Russian lives, and NASA tends to be pretty darn rigorous about these sorts of things. So if it puts American lives at risk, NASA will have to sign off on this, and NASA won't do so unless it meets with their satisfaction.
Taco did a good thing tapping Lamer. Tech is coming back to slashdot.
we (the US) are literally stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Forgive the off-topic, but: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/literally
Why leave it on if you're not going to use the thing for hours and hours
Because shutting down or even suspending kills TCP state, and re-logging in is a pain in the butt when you have lots of multi-factor sessions.
Plus tire wear is probably highly correlated with road wear, which is kinda the point.
Mr. Motorcyclist here. I'd like to strongly disagree.
Tire wear is highly correlated with the performance characteristics of the tire, the care and maintenance of the vehicle, and the driving characteristics of the driver. A good set of racing tires on a sportbike will only last a few thousand miles even for an only moderately aggressive rider, but I'm reasonably certain a ~500lb motorcycle is not causing significant damage to the road.
Similarly with high performance auto tires. I believe (though I'm too lazy to look this up) that semi truck tires actually last a fairly long time, because they're fairly hard rubber and their radius is so great that the number of revolutions per mile compared to a car tire is significantly lower.
The idea is to make people use less fossil fuel
This is exactly the problem. Most of these proposals are coming because such taxes won't work on electrics, or don't generate enough income with higher and higher efficiency gas/diesel vehicles.
There's no political will to increase the fuel taxes, and no easy mechanism to apply them to electric cars.
I don't understand. You have to follow a person on Twitter in order to see their twitter posts, right? So if this audience of millions isn't interested in DARPA, why would they follow DARPA on twitter?
They're already following other people on Twitter. They aren't reading RSS feeds. Thus, seeing what DARPA is up to on Twitter fits with their existing workflow.
The US hasn't built a major power plant since some time in the 1970s from what I understand.
You understand wrong. For example, near me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Shores_Generating_Station
Units online in 1984 and 1991.
it could be used for ad-targeting (EVIL),
Why? If I'm going to be subjected somehow to advertisements, it might as well be for something I'm actually interested in.
Corporations that big have a VP of Strategic Planning or some such in charge of IPv6 migration and their schedule is not based on some random hardware delivered to a readiness lab.
Well, my bet is that at some point Mr. VP of Strategic Planning is going to involve at least one network engineer (as the GP claimed to be). And said engineer will probably have to, you know, test things to make sure they work in a lab somewhere prior to actually executing the IPv6 Strategic Plan. So I don't really get where you're going with this.