Yeah, choose a candidate and get out there to throw a pie in his/her face. I'm just so damned disgusted with the whole lot of them. Voting is futile when all the choices suck.
The MA governor's debate was pathetic. "You said X.". "No I didn't, but you said Y." "No I didn't." Now I know why they call them "goobers".
It would have been better if they had put on the gloves and boxed 10 rounds (Shannon O'Brien probably would have kicked Romney's ass, or at least ruined his makeup.)
" Just to add a little detail, it was in 1981. And yes, it was an ill-fated disaster."
To add a bit more detail
The V-8-6-4 was not the disaster many think it was. The dropable cylinder trick was a bandaid to boost fuel economy until they could release the notorious HT4100 aluminum V8 in 1982. They never *expected* to use it for long.
They only made the V-8-6-4 for one year and never really refined the controller for it. People disliked them because of the way they acted, not because they were problematic. You could unplug a few wires and it would run just like the normal V8. It was a 6.0 liter, and it was the last of the great line of Cadillac's iron V8's.
Guns drawn? Guns drawn? Guns drawn? Like they were ready to blow someone's brains out rather than snipping the coax? Do I really need to RTFA? Fuck the FBI! I said that! Yeah, me! Come and get me copper!
"Or maybe there was something wrong with the code."
Yes there was. It was my mistaken belief that C ints were defined to be the natural size of the architecture. K&R said that ints "typically" reflect the natural size, but that it's implementation dependent.
UltraSparcs are 64 bit processors, but older versions of Solaris are partly 32-bit and partly 64-bit. Your compiler may support something like "arch=sparcV9".
You think they didn't know? I would rather suspect that they did -- I chose my words poorly. I was actually being sardonic, but that didn't come across.
I *do* think they knew that an airliner could be commandeered and used as a large guided missile. It was only partly due to the stupidity of not applying the 80/20 rule and doing the simple things.
but the economics and politics of the time prohibited doing much about it.
1- Airlines weren't exactly in great financial shape before then.
2- Security in terms of intrusive searches and El Al-style pre-boarding interviews (the 'correct' way to handle it, probably, from a security POV) takes a huge amount of time, training and money. 3- Adding things like bomb detectors increases time delays due to needing to check out false positives, e.g. nylon stockings giving off nitrogen vapors. 4- The customers were already pissed off in terms of delays, pre-boarding waits, and so forth.
Security costs. How secure do you want to be? I'll take the cheap 80%. El Al, after the famous hijacking 30 or so years ago came to a vital conclusion. Nobody, ever, gets into the cockpit. How expensive is that? How much does it inconvenience passengers? False positives? nope. It costs, next to nada.
Any airline that would have unilaterally boosted security to the point where it were actually meaningful (e.g. that hasn't been achieved yet...)
Locking the door would have been very meaningful to the cities of New York and Washington. The passengers might still have been screwed.
might have been pushed into bankruptcy by customers fleeing to competitors who could field many more flights per day with far less inconvenience.
I'm no risk management expert, but I don't believe that. ValueJet went under because they were slack and carried hazardous cargo on a passenger flight. Were the FAA to have tried, it would have been political suicide for the administration.
I agree, as did Mary Schiavo who saw it all coming.
It depends on *where* the lines are. And *who* gets to decide what constitutes a risk.
The cockpit doors were wide open and the airlines and FAA were too damned stupid to realize that it was a security hole. So now that the cow is out of the barn, we should put armed guards around the chicken coop?
If the U.S. wanted to conquer the the world, 1946 would have been a good time to do it. The U.S. only wants to be as strong as it needs to be to protect itself from powerful fascist nations. The average U.S. taxpayer would much rather buy education and healthcare than guns.
If you're looking for counties to blame for the state of the world, blame Germany and Russia. We will be feeling the effects of their past aggressions for centuries to come.
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"*try* to do something about it"
Yeah, choose a candidate and get out there to throw a pie in his/her face. I'm just so damned disgusted with the whole lot of them. Voting is futile when all the choices suck.
The MA governor's debate was pathetic. "You said X.". "No I didn't, but you said Y." "No I didn't." Now I know why they call them "goobers".
It would have been better if they had put on the gloves and boxed 10 rounds (Shannon O'Brien probably would have kicked Romney's ass, or at least ruined his makeup.)
That would be nearly equivalent to the userland driver he described.
" Just to add a little detail, it was in 1981. And yes, it was an ill-fated disaster."
To add a bit more detail
The V-8-6-4 was not the disaster many think it was. The dropable cylinder trick was a bandaid to boost fuel economy until they could release the notorious HT4100 aluminum V8 in 1982. They never *expected* to use it for long.
They only made the V-8-6-4 for one year and never really refined the controller for it. People disliked them because of the way they acted, not because they were problematic. You could unplug a few wires and it would run just like the normal V8. It was a 6.0 liter, and it was the last of the great line of Cadillac's iron V8's.
Guns drawn? Guns drawn? Guns drawn? Like they were ready to blow someone's brains out rather than snipping the coax? Do I really need to RTFA? Fuck the FBI! I said that! Yeah, me! Come and get me copper!
"I'm not a breathless Ogg fanboy"...
"well, yea, of course we do that."
+5 insightful (but should be bloody obvious).
How perverted is the Microsoft business model?
This is the same kind of crap that went on with early cordless telephones.
"(head up to Northern NJ to see what I mean)"
What exit?
"Or maybe there was something wrong with the code."
Yes there was. It was my mistaken belief that C ints were defined to be the natural size of the architecture. K&R said that ints "typically" reflect the natural size, but that it's implementation dependent.
UltraSparcs are 64 bit processors, but older versions of Solaris are partly 32-bit and partly 64-bit. Your compiler may support something like "arch=sparcV9".
I stand corrected.
main(){
printf("My computer is %d bits\n", sizeof( int) * 8);
}
+1 obscure?
Put my fucking phone number on your fucking no-fucking-call list you fucking asshole.
Thank you very much.
"With a name like Smuckers, why does it have to be good?"
It's better than "Dog Vommit" and "Monkey Puss".
266 double-pumped.
Anyone have a .NET?
better pipelining.
"i did this for a speach class"
;-P
If it had been a writing class you would have been marked down a half grade
Astronauts could do their taxes with it.
200 disc audio cd changers are pretty cheap. Has anyone converted one to work with generic (cd|dvd)(r|w)* drives?
You think they didn't know? I would rather suspect that they did --
A _I naction/MarySchiavoStory.html
I chose my words poorly. I was actually being sardonic, but that didn't come across.
I *do* think they knew that an airliner could be commandeered and used as a large guided missile. It was only partly due to the stupidity of not applying the 80/20 rule and doing the simple things.
but the economics and politics of the time prohibited doing much about it.
1- Airlines weren't exactly in great financial shape before then.
2- Security in terms of intrusive searches and El Al-style pre-boarding interviews (the 'correct' way to handle it, probably, from a security POV) takes a huge amount of time, training and money.
3- Adding things like bomb detectors increases time delays due to needing to check out false positives, e.g. nylon stockings giving off nitrogen vapors.
4- The customers were already pissed off in terms of delays, pre-boarding waits, and so forth.
Security costs. How secure do you want to be? I'll take the cheap 80%. El Al, after the famous hijacking 30 or so years ago came to a vital conclusion. Nobody, ever, gets into the cockpit. How expensive is that? How much does it inconvenience passengers? False positives? nope. It costs, next to nada.
Any airline that would have unilaterally boosted security to the point where it were actually meaningful (e.g. that hasn't been achieved yet...)
Locking the door would have been very meaningful to the cities of New York and Washington. The passengers might still have been screwed.
might have been pushed into bankruptcy by customers fleeing to competitors who could field many more flights per day with far less inconvenience.
I'm no risk management expert, but I don't believe that. ValueJet went under because they were slack and carried hazardous cargo on a passenger flight.
Were the FAA to have tried, it would have been political suicide for the administration.
I agree, as did Mary Schiavo who saw it all coming.
http://www.iasa.com.au/folders/Safety_Issues/FA
"if you cross police lines..."
It depends on *where* the lines are. And *who* gets to decide what constitutes a risk.
The cockpit doors were wide open and the airlines and FAA were too damned stupid to realize that it was a security hole. So now that the cow is out of the barn, we should put armed guards around the chicken coop?
Yeah, 3 nodes. Canada, U.S., and Mexico.
"to rebuild and conquer the world"
If the U.S. wanted to conquer the the world, 1946 would have been a good time to do it. The U.S. only wants to be as strong as it needs to be to protect itself from powerful fascist nations. The average U.S. taxpayer would much rather buy education and healthcare than guns.
If you're looking for counties to blame for the state of the world, blame Germany and Russia. We will be feeling the effects of their past aggressions for centuries to come.
be sued for patent infringement?