I always thought that the western world didn't want Iran to have nukes because their president and their ayatollahs frequently pass judgement on Israel, saying that they should be bombed out of existence.
Part of the reason for that is because the war criminal Ariel Sharon decreed that the Palestinians were "not human" and should be "exterminated". You may not be able to look this up online if you live in the US, because of your country's censorship filters.
Let's get this straight - the previous (and fortunately to a rather lesser extent, the current) Israeli government want to wipe the Palestinians off the face of the world. The Palestinians have been herded into a ghetto and denied basic human rights like food, clean water and medical supplies. Do you think the Israelis would like it if that happened to them?
When you need a vehicle and a car you're looking at doesn't have a particular feature, do you call up the manufacturer and suggest they consider introducing it into next year's model, or the year after?
No, what I do is I get a vehicle that closely matches my requirements and then I adapt it to suit. Sometimes this involves hiring in someone else to do the bits I can't manage on my own, and sometimes I contact the manufacturer to see if they can suggest any options that may form part of the solution. That's just what I do with software, too - if a program doesn't work the way I want it to, I modify it until it does.
Have you filed a bug, or even a request with the development team?
Contrary to what people seem to think, a lot of software isn't developed with ass-backwards misfeatures because that's how the developers like it, they're developed like that because the developers don't know any better. If you tell them what you want, with a couple of good examples of how it *should* work, you'll probably get what you want pretty quickly.
there's a difference between paying the "non-married" tax for people who CAN'T get married, vs for people who WON'T get married.
There's nothing to stop gay couples getting married. If they choose to live in a country that outlaws it (like Afghanistan, or the United States) then it's a problem of their own making.
I would sign a petition to support banning D-Star. Using a proprietary, closed codec in a radio system that is only available from one manufacturer is kind of against the whole ethos of amateur radio.
Incidentally, this is what radio amateurs are having to put up with from ethernet-over-powerline (PLT) devices. When one of those fires up, pretty much the entire HF band becomes unusable for a large area, anything up to quarter of a mile. New, high-speed PLT adaptors flatten everything up to VHF - including air band.
Think carefully before buying an ethernet-over-power adaptor. If the HF bands get too hard to use because of PLT, we might have to switch to running hundreds of watts on 2.4 and 5.8GHz...
have people forgotten about that already? The god damn thing was designed in such a way that it would explode if you hit it just right.
Except it wasn't. It was no more likely to go on fire in an accident than any other make or model of car built at the same time. They were all that bad - the Pinto was the first one that actually had something done about it.
I'm amazed how many people replying to my original comment have don't know what Communism is. I'm prepared to bet that the bulk of them received their "education" in what passes for America's school system.
I am also far more conservative in my views than I was when I was young.
Really? Because I found the opposite happened. I used to write shareware. People occasionally registered it, but not nearly as many people registered as used it without paying. Bugger. So I made it less and less functional, without registering. Even *less* people registered, and not only that but on BBSes (jeez, I'm giving my age away) people used to post cracks to get around the registration code.
As I grew up, my silly, naive and idealistic capitalist side waned and I settled down into the comfort of being a rabid old Commie. I gave my software away for free. I gave my music away for free. I gave my circuit designs (ones that I wasn't being paid quite a lot of money to do by my employer, but stuff like guitar effects) away for free. People posted on the Internet, oh yeah, use this stuff, it's quite good. People I spoke to at computer festivals and other such geekery pissups said "Oh you're the guy that wrote $thing? Cool, I use that" and bought me beer.
Long story short, fuck capitalism. Give the stuff you love away for free, and earn money from the stuff you don't care about.
It's a fundamentally retarded design. I'm surprised it's even legal to distribute the iPhone 4 with an exposed transmitting antenna, right there where you can stick your thumb on it. How the hell did it ever get CE approval?
(NB in the UK even the latter usually requires signing some sort of agreement - partly to prevent the use of anonymous SIMs)
I've never had to sign any sort of agreement for a pre-paid SIM. In most high-street mobile phone shops (T-mobile, Virgrim, O2 and Orange, at any rate) you walk in and buy a SIM. Typically it's around a tenner, with whatever you paid preloaded as credit. You can pay cash, and no-one is interested in getting you to sign anything.
... that the current way of thinking is that if you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to worry about. What are they so worried about, that they're trying to keep hidden?
Also see Eric Schmidt, and "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" - I think this applies nicely here.
Can I add "Low RF emissions" to that? I have a BT Homehub ADSL router, which splatters severe interference from down about AM radio up to analogue TV frequencies. The interference it produces is strongest in the 2m amateur band - I can pick up a spur from it on 145.6875MHz from over half a mile away.
I suspect that you could make a convincing argument for saying that anyone with a Homehub is running an illegal radio transmitter.
Piracy is IDF paramilitary terrorists raiding aid convoys bringing food and medicine to Gaza. When are the denizens of the Whitehouse going to crack down on that?
I have no idea of the complexity of a car mechanic's job, but from watching them troubleshoot my car from time to time, I would venture that it used to involve some basic troubleshooting and now mostly involves plugging in a diagnostic computer.
I would say that diagnostic computers have made it harder rather than easier. Too many garages get their PFY to plug in the diags reader and when it says "COOLANT TEMP SENSOR FAULT" off they go and change the sensor - only to find the fault is still there.
Kind of like medicine, the diagnostic results are rather oracular, and not particularly definitive. If you don't interpret the weird mixed messages correctly, you won't find the answer.
Not much, for me. I've already switched to www.altavista.net for the bulk of my web searches. Google is too spammy. If you search for information on electronic components - say, the datasheet for an IC - pretty much all the results are sites in the Far East offering to sell "ALL PART BEST PRICE CALL FOR DETAIL!!!!"
It's also illegal to stumble about drunk - "Drunk and Incapable" - but the law isn't enforced. It should be. As recently as ten years ago the police would hoover up the seriously drunk and cart them off for an overnight stay in a drying-out centre. Quite often, they'd be fined enough money to keep them off the drink for a week or two. Now what happens is that people (increasingly, young women) get taken to A&E where they are given fluids and a bed for the night. They don't even end up with a hangover, far less any more serious consequences.
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I always thought that the western world didn't want Iran to have nukes because their president and their ayatollahs frequently pass judgement on Israel, saying that they should be bombed out of existence.
Part of the reason for that is because the war criminal Ariel Sharon decreed that the Palestinians were "not human" and should be "exterminated". You may not be able to look this up online if you live in the US, because of your country's censorship filters.
Let's get this straight - the previous (and fortunately to a rather lesser extent, the current) Israeli government want to wipe the Palestinians off the face of the world. The Palestinians have been herded into a ghetto and denied basic human rights like food, clean water and medical supplies. Do you think the Israelis would like it if that happened to them?
When you need a vehicle and a car you're looking at doesn't have a particular feature, do you call up the manufacturer and suggest they consider introducing it into next year's model, or the year after?
No, what I do is I get a vehicle that closely matches my requirements and then I adapt it to suit. Sometimes this involves hiring in someone else to do the bits I can't manage on my own, and sometimes I contact the manufacturer to see if they can suggest any options that may form part of the solution. That's just what I do with software, too - if a program doesn't work the way I want it to, I modify it until it does.
Have you filed a bug, or even a request with the development team?
Contrary to what people seem to think, a lot of software isn't developed with ass-backwards misfeatures because that's how the developers like it, they're developed like that because the developers don't know any better. If you tell them what you want, with a couple of good examples of how it *should* work, you'll probably get what you want pretty quickly.
there's a difference between paying the "non-married" tax for people who CAN'T get married, vs for people who WON'T get married.
There's nothing to stop gay couples getting married. If they choose to live in a country that outlaws it (like Afghanistan, or the United States) then it's a problem of their own making.
I would sign a petition to support banning D-Star. Using a proprietary, closed codec in a radio system that is only available from one manufacturer is kind of against the whole ethos of amateur radio.
Incidentally, this is what radio amateurs are having to put up with from ethernet-over-powerline (PLT) devices. When one of those fires up, pretty much the entire HF band becomes unusable for a large area, anything up to quarter of a mile. New, high-speed PLT adaptors flatten everything up to VHF - including air band.
Think carefully before buying an ethernet-over-power adaptor. If the HF bands get too hard to use because of PLT, we might have to switch to running hundreds of watts on 2.4 and 5.8GHz...
have people forgotten about that already? The god damn thing was designed in such a way that it would explode if you hit it just right.
Except it wasn't. It was no more likely to go on fire in an accident than any other make or model of car built at the same time. They were all that bad - the Pinto was the first one that actually had something done about it.
I'm amazed how many people replying to my original comment have don't know what Communism is. I'm prepared to bet that the bulk of them received their "education" in what passes for America's school system.
I am also far more conservative in my views than I was when I was young.
Really? Because I found the opposite happened. I used to write shareware. People occasionally registered it, but not nearly as many people registered as used it without paying. Bugger. So I made it less and less functional, without registering. Even *less* people registered, and not only that but on BBSes (jeez, I'm giving my age away) people used to post cracks to get around the registration code.
As I grew up, my silly, naive and idealistic capitalist side waned and I settled down into the comfort of being a rabid old Commie. I gave my software away for free. I gave my music away for free. I gave my circuit designs (ones that I wasn't being paid quite a lot of money to do by my employer, but stuff like guitar effects) away for free. People posted on the Internet, oh yeah, use this stuff, it's quite good. People I spoke to at computer festivals and other such geekery pissups said "Oh you're the guy that wrote $thing? Cool, I use that" and bought me beer.
Long story short, fuck capitalism. Give the stuff you love away for free, and earn money from the stuff you don't care about.
It's a fundamentally retarded design. I'm surprised it's even legal to distribute the iPhone 4 with an exposed transmitting antenna, right there where you can stick your thumb on it. How the hell did it ever get CE approval?
(NB in the UK even the latter usually requires signing some sort of agreement - partly to prevent the use of anonymous SIMs)
I've never had to sign any sort of agreement for a pre-paid SIM. In most high-street mobile phone shops (T-mobile, Virgrim, O2 and Orange, at any rate) you walk in and buy a SIM. Typically it's around a tenner, with whatever you paid preloaded as credit. You can pay cash, and no-one is interested in getting you to sign anything.
... that the current way of thinking is that if you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to worry about. What are they so worried about, that they're trying to keep hidden?
Also see Eric Schmidt, and "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" - I think this applies nicely here.
Class B devices ("home") are permitted more radiation than you might expect.
The spurious emissions go further than the wifi does. That can't be right.
Can I add "Low RF emissions" to that? I have a BT Homehub ADSL router, which splatters severe interference from down about AM radio up to analogue TV frequencies. The interference it produces is strongest in the 2m amateur band - I can pick up a spur from it on 145.6875MHz from over half a mile away.
I suspect that you could make a convincing argument for saying that anyone with a Homehub is running an illegal radio transmitter.
Piracy is IDF paramilitary terrorists raiding aid convoys bringing food and medicine to Gaza. When are the denizens of the Whitehouse going to crack down on that?
Wouldn't it be great if they just finished building their own Iron Curtain and stopped bothering the rest of the world?
I have no idea of the complexity of a car mechanic's job, but from watching them troubleshoot my car from time to time, I would venture that it used to involve some basic troubleshooting and now mostly involves plugging in a diagnostic computer.
I would say that diagnostic computers have made it harder rather than easier. Too many garages get their PFY to plug in the diags reader and when it says "COOLANT TEMP SENSOR FAULT" off they go and change the sensor - only to find the fault is still there.
Kind of like medicine, the diagnostic results are rather oracular, and not particularly definitive. If you don't interpret the weird mixed messages correctly, you won't find the answer.
If you stand on the street shouting your home telephone number, don't be surprised if someone phones it.
Not much, for me. I've already switched to www.altavista.net for the bulk of my web searches. Google is too spammy. If you search for information on electronic components - say, the datasheet for an IC - pretty much all the results are sites in the Far East offering to sell "ALL PART BEST PRICE CALL FOR DETAIL!!!!"
It is more like a postcard - yes, you can read it (no encryption), but it has an address.
... except for the broadcast packets.
A cache file that persists even after factory reset?
Why would a factory reset clear user data stored on removable media?
It's also illegal to stumble about drunk - "Drunk and Incapable" - but the law isn't enforced. It should be. As recently as ten years ago the police would hoover up the seriously drunk and cart them off for an overnight stay in a drying-out centre. Quite often, they'd be fined enough money to keep them off the drink for a week or two. Now what happens is that people (increasingly, young women) get taken to A&E where they are given fluids and a bed for the night. They don't even end up with a hangover, far less any more serious consequences.
(and where would we put it?)
Pump the water out of the Pacific Ocean?
Repeat after me: people who don't want to learn hardware design will make lousy programmers.
If you don't know how the computer works right down to transistor level, how do you expect to understand even a little of what you're doing?
They're done by a shorthand typist using something similar to T9. There's a name for the system but I can't remember it offhand.