I show the person my registration card and some ID. They cross my name off a printed list of eligible voters and hand me my paper ballot. I then go behind a screen to make my selections, fold the ballot up, and then drop it into a box with all of the others. The system works in Canada and in many other places in the world.
I'm in a major Ontario city and with the first snow storm of the year it's amazing the number of people who get surprised that winter has arrived, in Canada, in December. There's always a lot of accidents because people have forgotten to slow down and be more careful.
And many cows spend at least part of their lives on feed lots which feed them corn (and sometimes other crops) which uses water. Even if they aren't on a feed lot they will eat grass, hay, or silage. All of that might require some water to grow.
The problem I have with some of the estimates for water include rainfall in their calculations which I don't think should be. It's been worked out that a certain plant requires a specific amount of water in laboratory conditions. I believe that only water that is added by us should be included in those calculations.
So when they say that a pound of beef requires so many gallons of water it is the water that the cow drinks plus all of the water that the plants used to grow in order to feed the cow. Then there's water for cleaning out barns, vehicles, other uses, etc.
Yes, but I don't think that you are going to lay fibre in the ground within a data centre which this technology is aimed for. Or else you are doing your data centres wrong.
Who is screaming for the phones to be thinner anymore? What I see on the comments when new phones are announced and they are thinner is that people want them to be the same thickness or even a bit thicker and have longer batter life.
But if you turn annual crops into perennials you lose the advantages of crop rotation. The crop will become more at risk to pests, weeds, and fungus. The point of rotating the crop is if one of these gets into the field one year it won't have anything to feed on for a number of years and dies out (usually rotates on a seven year cycle). By keeping it a perennial crop you will also lose the chance to plant nitrogen-fixing crops that is normal in a crop rotation schedule. Both of these will cause the use of chemicals and fertilizers to be increased.
You're just talking crazy! There's no way in hell that I'm using a nail file to take the VIN off an RV. That would take forever. I would use a grinder because I've got a garden to plant.
Why is anyone putting anything on the cloud that they haven't encrypted themselves?
Of there there are some things that you can't encrypt beforehand like the pictures and contacts that go into iCloud. But if you are just throwing files up onto storage on some file server then you should never be depending on the providers encryption. Encrypt all files yourself and then let the provider encrypt it again. That way even if they do happen to hand it over to some government with the ability to decrypt it all that government will get is some encrypted files.
On my Mac I created an encrypted disk image and I use BitTorrent Sync as cloud software. I put all of my important stuff that I want to work on there when I'm away. The transmission is encrypted and the data is encrypted too. Underneath the disk image is stored as a series of blocks so only those blocks that are changed are transferred instead of the whole disk image. It works very well.
The problem I have with this is that I don't call hitting someone 117 times domestic assault. Once you get above a couple it should be a higher charge and this many should be attempted murder. While domestic abuse is wrong in any circumstances this guy is especially dangerous and the resources should have been used to make the case.
They had to have a reason for wanting the security video of the guy's house. I'm presuming that would be a complaint from the girlfriend that was beaten up.
Human counters can do it reliably enough and fast enough. If the result is within a certain percentage (0.1% or 0.5%) then an automatic recount is performed. Plus because the paper ballots are kept any candidate can request for a recount to be performed with a valid reason. And as been pointed out a representative from each party is allowed to be present to view the vote counting to ensure that it is done fairly.
Using a scanner to just count the results of paper ballots is still risky but it is very easy to verify by running through a number of known sets of ballots right before and after the election. And I'm suggesting creating sets of random ballots for each test instead of relying on the same set which could be programmed to defeat.
Paper and pencil. Mark an X and put it in a ballot box. Use a scanner to speed up counting at the end of the night.
No source code to worry about. No computers to hack into. Works if the Internet goes down. No chads. Works the same in every city/province/state/country.
I'm sorry but the only reason he wasn't convicted was because the tape wasn't admissible? If some ass hits and kicks his girlfriend 117 times I'm calling in the forensics team because there's going to be the girlfriends blood in the apartment and on his clothes. They will find her blood which will corroborate her statement. Then it doesn't matter if he deleted the video. Besides from the sounds of it he doesn't really sound smart enough to securely delete so that a digital forensics team couldn't retrieve it.
But if all you are going into your trial with is a tape that the police questionably obtained (the lawyer should have seen this coming) then what is your police department and prosecutors office doing with their time because it certainly isn't preparing for cases.
Part of the $300M is for building a grid to carry the electricity back to shore. This is a fixed cost for most wind farms. It doesn't matter if you have one turbine or 25 you are still going to have to build that connection in order to send the electricity back. So the more turbines you have in your farm the better you can spread this cost out per turbine.
Note that each turbine will have a cost associated with connecting it to the to the grid that makes up the wind farm. The more turbines that you have in the farm the larger this grid is and the more it will cost to connect them together. But the turbines are always going to be much closer together than they are from the shore so the cost to connect the turbines is going to be smaller than connecting the farm to the shore.
Wind turbines are getting larger all the time and when they get larger they get more expensive. However as the length, n, increases the power available goes up as a function of the area swept by the blades, n^2. Of course nobody is doubling the blade length but we are seeing turbines of 5MW and more where a few years ago it was 4MW. So yes the turbines are getting more expensive but that's because they are able to generate more electricity.
They won't just be buying five turbines. They have to install them offshore which is more expensive than pouring a concrete foundation onshore. Plus they will be setting up the cables to transmit the electricity and data monitoring back to onshore. This will be expensive, especially for the closest mile or so to shore where any cables will need to be buried. But this cost is shared between the turbines and if they get permission to expand the wind farm in the future the only additional expense will for the new turbine and base and the connection to their new grid.
If technology in school is so great how come the employees of companies such as Apple and Google send their children to a Waldorf School in which they don't use technology (tablets, computers, etc) for teaching? https://www.theguardian.com/te...
It sounds as if you were able to take the money from all of these "silver bullets" that are supposed to save education and put it towards the best teachers it would go a long way. Then the union would have to let the underperforming teachers be replaced. (God forbid someone bad at their job should lose it!) And the administration should be cut back so that the teachers can focus on the teaching.
The infrastructure is already built in many places and the companies are making large profits so they could put the money towards upgrading/building the networks. In Canada the government didn't take over the infrastructure but forced the incumbents to share their networks with other ISPs. An incumbent charges, with a prescribed amount of profit, an independent ISP for the use of the last mile of their network (cable or DSL) and after that all traffic is routed onto the independent ISPs network. The incumbents compete with the other ISPs for customers but they also make a bit of money from sharing the network.
Ideally the last mile network would have spawned off from each incumbent into a new company but as a customer of independent ISPs for at least the last 15 years of both cable and DSL at various times I can say it has worked fairly well.
Additionally, considering the state of the infrastructure that the government does have responsibility for do you really want them to take over the last mile cable, DSL, and fibre networks?
It doesn't have any impact on the flight that is already in the air. However once the plane lands the computer has the instructions for where the plane is going next, how much fuel to put into it, where to route the luggage and any cargo that was in it, what to load into the plane for the new trip, what supplies to replenish, what passengers are supposed to get on board, who is supposed to work on the plane, etc. Without all that information that plane is grounded.
Well it's not really great since if it wants to take out the radar source it will have to open the weapons bay doors which will greatly increase the radar signature so that it will probably show up on radar. The article didn't mention anything about trying to attack the sources, just evading. The US may have the F-22 to take out SAM sites but other countries like Canada or Australia won't. And when it comes to encountering other aircraft it's going to be a disadvantage.
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I show the person my registration card and some ID. They cross my name off a printed list of eligible voters and hand me my paper ballot. I then go behind a screen to make my selections, fold the ballot up, and then drop it into a box with all of the others. The system works in Canada and in many other places in the world.
Why do some people have to make it so difficult?
I'm in a major Ontario city and with the first snow storm of the year it's amazing the number of people who get surprised that winter has arrived, in Canada, in December. There's always a lot of accidents because people have forgotten to slow down and be more careful.
And many cows spend at least part of their lives on feed lots which feed them corn (and sometimes other crops) which uses water. Even if they aren't on a feed lot they will eat grass, hay, or silage. All of that might require some water to grow.
The problem I have with some of the estimates for water include rainfall in their calculations which I don't think should be. It's been worked out that a certain plant requires a specific amount of water in laboratory conditions. I believe that only water that is added by us should be included in those calculations.
So when they say that a pound of beef requires so many gallons of water it is the water that the cow drinks plus all of the water that the plants used to grow in order to feed the cow. Then there's water for cleaning out barns, vehicles, other uses, etc.
Yes, but I don't think that you are going to lay fibre in the ground within a data centre which this technology is aimed for. Or else you are doing your data centres wrong.
No, she was the fifth element.
Who is screaming for the phones to be thinner anymore? What I see on the comments when new phones are announced and they are thinner is that people want them to be the same thickness or even a bit thicker and have longer batter life.
But if you turn annual crops into perennials you lose the advantages of crop rotation. The crop will become more at risk to pests, weeds, and fungus. The point of rotating the crop is if one of these gets into the field one year it won't have anything to feed on for a number of years and dies out (usually rotates on a seven year cycle). By keeping it a perennial crop you will also lose the chance to plant nitrogen-fixing crops that is normal in a crop rotation schedule. Both of these will cause the use of chemicals and fertilizers to be increased.
You're just talking crazy! There's no way in hell that I'm using a nail file to take the VIN off an RV. That would take forever. I would use a grinder because I've got a garden to plant.
Might want a rooster if you want chicken and eggs in the long term.
And in a few years they'll see Trump and figure it's not worth the trip.
Why is anyone putting anything on the cloud that they haven't encrypted themselves?
Of there there are some things that you can't encrypt beforehand like the pictures and contacts that go into iCloud. But if you are just throwing files up onto storage on some file server then you should never be depending on the providers encryption. Encrypt all files yourself and then let the provider encrypt it again. That way even if they do happen to hand it over to some government with the ability to decrypt it all that government will get is some encrypted files.
On my Mac I created an encrypted disk image and I use BitTorrent Sync as cloud software. I put all of my important stuff that I want to work on there when I'm away. The transmission is encrypted and the data is encrypted too. Underneath the disk image is stored as a series of blocks so only those blocks that are changed are transferred instead of the whole disk image. It works very well.
The problem I have with this is that I don't call hitting someone 117 times domestic assault. Once you get above a couple it should be a higher charge and this many should be attempted murder. While domestic abuse is wrong in any circumstances this guy is especially dangerous and the resources should have been used to make the case.
They had to have a reason for wanting the security video of the guy's house. I'm presuming that would be a complaint from the girlfriend that was beaten up.
Human counters can do it reliably enough and fast enough. If the result is within a certain percentage (0.1% or 0.5%) then an automatic recount is performed. Plus because the paper ballots are kept any candidate can request for a recount to be performed with a valid reason. And as been pointed out a representative from each party is allowed to be present to view the vote counting to ensure that it is done fairly.
Using a scanner to just count the results of paper ballots is still risky but it is very easy to verify by running through a number of known sets of ballots right before and after the election. And I'm suggesting creating sets of random ballots for each test instead of relying on the same set which could be programmed to defeat.
Paper and pencil. Mark an X and put it in a ballot box. Use a scanner to speed up counting at the end of the night.
No source code to worry about. No computers to hack into. Works if the Internet goes down. No chads. Works the same in every city/province/state/country.
I'm sorry but the only reason he wasn't convicted was because the tape wasn't admissible? If some ass hits and kicks his girlfriend 117 times I'm calling in the forensics team because there's going to be the girlfriends blood in the apartment and on his clothes. They will find her blood which will corroborate her statement. Then it doesn't matter if he deleted the video. Besides from the sounds of it he doesn't really sound smart enough to securely delete so that a digital forensics team couldn't retrieve it.
But if all you are going into your trial with is a tape that the police questionably obtained (the lawyer should have seen this coming) then what is your police department and prosecutors office doing with their time because it certainly isn't preparing for cases.
Part of the $300M is for building a grid to carry the electricity back to shore. This is a fixed cost for most wind farms. It doesn't matter if you have one turbine or 25 you are still going to have to build that connection in order to send the electricity back. So the more turbines you have in your farm the better you can spread this cost out per turbine.
Note that each turbine will have a cost associated with connecting it to the to the grid that makes up the wind farm. The more turbines that you have in the farm the larger this grid is and the more it will cost to connect them together. But the turbines are always going to be much closer together than they are from the shore so the cost to connect the turbines is going to be smaller than connecting the farm to the shore.
Wind turbines are getting larger all the time and when they get larger they get more expensive. However as the length, n, increases the power available goes up as a function of the area swept by the blades, n^2. Of course nobody is doubling the blade length but we are seeing turbines of 5MW and more where a few years ago it was 4MW. So yes the turbines are getting more expensive but that's because they are able to generate more electricity.
They won't just be buying five turbines. They have to install them offshore which is more expensive than pouring a concrete foundation onshore. Plus they will be setting up the cables to transmit the electricity and data monitoring back to onshore. This will be expensive, especially for the closest mile or so to shore where any cables will need to be buried. But this cost is shared between the turbines and if they get permission to expand the wind farm in the future the only additional expense will for the new turbine and base and the connection to their new grid.
Look at the state of the nations roads, bridges, and overpasses and ask yourself if you really think the government would really be an improvement.
Write a bug report to Microsoft since it's their program that doesn't work when you turn on the AVS.
If technology in school is so great how come the employees of companies such as Apple and Google send their children to a Waldorf School in which they don't use technology (tablets, computers, etc) for teaching? https://www.theguardian.com/te...
It sounds as if you were able to take the money from all of these "silver bullets" that are supposed to save education and put it towards the best teachers it would go a long way. Then the union would have to let the underperforming teachers be replaced. (God forbid someone bad at their job should lose it!) And the administration should be cut back so that the teachers can focus on the teaching.
The infrastructure is already built in many places and the companies are making large profits so they could put the money towards upgrading/building the networks. In Canada the government didn't take over the infrastructure but forced the incumbents to share their networks with other ISPs. An incumbent charges, with a prescribed amount of profit, an independent ISP for the use of the last mile of their network (cable or DSL) and after that all traffic is routed onto the independent ISPs network. The incumbents compete with the other ISPs for customers but they also make a bit of money from sharing the network.
Ideally the last mile network would have spawned off from each incumbent into a new company but as a customer of independent ISPs for at least the last 15 years of both cable and DSL at various times I can say it has worked fairly well.
Additionally, considering the state of the infrastructure that the government does have responsibility for do you really want them to take over the last mile cable, DSL, and fibre networks?
It doesn't have any impact on the flight that is already in the air. However once the plane lands the computer has the instructions for where the plane is going next, how much fuel to put into it, where to route the luggage and any cargo that was in it, what to load into the plane for the new trip, what supplies to replenish, what passengers are supposed to get on board, who is supposed to work on the plane, etc. Without all that information that plane is grounded.
How about riding an H-bomb, swinging a cowboy hat around above his head with his right hand, and yelling "Yee-haw!" all the way down?
Well it's not really great since if it wants to take out the radar source it will have to open the weapons bay doors which will greatly increase the radar signature so that it will probably show up on radar. The article didn't mention anything about trying to attack the sources, just evading. The US may have the F-22 to take out SAM sites but other countries like Canada or Australia won't. And when it comes to encountering other aircraft it's going to be a disadvantage.