The hysteria didn't come from the American people.
For the first time, the powers that be had to worry about their own skin. One plane was aimed at the Pentagon. Flight 93 was going to some other target in DC. Leadership was being protected with plans pulled out of the nightmare vaults from the Cold War.
His idea is to offload executive functioning to your reminder system, which dispenses atomic work units that don't have prerequisites. For example, the sort of task you'd put in your reminder system is not "do taxes" or even "do schedule A", it would be more like "find mileage records and add up volunteer mileage".
Then, don't think about all the other things you have to do while you're totaling up mileage records. You'll do the other things when you pop them off the queue in your reminder system. Total Zen flow state, living in the moment and doing addition without distraction.
The Prius and anything with variable valve timing already has something much like variable compression, in that it can control when the intake valves close relative to the position of the piston.
>The debate is over: Global warming is caused by the sun.
Google "total solar irradiance" for direct satellite measurements of solar output from 1978 to the present. Compare to temperature records over the same period. Then re-evaluate your trust in a source that tells you something you can prove false in a matter of seconds.
William Schroeder's entry wound was in the lower back, the exit wound was in his shoulder.
In other words, he was lying down, facing away from the Guardsmen. Hitting the ground is just what his ROTC training would have called for.
Anyone who can "feel threatened" by someone lying face down dozens of yards away is more than just a coward who can't be trusted with authority, he's insane in a way that means he can't be trusted with firearms.
It's been forty years. Time to stop making excuses for the Guardsmen, who also wounded someone for making an obscene gesture at them.
Refused? Any evidence of that? For what it's worth, Cranick says he forgot.
Now, in a situation like that, the hardest core libertarian would agree with the idea of forming a contract on the spot to extinguish the fire in exchange for a price acceptable to the fire department.
"Cranick says he told the operator he would pay whatever is necessary to have the fire put out."
In other words, not the $75 fee to get insurance for a pre-existing condition, but the actual cost.
Either he's lying or the fire department is actively vindictive.
Passwords have to be secret because that's the only way to attach a password to a particular person. Irises don't have to be secret because they're literally attached to a person.
What you need to do to ensure the security of a biometric authentication system isn't to keep the biometric secret, it's to protect the integrity of the checkpoint against people holding up pictures or fingerprint molds made of Gummi worms. If you design a system that will fail if a readily observable body part gets copied, you have made an irretrievable design mistake.
Spreading Stuxnet all around the world, as opposed to narrowly targeting it, made it likely that it would be publicized (warning any potential victims) and that the command and control server(s) would be taken down.
The only reason I can imagine offhand for swatting one fly with a global flyswatter would be not knowing any IP addresses or email addresses for the Bushehr reactor's IT infrastructure. It's too high a price to pay for getting plausible deniability about what the target was.
File this guy's hypothesis under "Right or wrong, it doesn't make sense".
>Nobody is arguing true net neutrality, which is that my ISP is not allowed to regulate what content I receive through the means I have purchased.
Remember the guy from Verizon who said Google was getting a free ride because Verizon wasn't charging them for the privilege of being accessible to Verizon customers?
In his desired world, if Google doesn't pay Verizon, guess what happens to your access to Google?
Verizon is already editing the results you get when you have a DNS failure.
>nothing to see here other than a Republican who doesn't like bikes.
He's not just "a Republican", he's a candidate for office who won a primary. He represents a large number of other Republicans.
He's not just someone who "doesn't like bikes", he's someone who considers it likely enough to make public statements about that a bikeshare program is part of a murderous conspiracy.
Anyone who's watched them get creative and wriggle out of any pro-competition regulation over the years can assess the proposal on general principles.
Any ambiguity, wiggle room, or loophole will get exploited to the hilt.
None of those clauses about additional services or network management are there by accident.
Verizon knows exactly what they're doing, and they like this plan. Detail-oriented people will properly study it in detail, but Verizon's endorsement is enough to tell you what conclusions that study will reach.
Let the phone and cable companies decide who goes on the network, and they'll get as close as they can to a walled garden full of their business partners.
Let the net remain an open playing field, and you get true competition.
Maintaining competition in the marketplace is an accepted function of government.
Over the last couple of decades, the Nethead way has brought us Google. The Bellhead way has brought us ringtones. You decide.
If the potential for misuse is minimal, then it's only common sense to make the tire communications simple and easy to troubleshoot, and to assign the security people to work on something that matters.
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The hysteria didn't come from the American people.
For the first time, the powers that be had to worry about their own skin. One plane was aimed at the Pentagon. Flight 93 was going to some other target in DC. Leadership was being protected with plans pulled out of the nightmare vaults from the Cold War.
The American people are not the cowards here.
An Israeli security expert like Rafi Sela, who told the Canadian Parliament that the strip search machines are "useless".
"Sela, former chief security officer of the Israel Airport Authority and a 30-year veteran in airport security and defence technology, helped design the security at Ben Gurion."
Not only that, one of the other measures of "productivity" was the amount of money spent. That's not what "productivity" means.
The number of published papers *that get cited by others* would be a much better metric.
Tsunamis are barely detectable in the open ocean. Their height builds up as they approach land.
Getting Things Done, by David Allen takes an approach that sounds compatible with what you're saying.
His idea is to offload executive functioning to your reminder system, which dispenses atomic work units that don't have prerequisites. For example, the sort of task you'd put in your reminder system is not "do taxes" or even "do schedule A", it would be more like "find mileage records and add up volunteer mileage".
Then, don't think about all the other things you have to do while you're totaling up mileage records. You'll do the other things when you pop them off the queue in your reminder system. Total Zen flow state, living in the moment and doing addition without distraction.
>How about pregnant women? Elderly? Children?
Good point about ionizing radiation. Now that you've mentioned children, shouldn't EPIC have raised the issue of taking naked pictures of kids?
The Prius and anything with variable valve timing already has something much like variable compression, in that it can control when the intake valves close relative to the position of the piston.
Freight costs overwhelm material costs, but that works in both directions.
Once you're out of Earth orbit, resources from the Moon are much cheaper to you than resources blasted out of Earth's gravity well.
Water is especially wonderful. Electrolyze it and liquefy the results, and you have rocket fuel.
>The debate is over: Global warming is caused by the sun.
Google "total solar irradiance" for direct satellite measurements of solar output from 1978 to the present. Compare to temperature records over the same period. Then re-evaluate your trust in a source that tells you something you can prove false in a matter of seconds.
Why are they used for electricity generation if they're inefficient?
Utilities who burn natural gas do it in turbines, not piston engines.
One possibility is the SDN list: http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sdn/
Part of my practice is telling clients when not to worry. They'll ask about some overhyped threat, and I'll put it in perspective for them.
There's prior art for that, too: Google "dehydrated water". There are a scary number of hits.
>feel threatened
William Schroeder's entry wound was in the lower back, the exit wound was in his shoulder.
In other words, he was lying down, facing away from the Guardsmen. Hitting the ground is just what his ROTC training would have called for.
Anyone who can "feel threatened" by someone lying face down dozens of yards away is more than just a coward who can't be trusted with authority, he's insane in a way that means he can't be trusted with firearms.
It's been forty years. Time to stop making excuses for the Guardsmen, who also wounded someone for making an obscene gesture at them.
Refused? Any evidence of that? For what it's worth, Cranick says he forgot.
Now, in a situation like that, the hardest core libertarian would agree with the idea of forming a contract on the spot to extinguish the fire in exchange for a price acceptable to the fire department.
"Cranick says he told the operator he would pay whatever is necessary to have the fire put out."
In other words, not the $75 fee to get insurance for a pre-existing condition, but the actual cost.
Either he's lying or the fire department is actively vindictive.
What do you mean, "compromised"?
Passwords have to be secret because that's the only way to attach a password to a particular person. Irises don't have to be secret because they're literally attached to a person.
What you need to do to ensure the security of a biometric authentication system isn't to keep the biometric secret, it's to protect the integrity of the checkpoint against people holding up pictures or fingerprint molds made of Gummi worms. If you design a system that will fail if a readily observable body part gets copied, you have made an irretrievable design mistake.
Spreading Stuxnet all around the world, as opposed to narrowly targeting it, made it likely that it would be publicized (warning any potential victims) and that the command and control server(s) would be taken down.
The only reason I can imagine offhand for swatting one fly with a global flyswatter would be not knowing any IP addresses or email addresses for the Bushehr reactor's IT infrastructure. It's too high a price to pay for getting plausible deniability about what the target was.
File this guy's hypothesis under "Right or wrong, it doesn't make sense".
Linguists say "African-American Vernacular English".
What does it say about our society if a group we need to integrate is so isolated it's developing an incompatible dialect?
>Nobody is arguing true net neutrality, which is that my ISP is not allowed to regulate what content I receive through the means I have purchased.
Remember the guy from Verizon who said Google was getting a free ride because Verizon wasn't charging them for the privilege of being accessible to Verizon customers?
In his desired world, if Google doesn't pay Verizon, guess what happens to your access to Google?
Verizon is already editing the results you get when you have a DNS failure.
>nothing to see here other than a Republican who doesn't like bikes.
He's not just "a Republican", he's a candidate for office who won a primary. He represents a large number of other Republicans.
He's not just someone who "doesn't like bikes", he's someone who considers it likely enough to make public statements about that a bikeshare program is part of a murderous conspiracy.
Anyone who's watched them get creative and wriggle out of any pro-competition regulation over the years can assess the proposal on general principles.
Any ambiguity, wiggle room, or loophole will get exploited to the hilt.
None of those clauses about additional services or network management are there by accident.
Verizon knows exactly what they're doing, and they like this plan. Detail-oriented people will properly study it in detail, but Verizon's endorsement is enough to tell you what conclusions that study will reach.
Let the phone and cable companies decide who goes on the network, and they'll get as close as they can to a walled garden full of their business partners.
Let the net remain an open playing field, and you get true competition.
Maintaining competition in the marketplace is an accepted function of government.
Over the last couple of decades, the Nethead way has brought us Google. The Bellhead way has brought us ringtones. You decide.
If the potential for misuse is minimal, then it's only common sense to make the tire communications simple and easy to troubleshoot, and to assign the security people to work on something that matters.
A priori I wouldn't have been sure that ratings by teachers would have correlated even with contemporary test results.
Highly skeptical here that "impulsiveness" stays constant with age.
Your choice of testing for volatile organics or for exhaust fumes.