Rented a Chrysler 200S recently. The gear selector was a purely electronic rotary plastic knob with almost zero resistance or mechanical feedback, the parking brake was an electronic button beside it, there was no emergency brake to speak of, and there was no ignition key or mechanical switch, but just a button.
All the R'ing the FM in the world can't fix a stupid design.
1. How do you know it was a surge that killed your PSU?
2. What else was your laptop plugged into when it got roached?
Surges from line-to-neutral are usually taken up by the PSU's own internal MOVs, spark gaps, and other things designed for the purpose (and far better than an average power strip of reasonable expense) of protecting the device. (Or at least this is the case with proper PSUs. No-name Ebay cruft without a UL/CSA/whatever registration is anyone's guess.)
Contrastingly, common-mode surges cannot be dealt with in this way....but they also can't affect anything unless that potential has someplace to go (ie, a complete circuit).
Which, of course, makes perfect sense: Stick one side or the other of a 9V battery against your tongue and nothing happens, but when you stick both sides to your tongue...ow.
So if your laptop was connected to two things (the wall *and* the hotel TV, or the wall *and* the Ethernet jack/phone line, or...), your failure makes more sense.
To a modern, global, switch-mode PSU (laptop power brick), everything (including the nasty non-at-all sinewave that serves as "AC power" in many locations) looks like noise/transient voltage.
I'm not tin-foil afraid, either, of whatever I share here. If I were, it wouldn't say adolf (21054).
And if anyone is somehow afraid, perhaps they should find better methods. (They're easy to find, for those who need/want them. They just can't be 21054, because that will always be me.)
Are you old enough to remember when the Internet broke and gave up on 9/11/01, except for/., which was the only place to find news other than television and radio?
Will/. be able to weather a similar storm in the future? Or is it on the same cloud infrastructure(s) as everyone else is now?
1. Unicode. Everyone tells me this is an ongoing concern, and so it must be. I for one am perfectly OK with Unicode penis birds with my hot grits.
2. Scores. Yep, that's one of Slashdot's main benefits, and I see no reason to change it. Reddit has free-form scoring; it doesn't need duplicated here.
3. I like the idea of direct messaging. Sure, my email is unobfuscated (and always has been), and I've only been contacted twice -- ever -- in email from another/. user....but maybe people would communicate more freely if their conversations were both private and pseudo-anonymous.
3.5. Journals should be promoted more. There are some interesting people here still, and I wouldn't mind knowing when they rant about something interesting to them.
4. I have wonderful karma, thank you. But the time-between-comments problem has bitten me more times than I care to remember, and more than once I've just said "fuck it" and not posted something that I had already finished writing instead of patiently waiting for a timer of unknown and arbitrary value to expire, clicking "submit" periodically. The delay should be shortened. (In fact, I think it should be eliminated for UIDs less than 21055.)
5/6/7/8. Yep.
9. This is an appropriately elegant solution that also eliminates any concept of revisionist history, which is a good thing.
10. Sigs used to be much, much longer. I used to be able to put a line from a song and a link to the rest of the lyrics into a sig, and now....meh. 200 characters (including any HTML markup!) seems reasonable, and if folks don't like it they can always turn them off.
11. When our fearless leader was still around, before the first buyout (selloff?), it felt much more like a community here. When/. was down, Malda would write about why it was down and how it was fixed -- same with upgrades. When a new editor showed up, there was generally a few words about them. This level of transparency was perfect for a technical audience, but has been dwindling for...fuck, almost 17 years.
What is this newspeak "network stack" that you are referring to?
Last I checked, the "network stack" consists of things like TCP, IP, the physical layer, and other such mumbo-jumbo that is entirely done in the kernel and has fuck-all to do with userland.
I prefer the concrete anchors that look like http://img.weiku.com/waterpict... (I would href that, but I don't feel like doing so on my phone)
It goes like this:
Drill appropriate hole Hammer anchor into hole Trim excess (if any) Drive appropriate fastener in
The last step is both magic and hard work. Even with power tools. The interface is very tight. Driving the fastener generates a good bit of heat from the friction, and the fastener itself provides compression. Thus, the heat-softened anchor deforms and is forced into every nook and void in both the concrete and the fastener.
It then cools/hardens quickly because the fastener acts as a heatsink, and is ready for some relatively ridiculous tensile force.
Made in Holland, IIRC, and I can't remember the name of the company. I buy them from the local Ace Hardware store for way more money than they initially seem like they are worth.
The part that you don't understand about two-way radio communication is that transmit power is always downwardly adjustable. Therefore, self-interference can be mitigated.
This also means that I won't be buying any of the following brands, as they're under the same umbrella (Apex Tool Group) as Crescent:
Sata, Wiss, Campbell, Gearwrench, Nicholson, Armstrong, Jacobs (that's going to be tough), HKP, Jobox, K&F, Belzer, Allen, Plumb, Mayle, or Delta.
Bummer, since some of those names are synonymous with a certain type of tool. Sheet metal shears come from Wiss, files are from Nicholson, Jacobs is so famous for making drill chucks that all similar 3-jaw chucks are called a Jacobs chuck, Allen is synonymous with hex keys for a reason, and the hammer that your grand dad had probably said Plumb on the side.
I was a sound believer in buying Crescent hand tools whenever it made sense to do so because they were all made in the US.
I don't want a cheaper Chinese copy of a Crescent product, I want the real thing. And I was perfectly willing to pay for it. But they lost my loyalty in them when they gave up their loyalty to my country, so I won't be buying their American-made tools anymore either.
When I lived in town and also had room for a convenient compost pile, all food scraps that were deemed unsuitable to be fed to the dog were composted (aside from, perhaps, bulk used cooking oil).
This was done very indiscriminately. Vegetable matter, cooked meat, raw meat, bones, exoskeletons from shellfish: Whatever we didn't/wouldn't eat got composted. Paper plates and napkins, too.
The vegetable matter did its usual and unsurprising thing. The meat was either picked clean by scavengers if left uncovered, or if thinly buried would be quickly destroyed by maggots, or if more deeply buried it would turn into a haven for all kinds of creepy little earth-dwelling bugs.
One time there was a family of kittens living in, and consuming, the remains of a 38-pound turkey that was put there after Thanksgiving. They were feral, as was their mother, and they all seemed very healthy before they got big and wandered away.
In all cases, it would turn into good, rich compost. And I would use this compost in the vegetable garden, where I had excellent results despite having clay soil, with zero insect pest problems on the plants, zero pesticide, and minimal extra fertilizer (and that probably could have been replaced with more compost later and/or good cover crops earlier, given sufficient motivation).
It was a cold-ish compost pile, in that I didn't pay much attention to it other than to stir and chop it around with a sharp hoe every now and then. Sometimes in the spring I would drop some red worms from a bait shop in and they seemed to do quite well in there.
Prions seem to be the chief worry when it comes to composted meat, but meh. Worrying about prions (many of which are impossible to destroy with cooking) isn't my thing, since this all started with food that I had purchased myself for consumption by myself and my family.
The cherry tomatoes from that garden fed with meat-compost were the best I've ever had, and no, I didn't ever wash them before eating them by the handful.
That said: Composting modern people? Hmm. I might sign up for the end of my days, but I don't think I'll be using any human compost in my vegetable garden before then.
I always visualise a busy car park with two self-driving cars both stopped with noses together, trying to get into the same parking space and unable to safely proceed, and traffic backed up out onto the main road trying to get in.
If I upload something somewhere, I expect to be able to find it thirty years from now, much as I expect my own backup regimen to never forget anything.
As we learn over and over again, there is no such thing as a perfect digital lock: These can be picked just as carefully and undetectably as any mechanical lock.
There's no need to pick out Flash here, as even OpenBSD is not immune to imperfection.
It's a lot like offering to pay someone who first figures out how to pick a new type of mechanical lock, and brokering that information to an interested third party.
But then I haven't found a TV set yet that couldn't have all of its gee-whiz "enhancements" completely disabled (aside from scaling, but you'll have that)... including, 15 years ago, a big $10k Runco rear-projector which inextricably had Scan Velocity Modulation turned on for its blue gun.
That was a little harder to turn off, but still not bad: Remove front panel, reach waaay in there with a long pair of foreceps, and uinplug the extra 2-pin connector that was on the blue gun but mysteriously absent on both the red and green guns. And...done.
The rest is all software-configurable, and has been for a very long time.
The availability of fake HDR does not diminish my interest in such a set, because with fake HDR comes the possibility of real HDR and the fake can always be disabled.
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Have you tried removing the key in neutral?
Maybe.
Rented a Chrysler 200S recently. The gear selector was a purely electronic rotary plastic knob with almost zero resistance or mechanical feedback, the parking brake was an electronic button beside it, there was no emergency brake to speak of, and there was no ignition key or mechanical switch, but just a button.
All the R'ing the FM in the world can't fix a stupid design.
Questions:
1. How do you know it was a surge that killed your PSU?
2. What else was your laptop plugged into when it got roached?
Surges from line-to-neutral are usually taken up by the PSU's own internal MOVs, spark gaps, and other things designed for the purpose (and far better than an average power strip of reasonable expense) of protecting the device. (Or at least this is the case with proper PSUs. No-name Ebay cruft without a UL/CSA/whatever registration is anyone's guess.)
Contrastingly, common-mode surges cannot be dealt with in this way....but they also can't affect anything unless that potential has someplace to go (ie, a complete circuit).
Which, of course, makes perfect sense: Stick one side or the other of a 9V battery against your tongue and nothing happens, but when you stick both sides to your tongue...ow.
So if your laptop was connected to two things (the wall *and* the hotel TV, or the wall *and* the Ethernet jack/phone line, or...), your failure makes more sense.
(and its mA when discussing current flow.)
To a modern, global, switch-mode PSU (laptop power brick), everything (including the nasty non-at-all sinewave that serves as "AC power" in many locations) looks like noise/transient voltage.
They don't care. It's all the same.
I, for one, anxiously await the arrival of our Turing-complete, troff-grokking overlords.
I'm not tin-foil afraid, either, of whatever I share here.
If I were, it wouldn't say adolf (21054).
And if anyone is somehow afraid, perhaps they should find better methods. (They're easy to find, for those who need/want them. They just can't be 21054, because that will always be me.)
Are you old enough to remember when the Internet broke and gave up on 9/11/01, except for /., which was the only place to find news other than television and radio?
Will /. be able to weather a similar storm in the future? Or is it on the same cloud infrastructure(s) as everyone else is now?
My two cents:
1. Unicode. Everyone tells me this is an ongoing concern, and so it must be. I for one am perfectly OK with Unicode penis birds with my hot grits.
2. Scores. Yep, that's one of Slashdot's main benefits, and I see no reason to change it. Reddit has free-form scoring; it doesn't need duplicated here.
3. I like the idea of direct messaging. Sure, my email is unobfuscated (and always has been), and I've only been contacted twice -- ever -- in email from another /. user....but maybe people would communicate more freely if their conversations were both private and pseudo-anonymous.
3.5. Journals should be promoted more. There are some interesting people here still, and I wouldn't mind knowing when they rant about something interesting to them.
4. I have wonderful karma, thank you. But the time-between-comments problem has bitten me more times than I care to remember, and more than once I've just said "fuck it" and not posted something that I had already finished writing instead of patiently waiting for a timer of unknown and arbitrary value to expire, clicking "submit" periodically. The delay should be shortened. (In fact, I think it should be eliminated for UIDs less than 21055.)
5/6/7/8. Yep.
9. This is an appropriately elegant solution that also eliminates any concept of revisionist history, which is a good thing.
10. Sigs used to be much, much longer. I used to be able to put a line from a song and a link to the rest of the lyrics into a sig, and now....meh. 200 characters (including any HTML markup!) seems reasonable, and if folks don't like it they can always turn them off.
11. When our fearless leader was still around, before the first buyout (selloff?), it felt much more like a community here. When /. was down, Malda would write about why it was down and how it was fixed -- same with upgrades. When a new editor showed up, there was generally a few words about them. This level of transparency was perfect for a technical audience, but has been dwindling for...fuck, almost 17 years.
Nielson is still a thing, you know.
And I guess I kind of assumed that cable boxes and satellite receivers phoned home statistical data.
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What is this newspeak "network stack" that you are referring to?
Last I checked, the "network stack" consists of things like TCP, IP, the physical layer, and other such mumbo-jumbo that is entirely done in the kernel and has fuck-all to do with userland.
I prefer the concrete anchors that look like http://img.weiku.com/waterpict... (I would href that, but I don't feel like doing so on my phone)
It goes like this:
Drill appropriate hole
Hammer anchor into hole
Trim excess (if any)
Drive appropriate fastener in
The last step is both magic and hard work. Even with power tools. The interface is very tight. Driving the fastener generates a good bit of heat from the friction, and the fastener itself provides compression. Thus, the heat-softened anchor deforms and is forced into every nook and void in both the concrete and the fastener.
It then cools/hardens quickly because the fastener acts as a heatsink, and is ready for some relatively ridiculous tensile force.
Made in Holland, IIRC, and I can't remember the name of the company. I buy them from the local Ace Hardware store for way more money than they initially seem like they are worth.
The part that you don't understand about two-way radio communication is that transmit power is always downwardly adjustable. Therefore, self-interference can be mitigated.
Is the tool better, or simply more expensive?
Ozito doesn't have much of a marketing budget.
Redistributing any binary covered by the GPL requires source code to be made available.
Not necessarily online. And not necessarily for free (as in beer).
Why do you assume that drone pilots are any more or less remorseful for the killing they do, than any other pilot tasked with killing people?
This also means that I won't be buying any of the following brands, as they're under the same umbrella (Apex Tool Group) as Crescent:
Sata, Wiss, Campbell, Gearwrench, Nicholson, Armstrong, Jacobs (that's going to be tough), HKP, Jobox, K&F, Belzer, Allen, Plumb, Mayle, or Delta.
Bummer, since some of those names are synonymous with a certain type of tool. Sheet metal shears come from Wiss, files are from Nicholson, Jacobs is so famous for making drill chucks that all similar 3-jaw chucks are called a Jacobs chuck, Allen is synonymous with hex keys for a reason, and the hammer that your grand dad had probably said Plumb on the side.
So long, Crescent.
Agreed, completely
I was a sound believer in buying Crescent hand tools whenever it made sense to do so because they were all made in the US.
I don't want a cheaper Chinese copy of a Crescent product, I want the real thing. And I was perfectly willing to pay for it. But they lost my loyalty in them when they gave up their loyalty to my country, so I won't be buying their American-made tools anymore either.
When I lived in town and also had room for a convenient compost pile, all food scraps that were deemed unsuitable to be fed to the dog were composted (aside from, perhaps, bulk used cooking oil).
This was done very indiscriminately. Vegetable matter, cooked meat, raw meat, bones, exoskeletons from shellfish: Whatever we didn't/wouldn't eat got composted. Paper plates and napkins, too.
The vegetable matter did its usual and unsurprising thing. The meat was either picked clean by scavengers if left uncovered, or if thinly buried would be quickly destroyed by maggots, or if more deeply buried it would turn into a haven for all kinds of creepy little earth-dwelling bugs.
One time there was a family of kittens living in, and consuming, the remains of a 38-pound turkey that was put there after Thanksgiving. They were feral, as was their mother, and they all seemed very healthy before they got big and wandered away.
In all cases, it would turn into good, rich compost. And I would use this compost in the vegetable garden, where I had excellent results despite having clay soil, with zero insect pest problems on the plants, zero pesticide, and minimal extra fertilizer (and that probably could have been replaced with more compost later and/or good cover crops earlier, given sufficient motivation).
It was a cold-ish compost pile, in that I didn't pay much attention to it other than to stir and chop it around with a sharp hoe every now and then. Sometimes in the spring I would drop some red worms from a bait shop in and they seemed to do quite well in there.
Prions seem to be the chief worry when it comes to composted meat, but meh. Worrying about prions (many of which are impossible to destroy with cooking) isn't my thing, since this all started with food that I had purchased myself for consumption by myself and my family.
The cherry tomatoes from that garden fed with meat-compost were the best I've ever had, and no, I didn't ever wash them before eating them by the handful.
That said: Composting modern people? Hmm. I might sign up for the end of my days, but I don't think I'll be using any human compost in my vegetable garden before then.
This could happen.
AKA youthful indiscretion.
*shrug*
Of course there are multiple copies.
If I upload something somewhere, I expect to be able to find it thirty years from now, much as I expect my own backup regimen to never forget anything.
Why would I want anything different?
As we learn over and over again, there is no such thing as a perfect digital lock: These can be picked just as carefully and undetectably as any mechanical lock.
There's no need to pick out Flash here, as even OpenBSD is not immune to imperfection.
Meh.
It's a lot like offering to pay someone who first figures out how to pick a new type of mechanical lock, and brokering that information to an interested third party.
Is that -- should that -- be a crime?
The answer is "all of them."
But then I haven't found a TV set yet that couldn't have all of its gee-whiz "enhancements" completely disabled (aside from scaling, but you'll have that)... including, 15 years ago, a big $10k Runco rear-projector which inextricably had Scan Velocity Modulation turned on for its blue gun.
That was a little harder to turn off, but still not bad: Remove front panel, reach waaay in there with a long pair of foreceps, and uinplug the extra 2-pin connector that was on the blue gun but mysteriously absent on both the red and green guns. And...done.
The rest is all software-configurable, and has been for a very long time.
The availability of fake HDR does not diminish my interest in such a set, because with fake HDR comes the possibility of real HDR and the fake can always be disabled.