If I was running a arc welder near buy, or industrial equipment, sure. But the home? not really needed.
The point of shielding is not to keep the arc welder from interfering with the computer, but to keep the computer from interfering with radio transmissions.
But there's what plainly looks like a military installation just to the southwest of the place, with what seems obvious to be a test track for some manner of tracked vehicle.
For reference, this is what the manufacturer's test track for the Abrams tank looks like in Lima, Ohio.
Zooming in on the Lima site reveals the exact same sort of pattern as that in China.
But then again, when looking around the neighboring city I see a lot of stuff that is hard to explain, so who knows...
Automotive wiring harness are interesting to me, because I spend a not-insignificant part of my time working with them in an aftermarket public safety setting.
To be clear: I'm OK with AWG. A lot of that is familiarity, but the rest is just because it sure does seem to be simpler, better, and easier to communicate.
Metric stranded wire sizes, AFAICT, are specified too specifically: 7/0.2 means "7 strands of 0.2MM wire." That just makes extra work to figure out things like ampacity and voltage drop.
Meanwhile, AWG is in even denominations for the most oft-used stuff, and is specified by cross-sectional area. 12AWG is 12AWG worth of conductive cross-sectional area, whether 7 strand, 50 strand, or 1 strand. If I need a particularly flexible cable, I can easily look for one with a high strand-count, but I do not need to perform multiplication in order to figure out how capacious the wire is when dealing with AWG.
I dealt with 3 different incarnations of "6 AWG stranded insulated copper" just today at work without any particular complication during a grounding project, just because I happened to have 3 different varieties on-hand. The connectors used (UL listed for 6 AWG stranded copper) all fit nicely on all of them: Since AWG is based on actual cross-sectional area, the act of crimping the connector and displacing the air between the strands meant that they all fit about the same.
But in Metric terms, even viewing these wires on a chart would have been difficult: One variation had a fifteen or so strands and was fairly stiff, one had a half-dozen or so and was very stiff, and one had seemingly hundreds and was quite flexible. Meh, and double-meh for trying to cross-reference the correct tool and die set to the wire I had on-hand today in metric terms: To me, in that application, they were all the same: 6 AWG stranded. Easy.
Doubling is easy for AWG, too: It's a difference of about 3. Two 12AWG wires approximates a 9AWG wire, or close enough for all aftermaket (==not penny-pinching) purposes, and that's all I need to know to figure out my work. I could care less for how many strands are there for AC, DC, and most audio work, as long as it is stranded....just as I could care less is a 2x4 is 1MM off. Or a wiring harness is 1MM too long. Or if my calculations indicate that I need 11 AWG wire and my two 12 AWG wires equal 9 AWG. It's just too much specificity for this level of work where the rule is simple: If in doubt, go one step safer/bigger. (How much bigger is one step in Metric stranded wire? And how do I describe it to the guy standing next to me?)
So yeah. While I say that American cars are all Metric in the context of toolsets, I obviously refer to fasteners. Wire? heh: Whatever it started out being, it's AWG from the time I lay my hands upon it.
(And if you're at all responsible for designing or documenting the horrible Chinese-made harnesses on the current round of Taurus-based US Ford police vehicles, be warned: Whether I like you or not, if I ever see you in person, I do not know if I will be able to restrain myself from killing you. But that's a different story, for I feel I will wonder for the rest of my life why it was that Ford bailed on Crown, who always did a fine job of making very safe, serviceable, well-supported, and well-documented harnesses for the previous Panther platform...as opposed to this wholly unmitigated shit that is the current crop of unserviceable garbage.)
We don't need an iron-clad proof to decide that the connection is strong enough that the likelihood of causative link is very high, and enact policy accordingly.
Which "we" are you referring to? Because the group of "we" that includes myself would rather see proof.
FIPS 140-2 to be more specific. There are plenty of free options.
Are there? Last time I looked into FIPS 140, it was the case that only certain software versions were validated by NIST, and none of the validated incarnations were either free-beer or free-libre.
Indeed, looking again at the list of validated FIPS 140 wares, it does seem to be lengthy, but it is mighty specific and I do not see a single instance of anything free-as-in-beer, let alone "plenty of free options."
The only thing that stands out is that Red Had has had some OSS software validated as being FIPS-140, but only when installed according to their posted Security Policy, which seems to require RHEL, which is not free.
So. [citation needed], and stuff: If you've got the goods, give 'em up. (And no, "To our best knowledge" is not a defense against a HIPPA violation: It either is validated to FIPS 140(-2), or it is not.)
It is not "hard science" simply because there is no experiment to prove it.
"The Higgs must exist, because, well, it must! Everything points in this direction!" is merely conjective correlation based on observation. It is a theory, a mere hypothesis. It could be the product of an over-active imagination or the absolute truth, but it's impossible to say without proof.
Meanwhile "we have built a thing with which we can conduct experiments in an effort to PROVE whether or not it exists" is, in fact, "hard science." (To that end: Is there proof? WRT Higgs, they're still working on that, but then again AT LEAST THEY'RE WORKING ON THAT.)
The fact that experimenting with TEL is an ugly thing indeed does not somehow exclude the findings from the burdens of the scientific method. If someone wants to prove that TEL causes rape, murder, and other violent crime, then prove it.
I've got spinny-disks in all of my machines at home (for a total of...about 12 drives, at the moment spinning 24x7, not including game consoles). The drives get changed out every now and then, but not because they're broken -- instead, it's just because the old drives are small/slow and I've happened across a substantially larger/faster drive for little/no money.
I've been doing it this way for more than 20 years.
In my personal use, it has been over a decade since I had a hard drive die without an obvious external cause. That timeframe is coincident with when I started buying good power supplies instead of whatever crap came with a $25 ATX case.
But in the 90's, it was a semi-annual event for me to RMA a hard drive, even though back then I had a whole lot fewer of the things to keep track of.
I could draw from my experience and deduce one or more of the following:
A. I am inexplicably luckier than I used to be. B. Good power supplies keep hardware alive longer. C. Hard drives are more reliable than they used to be.
That said, as another poster pointed out, nobody ever complains about a hard drive that still works. So please also allow me to complain that I've got four Seagate drives in my main desktop computer which range in age from 1 to 7 years old, and no failures.
AFAICT, American cars are metric and have been for some time.
The only "Imperial" stuff I come across are those used in construction: Plumbing, electrical, steel building components, and other of that sort of ilk, none of which is frequently exported.
My guess is that this choice will go away very quickly once synthmeat becomes practical. It will become socially unacceptable to kill any actual animals for food at that point, even if the vat-grown stuff isn't as tasty at first.
That only works if we also reintroduce natural predators.
Personally, I prefer samba's smb://sserver/share â"why microsoft thinks they should use a not-URL for something inherantly URLy in modern terms I have no idea.
Because usage of the \\widget\share nomenclature predates URLs, and MS DOS has been using \ as a separator for 30 years.
These used to be easy to create, the natural side product of having to have your film developed and printed.
Now you have to have special papers, Ink, a pretty good printer, and a lot of technical skill and patience to print them out at home. Photo albums are actually harder to make today.
In Ohio, I pay a yearly "road tax" (as a part of annual registration fees) for my work truck. It's based on the weight of the vehicle and the amount that it can carry.
So, similar mechanisms are in-place on this side of the pond. But it's nowhere near enough money to pay for the roads that I use...
(My other normal/non-commercial passenger cars' registration fees go mostly toward funding the Ohio Highway Patrol, and are based on neither weight, capacity, nor engine size.)
Roads are self-destructing. A ribbon of asphalt pavement left to its own devices wants nothing more than to return to its constituent parts: Oil and gravel.
I have a BMW 325i which might be even lower than your VW. It does mighty fine on unplowed roads (given appropriate winter tires).
It has never been stuck in snow to such an extent that it was unable to get unstuck with under its own power. (It has been very, very stuck in deep mud, but that's a different game entirely...)
They'd have to give a discount on food as well. At least in the US popcorn and a drink run you as much as the ticket.
"Have to"? Why? Because you'd shrivel up and die if you don't have a dose of artificially-flavored popcorn with artificially-sweetened fizzy water within a 2-hour window?
As a somewhat-devout Linux protagonist and former OS/2 user, I've just got to say this:
Microsoft has released just two good consumer-oriented GUI operating systems, ever: XP and 7. (2000 doesn't count, having never been sold to that market.)
The rest of it? I have used it all, and it was variously garbage.
So. Your answer to the seemingly-inherent tribulations of generally-peaceful things like OWS is for the government (be it local or national, administrative or legislative, or anything else "government") to supply trash cans, showers, hand-washing stations, toilets, and security?
Seriously? What next, on-site education on how to properly and safely stay warm outdoors instead of proclaiming that all heating devices are disallowed? What sort of other sensible problem-solving does this slippery slope lead to?
I like your concept on the basis that it supports what I believe are two basic tenets of government: To help ensure the health and safety of the public, while allowing free expression and congregation.
And it's definitely cheaper than jail time (three squares, clean clothes, and a cot) and court action.
I'm an adult. I drink and sometimes curse and make mistakes, but I also do great things. My skin is thick enough to understand the difference between being upset over technical choices and personal attacks.
Agreed. However, this thread is littered with folks who think otherwise.
I recently wrote about this social concept here. Amusingly, it received two moderations: -1 Troll, and +1 Insightful.
Decades ago, someone I respect accused me of not having a tact filter and declared that to be detrimental. Around the same time, someone else that I respect said that I have the "most finely-tuned bullshit filter he's ever seen."
Consequently, I appreciate and espouse honesty -- even without tact. And bullshit is just bullshit; it always stinks.
In an uncanny similarity to your analogy I burned the hamburgers badly the other night -- Christmas eve, in fact. I ignored them on the grill longer than I should have, they turned self-fueling, and the one side was a crispy mess.
The wife goes "These are fucking burned. What were you thinking? Oh, let me guess: You were reading Slashdot while the grill was on fire. Dumbass."
We agreed that they were shit, and we all knew that ordering a pizza would've been better by that point...and that made for some candid conversation as we scraped the carbonized meat from the patties.
Was I pissed? Of course I was pissed. But I was pissed because I wanted and expected a tender, juicy hamburger and instead had a briquette, not because someone else announced the fact that I'd ruined dinner. That I'd killed the burgers (or userspace, as the case may be) was obvious to anyone, and an abomination, and there's no harm in stating the truth. It is what it is.
We ate them because we do not like to waste things, but at no time were any of us inclined to think one thing while cowardly expressing something insincere: We speak our minds. Pizza really would have been better.
Last night, unthwarted by my previous failure and the deserved scolding, I made burgers again. They worked fine, and were delicious indeed.
There's an old expression, "Honesty is the best policy." Try it some time. (And yes, that means calling a turd a turd, since there is no sense in pretending that a turd is somehow not a turd.)
Meanwhile, if you don't like Linus's highly successful development tactics relating to the kernel (has there ever been any other *nix so pervasive?), fork it and do it yourself. Nobody's stopping you. You want a kinder and gentler environment for development? Build it.
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The point of shielding is not to keep the arc welder from interfering with the computer, but to keep the computer from interfering with radio transmissions.
Further reading.
From your link, in order of appearance (Firefox, adblock, USian):
https://email.t-online.de/
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Mail
www.gmx.net/
web.de/
mail.google.com/?hl=de
www.hotmail.com/ - Diese Seite übersetzen
www.freenet.de/
de.mail.yahoo.com/
www.emailn.de/
www.email-verzeichnis.de/
*shrug*
Perhaps it's mining.
But there's what plainly looks like a military installation just to the southwest of the place, with what seems obvious to be a test track for some manner of tracked vehicle.
For reference, this is what the manufacturer's test track for the Abrams tank looks like in Lima, Ohio.
Zooming in on the Lima site reveals the exact same sort of pattern as that in China.
But then again, when looking around the neighboring city I see a lot of stuff that is hard to explain, so who knows...
Forced to download! No choice! (As if someone held a gun to his head and MADE HIM pirate movies.)
These words. They do not mean what you think they mean.
Automotive wiring harness are interesting to me, because I spend a not-insignificant part of my time working with them in an aftermarket public safety setting.
To be clear: I'm OK with AWG. A lot of that is familiarity, but the rest is just because it sure does seem to be simpler, better, and easier to communicate.
Metric stranded wire sizes, AFAICT, are specified too specifically: 7/0.2 means "7 strands of 0.2MM wire." That just makes extra work to figure out things like ampacity and voltage drop.
Meanwhile, AWG is in even denominations for the most oft-used stuff, and is specified by cross-sectional area. 12AWG is 12AWG worth of conductive cross-sectional area, whether 7 strand, 50 strand, or 1 strand. If I need a particularly flexible cable, I can easily look for one with a high strand-count, but I do not need to perform multiplication in order to figure out how capacious the wire is when dealing with AWG.
I dealt with 3 different incarnations of "6 AWG stranded insulated copper" just today at work without any particular complication during a grounding project, just because I happened to have 3 different varieties on-hand. The connectors used (UL listed for 6 AWG stranded copper) all fit nicely on all of them: Since AWG is based on actual cross-sectional area, the act of crimping the connector and displacing the air between the strands meant that they all fit about the same.
But in Metric terms, even viewing these wires on a chart would have been difficult: One variation had a fifteen or so strands and was fairly stiff, one had a half-dozen or so and was very stiff, and one had seemingly hundreds and was quite flexible. Meh, and double-meh for trying to cross-reference the correct tool and die set to the wire I had on-hand today in metric terms: To me, in that application, they were all the same: 6 AWG stranded. Easy.
Doubling is easy for AWG, too: It's a difference of about 3. Two 12AWG wires approximates a 9AWG wire, or close enough for all aftermaket (==not penny-pinching) purposes, and that's all I need to know to figure out my work. I could care less for how many strands are there for AC, DC, and most audio work, as long as it is stranded. ...just as I could care less is a 2x4 is 1MM off. Or a wiring harness is 1MM too long. Or if my calculations indicate that I need 11 AWG wire and my two 12 AWG wires equal 9 AWG. It's just too much specificity for this level of work where the rule is simple: If in doubt, go one step safer/bigger. (How much bigger is one step in Metric stranded wire? And how do I describe it to the guy standing next to me?)
So yeah. While I say that American cars are all Metric in the context of toolsets, I obviously refer to fasteners. Wire? heh: Whatever it started out being, it's AWG from the time I lay my hands upon it.
(And if you're at all responsible for designing or documenting the horrible Chinese-made harnesses on the current round of Taurus-based US Ford police vehicles, be warned: Whether I like you or not, if I ever see you in person, I do not know if I will be able to restrain myself from killing you. But that's a different story, for I feel I will wonder for the rest of my life why it was that Ford bailed on Crown, who always did a fine job of making very safe, serviceable, well-supported, and well-documented harnesses for the previous Panther platform...as opposed to this wholly unmitigated shit that is the current crop of unserviceable garbage.)
Which "we" are you referring to? Because the group of "we" that includes myself would rather see proof.
Are there? Last time I looked into FIPS 140, it was the case that only certain software versions were validated by NIST, and none of the validated incarnations were either free-beer or free-libre.
Even the folks behind Truecrypt "To our best knowledge, TrueCrypt complies with the following standards, specifications, and recommendations...", before failing to mention FIPS 140 at all.
Indeed, looking again at the list of validated FIPS 140 wares, it does seem to be lengthy, but it is mighty specific and I do not see a single instance of anything free-as-in-beer, let alone "plenty of free options."
The only thing that stands out is that Red Had has had some OSS software validated as being FIPS-140, but only when installed according to their posted Security Policy, which seems to require RHEL, which is not free.
So. [citation needed], and stuff: If you've got the goods, give 'em up. (And no, "To our best knowledge" is not a defense against a HIPPA violation: It either is validated to FIPS 140(-2), or it is not.)
Does this mean that I can finally retire my venerable WRT54G?
It is not "hard science" simply because there is no experiment to prove it.
"The Higgs must exist, because, well, it must! Everything points in this direction!" is merely conjective correlation based on observation. It is a theory, a mere hypothesis. It could be the product of an over-active imagination or the absolute truth, but it's impossible to say without proof.
Meanwhile "we have built a thing with which we can conduct experiments in an effort to PROVE whether or not it exists" is, in fact, "hard science." (To that end: Is there proof? WRT Higgs, they're still working on that, but then again AT LEAST THEY'RE WORKING ON THAT.)
The fact that experimenting with TEL is an ugly thing indeed does not somehow exclude the findings from the burdens of the scientific method. If someone wants to prove that TEL causes rape, murder, and other violent crime, then prove it.
Correlation, no matter the scale, is not proof.
I've got spinny-disks in all of my machines at home (for a total of...about 12 drives, at the moment spinning 24x7, not including game consoles). The drives get changed out every now and then, but not because they're broken -- instead, it's just because the old drives are small/slow and I've happened across a substantially larger/faster drive for little/no money.
I've been doing it this way for more than 20 years.
In my personal use, it has been over a decade since I had a hard drive die without an obvious external cause. That timeframe is coincident with when I started buying good power supplies instead of whatever crap came with a $25 ATX case.
But in the 90's, it was a semi-annual event for me to RMA a hard drive, even though back then I had a whole lot fewer of the things to keep track of.
I could draw from my experience and deduce one or more of the following:
A. I am inexplicably luckier than I used to be.
B. Good power supplies keep hardware alive longer.
C. Hard drives are more reliable than they used to be.
That said, as another poster pointed out, nobody ever complains about a hard drive that still works. So please also allow me to complain that I've got four Seagate drives in my main desktop computer which range in age from 1 to 7 years old, and no failures.
AFAICT, American cars are metric and have been for some time.
The only "Imperial" stuff I come across are those used in construction: Plumbing, electrical, steel building components, and other of that sort of ilk, none of which is frequently exported.
That only works if we also reintroduce natural predators.
Because usage of the \\widget\share nomenclature predates URLs, and MS DOS has been using \ as a separator for 30 years.
I disagree, strongly.
I just go to walmart.com and have them print the stuff out on their Fujifilm Digital Minilab Frontier 390.
And then I pick up the stuff sometime later, since I'm usually in there at least a couple of times a week for other stuff anyhow.
It's cheap, good, and the color silver-halide prints will last as long as any others made using the same chemical process.
In Ohio, I pay a yearly "road tax" (as a part of annual registration fees) for my work truck. It's based on the weight of the vehicle and the amount that it can carry.
So, similar mechanisms are in-place on this side of the pond. But it's nowhere near enough money to pay for the roads that I use...
(My other normal/non-commercial passenger cars' registration fees go mostly toward funding the Ohio Highway Patrol, and are based on neither weight, capacity, nor engine size.)
Fortunately, there's hope. When I'm elected Earth Czar, I will reverse this travesty: The minimum drinking age will no longer be 21, but instead 12.
Roads are self-destructing. A ribbon of asphalt pavement left to its own devices wants nothing more than to return to its constituent parts: Oil and gravel.
Good luck driving a car without roads.
(Hey, my look! My knee can jerk too!)
Indeed.
I have a BMW 325i which might be even lower than your VW. It does mighty fine on unplowed roads (given appropriate winter tires).
It has never been stuck in snow to such an extent that it was unable to get unstuck with under its own power. (It has been very, very stuck in deep mud, but that's a different game entirely...)
"Have to"? Why? Because you'd shrivel up and die if you don't have a dose of artificially-flavored popcorn with artificially-sweetened fizzy water within a 2-hour window?
As a somewhat-devout Linux protagonist and former OS/2 user, I've just got to say this:
Microsoft has released just two good consumer-oriented GUI operating systems, ever: XP and 7. (2000 doesn't count, having never been sold to that market.)
The rest of it? I have used it all, and it was variously garbage.
YMMV.
So. Your answer to the seemingly-inherent tribulations of generally-peaceful things like OWS is for the government (be it local or national, administrative or legislative, or anything else "government") to supply trash cans, showers, hand-washing stations, toilets, and security?
Seriously? What next, on-site education on how to properly and safely stay warm outdoors instead of proclaiming that all heating devices are disallowed? What sort of other sensible problem-solving does this slippery slope lead to?
I like your concept on the basis that it supports what I believe are two basic tenets of government: To help ensure the health and safety of the public, while allowing free expression and congregation.
And it's definitely cheaper than jail time (three squares, clean clothes, and a cot) and court action.
Good luck. You've got my vote.
Dude. It's Taco Bell.
Eat your "food" and get the hell out of there.
Agreed. However, this thread is littered with folks who think otherwise.
I recently wrote about this social concept here. Amusingly, it received two moderations: -1 Troll, and +1 Insightful.
Decades ago, someone I respect accused me of not having a tact filter and declared that to be detrimental. Around the same time, someone else that I respect said that I have the "most finely-tuned bullshit filter he's ever seen."
Consequently, I appreciate and espouse honesty -- even without tact. And bullshit is just bullshit; it always stinks.
Around my house, we have a policy of honesty.
In an uncanny similarity to your analogy I burned the hamburgers badly the other night -- Christmas eve, in fact. I ignored them on the grill longer than I should have, they turned self-fueling, and the one side was a crispy mess.
The wife goes "These are fucking burned. What were you thinking? Oh, let me guess: You were reading Slashdot while the grill was on fire. Dumbass."
We agreed that they were shit, and we all knew that ordering a pizza would've been better by that point...and that made for some candid conversation as we scraped the carbonized meat from the patties.
Was I pissed? Of course I was pissed. But I was pissed because I wanted and expected a tender, juicy hamburger and instead had a briquette, not because someone else announced the fact that I'd ruined dinner. That I'd killed the burgers (or userspace, as the case may be) was obvious to anyone, and an abomination, and there's no harm in stating the truth. It is what it is.
We ate them because we do not like to waste things, but at no time were any of us inclined to think one thing while cowardly expressing something insincere: We speak our minds. Pizza really would have been better.
Last night, unthwarted by my previous failure and the deserved scolding, I made burgers again. They worked fine, and were delicious indeed.
There's an old expression, "Honesty is the best policy." Try it some time. (And yes, that means calling a turd a turd, since there is no sense in pretending that a turd is somehow not a turd.)
Meanwhile, if you don't like Linus's highly successful development tactics relating to the kernel (has there ever been any other *nix so pervasive?), fork it and do it yourself. Nobody's stopping you. You want a kinder and gentler environment for development? Build it.
*shrug*