Dispatchers aren't supposed to provide the safety, that's built into the signalling system. I remember a dispatcher throwing his headset down on the floor in disgust saying "they'll stop". Sometimes the communications are bad or misunderstood and a train passes the siding it should be on.
Pretty much the worst thing that could happen is a "cornfield meet". But in signal territory that means both trains entered a block with red signals.
I built the first touchscreen system for mainline railroad control in 1977. We knew then that you had to give immediate feedback, by blinking, that the operator had succeeded in activating a change. The reason that it didn't catch on is that the keyboard was something you could pound on in frustration when the trains didn't do what you wanted. Nothing as satisfying as keycaps flying all over the room. We sold a lot of replacement keyboards.
You are ignoring many cases where police were summoned to help subdue a mentally ill person and ended up killing them. "obey or you will deserve it" is a stupid suggestion in that case and in many others: drunk, epileptic seizure, diabetic shock. Take a look at the news and you will find evidence of abuse in all those cases.
The organizations made by the government and falling under the government that are insulated from elections and such are quite efficient. It's when you have politicians involved that the government fails (elected school boards make problems, not solve them). If you could find a way to govern a democracy without elected officials messing it up, then you will have found the perfect government. But don't blame "government" for the problems that politicians make. Bush is trying to prevent the "elected officials" from messing up his government. I'm not a fan of this type of efficiency. I think that I prefer a little waste and fumbling around rather than give too much authority to someone so sure of what he is doing and so unwilling to listen to anyone else.
Your examples of efficient government are from departments that are not growing, changing and suffering from "mission creep". Why don't we put the DOD budget under a microscope and see how efficient it looks. Oops, we can't. Much of it is non-itemized or classified.
It doesn't free up a spot if it takes just as long to unload, service and load one big airplane as it would two smaller ones. They increase spots by decreasing choices. It is getting more expensive to get direct flights. Two hop routes on bigger airplanes through a hub city are preferred by the airline because they can fill all the seats.
Forget the British government. I printed my name and address on slips of paper so that when store clerks ask me for my phone number or address I can just offer to sell it to them for $2 taken off the cost of my purchase. I figure that they can get it anyway off the credit card companies, but $2 is probably cheaper. I never got anything but strange looks and "I can't do that" as a response. They don't seem to see the irony.
-- PS. Don't forget to check out the new season of the Sarah Connor Chronicles this fall on Fox.
"posting in a manner prescribed by law or reasonably likely to come to the attention of intruders;"
Also, you can't be charged if:
"the actor reasonably believed that the owner of the premises, or other person empowered to license access thereto, would have licensed him to enter or remain."
Which is why delivery vans, fire fighters, etc. can't be charged with trespass, even when it is posted. Also, no PA court would consider chasing a wounded deer across your property trespassing. You have to post "No hunting" as well.
It's the landowner's responsibility to post and maintain signs. One sign would not cut it on open land, you have to post the whole perimeter. However the law distinguishes settled land from open land, so maybe the rules are different. Of course, your rights to the land are limited. Nobody in Pittsburgh owns the mineral rights under their own homes, for example. Those were all sold out from under them 200 years ago.
Unless the street is posted "No trespassing" then I don't see how it makes much difference whether its a public or private street. Under PA law (ob. IANAL) if it isn't posted, you'uns can go there. By the way, my guess is that these people moved to Pittsburgh from out of state. PA folks aren't very lawsuit-happy in general.
There's nothing wrong with patenting a specific implementation, assuming it is a novel design. What is unfortunate about software patents is that I can't write a program to do the same thing done in a different way and avoid the patent, because software patents are on the idea. The implementation is usually described as "software means obvious to one skilled in the art".
Look back at Wang's patent on the SIMM. It only covered 9-bit parity modules. 36-bit SIMMS did not violate the patent. Hardware patents are forced to describe an implementation.
Ric Werme wrote a program to draw roses on the Graphic Wonder that was entered in the Three Rivers Arts Festival back in the 70s. There is python code and some history for it here.
A good looking website isn't moving, blinking crap. Its good layout, color schemes and art. Hire a graphic designer. Good ones will have links to sites they've done, which makes it easy to choose one whose style matches the image your company wants to project. I did some research on this for a project and easily found breathtakingly good site designs on the web.
That said, what looks good isn't always the most functional. Site designers agree these days that you never want to force your visitors to go through too many links, so home pages tend to be a bunch of menus with 500 links on them. Not much room for good design.
The reason that they weren't designed to be secure is that noone had thought of the "DNS poisoning" attack when the protocols were designed. If they had, they would have made the ID field longer. Since it is only 16 bits, I doubt that there is any very secure way of protecting someone from guessing the next value. The paper describes a method of narrowing it down to 8 possibilities by doing ~10^9 calculations.
The exploit described in the paper doesn't require a cracked router, just a malicious website. Once you can inject fake DNS entries for bankofamerica.com or ebay.com on some ISP's DNS server, the exploit has paid for itself.
If you bought Barracuda firewall, please be sure to turn off bounce messages. Barracuda has the annoying default "feature" of forwarding spam to whoever is listed on the From line. If you don't turn that off you will end up on many blocklists. Errors should only ever be reported to the sending mail server.
"No. The copyright holder is not bound by the GPL."
IANAL, but the GPL says:
"Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it."
So the act of distributing the program indicates the author's acceptance of the GPL. US law takes a dim view of people trying to back out of written offers.
The example in the article was not that you fly as the other person, but that you check baggage in their name. Perhaps containing drugs to be smuggled or a bomb.
It was double-blind. According to the full article, the change in sleep onset went from 0.27 hours (sham) to 0.37 hours (actual RF). And the duration dropped from 45.5 minutes (sham) to 37.2 minutes (actual RF). No idea why they changed units, but I was always taught to ignore effects smaller than 2:1 in small sample sizes. Most likely a candidate for the JIR.
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Then IBM would have to redesign with smaller sensors.
Dispatchers aren't supposed to provide the safety, that's built into the signalling system. I remember a dispatcher throwing his headset down on the floor in disgust saying "they'll stop". Sometimes the communications are bad or misunderstood and a train passes the siding it should be on.
Pretty much the worst thing that could happen is a "cornfield meet". But in signal territory that means both trains entered a block with red signals.
I built the first touchscreen system for mainline railroad control in 1977. We knew then that you had to give immediate feedback, by blinking, that the operator had succeeded in activating a change. The reason that it didn't catch on is that the keyboard was something you could pound on in frustration when the trains didn't do what you wanted. Nothing as satisfying as keycaps flying all over the room. We sold a lot of replacement keyboards.
You are ignoring many cases where police were summoned to help subdue a mentally ill person and ended up killing them. "obey or you will deserve it" is a stupid suggestion in that case and in many others: drunk, epileptic seizure, diabetic shock. Take a look at the news and you will find evidence of abuse in all those cases.
Bush is trying to prevent the "elected officials" from messing up his government. I'm not a fan of this type of efficiency. I think that I prefer a little waste and fumbling around rather than give too much authority to someone so sure of what he is doing and so unwilling to listen to anyone else.
Your examples of efficient government are from departments that are not growing, changing and suffering from "mission creep". Why don't we put the DOD budget under a microscope and see how efficient it looks. Oops, we can't. Much of it is non-itemized or classified.
.. and same in KDE.
It doesn't free up a spot if it takes just as long to unload, service and load one big airplane as it would two smaller ones. They increase spots by decreasing choices. It is getting more expensive to get direct flights. Two hop routes on bigger airplanes through a hub city are preferred by the airline because they can fill all the seats.
Anyway, an appeal could take a long time if you keep me hanging on. Didn't Scalia replace Diana Ross?
I would consider any aircraft shooting at me to be unmannered. In fact, downright rude.
Forget the British government. I printed my name and address on slips of paper so that when store clerks ask me for my phone number or address I can just offer to sell it to them for $2 taken off the cost of my purchase. I figure that they can get it anyway off the credit card companies, but $2 is probably cheaper. I never got anything but strange looks and "I can't do that" as a response. They don't seem to see the irony.
-- PS. Don't forget to check out the new season of the Sarah Connor Chronicles this fall on Fox.
Nope. Not in PA. Here, I looked it up for ya. 3503 (b) ii. Defiant Trespass.
http://members.aol.com/StatutesPA/18.Cp.35.html
"posting in a manner prescribed by law or reasonably likely to come to the attention of intruders;"
Also, you can't be charged if:
"the actor reasonably believed that the owner of the premises, or other person empowered to license access thereto, would have licensed him to enter or remain."
Which is why delivery vans, fire fighters, etc. can't be charged with trespass, even when it is posted. Also, no PA court would consider chasing a wounded deer across your property trespassing. You have to post "No hunting" as well.
It's the landowner's responsibility to post and maintain signs. One sign would not cut it on open land, you have to post the whole perimeter. However the law distinguishes settled land from open land, so maybe the rules are different. Of course, your rights to the land are limited. Nobody in Pittsburgh owns the mineral rights under their own homes, for example. Those were all sold out from under them 200 years ago.
Unless the street is posted "No trespassing" then I don't see how it makes much difference whether its a public or private street. Under PA law (ob. IANAL) if it isn't posted, you'uns can go there. By the way, my guess is that these people moved to Pittsburgh from out of state. PA folks aren't very lawsuit-happy in general.
There's nothing wrong with patenting a specific implementation, assuming it is a novel design. What is unfortunate about software patents is that I can't write a program to do the same thing done in a different way and avoid the patent, because software patents are on the idea. The implementation is usually described as "software means obvious to one skilled in the art".
Look back at Wang's patent on the SIMM. It only covered 9-bit parity modules. 36-bit SIMMS did not violate the patent. Hardware patents are forced to describe an implementation.
Ric Werme wrote a program to draw roses on the Graphic Wonder that was entered in the Three Rivers Arts Festival back in the 70s. There is python code and some history for it here.
A good looking website isn't moving, blinking crap. Its good layout, color schemes and art. Hire a graphic designer. Good ones will have links to sites they've done, which makes it easy to choose one whose style matches the image your company wants to project. I did some research on this for a project and easily found breathtakingly good site designs on the web.
That said, what looks good isn't always the most functional. Site designers agree these days that you never want to force your visitors to go through too many links, so home pages tend to be a bunch of menus with 500 links on them. Not much room for good design.
The reason that they weren't designed to be secure is that noone had thought of the "DNS poisoning" attack when the protocols were designed. If they had, they would have made the ID field longer. Since it is only 16 bits, I doubt that there is any very secure way of protecting someone from guessing the next value. The paper describes a method of narrowing it down to 8 possibilities by doing ~10^9 calculations.
The exploit described in the paper doesn't require a cracked router, just a malicious website. Once you can inject fake DNS entries for bankofamerica.com or ebay.com on some ISP's DNS server, the exploit has paid for itself.
If you bought Barracuda firewall, please be sure to turn off bounce messages. Barracuda has the annoying default "feature" of forwarding spam to whoever is listed on the From line. If you don't turn that off you will end up on many blocklists. Errors should only ever be reported to the sending mail server.
"No. The copyright holder is not bound by the GPL."
IANAL, but the GPL says:
"Therefore, by
modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the
Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and
all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying
the Program or works based on it."
So the act of distributing the program indicates the author's acceptance
of the GPL. US law takes a dim view of people trying to back out of
written offers.
Doesn't it seem like a bad idea for HP to be using a name that sounds like "fossile".
Sorry, the Human Genome Project now has a copyright on naked people.
So the answer to the copyright question will depend on whether Form is using Get or Post?
That's called "monarchy"
The example in the article was not that you fly as the other person, but that you check baggage in their name. Perhaps containing drugs to be smuggled or a bomb.
It was double-blind. According to the full article, the change in sleep onset went from 0.27 hours (sham) to 0.37 hours (actual RF). And the duration dropped from 45.5 minutes (sham) to 37.2 minutes (actual RF). No idea why they changed units, but I was always taught to ignore effects smaller than 2:1 in small sample sizes. Most likely a candidate for the JIR.