Each sovereign STATE had two votes regardless of population because Senators don't represent the people but the states and specifically the state governments.
And more specifically the state LEGISLATORS.
A law such as the old 55 mph national speed limit could never pass a Senate elected by state legislators. Congress lacked the constitutional authority to directly legislate speed limits anywhere other than DC, territories, and government facilities such as military bases. To fill in the rest of the country, they directed state legislatures to pass 55 mph laws, and their executive branches to enforce those laws, to the satisfaction of the appropriate USGOV agency (IIRC, USDOT), or have "Federal" highway funds withheld. There is no way a state legislator will re-elect a US Senator who would sit still for such greenmail.
The balance of powers between the States and the national government was carefully crafted. In the Concurrent Powers, the laws enacted by Congress would take precedence over state laws, but the check on that power was that the state legislatures would send delegates to the Senate to make sure the power was used sparingly.
Most people will continue to use the phrase "incorrectly", because they know that everybody else will understand what they mean, which is the purpose of language.
Actually, that's only one purpose of language, and not even the primary purpose. Before one can communicate with another, one must understand the idea to be communicated. Even when no communicating with others is intended, thinking employs language. Allowing a word or phrase to have two meanings that are related and similar, and clearly distinguishable by context, does not hinder that process. But when the two meanings contradict each other, such as in "begs the question", "comprised of", or "That jives with what I already know", it hinders thinking.
I do tech support for a living, and get very frustrated when I hear people abuse terminology they don't understand. It could be as simple as calling a slash a "backslash", or as complicated as saying "This format defaults to that printer" when describing a format file that specifies a printer to override what default printer may have already been assigned; in any event, by using a word to mean something diametrically opposed to the original meaning, they sow confusion.
Eventually, the word or phrase loses meaning entirely, and must be abandoned.
It's similar to the debate over "kilobyte" meaning 1,000 or 1,024 bytes.
Perfect example. I no longer can use that word. Instead I say "thousand bytes" or "two to the tenth bytes" instead of "kilobyte";
"million bytes", "one point zero two four million bytes", or "two to the twentieth bytes" instead of "megabyte" (because all three of those have been used, primarily for HDs, FDS, and RAM respectively);
or "billion bytes" or "two to the thirtieth bytes" instead of "gigabyte", etc.
Otherwise you're depending on the grid...and it wasn't designed to transmit the kind of power that you're talking about, so you're talking about rebuilding it.
The grid is designed to transmit the power to run everyone's air conditioner in the middle of the afternoon in July, while also operating the lights, TV, computers, electric motors in businesses....
Most of the cost of generating and transmiting electricity is the fixed cost of building the peak capacity, not actually producing the power. So when we have cars with batteries/supercapacitors that can let a car go for hundreds of miles between charges, we rarely will have to charge them during peak hours.
Instead, we'll do it in the small hours of the morning, as their drivers sleep, the lights are off, and the air conditioners have little if any work to do. The electric utilities will be happy to sell the power at special reduced off-peak rates.
I have come to the conclusion that if electric vehicles really will go hundreds of miles between charges, we'll have a special kind of hybrid for long road trips. Rather than carrying the weight of the diesel generator around all the time, it will be a trailer that can be hauled behind the vehicle, with a standardized umbilical cable bringing in the power produced by the generator and a communication bus to allow the vehicle to monitor fuel level and control the generator. You'll be able to rent one at U-Haul, Ryder, and probably many gas stations, so if you don't make many long trips, you won't need to own one. Some designs will have a lockable fiberglass shell on top to protect extra cargo for those long trips hauling stuff off to college or back home for Christmas vacation.
when the front car inevitably slows down, even without braking, the tailgater ends up having to brake and viola.
They need to put away their musical instruments and pay attention to driving. (Or did you mean "voilà"?)
The thing is, if you do leave the proper distance between your car and the one in front of you, a tailgater will see it as a place he can shoehorn into.
"you can't operate recording equipment here". . . . Suppose I want to put a camera on my head and let it record 24h and send pics over a 3G or WiFi connection to my server
Well, if it's streaming the A/V over the connection, then arguably it isn't "recording". I'm getting old enough that I may have to use a hearing aid sooner than I'd like to admit. Add a camera to enlarge small print so I don't have to use reading glasses, and it's an Americans with Disabilities Act issue, and they can't forbid the use of the equipment to enhance my failing senses. That I just happen to choose a model that sends the audio and video in realtime to that server in my house is just a helpful byproduct of the system, you see.
shouldn't an encrypted disk be filled with random data before the filesystem is installed so that it looks completely full from the outside and when bitstreamed w/o the passphrase?
That's exactly what TrueCrypt does when it creates a volume. If someone seizes your computer, they cannot tell what's in the unused space at the end of a FAT32-formatted outer encrypted volume, because it just looks like random noise.
However, a person who can get physical control of your machine, say to boot from a CD and use it to image your drive across the network and establish a baseline, then create another image later, could see what parts of the drive are changing, and thereby impute that the unallocated space in that drive was used by a hidden volume. There isn't much that can be done about that, other than providing a mechanism for those encrypted volumes without inner hidden volumes to randomly pick sectors to scramble, thereby producing a reasonable explanation for why the unused space is changing.
(I do tell people "actually, no, I don't work here" but then do my best to answer their question, as I often can)
Are we related? I can be at any store, and people will come up to me and ask questions like I work there. I always assumed it's something about the look on my face; if I don't appear to be bewildered and befuddled, they figure I know what's going on.
And, like you, I often can answer their questions, so maybe they're smarter than we think they are, asking someone they think is knowledgeable whether they work there or not.
Here's the intersection of 47th Street and 47th Street on the border of Johnson and Wyandotte Counties in Kansas. The road that runs down the county line is called 47th Street by Johnson County municipalities, following the KC, MO street-numbering convention, but the KC, KS scheme runs perpendicular to the adjacent counties, so WYCO calls it County Line Road.
So, from this intersection, you can go East, West, or North, and be on 47th Street
User 1: Ubuntu installed 97 times, RHEL installed 1 time
User 2: Ubuntu installed 1 time
User 3: RHEL installed 1 time
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Organization 1's IT staff must possess competency to run both Ubuntu and RHEL; Org 2 only needs to know Ubuntu; Org 3 only RHEL. The number of machines with each distro isn't awfully important unless it's a really huge entity, and they're able to confine the expertise to smaller teams (e.g. the server admins know RHEL but the Helldesk techs only know Ubuntu). The survey reflects this institutional investment.
It can be difficult to determine how infection can spread.
Remember the original Trojan Horse? It was designed to defeat a perimeter-based security system. Once the perimeter is penetrated, there was no defense. Before networks became standard, there was Sneakernet.
I don't even know if it's possible in Windows to disable mounting filesystems on USB drives or MP3 players that might contain one or more "*.mp*.exe" files helpfully dumped onto them by a virus that includes that vector.
The real question isn't what is a year, but "what is a day". Measurements were taken of the length of the "mean solar day", which is the average time between noons, which itself varies over the course of a year due to the elliptical shape of the Earth's orbit. (Because we're closer to the Sun during the Northern Hemisphere winter, we're revolving faster but rotating at the same speed, so the time between true astronomical noons is slightly longer than in the summer.)
That length was divided into 24 hours, each of which was subdivided into 60 minutes, then 60 seconds, and the exact time represented by a second was fixed. Then we found out that the length of a day is getting just a teeny bit longer, and the accumulated error amounts to a second over the course of a year or more. Or maybe the original measurements were off by that much.
Whenever the astronomers determine that things are far enough out of whack, they declare a Leap Second to try to keep the average time of noon the same. They either add a 23:59:60 right before midnight on the last day of a quarter (so far only Dec 31 or Jun 30 have had this honor), or theoretically could omit 23:59:59 (but this has yet to happen).
Otherwise, 12:00Z will no longer be mean astronomical noon at the Greenwich Observatory, which is pretty much the point of having a Prime Meridian in the first place.
workers actually have some rights. . . . In my state (Massachusetts) pretty much the only rights you have are these:
4) The right to quit a job without notice
No right to severance, regardless of length of employ. No right to appeal a termination. No right to notice of a termination. Around here they don't even have to give a reason for firing you.
You can quit a job, without notice, without giving a reason, and the employer has no right to appeal your decision to quit. And somehow you think it's unfair that the employer has the same right to terminate the relationship? Why is that, exactly?
I wouldn't object were it not for the fact that this new sense of "comprise" has a meaning in direct opposition to the older sense. That threatens to deprive the word of any meaning other than "Here's one thing, and a group of things that together make up the one thing, but I'm not going to tell you which is which; you can just try to figure it out by context!"
That and I'm of the opinion that people really don't understand the word, but it sounds more intelligent than "compose", so they try to sound smarter than they really are (and in the process end up sounding stupid).
is there any reason why "PC" laptops generally pack that much less juice?
It's not that they "pack" less juice, it's that they suck it up faster. Windows tends to do a lot of busy work, while Linux more frequently runs out of things to do, at which point it idles the processor until the next interrupt triggers, saving power consumption.
If I'm using my laptop under Windows, I don't get as much time on battery as I do under Linux.
Have you seen the Pivo2? It doesn't "parallel" park. Each of the wheels turns 90 toward the curb, and the cab rotates that direction as well. It literally goes perpendicular to the curb, stops, opens the door (which is on the front of the car!) and the occupant(s) get out. That feature alone will make this thing very attractive in crowded Japanese cities. I'm looking forward to a car big enough to hold my Monstrous size (6'6") with "sideways gear" for when I have to park on the street near the library for KCLUG meetings.
I haven't seen anything that convinces me one box with two virtualized hosts is any more secure than two seperate hosts on two seperate [sic] boxes.
That's not really the point. The question is whether one box running each service in its own virtual machine is more secure than the same hardware running the same services on the bare iron. If the networking is configured to not allow access to the bare iron from anywhere other than known trusted IPs, the theory is that someone subverting a service may take total control of the VM it runs on, but be impeded from being able to go further, because access to the other VMs has to be through virtual network interfaces.
For client machines, using a VM sandbox to run your web browser could keep the host from being compromised by malicious code execution. I can't imagine how that could make browsing less secure.
For servers, what I'm really looking forward to is a hypervisor that trips on security events such an attempt to remount r/w a filesystem that's been locked down. It would respond to such events by forking off the VM into an ad-hoc honeypot/tarpit.
I do not thin' this works like you thin' it works:
2) type "sudo eth0 192.168.0.1" -> hit enter
sudo: eth0: command not found
The principal advantages of a menu system: the choices available to the user are constrained, the menus provide reminders of how things are done. The CLI provides much more power, but the user must remember the commands to run, or take notes. The big win for the CLI is when you can send a text message to your Aunt Tillie's cell phone (or an email to the laptop of your cousin's who's going over for dinner tonight) showing her how to spell the command correctly ("sue-dew? Suede oh?...")
Your frame of reference is irrelevant. The sun is only closer during the winter in the Northern Hemisphere, because at the time the sun is closest, it's also summer in the Southern Hemisphere. Face it, you tried to "correct" an absolutely factual statement, and in doing so, said something that is not correct. The hemisphere you're in doesn't affect perihelion, but it damn well affects seasons.
Umm, If you live in the northern hemisphere the sun is closer during the winter than during the summer.
You might want to rephrase that or look at the facts again.
I'm assuming when you state that the 'sun is closer during the winter' that you're talking about Earth's orbital eccentricity (non-circular orbit) resulting in the entire planet being about 5 million kilometres closer to the sun during winter. Living in the northern or southern hemisphere would make no difference.
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Wish there was a -1 slightly-wrong tag. Some posts just deserve it.
Indeed. Your post would qualify.
When the Earth is next at perihelion (closest point of approach to the Sun) it will be January 3 in both hemispheres, but it will only be Winter in the Northern Hemisphere. I'd say that's a difference.
Neither of these licenses guarantee that, when MS uses them, they'll provide source code to anyone. Both licenses say that IF you distribute source, you must use the same license, and the Reciprocal license requires YOU to give source code if you use their code, but nowhere does it guarantee you'll have source in the first place. MS may "accidentally" leave out source to some files, and supply makefiles that grab binary blobs so that they build OK. So you might have to use a decompiler or disassembler to generate the source before you could modify it.
That may also be a technical defect of the GPL as well.
How did you get the idea that 'up' is an adverb and not a preposition?
That isn't exactly what I said. Sometimes it's an adverb, and sometimes a preposition. If you look in a dictionary, you'll see that it's also an adjective, noun, and verb.
In sentences such as "Look up!", the function of the word is to modify the verb, and that it has no object. Even in the sentence "Look up her street address.", (where some grammarians say the two words "look up" form a two-word "phrasal verb", and some people would actually combine them as "lookup") "up" isn't a preposition like it is in "Drive up her street.", where "street" (as modified by "her") is the object of the preposition "up".
I suppose that raises the question, is a word used in multiple places the same word, or different?
Thank you for not saying it "begs" the question.
They're separate instances, but the same thing lexically. Your quote above has 18 words, of which "word" and "the" each have two instances. You wouldn't say it only has 16 words in it, but you could say it has 16 unique words.
Even if you think the two "word"s are the same word, I think there's a good argument that the words "up" (preposition) and "up" (adverb) are not the same, even though they're spelled and pronounced the same, and even have closely-related meanings, they fulfill different functions grammatically.
As for 'with,' the sentence we were looking for was 'Ending a sentence with a preposition is an outrage we won't put up with.' Winston Churchill coined the witticism . ..
Except that he didn't coin it that way. While there is some question as to the precise original wording (the most likely seems to be "This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.") all of the variations have Winnie separating "up" from "put", as if it were a preposition rather than an adverb or an integral part of a two-word verb "put up", which was my original point.
The biggest reason to avoid separating a preposition from its object is that it forces mental effort to link the two back together. Rare is the case that a sentence can't be worded to avoid that separation.
At least in Windows, only captures the window in focus and not the entire screen.
No, that's Alt-PrtSc. I don't see any difference between the behaviors of PrtSc by itself and Shift-PrtSc, which made me wonder if there's some 3d party app that distinguishes between them somehow.
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A law such as the old 55 mph national speed limit could never pass a Senate elected by state legislators. Congress lacked the constitutional authority to directly legislate speed limits anywhere other than DC, territories, and government facilities such as military bases. To fill in the rest of the country, they directed state legislatures to pass 55 mph laws, and their executive branches to enforce those laws, to the satisfaction of the appropriate USGOV agency (IIRC, USDOT), or have "Federal" highway funds withheld. There is no way a state legislator will re-elect a US Senator who would sit still for such greenmail.
The balance of powers between the States and the national government was carefully crafted. In the Concurrent Powers, the laws enacted by Congress would take precedence over state laws, but the check on that power was that the state legislatures would send delegates to the Senate to make sure the power was used sparingly.
I do tech support for a living, and get very frustrated when I hear people abuse terminology they don't understand. It could be as simple as calling a slash a "backslash", or as complicated as saying "This format defaults to that printer" when describing a format file that specifies a printer to override what default printer may have already been assigned; in any event, by using a word to mean something diametrically opposed to the original meaning, they sow confusion. Eventually, the word or phrase loses meaning entirely, and must be abandoned.
Perfect example. I no longer can use that word. Instead I say "thousand bytes" or "two to the tenth bytes" instead of "kilobyte"; "million bytes", "one point zero two four million bytes", or "two to the twentieth bytes" instead of "megabyte" (because all three of those have been used, primarily for HDs, FDS, and RAM respectively); or "billion bytes" or "two to the thirtieth bytes" instead of "gigabyte", etc.Most of the cost of generating and transmiting electricity is the fixed cost of building the peak capacity, not actually producing the power. So when we have cars with batteries/supercapacitors that can let a car go for hundreds of miles between charges, we rarely will have to charge them during peak hours.
Instead, we'll do it in the small hours of the morning, as their drivers sleep, the lights are off, and the air conditioners have little if any work to do. The electric utilities will be happy to sell the power at special reduced off-peak rates.
I have come to the conclusion that if electric vehicles really will go hundreds of miles between charges, we'll have a special kind of hybrid for long road trips. Rather than carrying the weight of the diesel generator around all the time, it will be a trailer that can be hauled behind the vehicle, with a standardized umbilical cable bringing in the power produced by the generator and a communication bus to allow the vehicle to monitor fuel level and control the generator. You'll be able to rent one at U-Haul, Ryder, and probably many gas stations, so if you don't make many long trips, you won't need to own one. Some designs will have a lockable fiberglass shell on top to protect extra cargo for those long trips hauling stuff off to college or back home for Christmas vacation.
The thing is, if you do leave the proper distance between your car and the one in front of you, a tailgater will see it as a place he can shoehorn into.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
However, a person who can get physical control of your machine, say to boot from a CD and use it to image your drive across the network and establish a baseline, then create another image later, could see what parts of the drive are changing, and thereby impute that the unallocated space in that drive was used by a hidden volume. There isn't much that can be done about that, other than providing a mechanism for those encrypted volumes without inner hidden volumes to randomly pick sectors to scramble, thereby producing a reasonable explanation for why the unused space is changing.
And, like you, I often can answer their questions, so maybe they're smarter than we think they are, asking someone they think is knowledgeable whether they work there or not.
Here's the intersection of 47th Street and 47th Street on the border of Johnson and Wyandotte Counties in Kansas. The road that runs down the county line is called 47th Street by Johnson County municipalities, following the KC, MO street-numbering convention, but the KC, KS scheme runs perpendicular to the adjacent counties, so WYCO calls it County Line Road. So, from this intersection, you can go East, West, or North, and be on 47th Street
Organization 1's IT staff must possess competency to run both Ubuntu and RHEL; Org 2 only needs to know Ubuntu; Org 3 only RHEL. The number of machines with each distro isn't awfully important unless it's a really huge entity, and they're able to confine the expertise to smaller teams (e.g. the server admins know RHEL but the Helldesk techs only know Ubuntu). The survey reflects this institutional investment.
I don't even know if it's possible in Windows to disable mounting filesystems on USB drives or MP3 players that might contain one or more "*.mp* .exe" files helpfully dumped onto them by a virus that includes that vector.
That length was divided into 24 hours, each of which was subdivided into 60 minutes, then 60 seconds, and the exact time represented by a second was fixed. Then we found out that the length of a day is getting just a teeny bit longer, and the accumulated error amounts to a second over the course of a year or more. Or maybe the original measurements were off by that much.
Whenever the astronomers determine that things are far enough out of whack, they declare a Leap Second to try to keep the average time of noon the same. They either add a 23:59:60 right before midnight on the last day of a quarter (so far only Dec 31 or Jun 30 have had this honor), or theoretically could omit 23:59:59 (but this has yet to happen).
Otherwise, 12:00Z will no longer be mean astronomical noon at the Greenwich Observatory, which is pretty much the point of having a Prime Meridian in the first place.
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That and I'm of the opinion that people really don't understand the word, but it sounds more intelligent than "compose", so they try to sound smarter than they really are (and in the process end up sounding stupid).
If I'm using my laptop under Windows, I don't get as much time on battery as I do under Linux.
For client machines, using a VM sandbox to run your web browser could keep the host from being compromised by malicious code execution. I can't imagine how that could make browsing less secure.
For servers, what I'm really looking forward to is a hypervisor that trips on security events such an attempt to remount r/w a filesystem that's been locked down. It would respond to such events by forking off the VM into an ad-hoc honeypot/tarpit.
The principal advantages of a menu system: the choices available to the user are constrained, the menus provide reminders of how things are done. The CLI provides much more power, but the user must remember the commands to run, or take notes. The big win for the CLI is when you can send a text message to your Aunt Tillie's cell phone (or an email to the laptop of your cousin's who's going over for dinner tonight) showing her how to spell the command correctly ("sue-dew? Suede oh?...")
Your frame of reference is irrelevant. The sun is only closer during the winter in the Northern Hemisphere, because at the time the sun is closest, it's also summer in the Southern Hemisphere. Face it, you tried to "correct" an absolutely factual statement, and in doing so, said something that is not correct. The hemisphere you're in doesn't affect perihelion, but it damn well affects seasons.
That may also be a technical defect of the GPL as well.
In sentences such as "Look up!", the function of the word is to modify the verb, and that it has no object. Even in the sentence "Look up her street address.", (where some grammarians say the two words "look up" form a two-word "phrasal verb", and some people would actually combine them as "lookup") "up" isn't a preposition like it is in "Drive up her street.", where "street" (as modified by "her") is the object of the preposition "up".
They're separate instances, but the same thing lexically. Your quote above has 18 words, of which "word" and "the" each have two instances. You wouldn't say it only has 16 words in it, but you could say it has 16 unique words. Even if you think the two "word"s are the same word, I think there's a good argument that the words "up" (preposition) and "up" (adverb) are not the same, even though they're spelled and pronounced the same, and even have closely-related meanings, they fulfill different functions grammatically.
Except that he didn't coin it that way. While there is some question as to the precise original wording (the most likely seems to be "This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.") all of the variations have Winnie separating "up" from "put", as if it were a preposition rather than an adverb or an integral part of a two-word verb "put up", which was my original point.The biggest reason to avoid separating a preposition from its object is that it forces mental effort to link the two back together. Rare is the case that a sentence can't be worded to avoid that separation.