...and certainly cannot be done with a USB stick anywhere on your person.
I'm not sure you have seen the smallest USB drives out there. Some are about the size and thickness of the SIM card in your phone. Imagine something near the thickness of a business card and about the same dimensions as the silver end of a USB cable.
I can think of several places to hide this that won't be searched: Inside a belt, inside a wallet, behind your belt buckle, under your watch, against the inside of wide glasses, behind your ear with long hair, under a bra strap, hollowed-out coin, inside a key fob, inside a neck lanyard, inside any book or paper tablet, inside a pen, cigarette lighter, large fingernail clippers, pocket knife, or inside a spring-wound retrieval on an ID holder. Not to mention shoes, hats, gloves, jackets, scarfs, canes, nor jewelry.
There is no fail-safe way to keep something so small out of a secure area which is why they continue to epoxy USB ports, disable mounting external storage, and implement "no lone zone" procedures.
The USA is a representative democracy, run by politicians who were voted into office by people who slept through civics class. {/sarcasm}
What are all these 'Executive Orders'?
That question could have been answered faster with a Google search than it took you to type it.
Is the USA a dictatorship run by the President, or a democracy run by Congress, or a schizophrenic mixup?
That is a much more open-ended question and you will find all sorts of theories on the inter-tubes that will attempt to sway you to their particular world view. Good luck making sense of the cacophony of opinions you will find.
The short answer: This Executive Order is instructions to the executive branch (people that work for him) to ask for more secure forms of ID before giving them money or personal information.
Well, maybe we can convince some cities like Victoria BC from dumping their raw sewage directly into the mouth of the Puget Sound. http://environment.about.com/o...
They say they screen out the larger pieces of solid waste, but everything else (drugs, detergents, cooking waste, every sick person's waste) goes straight into the ocean.
I just hope they never have a person with HIV, Hepatitis C, Ebola, STDs, Clostridium difficile, Salmonella, or MRSA living or visiting there.
I think he feels he isn't getting enough cooperation from "main companies" so he wants more control on who can use the internet. Want to use the internet? Get a license. Want to create a web page? Get a license. Want to buy something on the internet? Want to download something? Want to copy from a site? He wants more control to be sure only legal uses are allowed.
It's almost like the speed limits on the highways aren't enough, he wants government-controlled speed governors installed in all cars.
“There may well come a time when government decides it’s had enough and it’s not getting enough help from those main companies that control the way we use the internet – they’re not getting enough help from them, so they’re going to start imposing regulations, imposing a code of conduct about the way people may be allowed to operated on the internet,” Fife says.
I gather however that this is plain incompetence (Dunning-Kruger-Type) with regards to the voltage regulators. Switching voltage regulation is really hard to do right unless you over-engineer seriously. You can get all sorts of bizarre effects, including a puff of smoke.
I appreciate the irony of you mentioning the Dunning-Kruger syndrome with your statement. Switching voltage regulation has been around for over 30 years and isn't much of a mystery. Since the early motherboards started reducing voltages from 5v down to 3.3v (and below), every motherboard has had on-board voltage regulation. It's hard to believe that something as fundamental as a switching regulator would suddenly exceed the engineering skill of the motherboard designers.
And who writes and optimizes the sort routine in the API?
Same problem with "Just use the routine in the library". Who writes the libraries?
What if I don't want to include a 9Mb library to my project just to get a sort routine and some string handling functions?
And don't say "just check Google". Once again, someone has to develop the code you're using for inspiration.
Or it means he was trying to be funny. The guess military now allows GLBT troops to operate Ground-based long-wave (GBLW) radar. One too many FLA (four-letter acronyms) for him to remember.
Nice try, but the fact that the aircraft are all moving in relationship to each other plus the fact that the interconnect signals are only traveling between them as fast as the radar signals they receive means trying to triangulate with timing differences would be close to impossible.
The reason GPS works is the satellites are synced to an atomic clock source to a billionth of a second accuracy, along with dynamic orbital-correction information to give the exact distance to the satellite. Even with the new "atomic clock on a chip" to give distances, their spacial locations would be unknown. http://www.nist.gov/public_aff...
Newer planes use a phase-array antenna system to give azimuth (direction) to the signal source. With multiple planes receiving directional information and sharing that information between themselves, a location can be determined. As with your timing approach, the more receivers and wider the separation, the better the accuracy. http://www.microwaves101.com/e...
This is a very slippery slope. Trying to balance the rights of individuals to remove incorrect information about themselves and trying to remove unflattering information about themselves. Having a process to verify the individual, the reasons for wanting the information removed, and is the public interest best served by removing the information.
I'm sure there are many public figures that would love a chance to remove some of the news items about themselves.
If I was going to attempt to break into your network or record video of your property, I would connect the camera and wifi equipment to a kite and fly it over your house. No noise, people are used to seeing kites, and I retain control of the kite and can bring it back quickly. I could do the same thing with a long pole from my car or a balloon.
Flying RC toys are just the trigger topic of the week to get people's ire up.
Close captioning doesn't take any bandwidth. Closed Captioning is encoded within line 21 of overscan information within an analog screen page. With 30 frames per second, that gives enough plenty of information with no added bandwidth. Digital TV encodes the information within the digital stream itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
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...and certainly cannot be done with a USB stick anywhere on your person.
I'm not sure you have seen the smallest USB drives out there. Some are about the size and thickness of the SIM card in your phone. Imagine something near the thickness of a business card and about the same dimensions as the silver end of a USB cable.
I can think of several places to hide this that won't be searched: Inside a belt, inside a wallet, behind your belt buckle, under your watch, against the inside of wide glasses, behind your ear with long hair, under a bra strap, hollowed-out coin, inside a key fob, inside a neck lanyard, inside any book or paper tablet, inside a pen, cigarette lighter, large fingernail clippers, pocket knife, or inside a spring-wound retrieval on an ID holder. Not to mention shoes, hats, gloves, jackets, scarfs, canes, nor jewelry.
There is no fail-safe way to keep something so small out of a secure area which is why they continue to epoxy USB ports, disable mounting external storage, and implement "no lone zone" procedures.
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I guess Denver is too far west?
What are all these 'Executive Orders'?
That question could have been answered faster with a Google search than it took you to type it.
Is the USA a dictatorship run by the President, or a democracy run by Congress, or a schizophrenic mixup?
That is a much more open-ended question and you will find all sorts of theories on the inter-tubes that will attempt to sway you to their particular world view. Good luck making sense of the cacophony of opinions you will find.
The short answer: This Executive Order is instructions to the executive branch (people that work for him) to ask for more secure forms of ID before giving them money or personal information.
Well, maybe we can convince some cities like Victoria BC from dumping their raw sewage directly into the mouth of the Puget Sound. http://environment.about.com/o...
They say they screen out the larger pieces of solid waste, but everything else (drugs, detergents, cooking waste, every sick person's waste) goes straight into the ocean.
I just hope they never have a person with HIV, Hepatitis C, Ebola, STDs, Clostridium difficile, Salmonella, or MRSA living or visiting there.
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Try Windows Secrets Patch Watch http://windowssecrets.com/cate...
Windows Secrets is a great site and the Patch Watch is invaluable in tracking patch conflicts and problems.
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Think before swallowing Microsoft's blue pill.
Teraflop is correct. http://www.thefreedictionary.c...
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It's almost like the speed limits on the highways aren't enough, he wants government-controlled speed governors installed in all cars.
“There may well come a time when government decides it’s had enough and it’s not getting enough help from those main companies that control the way we use the internet – they’re not getting enough help from them, so they’re going to start imposing regulations, imposing a code of conduct about the way people may be allowed to operated on the internet,” Fife says.
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It was still offshore at that point. When it made landfall it was below hurricane strength. Wind gusts don't count.
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I guess Amazon is closing its banking service for the Columbus Day holiday and deciding to not open again.
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You mean another victim that was somehow related to Aaron Kosminski? The other victim would need to be related to have a DNA match.
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Nor should there ever be. I spent 20 years protecting your right to be an asshole.
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Switching power regulators can be tricky, and they certainly are at the voltages (very low) and currents (very high) we are talking about here.
Citation?
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I gather however that this is plain incompetence (Dunning-Kruger-Type) with regards to the voltage regulators. Switching voltage regulation is really hard to do right unless you over-engineer seriously. You can get all sorts of bizarre effects, including a puff of smoke.
I appreciate the irony of you mentioning the Dunning-Kruger syndrome with your statement. Switching voltage regulation has been around for over 30 years and isn't much of a mystery. Since the early motherboards started reducing voltages from 5v down to 3.3v (and below), every motherboard has had on-board voltage regulation. It's hard to believe that something as fundamental as a switching regulator would suddenly exceed the engineering skill of the motherboard designers.
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And who writes and optimizes the sort routine in the API?
Same problem with "Just use the routine in the library". Who writes the libraries? What if I don't want to include a 9Mb library to my project just to get a sort routine and some string handling functions?
And don't say "just check Google". Once again, someone has to develop the code you're using for inspiration.
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The Colorado River isn't anywhere near Reno. Try checking a map before your next tirade.
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Or it means he was trying to be funny. The guess military now allows GLBT troops to operate Ground-based long-wave (GBLW) radar. One too many FLA (four-letter acronyms) for him to remember.
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Nice try, but the fact that the aircraft are all moving in relationship to each other plus the fact that the interconnect signals are only traveling between them as fast as the radar signals they receive means trying to triangulate with timing differences would be close to impossible.
The reason GPS works is the satellites are synced to an atomic clock source to a billionth of a second accuracy, along with dynamic orbital-correction information to give the exact distance to the satellite. Even with the new "atomic clock on a chip" to give distances, their spacial locations would be unknown. http://www.nist.gov/public_aff...
Newer planes use a phase-array antenna system to give azimuth (direction) to the signal source. With multiple planes receiving directional information and sharing that information between themselves, a location can be determined. As with your timing approach, the more receivers and wider the separation, the better the accuracy. http://www.microwaves101.com/e...
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Are they really suggesting that IE 11 will still be the most recent version in 17 months.... ?
There are plenty of cases where a contract is unenforceable and therefore not legally binding. http://www.nolo.com/legal-ency...
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This is a very slippery slope. Trying to balance the rights of individuals to remove incorrect information about themselves and trying to remove unflattering information about themselves. Having a process to verify the individual, the reasons for wanting the information removed, and is the public interest best served by removing the information.
I'm sure there are many public figures that would love a chance to remove some of the news items about themselves.
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If I was going to attempt to break into your network or record video of your property, I would connect the camera and wifi equipment to a kite and fly it over your house. No noise, people are used to seeing kites, and I retain control of the kite and can bring it back quickly. I could do the same thing with a long pole from my car or a balloon.
Flying RC toys are just the trigger topic of the week to get people's ire up.
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Close captioning doesn't take any bandwidth. Closed Captioning is encoded within line 21 of overscan information within an analog screen page. With 30 frames per second, that gives enough plenty of information with no added bandwidth. Digital TV encodes the information within the digital stream itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
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LOL. This comment should be in the story before this one. Consciousness On-Off Switch Discovered Deep In Brain