I could see the judges point in buttersnout's case if the address on his driver's license and/or registration was out of date.
In my state you are required by law to inform the MVD of any changes of address. Any correspondence with the MVD is done using this address, and if you don't update it then it is your fault if you do not get mail from them, including red-light camera tickets, license suspension notices and the like. They aren't going to change that official address just because you wrote it on some random form, like a ticket payment.
If that was the case, then it was ignorance of the law that caused the problems not ignorance of fact. If his address was up-to-date, however, then I completely agree with you. His county would have to be absolutely retarded to send license suspension notices to an address scrawled down by a cop rather than the address they have on record for his license, but it's certainly possible.
No, it's an example of elected officials doing their job poorly. Deciding to which public services the county does and does not want to offer is a legitimate function of government. Choosing to end one is not a "punishment".
I don't know about Russia, but the US military frequently uses it's old launch vehicles (or at least the engines) for suborbital weapons tests and satellite launches. For example, the Minotaur series of rockets by Orbital Sciences use old Minuteman and Peacekeeper engines. I'm sure there are many other examples.
I see many posts recommending switching to VoIP and using Astrix. I have no experience with setting up an ISDN system, however it seems like they do everything he is asking, and he would have less to rewire going that route. Are there any simple, reasonably priced ISDN PBX boxes that would work well for this?
Scantegrity is the successor to Punchscan, developed by the same people (David Chaum et al). The only detailed analyses that I can find about their differences are behind journal paywalls like this one at the IEEE.
Have you tried Damn Small Linux It sounds like exactly what you want. It will run on a 486 with 16MB of RAM, and 50MB harddrive. It runs X, Dillo is included, and has several install methods available, not just live disks.
You know what would be really cool? If you had a rewriting-proxy that would occasionally insert a cartoon spy in pages that could be unsafe, reminding/warning them about what could have happened. For example if they submitted a form with a password, and it wasn't encrypted, the spy could pop up and say "This password is unprotected, and could be snooped. Be sure not to use the same password for anything important!", and then have buttons the users could click to submit the form anyway or cancel. If they arrived on a form from a link (refer is set) you could insert the spy, reminding them to check that the URL is correct and not a phishing site, and to always type the URL for important sites, like banks.
Situational reminders like this (if not overdone) would do more to create an atmosphere of caution and thoughtfulness then a yearly presentation would.
The NASA Centennial Challenge Powered Beaming competition, to develop technology for uses such as a space elevator, or to power a rover in a shadowed creator on the moon, was delayed indefinitely due to trouble setting up the kilometer high race track.
Yes, well they should have known that you can't build Barad-dûr in a day.
Yeah, as alain's post points out, he admits himself that he granted Apress an exclusive contract.
It really rubs me the wrong way when authors/artists encourage people to pirate their material. You are asking me to do something illegal and take on risk of being sued, but you aren't willing to put it up online yourself? You are feeling rebellious because you are having second thoughts about the contract that you signed, but you want me to be the one that rebels? How about no. Pirating your material is no different to me than pirating any random major label artist. I'd rather support authors/artists who were willing to take the risk to self-publish, and provide legal means for me to support them directly without enriching the middle-men.
I've used some classified DoD networks before, and they are certainly managed differently, almost more like a circuit-switched network than packet-switched. You have to apply way in advance to get bandwidth allocated on them, declaring in advance your endpoints, and then if approved you are guaranteed that bandwidth. They have to be very underutilized as a result of this, so introducing some reasonable QoS that would allow folks to use up the spare bandwidth sounds like like a much needed improvement.
I'm not a network engineer, so I have no idea if a new network protocol is needed, or if an existing protocol like TCP/IP or SONET would suit their needs.
Mars has an aphelion (maximum distance from sun) of 250 Gm, and the Earth has an aphelion of 150 Gm. So when the sun is occluding their line of sight, they are on opposite sides of the sun and are separated by at most 400 Gm. If you had a satellite in the Earth's L4 or L5 point, then this would form a 150,350,400 Gm triangle with Mars. Thus the total signal distance would be 500 Gm. This would add 100 Gm, increasing the transit time by 5.5 minutes (from 22.2 to 27.7 minutes). Not as good as the solution presented but not twice as long.
Placing these in the Earth's orbit, rather than Mars', would have the added advantage of solving the solar occlusion problem for anything we send out into the solar system, not just for things on Mars.
No, I don't see your point. Just because it is a stupid idea to remove the useful inner slashes doesn't make it a bad idea to remove the redundant leading slashes.
No, his calculation is correct. Given constant acceleration: v = a*t d = 1/2*a*t^2 (by integrating above) d = 1/2*v*t (by combining above) t = d/(v/2) (solving for t) so plugging in the values for when the payload leaves the muzzle you get the time at which the payload leaves the muzzle, which is exactly what he did.
The summary and the official response say the same damn thing. Furthermore, if you would have RTFA, you would know that it quotes the official statement that every one is posting, giving a paragraph by paragraph critique of how it does not refute anything, just tries to spin it nicely for the stockholders.
NVIDIA currently has no plans to create any new AMD or Intel chipsets after the ION2. Period.
That has absolutely nothing to do with the story in question. It is a refutation to the ridiculous claim that "Nvidia is abandoning the entire high end and mid-range graphics market".
The vast majority of our antitrust laws only apply to companies that are monopolies. Apple is most definitely not a monopoly. The DOJ is arguing that IBM does have a monopoly in the mainframe market, but I don't buy it. I think HP's mainframe sales alone are high enough to show that, and they aren't the only competitor in the field.
No, when I am looking for something and can't find it, it is usually in the refrigerator. My unconscious brain seems to consider that to be the safe place to put things when I'm not thinking about what I'm doing:)
Hehe:) For those that are interested, they still have a InfoElect case study from 2006 posted on their site, which I believe was the the precursor to TradElect.
That's interesting. If you were checking with a newer version of uTorrent, you may have been using UDP, and not TCP. They added UDP capability about a year ago, and I assume others have as well. I don't know if they do error correction on a per-packet basis or rely on block checksums.
Which really makes me question whether these results have any validity outside of google. The study found that the majority of errors appeared to be related to the motherboard, but didn't list any information about the motherboards in use. If they are all custom built for google, then there is absolutely no way for any of us to know whether the error rate they exhibited is representative of what you'd get from average COTS server-grade motherboards currently on the market. Thus these results are meaningless to anyone who uses different motherboards, ie everyone but google.
I don't know how it would compare to solar, but according to a report I read about here, painting roofs white was one of the least cost-effective forms of geoengineering options that they studies (see second page).
If you were to just compress the signal in time, the rate of speech would increase, but the frequency (pitch) would as well - it would sound like a chipmunk. This is what a simple resampling program would do.
On the other hand if you were to just frequency-shift the signal (say by heterodyning) then the rate of speech would be the same, but the pitch would change. This is what pitch-correction programs do.
If you do both in series and in opposite directions so the cancel, then the pitch remains the same but rate of speech is now increased. This is what fast playback programs (say for audio books) do.
The researchers figured out how to do the last to light using simple lenses. This could be useful because you can send the data down the same channel (like a frequency multiplexed fiber) as the original signal was intended for.
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I could see the judges point in buttersnout's case if the address on his driver's license and/or registration was out of date.
In my state you are required by law to inform the MVD of any changes of address. Any correspondence with the MVD is done using this address, and if you don't update it then it is your fault if you do not get mail from them, including red-light camera tickets, license suspension notices and the like. They aren't going to change that official address just because you wrote it on some random form, like a ticket payment.
If that was the case, then it was ignorance of the law that caused the problems not ignorance of fact. If his address was up-to-date, however, then I completely agree with you. His county would have to be absolutely retarded to send license suspension notices to an address scrawled down by a cop rather than the address they have on record for his license, but it's certainly possible.
No, it's an example of elected officials doing their job poorly.
Deciding to which public services the county does and does not want to offer is a legitimate function of government. Choosing to end one is not a "punishment".
I don't know about Russia, but the US military frequently uses it's old launch vehicles (or at least the engines) for suborbital weapons tests and satellite launches. For example, the Minotaur series of rockets by Orbital Sciences use old Minuteman and Peacekeeper engines. I'm sure there are many other examples.
I see many posts recommending switching to VoIP and using Astrix. I have no experience with setting up an ISDN system, however it seems like they do everything he is asking, and he would have less to rewire going that route. Are there any simple, reasonably priced ISDN PBX boxes that would work well for this?
Scantegrity is the successor to Punchscan, developed by the same people (David Chaum et al). The only detailed analyses that I can find about their differences are behind journal paywalls like this one at the IEEE.
Have you tried Damn Small Linux It sounds like exactly what you want. It will run on a 486 with 16MB of RAM, and 50MB harddrive. It runs X, Dillo is included, and has several install methods available, not just live disks.
You know what would be really cool? If you had a rewriting-proxy that would occasionally insert a cartoon spy in pages that could be unsafe, reminding/warning them about what could have happened. For example if they submitted a form with a password, and it wasn't encrypted, the spy could pop up and say "This password is unprotected, and could be snooped. Be sure not to use the same password for anything important!", and then have buttons the users could click to submit the form anyway or cancel. If they arrived on a form from a link (refer is set) you could insert the spy, reminding them to check that the URL is correct and not a phishing site, and to always type the URL for important sites, like banks.
Situational reminders like this (if not overdone) would do more to create an atmosphere of caution and thoughtfulness then a yearly presentation would.
The NASA Centennial Challenge Powered Beaming competition, to develop technology for uses such as a space elevator, or to power a rover in a shadowed creator on the moon, was delayed indefinitely due to trouble setting up the kilometer high race track.
Yes, well they should have known that you can't build Barad-dûr in a day.
Yeah, as alain's post points out, he admits himself that he granted Apress an exclusive contract.
It really rubs me the wrong way when authors/artists encourage people to pirate their material. You are asking me to do something illegal and take on risk of being sued, but you aren't willing to put it up online yourself? You are feeling rebellious because you are having second thoughts about the contract that you signed, but you want me to be the one that rebels? How about no. Pirating your material is no different to me than pirating any random major label artist. I'd rather support authors/artists who were willing to take the risk to self-publish, and provide legal means for me to support them directly without enriching the middle-men.
I've used some classified DoD networks before, and they are certainly managed differently, almost more like a circuit-switched network than packet-switched. You have to apply way in advance to get bandwidth allocated on them, declaring in advance your endpoints, and then if approved you are guaranteed that bandwidth. They have to be very underutilized as a result of this, so introducing some reasonable QoS that would allow folks to use up the spare bandwidth sounds like like a much needed improvement.
I'm not a network engineer, so I have no idea if a new network protocol is needed, or if an existing protocol like TCP/IP or SONET would suit their needs.
Would it?
Mars has an aphelion (maximum distance from sun) of 250 Gm, and the Earth has an aphelion of 150 Gm. So when the sun is occluding their line of sight, they are on opposite sides of the sun and are separated by at most 400 Gm. If you had a satellite in the Earth's L4 or L5 point, then this would form a 150,350,400 Gm triangle with Mars. Thus the total signal distance would be 500 Gm. This would add 100 Gm, increasing the transit time by 5.5 minutes (from 22.2 to 27.7 minutes). Not as good as the solution presented but not twice as long.
Placing these in the Earth's orbit, rather than Mars', would have the added advantage of solving the solar occlusion problem for anything we send out into the solar system, not just for things on Mars.
See what my point is now?
No, I don't see your point. Just because it is a stupid idea to remove the useful inner slashes doesn't make it a bad idea to remove the redundant leading slashes.
Actually, the article has a link to a map showing the actual location of the site NE of Clovis.
No, his calculation is correct. Given constant acceleration:
v = a*t
d = 1/2*a*t^2 (by integrating above)
d = 1/2*v*t (by combining above)
t = d/(v/2) (solving for t)
so plugging in the values for when the payload leaves the muzzle you get the time at which the payload leaves the muzzle, which is exactly what he did.
The summary and the official response say the same damn thing. Furthermore, if you would have RTFA, you would know that it quotes the official statement that every one is posting, giving a paragraph by paragraph critique of how it does not refute anything, just tries to spin it nicely for the stockholders.
NVIDIA currently has no plans to create any new AMD or Intel chipsets after the ION2. Period.
That has absolutely nothing to do with the story in question. It is a refutation to the ridiculous claim that "Nvidia is abandoning the entire high end and mid-range graphics market".
The vast majority of our antitrust laws only apply to companies that are monopolies. Apple is most definitely not a monopoly. The DOJ is arguing that IBM does have a monopoly in the mainframe market, but I don't buy it. I think HP's mainframe sales alone are high enough to show that, and they aren't the only competitor in the field.
No, when I am looking for something and can't find it, it is usually in the refrigerator. My unconscious brain seems to consider that to be the safe place to put things when I'm not thinking about what I'm doing :)
Posting to remove accidental moderation. Fucking brain-dead piece of shit interface.
Hehe:) For those that are interested, they still have a InfoElect case study from 2006 posted on their site, which I believe was the the precursor to TradElect.
That's interesting. If you were checking with a newer version of uTorrent, you may have been using UDP, and not TCP. They added UDP capability about a year ago, and I assume others have as well. I don't know if they do error correction on a per-packet basis or rely on block checksums.
Which really makes me question whether these results have any validity outside of google. The study found that the majority of errors appeared to be related to the motherboard, but didn't list any information about the motherboards in use. If they are all custom built for google, then there is absolutely no way for any of us to know whether the error rate they exhibited is representative of what you'd get from average COTS server-grade motherboards currently on the market. Thus these results are meaningless to anyone who uses different motherboards, ie everyone but google.
I don't know how it would compare to solar, but according to a report I read about here, painting roofs white was one of the least cost-effective forms of geoengineering options that they studies (see second page).
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Imagine a speech audio signal.
If you were to just compress the signal in time, the rate of speech would increase, but the frequency (pitch) would as well - it would sound like a chipmunk. This is what a simple resampling program would do.
On the other hand if you were to just frequency-shift the signal (say by heterodyning) then the rate of speech would be the same, but the pitch would change. This is what pitch-correction programs do.
If you do both in series and in opposite directions so the cancel, then the pitch remains the same but rate of speech is now increased. This is what fast playback programs (say for audio books) do.
The researchers figured out how to do the last to light using simple lenses. This could be useful because you can send the data down the same channel (like a frequency multiplexed fiber) as the original signal was intended for.