And if you want to use stats on gun violence...take out the damned suicide numbers. If people want to off themselves, they will.
They actually won't. The higher you make the barriers to someone offing themselves, the less likely they are to do it. Suicidal person walks out onto a bridge to discover there's a high barrier preventing them from jumping off? They're not terribly likely to walk to another bridge and try again.
For better or worse, most suicides are spur of the moment things. It's not like in the movies where someone leaves behind a note and does all this pre-planning, it's just a moment of poor judgment and tragedy. Having a firearm easily accessible greatly increases the probability that the person attempting suicide will succeed in their endeavour.
To complain otherwise just shows that you've swallowed the tripe pedaled by the NRA and their ilk.
A gun death is a gun death, whether it's self inflicted, accidental, or intentional.
She had applied for a gun permit, but was still in process when she was killed. Gun control killed her. If she did not have to get a permit, then it could have saved her life. Why is her REAL life not as important as a hypothetical "even one life?"
It's a shitty situation all around, but statistically speaking, it's far more likely that she would have been killed with her own shiny new handgun than succeed in defending herself.
What we need to move towards is global non-discriminatory licensing for TV shows and the like, similar to what exists for music. Netflix wants to host a show? fine, they can, they just pay the rights owners a set price, same as any other streaming provider would pay. Then they can't try and force us to subscribe to multiple services in order to view the content without resorting to copyright infringement.
The browsers need to implement configuration options to bring back all the weak ciphers so we can still manage these old legacy devices.
My favourite bonehead maneuver is in Chrome. If a site doesn't conform to the latest and greatest SSL/TLS (or whatever it is, I don't care) it's internal password manager refuses to work. This encourages the use of weak passwords as they're something tha tyou can remember. Either that or an external password manager. Either way, it's particularly boneheaded because the internal password manager continues to work with non-encrypted websites. SSL 1.0 w/56bit crypto is still better than plain http with no crypto.
And before anyone gets panties in a twist, the devices I need to control are on a private VLAN that is not accessible to either my user VLANs or the public internet. But the cost of replacing them is far and beyond what our small non-profit can afford. And besides, otherwise they work perfectly fine, do their job, and are stupidly stable.
Or if his reasoning is to "make things more even"... does he even understand what the hell that means? Especially in a global economic environment. SMH on this guy's logic. Where the hell is he getting his guidance from??
Probably from the squirrel hiding as his toupe, controlling him like the rat in Ratatouille.
The first rule is to anticipate and slow down before anything could happen. The second rule is to brake. And the third is to stay on your lane. Except you have a spare lane going same direction.
And the world is rarely that clean. Random shit happens and you have to make a decision. You're on ice, your brakes don't work. Do you ram into a group of people in your lane, or do you hit the parked car? A child darts out into the road in front of you, close neough that you're not going to stop. Do you hit the kid, or go into the ditch?
Vehicles are 1500+kg of mass and momentum, they can't stop on a dime. At some point something will happen forcing the driver (be it human or computer) to make a least bad decision.
I think that would be the last public cranked phone... Non-profit I work with had a working system for inter-building communications that worked up until about 2010 or so. A bunch of alkaline batteries would last for a couple of years, and the bell was loud enough to hear over the noise of our power plant.
I've since replaced it with fiber and VOIP, with a loud mechanical ringer in the generator hall... When the power goes out, the two-way radios work just as well, as you don't have to listen to them over the turbines.
I've implemented that... But on a set of walk-in refrigerators and freezers, not on a home refrigeration system. We did this after someone left the door open, causing $2500 in ice cream to melt overnight...
In my case, though, it's implemented with one-wire sensors and a one-wire to SNMP gateway. (So yes, the refrigeration units are monitorable via SNMP, and show up in my NMS,,, I'm that kind of geek...)
So just Martha Stewart your cables... Tie them up in a bow behind the TV with some velcro straps (or zip ties if you're a heathen), and voila... a clean installation. I've got all sorts of shit going on behind my TV (Raspberri Pi to do philips ambi-light style backlighting, the backlighting itself, HDMI, Ethernet, multiple power bricks, etc...) and from the couch you can't see any of it, the TV just hangs on its mount on the wall.
My 10 or 11 y/o Sharp Aquos dumb TV has a USB port for firmware upgrades (which have never happened). It's a dumb TV. I've mostly used it to power a Wii sensor bar, which tells you how old it is.
Kepler is in solar orbit at the L2 lagrange point. There is no way it would ever be practical to bring back to earth. Instead, it will just drift out into solar orbit, and forever wander the solar system. To quote Douglas Adams, "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
In practical terms, moving an object in space, or putting it into orbit, takes propellant. Propellant has mass. Because of this, and the tyranny of the rocket equation, every spacecraft has a limited ability to change its velocity, aka delta-v. The delta-V required to de-orbit from high earth orbit, or solar orbit, is significant. The safest and most reasonable solution is that at the end of life, vent all remaining propellant and pressurant. This protects the craft from exploding, then finally blow the fuses, which prevents the craft form causing interference or causing its batteries to explode.
Kepler is pretty much worn out at this point. Aside from its lack of fuel, it's reaction wheels are long dead (this is why it's running out of fuel). The reaction wheels are what allowed it to keep itself oriented precisely. Also, it's electronics are pretty much worn out from being bombarded by cosmic radiation, its solar panels are going to be wearing out. Lastly, while it's been an incredibly valuable instrument, it's instruments have done pretty much all they can at this point.
In short, it's time to retire her and replace it with the next generation.
If I find myself cussing at the radio and/or disagreeing with them, which tends to happen on a fairly regular basis, then they're doing something right.
That's more than $23,000,000 per station. In debt. Radio stations do not cost $23,000,000.
Given the capital cost of building an HD radio transmitter, maintaining the transmitter site, the studios etc... maintaining a radio station isn't cheap either.
I dunno, my car's radio is permanently stuck on CBC Radio 1 when in Canada, or the local NPR affiliate when in the US. But then, I'm a left leaning socialist (at least based on some people's political spectrums). I enjoy the various shows for being thought provoking, topical, and exposing me to ideas and things that I often do not agree with. If I was just snarfing down podcasts, the chance of me listening through something that I don't agree with are significantly smaller. But doing that is good for my well being.
Sears another old company that is dying;) Some brick and mortar will survive in urban areas. But the real retail sales numbers will be online sales. Especially in rural America, online sales (Amazon) is the new Sears. Sears could have done it, but they did not see that vision of an online future. Like most entrenched old players. They got to comfortable. An upstart had to come in with a new vision.
The sad part is that Sears should have cleaned up when it came to the Internet. They had all the pieces to become what Amazon is today. Back in the days of yore, they had one of the most impressive computing systems to run their inventory management/prediction/ordering of any retail corporation. They also ran one of the early online services, Prodigy (along with IBM).
And then, they rested on their laurels, and suffered the fate that they have. If anything, they should have converted their catalog system to the Internet, and started to shutter their retail operations. But they didn't.
So I've actually been to Gitmo... The biggest issue they had with the prisoners there was what to do with them. Congress would not allow them to enter the US, and the US military/government would not send them to a country that would disappear/kill/torture them. For example, when I was there they had a fairly large group of Chinese Huygers (sp?) They knew were guilty of nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yet they were stuck at Gitmo because they couldn't be brought to the us, and they couldn't be sent back to China. These people were effectively stateless through the actions of the us government. So they were in limbo.
Eventually I believe a south American country accepted them but they were stuck there for years.
Hanns Scharff was one of the most successful interrogators of the second world war. Working for the Luftwaffe, he interrogated VIPs, captured American fighter aces and other high value prisoners. He could basically get what ever he wanted, without ever laying a finger on his subject or otherwise coercing them. It all came down to forming a relationship and getting someone to talk.
I'm in the same boat. I run limited bandwidth (read satellite) links out to a couple of remote sites that have no other option for connectivity. The advent of HTTPS everywhere has hurt the system performance dramatically. It used to be that my WAAS (or before that, squid proxy) could do a fantastic job of caching content locally, especially things like facebook. In tight knit communities, there's far more shared content than you'd think. Anyhow, now about 60% of the traffic is https, which I can do nothing to accelerate.
Yes, on the machines that I control, I could install my own root CA and then MITM everything, but that's a can of worms that I really don't want to open. All the exemptions for things like banking, medical insurance, and so on and so forth...
All of this so that people can encrypt their cat videos and other frivolous things that don't need it.
It's far more common that the Internet connection is down, then it goes into offline mode where instead of the regular receipt it spits out a bill that I sign on, at least that's the way it works here in Norway
Here, in my part of Canada, if the retailer/restaurant’s internet connection goes down, the hand-held terminals just flip over to 3G or GPRS wireless, and conduct the transaction through the cellular network.
Oh hell no. So-called “self-documenting code” isn’t. You can write the most comprehensible, clear code in the history of mankind, and that’s still not good enough.
The issue is that your code only documents what the code is doing, not what it is supposed to be doing. You wouldn’t believe how many subtle issues I’ve come across over the decades where on the face of it everything should have been good, but in reality the code was behaving slightly differently than what was intended.
I've watched the police catch people at the corner of Boundary and Canada way. One officer sitting upstairs in the Starbucks watching the road and the other ones just out of sight bellow.
The issue with using your device while stopped at a red light is one of situational awareness. You come to a stop, place your foot firmly on the brake, and switch your focus to futzing with your device. When you shift your focus, you lose situational awareness. There light turns, the impatient guy behind you honks. Quick: what is the status of the intersection?
Cost shouldn't be an issue. Broadcast equipment typically costs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. The addition of a few dollars for a GPU with hardware h.264 encode (now commonly found on phones and tablets) would be trivial.
Yes, but commercial broadcasters are allergic to capital expenditures. I used to work for a company that built flyaway satellite uplinks that could do live TV broadcasts in real time via satellite. They weren't cheap, on the order of $150,000. Anyhow, we were trying to sell one to one of the national broadcasters covering the war in Afghanistan. We pointed out that currently, their on-site crew would produce a package, and then upload it via Inmarsat BGAN. It would cost some $5000, and take 4 hours, to uplink a 2 minute story. Conversely, with our system, they could buy 30 minutes of OU from the satellite operator, uplink their story, and do a live hit with the anchor desk, all for $250.
It took them almost a year to finally work up the authorization to spend the $150k on our system, but their management had no trouble spending the even larger amount on operational expenses for the old one.
Once they finally did buy it, it paid for itself in under a month. And that doesn't include the additional revenue they got from renting it out to the rest of the press pool.
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And if you want to use stats on gun violence...take out the damned suicide numbers. If people want to off themselves, they will.
They actually won't. The higher you make the barriers to someone offing themselves, the less likely they are to do it. Suicidal person walks out onto a bridge to discover there's a high barrier preventing them from jumping off? They're not terribly likely to walk to another bridge and try again.
For better or worse, most suicides are spur of the moment things. It's not like in the movies where someone leaves behind a note and does all this pre-planning, it's just a moment of poor judgment and tragedy. Having a firearm easily accessible greatly increases the probability that the person attempting suicide will succeed in their endeavour.
To complain otherwise just shows that you've swallowed the tripe pedaled by the NRA and their ilk.
A gun death is a gun death, whether it's self inflicted, accidental, or intentional.
She had applied for a gun permit, but was still in process when she was killed. Gun control killed her. If she did not have to get a permit, then it could have saved her life. Why is her REAL life not as important as a hypothetical "even one life?"
It's a shitty situation all around, but statistically speaking, it's far more likely that she would have been killed with her own shiny new handgun than succeed in defending herself.
What we need to move towards is global non-discriminatory licensing for TV shows and the like, similar to what exists for music. Netflix wants to host a show? fine, they can, they just pay the rights owners a set price, same as any other streaming provider would pay. Then they can't try and force us to subscribe to multiple services in order to view the content without resorting to copyright infringement.
The browsers need to implement configuration options to bring back all the weak ciphers so we can still manage these old legacy devices.
My favourite bonehead maneuver is in Chrome. If a site doesn't conform to the latest and greatest SSL/TLS (or whatever it is, I don't care) it's internal password manager refuses to work. This encourages the use of weak passwords as they're something tha tyou can remember. Either that or an external password manager. Either way, it's particularly boneheaded because the internal password manager continues to work with non-encrypted websites. SSL 1.0 w/56bit crypto is still better than plain http with no crypto.
And before anyone gets panties in a twist, the devices I need to control are on a private VLAN that is not accessible to either my user VLANs or the public internet. But the cost of replacing them is far and beyond what our small non-profit can afford. And besides, otherwise they work perfectly fine, do their job, and are stupidly stable.
Or if his reasoning is to "make things more even"... does he even understand what the hell that means? Especially in a global economic environment. SMH on this guy's logic. Where the hell is he getting his guidance from??
Probably from the squirrel hiding as his toupe, controlling him like the rat in Ratatouille.
The first rule is to anticipate and slow down before anything could happen.
The second rule is to brake.
And the third is to stay on your lane. Except you have a spare lane going same direction.
And the world is rarely that clean. Random shit happens and you have to make a decision. You're on ice, your brakes don't work. Do you ram into a group of people in your lane, or do you hit the parked car? A child darts out into the road in front of you, close neough that you're not going to stop. Do you hit the kid, or go into the ditch?
Vehicles are 1500+kg of mass and momentum, they can't stop on a dime. At some point something will happen forcing the driver (be it human or computer) to make a least bad decision.
I think that would be the last public cranked phone... Non-profit I work with had a working system for inter-building communications that worked up until about 2010 or so. A bunch of alkaline batteries would last for a couple of years, and the bell was loud enough to hear over the noise of our power plant.
I've since replaced it with fiber and VOIP, with a loud mechanical ringer in the generator hall... When the power goes out, the two-way radios work just as well, as you don't have to listen to them over the turbines.
I've implemented that... But on a set of walk-in refrigerators and freezers, not on a home refrigeration system. We did this after someone left the door open, causing $2500 in ice cream to melt overnight...
In my case, though, it's implemented with one-wire sensors and a one-wire to SNMP gateway. (So yes, the refrigeration units are monitorable via SNMP, and show up in my NMS,,, I'm that kind of geek...)
So just Martha Stewart your cables... Tie them up in a bow behind the TV with some velcro straps (or zip ties if you're a heathen), and voila... a clean installation. I've got all sorts of shit going on behind my TV (Raspberri Pi to do philips ambi-light style backlighting, the backlighting itself, HDMI, Ethernet, multiple power bricks, etc...) and from the couch you can't see any of it, the TV just hangs on its mount on the wall.
What dumb TV comes with USB ports?
My 10 or 11 y/o Sharp Aquos dumb TV has a USB port for firmware upgrades (which have never happened). It's a dumb TV. I've mostly used it to power a Wii sensor bar, which tells you how old it is.
Kepler is in solar orbit at the L2 lagrange point. There is no way it would ever be practical to bring back to earth. Instead, it will just drift out into solar orbit, and forever wander the solar system. To quote Douglas Adams, "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
In practical terms, moving an object in space, or putting it into orbit, takes propellant. Propellant has mass. Because of this, and the tyranny of the rocket equation, every spacecraft has a limited ability to change its velocity, aka delta-v. The delta-V required to de-orbit from high earth orbit, or solar orbit, is significant. The safest and most reasonable solution is that at the end of life, vent all remaining propellant and pressurant. This protects the craft from exploding, then finally blow the fuses, which prevents the craft form causing interference or causing its batteries to explode.
Kepler is pretty much worn out at this point. Aside from its lack of fuel, it's reaction wheels are long dead (this is why it's running out of fuel). The reaction wheels are what allowed it to keep itself oriented precisely. Also, it's electronics are pretty much worn out from being bombarded by cosmic radiation, its solar panels are going to be wearing out. Lastly, while it's been an incredibly valuable instrument, it's instruments have done pretty much all they can at this point.
In short, it's time to retire her and replace it with the next generation.
If I find myself cussing at the radio and/or disagreeing with them, which tends to happen on a fairly regular basis, then they're doing something right.
That's more than $23,000,000 per station. In debt. Radio stations do not cost $23,000,000.
Given the capital cost of building an HD radio transmitter, maintaining the transmitter site, the studios etc... maintaining a radio station isn't cheap either.
I dunno, my car's radio is permanently stuck on CBC Radio 1 when in Canada, or the local NPR affiliate when in the US. But then, I'm a left leaning socialist (at least based on some people's political spectrums). I enjoy the various shows for being thought provoking, topical, and exposing me to ideas and things that I often do not agree with. If I was just snarfing down podcasts, the chance of me listening through something that I don't agree with are significantly smaller. But doing that is good for my well being.
Sears another old company that is dying ;) Some brick and mortar will survive in urban areas. But the real retail sales numbers will be online sales. Especially in rural America, online sales (Amazon) is the new Sears. Sears could have done it, but they did not see that vision of an online future. Like most entrenched old players. They got to comfortable. An upstart had to come in with a new vision.
The sad part is that Sears should have cleaned up when it came to the Internet. They had all the pieces to become what Amazon is today. Back in the days of yore, they had one of the most impressive computing systems to run their inventory management/prediction/ordering of any retail corporation. They also ran one of the early online services, Prodigy (along with IBM).
And then, they rested on their laurels, and suffered the fate that they have. If anything, they should have converted their catalog system to the Internet, and started to shutter their retail operations. But they didn't.
So I've actually been to Gitmo... The biggest issue they had with the prisoners there was what to do with them. Congress would not allow them to enter the US, and the US military/government would not send them to a country that would disappear/kill/torture them. For example, when I was there they had a fairly large group of Chinese Huygers (sp?) They knew were guilty of nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yet they were stuck at Gitmo because they couldn't be brought to the us, and they couldn't be sent back to China. These people were effectively stateless through the actions of the us government. So they were in limbo.
Eventually I believe a south American country accepted them but they were stuck there for years.
Hanns Scharff was one of the most successful interrogators of the second world war. Working for the Luftwaffe, he interrogated VIPs, captured American fighter aces and other high value prisoners. He could basically get what ever he wanted, without ever laying a finger on his subject or otherwise coercing them. It all came down to forming a relationship and getting someone to talk.
I'm in the same boat. I run limited bandwidth (read satellite) links out to a couple of remote sites that have no other option for connectivity. The advent of HTTPS everywhere has hurt the system performance dramatically. It used to be that my WAAS (or before that, squid proxy) could do a fantastic job of caching content locally, especially things like facebook. In tight knit communities, there's far more shared content than you'd think. Anyhow, now about 60% of the traffic is https, which I can do nothing to accelerate.
Yes, on the machines that I control, I could install my own root CA and then MITM everything, but that's a can of worms that I really don't want to open. All the exemptions for things like banking, medical insurance, and so on and so forth...
All of this so that people can encrypt their cat videos and other frivolous things that don't need it.
It's far more common that the Internet connection is down, then it goes into offline mode where instead of the regular receipt it spits out a bill that I sign on, at least that's the way it works here in Norway
Here, in my part of Canada, if the retailer/restaurant’s internet connection goes down, the hand-held terminals just flip over to 3G or GPRS wireless, and conduct the transaction through the cellular network.
Oh hell no. So-called “self-documenting code” isn’t. You can write the most comprehensible, clear code in the history of mankind, and that’s still not good enough.
The issue is that your code only documents what the code is doing, not what it is supposed to be doing. You wouldn’t believe how many subtle issues I’ve come across over the decades where on the face of it everything should have been good, but in reality the code was behaving slightly differently than what was intended.
That’s why restaurants use portable card terminals. The card never leaves your sight.
I've watched the police catch people at the corner of Boundary and Canada way. One officer sitting upstairs in the Starbucks watching the road and the other ones just out of sight bellow.
The issue with using your device while stopped at a red light is one of situational awareness. You come to a stop, place your foot firmly on the brake, and switch your focus to futzing with your device. When you shift your focus, you lose situational awareness. There light turns, the impatient guy behind you honks. Quick: what is the status of the intersection?
Also, adds served from domains outside the main source of the page. if you're going to send me adverts, at least serve them yourself.
Cost shouldn't be an issue. Broadcast equipment typically costs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. The addition of a few dollars for a GPU with hardware h.264 encode (now commonly found on phones and tablets) would be trivial.
Yes, but commercial broadcasters are allergic to capital expenditures. I used to work for a company that built flyaway satellite uplinks that could do live TV broadcasts in real time via satellite. They weren't cheap, on the order of $150,000. Anyhow, we were trying to sell one to one of the national broadcasters covering the war in Afghanistan. We pointed out that currently, their on-site crew would produce a package, and then upload it via Inmarsat BGAN. It would cost some $5000, and take 4 hours, to uplink a 2 minute story. Conversely, with our system, they could buy 30 minutes of OU from the satellite operator, uplink their story, and do a live hit with the anchor desk, all for $250.
It took them almost a year to finally work up the authorization to spend the $150k on our system, but their management had no trouble spending the even larger amount on operational expenses for the old one.
Once they finally did buy it, it paid for itself in under a month. And that doesn't include the additional revenue they got from renting it out to the rest of the press pool.