In the last days of this congressional session, our elected reps faced two urgent spending requests. One was for ongoing combat in Afghanistan. The other was to keep several thousand public school teachers from being laid off in the fall. One of those got funded.
They should have both been defeated. It's not my responsibility to pay for California's expensive regulatory regime (which drives up the cost of their teachers' salaries).
This is similar to how some homeowners associations have attempted to regulate their members with regards to satellite dishes...they legally can't
That's actually pretty crummy law, with a positive benefit. Congress shouldn't be interfering with private contracts (and HOA members shouldn't be signing crummy contracts).
LTE doesn't use CDMA modulation, but regardless of how it works or what modulation it does use, it is STILL a data packet add-on to the UMTS standard. It is NOT a replacement to UMTS. Verizon is the one finally switching to UMTS
If I understand it correctly, with Verizon on LTE, they won't actually use the UMTS part, just the LTE part, and route all voice traffic over IP. And, yeah, I forget the modulation name, but it's an advance beyond CDMA or WCDMA.
primary drawback/limit on practical superconductors, namely the need for cyrogenic liquids.
And even then, sometimes it's worth the cost of refrigeration, if the current is high enough. The same calculation would be done and push cooled power transmission probably out to the last mile, I'd guess. Certainly any big industrial plant with 3-phase would be signing up.
Perhaps a ZFS-like filesystem would be ideal for this.
It does all but the last layer already (they use system RAM, not DRAM on the drive, it's on the right side of the bus). I'm building machines with L2ARC on MLC and ZIL on SLC SSD's.
I think they're working on the last layer. You can wing it with shell scripts currently.
Of course, I expect my door to be knocked down before I get a chance to do that.
Right, or maybe not even "no knock" warrants are the "new normal" after the USA PATRIOT Act. An anonymous tip that says you're a pot dealer is enough for you to get the terrorist treatment.
What stops me from cutting someone off who pissed me off in traffic, jumping out, drawing, and saying "i'm a cop"? My sanity.
I suspect all home invasion/murders start with "Police!" as they break and enter. Nothing like a complacent victim, and there will be no witnesses to add "impersonating an officer" to first degree murder and breaking and entering.
That's what we call an authentication system that's hopelessly b0rked.
Does your reasoning apply to those famous amendments in the US constitution?
Next time you're at the computer, get on the Internet, go to Wikipedia. When you get to Wikipedia, in the search field for Wikipedia, I want you to type in "Japanese Americans 1942" and you'll find out all about your precious fucking rights, Okay? -George Carlin
into a corporatist fascism where big corporations provide everything that the government is supposed to
Big corporations can't exist without a government propping them up. They didn't exist in the US until JD Rockefeller bribed Congress in the 1870's to allow Standard Oil.
You're right about the problems and symptoms, and in your forecast - but it's the root cause that needs addressing.
This is obviously abusing a semi-monopoly to conduct price gouging, and the government should intervene.
Cute. The way this usually works is government grants monopolies to utilities, excuses that act as being 'natural', and then its members rake in campaign contributions from those utilities while being free to fleece their customers.
In New Hampshire White Mountains, the Application Mountain Club was renovating a cabin, two miles up a mountain from the trail-head. The State made them put a handicapped ramp on the front of it. And the materials are all carried in by humans.
To celebrate this achievement of the ADA some wheelchair-bound person had himself carried up to the cabin so he could roll up and down it. This is why people hate the ADA and why it hurts handicapped people. Penn & Teller's Bullshit! episode has a good treatment of the subject.
How expensive will these be? Will they be more expensive or not then needles? If more expensive, then it would mean almost nothing, except extra cost. If less expensive, then it could mean that people with a much lower training will be able to hand them out in many poor regions in the world.
My daughter got jabbed in the leg for some inoculation when she was two and shocked the hell out of the nurse when she grabbed the hypodermic needle and tried to yank it out. She bruised her quad nicely, and we're not the type to go casting false blame, but the cost calculation probably needs to include injuries (say she nicked an artery instead) and litigious folk.
what Americans have been calling "rights" all these years were really privileges that the ruling party/authority could remove from an individual or group at will.
There are two things. One is Natural Rights. You have a right to your life, your body, your property, self-ownership, etc. People in funny costumes can do bad things to you, even kill you, but they can't take away your natural rights (only infringe them).
The other is what a State claims to recognize as checks on infringing your natural rights. This is something like the Bill of Rights. To deconstruct, it says, "We are the organized use of violence against people, but we'll promise to be nice in the following areas - won't you agree to subject yourself to our rules?"
As usual, George Carlin nailed it when he said of Governments, You Have No Rights.
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In the last days of this congressional session, our elected reps faced two urgent spending requests. One was for ongoing combat in Afghanistan. The other was to keep several thousand public school teachers from being laid off in the fall. One of those got funded.
They should have both been defeated. It's not my responsibility to pay for California's expensive regulatory regime (which drives up the cost of their teachers' salaries).
It's all part of the Connector Conspiracy.
You're complaining about a plethora of cables on an article about a one-cable-to-rule-them-all technology, and calling 'conspiracy'?
I too have a closet full of obsolete cables and would like to put that dark-alley of technology behind me.
Also, as a person with huge hands, I can tell you that size matters a lot in terms of too much/too little grip.
This. The next person who squeezes my four fingers instead of shaking hands is getting a quick ass kicking.
This is similar to how some homeowners associations have attempted to regulate their members with regards to satellite dishes...they legally can't
That's actually pretty crummy law, with a positive benefit. Congress shouldn't be interfering with private contracts (and HOA members shouldn't be signing crummy contracts).
LTE doesn't use CDMA modulation, but regardless of how it works or what modulation it does use, it is STILL a data packet add-on to the UMTS standard. It is NOT a replacement to UMTS. Verizon is the one finally switching to UMTS
If I understand it correctly, with Verizon on LTE, they won't actually use the UMTS part, just the LTE part, and route all voice traffic over IP. And, yeah, I forget the modulation name, but it's an advance beyond CDMA or WCDMA.
I would shoot them. And not with a heat gun.
pneumatic harpoon, one would presume.
primary drawback/limit on practical superconductors, namely the need for cyrogenic liquids.
And even then, sometimes it's worth the cost of refrigeration, if the current is high enough. The same calculation would be done and push cooled power transmission probably out to the last mile, I'd guess. Certainly any big industrial plant with 3-phase would be signing up.
Perhaps a ZFS-like filesystem would be ideal for this.
It does all but the last layer already (they use system RAM, not DRAM on the drive, it's on the right side of the bus). I'm building machines with L2ARC on MLC and ZIL on SLC SSD's.
I think they're working on the last layer. You can wing it with shell scripts currently.
Of course, I expect my door to be knocked down before I get a chance to do that.
Right, or maybe not even "no knock" warrants are the "new normal" after the USA PATRIOT Act. An anonymous tip that says you're a pot dealer is enough for you to get the terrorist treatment.
Join the NRA
The NRA should be dead to anybody who values rights after their support of the DISCLOSE Act. GOA would be a better option.
16 years in the "pound me in the ass" real prison
The popular parlance is now "rape cages".
What stops me from cutting someone off who pissed me off in traffic, jumping out, drawing, and saying "i'm a cop"? My sanity.
I suspect all home invasion/murders start with "Police!" as they break and enter. Nothing like a complacent victim, and there will be no witnesses to add "impersonating an officer" to first degree murder and breaking and entering.
That's what we call an authentication system that's hopelessly b0rked.
I live in the People's Republic of New York -- people have been known to lose their pistol licenses here for having firearms stolen.
Oh, my condolences. Yes, I see the problem, esp. if UPS can't be counted on to honor its agreements.
That could have ended very badly.....
It was shipped loaded?
Does your reasoning apply to those famous amendments in the US constitution?
into a corporatist fascism where big corporations provide everything that the government is supposed to
Big corporations can't exist without a government propping them up. They didn't exist in the US until JD Rockefeller bribed Congress in the 1870's to allow Standard Oil.
You're right about the problems and symptoms, and in your forecast - but it's the root cause that needs addressing.
This is obviously abusing a semi-monopoly to conduct price gouging, and the government should intervene.
Cute. The way this usually works is government grants monopolies to utilities, excuses that act as being 'natural', and then its members rake in campaign contributions from those utilities while being free to fleece their customers.
I get computers for the school staff for $90 apiece at http://www.techcentercomputers.com/ [techcentercomputers.com] P4, 512MB, 80GB, XP.
I recently shut off an old P4 I had just doing asterisk (I virtualized it onto another machine) and my electricity bill was reduced by $42/mo.
I stopped there, but I bet if I'd kept studying I would discover I was taught simplified BS in university as well.
I think you keep going until you figure out nobody really has any idea what's going on.
Apple decided to make external, conductive antennas on the body of a portable device. This, by any measure, is fucking retarded.
So, a couple swipes of clear nail polish ought to take care of it then?
What, you mean the framers didn't intend for it to be used to regulate the growing of wheat and cannabis for personal consumption? Say it isn't so!
Kudos on the Wickard v. Filburn reference. Your fans appreciate the effort. :)
CopyFree is the way to go.
I took a look at the link. It says it's not copyright or copyleft and then links a bunch of licenses that require copyright for their utility.
What did I miss?
In New Hampshire White Mountains, the Application Mountain Club was renovating a cabin, two miles up a mountain from the trail-head. The State made them put a handicapped ramp on the front of it. And the materials are all carried in by humans.
To celebrate this achievement of the ADA some wheelchair-bound person had himself carried up to the cabin so he could roll up and down it. This is why people hate the ADA and why it hurts handicapped people. Penn & Teller's Bullshit! episode has a good treatment of the subject.
How expensive will these be? Will they be more expensive or not then needles? If more expensive, then it would mean almost nothing, except extra cost. If less expensive, then it could mean that people with a much lower training will be able to hand them out in many poor regions in the world.
My daughter got jabbed in the leg for some inoculation when she was two and shocked the hell out of the nurse when she grabbed the hypodermic needle and tried to yank it out. She bruised her quad nicely, and we're not the type to go casting false blame, but the cost calculation probably needs to include injuries (say she nicked an artery instead) and litigious folk.
what Americans have been calling "rights" all these years were really privileges that the ruling party/authority could remove from an individual or group at will.
There are two things. One is Natural Rights. You have a right to your life, your body, your property, self-ownership, etc. People in funny costumes can do bad things to you, even kill you, but they can't take away your natural rights (only infringe them).
The other is what a State claims to recognize as checks on infringing your natural rights. This is something like the Bill of Rights. To deconstruct, it says, "We are the organized use of violence against people, but we'll promise to be nice in the following areas - won't you agree to subject yourself to our rules?"
As usual, George Carlin nailed it when he said of Governments, You Have No Rights.