The well-meaning "If we can save just one child!" is the squishy soft underbelly of a police state.
I actually met a chemistry teacher in the 80s who sprinkled the lab floor with explosive crystals so they would pop underfoot the first day of class -- and had a kid go home and fatally blow himself up making his own batch. Placing personal responsibility isn't entirely clear when dealing with kids. But it isn't like nobody has died in high school sports either, is it? Maybe the formula is something like the greater good of society weighed against the occasional loss of the _foolishly_ adventurous?
Seems like the main point. They might be right but it is propaganda because it is insignificant. We throw all sorts of cycle gobblers at the system these days because the hardware can handle it.
Or maybe they are just making the preemptive vapor-claim that Office on Vista will be _so_ much more responsive than OO.org on linux?
Being one of those who thinks hydrogen is a shuck -- an energy storage medium instead of an energy source -- my initial thought was about how much more energy is consumed as overhead creating, charging and transporting the extra weight of this "refined" storage medium.
But, yes. My second thought was noting that after the hydrogen has been sucked out of the medium, you are left with a tank of hi-tech doped glass -- and the article doesn't get into the excretion side of things.
Presumably, before you next fill up at the station, you have to take a dump. And the medium has to be transported back for recharging or proper disposal. And it better be recharging. How large would the disposal facility become if every tank of "gas" used by the nation created a tank of worthless glass? If it is recharged -- how many times can it be recharged before it becomes a tank of worthless glass?
Just another article that adds weight to my feeling that hydrogen is a con.
The article also comes off as insincere fearmongering about the explosive danger of hydrogen. 35 of 97 people died on the Hindenburg -- mostly from jumping. Compare that with:
"As dozens of scorched corpses awaited collection, grim-faced rescue workers swung others into a mass grave.
Gasoline gushing from a ruptured pipeline exploded Friday as villagers scavenged for fuel, setting off an inferno that killed up to 200 people in this oil-rich country of mostly poor people. It appeared some victims tried to flee the unfolding disaster only to be overtaken by flames spreading across the fuel slick.
More than 1,000 people in Nigeria, Africa's oil giant, have died in recent years when fuel they were pilfering from pipelines caught fire - and officials said it would likely happen again."
To paraphrase Richard Nixon, "When the corporation does it, it is not a crime." My first thought was that this wouldn't pass the smell test with the attorney general of our state.
This again offers the advantage of making it hard to find senior leadership while it has the disadvantage of not allowing them to utilize their assets in a centralized manner which would be far more efficient and effective.
I agree with the advantage of decentralization but I'm not sure I agree with the advantage of centralization. This was a rather shallow and narrow in-the-field article demonstrating some of the limitations of particular tech. Isn't this just an example of the overall philosophy of micromanaging from the top? Didn't work for Hitler in the last days, isn't working for Rumsfeld. Total information awareness throws its allegiance toward some fascist vision of all-knowing centralization and targeted action resulting from it. As such, it discounts the effectiveness of grass-roots freedom fighters: their structure, procedures, supply and support and knowledge of the home field.
A few other analogies come to mind like, "If they can't keep drugs out of prisons, how are they going to keep them out of society?" Look at the World War II example of Colditz Castle, the inspiration for Hogan's Heroes (really). German concentration camp for officer POWs and the prisoners had keys to every room, were brewing hooch and building radios, had tunnels and false rooms. A guy was building a glider in the attic. Some walked out in mock german uniforms.
For my tax dollars, the idea that 150,000 soldiers could occupy and pacify an area larger than California was insanity -- literally a disconnect from reality. A naivete of history, geography, culture and tactics that Rumsfeld is directly responsible for. More like Total Wisdom Lack instead of Total Information Awareness. And, yes, we can see that wifi wasn't a big enough advantage to compensate.
Not only has the shuttle failure highlighted the reliability of Russian conventional booster technology, the political situation seems to be helping the ESA align themselves more with Russia than the U.S. And that makes some geographical sense.
The suggestion of interbreeding was met with skepticism by paleontologists, who said they had trouble imagining a successful breeding between early human ancestors, which walked upright, and the chimpanzee ancestors, which walked on all fours.
If they're lucky they'll stay that way and nobody will tell them about usenet alt.binaries.
But since it was a $110 million project anyway, couldn't the software have been tested in simulation first?
I understand the article says:
"Unbeknownst to engineers at the time, DART's main sensor mistakenly believed it was flying away from the satellite when it was actually moving 5 feet per second toward it, investigators found."
1. Is this just sloppy writing blaming a piece of hardware for a software problem?
2. If the sensor contained significant logic, would it have been that hard to test whether it correctly registered retreat and advancement?
3. Or an interface screwup between the main program and the sensor logic like confusing yards and meters? (And no test of the complete system?)
In any case it might well demonstrate the results when you shoot something up and see what happens without development adequate to the complexity.
First I tried a basic Fedora 1 install because that is where the conjunction of the driver for the HDTV card and the manufacturer's drivers for my motherboard accessories coincide.
The pcHDTV 3000 linux card came with three 8-1/2x11 pages of 12 point "documentation". It says to try the signal scan programs on/dev/dtv which should be linked to/dev/dtv0-4. And when none of those work, it doesn't tell you what to do except go to the blogs. And they didn't work.
Wiped it and said to heck with the accessories. Put in net, sound and video cards and tried KnoppMyth. Chose pcHDTV card in the setup since I have a pcHDTV 3000. Unlike other settings where it reported no device, it seemed happy with/dev/video0 which coincided with a FAQ I found on the web.
Signal scan? Nothing.
"Someplace" on the web I found a faq detailing one person's install that said to try/dev/video32. "Video32" is sort of a "WTF?", isn't it, since why in the world video32 as opposed to video0-31 or video33-whatever? On KnoppMyth, nothing. Reinstalled Fedora 1. Son-of-a-gun, dtvscan sprung to life and all my local channels are there on/dev/video32.
Now, Fedora 1 with a 2.4 kernel and Xine isn't so cool and I was having some problems, so back to KnoppMyth. (But at least I knew the card worked and my local reception was strong, right?) Now I've found a FAQ that says if you have a pcHDTV3000 card, "OBVIOUSLY" you don't choose pcHDTV as your capture device with KnoppMyth, you choose DVB device, remove the cx8000 driver and reinstall the dvb driver. How stupid of me not to realize that choosing pcHDTV for a pcHDTV card was the wrong thing to do.
Now, I'm going to persevere with MythTV since I see potential there and that's the sort of "hobbyist" (_not_ consumer) I am, but _surely_ even the most rabid linux zealot can get an inkling of why at least _some_ people would say, "Screw it" and buy a Windows Media PC. A person's time _is_ worth something too.
First job I got out of college was at a "Big 10" U.S. university around a lot of student workers. I was impressed that one thing the Arab and African foreign students could agree on was that the BBC was the best news on the planet.
I don't know that the claim holds true today. Maybe not the stenographers of the U.S. media but rather muzzled under Blair. After years of evening BBC via shortwave, I'm more likely to go to the Guardian web site or a portal like Buzzflash now.
Instead of people spending all their time wondering why we aren't doing anything to stop Dubya from setting up his 1000 Year Empire, they can take a moment to think about what they are doing to stop their own countries from capitulating to everything the U.S. demands.
"I called my auto mechanic, who called a customer, who once called a lawyer friend, who represented a terrorist. So now I'm flagged as 'communicating with a terrorist'".
Maybe they can hire the people who set up Amazon's "Recommendations" to fix that.
When produce departments introduced misting in the 80s, we were in a city where the dominant chain advertising apparently thought a toothless old guy was an authentic symbol for a "real" produce manager. I will aways remember their catch phrase, "We misssst our veg't'blesssss to keep dem fresssssh!" How appealing.
In other words, aside from how cool you look walking down the street wearing it, I would suggest leaving a message to yourself with any headset to see what impression you leave. Honestly, some messages on our standalone machine are just an indecipherable cascade of white noise. I would think it was ram rot except for the occasional clear (and obviously land line?) call.
Yeah? But Fargo may one of the few places in the U.S. where you can freeze to death on a metropolitan interstate off-ramp. They started volunteer 4-wheel-drive patrols to try to avoid that sort of thing happening again.
I do question May 6 however. Weather.com says it is 61F at 10:00 a.m. in Bismarck as I write. January 6 would be more appropriate at plus or minus 0F.
I think you are right. But it just means the government will want umpteen more billions for the research and deployment of systems to sift through usenet porn for suspicious bit patterns. It would surprise me if research grants aren't already out there.
That makes me wonder whether spam with short "random" words that contain messages can fly under the radar more easily.
It isn't my impression that all of Europe is pristine. Quite the opposite, I think they have learned as people so often learn. You reach a crisis point, and if you are smart, you make an honest effort to do the right thing. And they are making many changes that deserve praise. It could be that most of the U.S. hasn't reached that crisis point and the current administration certainly promotes the idea that environmentalism isn't something to worry about and isn't worth the effort.
No doubt, it's also fair that some non-smoker who dies of lung cancer because he's been living in Manhattan and sucking down the equivalent of four packs a day can be excused for thinking air pollution is a serious issue. But I don't easily buy it that pollution would be the difference between England and the U.S.
You've got three inputs:
1. Air 2. Water 3. Food (4.) Radiation -- if you're paranoid:)
What I hear every foreigner telling us is that we're fat and our food is loaded with sugar. If I had to prioritize, I'd start there.
Why do they make the conclusion that ALL Americans are so and so, based only on selected WHITE Americans of a certain age?
Because they already know health care for blacks is atrocious. Infant mortality rates in Harlem, New York compare unfavorably to some African nations. Perhaps more research could be done, but I assume an Hispanic strawberry picker is going to have trouble scraping up the money for a visit to the doctor for antibiotics so I doubt he's in the running for a kidney transplant.
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It covers everything from IE7, to the new Windows Aero interface, to brand new games.
How pathetic.
The well-meaning "If we can save just one child!" is the squishy soft underbelly of a police state.
I actually met a chemistry teacher in the 80s who sprinkled the lab floor with explosive crystals so they would pop underfoot the first day of class -- and had a kid go home and fatally blow himself up making his own batch. Placing personal responsibility isn't entirely clear when dealing with kids. But it isn't like nobody has died in high school sports either, is it? Maybe the formula is something like the greater good of society weighed against the occasional loss of the _foolishly_ adventurous?
I really like FlightGear.org and TORCS on the sim side.
I can see talent and continuity issues in particular trying to coordinate game creation with a lot of people. But impossible?
Compare it to the fact that phone companies keep records of whom you called when. Not what you said on that phonecall.
That's the story this week. What was the story six months ago?
On the off chance that a knowledgeable admin asssitant "just did what I was told", good for you. You'll never be able to say so. ;)
Seems like the main point. They might be right but it is propaganda because it is insignificant. We throw all sorts of cycle gobblers at the system these days because the hardware can handle it.
Or maybe they are just making the preemptive vapor-claim that Office on Vista will be _so_ much more responsive than OO.org on linux?
Being one of those who thinks hydrogen is a shuck -- an energy storage medium instead of an energy source -- my initial thought was about how much more energy is consumed as overhead creating, charging and transporting the extra weight of this "refined" storage medium.
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But, yes. My second thought was noting that after the hydrogen has been sucked out of the medium, you are left with a tank of hi-tech doped glass -- and the article doesn't get into the excretion side of things.
Presumably, before you next fill up at the station, you have to take a dump. And the medium has to be transported back for recharging or proper disposal. And it better be recharging. How large would the disposal facility become if every tank of "gas" used by the nation created a tank of worthless glass? If it is recharged -- how many times can it be recharged before it becomes a tank of worthless glass?
Just another article that adds weight to my feeling that hydrogen is a con.
The article also comes off as insincere fearmongering about the explosive danger of hydrogen. 35 of 97 people died on the Hindenburg -- mostly from jumping. Compare that with:
"As dozens of scorched corpses awaited collection, grim-faced rescue workers swung others into a mass grave.
Gasoline gushing from a ruptured pipeline exploded Friday as villagers scavenged for fuel, setting off an inferno that killed up to 200 people in this oil-rich country of mostly poor people. It appeared some victims tried to flee the unfolding disaster only to be overtaken by flames spreading across the fuel slick.
More than 1,000 people in Nigeria, Africa's oil giant, have died in recent years when fuel they were pilfering from pipelines caught fire - and officials said it would likely happen again."
http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/06/05/13/100wir_
To paraphrase Richard Nixon, "When the corporation does it, it is not a crime." My first thought was that this wouldn't pass the smell test with the attorney general of our state.
The Bushes never let their evangelical posing get in the way of business with Asia.
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This again offers the advantage of making it hard to find senior leadership while it has the disadvantage of not allowing them to utilize their assets in a centralized manner which would be far more efficient and effective.
I agree with the advantage of decentralization but I'm not sure I agree with the advantage of centralization. This was a rather shallow and narrow in-the-field article demonstrating some of the limitations of particular tech. Isn't this just an example of the overall philosophy of micromanaging from the top? Didn't work for Hitler in the last days, isn't working for Rumsfeld. Total information awareness throws its allegiance toward some fascist vision of all-knowing centralization and targeted action resulting from it. As such, it discounts the effectiveness of grass-roots freedom fighters: their structure, procedures, supply and support and knowledge of the home field.
A few other analogies come to mind like, "If they can't keep drugs out of prisons, how are they going to keep them out of society?" Look at the World War II example of Colditz Castle, the inspiration for Hogan's Heroes (really). German concentration camp for officer POWs and the prisoners had keys to every room, were brewing hooch and building radios, had tunnels and false rooms. A guy was building a glider in the attic. Some walked out in mock german uniforms.
For my tax dollars, the idea that 150,000 soldiers could occupy and pacify an area larger than California was insanity -- literally a disconnect from reality. A naivete of history, geography, culture and tactics that Rumsfeld is directly responsible for. More like Total Wisdom Lack instead of Total Information Awareness. And, yes, we can see that wifi wasn't a big enough advantage to compensate.
Not only has the shuttle failure highlighted the reliability of Russian conventional booster technology, the political situation seems to be helping the ESA align themselves more with Russia than the U.S. And that makes some geographical sense.
The suggestion of interbreeding was met with skepticism by paleontologists, who said they had trouble imagining a successful breeding between early human ancestors, which walked upright, and the chimpanzee ancestors, which walked on all fours.
If they're lucky they'll stay that way and nobody will tell them about usenet alt.binaries.
But since it was a $110 million project anyway, couldn't the software have been tested in simulation first?
I understand the article says:
"Unbeknownst to engineers at the time, DART's main sensor mistakenly believed it was flying away from the satellite when it was actually moving 5 feet per second toward it, investigators found."
1. Is this just sloppy writing blaming a piece of hardware for a software problem?
2. If the sensor contained significant logic, would it have been that hard to test whether it correctly registered retreat and advancement?
3. Or an interface screwup between the main program and the sensor logic like confusing yards and meters? (And no test of the complete system?)
In any case it might well demonstrate the results when you shoot something up and see what happens without development adequate to the complexity.
You're assuming he'll still be "president" in 2015?
Bush doesn't have the curiosity to want to see the moon. And he surely isn't going to send Jenna and Barbara.
Which other providers don't work?
I mean, the news comes out that every telephone in the country is being watched -- except QWest, which refused to cooperate.
Same week Skype comes out and says all calls in the U.S. are free! Except QWest, which doesn't seem to work.
Coinkidink?
The question isn't whether you're paranoid. The question is whether you are paranoid _enough_.
I'm trying to set up an HDTV installation.
/dev/dtv which should be linked to /dev/dtv0-4. And when none of those work, it doesn't tell you what to do except go to the blogs. And they didn't work.
/dev/video0 which coincided with a FAQ I found on the web.
/dev/video32. "Video32" is sort of a "WTF?", isn't it, since why in the world video32 as opposed to video0-31 or video33-whatever? On KnoppMyth, nothing. Reinstalled Fedora 1. Son-of-a-gun, dtvscan sprung to life and all my local channels are there on /dev/video32.
First I tried a basic Fedora 1 install because that is where the conjunction of the driver for the HDTV card and the manufacturer's drivers for my motherboard accessories coincide.
The pcHDTV 3000 linux card came with three 8-1/2x11 pages of 12 point "documentation". It says to try the signal scan programs on
Wiped it and said to heck with the accessories. Put in net, sound and video cards and tried KnoppMyth. Chose pcHDTV card in the setup since I have a pcHDTV 3000. Unlike other settings where it reported no device, it seemed happy with
Signal scan? Nothing.
"Someplace" on the web I found a faq detailing one person's install that said to try
Now, Fedora 1 with a 2.4 kernel and Xine isn't so cool and I was having some problems, so back to KnoppMyth. (But at least I knew the card worked and my local reception was strong, right?) Now I've found a FAQ that says if you have a pcHDTV3000 card, "OBVIOUSLY" you don't choose pcHDTV as your capture device with KnoppMyth, you choose DVB device, remove the cx8000 driver and reinstall the dvb driver. How stupid of me not to realize that choosing pcHDTV for a pcHDTV card was the wrong thing to do.
Now, I'm going to persevere with MythTV since I see potential there and that's the sort of "hobbyist" (_not_ consumer) I am, but _surely_ even the most rabid linux zealot can get an inkling of why at least _some_ people would say, "Screw it" and buy a Windows Media PC. A person's time _is_ worth something too.
First job I got out of college was at a "Big 10" U.S. university around a lot of student workers. I was impressed that one thing the Arab and African foreign students could agree on was that the BBC was the best news on the planet.
I don't know that the claim holds true today. Maybe not the stenographers of the U.S. media but rather muzzled under Blair. After years of evening BBC via shortwave, I'm more likely to go to the Guardian web site or a portal like Buzzflash now.
I'm impressed they claimed that the HTML isn't bad.
Impressed? Hell, I've always been _amazed_ when Microsoft claimed their stuff wasn't bad.
Instead of people spending all their time wondering why we aren't doing anything to stop Dubya from setting up his 1000 Year Empire, they can take a moment to think about what they are doing to stop their own countries from capitulating to everything the U.S. demands.
"I called my auto mechanic, who called a customer, who once called a lawyer friend, who represented a terrorist. So now I'm flagged as 'communicating with a terrorist'".
Maybe they can hire the people who set up Amazon's "Recommendations" to fix that.
When produce departments introduced misting in the 80s, we were in a city where the dominant chain advertising apparently thought a toothless old guy was an authentic symbol for a "real" produce manager. I will aways remember their catch phrase, "We misssst our veg't'blesssss to keep dem fresssssh!" How appealing.
In other words, aside from how cool you look walking down the street wearing it, I would suggest leaving a message to yourself with any headset to see what impression you leave. Honestly, some messages on our standalone machine are just an indecipherable cascade of white noise. I would think it was ram rot except for the occasional clear (and obviously land line?) call.
Yeah? But Fargo may one of the few places in the U.S. where you can freeze to death on a metropolitan interstate off-ramp. They started volunteer 4-wheel-drive patrols to try to avoid that sort of thing happening again.
I do question May 6 however. Weather.com says it is 61F at 10:00 a.m. in Bismarck as I write. January 6 would be more appropriate at plus or minus 0F.
I think you are right. But it just means the government will want umpteen more billions for the research and deployment of systems to sift through usenet porn for suspicious bit patterns. It would surprise me if research grants aren't already out there.
That makes me wonder whether spam with short "random" words that contain messages can fly under the radar more easily.
It isn't my impression that all of Europe is pristine. Quite the opposite, I think they have learned as people so often learn. You reach a crisis point, and if you are smart, you make an honest effort to do the right thing. And they are making many changes that deserve praise. It could be that most of the U.S. hasn't reached that crisis point and the current administration certainly promotes the idea that environmentalism isn't something to worry about and isn't worth the effort.
:)
No doubt, it's also fair that some non-smoker who dies of lung cancer because he's been living in Manhattan and sucking down the equivalent of four packs a day can be excused for thinking air pollution is a serious issue. But I don't easily buy it that pollution would be the difference between England and the U.S.
You've got three inputs:
1. Air
2. Water
3. Food
(4.) Radiation -- if you're paranoid
What I hear every foreigner telling us is that we're fat and our food is loaded with sugar. If I had to prioritize, I'd start there.
Why do they make the conclusion that ALL Americans are so and so, based only on selected WHITE Americans of a certain age?
Because they already know health care for blacks is atrocious. Infant mortality rates in Harlem, New York compare unfavorably to some African nations. Perhaps more research could be done, but I assume an Hispanic strawberry picker is going to have trouble scraping up the money for a visit to the doctor for antibiotics so I doubt he's in the running for a kidney transplant.