I also got the opposite reaction from the summary. IE with hard disks being dirt cheap, why choose just one. I have the EEE PC with the 16GB SSD, and a external 128GB USB Hard disk drive. With the drives being dirt cheap, if you have the room for a conventional drive, put one in. Manufactures can always make one more square inch to pack in some SSD chips. Of course powering the USB ports+drive with the smallish battery in the EEE pc means you cut the battery life in half. So ideally I have transferred my immediate tasks from the Hard drive while plugged in, then while un-plugged I don't have to power anything up. Though I do wish you could power up/down the USB+card reader+Ethernet without a reboot on the EEE like you can with the WiFi (yes with a small screen+SSD, these mWatt devices really do make a significant time difference in battery life.) So that would be my word to the manufacture of my next device. give me a hard disk, but give me a power switch to turn off everything but a few core components (core doesn't include the HardDisk.)
I am betting when China says "passengers found with fever to be isolated for seven days" That doesn't mean you get a private room with a nice bed, and proper care to recover. I bet it means, we take all the sick people into the same room, and shovel in some food daily. I guarantee it doesn't mean you get any chance at "home." Since it is likely a 20+ hour flight from US/Mexico to China, most didn't start with the symptoms they landed with. So during the flight, given the choice of appropriate medication now, or 7 days in a place guaranteed to end with the virus. Every rational person would have taken the medicine, and tried to minimize contact going forward.
exactly, imply. If your allowed to install apps on your phone, everything you point out is possibly a new app that AT&T doesn't know about, and would be a pain if AT&T's permission were required to install/run each new type of app. Granted, for the I-Phone crowd, requiring permission to install/use a app isn't uncharted territory. but for the rest of the smart phones, this wouldn't be very nice.
mostly just the crotch rockets, Hybuski, ninga, CBR, and some of the cruisers, and anything considered a chopper (which would be unsafe on most Michigan roads.) OK that is more bikes than I was thinking, but no normal street car/pickup could hang with a enduro, or moto-X, or any of the bikes with 6-8" or more of front suspension travel on gravel. It may not be especially fun on anything but a enduro or dirt bike, but it is at least as good as a car, most of the time. I know I have hundreds of incident free miles on my moped on gravel, I usually went out of my way to do gravel to avoid faster traffic.
The last PBX system I did has the default admin password but, 1) it is behind NAT 2) behind firewall 3) truck to main office is wrapped inside the VPN (VPN not default password). Likely they need a bot net to scan ports, or some social engineering to find their way inside the networks. another option is to trick the box into accepting a second trunk. The last possibility is they placed calls, and knew which keys to get, or which modem type capability's to try and exploit, so have to take several guesses at which system they are hitting. Even having dealt with many PBX's, it takes considerable effort on most of them, even with full access, to get these non-standard call in and be able to call back out... (available feature on many systems, but not a standard line setting, that needs enabled/setup...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Australia_by_population Add that up, of the 21 million people in australia, 13 million live in the top 5 cites, all on the coast. Keep going to the top 10 to 15, and mostly farmers, and mine related population is left. So all those not in denser areas than the US drive cars. So living there you surly new you had already proven yourself wrong?
yeah, I hate it when the cops are allowed to speed to catch me speeding.;)/sarcasm It is a shame that free speech is OK, yet it is often very costly. IE if you talk to a officer (instead of using your right to remain silent.) I have experience in that, the cop always asks you the same question twice. They know it is nearly impossible to get the same exact answer, and will use that in court "he kept changing his story" even though the two "stories" were both true and non conflicting it makes you sound unreliable.
Also a very slight difference in wording makes a huge difference also. IE if you pick up the prostitute with the "I'll pay you $200 to take naked pictures of you" (assuming she is of age) You broke no law, cops won't agree, prostitutes will... I understand speech is never free as in beer (swap one word for another, could be $1000's difference in cost) but still.
worked in my case. IE when I switched companies a year ago, the people who had respect for me before, knew enough about PC's they still got by. Those without respect got to deal with your more typical corporate IT guy (not a total bastard, but at times). The guy who disliked me the most (actually accused me of sabotaging his win 95 box from the network, to our boss, just 18 months ago) publicly wished me back.
earths radius = 6km. gravity force is G(m2*m2)/(r*r). Therefore at 15km, your 2.5 earth radius out. Which means your at 1/6th gravity. Therefore wouldn't you have cut the required strength of your space elevator (IE a super strong metal bar/wire) to support it's own weight by 1/6th?
I agree 100%. However how we got here, and why there is a large resistance by those in power to any change in the way votes are counted, are completely separate issues.
while I agree with you on the "mob mentality." A majority of people do have a good idea of what is just, and fair (until something like religion is mis-used to manipulate them.) Definitely need a strong legal constitution, and a way to insure a cooling off period to prevent "hot head" laws. Of course the current systems doesn't always do so well on these issues either. IE it is very easy to pass anti gun laws immediately after a shock attack (ah-la Australia) and anti arab/muslim laws would have easily passed after 9/11 (although un-related anti mid-east actions were taken instead.) Since these things happen equally under all systems ever implemented, I don't think there would be any change, except possibly the speed at which those changes could come about in bad times.
Apperently your not talking the USA (must be south american, not aware of those systems.) If you have participated in the US system, then you would know that primaries are not open votes. Some states it takes all day to participate, other states didn't let in people wearing unapproved things, like Ron Paul buttons. Other states didn't get a vote at all, because it was going to cost to much to run a acceptable ballot. Some even going out of their way to make sure certain candidates couldn't get on the ballots in several states primaries. If you don't think a quick trust-able election would improve turnout, and interest in the system, then we disagree. If you think the USA already has that system, then you should open your eyes a bit and pay attention to the whole USA.
I actually have the opposite view. I think the reason electronic voting is being done so poorly is to prevent allowing a true democracy strip the power from the current 2 party system. While not simple to get right, a effective convenient secure system would make voting too simple. We could actually have more rounds of votes, and eliminate needing just 2 candidates at the beginning of the election. More issues could be voted on, more laws, quicker correction on corrupt politicans, etc, etc. Those in power have much more interest in preventing trust-able e-voting than not.
Also taxes for corporations are based on profit, where individuals are on income. So a company with a high re-investment would push back taxes, which should be good for all involved. At a individual level it can be a reduced incentive to work harder (enjoying more free time instead) Also since their are fewer companies in theory it should be easier to enforce at that level. The down side is corporations are already buying the laws too much already. If they were paying all the taxes too, we would have a harder time controlling the government.
depending on where your at, the odds of being killed by a meteor would change greatly. IE if you cruising in a plane a mach 0.9 at 20,000 feet, then your a much bigger target. I would guess any spot of the plane gets hit by a baseball sized molten hot meteor your all toast regardless if you got hit, on a much larger sized meteor even a near miss could create enough concussion in the air to suck out a critical part of the plane (or cause a non critical part to hit a critical one.) Also the faster you move, the (very slightly) more likely you are to hit the meteor. IE it will break up into naturally small pieces and the meteor will create a tail, all sucked into the vacuum of the leading pieces. Also with humans being taller than wide, and meteors coming more or less straight down, the faster you move, the larger surface area you would have exposed to something coming down fast, and the larger surface area of the meteor shower you could hit.
my comment was a little tongue in cheek, just that so many news outlets responded like their was never reason for concern. But still that is the kind of people, and worse that the hospital is dealing with every day. I am one of the majority, that has gone to a hospital once in 39 years (not counting that first trip, since I was never admitted, only released) I then know a few others who have been to the hospital monthly, I am assuming they add up to the more typical patient.
probably not in this case. I means 3 years of McCains records were 1500 pages, for a healthy person. A hospital that treats a 1000 sick people a day, your talking moving millions of pieces of paper a day. So then your talking the need for a library, and librarians, fire suppression... So while I agree old books, when unused, last longer. When used daily, for instance cash in constant circulation, lasts about 3 months.
if a computer is manipulated in any way, the evidence may be corrupted by such operation
step 1) rip computer apart, and use another computer + software + introduced large drive that has had porn copied to it previously.
was that seriously a proposed solution to reduce mis-conduct possibility?
I understand your stated method is to preserve as much evidence with a copy, but I would be much much happier as a jury member at a trial if the cops simply stuck USB key with less than 512 Mb of capacity into side of laptop, in front of the defendant, pressed F10, to boot the drive, waited for report on screen. placed both devices into chain of custody if a issue was found.
Instead of, broke computer apart, intermingled data with another (likely) larger capacity drive used in hundreds of investigations previously, and then jammed it back together, even if tested at a "independent" lab. Granted with the USB drive your giving the PC owner the possibility of having a bios trap set to clear themselves of wrong doing, etc. But really if you find gigs of child porn on a computer after a small usb drive that can be post inspected was inserted then removed, I would have less issue than your method of some un-inspectable machine with lots of space was used on parts of a that pc.
of THE emergency broadcast system. translation = if your not watching TV during the emergency your not going to be informed and you will die a horrible death as a result.
so while currently most CFL beat most LED in efficiency, inherently it looks like LED has a better future. Especially with LED lights having a longer (best case) lifetime, and being instant on to full power, and no high voltages present. The LED at home being a new trend, with in-efficient transformers, and cheap production units likely causing damage to their reputation. Much like Fluorescent is still trying to get over the poor initial products reputation (with odd colors, poor life, and several minutes of power up, with constantly buzzing transformers, and odd harmonics with monitors, video cameras, and TV's.)
when I moved to AZ I was surprised to see specific motorcycle parking spots. One day after the asphalt ate my kickstand, and wouldn't give it back, I realized the motorcycle parking had concrete inserts for the stands.
In physics, a black body is a perfect absorber of light, but by a rule derived by Einstein it is also, when heated, the best emitter. so if your house/car/etc is heated, then yes it emits more heat from the body if black. Thus it is a worse insulator and (as you observed) heats the snow on the outside of your car faster. So yes if your goal is to heat the outside of your car in winter, black is best. If keeping the stuff on the inside warmer than the outside, is your goal, it may not be best in black (definitely not assuming a lack of radiated light, like at night.)
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I also got the opposite reaction from the summary. IE with hard disks being dirt cheap, why choose just one.
I have the EEE PC with the 16GB SSD, and a external 128GB USB Hard disk drive. With the drives being dirt cheap, if you have the room for a conventional drive, put one in. Manufactures can always make one more square inch to pack in some SSD chips. Of course powering the USB ports+drive with the smallish battery in the EEE pc means you cut the battery life in half. So ideally I have transferred my immediate tasks from the Hard drive while plugged in, then while un-plugged I don't have to power anything up. Though I do wish you could power up/down the USB+card reader+Ethernet without a reboot on the EEE like you can with the WiFi (yes with a small screen+SSD, these mWatt devices really do make a significant time difference in battery life.)
So that would be my word to the manufacture of my next device. give me a hard disk, but give me a power switch to turn off everything but a few core components (core doesn't include the HardDisk.)
I am betting when China says "passengers found with fever to be isolated for seven days" That doesn't mean you get a private room with a nice bed, and proper care to recover. I bet it means, we take all the sick people into the same room, and shovel in some food daily. I guarantee it doesn't mean you get any chance at "home."
Since it is likely a 20+ hour flight from US/Mexico to China, most didn't start with the symptoms they landed with. So during the flight, given the choice of appropriate medication now, or 7 days in a place guaranteed to end with the virus. Every rational person would have taken the medicine, and tried to minimize contact going forward.
imply you're not on a phone
exactly, imply. If your allowed to install apps on your phone, everything you point out is possibly a new app that AT&T doesn't know about, and would be a pain if AT&T's permission were required to install/run each new type of app. Granted, for the I-Phone crowd, requiring permission to install/use a app isn't uncharted territory. but for the rest of the smart phones, this wouldn't be very nice.
mostly just the crotch rockets, Hybuski, ninga, CBR, and some of the cruisers, and anything considered a chopper (which would be unsafe on most Michigan roads.) OK that is more bikes than I was thinking, but no normal street car/pickup could hang with a enduro, or moto-X, or any of the bikes with 6-8" or more of front suspension travel on gravel. It may not be especially fun on anything but a enduro or dirt bike, but it is at least as good as a car, most of the time. I know I have hundreds of incident free miles on my moped on gravel, I usually went out of my way to do gravel to avoid faster traffic.
The last PBX system I did has the default admin password but, 1) it is behind NAT 2) behind firewall 3) truck to main office is wrapped inside the VPN (VPN not default password).
Likely they need a bot net to scan ports, or some social engineering to find their way inside the networks. another option is to trick the box into accepting a second trunk. The last possibility is they placed calls, and knew which keys to get, or which modem type capability's to try and exploit, so have to take several guesses at which system they are hitting.
Even having dealt with many PBX's, it takes considerable effort on most of them, even with full access, to get these non-standard call in and be able to call back out... (available feature on many systems, but not a standard line setting, that needs enabled/setup...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Australia_by_population
Add that up, of the 21 million people in australia, 13 million live in the top 5 cites, all on the coast. Keep going to the top 10 to 15, and mostly farmers, and mine related population is left. So all those not in denser areas than the US drive cars. So living there you surly new you had already proven yourself wrong?
yeah, I hate it when the cops are allowed to speed to catch me speeding. ;) /sarcasm
It is a shame that free speech is OK, yet it is often very costly. IE if you talk to a officer (instead of using your right to remain silent.) I have experience in that, the cop always asks you the same question twice. They know it is nearly impossible to get the same exact answer, and will use that in court "he kept changing his story" even though the two "stories" were both true and non conflicting it makes you sound unreliable.
Also a very slight difference in wording makes a huge difference also. IE if you pick up the prostitute with the "I'll pay you $200 to take naked pictures of you" (assuming she is of age) You broke no law, cops won't agree, prostitutes will... I understand speech is never free as in beer (swap one word for another, could be $1000's difference in cost) but still.
worked in my case. IE when I switched companies a year ago, the people who had respect for me before, knew enough about PC's they still got by. Those without respect got to deal with your more typical corporate IT guy (not a total bastard, but at times). The guy who disliked me the most (actually accused me of sabotaging his win 95 box from the network, to our boss, just 18 months ago) publicly wished me back.
cancel that, earth radius is 6 thousand km. so not much gravity difference at 1/10th that. your right it's worthless for space elevator.
earths radius = 6km. gravity force is G(m2*m2)/(r*r). Therefore at 15km, your 2.5 earth radius out. Which means your at 1/6th gravity. Therefore wouldn't you have cut the required strength of your space elevator (IE a super strong metal bar/wire) to support it's own weight by 1/6th?
I agree 100%. However how we got here, and why there is a large resistance by those in power to any change in the way votes are counted, are completely separate issues.
while I agree with you on the "mob mentality." A majority of people do have a good idea of what is just, and fair (until something like religion is mis-used to manipulate them.) Definitely need a strong legal constitution, and a way to insure a cooling off period to prevent "hot head" laws. Of course the current systems doesn't always do so well on these issues either. IE it is very easy to pass anti gun laws immediately after a shock attack (ah-la Australia) and anti arab/muslim laws would have easily passed after 9/11 (although un-related anti mid-east actions were taken instead.)
Since these things happen equally under all systems ever implemented, I don't think there would be any change, except possibly the speed at which those changes could come about in bad times.
Apperently your not talking the USA (must be south american, not aware of those systems.) If you have participated in the US system, then you would know that primaries are not open votes. Some states it takes all day to participate, other states didn't let in people wearing unapproved things, like Ron Paul buttons. Other states didn't get a vote at all, because it was going to cost to much to run a acceptable ballot. Some even going out of their way to make sure certain candidates couldn't get on the ballots in several states primaries.
If you don't think a quick trust-able election would improve turnout, and interest in the system, then we disagree. If you think the USA already has that system, then you should open your eyes a bit and pay attention to the whole USA.
I actually have the opposite view. I think the reason electronic voting is being done so poorly is to prevent allowing a true democracy strip the power from the current 2 party system.
While not simple to get right, a effective convenient secure system would make voting too simple. We could actually have more rounds of votes, and eliminate needing just 2 candidates at the beginning of the election. More issues could be voted on, more laws, quicker correction on corrupt politicans, etc, etc. Those in power have much more interest in preventing trust-able e-voting than not.
Also taxes for corporations are based on profit, where individuals are on income. So a company with a high re-investment would push back taxes, which should be good for all involved. At a individual level it can be a reduced incentive to work harder (enjoying more free time instead) Also since their are fewer companies in theory it should be easier to enforce at that level.
The down side is corporations are already buying the laws too much already. If they were paying all the taxes too, we would have a harder time controlling the government.
depending on where your at, the odds of being killed by a meteor would change greatly. IE if you cruising in a plane a mach 0.9 at 20,000 feet, then your a much bigger target. I would guess any spot of the plane gets hit by a baseball sized molten hot meteor your all toast regardless if you got hit, on a much larger sized meteor even a near miss could create enough concussion in the air to suck out a critical part of the plane (or cause a non critical part to hit a critical one.)
Also the faster you move, the (very slightly) more likely you are to hit the meteor. IE it will break up into naturally small pieces and the meteor will create a tail, all sucked into the vacuum of the leading pieces. Also with humans being taller than wide, and meteors coming more or less straight down, the faster you move, the larger surface area you would have exposed to something coming down fast, and the larger surface area of the meteor shower you could hit.
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http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2008/10/03/digital-royalty-rates-frozen-after-itunes-threatens-shutdown/
The Copyright Royalty Board has frozen the rate digital retailers must pay to artists for the next five years after a showdown with Apple. The largest digital music retailer threatened to shutter its iTunes service if it was forced to pay a higher rate.
In economics, a monopoly exists when a specific individual or enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it. Monopolies are thus characterized by a lack of economic competition for the good or service that they provide and a lack of viable substitute goods.
Neither the lack of possible competition entering, nor 100% market share are required to be a monopoly. With apple having the ability to dictate pricing, etc for the industry. As well as the number of devices they shipped with a lack of competition for services to those devices, they easily qualify for the Monopoly label in some areas.
my comment was a little tongue in cheek, just that so many news outlets responded like their was never reason for concern. But still that is the kind of people, and worse that the hospital is dealing with every day. I am one of the majority, that has gone to a hospital once in 39 years (not counting that first trip, since I was never admitted, only released) I then know a few others who have been to the hospital monthly, I am assuming they add up to the more typical patient.
probably not in this case. I means 3 years of McCains records were 1500 pages, for a healthy person. A hospital that treats a 1000 sick people a day, your talking moving millions of pieces of paper a day. So then your talking the need for a library, and librarians, fire suppression...
So while I agree old books, when unused, last longer. When used daily, for instance cash in constant circulation, lasts about 3 months.
if a computer is manipulated in any way, the evidence may be corrupted by such operation
step 1) rip computer apart, and use another computer + software + introduced large drive that has had porn copied to it previously.
was that seriously a proposed solution to reduce mis-conduct possibility?
I understand your stated method is to preserve as much evidence with a copy, but I would be much much happier as a jury member at a trial if the cops simply stuck USB key with less than 512 Mb of capacity into side of laptop, in front of the defendant, pressed F10, to boot the drive, waited for report on screen. placed both devices into chain of custody if a issue was found.
Instead of, broke computer apart, intermingled data with another (likely) larger capacity drive used in hundreds of investigations previously, and then jammed it back together, even if tested at a "independent" lab. Granted with the USB drive your giving the PC owner the possibility of having a bios trap set to clear themselves of wrong doing, etc. But really if you find gigs of child porn on a computer after a small usb drive that can be post inspected was inserted then removed, I would have less issue than your method of some un-inspectable machine with lots of space was used on parts of a that pc.
of THE emergency broadcast system.
translation = if your not watching TV during the emergency your not going to be informed and you will die a horrible death as a result.
FYI the best Flourcent bulb is 100 lm/Watt (CFL is 60-72) while the best white LED is 131 lm/Watt (over 150 lm/Watt for some other colors.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp#Energy_efficiency
so while currently most CFL beat most LED in efficiency, inherently it looks like LED has a better future. Especially with LED lights having a longer (best case) lifetime, and being instant on to full power, and no high voltages present.
The LED at home being a new trend, with in-efficient transformers, and cheap production units likely causing damage to their reputation. Much like Fluorescent is still trying to get over the poor initial products reputation (with odd colors, poor life, and several minutes of power up, with constantly buzzing transformers, and odd harmonics with monitors, video cameras, and TV's.)
when I moved to AZ I was surprised to see specific motorcycle parking spots. One day after the asphalt ate my kickstand, and wouldn't give it back, I realized the motorcycle parking had concrete inserts for the stands.
In physics, a black body is a perfect absorber of light, but by a rule derived by Einstein it is also, when heated, the best emitter.
so if your house/car/etc is heated, then yes it emits more heat from the body if black. Thus it is a worse insulator and (as you observed) heats the snow on the outside of your car faster. So yes if your goal is to heat the outside of your car in winter, black is best. If keeping the stuff on the inside warmer than the outside, is your goal, it may not be best in black (definitely not assuming a lack of radiated light, like at night.)