"The myth of lemming mass suicide is long-standing and has been popularized by a number of factors. In 1955, Carl Barks drew an Uncle Scrooge adventure comic with the title "The Lemming with the Locket". This comic, which was inspired by a 1954 National Geographic article, showed massive numbers of lemmings jumping over Norwegian cliffs. Even more influential was the 1958 Disney film White Wilderness in which footage was shown that seems to show the mass suicide of lemmings. The film won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature."
I think this one deserves honorable mention at least!
If you are a contract employee or a full-time at-will employee, anything you produce during working hours belongs to the employer UNLESS you have something writing to the contray. Just the opposite of what you said!
CA has had laws on the books since the 80s that say anything you do with your own resources off hours belongs to you. This does prevent an employer taking your own work away from you. However, if you do it on their time - they own it.
My wife was a federal employee for 20 years. From what she has explained to me, you essentially give up some of your rights to take the job.
one restriction that I remember is that she wasn't allowed to take part in protests. Workign in San Francisco, that must have been an every day opportunity she was missing out on!
So I don't find it at all suprising that someone who is doing campaign activities got zapped.
I deal with foreign fab houses on every project. The odd things is that most of the backend software used by these fab houses are sold by American companies (much of which is written in India).
There is a step in the process where a point tool (one not written by the fab house - but again an American company) is used to re-extract the design out from the polygons that describe the silicon to be fabbed. This is compared to the source gate level design I originally supplied using formal verification methods. This is done by me.
So I suppose someone could surreptitiously change the gates I'm getting back to hide what is being inserted in there (not an easy thing to do all by itself at this level) There are places where it could be done in the process.
At the same time - to add additional logic to a design you are not well versed in is REALLY difficult.
I tend to agree - the first Dune movie was horrible. The mini-series was GREAT - very much like the book. You understood a pretty complex story line (unlike the first movie which felt like it was on fast forward IF you had read the book.)
There are so many other good yarns in this story - why go to the first one a third time?
"In this age of climate change hysteria, if you did research that ended up suggested otherwise would you like to have it out there with your name on it? i'd rather have frank and honest EPA employee's and not be able to read their findings then being able to read a bunch of 1/2 truths that they were forced to self censor to protect their jobs and reputations"
I have to tell you I thought that was a superbly cogent comment.
Concerning global warming - if you don't except it - you're a heretic and a fruit-cake. This is the world that EPA employees live in. Seems like fostering some give and take without fear of knee-jerk criticism sounds like something I'd want to preserve.
I am a 50 year old native of California. And I can prove to you that CA makes Environmental decisions based on BAD science. All I need to say is MTBE. The CA EPA threw out pages of the original reports on MTBE that they didn't want to hear. Now we have something like 20,000 wells that are polluted with the damn stuff. It's a carcinogen - a bad one. Then there was the little detail that it would eat the car engine hoses (that was part of what was suppressed by CA EPA.) That only finally came out when the CHP started having their patrol cars catch on fire from fuel hoses disintegrate.
So why should CA's point of view be the last word on this topic?
Well - just to let you know - I think that you have a few details wrong.
I've lived in CA all my life (over 50) and have lived through a couple of droughts that are far worse than this one has been. CA has implemented mandatory water conservation at least twice at the county level in my life time. I've personally lost a lawn that cost me $1500 to install because of it. Business's turn off fountains and other water displays in the normal course of these things AND the watering you see at the commercial parks (at least in Silicon Valley) is typically from re-cycled water that isn't fit to drink. The other detail you don't mention is that most of the watering that is going on is also helping to fill the aquifer that is one of the sources of water - it actually is part of getting pure water back from the recycled water.
Further, the (*^(^# state has grown it's population in the last 30 years. We've gone from 19 million in 1979 to around 35 million right now. I would LOVE to see the population back in the 19 million range - but that isn't happening so we do what we can.
Then you have the wonderful court orders that shut down major water projects like East Bay MUD (yeah - I know it's a corny name) that puts their water supply down through the CA delta. But the fish are more important the humans so they can't take the water back out after it's been injected into the delta - meaning they have to go get water from other sources.
Now you tell me the (*#$^ state wants to control my thermostat - I don't think so. This is a half backed piece of nonsense. Next they'll be telling me not to have kids.
Yep - I don't see this thing pulling my 5th wheel either any time soon.
For "commute" cars it might be okay - though the Gullwing designs look nice - there is a reason why they aren't on most production cars - things like going to the drive through!
I don't disagree with you - and I'm a "good" ham (whatever that means;-)
I don't believe these claims - they're just stupid. Anti-jam? For instance - you want the antenna to disappear? If we're talking on a HUMMV - what the heck. Just turn the radio off???? That is how you disappear electronically.
As for the noise crud the plasma generator and the high voltage will make - maybe it can be filtered, but think of all the juice you're wasting creating the plasma field!!! A hunk of metal seems a more efficient way to go on multiple fronts.
No - Linus did NOT copy Minux. He owned a copy of minux, and used it as a development platform to create Linux. He definitely did not "copy" Minux. Even Dr. Andy Tannebaum has said so.
My company has IP for a FPGA based FM radio that meets all FCC harmonics requirements - and it has the same kind of external requirements. - I believe in our case it's an RC on the TTL compatible output. This isn't software defined in the traditional meaning of the term - but the FPGA is implementing the same algorithms the software is implementing. So it's soft in the way an FPGA is soft.- but the idea is identical to the MPC version mentioned above as far as the outputs are concerned.
Bottom line - the harmonics can be taken care of by wave-shaping, i.e. you take the output load configuration into equation as you design the radio.
I do believe it was Dateline - but definately NBC news division anyway that back in the late 80's was trying to make a case against Ford for their pickups blowing up during side impacts. They showed footage on the air of this happening....forgetting to mention the TNT they added to make sure they got good film.
Don't remember all the consequences - but haven't trusted NBC news since then.
Well - turns out the article is WRONG - Here is what the language of the act SAYS! (4) The term "covert agent" means
(A) a present or retired officer or employee of an intelligence agency or a present or retired member of the Armed Forces assigned to duty with an intelligence agency
(i) whose identity as such an officer, employee, or member is classified information, and
(ii) who is serving outside the United States or has within the last five years served outside the United States;
Note the part that says she has to serve outside the US within the last 5 years? Well - guess what - the release occurred after that 5 year window.
SO - I stand by the "SPIN" I'm accused of, i.e. NO SPIN but FACT.
He didn't get in trouble for committing perjury to Congress, but rather to a Federal Attorney investigating who leaked Valeri Plame's name. Turns out the prosecutor new who did the (Armitage) well before he got Libby in front of a grand jury. Further, the prosecutor didn't go after Armitage - mainly because Plame wasn't an undercover agent at the time the "outing" occurred, therefore there was no law broken...
Well - the F22 can also be used as an intelligence platform likely can gather in Cell phone calls!
There was an article in Aviation Week & Space Technology a few issues ago about whether the F22 should be deployed to Iraq or not. It wouldn't be going as an air superiority fighter -not needed in that role obviously, but whether it should be used to gather signals intelligence.
As far as the US taking on Urban warfare, etc. There are simple ways for us to do that - we choose not to. Think Dresden.
You'll also hear that this kind of war has never been won. Not true. Turns out that the British beat the Boars who were practicing guerrilla warfare. How - by the invention of concentration camps. The entire Boar population was put into concentration camps - took care of the problem, but again, not politically acceptable today.
Really - then please explain their working on 6 different classes of ships right now including Blue water missle carriers, nuclear subs, etc?
They've also purchased one of the Russian Navy's hulls for an aircraft carrier that wasn't completed???
Then there was the matter of them crashing their fighter into the Intel craft back on 2001 killing the fighter pilot and causing the Intel plane to land on the Chinese mainland.
But you are certainly right about the US owing China alot of money. My understanding is that China is holding an awful lot of greenbacks too. Me thinks they could crash our economy if they have half a mind too.
You forgot one major issue with the F22 versus the Eurofighter. The Eurofighter & every other modern fighter in the world for that matter can't see the F22 on their radars. F22 is full-up stealth (assuming no external stores).
In wargames held in the US with 1 F-22 versus 5 F-15's. 5-0. The F-15 pilots never saw the F-22. Not a fair fight - but then that's the idea.
Well - it turns out the Shuttle indeed DOES have two completely different sets of software! I'm not going to bother to look it up right now - but this is fully covered in an IEEE Spectrum article on the shuttle software from some years back.
The fact is that one computer out of the five redundant machines runs a different software. The two software systems were coded simultaneously. One is interrupt driven, while the other isn't.
There is a famous incident when they were first trying to launch the shuttle where the two systems didn't keep time together correctly, and the check-point system where they synch each other got out of synch. This aborted one of the first launch attempts.
Now to the F22 - this very same thing was written up in Space an Aviation week. They didn't mention the comm system being hosed, just the nav system. Otherwise the story tracks.
When you read the article - it says he did "almost" all the development on this own time. As soon as that "almost" creeps in there, the state can correctly argue that they paid for part of the development. That is the opening they need to gain at least partial ownership of the program. Because of that and the state providing him training to learn how to connect to the Tracs system - me thinks this isn't a slam dunk for the officer.
In CA (as has been mentioned MANY times before on slashdot) there is a specific law stating that what is developed by an employee on the employee's own time belongs to the employee as long as there was no company resources were used. The officer wouldn't be able to claim that as described by the officer even in a state that has such specific provisions in their own state codes.
I wish him luck - but I suspect the state is going to win this one.
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This from Wikipedia -
"The myth of lemming mass suicide is long-standing and has been popularized by a number of factors. In 1955, Carl Barks drew an Uncle Scrooge adventure comic with the title "The Lemming with the Locket". This comic, which was inspired by a 1954 National Geographic article, showed massive numbers of lemmings jumping over Norwegian cliffs. Even more influential was the 1958 Disney film White Wilderness in which footage was shown that seems to show the mass suicide of lemmings. The film won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature."
I think this one deserves honorable mention at least!
This is simple nonsense of the first order. How about Plutonium? It has a very long half-life and is extremely toxic/radioactive!
Sheesh!
This is just flat out wrong.
If you are a contract employee or a full-time at-will employee, anything you produce during working hours belongs to the employer UNLESS you have something writing to the contray. Just the opposite of what you said!
CA has had laws on the books since the 80s that say anything you do with your own resources off hours belongs to you. This does prevent an employer taking your own work away from you. However, if you do it on their time - they own it.
My wife was a federal employee for 20 years. From what she has explained to me, you essentially give up some of your rights to take the job.
one restriction that I remember is that she wasn't allowed to take part in protests. Workign in San Francisco, that must have been an every day opportunity she was missing out on!
So I don't find it at all suprising that someone who is doing campaign activities got zapped.
I find this intersting.
I deal with foreign fab houses on every project. The odd things is that most of the backend software used by these fab houses are sold by American companies (much of which is written in India).
There is a step in the process where a point tool (one not written by the fab house - but again an American company) is used to re-extract the design out from the polygons that describe the silicon to be fabbed. This is compared to the source gate level design I originally supplied using formal verification methods. This is done by me.
So I suppose someone could surreptitiously change the gates I'm getting back to hide what is being inserted in there (not an easy thing to do all by itself at this level) There are places where it could be done in the process.
At the same time - to add additional logic to a design you are not well versed in is REALLY difficult.
I tend to agree - the first Dune movie was horrible. The mini-series was GREAT - very much like the book. You understood a pretty complex story line (unlike the first movie which felt like it was on fast forward IF you had read the book.)
There are so many other good yarns in this story - why go to the first one a third time?
"In this age of climate change hysteria, if you did research that ended up suggested otherwise would you like to have it out there with your name on it? i'd rather have frank and honest EPA employee's and not be able to read their findings then being able to read a bunch of 1/2 truths that they were forced to self censor to protect their jobs and reputations"
I have to tell you I thought that was a superbly cogent comment.
Concerning global warming - if you don't except it - you're a heretic and a fruit-cake. This is the world that EPA employees live in. Seems like fostering some give and take without fear of knee-jerk criticism sounds like something I'd want to preserve.
I am a 50 year old native of California. And I can prove to you that CA makes Environmental decisions based on BAD science. All I need to say is MTBE. The CA EPA threw out pages of the original reports on MTBE that they didn't want to hear. Now we have something like 20,000 wells that are polluted with the damn stuff. It's a carcinogen - a bad one. Then there was the little detail that it would eat the car engine hoses (that was part of what was suppressed by CA EPA.) That only finally came out when the CHP started having their patrol cars catch on fire from fuel hoses disintegrate.
So why should CA's point of view be the last word on this topic?
Well - just to let you know - I think that you have a few details wrong.
I've lived in CA all my life (over 50) and have lived through a couple of droughts that are far worse than this one has been. CA has implemented mandatory water conservation at least twice at the county level in my life time. I've personally lost a lawn that cost me $1500 to install because of it. Business's turn off fountains and other water displays in the normal course of these things AND the watering you see at the commercial parks (at least in Silicon Valley) is typically from re-cycled water that isn't fit to drink. The other detail you don't mention is that most of the watering that is going on is also helping to fill the aquifer that is one of the sources of water - it actually is part of getting pure water back from the recycled water.
Further, the (*^(^# state has grown it's population in the last 30 years. We've gone from 19 million in 1979 to around 35 million right now. I would LOVE to see the population back in the 19 million range - but that isn't happening so we do what we can.
Then you have the wonderful court orders that shut down major water projects like East Bay MUD (yeah - I know it's a corny name) that puts their water supply down through the CA delta. But the fish are more important the humans so they can't take the water back out after it's been injected into the delta - meaning they have to go get water from other sources.
Now you tell me the (*#$^ state wants to control my thermostat - I don't think so. This is a half backed piece of nonsense. Next they'll be telling me not to have kids.
Screw that noise.
Yep - I don't see this thing pulling my 5th wheel either any time soon.
For "commute" cars it might be okay - though the Gullwing designs look nice - there is a reason why they aren't on most production cars - things like going to the drive through!
I am NOT over 60 years old - just over 50! Dag nabbit!
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I don't disagree with you - and I'm a "good" ham (whatever that means ;-)
I don't believe these claims - they're just stupid. Anti-jam? For instance - you want the antenna to disappear? If we're talking on a HUMMV - what the heck. Just turn the radio off???? That is how you disappear electronically.
As for the noise crud the plasma generator and the high voltage will make - maybe it can be filtered, but think of all the juice you're wasting creating the plasma field!!! A hunk of metal seems a more efficient way to go on multiple fronts.
No - Linus did NOT copy Minux. He owned a copy of minux, and used it as a development platform to create Linux. He definitely did not "copy" Minux. Even Dr. Andy Tannebaum has said so.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39155268,00.htm
Virtual consoles have been around since System V - which is mid-eighties.
Heck - Linux version 0.12 had virtual consoles circa 1992 ( around the time this thing was filed.)
It was old technology then.
Randi missed his target - cause Monster cable is the same trick - just a lower price point.
My twin-lead is working just fine - and with the same frequency response as the monster cable at 20Khz.
My company has IP for a FPGA based FM radio that meets all FCC harmonics requirements - and it has the same kind of external requirements. - I believe in our case it's an RC on the TTL compatible output. This isn't software defined in the traditional meaning of the term - but the FPGA is implementing the same algorithms the software is implementing. So it's soft in the way an FPGA is soft.- but the idea is identical to the MPC version mentioned above as far as the outputs are concerned.
Bottom line - the harmonics can be taken care of by wave-shaping, i.e. you take the output load configuration into equation as you design the radio.
Correct as far as you went - but did you bother to look at the followups???
Several people basically said Nope - can't do that. How about dual licensing?
The author replied - yes please, I'm away from my system right now - could someone do that.
(the above paraphrased..)
So in my mind - someone made a mistake, others pointed it out, and the original author asked for it to be corrected in the suggested manner.
I do believe it was Dateline - but definately NBC news division anyway that back in the late 80's was trying to make a case against Ford for their pickups blowing up during side impacts. They showed footage on the air of this happening....forgetting to mention the TNT they added to make sure they got good film.
Don't remember all the consequences - but haven't trusted NBC news since then.
Well - turns out the article is WRONG -
Here is what the language of the act SAYS!
(4) The term "covert agent" means
(A) a present or retired officer or employee of an intelligence agency or a present or retired member of the Armed Forces assigned to duty with an intelligence agency
(i) whose identity as such an officer, employee, or member is classified information, and
(ii) who is serving outside the United States or has within the last five years served outside the United States;
Note the part that says she has to serve outside the US within the last 5 years? Well - guess what - the release occurred after that 5 year window.
SO - I stand by the "SPIN" I'm accused of, i.e. NO SPIN but FACT.
The act I'm referencing is here:
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/laws/iipa.html
He didn't get in trouble for committing perjury to Congress, but rather to a Federal Attorney investigating who leaked Valeri Plame's name. Turns out the prosecutor new who did the (Armitage) well before he got Libby in front of a grand jury. Further, the prosecutor didn't go after Armitage - mainly because Plame wasn't an undercover agent at the time the "outing" occurred, therefore there was no law broken...
Hmmm - can you say politics.
Well - the F22 can also be used as an intelligence platform likely can gather in Cell phone calls!
There was an article in Aviation Week & Space Technology a few issues ago about whether the F22 should be deployed to Iraq or not. It wouldn't be going as an air superiority fighter -not needed in that role obviously, but whether it should be used to gather signals intelligence.
As far as the US taking on Urban warfare, etc. There are simple ways for us to do that - we choose not to. Think Dresden.
You'll also hear that this kind of war has never been won. Not true. Turns out that the British beat the Boars who were practicing guerrilla warfare. How - by the invention of concentration camps. The entire Boar population was put into concentration camps - took care of the problem, but again, not politically acceptable today.
Really - then please explain their working on 6 different classes of ships right now including Blue water missle carriers, nuclear subs, etc?
They've also purchased one of the Russian Navy's hulls for an aircraft carrier that wasn't completed???
Then there was the matter of them crashing their fighter into the Intel craft back on 2001 killing the fighter pilot and causing the Intel plane to land on the Chinese mainland.
But you are certainly right about the US owing China alot of money. My understanding is that China is holding an awful lot of greenbacks too. Me thinks they could crash our economy if they have half a mind too.
Yikes!
You forgot one major issue with the F22 versus the Eurofighter. The Eurofighter & every other modern fighter in the world for that matter can't see the F22 on their radars. F22 is full-up stealth (assuming no external stores).
In wargames held in the US with 1 F-22 versus 5 F-15's. 5-0. The F-15 pilots never saw the F-22. Not a fair fight - but then that's the idea.
Well - it turns out the Shuttle indeed DOES have two completely different sets of software! I'm not going to bother to look it up right now - but this is fully covered in an IEEE Spectrum article on the shuttle software from some years back.
The fact is that one computer out of the five redundant machines runs a different software. The two software systems were coded simultaneously. One is interrupt driven, while the other isn't.
There is a famous incident when they were first trying to launch the shuttle where the two systems didn't keep time together correctly, and the check-point system where they synch each other got out of synch. This aborted one of the first launch attempts.
Now to the F22 - this very same thing was written up in Space an Aviation week. They didn't mention the comm system being hosed, just the nav system. Otherwise the story tracks.
Whoops - US troops are on the ground in Somalia right now, not to mention air strikes.
When you read the article - it says he did "almost" all the development on this own time. As soon as that "almost" creeps in there, the state can correctly argue that they paid for part of the development. That is the opening they need to gain at least partial ownership of the program. Because of that and the state providing him training to learn how to connect to the Tracs system - me thinks this isn't a slam dunk for the officer.
In CA (as has been mentioned MANY times before on slashdot) there is a specific law stating that what is developed by an employee on the employee's own time belongs to the employee as long as there was no company resources were used. The officer wouldn't be able to claim that as described by the officer even in a state that has such specific provisions in their own state codes.
I wish him luck - but I suspect the state is going to win this one.