I've had quite the opposite experience. I've written to my rep (now congressman) about issues that I care about where he sat on the specific subcommittee and received well thought out responses to my particular points. If fact when I met him at a fundraiser and had an opportunity to speak with him he happened to remember my letter and commented on some of my ideas. I have only written him once since he became a senator and while the response was slower and less personalized it still seemed to respond to my particular letter and was not just a form response (though the writing style was different so it was probably a staffer and not the congressman who responded).
An acquaintance in HS almost burned down his parents house after heating the gasoline on a natural gas stove. The fumes caught the main liquid on fire and as he was carrying it into the back yard he tripped and spilled it on the porch. Bigger problem was that the siding flared back up after the fire department had put it out and it almost caught the 5lbs of black powder he had in his closet. When the fire chief found out about the powder he almost physically assaulted the guy, putting all the firefighters in danger by omitting that piece of information was almost as dumb as trying to make the napalm on an open flame.
Powder in the threads is why you use teflon tape, the powder sticks less and shows up a lot better than it does against the black or grey pipe material.
Fine grained security model where every action requires you to either trust the app or approve the specific action kind of like cookie tracking in browsers with a locked down policy. Also on the Blackberry you often can't just install any old app but have to have it approved by the BES Admin. Personally as a big fan of the BB platform and the backup BES admin for my company I think this is a great thing, the small app library is one of the biggest downsides to the current Blackberry solution so if we can use the huge library of software available for Android while keeping the better central management, security, and email capabilities I'm all for it =)
Crude isn't completely fungible, light sweet crude is but that's not the majority of current crude production. For instance all the saber rattling Venezuela was making a couple years about cutting off the US was pure bluff, no other consumer has enough refining capacity for their particular kind of sour crude and so the only thing cutting off the US would have accomplished was a complete collapse of their economy.
Personally I'm all for a more comprehensive standard that is versatile enough to not just meet todays immediate needs but also future needs which seems to be what Cisco is pushing for. If this causes HP some delay in getting a new switch out due to ASIC changes so be it, who want hardware that's obsolete before it even get out of design?
DA even with active cables has a max length of 10m making it unsuitable for anything but top of rack usage. 10Gbase-T will probably become more prevalent when Intel builds it into their SandyBridge-EP chipset this fall, and heck they already dropped the price per server port to a quarter of what it was a few months ago with their new adapters.
Smallnetbuilder says the best open air 3x3 they have seen is 135Mbps and move more than a few feet from the router and you are well under 100Mbps, not that many people in NA have faster internet connections than that but around the world they not uncommon.
Bring it to the rustbelt, we have some of the best spots for wind generation in the country, some of the dirtiest power production, and not so many up tight people worried about their view being ruined. Oh, and can float the parts out of the factory if you set it up in one of the hundreds of abandoned factories on the waterfronts thus reducing shipping costs to near free.
The best spots for sustained winds are offshore (including in the great lakes), this is how you get better than 60% utilization, by putting them where the wind is consistent.
Considering the problem that brought down Challenger was political not technical I consider the Shuttle fleet to have succeeded in reaching the design threshold of a 1% failure rate.
Considering that it was government thugs killing protesters I don't see why you think that it was disengenous to expect that a real person on the street might plead to us to stop the violence. We appear to be fairly influential in keeping the military in check (they'd like to keep our billions in aid) so why wouldn't they ask that we try to keep the secret police in check as well.
slander is a civil matter not a criminal one, nobody goes to jail in the US for slander. Furthermore proving a case has such a high barrier that they are almost never won.
Making untrue public statements about somebody else is another. You can go to prison for that
Uh, NO libel is a civil mater not a criminal one. The only time you could possibly get in trouble criminally for untrue statements is if you make them to an officer in the course of their investigation of a crime or in front of a court.
No, Les had a sat phone, he was capable of calling for help and did at least twice. But in general you are right, whatever Bear does do the exact opposite whereas Les may actually give you some decent pointers.
Yep, my dad and I probably saved a guy and his two sons. They were climbing on Mt Whitney in tshirts and sandals and only one flashlight between them. He was there well after dark trying to climb down. We asked him why they didn't have proper equipment and he said he had no idea it would be like that! We had about 5k worth of equipment with us because while it might be overkill it would probably keep us alive through anything we were going to experience there during the summer months. Btw even when I do use GPS I also have USGS maps coated with a waterproof sealant and a compass just in case my batteries or the whole unit dies.
Haha, for the same kind of money I have an uncapped 10/1 connection with 3 IP's =)
Of course then someone from SE Asia will come and laugh about their 100/100 connection for the same price.
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I've had quite the opposite experience. I've written to my rep (now congressman) about issues that I care about where he sat on the specific subcommittee and received well thought out responses to my particular points. If fact when I met him at a fundraiser and had an opportunity to speak with him he happened to remember my letter and commented on some of my ideas. I have only written him once since he became a senator and while the response was slower and less personalized it still seemed to respond to my particular letter and was not just a form response (though the writing style was different so it was probably a staffer and not the congressman who responded).
So in order to stop the criminal element you want to punish all law abiding citizens, nice logic there.....
An acquaintance in HS almost burned down his parents house after heating the gasoline on a natural gas stove. The fumes caught the main liquid on fire and as he was carrying it into the back yard he tripped and spilled it on the porch. Bigger problem was that the siding flared back up after the fire department had put it out and it almost caught the 5lbs of black powder he had in his closet. When the fire chief found out about the powder he almost physically assaulted the guy, putting all the firefighters in danger by omitting that piece of information was almost as dumb as trying to make the napalm on an open flame.
Powder in the threads is why you use teflon tape, the powder sticks less and shows up a lot better than it does against the black or grey pipe material.
Fine grained security model where every action requires you to either trust the app or approve the specific action kind of like cookie tracking in browsers with a locked down policy. Also on the Blackberry you often can't just install any old app but have to have it approved by the BES Admin. Personally as a big fan of the BB platform and the backup BES admin for my company I think this is a great thing, the small app library is one of the biggest downsides to the current Blackberry solution so if we can use the huge library of software available for Android while keeping the better central management, security, and email capabilities I'm all for it =)
There's no international capacity to ship refined gasoline.
Crude isn't completely fungible, light sweet crude is but that's not the majority of current crude production. For instance all the saber rattling Venezuela was making a couple years about cutting off the US was pure bluff, no other consumer has enough refining capacity for their particular kind of sour crude and so the only thing cutting off the US would have accomplished was a complete collapse of their economy.
OpenWRT supports both native and tunneled IPv6.
Personally I'm all for a more comprehensive standard that is versatile enough to not just meet todays immediate needs but also future needs which seems to be what Cisco is pushing for. If this causes HP some delay in getting a new switch out due to ASIC changes so be it, who want hardware that's obsolete before it even get out of design?
That's only the first post in x amount of time while it does the open relay check that keeps a lot of spammers out.
DA even with active cables has a max length of 10m making it unsuitable for anything but top of rack usage. 10Gbase-T will probably become more prevalent when Intel builds it into their SandyBridge-EP chipset this fall, and heck they already dropped the price per server port to a quarter of what it was a few months ago with their new adapters.
Smallnetbuilder says the best open air 3x3 they have seen is 135Mbps and move more than a few feet from the router and you are well under 100Mbps, not that many people in NA have faster internet connections than that but around the world they not uncommon.
Because it doesn't support IPv6 so if you want to do anything that requires NAT today you will need to switch at some point in the next couple years.
Yeah really. There's a reason Hoover considered president's just passerby's in his kingdom.
Billions also gets you weeks in the sand pit, how much more productively that money is being spent!
Bring it to the rustbelt, we have some of the best spots for wind generation in the country, some of the dirtiest power production, and not so many up tight people worried about their view being ruined. Oh, and can float the parts out of the factory if you set it up in one of the hundreds of abandoned factories on the waterfronts thus reducing shipping costs to near free.
The best spots for sustained winds are offshore (including in the great lakes), this is how you get better than 60% utilization, by putting them where the wind is consistent.
Considering the problem that brought down Challenger was political not technical I consider the Shuttle fleet to have succeeded in reaching the design threshold of a 1% failure rate.
Considering that it was government thugs killing protesters I don't see why you think that it was disengenous to expect that a real person on the street might plead to us to stop the violence. We appear to be fairly influential in keeping the military in check (they'd like to keep our billions in aid) so why wouldn't they ask that we try to keep the secret police in check as well.
slander is a civil matter not a criminal one, nobody goes to jail in the US for slander. Furthermore proving a case has such a high barrier that they are almost never won.
Making untrue public statements about somebody else is another. You can go to prison for that
Uh, NO libel is a civil mater not a criminal one. The only time you could possibly get in trouble criminally for untrue statements is if you make them to an officer in the course of their investigation of a crime or in front of a court.
No, Les had a sat phone, he was capable of calling for help and did at least twice. But in general you are right, whatever Bear does do the exact opposite whereas Les may actually give you some decent pointers.
Yep, my dad and I probably saved a guy and his two sons. They were climbing on Mt Whitney in tshirts and sandals and only one flashlight between them. He was there well after dark trying to climb down. We asked him why they didn't have proper equipment and he said he had no idea it would be like that! We had about 5k worth of equipment with us because while it might be overkill it would probably keep us alive through anything we were going to experience there during the summer months. Btw even when I do use GPS I also have USGS maps coated with a waterproof sealant and a compass just in case my batteries or the whole unit dies.
It probably doesn't cross their mind as they are a European company and such a lawsuit would most likely fail.
Haha, for the same kind of money I have an uncapped 10/1 connection with 3 IP's =)
Of course then someone from SE Asia will come and laugh about their 100/100 connection for the same price.