I agree they overreacted, but when you build something that looks passingly like an IED, and then you take it to school, what the hell else can you expect?
US Army and other armed forced handbook provide instructions creating explosive devices from materials randomly at-hand, when in a dangerous, covert, or captured situation.
When Americans do it, is it an IED, or just an explosive device?
Why is it that the public has swallowed wholesale this new term of "IED" to mean, basically, "a bomb that someone we don't like prepared."?
Do Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, or whichever military contractors make the bombs put s "stamp of approval" on the things... one that notes that, "this explosive device has not been improvised."?
That's media for you, jump on the hype train. I know kids his age that can solder custom circuit boards I don't see anyone jumping through hoops to help them get a good education.
It's actually quite difficult these days for a curious young mind to disassemble, and then reassemble or re-use, components in an electronic device.
We have mostly moved past the era of individual devices, or standard-chip connectors, that can be de-soldered, and repurposed or re-used.
Miniaturization has given us the gift of microelectronics and packaged modules. Touch a soldering iron to one of the super-tiny leads, and you will fry the parts. Learning by dis-assembly is, in many cases, no longer possible.
Disassemble and re-purpose components of your iPhone, if you don't believe me. It's not possible. Everything is plug-in modules and glue-tacked leads.
The maker movement, however, holds promise. You can buy modules with standard leads or sockets. Get a Raspberry Pi, MyDAQ, a breadboard, or whichever, and you can make stuff... but only from purchased modules and components... never from anything scavenged.
I partially destroyed a bridge when I was growing up. Yes, for real. I exploited the harmonicities in a simple, symmetric truss-bridge. Anyone can do it – by hand.
I neither received a medal, nor was arrested. The statute of limitations is long-expired on this prank.
If anyone wants to give me a medal, or some (precious) metal, or perhaps even the mettle to go on living in this insane world, then please do. Just don't meddle in my affairs.
This whole "incident" was fabricated to generate media outrage,
If that is true, then BRAVO to the kid and his father.
It is about goddamned time we stop this "anti-terrorist" motivated drift towards the foment of inter-cultural hate.
That, and the US & Europe's drift in rhetoric (and real attacks) towards that, ahem, type of 'unpleasantness' that took place in Germany around the mid-20th century.
Same story, new target. History doesn't repeat itself, but it damned-well rhymes.
Technically, that is true. I've got mine in the past this way. But is there a penalty if they do not comply?
The Credit Agenccies make it a total pain to get the free report, and try to up-sell you crap left and right. I've had them give me "high traffic; try again later" a few times, too.
I ordered mine, on paper, two months ago. None have yet arrived.
To the best of my knowledge, they can basically print CNTs in the 100's of nm's regime. They've got a web site, where I'm sure they tout their current node (equivalent) of products.
If you aren't learning it, 'hands-on', then you're not really soaking the concepts into your brain.
Calculus– Use pencil and paper. Lots of paper.
Circuits –Yes, bread-boarding is fine, but when you want to prototype, tightly integrating the components, w/soldered connections, then you should go through the process and do it for yourself. At least once.
It's not often that a company with a business model of charging BOTH ends lives very long.
Think RealAudio, and so on.
One industry that has managed to do this, for several decades, is academic publishing. In that case, you pay three times. Refereeing and writing articles for publication are "unpaid" activities.
I see that the FBI has a team out modding-down Slashdot posts that take a fact-based view.
How was the above flame-bait?
I myself have had false ITAR-level allegations leveled at me before.
Such shenanigans destroy lives. . . the lives of the very people that are working to educate future American scientists and engineers, and who work to aid the USA in maintaining technological dominance.
Way to go FBI & DOJ. Fuck your own citizens out of their enjoyment of life. Provide them ample motivation to keep any "valuable" discovery a secret from their own government. Provide us ample motivation to 'hold back' when teaching our students.
Ah, but with that said, I have 12 grad students and post-docs. Not a single one of them was born in the USA. Therefore, I do my best to teach them to be great scientists and excellent writers.
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I agree they overreacted, but when you build something that looks passingly like an IED, and then you take it to school, what the hell else can you expect?
US Army and other armed forced handbook provide instructions creating explosive devices from materials randomly at-hand, when in a dangerous, covert, or captured situation.
When Americans do it, is it an IED, or just an explosive device?
Why is it that the public has swallowed wholesale this new term of "IED" to mean, basically, "a bomb that someone we don't like prepared."?
Do Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, or whichever military contractors make the bombs put s "stamp of approval" on the things... one that notes that, "this explosive device has not been improvised."?
Distinction without a difference.
That's media for you, jump on the hype train. I know kids his age that can solder custom circuit boards I don't see anyone jumping through hoops to help them get a good education.
It's actually quite difficult these days for a curious young mind to disassemble, and then reassemble or re-use, components in an electronic device.
We have mostly moved past the era of individual devices, or standard-chip connectors, that can be de-soldered, and repurposed or re-used.
Miniaturization has given us the gift of microelectronics and packaged modules. Touch a soldering iron to one of the super-tiny leads, and you will fry the parts. Learning by dis-assembly is, in many cases, no longer possible.
Disassemble and re-purpose components of your iPhone, if you don't believe me. It's not possible. Everything is plug-in modules and glue-tacked leads.
The maker movement, however, holds promise. You can buy modules with standard leads or sockets. Get a Raspberry Pi, MyDAQ, a breadboard, or whichever, and you can make stuff... but only from purchased modules and components... never from anything scavenged.
...46% is less than half, so less than half of the people polled approve of how the president is doing things.
Look at this from a reporter's perspective.
46% = 0.46, which rounds up to 50%
That person's boss see's 50% (0.5), and rounds it up to 1. Voila, 100% approval rating.
...The numbers are actually kinda shockingly mediocre across the board (as compared to previous Presidents' polling trends)....
Really? Bush II started out around 90% just after the 9/11 events. (Any President would get that under such circumstances.)
That high approval rating quickly plummeted to an unprecedentedly low number. I think it was around 15% at one point.
Q: What do you call a person who graduated at the bottom of his/her class in medical school?
Doctor. (more accurately physician, but I digress)
Just don't shoot anyone with an IUD.
Them ladies are serious dating material!
True. The boy should get a medal for having innocuously shown the school and local 'authorities' to be xenophobes.
Exposing Systemic Xenophobia in the USA. That is what this entire affair has been about from the start.
It worked.
Edison Gates
Both horrible egotists, liars, and IP thieves.
The world would be a better place if Tesla had given Edison 20,000 Volts – personally, with an Amp or so accompanying.
I partially destroyed a bridge when I was growing up. Yes, for real. I exploited the harmonicities in a simple, symmetric truss-bridge. Anyone can do it – by hand.
I neither received a medal, nor was arrested. The statute of limitations is long-expired on this prank.
If anyone wants to give me a medal, or some (precious) metal, or perhaps even the mettle to go on living in this insane world, then please do. Just don't meddle in my affairs.
This whole "incident" was fabricated to generate media outrage,
If that is true, then BRAVO to the kid and his father.
It is about goddamned time we stop this "anti-terrorist" motivated drift towards the foment of inter-cultural hate.
That, and the US & Europe's drift in rhetoric (and real attacks) towards that, ahem, type of 'unpleasantness' that took place in Germany around the mid-20th century.
Same story, new target. History doesn't repeat itself, but it damned-well rhymes.
Can you cite any sources for your claims?
They are down from 4.5 million subscribers to 800,000.
Is it even note-worthy that they finally admit defeat?
Biased much?
The summary posted by the sysadmins reads like a PR-piece from Uber directly.
I have taken Uber three times. Aside from the first (free) ride, the charge for the ride has been 5X of the "estimated price.
Oh, and their driver pulled away immediately after "stopping" for the pickup. They charged me $10 for the "abandoned" ride-call.
Fuck Uber. Taxis – fully regulated & taxed – are indeed cheaper and more reliable.
Regulations exist for a reason
Each of the major credit reporting agencies must supply you a complete credit report annually upon request. Come on, this is not new.
https://annualcreditreport.com...
Technically, that is true. I've got mine in the past this way. But is there a penalty if they do not comply?
The Credit Agenccies make it a total pain to get the free report, and try to up-sell you crap left and right. I've had them give me "high traffic; try again later" a few times, too.
I ordered mine, on paper, two months ago. None have yet arrived.
Carbonics is in Stage II VC talks, I believe.
To the best of my knowledge, they can basically print CNTs in the 100's of nm's regime. They've got a web site, where I'm sure they tout their current node (equivalent) of products.
Perhaps sending Bezos into space is actually a really good idea, along with it being a solution to the problem.
I've taken Uber three times. First one was free.
Second ride had an estimate of $6 - 8. It was $35.
Third ride way under-estimated, too, with a similarly high charge.
A REAL TAXI would have been cheap for these short trips.
I enjoy, after paying $15, sitting through 20 minutes of advertisements, having people put their feet on my head-rest. . . to be treated like a thief.
I've been to a cinema once, perhaps twice, in the past 20 years for these reasons alone.
Maybe they could sell buggy whips in the lobby?
If you aren't learning it, 'hands-on', then you're not really soaking the concepts into your brain.
Calculus– Use pencil and paper. Lots of paper.
Circuits –Yes, bread-boarding is fine, but when you want to prototype, tightly integrating the components, w/soldered connections, then you should go through the process and do it for yourself. At least once.
It's not often that a company with a business model of charging BOTH ends lives very long.
Think RealAudio, and so on.
One industry that has managed to do this, for several decades, is academic publishing. In that case, you pay three times. Refereeing and writing articles for publication are "unpaid" activities.
Fortunately, this is slowly changing
Did DARPA do it?
DARPA did it.
What didn't DARPA do?!?
I see that the FBI has a team out modding-down Slashdot posts that take a fact-based view.
How was the above flame-bait?
I myself have had false ITAR-level allegations leveled at me before.
Such shenanigans destroy lives. . . the lives of the very people that are working to educate future American scientists and engineers, and who work to aid the USA in maintaining technological dominance.
Way to go FBI & DOJ. Fuck your own citizens out of their enjoyment of life. Provide them ample motivation to keep any "valuable" discovery a secret from their own government. Provide us ample motivation to 'hold back' when teaching our students.
Ah, but with that said, I have 12 grad students and post-docs. Not a single one of them was born in the USA. Therefore, I do my best to teach them to be great scientists and excellent writers.
It reads like a headline from The Onion.
I thought that felons were ineligible to run for the US Presidency.
?