The USPS has been periodically proposing to cancel Saturday delivery for years. It means they want something -- some subsidy, an increase in rates, whatever. In order to get what they want, they claim that as an alternative to getting it, they'll eliminate something highly visible and desired; Saturday delivery in this case. This ensures they'll get what they want.
This is called the Washington Monument strategy after the (possibly apocryphal) story of the National Park Service claiming that if it didn't get a certain budget increase it would have to cut costs by closing the Washington Monument.
Problem number three occurred when the high frequency trading systems detected this apparent price difference and attempted to capitalize on it, driving the cost for the affected stocks even low and generating more quotes on those stocks as well, causing a feedback loop that bottomed out the market.
Yep. This being slashdot, I'll provide a car analogy. Suppose you've got an automatic steering system intended to make a car follow a straight line. It samples at, say 5Hz, and turns the steering wheel left or right depending on the detected deviation from the line. Works great.
Now take that same system and put it on the QE2. Hmm, the QE2 is moving a little left of the line. Steer right. Next sample... same thing, steer harder right. Next sample, same thing, steer harder right. The feedback from turning the rudder is far slower than the control loop, so the system fails badly.
Given those estimates, if an hour of your time is worth more than $60 to you, then it's more efficient to pay someone else to do the repair, unless you get some sort of deep emotional fulfillment out of repairing your washing machine.
Hey, we're mostly geeks here -- he probably DOES get some emotional fulfillment out of repairing his washing machine. I know I get a sense of satisfaction from doing same. Though when I recently tried, I found the outer drum was rusted through in spots. $250 part (including shipping), backordered from everywhere (probably actually discontinued), a bear of a job anyway, 25 year old machine... new washer time.
But your efficiency calculations miss a couple of important things. One is that time to get someone else to do the work isn't free either. You spend time calling them (and on hold with them). They then give you a four-hour window (or worse, a whole day) in which they can show up, time you're stuck waiting for them. Then they miss that window and you're stuck waiting some more and making more phone calls. Then they tell you they can't do the job without some part they didn't bring with them, and it's another service call.
The other is that they like to jack up the price once they're on the job, even if they quoted you a flat rate. Having just bought a house I've been getting a lot of that lately. So you end up wasting time AND money trying to get someone else to do it, particularly if you don't work from home and have to take time off to wait for them.
"It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state."
Problem is, there's a vast amount of dual-use technology. I mean, sure, working on censorware or the Great Firewall of China or something similar is directly facilitating a police state. But video cameras? (universal surveillance, modern Western democracies notably including the UK) Punched cards (tracking enemies of the state, Nazi Germany, sorry Mike)? Microphones (bugs, Soviet Russia and everywhere else), telephones (easily tapped conversations, US and elsewhere), cell phones (owner easily located, US and elsewhere)? OCR, face recognition?
I was in NYC and didn't notice anything. But then, I was on the PATH, on one of the older cars, so I'd not have noticed anything that didn't actually knock the car off the track.
Yet, they looked at me like I was some sort of "n00b" for not knowing PHP. Partly, I didn't have any desire to know PHP.
"Oh, PHP. It's like PERL, only without the powerful regular expression syntax." Then when they don't get the joke (and the real joke is it's true), mutter about getting off your lawn.
Despite all the noise, the most sinister claims made about the US government are that
1) The self-confessed whistleblower, Manning, is being held "incommunicado" in Kuwait and 2) The military would like to question Assange.
Manning hasn't been disappeared, vaporized, liquidated, or what have you; there's not even an allegation that the UCMJ has been violated in his case. And there's nothing at all strange or nefarious about the military wanting to question someone who received classified material; they'd hardly be doing their job if they didn't. If I was Assange I'd certainly avoid the US, but ascribing evil intentions or actions to the US military or the government in general is at least premature.
..sure, in the US, schools have the right and perhaps the duty to block SSL searches. On the other hand, the behavior of both the censors and the censorware providers argues strongly for the idea that censors are scum of the earth.
Calcium chloride is interesting: put a pan of it in a humid room and it dissolves in the water it absorbs. But it also gets hot when it does so, which would seem to defeat the purpose. I wonder how they get around that problem.
Sure, anyone can do it, but having everything plumb/square, putting the holes for outlets in the right places without big gaps that negate the nice insulation you just installed, making the seams look nice, and not ruining your carpet in the process is more effort and learning curve than many are willing or able to put in.
When the professionals get those details right, then you can complain about suggesting people do it themselves. Professional = getting paid for the job = (too often) will take any shortcut which reduces time on the job.
I mean really, there's no excuse for driving drunk, but if the bar is within walking distance of your house, then there's both no excuse and no reason.
It's illegal to walk home drunk under public intoxication statutes. It's illegal to take public transportation home drunk under those same statutes. It's illegal to bicycle home drunk under DUI and/or public intoxication statutes. It's illegal to drive home drunk. And in Texas in Virginia, it's illegal to even be in a bar drunk under public intoxication statutes. All this, MADD supports. (It used to be that the bar for public intoxication was set high enough that if you could find your house, you could legally walk to it. Nowadays, at least in certain states including those two, prosecutors argue and courts agree that the DUI threshold should be used for public intoxication as well).
Or to ask them how Sr/Jr can be done foe more the 2 generations.
Several ways.
1) Dynastic: Sr. (called that when Jr. is born), Jr., III, IV, etc 2) Dynamic: Sr. (called that when Jr. is born), Jr. (called only when his dad is around -- later in life will be called Sr. when his son is around), Jr. (called that when his dad or grandpa are around) 3) Alternating: Sr, Jr, Sr, Jr. Weird, but people do it.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act does not attempt to distinguish between "old school radio channels" and "wifi hotspots". The criteria for a radio communication "readily accessible to the general public" and thus unprotected are listed in the law, and they apply to WiFi hotspots.
Bad analogy there - in general, if I do something with the reasonable expectation of privacy, and you listen in, you're probably breaking some law even if it's really easy to listen in. The technical difficulty of overhearing is not at all relevant.
Only... it turns out it is. See my cite of 18 USC 2510 earlier. This probably doesn't invalidate the first part of your statement, as it is likely that transmitting things unencrypted on a radio channel does not result in a reasonable expectation of privacy.
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The USPS has been periodically proposing to cancel Saturday delivery for years. It means they want something -- some subsidy, an increase in rates, whatever. In order to get what they want, they claim that as an alternative to getting it, they'll eliminate something highly visible and desired; Saturday delivery in this case. This ensures they'll get what they want.
This is called the Washington Monument strategy after the (possibly apocryphal) story of the National Park Service claiming that if it didn't get a certain budget increase it would have to cut costs by closing the Washington Monument.
Enough Chinese people, but not enough logistics.
Yep. This being slashdot, I'll provide a car analogy. Suppose you've got an automatic steering system intended to make a car follow a straight line. It samples at, say 5Hz, and turns the steering wheel left or right depending on the detected deviation from the line. Works great.
Now take that same system and put it on the QE2. Hmm, the QE2 is moving a little left of the line. Steer right. Next sample... same thing, steer harder right. Next sample, same thing, steer harder right. The feedback from turning the rudder is far slower than the control loop, so the system fails badly.
The article claims that Proctor and Gamble was trailing the market, not the cause of the crash.
Hey, we're mostly geeks here -- he probably DOES get some emotional fulfillment out of repairing his washing machine. I know I get a sense of satisfaction from doing same. Though when I recently tried, I found the outer drum was rusted through in spots. $250 part (including shipping), backordered from everywhere (probably actually discontinued), a bear of a job anyway, 25 year old machine... new washer time.
But your efficiency calculations miss a couple of important things. One is that time to get someone else to do the work isn't free either. You spend time calling them (and on hold with them). They then give you a four-hour window (or worse, a whole day) in which they can show up, time you're stuck waiting for them. Then they miss that window and you're stuck waiting some more and making more phone calls. Then they tell you they can't do the job without some part they didn't bring with them, and it's another service call.
The other is that they like to jack up the price once they're on the job, even if they quoted you a flat rate. Having just bought a house I've been getting a lot of that lately. So you end up wasting time AND money trying to get someone else to do it, particularly if you don't work from home and have to take time off to wait for them.
Problem is, there's a vast amount of dual-use technology. I mean, sure, working on censorware or the Great Firewall of China or something similar is directly facilitating a police state. But video cameras? (universal surveillance, modern Western democracies notably including the UK) Punched cards (tracking enemies of the state, Nazi Germany, sorry Mike)? Microphones (bugs, Soviet Russia and everywhere else), telephones (easily tapped conversations, US and elsewhere), cell phones (owner easily located, US and elsewhere)? OCR, face recognition?
New York County = Manhattan. And that's its population; I'd guess at any given time it likely actually has far more people within it.
I was in NYC and didn't notice anything. But then, I was on the PATH, on one of the older cars, so I'd not have noticed anything that didn't actually knock the car off the track.
Lucas Entertainment will be sending you a cease and desist notice momentarily....
(err, wait, make that Lucasfilm Limited... best not to get those mixed up)
"Oh, PHP. It's like PERL, only without the powerful regular expression syntax." Then when they don't get the joke (and the real joke is it's true), mutter about getting off your lawn.
Google search: tortoises desert solar
As was once said of the USSR, if the US ran the Sahara we'd have a sand shortage.
Despite all the noise, the most sinister claims made about the US government are that
1) The self-confessed whistleblower, Manning, is being held "incommunicado" in Kuwait and
2) The military would like to question Assange.
Manning hasn't been disappeared, vaporized, liquidated, or what have you; there's not even an allegation that the UCMJ has been violated in his case. And there's nothing at all strange or nefarious about the military wanting to question someone who received classified material; they'd hardly be doing their job if they didn't. If I was Assange I'd certainly avoid the US, but ascribing evil intentions or actions to the US military or the government in general is at least premature.
..sure, in the US, schools have the right and perhaps the duty to block SSL searches. On the other hand, the behavior of both the censors and the censorware providers argues strongly for the idea that censors are scum of the earth.
The inverse, however, is not true.
Calcium chloride is interesting: put a pan of it in a humid room and it dissolves in the water it absorbs. But it also gets hot when it does so, which would seem to defeat the purpose. I wonder how they get around that problem.
When the professionals get those details right, then you can complain about suggesting people do it themselves. Professional = getting paid for the job = (too often) will take any shortcut which reduces time on the job.
Don't mess with TCP and resends; send the data redundantly using FEC -- Flock Error Correction.
It's illegal to walk home drunk under public intoxication statutes. It's illegal to take public transportation home drunk under those same statutes. It's illegal to bicycle home drunk under DUI and/or public intoxication statutes. It's illegal to drive home drunk. And in Texas in Virginia, it's illegal to even be in a bar drunk under public intoxication statutes. All this, MADD supports. (It used to be that the bar for public intoxication was set high enough that if you could find your house, you could legally walk to it. Nowadays, at least in certain states including those two, prosecutors argue and courts agree that the DUI threshold should be used for public intoxication as well).
Citation needed.
"Mission Accomplished".
But that would be cultural imperialism!
(and if we're going to do it, can we drag certain parts of the US out too?)
Several ways.
1) Dynastic: Sr. (called that when Jr. is born), Jr., III, IV, etc
2) Dynamic: Sr. (called that when Jr. is born), Jr. (called only when his dad is around -- later in life will be called Sr. when his son is around), Jr. (called that when his dad or grandpa are around)
3) Alternating: Sr, Jr, Sr, Jr. Weird, but people do it.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act does not attempt to distinguish between "old school radio channels" and "wifi hotspots". The criteria for a radio communication "readily accessible to the general public" and thus unprotected are listed in the law, and they apply to WiFi hotspots.
Only... it turns out it is. See my cite of 18 USC 2510 earlier. This probably doesn't invalidate the first part of your statement, as it is likely that transmitting things unencrypted on a radio channel does not result in a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Intent of the alleged victim is not what matters for most laws; for most offenses, intent of the alleged offender is a factor, not the victim.