Because the work of government is almost 100% pure tedium. No-one wants to watch what happens in committee meeting - even if that's where the laws are actually made, nor do are they prepared to sit through hours of televised debate.
But the laws aren't actually made there, either, except in a few rare cases. The laws are written by lobbyists and decided upon in behind the scenes deals; the committee meetings usually just ratify the deals already made. And in those rare cases, the committee meets in closed session.
Actually a switching power supply leaves the power DC.
It converts the power to DC, then to high frequency AC, then runs it through a transformer, then back to DC.
take a bunch of capacitors and charge them in parallel (for a voltage increase) or in series (for a voltage drop) and then discharge them in the opposite configuration. So if you charge two caps in series at 3V when you discharge them in parallel they will produce 1.5v each.
That's a charge pump, not your typical switching power supply. Check your own link.
Still, the point remains. If AC power had become more efficient or economical, they would have abandoned DC power for main/central equipment... they didn't.
The great advantage of AC over DC was the ease of voltage conversion. Nowadays, DC to DC conversion is almost as easy (though except at small currents, it's still done by converting to AC and then back to DC. The DC->AC stage is what has been improved). But of course there's an absolutely enormous AC infrastructure, and generally no compelling reason to switch to DC.
Running a data center on DC... OK, you get AC in. You convert to DC to your UPS unit. You convert back to AC, then back to DC, then to AC (inside the switching power supplies) then to various DC voltages. If you run on DC, you still get AC in. You convert to DC. You skip the chopper and don't convert back to AC. Then you leave out the front end rectifier on all your power supplies (meaning you need a whole bunch of custom parts!). How much energy do you save? Compared to managing to turn off your HVAC compressor by doing efficient heat exchange with outside air, not much. Which isn't to say it hasn't been considered; there's even been Slashdot articles about it.
The question is, why the hell didn't universites see the RIAA's challenges for what they were(bullshit) and begin to fight against the RIAA for their students much sooner? Last I checked, students pay the tuition, not the *AA's.
University administrators regard students rather like wardens regard prisoners at a minimum security institution.
Naa, a fascist, for the reasons you quote. Rather similar in effect (total government control), but those rich people willing to play along don't get shot under fascist regimes like they do in communist regimes. Probably short term more efficient that way, as you don't lose all your knowledge and expertise right off the bat.
So the genius-sysadmin had an open account on the system, which was used by the hacker, who then scanned for vulnerabilities and found a cgi hole. Is this what they call hacking these days? Sounds to me that the person Valve should be after are the numbnuts in charge of network and server security.
That is hacking, in the pejorative sense. Just like it's still breaking and entering if you leave a window open and a criminal reaches through the window to open the door, and still burglarly if he then clears all your valuables out.
Very few criminal hackers develop their own exploits. Relying on existing exploits and errors made by the other side doesn't make it "not hacking". It just makes it "easier hacking".
The US wants the world to deliver the people they say are criminals to the US penal system, but it is very hard to get it to work the other way. Even UK, the "special ally", finds it hard to get a US citizen extradited - and even their own citizens, sometimes.
This is what extradition treaties are for, to work out details like this (and BTW, if you represent a nation and are working on an extradition treaty with the US, make sure you specifically forbid the US from engaging in "extraordinary rendition", and specify that any violations shall be remedied by, in the least, repatriating the "rendered" suspect. It should go without saying but it doesn't)
However, there's no issue like that in this case. If someone in the US who has committed a crime in the UK travels there, the UK can arrest and try him and it's all perfectly legal regardless of whether the crime was extraditable or not.
As far as I know this kind of thing is not accepted in any other Western country; the are not allowed to use even "mild deception", like a knowingly letting a suspect believe something that isn't true, if it is likely to influence their defence. Which is why you read them their rights when they are arrested, BTW.
Eh? There's a country where the cops can't lie, at all, to suspects? Do you have any references to that?
In the US they can and do lie about almost anything; there's a few exceptions, like they can't have a prosecutor pretend to be a public defender (which has shown up on TV police procedurals, but I don't know if they've tried it in real life), and they can't threaten extrajudicial punishment to obtain a confession (which alas happens all the time, and the cops just deny it).
Why not reduce the amount of rubbish to begin with simply by not manufacturing so much stuff?
Because we like the stuff. All that "stuff" is what separates us from a subsistence existence of eating just enough rice and beans to give us enough energy to make more rice and beans and people before we die.
(this being slashdot, it also serves as a _substitute_ for making more people...)
What a ridiculous statement. Yes, viruses and bacteria mutate, but a vaccine is a good way of fighting it. Small pox didn't suddenly get worse when everyone got vaccinated, on the contrary, it was pretty much eradicated, save for lab samples.
It's the only one, though; the vaccine was extraordinarily effective, the vaccine was not prepared from the same virus, and probably most importantly, there was (and is) no non-human reservoir for the disease.
Flu vaccine is notoriously ineffective and there are plenty of non-human reservoirs.
Flu vaccine won't cause autism and won't turn you into a zombie (that's what Nyquil is for), but IME there's a strong positive correlation between getting the flu vaccine and getting the flu. I'll pass.
Those guidelines were basically pulled out of the ass of a group called the "Consortium of College and University Media Centers". Neither the copyright holders nor the courts nor the legislature was involved in creating them. They don't have legal force.
also notable: reflective amplification. that's the methodology employed. i'm not really sure, but i think that's where you dupe completely unrelated systems into responding to forged packets. someone wiser than me on these issues: is that the general drift?
Yeah. The "smurf" attack -- where you forge an ICMP Echo Request to some large broadcast address -- is the prototype for that sort of thing. Any service which will generate a reply to an unverified source address is a potential middleman, though.
Both potassium hydroxide (also sodium hydroxide) and sulfuric acid, at high concentrations, are used in drain cleaners/clog removers. So yes, Home Depot does keep them literally right next to each other. I'd guess by haphazardly mixing them together you'd get potassium sulfate and potassium bisulfate (if there was an excess of acid). You'd definitely get a lot of heat and acidic and caustic compounds spraying all over the place.
The hydrochloric acid is nearby, in the toilet cleaner, at much lower concentrations.
Still the wonder of the Internet can bring almost anything to your door if you are willing to wait a few days.
A trip to Home Depot can net some interesting stuff too. Sulfuric acid, Hydrochloric acid, and Potassium Hydroxide, all sold right next to each other in the plumbing aisle.
Now all the tinkering is just done in labs that have access to "controlled" substances.
There are very few such labs which allow "tinkering". Such labs tend to be run either by for-profit entities which expect you to do profitable work, or research insttitutions which expect you to do work which will get you grants.
In any case, the authorites come down even on non-controlled substances, as the article indicates. What chemists consider "dangerous" isn't the same as what the authorites do. From the article, one Nobel Prize winning chemist talking about his home lab: "I don't have anything that is dangerous in my lab. I have many chemicals in small amounts--salts and buffers" as well as some organic solvents, such as methanol, Shimomura says."
Methanol is both highly toxic and highly flammable. That's what the authorities would call "dangerous" if they raided his lab (though they wouldn't blink at gasoline). I'm guessing many of those salts are at least poisonous.
And the great thing is that bankruptcy does not wipe out student debt.
You could use one of those creepy "debt consolidation" services which offers loans at rapaciously high interest rates... pay off the student loan, then declare bankruptcy on the consolidation service.
Some details of the formulation & production were deliberately left out of the patent in order to retain trade secrets.
Then your patent should be invalidated for not disclosing sufficient information to allow a practicitioner skilled in the art to build the patented product.
Similarly, any patents produced via Halliburton's method should be invalidated on the basis of fraud -- if I figure out, through reverse-engineering, the trade secrets embodied in someone else's invention, I still haven't actually _invented_ them. It's not the same as a case of independent invention.
One thing that people don't realize is that when retailers declare bankruptcy, their gift cards are worthless. You're considered an unsecured creditor, which puts you in the back of the line among all other creditors.
It gets worse. Suppose you've ordered something, and paid for it, but the store hasn't delivered it yet. This undelivered merchandise is part of the bankruptcy estate and can end up being re-sold to pay off other creditors.
And I have a hard time calling it socialism to ask people who make more than $250,000 to pay 3% more tax so they can temporarily help out struggling people and get our economy back on track.
There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax increase. And Obama hasn't even made the claim that it is to be temporary. The only thing temporary will be that $250,000 ceiling -- that'll be reduced.
BTW, if the top tax rate was currently 97%, how would you feel about that "3%" tax increase?
I think a large part of it may come from the fact that all the right wing hawks moan about news stories about Rush Limbaugh's drug addiction and hypocrisy about it as "persecution" but stories about Bill Clinton getting a blowjob and how it should cause him to be impeached as "standing up for morals and family values".
No. It's more substantive than that. Most US media outlets are biased towards universal health care (and most of them towards single-payer). Most US media outlets are biased towards gay marriage. Most US media outlets are biased towards greater regulation (of anything) and towards hair-shirt environmentalism. It's not at all subtle; it's impossible to miss unless you happen to agree with their agenda.
You often hear hard-right folks complaining about liberal media bias. And I also often hear hard-left folks whining about the media's conservative bias.
The hard-left folks are responding to the media's _establishment_ bias. It's not conservative at all in the left-right political sense, but it is conservative in the older sense. The media (Fox excepted) pretty clearly is biased towards the area of the political spectrum occupied by the Democratic party.
No. Any business that can pay someone over $250,000 a year is, by definition, not a small business.
Evidentally, you haven't checked the definition of "small business" lately.
I don't know why the media and Obama blithely put up with the lie that the line was '$250,000', implying that if the business made that much, it would be taxed more. $250,000 was for personal income tax.
Take a look at IRS Form 1040, Schedule C sometime. Not all businesses are separately incorporated.
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But the laws aren't actually made there, either, except in a few rare cases. The laws are written by lobbyists and decided upon in behind the scenes deals; the committee meetings usually just ratify the deals already made. And in those rare cases, the committee meets in closed session.
It converts the power to DC, then to high frequency AC, then runs it through a transformer, then back to DC.
That's a charge pump, not your typical switching power supply. Check your own link.
The great advantage of AC over DC was the ease of voltage conversion. Nowadays, DC to DC conversion is almost as easy (though except at small currents, it's still done by converting to AC and then back to DC. The DC->AC stage is what has been improved). But of course there's an absolutely enormous AC infrastructure, and generally no compelling reason to switch to DC.
Running a data center on DC... OK, you get AC in. You convert to DC to your UPS unit. You convert back to AC, then back to DC, then to AC (inside the switching power supplies) then to various DC voltages. If you run on DC, you still get AC in. You convert to DC. You skip the chopper and don't convert back to AC. Then you leave out the front end rectifier on all your power supplies (meaning you need a whole bunch of custom parts!). How much energy do you save? Compared to managing to turn off your HVAC compressor by doing efficient heat exchange with outside air, not much. Which isn't to say it hasn't been considered; there's even been Slashdot articles about it.
University administrators regard students rather like wardens regard prisoners at a minimum security institution.
Naa, a fascist, for the reasons you quote. Rather similar in effect (total government control), but those rich people willing to play along don't get shot under fascist regimes like they do in communist regimes. Probably short term more efficient that way, as you don't lose all your knowledge and expertise right off the bat.
That is hacking, in the pejorative sense. Just like it's still breaking and entering if you leave a window open and a criminal reaches through the window to open the door, and still burglarly if he then clears all your valuables out.
Very few criminal hackers develop their own exploits. Relying on existing exploits and errors made by the other side doesn't make it "not hacking". It just makes it "easier hacking".
This is what extradition treaties are for, to work out details like this (and BTW, if you represent a nation and are working on an extradition treaty with the US, make sure you specifically forbid the US from engaging in "extraordinary rendition", and specify that any violations shall be remedied by, in the least, repatriating the "rendered" suspect. It should go without saying but it doesn't)
However, there's no issue like that in this case. If someone in the US who has committed a crime in the UK travels there, the UK can arrest and try him and it's all perfectly legal regardless of whether the crime was extraditable or not.
Eh? There's a country where the cops can't lie, at all, to suspects? Do you have any references to that?
In the US they can and do lie about almost anything; there's a few exceptions, like they can't have a prosecutor pretend to be a public defender (which has shown up on TV police procedurals, but I don't know if they've tried it in real life), and they can't threaten extrajudicial punishment to obtain a confession (which alas happens all the time, and the cops just deny it).
Holocaust deniers aren't too swift on the logic front.
Because we like the stuff. All that "stuff" is what separates us from a subsistence existence of eating just enough rice and beans to give us enough energy to make more rice and beans and people before we die.
(this being slashdot, it also serves as a _substitute_ for making more people...)
Uh, yeah. That's because adults who regularly get the flu shot tend to be a lot older than average.
It's the only one, though; the vaccine was extraordinarily effective, the vaccine was not prepared from the same virus, and probably most importantly, there was (and is) no non-human reservoir for the disease.
Flu vaccine is notoriously ineffective and there are plenty of non-human reservoirs.
Flu vaccine won't cause autism and won't turn you into a zombie (that's what Nyquil is for), but IME there's a strong positive correlation between getting the flu vaccine and getting the flu. I'll pass.
Those guidelines were basically pulled out of the ass of a group called the "Consortium of College and University Media Centers". Neither the copyright holders nor the courts nor the legislature was involved in creating them. They don't have legal force.
Yeah. The "smurf" attack -- where you forge an ICMP Echo Request to some large broadcast address -- is the prototype for that sort of thing. Any service which will generate a reply to an unverified source address is a potential middleman, though.
Both potassium hydroxide (also sodium hydroxide) and sulfuric acid, at high concentrations, are used in drain cleaners/clog removers. So yes, Home Depot does keep them literally right next to each other. I'd guess by haphazardly mixing them together you'd get potassium sulfate and potassium bisulfate (if there was an excess of acid). You'd definitely get a lot of heat and acidic and caustic compounds spraying all over the place.
The hydrochloric acid is nearby, in the toilet cleaner, at much lower concentrations.
A trip to Home Depot can net some interesting stuff too. Sulfuric acid, Hydrochloric acid, and Potassium Hydroxide, all sold right next to each other in the plumbing aisle.
You can't bring about a free society by increasing oppression. Criminals are an excuse for oppression, but they are not a _reason_ for it.
There are very few such labs which allow "tinkering". Such labs tend to be run either by for-profit entities which expect you to do profitable work, or research insttitutions which expect you to do work which will get you grants.
In any case, the authorites come down even on non-controlled substances, as the article indicates. What chemists consider "dangerous" isn't the same as what the authorites do. From the article, one Nobel Prize winning chemist talking about his home lab: "I don't have anything that is dangerous in my lab. I have many chemicals in small amounts--salts and buffers" as well as some organic solvents, such as methanol, Shimomura says."
Methanol is both highly toxic and highly flammable. That's what the authorities would call "dangerous" if they raided his lab (though they wouldn't blink at gasoline). I'm guessing many of those salts are at least poisonous.
You could use one of those creepy "debt consolidation" services which offers loans at rapaciously high interest rates... pay off the student loan, then declare bankruptcy on the consolidation service.
Then your patent should be invalidated for not disclosing sufficient information to allow a practicitioner skilled in the art to build the patented product.
Similarly, any patents produced via Halliburton's method should be invalidated on the basis of fraud -- if I figure out, through reverse-engineering, the trade secrets embodied in someone else's invention, I still haven't actually _invented_ them. It's not the same as a case of independent invention.
It gets worse. Suppose you've ordered something, and paid for it, but the store hasn't delivered it yet. This undelivered merchandise is part of the bankruptcy estate and can end up being re-sold to pay off other creditors.
No. It's more substantive than that. Most US media outlets are biased towards universal health care (and most of them towards single-payer). Most US media outlets are biased towards gay marriage. Most US media outlets are biased towards greater regulation (of anything) and towards hair-shirt environmentalism. It's not at all subtle; it's impossible to miss unless you happen to agree with their agenda.
The hard-left folks are responding to the media's _establishment_ bias. It's not conservative at all in the left-right political sense, but it is conservative in the older sense. The media (Fox excepted) pretty clearly is biased towards the area of the political spectrum occupied by the Democratic party.
Evidentally, you haven't checked the definition of "small business" lately.
Take a look at IRS Form 1040, Schedule C sometime. Not all businesses are separately incorporated.
And in other news, 86% of all Internet statistics are made up.