Same thing I've got against significant non-polluting renewable energy (aside from hydro), fusion power, compact fluorescent lights, and clean diesel vehicles.
Which is that I've been hearing my entire lifetime that these things are just around the corner. Peek around the corner, and all you get is disappointment. Fusion power is no closer than it ever was. Every iteration of diesel vehicles are proclaimed as wonderful high-efficiency non-smoking vehicles, but they all emit clouds of smoke anyway. Renewable energy either ends up being ridiculously limited or enormously expensive or both. CFLs remain the poor-quality lighting they've always been, but now they've got a law behind them.
Same goes for electric cars. Always the promise, always the hype, never the delivery. Maybe it'll be different this time. But I wouldn't bet on it.
As for emissions, I ran the numbers myself for a coal-powered Tesla Roadster. Still roughly half the CO2 than an ordinary 30mpg car, counting emissions from the powerplant (but not mining the fuel, etc, which would have to be accounted for in both). I haven't tried for the Tesla S.
And yet the US is adamant in it's right to enforce it's laws on internet presences that are not based in the US because they are used by US citizens. You can't have it both ways.
I don't want it both ways. I want the US government to be told to go fuck itself if it tries to apply US law to a foreign site.
The only way this comment would make any sense would be if Facebook specifically blocked anyone who wasn't a US citizen from using their service.
So if you don't explicitly prevent people from other countries from using your service, your service is subject to the laws of every country your users hail from? That's going to get ugly real fast.
âoeA lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.â
The question is, how to effectively communicate this to clients.
I believe the tradition is with a contract that specifies sufficiently rapacious bill rates for situations resulting from lack of planning that it encourages planning, and failing that, provides enough money that you can take time off looking for the next gig.
How about we ditch the Software Engineering curriculum entirely, and stick with CS? Because standard software engineering practices produce nothing but a lot of paperwork behind overbudget projects.
The constitution is in tatters, our freedoms are an illusion, and everybody thinks that as long as they can drive to a ball game and have a beer everything is just fine.
And one side is working to get rid of the driving. The other side would be working on getting rid of the beer if they didn't need redneck support.
Will it be OK for a young boy/man to join a radical group based on some rather violent ideas he, as an angry teenager, believes to be true, and later realizing how nonsensical it all was to just move on - or will he have no other choice but to stick with that crowd his entire life as it's the only group that will accept him?
Oh, we passed that line before the Internet was formed. Stop me if this is sounding familiar: "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of..." Two endings to it, "the Communist party?" and the still-asked "any group that advocates the violent overthrow of the United States Government?"
Shoplifting, BTW, is not forgiven. If you shoplifted at 18, you can't work in a bank when you're 58. That's by Federal law, and quite a few bank employees have been dismissed as a result since it was put into effect.
Does toughening drunk driving laws actually reduce drunk driving? Or is it just a moneymaker for the police departments running all the checkpoints and stuff?
Mostly it just gives the authoritarians a cheap thrill.
So you're expecting that someone is just going to hand you an opportunity?
Thing about opportunities is by definition (and despite the platitudes of self-help writers) you can't create them ex nihilo. They have to arise for you to take advantage of them.
Doesn't that mean there's an opportunity to make college affordable?
No.
You expect to elevate yourself with a 9 to 5 job? Isn't there an opportunity to find people jobs?
No, recruiters often find themselves unemployed as well. It's not a matter of the jobs being there and the people being unable to find them; in many cases an appropriate job simply isn't unavailable. Simple pigeonhole principle: if there are more job-seekers than jobs, someone's going to be left out in the cold.
You don't suppose there's someway to elevate yourself by finding a way to help people respond to natural disasters?
FEMA and "anti-gouging" laws prevent that.
You don't suppose there's someway to elevate yourself by fixing bridges? By improving health care?
Nope. Fixing bridges take money, a lot of it. Improving heath care doesn't work because there's far too many entrenched interests enjoying the broken system, and the other powerful players simply want it broken differently.
Senate Bill 47 (Yee) expands the definition of âoeassault weaponsâ to BAN the future sale of rifles that have been designed/sold and are equipped to use the âoebullet buttonâ or similar device, requires NEW âoeassault weaponâ registration of ALL those semi-auto rifles that are currently possessed to retain legal possession in the future, and subjects these firearms to all other âoeassault weaponsâ restrictions.
I wondered WTF a "bullet button" was, so I looked it up. Apparently, California has some law banning rifles where you can remove the magazine without using a tool. So someone came up with a magazine release where a bullet would work as a tool. Now as long as you happen to have a bullet with you (and hey, who doesn't?), you can reload quickly. Make stupid bans, people find workarounds.
The significant fact of that measurement is that it's the highest one they've ever recorded.
And they've gotten a new highest one almost much every year since they started in 1958. I don't know if it's "significant", but it's not unexpected. The 400 is pretty much arbitrary.
And I mean it sincerely. Sure, the DSM just categorizes sets of symptoms. But the problem with basing diagnoses on actual conditions is we have little idea what those actual conditions are, and not for lack of research.
This would require vast storage, incredible database crossreferencing, would imply certain kinds of information be available not only without warrants, but without ever needing to pull the original data. Not only would warrants be redundant, so would National Security Letters.
No. Data taken from warrants and NSLs can be used in court and the FBI can admit they have it and not worry about giving away their capabilities by acting as if they have it. Data taken in a dragnet like this could only be used secretly.
All without a single patriot in the government going public and blowing the lid off this, yet simultaneously putting this information in the hands of someone willing to shoot their mouth off on CNN.
Except that it has been revealed. People just seem to keep forgetting, like they forget the Tuskeegee experiment, like they forget the Gulf of Tonkin "incident", or various other nasty things the government has done.
What you said: "The very same day, the head of the NRA said that all americans should be trained in automatic weapons for the eventual day when we have to take over our government."
What NRA President Jim Porter ACTUALLY said: "And I am one who still feels very strongly that that is one of our most greatest charges that we can have today, is to train the civilian in the use of the standard military firearm, so that when they have to fight for their country theyâ(TM)re ready to do it. Also, when theyâ(TM)re ready to fight tyranny, theyâ(TM)re ready to do it. Also, when theyâ(TM)re ready to fight tyranny, they have the wherewithal and the weapons to do it."
So training, yes. With automatic weapons, yes. But to take over our government... well, are you suggesting we're living in a tyranny, tovarisch?
So no, the NRA is still not in that category of organizations which advocates the violent overthrow of the United States government. Nice try, though.
If Syria wants computers that are available on the open market anywhere in the world, they'll get them. Even if every company in Dell's supply chain was 100% committed to upholding the export rules (which, obviously, they aren't), all the Syrians would have to do is set up a company in a non-restricted country to buy them by lying to a distributor about being Syrian owned, then ship them over the border themselves.
If you still have a modem lying around and something to dial up to, you can get a rough idea of how far your copper goes by seeing if you can actually get 56.6 kbps downstream. The official phone standard only supports a band of frequencies (300-3000 Hz) sufficient to squeeze in about 30-35 kbps of data transfer. The 56kbps standard exploits the larger physical capacity of copper lines to push more data in the downstream direction, by replacing the usual DAC on the phone-company end with a codec that directly switches line voltages, with the effect of using more of the copper's bandwidth... as long as it doesn't go through another filter at any point in the process, in which case you won't be able to get better than 33.6.
This is nonsense. The 56Kbps standard does not use frequencies outside the standard range of phone frequencies (DSL does, but that's another story). In fact, 56K requires that the far end be direct to digital.
What can cut you down to 33.6 is if there's an old copper pair gain system; this would result in two conversions from digital to analog and 56K wouldn't work. 56K will work with a modern fiber DLC (digital loop carrier) because the second conversion doesn't happen; it's all digital from the DLC to the main PSTN.
Why then is Apple capable of releasing polished products from the beginning?
Like the original Mac laptop, a 16 pound black and white device with a 68000 running at 8Mhz with 8MB of RAM? The original Apple tablet (a.k.a the Newton)?
Slashdot Mirror
Same thing I've got against significant non-polluting renewable energy (aside from hydro), fusion power, compact fluorescent lights, and clean diesel vehicles.
Which is that I've been hearing my entire lifetime that these things are just around the corner. Peek around the corner, and all you get is disappointment. Fusion power is no closer than it ever was. Every iteration of diesel vehicles are proclaimed as wonderful high-efficiency non-smoking vehicles, but they all emit clouds of smoke anyway. Renewable energy either ends up being ridiculously limited or enormously expensive or both. CFLs remain the poor-quality lighting they've always been, but now they've got a law behind them.
Same goes for electric cars. Always the promise, always the hype, never the delivery. Maybe it'll be different this time. But I wouldn't bet on it.
As for emissions, I ran the numbers myself for a coal-powered Tesla Roadster. Still roughly half the CO2 than an ordinary 30mpg car, counting emissions from the powerplant (but not mining the fuel, etc, which would have to be accounted for in both). I haven't tried for the Tesla S.
tl;dr: Where is my flying car?
I don't want it both ways. I want the US government to be told to go fuck itself if it tries to apply US law to a foreign site.
So if you don't explicitly prevent people from other countries from using your service, your service is subject to the laws of every country your users hail from? That's going to get ugly real fast.
I believe the tradition is with a contract that specifies sufficiently rapacious bill rates for situations resulting from lack of planning that it encourages planning, and failing that, provides enough money that you can take time off looking for the next gig.
How about we ditch the Software Engineering curriculum entirely, and stick with CS? Because standard software engineering practices produce nothing but a lot of paperwork behind overbudget projects.
And one side is working to get rid of the driving. The other side would be working on getting rid of the beer if they didn't need redneck support.
Oh, we passed that line before the Internet was formed. Stop me if this is sounding familiar: "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of..."
Two endings to it, "the Communist party?" and the still-asked "any group that advocates the violent overthrow of the United States Government?"
Shoplifting, BTW, is not forgiven. If you shoplifted at 18, you can't work in a bank when you're 58. That's by Federal law, and quite a few bank employees have been dismissed as a result since it was put into effect.
Any cell phone company, but under contract with Verizon.
Mostly it just gives the authoritarians a cheap thrill.
They call Maryland a "top public university"? Ha! US News is slipping.
Room and board add another $10K, BTW.
...goes to Germany, with the V1 buzz bomb launched on June 13, 1944.
Oh, are Fortran and Lisp still fighting it out?
1960s
Pioneered by SGI in the 1980s and 1990s. Except using matrices to transform vector spaces, which has been around longer than the computer.
Ancient.
1980s at the latest.
As old as databases.
A novel combination I'll admit... app programmers having to worry about what embedded programmers were worrying about all along.
Anyway, the details have changed on all of these things, but most of these don't involve new concepts.
I wondered WTF a "bullet button" was, so I looked it up. Apparently, California has some law banning rifles where you can remove the magazine without using a tool. So someone came up with a magazine release where a bullet would work as a tool. Now as long as you happen to have a bullet with you (and hey, who doesn't?), you can reload quickly. Make stupid bans, people find workarounds.
And they've gotten a new highest one almost much every year since they started in 1958. I don't know if it's "significant", but it's not unexpected. The 400 is pretty much arbitrary.
It went into executive compensation, where else?
A rebellion becomes a civil war when it becomes clear it won't be quickly quashed.
The pen is only as mighty as the number of swords it can summon.
And I mean it sincerely. Sure, the DSM just categorizes sets of symptoms. But the problem with basing diagnoses on actual conditions is we have little idea what those actual conditions are, and not for lack of research.
No. Data taken from warrants and NSLs can be used in court and the FBI can admit they have it and not worry about giving away their capabilities by acting as if they have it. Data taken in a dragnet like this could only be used secretly.
Except that it has been revealed. People just seem to keep forgetting, like they forget the Tuskeegee experiment, like they forget the Gulf of Tonkin "incident", or various other nasty things the government has done.
What you said:
"The very same day, the head of the NRA said that all americans should be trained in automatic weapons for the eventual day when we have to take over our government."
What NRA President Jim Porter ACTUALLY said:
"And I am one who still feels very strongly that that is one of our most greatest charges that we can have today, is to train the civilian in the use of the standard military firearm, so that when they have to fight for their country theyâ(TM)re ready to do it. Also, when theyâ(TM)re ready to fight tyranny, theyâ(TM)re ready to do it. Also, when theyâ(TM)re ready to fight tyranny, they have the wherewithal and the weapons to do it."
So training, yes. With automatic weapons, yes. But to take over our government... well, are you suggesting we're living in a tyranny, tovarisch?
So no, the NRA is still not in that category of organizations which advocates the violent overthrow of the United States government. Nice try, though.
If Syria wants computers that are available on the open market anywhere in the world, they'll get them. Even if every company in Dell's supply chain was 100% committed to upholding the export rules (which, obviously, they aren't), all the Syrians would have to do is set up a company in a non-restricted country to buy them by lying to a distributor about being Syrian owned, then ship them over the border themselves.
This is nonsense. The 56Kbps standard does not use frequencies outside the standard range of phone frequencies (DSL does, but that's another story). In fact, 56K requires that the far end be direct to digital.
What can cut you down to 33.6 is if there's an old copper pair gain system; this would result in two conversions from digital to analog and 56K wouldn't work. 56K will work with a modern fiber DLC (digital loop carrier) because the second conversion doesn't happen; it's all digital from the DLC to the main PSTN.
The thing is, the Full Faith and Credit clause goes on to say
"And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof."
which IMO makes the Defense of Marriage Act (which says that certain acts have no effect whatsoever) constitutional though ill-advised.
That's interesting but not something any competent intelligence service couldn't figure out from open source information.
1) Take a short and small trend.
2) Do a linear extrapolation that shows a ridiculous result.
3) ????
4) Profit
ObXKCD
Like the original Mac laptop, a 16 pound black and white device with a 68000 running at 8Mhz with 8MB of RAM? The original Apple tablet (a.k.a the Newton)?