DUI means driving while under the influence of alcohol as measured by your blood alcohol content. It is alcohol in your blood that impairs your ability to drive. It doesn't matter how it got there. Whether you drink, take too much cough medicine, or have a medical condition that causes you to produce alcohol, it's still in your blood and impairing your ability to drive. Now, if it's a first offense, and the defendant didn't know they had the disease, I can see letting them off with a warning, but if the defendant knew about the condition then they have no business driving. Some medical conditions make it unsafe to drive. Blind people, for instance, can't drive. It sucks, but it happens.
I actually read the article and it is missing some key details, such as what is meant exactly by "Internet Surveillance". Do they mean simply looking at what's on the public Internet for suspicious activity, etc., or do they mean the power to compel service providers, ISPs, etc., to turn over private customer information or private data? There's a difference between looking at someone's public tweets, and reading their private e-mail messages. Was this distinction made clear in the poll questions when the surveys were taken? It's possible that the people who responded to the polling questions didn't really know what they were answering.
Your kid is most likely to get abducted by a family member or friend, and he already knows your address.
Just because a kid is more likely to get abducted by a family member doesn't mean it isn't sensible to take precautions to protect them from other possible dangers. Just because most house fires start because of dryer lint or smoking in bed doesn't mean you should leave unattended burning candles in your living room.
Your address is in big numbers on the front of your house. When did it become "private information".
The address number in the front of my house isn't private information. The mapping of my child's name to that address ought to be kept private. At least from the public on the Internet.
The FAA is a federal agency. Aren't all federal databases open and online? Airplane registrations are; radio licenses are.
Well, one difference is that radios and airplanes don't tend to be owned by kids. So lets say your kid is a popular Youtuber or Viner. Your phone number is unlisted, so various viewers including pedophiles and whatnot cannot easily find him/her based on name. Now your kid flies his drone in a video. All of a sudden, several of his/her "fans" look up his/her name and street address in the federal database. Most likely no one will show up at your doorstep, but it takes only one crazy stalker. There are serious privacy and safety implications here.
I loved buying Maxell XL-IIS blanks. That being said, I can't see buying and making tapes today. It'd be like buying an old Polaroid camera... oh wait I did that
I used to buy Maxell XL-IIS as well. I still have a couple of boxes of blanks. I haven't recorded a cassette since I got my first CD burner back in 1999.
nobody cares about the altair. it was a box with switches on it. it didn't have a monitor or even a keyboard. yawn.
True, but it was available a year or two before home computers with monitors and keyboards were available. And you could attach a standard teletype machine to it and have a hardcopy terminal. The BASIC language was also available from Microsoft. In a way, this computer gave Microsoft its start. This was a hugely revolutionary technology.
Has anybody else noticed that the City of London Police use the same font in their wordmark (Albertus) as the BBC series The Prisoner? (I'm talking about the original one starring Patrick McGoohan.) I wonder which used it first. One thinks of disturbing parallels between the City of London and The Village.
They cheat by transferring the profits to countries with low taxes. It's disgusting behaviour.
Is your behavior disgusting when you buy your food from the store that offers it at the lowest price? Are you being disgusting when you shop around to find the airline which offers you the lowest fare for the family vacation you're planning? Are you disgusting when you buy your car from the dealer which gives you the best deal, even if he's out of town? Taxes are a cost of doing business, and it's perfectly reasonable to shop around for the forum that gives you the best deal.
Sadly when dealing with law enforcement you can't make jokes.
I don't think anyone is alleging that he made jokes to law enforcement. From what I understand a friend of his joked that his bag looked like it had a bomb in it and and he laughed. Law enforcement was brought in after the fact.
The analogy doesn't work for the bridge because the wind kept a steady speed; it's as if you're continuously pushing the swing, which, obviously, does not create an oscillation.
Even a wind at a steady speed can cause a resonance condition. Perhaps a better analogy would be drawing a bow across a violin string, or blowing across the mouthpiece of a flute. Both are examples of resonance even those the energy input contains a multitude of frequencies.
The key difference here is that the amplification of oscillation leading to bridge failure was caused by **external forces not any natural resonance of the structure.
That's actually not true. According to the article:
Each time the deck of the bridge twisted now, it sought to return to its original position (inertial forces). And as it did so, twisting back with a matching speed and direction (elastic forces), the wind and the vortices caught it each time, pushing the deck just a little bit more in that direction (aerodynamic forces). With each twist and each twist back, the size of the twisting slightly increased.
So, the bridge's own elastic forces worked in tandem with the externally applied forces to increase the amplitude of oscillation. The elastic forces in the bridge give the bridge a natural resonance frequency and the wind acted on the bridge with the same frequency. That's the definition of resonance. It's just like when you push someone on a swing. You apply gentle pushes with the natural frequency of the swing and the resulting amplitude can become quite large.
licensing requirements for CB radios were back in the 1970s.
And just like the FCC, the FAA isn't going to have the resources to go after every kid with an RC quadcopter.
They don't have to go after every kid. They only have to go after enough and make the fine high enough that it is too risky to fly a drone without registering.
A very tame example of why we shouldn't be allowing warrantless bulk data collection - the obvious better examples are those of journalists assassinated - such as Michael Hastings.
I'm not defending this guy in any way, but if you read the article, it doesn't appear he used data from any government bulk data collection program. In fact, I don't think he used any special access he might have had working in the State Department. He just happened to be employed there. That doesn't make what he did okay, and it doesn't make government warrantless data collection okay, but one doesn't really follow from the other in this case at all.
Doesn't that pinhead Trump realize Microsoft doesn't understand the Internet - That's why the Internet runs on Linux and BSD. Hell, even MS is recommending deploying their Azure environment on Linux...
Yeah. I think Trump has forgotten his Internet history. Microsoft was very late to the game when it came to the Internet. People on Unix based systems had been on the Internet for years while people using Windows 3.1 had to install a 3rd party app like Trump Winsock just so they could run Netscape Navigator on their PCs to browse the web. It wasn't until 1995, when Windows 95 came out that Microsoft's operating systems even had Internet capabilities built in. Bill Gates is the wrong person to talk to. Someone like Vint Cerf would be a more sensible adviser, but he might not be very sympathetic to Trump's aims.
Why can't it be up to individual ticket sellers to set their own policies/terms of service? Why does the law need to get involved? What if I want to sell tickets to bots? Am I not allowed to?
I had to replace my computer's failing spinning HD recently, and a trip to Microcenter cost me this:
$100 for a 250GB SSD
and $40 for a 1TB spinning HD.
Same manufacturer, and both were best in class prices. I think parity is a ways off yet...
I think what would probably work best for people, at least for the present, is a hybrid system. Use the 250Gb SSD for operating system, applications, temporary or cache files, swap/paging partitions/files, current projects, etc. 250G should be enough for that. Then you could also have a larger capacity HDD (1 or 2 TB) for large, infrequently accessed files. Old videos you've created, movies, torrents, etc. The tremendous speed improvement you get with boot times and application loading and running makes the $100 cost of the SSD more than worth it. I mean $100 is two dinners in a nice restaurant. It seems a no brainer to me.
The only caveat about SSDs is that when they die, unlike HDDs, where the data can be pulled off in a clean room from the platters, when the electrons head out of the gates, that data is GONE.
And what percentage of dead HDDs get sent to a data recovery service? I'd guess the answer would be less than 1%. For the other 99%, SSDs are just fine. And if you have something on your drive that's that important (whether it be an SSD or an HDD) MAKE BACKUPS!!!!!!
In early 1994 or late 1993 (I remember this, because it was before I moved from NJ to SC), I used to buy CDs on the Internet from a company called cdconnection.com. I think they were based in California. They didn't have a web presence then: you used ftp to download their catalog, then you used telnet to log in and place your order. (They didn't use encryption, but the Internet was a safer place back then.) I think I placed a total of 3 orders with them about a half dozen CDs in each order. They were shipped by UPS and all arrived promptly and complete.
There used to be laserdisc rips of the original trilogy on bittorrent. That is about as close as you'll get.
Not true! There are much better ones available! As an Anonymous poster noted below (and deserves to be modded up!) you should look for Harmy's "Despecialized" versions. Much of the source was actually taken from film and it looks really good at 720p. Look for version 2.5 of episode 4 and version 2.0 of episode. His current version of Jedi isn't quite as good yet, but hopefully a better version will be out soon.
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You want to publish an e-book but you also want to be able to do things that e-books can't do.
That's kind of the point. It will make his e-book new and innovative. That's how progress happens.
DUI means driving while under the influence of alcohol as measured by your blood alcohol content. It is alcohol in your blood that impairs your ability to drive. It doesn't matter how it got there. Whether you drink, take too much cough medicine, or have a medical condition that causes you to produce alcohol, it's still in your blood and impairing your ability to drive. Now, if it's a first offense, and the defendant didn't know they had the disease, I can see letting them off with a warning, but if the defendant knew about the condition then they have no business driving. Some medical conditions make it unsafe to drive. Blind people, for instance, can't drive. It sucks, but it happens.
By giving up privacy, you gain the ILLUSION of safety.
Perhaps the illusion of safety is just what is needed to counter the illusion of danger.
I actually read the article and it is missing some key details, such as what is meant exactly by "Internet Surveillance". Do they mean simply looking at what's on the public Internet for suspicious activity, etc., or do they mean the power to compel service providers, ISPs, etc., to turn over private customer information or private data? There's a difference between looking at someone's public tweets, and reading their private e-mail messages. Was this distinction made clear in the poll questions when the surveys were taken? It's possible that the people who responded to the polling questions didn't really know what they were answering.
Your kid is most likely to get abducted by a family member or friend, and he already knows your address.
Just because a kid is more likely to get abducted by a family member doesn't mean it isn't sensible to take precautions to protect them from other possible dangers. Just because most house fires start because of dryer lint or smoking in bed doesn't mean you should leave unattended burning candles in your living room.
Your address is in big numbers on the front of your house. When did it become "private information".
The address number in the front of my house isn't private information. The mapping of my child's name to that address ought to be kept private. At least from the public on the Internet.
I won't. I'll complain to the police and they can use the registration database to deal with it.
The FAA is a federal agency. Aren't all federal databases open and online? Airplane registrations are; radio licenses are.
Well, one difference is that radios and airplanes don't tend to be owned by kids. So lets say your kid is a popular Youtuber or Viner. Your phone number is unlisted, so various viewers including pedophiles and whatnot cannot easily find him/her based on name. Now your kid flies his drone in a video. All of a sudden, several of his/her "fans" look up his/her name and street address in the federal database. Most likely no one will show up at your doorstep, but it takes only one crazy stalker. There are serious privacy and safety implications here.
I loved buying Maxell XL-IIS blanks. That being said, I can't see buying and making tapes today. It'd be like buying an old Polaroid camera... oh wait I did that
I used to buy Maxell XL-IIS as well. I still have a couple of boxes of blanks. I haven't recorded a cassette since I got my first CD burner back in 1999.
nobody cares about the altair. it was a box with switches on it. it didn't have a monitor or even a keyboard. yawn.
True, but it was available a year or two before home computers with monitors and keyboards were available. And you could attach a standard teletype machine to it and have a hardcopy terminal. The BASIC language was also available from Microsoft. In a way, this computer gave Microsoft its start. This was a hugely revolutionary technology.
Has anybody else noticed that the City of London Police use the same font in their wordmark (Albertus) as the BBC series The Prisoner? (I'm talking about the original one starring Patrick McGoohan.) I wonder which used it first. One thinks of disturbing parallels between the City of London and The Village.
They cheat by transferring the profits to countries with low taxes. It's disgusting behaviour.
Is your behavior disgusting when you buy your food from the store that offers it at the lowest price? Are you being disgusting when you shop around to find the airline which offers you the lowest fare for the family vacation you're planning? Are you disgusting when you buy your car from the dealer which gives you the best deal, even if he's out of town? Taxes are a cost of doing business, and it's perfectly reasonable to shop around for the forum that gives you the best deal.
Sadly when dealing with law enforcement you can't make jokes.
I don't think anyone is alleging that he made jokes to law enforcement. From what I understand a friend of his joked that his bag looked like it had a bomb in it and and he laughed. Law enforcement was brought in after the fact.
The analogy doesn't work for the bridge because the wind kept a steady speed; it's as if you're continuously pushing the swing, which, obviously, does not create an oscillation.
Even a wind at a steady speed can cause a resonance condition. Perhaps a better analogy would be drawing a bow across a violin string, or blowing across the mouthpiece of a flute. Both are examples of resonance even those the energy input contains a multitude of frequencies.
The key difference here is that the amplification of oscillation leading to bridge failure was caused by **external forces not any natural resonance of the structure.
That's actually not true. According to the article:
Each time the deck of the bridge twisted now, it sought to return to its original position (inertial forces). And as it did so, twisting back with a matching speed and direction (elastic forces), the wind and the vortices caught it each time, pushing the deck just a little bit more in that direction (aerodynamic forces). With each twist and each twist back, the size of the twisting slightly increased.
So, the bridge's own elastic forces worked in tandem with the externally applied forces to increase the amplitude of oscillation. The elastic forces in the bridge give the bridge a natural resonance frequency and the wind acted on the bridge with the same frequency. That's the definition of resonance. It's just like when you push someone on a swing. You apply gentle pushes with the natural frequency of the swing and the resulting amplitude can become quite large.
licensing requirements for CB radios were back in the 1970s.
And just like the FCC, the FAA isn't going to have the resources to go after every kid with an RC quadcopter.
They don't have to go after every kid. They only have to go after enough and make the fine high enough that it is too risky to fly a drone without registering.
A very tame example of why we shouldn't be allowing warrantless bulk data collection - the obvious better examples are those of journalists assassinated - such as Michael Hastings.
I'm not defending this guy in any way, but if you read the article, it doesn't appear he used data from any government bulk data collection program. In fact, I don't think he used any special access he might have had working in the State Department. He just happened to be employed there. That doesn't make what he did okay, and it doesn't make government warrantless data collection okay, but one doesn't really follow from the other in this case at all.
Doesn't that pinhead Trump realize Microsoft doesn't understand the Internet - That's why the Internet runs on Linux and BSD. Hell, even MS is recommending deploying their Azure environment on Linux...
Yeah. I think Trump has forgotten his Internet history. Microsoft was very late to the game when it came to the Internet. People on Unix based systems had been on the Internet for years while people using Windows 3.1 had to install a 3rd party app like Trump Winsock just so they could run Netscape Navigator on their PCs to browse the web. It wasn't until 1995, when Windows 95 came out that Microsoft's operating systems even had Internet capabilities built in. Bill Gates is the wrong person to talk to. Someone like Vint Cerf would be a more sensible adviser, but he might not be very sympathetic to Trump's aims.
Nope, those still get you modded down. To be modded up, you'll need to be an elf or a hobbit...
I hear you can also get modded up for being an ent, but it can take years.
When people say gcc beats clang on speed, so they mean compile speed or run-time speed?
Why can't it be up to individual ticket sellers to set their own policies/terms of service? Why does the law need to get involved? What if I want to sell tickets to bots? Am I not allowed to?
I had to replace my computer's failing spinning HD recently, and a trip to Microcenter cost me this: $100 for a 250GB SSD and $40 for a 1TB spinning HD.
Same manufacturer, and both were best in class prices. I think parity is a ways off yet...
I think what would probably work best for people, at least for the present, is a hybrid system. Use the 250Gb SSD for operating system, applications, temporary or cache files, swap/paging partitions/files, current projects, etc. 250G should be enough for that. Then you could also have a larger capacity HDD (1 or 2 TB) for large, infrequently accessed files. Old videos you've created, movies, torrents, etc. The tremendous speed improvement you get with boot times and application loading and running makes the $100 cost of the SSD more than worth it. I mean $100 is two dinners in a nice restaurant. It seems a no brainer to me.
The only caveat about SSDs is that when they die, unlike HDDs, where the data can be pulled off in a clean room from the platters, when the electrons head out of the gates, that data is GONE.
And what percentage of dead HDDs get sent to a data recovery service? I'd guess the answer would be less than 1%. For the other 99%, SSDs are just fine. And if you have something on your drive that's that important (whether it be an SSD or an HDD) MAKE BACKUPS!!!!!!
Isn't that what the characters "HTTP/2.0" do? How does that not identify it as http2?
In early 1994 or late 1993 (I remember this, because it was before I moved from NJ to SC), I used to buy CDs on the Internet from a company called cdconnection.com. I think they were based in California. They didn't have a web presence then: you used ftp to download their catalog, then you used telnet to log in and place your order. (They didn't use encryption, but the Internet was a safer place back then.) I think I placed a total of 3 orders with them about a half dozen CDs in each order. They were shipped by UPS and all arrived promptly and complete.
There used to be laserdisc rips of the original trilogy on bittorrent. That is about as close as you'll get.
Not true! There are much better ones available! As an Anonymous poster noted below (and deserves to be modded up!) you should look for Harmy's "Despecialized" versions. Much of the source was actually taken from film and it looks really good at 720p. Look for version 2.5 of episode 4 and version 2.0 of episode. His current version of Jedi isn't quite as good yet, but hopefully a better version will be out soon.
Some info here.