Building infrastructure with tax dollars is not socialist, unless you consider the interstate system a remnant of soviet america. What is socialist is a nanny-welfare state.
Normally I would agree with you. But the crowd around here seems to be largely science types, including engineers (electrical, industrial, chemical, etc..) and your run of the mill CS majors. A good portion of modern science requires computers and technology to operate and run simulations.
I wouldn't at all be suprised if a few people here know a good bit about the sciences involved in nuclear technologies. For instance, a cousin of mine was educated by some scientists (CS background) on the human genome and associated sciences so he could more effectively help them write software for whatever the hell it was that they were doing. As a result, he now knows a lot about the subject, almost as much as the real scientists.
Raising the vote by 2-3% in Maryland wouldn't do a bit of good. Remember, the only votes that count are the electoral college variety.
And besides, I would be pretty suprised if a Republican presidential candidate were to win in Maryland. The state is largely democratic.//Registered Republican living in Maryland
My uncle has worked at Northrop Grumman for years, and one of his favorite stories involve tourists and cameras. They used to allow Japanese tourists to tour the facilities and they would, as you say, take pictures of everything.
According to my uncle, the practice was discontinued when the Japanese manufactured a device with functionallity very similiarly to one that they had been working on. They took it apart, and the internals were identical. In fact, the Northrop logo and a chip designers initials were present on various parts of the design. (As he describes it, it would seem that the designer laid out the electronics so that his initials could be seen, and the NG logo was placed in a similiar manner).
Apparently, an exhaustive investigation was performed (at Westinghouse) and the only conclusion that could be found was that the Japanese tourists had photographed the components, and duplicated them with photographic precision.
Laptops that are permitted out of the office have to be setup as untrusted devices. Run separate cables, or make the user login wirelessly allowing limited, if any, local network access, but allowing full Internet access.
Basically, you have your primary LAN of machines that never leave the office, and your wireless lan of laptops that are blocked from the primary lan. Both networks should be able to connect to the Internet, and laptop users would be required to connect to network services just as if they were out of the office.
Good wireless AP's should be able to block laptop to laptop communications, so that all the wireless network provides is internet access. Your network services should be hardened from Internet attacks already, and if they are not that should be addressed before any laptop related issue./*
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The risk that the American populace is so scared of nuclear power that they refuse to allow plants to be built anywhere near them because of the well publicized disasters that have occured.
Something has to be done to demonstrate that nuclear power is safe to the average person, and besides, a perfect safety record today doesn't mean a perfect safety record tomorrow. Chernobyl had a pretty good safety record until it took out the city, and that is what most people are afraid of.
I really don't understand why we don't just build nuclear reactors a couple of hundred feet underground with radiation sensing colapsible stacks. Wouldn't that do a lot to mitigate the risk, since even if the plant's crew was killed, it could premptively collapse a small section of the exhaust stack sealing of the reactor (in the event of a sealing mistake, it would be trivial to dig out the tunnel)? Say a design like so:
And America has tons of unused land, what would prevent us from building reactor clusters underground out in the boonies and piping the electricity into populated areas? If we were generating enough energy cheaply enough with nuclear power, we would be able to give up fossil fuels completely.
We still use LORAN when we go deep sea fishing. It seems that the LORAN gets you a bit closer to where you really want to be and where the fish are biting than the GPS. This is in all likelihood do to the old GPS units, and that all of the LORAN->GPS numbers for the canyons were done while the signal was still scrambled. I'd imagine most of the LORAN numbers are probably 500 feet closer than the GPS numbers that we have recorded. Having said that, it is just as likely that it is just a case of paranoia, not to uncommon with fishing.
I have to disagree. I just replaced my desktop mouse and keyboard with a wireless set that I had purchased for my laptop, but no longer had a use for.
The primary reason was because I was sick of the mouse cord getting caught up in the desk, and on the keyboard. I would fix it, but it would get caught again a few hours later.
I couldn't be happier with the switch. I have yet to experience any problems with either the keyboard or the mouse. No dropped key presses. This was a problem a friend of mine had had when he had a AA battery mouse. My mouse uses rechargable batteries and sits in a caddy to recharge. I've had it out of the caddy for the last three days, using it all day long, and I am sure the battery is still fairly strong.
Wireless mice and keyboards came of age with Fast RF, optical technology, and rechargeable caddies. The only difference I can see between my Logitech setup and my old mice and keyboard setup is the cord. Performance of the Logitech actually feels a little bit better, and I was able to move my keyboard to my lap to type out some IM's yesterday. Buy and use a wireless keyboard/mouse combination for a few weeks, and then see if you really want to go back.
This is not true. Quite a few people in the Army Corp of Engineers have publicly stated that even if Bush had dramatically increased funding starting day 1, this disaster wouldn't have been avoided.
I could care less if it were the richest part of the United States. Rebuilding a city that is below sea level is beyond rediculous, and I for one, do not want to pay for it. It's time to start thinking about relocation.
That's all well and good, except blaming Bush isn't going to work. An Army Corp of Engineers rep said that even if Bush had increased funding starting day 1 of his first term, this wouldn't have been avoided. Try a different scapegoat.
I have a real problem with the return policy on some software. Some years ago, I bought some software at CompUSA, got it home, and it just flat out did not work, didn't do what I wanted it to, and flat out sucked.
I took it back to the store and tried to return it, but because I had installed it, they didn't want to take it back. After calling my credit card company and finding out what to do, they started to play ball. I didn't want to return it for a refund, I just wanted a different product that worked.
The manager finally decided to install the software on a computer in the store and show me that it worked. He did, and the software showed him how bad it really was. After close to two hours I finally got to leave the store with another piece of software. That policy is rediculous, but it very well may have changed since then.
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Building infrastructure with tax dollars is not socialist, unless you consider the interstate system a remnant of soviet america. What is socialist is a nanny-welfare state.
Normally I would agree with you. But the crowd around here seems to be largely science types, including engineers (electrical, industrial, chemical, etc..) and your run of the mill CS majors. A good portion of modern science requires computers and technology to operate and run simulations.
I wouldn't at all be suprised if a few people here know a good bit about the sciences involved in nuclear technologies. For instance, a cousin of mine was educated by some scientists (CS background) on the human genome and associated sciences so he could more effectively help them write software for whatever the hell it was that they were doing. As a result, he now knows a lot about the subject, almost as much as the real scientists.
Your SUV's are causing Mars to heat up.
Source?
Raising the vote by 2-3% in Maryland wouldn't do a bit of good. Remember, the only votes that count are the electoral college variety.
//Registered Republican living in Maryland
And besides, I would be pretty suprised if a Republican presidential candidate were to win in Maryland. The state is largely democratic.
My uncle has worked at Northrop Grumman for years, and one of his favorite stories involve tourists and cameras. They used to allow Japanese tourists to tour the facilities and they would, as you say, take pictures of everything.
According to my uncle, the practice was discontinued when the Japanese manufactured a device with functionallity very similiarly to one that they had been working on. They took it apart, and the internals were identical. In fact, the Northrop logo and a chip designers initials were present on various parts of the design. (As he describes it, it would seem that the designer laid out the electronics so that his initials could be seen, and the NG logo was placed in a similiar manner).
Apparently, an exhaustive investigation was performed (at Westinghouse) and the only conclusion that could be found was that the Japanese tourists had photographed the components, and duplicated them with photographic precision.
Ever heard of LimeWire or Azureus? I wouldn't say Java is dead on the desktop, mine has a copy of both running right now.
Laptops that are permitted out of the office have to be setup as untrusted devices. Run separate cables, or make the user login wirelessly allowing limited, if any, local network access, but allowing full Internet access.
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Basically, you have your primary LAN of machines that never leave the office, and your wireless lan of laptops that are blocked from the primary lan. Both networks should be able to connect to the Internet, and laptop users would be required to connect to network services just as if they were out of the office.
Good wireless AP's should be able to block laptop to laptop communications, so that all the wireless network provides is internet access. Your network services should be hardened from Internet attacks already, and if they are not that should be addressed before any laptop related issue.
This has worked relatively well for me, might have a huge whole I don't see
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This really does sound like a fantastic idea.
Nintendo controllers have traditionally been extremely reliable.
The Z trigger on the back of the N64 controller was also copied.
The risk that the American populace is so scared of nuclear power that they refuse to allow plants to be built anywhere near them because of the well publicized disasters that have occured.
Something has to be done to demonstrate that nuclear power is safe to the average person, and besides, a perfect safety record today doesn't mean a perfect safety record tomorrow. Chernobyl had a pretty good safety record until it took out the city, and that is what most people are afraid of.
I really don't understand why we don't just build nuclear reactors a couple of hundred feet underground with radiation sensing colapsible stacks. Wouldn't that do a lot to mitigate the risk, since even if the plant's crew was killed, it could premptively collapse a small section of the exhaust stack sealing of the reactor (in the event of a sealing mistake, it would be trivial to dig out the tunnel)? Say a design like so:
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And America has tons of unused land, what would prevent us from building reactor clusters underground out in the boonies and piping the electricity into populated areas? If we were generating enough energy cheaply enough with nuclear power, we would be able to give up fossil fuels completely.
We still use LORAN when we go deep sea fishing. It seems that the LORAN gets you a bit closer to where you really want to be and where the fish are biting than the GPS. This is in all likelihood do to the old GPS units, and that all of the LORAN->GPS numbers for the canyons were done while the signal was still scrambled. I'd imagine most of the LORAN numbers are probably 500 feet closer than the GPS numbers that we have recorded. Having said that, it is just as likely that it is just a case of paranoia, not to uncommon with fishing.
So how many libraries of congress would that be.
I have to disagree. I just replaced my desktop mouse and keyboard with a wireless set that I had purchased for my laptop, but no longer had a use for.
The primary reason was because I was sick of the mouse cord getting caught up in the desk, and on the keyboard. I would fix it, but it would get caught again a few hours later.
I couldn't be happier with the switch. I have yet to experience any problems with either the keyboard or the mouse. No dropped key presses. This was a problem a friend of mine had had when he had a AA battery mouse. My mouse uses rechargable batteries and sits in a caddy to recharge. I've had it out of the caddy for the last three days, using it all day long, and I am sure the battery is still fairly strong.
Wireless mice and keyboards came of age with Fast RF, optical technology, and rechargeable caddies. The only difference I can see between my Logitech setup and my old mice and keyboard setup is the cord. Performance of the Logitech actually feels a little bit better, and I was able to move my keyboard to my lap to type out some IM's yesterday. Buy and use a wireless keyboard/mouse combination for a few weeks, and then see if you really want to go back.
Global warming is going to kill us all. The Republicans are responsible. It's true. Republicans are ruining the earth.
This is not true. Quite a few people in the Army Corp of Engineers have publicly stated that even if Bush had dramatically increased funding starting day 1, this disaster wouldn't have been avoided.
I could care less if it were the richest part of the United States. Rebuilding a city that is below sea level is beyond rediculous, and I for one, do not want to pay for it. It's time to start thinking about relocation.
That's all well and good, except blaming Bush isn't going to work. An Army Corp of Engineers rep said that even if Bush had increased funding starting day 1 of his first term, this wouldn't have been avoided. Try a different scapegoat.
Have you ever seen Word "HTML". Perhaps it is a design feature after all.
Well you can't beat the price or feature set of google services. I hope Google TV does show up.
Microsoft sent me a copy of XP Pro for free a few years ago, I don't remember why anymore, but I do know they do it regularly.
I have a real problem with the return policy on some software. Some years ago, I bought some software at CompUSA, got it home, and it just flat out did not work, didn't do what I wanted it to, and flat out sucked.
I took it back to the store and tried to return it, but because I had installed it, they didn't want to take it back. After calling my credit card company and finding out what to do, they started to play ball. I didn't want to return it for a refund, I just wanted a different product that worked.
The manager finally decided to install the software on a computer in the store and show me that it worked. He did, and the software showed him how bad it really was. After close to two hours I finally got to leave the store with another piece of software. That policy is rediculous, but it very well may have changed since then.
I'd rather order my stuff online and have it delivered. Grocery shopping will be 10000x better.