Even though perfectly adapted lenses give me a 20/20 eyesight, I cannot qualify.
Are you sure? Here are the vision requirements for a third-class medical certificate (the one you need for non-commercial operations):
67.303 Eye.
Eye standards for a thirdclass airman medical certificate are:
(a) Distant visual acuity of 20/40 or better in each eye separately, with or without corrective lenses. If corrective lenses (spectacles or contact lenses) are necessary for 20/40 vision, the person may be eligible only on the condition that corrective lenses are worn while exercising the privileges of an airman certificate.
(b) Near vision of 20/40 or better, Snellen equivalent, at 16 inches in each eye separately, with or without corrective lenses.
(c) Ability to perceive those colors necessary for the safe performance of airman duties.
(d) No acute or chronic pathological condition of either eye or adnexa that interferes with the proper function of an eye, that may reasonably be expected to progress to that degree, or that may reasonably be expected to be aggravated by flying.
Unless your condition is covered by (d), you can get a medical certificate that restricts you to flying only while wearing corrective lenses. That's how mine reads, at least.
The requirements for first (airline captain) and second (other commercial operations) class medical certificates read about the same -- for those, you need to be able to get to 20/20 at distance, but you can use your contacts or glasses to do it. I forget if the uncorrected vision requirement was from the government or from airlines' own hiring guidelines, but it's definitely not a current requirement for civil aviation in the USA.
If that's the only thing between you and a medical certificate, give your friendly AME a call and get yourself cleared for takeoff.:-)
If you don't agree to the school's network AUP, drop out. There's your choice.
Remember also that this is a PUBLIC university, funded in large part by tax dollars and with an educational mission handed to it by the legislature. In my state (Wisconsin), we had some students nearly get a mandatory student activities fee thrown out in court because they were forced to pay it, and thus forced to support student groups (in their case, gay advocacy groups) that they didn't approve of. If they hadn't made a legal slip-up by stipulating early on in the litigation that the activity money was handed out to student groups in a content-neutral way, they probably would have been able to opt out of the portion of the fee that went to the groups they objected to.
A private university can give its students exactly the choice you suggest. A public university has to be a little more careful that its policies don't discriminate. This is probably part of the reason why Florida doesn't try to distinguish between legal and illegal file sharing -- an inaccurate list (say, weak in identifying illegally shared country music) could be painted as discriminatory. Even if the filtering could be done accurately, you could just picture some RIAA suit's kid suing because the filter isn't content-neutral any more and "discriminates" against RIAA's works.
it could only determine who voted for whom to within an fuzzy accuracy of about 15 voters... if I am a slower voter than the people in line behind me, they'll get to a booth, mark their ballots, and drop them in the scanner before I do.
True enough, though I think almost every time I've voted since we started using the scanners about four years ago, the number the scanner displayed after reading my ballot matched the number the poll worker read off to me when I arrived. The only exception was the 2000 presidential election -- more voters, more opportunity for one voter to "speed past" another.
In the more frequent local elections, traffic can be slow enough that you're the only one voting within, say, a 15-minute time span. Don't know whether that's more of a sign of too small a precinct (~2000 voting-age people) or lousy turnout.
Solution for paranoid people like me: Vote only in busy elections, and at busy times of the day, when you're more likely to have other voters that can scramble the order of the votes.
Still I don't see the need to record the time the vote is made anyway. Shurely that is unneccessary data in the tally and for the results.
Yes, the time a vote was cast wasn't really necessary to save. On the other hand, in the elections in my city I think I could probably figure out who voted for whom. Here's how it works:
You go to the polling place, give the worker your name and address, they look you up in their voter list. They tear off the top sheet from a pad of sequentially numbered slips of paper, tell you that you're voter #327, and write that number down next to your name on the voter list. That prevents you from voting a second time, and also gives them a cross-check (if 502 people voted in the precinct, there should be 502 ballots in the collection box).
You mark your ballot, then feed the ballot to an electronic scanner. It scans your ballot and, if it doesn't detect a mistake, plays a tune and keeps the ballot. There's an LED display of the number of ballots read. Almost every time, if I was voter #327, when I feed my ballot to the scanner the count goes from 326 to 327.
If the machine keeps any record of the order of ballots (either electronic, a cash-register-style tape for auditing, or by the way the ballots are stored in the collection box) I can use the voter list to correlate those votes with names.
I don't know enough about the inner workings of the machines to say with any certainty that this is not possible, but I shouldn't have to.
A choice of two scanners to feed my ballot into would probably solve this problem, but they don't do that (probably so they don't have to buy additional scanners).
anybody hitting [ZIP size and file count] limits is a lamer or a file sharing pirate, probably both.
Not always. Until I started hitting these limits regularly, WinZip was one of my favorite ways to make a backup. You got a compressed backup that was easy to search and retrieve individual files from.
The latest tax bill doesn't implement [Bush's] plan, and it's practically doomed to failure.
I kinda doubt the tax cut we got will have the intended effect, but I'm not so sure that Bush's cut would have done much better. The only prayer it had of working was the abolition of taxes on dividends, but we didn't get that.
I suspect the only thing that will really kick-start the economy is a boom in some class of assets. Real estate kept the recession from getting REALLY bad, and the little run-up in stocks over the last few months is making a world of difference in the psychology of the average investor.
Getting rid of dividend taxes makes some sense to put the cost for a business to raise equity on par with debt, but it seems to me that it was sold mainly as a way to boost the stock market. I think that reason makes for lousy public policy.
Absent that, it's a slow climb from here. That's not all that bad, unless you're out of work. Maybe the unemployed, with less to lose, will become the next class of entrepreneurs?
These business owners don't want to take on the risk of loans in the current climate, but they'll probably spend the money from a tax cut.
They certainly won't sit on the money -- my guess is most of it would go into debt repayment to further reduce their risks. This frees up more money for the bank to lend to someone else, but that someone else isn't asking for a loan. That's why this economy is really tricky.
The only other practical options I see... just sitting on the cash and hoping things work out on their own
Remember that we aren't exactly "sitting on the cash". Most of the tax cut is being financed by government borrowing. Maybe the economic boost is worth the cost of the borrowing, but remember that debt = risk. That money has to be repaid someday, with a non-zero chance of future taxes having to be set higher than they'd otherwise be.
There's a big economic benefit to stable government policies that's getting overlooked here too. Why make a big investment with your current and future tax cut dollars if the cut is phased out in a couple of years, and taxes might even increase in the future to repay the borrowing? For any sort of long-range planning, the devil we know might well be better than the new one just created.
Why is this important? Bush was elected president, not king. The difference seems to be lost on this administration. Or, now that Bush "didn't get everything he wanted", is this political-speak for "the job market's failure to recover isn't my fault"?
...and because it was renegotiated to go more to the lower end of the income scale it's essentially $350 million flushed down the giant hole that is our trade deficit.
I hadn't heard this argument before, but it makes a little bit of sense. Not ALL the money is going overseas, but you're right that a bunch of it is. American business owners (small and large alike) WILL MAKE MORE MONEY from increased spending from the working class, which theoretically should result in more investment in capital equipment, workers, etc.
Unfortunately, these are not textbook conditions -- we have some serious risk aversion among the entrepreneural class. A large segment of business owners are afraid to invest in their own businesses. They need more than a little more money to overcome that fear. In fact, money is cheap right now for those with the guts to use it. There just aren't enough people with the guts.
I don't think there's much more that can be done with either fiscal or monetary policy to move the U.S. economy along. In fact, the last year and a half has seen a LOT of stimulus. I think Bush and Greenspan just need to sit tight for a while and give the medicine they dispensed earlier a chance to work.
... saying "they have no case" would also be against the NDA.
Is this possibly a way for SCO to silence some of its critics? Don't believe us, we'll show you the code under NDA. After reviewing the code, if you still don't believe us, too bad, you can't talk about it any more.
Glad to see another MSOE alum out here. I graduated from their computer engineering program in 1995 and do embedded software work. My thoughts on the curriculum from back then:
Math: Not quite enough. I took calculus, probability/statistics, and differential equations. I think classes in linear algebra and Fourier analysis would have helped a lot -- I didn't realize how useful these were until grad school. Maybe these get covered when their applications come up, kind of like the Laplace transform shows up in the advanced circuit analysis class.
Physics: The best part of MSOE's curriculum, bar none. Here is where you learn theory, apply it in the lab, and (last but not least) learn to write about it. There are about two years of physics classes, each with a different focus (mechanics, electromagnetics, even nuclear!). The classes were a lot of work -- I remember spending two years' worth of Sunday afternoons writing up physics lab reports -- but you finished them knowing what you were doing.
Motors and controls: As a computer engineering student, I didn't have to take motors, transmission lines, or fields, and I had a softball of a controls class. This created probably the biggest gap in my skill set at graduation, made even worse by the fact that my job deals with motors and controls. On the other hand, I also managed to get through grad school without learning anything more about motors.
Liberal arts: These classes were hit-and-miss -- after all, they're just not the focus of the school. The quality of the class depended mostly on the professor. I wouldn't have minded a little more coverage in this area, history in particular. The primary history prof had a reputation for being difficult to deal with. It's a shame that I used it as an excuse not to take history. Being a fairly small school with its focus elsewhere, there wasn't a great selection of humanities classes. Not sure how to solve that problem without turning students loose on an independent humanities project of their own choosing.
Computer-specific classes: When I was there, three of the four main classes specific to the computer engineering program (graphics, operating systems, and networking) were taught by a professor who was basically the gatekeeper to graduation -- his classes were a ton of lab work, and finishing those classes meant you proved you could deliver a project of decent size on a tight schedule. The fourth class (software engineering) was taught by a professor who I think now runs the department -- you still had a decent-sized project to deliver, but the difference in teaching style and the class' emphasis on quality over last-minute hacking meant that I got more out of that one class than the other three combined.
Would I go there again? Absolutely, but I know I'd do a couple of things differently. I'm pretty sure the school also does a couple of things differently now.
...why not just start using longitude and latitude?
Good idea. My GPS receiver has a display mode called MGRS (Military Grid Reference System), which maps (with some calculation) to latitude and longitude.
Example MGRS coordinates:
16 T CP 12345 67890
where:
16 = a 6-degree slice of longitude
T = a 8-degree slice of latitude
CP = letters indicating a 100 km x 100 km square inside the slices listed above
12345 = "easting" in meters from the west edge of the square
67890 = "northing" in meters from the south edge of the square
Actually kind of nice -- the military uses maps with the squares and easting/northing values pre-printed. Also really nice for quick rough calculations of distance and bearing. If someone wants to use an alphanumeric code representing geographic location, might as well use one that's (1) already standardized and (2) usable by a human.
Two points:
1. A flashing red light is treated as a stop sign, not just "stop".
In a busy enough area, this alone can cause some pretty nasty gridlock. Even in the mid-size city where I live, I've had 7-minute delays getting through intersections whose lights failed back to flashing red.
2. Many is the time I've cussed about that while waiting several minutes at a light on a 4 lane road late at night when there's no cross traffic.
This is why I think you should be allowed to proceed through a red light, after you've stopped and confirmed there's no traffic. If you're wrong and there's an accident, you're presumed to be at fault.
theve protected the phone number. I mean obviously no one is clever enough to look at their phone keypad and get the real number to type into their computer
Very subtle humor here. Tell your computer to dial this number and it sends the following command to the modem:
ATDT1800BADBEAT
The modem could almost dial that! A, B, C, and D are valid DTMF (touch-tone) digits. The T at the end tells the modem to use tone dialing. The only sticking points are the E and the fact that treating the T as a tone dialing command means that there isn't a complete 11-digit phone number any more.
But it IS pretty obvious! If you wanted to design a circuit that detected overclocking, the first thing you'd think of would be to measure the clock speed and compare against the "proper" speed (how the "proper" speed is protected against change is another good question). Just what the diagram in the Register's article shows.
The only two possibly non-trivial innovations I see are (1) the use of a counter that's reset by another clock signal to perform the measurement and (2) the use of tolerance bands to limit false positives. I don't fault them for patenting those two specific attributes of their design, or their application to overclocking detection, but their "invention" as a whole doesn't seem all that inventive.
This is posted on the documentation page:
Make sure you give your gpg public key to any peers you want to trade files with.
That warning deserves to be repeated (and amplified a little). If the remote storage site has your public key, it can decrypt files encrypted with your private key. In other words, the remote storage site can read your backed-up files unless you encrypt them a second time with a different key.
The public-key encryption verifies to the remote storage site that your backed-up files came from you, and verifies to you that files you retrieve weren't modified, but it does NOTHING to protected you from a nosy remote storage site operator.
Looks like the $5k allows you to also claim some sort of relationship with the JBoss developers:
What this buys you is detailed in the contracts but in a nutshell you get to use our logo and the "Authorized Consultant" brand in your sales materials and collaterals. Critical to your sale you can clearly state that you are part of a larger company, that of JBoss Group and even though you retain your own identity, we federate the marketing and billing/management of contracts. You minimize the risk for your clients by presenting the JBoss Group standing behind you.
Since contract management is "federated" with JBoss Group (and other certified consultants), are they liable if one certified consultant screws up a project? After all, shouldn't the "federated contract management" have prevented the project from going astray?
This "under-promise, over-deliver" behavior probably costs Dell an occasional order, too.
I just decided NOT to order a PC from Dell for my neighbor, simply because they said they "needed" it in a week (they promised their kids a PC before school started, then procrastinated on deciding to get one). If Dell told me I could have had their PC this week, instead of the 2-3 weeks they quoted, I would have ordered from them. Instead, off to retail-land I went.
If you want MY MONEY as a taxpayer, to fund your satellite automated radio stations, then you at least should offer me as much FAIR USE of your website as the Constitution allows...
Good point. Actually, just about EVERYTHING published by the US government is automatically placed in the public domain. Any use of these government publications is "fair"!
I found the spot you were thinking of, dealing with the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. From
Wisconsin's version of the UCC [pdf]:
402.316(2)
(2) Subject to sub. (3) , to exclude or modify the implied warranty of merchantability or any part of it the language must mention merchantability and in case of a writing must be conspicuous, and to exclude or modify any implied warranty of fitness the exclusion must be by a writing and conspicuous. Language to exclude all implied warranties of fitness is sufficient if it states, for example, that "There are no warranties which extend beyond the description on the face hereof."
Some laws require certain things to be disclosed "prominently" or "conspicuously".
I believe this is in the section of the UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) dealing with the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Those warranties can't be disclaimed unless the warning is conspicuous. The all caps is one way of meeting that requirement. Others are boldface, larger type, color, putting the text inside a box, etc.
I wouldn't be surprised if source code to programs written in-house for government use were subject to Open Records or FOIA requests.
The only exception that would seem to apply is national security. Even the Carnivore source code had to be made available for examination (though only by a court-appointed expert).
Of course, if you have to go through the home page to the article, that's TWO ad impressions the site can sell instead of just one.
Plus, you don't get the opportunity to check the sports section and see even MORE ad impressions...
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Even though perfectly adapted lenses give me a 20/20 eyesight, I cannot qualify.
:-)
Are you sure? Here are the vision requirements for a third-class medical certificate (the one you need for non-commercial operations):
67.303 Eye. Eye standards for a thirdclass airman medical certificate are: (a) Distant visual acuity of 20/40 or better in each eye separately, with or without corrective lenses. If corrective lenses (spectacles or contact lenses) are necessary for 20/40 vision, the person may be eligible only on the condition that corrective lenses are worn while exercising the privileges of an airman certificate. (b) Near vision of 20/40 or better, Snellen equivalent, at 16 inches in each eye separately, with or without corrective lenses. (c) Ability to perceive those colors necessary for the safe performance of airman duties. (d) No acute or chronic pathological condition of either eye or adnexa that interferes with the proper function of an eye, that may reasonably be expected to progress to that degree, or that may reasonably be expected to be aggravated by flying.
Unless your condition is covered by (d), you can get a medical certificate that restricts you to flying only while wearing corrective lenses. That's how mine reads, at least.
The requirements for first (airline captain) and second (other commercial operations) class medical certificates read about the same -- for those, you need to be able to get to 20/20 at distance, but you can use your contacts or glasses to do it. I forget if the uncorrected vision requirement was from the government or from airlines' own hiring guidelines, but it's definitely not a current requirement for civil aviation in the USA.
If that's the only thing between you and a medical certificate, give your friendly AME a call and get yourself cleared for takeoff.
If you don't agree to the school's network AUP, drop out. There's your choice.
Remember also that this is a PUBLIC university, funded in large part by tax dollars and with an educational mission handed to it by the legislature. In my state (Wisconsin), we had some students nearly get a mandatory student activities fee thrown out in court because they were forced to pay it, and thus forced to support student groups (in their case, gay advocacy groups) that they didn't approve of. If they hadn't made a legal slip-up by stipulating early on in the litigation that the activity money was handed out to student groups in a content-neutral way, they probably would have been able to opt out of the portion of the fee that went to the groups they objected to.
A private university can give its students exactly the choice you suggest. A public university has to be a little more careful that its policies don't discriminate. This is probably part of the reason why Florida doesn't try to distinguish between legal and illegal file sharing -- an inaccurate list (say, weak in identifying illegally shared country music) could be painted as discriminatory. Even if the filtering could be done accurately, you could just picture some RIAA suit's kid suing because the filter isn't content-neutral any more and "discriminates" against RIAA's works.
it could only determine who voted for whom to within an fuzzy accuracy of about 15 voters... if I am a slower voter than the people in line behind me, they'll get to a booth, mark their ballots, and drop them in the scanner before I do.
True enough, though I think almost every time I've voted since we started using the scanners about four years ago, the number the scanner displayed after reading my ballot matched the number the poll worker read off to me when I arrived. The only exception was the 2000 presidential election -- more voters, more opportunity for one voter to "speed past" another.
In the more frequent local elections, traffic can be slow enough that you're the only one voting within, say, a 15-minute time span. Don't know whether that's more of a sign of too small a precinct (~2000 voting-age people) or lousy turnout.
Solution for paranoid people like me: Vote only in busy elections, and at busy times of the day, when you're more likely to have other voters that can scramble the order of the votes.
Still I don't see the need to record the time the vote is made anyway. Shurely that is unneccessary data in the tally and for the results.
Yes, the time a vote was cast wasn't really necessary to save. On the other hand, in the elections in my city I think I could probably figure out who voted for whom. Here's how it works:
I don't know enough about the inner workings of the machines to say with any certainty that this is not possible, but I shouldn't have to.
A choice of two scanners to feed my ballot into would probably solve this problem, but they don't do that (probably so they don't have to buy additional scanners).
anybody hitting [ZIP size and file count] limits is a lamer or a file sharing pirate, probably both.
Not always. Until I started hitting these limits regularly, WinZip was one of my favorite ways to make a backup. You got a compressed backup that was easy to search and retrieve individual files from.
The latest tax bill doesn't implement [Bush's] plan, and it's practically doomed to failure.
I kinda doubt the tax cut we got will have the intended effect, but I'm not so sure that Bush's cut would have done much better. The only prayer it had of working was the abolition of taxes on dividends, but we didn't get that.
I suspect the only thing that will really kick-start the economy is a boom in some class of assets. Real estate kept the recession from getting REALLY bad, and the little run-up in stocks over the last few months is making a world of difference in the psychology of the average investor.
Getting rid of dividend taxes makes some sense to put the cost for a business to raise equity on par with debt, but it seems to me that it was sold mainly as a way to boost the stock market. I think that reason makes for lousy public policy.
Absent that, it's a slow climb from here. That's not all that bad, unless you're out of work. Maybe the unemployed, with less to lose, will become the next class of entrepreneurs?
These business owners don't want to take on the risk of loans in the current climate, but they'll probably spend the money from a tax cut.
They certainly won't sit on the money -- my guess is most of it would go into debt repayment to further reduce their risks. This frees up more money for the bank to lend to someone else, but that someone else isn't asking for a loan. That's why this economy is really tricky.
The only other practical options I see... just sitting on the cash and hoping things work out on their own
Remember that we aren't exactly "sitting on the cash". Most of the tax cut is being financed by government borrowing. Maybe the economic boost is worth the cost of the borrowing, but remember that debt = risk. That money has to be repaid someday, with a non-zero chance of future taxes having to be set higher than they'd otherwise be.
There's a big economic benefit to stable government policies that's getting overlooked here too. Why make a big investment with your current and future tax cut dollars if the cut is phased out in a couple of years, and taxes might even increase in the future to repay the borrowing? For any sort of long-range planning, the devil we know might well be better than the new one just created.
It's not the tax cut Bush asked for...
Why is this important? Bush was elected president, not king. The difference seems to be lost on this administration. Or, now that Bush "didn't get everything he wanted", is this political-speak for "the job market's failure to recover isn't my fault"?
I hadn't heard this argument before, but it makes a little bit of sense. Not ALL the money is going overseas, but you're right that a bunch of it is. American business owners (small and large alike) WILL MAKE MORE MONEY from increased spending from the working class, which theoretically should result in more investment in capital equipment, workers, etc.
Unfortunately, these are not textbook conditions -- we have some serious risk aversion among the entrepreneural class. A large segment of business owners are afraid to invest in their own businesses. They need more than a little more money to overcome that fear. In fact, money is cheap right now for those with the guts to use it. There just aren't enough people with the guts.
I don't think there's much more that can be done with either fiscal or monetary policy to move the U.S. economy along. In fact, the last year and a half has seen a LOT of stimulus. I think Bush and Greenspan just need to sit tight for a while and give the medicine they dispensed earlier a chance to work.
... saying "they have no case" would also be against the NDA.
Is this possibly a way for SCO to silence some of its critics? Don't believe us, we'll show you the code under NDA. After reviewing the code, if you still don't believe us, too bad, you can't talk about it any more.- Math: Not quite enough. I took calculus, probability/statistics, and differential equations. I think classes in linear algebra and Fourier analysis would have helped a lot -- I didn't realize how useful these were until grad school. Maybe these get covered when their applications come up, kind of like the Laplace transform shows up in the advanced circuit analysis class.
- Physics: The best part of MSOE's curriculum, bar none. Here is where you learn theory, apply it in the lab, and (last but not least) learn to write about it. There are about two years of physics classes, each with a different focus (mechanics, electromagnetics, even nuclear!). The classes were a lot of work -- I remember spending two years' worth of Sunday afternoons writing up physics lab reports -- but you finished them knowing what you were doing.
- Motors and controls: As a computer engineering student, I didn't have to take motors, transmission lines, or fields, and I had a softball of a controls class. This created probably the biggest gap in my skill set at graduation, made even worse by the fact that my job deals with motors and controls. On the other hand, I also managed to get through grad school without learning anything more about motors.
- Liberal arts: These classes were hit-and-miss -- after all, they're just not the focus of the school. The quality of the class depended mostly on the professor. I wouldn't have minded a little more coverage in this area, history in particular. The primary history prof had a reputation for being difficult to deal with. It's a shame that I used it as an excuse not to take history. Being a fairly small school with its focus elsewhere, there wasn't a great selection of humanities classes. Not sure how to solve that problem without turning students loose on an independent humanities project of their own choosing.
- Computer-specific classes: When I was there, three of the four main classes specific to the computer engineering program (graphics, operating systems, and networking) were taught by a professor who was basically the gatekeeper to graduation -- his classes were a ton of lab work, and finishing those classes meant you proved you could deliver a project of decent size on a tight schedule. The fourth class (software engineering) was taught by a professor who I think now runs the department -- you still had a decent-sized project to deliver, but the difference in teaching style and the class' emphasis on quality over last-minute hacking meant that I got more out of that one class than the other three combined.
Would I go there again? Absolutely, but I know I'd do a couple of things differently. I'm pretty sure the school also does a couple of things differently now.Good idea. My GPS receiver has a display mode called MGRS (Military Grid Reference System), which maps (with some calculation) to latitude and longitude.
Example MGRS coordinates:
16 T CP 12345 67890
where:
- 16 = a 6-degree slice of longitude
- T = a 8-degree slice of latitude
- CP = letters indicating a 100 km x 100 km square inside the slices listed above
- 12345 = "easting" in meters from the west edge of the square
- 67890 = "northing" in meters from the south edge of the square
Actually kind of nice -- the military uses maps with the squares and easting/northing values pre-printed. Also really nice for quick rough calculations of distance and bearing. If someone wants to use an alphanumeric code representing geographic location, might as well use one that's (1) already standardized and (2) usable by a human.Two points:
1. A flashing red light is treated as a stop sign, not just "stop".
In a busy enough area, this alone can cause some pretty nasty gridlock. Even in the mid-size city where I live, I've had 7-minute delays getting through intersections whose lights failed back to flashing red.
2. Many is the time I've cussed about that while waiting several minutes at a light on a 4 lane road late at night when there's no cross traffic.
This is why I think you should be allowed to proceed through a red light, after you've stopped and confirmed there's no traffic. If you're wrong and there's an accident, you're presumed to be at fault.
theve protected the phone number. I mean obviously no one is clever enough to look at their phone keypad and get the real number to type into their computer
Very subtle humor here. Tell your computer to dial this number and it sends the following command to the modem:
ATDT1800BADBEAT
The modem could almost dial that! A, B, C, and D are valid DTMF (touch-tone) digits. The T at the end tells the modem to use tone dialing. The only sticking points are the E and the fact that treating the T as a tone dialing command means that there isn't a complete 11-digit phone number any more.It is directed, nonobvious...
But it IS pretty obvious! If you wanted to design a circuit that detected overclocking, the first thing you'd think of would be to measure the clock speed and compare against the "proper" speed (how the "proper" speed is protected against change is another good question). Just what the diagram in the Register's article shows.
The only two possibly non-trivial innovations I see are (1) the use of a counter that's reset by another clock signal to perform the measurement and (2) the use of tolerance bands to limit false positives. I don't fault them for patenting those two specific attributes of their design, or their application to overclocking detection, but their "invention" as a whole doesn't seem all that inventive.
Ah, rats. I got it backwards. I've been doing too much GPG signing and not enough encrypting. Sorry.
This is posted on the documentation page: Make sure you give your gpg public key to any peers you want to trade files with.
That warning deserves to be repeated (and amplified a little). If the remote storage site has your public key, it can decrypt files encrypted with your private key. In other words, the remote storage site can read your backed-up files unless you encrypt them a second time with a different key.
The public-key encryption verifies to the remote storage site that your backed-up files came from you, and verifies to you that files you retrieve weren't modified, but it does NOTHING to protected you from a nosy remote storage site operator.
What this buys you is detailed in the contracts but in a nutshell you get to use our logo and the "Authorized Consultant" brand in your sales materials and collaterals. Critical to your sale you can clearly state that you are part of a larger company, that of JBoss Group and even though you retain your own identity, we federate the marketing and billing/management of contracts. You minimize the risk for your clients by presenting the JBoss Group standing behind you.
Since contract management is "federated" with JBoss Group (and other certified consultants), are they liable if one certified consultant screws up a project? After all, shouldn't the "federated contract management" have prevented the project from going astray?
I just decided NOT to order a PC from Dell for my neighbor, simply because they said they "needed" it in a week (they promised their kids a PC before school started, then procrastinated on deciding to get one). If Dell told me I could have had their PC this week, instead of the 2-3 weeks they quoted, I would have ordered from them. Instead, off to retail-land I went.
Perhaps Spamcop should consider GPG-signing their spam reports?
I forget who said it, but I think this quote sums it up nicely:
"Democracy is the worst form of government, aside from all the others."
Armed Robbery = terrorism?
Absolutely. If it happened more than once in your neighborhood, you might change your behavior out of fear.
If you want MY MONEY as a taxpayer, to fund your satellite automated radio stations, then you at least should offer me as much FAIR USE of your website as the Constitution allows...
Good point. Actually, just about EVERYTHING published by the US government is automatically placed in the public domain. Any use of these government publications is "fair"!
I found the spot you were thinking of, dealing with the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. From Wisconsin's version of the UCC [pdf]:
402.316(2)
(2) Subject to sub. (3) , to exclude or modify the implied warranty of merchantability or any part of it the language must mention merchantability and in case of a writing must be conspicuous, and to exclude or modify any implied warranty of fitness the exclusion must be by a writing and conspicuous. Language to exclude all implied warranties of fitness is sufficient if it states, for example, that "There are no warranties which extend beyond the description on the face hereof."
emphasis in above paragraph is mine
Some laws require certain things to be disclosed "prominently" or "conspicuously".
I believe this is in the section of the UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) dealing with the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Those warranties can't be disclaimed unless the warning is conspicuous. The all caps is one way of meeting that requirement. Others are boldface, larger type, color, putting the text inside a box, etc.
I wouldn't be surprised if source code to programs written in-house for government use were subject to Open Records or FOIA requests.
The only exception that would seem to apply is national security. Even the Carnivore source code had to be made available for examination (though only by a court-appointed expert).
Of course, if you have to go through the home page to the article, that's TWO ad impressions the site can sell instead of just one. Plus, you don't get the opportunity to check the sports section and see even MORE ad impressions...