Minor nit-picks, actually they were 2nd degree burns (deep meat cooking, possibly minor charring) in 3rd degree burns you have major charring and ashes.
And the temp was 180, but this is indeed 40 degrees hotter than the recomended safty guidelines, not just customer preference. Now if only I could remember who set those guidlines, I want to say it was a federal agency of some sort.
I was thinking along the lines that if you lost power suddenly on a write, a smart journaling file system MIGHT be able to recover the unwriten portions of data and finish the write on power up.
But the more I think about it, I think it might be simpler if the recovery was handled by HD firmware and the apropriate data so the filesystem can double check things would stashed aside with a flag of some sort set. Otherwise there would have to be provisions to not overwrite anything in cache till the OS's filesystem gave the hd o.k. on an unexpected power loss.
That kind of thing in general sounds like a good aplication for a fast nvram tech, recovery data and info for sudden power down or otherwise non-gracefull hard re-boot situations.
Gak, didn't read close enough, it's only 18Mb(2MB). Still as aid for aware journaling filesystems it could be good, it's 30-40ns speed is fast enough for hard drive caching.
What I'd really like to see is memory fast enough to not need clock multipliers on the cpu's, or perhaps a memory controller that spans enough modules to achieve the same effect. Unfortunately the added complexity would probably be a major pita, or require serious re-design of memory sub-systems.
For main memory on a pc, not much, unless of course it's a tiny chip and you put at least 16 on a card the size of current ram dimms.
However it seems to me somthing like this on a hard-drive with a journaling file system properly built to use it, could have some use.
Heck most hard drives today only have 8MB for cache as it is.
Try looking into the case. I thought, from experience in resturaunt management, that customer stupidy followed by a sympathetic jury, was what happened myself till I found out the fact.
Then, again from resturaunt experienced, decided McDonalds had screwed up royally. Trust it's not just "little old lady pours cofee on crotch, gets millions". It's company repeatedly takes actions it KNOWS leads to 2nd degree burns of customers and takes no actions remedie the problem or to even warn customers.
Well yes that definition of fresh coffe could be considered valid, however we're talking about McDonalds 'cofee' which I don't know many who would consider it cofee by any standard.
But seriously there was more to it than that. She recieved 2nd degree burns from this 'cofee'. McDonalds was serving it well above the accepted serving standard. There is also a difference between a product served at a drive through, where one might resonably expect it to be at drinking temperature, and somthing you've cooked/brewed at home, where you can have full knowledge of the practices followed from brewing to serving.
I Used to think it was a stupid case myself, especially as I've worked in management at resturaunts, untill I found out about the details. Many resturaunts have a system, not always obvious, that reduces the temp of food to somthing reasonably safe before serving. I thought perhaps the lady had recieved small 1st degree burns in sensitive part of her anatomy doing somthing stupid, such as driving a manual transmision with the cup between her legs. She recieve large 2nd degree burns on her upper legs when the cup lid came off and the cup collapsed. Go find some pictures of second degree burns and tell me that's reasonable for coffee, which usually drops below that point in a few minutes without artificial means to keep it dangerously hot. If the employee had said "be carefull, this was just brewed and is still nearly boiling", then maybee I can understand. But it was actually at that temp on purpose.
Trust me I know how resturaunts work, and deliberately serving food at dangerous temperatures, especialy without warning, is quick way to get fired usually, here it was institutionalized and part of thier policy.
The example of flambe and other special case foods you mentioned belies the point. Go to a resturaunt that serves such, in most cases someone will stay there and caution you, etc. to make shure you don't do somthing stupid with a food that by definition is hazardous. It may sound like just friendly/helpfull chatter but I guarantee thier required to say it to cover themselves.
Yep, sbc may be upgrading where they already have dsl services. But the rest of us are screwed.
Where I'm at I get 28.8 dialup on a GOOD day. Cable doesn't exist, there were charter trucks all over the place near here a few months ago, but the never seem to be able to tell me if I'm in thier area or not and promis a non-existant call back when I call them. And satalite is questionable at best as I live in a river valley surrounded by hills, especially to the south.
I've been buggin them both (sbc and charter) every month or so for over a year, best answer I get from eigther is "we're not showing your area as having availability" after several minutes of them clearly having no clue where I am. Usually I get an I dunno type answer and promis of callback that never occures.
There really should be some sort of push to extend broadband. There are a lot of people in my situation and I'm shure they could make money if they just extended service a few more mile (I know people less than 10 miles away with good speed broadband).
It wasn't killed on account of not being succesfull. The big-wigs didn't like for some reason so the cancelled it, twice. The first time there was a massive letter writing campain that pretty much made it impossible to kill (how do you explain to share-holders you're cancelling a show that popular). So they had to play games with it's scheduling and such to drop the ratings enough to justify cancelling it.
Don't get me wrong I liked TNG alot. It's just that deciding TNG was more successfull because it ran longer is a significant over-simplification of the reality.
Umn, considering compact added it's own services, any chance they turned off some of XP's?
Wouldn't know myself, Haven't had a machine with xp on it that long and didn't count the default services running when I first installed it (I Know, I Know one should pay more attention when installing an os, I plead tired and frustrated by getting drivers to install and work right.)
You know slashdot puts the domain name after a link in brackets? I.E. [slashdot.org] or [goatse.cx].
Unless that's not default anymore, I do know you can change that in settings, but I always see it.
Of course it's possible those not logged in don't get that benefit.
I don't do it sometimes because slashcode seems to confuse plain old text and 'extrans' somtimes I get tired of hitting preview 2-4 times till it gets it right.
I'm not shure, been too long since I worked much with magnetics (somthing like 12 years, we covered some aspects when I was in school for EE), but I think there might be a skin effect in railguns limiting the penetration of magnetic fields. I do know metals and certain ceramics are pretty good at shiedling mangetic fields.
At any rate if thier planning on railgun delployment by 2011 then eigther they have, or believe with some certaintity the will have, a mechanism in place to prevent the damames your worried about.
Well I probably didn't remember the details correctly. I could have sworn some copyright extension had broght the movie 'Gone With the Wind' back out of Public Domain while someone was in early production on a remake. Oh well.
Conerning the public agreeing to the price increase. Well I think if someone set to act in your behalf on a matter acted in bad faith it might be a different storry. I can't remember voting for anyone and saying/thinking "go make shure I loose access to public domain and otherwise get screwed over". The problem is most don't realize how often thier 'representatives' in congress act in bad faith to apease those who buy them thier election and we keep getting bad apples back in the basket.
I would think that because doing so before would up your chances for said ticket (it looks confrontational beforhand). But if an officer issues you a ticket I would expect his service/badge number to be on the ticket, it has been on every ticket I've recieved.
At any rate I expect things to be seriously amis before asking an officer to provide his bonnafides. The one time I've done that concerned a case where IMHO he seriously endagered me. The three tickets he wrote me were tossed out. Two of the tickets could NOT co-exist without a second vehicle doing somthing which would be illeagle even for an officer unless he had his top-lights on. I simply asked the officer how many other vehicals were on the road, he said none, then I asked at what point he turned on his lights. As soon as he answered the judge got a rather 'concerned' look on his face and the pa effectively droped the charges though I can't remember the wording he used. The officer looked really puzzled. I saw him with a sheepish look a few minutes later talking to the pa as I came out the bathroom across the hall.
But the point is MOST officers are decent people (waited 5 hours overnight with a local county cop for first day tickets to SW:TPM, really cool guy) doing a hard job with little pay. No need to give them a hard way to go by asking them to prove who they are when it's fairly obvious unless they do somthing that seems really out of line or otherwise with good cause. Pretty much the same guidelines you'd expect them to have before stopping you and asking who you are.
Good grief. EVERYONE THINK and ac says he has a 'million' invites, and how many people post thier e-mail? good grief half with no obfuscation. any spam robots just got a bunch of new addy's.
I'm not shure but I think a new troll was just invented.
Interesting site.
Might I humbly suggest starting out with just those items that were pulled OUT of the public domain by the Bono act. IIRC Gone With the Wind was one such. Someone had started a re-make when it fell into the public domain, then Bono act pulled it back out.
It's too much like an ex-post facto law in that regard. Not to mention it's straight out theft of public property for private use when the public has ALREADY paid the agreed price for it.
You have a case that sounds more solid to the public should you actually get some press out of your actions.
Good Luck in any case.
I think they've some sort of issue in this state. Twice now I've driven through a 'sobriety checkpoint' where they've reduce traffic to one lane creating massive slowdowns where it takes half an hour or more to clear from the time you spot the checkpoint to the time it's behind you. Yet I've never seen them do anything but sit in the median on lawn chairs. I think even with the 'checkpoints' you still have to do somthing to give them a reason to pull you over.
I can't speak for other states, but in missouri an Officer must be in uniform, wearing a badge with a clearly unique number, and outside of emergency situation and such be willing to provide proper i.d.
A non uniformed officer usually must start with providing proper id.
However if you get pulled over by a marked car and a uniformed person with clearly visible badge aproaches you from that vehical and doesn't do/say somthing really suspicious or out of line, I'd recomend having a really good reason for insisting on an id. Judges have some leway and if you make a total ass of yourself for the sole point of being a pain in the butt it won't be looked on very fondly.
In theory: a)to punish b)to re-habilitate c) to deter d) at least stop some from comminint MORE crimes while in jail.
Primarily they have limited success on a, what with cabletv, gyms, libraries, and 3 meals a day (though higher security prisons have less of this to varying degrees) and do fairly good a d so long as you don't count crimes against other prisoners.
Nope, nor is that what it apears he was doing. He used a Heinlein to illistrate his point.
Sorry to bust your troll. (an ac implying scientology type thinking when clearly not the case)
Yeah, I Know. This is one case (trully critical messages) where dialogs should be designed to slow down a user and require them to read the message to figure out which button to click. And no default button for the enter key, unless there is a guaranteed safe button.
Yeah, that makes a lot more sense. Should tip off senders if they've been zombied too. "huh 300 people said I sent them b1gg3r_p3n1s.exe, what the heck is going on here"
Well hopefully at least.
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Minor nit-picks, actually they were 2nd degree burns (deep meat cooking, possibly minor charring) in 3rd degree burns you have major charring and ashes.
And the temp was 180, but this is indeed 40 degrees hotter than the recomended safty guidelines, not just customer preference. Now if only I could remember who set those guidlines, I want to say it was a federal agency of some sort.
Mycroft
I was thinking along the lines that if you lost power suddenly on a write, a smart journaling file system MIGHT be able to recover the unwriten portions of data and finish the write on power up.
But the more I think about it, I think it might be simpler if the recovery was handled by HD firmware and the apropriate data so the filesystem can double check things would stashed aside with a flag of some sort set. Otherwise there would have to be provisions to not overwrite anything in cache till the OS's filesystem gave the hd o.k. on an unexpected power loss.
That kind of thing in general sounds like a good aplication for a fast nvram tech, recovery data and info for sudden power down or otherwise non-gracefull hard re-boot situations.
Mycroft
But only if we pull the chip out of his head, and set the switch to the learning mode that skynet had turned off.
Sorry had to do it.
Mycroft
Gak, didn't read close enough, it's only 18Mb(2MB). Still as aid for aware journaling filesystems it could be good, it's 30-40ns speed is fast enough for hard drive caching.
What I'd really like to see is memory fast enough to not need clock multipliers on the cpu's, or perhaps a memory controller that spans enough modules to achieve the same effect. Unfortunately the added complexity would probably be a major pita, or require serious re-design of memory sub-systems.
Mycroft
For main memory on a pc, not much, unless of course it's a tiny chip and you put at least 16 on a card the size of current ram dimms.
However it seems to me somthing like this on a hard-drive with a journaling file system properly built to use it, could have some use.
Heck most hard drives today only have 8MB for cache as it is.
Mycroft
Try looking into the case. I thought, from experience in resturaunt management, that customer stupidy followed by a sympathetic jury, was what happened myself till I found out the fact.
Then, again from resturaunt experienced, decided McDonalds had screwed up royally. Trust it's not just "little old lady pours cofee on crotch, gets millions". It's company repeatedly takes actions it KNOWS leads to 2nd degree burns of customers and takes no actions remedie the problem or to even warn customers.
Mycroft
Well yes that definition of fresh coffe could be considered valid, however we're talking about McDonalds 'cofee' which I don't know many who would consider it cofee by any standard.
But seriously there was more to it than that. She recieved 2nd degree burns from this 'cofee'. McDonalds was serving it well above the accepted serving standard. There is also a difference between a product served at a drive through, where one might resonably expect it to be at drinking temperature, and somthing you've cooked/brewed at home, where you can have full knowledge of the practices followed from brewing to serving.
I Used to think it was a stupid case myself, especially as I've worked in management at resturaunts, untill I found out about the details. Many resturaunts have a system, not always obvious, that reduces the temp of food to somthing reasonably safe before serving. I thought perhaps the lady had recieved small 1st degree burns in sensitive part of her anatomy doing somthing stupid, such as driving a manual transmision with the cup between her legs. She recieve large 2nd degree burns on her upper legs when the cup lid came off and the cup collapsed. Go find some pictures of second degree burns and tell me that's reasonable for coffee, which usually drops below that point in a few minutes without artificial means to keep it dangerously hot. If the employee had said "be carefull, this was just brewed and is still nearly boiling", then maybee I can understand. But it was actually at that temp on purpose.
Trust me I know how resturaunts work, and deliberately serving food at dangerous temperatures, especialy without warning, is quick way to get fired usually, here it was institutionalized and part of thier policy.
The example of flambe and other special case foods you mentioned belies the point. Go to a resturaunt that serves such, in most cases someone will stay there and caution you, etc. to make shure you don't do somthing stupid with a food that by definition is hazardous. It may sound like just friendly/helpfull chatter but I guarantee thier required to say it to cover themselves.
Mycroft
Yep, sbc may be upgrading where they already have dsl services. But the rest of us are screwed.
Where I'm at I get 28.8 dialup on a GOOD day. Cable doesn't exist, there were charter trucks all over the place near here a few months ago, but the never seem to be able to tell me if I'm in thier area or not and promis a non-existant call back when I call them. And satalite is questionable at best as I live in a river valley surrounded by hills, especially to the south.
I've been buggin them both (sbc and charter) every month or so for over a year, best answer I get from eigther is "we're not showing your area as having availability" after several minutes of them clearly having no clue where I am. Usually I get an I dunno type answer and promis of callback that never occures.
There really should be some sort of push to extend broadband. There are a lot of people in my situation and I'm shure they could make money if they just extended service a few more mile (I know people less than 10 miles away with good speed broadband).
Mycroft
It wasn't killed on account of not being succesfull. The big-wigs didn't like for some reason so the cancelled it, twice. The first time there was a massive letter writing campain that pretty much made it impossible to kill (how do you explain to share-holders you're cancelling a show that popular). So they had to play games with it's scheduling and such to drop the ratings enough to justify cancelling it.
Don't get me wrong I liked TNG alot. It's just that deciding TNG was more successfull because it ran longer is a significant over-simplification of the reality.
Mycroft.
Umn, considering compact added it's own services, any chance they turned off some of XP's?
Wouldn't know myself, Haven't had a machine with xp on it that long and didn't count the default services running when I first installed it (I Know, I Know one should pay more attention when installing an os, I plead tired and frustrated by getting drivers to install and work right.)
Mycroft
Not shure, but it looks like you just fell afoul of a slashcode bug. Somtimes when you set to Plain Old Text, it treats it as Extrans and vice versa.
Mycroft
You know slashdot puts the domain name after a link in brackets? I.E. [slashdot.org] or [goatse.cx].
Unless that's not default anymore, I do know you can change that in settings, but I always see it.
Of course it's possible those not logged in don't get that benefit.
I don't do it sometimes because slashcode seems to confuse plain old text and 'extrans' somtimes I get tired of hitting preview 2-4 times till it gets it right.
Mycroft
I'm not shure, been too long since I worked much with magnetics (somthing like 12 years, we covered some aspects when I was in school for EE), but I think there might be a skin effect in railguns limiting the penetration of magnetic fields. I do know metals and certain ceramics are pretty good at shiedling mangetic fields.
At any rate if thier planning on railgun delployment by 2011 then eigther they have, or believe with some certaintity the will have, a mechanism in place to prevent the damames your worried about.
Mycroft
Well I probably didn't remember the details correctly. I could have sworn some copyright extension had broght the movie 'Gone With the Wind' back out of Public Domain while someone was in early production on a remake. Oh well.
Conerning the public agreeing to the price increase. Well I think if someone set to act in your behalf on a matter acted in bad faith it might be a different storry. I can't remember voting for anyone and saying/thinking "go make shure I loose access to public domain and otherwise get screwed over". The problem is most don't realize how often thier 'representatives' in congress act in bad faith to apease those who buy them thier election and we keep getting bad apples back in the basket.
Mycroft
I would think that because doing so before would up your chances for said ticket (it looks confrontational beforhand). But if an officer issues you a ticket I would expect his service/badge number to be on the ticket, it has been on every ticket I've recieved.
At any rate I expect things to be seriously amis before asking an officer to provide his bonnafides. The one time I've done that concerned a case where IMHO he seriously endagered me. The three tickets he wrote me were tossed out. Two of the tickets could NOT co-exist without a second vehicle doing somthing which would be illeagle even for an officer unless he had his top-lights on. I simply asked the officer how many other vehicals were on the road, he said none, then I asked at what point he turned on his lights. As soon as he answered the judge got a rather 'concerned' look on his face and the pa effectively droped the charges though I can't remember the wording he used. The officer looked really puzzled. I saw him with a sheepish look a few minutes later talking to the pa as I came out the bathroom across the hall.
But the point is MOST officers are decent people (waited 5 hours overnight with a local county cop for first day tickets to SW:TPM, really cool guy) doing a hard job with little pay. No need to give them a hard way to go by asking them to prove who they are when it's fairly obvious unless they do somthing that seems really out of line or otherwise with good cause. Pretty much the same guidelines you'd expect them to have before stopping you and asking who you are.
Mycroft
Good grief. EVERYONE THINK and ac says he has a 'million' invites, and how many people post thier e-mail? good grief half with no obfuscation. any spam robots just got a bunch of new addy's.
I'm not shure but I think a new troll was just invented.
Mycroft
Interesting site.
Might I humbly suggest starting out with just those items that were pulled OUT of the public domain by the Bono act. IIRC Gone With the Wind was one such. Someone had started a re-make when it fell into the public domain, then Bono act pulled it back out.
It's too much like an ex-post facto law in that regard. Not to mention it's straight out theft of public property for private use when the public has ALREADY paid the agreed price for it.
You have a case that sounds more solid to the public should you actually get some press out of your actions.
Good Luck in any case.
Mycroft
I think they've some sort of issue in this state.
Twice now I've driven through a 'sobriety checkpoint' where they've reduce traffic to one lane creating massive slowdowns where it takes half an hour or more to clear from the time you spot the checkpoint to the time it's behind you. Yet I've never seen them do anything but sit in the median on lawn chairs. I think even with the 'checkpoints' you still have to do somthing to give them a reason to pull you over.
Mycroft
I can't speak for other states, but in missouri an Officer must be in uniform, wearing a badge with a clearly unique number, and outside of emergency situation and such be willing to provide proper i.d.
A non uniformed officer usually must start with providing proper id.
However if you get pulled over by a marked car and a uniformed person with clearly visible badge aproaches you from that vehical and doesn't do/say somthing really suspicious or out of line, I'd recomend having a really good reason for insisting on an id. Judges have some leway and if you make a total ass of yourself for the sole point of being a pain in the butt it won't be looked on very fondly.
Mycroft
In theory: a)to punish b)to re-habilitate c) to deter d) at least stop some from comminint MORE crimes while in jail.
Primarily they have limited success on a, what with cabletv, gyms, libraries, and 3 meals a day (though higher security prisons have less of this to varying degrees) and do fairly good a d so long as you don't count crimes against other prisoners.
Mycroft
What the supreme court has said is that a police officers duty is not to protect any specific person, but rather the community.
Mycroft
Excuse me can you back this up? the part about Franklin wanting bedroom laws and being anti-abortion.
Mycroft
Nope, nor is that what it apears he was doing.
He used a Heinlein to illistrate his point.
Sorry to bust your troll. (an ac implying scientology type thinking when clearly not the case)
Mycroft
Yeah, I Know. This is one case (trully critical messages) where dialogs should be designed to slow down a user and require them to read the message to figure out which button to click. And no default button for the enter key, unless there is a guaranteed safe button.
Mycroft
Yeah, that makes a lot more sense. Should tip off senders if they've been zombied too. "huh 300 people said I sent them b1gg3r_p3n1s.exe, what the heck is going on here"
Well hopefully at least.
Mycroft