Another alternative is an APC Masterswitch; it allows you to control multiple devices via web or telnet. It also works with an APC UPS to allow you to control how your systems behave when the power goes out (i.e. shut down non-essential boxen immediately to preserve battery power for the essential ones).
You can pick up one on eBay for a few hundred dollars, which works out to less than $50 per switched device.
I picked up a Masterswitch Plus (basically a switch with a serial port that can signal a computer to do an orderly shutdown) for about $300 on eBay about 6 months ago, and use it to control several computers and my network hardware.
Well, it probably has an ADF (automatic direction finder -- basically a radio compass), which can receive AM signals.
As for FM, the frequency band for VORs (a dedicated radio navigation system) is just above the FM band; a nav radio might be able to pick up some of the higher-frequency FM signals.
Don't know about recently, but when I interviewed with the NSA in 1987, there was a beer vending machine in one of the cafeterias. It was basically a converted Coke machine of the type with large clear plastic buttons behind which is a empty can of the product -- one of the cans was Bud.
Of course, given that we're talking about the NSA, the Bud button may have been a dummy that opened a hidden door or set off a panic alarm.
Well, it's been more than 3 years since the cable companies were supposedly required to allow the retail sale of converters, and I've never seen a legitimate (i.e. non-spam) purchase offer for any cable box, analog or digital. In fact, my cable provider (Charter) has actually run commercials stating that it's illegal to use any boxes you've purchased.
Cable modems, however, are freely available in the retail market, but some operators seem to have a habit of "accidentally" disconnecting people who have the temerity to use their own cable modems. It's happened to my Dad several times, until he broke down and agreed to rent a modem from Charter.
Reverse osmosis doesn't necessarily remove everything; the city of Santa Barbara, CA built a RO-based desalination plant in the early 90s, at a cost of roughly $40 million. When they fired up the plant (spring of 92, IIRC), the water it put out still tasted a bit of the sea, according to most observers.
However, during the plant's construction, the drought that had motivated the project had subsided. So after a few weeks of operational testing (i.e. none of its output went into the distribution system), the plant was mothballed. AFAIK, it's never been started up since.
Well, encryption devices were at one time (and may still be, for all I know) considered to be munitions under US law. The ATF has some interest in munitions, especially when they're not in the hands of the military.
I think "How long would it take you to learn Portuguese?" was a good question. If you go to Brazil with an English->Portuguese phrase book, you'll be able to ask for a bathroom or a taxi after a short period of time. But don't think you can show up with zero Portuguese and be writing a dissertation next week.
I saw something very close to that, about 2 years ago, in a newsletter from the Iowa State University physics department; they had one of the profs sitting on a disc of superconducting material that was levitating above a superconducting magnet. Imagine a larger version of the first photo on the linked page.
Easy to solve that -- copy the blank ballot before voting. Then you vote the way you really want on the original ballot, and use the blank copy for fake votes to fool the buyers.
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Unfortunately, it seems like it's the spam fighters who are doing the dying.
Another alternative is an APC Masterswitch; it allows you to control multiple devices via web or telnet. It also works with an APC UPS to allow you to control how your systems behave when the power goes out (i.e. shut down non-essential boxen immediately to preserve battery power for the essential ones).
You can pick up one on eBay for a few hundred dollars, which works out to less than $50 per switched device.
I picked up a Masterswitch Plus (basically a switch with a serial port that can signal a computer to do an orderly shutdown) for about $300 on eBay about 6 months ago, and use it to control several computers and my network hardware.
Well, it probably has an ADF (automatic direction finder -- basically a radio compass), which can receive AM signals.
As for FM, the frequency band for VORs (a dedicated radio navigation system) is just above the FM band; a nav radio might be able to pick up some of the higher-frequency FM signals.
Don't know about recently, but when I interviewed with the NSA in 1987, there was a beer vending machine in one of the cafeterias. It was basically a converted Coke machine of the type with large clear plastic buttons behind which is a empty can of the product -- one of the cans was Bud.
Of course, given that we're talking about the NSA, the Bud button may have been a dummy that opened a hidden door or set off a panic alarm.
DirecTV/DSL no longer exists -- they left the biz in January.
Well, it's been more than 3 years since the cable companies were supposedly required to allow the retail sale of converters, and I've never seen a legitimate (i.e. non-spam) purchase offer for any cable box, analog or digital. In fact, my cable provider (Charter) has actually run commercials stating that it's illegal to use any boxes you've purchased.
Cable modems, however, are freely available in the retail market, but some operators seem to have a habit of "accidentally" disconnecting people who have the temerity to use their own cable modems. It's happened to my Dad several times, until he broke down and agreed to rent a modem from Charter.
Reverse osmosis doesn't necessarily remove everything; the city of Santa Barbara, CA built a RO-based desalination plant in the early 90s, at a cost of roughly $40 million. When they fired up the plant (spring of 92, IIRC), the water it put out still tasted a bit of the sea, according to most observers.
However, during the plant's construction, the drought that had motivated the project had subsided. So after a few weeks of operational testing (i.e. none of its output went into the distribution system), the plant was mothballed. AFAIK, it's never been started up since.
Diebold had little to do with Florida's 2000 election; if you want to blame a corporation, ChoicePoint would be a much better choice.
Just a slightly updated version of the canonical Zeno's Paradox joke. In the original, it's a mathematician and a physicist.
The Straight Dope on third-rail urination. Evidently, it's happened at least once.
The Straight Dope on in-flight irradiation -- I suppose your definition of "a lot more" is somewhat different than mine.
Walt was fried, not frozen.
Well, encryption devices were at one time (and may still be, for all I know) considered to be munitions under US law. The ATF has some interest in munitions, especially when they're not in the hands of the military.
The Memo is also covered in today's Salon.
The Straight Dope on in-flight irradiation.
discovered by Australian scientists
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Actually it's the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
I think "How long would it take you to learn Portuguese?" was a good question. If you go to Brazil with an English->Portuguese phrase book, you'll be able to ask for a bathroom or a taxi after a short period of time. But don't think you can show up with zero Portuguese and be writing a dissertation next week.
Unless you happen to be Feynman
I saw something very close to that, about 2 years ago, in a newsletter from the Iowa State University physics department; they had one of the profs sitting on a disc of superconducting material that was levitating above a superconducting magnet. Imagine a larger version of the first photo on the linked page.
Well, the Simpsons appear to agree with you.
Well, the NSA is about 200 years ahead of the rest of the world in mathematical theory.
s/Eisenhower/Roosevelt/g
What makes you think they haven't?
Easy to solve that -- copy the blank ballot before voting. Then you vote the way you really want on the original ballot, and use the blank copy for fake votes to fool the buyers.