Rescues of hikers are done by helicopter, or on foot.
Rescues of hikers are done using whatever tools are available. Helicopters are not always available, and when they are, they often cannot get to the place the hiker is. Trees sometimes get in the way, you know. Yes, the 'newsworthy' rescues are because of the helicopters, but the ones that don't make the news are done however thay can be.
"On foot"? Do you imagine they carry you all the way to the hospital? Have you ever carried someone for any distance in a rescue? I did it in training, and it ain't fun, and it ain't easy, even with 6 people lifting and a dozen others clearing the path. No, they drag you to the closest trail where a vehicle can get, and then load you into a (gasp!) whatever vehicle can get in. And passenger cars don't make it.
The very idea of using a fashionable road-car for rescue work is just too awful to think about.
What are you complaining about here, fashionable road cars or SUVs? And while YOU may think it is too horrible to consider using an SUV to get into the back country to save someone's life, the people who do this kind of thing regularly sometimes do horrible things to their own property (and bodies) trying to save the lives of people they do not know. And you complain because they might drive an SUV?
"Mountain rescue just called, they're trying to dig their mercedes out of the mud..."
So you've just jumped from whining about hummers and SUVs to whining about Mercedes? Or you think Hummers are made by Mercedes? Do you even know what you are complaining about?
[*] Semi-trailers - deliver enough food to feed a whole district.
So why are there so many of them, if one carries so much?
[*] Busses - carry 30 people to work or school
In THIS town, the busses rarely have more than ten people on them, usually only one or two.
[*] Dump trucks - allow you to build houses and such-like
Dump trucks have very little to do with building houses.
[*] Garbage trucks - Collect the rubbish for a whole town
Interesting, it takes more than one for just the little town I live in.
[*] Hummers - take one woman to work
Take one woman and her three kids to daycare, to the doctor, shopping (to buy the food the semi-trailer carries). Takes her kids and neighbor kids to school when it is her turn to drive the car-pool. Carries meals-on-wheels to lonely old people. Takes whole family's recycling to the recycling center. Also takes husband up into some of the desolate un-roaded areas to look for lost hikers when they don't come home on time, and maybe carry them out to the hospital to save their life when they need medical care.
Now how about the "danger to usefulness ratio"?
Ok, you don't think SUVs are useful. Please feel free to not buy one. Don't pretend that you get to define what other people find useful. And please don't go hiking where you might wind up owing your life to someone who has an SUV.
I just got back from a summer in Japan and the Sony models (U-50 and U-70) were all over the place there. I never did see anyone actually using one though.
After reading about the U-[5|7]0, I actually bought one (the U-70). I've had it for two weeks, so I'm still aclimatizing myself to it, but here's my initial impressions.
The screen is REALLY SMALL. This is both a blessing and a curse. It does have sufficient resolution to read a "page", but you have to hold it close to your face. (Being old doesn't help.)
The battery life (rated) is short. 2.5 hours.
It fits in the hand really well.
The display rotates so it looks more like a normal portrait page.
Built-in wireless is handy, the ability to shut it off is handier.
The lack of firewire on the portable part is silly. I have portable firewire disks that I cannot use with this, and, of course, the first firewire/USB portable disk I found was a POS (not sbp2 for firewire).
Text input without the keyboard is a pain. It is pretty easy to poke the on-screen keyboard, but that chances damaging the touch-screen. Using the mouse is slow, but for small things, ok.
Lack of bluetooth is not a problem. The D-Link DBT 120 would fit in the USB on the unit without being ugly or ungainly, and it is pretty cheap (compared to the price of the whole unit!)
The 20Gb disk is a REAL limit. It's not big enough to keep much video, and it makes a too-expensive MP3 player.
The most I've used it is in two situations: I was in a set of meetings where I could do real work while still being in the meeting, and at home where I could watch stuff off my PVR while sitting in my comfy chair.
Was it worth $2800? Dunno yet. The real test is to see if it works its way into my daily routine, which is hasn't yet. That is partially because of the week of meetings, which has kept me from trying Linux on it yet.
If I scored it on cool factor, thought, it gets A-plus. Everyone who has seen it has been impressed.
The name was spelled differently, and for me thats enough.
In just the few comments I've seen on this already, I've seen Jerry's name spelled both as "Falwell" and "Fallwell", so apparently the confusion is real and significant. Although it may not confuse you, it does confuse other/. readers. And it appears that the intent to confuse was deliberate, so the result of the case was correct.
What an incredibly patronising, stupid, and, just plain wrong thing to say.
If you remember that the "shopkeeper" that one interacts with in the store is either a teenager who is working for a pittance while going to school, or a retired person, it is a reality. While there may be a boatload of smart IT people behind the scenes, that is exactly where they are -- behing the scenes. They won't see the problem until it becomes apparent in the dataflow.
...the only remaining superpower is led by a low I.Q. president...
What an incredibly patronising, stupid, and, just plain wrong thing to say. You may disagree with his policies, but that doesn't make him low IQ. By ending your comment with this knee-jerk nonsense, you've made your entire comment look like it comes from a knee-jerk ignoramus. If that's what you want, ok.
One thing in the article is cute - the Power Line people invited the ARRL to be involved...
No, they didn't. ARRL was already involved, and the power company just asked for ARRL to keep the power company "in the loop" on any complaints.
It wouldn't make any difference if the power company had said "keep out" or "come right on in", the ARRL was going to be involved in this issue no matter what. And quite rightly so.
They represent LICENSED users of the spectrum, who have every right to monitor and report interference, and who are much better at monitoring interference than are the FCC. The FCC has a limited number of monitoring stations spread around the country, and none at all overseas. Hams live everywhere. It is even rumoured that some of them exist outside the US.
and the ARRL have repaid them...
This implies that the power company gave something of value to the ARRL. What might that have been?
Nice. I'm sure comms companies all over the US will jump at the chance to get the ARRL's contribution and involvement in future.
They had better. A company that resolves its own interference issues is much less likely to face fines and shutdown notices from the FCC. And a company that cooperates to resolve problems is less likely to be reported in the first place.
Unfortunately for the BPL companies, interference from BPL is likely to be reported immediately, because regulators need to know that it is taking place so they can act responsibly and prevent BPL from growing.
...sad lonely guys holed up in their bunkers...
Conducting phone patches so sad lonely GIs in remote places can talk to loved ones at home, or handling brief messages between them, or passing information between emergency services agencies so they can coordinate rescue activities, or listening for mayday calls from ships at sea, or handling routing information for aircraft over the ocean, or... any of a thousand other things that take place in the HF bands. It ain't just amateurs that use HF frequencies and are harmed by this problem.
It's convenient to paint this as "free information for the masses" versus "a few nut cases", but neither is correct.
(Of course re-partitioning stands a good chance of bringing everything back;)
Thank God for that.
I have firewire drives on one of my linux systems. These disks contain gigabytes of (legal) mp3s and mpeg
videos (Perry Mason, e.g.). They are recorded on a Windows machine and tranferred over the net for long-term storage. One day I thought -- gee, it would be faster to put a firewire card in the windows machine and copy them directly to the disk.
Bzzzzzt. Happy Windows, when it booted, decided to scramble the partition table of said disks for me. Fortunately, I was able to hook them back to linux and fdisk them back to the original state without any loss. And now I know not to connect any firewire linux disks to Windows, at least, not if they contain anything of value. Thanks, Bill.
...while in Australia, 11 hours ahead, and at a cost of US$1/min.
T-Mobile rates for US phones in Australia is $1.49/minute. And if it is "someone" calling and you don't answer, you pay for the call to your phone, and then you pay for the forwarding of that call to your voicemail. Even if you have forwarding to voicemail turned off.
I know, they just tried billing me for 127 bogus
calls at that rate. It was a "courtesy" for them
to correct the bill. At least, that's what the credit said on the next bill.
Years ago, when people were polite and understood that a movie theater was not the same as their own livingroom, there was an "experience" worth not being ruined.
Nowadays, the only experience you get in a movie theater is seeing how other people act when they think you don't deserve an "experience" of any value.
If someone timed a signal to swap out a network's advertising and display their own the FCC would be up the person's butt with a hot poker.
Actually, it is already being done. Cable companies have what are called "local avails", which are slots where they can replace the network advertising with local ads. The satellite services do the same. You can see it happening if you have cable and satellite and watch the same program on both.
Now, this is something they do with the permission of the network, but there is a big difference between "you cannot do this" and "sorry, our timer was off by a bit" when the network wants to claim the wrong ads were covered up.
And in any case, the FCC probably wouldn't be involved, it would be a contractual issue between the network and the carrier.
But then, the LL Bean problem is different. Nobody's ads are being "swapped out", you are seeing MORE ads. The only problem I can see with this from a legal standpoint is if the popups are deliberately confusing and pretend to be from LL Bean and not somewhere else.
Seems to me that this kind of investigation should fall under the term unreasonable search, no?
No. Nothing was searched. They didn't even enter his dorm room, the story said they met him in a hotel lobby. They don't need a warrant to ask him questions in the lobby of a hotel. They took all of ten minutes.
There wasn't even a 'search' of his files. Someone to whom he sent an FOIA request forwarded a copy to the feds. If you think there is some expectation of privacy about any FOIA request you make, you don't understand the FOIA -- such requests would clearly be subject to FOIA requests, even if one of the parties involved in the request didn't turn it over voluntarily.
Replace "underground tunnels" with anything else, and you realize exactly how inane this question is.
Ok, I'll take you up on this.
"Assuming he's not a terrorist, why did this student want to know...
the precise route and time schedule of the Presidential entourage through the streets of Dallas, and the range of a M14 rifle?
the kind of concrete and reinforcements used in constructing the Murrow Federal Building?
how to fly a 747 but not how to land or do takeoffs?
the radar cross-section for a common box-cutter, and the same for a ceramic knife, and by the way, exactly how fast will a human bleed out if his neck arteries are cut?
precisely what chemicals the chemical sniffers are detecting at the airline security stations?
the ld50 for Ricin and the volume of the Pentagon subway station?
the electrostatic treatment process that allows fine-grain distribution of anthrax spores?
the list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions for making meth?
the frequency, Kenneth?
the cryptographic keys used on March 23, 2004 on the hardwired circuits between the Whitehouse and the Paris Embassy?
I think I made the point. But maybe not. You cannot assume he isn't a terrorist or working with them just because he's in school. If someone is asking for information that there is no apparent reason to have, and that information has been identified as sensitive, it is suspicious.
Do you actually want to provide a reason to big brother everytime you want some information?
Depends on the information.
If I walked into the local police station and asked "what does that antenna do and what radio is it connected to?", I expect to be asked why I want to know. When I say "I'm working in the emergency communications center and I need to track one of the cables", I expect an answer. If I said "because there is no good information or bad information and I want to know", I would expect to get a "card" filled out on me and to be shown the door.
In this case, a student was asking for information on tunnels he would never be authorized to enter, so he was asked why. He wasn't arrested, he wasn't taken downtown for questioning, it wasn't a public spectacle. The only reason anyone knows about it is because HE ran to the papers to tell everyone.
But if it later turned out he was kidnapping coeds and keeping them chained up in the tunnels, using that information to know where he could hide, and nobody had asked, the Secret Service and FBI would be branded as incompetent for missing the obvious clues that he was up to something bad!
Under the FCC, the PEOPLE have NO RIGHT to broadcast anything.
Actually, under the US Constitution, people don't have that right. It is one of the unenumerated that can be debated til the cows come home. But constitutionally, no.
Maybe in New York or LA but in a town like Des Moines, Iowa there's PLENTY of specturm available...
There is the same amount of spectrum in New York as there is in Des Moines. There are more stations using it in big cities than small, is all.
But anyway, the equal protection clause would prevent regulations that allowed Des Moines residents to run unlicensed radio stations while preventing New York City residents from doing the same.
Why can't WE THE PEOPLE, by whose authority public resources are SUPPOSED to be available fairly (if not equally), use broadcast media for our own purposes?
Because there are not enough of those resources for everyone to use them at the same time, even in Des Moines, IA.
In addition, the claim that there would be so much more "substantive content" is patently silly. It takes a lot of work to create substantive content. It takes a lot more than just looping your entire mp3 collection. It takes people and time and money.
Of course, if you are just retransmitting something someone else has produced, it is a lot simpler, but then, you're just retransmitting someone else's work.
As for this killing top-40... har. The only reason it would kill top-40 is if someone is deliberately interfering with the top-40 station to the point that people cannot listen. And the FCC assumes that interference from illegal stations is deliberate, because it is. Forcing the legal licensee to complain about interference is a certain way to get the FCC's interest, along with a lot of staff lawyers for the corporation owning the top-40 station.
If by that you mean the ridiculous knocking on the monitor to get your attention while you were trying to concentrate on something else, yes. The problem was not the anthropomorphism, but that some annoying little twit kept interrupting serious thought to announce something trivial you could deal with later.
Meatspace has the saying: "children should be seen and not heard." Microsoft ignored that.
So they could force all content to resize into a frame (or iframe, or table, or do any of a number of HTML tricks) on whatever portion of the screen they allocate for content, and then put the ad bar in.
Isn't there existing case law (as in, someone already sued and won) that says that putting someone else's content into your pages is not legal? Wasn't there some large (or small) portal that was doing this, and they got sued? I don't recall the details, but I seem to remember this making/..
Note this would even allow you to play games / whatever online, because it would only modify traffic going over port 80, and then only modify HTML.
So then the trivial way around it is to find a proxy that doesn't use port 80.
If you turned your ol' six-shooter into a bigger, more woman-pleasing twelve-shooter, you'd only have to reload twice, and I can sell you the perfect herbal solution, no prescription necessary.
I bought my car in 1987. I installed an electronically tuned AM/FM radio. When I press a channel button for less than 1 second, I tune the radio. When I press it for more than 1 second, the radio tunes me. I mean, the current station is put into the memory.
I'd call that "prior art" and "limited power computing device."
There is no noticeable sound degradation reripping at 160k MP3.
Well, that's probably because you don't use oxygen-free copper cables (000 gage or better) and Ukranian-tube amplifiers. (Don't bother with the Russian tubes, they sound hollow and tinny, and something to do with the KGB.)
There's more fun things to do with a TTY operator than just 419 scams.
I was amazed to hear the guy at the local computer store tell me that they had problems with this. They were getting calls from people trying to order laptops with bad checks. He said they now
ask the operator what areacode the caller is in and refuse any call not from the local area. I remember him saying that New York state was a big source of problems.
He also said that he expected this solution to be just a band-aid.
We're not talking about temperature per se, we talk about the differential. Temperature is not only rising, according to all evidence, it's rising faster than it ever did - as far as we know.
"All the evidence" is not available. We don't have long term data, we have long term guesses and assumptions. Nobody knows what the temperature was 300 years ago, at least not what the 'average' temperature was. There simply was no way of measuring it. This "differential" is all recent data, and has certainly been as big at other times in history. Remember those things called glaciers?
We don't have data, but we have models. Models that conveniently change whenver someone feels the hysteria is waning. If 1.2 degrees per century isn't causing alarm anymore, tweak the model and you get 2! Tweak it again and you can get 5! One more tweak and it's 10. And each model is more "accurate" than the last.
Maybe you missed the/. articles over the last year about solar storms. We've had unusually large amounts of solar energy coming our way. I think it is normal for the "differential" to be large at the moment. We've got a huge space-heater just a few million (93 or so) miles away, and someone turned up its thermostat. I don't think we did that; I don't think there is anything we can do to turn it back down. Destroying the US economy certainly won't make the sun worry about what it is doing and stop.
Yup, that might be perfectly natural - that doesn't help the people who will die due to climatic changes in the next couple of decades.
Interesting. The people who died in the "heat wave" of last summer did so because there was insufficient energy to run the air conditioners. The correct answer to this is, of course, to limit energy production even more by enforcing draconian limits on CO2 emissions. Not.
Just don't get in the way of those who want to fix things.
Were the only people you would hurt be yourselves, I'd say "go for it". I'm a supporter of those cults that sequester themselves and then give up when the mothership doesn't appear. They can do what they want. When you involve me in your mania, I get a say. Trying to imply that I don't doesn't wash here. And pretending that you have The Fix is even less washable.
In other words, no, you don't get to conduct your experiments in global climate control with my planet without my participation in the discussion.
That's all you've got, an experiment and a guess that maybe you have a fix to a problem that you can't even prove is fixable, or that the fix has anything to do with the cause of this problem.
Or are you afraid your lifestyle might suffer?
Mine, and millions of other people, needlessly. Is needless suffering not something you care about?
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Rescues of hikers are done using whatever tools are available. Helicopters are not always available, and when they are, they often cannot get to the place the hiker is. Trees sometimes get in the way, you know. Yes, the 'newsworthy' rescues are because of the helicopters, but the ones that don't make the news are done however thay can be.
"On foot"? Do you imagine they carry you all the way to the hospital? Have you ever carried someone for any distance in a rescue? I did it in training, and it ain't fun, and it ain't easy, even with 6 people lifting and a dozen others clearing the path. No, they drag you to the closest trail where a vehicle can get, and then load you into a (gasp!) whatever vehicle can get in. And passenger cars don't make it.
The very idea of using a fashionable road-car for rescue work is just too awful to think about.
What are you complaining about here, fashionable road cars or SUVs? And while YOU may think it is too horrible to consider using an SUV to get into the back country to save someone's life, the people who do this kind of thing regularly sometimes do horrible things to their own property (and bodies) trying to save the lives of people they do not know. And you complain because they might drive an SUV?
"Mountain rescue just called, they're trying to dig their mercedes out of the mud..."
So you've just jumped from whining about hummers and SUVs to whining about Mercedes? Or you think Hummers are made by Mercedes? Do you even know what you are complaining about?
So why are there so many of them, if one carries so much?
[*] Busses - carry 30 people to work or school
In THIS town, the busses rarely have more than ten people on them, usually only one or two.
[*] Dump trucks - allow you to build houses and such-like
Dump trucks have very little to do with building houses.
[*] Garbage trucks - Collect the rubbish for a whole town
Interesting, it takes more than one for just the little town I live in.
[*] Hummers - take one woman to work
Take one woman and her three kids to daycare, to the doctor, shopping (to buy the food the semi-trailer carries). Takes her kids and neighbor kids to school when it is her turn to drive the car-pool. Carries meals-on-wheels to lonely old people. Takes whole family's recycling to the recycling center. Also takes husband up into some of the desolate un-roaded areas to look for lost hikers when they don't come home on time, and maybe carry them out to the hospital to save their life when they need medical care.
Now how about the "danger to usefulness ratio"?
Ok, you don't think SUVs are useful. Please feel free to not buy one. Don't pretend that you get to define what other people find useful. And please don't go hiking where you might wind up owing your life to someone who has an SUV.
After reading about the U-[5|7]0, I actually bought one (the U-70). I've had it for two weeks, so I'm still aclimatizing myself to it, but here's my initial impressions.
- The screen is REALLY SMALL. This is both a blessing and a curse. It does have sufficient resolution to read a "page", but you have to hold it close to your face. (Being old doesn't help.)
- The battery life (rated) is short. 2.5 hours.
- It fits in the hand really well.
- The display rotates so it looks more like a normal portrait page.
- Built-in wireless is handy, the ability to shut it off is handier.
- The lack of firewire on the portable part is silly. I have portable firewire disks that I cannot use with this, and, of course, the first firewire/USB portable disk I found was a POS (not sbp2 for firewire).
- Text input without the keyboard is a pain. It is pretty easy to poke the on-screen keyboard, but that chances damaging the touch-screen. Using the mouse is slow, but for small things, ok.
- Lack of bluetooth is not a problem. The D-Link DBT 120 would fit in the USB on the unit without being ugly or ungainly, and it is pretty cheap (compared to the price of the whole unit!)
- The 20Gb disk is a REAL limit. It's not big enough to keep much video, and it makes a too-expensive MP3 player.
The most I've used it is in two situations: I was in a set of meetings where I could do real work while still being in the meeting, and at home where I could watch stuff off my PVR while sitting in my comfy chair.Was it worth $2800? Dunno yet. The real test is to see if it works its way into my daily routine, which is hasn't yet. That is partially because of the week of meetings, which has kept me from trying Linux on it yet.
If I scored it on cool factor, thought, it gets A-plus. Everyone who has seen it has been impressed.
In just the few comments I've seen on this already, I've seen Jerry's name spelled both as "Falwell" and "Fallwell", so apparently the confusion is real and significant. Although it may not confuse you, it does confuse other /. readers. And it appears that the intent to confuse was deliberate, so the result of the case was correct.
If you remember that the "shopkeeper" that one interacts with in the store is either a teenager who is working for a pittance while going to school, or a retired person, it is a reality. While there may be a boatload of smart IT people behind the scenes, that is exactly where they are -- behing the scenes. They won't see the problem until it becomes apparent in the dataflow.
What an incredibly patronising, stupid, and, just plain wrong thing to say. You may disagree with his policies, but that doesn't make him low IQ. By ending your comment with this knee-jerk nonsense, you've made your entire comment look like it comes from a knee-jerk ignoramus. If that's what you want, ok.
No, they didn't. ARRL was already involved, and the power company just asked for ARRL to keep the power company "in the loop" on any complaints.
It wouldn't make any difference if the power company had said "keep out" or "come right on in", the ARRL was going to be involved in this issue no matter what. And quite rightly so.
They represent LICENSED users of the spectrum, who have every right to monitor and report interference, and who are much better at monitoring interference than are the FCC. The FCC has a limited number of monitoring stations spread around the country, and none at all overseas. Hams live everywhere. It is even rumoured that some of them exist outside the US.
and the ARRL have repaid them ...
This implies that the power company gave something of value to the ARRL. What might that have been?
Nice. I'm sure comms companies all over the US will jump at the chance to get the ARRL's contribution and involvement in future.
They had better. A company that resolves its own interference issues is much less likely to face fines and shutdown notices from the FCC. And a company that cooperates to resolve problems is less likely to be reported in the first place.
Unfortunately for the BPL companies, interference from BPL is likely to be reported immediately, because regulators need to know that it is taking place so they can act responsibly and prevent BPL from growing.
Conducting phone patches so sad lonely GIs in remote places can talk to loved ones at home, or handling brief messages between them, or passing information between emergency services agencies so they can coordinate rescue activities, or listening for mayday calls from ships at sea, or handling routing information for aircraft over the ocean, or ... any of a thousand other things that take place in the HF bands. It ain't just amateurs that use HF frequencies and are harmed by this problem.
It's convenient to paint this as "free information for the masses" versus "a few nut cases", but neither is correct.
Thank God for that.
I have firewire drives on one of my linux systems. These disks contain gigabytes of (legal) mp3s and mpeg videos (Perry Mason, e.g.). They are recorded on a Windows machine and tranferred over the net for long-term storage. One day I thought -- gee, it would be faster to put a firewire card in the windows machine and copy them directly to the disk.
Bzzzzzt. Happy Windows, when it booted, decided to scramble the partition table of said disks for me. Fortunately, I was able to hook them back to linux and fdisk them back to the original state without any loss. And now I know not to connect any firewire linux disks to Windows, at least, not if they contain anything of value. Thanks, Bill.
T-Mobile rates for US phones in Australia is $1.49/minute. And if it is "someone" calling and you don't answer, you pay for the call to your phone, and then you pay for the forwarding of that call to your voicemail. Even if you have forwarding to voicemail turned off.
I know, they just tried billing me for 127 bogus calls at that rate. It was a "courtesy" for them to correct the bill. At least, that's what the credit said on the next bill.
Nowadays, the only experience you get in a movie theater is seeing how other people act when they think you don't deserve an "experience" of any value.
Actually, it is already being done. Cable companies have what are called "local avails", which are slots where they can replace the network advertising with local ads. The satellite services do the same. You can see it happening if you have cable and satellite and watch the same program on both.
Now, this is something they do with the permission of the network, but there is a big difference between "you cannot do this" and "sorry, our timer was off by a bit" when the network wants to claim the wrong ads were covered up.
And in any case, the FCC probably wouldn't be involved, it would be a contractual issue between the network and the carrier.
But then, the LL Bean problem is different. Nobody's ads are being "swapped out", you are seeing MORE ads. The only problem I can see with this from a legal standpoint is if the popups are deliberately confusing and pretend to be from LL Bean and not somewhere else.
No. Nothing was searched. They didn't even enter his dorm room, the story said they met him in a hotel lobby. They don't need a warrant to ask him questions in the lobby of a hotel. They took all of ten minutes.
There wasn't even a 'search' of his files. Someone to whom he sent an FOIA request forwarded a copy to the feds. If you think there is some expectation of privacy about any FOIA request you make, you don't understand the FOIA -- such requests would clearly be subject to FOIA requests, even if one of the parties involved in the request didn't turn it over voluntarily.
Ok, I'll take you up on this.
"Assuming he's not a terrorist, why did this student want to know ...
- the precise route and time schedule of the Presidential entourage through the streets of Dallas, and the range of a M14 rifle?
- the kind of concrete and reinforcements used in constructing the Murrow Federal Building?
- how to fly a 747 but not how to land or do takeoffs?
- the radar cross-section for a common box-cutter, and the same for a ceramic knife, and by the way, exactly how fast will a human bleed out if his neck arteries are cut?
- precisely what chemicals the chemical sniffers are detecting at the airline security stations?
- the ld50 for Ricin and the volume of the Pentagon subway station?
- the electrostatic treatment process that allows fine-grain distribution of anthrax spores?
- the list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions for making meth?
- the frequency, Kenneth?
- the cryptographic keys used on March 23, 2004 on the hardwired circuits between the Whitehouse and the Paris Embassy?
I think I made the point. But maybe not. You cannot assume he isn't a terrorist or working with them just because he's in school. If someone is asking for information that there is no apparent reason to have, and that information has been identified as sensitive, it is suspicious.Do you actually want to provide a reason to big brother everytime you want some information?
Depends on the information.
If I walked into the local police station and asked "what does that antenna do and what radio is it connected to?", I expect to be asked why I want to know. When I say "I'm working in the emergency communications center and I need to track one of the cables", I expect an answer. If I said "because there is no good information or bad information and I want to know", I would expect to get a "card" filled out on me and to be shown the door.
In this case, a student was asking for information on tunnels he would never be authorized to enter, so he was asked why. He wasn't arrested, he wasn't taken downtown for questioning, it wasn't a public spectacle. The only reason anyone knows about it is because HE ran to the papers to tell everyone.
But if it later turned out he was kidnapping coeds and keeping them chained up in the tunnels, using that information to know where he could hide, and nobody had asked, the Secret Service and FBI would be branded as incompetent for missing the obvious clues that he was up to something bad!
Actually, under the US Constitution, people don't have that right. It is one of the unenumerated that can be debated til the cows come home. But constitutionally, no.
Maybe in New York or LA but in a town like Des Moines, Iowa there's PLENTY of specturm available...
There is the same amount of spectrum in New York as there is in Des Moines. There are more stations using it in big cities than small, is all.
But anyway, the equal protection clause would prevent regulations that allowed Des Moines residents to run unlicensed radio stations while preventing New York City residents from doing the same.
Why can't WE THE PEOPLE, by whose authority public resources are SUPPOSED to be available fairly (if not equally), use broadcast media for our own purposes?
Because there are not enough of those resources for everyone to use them at the same time, even in Des Moines, IA.
In addition, the claim that there would be so much more "substantive content" is patently silly. It takes a lot of work to create substantive content. It takes a lot more than just looping your entire mp3 collection. It takes people and time and money.
Of course, if you are just retransmitting something someone else has produced, it is a lot simpler, but then, you're just retransmitting someone else's work.
As for this killing top-40 ... har. The only reason it would kill top-40 is if someone is deliberately interfering with the top-40 station to the point that people cannot listen. And the FCC assumes that interference from illegal stations is deliberate, because it is. Forcing the legal licensee to complain about interference is a certain way to get the FCC's interest, along with a lot of staff lawyers for the corporation owning the top-40 station.
If by that you mean the ridiculous knocking on the monitor to get your attention while you were trying to concentrate on something else, yes. The problem was not the anthropomorphism, but that some annoying little twit kept interrupting serious thought to announce something trivial you could deal with later.
Meatspace has the saying: "children should be seen and not heard." Microsoft ignored that.
Isn't there existing case law (as in, someone already sued and won) that says that putting someone else's content into your pages is not legal? Wasn't there some large (or small) portal that was doing this, and they got sued? I don't recall the details, but I seem to remember this making /..
Note this would even allow you to play games / whatever online, because it would only modify traffic going over port 80, and then only modify HTML.
So then the trivial way around it is to find a proxy that doesn't use port 80.
Not only a /. article, you get listed in the Darwin Project!
Or was it "kerplop"?
If you turned your ol' six-shooter into a bigger, more woman-pleasing twelve-shooter, you'd only have to reload twice, and I can sell you the perfect herbal solution, no prescription necessary.
I'd call that "prior art" and "limited power computing device."
Anyone remember the track-change in the middle of Frankenstein by Edgar Winter on the 8-track? Fade to silence, CLUNK, fade back in?
Gotta go, shuffleboard is starting, then bingo night! Where's that damn nurse, never around when I need to be rolled somewhere else...
Well, that's probably because you don't use oxygen-free copper cables (000 gage or better) and Ukranian-tube amplifiers. (Don't bother with the Russian tubes, they sound hollow and tinny, and something to do with the KGB.)
I was amazed to hear the guy at the local computer store tell me that they had problems with this. They were getting calls from people trying to order laptops with bad checks. He said they now ask the operator what areacode the caller is in and refuse any call not from the local area. I remember him saying that New York state was a big source of problems.
He also said that he expected this solution to be just a band-aid.
"All the evidence" is not available. We don't have long term data, we have long term guesses and assumptions. Nobody knows what the temperature was 300 years ago, at least not what the 'average' temperature was. There simply was no way of measuring it. This "differential" is all recent data, and has certainly been as big at other times in history. Remember those things called glaciers?
We don't have data, but we have models. Models that conveniently change whenver someone feels the hysteria is waning. If 1.2 degrees per century isn't causing alarm anymore, tweak the model and you get 2! Tweak it again and you can get 5! One more tweak and it's 10. And each model is more "accurate" than the last.
Maybe you missed the /. articles over the last year about solar storms. We've had unusually large amounts of solar energy coming our way. I think it is normal for the "differential" to be large at the moment. We've got a huge space-heater just a few million (93 or so) miles away, and someone turned up its thermostat. I don't think we did that; I don't think there is anything we can do to turn it back down. Destroying the US economy certainly won't make the sun worry about what it is doing and stop.
Yup, that might be perfectly natural - that doesn't help the people who will die due to climatic changes in the next couple of decades.
Interesting. The people who died in the "heat wave" of last summer did so because there was insufficient energy to run the air conditioners. The correct answer to this is, of course, to limit energy production even more by enforcing draconian limits on CO2 emissions. Not.
Just don't get in the way of those who want to fix things.
Were the only people you would hurt be yourselves, I'd say "go for it". I'm a supporter of those cults that sequester themselves and then give up when the mothership doesn't appear. They can do what they want. When you involve me in your mania, I get a say. Trying to imply that I don't doesn't wash here. And pretending that you have The Fix is even less washable.
In other words, no, you don't get to conduct your experiments in global climate control with my planet without my participation in the discussion. That's all you've got, an experiment and a guess that maybe you have a fix to a problem that you can't even prove is fixable, or that the fix has anything to do with the cause of this problem.
Or are you afraid your lifestyle might suffer?
Mine, and millions of other people, needlessly. Is needless suffering not something you care about?