I mean, how could he not? Its so unfair, EVERYONE else is signing up for it and promising to follow the same recommendations. It doesn't give the US any favoritism or advantage over them, so its just too unfair for the USA....
More so than the efficiencies, unless you went through the trouble of getting an exactly priced BART ticket for that single trip, you will be swapping tickets that potentially still have more cash value on them. Most commuters have switched to using Clipper card (rfid based pre-payment system) which works well for BART but is a craptastic company to deal with and is setup horridly on the other transit lines (Caltrain specifically). Simply the time I save not having to stand in line to buy a paper ticket at a machine, reduced to the exact ride price (look it up on the fare chart, hit buttons many times to reduce the default $20 ticket to the exact price if its credit, or spend time counting out change to feed the thing) each trip and instead just swipe my wallet over the turnstile and walk through is worth more than any potential saving, if I even happen to ride a route that has this arbitrage opportunity (doubtful).
Sure, but the devil is in the details.
WHERE do they park? Cabs must park somewhere visible where anyone can see them, a public space on public property, but these other "things", can be anywhere, in a private parking lot, or somewhere else equally privately owned.
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How does that matter? The Uber driver could be (and has been a few times I have scheduled a pickup for a 3am flight from SFO) at home in bed. They are only providing a ride from point A to point B for customer X, after customer X contacts Uber to schedule the ride (ie: a Chartered trip). They are not soliciting rides directly, which is THE differentiator between Uber/Lyft/etc and a Taxi service. Once that charter is completed, they could go on to their next assignment or go home. Taxis circle hoping to get either a dispatch or someone flagging them down on the street.
You missed the part where they sell a drive crusher too... drives a wedge down the middle of the drive, or puts lots of holes in an SSD, up to 2 at a time.
Ask yourself, is it worth it for a bank, gmail, the FBI to invest $9k (or more, for the higher-end device), or risk $X0,000 * $NumberOfCustomers in legal fees and triage and incident response if a bad drive were to escape into the wild? I can guarantee you a single investment of $9k is a no-brainer and is dirt cheap compared to any incident response for stolen data. Not sure what "simpler methods" exist than: 1. insert drive, 2. ??? 3. drive is dead/data gone. When you have to get rid of multiple drives a week, things like this are a must-have.
Those fills of random bits work real well when the drive fails and can no longer be accessed.... A motivated entity could possibly recover the bits still on chip/disc, its up to the organization to decide how to dispose of the drive and if its worth their/their clients' interest in making sure the data is not recoverable. I wouldn't want my bank to simply toss a bad drive out in the normal garbage....
-T
Simple version:
"dont kill the messenger" except when the messenger is going to kill you. Its printk sending notice that the leap second happened that deadlocks against the timer doing the leap second (both vying for xtime_lock). Call it a "feature" of the NTP code. Hence the "turn off NTPD" workaround, if NTP doesnt get notified it should implement the leap second from somewhere upstream, it wont notify about it to the kernel, and the printk shouldnt happen.
As many others above have posted, though none got any mod points for (yet)...
Its free, opensource (GNU), widely available as a standard package to most platforms, etc. You create a password file, encrypt with gpg, then sign it with each user's key that should have access to it (requires all users to have proper gpg keys setup). When someone leaves, you revoke their key from the file and they can no longer get to it, without having to do much else. If thats too complicated, just do a basic crypt (gpg -c) and share that password around. Then if someone leaves just decrypt and re-encrypt with a new password.
Then go to dealextreme.com, or I think they're also at dx.com now. There you can
get cameras, and the video balun's to make it simple to use cat 5 to run your
cameras. A camera is about $20 for a decent night vision one, and the balun set
(8 baluns to run 4 cameras) were about $25.
....
You forgot the step where you wait a month or four for the dx cameras to ship from HongKong....
4th amendment
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Can some one point to the airport exclusion? Or where congress amended the constitution to allow this?
They simply changed the interpretation of "unreasonable". After all you may be a terrorist, citizen.
No, its simple congressional logic: that since you are flying on a commercial airliner, and terrorists have flown on and blownup/crashed commercial airliners, you must be a terrorist, therefore probable cause exists to search you with overpriced gadgets that serve to slow down the lines of passengers (unless you pay them more $$ to bypass them) and not detect any of the things the manufacturers promised they would, but find everything else that could make them run your bag through multiple times... while said manufacturer, and their share holders (coincidentally people that helped construct/pass the bills making this mess happen) is raking in taxpayer $$.........
The output of the 3d printers will be made of a completely different substance than the specialized car parts. The different substance will likely have different heat and pressure tolerances, different tensile strength, and so on. It probably won't work, and could cause damage.
Maybe, but they would make a great pattern to build a mold so that the part could be reproduced with the proper materials.
I just removed similar tape from my bike handlebars cause it was worn out. Granted, it wasn't on the same nano scale, but the tape I used has small hairlike nubs on it that aid in grip, especially when used in conjunction with gloves also having the greptile material on them. Now it seems it is only being used for golf gloves and grips. Worked amazingly well..
Calcium carbide, in rock form would work, just add water and you get acetylene gas. If you keep that contained and mixed with the proper amount of air before igniting, yeh, it makes a bright flash and loud boom. On a plane though, the rocks take a while to bubble away into the gas, and it smells very strongly of onions. Also, you need a very large amount to do anything serious, on the order of several large garbage bags full (caver rating scale: 2bagger, 3bagger...), stuff very unlikely to go unnoticed. Otherwise you get about the equivalent of a flash-bang.
The rocks are small and look like small bits of concrete, but can be crushed between your fingers. You have to keep them super dry or they start to emit gas just from the atmospheric moisture, which is easily smelled, and would probably show up on the airport screener's volatiles sniffer (I assume the xray machines have these built in these days, tho I have seen some of the wipe-pad ones still around). Otherwise they would blend in with a handful of normal gravel.
Dalton (your smaller neighbor about 30mi south), and specifically Dalton Utilities, got that all kick started. It was building out massive infrastructure to fuel the booming carpet industry of the late 80's-90's (most millionaires per-capita prior to the dot-com boom), strung fiber along with the new lines, mainly for daq/scada at first, but launched into more general access starting in 2000 when they started installing fiber everywhere. Now they have Optilink, which has up to 2.5Gbps (graph shows 10gbps) though their offerings to the public list only 20mbps. Also independent of the ILECs (GTE/alltel/bellsouth or whatever it is now), and also running phones and TV with the internet service.
Smoking in public (parks, on the sidewalk, etc) or in communal housing (ie: apartments)
Styrofoam
Electronic cigarettes
De-clawing cats
Grasshopper Tacos
*Yes, some are state-level, and some (like bottled water and soda) are for government establishments/schools only, and I think the handgun ban got overturned by the NRA as did DC's, and some are just other proposals. Im glad to see our elected officials using their time so effectively to give us the best supernanny city around!
... expressly FORBID any ISP from mucking with traffic flowing through their tubez aside from normal routing/management activity? Wouldn't blocking all but the top 200 websites from consumers be a direct "ha Im shitting on your face!" violation? Those suing the FCC to block that regulation were promising nothing like this would happen, they were not that evil, yet here it is!
Well it's like that here in Canada and no big whoop.
Them taxing us by the mile is more like putting a leash on every citizen in the country and punishing them
for the "luxury" of car travel..
Err, more like the "Luxury" of paved roads and bridges. How do you think they get money to repave them when they wear out, or expand them when they get too congested, or retrofit or replace bridges when they get too old? Seriously, car travel is not free, it requires upkeep of both your vehicle, and the places you take it. Even dirt roads have to be regraded every few years or they get washed out or washboarded so bad you could walk faster on them.
Bunch of crybabies that want everything for free and feel they are entitled to it.. ugh. Hypocrites too, when they complain that "Obama Care" will require them to do this or that, they want to be able to pay for only what they need/use. Now the "pay per mile", basically pay ONLY FOR WHAT YOU NEED/USE comes up for transportation and they want nothing of it. Heh.
We're already doing this through Federal and State gas taxes.
That's why I hate this proposal so much... not only is it a new tax, but now you're triple penalizing someone for having a long commute. They're already paying more in gas taxes and tolls because they're driving more, but now you're getting hit again with a mileage tax as well.
No, it is not a penalty for a long commute, it is paying YOUR share for the upkeep of the roads YOU use. Why should my vehicle, which sits at home most of the week while I ride a train to work, pay a flat fee for road upkeep to subsidize other people's commute? I actually already do in the form of Licensing Fees, which in California, for pickup trucks, is based on weight. If its taxed per mile it will be fair for me to pay less since I drive less thus damage the roads less, right?? Same with the gas tax, I drive less, I use less gas, which results in less emissions, thus I buy less gas and pay less in tax there. The new mileage based fees are to get hybrid/EV cars to start paying for their share of road upkeep. These are similar to the arguments being used against "Obama Care", and other "Socialist" programs (ie: I only want to pay my fair share, why should the gvmnt force me into blah blah blah). Funny how it reverses when your car and gasoline are the targets (nooo I want to be subsidized!!). If you dont like paying taxes and gas for such a long commute, MOVE CLOSER TO WORK! Its not my fault you got a job far far away and decide to DRIVE there.
Ironically, this whole crisis was caused because they did precisely that—the reactors shut down automatically for safety reasons, and then they had no power with which to keep the pumps running because the diesel generators were underwater. Had pretty much any one those reactors not automatically scrammed, it is likely that things would be in better shape than they are now.
Thank you Captain Hind Sight, BUT
Not sure how a runaway critical reaction is a better outcome than the current situation. If the SCRAM units did not kick in, the reactors would remain critical, and the state of the rest of the plant would be unknown. What happens if the quake knocks the control rods out of alignment, or disrupts the turbines that generate the power, or bends/cracks/breaks the coolant lines? With a critical reactor the designed power output is up in the 1.1GW range, anything going wrong that could disrupt the cooling systems gives that power nowhere to go, and 1.1GW (or more, if the reaction does actually run away) is a whole bunch of power to concentrate in one spot. SCRAM units take a maximum of 4 seconds to fully insert the rods to stop the reaction, leaving little time for anything else to break and prevent their use. It was the 100% correct thing to do. Even IF the tsunami didnt wipe out the generators AND POWERLINES (remember, it took them over a week to run a new powerline to the plant) between the plants, and one stayed operational, running pumps with nothing in them to pump does little good (cracked cooling line/evaporated coolant/steam releases), as does powering broken pumps or pumping coolant through broken lines (they still arent sure the pumps or lines are operational in some of the buildings).
What went wrong, besides under-designing the seismic and tsunami resistance of the plant, was placing the generators in a position where a tsunami could wipe them out. Had they been on the roof, or on/in an elevated structure (like the top floor of the reactor building itself??) and as protected as the rest of the facility they probably would have remained operational, and kept the coolant flowing long enough to get mains power back without anything reaching any worrisome state.
Newer fail-safe reactor designs are in evaluation as this is all happening. It takes YEARS to get anything rolling with these plants, you cant just switch them out one day. It is the goal to replace the old ones, it just takes time and lots of $$.
If they were so unconcerned with saving them, why did they wait on the sea water? they could have done that days sooner but didn't because it would render the reactors useless.
Because then you end up with radioactive salts to deal with. Pure water will cool without transporting radiation, since theres nothing in pure water that will take on the extra particles. Salt also accelerates corrosion, and when the water boils away, it leave a nice crust all over everything, possibly clogging pipes/pumps/valves, as well as adding insulation to stuff thats already too hot.
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I mean, how could he not? Its so unfair, EVERYONE else is signing up for it and promising to follow the same recommendations. It doesn't give the US any favoritism or advantage over them, so its just too unfair for the USA....
More so than the efficiencies, unless you went through the trouble of getting an exactly priced BART ticket for that single trip, you will be swapping tickets that potentially still have more cash value on them. Most commuters have switched to using Clipper card (rfid based pre-payment system) which works well for BART but is a craptastic company to deal with and is setup horridly on the other transit lines (Caltrain specifically). Simply the time I save not having to stand in line to buy a paper ticket at a machine, reduced to the exact ride price (look it up on the fare chart, hit buttons many times to reduce the default $20 ticket to the exact price if its credit, or spend time counting out change to feed the thing) each trip and instead just swipe my wallet over the turnstile and walk through is worth more than any potential saving, if I even happen to ride a route that has this arbitrage opportunity (doubtful).
-T
Sure, but the devil is in the details. WHERE do they park? Cabs must park somewhere visible where anyone can see them, a public space on public property, but these other "things", can be anywhere, in a private parking lot, or somewhere else equally privately owned.
...
How does that matter? The Uber driver could be (and has been a few times I have scheduled a pickup for a 3am flight from SFO) at home in bed. They are only providing a ride from point A to point B for customer X, after customer X contacts Uber to schedule the ride (ie: a Chartered trip). They are not soliciting rides directly, which is THE differentiator between Uber/Lyft/etc and a Taxi service. Once that charter is completed, they could go on to their next assignment or go home. Taxis circle hoping to get either a dispatch or someone flagging them down on the street.
-Tm
-T
-T
Those fills of random bits work real well when the drive fails and can no longer be accessed.... A motivated entity could possibly recover the bits still on chip/disc, its up to the organization to decide how to dispose of the drive and if its worth their/their clients' interest in making sure the data is not recoverable. I wouldn't want my bank to simply toss a bad drive out in the normal garbage.... -T
Simple version:
"dont kill the messenger" except when the messenger is going to kill you. Its printk sending notice that the leap second happened that deadlocks against the timer doing the leap second (both vying for xtime_lock). Call it a "feature" of the NTP code. Hence the "turn off NTPD" workaround, if NTP doesnt get notified it should implement the leap second from somewhere upstream, it wont notify about it to the kernel, and the printk shouldnt happen.
-T
Its free, opensource (GNU), widely available as a standard package to most platforms, etc. You create a password file, encrypt with gpg, then sign it with each user's key that should have access to it (requires all users to have proper gpg keys setup). When someone leaves, you revoke their key from the file and they can no longer get to it, without having to do much else. If thats too complicated, just do a basic crypt (gpg -c) and share that password around. Then if someone leaves just decrypt and re-encrypt with a new password.
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Then go to dealextreme.com, or I think they're also at dx.com now. There you can get cameras, and the video balun's to make it simple to use cat 5 to run your cameras. A camera is about $20 for a decent night vision one, and the balun set (8 baluns to run 4 cameras) were about $25.
....
You forgot the step where you wait a month or four for the dx cameras to ship from HongKong....
-tm
4th amendment "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Can some one point to the airport exclusion? Or where congress amended the constitution to allow this?
They simply changed the interpretation of "unreasonable". After all you may be a terrorist, citizen.
No, its simple congressional logic: that since you are flying on a commercial airliner, and terrorists have flown on and blownup/crashed commercial airliners, you must be a terrorist, therefore probable cause exists to search you with overpriced gadgets that serve to slow down the lines of passengers (unless you pay them more $$ to bypass them) and not detect any of the things the manufacturers promised they would, but find everything else that could make them run your bag through multiple times... while said manufacturer, and their share holders (coincidentally people that helped construct/pass the bills making this mess happen) is raking in taxpayer $$.........
-Tm
-T
The output of the 3d printers will be made of a completely different substance than the specialized car parts. The different substance will likely have different heat and pressure tolerances, different tensile strength, and so on. It probably won't work, and could cause damage.
Maybe, but they would make a great pattern to build a mold so that the part could be reproduced with the proper materials.
-Tm
In the past 5 minutes there have been no additional signatures.
13,801 to go.
Apparently I'm not the only /. who doesn't trust the government enough to "Create an Account" at this point.
Created one, but can't sign in cause the sign-in form rarely shows up (flash?). grrr
-T
tm
The rocks are small and look like small bits of concrete, but can be crushed between your fingers. You have to keep them super dry or they start to emit gas just from the atmospheric moisture, which is easily smelled, and would probably show up on the airport screener's volatiles sniffer (I assume the xray machines have these built in these days, tho I have seen some of the wipe-pad ones still around). Otherwise they would blend in with a handful of normal gravel.
-tm
-tm
Except that once you've been arrested they can run your DNA profile against all unsolved cases. Hooray for false positives!
And they dont for fingerprints?? (Which have a much higher false-positive rate)
-Tm
Tm
*Yes, some are state-level, and some (like bottled water and soda) are for government establishments/schools only, and I think the handgun ban got overturned by the NRA as did DC's, and some are just other proposals. Im glad to see our elected officials using their time so effectively to give us the best supernanny city around!
-tm
Well it's like that here in Canada and no big whoop. Them taxing us by the mile is more like putting a leash on every citizen in the country and punishing them for the "luxury" of car travel..
Err, more like the "Luxury" of paved roads and bridges. How do you think they get money to repave them when they wear out, or expand them when they get too congested, or retrofit or replace bridges when they get too old? Seriously, car travel is not free, it requires upkeep of both your vehicle, and the places you take it. Even dirt roads have to be regraded every few years or they get washed out or washboarded so bad you could walk faster on them.
Bunch of crybabies that want everything for free and feel they are entitled to it.. ugh. Hypocrites too, when they complain that "Obama Care" will require them to do this or that, they want to be able to pay for only what they need/use. Now the "pay per mile", basically pay ONLY FOR WHAT YOU NEED/USE comes up for transportation and they want nothing of it. Heh.
-Tm
We're already doing this through Federal and State gas taxes.
That's why I hate this proposal so much... not only is it a new tax, but now you're triple penalizing someone for having a long commute. They're already paying more in gas taxes and tolls because they're driving more, but now you're getting hit again with a mileage tax as well.
No, it is not a penalty for a long commute, it is paying YOUR share for the upkeep of the roads YOU use. Why should my vehicle, which sits at home most of the week while I ride a train to work, pay a flat fee for road upkeep to subsidize other people's commute? I actually already do in the form of Licensing Fees, which in California, for pickup trucks, is based on weight. If its taxed per mile it will be fair for me to pay less since I drive less thus damage the roads less, right?? Same with the gas tax, I drive less, I use less gas, which results in less emissions, thus I buy less gas and pay less in tax there. The new mileage based fees are to get hybrid/EV cars to start paying for their share of road upkeep. These are similar to the arguments being used against "Obama Care", and other "Socialist" programs (ie: I only want to pay my fair share, why should the gvmnt force me into blah blah blah). Funny how it reverses when your car and gasoline are the targets (nooo I want to be subsidized!!). If you dont like paying taxes and gas for such a long commute, MOVE CLOSER TO WORK! Its not my fault you got a job far far away and decide to DRIVE there.
-Tm
Ironically, this whole crisis was caused because they did precisely that—the reactors shut down automatically for safety reasons, and then they had no power with which to keep the pumps running because the diesel generators were underwater. Had pretty much any one those reactors not automatically scrammed, it is likely that things would be in better shape than they are now.
Thank you Captain Hind Sight, BUT Not sure how a runaway critical reaction is a better outcome than the current situation. If the SCRAM units did not kick in, the reactors would remain critical, and the state of the rest of the plant would be unknown. What happens if the quake knocks the control rods out of alignment, or disrupts the turbines that generate the power, or bends/cracks/breaks the coolant lines? With a critical reactor the designed power output is up in the 1.1GW range, anything going wrong that could disrupt the cooling systems gives that power nowhere to go, and 1.1GW (or more, if the reaction does actually run away) is a whole bunch of power to concentrate in one spot. SCRAM units take a maximum of 4 seconds to fully insert the rods to stop the reaction, leaving little time for anything else to break and prevent their use. It was the 100% correct thing to do. Even IF the tsunami didnt wipe out the generators AND POWERLINES (remember, it took them over a week to run a new powerline to the plant) between the plants, and one stayed operational, running pumps with nothing in them to pump does little good (cracked cooling line/evaporated coolant/steam releases), as does powering broken pumps or pumping coolant through broken lines (they still arent sure the pumps or lines are operational in some of the buildings).
What went wrong, besides under-designing the seismic and tsunami resistance of the plant, was placing the generators in a position where a tsunami could wipe them out. Had they been on the roof, or on/in an elevated structure (like the top floor of the reactor building itself??) and as protected as the rest of the facility they probably would have remained operational, and kept the coolant flowing long enough to get mains power back without anything reaching any worrisome state.
Newer fail-safe reactor designs are in evaluation as this is all happening. It takes YEARS to get anything rolling with these plants, you cant just switch them out one day. It is the goal to replace the old ones, it just takes time and lots of $$.
If they were so unconcerned with saving them, why did they wait on the sea water? they could have done that days sooner but didn't because it would render the reactors useless.
Because then you end up with radioactive salts to deal with. Pure water will cool without transporting radiation, since theres nothing in pure water that will take on the extra particles. Salt also accelerates corrosion, and when the water boils away, it leave a nice crust all over everything, possibly clogging pipes/pumps/valves, as well as adding insulation to stuff thats already too hot.