If the jamming is announced, so that (for instance) no emergency call to a doctor is blocked, and the jamming signal is limited so as to not interfere with operation outside the test environment, you're probably safe. The FCC's interference law was written with a purpose, to disallow interference with the reception of lawful transmissions. Since using a radio device to cheat is probably in violation of the school's contract with its students, such use violates contract law and thus is not protected by the FCC.
No notes for students tests memory, not comprehension.
If you have to look up every last little thing, you will not be an effective employee or practitioner of your trade. Memorization is important, even if it is far from being everything. Tests that require some memorization mirror what the real world needs, and are consequently valid.
Show me one real world scenario where notes and resource materials are not made available to employees
Any employee who has to react immediately does not have time to consult "resource materials". A policeman or soldier in a firefight. A taxi driver or trucker avoiding a drunk driver or other obstruction. Boxers, wrestlers, or almost any professional athlete in the middle of a match.
In early August Beck said we're in for a severe stock market fall soon. The time frame for his prediction runs out in just a few days. Unless something strange comes about, he's wrong on that one.
Rather than trying to divine what you believe and what you think the RT rally would be, I'll make these points:
Muslims are in word and deed the leading murderers of innocents in the world.
The claim of liberals to be anti-racist is generally contradicted by their actions.
"Social safety nets", particularly unemployment compensation, discourage production. Many people who get paid for not working are not desperately willing to do anything to make money.
Government "helping the poor", when such help consists of handouts, usually makes life worse for the poor, in a manner passed on from parents to children.
The mess the economy is in now is directly and obviously the fault of the federal government. Looking at the major events on a ten year timeframe I see Bush's prescription drug benefit, his failure to derail the Dodd/Frank housing mess, and his start of the bailout blunder. Obama has expanded the bailout from bad to hideous while defrauding bondholders and supporting antiproductive unions.
Our election system does tend to narrow the range of ideas that government includes, but that has the benefit of (weakly) discouraging representation of nutcases. It may make more people unhappy with the government, but it tends to make it less likely that really damaging ideas become law.
Limbaugh has made it a significant part of his career to point out that it is the left that makes the most use of "talking points". Time and again he's broadcast examples of liberal "newsmen" and politicians all simultaneously starting to use the same phrase or obscure word (remember "gravitas"?).
So effective is Limbaugh that other conservative commentators copy him (as Limbaugh says, others use him for "show prep"). Alas, only a few (like Howie Carr) bother to cite Limbaugh, giving the impression that there are official right-wing "talking points". Of course, both political parties try to persuade/cajole/threaten/force their hierarchy to toe the party line and also evade some issues, but it's much worse from Democrats/liberals because force, not freedom, is central to their political philosophy.
Beck has both good and bad points. On the good side, he's intelligent, strongly opposes violence, works hard, does a lot of research, seems to be pretty honest, and has pointed out the bad points of some very nasty people in and around government. On the bad side, he's a little too eager to believe things that he wants to be true, and when it comes to religion he frequently becomes completely divorced from reality. Although his religious views gain him a certain class of support, they also repel many others (me in particular) and severely undercut his logic and the value of his political strategy.
First off, we didn't lose. When we left, S.V. was in a condition that, absent outside interference , it was strong enough to hold off N.V. indefinitely. The problem was, not long after we left, Russia/China (I forget which) renewed pouring military support into N.V., and the Congress was controlled by poltroon Democrats who blocked sufficient matching funding to S.V.
The war was so difficult and long because the US leaders were ignorant and cowardly, refusing to block/destroy the Ho Chi Minh trail or bomb major population centers
Yes, underestimating the tunnels was a major problem, but toward the end of the war we were beginning to get the picture. Regardless, the tunnels themselves were not enough to give N.V. victory. You can't grow enough plants in tunnels to feed an army. Given a more agressive war effort and a more intelligent use of available technology, the tunnels could have been rendered moot.
I love it, and it should be tried, but it won't work. Many of the rich congresscritters have boosted their wealth through bribes and promoting bills that advance their wealth (Diane Feinstein is a prime example of the latter). Salary and benefit cuts have no effect on that.
Would you explain how outlawing lobbyists could be achieved? Lawmakers (obviously some of the most deliberately igorant people in the country) will complain that they need advisors. The pressure to get axe-grinders hired as staffers will be beyond belief.
There's a world of difference between changing the federal government and changing the lower levels of government that deal with roads, police, etc.. That you deliberately equated the two is dishonest.
There's a great deal that a person can do to "take any effective, tangible steps to bring it about" that do not involve violence. Funding, gathering like-minded individuals, pointing out the idiocy and viciousness of opponents, writing papers on politcal theory that point out how things could be done.... The list of things that can be done is long, indeed.
It is the power of a dictator to be able to jail anyone who refuses to buy health insurance.
Obama isn't actively pursuing WikiLeaks because he wears left-wing blinders. He thinks anything critical of the military is an attack on Bush, and thus must somehow be good. Typical leftists practically orgasm when they hear "Woodward and Bernstein", and they think they're hearing it again.
Although individual gates of ECL could run faster than individual gates of CMOS or even dynamic NMOS, ICs of useful complexity for single-chip modern CPUs are not likely to be competitive if implemented in ECL. The problem is power density. Modern fast CPUs are already dissipation limited. ECL is inherently a 5 volt technology (I suppose cleverness could improve that somewhat) so it starts with a 4:1 heat disadvantage compared to MOS, and it only gets worse because each gate must always have current flowing.
It continues getting worse. CMOS gates are very simple, even dynamic NMOS isn't bad. ECL gates are not simple, due to the need for internal current sources, voltage references, and temperature compensation. Even with the same design rules, ECL gates are bigger than CMOS.
It can cost a lot if you have to have your car repaired to meet emissions standards. Many cars beat the standards by a substantial margin so that as the car ages it will pass by an adequate margin. A brand that gets a reputation for $1000 repairs at 60,000 miles will lose market share.
One problem with citing comedians is that you can't be sure when they're joking. Another is that they tend to be carried away with their bombast. A third is that they tend not to think carefully.
Take the claim "either we have unlimited rights, or we have no rights at all." This is contrary to fact. If rights are unlimited, (for instance by the principle of reciprocity) you have very badly damaged the concept of rights. There is no such thing as a right to violate someone else's rights.
The basic argument, that rights are an idea and therefor do not exist, is typical of a concrete-bound mentality. Just because something isn't a physical item doesn't mean it isn't real.
Just because rights are violated does not mean that rights don't exist. People defy the rules of games and cheat, that doesn't mean the rules don't exist.
Rights and privileges are not the same thing. I have the right to walk on my own property. I have the privilege but not the right to walk on someone else's property, iff the owner grants that priviledge.
When a god or religion is brought into the discussion it invariably poisons the argument. It's difficult to come to a reasonable conclusion when the foundation of the viewpoint is the rejection of reason.
It is always trespassing to attach something to a car without the owner's permission, because the car is the property which is being trespassed upon. Some communities have made it so explicit that it's specifically illegal to put advertising flyers under a windshield wiper - and properly so.
The civil rights movement had the effect of overturning state and local laws that forced businesses to engage in racially discriminatory practices. It's ignorance and antibusiness rewriting of history that's led to the lie that most businesses voluntarily hurt themselves by discriminating.
Attaching it to someone else's car is risky. If that someone else is a career criminal or a policeman, that box is going to be broadcasting that you're in a bunch of unsavory locations. Best bet is (if possible) to destroy it in a manner that looks like it could have happened naturally, like crushing it with a rock if it's glued to the bottom of a car. Next best is to destroy it and scatter the pieces over the landscape far from home. Other interesting possibilities include not destroying it and leaving it in some innocent place like a (reputable) church or service organization.
The crystals used in watches and computers for timekeeping are "tuning fork" type (last time I looked.) These low-frequency crystals have VERY poor tempco compared to the common AT-cut type used at higher frequencies. Watch temperatures tend to stay between the temp of your skin and the air. Computer time crystals go between room temp and however hot the inside of your computer gets, which is a wider range. Worse yet, your computer crystal is an afterthought, and probably optimized for a temp well below the computer's operating temperature.
Finally, crystals that are slightly off-frequency can be trimmed in-circuit to be correct. I don't have any idea how many watch manufacturers actually bother to do this, but I have seen the capability built in. I don't think any computer mfg bothers to allow for trimming of the TOD crystal.
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If the jamming is announced, so that (for instance) no emergency call to a doctor is blocked, and the jamming signal is limited so as to not interfere with operation outside the test environment, you're probably safe. The FCC's interference law was written with a purpose, to disallow interference with the reception of lawful transmissions. Since using a radio device to cheat is probably in violation of the school's contract with its students, such use violates contract law and thus is not protected by the FCC.
If you have to look up every last little thing, you will not be an effective employee or practitioner of your trade. Memorization is important, even if it is far from being everything. Tests that require some memorization mirror what the real world needs, and are consequently valid.
Any employee who has to react immediately does not have time to consult "resource materials". A policeman or soldier in a firefight. A taxi driver or trucker avoiding a drunk driver or other obstruction. Boxers, wrestlers, or almost any professional athlete in the middle of a match.
FWIW, H. G. Wells predicted windmills generating electricity in 1899 and nuclear power in 1913.
In early August Beck said we're in for a severe stock market fall soon. The time frame for his prediction runs out in just a few days. Unless something strange comes about, he's wrong on that one.
Rather than trying to divine what you believe and what you think the RT rally would be, I'll make these points:
Muslims are in word and deed the leading murderers of innocents in the world.
The claim of liberals to be anti-racist is generally contradicted by their actions.
"Social safety nets", particularly unemployment compensation, discourage production. Many people who get paid for not working are not desperately willing to do anything to make money.
Government "helping the poor", when such help consists of handouts, usually makes life worse for the poor, in a manner passed on from parents to children.
The mess the economy is in now is directly and obviously the fault of the federal government. Looking at the major events on a ten year timeframe I see Bush's prescription drug benefit, his failure to derail the Dodd/Frank housing mess, and his start of the bailout blunder. Obama has expanded the bailout from bad to hideous while defrauding bondholders and supporting antiproductive unions.
Our election system does tend to narrow the range of ideas that government includes, but that has the benefit of (weakly) discouraging representation of nutcases. It may make more people unhappy with the government, but it tends to make it less likely that really damaging ideas become law.
Limbaugh has made it a significant part of his career to point out that it is the left that makes the most use of "talking points". Time and again he's broadcast examples of liberal "newsmen" and politicians all simultaneously starting to use the same phrase or obscure word (remember "gravitas"?).
So effective is Limbaugh that other conservative commentators copy him (as Limbaugh says, others use him for "show prep"). Alas, only a few (like Howie Carr) bother to cite Limbaugh, giving the impression that there are official right-wing "talking points". Of course, both political parties try to persuade/cajole/threaten/force their hierarchy to toe the party line and also evade some issues, but it's much worse from Democrats/liberals because force, not freedom, is central to their political philosophy.
Beck has both good and bad points. On the good side, he's intelligent, strongly opposes violence, works hard, does a lot of research, seems to be pretty honest, and has pointed out the bad points of some very nasty people in and around government. On the bad side, he's a little too eager to believe things that he wants to be true, and when it comes to religion he frequently becomes completely divorced from reality. Although his religious views gain him a certain class of support, they also repel many others (me in particular) and severely undercut his logic and the value of his political strategy.
I bet Beck knows a lot more American history than you do.
First off, we didn't lose. When we left, S.V. was in a condition that, absent outside interference , it was strong enough to hold off N.V. indefinitely. The problem was, not long after we left, Russia/China (I forget which) renewed pouring military support into N.V., and the Congress was controlled by poltroon Democrats who blocked sufficient matching funding to S.V.
The war was so difficult and long because the US leaders were ignorant and cowardly, refusing to block/destroy the Ho Chi Minh trail or bomb major population centers
Yes, underestimating the tunnels was a major problem, but toward the end of the war we were beginning to get the picture. Regardless, the tunnels themselves were not enough to give N.V. victory. You can't grow enough plants in tunnels to feed an army. Given a more agressive war effort and a more intelligent use of available technology, the tunnels could have been rendered moot.
I love it, and it should be tried, but it won't work. Many of the rich congresscritters have boosted their wealth through bribes and promoting bills that advance their wealth (Diane Feinstein is a prime example of the latter). Salary and benefit cuts have no effect on that.
Would you explain how outlawing lobbyists could be achieved? Lawmakers (obviously some of the most deliberately igorant people in the country) will complain that they need advisors. The pressure to get axe-grinders hired as staffers will be beyond belief.
There's a world of difference between changing the federal government and changing the lower levels of government that deal with roads, police, etc.. That you deliberately equated the two is dishonest.
There's a great deal that a person can do to "take any effective, tangible steps to bring it about" that do not involve violence. Funding, gathering like-minded individuals, pointing out the idiocy and viciousness of opponents, writing papers on politcal theory that point out how things could be done.... The list of things that can be done is long, indeed.
Like Barack Obama, and many Senators, Representatives, and Supreme Court Justices.
It is the power of a dictator to be able to jail anyone who refuses to buy health insurance.
Obama isn't actively pursuing WikiLeaks because he wears left-wing blinders. He thinks anything critical of the military is an attack on Bush, and thus must somehow be good. Typical leftists practically orgasm when they hear "Woodward and Bernstein", and they think they're hearing it again.
Although individual gates of ECL could run faster than individual gates of CMOS or even dynamic NMOS, ICs of useful complexity for single-chip modern CPUs are not likely to be competitive if implemented in ECL. The problem is power density. Modern fast CPUs are already dissipation limited. ECL is inherently a 5 volt technology (I suppose cleverness could improve that somewhat) so it starts with a 4:1 heat disadvantage compared to MOS, and it only gets worse because each gate must always have current flowing.
It continues getting worse. CMOS gates are very simple, even dynamic NMOS isn't bad. ECL gates are not simple, due to the need for internal current sources, voltage references, and temperature compensation. Even with the same design rules, ECL gates are bigger than CMOS.
It can cost a lot if you have to have your car repaired to meet emissions standards. Many cars beat the standards by a substantial margin so that as the car ages it will pass by an adequate margin. A brand that gets a reputation for $1000 repairs at 60,000 miles will lose market share.
I tried loadlin once. It made Windows unbootable.
One problem with citing comedians is that you can't be sure when they're joking. Another is that they tend to be carried away with their bombast. A third is that they tend not to think carefully.
Take the claim "either we have unlimited rights, or we have no rights at all." This is contrary to fact. If rights are unlimited, (for instance by the principle of reciprocity) you have very badly damaged the concept of rights. There is no such thing as a right to violate someone else's rights.
The basic argument, that rights are an idea and therefor do not exist, is typical of a concrete-bound mentality. Just because something isn't a physical item doesn't mean it isn't real.
Just because rights are violated does not mean that rights don't exist. People defy the rules of games and cheat, that doesn't mean the rules don't exist.
Rights and privileges are not the same thing. I have the right to walk on my own property. I have the privilege but not the right to walk on someone else's property, iff the owner grants that priviledge.
When a god or religion is brought into the discussion it invariably poisons the argument. It's difficult to come to a reasonable conclusion when the foundation of the viewpoint is the rejection of reason.
It is always trespassing to attach something to a car without the owner's permission, because the car is the property which is being trespassed upon. Some communities have made it so explicit that it's specifically illegal to put advertising flyers under a windshield wiper - and properly so.
We wish. Most jurisdictions claim "sovereign immunity", and it's very hard to get compensation, or to get government lawbreakers punished.
The civil rights movement had the effect of overturning state and local laws that forced businesses to engage in racially discriminatory practices. It's ignorance and antibusiness rewriting of history that's led to the lie that most businesses voluntarily hurt themselves by discriminating.
Attaching it to someone else's car is risky. If that someone else is a career criminal or a policeman, that box is going to be broadcasting that you're in a bunch of unsavory locations. Best bet is (if possible) to destroy it in a manner that looks like it could have happened naturally, like crushing it with a rock if it's glued to the bottom of a car. Next best is to destroy it and scatter the pieces over the landscape far from home. Other interesting possibilities include not destroying it and leaving it in some innocent place like a (reputable) church or service organization.
The crystals used in watches and computers for timekeeping are "tuning fork" type (last time I looked.) These low-frequency crystals have VERY poor tempco compared to the common AT-cut type used at higher frequencies. Watch temperatures tend to stay between the temp of your skin and the air. Computer time crystals go between room temp and however hot the inside of your computer gets, which is a wider range. Worse yet, your computer crystal is an afterthought, and probably optimized for a temp well below the computer's operating temperature.
Finally, crystals that are slightly off-frequency can be trimmed in-circuit to be correct. I don't have any idea how many watch manufacturers actually bother to do this, but I have seen the capability built in. I don't think any computer mfg bothers to allow for trimming of the TOD crystal.