An engineer friend told me that road damage is proportional to the fourth power of the weight, so an SUV that weighs 5500 pounds will wear the roads approximately 10 times faster than a hybrid that weights 3000 pounds
What happens when there are two or three hybrids on the road for every SUV? What happens when you build the road to higher standards?
I happen to be kind of excited about his work, it's compact, it has a nice frequency range, and it can transmit, which is a bit novel. To each their own.
It's not the project I object to.
It is the ridiculous "open hardware" hype applied to radio enthusiasts who were sharing designs, techniques, etc., long before the invention of the vacuum tube.
A jury has the right to return a not guilty verdict if they so choose, even though the prosecutor and the judge will lie to you and tell you otherwise
The geek's faith in jury nullification is stupid.
Jury nullification spares the home town boy and hangs the outsider.
Historically, the way it worked is that the Klansman went free and the nigger got the rope --- often enough without the formality of a trial or a verdict,
In the old days, postcards of such lynchings were quite the thing.
There's nothing better to have around for the days when you just know that the arrogant idiot son of a bitch you've been blessed with as a client is about to piss off the jury and expect them to applaud his performance.
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If you are part of a criminal conspiracy, anything you do to help achieve the goals of that conspiracy is criminal, no matter how innocent your actions might be under other circumstances. If you are keeping the books for Al Capone, don't be surprised when you receive a visit from Eliot Ness.
it's unlikely that George Barris who bought the concept car and modified it to make the Batmobile ever bought the 'sculpture' rights to it, so the rights would revert to the 'sculptor' of the original car, the Ford Motor Company.
The thousands of parts scavenged from the plastic model kits of the era are not the same thing as the props built for Star Wars.
Barris was trying to get Hollywood's attention with the Futura, but aside from "It Started With a Kiss" in 1959, the Futura had been languishing in his Hollywood shop for several years.
In December 1965 Ford sold the Futura to Barris; despite its huge original production costs --- the equivalent of approximately US$2 million in 2009 ---- Barris was able to buy the vehicle for the nominal sum of $1.00 and "other valuable consideration".
George Barris has been customizing vehicles for private clients, film and television productions since the late 1940s --- and his style is instantly recognizable.
The old-time reporter kept files of stories that could be dusted off and re-cycled as filler for slow news days and the traditional annual New Year's wrap-up. Metrification is one of the oldest of these winter hardy perennials.
What excites the geek is the persistence of common weights and measures in circumstances where metric precision isn't wanted or needed and has no political constituency. The desire to impose your own sense of order on everything and everyone around you is the stuff of high comedy. What the geek lacks is a sense of the ridiculous.
I was driving on a road somewhere south of Raleigh NC...and my jaw dropped when I noticed a short stretch of the road had distances marked in km. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason as to why this one bit of road in the middle of nowhere was marked that way.
Chances are good that they were set up for some long forgotten metrification campaign. There was a photo shoot and maybe a video produced in cooperation with the state highway department and that was the end of it.
Travel the backroads often enough and you will find all sorts of oddities like these.
The problem is that the hardware companies allowed Microsoft to define what a netbook was and not the market.
The geek rewrites history.
The XP Atom network crushed and humiliated its completion with an ease Muhammad Ali would have admired in his prime.
Let's be honest about the thing, The typical Linux netbook had crap specs --- embarrassingly so, even when positioned among the bottom feeders at Walmart --- and there were no big savings to be had in buying one.
I think a familiar - abstracted - animal form - aka a pet -- would be a better idea. The human toddler is physically awkward and vulnerable. It needs constant attention. That is not the image you want to project with a household robot.
The clockwork pet has been a staple of science fiction and fantasy for generations.
"Bleeker, The Rechargeable Dog," for example, is a web comic that went into global print circulation through KIng Features, along with Beetle Bailey and a hundred or so other strips that have been around since the dawn of time.
The technical problems are much easier to solve, and there are no cultural or psychological barriers to acceptance.
Can Microsoft really not effective compete with Linux the OS you claim in not ready (It is has been for years) I believe the Android variant is set to eclipse Windows Next Year.
The Google variant.
The one with OEM hardware support.
The one used almost exclusively for accessing commercially sponsored mobile entertainment services and personal messaging and therefore functionally indistinguishable from the Kindle Fire, iPad or Win 8 tablet.
Not a general purpose PC. Not truly a community-oriented Linux distribution.
The geek with a rebellious look in his eye and fingers crossed behind his back will occasionally side-load an app. The majority of users won't know that option exists --- and would avoid it like the plague if they did.
Open in theory, closed in practice.
Well, the geek always did say that "Linux was only the kernel."
Funny how this comes from a community that complains about walled gardens and vendor lock-in.
Take a look at these screen shots of the Ubuntu Software Center. Looks a lot like the Windows Store, doesn't it?
Heck, most of the apps featured here are available for the Windows platform.
It is necessary to explain the Ubuntu isn't targeting the geek who compiles from source or is willing to navigate the depths and complexities of app-get?
Mind you, I was not a happy camper when installing the simplest of Internet radio apps and the Chromium browser Software Center did not install the essential (and different !) dependencies required to play audio.
Rather than do something useless like a petition why not give us something useful: Like a list of motherboards and builds that do not have UEFI and sport otherwise modern hardware and features?
UEFI and Secure Boot are not exclusive to Microsoft and Windows.
The Unified EFI Forum or UEFI Forum (where UEFI stands for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is an alliance between several leading technology companies to modernize the booting process. The board of directors includes representatives from eleven "Promoter" companies: AMD, American Megatrends, Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, Insyde Software, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, and Phoenix Technologies.
The board that supports "modern hardware and features" is going to support UEFI and Secure Boot.
I believe Linus was quoted recently as saying that Linux-on-the-Desktop was dead in the water because of the lack of OEM support. But you can't build OEM support based on demands for the preservation and use of core technologies that their major suppliers and markets are abandoning.
The Raspberry Pi supports HDMI and hardware accelerated MPEG 2 and H.264 video because these are essential requirements for a commercially viable product. No Internet petition or lobbying by the EFF could have changed that.
The geek has been dreading hardware-level security on the commercial ---- mass-market --- platforms for years.
Google touted its ISO 27001 certification for Google Apps for Business last week, which Office 365 for Government also qualifies for. Just like its predecessor, the Business Productivity Online Suite Federal, Microsoft's new service also supports a plethora of other certifications, including SAS70 Type II, the US Health Insurance Portability, Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the US Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). Microsoft also plans to support Criminal Justice Information Security policies soon. The service will soon offer support for IPv6 as well.
The major difference between Microsoft's enterprise solution and this government cloud is that the government data lives on its own segregated infrastructure. Besides this --- and the additional certifications --- Microsoft's government solution includes virtually the same services as the enterprise version, including Exchange Online, Lync Online, SharePoint Online and Office Professional Plus. Given that Microsoft's enterprise solution is also now FISMA certified, this new service is mainly meant for agencies that have requirements beyond this certification.
So, what does "well-regulated" mean? It means that you know how to use that gun to kill tyrants.
Talk to a colonial era re-enactor and he will tell you that rifles were rarely seen in combat and that muskets were useless except as a mass fire weapon . The problem is accuracy. The problem is rate-of-fire
The long rifle is prone to fouling, and takes a full minute to re-load.
The "well regulated" militia wasn't a beer and chowder marching society. Every move you would make in combat had be rehearsed again and again and again until you got it right. Then next week you come back for more....
... assuming Microsoft 'approves' it. Buying into a locked ecosystem is a mistake. It's rewarding a company for taking the ownership of your hardware away.
The hardware doesn't belong to the third-party developer --- the hardware belongs to the user. Users who often have an entirely different set of values and expectations than the geek.
The Ubuntu Store has the look and feel of the Windows Store. Not at all, surprisingly, since it is targeting the same market. Most of the apps prominently on display on these sample pages are available for both platforms.
How much of his hardware does the geek really "own?"
If the geek were honest with himself he would admit that his distribution's Linux repository is selective --- not every free or commercial Linux program makes the cut.
The mass market Linux app store will always be even more selective in its offerings.
The shopper there will have no interest in navigating the depths and complexities of app-get and he will not be compiling-from-source programs that have not been packaged and tested for his use.
Well, Windows 8 sucks even more on desktops. The ENTIRE WORLD KNOWS that...
I don't know that.
I am sixty five years old. living quietly in a small town in upstate New York. Geeks are thin on the ground here and I have never seen one in the wild. That is what attracted me to Slashdot.
I was almost fifty when I was gifted with a hand-me-down P75 Packard Bell and went online with Win 95, a 14K modem and dial-up AOL.
I completed the upgrade-in-place thing to Win 8 Pro on the desktop late last Sunday night.
I have since been moving freely and comfortably between Metro, Media Center, the Desktop and AMD's Android AppZone Player.
It has been easy and it has been fun learning the new system.
If these fragments were truly the word of god, then surely they would contain useful information that would increase our knowledge of the world/universe and would remain true even today
The geek's notion of "useful information" usually translates as "isolated facts devoid of all meaningful connections."
The geek ought at least to know that a great of truth is embedded in the stories we tell and teach to our children. They do not survive three millennia without a reason.
10 years is a ridiculous amount of time to be in prison for something like this. Child molesters and murderers get less time.
The geek's white collar crimes are likely to land him in a federal criminal court, This is never good news, because white collar crimes are a federal criminal court's bread and butter and the judge will have heard every lame excuse for mercy the geek has to make.
Punishment for Murder - Federal - Mandatory Sentencing
Second degree murder
Imprisonment for life or any term
Second degree murder by an inmate, even escaped, serving a life sentence
Life imprisonment
First degree murder
Death or life imprisonment
Military - Mandatory Sentencing
Murder under UCMJ Article 118 Clause (2) or (3)
Any legal punishment (other than death) as directed by the court-martial
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I think the US Border Patrol already beat them to it.
I live in a northern border town.
The intrusiveness of border security has waxed and waned over the last 200 years. But it never, ever, goes away.
There are 2 perhaps 3 reasons to Jail people.
There is a fourth:
To set an example for people who think they are above the law.
That jail is for others but never for them. The geek,it must be said, seems unusually prone to this kind of thinking.
It just so happens that juries are starting to nullify the war on drugs.
That is still the case of the home town boy vs the outsider.
It just might win you a bye in some state courts if you are caught dealing in "medical" marijuana.
An engineer friend told me that road damage is proportional to the fourth power of the weight, so an SUV that weighs 5500 pounds will wear the roads approximately 10 times faster than a hybrid that weights 3000 pounds
What happens when there are two or three hybrids on the road for every SUV? What happens when you build the road to higher standards?
I happen to be kind of excited about his work, it's compact, it has a nice frequency range, and it can transmit, which is a bit novel. To each their own.
It's not the project I object to.
It is the ridiculous "open hardware" hype applied to radio enthusiasts who were sharing designs, techniques, etc., long before the invention of the vacuum tube.
A jury has the right to return a not guilty verdict if they so choose, even though the prosecutor and the judge will lie to you and tell you otherwise
The geek's faith in jury nullification is stupid.
Jury nullification spares the home town boy and hangs the outsider.
Historically, the way it worked is that the Klansman went free and the nigger got the rope --- often enough without the formality of a trial or a verdict,
In the old days, postcards of such lynchings were quite the thing.
There's nothing better to have around for the days when you just know that the arrogant idiot son of a bitch you've been blessed with as a client is about to piss off the jury and expect them to applaud his performance.
-----
If you are part of a criminal conspiracy, anything you do to help achieve the goals of that conspiracy is criminal, no matter how innocent your actions might be under other circumstances. If you are keeping the books for Al Capone, don't be surprised when you receive a visit from Eliot Ness.
Fire him.
Did you miss the descriptive word "coworker" in the parent post ---
or the even more telling phrase "a very smart person who has been programming since before I was born?
This is the new kid on the block.
He is not the boss.
But is there any shortage of openly published and easily accessible hardware designs for amateur radio?
it's unlikely that George Barris who bought the concept car and modified it to make the Batmobile ever bought the 'sculpture' rights to it, so the rights would revert to the 'sculptor' of the original car, the Ford Motor Company.
The thousands of parts scavenged from the plastic model kits of the era are not the same thing as the props built for Star Wars.
Barris was trying to get Hollywood's attention with the Futura, but aside from "It Started With a Kiss" in 1959, the Futura had been languishing in his Hollywood shop for several years.
In December 1965 Ford sold the Futura to Barris; despite its huge original production costs --- the equivalent of approximately US$2 million in 2009 ---- Barris was able to buy the vehicle for the nominal sum of $1.00 and "other valuable consideration".
Batmobile
George Barris has been customizing vehicles for private clients, film and television productions since the late 1940s --- and his style is instantly recognizable.
The old-time reporter kept files of stories that could be dusted off and re-cycled as filler for slow news days and the traditional annual New Year's wrap-up. Metrification is one of the oldest of these winter hardy perennials.
What excites the geek is the persistence of common weights and measures in circumstances where metric precision isn't wanted or needed and has no political constituency. The desire to impose your own sense of order on everything and everyone around you is the stuff of high comedy. What the geek lacks is a sense of the ridiculous.
I was driving on a road somewhere south of Raleigh NC...and my jaw dropped when I noticed a short stretch of the road had distances marked in km. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason as to why this one bit of road in the middle of nowhere was marked that way.
Chances are good that they were set up for some long forgotten metrification campaign. There was a photo shoot and maybe a video produced in cooperation with the state highway department and that was the end of it.
Travel the backroads often enough and you will find all sorts of oddities like these.
Last August, for example, each county in Iowa received a set of replica Burma Shave signs from "Our Iowa" magazine. Burma Shave signs return to Dubuque County
The problem is that the hardware companies allowed Microsoft to define what a netbook was and not the market.
The geek rewrites history.
The XP Atom network crushed and humiliated its completion with an ease Muhammad Ali would have admired in his prime.
Let's be honest about the thing, The typical Linux netbook had crap specs --- embarrassingly so, even when positioned among the bottom feeders at Walmart --- and there were no big savings to be had in buying one.
I think a familiar - abstracted - animal form - aka a pet -- would be a better idea. The human toddler is physically awkward and vulnerable. It needs constant attention. That is not the image you want to project with a household robot.
The clockwork pet has been a staple of science fiction and fantasy for generations.
"Bleeker, The Rechargeable Dog," for example, is a web comic that went into global print circulation through KIng Features, along with Beetle Bailey and a hundred or so other strips that have been around since the dawn of time.
The technical problems are much easier to solve, and there are no cultural or psychological barriers to acceptance.
Can Microsoft really not effective compete with Linux the OS you claim in not ready (It is has been for years) I believe the Android variant is set to eclipse Windows Next Year.
The Google variant.
The one with OEM hardware support.
The one used almost exclusively for accessing commercially sponsored mobile entertainment services and personal messaging and therefore functionally indistinguishable from the Kindle Fire, iPad or Win 8 tablet.
Not a general purpose PC. Not truly a community-oriented Linux distribution.
The geek with a rebellious look in his eye and fingers crossed behind his back will occasionally side-load an app. The majority of users won't know that option exists --- and would avoid it like the plague if they did.
Open in theory, closed in practice.
Well, the geek always did say that "Linux was only the kernel."
So the FSF is basically asking people to sign a petition that asks manufacturers to do what they are already doing and plan on doing ?
That is pretty much it.
Secure Boot is part of the UEFI 2.2 spec. Published in 2008. The geek has had four years to prepare for this.
Funny how this comes from a community that complains about walled gardens and vendor lock-in.
Take a look at these screen shots of the Ubuntu Software Center. Looks a lot like the Windows Store, doesn't it?
Heck, most of the apps featured here are available for the Windows platform.
It is necessary to explain the Ubuntu isn't targeting the geek who compiles from source or is willing to navigate the depths and complexities of app-get?
Mind you, I was not a happy camper when installing the simplest of Internet radio apps and the Chromium browser Software Center did not install the essential (and different !) dependencies required to play audio.
Rather than do something useless like a petition why not give us something useful: Like a list of motherboards and builds that do not have UEFI and sport otherwise modern hardware and features?
UEFI and Secure Boot are not exclusive to Microsoft and Windows.
The Unified EFI Forum or UEFI Forum (where UEFI stands for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is an alliance between several leading technology companies to modernize the booting process. The board of directors includes representatives from eleven "Promoter" companies: AMD, American Megatrends, Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, Insyde Software, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, and Phoenix Technologies.
Unified EFI Forum
The board that supports "modern hardware and features" is going to support UEFI and Secure Boot.
I believe Linus was quoted recently as saying that Linux-on-the-Desktop was dead in the water because of the lack of OEM support. But you can't build OEM support based on demands for the preservation and use of core technologies that their major suppliers and markets are abandoning.
The Raspberry Pi supports HDMI and hardware accelerated MPEG 2 and H.264 video because these are essential requirements for a commercially viable product. No Internet petition or lobbying by the EFF could have changed that.
The geek has been dreading hardware-level security on the commercial ---- mass-market --- platforms for years.
Well, now it is here and it isn't going away,
There is absolutely nothing in the NYTimes story that points to any new development that justifies the headline.
600,000 systems in the Veteran's Administration are being moved to Office 365 For Government.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Chooses Office 365 for its 600,000 Employees
Google touted its ISO 27001 certification for Google Apps for Business last week, which Office 365 for Government also qualifies for. Just like its predecessor, the Business Productivity Online Suite Federal, Microsoft's new service also supports a plethora of other certifications, including SAS70 Type II, the US Health Insurance Portability, Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the US Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). Microsoft also plans to support Criminal Justice Information Security policies soon. The service will soon offer support for IPv6 as well.
The major difference between Microsoft's enterprise solution and this government cloud is that the government data lives on its own segregated infrastructure. Besides this --- and the additional certifications --- Microsoft's government solution includes virtually the same services as the enterprise version, including Exchange Online, Lync Online, SharePoint Online and Office Professional Plus. Given that Microsoft's enterprise solution is also now FISMA certified, this new service is mainly meant for agencies that have requirements beyond this certification.
Microsoft Launches Office 365 For Government
So, what does "well-regulated" mean? It means that you know how to use that gun to kill tyrants.
Talk to a colonial era re-enactor and he will tell you that rifles were rarely seen in combat and that muskets were useless except as a mass fire weapon . The problem is accuracy. The problem is rate-of-fire
The long rifle is prone to fouling, and takes a full minute to re-load.
The "well regulated" militia wasn't a beer and chowder marching society. Every move you would make in combat had be rehearsed again and again and again until you got it right. Then next week you come back for more....
Now the criminals know exactly where to go to get firearms that will never be traced back to them.
The geek should never turn criminal.
His unique blend of illogic and wishful thinking are certain to land him in jail.
The professional does not want to carry a gun that has been recently stolen and whose history can be easily traced.
The B&E adds layers of risk and complication that he can easily avoid.
... assuming Microsoft 'approves' it. Buying into a locked ecosystem is a mistake. It's rewarding a company for taking the ownership of your hardware away.
The hardware doesn't belong to the third-party developer --- the hardware belongs to the user. Users who often have an entirely different set of values and expectations than the geek.
The Ubuntu Store has the look and feel of the Windows Store. Not at all, surprisingly, since it is targeting the same market. Most of the apps prominently on display on these sample pages are available for both platforms.
How much of his hardware does the geek really "own?"
If the geek were honest with himself he would admit that his distribution's Linux repository is selective --- not every free or commercial Linux program makes the cut.
The mass market Linux app store will always be even more selective in its offerings.
The shopper there will have no interest in navigating the depths and complexities of app-get and he will not be compiling-from-source programs that have not been packaged and tested for his use.
Well, Windows 8 sucks even more on desktops. The ENTIRE WORLD KNOWS that...
I don't know that.
I am sixty five years old. living quietly in a small town in upstate New York. Geeks are thin on the ground here and I have never seen one in the wild. That is what attracted me to Slashdot.
I was almost fifty when I was gifted with a hand-me-down P75 Packard Bell and went online with Win 95, a 14K modem and dial-up AOL.
I completed the upgrade-in-place thing to Win 8 Pro on the desktop late last Sunday night.
I have since been moving freely and comfortably between Metro, Media Center, the Desktop and AMD's Android AppZone Player.
It has been easy and it has been fun learning the new system.
Game and video "manufacturing" is trivial.
Says the geek posting to Slashdot and not on the team developing "Bioshock: Infinite."
If these fragments were truly the word of god, then surely they would contain useful information that would increase our knowledge of the world/universe and would remain true even today
The geek's notion of "useful information" usually translates as "isolated facts devoid of all meaningful connections."
The geek ought at least to know that a great of truth is embedded in the stories we tell and teach to our children. They do not survive three millennia without a reason.
10 years is a ridiculous amount of time to be in prison for something like this. Child molesters and murderers get less time.
The geek's white collar crimes are likely to land him in a federal criminal court, This is never good news, because white collar crimes are a federal criminal court's bread and butter and the judge will have heard every lame excuse for mercy the geek has to make.
Punishment for Murder - Federal - Mandatory Sentencing
Second degree murder
Imprisonment for life or any term
Second degree murder by an inmate, even escaped, serving a life sentence
Life imprisonment
First degree murder
Death or life imprisonment
Military - Mandatory Sentencing
Murder under UCMJ Article 118 Clause (2) or (3)
Any legal punishment (other than death) as directed by the court-martial
Murder under UCMJ Article 118 Clause (1) or (4)
Death or life imprisonment
Murder (United States law)