"Smartphone controls you" Isn't that the basic state of affairs from the beginning of the Smartphone Era? So far as I can tell, most people are completely under the control of their Personal Smartphone Overlord.
I can't ask for my phone to not receive SMS (maybe I can?)
Yes, with Verizon you can have SMS turned off. I believe this has to be done via phone call to cust svc (not available via your web-page account management), but I went for many years with SMS blocked on my phone.
So if I understand the reg. in question, hardware with an internal fan (like a Mac Pro) that is only accessible if you pull the housing must have an internal fan guard? WTF? This makes no sense. For that matter that thing about minimum and max cord length is pretty wacked. Is there really a computer, or transistor radio, manufacturer out there who wanted to deliver 7-meter power cords?
I want a delivery system that can bring me a 0.33l soda[you meant "beer", right?]can whenever I press the button, and I want the same system to take the old, empty can back to the basement and store it
Luckily, my wife never heard of/. , so I can post the obvious solution to your need: a wife!:-) . Or maybe that nice dog from the TV commercials. You know, the one named "weego."
Yeah, it's nice to see things in reality-space, but consider: There was a solar eclipse recently which was not visible from the Eastern USA. I pulled up realtime displays from Hawaii (where they had several filtered cameras showing near UV, Near IR, etc) , Iceland, and other spots. One of the things I found spectacular was the difference in percent occlusion between telescopes at widely separated locations. Try doing *that* in your back yard:-).
Disclaimer: I have never come within 1.6 km of a machine running Win8. But I've seen the slick TV commercials showing people logging on by drawing shapes on the screen. If this patent in fact covers "slid[ing] in any direction" does it cover Win8 ?
First off, last time I checked, BrownUniversity allows its students (at least, not sure about the staff) to select any available username; they map it to whatever default name was auto-assigned. I really wish corporations would catch on to that. Second, if you really want a quick and dirty way to migrate away from username@department.company.com, why not set everyone up with username.department@company.com ?
Years ago I set up a free wi-fi network from my house, and called it something like 'Free WiFi'. A few weeks later a neighbor asked me to stop. He regulated his kids' internet usage, and they had been using the free network to get online during those times when they were prohibited from doing so. So I turned it off.
IMHO this comes under the category of "answer[ing] a fool according to his folly." Your neighbor has a discipline problem (maybe -- or maybe he's just a damn tyrant), and further, if his kids are tech-savvy enough to find and connect to your net, they're sure going to figure out how to get online some other way, but you stop doing what *you* want to do on this basis?
Software should never be able to do anything irreversible to hardware.
not always true. an audio chip I work with, these days, needs to have a special sequence of turn-on done (power supply bring-up and reset, plus errata sent to the chip) and if you don't manage that, you DO fry the chip.
Methinks you misunderstand the meaning of "should." The whole point is that the hardware design should never, ever EVER DAMMIT be such that bad software command sequences cause physical damage. In your example, there's no excuse for not having zeners and switches (or the hard-coded firmware equivalent) which unequivocally block an undesirable voltage from getting through.
So discharging 15 amps out of a 10 amp pack results in a 0.001% chance (actually pretty high) of blowing the pack up per the data sheet. However not supplying 15 amps to the engine control system during an alternator malfunction (or whatever) means the engine shuts down and 500 people have a near 100% chance of death.
So what you're really saying is "Take the number of [batteries] in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. "
Despite all that's wrong with Iran, they have a very decent education system - that is even accessible for women, as I was told.
I'm no expert on the current state of education in Iran, but I can tell you with certainty that one of our allies, rhymes with "howdy arabia," is far worse than Iran when it comes to religious freedom, women's rights, and government funding of Islamic terrorist groups. Never make the mistake of rating countries on the basis of the USA's "friend or foe" list.
I can't resist suggesting a nice pulley arrangement. Drop a line from your geosynchronous factory to the ground, fill the bucket w/ food, or porn tapes, or whatever, then release the finished products in the other bucket. One goes down, the other goes up!
Well that's the problem with these newfangled ratings. Everyone knows ripping bodies to shreds while spewing blood all over the walls is OK, but $deity forbid you should show a nipple. Unless it's a male nipple; that's fine.
I mean, really, there's one or two countries rather close by North Korea who don't like them either. How about, instead of waving our allegedly big nuclear dicks all over the place, just plain ignore NK? Don't talk about them; don't talk to them. At some point they'll get bored and promise that their missiles are specifically targeted at $OTHER_COUNTRY.
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"Smartphone controls you"
Isn't that the basic state of affairs from the beginning of the Smartphone Era? So far as I can tell, most people are completely under the control of their Personal Smartphone Overlord.
did they remember to include the "any given Sunday" function in their algorithm? :-)
BTW, What you *should* be watching today is http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/puppy-bowl
I can't ask for my phone to not receive SMS (maybe I can?)
Yes, with Verizon you can have SMS turned off. I believe this has to be done via phone call to cust svc (not available via your web-page account management), but I went for many years with SMS blocked on my phone.
So if I understand the reg. in question, hardware with an internal fan (like a Mac Pro) that is only accessible if you pull the housing must have an internal fan guard? WTF?
This makes no sense. For that matter that thing about minimum and max cord length is pretty wacked. Is there really a computer, or transistor radio, manufacturer out there who wanted to deliver 7-meter power cords?
I want a delivery system that can bring me a 0.33l soda [you meant "beer", right?]can whenever I press the button, and I want the same system to take the old, empty can back to the basement and store it
Luckily, my wife never heard of /. , so I can post the obvious solution to your need: a wife! :-) .
Or maybe that nice dog from the TV commercials. You know, the one named "weego."
Given that this is Russia, a more appropriate monster would be bagiennik
Which one is the viola?
Well, certainly, making aggrieved comments by sputtering about the OP is past the experimental stage.
(disclaimer: I ran sputtering machines in 1974 and they sure as heck weren't new then)
Yeah, it's nice to see things in reality-space, but consider: There was a solar eclipse recently which was not visible from the Eastern USA. I pulled up realtime displays from Hawaii (where they had several filtered cameras showing near UV, Near IR, etc) , Iceland, and other spots. One of the things I found spectacular was the difference in percent occlusion between telescopes at widely separated locations. Try doing *that* in your back yard :-).
Disclaimer: I have never come within 1.6 km of a machine running Win8. But I've seen the slick TV commercials showing people logging on by drawing shapes on the screen. If this patent in fact covers "slid[ing] in any direction" does it cover Win8 ?
First off, last time I checked, BrownUniversity allows its students (at least, not sure about the staff) to select any available username; they map it to whatever default name was auto-assigned. I really wish corporations would catch on to that.
Second, if you really want a quick and dirty way to migrate away from username@department.company.com, why not set everyone up with username.department@company.com ?
Better make sure pier2pier is blocked
You're running a transoceanic connection? /cheap typo joke/
Years ago I set up a free wi-fi network from my house, and called it something like 'Free WiFi'. A few weeks later a neighbor asked me to stop.
He regulated his kids' internet usage, and they had been using the free network to get online during those times when they were prohibited from doing so.
So I turned it off.
IMHO this comes under the category of "answer[ing] a fool according to his folly." Your neighbor has a discipline problem (maybe -- or maybe he's just a damn tyrant), and further, if his kids are tech-savvy enough to find and connect to your net, they're sure going to figure out how to get online some other way, but you stop doing what *you* want to do on this basis?
Software should never be able to do anything irreversible to hardware.
not always true. an audio chip I work with, these days, needs to have a special sequence of turn-on done (power supply bring-up and reset, plus errata sent to the chip) and if you don't manage that, you DO fry the chip.
Methinks you misunderstand the meaning of "should." The whole point is that the hardware design should never, ever EVER DAMMIT be such that bad software command sequences cause physical damage. In your example, there's no excuse for not having zeners and switches (or the hard-coded firmware equivalent) which unequivocally block an undesirable voltage from getting through.
Kids these days. Should be "Good morning, Mr. Phelps."
but nobody under 40 knows what you are talking about.
Or even worse, thinks you're tapping into Tom Cruise.
he said, "The actual answer is more nuanced. [gigantic detailed examples of possible outcomes].."
Sheesh. Doesn't *anyone* get the cultural reference I was quoting?
Screw it; I'm off to make some soap from human fat.
So discharging 15 amps out of a 10 amp pack results in a 0.001% chance (actually pretty high) of blowing the pack up per the data sheet. However not supplying 15 amps to the engine control system during an alternator malfunction (or whatever) means the engine shuts down and 500 people have a near 100% chance of death.
So what you're really saying is "Take the number of [batteries] in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. "
Despite all that's wrong with Iran, they have a very decent education system - that is even accessible for women, as I was told.
I'm no expert on the current state of education in Iran, but I can tell you with certainty that one of our allies, rhymes with "howdy arabia," is far worse than Iran when it comes to religious freedom, women's rights, and government funding of Islamic terrorist groups. Never make the mistake of rating countries on the basis of the USA's "friend or foe" list.
I can't resist suggesting a nice pulley arrangement. Drop a line from your geosynchronous factory to the ground, fill the bucket w/ food, or porn tapes, or whatever, then release the finished products in the other bucket. One goes down, the other goes up!
Well that's the problem with these newfangled ratings. Everyone knows ripping bodies to shreds while spewing blood all over the walls is OK, but $deity forbid you should show a nipple. Unless it's a male nipple; that's fine.
Actually, I think a big stick would be better. From now on anyone who cries "racist" for stupid reasons gets hit with a big stick.
Hey, I'm a big stick, you insensitive clod!
(well, it sounded funnier before I thought of it)
Hell, name one Hollywood male lead actor who's Muslim.
Mel Gibson? [ducks]
[snip]So, it doesn't look like disposal of the acid would be much of a problem.
And if it does become a problem, we'll just import some silver-backed gorillas to deal with the acid.
I mean, really, there's one or two countries rather close by North Korea who don't like them either. How about, instead of waving our allegedly big nuclear dicks all over the place, just plain ignore NK? Don't talk about them; don't talk to them. At some point they'll get bored and promise that their missiles are specifically targeted at $OTHER_COUNTRY.
Me, I can't usually get 'em myself because my girlfriend's a vegetarian which pretty much makes me a vegetarian.
Two solutions:
1) get a new GF who's not wacked.
2) Introduce current GF to bacon. One bite and she's hooked for life.