As has been seen in science-fiction movies, a dropdown piece of eyewear from the helmet allows the soldier to see a 17-inch computer screen displaying anything relayed to the soldier.
Wow! A seventeen inch screen! Next thing you know, some smart-arse grunt will ask to have their helmet upgraded to an Apple 16:9 30-inch screen.
Oh, but maybe they meant a one-point-seven inch screen and their proofreaders suck eggs.
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What was I thinking? 3.14 * 75 * 75 = 17,662 square miles, but that's still a lot less than 300,000.
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It's all well-and-good to say that they have line-of-sight to 300,000 square miles, but that's vastly different to their actual operational area.
According to their "current" radius of operation of 75 miles, they are only actually covering 471 square miles (2 * 3.14 * 75 = 471).
Yeah, I picked-up on the duelling airbags as well.:)
Using our old friend, c^2 = a^2 + b^2, I get 76.1 miles when sitting at the fringe. (Their claims are 13 mile altitude and a "currently" 75 mile radius.)
GSM and CDMA towers regularly run out of channels and they're only just above ground level covering a few miles. I doubt these blimps will help with phone comms. It will be interesting to see what communications protocols they do actually support, though.
Answering a request to disclose a name is likely to be so insignifi-
cant as to be incriminating only in unusual circumstances. See, e.g., Baltimore City Dept. of Social Servs. v. Bouknight, 493 U. S. 549, 555. If
a case arises where there is a substantial allegation that furnishing
identity at the time of a stop would have given the police a link in the
chain of evidence needed to convict the individual of a separate offense,
the court can then consider whether the Fifth Amendment privilege ap-
plies, whether it has been violated, and what remedy must follow.
And then on page 10:
Obtaining a suspect's name in the course of a
Terry stop
serves important government interests. Knowledge of
identity may inform an officer that a suspect is wanted for
another offense, or has a record of violence or mental
disorder.
Granted, officer Dove was asking for Hiibel's name in direct relation to his investigation (an assault involving a red and silver pickup in that locality), so there's no real argument here. However, reading the Court Opinion it seems to me that it contradicts itself here and promotes a violation of the Fifth in other circumstances. Does anyone else see it that way?
Yup, this was back in the days when Telstra was still Telecom. This was the "Telecom Talkabout" system which was deployed in Brisbane and possibly other capitals. The digital access points had about a 100-200m range, but I think the cell phone component was still AMPS.
As I recall there was a bit of a tussle over the tracability (or lack thereof) of the phones, but since you'd be able to nail them down to an access point I'd think a 100-200m is better positioning than GSM generally allows.:)
In Bell vs. John P. Citizen today, a federal court judge sentenced the defendant to 16 years jail for failing to pay the plaintiff US$5,000,000.00 in telecommunications charges. The defendant alleged that his Wi-Fi personal exchange was used by unauthorized parties to place multitudes of local, long-distance and overseas calls. By showing that the defendant had failed to secure his Wi-Fi exchange according to the fine print warnings and instructions on the last page of the 10,000 page manual accompanying the product, the prosecution proved the defendant liable for the full amount.
You'd be surprised. In a web hosting company it's not uncommon to see large numbers of files, images in particular, sitting in a single directory. Some of our servers have so much CPU to play with now that there can be tens-of-thousands of "virtual root" folders sitting in the www daemon mounting point as well.
Yes, we may never know the reason FBI and Secret Service chose to investigate this Open Records request. Yes, perhaps they are investigating another case regarding a perceived threat to the campus and this was considered to be linked to that case. I'm fine with that. But then: why did they both refuse FOI's on what they have already gathered about Mr. Miller? Shouldn't he be entitled to that?
Sorry for getting further off-topic... Atmospheric Scientist == Climatologist in this case.
Testifying before a Senate Committee for Global Warming as late as October last year, I've called him Dr. X in this transcript extract from Channel 4's (Britain) "The Greenhouse Conspiracy":
INTERVIEWER: You do accept that ten to fifteen years ago people were talking about global cooling, not warming?
DR. X: Not everybody - I was one who was not sure.
INTERVIEWER: You say you didn't believe in global cooling but in your first book you said, "I have cited many examples of recent climatic variability and repeated the warnings of several well-known climatologists that a cooling trend has set in, perhaps one akin to the Little Ice Age." Well, that was just fourteen years ago.
DR. X: I said that because at the time it was true. But you've got to be honest, you've got to tell things the way they are. I don't mind people quoting what I said in the 1970s.
INTERVIEWER: Doesn't all of that add up to saying that you're asking governments to spend billions of dollars on a view which is different from one you held a decade ago?
DR. X: I don't see any problem in saying that people learn. I'm not embarrassed about a view I held a decade ago.
Anyone who's sufficiently interested can find the source and proceed from there. It's not just this one program singling him out, there are various sources both on and off the Internet discussing the conversion from The Little Ice Age to Global Warming.
I have no problem with someone learning from their mistakes. But I do wonder about such a change of viewpoint, especially when people in the same industry are skeptical or express concern about such a change in this individual. It makes me take the whole issue just a little less seriously. If many people assess it similarly then that can't be good for any cause.
Ok, that begs the question: how many parents are feeding lead-based paint to their children?
Seriously, though, people aren't generally in direct contact with the lead contained in their motherboards, cards, hard disks, etc. The problem is supposed to occur at disposal time when it is alleged that lead and other heavy metals leach out of the refuse and in to the water table, and hence into the local water supply/food chain. With recycling companies breaking-up computers and other electronic devices into their constituent materials and reselling "raw" materials this should become less and less of an issue.
I'm not convinced of the lead problem myself. There isn't anything in this world today where everyone says it's good for you and nobody is saying it will kill you - just look at diets and mobile phones. One well-known atmospheric scientist who is a big proponent of global warming at the moment was pushing the coming of an ice age in the 1960's and 70's. His excuse? He was "wrong" back then. So, who's right and who can you believe?
If you were to look at this from an anti-Lead-Free point of view, one could wonder whether Lead-Free petrol has benefited the environment or not, since Lead-Free petrol has caused increases in SO2 emissions which cause H2SO4 acid rain and decimation of forests in Sweden and Norway as well as damage to old and ancient structures in France, Italy and Greece.
The mix of tin and lead in solder varies somewhat depending on the application, with 60/40 and 70/30 being common. I was curious myself about the claim of "Lead-Free" since every solder joint in the system would have to have lead, right? From VIA's Lead-Free Manufacturing page:
...and the solder balls now consist of a tin, silver and copper composite.
Of course, I don't know what everyone's got against lead. If all the claims you hear were true then my old man (who breathes in solder fumes for up to 80 hours a week) should have died of lead poisioning forty years ago. He reckons milk is the answer.:)
Actually, since it's an analogue signal, the "effective" horizontal resolution of television signals is limited only by the bandwidth of the luminance and chroma circuits of your receiver/TV and tends to be much higher than the popular 768x576 (PAL/SECAM, 50i) and 640x480 (NTSC, 60i) resolutions offered on capture cards.
Those resolutions were chosen to maintain the 4:3 aspect ratio used on computer monitors based on the number of "useful" lines in the signal (the rest of the lines are used for framing of the front-porch/back-porch and digital data like Teletext).
The 720x480 NTSC resolution made available on some cards makes use of some of this extra resolution, but confuses a number of players because the aspect ratio written in the.AVI/.MPEG streams aren't handled reliably (by either capture or playback software it seems, although some do it better than others).
He didnt say he wanted to make a consumer quality device, he just asked what he could use the LCD for. Regular TV is well below the 800x600 that the LCD probably is.
Maybe Never-Twice-Same-Color (NTSC) is well below 800x600, but regular old PAL/SECAM has 625 lines with about 576 usable.
IIS is free with Server editions of the OS. Personal Web Server is free with client/workstation editions.
Of course, I'm not saying they're the greatest thing since sliced bread because of that (I write ISAPI stuff as part of my job so I know how much of a pain-in-the-arse IIS is, especially IIS6), just that they're free.
Not only that, but because of code bloat you'd be required to upgrade your motherboard to increase the capacity of your flash ROMs every twelve months.
Lest we foregt that some MS OS service packs have been larger than the original OS.:)
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Wow! A seventeen inch screen! Next thing you know, some smart-arse grunt will ask to have their helmet upgraded to an Apple 16:9 30-inch screen.
Oh, but maybe they meant a one-point-seven inch screen and their proofreaders suck eggs.
What was I thinking?
3.14 * 75 * 75 = 17,662 square miles, but that's still a lot less than 300,000.
It's all well-and-good to say that they have line-of-sight to 300,000 square miles, but that's vastly different to their actual operational area.
According to their "current" radius of operation of 75 miles, they are only actually covering 471 square miles (2 * 3.14 * 75 = 471).
Yeah, I picked-up on the duelling airbags as well. :)
Using our old friend, c^2 = a^2 + b^2, I get 76.1 miles when sitting at the fringe. (Their claims are 13 mile altitude and a "currently" 75 mile radius.)
GSM and CDMA towers regularly run out of channels and they're only just above ground level covering a few miles. I doubt these blimps will help with phone comms. It will be interesting to see what communications protocols they do actually support, though.
Of Intel's 13 chip manufacturing plants, 6 of them are outside the United States. There's even one in Israel:
Intel's worldwide manufacturing operations.
"Hey, Lou, what the F is " *SPLAT*
Sorry CmdrTaco, we've had this news before: Cancelling Out CPU Fan Noise, 16-Mar-2004
Yup, this was back in the days when Telstra was still Telecom. This was the "Telecom Talkabout" system which was deployed in Brisbane and possibly other capitals. The digital access points had about a 100-200m range, but I think the cell phone component was still AMPS.
:)
As I recall there was a bit of a tussle over the tracability (or lack thereof) of the phones, but since you'd be able to nail them down to an access point I'd think a 100-200m is better positioning than GSM generally allows.
In Bell vs. John P. Citizen today, a federal court judge sentenced the defendant to 16 years jail for failing to pay the plaintiff US$5,000,000.00 in telecommunications charges. The defendant alleged that his Wi-Fi personal exchange was used by unauthorized parties to place multitudes of local, long-distance and overseas calls. By showing that the defendant had failed to secure his Wi-Fi exchange according to the fine print warnings and instructions on the last page of the 10,000 page manual accompanying the product, the prosecution proved the defendant liable for the full amount.
Yes, we may never know the reason FBI and Secret Service chose to investigate this Open Records request. Yes, perhaps they are investigating another case regarding a perceived threat to the campus and this was considered to be linked to that case. I'm fine with that.
But then: why did they both refuse FOI's on what they have already gathered about Mr. Miller? Shouldn't he be entitled to that?
Eww aah... five patches. Maybe Apple should have followed MS's lead from last month and rolled them all up into one patch to rule them all. :)
Didn't say which version, though. Windows 2.0 supported EGA. :)
Thanks for the effort, Copperhead!
Though it looks like there's about six images that got truncated.
Sorry for getting further off-topic... Atmospheric Scientist == Climatologist in this case.
Testifying before a Senate Committee for Global Warming as late as October last year, I've called him Dr. X in this transcript extract from Channel 4's (Britain) "The Greenhouse Conspiracy":
Anyone who's sufficiently interested can find the source and proceed from there. It's not just this one program singling him out, there are various sources both on and off the Internet discussing the conversion from The Little Ice Age to Global Warming.
I have no problem with someone learning from their mistakes. But I do wonder about such a change of viewpoint, especially when people in the same industry are skeptical or express concern about such a change in this individual. It makes me take the whole issue just a little less seriously. If many people assess it similarly then that can't be good for any cause.
Ok, that begs the question: how many parents are feeding lead-based paint to their children?
Seriously, though, people aren't generally in direct contact with the lead contained in their motherboards, cards, hard disks, etc. The problem is supposed to occur at disposal time when it is alleged that lead and other heavy metals leach out of the refuse and in to the water table, and hence into the local water supply/food chain. With recycling companies breaking-up computers and other electronic devices into their constituent materials and reselling "raw" materials this should become less and less of an issue.
I'm not convinced of the lead problem myself. There isn't anything in this world today where everyone says it's good for you and nobody is saying it will kill you - just look at diets and mobile phones. One well-known atmospheric scientist who is a big proponent of global warming at the moment was pushing the coming of an ice age in the 1960's and 70's. His excuse? He was "wrong" back then. So, who's right and who can you believe?
If you were to look at this from an anti-Lead-Free point of view, one could wonder whether Lead-Free petrol has benefited the environment or not, since Lead-Free petrol has caused increases in SO2 emissions which cause H2SO4 acid rain and decimation of forests in Sweden and Norway as well as damage to old and ancient structures in France, Italy and Greece.
The mix of tin and lead in solder varies somewhat depending on the application, with 60/40 and 70/30 being common. I was curious myself about the claim of "Lead-Free" since every solder joint in the system would have to have lead, right? From VIA's Lead-Free Manufacturing page:
Of course, I don't know what everyone's got against lead. If all the claims you hear were true then my old man (who breathes in solder fumes for up to 80 hours a week) should have died of lead poisioning forty years ago. He reckons milk is the answer. :)
Of course, that why lusrmgr.msc doesn't ship with Win2K and later. :)
Or you could just xcopy /h
Actually, since it's an analogue signal, the "effective" horizontal resolution of television signals is limited only by the bandwidth of the luminance and chroma circuits of your receiver/TV and tends to be much higher than the popular 768x576 (PAL/SECAM, 50i) and 640x480 (NTSC, 60i) resolutions offered on capture cards.
Those resolutions were chosen to maintain the 4:3 aspect ratio used on computer monitors based on the number of "useful" lines in the signal (the rest of the lines are used for framing of the front-porch/back-porch and digital data like Teletext).
The 720x480 NTSC resolution made available on some cards makes use of some of this extra resolution, but confuses a number of players because the aspect ratio written in the .AVI/.MPEG streams aren't handled reliably (by either capture or playback software it seems, although some do it better than others).
Maybe Never-Twice-Same-Color (NTSC) is well below 800x600, but regular old PAL/SECAM has 625 lines with about 576 usable.
Good luck, phorm!
My Nokia was bought in Australia, but the "Country of handset approval" is Finland.
I think applies only to the manufacturer's home country, or wherever they get the initial approval.
IIS is free with Server editions of the OS.
Personal Web Server is free with client/workstation editions.
Of course, I'm not saying they're the greatest thing since sliced bread because of that (I write ISAPI stuff as part of my job so I know how much of a pain-in-the-arse IIS is, especially IIS6), just that they're free.
Not only that, but because of code bloat you'd be required to upgrade your motherboard to increase the capacity of your flash ROMs every twelve months.
:)
Lest we foregt that some MS OS service packs have been larger than the original OS.