In the U.S. it is common practice for police to arrest people who record (either audio or video) them. They claim this is to protect their "right to privacy" but is often done to intimidate anyone trying to document their improper or illegal behavior.
I'm sure the same laws can be made to apply to the TSA (or the Post Office, for that matter).
You're lucky you weren't stopped by the police with that much cash. It is now common practice for the police to assume that anyone carrying a large amount of cash must be engaged in some illegal activity and impound that money.
It is then up to you to prove your innocence and to sue the government to get your money back.
We've been sending people into space for almost 50 years, and none of their vehicles have ever been disabled by impact with either man-made space junk or meteoroids.
This probably isn't even near the top of the list of things to worry about.
The actual disagreement was whether it was better for all the union teachers to take a small cut in benefits and all keep their jobs (supported by the Republicans) or whether low-seniority teachers should be fired to preserve the existing pay and benefits for the more senior teachers (supported by the Democrats and Union leadership).
The real fight is over whether the Unions can continue to collect their dues by force. The Union leaders know that if their members are given the option of quitting the Union, they will. Up til now, they have had friends in State government (the Democrats) who were willing to give them whatever they wanted to maintain their grip (and continue to donate money back to those Democrats).
Unfortunately for them, the people of Wisconsin kicked the Democrats out of their leadership positions throughout the state. Amazingly, the Democrats, the Union leadership and most of the "mainstream" media completely ignore this fact. They pretend that the 2010 election never took place and that they can just continue to act as though the People of Wisconsin really left them in power.
They encourage their members to be lazy and corrupt, for one thing. They don't actually represent their members very well, for another. (Perhaps that isn't true in other countries, but it sure is true here!).
Before becoming a software developer, I worked as a machinist for a small, privately-owned, non-union machine shop. Everyone knew that their labor and their dedication was directly responsible for the success or failure of the company, and we all worked contentiously (not killing ourselves, but not goofing off either).
At one point, my foreman decided to take a job at a union shop, which was paying more than he could get at the small shop. He went there and worked just as he had worked at his old job. Within a week, the union steward told him that if he continued to work that way, he would have an unfortunate accident.
Eventually, he decided that he didn't want to intentionally slack off just to keep his union brothers from beating him up (or worse), so he quit that job and returned to the small shop.
it's the same way your router knows which one to send the incoming web page to after you request it.
No, it's not.
Clients (such as the web browser in your example) work just fine behind NAT routers. Servers do not.
You could set up a web server on one of several machines behind a NAT router, and no one outside the router would be able to access it unless you program your NAT router to pass such incoming connections to that particular machine.
A true peer-to-peer connection won't work through a NAT router without special configuration. If you have an outside server coordinating the connection, then it isn't peer-to-peer.
I do. I use a Gmail account, and I sometimes use the web interface. But I prefer dealing with email using Thunderbird, and I like that Thunderbird keeps a local copy of everything in my Gmail folders. If I'm offline (or if Google somehow loses their copy of my email) I like that I still have access to my entire email archive.
I have at least 6 different devices on my router, and they all share the same public IP address. Which one gets the incoming connection?
The GP post is essentially correct: Two computers, behind different NAT routers (the most common configuration), cannot establish network connections between themselves. Either one side needs to configure their router to forward connections to a particular host (which acts as a server), or there must be a 3rd-party server to mediate the connection (and in this case, AFAIK the only way to get a direct connection involves forging TCP packets and relying on undefined behavior).
And any nation that wants their own Moon rocks can go get their own.
What's that? You don't want to spend the money? You just want the U.S. to give away the Moon rocks that they spent tens (hundreds?) of billions of dollars to collect?
Sounds nice, but there's not money in small resistor packs.
True enough. But sometimes it's worth carrying such items to lure people into the store, where they might buy other, more profitable, items.
If you've ever been in a Fry's, you'll see what I mean. They have an entire row of oscilloscopes for sale, covering an order of magnitude in price. I doubt they sell many of them, but they are a clear sign that they are serious about the "electronics nerd" target audience.
And, meanwhile, you can buy small resister packs there.
On the other hand, when I went to buy several Morse Code practice keys (it was going to be social commentary about the bone-headed email policies at the company for which I was then working), the "old" guy was long gone, and the "young" guy working there didn't have a clue about what I was talking about.
About five years ago, I needed a couple of TTL logic chips for a project I was doing at work, so I stopped at Radio Shack at lunch time, on the unlikely chance that they might still carry them.
I looked around and didn't see anything appropriate, then I asked the young clerk, and he looked at me like I was nuts. I was about to leave when the "old" clerk came up to me and in a sotto voice said, "Come with me."
He lead me to the back of the store, where he disappeared into the storeroom for a moment. Then, he returned with a box full of their inventory of electronic components. He explained that they had received orders from management to remove all such items from their sales floor, but that he knew there was enough demand to justify keeping them around. I bought the parts I needed, thanked him profusely, and returned to work.
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Of course, they should probably not be using a "mainstream" distribution.
I'm sure the same laws can be made to apply to the TSA (or the Post Office, for that matter).
It is then up to you to prove your innocence and to sue the government to get your money back.
They're not doing anything that requires mission specialists, so they decided to send more supplies instead.
I haven't used Dropbox, but I didn't think it had a similar purpose. I thought it was more like a cloud-based hard drive.
I see a significant difference between the two.
This probably isn't even near the top of the list of things to worry about.
Normally, it's non-users who make nasty comments about Apple products, but these comments are by loyal users. That's significant.
The Year Without a Summer was the result of a volcano in 1815.
The Little Ice Age started about 1550.
You have effect proceeding cause by about 250 years.
The actual disagreement was whether it was better for all the union teachers to take a small cut in benefits and all keep their jobs (supported by the Republicans) or whether low-seniority teachers should be fired to preserve the existing pay and benefits for the more senior teachers (supported by the Democrats and Union leadership).
The real fight is over whether the Unions can continue to collect their dues by force. The Union leaders know that if their members are given the option of quitting the Union, they will. Up til now, they have had friends in State government (the Democrats) who were willing to give them whatever they wanted to maintain their grip (and continue to donate money back to those Democrats).
Unfortunately for them, the people of Wisconsin kicked the Democrats out of their leadership positions throughout the state. Amazingly, the Democrats, the Union leadership and most of the "mainstream" media completely ignore this fact. They pretend that the 2010 election never took place and that they can just continue to act as though the People of Wisconsin really left them in power.
Actually, I believe that Wyle E. Coyote has the Trademark on "Acme".
They encourage their members to be lazy and corrupt, for one thing. They don't actually represent their members very well, for another. (Perhaps that isn't true in other countries, but it sure is true here!).
Before becoming a software developer, I worked as a machinist for a small, privately-owned, non-union machine shop. Everyone knew that their labor and their dedication was directly responsible for the success or failure of the company, and we all worked contentiously (not killing ourselves, but not goofing off either).
At one point, my foreman decided to take a job at a union shop, which was paying more than he could get at the small shop. He went there and worked just as he had worked at his old job. Within a week, the union steward told him that if he continued to work that way, he would have an unfortunate accident.
Eventually, he decided that he didn't want to intentionally slack off just to keep his union brothers from beating him up (or worse), so he quit that job and returned to the small shop.
Here you go!
Sure it is. What it's not is a unit of measure.
No, it's not.
Clients (such as the web browser in your example) work just fine behind NAT routers. Servers do not.
You could set up a web server on one of several machines behind a NAT router, and no one outside the router would be able to access it unless you program your NAT router to pass such incoming connections to that particular machine.
A true peer-to-peer connection won't work through a NAT router without special configuration. If you have an outside server coordinating the connection, then it isn't peer-to-peer.
I do. I use a Gmail account, and I sometimes use the web interface. But I prefer dealing with email using Thunderbird, and I like that Thunderbird keeps a local copy of everything in my Gmail folders. If I'm offline (or if Google somehow loses their copy of my email) I like that I still have access to my entire email archive.
The GP post is essentially correct: Two computers, behind different NAT routers (the most common configuration), cannot establish network connections between themselves. Either one side needs to configure their router to forward connections to a particular host (which acts as a server), or there must be a 3rd-party server to mediate the connection (and in this case, AFAIK the only way to get a direct connection involves forging TCP packets and relying on undefined behavior).
And when both computers have IP addresses of 192.168.1.1?
I made the same assumption when I first read the summary.
I knew that goldfish was up to something!
And any nation that wants their own Moon rocks can go get their own.
What's that? You don't want to spend the money? You just want the U.S. to give away the Moon rocks that they spent tens (hundreds?) of billions of dollars to collect?
Ya, sounds like typical socialist mindset.
True enough. But sometimes it's worth carrying such items to lure people into the store, where they might buy other, more profitable, items.
If you've ever been in a Fry's, you'll see what I mean. They have an entire row of oscilloscopes for sale, covering an order of magnitude in price. I doubt they sell many of them, but they are a clear sign that they are serious about the "electronics nerd" target audience.
And, meanwhile, you can buy small resister packs there.
I guess that didn't work so well.
On the other hand, when I went to buy several Morse Code practice keys (it was going to be social commentary about the bone-headed email policies at the company for which I was then working), the "old" guy was long gone, and the "young" guy working there didn't have a clue about what I was talking about.
I looked around and didn't see anything appropriate, then I asked the young clerk, and he looked at me like I was nuts. I was about to leave when the "old" clerk came up to me and in a sotto voice said, "Come with me."
He lead me to the back of the store, where he disappeared into the storeroom for a moment. Then, he returned with a box full of their inventory of electronic components. He explained that they had received orders from management to remove all such items from their sales floor, but that he knew there was enough demand to justify keeping them around. I bought the parts I needed, thanked him profusely, and returned to work.