(from the video) "...and they jump out of the way even if they're 20 feet away."
That's pretty smart on their part. Pay close, careful attention to how he restrains these spinning blades: A FUCKING PIPE CLAMP.
Maybe if he's so smart with matlab, he can work out the pulling force at a few hundred RPMs on those blades, frighten himself, and put a bolt through the blade and hub shaft.
Also, the design of the frame is pretty sketchy, with no bracing; he's relying purely on the static-load-bearing capacity of the tubing and his welds. If he collides with anything, the frame is going to come apart, and he stands a good chance of getting a chromalloy chest transplant.
Making ethanol is easy. Making enough ethanol to fill every gas tank in a developed country is tricky.
So...Brazil isn't a developed country? 40% of the gas used by *cars* comes from Ethanol (they actually import oil because of diesel and petrochemical needs.) They do it with cane sugar.
The reason we don't have cheap ethanol, and why corn prices are skyrocketing, is because corn is almost *the* worst way to make ethanol. Corn, however, is what the midwest does, and only what the midwest does. The earliest primaries are in...guess where...the midwest (well, not so much any more, thank god.) The government forks over billions to farmers and farm corporations because it buys votes. Corn is what livestock are fed, not grass. High fructose corn syrup, which is quite bad for you (compared to regular sugar) is in damn near everything because it's cheaper than sugar (which, incidentally, is price fixed. Sugar is *dirt* cheap on the world market, but to protect a fairly small contingent of sugar farmers in the US, the feds price-control it.)
By the way, Bush's favorite line is "reducing our foreign dependency on oil." Guess what? We already get our oil from a rather diverse group, and half of our oil comes from domestic sources.
Apple have said they intend to provide updates, changes, additions, etc. to the iPhone over time. They have a policy of supporting older computers with new OS releases, and I don't see why they wouldn't migrate this approach to their new market.
Except they don't do it for iPods. Each new "generation" of the iPod has run a different firmware *and* had different capabilities, like being able to search. The older iPods never got the functionality of the newer ones, ever. Clickwheel iPods can't "search", nor do they get the newer iPod games, etc. This is just like digital camera manufacturers, home network gear makers, etc. Very, very, very rarely do they take advantage of the firmware updates to increase functionality in any way. Why should they, when they can make you but version N+1?
Most of the time they update the iPod firmware only to give it compatibility with the latest iTunes, and these days, the only updates to iTunes are security fixes and bloat (the glorified pedometer, Apple TV, the iPhone, etc. Anyone else remember when you could sync contacts and appointments onto your iPod through iSync?) My second-gen nano (or Mini, or whatever the hell it's called these days) still crashes 50% of the time when I go to play a podcast after syncing it with my mac. I'm not holding my breath waiting for them to fix it.
gestures that can be done on the iPhone's screen) On June 20th, CrunchGear reported, "The upcoming MacBooks will be about half the thickness of current models (which would be quite the feat) and they'll be made from new plastics/materials"."
Hopefully they'll be more serviceable, too. Personal best for disassembling a G4 iBook to get to the hard drive? 45 minutes, and that was after doing it three times. The screw count is staggering; one heat shield had TWELVE screws. Most of the screws lack threadlocker (or it isn't strong enough) and the screws are so loose they are almost ready to fall out after 3 years of daily use.
With IBM/Lenovo and Dell laptops (and probably many others), the drive can be accessed with one or two screws and they slide out of the chassis, even on their smallest+thinnest models. Why can't Apple do the same, especially given how Apple continues to supply mostly Toshiba drives, which have the highest failure rates of laptop drives? Even setting aside drive-manufacturer failure rates, drives are the most failure-prone components in any computer (well, save video cables and screen hinges, again in Powerbooks and iBooks.) I've never seen an Airport card or memory fail, yet they're the easiest to get to on almost any Apple laptop.
Yes I know this is a forum and calls are more "personal".
But sometimes I call companies. Or heck maybe city hall.
Where does the tracking and ID'ing end?
Read what's already been posted- the information is already in the ANI signal, which is used for billing, among other things. The "guvmint" can already get this information- they don't need Caller ID. Call any toll-free number and the owner of that line AUTOMATICALLY gets this information, since it is their nickel.
Scheduled during the Black Hat USA 2007 event, the event's briefing promised to break the Trusted Computing Group's module, as well as Vista's Bitlocker. Live demos were to be included. The presenters pulled the event, and have no interest in discussing the subject any more.
Maybe because it never existed?
1.Announce you're going to present how to break Vista / TCM
2.Collect $$$$ from registrations
3.Claim the presentation is "cancelled"
4.Profit!
Agreed. If I had thought of it, I would have made an anti-"29th" t-shirt. Something along the lines of "June 29th, I'll be living my life while you stand in line."
I'll be interested in one- in about 6 months when I know what the teething issues are and version 1.1 is quietly slipped into production.
Interesting that they get up in arms about DRM, but don't mention the fact that the BBC has its own private police force that's in charge of making sure people pay a yearly tax to own a TV. Not only do they have to register their TVs, but the police have vans equipped with systems for picking up and pinpointing TV heterodyne circuits to locate unlicensed TVs.
Yeah, Britain, keep telling yourselves you're freer than US citizens...
I wonder how much of these problems are really due to lack of funding and how much are just tactics to yank an even bigger chunk of money from the guys in Washington.
Yep. This is a problem that Congress could never verify, and it's a great way for the NSA to get a cool billion dollars when (at the moment) the NSA is extremely unpopular in front of a Democrat-kind-of-controlled Congress.
I also *really* fail to see how a project like this could cost a billion dollars. Copper may be very expensive, and they may have to get electricians with clearances, but...yeesh, a billion dollars? Gimme a break.
1)Cory Doctorow, the internet hipster who, despite claiming to be such a damn good author, hasn't been able to get a publishing contract. He's against copyright, but he's got no problem with a little book-burning:
What kind of jerk sculptor sells the city a piece of public art for a public park and then demands that no one take pictures of it? Christ, they should run this guy out of town on a rail and melt the goddamned sculpture down for scrap.
2)Xeni Jardin, the girl who is just too cool to use her real name. Because, like, something happened with her dad. She's the world's foremost self-appointed expert on how we use cell phones. Or...something like that.
Put them together and you have the most irritating self-righteous people on the planet.
You can either go off starting random wars of aggression, or you can conduct planetary exploration.
Or you can divert that money to humanitarian purposes: clothing, feeding, housing, educating, and providing medical care for your citizens. Or, cutting taxes while putting 50% of the federal tax burden BACK on corporations, where it was in the 50's, and where it belongs.
Got some money left over? Great. NOW you can go play in space.
PS: You do realize that most of NASA's research goes straight to the military, right? When they develop a new rocket booster, it isn't to put sunshine and lollipops into orbit, son. It's (mostly) for weaponry; missiles, fighter jets, UAVs, spy satellites. The rest is for commercial purposes.
Sucks that short-term politics and pet pork takes precedence over the future of humanity itself.
What are you smoking? Do you seriously believe that "humanity" has any hope of colonizing another planet to "save" itself?
It's been half a century since we first put people in space, and now we're still "just" putting a select elite few up into space to screw around with silly zero-g experiments with little commercial or scientific value.
The suggestion that we will have the resources, technical capability and political unity as a planet to put a large-enough-to-be-genetically-diverse-enough-to-" save"-humanity population not only into orbit but to reach a habitable planet, build a base large enough to house them, grow food, mine raw materials....long enough to either "teraform" that planet or "escape" again to another...
...is absolutely batshit insane. It'd be a hell of a lot cheaper and easier to build protected self-contained habitats on earth.
Isn't there any way to obtain this information in an "open-source" manner?
The best way to get the information is from the stations and cable operators.
Unfortunately, MythTV and other PVR users are in the game of cutting out ads; TV programming is purely to sell ad space, and always has been, save when programs were entirely paid for by one company and the show was branded in their name. What motivation do TV stations have to assist people who are purposefully going out of their way to cut out the ads?
The concrete vault encasing the car may have been built to withstand a nuclear attack, but it couldn't keep away water.
I've read numerous stories about the car in the news press and automotive press. CNN is the first agency to mention anything about it being a bomb shelter. There was no door. They had to rip up the sidewalk and dig down half a dozen feet to get to it.
I think the "may" in the above sentence has been wildly mis-interpreted.
If the case were really so cut and dried, Kaplan would have eaten this guy alive in a real court instead of fooling around with small claims.
There are half a dozen comments already in the story, along the lines of "man, what a scumbag, suing in small claims!" or "small claims court sucks, OMG, NO RIGHTS USA SUXORS!"
You have the right to request a small claims court case be moved to a "real" court. You may have to do so immediately, however. There is nothing preventing you from bringing a lawyer with you to small claims court.
Small claims court is a place where a common man who can't afford a lawyer, actually stands a chance. Evidence standards are dropped for both sides, and at least in my state, the laws supporting small claims court state that everyone, from clerk to judge, needs to work to assist both parties as they are *laymen*. It instructs them to be helpful, explain stuff, and be lenient with minor technicalities in paperwork and procedure for the same reason. In "real" court, if you mis-spelled the defendant's name in your filing, you'd risk get your case tossed out. In small claims court, the clerk says, "uh, you mean Smith, not Simth, right?", and everyone moves on.
With the exception of borrowers using lawyers pushing lawsuits through small claims court to sue debtors with lots of bad/false/misleading evidence, small claims court is an excellent service to the public. It fills the niche of crimes the cops don't care about in dollar amounts lawyers cost too much for.
The blogger in this case was too stupid to fire up a browser and start reading how small claims court works in his state- or he simply lost his case because the other side (gasp!) had a legitimate claim. Either way, cry me a river.
It was clear Nelson had targeted her: Lodrick changed bank accounts and identification numbers, only to find that Nelson had again broken into her mail and stolen the new information and was still after her accounts.
Where the hell were the postal service inspectors? The USPS has an entire police force for dealing with this sort of stuff. I can see it now, down at USPS Homedonut Protection Service:
"Hey Billy-Bob, we had a carrier's keys stolen. Think we should do something?" "Nah, Bo-Billy, we gots terrorists to watch out for."
"But we have a report of identity theft from..."
"T-E-R-R-I-S-T-S. We gots CQB trainin' this afternoon."
She was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn to the 44 days she had already served in county jail and three years' probation.
What about mail fraud? Theft of mail?
Nelson also was ordered to make restitution in an amount to be determined by the court and to stay away from Lodrick.
"Amount to be determined"? How about ALL OF IT?
Those were the terms of a plea bargain negotiated by Assistant District Attorney Reve Bautista with Nelson's public defender, Christopher Hite.
The DA had her on TAPE using someone else's bank account. It was clearly planned and multiple victims were involved. They no doubt could have searched her properties and found the mail, the stolen keys, etc. The goods that were charged either involved her going to stores (where she'd be on camera) or mail order / online, where the goods had to be delivered somewhere (and the cops could have been waiting for her to pick up.)
Why in god's name did they need to plea-bargain? Why does it always seem that to scam artists, identity thieves, and drunk drivers the justice system is a revolving door?
"Do you have the box?"
5+ geek creds to anyone who also immediately thought of the same movie:-)
Remember, kids. They're the US government. They don't DO that sort of thing. But they'll try.
The only people this was a secret from was the American people.
It's important to remember that $60BN doesn't spend itself, and it doesn't spend itself in small numbers. A whole lot of Americans knew that a whole lot of money was being spent on (essentially) nothing. It's also important to remember that this money mostly goes to defense contractors, and most of that goes to the upper management. Make no mistake: the rich don't spend in proportion to their income. They hoard. This money is being turned into silver spoons for a whole lot of terrorism-profiteers.
Fun trivia: $60BN is enough to give *every* child and adult in the US $200; about half a week's wages for people working minimum wage (before the roughly 1/3rd that goes to taxes, of course.)
It's enough to employ (are you sitting down?) one point two MILLION people in $50k/year jobs.
Now sit there and explain to me why New Orleans is still a disaster area, why 10 million kids in the US don't get enough food to eat, ~1% of the population (3.5 million people) is homeless (third of those are children), and why poor residents living in New England have their federal assistance for home heating cut.
This nation's spending priorities are so out of whack it is abhorrent.
All three operating systems have groups of people obsessed with upgrades, people obsessed with buying the latest and greatest, and people happily using several year old systems. I recently saw a high-level exec (major healthcare group) with a very beat up first-generation Powerbook G4. He's perfectly content with it. On the flip side, I see plenty of PC people who obsess over spending gobs and gobs of money on things like video cards that cost as much as a 1-2 year old Mac, because that card gets them 2-3 more FPS in their favorite game. To each his own. I don't see many mac users installing ram with purple anodized heatsinks in their machines...
OSX is a BSD
It's a Mach 3.0 microkernel running a derivative of FreeBSD 5, with a NEXT-based configuration setup (Netinfo), and a Finder user interface.
I don't agree with the shameless self-promotion aspect, but Stallman's point that "Linux" is just the kernel applies equally to MacOS X, in that you cannot characterize it as "BSD" because it runs a FreeBSD based kernel.
This is what you do: buy 2 drives exactly the same size and mirror them. End of story.
NO! That's NOT the end of the story. You need to do what is called "scrubbing" the array periodically, because drives "silently" fail, where areas become unreadable for various reasons. Guess when one usually discovers the bad data? When one drive screeches to a halt, and you confidently slap in another and hit "rebuild". Surpriiiiiiiiise.
You can do it a variety of ways. The most harmless is probably to run a read-only bad-block test via cron, while monitoring each drive's SMART parameters long-term and having your cron job let you know if badblocks finds anything. An alternative is to instruct md to verify the array, if you're doing software raid.
You cannot, cannot, CANNOT just drop a bunch of drives into raid 5 and expect it to be peachy for the rest of time.
By the way, regarding controllers- skip ANYTHING made by 3ware, especially their PCI controllers. They're barely able to push 20-25MB/sec and have a couple of bad compatibility problems with certain drives. Areca units are blazing fast (especially the PCI-E cards) but priced for businesses, not home users looking for "cheap as possible."
Software raid comes in #1 for price/performance, but I strongly, strongly recommend you play around with the mdadm tool quite a bit before you put actual data on an md array. The stuff is very half-baked.
So, pray, tell us, what resource belonging to First Nations is being consumed, so that you have less of it the signal has passed through?
To play devil's advocate since half of the posters are bashing Indian people and the other half are foaming at the mouth about how stupid a concept this is...
...spectrum. When one person is using a certain chunk, another can't until their systems are sufficiently isolated enough. Given that the Canadian and US government sold (and continue to sell) this spectrum off for huge, huge chunks of money AND as a result regulate who can use what parts...why shouldn't they be allowed to do the same, if they are a sovereign nation? (if they're not, then that's a different matter.)
There are libertarian-esque viewpoints along the lines of, "oh, we shouldn't control the radio spectrum!" Well, then you end up with your neighbor's radio tower cutting off your portable phone or making your garage door open randomly, and your wireless network causes his car's remote lock fob to not work, and the local fire department's radios are suddenly useless because Bob's Plumbing Supply implemented a digital paging system for their truck fleet.
The world has already settled on cell phone frequencies, but the moral high ground goes to the tribes if Canada didn't consult with them when it signed on to the whole "sure, we'll make cell frequencies in Canada X, Y, and Z", if geography is such that signals from towers in Canada would penetrate to any degree into these territories.
Note, I said the moral high ground- not the practical high ground. The practical high ground goes of course to the cell phone industry and Canada...
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(from the video) "...and they jump out of the way even if they're 20 feet away."
That's pretty smart on their part. Pay close, careful attention to how he restrains these spinning blades: A FUCKING PIPE CLAMP.
Maybe if he's so smart with matlab, he can work out the pulling force at a few hundred RPMs on those blades, frighten himself, and put a bolt through the blade and hub shaft.
Also, the design of the frame is pretty sketchy, with no bracing; he's relying purely on the static-load-bearing capacity of the tubing and his welds. If he collides with anything, the frame is going to come apart, and he stands a good chance of getting a chromalloy chest transplant.
Whups. You're right, I was looking at the natural gas chart. Doh.
Making ethanol is easy. Making enough ethanol to fill every gas tank in a developed country is tricky.
So...Brazil isn't a developed country? 40% of the gas used by *cars* comes from Ethanol (they actually import oil because of diesel and petrochemical needs.) They do it with cane sugar.
The reason we don't have cheap ethanol, and why corn prices are skyrocketing, is because corn is almost *the* worst way to make ethanol. Corn, however, is what the midwest does, and only what the midwest does. The earliest primaries are in...guess where...the midwest (well, not so much any more, thank god.) The government forks over billions to farmers and farm corporations because it buys votes. Corn is what livestock are fed, not grass. High fructose corn syrup, which is quite bad for you (compared to regular sugar) is in damn near everything because it's cheaper than sugar (which, incidentally, is price fixed. Sugar is *dirt* cheap on the world market, but to protect a fairly small contingent of sugar farmers in the US, the feds price-control it.)
By the way, Bush's favorite line is "reducing our foreign dependency on oil." Guess what? We already get our oil from a rather diverse group, and half of our oil comes from domestic sources.
Last fun fact. Think your Prius is helping with that pesky foreign oil "problem", or (laughs) that you're "fighting terrorism"? Think again. Transportation only accounts for less than one percent of US oil consumption.
Apple have said they intend to provide updates, changes, additions, etc. to the iPhone over time. They have a policy of supporting older computers with new OS releases, and I don't see why they wouldn't migrate this approach to their new market.
Except they don't do it for iPods. Each new "generation" of the iPod has run a different firmware *and* had different capabilities, like being able to search. The older iPods never got the functionality of the newer ones, ever. Clickwheel iPods can't "search", nor do they get the newer iPod games, etc. This is just like digital camera manufacturers, home network gear makers, etc. Very, very, very rarely do they take advantage of the firmware updates to increase functionality in any way. Why should they, when they can make you but version N+1?
Most of the time they update the iPod firmware only to give it compatibility with the latest iTunes, and these days, the only updates to iTunes are security fixes and bloat (the glorified pedometer, Apple TV, the iPhone, etc. Anyone else remember when you could sync contacts and appointments onto your iPod through iSync?) My second-gen nano (or Mini, or whatever the hell it's called these days) still crashes 50% of the time when I go to play a podcast after syncing it with my mac. I'm not holding my breath waiting for them to fix it.
gestures that can be done on the iPhone's screen) On June 20th, CrunchGear reported, "The upcoming MacBooks will be about half the thickness of current models (which would be quite the feat) and they'll be made from new plastics/materials"."
Hopefully they'll be more serviceable, too. Personal best for disassembling a G4 iBook to get to the hard drive? 45 minutes, and that was after doing it three times. The screw count is staggering; one heat shield had TWELVE screws. Most of the screws lack threadlocker (or it isn't strong enough) and the screws are so loose they are almost ready to fall out after 3 years of daily use.
With IBM/Lenovo and Dell laptops (and probably many others), the drive can be accessed with one or two screws and they slide out of the chassis, even on their smallest+thinnest models. Why can't Apple do the same, especially given how Apple continues to supply mostly Toshiba drives, which have the highest failure rates of laptop drives? Even setting aside drive-manufacturer failure rates, drives are the most failure-prone components in any computer (well, save video cables and screen hinges, again in Powerbooks and iBooks.) I've never seen an Airport card or memory fail, yet they're the easiest to get to on almost any Apple laptop.
Yes I know this is a forum and calls are more "personal". But sometimes I call companies. Or heck maybe city hall. Where does the tracking and ID'ing end?
Read what's already been posted- the information is already in the ANI signal, which is used for billing, among other things. The "guvmint" can already get this information- they don't need Caller ID. Call any toll-free number and the owner of that line AUTOMATICALLY gets this information, since it is their nickel.
Scheduled during the Black Hat USA 2007 event, the event's briefing promised to break the Trusted Computing Group's module, as well as Vista's Bitlocker. Live demos were to be included. The presenters pulled the event, and have no interest in discussing the subject any more.
Maybe because it never existed?
1.Announce you're going to present how to break Vista / TCM
2.Collect $$$$ from registrations
3.Claim the presentation is "cancelled"
4.Profit!
In other news, pseudo-sociotechnical words (PSTW) are gaining momentum.
Just let the damn thing come.
Agreed. If I had thought of it, I would have made an anti-"29th" t-shirt. Something along the lines of "June 29th, I'll be living my life while you stand in line."
I'll be interested in one- in about 6 months when I know what the teething issues are and version 1.1 is quietly slipped into production.
Interesting that they get up in arms about DRM, but don't mention the fact that the BBC has its own private police force that's in charge of making sure people pay a yearly tax to own a TV. Not only do they have to register their TVs, but the police have vans equipped with systems for picking up and pinpointing TV heterodyne circuits to locate unlicensed TVs. Yeah, Britain, keep telling yourselves you're freer than US citizens...
I wonder how much of these problems are really due to lack of funding and how much are just tactics to yank an even bigger chunk of money from the guys in Washington.
Yep. This is a problem that Congress could never verify, and it's a great way for the NSA to get a cool billion dollars when (at the moment) the NSA is extremely unpopular in front of a Democrat-kind-of-controlled Congress.
I also *really* fail to see how a project like this could cost a billion dollars. Copper may be very expensive, and they may have to get electricians with clearances, but...yeesh, a billion dollars? Gimme a break.
1)Cory Doctorow, the internet hipster who, despite claiming to be such a damn good author, hasn't been able to get a publishing contract. He's against copyright, but he's got no problem with a little book-burning:
What kind of jerk sculptor sells the city a piece of public art for a public park and then demands that no one take pictures of it? Christ, they should run this guy out of town on a rail and melt the goddamned sculpture down for scrap.
2)Xeni Jardin, the girl who is just too cool to use her real name. Because, like, something happened with her dad. She's the world's foremost self-appointed expert on how we use cell phones. Or...something like that.
Put them together and you have the most irritating self-righteous people on the planet.
You can either go off starting random wars of aggression, or you can conduct planetary exploration.
Or you can divert that money to humanitarian purposes: clothing, feeding, housing, educating, and providing medical care for your citizens. Or, cutting taxes while putting 50% of the federal tax burden BACK on corporations, where it was in the 50's, and where it belongs.
Got some money left over? Great. NOW you can go play in space.
PS: You do realize that most of NASA's research goes straight to the military, right? When they develop a new rocket booster, it isn't to put sunshine and lollipops into orbit, son. It's (mostly) for weaponry; missiles, fighter jets, UAVs, spy satellites. The rest is for commercial purposes.
Sucks that short-term politics and pet pork takes precedence over the future of humanity itself.
What are you smoking? Do you seriously believe that "humanity" has any hope of colonizing another planet to "save" itself?
It's been half a century since we first put people in space, and now we're still "just" putting a select elite few up into space to screw around with silly zero-g experiments with little commercial or scientific value.
The suggestion that we will have the resources, technical capability and political unity as a planet to put a large-enough-to-be-genetically-diverse-enough-to-" save"-humanity population not only into orbit but to reach a habitable planet, build a base large enough to house them, grow food, mine raw materials....long enough to either "teraform" that planet or "escape" again to another...
...is absolutely batshit insane. It'd be a hell of a lot cheaper and easier to build protected self-contained habitats on earth.
I thought this balanced out to "States Secret", or better put, "You get privacy until we decide you don't need it"
"Those who give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
The cost of freedom is the risk you take that someone will use that freedom to harm you. The payback is that you and your family live your lives free.
Isn't there any way to obtain this information in an "open-source" manner?
The best way to get the information is from the stations and cable operators.
Unfortunately, MythTV and other PVR users are in the game of cutting out ads; TV programming is purely to sell ad space, and always has been, save when programs were entirely paid for by one company and the show was branded in their name. What motivation do TV stations have to assist people who are purposefully going out of their way to cut out the ads?
From the article:
The concrete vault encasing the car may have been built to withstand a nuclear attack, but it couldn't keep away water.
I've read numerous stories about the car in the news press and automotive press. CNN is the first agency to mention anything about it being a bomb shelter. There was no door. They had to rip up the sidewalk and dig down half a dozen feet to get to it.
I think the "may" in the above sentence has been wildly mis-interpreted.
If the case were really so cut and dried, Kaplan would have eaten this guy alive in a real court instead of fooling around with small claims.
There are half a dozen comments already in the story, along the lines of "man, what a scumbag, suing in small claims!" or "small claims court sucks, OMG, NO RIGHTS USA SUXORS!"
You have the right to request a small claims court case be moved to a "real" court. You may have to do so immediately, however. There is nothing preventing you from bringing a lawyer with you to small claims court.
Small claims court is a place where a common man who can't afford a lawyer, actually stands a chance. Evidence standards are dropped for both sides, and at least in my state, the laws supporting small claims court state that everyone, from clerk to judge, needs to work to assist both parties as they are *laymen*. It instructs them to be helpful, explain stuff, and be lenient with minor technicalities in paperwork and procedure for the same reason. In "real" court, if you mis-spelled the defendant's name in your filing, you'd risk get your case tossed out. In small claims court, the clerk says, "uh, you mean Smith, not Simth, right?", and everyone moves on.
With the exception of borrowers using lawyers pushing lawsuits through small claims court to sue debtors with lots of bad/false/misleading evidence, small claims court is an excellent service to the public. It fills the niche of crimes the cops don't care about in dollar amounts lawyers cost too much for.
The blogger in this case was too stupid to fire up a browser and start reading how small claims court works in his state- or he simply lost his case because the other side (gasp!) had a legitimate claim. Either way, cry me a river.
It was clear Nelson had targeted her: Lodrick changed bank accounts and identification numbers, only to find that Nelson had again broken into her mail and stolen the new information and was still after her accounts.
Where the hell were the postal service inspectors? The USPS has an entire police force for dealing with this sort of stuff. I can see it now, down at USPS Homedonut Protection Service:
"Hey Billy-Bob, we had a carrier's keys stolen. Think we should do something?"
"Nah, Bo-Billy, we gots terrorists to watch out for."
"But we have a report of identity theft from..."
"T-E-R-R-I-S-T-S. We gots CQB trainin' this afternoon."
She was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn to the 44 days she had already served in county jail and three years' probation.
What about mail fraud? Theft of mail?
Nelson also was ordered to make restitution in an amount to be determined by the court and to stay away from Lodrick.
"Amount to be determined"? How about ALL OF IT?
Those were the terms of a plea bargain negotiated by Assistant District Attorney Reve Bautista with Nelson's public defender, Christopher Hite.
The DA had her on TAPE using someone else's bank account. It was clearly planned and multiple victims were involved. They no doubt could have searched her properties and found the mail, the stolen keys, etc. The goods that were charged either involved her going to stores (where she'd be on camera) or mail order / online, where the goods had to be delivered somewhere (and the cops could have been waiting for her to pick up.)
Why in god's name did they need to plea-bargain? Why does it always seem that to scam artists, identity thieves, and drunk drivers the justice system is a revolving door?
"Do you have the box?" 5+ geek creds to anyone who also immediately thought of the same movie :-)
Remember, kids. They're the US government. They don't DO that sort of thing. But they'll try.
The only people this was a secret from was the American people.
It's important to remember that $60BN doesn't spend itself, and it doesn't spend itself in small numbers. A whole lot of Americans knew that a whole lot of money was being spent on (essentially) nothing. It's also important to remember that this money mostly goes to defense contractors, and most of that goes to the upper management. Make no mistake: the rich don't spend in proportion to their income. They hoard. This money is being turned into silver spoons for a whole lot of terrorism-profiteers.
Fun trivia: $60BN is enough to give *every* child and adult in the US $200; about half a week's wages for people working minimum wage (before the roughly 1/3rd that goes to taxes, of course.)
It's enough to employ (are you sitting down?) one point two MILLION people in $50k/year jobs.
Now sit there and explain to me why New Orleans is still a disaster area, why 10 million kids in the US don't get enough food to eat, ~1% of the population (3.5 million people) is homeless (third of those are children), and why poor residents living in New England have their federal assistance for home heating cut.
This nation's spending priorities are so out of whack it is abhorrent.
Getting caught lying to congress is illegal.
Getting caught by the dominant party, if they don't like you, is illegal.
Sure, the Mac fanboi attitude is to buy stuff
All three operating systems have groups of people obsessed with upgrades, people obsessed with buying the latest and greatest, and people happily using several year old systems. I recently saw a high-level exec (major healthcare group) with a very beat up first-generation Powerbook G4. He's perfectly content with it. On the flip side, I see plenty of PC people who obsess over spending gobs and gobs of money on things like video cards that cost as much as a 1-2 year old Mac, because that card gets them 2-3 more FPS in their favorite game. To each his own. I don't see many mac users installing ram with purple anodized heatsinks in their machines...
OSX is a BSD
It's a Mach 3.0 microkernel running a derivative of FreeBSD 5, with a NEXT-based configuration setup (Netinfo), and a Finder user interface.
I don't agree with the shameless self-promotion aspect, but Stallman's point that "Linux" is just the kernel applies equally to MacOS X, in that you cannot characterize it as "BSD" because it runs a FreeBSD based kernel.
This is what you do: buy 2 drives exactly the same size and mirror them. End of story.
NO! That's NOT the end of the story. You need to do what is called "scrubbing" the array periodically, because drives "silently" fail, where areas become unreadable for various reasons. Guess when one usually discovers the bad data? When one drive screeches to a halt, and you confidently slap in another and hit "rebuild". Surpriiiiiiiiise.
You can do it a variety of ways. The most harmless is probably to run a read-only bad-block test via cron, while monitoring each drive's SMART parameters long-term and having your cron job let you know if badblocks finds anything. An alternative is to instruct md to verify the array, if you're doing software raid.
You cannot, cannot, CANNOT just drop a bunch of drives into raid 5 and expect it to be peachy for the rest of time.
By the way, regarding controllers- skip ANYTHING made by 3ware, especially their PCI controllers. They're barely able to push 20-25MB/sec and have a couple of bad compatibility problems with certain drives. Areca units are blazing fast (especially the PCI-E cards) but priced for businesses, not home users looking for "cheap as possible."
Software raid comes in #1 for price/performance, but I strongly, strongly recommend you play around with the mdadm tool quite a bit before you put actual data on an md array. The stuff is very half-baked.
So, pray, tell us, what resource belonging to First Nations is being consumed, so that you have less of it the signal has passed through?
To play devil's advocate since half of the posters are bashing Indian people and the other half are foaming at the mouth about how stupid a concept this is...
...spectrum. When one person is using a certain chunk, another can't until their systems are sufficiently isolated enough. Given that the Canadian and US government sold (and continue to sell) this spectrum off for huge, huge chunks of money AND as a result regulate who can use what parts...why shouldn't they be allowed to do the same, if they are a sovereign nation? (if they're not, then that's a different matter.)
There are libertarian-esque viewpoints along the lines of, "oh, we shouldn't control the radio spectrum!" Well, then you end up with your neighbor's radio tower cutting off your portable phone or making your garage door open randomly, and your wireless network causes his car's remote lock fob to not work, and the local fire department's radios are suddenly useless because Bob's Plumbing Supply implemented a digital paging system for their truck fleet.
The world has already settled on cell phone frequencies, but the moral high ground goes to the tribes if Canada didn't consult with them when it signed on to the whole "sure, we'll make cell frequencies in Canada X, Y, and Z", if geography is such that signals from towers in Canada would penetrate to any degree into these territories.
Note, I said the moral high ground- not the practical high ground. The practical high ground goes of course to the cell phone industry and Canada...