Consider what it takes to install the screen. Start with the screen. Add the mounting frame and the redesign to the interior panel, and factor the thicker panel into account, plus the curved wall of the plane versus the flat screen. Then consider the power requirements, in that there has to be a harness added to the plane and the associated circuitry to power all of those LCD panels. Now consider the data requirements. Have to add wiring for the physical connection. Have to add computers and other electronics to drive all of those screens. Have to network the computers together. Have to write software for the screens. If there's an external view for the screens to see, have to install components on the outside of the plane and cable the signal back in to the video processors on the computers.
Or, follow existing trusted designs to cut a hole, weld-in or rivet-in a frame, clamp in a piece of curved glass, and cut a similar hole in an interior panel, adding a pull-down shade.
Fun fact... We bought a barbecue grille several years ago that we really liked. Used it for about year before we got a recall notice. We figured that there are three reasons to issue a recall; the product has a minor flaw that's too much of a pain for the manufacturer to correct in the field so it's cheaper to recall the product, or stupid people are hurting themselves by failing to follow directions or otherwise use the product in a safe fashion so it's just easier to recall the product (think lawn darts), or the product has a fundamental flaw that makes it unsafe and unrepairable at any reasonable expense.
We're both pretty handy; I work on a lot of machines for fun and my wife has a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, so we figured if it was the first or second reason for a recall (ie, minor, correctable flaw or else improper usage) we could simply work around the issue and continue to use the grille. When we researched the recall more throughly we discovered that it was the third failure mode; the grille housing itself was made out of magnesium! Several owners had, through the course of cleaning the grille, scraped the oxidized layer off of the inside, exposing fresh magnesium, which ultimately ignited and burned the grille into the pavement. I had just thoroughly cleaned our grille when we got the recall notice but hadn't used it yet, and as we were loading it into the truck to take it back to the store I saw where the metal edge of my brush had gouged through the paint and oxide to expose fresh material.
For all I know they've concocted a magnesium alloy for these ships that's both good at handling the corrosive effects of saltwater (along with magnesium's reactivity) and have managed to mitigate the dangers of exposure to fire or explosion, much in th way that sodium hexafluoride (the gas whose density can lower the pitch of one's voice as demonstrated on Mythbusters many seasons ago) is relatively safe compared to fluorine gas, but I'd still be nervous that some other failure mode hasn't been discovered that could be catastrophic down the road.
The passengers in a plane do not need windows but clearly because planes have windows at considerable cost to design properly (remember the Dehavilland Comet?) there's clearly a want for them to be there.
Passengers in cars will want the option of looking out. One can even argue that scenic drives with an autonomous car would be much safer because there's no driver to split his attention between the view and the act of operating the vehicle.
I suppose it depends on what you want to do with it, and what you see Java's future as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle is.
I was studying programming in college when the hype for Java began. We were using C and C++. What was true then still holds true today, in that in C/C++ you can write operating systems and conventional programs, but in Java you are limited to conventional programs. Java has the theoretical interoperability feature between OSes and hardware platforms, but in practice there's a lot of customization to make programs actually do this, and if one has to write versions for several platforms, it's not a whole lot more burden to compile those and distribute binaries instead of Java runtimes.
As for servers, I've always liked the mindset of putting as little as possible on the production server beyond what its job is. Hell, the idea of statically-compiling everything to allow one to eliminate libraries, let alone compilers on the production box, appeals in that if someone does break in there's a lot less they can do once on there. Java for server-side applications flies in the face of that, there are more general-purpose tools on the server rather than less.
I'm aware that I'm not in the majority for this stuff, and I didn't make programming my profession anyway so perhaps even I should be taken with a grain of salt, but it seems like in this speed to push features we've taken steps backward in real system security, and we're being bitten in the ass by it with ever increasing frequency. The very choice of programming language appears to be fundamental to that.
If Drew reads this, since I asked the question about the Photoshop contests, if there were a way to make it easier for regular Farkers to know what was coming or a reduction in the amount of time that the Photoshop contests were exclusive to TotalFark members before being released to everyone else, it might help increase the participation.
Other suggestions are probably impractical. I wish that Fark had room to store the photos that people post, instead of relying on third-party imagehosts (which would also have the beneficial side-effect of avoiding Lucky Charms pickle incidents) but pictures take too much room to normally make this practical. There are also more legal implications for Fark as the host if someone challenges the copyrights. The downside of not hosting the images directly is that they disappear if the user closes their imagehost account, and many of us don't like the terms of service that third-party imagehosts impose on their users, so we're disinclined to participate.
For politicians, it probably comes down to the innocent-until-proven-guilty mentality. We can personally not trust them, but without evidence they're simply a member of a class of individuals that may contain at least a few innocent people. When we're vindicated in our suspicions through evidence or through criminal proceedings we are free to express our judgements, and the echo chamber amplifies the effects across groups of people.
Admittedly I have the privilege of having grown up in the first world, but I can't think of any examples of when a disease named after its discoverer led to more than juvenile word games for those who happened to share a name or a similar sounding name to the disease.
I takes meeting lots of women to find the one that's compatible with you. The others that are not compatible with you may be compatible with other men. Just as the one that is compatible with you might not be compatible with lots of other men.
This isn't a surprise. He's probably just as interested in girls not suited to his interests and not interested in the girls that he has so many hobbies in common-with as they are with him.
There's only so much time in the day. It sounds like he's chasing the girls that put a lot of effort into their appearance, which aren't typically the girls that are in to these hobbies. It's not impossible that there are girls that are way in to their appearance that like these same things, but they're not very common.
Once he matures and gets out of high school he'll end up with different circles. It makes it a lot easier when one chooses who to associate with, rather than being so artificially bundled together.
Rich kids don't like getting hurt usually, or if they do, on their own terms. A simulator is probably not enough to meet that latter condition, not cool enough.
If the simulator is very accurate, then having to make the effort to avoid being hurt can have some advantages in training. Reinforces why doing something is bad.
Well, there is the whole angle that if the person isn't good enough to even operate the simulator, perhaps they should consider a career change and not try to operate the machine that the simulator is training them to operate.
There's also the perspective that negative reinforcement (ie, getting hurt) is a good motivator to avoid doing some things, and if getting hurt but still having to complete the task is a very realistic possibility with a given situation, then being injured but having to continue operating the simulator isn't a whole lot different than military live-fire exercises where the warrior isn't in complete danger, but if they totally screw up they could be injured.
I wouldn't want to lose my teeth or break my wrists or arms, but if I'm expected to operate a machine post-damage where I too might be damaged, I need ot know how to function after being hurt. Not a fun prospect, learning that, but in a few very select circumstances could be important.
mmmhmm... Plus the prospect of being without service when there shouldn't be any reason to be without service. Like in the middle of a city or on a major interstate. This is why I still like having paper maps that at least feature numbered roads like federal, state, and county highways.
Sounds like these relationships as-described are codependent, with more of the codependency resting on the man's side than the woman's. I've seen plenty of codependency the other direction too, where the woman essentially loses her life as she knows it to be with the man. Perhaps the best approach would be for both parties to be honest with their hobbies and interests, to date people that have some common hobbies and interests, and to continue to maintain their own separate hobbies while guaranteeing the sanctity of the other person's hobbies, within reasonable bounds.
I've been married for approaching a decade. I have not had to give up any of my hobbies from before I got married. I have had to make some choices as to what materiel related to said I hobbies I have kept or continue to acquire, but my wife does not force me to give up anything that interests me. I still have my model rockets, my drum set, my cars, my computers, my tools, my ham radio gear, my Legos, my science fiction collectables, my movies, etc. I did sell one of my two drum sets, I am capped at five vehicles, I don't buy tools unless I need them but given that I just bought a two-post vehicle lift I'm certainly not restricted, I continue to build model rockets. The only real purge has been to go through and get rid of obsolete computer parts, but there's no need to keep ISA cards and 50-pin SCSI cables, or too many 40-pin IDE cables. She also has her hobbies and interests, and she has not had to give up any of their constituent materials beyond normal housekeeping either.
I wonder if the biggest problem here is the blanket generalization of women. Being demanding in a relationship is not a trait of all women. Unwillingness to give is not a trait of all women. Being fickle is not a trait of all women. Being disinterested is not a trait of all women. Sure, there are women to whom some of these traits apply, and there are probably women to which all of these traits apply, but there are also men to which some or all of these traits apply too. If someone is experiencing these conditions, then one needs to re-evaluate where one is meeting women; a change of scene is in order.
Exactly. After a string of toxic relationships I realized I was chasing women that needed to be saved. Trouble is, they always needed to be saved, they never stayed saved. They always had problems that had to be fixed by someone else, ie, me.
Once I realized this, I made a point of avoiding women that were 'vulnerable' in the sense that they were on the tipping point of needing to be saved. The woman I married was self-sufficient and took care of her own problems when I met her, and if anything I provide that soundingboard for her to sanity-check ideas against and to vent to. On an entirely practical level I can take care of things that were previously contracted-out (ie, auto repair, house maintenance, technical support) but she knows how to get these things dealt with if necessary; if her car breaks down she can have it towed without requiring me to drop everything and rush to her side. We make each others' lives better, but we can each stand as individuals and take care of things without excessive drama. It allows us to be together because we want to be together, not because we're not functional in a co-dependent state.
Until only a few years ago, electricity was the only thing that one needed to use a computer productively. Now there are so many dependencies all of the way from device drivers to intermediate pieces of equipment and services, that there are a whole lot of things that can cause the function to stop.
I only use online features because they're free-as-in-beer along with their ease of access. If either changes then there's no reason to continue using an online version.
it might not be going far enough though. I argue that committing an infraction that causes no accident, when an accident is highly likely if one does not commit the infraction, is preferable to following the rules more rigidly and having the accident.
I've had far too many times where I've had to cross the double-yellow line, or make an unsafe lane change, or had to drive into the bike lane, or had to pull out into an intersection against the light to avoid a collision to want to prohibit a computer from being able to do the same. Unfortunately it's difficult to teach even a seasoned driver to do this; I expect it might be very difficult for a computer to learn to predict when other drivers will engage in actions necessitating this kind of rulebreaking.
For those that want to claim that there are too many problems with the people they've dated, perhaps they need to take the time to evaluate the type of people they've been with, to figure out if there are any common traits that define them. They might discover that they're attracted to crazy people because of some interesting characteristic that unfortunately comes bundled with a whole slew of negative traits.
At least that was my experience. Once I figured out the kind of woman that I shouldn't date and avoided dating them it was a lot easier.
Or maybe the technology has outpaced our ability to responsibly use it.
There's an old concept called The Ring of Gyges, as an idea from Plato that essentially boils down to one's good behavior is dependent on one's likelihood of being caught, and should one have the ability to get away with things, one would probably do things that are not acceptable. This idea has been expounded upon with stories like The Invisible Man.
The drone concept has finally reached a point where one can anonymously violate the privacy of others and those others might not even know that it's happening, and the burden to do this is so low that nearly everyone in western society can afford to do it. This required significant advances in both radio-controlled aircraft and in camera technology, and we're now there. The development of the technology has outpaced the ability to detect it at the same casual level.
It's a tough call. The US federal rules that prohibit the use of radio controlled aircraft for anything short of recreational use has meant that there could be penalties for using them to spy on people for profit from taking pictures. Unfortunately it doesn't mean that there aren't other abuses already being committed.
So is it a crime to find a book or magazine in a huge library that isn't listed in the public library's card catalog system?
As I see it, if all they're doing is changing URLs to see what they find, that's what they're doing. Finding something that's in the public library, but not in the catalog.
Posting content on the Internet is publishing. Lots of content on the Internet is indexed by search engines or by the websites that publish it themselves, but not all of it is. If the content is accessible without prompting the requestor for a username and password, then it has been published where everyone could reach it.
If the victims didn't want their content seen, then they shouldn't have published it to the Internet. If they wanted it seen by only a few people, then they should have saved it somewhere that requires authentication in order to gain access to the content.
Sounds like the best approach is to get the existing community to show up to those zoning hearings and to weigh-in on what these changes will do to the neighborhood.
If one doesn't want 12' wide homes, it shouldn't be that hard to put a stop to that, if one actually bothers to try before the commission votes to make the change. They post rather large signage when such hearings are being held, so it's not like it's done in secret.
True, but points distributors gave way to electronic distributors in the sixties and early seventies. Cummins fully mechanical diesel engines with mechanical injection pumps (ie, 6BT engines with twelve valves, versus the 24 valve versions that followed) were installed into Dodge trucks from 1989 to 1998. I wouldn't be surprised if other diesel manufacturers also continued to use fully mechanical setups until that era.
I've got a couple of carbureted vehicles that could be relatively easily swapped from electronic distributors and ignition to points, but they wouldn't run right out of the box. There's a '72 Barracuda in the family that's still points, and once cranked over would work without issues, but anything modern that runs on gasoline would be dead in the water if its electronics fried. No way to run a multiport fuel injected car without the computer. There are so few carbureted vehicles left compared to EFI that it's almost not worth considering.
In all honesty, fully mechanical diesel trucks would be the thing. A diesel engine doesn't require any electricity to operate at all once it's started, and one could mount an air tank, air pump, and pneumatic starter to such a truck to be able to start it without even a battery. Granted, without a functioning alternator or generator the lights might not work, but for the short-term that wouldn't really be that big of a problem.
I think the biggest danger would be a lack of water to urban areas, or a lack of ability to manage the water resources available. Without water cities would die.
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Consider what it takes to install the screen. Start with the screen. Add the mounting frame and the redesign to the interior panel, and factor the thicker panel into account, plus the curved wall of the plane versus the flat screen. Then consider the power requirements, in that there has to be a harness added to the plane and the associated circuitry to power all of those LCD panels. Now consider the data requirements. Have to add wiring for the physical connection. Have to add computers and other electronics to drive all of those screens. Have to network the computers together. Have to write software for the screens. If there's an external view for the screens to see, have to install components on the outside of the plane and cable the signal back in to the video processors on the computers.
Or, follow existing trusted designs to cut a hole, weld-in or rivet-in a frame, clamp in a piece of curved glass, and cut a similar hole in an interior panel, adding a pull-down shade.
Fun fact... We bought a barbecue grille several years ago that we really liked. Used it for about year before we got a recall notice. We figured that there are three reasons to issue a recall; the product has a minor flaw that's too much of a pain for the manufacturer to correct in the field so it's cheaper to recall the product, or stupid people are hurting themselves by failing to follow directions or otherwise use the product in a safe fashion so it's just easier to recall the product (think lawn darts), or the product has a fundamental flaw that makes it unsafe and unrepairable at any reasonable expense.
We're both pretty handy; I work on a lot of machines for fun and my wife has a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, so we figured if it was the first or second reason for a recall (ie, minor, correctable flaw or else improper usage) we could simply work around the issue and continue to use the grille. When we researched the recall more throughly we discovered that it was the third failure mode; the grille housing itself was made out of magnesium! Several owners had, through the course of cleaning the grille, scraped the oxidized layer off of the inside, exposing fresh magnesium, which ultimately ignited and burned the grille into the pavement. I had just thoroughly cleaned our grille when we got the recall notice but hadn't used it yet, and as we were loading it into the truck to take it back to the store I saw where the metal edge of my brush had gouged through the paint and oxide to expose fresh material.
For all I know they've concocted a magnesium alloy for these ships that's both good at handling the corrosive effects of saltwater (along with magnesium's reactivity) and have managed to mitigate the dangers of exposure to fire or explosion, much in th way that sodium hexafluoride (the gas whose density can lower the pitch of one's voice as demonstrated on Mythbusters many seasons ago) is relatively safe compared to fluorine gas, but I'd still be nervous that some other failure mode hasn't been discovered that could be catastrophic down the road.
The passengers in a plane do not need windows but clearly because planes have windows at considerable cost to design properly (remember the Dehavilland Comet?) there's clearly a want for them to be there.
Passengers in cars will want the option of looking out. One can even argue that scenic drives with an autonomous car would be much safer because there's no driver to split his attention between the view and the act of operating the vehicle.
I suppose it depends on what you want to do with it, and what you see Java's future as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle is.
I was studying programming in college when the hype for Java began. We were using C and C++. What was true then still holds true today, in that in C/C++ you can write operating systems and conventional programs, but in Java you are limited to conventional programs. Java has the theoretical interoperability feature between OSes and hardware platforms, but in practice there's a lot of customization to make programs actually do this, and if one has to write versions for several platforms, it's not a whole lot more burden to compile those and distribute binaries instead of Java runtimes.
As for servers, I've always liked the mindset of putting as little as possible on the production server beyond what its job is. Hell, the idea of statically-compiling everything to allow one to eliminate libraries, let alone compilers on the production box, appeals in that if someone does break in there's a lot less they can do once on there. Java for server-side applications flies in the face of that, there are more general-purpose tools on the server rather than less.
I'm aware that I'm not in the majority for this stuff, and I didn't make programming my profession anyway so perhaps even I should be taken with a grain of salt, but it seems like in this speed to push features we've taken steps backward in real system security, and we're being bitten in the ass by it with ever increasing frequency. The very choice of programming language appears to be fundamental to that.
If Drew reads this, since I asked the question about the Photoshop contests, if there were a way to make it easier for regular Farkers to know what was coming or a reduction in the amount of time that the Photoshop contests were exclusive to TotalFark members before being released to everyone else, it might help increase the participation.
Other suggestions are probably impractical. I wish that Fark had room to store the photos that people post, instead of relying on third-party imagehosts (which would also have the beneficial side-effect of avoiding Lucky Charms pickle incidents) but pictures take too much room to normally make this practical. There are also more legal implications for Fark as the host if someone challenges the copyrights. The downside of not hosting the images directly is that they disappear if the user closes their imagehost account, and many of us don't like the terms of service that third-party imagehosts impose on their users, so we're disinclined to participate.
For politicians, it probably comes down to the innocent-until-proven-guilty mentality. We can personally not trust them, but without evidence they're simply a member of a class of individuals that may contain at least a few innocent people. When we're vindicated in our suspicions through evidence or through criminal proceedings we are free to express our judgements, and the echo chamber amplifies the effects across groups of people.
Admittedly I have the privilege of having grown up in the first world, but I can't think of any examples of when a disease named after its discoverer led to more than juvenile word games for those who happened to share a name or a similar sounding name to the disease.
I takes meeting lots of women to find the one that's compatible with you. The others that are not compatible with you may be compatible with other men. Just as the one that is compatible with you might not be compatible with lots of other men.
This isn't a surprise. He's probably just as interested in girls not suited to his interests and not interested in the girls that he has so many hobbies in common-with as they are with him.
There's only so much time in the day. It sounds like he's chasing the girls that put a lot of effort into their appearance, which aren't typically the girls that are in to these hobbies. It's not impossible that there are girls that are way in to their appearance that like these same things, but they're not very common.
Once he matures and gets out of high school he'll end up with different circles. It makes it a lot easier when one chooses who to associate with, rather than being so artificially bundled together.
Rich kids don't like getting hurt usually, or if they do, on their own terms. A simulator is probably not enough to meet that latter condition, not cool enough.
If the simulator is very accurate, then having to make the effort to avoid being hurt can have some advantages in training. Reinforces why doing something is bad.
Well, there is the whole angle that if the person isn't good enough to even operate the simulator, perhaps they should consider a career change and not try to operate the machine that the simulator is training them to operate.
There's also the perspective that negative reinforcement (ie, getting hurt) is a good motivator to avoid doing some things, and if getting hurt but still having to complete the task is a very realistic possibility with a given situation, then being injured but having to continue operating the simulator isn't a whole lot different than military live-fire exercises where the warrior isn't in complete danger, but if they totally screw up they could be injured.
I wouldn't want to lose my teeth or break my wrists or arms, but if I'm expected to operate a machine post-damage where I too might be damaged, I need ot know how to function after being hurt. Not a fun prospect, learning that, but in a few very select circumstances could be important.
mmmhmm... Plus the prospect of being without service when there shouldn't be any reason to be without service. Like in the middle of a city or on a major interstate. This is why I still like having paper maps that at least feature numbered roads like federal, state, and county highways.
Sounds like these relationships as-described are codependent, with more of the codependency resting on the man's side than the woman's. I've seen plenty of codependency the other direction too, where the woman essentially loses her life as she knows it to be with the man. Perhaps the best approach would be for both parties to be honest with their hobbies and interests, to date people that have some common hobbies and interests, and to continue to maintain their own separate hobbies while guaranteeing the sanctity of the other person's hobbies, within reasonable bounds.
I've been married for approaching a decade. I have not had to give up any of my hobbies from before I got married. I have had to make some choices as to what materiel related to said I hobbies I have kept or continue to acquire, but my wife does not force me to give up anything that interests me. I still have my model rockets, my drum set, my cars, my computers, my tools, my ham radio gear, my Legos, my science fiction collectables, my movies, etc. I did sell one of my two drum sets, I am capped at five vehicles, I don't buy tools unless I need them but given that I just bought a two-post vehicle lift I'm certainly not restricted, I continue to build model rockets. The only real purge has been to go through and get rid of obsolete computer parts, but there's no need to keep ISA cards and 50-pin SCSI cables, or too many 40-pin IDE cables. She also has her hobbies and interests, and she has not had to give up any of their constituent materials beyond normal housekeeping either.
I wonder if the biggest problem here is the blanket generalization of women. Being demanding in a relationship is not a trait of all women. Unwillingness to give is not a trait of all women. Being fickle is not a trait of all women. Being disinterested is not a trait of all women. Sure, there are women to whom some of these traits apply, and there are probably women to which all of these traits apply, but there are also men to which some or all of these traits apply too. If someone is experiencing these conditions, then one needs to re-evaluate where one is meeting women; a change of scene is in order.
Exactly. After a string of toxic relationships I realized I was chasing women that needed to be saved. Trouble is, they always needed to be saved, they never stayed saved. They always had problems that had to be fixed by someone else, ie, me.
Once I realized this, I made a point of avoiding women that were 'vulnerable' in the sense that they were on the tipping point of needing to be saved. The woman I married was self-sufficient and took care of her own problems when I met her, and if anything I provide that soundingboard for her to sanity-check ideas against and to vent to. On an entirely practical level I can take care of things that were previously contracted-out (ie, auto repair, house maintenance, technical support) but she knows how to get these things dealt with if necessary; if her car breaks down she can have it towed without requiring me to drop everything and rush to her side. We make each others' lives better, but we can each stand as individuals and take care of things without excessive drama. It allows us to be together because we want to be together, not because we're not functional in a co-dependent state.
Until only a few years ago, electricity was the only thing that one needed to use a computer productively. Now there are so many dependencies all of the way from device drivers to intermediate pieces of equipment and services, that there are a whole lot of things that can cause the function to stop.
I only use online features because they're free-as-in-beer along with their ease of access. If either changes then there's no reason to continue using an online version.
Then those societies will go into decline.
it might not be going far enough though. I argue that committing an infraction that causes no accident, when an accident is highly likely if one does not commit the infraction, is preferable to following the rules more rigidly and having the accident.
I've had far too many times where I've had to cross the double-yellow line, or make an unsafe lane change, or had to drive into the bike lane, or had to pull out into an intersection against the light to avoid a collision to want to prohibit a computer from being able to do the same. Unfortunately it's difficult to teach even a seasoned driver to do this; I expect it might be very difficult for a computer to learn to predict when other drivers will engage in actions necessitating this kind of rulebreaking.
It's also far less rewarding.
For those that want to claim that there are too many problems with the people they've dated, perhaps they need to take the time to evaluate the type of people they've been with, to figure out if there are any common traits that define them. They might discover that they're attracted to crazy people because of some interesting characteristic that unfortunately comes bundled with a whole slew of negative traits.
At least that was my experience. Once I figured out the kind of woman that I shouldn't date and avoided dating them it was a lot easier.
Or maybe the technology has outpaced our ability to responsibly use it.
There's an old concept called The Ring of Gyges, as an idea from Plato that essentially boils down to one's good behavior is dependent on one's likelihood of being caught, and should one have the ability to get away with things, one would probably do things that are not acceptable. This idea has been expounded upon with stories like The Invisible Man.
The drone concept has finally reached a point where one can anonymously violate the privacy of others and those others might not even know that it's happening, and the burden to do this is so low that nearly everyone in western society can afford to do it. This required significant advances in both radio-controlled aircraft and in camera technology, and we're now there. The development of the technology has outpaced the ability to detect it at the same casual level.
It's a tough call. The US federal rules that prohibit the use of radio controlled aircraft for anything short of recreational use has meant that there could be penalties for using them to spy on people for profit from taking pictures. Unfortunately it doesn't mean that there aren't other abuses already being committed.
So is it a crime to find a book or magazine in a huge library that isn't listed in the public library's card catalog system?
As I see it, if all they're doing is changing URLs to see what they find, that's what they're doing. Finding something that's in the public library, but not in the catalog.
Posting content on the Internet is publishing. Lots of content on the Internet is indexed by search engines or by the websites that publish it themselves, but not all of it is. If the content is accessible without prompting the requestor for a username and password, then it has been published where everyone could reach it.
If the victims didn't want their content seen, then they shouldn't have published it to the Internet. If they wanted it seen by only a few people, then they should have saved it somewhere that requires authentication in order to gain access to the content.
Sounds like the best approach is to get the existing community to show up to those zoning hearings and to weigh-in on what these changes will do to the neighborhood.
If one doesn't want 12' wide homes, it shouldn't be that hard to put a stop to that, if one actually bothers to try before the commission votes to make the change. They post rather large signage when such hearings are being held, so it's not like it's done in secret.
Uh, I'm the one who posted what the truck is used for, and while it's used as a truck, it's nice to cross town at freeway speeds.
...my Rage XL in my otherwise-headless server, will it?
True, but points distributors gave way to electronic distributors in the sixties and early seventies. Cummins fully mechanical diesel engines with mechanical injection pumps (ie, 6BT engines with twelve valves, versus the 24 valve versions that followed) were installed into Dodge trucks from 1989 to 1998. I wouldn't be surprised if other diesel manufacturers also continued to use fully mechanical setups until that era.
I've got a couple of carbureted vehicles that could be relatively easily swapped from electronic distributors and ignition to points, but they wouldn't run right out of the box. There's a '72 Barracuda in the family that's still points, and once cranked over would work without issues, but anything modern that runs on gasoline would be dead in the water if its electronics fried. No way to run a multiport fuel injected car without the computer. There are so few carbureted vehicles left compared to EFI that it's almost not worth considering.
In all honesty, fully mechanical diesel trucks would be the thing. A diesel engine doesn't require any electricity to operate at all once it's started, and one could mount an air tank, air pump, and pneumatic starter to such a truck to be able to start it without even a battery. Granted, without a functioning alternator or generator the lights might not work, but for the short-term that wouldn't really be that big of a problem.
I think the biggest danger would be a lack of water to urban areas, or a lack of ability to manage the water resources available. Without water cities would die.