...we could get everyone else to top using Twitter or other modern social networking...
Most social media is talking at each other, not to each other. Forums are already hard enough, but most forums are for a specific purpose and smaller in membership and thus easier to moderate. General purpose forums have proven impossible to moderate with all have access- Usenet was the first example of that.
Do you remember that for foreclosure documents, where a human was supposed to be required to thoroughly review all foreclosure docs prior to heading to court?
That worked as it was supposed to as well... </sarcasm>
My Mother-in-law is approaching a point where we may have to look at an ebook-type solution for her because of her macular degeneration, since the type could be scaled up. She wouldn't be interested in a device that has to be plugged in every night.
Sounds like to me, every other photo radar defendant can cite this example as machinery that is not functioning properly, subpoena the calibration test records, and request for the ticket to be dismissed if the company can't provide recent calibration test records.
Housing and condo boards will also be total assholes about this
There's a simple solution to this, supersede them. Pass laws at a higher jurisdictional level that require cooperation and compliance by HOAs where the homeowner owns the roof, has an override provision to allow the homeowner to proceed without HOA involvement if the HOA is unresponsive to the homeowner's request for comment, and mandates double-damages paid to the homeowner or if the problem is chronic, dissolution of the HOA as remedies if the HOA still tries to press against a homeower that has followed the rules.
As an example, if a homeowner, living in an HOA wants solar panels on the roof, they would do whatever submissions they're expected to for construction. The HOA has a certain timetable to approve the building plan, or if they want to deny the plan as-submitted, must counter with their own modifications to the homeowner's plan with roughly the same characteristics of power production and the like. If the approval period ends with complete stonewalling on the part of the HOA (ie, they don't like panels on the front-facing part of the roof and don't approve but also don't come up with a remedy) then the homeowner may proceed with the plan. If the HOA threatens legal action they're to be informed of the double-damages portion of the statute, and if they're chronic (like 20% of homeowners get this kind of problem) the the legal jurisdiction in which the HOA exists rules on its dissolve.
There is no need for an HOA for single-family homes in a city. The city's job is to provide those services.
If they really cared, they could simply prompt two or three times, then deny functionality of key features of the site until the user has voted or until enough votes have been cast or enough time has past that the ballot is closed.
...and their goodwill toward continuing to allow us access to the space station, but we're dependent on the goodwill of another nation that has felt the presence of the Russians as a thorn in their collective sides for all these years?
Mr Musk, please get your capsule man-rated as soon as you can...
On the other hand, it takes a fair amount of effort or some very specific actions to transmit HIV, and while this may well cause problems for this girl's life post-adolescence, she'll live to reach it.
The Heemeyer Bulldozer was arguably a much more potent vehicle than this little steel-plated car. He wasn't stopped until a combination of a blown radiator and getting stuck high-centered on a basement wall got him- I think that ramming this little steel-plated car with a pickup truck would take it out of commission. Heemeyer took out numerous buildings and vehicles and despite being shot at repeatedly managed to keep going. Had he done a more thorough job armoring his radiator (yes, I know that it needs airflow and that one can only armor it so much) and knowing his environment (not getting stuck in the basement) then he might have managed to continue his rampage until military forces with a portable rocket launcher showed up.
I have a friend that owns a WWII Ford M8 Greyhound and has several other WWII-era light armored vehicles, like a half-track armored truck. The designer of this car seems to have missed the important part that too much open interior is not necessarily an advantage. That half-track doesn't have a lot of interior space, literally enough for the soldiers and their equipment, and because of that, the same amount of mass for the vehicle can accommodate thicker armor where it matters, around the people. The vehicle isn't meant to survive a pounding, it's meant to keep its occupants alive when hit, so that they can get out and counterattack. This little car doesn't strike me as designed with that in mind.
The 7.62mm NATO rifle round is 0.30" in diameter. That's the standard military round for all NATO rifles in all NATO countries, which is a lot more metric-using countries than not.
Ever stop to consider the drives used by tools outside of the US? As in, 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2" socket ratchets? Guess what? They're 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2" in metric countries too, though often referred to by their metric equivalents.
Yes, as new things are developed, they're often developed in metric, but that's not necessarily because foreign buyers refuse SAE units, it's probably more because American buyers are coming to accept SI units.
From the summary: "The U.S. response so far, also reported by Reuters and others, seems to be 'We're not missing any drones.'"
How could any one entity tell? At this point there's the CIA, the FBI, the ATF, the NSA, the SS, the regular Army, the Army Rangers, the Navy, the Marines, the Seals, the Air Force, the Coast Guard, the State Department, the DoD, Mercenaries (ie "Civilian Contractors"), and Sheriff Joe Arpaio all with drones. Could any one entity speak for all of those at this point?
No, but he's the principal subject of The Book of Jobs...
The Book of Jobs The "King Steve" translation
In the beginning, Intel created the microprocessor. And the microprocessor was without form or function, and hobbyists lay across the Valley of Silicon. And the brewers said, "Let there be bytes," and there were bytes. And the evening and the morning were the first wave.
Now Jobs was a man of ambition, and he walked in the way of Technology. And it came to pass that he was in the garden, and there he met with the Wozniak. And the Wozniak said, "Come, let us eat fruit from the tree of knowledge of ones and zeros." But they found the tree was barren of fruit, so Jobs and Wozniak fashioned an Apple that others who came looking for the tree might want to buy.
Now many tasted of the Apple and saw that it was good, and Jobs grew most prosperous. And he fashioned a new apple, which he called Mac, because its pictures were most sweet and because it attracted mice. And there was great rejoicing throughout the Valley of Silicon, and the people clicked their icons and waited for the floppy drive to respond.
The Apple grew large and strong, and Jobs proclaimed himself emperor. And Jobs hired a Sculley to help him care for the garden. And the Sculley brought together the holders of stock and he said unto them, "Verily, this Jobs understandeth not how a major corporation maketh its bread by the sweat of others' brows. So let us bring forth a great flood of water that will rain for forty ticks and forty clock cycles, and let us rid ourselves of him." And the holders of stock cried, "Hosanna!"
PROPHET AND LOSS
So Jobs was cast forth into the wilderness. There he wandered for many years until he dropped down onto his knees, weak with boredom. And he cried out, "Oh, Great CPU, do not forsake me. I have followed in your footsteps since teletypes roamed the Earth, and it hath rewarded me not--except in fame and fortune. Please, Oh Calculating One, give thy humble servant a sign of what to do next."
And lo, the last word he spoke rang in Jobs' ear. And Jobs understood that he must next build a NeXT.
And Jobs built his NeXT of black, and it was one cubit long by one cubit wide by one cubit tall, making it a cubit cubed. And to operate the system he hired many Eunuchs.
So it came to pass that the NeXT was at last ready, and Jobs showed it to the multitudes. And the multitudes were sore impressed by the NeXT's greatness, and they cried hosannas out loud and fell down on their knees and sang songs of praise to Jobs. Then they pulled out their cards of credit and purchased thus great numbers of computers running Windows.
And Jobs, most puzzled by the multitudes, cried out, "I shall stop making my NeXTs of black, and I shall sell the labor of my Eunuchs to those whose machines run Windows." But he did not realize many men were made frightened by Eunuchs, and many women liked them not.
Then Jobs did grow bored of the Valley, and he wandered out into the Point of Richmond, where he looked with envy to the Land of the Holly Wood. And he made for himself a Pixar, or at least he paid others to make it for him. And he said, "If the people will not buy my toys, then I shall tell a story of them and win great Oscar."
THE PRODIGAL FUN
Now it came to pass that as man did buy of machines that ran Windows, the Apple began to shrivel. And as it shriveled, those who holdeth stock did demand the head of the Sculley. And the Sculley was cast out into the wilderness, with naught to keep him warm save a parachute of gold.
But the Apple found no happiness still. For although the Apple's followers did proclaim their love daily and most annoyingly, they continued to leap through Windows in great numbers.
So the holders of stock were filled with great anxiety, and they gnashed their teeth and swore great oaths. And they asked many men of White to fill the sandals left by Jobs and th
For some reason, that Far Side comic with the female gorilla finding the blonde hair on the male gorilla and commenting on "research" with that "Jane Goodall tramp" seems particularly poignant...
It's been awhile since I've watched Mythbusters, but I remember a fairly small amount of actual strife between people, much more humor and mirth than bitchiness. Yes, too little experimentation, but it didn't normally turn nasty between the cast.
What I envision for this 'bot show is much more reality-TV, meaner and eating-one's-own since it's a competition, and most competition shows are much more about the mellodrama than the talent that led to a competition in the first place.
Heh. More like they'll turn it into a reality show where there's 38 minutes of annoying hosts, watching the teams struggle with the design and construction of their bots, yelling at each other, making the token girl on the team cry, trash-talking about their opponents, and fighting at the last minute with control system problems, followed by about three minutes of actual robots in the ring, one minute of actual robot-on-robot attack.
Oh, and nineteen minutes of commercials.
So, in other words, that motorcycle-building show with some intentional, rather than all accidental, occasional mechanical carnage.
I have no doubt that most of the powers-that-be know where the missiles are from and who's generally responsible, but by the same time, right now one could look at the situation that there are multiple players that Islamic Jihad could get their missiles from, and stopping Iran from providing relatively unsophisticated missiles won't stop the militants from lobbing explosives into Israel, and also right now the weapons are unsophisticated enough to make defense fairly practical and to make damage fairly small. Escalating by attacking other countries in the region could result in more sophisticated missiles or in ground war.
At the moment the material cost and the cost in lives is fairly small, and steps to address it on multiple fronts are being tried. If other efforts fail then perhaps there could be an escalation to a more active war, but for the moment I'd rather they try other methods first.
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...we could get everyone else to top using Twitter or other modern social networking...
Most social media is talking at each other, not to each other. Forums are already hard enough, but most forums are for a specific purpose and smaller in membership and thus easier to moderate. General purpose forums have proven impossible to moderate with all have access- Usenet was the first example of that.
If someone's stealing cable from your service line, are they sucking your COX?
Do you remember that for foreclosure documents, where a human was supposed to be required to thoroughly review all foreclosure docs prior to heading to court?
That worked as it was supposed to as well... </sarcasm>
My Mother-in-law is approaching a point where we may have to look at an ebook-type solution for her because of her macular degeneration, since the type could be scaled up. She wouldn't be interested in a device that has to be plugged in every night.
Battery life.
A non-backlit ebook reader will last a very, very long time without recharging or fresh batteries. A tablet won't last through the day.
...a TI-84 emulator? So long as they didn't add wait-states to simulate the processing speed of the TI...
Sounds like to me, every other photo radar defendant can cite this example as machinery that is not functioning properly, subpoena the calibration test records, and request for the ticket to be dismissed if the company can't provide recent calibration test records.
There's a simple solution to this, supersede them. Pass laws at a higher jurisdictional level that require cooperation and compliance by HOAs where the homeowner owns the roof, has an override provision to allow the homeowner to proceed without HOA involvement if the HOA is unresponsive to the homeowner's request for comment, and mandates double-damages paid to the homeowner or if the problem is chronic, dissolution of the HOA as remedies if the HOA still tries to press against a homeower that has followed the rules.
As an example, if a homeowner, living in an HOA wants solar panels on the roof, they would do whatever submissions they're expected to for construction. The HOA has a certain timetable to approve the building plan, or if they want to deny the plan as-submitted, must counter with their own modifications to the homeowner's plan with roughly the same characteristics of power production and the like. If the approval period ends with complete stonewalling on the part of the HOA (ie, they don't like panels on the front-facing part of the roof and don't approve but also don't come up with a remedy) then the homeowner may proceed with the plan. If the HOA threatens legal action they're to be informed of the double-damages portion of the statute, and if they're chronic (like 20% of homeowners get this kind of problem) the the legal jurisdiction in which the HOA exists rules on its dissolve.
There is no need for an HOA for single-family homes in a city. The city's job is to provide those services.
If they really cared, they could simply prompt two or three times, then deny functionality of key features of the site until the user has voted or until enough votes have been cast or enough time has past that the ballot is closed.
...and their goodwill toward continuing to allow us access to the space station, but we're dependent on the goodwill of another nation that has felt the presence of the Russians as a thorn in their collective sides for all these years?
Mr Musk, please get your capsule man-rated as soon as you can...
On the other hand, it takes a fair amount of effort or some very specific actions to transmit HIV, and while this may well cause problems for this girl's life post-adolescence, she'll live to reach it.
Lighten up, Francis... I was making a joke....
The Heemeyer Bulldozer was arguably a much more potent vehicle than this little steel-plated car. He wasn't stopped until a combination of a blown radiator and getting stuck high-centered on a basement wall got him- I think that ramming this little steel-plated car with a pickup truck would take it out of commission. Heemeyer took out numerous buildings and vehicles and despite being shot at repeatedly managed to keep going. Had he done a more thorough job armoring his radiator (yes, I know that it needs airflow and that one can only armor it so much) and knowing his environment (not getting stuck in the basement) then he might have managed to continue his rampage until military forces with a portable rocket launcher showed up.
I have a friend that owns a WWII Ford M8 Greyhound and has several other WWII-era light armored vehicles, like a half-track armored truck. The designer of this car seems to have missed the important part that too much open interior is not necessarily an advantage. That half-track doesn't have a lot of interior space, literally enough for the soldiers and their equipment, and because of that, the same amount of mass for the vehicle can accommodate thicker armor where it matters, around the people. The vehicle isn't meant to survive a pounding, it's meant to keep its occupants alive when hit, so that they can get out and counterattack. This little car doesn't strike me as designed with that in mind.
"going through" is probably more accurate than you intended...
My guess is that something would penetrate, keep on going, penetrate out the other side, then explode. Hell, the occupants might be safer for that...
Uh, no...
The 7.62mm NATO rifle round is 0.30" in diameter. That's the standard military round for all NATO rifles in all NATO countries, which is a lot more metric-using countries than not.
Ever stop to consider the drives used by tools outside of the US? As in, 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2" socket ratchets? Guess what? They're 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2" in metric countries too, though often referred to by their metric equivalents.
Yes, as new things are developed, they're often developed in metric, but that's not necessarily because foreign buyers refuse SAE units, it's probably more because American buyers are coming to accept SI units.
Secret Service, actually. I hadn't figured on that one getting confused.
From the summary: "The U.S. response so far, also reported by Reuters and others, seems to be 'We're not missing any drones.'"
How could any one entity tell? At this point there's the CIA, the FBI, the ATF, the NSA, the SS, the regular Army, the Army Rangers, the Navy, the Marines, the Seals, the Air Force, the Coast Guard, the State Department, the DoD, Mercenaries (ie "Civilian Contractors"), and Sheriff Joe Arpaio all with drones. Could any one entity speak for all of those at this point?
No, but he's the principal subject of The Book of Jobs...
The Book of Jobs
The "King Steve" translation
In the beginning, Intel created the microprocessor. And the microprocessor was without form or function, and hobbyists lay across the Valley of Silicon. And the brewers said, "Let there be bytes," and there were bytes. And the evening and the morning were the first wave.
Now Jobs was a man of ambition, and he walked in the way of Technology. And it came to pass that he was in the garden, and there he met with the Wozniak. And the Wozniak said, "Come, let us eat fruit from the tree of knowledge of ones and zeros." But they found the tree was barren of fruit, so Jobs and Wozniak fashioned an Apple that others who came looking for the tree might want to buy.
Now many tasted of the Apple and saw that it was good, and Jobs grew most prosperous. And he fashioned a new apple, which he called Mac, because its pictures were most sweet and because it attracted mice. And there was great rejoicing throughout the Valley of Silicon, and the people clicked their icons and waited for the floppy drive to respond.
The Apple grew large and strong, and Jobs proclaimed himself emperor. And Jobs hired a Sculley to help him care for the garden. And the Sculley brought together the holders of stock and he said unto them, "Verily, this Jobs understandeth not how a major corporation maketh its bread by the sweat of others' brows. So let us bring forth a great flood of water that will rain for forty ticks and forty clock cycles, and let us rid ourselves of him." And the holders of stock cried, "Hosanna!"
PROPHET AND LOSS
So Jobs was cast forth into the wilderness. There he wandered for many years until he dropped down onto his knees, weak with boredom. And he cried out, "Oh, Great CPU, do not forsake me. I have followed in your footsteps since teletypes roamed the Earth, and it hath rewarded me not--except in fame and fortune. Please, Oh Calculating One, give thy humble servant a sign of what to do next."
And lo, the last word he spoke rang in Jobs' ear. And Jobs understood that he must next build a NeXT.
And Jobs built his NeXT of black, and it was one cubit long by one cubit wide by one cubit tall, making it a cubit cubed. And to operate the system he hired many Eunuchs.
So it came to pass that the NeXT was at last ready, and Jobs showed it to the multitudes. And the multitudes were sore impressed by the NeXT's greatness, and they cried hosannas out loud and fell down on their knees and sang songs of praise to Jobs. Then they pulled out their cards of credit and purchased thus great numbers of computers running Windows.
And Jobs, most puzzled by the multitudes, cried out, "I shall stop making my NeXTs of black, and I shall sell the labor of my Eunuchs to those whose machines run Windows." But he did not realize many men were made frightened by Eunuchs, and many women liked them not.
Then Jobs did grow bored of the Valley, and he wandered out into the Point of Richmond, where he looked with envy to the Land of the Holly Wood. And he made for himself a Pixar, or at least he paid others to make it for him. And he said, "If the people will not buy my toys, then I shall tell a story of them and win great Oscar."
THE PRODIGAL FUN
Now it came to pass that as man did buy of machines that ran Windows, the Apple began to shrivel. And as it shriveled, those who holdeth stock did demand the head of the Sculley. And the Sculley was cast out into the wilderness, with naught to keep him warm save a parachute of gold.
But the Apple found no happiness still. For although the Apple's followers did proclaim their love daily and most annoyingly, they continued to leap through Windows in great numbers.
So the holders of stock were filled with great anxiety, and they gnashed their teeth and swore great oaths. And they asked many men of White to fill the sandals left by Jobs and th
Of course it wasn't Flame!
You want a flame, you stupid dirtbag?!
...the spyware surviving a cleaning by a computer repair shop and the FBI...
For some reason, that Far Side comic with the female gorilla finding the blonde hair on the male gorilla and commenting on "research" with that "Jane Goodall tramp" seems particularly poignant...
No, that would be brown noise, or depending on one's diet, orangy-yellow noise.
It's been awhile since I've watched Mythbusters, but I remember a fairly small amount of actual strife between people, much more humor and mirth than bitchiness. Yes, too little experimentation, but it didn't normally turn nasty between the cast.
What I envision for this 'bot show is much more reality-TV, meaner and eating-one's-own since it's a competition, and most competition shows are much more about the mellodrama than the talent that led to a competition in the first place.
Heh. More like they'll turn it into a reality show where there's 38 minutes of annoying hosts, watching the teams struggle with the design and construction of their bots, yelling at each other, making the token girl on the team cry, trash-talking about their opponents, and fighting at the last minute with control system problems, followed by about three minutes of actual robots in the ring, one minute of actual robot-on-robot attack.
Oh, and nineteen minutes of commercials.
So, in other words, that motorcycle-building show with some intentional, rather than all accidental, occasional mechanical carnage.
I have no doubt that most of the powers-that-be know where the missiles are from and who's generally responsible, but by the same time, right now one could look at the situation that there are multiple players that Islamic Jihad could get their missiles from, and stopping Iran from providing relatively unsophisticated missiles won't stop the militants from lobbing explosives into Israel, and also right now the weapons are unsophisticated enough to make defense fairly practical and to make damage fairly small. Escalating by attacking other countries in the region could result in more sophisticated missiles or in ground war.
At the moment the material cost and the cost in lives is fairly small, and steps to address it on multiple fronts are being tried. If other efforts fail then perhaps there could be an escalation to a more active war, but for the moment I'd rather they try other methods first.