This would probably be more reliable than POTS. Every household would have a backup battery. Even the POTS interfaces from the cable company come with a battery installed.
'Right, because a bunch of batteries in random homes that are never serviced or replaced are going to work much better than the banks at the CO that are managed by people that know what they are doing... and also have big ass generators to actually power the system. The batteries at your CO are a 5 minute solution to cover until the generators kick in.
This is an example of a time when decentralization is fucking stupid, its just as stupid as everyone having their own personal power plant in their basement.
I grew up in Ocala. It wasn't a rural area 20 years ago, it sure as hell isn't today. Hell florida has had full statewide cell phone coverage easily since 2000 that I'm aware of, I don't know how much before that it was.
Cedar Key, Inglis, Yankeetown, Crystal River, Okalawaha... THOSE are rural areas.
Great argument... except... the reason you won't see the difference is because the formula fed baby didn't survive its first infection because it had no anti-bodies from its mothers milk. They don't end up sickly looking, they end up 6 feet under.
The benefits of breastfeeding are scientifically documented facts beyond contestation and in agreement by medical professionals world wide.
Formula is considered 'good enough', but you have to be completely ignorant of the subject matter to pretend that there is questionable benefits to natural breast milk.
You do realize that before 'civilized' history that women gave birth and then immediately began traveling again to find food? Contrary to what you might think, humans didn't always have hospitals and civilization to make it so easy for a woman to stay at home and care for the child exclusively.
Women, for hundreds of thousands of years, would give birth and then nearly immediately walk 10 miles or more, and continue to do so like she'd never given birth while caring for her child.
Whats even crazier... this is going to blow your fucking mind dude... THAT SAME THING HAPPENS ALL OF THE WORLD EVERY FUCKING DAY.
Welcome to what its like to be pampered and spoiled... and to STILL FUCKING WHINE ABOUT IT.
You don't know much about the female anatomy do you?
You can't get pregnant immediately after giving birth, you could speed up the process by not breast feeding, but you still have to wait at least a month and a half for your body to get its parts back where they belong unless you want to risk complications that lead to death during your next pregancy.
Not to mention that you won't have any time at all to have sex during the first 3 months after giving birth because you're either going to be feeding the baby, changing a diaper, or trying to get some sleep between having to do that process every 2 hours, all day long, every single day.
And just how many times do you think a woman can actually give birth before her body falls apart?
Not to mention that for every mouth you add, your bills become hire but your pay doesn't, nor does your pay even get cost of living bumps.
That life sounds like a nightmare to me, there are plenty of people practically doing that around the world right now (just watch TLC for more than a few minutes, ugh).
Jesus christ dude, you do know reality tv shows aren't actually REAL... right? They set that shit up to appear FAR worse than it actually is. Are you like 15 years old?
Mom is physically mostly recovered in a matter of days (yes, I have a mother and I have wife who has given me children). She can't go fuck and get knocked up again, but for most jobs in a civilized society, mom is more than physically able to go back to work in just a couple of days.
I have these cool modern inventions they probably didn't have when you were a dad... they are called bottles, they store this stuff called 'breast milk' that... I... as a man... can feed my child with. Now what is your excuse?
That time off is bonding time. If my wife gets it, then so should I.
Also note: My wife is a doctor, so I know my medical facts on this one, I got them from her.
I'm fully aware of how much work it is to raise a child, this may be MY first child, but its certainly not the first one I've been involved with raising from an early age. Your description of parenting sounds like its from the civil war period.
Sure, and they'll be able to hold that smartphone up in front of another phone and play modem sounds and they'll be able to communicate at full 56k speeds!
Not really, in both cases.
You can't tell the difference, doesn't mean that the signal processor can't.
The basic hellfire missile (which are the ones they've acknowledged on the drones) has an operational range of 5 miles, 25k feet is less than 5 miles, so it depends on your definition. That would certainly be towards the maximum range, but gravity would help you get some more distance out of it.
Of course, thats just what the government has ACKNOWLEDGED to exist. That basic hellfire spec comes from a missile made in 1985, not sometime in the last 10 years. Between upgrades and the fact that they don't tell us about their most impressive technology, I would say that hitting you from 25k feet is a walk in the park.
Keep in mind, the hellfire for instance has both laser and radar guided variants. Not only can it see the target from 25k feet, it can read the newspaper, tell you the date, and tell you which comma its going to impact with first. The laser guided variant will hit where you aim the laser assuming it can get there before it runs out of fuel. The real question is, can you get the laser painter to the target. The laser painter being something that a rangers team would carry in to the target area and use to site the target and guide the drone's missile in.
A quadcopter at $25k feet? Impressive, that I would like to see.
You can't hear loud noises in the same room with you if you've tuned them out, just because your mind makes it out to be irrelevant background noise doesn't mean that its not there.
The sound can be orders of magnitude lower in amplitude than the noise floor and DSPs can still pick up the signal.
Your cell phone works with far worse signal to noise ratios than a mic finding a drone at 25k vertical.
It is much more developed, you just don't realize it. This sort of signal processing is used in ultrasound machines, your car, my boat, fetal heartbeat monitors, little credit card readers that attach to your phone via headphone jacks. ALL SORTS OF STUFF.
Its all just an application of some FFTs and some weighting. It isn't even non-trivial for anyone with some basic understandings.
Without any prior knowledge, I went from no understanding to of FFTs to writing code to detect lean fuel during runtime on my R/C airplane. A Raspberry PI is also way more CPU power than needed to do it, which means it can also do a whole bunch of other stuff too.
George Jung is not a moonshiner just trying to sell a few bottles of white lightning to his neighbors. He was a facilitator in the largest drug operation of its time.
He has had no involvement in the company in years. McAfee was bought out by intel. Intel wants nothing to do with someone who in his prime wasn't particularly impressive, and is 30 years past his prime and rants and raves like a 17 year old emo hopped up on coke and ecstasy.
McAfee antivirus was never particularly impressive from a technical point of view. McAfee's brightest moments in his career were when he basically took something known in other industries and applied to obvious places in computing.
I don't even think the US patent office would call what he did non-trivial.
Spoken like a true idiot who doesn't know anything about 'The South'
Florida is about as much of the south as New York City is. 4-5 months of the year, its FAR more yankee than southern.
'The South' isn't universally evil like you so ignorantly pretend it is.
I've lived in places in the south where black men and white men work side by side without race crossing their minds.
I've lived in places in the south where older black men would get out of my way, open doors for me, never look me in the eye, and tell me thank you for doing it.
I've lived in those same places, in the north as well.
The only difference? In the south, they'll be racist to your face. In the north, they don't have the balls to do it to your face.
Both places have racists, just like they have terrorists, murders and rapists.
They are both also made up by a majority of good, honest, hard working people that don't actually 'hate' anyone.
Only ignorant people like you continue to push stereotypes that cause problems. The sooner you let it go, the sooner it withers into something not worth worrying about. How do you ever expect the south to not be thought of that way if you continue to tell people thats the way it is?
The south isn't anything like you think it is. It hasn't been for years. You're just another bigot, except you seem to think location and the shit done by my grandfathers grandfather is my fault. You're just as ignorant as the very people you think make up the south.
We're not dealing at levels of society where evolutionary issues matter anymore. If we were, mom still wouldn't be allowed to take more time off than dad because sitting on her ass would get her killed by some large angry predator.
Women physically recover from natural child birth to NEAR (not 100%) full health in a couple of days. C-Sections are different and require substanially longer, but those are not the norm.
The rest of the time is so mom can be with baby. Thats great, but if we have time for mom to be with baby, than we have equal time for dad to be with baby. If you want to reduce it to being about medical condition than unless mom's job is to produce babies, she can most likely be back to work in a few days and feeding baby via bottle. She doesn't NEED to be there medically.
It is BETTER if she is there for all sorts of legitimate medical reasons... 99.999% of which also apply to dad being there as well.
Yes, except we don't give them more time off because something came out of them. Medically, its a minor event. You're ready to just about anything you could do before hand (physically) in a couple days. About the only thing you can't do immediately is make another baby. C-sections are different as they have to cut you, but those are not the norm.
If you reduce it to 'recovery from the process of passing a child' then you reduce the time two no more than 1 week, unless the women works in a baby mill, in which case, I think its 6 weeks.
The time off is given for the 'family' not for medical recovery. The time off is so mom can be with her child, not because she is recovering. She isn't even taking care of the child for the most part during her 'recovery' period, its only after that when she starts doing her job.
I'm fairly certain you don't have any experience with women giving birth. We did it for hundreds of thousands of years when taking a break for more than a few hours meant something big and mean ate you alive. They even did it without hospitals... or someone to tell them they were working too hard!
How is adding a DRM interface to the spec and different than what you already have?
You do realize that DRM'd government docs already exist. They're called PDFs, and they have DRM too.
Videos currently needing DRM are done in Flash.
You see, if you allow generic plugins, then people can make DRM an option. If you don't allow generic plugins, you're cutting yourself out of content.
If you want to be 'Open' then you have to respect that other people will want to do things you don't agree with, just like you want to do things they don't agree with.
When you act so retarded and reject all DRM, you are just as fucking stupid as the studios who reject non-DRM. Except they aren't going that far and being that stupid either. Just you.
Ask every android device or busybox router what you can do without GNU.
GNU apps are a bunch of incompatible hacks on old tools from real UNIX. They are fucking obnoxious at best as fucktards don't seem to understand their retarded arguments are mostly done otherways already and entirely incompatible with anything other than gnu tools.
Yea, we should definitely all miss out on the benefits of DRM (like getting to watch content that I wouldn't get to watch otherwise because they won't sell it without DRM) because of YOUR political ideals. God forbid we should have a feature that YOU don't use.
We should all just use features that YOU think are the right ones...
If everyone behaved like you say, nothing would ever get done. If you want an example of where everyone objects to anything that doesnt' fit their agenda please watch sessions of US congress until your eyeballs bleed.
DRM is bad for an open standard, as DRM cannot be implemented openly.
It most certainly can be implemented openly. Its not even a little bit hard. The problem is that you can not let the keys out into the open.
This means that Windows and OSX can easily provide resources that allow fully open source DRM to function properly because the OS can store the keys in such a way to make it difficult/impossible for the user to access the bits they need to circumvent the DRM, while at the same time allowing the DRM code itself to be fully open and public.
The problem is not that you can't have open source DRM, its that you dont' get open source DRM because open isn't the issue. Theft is the issue and all the people that are claiming its about 'openness' and 'freedom' are liars and what they are actuallying saying is 'I want to get content for free'.
DRM is obnoxious and a pain in the ass to deal with, but the lack of solutions that meet this pretend world that RMS lives in are because in his pretend world his requirements are entirely different than what he claims to use in the real world.
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This would probably be more reliable than POTS. Every household would have a backup battery. Even the POTS interfaces from the cable company come with a battery installed.
'Right, because a bunch of batteries in random homes that are never serviced or replaced are going to work much better than the banks at the CO that are managed by people that know what they are doing ... and also have big ass generators to actually power the system. The batteries at your CO are a 5 minute solution to cover until the generators kick in.
This is an example of a time when decentralization is fucking stupid, its just as stupid as everyone having their own personal power plant in their basement.
I grew up in Ocala. It wasn't a rural area 20 years ago, it sure as hell isn't today. Hell florida has had full statewide cell phone coverage easily since 2000 that I'm aware of, I don't know how much before that it was.
Cedar Key, Inglis, Yankeetown, Crystal River, Okalawaha ... THOSE are rural areas.
Did you watch the series?
Long distances mean no resurection. Destroy the resurrection ship, and they suddenly fear death.
It was done.
Great argument ... except ... the reason you won't see the difference is because the formula fed baby didn't survive its first infection because it had no anti-bodies from its mothers milk. They don't end up sickly looking, they end up 6 feet under.
The benefits of breastfeeding are scientifically documented facts beyond contestation and in agreement by medical professionals world wide.
Formula is considered 'good enough', but you have to be completely ignorant of the subject matter to pretend that there is questionable benefits to natural breast milk.
You're an idiot.
Uhm. It is. Medically anyway.
You do realize that before 'civilized' history that women gave birth and then immediately began traveling again to find food? Contrary to what you might think, humans didn't always have hospitals and civilization to make it so easy for a woman to stay at home and care for the child exclusively.
Women, for hundreds of thousands of years, would give birth and then nearly immediately walk 10 miles or more, and continue to do so like she'd never given birth while caring for her child.
Whats even crazier ... this is going to blow your fucking mind dude ... THAT SAME THING HAPPENS ALL OF THE WORLD EVERY FUCKING DAY.
Welcome to what its like to be pampered and spoiled ... and to STILL FUCKING WHINE ABOUT IT.
You don't know much about the female anatomy do you?
You can't get pregnant immediately after giving birth, you could speed up the process by not breast feeding, but you still have to wait at least a month and a half for your body to get its parts back where they belong unless you want to risk complications that lead to death during your next pregancy.
Not to mention that you won't have any time at all to have sex during the first 3 months after giving birth because you're either going to be feeding the baby, changing a diaper, or trying to get some sleep between having to do that process every 2 hours, all day long, every single day.
And just how many times do you think a woman can actually give birth before her body falls apart?
Not to mention that for every mouth you add, your bills become hire but your pay doesn't, nor does your pay even get cost of living bumps.
That life sounds like a nightmare to me, there are plenty of people practically doing that around the world right now (just watch TLC for more than a few minutes, ugh).
Jesus christ dude, you do know reality tv shows aren't actually REAL ... right? They set that shit up to appear FAR worse than it actually is. Are you like 15 years old?
And your very much better response to an invisible man pulling invisible strings is ...
'because'
Thats all you got ... and you want to act like religion is stupid?
Delusional citizens who can't do basic math: %100
Let me give you a hint grandpa.
Mom is physically mostly recovered in a matter of days (yes, I have a mother and I have wife who has given me children). She can't go fuck and get knocked up again, but for most jobs in a civilized society, mom is more than physically able to go back to work in just a couple of days.
I have these cool modern inventions they probably didn't have when you were a dad ... they are called bottles, they store this stuff called 'breast milk' that ... I ... as a man ... can feed my child with. Now what is your excuse?
That time off is bonding time. If my wife gets it, then so should I.
Also note: My wife is a doctor, so I know my medical facts on this one, I got them from her.
I'm fully aware of how much work it is to raise a child, this may be MY first child, but its certainly not the first one I've been involved with raising from an early age. Your description of parenting sounds like its from the civil war period.
Sure, and they'll be able to hold that smartphone up in front of another phone and play modem sounds and they'll be able to communicate at full 56k speeds!
Not really, in both cases.
You can't tell the difference, doesn't mean that the signal processor can't.
The basic hellfire missile (which are the ones they've acknowledged on the drones) has an operational range of 5 miles, 25k feet is less than 5 miles, so it depends on your definition. That would certainly be towards the maximum range, but gravity would help you get some more distance out of it.
Of course, thats just what the government has ACKNOWLEDGED to exist. That basic hellfire spec comes from a missile made in 1985, not sometime in the last 10 years. Between upgrades and the fact that they don't tell us about their most impressive technology, I would say that hitting you from 25k feet is a walk in the park.
Keep in mind, the hellfire for instance has both laser and radar guided variants. Not only can it see the target from 25k feet, it can read the newspaper, tell you the date, and tell you which comma its going to impact with first. The laser guided variant will hit where you aim the laser assuming it can get there before it runs out of fuel. The real question is, can you get the laser painter to the target. The laser painter being something that a rangers team would carry in to the target area and use to site the target and guide the drone's missile in.
A quadcopter at $25k feet? Impressive, that I would like to see.
You can't hear loud noises in the same room with you if you've tuned them out, just because your mind makes it out to be irrelevant background noise doesn't mean that its not there.
The sound can be orders of magnitude lower in amplitude than the noise floor and DSPs can still pick up the signal.
Your cell phone works with far worse signal to noise ratios than a mic finding a drone at 25k vertical.
It is much more developed, you just don't realize it. This sort of signal processing is used in ultrasound machines, your car, my boat, fetal heartbeat monitors, little credit card readers that attach to your phone via headphone jacks. ALL SORTS OF STUFF.
Its all just an application of some FFTs and some weighting. It isn't even non-trivial for anyone with some basic understandings.
Without any prior knowledge, I went from no understanding to of FFTs to writing code to detect lean fuel during runtime on my R/C airplane. A Raspberry PI is also way more CPU power than needed to do it, which means it can also do a whole bunch of other stuff too.
George Jung is not a moonshiner just trying to sell a few bottles of white lightning to his neighbors. He was a facilitator in the largest drug operation of its time.
Slightly different levels.
He has had no involvement in the company in years. McAfee was bought out by intel. Intel wants nothing to do with someone who in his prime wasn't particularly impressive, and is 30 years past his prime and rants and raves like a 17 year old emo hopped up on coke and ecstasy.
McAfee antivirus was never particularly impressive from a technical point of view. McAfee's brightest moments in his career were when he basically took something known in other industries and applied to obvious places in computing.
I don't even think the US patent office would call what he did non-trivial.
Spoken like a true idiot who doesn't know anything about 'The South'
Florida is about as much of the south as New York City is. 4-5 months of the year, its FAR more yankee than southern.
'The South' isn't universally evil like you so ignorantly pretend it is.
I've lived in places in the south where black men and white men work side by side without race crossing their minds.
I've lived in places in the south where older black men would get out of my way, open doors for me, never look me in the eye, and tell me thank you for doing it.
I've lived in those same places, in the north as well.
The only difference? In the south, they'll be racist to your face. In the north, they don't have the balls to do it to your face.
Both places have racists, just like they have terrorists, murders and rapists.
They are both also made up by a majority of good, honest, hard working people that don't actually 'hate' anyone.
Only ignorant people like you continue to push stereotypes that cause problems. The sooner you let it go, the sooner it withers into something not worth worrying about. How do you ever expect the south to not be thought of that way if you continue to tell people thats the way it is?
The south isn't anything like you think it is. It hasn't been for years. You're just another bigot, except you seem to think location and the shit done by my grandfathers grandfather is my fault. You're just as ignorant as the very people you think make up the south.
We're not dealing at levels of society where evolutionary issues matter anymore. If we were, mom still wouldn't be allowed to take more time off than dad because sitting on her ass would get her killed by some large angry predator.
Women physically recover from natural child birth to NEAR (not 100%) full health in a couple of days. C-Sections are different and require substanially longer, but those are not the norm.
The rest of the time is so mom can be with baby. Thats great, but if we have time for mom to be with baby, than we have equal time for dad to be with baby. If you want to reduce it to being about medical condition than unless mom's job is to produce babies, she can most likely be back to work in a few days and feeding baby via bottle. She doesn't NEED to be there medically.
It is BETTER if she is there for all sorts of legitimate medical reasons ... 99.999% of which also apply to dad being there as well.
Yes, except we don't give them more time off because something came out of them. Medically, its a minor event. You're ready to just about anything you could do before hand (physically) in a couple days. About the only thing you can't do immediately is make another baby. C-sections are different as they have to cut you, but those are not the norm.
If you reduce it to 'recovery from the process of passing a child' then you reduce the time two no more than 1 week, unless the women works in a baby mill, in which case, I think its 6 weeks.
The time off is given for the 'family' not for medical recovery. The time off is so mom can be with her child, not because she is recovering. She isn't even taking care of the child for the most part during her 'recovery' period, its only after that when she starts doing her job.
I'm fairly certain you don't have any experience with women giving birth. We did it for hundreds of thousands of years when taking a break for more than a few hours meant something big and mean ate you alive. They even did it without hospitals ... or someone to tell them they were working too hard!
I want to spend that time with my child too.
Chapel Hill is not red, the rest of the state is.
How is adding a DRM interface to the spec and different than what you already have?
You do realize that DRM'd government docs already exist. They're called PDFs, and they have DRM too.
Videos currently needing DRM are done in Flash.
You see, if you allow generic plugins, then people can make DRM an option. If you don't allow generic plugins, you're cutting yourself out of content.
If you want to be 'Open' then you have to respect that other people will want to do things you don't agree with, just like you want to do things they don't agree with.
When you act so retarded and reject all DRM, you are just as fucking stupid as the studios who reject non-DRM. Except they aren't going that far and being that stupid either. Just you.
Ask every android device or busybox router what you can do without GNU.
GNU apps are a bunch of incompatible hacks on old tools from real UNIX. They are fucking obnoxious at best as fucktards don't seem to understand their retarded arguments are mostly done otherways already and entirely incompatible with anything other than gnu tools.
Yea, we should definitely all miss out on the benefits of DRM (like getting to watch content that I wouldn't get to watch otherwise because they won't sell it without DRM) because of YOUR political ideals. God forbid we should have a feature that YOU don't use.
We should all just use features that YOU think are the right ones ...
If everyone behaved like you say, nothing would ever get done. If you want an example of where everyone objects to anything that doesnt' fit their agenda please watch sessions of US congress until your eyeballs bleed.
DRM is bad for an open standard, as DRM cannot be implemented openly.
It most certainly can be implemented openly. Its not even a little bit hard. The problem is that you can not let the keys out into the open.
This means that Windows and OSX can easily provide resources that allow fully open source DRM to function properly because the OS can store the keys in such a way to make it difficult/impossible for the user to access the bits they need to circumvent the DRM, while at the same time allowing the DRM code itself to be fully open and public.
The problem is not that you can't have open source DRM, its that you dont' get open source DRM because open isn't the issue. Theft is the issue and all the people that are claiming its about 'openness' and 'freedom' are liars and what they are actuallying saying is 'I want to get content for free'.
DRM is obnoxious and a pain in the ass to deal with, but the lack of solutions that meet this pretend world that RMS lives in are because in his pretend world his requirements are entirely different than what he claims to use in the real world.