Your point is made, but his point still stands. The idea that the FCC under Bush created the problem of devices operating in unlicensed spectrum is absurd.
Feynman called this the "Cargo Cult" mentality in his book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman." It's worth picking up and reading, and not just for that particular observation.
The truly amusing part is that what you posted appears to be a NDR from qmail. I know if I were working at MS, I'd be downright embarrassed to have an smtp server running anything other than Exchange.
However, I think my overall point--that NASCAR is not the state of the art in auto racing--is reinforced by your link, not diminished by it. For example, the new F1 engines are less than half the displacement, but put out the same amount of power at the engines NASCAR uses.
I don't watch NASCAR, but the automobiles are technologically sophisticated. They cost $125,000 to build, and because there's so much money in it, are the result of the most expensive, top-notch engineering you can find in racing.
While I think that the idea that the GP post was modded "insightful" is downright sad, I have to disagree with the above as well. While the race teams strive to get the cars as fast as possible, NASCAR's engineering (at the circuit level) appears to be dedicated to "making the race more competitive." That means SLOWER cars (see "restrictor plate," "aero package,") and rigid specifications on how the cars can be engineered and set-up.
Contrast this with something like F1 where it really is all about the technology, and it's downright silly to describe NASCAR as the apex of automotive engineering.
I bet you came up with this idea AFTER seeing the Matrix. It's almost exactly the same.
Yes, I had seen the Matrix. I disagree with you that it's almost exactly the same, though--I agree that it boils down to the same point of morality (slavery) but the Matrix is little different than the present day real world. Only a VERY small percentage of the population even realizes that anything is wrong--and even those that do, how many are like Cypher, who would actually be happier as slaves? There's also the point that the machines knew exactly what they were doing to the humans.
Contrast this with a situation where everyone affected knows something is horribly, horribly wrong--evidenced by the constant, unending agony. On top of this, none of the living (well, maybe a small percentage--I hadn't developed my notes to that point yet) realize the results of their actions. So what happens when they find out?
In my opinion, that's what good science fiction has always been about: putting humanity in some situation (usually as the result of technology) and then looking at the results... or the consequences.
If that was me I wouldn't be trying to photograph them. I'd be trying to run a heat engine off them. You've got an object here that's going to be consistently cooler than ambient temperatures? That's a perpetual motion machine right there.
About a year or so ago, I wrote myself some notes about a possible short story, and had a premise very similar to what you mention. The gist of it was that "souls" (for lack of a better word) were proven to exist, and then promptly exploited for the special properties they exhibited, creating a clean, limitless energy source. The downside? To the "souls" being used in this manner, the process was basically hell--fire, brimstone, unending torment, etc.
Hmm. Maybe I'll work on that now, since you've brought it back to mind... thanks!
One of the reasons they have not been caught is BECAUSE it is a single person or small group. [snip] The real way to kill storm is to basically start having interpol treat it like drug trafficking, getting real cooperation, fairly quickly, instead of just ignoring it as not important.
These two statements pretty much contradict each other. Who are you going to get to cooperate if it's a single individual, or small, well insulated group?
Step 1: Rent botnet. Step 2: Have each 'rented' computer run update, anti-virus, anti-malware... Step 3: Profit! Ok, no profit, but maybe you get to enjoy reduced amounts of spam.
Step 4: Never be seen again after you get shot in the head, dismembered, and buried in the desert by the organized crime connections of the botnet owners.
If you want everybody to be able to watch the same exact thing at the exact same time
...you multicast?
The only way to get it to work is to weaken the assumptions; e.g., sometimes you won't be able to watch TV over the internet because too many people are already doing so.
As you noted, everyone has scads of last mile bandwidth, which is comparatively cheap to build-out. If the content is THAT MUCH in demand, just cache it closer to the people who want it. This is the entire reason that companies like akamai exist.
My wife and I met online. We did the long distance relationship thing for exactly one year, then I moved to be closer to her. Our tenth anniversary is in two weeks.
It's not so much a "secret", as it is the 85% rule. That being, if if you travel at about the same speed as 85% of native traffic, you'll generally be ok. The thing about traffic cops is that they typically target people that stick out, not necessarily people that are merely breaking "the law". So, if average traffic is flowing at 20-over the limit, and you're traveling at 35 over the limit, then you're more likely to get tagged than the average traffic.
It's interesting to note that in some places (New Jersey, for one, circa 10 years ago) a car that is over the speed limit, but slower than the flow of traffic, is the one likely to get pulled over... i.e. 10 cars going 80, one car going 70 in a 65, the car going 70 gets pulled over. Why? Because he's the most dangerous driver in the bunch.
Unit 2 at Watts Bar was roughly 80% complete when construction stopped. TVA is currently and exploring finishing the construction of Unit 2 giving us yet another clean power source.
It's no longer under exploration--about two weeks ago, TVA decided that unit 2 will be completed.
By the way, I'm guessing, based on the context of your post, that you're a fellow East Tennessean. If so, howdy, neighbor!
Rerun the test with the HP having 15K disks and I might not dismiss the results.
They actually did address this in their benchmark document:
Configuration Exception Due to backorder shipping delays from HP on the 144GB SAS 15K RPM hard drives the 72GB SAS drives were deemed an acceptable substitute. The SPECjbb2005 workload tool does nothing to exercise the hard drive and writes no data to it. As a result, this configuration exception was determined to be immaterial to the performance results addressed in this study.
So while I would still take it with a grain of salt, I wouldn't dismiss the results out of hand... usually if someone is trying to game the numbers, they don't come out and address the problem so directly.
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I figure he probably did believe that.
If so, he'd have to be REALLY good at lying to himself. During discovery, an email to Darl from one of his advisors (Anderer, I think) said something to the effect of: we have to be careful here, because it looks like our rights aren't nearly as broad as we think they are.
The email in question was sent BEFORE sco filed suit against IBM.
When an invading army ( or was that oil keeping force ) confront an "enemy" with shit like this, I get amazed at folks from the country involved get upset when they become the victim of, or are witness to, retaliatory guerilla warfare - such as flying planes into buildings and suicide bombings.
Let me get this straight: 9/11 was retaliation for the robots we deployed in Iraq in 2007?
How do you re-secretize something that is in Public Domain???
In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages, to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.
If you trust the planes to tell you where they are, there is a potential that the planes could lie to you. I really hope they take that into account when designing the system.
ATC has no way of knowing the altitude of an aircraft unless the aircraft has a functional transponder and altitude encoder (or ATC is in communication with the pilot.) This has been the case for decades, and does not seem to have been much of a problem...
But isn't this a bit like a bank robber who shoots a cop suing Smith and Wesson?
While the circumstances are not exactly the same, similar cases to the above have occurred--i.e. someone points a loaded firearm and someone else, and pulls the trigger. The weapon discharges, causing death or serious injury. Firearms manufacturer is sued as a result, with the claim that they produced an "unsafe product."
Kind of makes me wonder if the judges that were removed were removed in preparation for these types of cases...
If you are referring to what I think you are, those were not judges, they were US Attorneys. Federal judges only stop being federal judges when they retire, die, or are impeached.
That said, I agree that what is currently happening in our "justice" system is a disgrace.
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Wow. Someone really must have been in the Christmas spirit to mod that post "informative." Here's a hint: 1.5VDC != 115VAC.
Your point is made, but his point still stands. The idea that the FCC under Bush created the problem of devices operating in unlicensed spectrum is absurd.
Feynman called this the "Cargo Cult" mentality in his book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman." It's worth picking up and reading, and not just for that particular observation.
The truly amusing part is that what you posted appears to be a NDR from qmail. I know if I were working at MS, I'd be downright embarrassed to have an smtp server running anything other than Exchange.
Point made.
However, I think my overall point--that NASCAR is not the state of the art in auto racing--is reinforced by your link, not diminished by it. For example, the new F1 engines are less than half the displacement, but put out the same amount of power at the engines NASCAR uses.
While I think that the idea that the GP post was modded "insightful" is downright sad, I have to disagree with the above as well. While the race teams strive to get the cars as fast as possible, NASCAR's engineering (at the circuit level) appears to be dedicated to "making the race more competitive." That means SLOWER cars (see "restrictor plate," "aero package,") and rigid specifications on how the cars can be engineered and set-up.
Contrast this with something like F1 where it really is all about the technology, and it's downright silly to describe NASCAR as the apex of automotive engineering.
Yes, I had seen the Matrix. I disagree with you that it's almost exactly the same, though--I agree that it boils down to the same point of morality (slavery) but the Matrix is little different than the present day real world. Only a VERY small percentage of the population even realizes that anything is wrong--and even those that do, how many are like Cypher, who would actually be happier as slaves? There's also the point that the machines knew exactly what they were doing to the humans.
Contrast this with a situation where everyone affected knows something is horribly, horribly wrong--evidenced by the constant, unending agony. On top of this, none of the living (well, maybe a small percentage--I hadn't developed my notes to that point yet) realize the results of their actions. So what happens when they find out?
In my opinion, that's what good science fiction has always been about: putting humanity in some situation (usually as the result of technology) and then looking at the results... or the consequences.
About a year or so ago, I wrote myself some notes about a possible short story, and had a premise very similar to what you mention. The gist of it was that "souls" (for lack of a better word) were proven to exist, and then promptly exploited for the special properties they exhibited, creating a clean, limitless energy source. The downside? To the "souls" being used in this manner, the process was basically hell--fire, brimstone, unending torment, etc.
Hmm. Maybe I'll work on that now, since you've brought it back to mind... thanks!
These two statements pretty much contradict each other. Who are you going to get to cooperate if it's a single individual, or small, well insulated group?
Step 4: Never be seen again after you get shot in the head, dismembered, and buried in the desert by the organized crime connections of the botnet owners.
As you noted, everyone has scads of last mile bandwidth, which is comparatively cheap to build-out. If the content is THAT MUCH in demand, just cache it closer to the people who want it. This is the entire reason that companies like akamai exist.
My wife and I met online. We did the long distance relationship thing for exactly one year, then I moved to be closer to her. Our tenth anniversary is in two weeks.
FWIW, smokeless powder doesn't explode, it just burns. Gunpowder, on the other hand...
Now that they've got built in wireless (and more space than a Nomad) does that mean Taco no longer thinks that they're lame?
It's interesting to note that in some places (New Jersey, for one, circa 10 years ago) a car that is over the speed limit, but slower than the flow of traffic, is the one likely to get pulled over... i.e. 10 cars going 80, one car going 70 in a 65, the car going 70 gets pulled over. Why? Because he's the most dangerous driver in the bunch.
It's no longer under exploration--about two weeks ago, TVA decided that unit 2 will be completed.
By the way, I'm guessing, based on the context of your post, that you're a fellow East Tennessean. If so, howdy, neighbor!
They actually did address this in their benchmark document:
Configuration Exception
Due to backorder shipping delays from HP on the 144GB SAS 15K RPM hard drives the 72GB SAS drives
were deemed an acceptable substitute. The SPECjbb2005 workload tool does nothing to exercise the hard
drive and writes no data to it. As a result, this configuration exception was determined to be immaterial to the
performance results addressed in this study.
So while I would still take it with a grain of salt, I wouldn't dismiss the results out of hand... usually if someone is trying to game the numbers, they don't come out and address the problem so directly.
If so, he'd have to be REALLY good at lying to himself. During discovery, an email to Darl from one of his advisors (Anderer, I think) said something to the effect of: we have to be careful here, because it looks like our rights aren't nearly as broad as we think they are.
The email in question was sent BEFORE sco filed suit against IBM.
Let me get this straight: 9/11 was retaliation for the robots we deployed in Iraq in 2007?
In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages, to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.
That, without a doubt, is my favorite MST3K moment. Actually, the entire Fugitive Alien episode is comic gold.
ATC has no way of knowing the altitude of an aircraft unless the aircraft has a functional transponder and altitude encoder (or ATC is in communication with the pilot.) This has been the case for decades, and does not seem to have been much of a problem...
While the circumstances are not exactly the same, similar cases to the above have occurred--i.e. someone points a loaded firearm and someone else, and pulls the trigger. The weapon discharges, causing death or serious injury. Firearms manufacturer is sued as a result, with the claim that they produced an "unsafe product."
The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act was a result.
If you are referring to what I think you are, those were not judges, they were US Attorneys. Federal judges only stop being federal judges when they retire, die, or are impeached.
That said, I agree that what is currently happening in our "justice" system is a disgrace.