When I was a private pilot I subscribed to NTSB Reporter. I like this review of the journal:
By Jim Carson
Subscription Term Name:1 year
By nature, this is a very depressing publication: Peter Garrison reviews aviation accidents that usually resulted in someone dying. One subscribes NTSB reporter in hopes of avoiding similar mistakes.
A shorter version of Peter Garrison's NTSB columns appear in Flying Magazine. NTSB Reporter's trademark is a *much* more thorough analysis of a specific accident.
It's immensely thoughtful, but I would not leave copies lying around on the coffee table for non-pilots or spouses. to see them.
I suppose that the average recreational pilot takes more care than average car driver, yet the NTSB reporter can be summed up as follows - 1) forgot to gas up the plane 2) did not check the weather report 3) was in a hurry 4) the other 1% of accidents. I do not think any driver is good enough to always pay attention - unless they simply turn the robot off.
Braking has two additional advantages; 1) removing energy from an impending collision, and 2) increasing the time in which one has to react to the next issue, because you will feel pretty dumb if you let yourself get boxed in to a collision after missing the first obstacle. Of course one should not brake so hard as to get hit from behind.
The system just needs a rapid manual override and a little common sense from the driver.
See the results of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 AF447 flight for the odds of this working. As a one time private pilot I am totally baffled as to how a professional pilot could hold a plane in a stall from 35,000 ft to the ground. I think there were several issues including human factors in the design of the interfaces; but I really think that these guys got used to being along for the ride and it was not conceivable to them that the plane had decided to stop flying itself.
After a week of having an auto-car drive me to work everyday I can not imagine I'd be ready in 1/2 second to suddenly take over for the computer and expect a good result.
Really depends on what you are trying to prove - a second LHC need not be built to prove the Higgs as there are more than one detector finding comparable results. However, finding a second monopole would go a long way towards confirming the Valentine's Day even at Stanford.
The original post mentions tennis elbow and sore neck and shoulders. About 12 years ago I thought I was getting carpal tunnel, and had sore neck, back, and shoulders. Independent of these issues I took up Olympic style weightlifting, and within about three months all the pain issues were gone. At 46 now I'm about 2x as strong as I was at 24. I can not recommend it highly enough, and for the issues mentioned, dead lifts, back squats and front squats would take care everything.
The Court has repeatedly stated that "the Due Process Clause applies to all 'persons' within the United States, including aliens, whether their presence here is lawful, unlawful, temporary, or permanent."
my bold. If some people outside of the United States want constitutional protections, they can write one, and they can start with a Declaration of Independence - likely followed by a civil war of some size or another. You will have to search pretty far for any constitutional scholar that thinks the constitution applies on foreign soil, and only perhaps half the SCOTUS takes the view that one should do 'sprit of' vs traditional reading of the text.
There you have it. I would argue that when you fuck about with people digitally, you're basically right next to them. You're putting them on US territory, by listening in on them from the US, and more importantly by saving their communications there. Where their body resides, does it really matter? They're not "secure in their papers" anymore, are they, and to assume they're guilty until proven innocent does seem to be built on sand, too.
Where the body is, seems to me rather more important than where the bits are; I completely disagree that one is bringing a person into the United States by listening to correspondence from within the United States. The reciprocal argument is that we are putting the listener next to the person having the conversation, which is a foreign territory and hence again not subject to Constitutional consideration outside the agreements that our government makes with the foreign government.
...The constitution mentions god-given, inalienable rights. Those are by definition held by everybody, or nobody. You play "yes, but" games with it, you loose the whole thing...
Can you point to where the Constitution mentions God? I'm not recalling the mention.
The Constitution: The first sentence of the constitution begins with "We the people of the United States...establish this Constitution for the United States of America.". The fourth amendment says, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects...". In both cases it is the same people being referred to; the citizens of the United States.
I don't think that the Constitution says much of anything about foreign people or non-citizens, but I'm happy to hear your counter argument.
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies:... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...
The Constitution of the United Sates and The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies are not the same document.
The fourth amendment doesn't differentiate between American citizens and foreigners. FISA was always unconstitutional.
-jcr
The meaning seems plain to me.
The first sentence of the constitution begins with "We the people of the United States...establish this Constitution for the United States of America.". The fourth amendment says, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects...". In both cases it is the same people being referred to; the citizens of the United States. I don't think that the Constitution says much of anything about foreign people or non-citizens, but I'm happy to hear your counter argument.
I guess I see the UI work that Apple did on the iPhone as original and innovative and not at all standard; I'd never seen anything like it at the time, and probably the ATM was the only touch interface I commonly used. What Apple refers to in its own documentation since the Mac 128 day are Human Interface Guidelines which describe guidelines and principles, not standards.
Wire formats, radio formats, computer to computer interactions are the stuff of standards. One would be a little out of place innovating in TCP/IP at this point and hoping to connect to another computer. But Human UI has the advantage that humans can adapt on the fly and understand a new UI. Standard UI makes me think of Motif widgets, or SWING widgets - ugly or at best average - but certainly standard.
Never driven a Citroën? The steering wheel is subtly different with a single attachment to the wheel so that it never gets in your way while steering. If I recall, Citroën invented damped power steering with the SM in 1972 - so that steering stiffened with increased speed, oh and the suspension lowered as well. I don't know which company moved all the controls to within reach of the wheel but it is standard now to be able operate the radio and horn with out moving one's hands from the wheel. And as far as the hand break is concerned, isn't it still a foot break on many vehicles - like the Toyota Sienna?
The issue here is that in order for a recycling program to be effective, it has to be sufficiently easy for things to be recycled, that there is a financial benefit for said recycling. Otherwise, recycling has no incentive.
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/reuse_and_recycle
Just found out my 1st gen 16Gig/3G ipad is worth $125 dollars for recycle.
My daughter's old slightly beat up 3GS is worth $95.
Hmmm, maybe time for a new iPad.
If our firm had these laptops and they broke down, how am I suppose to remove/wipe the hard drive? I would have to take a Sludge Hammer to the laptop in the parking lot, just to be sure no sensitive data gets out.
Forget the whole disk encryption recovery key is how I would do it. How do you deal with stolen laptop data security?
Drivers could learn from pilots - 1 fly the plane, 2 fly the plane where you need to go, 3 talk to the people you need to talk to.
One time I was driving I-5 to LA in the passing lane, which had traffic going above the posted limit. I looked in my rearview and an officer was right on my tail. I expected to get pulled over for speeding at that point, signaled and switched to the slow lane. The officer pulled right up on the tail of the next car which did the same as me. Two more cars followed likewise. The fifth driver did not notice the officer right behind him and in about 30 seconds on came the lights. He probably got a ticket for speeding, but his crime was failure at situational awareness. If that officer was looking to fill a quota any one of us would have done, but I was glad to see the unsafe driver get the ticket.
Was the backhoe near your building or near the hosting building. I guess I'm asking if the single point failure is something your company could have mitigated?
The jets should be perpendicular to the accretion disk which should mostly be co-planar with the disk of the galaxy. So, the jets will not point at us. If some oddball star or mass or whatever that is in a highly out of galactic plane orbit gets sucked in, we should still be ok as there is quite a lot of dust between us and Sag A*.
Would you be willing to take a commercial air flight if the failure rate was 25%? 15%? 5%? How many pilots would fly with those failure rates? How many companies would send expensive cargoes with those failure rates?
Would I pay to take a 1/20 risk of death for no benefit other than getting from one place to another? No. Would I take a 1/20 risk for a sufficient reward, sure.
Read about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Gold_Rush
About 100,000 people went, 30,000 to 40,000 arrived, 15,000 to 20,000 became prospectors, and no more than 4,000 became rich. The article estimates that it cost about $1,000 to attempt to reach the Klondike, which for 100,000 people represents more money than was extracted in gold in the years of the rush.
It is a little more complicated. The services tend not to build from scratch each time they buy something, and they want to pay as little as possible. So they might buy a tank from Big D Contracting, and Big D say we have this motor that would work great in your tank, but we designed it on our dime, so we will build them for you and service them, but we own the design and maybe some patents on the motor it is so great. It is much cheaper to buy a tank with the Big D motor that than to pay for a new motor design.
Now consider cheep and quick turn around software, and maybe a custom drone. Sure you could add requirements that the drone interface with other drone systems, but that jacks up your dev, test, and integration test costs and pushes your schedule back. The services rarely want to pay in cost or schedule for interoperability and it does not come for free - ask any SW dev.
I suspect that the people able to install OS X on a Hakintosh are able to find one at a lower price than Psystar was able to provide. And I can not imagine a smaller market.
If Colecovision was emulating off the shelf parts with software it wrote, and then making it possible for the owner of the atari 2600 rom cart to run software they had purchased then it is different. If at the sale of the rom cart, the cart was licensed only to run on atari HW then maybe it would be the same, but I do not recall haveing to read any license on a cart package from those days. Psystar has the problem that OS X is licensed only to run on Apple HW. Now, they might have had a business selling HW guaranteed to be Hakintosh compatible, but I never understood where they thought that they would be making money. People who even know what a Hakintosh is are able to buy the necessary cheap HW without Psystar's help.
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By Jim Carson Subscription Term Name:1 year By nature, this is a very depressing publication: Peter Garrison reviews aviation accidents that usually resulted in someone dying. One subscribes NTSB reporter in hopes of avoiding similar mistakes. A shorter version of Peter Garrison's NTSB columns appear in Flying Magazine. NTSB Reporter's trademark is a *much* more thorough analysis of a specific accident. It's immensely thoughtful, but I would not leave copies lying around on the coffee table for non-pilots or spouses. to see them.
I suppose that the average recreational pilot takes more care than average car driver, yet the NTSB reporter can be summed up as follows - 1) forgot to gas up the plane 2) did not check the weather report 3) was in a hurry 4) the other 1% of accidents.
I do not think any driver is good enough to always pay attention - unless they simply turn the robot off.
Braking has two additional advantages; 1) removing energy from an impending collision, and 2) increasing the time in which one has to react to the next issue, because you will feel pretty dumb if you let yourself get boxed in to a collision after missing the first obstacle. Of course one should not brake so hard as to get hit from behind.
The system just needs a rapid manual override and a little common sense from the driver.
See the results of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 AF447 flight for the odds of this working. As a one time private pilot I am totally baffled as to how a professional pilot could hold a plane in a stall from 35,000 ft to the ground. I think there were several issues including human factors in the design of the interfaces; but I really think that these guys got used to being along for the ride and it was not conceivable to them that the plane had decided to stop flying itself.
After a week of having an auto-car drive me to work everyday I can not imagine I'd be ready in 1/2 second to suddenly take over for the computer and expect a good result.
Really depends on what you are trying to prove - a second LHC need not be built to prove the Higgs as there are more than one detector finding comparable results. However, finding a second monopole would go a long way towards confirming the Valentine's Day even at Stanford.
Sell the rights to what? The exact mass value of a Higgs boson? The cross section of U-235 for neutron capture?
The original post mentions tennis elbow and sore neck and shoulders. About 12 years ago I thought I was getting carpal tunnel, and had sore neck, back, and shoulders. Independent of these issues I took up Olympic style weightlifting, and within about three months all the pain issues were gone. At 46 now I'm about 2x as strong as I was at 24. I can not recommend it highly enough, and for the issues mentioned, dead lifts, back squats and front squats would take care everything.
Hmm, the slope of my benefits with time is negative, and the slope of the slope is negative. Time to get that new job.
Mod me true.
The Court has repeatedly stated that "the Due Process Clause applies to all 'persons' within the United States, including aliens, whether their presence here is lawful, unlawful, temporary, or permanent."
my bold. If some people outside of the United States want constitutional protections, they can write one, and they can start with a Declaration of Independence - likely followed by a civil war of some size or another. You will have to search pretty far for any constitutional scholar that thinks the constitution applies on foreign soil, and only perhaps half the SCOTUS takes the view that one should do 'sprit of' vs traditional reading of the text.
There you have it. I would argue that when you fuck about with people digitally, you're basically right next to them. You're putting them on US territory, by listening in on them from the US, and more importantly by saving their communications there. Where their body resides, does it really matter? They're not "secure in their papers" anymore, are they, and to assume they're guilty until proven innocent does seem to be built on sand, too.
Where the body is, seems to me rather more important than where the bits are; I completely disagree that one is bringing a person into the United States by listening to correspondence from within the United States. The reciprocal argument is that we are putting the listener next to the person having the conversation, which is a foreign territory and hence again not subject to Constitutional consideration outside the agreements that our government makes with the foreign government.
...The constitution mentions god-given, inalienable rights. Those are by definition held by everybody, or nobody. You play "yes, but" games with it, you loose the whole thing...
Can you point to where the Constitution mentions God? I'm not recalling the mention. The Constitution: The first sentence of the constitution begins with "We the people of the United States...establish this Constitution for the United States of America.". The fourth amendment says, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects...". In both cases it is the same people being referred to; the citizens of the United States. I don't think that the Constitution says much of anything about foreign people or non-citizens, but I'm happy to hear your counter argument.
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies:... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...
The Constitution of the United Sates and The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies are not the same document.
The fourth amendment doesn't differentiate between American citizens and foreigners. FISA was always unconstitutional.
-jcr
The meaning seems plain to me. The first sentence of the constitution begins with "We the people of the United States...establish this Constitution for the United States of America.". The fourth amendment says, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects...". In both cases it is the same people being referred to; the citizens of the United States.
I don't think that the Constitution says much of anything about foreign people or non-citizens, but I'm happy to hear your counter argument.
I guess I see the UI work that Apple did on the iPhone as original and innovative and not at all standard; I'd never seen anything like it at the time, and probably the ATM was the only touch interface I commonly used. What Apple refers to in its own documentation since the Mac 128 day are Human Interface Guidelines which describe guidelines and principles, not standards.
Wire formats, radio formats, computer to computer interactions are the stuff of standards. One would be a little out of place innovating in TCP/IP at this point and hoping to connect to another computer. But Human UI has the advantage that humans can adapt on the fly and understand a new UI. Standard UI makes me think of Motif widgets, or SWING widgets - ugly or at best average - but certainly standard.
Never driven a Citroën? The steering wheel is subtly different with a single attachment to the wheel so that it never gets in your way while steering. If I recall, Citroën invented damped power steering with the SM in 1972 - so that steering stiffened with increased speed, oh and the suspension lowered as well. I don't know which company moved all the controls to within reach of the wheel but it is standard now to be able operate the radio and horn with out moving one's hands from the wheel. And as far as the hand break is concerned, isn't it still a foot break on many vehicles - like the Toyota Sienna?
The issue here is that in order for a recycling program to be effective, it has to be sufficiently easy for things to be recycled, that there is a financial benefit for said recycling. Otherwise, recycling has no incentive.
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/reuse_and_recycle
Just found out my 1st gen 16Gig/3G ipad is worth $125 dollars for recycle.
My daughter's old slightly beat up 3GS is worth $95.
Hmmm, maybe time for a new iPad.
If our firm had these laptops and they broke down, how am I suppose to remove/wipe the hard drive? I would have to take a Sludge Hammer to the laptop in the parking lot, just to be sure no sensitive data gets out.
Forget the whole disk encryption recovery key is how I would do it. How do you deal with stolen laptop data security?
Drivers could learn from pilots - 1 fly the plane, 2 fly the plane where you need to go, 3 talk to the people you need to talk to.
One time I was driving I-5 to LA in the passing lane, which had traffic going above the posted limit. I looked in my rearview and an officer was right on my tail. I expected to get pulled over for speeding at that point, signaled and switched to the slow lane. The officer pulled right up on the tail of the next car which did the same as me. Two more cars followed likewise. The fifth driver did not notice the officer right behind him and in about 30 seconds on came the lights. He probably got a ticket for speeding, but his crime was failure at situational awareness. If that officer was looking to fill a quota any one of us would have done, but I was glad to see the unsafe driver get the ticket.
Was the backhoe near your building or near the hosting building. I guess I'm asking if the single point failure is something your company could have mitigated?
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Schwarzschild+radius+of+4+million+solar+mass+ = 7 million miles
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Sagittarius++A*+radius = 13 million miles
Seems Sag A* radius is based on observed angular size of the radio source.
The jets should be perpendicular to the accretion disk which should mostly be co-planar with the disk of the galaxy. So, the jets will not point at us. If some oddball star or mass or whatever that is in a highly out of galactic plane orbit gets sucked in, we should still be ok as there is quite a lot of dust between us and Sag A*.
Would you be willing to take a commercial air flight if the failure rate was 25%? 15%? 5%? How many pilots would fly with those failure rates? How many companies would send expensive cargoes with those failure rates?
Would I pay to take a 1/20 risk of death for no benefit other than getting from one place to another? No. Would I take a 1/20 risk for a sufficient reward, sure.
Read about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Gold_Rush
About 100,000 people went, 30,000 to 40,000 arrived, 15,000 to 20,000 became prospectors, and no more than 4,000 became rich. The article estimates that it cost about $1,000 to attempt to reach the Klondike, which for 100,000 people represents more money than was extracted in gold in the years of the rush.
It is a little more complicated. The services tend not to build from scratch each time they buy something, and they want to pay as little as possible. So they might buy a tank from Big D Contracting, and Big D say we have this motor that would work great in your tank, but we designed it on our dime, so we will build them for you and service them, but we own the design and maybe some patents on the motor it is so great. It is much cheaper to buy a tank with the Big D motor that than to pay for a new motor design.
Now consider cheep and quick turn around software, and maybe a custom drone. Sure you could add requirements that the drone interface with other drone systems, but that jacks up your dev, test, and integration test costs and pushes your schedule back. The services rarely want to pay in cost or schedule for interoperability and it does not come for free - ask any SW dev.
I think he picked out his /. user name at the same time.
I suspect that the people able to install OS X on a Hakintosh are able to find one at a lower price than Psystar was able to provide. And I can not imagine a smaller market.
If Colecovision was emulating off the shelf parts with software it wrote, and then making it possible for the owner of the atari 2600 rom cart to run software they had purchased then it is different. If at the sale of the rom cart, the cart was licensed only to run on atari HW then maybe it would be the same, but I do not recall haveing to read any license on a cart package from those days.
Psystar has the problem that OS X is licensed only to run on Apple HW.
Now, they might have had a business selling HW guaranteed to be Hakintosh compatible, but I never understood where they thought that they would be making money. People who even know what a Hakintosh is are able to buy the necessary cheap HW without Psystar's help.
Can you also comment on the accuracy and sources of uncertainty in the original NYTimes article? thanks.