It's perfectly reasonable to ask that legal systems change to something other than UTC, if avoiding leap seconds in civil time is beneficial.
Leap seconds can occur in any month, there's simply a preference that they occur the end of June or December. But, worldwide, there are more significant adjustments to be made, on a more random basis, due to meddling with time zone offsets and summertime dates.
Leap second adjustments at the time that they occur are problematic for OS scheduling during that period.
Huh? Leap seconds are announced well in advance. The enumeration is well defined. Any scheduling problem is due to poor code, which expects every minute to have 60 seconds, every hour to have 3600 seconds, etc. Leap seconds have existed for over 40 years, so there's simply no excuse for code so sloppy it can't handle them.
If the timebase that we use in the modern world (e.g. computers, cell phones, banking transactions, etc.) needs to track the sun that accurately, why do we tolerate error accumulation of up to a day every four years [leap days]?
You're confusing the rotation of the earth, which affects time of day, with the earth's orbital period, which has more effect on seasons (although not exactly, due to precession).
Civil time has always been based on the sun. For anyone who doesn't like dealing with leap seconds, there are well established alternate timescales available which don't use them, such as GPS and TAI. There is no good reason to eliminate leap seconds from UTC, which was very specifically developed to closely track the earth's rotation, like its other UTx siblings. The people who want to eliminate leap seconds from UTC are the ones who chose their timescale poorly, and now want those who use it properly to suffer for their mistakes.
"why do you think additional infrastructure is needed?"
There's a huge amount of legal infrastructure which isn't present. Who's responsible when an autonomous vehicle is involved in a deadly situation? If the human, then what's the point, since they would always need to be attentive and able to gain very quick override? If the computer, how long will manufacturers assume that liability? They have disclaimers? Good luck with getting insurance.
Thanks for that. This seems to be a "digital LASER" only in relation to a very specific quality. It is certainly not the "world's first digital LASER." There are millions of LASERs which operate digitally already in common use - many (most?) Ethernet fiber optic transceivers use LASERs which are digitally modulated.
(much 1000base is LASER, AFAIK all 10Gbase is LASER)
Seriously? You really don't understand how it works. You could get rid of the entire DNS system, and build everything on raw IP addresses, and it wouldn't change the NSA's ability to intercept traffic at all.
If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them . . . Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in, I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here.
- Sen. Diane Feinstein, February 5, 1995
Confiscation could be an option...mandatory sale to the state could be an option
You obviously don't trade email with the same people I do. You know, the ones who insist on using HTML, MIME and BASE64 encoding, jpegs in their.sigs, never trim quotes because due to their top posting habits they never see them, etc., turning a simple email into a 30KB missive.
References? Getting old so you can get Alzheimers or other forms of dementia, or simply be a non-productive burden on an "entitlement" society, is good?
"Coverity's code-scanning system for open-source projects... has been in place since 2006, when the effort was first funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)."
A defect is when the code uses encryption, and doesn't send the keys to the NSA, or uses smtplib, and doesn't bcc:archives@dea.gov.
IOW, it's bullshit. It's "we used freeze dried foods, so we'll claim that as a technology we developed, despite the fact that it existed years before we did. And, since they use freeze dried marshmallows in Lucky Charms, we can count the sales of Lucky Charms as ROI."
But that's the thing. They were taking special care, deliberately abusing what were obviously fragile musical instruments.
If your guitar, packed in a non-ATA case, gets crushed because turbulence causes some other package to land on it in flight, that's the traveler's problem. If it's broken because an airline employee deliberately throws it to the ground 10 feet below instead of putting it on the conveyor like the other luggage, that's the airline's problem - regardless of what the contract says.
At least in the US, NIST, the official standard bearer for all things SI, says you're wrong. "Gigg-a" is simply the ignorant pronunciation, popularized by the same people who though it a good idea to incorrectly use SI prefixes for units based on powers of two (1024 = k, etc.).
" even conservative ROI estimates at between 3-8X money spent in economic return to the economy."
I'll bet the person doing that NASA funded sturdy counted his own salary as part of that "economic return to the economy."
If there's a 3-8X return on investment for basic research unrelated to a known commercial need, why is NASA needed to do it? There should be plenty of private capitalists eager to get that sort of return.
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Leap seconds can occur in any month, there's simply a preference that they occur the end of June or December. But, worldwide, there are more significant adjustments to be made, on a more random basis, due to meddling with time zone offsets and summertime dates.
Huh? Leap seconds are announced well in advance. The enumeration is well defined. Any scheduling problem is due to poor code, which expects every minute to have 60 seconds, every hour to have 3600 seconds, etc. Leap seconds have existed for over 40 years, so there's simply no excuse for code so sloppy it can't handle them.
You're confusing the rotation of the earth, which affects time of day, with the earth's orbital period, which has more effect on seasons (although not exactly, due to precession).
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Civil time has always been based on the sun. For anyone who doesn't like dealing with leap seconds, there are well established alternate timescales available which don't use them, such as GPS and TAI. There is no good reason to eliminate leap seconds from UTC, which was very specifically developed to closely track the earth's rotation, like its other UTx siblings. The people who want to eliminate leap seconds from UTC are the ones who chose their timescale poorly, and now want those who use it properly to suffer for their mistakes.
There's good coverage here.
"why do you think additional infrastructure is needed?"
There's a huge amount of legal infrastructure which isn't present. Who's responsible when an autonomous vehicle is involved in a deadly situation? If the human, then what's the point, since they would always need to be attentive and able to gain very quick override? If the computer, how long will manufacturers assume that liability? They have disclaimers? Good luck with getting insurance.
I'd guess that Mr. R S Borg doesn't have a sense of humor. He's already been assimilated.
Thanks for that. This seems to be a "digital LASER" only in relation to a very specific quality. It is certainly not the "world's first digital LASER." There are millions of LASERs which operate digitally already in common use - many (most?) Ethernet fiber optic transceivers use LASERs which are digitally modulated.
(much 1000base is LASER, AFAIK all 10Gbase is LASER)
Seriously? You really don't understand how it works. You could get rid of the entire DNS system, and build everything on raw IP addresses, and it wouldn't change the NSA's ability to intercept traffic at all.
Well, if you go to the AMC website, you'll find videos from the second half labeled "Season 5, Episode 13" and such.
Is MIT an insect with inflatable feelers which somehow assist in satellite communications?
When referring to a radio antenna the plural is "antennas."
Are you implying those quotes are somehow not about guns? If so, you're an idiot.
Depends on who you mean by "they."
- Sen. Diane Feinstein, February 5, 1995
- NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, December 20, 2012
"Does anyone else ever notice the color of Mickey?"
Did you ever notice that Mickey has a peer, Goofy, who's a dog. He also has what's obviously a slave dog - Pluto.
You obviously don't trade email with the same people I do. You know, the ones who insist on using HTML, MIME and BASE64 encoding, jpegs in their .sigs, never trim quotes because due to their top posting habits they never see them, etc., turning a simple email into a 30KB missive.
Thanks for confirming the OP: "Usually Somalia is the punchline of some attempt to troll a libertarian"
s/GB/Gb/
If you don't have any references to support your position, just say so, instead of trying to change the discussion.
References? Getting old so you can get Alzheimers or other forms of dementia, or simply be a non-productive burden on an "entitlement" society, is good?
That also shouldn't be funded.
"A complete viral inventory would also carry a hefty price tag: about $6.3 billion, the authors estimate."
Better hurry, since if we wait 10 or 20 years, that price tag might only be a couple of million. Think of the authors, who have new shoes to buy!
Life's a risk, you live, you die. Society can't handle the costs of current increases to lifetimes. Extending lives is not a de facto good thing.
"Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?"
Gamera could stop being The Friend of All Children.
"Coverity's code-scanning system for open-source projects... has been in place since 2006, when the effort was first funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)."
A defect is when the code uses encryption, and doesn't send the keys to the NSA, or uses smtplib, and doesn't bcc:archives@dea.gov.
IOW, it's bullshit. It's "we used freeze dried foods, so we'll claim that as a technology we developed, despite the fact that it existed years before we did. And, since they use freeze dried marshmallows in Lucky Charms, we can count the sales of Lucky Charms as ROI."
But that's the thing. They were taking special care, deliberately abusing what were obviously fragile musical instruments.
If your guitar, packed in a non-ATA case, gets crushed because turbulence causes some other package to land on it in flight, that's the traveler's problem. If it's broken because an airline employee deliberately throws it to the ground 10 feet below instead of putting it on the conveyor like the other luggage, that's the airline's problem - regardless of what the contract says.
At least in the US, NIST, the official standard bearer for all things SI, says you're wrong. "Gigg-a" is simply the ignorant pronunciation, popularized by the same people who though it a good idea to incorrectly use SI prefixes for units based on powers of two (1024 = k, etc.).
" even conservative ROI estimates at between 3-8X money spent in economic return to the economy."
I'll bet the person doing that NASA funded sturdy counted his own salary as part of that "economic return to the economy."
If there's a 3-8X return on investment for basic research unrelated to a known commercial need, why is NASA needed to do it? There should be plenty of private capitalists eager to get that sort of return.