Nah, they probaly get a few hundred for it, but it is his bail they're making, so his stuff gets sold first to make it. It's only fair, and certainly a valid part of the punishment the parents would mete out. I'm not sure what kind of lesson you teach by letting the kid stay in lockup, though. I should think a day or two would be enough of a taste, for a guy who'se committed a pretty white-collar crime, if you're just trying to scare the kid straight.
Not saying it's not serious, or the kid shouldn't be punished, but I really don't understand parents who expect the court system to do their job for them.
Now, granted, the courts may decide that the public debt can only be satisfied with prison time, but you'd expect the parents to do everything in their power to keep their kid out of jail and as free of criminal record as possible. It's not unheard of for criminals to reform and eventually get rewarding jobs that they enjoy, but it's not exactly easy.
IIRC, the woman in that quote actually was a witch, and also actually did weight the same as a duck, so I'm not sure what, exactly, you're trying to make fun of.
Not surprisingly, his parents (who have only recently immigrated to America) have decided not to post the $50,000 bail and Kahn is in jail awaiting trial.
I don't know what so unsurprising about that. No parent wants their kid to spend time in freakin' lockup. Further, they can leverage $5,000 of real dollars with a bail bondsman to post $50k, so they just need to sell the kid's computer and scrape together a few thousand more to spare him potentially weeks behind bars.
Heck, banks will loan the money for bail, and I seriously doubt they get the loan-shark like interest the bail bondsman would.
It means there is at least one item with "more than 50%" savings. This item is usually a reject from the Hammacher Hchlemmer or Brookstone catalog. IOW, it's not only a worthless plastic trinket that is supposed to appeal to wealthy CEO-types under the assumption that they're too rich to notice how poorly made or useless it is, but actually even more worthless than that.
Raid kind of is a good idea, if you bump up the parity blocks. But you're right that it's better to store files unencrypted and uncompressed on regular media with extra parity bits, rather than doing it at the level of the block device.
Frankly, though, the state of ECC in Linux is rather appalling. Par2 is interesting, but the inability to traverse directory trees makes things complicated. DVDisaster looks interesting as well, but it's kind of wonky.
And neither of them is particularly well known (so I'm probably missing something), so there's no guarantee that they'll even be useful in the future (which is why it's definitely a good idea to store those files plain-text.)
Scientific data for instance is often stored in ascii text files, rather than encoding the numbers directly into the bits. This ensures that in the event of damage, at least part of the data will be recoverable by someone.
Really, that sort of idea: putting extra parity blocks on the disk with your data, and filling the empty space with parity blocks is pretty fundamental. It's surprising it's not a part of K3B or dvdrtools.
But what would they need safe harbor from? With their only natural predator not to arrive for fifty-three million, nine hundred ninety-seven thousand three hundred seventeen years?
Well, keep in mind that there were no navies 54 million years ago, so it stands to reason that, having the run of the seas, pirates would be quite prolific.
I didn't say we can't do it. It's just that we can't do it without breaking new ground. A lot of new ground. Even if you use the most efficient method from the cars' point of view: electrifying the freeways*
*It eliminates the problem of heavy storage batteries (no one but off-roaders would need more than twenty miles worth, because you can trickle charge at work and at home, and any commute of more than twenty miles would have significant lengths on freeways.)
But there are some efficiency issues relating to the transfer and billing methods. Fortunately, they're somewhat mitigated by the natural speed limit: heavy traffic results in less power per car, and with small batteries, they'll tend to travel at the equilibrium speed between freeway power and wind resistance.
But that's my pet "green" transportation solution. You can have your own, as long as you realize that what works in the small scale might not work so well when scaled up to economy sizes.
For instance: Hydrogen, which is cheap in small amounts because it can be obtained from natural gas (Actually, I think it might even be a byproduct of ammonia extraction), but doesn't scale up very well.
Or cooking-oil "biodiesel" where some proponents are actually getting their fuel for free principally because.. very few people are bothering/know about it.
Corn ethanol is another dead end.
LN2 is a byproduct of LOx extraction
He is a byproduct of natural gas extraction, which itself is a byproduct of crude oil extraction...
Even "Organic Farming" is harmful to the environment: more acres are needed to achieve the same yield. It's fine for you and your kin to eat that stuff, if you think it's really better, but a whole nation simply can't. At least.. not without making some hard choices about forestation levels and suburban development, and number of workers in the Ag sector.
Off peak usage is *less* but it's not "entire transportation industry" less. We're not talking about filling in the gap in power generation here. We're talking about more than doubling power generation.
If we could manufacture the "new generation PVs" fast enough, that would be a viable idea. We can't, though, so we'll just go on making them as fast as we can, and putting them up about equally as fast.
Meantime, we need something to power our cars, and the thing with the shortest time-to-market at the moment is.. drilling for oil. The next shortest time-to-market "research new technology, then roll that out." Which is quite a bit longer to market, no matter how you slice things.
Sure, we ought to have started drilling in ANWR and the gulf of mexico back in 2001, but the fact that we didn't is no excuse for not bothering now. Think of what the price of oil will be in another ten years if we don't even break ground on new holes.
I really don't understand this mentality. Blank DVDs aren't free, and Netflix is so very inexpensive, and very few people over the age of six actually watch a movie more than two or three times.
It is CHEAPER, if you use netflix, not to rip at all. Just buy the few movies you actually want to watch again. AND you get them with all the pretty packaging for your bookshelf.
Not to mention that it doesn't make sense to buy any DVDs at all at the moment, since the DVD successor is already on the market, and therefore only a few years away from price-parity.
Because our electric capacity is built up only to our current needs and there is very little wiggle room.
It is difficult to get new plants built due to legislative reasons, they take time to build anyway, and the price for energy goes up significantly if you're talking about doubling it's utilization.
IOW, your idea is good, but we need to be breaking ground on the electric plants five years ago for it to make a dent soon.
Also, cost-to-produce != cost at pump != price at pump. There are transportation costs, amortization of equipment, a myriad of expenses that you don't notice when you're just doing something in the lab.
Y'know, there is a lot of literature, both fictional and non-fictional about just that circumstance, and it doesn't really play out as you say. Certainly people should be armed if they desire, but you need to establish an authority as well.
Don't be fooled. They are. It's just that, even with the dollar slide, they still aren't making as much. Also, as atrocious as our cities are, their streets were laid out in the age of horse cart, so small cars tend to make a lot more sense for getting around.
And manual isn't that much better any more. It was never all that much better, but with the introduction of CVTs, manual is a clean second best.
Good effort the "car analogy" and the "europeans are better than americans in every way" tropes, though.
Actually, you'd be surprised how many people would donate to government in a "as you please" scenario.
Certainly, they wouldn't be able to maintain current spending levels, but at the moment the government is demanding three times as much as God. Five times as much if you count state tax.
We pay for the FCC. They're spending money on this. Therefore, we should have access to the information they're generating. It doesn't matter whether our curiosity is relevant or not, it our money they're spending, and they have to be accountable for it.
There is only one reason for any federal agency to withhold information from the public, and the FCC does not typically have information which is vital to national security to be kept secret. Furthermore, I can't think of any scenario in which broadband penetration statistics could be used by our enemies to harm this nation.
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Nah, they probaly get a few hundred for it, but it is his bail they're making, so his stuff gets sold first to make it. It's only fair, and certainly a valid part of the punishment the parents would mete out. I'm not sure what kind of lesson you teach by letting the kid stay in lockup, though. I should think a day or two would be enough of a taste, for a guy who'se committed a pretty white-collar crime, if you're just trying to scare the kid straight.
Not saying it's not serious, or the kid shouldn't be punished, but I really don't understand parents who expect the court system to do their job for them.
Now, granted, the courts may decide that the public debt can only be satisfied with prison time, but you'd expect the parents to do everything in their power to keep their kid out of jail and as free of criminal record as possible. It's not unheard of for criminals to reform and eventually get rewarding jobs that they enjoy, but it's not exactly easy.
IIRC, the woman in that quote actually was a witch, and also actually did weight the same as a duck, so I'm not sure what, exactly, you're trying to make fun of.
I don't know what so unsurprising about that. No parent wants their kid to spend time in freakin' lockup. Further, they can leverage $5,000 of real dollars with a bail bondsman to post $50k, so they just need to sell the kid's computer and scrape together a few thousand more to spare him potentially weeks behind bars.
Heck, banks will loan the money for bail, and I seriously doubt they get the loan-shark like interest the bail bondsman would.
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It means there is at least one item with "more than 50%" savings. This item is usually a reject from the Hammacher Hchlemmer or Brookstone catalog. IOW, it's not only a worthless plastic trinket that is supposed to appeal to wealthy CEO-types under the assumption that they're too rich to notice how poorly made or useless it is, but actually even more worthless than that.
Raid kind of is a good idea, if you bump up the parity blocks. But you're right that it's better to store files unencrypted and uncompressed on regular media with extra parity bits, rather than doing it at the level of the block device.
Frankly, though, the state of ECC in Linux is rather appalling. Par2 is interesting, but the inability to traverse directory trees makes things complicated. DVDisaster looks interesting as well, but it's kind of wonky.
And neither of them is particularly well known (so I'm probably missing something), so there's no guarantee that they'll even be useful in the future (which is why it's definitely a good idea to store those files plain-text.)
Scientific data for instance is often stored in ascii text files, rather than encoding the numbers directly into the bits. This ensures that in the event of damage, at least part of the data will be recoverable by someone.
Really, that sort of idea: putting extra parity blocks on the disk with your data, and filling the empty space with parity blocks is pretty fundamental. It's surprising it's not a part of K3B or dvdrtools.
But what would they need safe harbor from? With their only natural predator not to arrive for fifty-three million, nine hundred ninety-seven thousand three hundred seventeen years?
Well, keep in mind that there were no navies 54 million years ago, so it stands to reason that, having the run of the seas, pirates would be quite prolific.
I didn't say we can't do it. It's just that we can't do it without breaking new ground. A lot of new ground. Even if you use the most efficient method from the cars' point of view: electrifying the freeways*
*It eliminates the problem of heavy storage batteries (no one but off-roaders would need more than twenty miles worth, because you can trickle charge at work and at home, and any commute of more than twenty miles would have significant lengths on freeways.)
But there are some efficiency issues relating to the transfer and billing methods. Fortunately, they're somewhat mitigated by the natural speed limit: heavy traffic results in less power per car, and with small batteries, they'll tend to travel at the equilibrium speed between freeway power and wind resistance.
But that's my pet "green" transportation solution. You can have your own, as long as you realize that what works in the small scale might not work so well when scaled up to economy sizes.
For instance: Hydrogen, which is cheap in small amounts because it can be obtained from natural gas (Actually, I think it might even be a byproduct of ammonia extraction), but doesn't scale up very well.
Or cooking-oil "biodiesel" where some proponents are actually getting their fuel for free principally because.. very few people are bothering/know about it.
Corn ethanol is another dead end.
LN2 is a byproduct of LOx extraction
He is a byproduct of natural gas extraction, which itself is a byproduct of crude oil extraction...
Even "Organic Farming" is harmful to the environment: more acres are needed to achieve the same yield. It's fine for you and your kin to eat that stuff, if you think it's really better, but a whole nation simply can't. At least.. not without making some hard choices about forestation levels and suburban development, and number of workers in the Ag sector.
Off peak usage is *less* but it's not "entire transportation industry" less. We're not talking about filling in the gap in power generation here. We're talking about more than doubling power generation.
No one who uses toilet paper hangs it "against the wall."
In MA? I'm sure she has..Many times..since her death.
If we could manufacture the "new generation PVs" fast enough, that would be a viable idea. We can't, though, so we'll just go on making them as fast as we can, and putting them up about equally as fast.
Meantime, we need something to power our cars, and the thing with the shortest time-to-market at the moment is.. drilling for oil. The next shortest time-to-market "research new technology, then roll that out." Which is quite a bit longer to market, no matter how you slice things.
Sure, we ought to have started drilling in ANWR and the gulf of mexico back in 2001, but the fact that we didn't is no excuse for not bothering now. Think of what the price of oil will be in another ten years if we don't even break ground on new holes.
Plus, that assumes that you always get the movie at the top of the queue. Which is not always the case.
"rent, rip, and return the next day."
I really don't understand this mentality. Blank DVDs aren't free, and Netflix is so very inexpensive, and very few people over the age of six actually watch a movie more than two or three times.
It is CHEAPER, if you use netflix, not to rip at all. Just buy the few movies you actually want to watch again. AND you get them with all the pretty packaging for your bookshelf.
Not to mention that it doesn't make sense to buy any DVDs at all at the moment, since the DVD successor is already on the market, and therefore only a few years away from price-parity.
Psah. We had to bring our own sand. Hot. And bags were strictly banned from flights, so you carried your sand in your hands.
And that's the way we likes'd it.
Because our electric capacity is built up only to our current needs and there is very little wiggle room.
It is difficult to get new plants built due to legislative reasons, they take time to build anyway, and the price for energy goes up significantly if you're talking about doubling it's utilization.
IOW, your idea is good, but we need to be breaking ground on the electric plants five years ago for it to make a dent soon.
Also, cost-to-produce != cost at pump != price at pump. There are transportation costs, amortization of equipment, a myriad of expenses that you don't notice when you're just doing something in the lab.
If her own father won't, except to say she'd have voted for Kennedy, if only she were still alive...
Man, that state is weird.
So.. sue somebody under it?
Indeed. In much the same way as Aquafina and Dasani are two very different beverages.
Y'know, there is a lot of literature, both fictional and non-fictional about just that circumstance, and it doesn't really play out as you say. Certainly people should be armed if they desire, but you need to establish an authority as well.
Don't be fooled. They are. It's just that, even with the dollar slide, they still aren't making as much. Also, as atrocious as our cities are, their streets were laid out in the age of horse cart, so small cars tend to make a lot more sense for getting around.
And manual isn't that much better any more. It was never all that much better, but with the introduction of CVTs, manual is a clean second best.
Good effort the "car analogy" and the "europeans are better than americans in every way" tropes, though.
But.. Is the CHRC a real court with real authority? Or is it strictly voluntary and PR, like the "fashion police" or somesuch.
Actually, you'd be surprised how many people would donate to government in a "as you please" scenario.
Certainly, they wouldn't be able to maintain current spending levels, but at the moment the government is demanding three times as much as God. Five times as much if you count state tax.
We pay for the FCC. They're spending money on this. Therefore, we should have access to the information they're generating. It doesn't matter whether our curiosity is relevant or not, it our money they're spending, and they have to be accountable for it.
There is only one reason for any federal agency to withhold information from the public, and the FCC does not typically have information which is vital to national security to be kept secret. Furthermore, I can't think of any scenario in which broadband penetration statistics could be used by our enemies to harm this nation.