> News stories mention these "al queda websites" all > the time but I've never seen one, and the stories > never mention the website address...
Is Arabic a native tongue of yours? Chances are you're just not looking in the right places.
That said, I've often wondered about things that are purported to be commonplace on the internet, yet I've never actually seen, in a lot of years of being heavily involved in the net.
But in this case, I think you'd have to be heavily into stuff like Arab language blogs and so on before you'd even be on the heuristic that would lead you to discover something like an el-queso site.
You just need a heat exchanger. A Zalman Reserator would probably work. But none of this matters if you don't have life-and-death loyalty from everyone with a password anyway.
Identifying when baseball is exciting is not a trivial task, even for human cognitition. Trying to explain to a non-baseball-fan what's important about a given moment in baseball, is like trying to explain to a non-deadhead what was so great about one particular concert.
If you don't build the screen into the wall, preferably a touchscreen, what's the point?
I can understand the desire for a terminal in the kitchen. Even just for kitchen-related stuff -- I'm a complete zero as a cook, but if you put a recipe in front of me, I can follow it (so if the recipe is correct and complete, I can get great results). Having a terminal in the kitchen helps a lot. I guess the video player possibilities are nice there too.
I'd like a source for that type of switchplate, for some different things I have in mind.
I know all about tuning linux, thank you, far more than most old-school sysadmins. Among other knowledge, this is how I make my living.
But this is about tuning windows.
There are immediate gains to be had by turning off services -- they do have quite an obvious, easily measured impact on system efficacy for audio work -- but I suppose you are pointing out some consequences of going too far, turning off essential services gives diminishing returns and carries risks.
I still don't see the harm in trying it, and collecting empirical results. Have you ever tried to tune a P4 so that it will record 16 tracks of 24-bit audio, glitch-free? I mean, even if you do have SAWStudio or Samplitude or Cubase or PT, there are always tuning issues. Shame on us for trying to press general purpose PC equipment into service as a specialized device, but few other options are really economical.
"Sure it will operate, sort of. You can run a linux box with no daemons, either, but eventually shit will happen."
Well, I've got machines that are devoted to specific applications. One is dedicated to multitrack audio recording. Every little bit of performance or stability I can get out of that host is very valuable to me, and it only has to run one single application ever. Likewise, I have machines that serve a special purpose as musical instruments. This is one of the most CPU-intensive tasks I've ever crossed paths with. Again, even a very small gain in CPU performance or memory bandwidth is very valuable here as well.
In these situations, I am really, truly, not interested in any other applications. Maybe I'd like to have Explorer (not IE) running. And maybe enough of the networking devices to allow proxied web browsing. But that's about it, seriously.
"IF an airplane such as the 747 were to have pieces falling off of it I'm sure that the FAA would have a fit until the problem was fixed and keep it from flying."
When a 747 needs a shield that can withstand re-entry temperatures, that also must be lightweight enough to allow for a payload other than fuel and the heat shield, you'll have a good point to raise with NASA or the FAA.
"The jailing of somone simply being a suspect in a crime, IMHO, is the grossest form of injustice in the world today. "
It's on the list of gross injustices but it's a bit further down after "supporting a country that uses military force against another country on fraudulent justification". (Every leader of every nation on the planet that has a military force is guilty of this one.)
And that's right after "being the country that uses military force, etc..."
An agent of the state that would lie to a court should be behind bars. Families of rapist, killers, and savings & loan managers have families that need to eat too, but it does not really bother me if the reason they are hungry is because a parent is in prison for a crime.
I consider perjury by a police officer to be among the very worst possible crimes, because it undermines the entire system of law. Purposely weakening the system of law violates the social contract that, among other things, puts killers and rapists and bank managers in prison or on death row. A regular guy commits perjury, that's bad, but I don't think of it as a breakdown of the whole system. But when a lawyer or a police officer or a governing politician commits perjury, that's where the whole system ceases to have merit.
Tomorrow will be the 35th consecutive day of temperatures over 100F in Tucson. That's not as bad as it probably sounds in Maryland or Georgia. Yes, it's very damned hot (as high as 118F!), but evap coolers actually work... and you sort of have to want to live around here. Still I'll take 110 in Arizona over 89 in DC or Atlanta (all of which I've experienced recently.)
Anyway, I want to know how the Peltier cooler works in all different conditions of temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and altitude.
The doctrine that says "two wrongs don't make a right?" I don't know where you live, but I don't think any state has a law that justifies what you did. You were lucky the judge was sympathetic. There was a possibility that the original collision and the hit-and-run was accidental, but there was *no* argument that your subsequent hit was anything other than an intentional assault. You already had the means to go to the authorities (the license number of the vehicle that hit-and-ran you). You might have gotten a substantial award, especially if it was you attorney talking to the guy's --oops-- insurance company... it wouldn't have been "angry teenager versus 57-year-old man".
I'm glad you think it worked out for you, but you could have handled it better. FWIW, at 19, I would not have done any better. In fact, I had a similar situation. I was in my 1959 Chevy Impala. If you know anything about 50's cars, you know that they are basically a solid wall of steel. Not really very flexible, by comparison to cars of the 80s, and quite large and heavy. Well, I was driving along when some lady tears out of the Wyndham Hotel parking lot in some kind of Firebird. Plows directly into the rear quarter of my Impala. I heard the impact, but didn't really feel it. I'm thinking "oh shit, she bent my fin." So I pull forward, because I want to get a look at the damage, trade numbers, etc. Soon as I pull forward, the lady FLOORS her firebird (pretty impressive in a v-8 pontiac!) and races away from the scene. I could see that her (fiberglass) front end was totally destroyed, there were pieces of it on the ground. So I went to look at the damage to my car. A half-moon shaped crease about four inches long, with just a little bit of paint gone, right above the fender flare. Missed the wheel rim. Didn't touch any chrome. Didn't do any damage at all that you'd see from a distance. I was upset, but by the time I got home, I was laughing my ass off. That woman, or her boyfriend or her dad or whosever car that was, was going to have to deal with severe body damage. My insurance company would have met them halfway, provided they had a basic liability policy. Justice was done automatically.
I had an illegal turn that was, simply, impossible for me to have made, or even attempted to make, given the direction I was going. Basically, I'd been accused of driving on a road that does not exist. It was in writing, and had the DA not dismissed the ticket when I explained this, and had the police officer sworn to the facts as detailed in writing on the ticket, I was already prepared to ask that he be fired from the police force and to demand an investigation into a charge of perjury. It helped that I had a city council member on my side and had written letters to the council and the mayor explaining my position before I went to court. I believe the DA knew about this and had already been directed to dismiss my ticket. Yes, I was ready to go nukular over a $60 ticket, damn right. I still wish I could have been responsible for taking the badge away from a corrupt, lying cop. And don't you dare tell me anything about how his goddamned family has to eat.
"Except that this moves the time window to include more daylight hours, so you don't need to have your lights on. At least that is the theory."
Even if you're among the few whose offices have windows, you still run the climate control and the lights. Most places I've worked run them 24/7 anyway.
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> News stories mention these "al queda websites" all
> the time but I've never seen one, and the stories
> never mention the website address...
Is Arabic a native tongue of yours? Chances are you're just not looking in the right places.
That said, I've often wondered about things that are purported to be commonplace on the internet, yet I've never actually seen, in a lot of years of being heavily involved in the net.
But in this case, I think you'd have to be heavily into stuff like Arab language blogs and so on before you'd even be on the heuristic that would lead you to discover something like an el-queso site.
You just need a heat exchanger. A Zalman Reserator would probably work. But none of this matters if you don't have life-and-death loyalty from everyone with a password anyway.
"There's a reason that black-on-white has been a standard for readable text for.... let's see.... 4,000 years?"
On reflective media, I prefer black on white.
On incident media, I prefer a light cyan or green on a black background.
Identifying when baseball is exciting is not a trivial task, even for human cognitition. Trying to explain to a non-baseball-fan what's important about a given moment in baseball, is like trying to explain to a non-deadhead what was so great about one particular concert.
If you don't build the screen into the wall, preferably a touchscreen, what's the point?
I can understand the desire for a terminal in the kitchen. Even just for kitchen-related stuff -- I'm a complete zero as a cook, but if you put a recipe in front of me, I can follow it (so if the recipe is correct and complete, I can get great results). Having a terminal in the kitchen helps a lot. I guess the video player possibilities are nice there too.
I'd like a source for that type of switchplate, for some different things I have in mind.
You actually know someone with a CS degree from Berkeley who can't keep up with you on any of those topics? Or are you just guessing?
"So you can write anything into a contract and if the person signs it then that's binding"
No. An illegal clause is not binding, but it also won't void the entire contract. There are some rights you can sign away, and some you can't.
"Damn close to slavery."
Slavery doesn't usually give the kind of severance package the guy in the story got.
"Why did you sign it then?"
In this case, I'm sure the money was quite the motivation.
I know all about tuning linux, thank you, far more than most old-school sysadmins. Among other knowledge, this is how I make my living.
But this is about tuning windows.
There are immediate gains to be had by turning off services -- they do have quite an obvious, easily measured impact on system efficacy for audio work -- but I suppose you are pointing out some consequences of going too far, turning off essential services gives diminishing returns and carries risks.
I still don't see the harm in trying it, and collecting empirical results. Have you ever tried to tune a P4 so that it will record 16 tracks of 24-bit audio, glitch-free? I mean, even if you do have SAWStudio or Samplitude or Cubase or PT, there are always tuning issues. Shame on us for trying to press general purpose PC equipment into service as a specialized device, but few other options are really economical.
"Sure it will operate, sort of. You can run a linux box with no daemons, either, but eventually shit will happen."
Well, I've got machines that are devoted to specific applications. One is dedicated to multitrack audio recording. Every little bit of performance or stability I can get out of that host is very valuable to me, and it only has to run one single application ever. Likewise, I have machines that serve a special purpose as musical instruments. This is one of the most CPU-intensive tasks I've ever crossed paths with. Again, even a very small gain in CPU performance or memory bandwidth is very valuable here as well.
In these situations, I am really, truly, not interested in any other applications. Maybe I'd like to have Explorer (not IE) running. And maybe enough of the networking devices to allow proxied web browsing. But that's about it, seriously.
I'll RTFA and try it on music rigs.
"I guess aerodynamics during liftoff are not that big of a deal given the huge power the solid boosters provide..."
Next to thrust, aerodynamic control is *the* problem for getting into orbit!
"IF an airplane such as the 747 were to have pieces falling off of it I'm sure that the FAA would have a fit until the problem was fixed and keep it from flying."
When a 747 needs a shield that can withstand re-entry temperatures, that also must be lightweight enough to allow for a payload other than fuel and the heat shield, you'll have a good point to raise with NASA or the FAA.
"The TSA was a bad idea, it costs much more than the previous group of morons did, and don't do a better job than the last group of morons."
The "last group of morons" tended to be experienced people, with some background in security. It was not that easy to get an airport security job.
Today, airport security is an entry-level gig. For many of these people, it's their first job out of high school.
Why does Brazil have a law that makes marijuana illegal?
"The jailing of somone simply being a suspect in a crime, IMHO, is the grossest form of injustice in the world today. "
It's on the list of gross injustices but it's a bit further down after "supporting a country that uses military force against another country on fraudulent justification". (Every leader of every nation on the planet that has a military force is guilty of this one.)
And that's right after "being the country that uses military force, etc..."
>Not as much as the environment itself does, no.
So you won't mind if we use your drinking water source to store our mercury waste?
> Yeah don't his family have to eat?
An agent of the state that would lie to a court should be behind bars. Families of rapist, killers, and savings & loan managers have families that need to eat too, but it does not really bother me if the reason they are hungry is because a parent is in prison for a crime.
I consider perjury by a police officer to be among the very worst possible crimes, because it undermines the entire system of law. Purposely weakening the system of law violates the social contract that, among other things, puts killers and rapists and bank managers in prison or on death row. A regular guy commits perjury, that's bad, but I don't think of it as a breakdown of the whole system. But when a lawyer or a police officer or a governing politician commits perjury, that's where the whole system ceases to have merit.
Humans do not adversely affect the environment? Is that your premise?
Tomorrow will be the 35th consecutive day of temperatures over 100F in Tucson. That's not as bad as it probably sounds in Maryland or Georgia. Yes, it's very damned hot (as high as 118F!), but evap coolers actually work... and you sort of have to want to live around here. Still I'll take 110 in Arizona over 89 in DC or Atlanta (all of which I've experienced recently.)
Anyway, I want to know how the Peltier cooler works in all different conditions of temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and altitude.
"If an item is admitted as evidence, the court has to believe that it is accurate."
A jury is allowed to make that determination on its own. They are not automata.
>Guess who the cop believed.
The doctrine that says "two wrongs don't make a right?" I don't know where you live, but I don't think any state has a law that justifies what you did. You were lucky the judge was sympathetic. There was a possibility that the original collision and the hit-and-run was accidental, but there was *no* argument that your subsequent hit was anything other than an intentional assault.
You already had the means to go to the authorities (the license number of the vehicle that hit-and-ran you). You might have gotten a substantial award, especially if it was you attorney talking to the guy's --oops-- insurance company... it wouldn't have been "angry teenager versus 57-year-old man".
I'm glad you think it worked out for you, but you could have handled it better. FWIW, at 19, I would not have done any better. In fact, I had a similar situation. I was in my 1959 Chevy Impala. If you know anything about 50's cars, you know that they are basically a solid wall of steel. Not really very flexible, by comparison to cars of the 80s, and quite large and heavy. Well, I was driving along when some lady tears out of the Wyndham Hotel parking lot in some kind of Firebird. Plows directly into the rear quarter of my Impala. I heard the impact, but didn't really feel it. I'm thinking "oh shit, she bent my fin." So I pull forward, because I want to get a look at the damage, trade numbers, etc. Soon as I pull forward, the lady FLOORS her firebird (pretty impressive in a v-8 pontiac!) and races away from the scene. I could see that her (fiberglass) front end was totally destroyed, there were pieces of it on the ground. So I went to look at the damage to my car. A half-moon shaped crease about four inches long, with just a little bit of paint gone, right above the fender flare. Missed the wheel rim. Didn't touch any chrome. Didn't do any damage at all that you'd see from a distance. I was upset, but by the time I got home, I was laughing my ass off. That woman, or her boyfriend or her dad or whosever car that was, was going to have to deal with severe body damage. My insurance company would have met them halfway, provided they had a basic liability policy. Justice was done automatically.
"accurately distinguish between two moving cars at that far of a distance."
Your co-worker or the guy he was racing?
I had an illegal turn that was, simply, impossible for me to have made, or even attempted to make, given the direction I was going. Basically, I'd been accused of driving on a road that does not exist. It was in writing, and had the DA not dismissed the ticket when I explained this, and had the police officer sworn to the facts as detailed in writing on the ticket, I was already prepared to ask that he be fired from the police force and to demand an investigation into a charge of perjury. It helped that I had a city council member on my side and had written letters to the council and the mayor explaining my position before I went to court. I believe the DA knew about this and had already been directed to dismiss my ticket. Yes, I was ready to go nukular over a $60 ticket, damn right. I still wish I could have been responsible for taking the badge away from a corrupt, lying cop. And don't you dare tell me anything about how his goddamned family has to eat.
>Every year, in every country, laws change.
Not all laws require doublethink.
DST does.
"Except that this moves the time window to include more daylight hours, so you don't need to have your lights on. At least that is the theory."
Even if you're among the few whose offices have windows, you still run the climate control and the lights. Most places I've worked run them 24/7 anyway.
Oh I agree fully. My boss actually sent me a link to this thing, my response was the standard "take my 1988 Model M from my cold dead fingers" line.