Plate scanning systems are just a fast way to do what repo folks have been doing for years.
But if too many uses for registration plates are found people with less to lose will just start making their own plates. Some of those people presumably have experience in the field anyway;)
The amazing thing is that so many buildings remained standing with an earthquake that size.
Maybe because they have so many big quakes these are the few buildings which were built strong enough not to fall down. More natural selection rather than intelligent design. We just need to find a way for buildings to breed...
Oh okay so the mirror is fixed to the structure of the telescope but the telescope is on an azimuth-altitude mount or similar and it kind of hangs from the mount so it can swing around if it needs to. Makes sense.
Actually, reports seem to indicate that they did fairly well.
Yeah I read a long time ago that they have an emergency warning system tied to telephones so they can broadcast messages to people quickly through the phone system. They seem quite organised.
secure it to the telescope’s support structure... is designed to swing during an earthquake
So is the mirror free to move, or is it locked to the structure? The first would make sense for a small quake. The latter might be better in a big quake.
I think the GP means the telescopes get more protection than the people of Chile. Expressing it differently: its too early to be discussing the telescopes. For all we know there could be 10000 people dead, given that communications are spotty.
Maybe a high altitude balloon combined with a gliding aerial bomb. High wing loading, low LD. The idea is the glider hangs below the balloon. When it crosses the continent it most likely will not go near a target worth hitting, but from 10km altitude it might be able to glide to such a target. Use a cell phone for remote guidance.
Didn't the US develop a plan for things like then when they were at war with the Japanese?
I have to shut it down because hibernation uses the battery and I need that power to last all the way to work.
Standby uses battery to continually refresh the memory. Hibernation dumps the memory to disk and powers down. There is no battery consumption save whatever is needed to run the clock.
Why would you reboot a Linux machine? There isn’t a new kernel that often...
I walk to the tram stop. Its at the end of the line so the tram stops there for a while. I validate my ticket. Find a seat. Take my eeepc 701 out of its bag. I have to shut it down because hibernation uses the battery and I need that power to last all the way to work. I start to boot it up. A cafe near the tram stop has free wifi so I can check/. from there. But before ubuntu boots up the tram moves off.
So you see, if linux booted faster I could get free wifi.
And it conducts. A guy I used to work with showed me a picture of his four wheel drive Land Rover immersed in a river almost to the roof with the winch pulling the car along. Nice, clean river water with few charge carriers.
These jackoffs would have us believe it's going to cost $180 million to replace some bullshit law enforcement database software that's 20 years old?
We don't know what that software does. Thats why its called the Secret Service. My guess is that nothing will be delivered for less than 300 million USD. And yeah I do work on large civil/military projects, though on the European side.
Ah. So you will just port all their data from their old proprietary database system to a new proprietary database. Piece of cake.
You would need a security clearance for starters. Then the software would have to be developed to US Federal/Military standards. Maybe that requires CMMI-5 these days. So there's certification of the development processes, auditing and QA.
I think we are talking 100E6 USD before any code is actually written.
Plenty of nine-track tape was still in use on mainframes in the 1980s.
Yes, I did backups at work on 9 track well into the 1990s. Admittedly we were late for an upgrade then. The coating used to come off on the heads on the old tapes. Cleaning was a chore.
At my current job I rescued an old 9 track tape which was going to be left behind for the cleaners when we moved offices. Its at my desk right now. Maybe somebody will come looking for it one day.
The traffic signal system called SCATS was like that. It was hand assembled in PDP 11 machine code. There was business logic built into device drivers to get around executable image size issues. The people who wrote (more like built) it knew it inside out. They were just lucky to get it ported before those guys retired.
Where I work we have a hundred or so DEC DS10s and big, expensive LCD screens. The other day we had a really big storm over the city. Water pooled on the roof, cascaded down the air conditioning ducts and poured out over all our gear. It was a waterfall, literally. So we hit the breakers and people are inspecting the systems but it looks mostly okay.
Once at a tram stop in Melbourne I noticed the guts of a phone beside the road. It looked like it had been run over enough times to push it sideways into the tram stop. I scouted around for a bit and found the battery and cover.
It powered up okay so I searched the sent and received calls to try to identify the owner. Everybody puts "Home" in their phone book but this started with +60 which made sense because this was near the university. I wasn't going to call this students parents in Malaysia and tell them I had found their kid's phone smashed to bits on road in Melbourne so I picked the most commonly called local number and got the girls boyfriend.
He passed my details to the owner and I dropped it at her apartment, not that it was going to be much use to her apart from recovering the SIM.
Damn those white iPhones. Once at the summit of Mount Stirling in Victoria, Australia I saw these guys madly digging in the snow. One of them had pushed his ski pole into the snow and it came up without the plastic basket. New baskets are cheap but skiing to the shop without one would be a PITA.
The basket they lost was white. Now when I replace mine I don't buy white ones.
Its almost as if particles with no rest mass have their own entropy free universe which occupies the same space as ours. I could imagine virtual particles with mass existing for a time along side the steady state universe, like the virtual particles which make up the zero point field.
But it is easier to imagine that there is a symmetry in that some particles appear with increasing entropy, and others appear with decreasing entropy, so that the two add up to nothing.
This sounds like the steady state theory. Back then Hoyle was pushing it the idea was that mass comes from nowhere continuously. In this idea entropy just appears in a quiet universe for no reason.
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Plate scanning systems are just a fast way to do what repo folks have been doing for years.
But if too many uses for registration plates are found people with less to lose will just start making their own plates. Some of those people presumably have experience in the field anyway ;)
The amazing thing is that so many buildings remained standing with an earthquake that size.
Maybe because they have so many big quakes these are the few buildings which were built strong enough not to fall down. More natural selection rather than intelligent design. We just need to find a way for buildings to breed...
Oh okay so the mirror is fixed to the structure of the telescope but the telescope is on an azimuth-altitude mount or similar and it kind of hangs from the mount so it can swing around if it needs to. Makes sense.
Actually, reports seem to indicate that they did fairly well.
Yeah I read a long time ago that they have an emergency warning system tied to telephones so they can broadcast messages to people quickly through the phone system. They seem quite organised.
secure it to the telescope’s support structure ... is designed to swing during an earthquake
So is the mirror free to move, or is it locked to the structure? The first would make sense for a small quake. The latter might be better in a big quake.
I think the GP means the telescopes get more protection than the people of Chile. Expressing it differently: its too early to be discussing the telescopes. For all we know there could be 10000 people dead, given that communications are spotty.
Maybe a high altitude balloon combined with a gliding aerial bomb. High wing loading, low LD. The idea is the glider hangs below the balloon. When it crosses the continent it most likely will not go near a target worth hitting, but from 10km altitude it might be able to glide to such a target. Use a cell phone for remote guidance.
Didn't the US develop a plan for things like then when they were at war with the Japanese?
There is still theatre defence I suppose. Depends on the skills of the people available to your enemy.
I have to shut it down because hibernation uses the battery and I need that power to last all the way to work.
Standby uses battery to continually refresh the memory. Hibernation dumps the memory to disk and powers down. There is no battery consumption save whatever is needed to run the clock.
Maybe thats what it is doing then.
Why would you reboot a Linux machine? There isn’t a new kernel that often...
I walk to the tram stop. Its at the end of the line so the tram stops there for a while. I validate my ticket. Find a seat. Take my eeepc 701 out of its bag. I have to shut it down because hibernation uses the battery and I need that power to last all the way to work. I start to boot it up. A cafe near the tram stop has free wifi so I can check /. from there. But before ubuntu boots up the tram moves off.
So you see, if linux booted faster I could get free wifi.
Salt water, on the other hand...
That is mostly because salt water corrodes.
And it conducts. A guy I used to work with showed me a picture of his four wheel drive Land Rover immersed in a river almost to the roof with the winch pulling the car along. Nice, clean river water with few charge carriers.
These jackoffs would have us believe it's going to cost $180 million to replace some bullshit law enforcement database software that's 20 years old?
We don't know what that software does. Thats why its called the Secret Service. My guess is that nothing will be delivered for less than 300 million USD. And yeah I do work on large civil/military projects, though on the European side.
Ah. So you will just port all their data from their old proprietary database system to a new proprietary database. Piece of cake.
You would need a security clearance for starters. Then the software would have to be developed to US Federal/Military standards. Maybe that requires CMMI-5 these days. So there's certification of the development processes, auditing and QA.
I think we are talking 100E6 USD before any code is actually written.
Plenty of nine-track tape was still in use on mainframes in the 1980s.
Yes, I did backups at work on 9 track well into the 1990s. Admittedly we were late for an upgrade then. The coating used to come off on the heads on the old tapes. Cleaning was a chore.
At my current job I rescued an old 9 track tape which was going to be left behind for the cleaners when we moved offices. Its at my desk right now. Maybe somebody will come looking for it one day.
The traffic signal system called SCATS was like that. It was hand assembled in PDP 11 machine code. There was business logic built into device drivers to get around executable image size issues. The people who wrote (more like built) it knew it inside out. They were just lucky to get it ported before those guys retired.
Can you convert that into a more familiar unit, like Library of Congresses?
You know the Library of Congresses is a pretty reliable machine. Does anybody know what its downtime is?
Where I work we have a hundred or so DEC DS10s and big, expensive LCD screens. The other day we had a really big storm over the city. Water pooled on the roof, cascaded down the air conditioning ducts and poured out over all our gear. It was a waterfall, literally. So we hit the breakers and people are inspecting the systems but it looks mostly okay.
Salt water, on the other hand...
Is it really you posting?
I don't think so.
Once at a tram stop in Melbourne I noticed the guts of a phone beside the road. It looked like it had been run over enough times to push it sideways into the tram stop. I scouted around for a bit and found the battery and cover.
It powered up okay so I searched the sent and received calls to try to identify the owner. Everybody puts "Home" in their phone book but this started with +60 which made sense because this was near the university. I wasn't going to call this students parents in Malaysia and tell them I had found their kid's phone smashed to bits on road in Melbourne so I picked the most commonly called local number and got the girls boyfriend.
He passed my details to the owner and I dropped it at her apartment, not that it was going to be much use to her apart from recovering the SIM.
Damn those white iPhones. Once at the summit of Mount Stirling in Victoria, Australia I saw these guys madly digging in the snow. One of them had pushed his ski pole into the snow and it came up without the plastic basket. New baskets are cheap but skiing to the shop without one would be a PITA.
The basket they lost was white. Now when I replace mine I don't buy white ones.
Its almost as if particles with no rest mass have their own entropy free universe which occupies the same space as ours. I could imagine virtual particles with mass existing for a time along side the steady state universe, like the virtual particles which make up the zero point field.
But it is easier to imagine that there is a symmetry in that some particles appear with increasing entropy, and others appear with decreasing entropy, so that the two add up to nothing.
If photons can be created and destroyed how can they not have time?
This sounds like the steady state theory. Back then Hoyle was pushing it the idea was that mass comes from nowhere continuously. In this idea entropy just appears in a quiet universe for no reason.
Extract from ls -l /etc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10788 2009-07-31 23:55 login.defs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 599 2008-10-09 18:11 logrotate.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3844 2009-10-09 01:36 lsb-base-logging.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97 2009-10-20 10:44 lsb-release
But mac users go wild over big hard drives.