I've had bags broken and broken into. I've locked them w/ zip ties, and provided spares with notes asking for them to kindly reseal the bag - and got a broken bag back w/ zipties removed.
I bought a bag of colored cable ties from jaycar, the idea being that I can at least tell if the bag has been opened. Based on your post I will continue to resist going to the USA. Its too much trouble for not enough return for me.
I think we should move to a system where your bags are inspected with you present before flying. Then the customs/security people can put a seal on the bag and there don't have to be any doubts about who opened what and when.
I am pretty cautious about sealing bags these days, particularly when flying to asia, but I think its pretty clear now that Corby's brother was carrying the stuff and her big mistake was to assume that her innocent young tourist act would get her off.
I guess you could manage a chuckle at my naivete. Yeah, I'm overstating my credulity in that post. In reality, I don't assume that either NASA or DOD are ever telling the whole truth about anything.
Neither do I but I think the ALH84001 episode showed that NASA would jump on any evidence of life on mars as justification for a future manned mission. Many of their press releases about the Mars Exploration Rovers have focused on evidence of conditions supportive of life. If there was anything to the Face I would expect NASA to be exploiting, not hiding the evidence.
I'm not saying there's any sort of conspiracy here, but I'm very suspicious of NASA and the DOD and believe that they are witholding important data regarding (past) life and civilizations on Mars.
Reversing the flow on a simple lightbulb shouldn't cause any problems and doesn't create a short in and of itself. Was it an LED light?
No, its incandesent, but that isn't the problem. This unit takes four AA cells but runs at three volts. It has two paralleled pairs of cells in series. Not thinking I put the cells in the "normal" way which meant that each pair was wired + to - in two very short loops.
The plastic coating melted off all four cells and the plastic case of the light softened with heat, deformed, and cooled.
When I was a teenager I used to fly model aircraft with friends and we had a few instances of nicads melting their way through the bottom of back packs, etc, when accidently shorted.
5 volts harkens back to the days of 7400 series TTL.
Seems a bit low for fans as well. I would be happy with a single 12V rail. A chip which wants a small feed of current at 3.3v can easily use a simple switchmode supply on the board.
This time around I have thought of something to say.
As we strive for higher energy density in our laptop computers, electric cars, mobile phones, etc; we are creating devices which can potentially release much of their stored energy in a short space of time. It doesn't have to be a chemical explosion. I have in my workshop a melted bicycle tail light and four cooked NiCD batteries from cycle commuting years past when I put two batteries in the wrong way and created a short circuit.
So IMHO battery/capacitor explosions are the way of the future, certainly much more than the backyard LPG explosions we get from time to time here in Australia (LPG is a cheap substitute for petrol, but a bit volatile.)
How is Alan Cox going with his hair? Is it growing back yet.
The whole pirate radio thing is about "fighting the Man"
There is nothing (or very little) to stop them from broadcasting on CB, and some people might actually listen. But as you point out, it has to be illegal to be attractive.
From reading the ALSJ I have come to the conclusion that a lot of what we hear comes to us by direct conduction through the ground, things we are sitting on, things we are touching, etc.
There are many examples of people operating machinery, vehicles and tools where the sounds were reported as heard and/or can be heard on the tapes recorded on the ground.
I always wonder what will happen when certain luminaries or leaders in Open Source die.
Its a serious problem, but possibly not for that reason. What happens if the estate of Alan Cox falls into the hands of his hypothetical evil lawyer brother who, realising that large chunks of the Linux kernel are in Alan's name, has a go at earning money from it.
I know that this can't happen the way the GPL is supposed to work, but I think it has to be considered as a risk that the GPL has never really been attacked by the original author (or inheritor) or the software itself.
What if the new owner finds a way to blackmail users of the kernel into paying for "their" copyrighted works? Should the developers of OSS think about assigning copyright to the FSF if/when they die?
There has been a lot of talk here in.au about our prime minister sucking to to GWB, particularly on environmental issues. Now there is talk of even GWB doing a U turn on energy policy. John Howard is going to look soooo stupid. I hope.
This would be great if it continues towards transhumanism. I really hope open source can help us towards the singularity. It really fits with the idea well.
Since the software and hardware which we use now are open source, to the extent that we understand them, it makes sense for our new infrastructure to be open as well.
Since I am getting on in age, I have decided to go it alone in this direction, since medical science won't be delivering any solutions to ageing in the next hundred years or so. Do you know if anybody is working in the direction you suggest? Most of my plans are for modelling, rather than AI systems, since AI, like fusion, is always 50 years off, and probably always will be.
RMS has been right before. Perhaps in 10 years most of us will be running HURD.
The fragmentation of copyright in the linux kernel is a very serious problem. Povray has similar issues and is being overtaken (partly) as a result. What if new issue comes up and Linus really does have to change the license? He is going to be stuck.
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I bought a bag of colored cable ties from jaycar, the idea being that I can at least tell if the bag has been opened. Based on your post I will continue to resist going to the USA. Its too much trouble for not enough return for me.
I think we should move to a system where your bags are inspected with you present before flying. Then the customs/security people can put a seal on the bag and there don't have to be any doubts about who opened what and when.
I am pretty cautious about sealing bags these days, particularly when flying to asia, but I think its pretty clear now that Corby's brother was carrying the stuff and her big mistake was to assume that her innocent young tourist act would get her off.
Have real jobs to do?
Don't tempt the yanks. It would make a terrible splash.
More to the point, it will be four pixels square.
Neither do I but I think the ALH84001 episode showed that NASA would jump on any evidence of life on mars as justification for a future manned mission. Many of their press releases about the Mars Exploration Rovers have focused on evidence of conditions supportive of life. If there was anything to the Face I would expect NASA to be exploiting, not hiding the evidence.
Please tell me you are fishing for a funny mod.
Unless you are trying to image something a couple of metres across, like a lander. Then the doubled resolution makes all the difference.
No, its incandesent, but that isn't the problem. This unit takes four AA cells but runs at three volts. It has two paralleled pairs of cells in series. Not thinking I put the cells in the "normal" way which meant that each pair was wired + to - in two very short loops.
The plastic coating melted off all four cells and the plastic case of the light softened with heat, deformed, and cooled.
When I was a teenager I used to fly model aircraft with friends and we had a few instances of nicads melting their way through the bottom of back packs, etc, when accidently shorted.
Seems a bit low for fans as well. I would be happy with a single 12V rail. A chip which wants a small feed of current at 3.3v can easily use a simple switchmode supply on the board.
This time around I have thought of something to say.
As we strive for higher energy density in our laptop computers, electric cars, mobile phones, etc; we are creating devices which can potentially release much of their stored energy in a short space of time. It doesn't have to be a chemical explosion. I have in my workshop a melted bicycle tail light and four cooked NiCD batteries from cycle commuting years past when I put two batteries in the wrong way and created a short circuit.
So IMHO battery/capacitor explosions are the way of the future, certainly much more than the backyard LPG explosions we get from time to time here in Australia (LPG is a cheap substitute for petrol, but a bit volatile.)
How is Alan Cox going with his hair? Is it growing back yet.
The site is not coming up. Did George die for real in a hail of referrals from slashdot?
I thought the old guy who makes keys for the back doors in the matrix was the best VR metaphor in the series.
There is nothing (or very little) to stop them from broadcasting on CB, and some people might actually listen. But as you point out, it has to be illegal to be attractive.
From reading the ALSJ I have come to the conclusion that a lot of what we hear comes to us by direct conduction through the ground, things we are sitting on, things we are touching, etc.
There are many examples of people operating machinery, vehicles and tools where the sounds were reported as heard and/or can be heard on the tapes recorded on the ground.
Its a serious problem, but possibly not for that reason. What happens if the estate of Alan Cox falls into the hands of his hypothetical evil lawyer brother who, realising that large chunks of the Linux kernel are in Alan's name, has a go at earning money from it.
I know that this can't happen the way the GPL is supposed to work, but I think it has to be considered as a risk that the GPL has never really been attacked by the original author (or inheritor) or the software itself.
What if the new owner finds a way to blackmail users of the kernel into paying for "their" copyrighted works? Should the developers of OSS think about assigning copyright to the FSF if/when they die?
Kent Brockman, obviously.
china > belgium
There has been a lot of talk here in .au about our prime minister sucking to to GWB, particularly on environmental issues. Now there is talk of even GWB doing a U turn on energy policy. John Howard is going to look soooo stupid. I hope.
I personally find sea kayaking to be a pretty nausiating sport but I keep going back to it.
Yes but no amount of training will save them from sea sickness on the way out. Exposure does that. She should be ok on her third or fourth flight.
Were you thinking: Farmer in the Sky?
I am sorry she is having such a hard time. It would be a shame if she blows $20M and is sick the whole time.
Since the software and hardware which we use now are open source, to the extent that we understand them, it makes sense for our new infrastructure to be open as well.
Since I am getting on in age, I have decided to go it alone in this direction, since medical science won't be delivering any solutions to ageing in the next hundred years or so. Do you know if anybody is working in the direction you suggest? Most of my plans are for modelling, rather than AI systems, since AI, like fusion, is always 50 years off, and probably always will be.
If OJ and that guy from Law and Order turned up on the plane going over he would have cause to worry.
Beat me to it
RMS has been right before. Perhaps in 10 years most of us will be running HURD.
The fragmentation of copyright in the linux kernel is a very serious problem. Povray has similar issues and is being overtaken (partly) as a result. What if new issue comes up and Linus really does have to change the license? He is going to be stuck.