Do you really want the idiots in D.C. telling you how your computer must work? Ask anyone doing IT related stuff under the DoD -- their own security policies cause more outages and problems than anything else. Those policies are from people who supposedly know what's what. Now put clueless politicians in charge.
You DON'T want this, no matter how much you like government control of your lives.
You mean the same machines that we're repeatedly told cannot save images? The ones people don't like because of the privacy invasion and the answer is always "the machines cannot save images"?
If enforced to the letter, this serves only to drive most product advertising and support services off the web, shut down thousands of hobby sites, and shutter eCommerce.
I think it's more likely to push most of it (at least the product advertising and support, and ecommerce -- hobby sites are probably screwed) to shell companies and hosting solutions overseas.
If you don't like the way we do it, do it yourself.
Isn't that kind of the point of things being open? That you don't have to agree with the way things are done -- you have the source, change/fix/fork it yourself.
In other words -- non-story. Those that want this specific tool (black, white,or grey hat) will know how to get it. It's not like anyone capable of using such tools cannot handle tar, make, and make install.
Being held for 72 hours? I've been held longer on trumped up crap until people with working brain cells looked at the situation. Annoying, yes, but it's not the end of the world, and it's worth it not to cave in to authority just because some asshole has a badge. Or in the TSA's case, assholes with an embroidered badge-shaped-logo on their shirts.
Of course, it's not possible that NorTel and Bell Canada could have installed paging equipment in the bunker. It's not like those were two big phone companies that know a thing or two about paging. No, it has to be because the paging signals could penetrate it.
Unfortunately it seems that many email validation scripts these days wrongly reject the "+" character for some reason.
Two reasons: 1) The folks writing those scripts don't know that "+" is an accepted character. 2) The folks writing those scripts decided to reject it to prevent you from using tags to tell that they've sold your email address.
Incompetence or Malice, run the razor whichever way you choose.
You didn't read the article, at all, did you? This isn't about the unit, it's about the unit being based on a physical object, that happens to be changing. The proposal is to replace the physical reference with a mathematical definition. And it's an international proposal.
In short, summary fail.
Because you decided to go on a rant based on a bad summary, your rant makes you look like an idiot.
Because hardware "is hard". The bulk of the arduino crowd doesn't really want to play with hardware, they want to buy kits and write some glue code for premade libraries and pretend like they know microcontrollers.
Means to an end, and all that. They're more concerned with what they can do with it than how they accomplish it.
I've always heard it as "If you write your code as cleverly as possible, then you're not capable of debugging it" -- which I'm sure is also a misquote.
You mean like all 6 gas stations here in a town of 4000 people? (Interstate on the edge of town with 4 stations located right next to it (and avoided by most of the town residents because of the traffic), the other two are "in town" and usually a bit cheaper)
And then there's the various rail depots out in the countryside catering to farmers, which consist of a small grain elevator, a few large diesel tanks (mostly diesel labeled "for offroad use only" which isn't taxed as high, but usually one "road-use" tank), and if you're lucky, a loading dock.
The only stinky, noisy, and smoke-spewing diesels I see fall into two categories: a) old & poorly maintained engines, and b) pickups owned by rednecks who think belching black smoke and making noise is "cool".
That is only important if you're trying to cut CO2. Otherwise, in the more practical day-to-day use of "How often will I have to fill up if my daily driving distance is X miles and the tank holds Y gallons", MPG is much more important than any measure of crap coming out the exhaust.
I love the question asking if you're planning on overthrowing the government.
I am tempted to write in "I regularly vote for a different set of idiots than those currently in office".
Of course, if your answer to that one really is that you intend to do so, and you lie, do you really care about being charged with lying? It seems to me that you'd either be hoping to succeed, in which case it wouldn't matter, or you wouldn't care much anymore after failing and probably opening yourself up to much more serious charges.
We use computers every day to track, monitor, validate, and secure data that is WAY more sensitive than "who i voted for" - half the people around you put a goddamned bumper sticker on their car or sign on their lawn so you KNOW who they fucking voted for, for christ's sake.
Nothing gets put on my car, and the only signs in my yard are those I get paid to have there -- and yes, I have actually had people pay to put their candidate's sign out front. Stupid people, since the neighbors let them put one up for free, but they're working for politicians, so calling them stupid is rather redundant. Having a sign in my yard is not an endorsement, or saying I'm going to vote for them. All it means is that someone was dumb enough to pay to stick a sign in my yard for a couple weeks.
I also happily talk to exit poll takers. I don't usually tell them the truth. So I find it amusing that exit polls are taken as gospel and proof that something isn't kosher. Then again, I also know for a fact that the local election board is crooked and that nothing going on behind their doors is kosher (they're willing to break voting laws in front of you, and when asked why they don't stop the behavior, local law enforcement says "we can't do anything about it since we can't afford to have our funds cut because of a political pissing match".
In short, who I vote for is none of your damn business, and some of us take that very seriously.
And I also know a lot of people with dishes, and most of them have needed it repositioned every year or two, depending on the weather. Your anecdotes don't make mine wrong.
None of which addresses the biggest issue, which is the idiot installers. Cut down on the time they require, and have a system that does a better job at the same time.
True, they don't need to move. Except when an ice storm loads enough ice up to move it. Or wind moves it. Or the idiot installer couldn't be bothered to point it correctly the first time. Or the neighborhood kids decide to repeatedly throw basketballs at it. Or any of a dozen other ways that crap happens and you need to re-point the dish.
Being able to more securely mount it in "roughly" the right direction, and electronically "point" the array would be a big advantage.
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I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that bureaucracy never makes things better, and adding politics to the mix makes it even worse.
Do you really want the idiots in D.C. telling you how your computer must work? Ask anyone doing IT related stuff under the DoD -- their own security policies cause more outages and problems than anything else. Those policies are from people who supposedly know what's what. Now put clueless politicians in charge.
You DON'T want this, no matter how much you like government control of your lives.
I suspect it's "All Points Bulletin" -- and given the looks of the game (rubbish), random letters might have been a better choice.
Skip the blogspam, go to the source: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/homepage2006/tinyfont/index.html
As usual, xkcd time: http://www.xkcd.com/779/
You mean the same machines that we're repeatedly told cannot save images? The ones people don't like because of the privacy invasion and the answer is always "the machines cannot save images"?
Who is actually surprised by this?
If enforced to the letter, this serves only to drive most product advertising and support services off the web, shut down thousands of hobby sites, and shutter eCommerce.
I think it's more likely to push most of it (at least the product advertising and support, and ecommerce -- hobby sites are probably screwed) to shell companies and hosting solutions overseas.
What bad PR? Verizon isn't doing the blocking. Any bad PR would be properly directed to wikipedia.
If you don't like the way we do it, do it yourself.
Isn't that kind of the point of things being open? That you don't have to agree with the way things are done -- you have the source, change/fix/fork it yourself.
In other words -- non-story. Those that want this specific tool (black, white,or grey hat) will know how to get it. It's not like anyone capable of using such tools cannot handle tar, make, and make install.
Don't have kids, so that is a non issue.
Being held for 72 hours? I've been held longer on trumped up crap until people with working brain cells looked at the situation. Annoying, yes, but it's not the end of the world, and it's worth it not to cave in to authority just because some asshole has a badge. Or in the TSA's case, assholes with an embroidered badge-shaped-logo on their shirts.
Of course, it's not possible that NorTel and Bell Canada could have installed paging equipment in the bunker. It's not like those were two big phone companies that know a thing or two about paging. No, it has to be because the paging signals could penetrate it.
Unfortunately it seems that many email validation scripts these days wrongly reject the "+" character for some reason.
Two reasons:
1) The folks writing those scripts don't know that "+" is an accepted character.
2) The folks writing those scripts decided to reject it to prevent you from using tags to tell that they've sold your email address.
Incompetence or Malice, run the razor whichever way you choose.
Name a successful social policy from the last century. One that isn't full of fraud and abuse. Or bankrupt.
You didn't read the article, at all, did you? This isn't about the unit, it's about the unit being based on a physical object, that happens to be changing. The proposal is to replace the physical reference with a mathematical definition. And it's an international proposal.
In short, summary fail.
Because you decided to go on a rant based on a bad summary, your rant makes you look like an idiot.
Because hardware "is hard". The bulk of the arduino crowd doesn't really want to play with hardware, they want to buy kits and write some glue code for premade libraries and pretend like they know microcontrollers.
Means to an end, and all that. They're more concerned with what they can do with it than how they accomplish it.
The same part that has people confused about "shall not be infringed".
People don't know what "no" means anymore; from spoiled kids to congress, "no" is just one of those words that means "you can probably do it anyway".
I've always heard it as "If you write your code as cleverly as possible, then you're not capable of debugging it" -- which I'm sure is also a misquote.
Only once a defensive player is attempting to make a play on you.
You mean like all 6 gas stations here in a town of 4000 people? (Interstate on the edge of town with 4 stations located right next to it (and avoided by most of the town residents because of the traffic), the other two are "in town" and usually a bit cheaper)
And then there's the various rail depots out in the countryside catering to farmers, which consist of a small grain elevator, a few large diesel tanks (mostly diesel labeled "for offroad use only" which isn't taxed as high, but usually one "road-use" tank), and if you're lucky, a loading dock.
The only stinky, noisy, and smoke-spewing diesels I see fall into two categories: a) old & poorly maintained engines, and b) pickups owned by rednecks who think belching black smoke and making noise is "cool".
That is only important if you're trying to cut CO2. Otherwise, in the more practical day-to-day use of "How often will I have to fill up if my daily driving distance is X miles and the tank holds Y gallons", MPG is much more important than any measure of crap coming out the exhaust.
And at some point, you need to realize that your kids are grown and can make their own decisions about what is or is not best for them.
I love the question asking if you're planning on overthrowing the government.
I am tempted to write in "I regularly vote for a different set of idiots than those currently in office".
Of course, if your answer to that one really is that you intend to do so, and you lie, do you really care about being charged with lying? It seems to me that you'd either be hoping to succeed, in which case it wouldn't matter, or you wouldn't care much anymore after failing and probably opening yourself up to much more serious charges.
We use computers every day to track, monitor, validate, and secure data that is WAY more sensitive than "who i voted for" - half the people around you put a goddamned bumper sticker on their car or sign on their lawn so you KNOW who they fucking voted for, for christ's sake.
Nothing gets put on my car, and the only signs in my yard are those I get paid to have there -- and yes, I have actually had people pay to put their candidate's sign out front. Stupid people, since the neighbors let them put one up for free, but they're working for politicians, so calling them stupid is rather redundant. Having a sign in my yard is not an endorsement, or saying I'm going to vote for them. All it means is that someone was dumb enough to pay to stick a sign in my yard for a couple weeks.
I also happily talk to exit poll takers. I don't usually tell them the truth. So I find it amusing that exit polls are taken as gospel and proof that something isn't kosher. Then again, I also know for a fact that the local election board is crooked and that nothing going on behind their doors is kosher (they're willing to break voting laws in front of you, and when asked why they don't stop the behavior, local law enforcement says "we can't do anything about it since we can't afford to have our funds cut because of a political pissing match".
In short, who I vote for is none of your damn business, and some of us take that very seriously.
And I also know a lot of people with dishes, and most of them have needed it repositioned every year or two, depending on the weather. Your anecdotes don't make mine wrong.
None of which addresses the biggest issue, which is the idiot installers. Cut down on the time they require, and have a system that does a better job at the same time.
True, they don't need to move. Except when an ice storm loads enough ice up to move it. Or wind moves it. Or the idiot installer couldn't be bothered to point it correctly the first time. Or the neighborhood kids decide to repeatedly throw basketballs at it. Or any of a dozen other ways that crap happens and you need to re-point the dish.
Being able to more securely mount it in "roughly" the right direction, and electronically "point" the array would be a big advantage.