You mean like me, a foreign national, living and working in the US? Nothing stops me getting a drivers license (In fact, I already have one in Washington state.), and I'd be silly to get on a domestic plane without my passport anyway.
Washington State has already told the feds that our State Constitution specifically precludes RealID and that since this has nothing to do with interstate commerce, they will not be implementing it.
You'll be fine, just show them your WA drivers license, cover over the bar code, and tell them to "Get Off My Lawn, Punks!"
That's what we Washingtonians do.
"Live Free or the Salmon gets it!" (official Washington State motto)
Washington State, where I live, which has a State Constitution that says you have a right to privacy, has already told the feds that there will be no Real ID implementation in our state, and the feds can go take a leap off the nearest bridge.
And, since this has zilch to do with interstate commerce, we will win in the Supreme Court.
* The federal government is going to issue a federal ID card
The feds will issue some federal ID cards.
* It is going to be absolutely mandatory for everyone to get one
It is not mandatory for anyone who is 50 or older in 2012 to get one. Which means I and the majority of the Boomer population won't have one. Because we hate the man, man.
* Because everyone is supposed to have one at all times, we will face strict penalties for not having in on you
Except for those of us who are Boomers, who will treat the rest of you as serfs. We are a special class of citizens who impose a rule on the rest of you, as our two-tier society continues down the path towards the Master-Serf relationship.
It's our software - the insecurities they "fix" are for component software bundles that aren't used by our users. E.g. IE7, calendar software, things that literally are not run.
Besides, we already run them behind firewalls and port blockers. You can't even access most ports without a specific IP address we've unblocked. And even the ones that are non-specific are block ranges only viable for specific user accounts that aren't on those machines.
I think the heat recycling aspect itself shows some promise, and the design being built into the chip, but we have to consider that the same kind of designers that use these are just as likely to push the chip beyond the capabilities in terms of the total heat reduction for the system.
People who tend to overclock or use overclocked chips, will frequently push the envelope even further if they think they can get away with it.
Good points. Most people don't realize that virtually all Down's Syndrome subjects eventually will develop Dementia, and then die (fairly young).
Anything that helps with symptoms for said patients is probably a good thing, even if it doesn't "cure" the underlying problem.
One hopes that the drug is useful for Dementia for AD, DS, and other related problems - even if it doesn't cure someone, if it can keep them more functional and less demented, the risk might be far less than the reward.
The current process is flawed, but stop whining that your rights were violated when in fact they were not. You consent to the search when you enter the security area. If you don't want to be searched, don't enter the checkpoint. You can't get on the plane without going through the checkpoint but flying isn't a right. If you don't like the airport searches, there are other methods to get to your destination that may be less convenient but don't involve such security measures.
No, we have this thing called the Constitution.
You can't take Rights away, you can only illegally infringe them, as the TSA does.
Is there a single person with Alzheimer's Disease and a life expectancy > 40 years? Somehow I think that's an acceptable risk.
No.
The average person with Probable Alzheimer's Disease status (there is no such thing as certain, until we take your brain and slice it and stain it, actually) has a life expectancy, even if they got early onset AD at around age 40, of at most 20 years.
The problem mostly is that we're still dealing with symptoms and not with the underlying mechanistic fault that causes AD.
For example, we're investigating various drugs that remove plaque in the brain, but the problem arises that we don't have anything that actually corrects the mechanism which creates the plaque in the first place. And most of the treatments are moderately risky so far.
I never proposed running high-speed rail lines across the very unpopulated center of the country.
I could see them - once Eastern and Western high speed rail is built (takes years) - extend rail along the southern more populated regions.
But realistically, it would be better to do them one line at a time - just as Europe has done with lines such as TGV, TGV2, and so on. And one segment at a time. Most travel patterns are not that far, so if you have a high speed rail line trunk in the East and West, and eventually the South, you use air travel to infill the rest.
When I travel in Europe I fly in to one airport and take the high speed trains between cities - sometimes leaving from a different airport on my return flight, sometimes from the same airport. The same would occur for US travel.
If you look at the I-5 corridor from Vancouver BC to San Diego CA you'd find that the density levels along that route are as high as most of the areas that France, Germany, Spain, etc have built high speed rail in.
Spending more money on planes when our air lanes are already having problems with congestion is obviously not the right choice.
And the energy use is much lower with such trains.
So, just because you are used to 6-10mbps speeds and the rest of Europe and Asia uses 20mbps (even Canada has higher than us), it's OK to not point out that there are many MILLIONS of people in the US who can get much much faster speeds on Internet2.
Why?
It's like the cell phone that orders products I saw at CES last night - it has features that have existed in Japan for most of this century. So it's not "new". It's just "new to the US".
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You mean like me, a foreign national, living and working in the US? Nothing stops me getting a drivers license (In fact, I already have one in Washington state.), and I'd be silly to get on a domestic plane without my passport anyway.
Washington State has already told the feds that our State Constitution specifically precludes RealID and that since this has nothing to do with interstate commerce, they will not be implementing it.
You'll be fine, just show them your WA drivers license, cover over the bar code, and tell them to "Get Off My Lawn, Punks!"
That's what we Washingtonians do.
"Live Free or the Salmon gets it!" (official Washington State motto)
Correct.
Washington State, where I live, which has a State Constitution that says you have a right to privacy, has already told the feds that there will be no Real ID implementation in our state, and the feds can go take a leap off the nearest bridge.
And, since this has zilch to do with interstate commerce, we will win in the Supreme Court.
nah, we'll just disrobe right there.
You forget we grew up with nudist camps and the Woodstock, man!
Now get off my lawn, punk!
* The federal government is going to issue a federal ID card
The feds will issue some federal ID cards.
* It is going to be absolutely mandatory for everyone to get one
It is not mandatory for anyone who is 50 or older in 2012 to get one. Which means I and the majority of the Boomer population won't have one. Because we hate the man, man.
* Because everyone is supposed to have one at all times, we will face strict penalties for not having in on you
Except for those of us who are Boomers, who will treat the rest of you as serfs. We are a special class of citizens who impose a rule on the rest of you, as our two-tier society continues down the path towards the Master-Serf relationship.
It's our software - the insecurities they "fix" are for component software bundles that aren't used by our users. E.g. IE7, calendar software, things that literally are not run.
Besides, we already run them behind firewalls and port blockers. You can't even access most ports without a specific IP address we've unblocked. And even the ones that are non-specific are block ranges only viable for specific user accounts that aren't on those machines.
I agree that it's just a heat pump.
But it's integrated into the actual chip design, which does improve its basic operational efficiency.
I for one welcome our new Boomer overlords and ... oh, wait, I was born in 1960 and am one of the new Real ID ignoring overlords.
Bow down before your masters, peons!
Let me see your papers, serfs!
(ok, now who's going to do the Soviet Amerika obligatory reference?)
Some of our dual-boot machines aren't used in the Windows configuration very often.
Why bother dual booting over to Windows just to download security patches when the last time someone ran Windows on that box was in 2006?
We in dual-boot land call them "driver downgrades".
Just look at the "fixes" in MS Office 2003 in the last SP.
Those removed the ability to open older spreadsheet formats we still have data stored in, so we had to roll them back.
And most of the fixes were already done when we switched to the more secure Firefox as our default browser and got rid of all Outlook instances.
Can I use the excess heat from my P4 to produce the energy for my p4?
Only if you use IPv6 on the motherboard and IPv4 on the daughterboard.
I think the heat recycling aspect itself shows some promise, and the design being built into the chip, but we have to consider that the same kind of designers that use these are just as likely to push the chip beyond the capabilities in terms of the total heat reduction for the system.
People who tend to overclock or use overclocked chips, will frequently push the envelope even further if they think they can get away with it.
By law, retaining and using this information is a felony.
So, while some national chains may think this is a great idea, they'd better start getting themselves fitted for orange jumpsuits, IMHO.
Good points. Most people don't realize that virtually all Down's Syndrome subjects eventually will develop Dementia, and then die (fairly young).
Anything that helps with symptoms for said patients is probably a good thing, even if it doesn't "cure" the underlying problem.
One hopes that the drug is useful for Dementia for AD, DS, and other related problems - even if it doesn't cure someone, if it can keep them more functional and less demented, the risk might be far less than the reward.
How can it be interstate commerce if I'm visiting my relatives in Santa Barbara and am not selling anything?
(he waits for the next reply from the Fear Mongers who hate the Constitution and our Rights - while some of us (like the parent post) don't)
I was going to use NaCl, but I thought Hydrochloric Acid would be much more fun.
By the way, don't use dihydroxide, it's poison!
The current process is flawed, but stop whining that your rights were violated when in fact they were not. You consent to the search when you enter the security area. If you don't want to be searched, don't enter the checkpoint. You can't get on the plane without going through the checkpoint but flying isn't a right. If you don't like the airport searches, there are other methods to get to your destination that may be less convenient but don't involve such security measures.
No, we have this thing called the Constitution.
You can't take Rights away, you can only illegally infringe them, as the TSA does.
(1) we could use the money saved to build high-speed passenger rail too.
As former military with experience with explosives, security, terrorism, etc, I agree with the first two items.
Total waste of time scanning shoes. And the liquids thing is also a waste of time.
Basically, triage it. The method you use today has already been worked around and is no longer useful, quite frankly.
Creatine is another inexpensive drug that has amazing positive effects on PTSD and Alcoholism, for example.
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Drug usage by large numbers of patients means we have a lot of literature on side effects and dosage levels of course.
So it's not bad that many people use it.
But I too agree that I don't buy the hype that it's the best thing since sliced bagels
Is there a single person with Alzheimer's Disease and a life expectancy > 40 years? Somehow I think that's an acceptable risk.
No.
The average person with Probable Alzheimer's Disease status (there is no such thing as certain, until we take your brain and slice it and stain it, actually) has a life expectancy, even if they got early onset AD at around age 40, of at most 20 years.
The scientific discussion is still ongoing, IMHO.
The problem mostly is that we're still dealing with symptoms and not with the underlying mechanistic fault that causes AD.
For example, we're investigating various drugs that remove plaque in the brain, but the problem arises that we don't have anything that actually corrects the mechanism which creates the plaque in the first place. And most of the treatments are moderately risky so far.
I never proposed running high-speed rail lines across the very unpopulated center of the country.
I could see them - once Eastern and Western high speed rail is built (takes years) - extend rail along the southern more populated regions.
But realistically, it would be better to do them one line at a time - just as Europe has done with lines such as TGV, TGV2, and so on. And one segment at a time. Most travel patterns are not that far, so if you have a high speed rail line trunk in the East and West, and eventually the South, you use air travel to infill the rest.
When I travel in Europe I fly in to one airport and take the high speed trains between cities - sometimes leaving from a different airport on my return flight, sometimes from the same airport. The same would occur for US travel.
If you look at the I-5 corridor from Vancouver BC to San Diego CA you'd find that the density levels along that route are as high as most of the areas that France, Germany, Spain, etc have built high speed rail in.
Spending more money on planes when our air lanes are already having problems with congestion is obviously not the right choice.
And the energy use is much lower with such trains.
Actions speak a whole lot louder than words.
I've been to more than 40 countries - my brother to more than 70.
I've ridden on the local transit systems in most of them.
The reality is the ground has changed. Companies will adapt - or die.
Righhht.
So, just because you are used to 6-10mbps speeds and the rest of Europe and Asia uses 20mbps (even Canada has higher than us), it's OK to not point out that there are many MILLIONS of people in the US who can get much much faster speeds on Internet2.
Why?
It's like the cell phone that orders products I saw at CES last night - it has features that have existed in Japan for most of this century. So it's not "new". It's just "new to the US".