>I think these are in place. Last time I saw a flight map for a city, there were huge no fly circles around it. I'm not a pilot but I think that's been around for a while.
Except in very specific cases (most of them TFRs, with a few permanent restrictions, specifically IIRC, Washington D.C.) there are no restrictions about flying over cities. According to FAR 91.119, you must be 1000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2000 feet (obviously, except when conducting landing or take-off operations at a designated airport). In addition, you need to be in contact within any the controlling agency while within controlled airspace. For example, I can fly over Seattle, at or above about 2100 feet AGL, as long as I am below the overlying class B airspace, without talking to anyone or even filing a flight plan.
No, it will blow away most cars in terms of acceleration. Performance includes many other factors; top speed, handling, endurance, etc. The standard Lotus Exige beats the Tesla in all areas other than acceleration (for example, handling on the Tesla is crippled by tyres designed for low rolling resistance, rather than maximum grip which would reduce range further).
>IIRC in England they tried to run a doctor out of town because her job title said "paeditrician"
I was going to call BS on this because it didn't pass the sniff test; people could not possibly be that stupid. However, a quick Google search confirmed that there is a sustantial basis of truth in your statement. I would like to correct you in that this particular event took place in Wales rather than England, but part of the United Kingdom nevertheless. Shaking my head in shame and dismay...
I like Windows (XP). Having said that, let me expound further. I like Windows as a desktop operating system both at home and work because all of the software that I want to run is readily available. I like to run OpenBSD for my bastion hosts (DNS, SMTP, etc.) at work because it's light-weight, secure and so, so seldom needs patching. IMHO, it has a very high ROI. I also have RedHat ES and *cough* Windows 2003|8 servers.
Over the years, I've used Solaris, HP-UX, various flavours of BSD, LINUX and Windows, and the simple truth is, that desite Open Source's huge strides forward in usability and simplicity, Windows is a simpler (note that I didn't say better) choice for the majority of workstation users.
Is this the programme that rednecks all across America have been hoping for. Trading in all of those cars on the front lawn for a brand spanking new Caddy (with a gun-rack, obviously:)
I've been in head on collision with a drunk driver at a combined speed of 110 MPH. The drunk driver simply swerved into my across my side of the road on a state highway in Idaho. Only one of us was wearing a seat belt (I'll let you guess which one).
It may be true in the rural areas of the US that the risk of an alchohol related accident is lower "at an hour when nobody is on the road", but in most urban areas this is never true.
Having sat in the county courthouse for a day waiting to testify at the trial of the now-drooling-brain-damaged-idiot that ran into me, and listening to the lame execuses that other drunk drivers gave, I can honestly say that I have zero tolerance for drunk driving. It's a great way to seriously mess up your life, and those of others who simply have the misfortune to be in your path.
I believe that this applies to single cash transactions of > $10k, or multiple smaller transaction that equal or exceed 10k over a specified period of time. Also, only the following companies are required to report these transaction:
1. Wired a L14-30R into the main panel on a 30 amp breaker. 2. Made a male-male 10AWG extension cord.
The process in a power failure is:
1. Kill the main breaker to isolate the house from utility power. 2. Connect the generator to the main panel with the extension cord. 3. Fire up the generator.
When power comes back on:
1. Kill the generator. 2. Disconnect the extension cord. 3. Flip the main breaker on.
Obviously, there are some risks about having a male to male extension cord and potentially over-volting the panel if you fail to isolate from utility power, so a great deal of caution should be used. This was a "1-hour-to-implement solution", but if you have the time and money, a transfer switch (even just a manual one) is the way to go.
The article is taking about performing a DoD compliant data destruction on this disks, rather than he has taken DoD disks and 'reused' them.
Good data destruction techniques are something that any company which values is IP or customer data will perform on a disk prior to disposal. Data desposed of in this manner cannot, in theory, be recovered.
A casualty is not the same as a fatality. The source of all truth, Wikipedia, defines it as a person who is killed or injured in war or a disaster. In the UK, the equivalent to the ER department at a hospital is normally referred to as the casualty department, where they don't just deal with dead people. Also, the US military and emergency services perform CASEVACs (casualty evacuations), which is the movement of injured or dead persons from an area of danger to the first line of medical care.
Even if the government could offer some form of protection online, I'd be a fool not to protect my own network to the best of my abilities. Using Jonathan Zittrain's logic from TFA, doors must be ineffecient and wasteful too; obviously he has never heard of the concept of defense in depth.
Driving should be the primary activity. You're piloting a large caliber bullet, and your focus should be on being safe and courteous; any other activity that reduces that focus should be deferred. I can't think of a single phone call in my entire life that couldn't have waited a few minutes.
But it won't be the story as Robert Jordan intended it. It might be good, but the reader will never know if the conclusion is the one that the original author was steering the story towards. Still, at least it will bring to a close the longest running book series since the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Sigh! I know, but an analysis of the probable intersect between the sets of "Slashdot users who read the thread", "Slashdot users who read the linked article" and "Slashdot users who post" would have been tedious. Besides which, 99% of all statistics are made up on the spot, including this one.
At the time of posting this, there were like, 10 comments in the thread. Assuming that only 10% of all/.ers RTFA, that means that the site can support only 1 simultaneous user.
For SAS missions in Gulf War 1, (taken from information about the much publicized bravo-two-zero mission), the standard load-out was about 200lbs of gear per man. Add a 170lb soldier and you start getting pretty close to the maximum payload. Ammo (particularly 7.62mm link) is pretty heavy, so is water (need lots in the desert, obviously). The regular British infantry soldier carries about 60lb in a ruck-sack, 30lb of web gear, a 10lb personal weapon, plus whatever other crap they're issuing these days. This is for a soldier that only expects to have to survive for about 2 days without resupply. Deep insertion missions can go for weeks.
In this case, I think 'irony' is the appropriate term, although possibly not for the reason that the poster of the GP thinks. The irony here is that the behaviour is different from what one would expect from a judge; it is a coincidence that the judge is presiding on an obscentity case.
SSL is not a transport protocol and does not conceal any information except the application layer. The IP (network layer) information is needed for routing your packets, and the TCP (transport layer) information is needed to determine to which port on the remote server you are trying to connect. Once you have completed the TCP handshake to create the socket connection, your application can begin to negotiate a secure protocol, such as SSL.
It is generally said that a man who represents himself in court has a fool for a client. Coincidentally, the same could be said of any other attorney representing the esteemed Mr. Thompson, Esq.
>Well, now I am FORCED to download movies illegally
A load of crap. How is it that you are forced to do anything with a product that is non-essential to support life. Is your family going to stave or lose their home if you don't download movies? You choose to do it, simple as that. You have other alternatives, such as buy a cheap DVD player ($50), rent the movie at Blockbuster ($2), your payback is about 3 movies, assuming that you only buy one ticket for each movie that you would have otherwise gone to see.
Yeah, I'm just not seeing that gun pointing at your head.
I personally hate the movie-theater experience (queues, sticky floor and seats, high levels of ambient noise, unbalanced volume levels - even in THX certified cinemas, and a camera operator that won't pause the movie when I want to go to the bathroom) which is why I have invested in a decent home theater system. I just means that I have to excercise a little patience and wait for new releases to come out on DVD or Blu-ray.
As a helicopter pilot, Prince Andrew flew operational missions in the 1982 Falklands war. IIRC, his job was to make his helicopter a more attractive target than HMS Invincible to an Exocet missile. I think this also counts as putting his arse on the line.
The key point that you are missing is that the treaty must be made 'under the authority of the United States'. As a private citizen, you do not have the authority to enter into a treaty on behalf of the US Federal government.
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>I think these are in place. Last time I saw a flight map for a city, there were huge no fly circles around it. I'm not a pilot but I think that's been around for a while.
Except in very specific cases (most of them TFRs, with a few permanent restrictions, specifically IIRC, Washington D.C.) there are no restrictions about flying over cities. According to FAR 91.119, you must be 1000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2000 feet (obviously, except when conducting landing or take-off operations at a designated airport).
In addition, you need to be in contact within any the controlling agency while within controlled airspace.
For example, I can fly over Seattle, at or above about 2100 feet AGL, as long as I am below the overlying class B airspace, without talking to anyone or even filing a flight plan.
No, it will blow away most cars in terms of acceleration. Performance includes many other factors; top speed, handling, endurance, etc. The standard Lotus Exige beats the Tesla in all areas other than acceleration (for example, handling on the Tesla is crippled by tyres designed for low rolling resistance, rather than maximum grip which would reduce range further).
>IIRC in England they tried to run a doctor out of town because her job title said "paeditrician"
I was going to call BS on this because it didn't pass the sniff test; people could not possibly be that stupid. However, a quick Google search confirmed that there is a sustantial basis of truth in your statement. I would like to correct you in that this particular event took place in Wales rather than England, but part of the United Kingdom nevertheless. Shaking my head in shame and dismay...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/901723.stm
I like Windows (XP). Having said that, let me expound further. I like Windows as a desktop operating system both at home and work because all of the software that I want to run is readily available.
I like to run OpenBSD for my bastion hosts (DNS, SMTP, etc.) at work because it's light-weight, secure and so, so seldom needs patching. IMHO, it has a very high ROI. I also have RedHat ES and *cough* Windows 2003|8 servers.
Over the years, I've used Solaris, HP-UX, various flavours of BSD, LINUX and Windows, and the simple truth is, that desite Open Source's huge strides forward in usability and simplicity, Windows is a simpler (note that I didn't say better) choice for the majority of workstation users.
It called an annual subscription. $36 per year gets you all the Pandora you want sans advertising.
It amazes me that people see more value in an ad blocker for ad supported products like Pandora than they do for the product itself.
Stop being cheap and start supporting innovative companies and products.
Is this the programme that rednecks all across America have been hoping for. Trading in all of those cars on the front lawn for a brand spanking new Caddy (with a gun-rack, obviously :)
I've been in head on collision with a drunk driver at a combined speed of 110 MPH. The drunk driver simply swerved into my across my side of the road on a state highway in Idaho. Only one of us was wearing a seat belt (I'll let you guess which one).
It may be true in the rural areas of the US that the risk of an alchohol related accident is lower "at an hour when nobody is on the road", but in most urban areas this is never true.
Having sat in the county courthouse for a day waiting to testify at the trial of the now-drooling-brain-damaged-idiot that ran into me, and listening to the lame execuses that other drunk drivers gave, I can honestly say that I have zero tolerance for drunk driving. It's a great way to seriously mess up your life, and those of others who simply have the misfortune to be in your path.
It's stupid. Don't do it.
I believe that this applies to single cash transactions of > $10k, or multiple smaller transaction that equal or exceed 10k over a specified period of time. Also, only the following companies are required to report these transaction:
- banks
- securities companies
- money services companies
- casinos
- gem/precious metal dealers
- insurance companies
Notably, car dealers are not on this list...
See the federal Bank Secrecy Act - http://www.fincen.gov/
I took a similar approach.
1. Wired a L14-30R into the main panel on a 30 amp breaker.
2. Made a male-male 10AWG extension cord.
The process in a power failure is:
1. Kill the main breaker to isolate the house from utility power.
2. Connect the generator to the main panel with the extension cord.
3. Fire up the generator.
When power comes back on:
1. Kill the generator.
2. Disconnect the extension cord.
3. Flip the main breaker on.
Obviously, there are some risks about having a male to male extension cord and potentially over-volting the panel if you fail to isolate from utility power, so a great deal of caution should be used. This was a "1-hour-to-implement solution", but if you have the time and money, a transfer switch (even just a manual one) is the way to go.
The article is taking about performing a DoD compliant data destruction on this disks, rather than he has taken DoD disks and 'reused' them.
Good data destruction techniques are something that any company which values is IP or customer data will perform on a disk prior to disposal. Data desposed of in this manner cannot, in theory, be recovered.
A casualty is not the same as a fatality. The source of all truth, Wikipedia, defines it as a person who is killed or injured in war or a disaster. In the UK, the equivalent to the ER department at a hospital is normally referred to as the casualty department, where they don't just deal with dead people. Also, the US military and emergency services perform CASEVACs (casualty evacuations), which is the movement of injured or dead persons from an area of danger to the first line of medical care.
git - Noun:
Brit slang a contemptible person [from get (in the sense: to beget, hence a bastard, fool)]
Do we really need a torrent that facilitates easy distribution of these people?
Even if the government could offer some form of protection online, I'd be a fool not to protect my own network to the best of my abilities. Using Jonathan Zittrain's logic from TFA, doors must be ineffecient and wasteful too; obviously he has never heard of the concept of defense in depth.
Driving should be the primary activity. You're piloting a large caliber bullet, and your focus should be on being safe and courteous; any other activity that reduces that focus should be deferred. I can't think of a single phone call in my entire life that couldn't have waited a few minutes.
But it won't be the story as Robert Jordan intended it. It might be good, but the reader will never know if the conclusion is the one that the original author was steering the story towards. Still, at least it will bring to a close the longest running book series since the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Check out StarDock's Gamers' Bill of Rights. http://www.stardock.com/about/newsitem.asp?id=1095
Sins of a Solar Empire is an excellent RTS game, with frequent major updates.
Sigh! I know, but an analysis of the probable intersect between the sets of "Slashdot users who read the thread", "Slashdot users who read the linked article" and "Slashdot users who post" would have been tedious. Besides which, 99% of all statistics are made up on the spot, including this one.
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At the time of posting this, there were like, 10 comments in the thread. Assuming that only 10% of all /.ers RTFA, that means that the site can support only 1 simultaneous user.
For SAS missions in Gulf War 1, (taken from information about the much publicized bravo-two-zero mission), the standard load-out was about 200lbs of gear per man. Add a 170lb soldier and you start getting pretty close to the maximum payload. Ammo (particularly 7.62mm link) is pretty heavy, so is water (need lots in the desert, obviously). The regular British infantry soldier carries about 60lb in a ruck-sack, 30lb of web gear, a 10lb personal weapon, plus whatever other crap they're issuing these days. This is for a soldier that only expects to have to survive for about 2 days without resupply. Deep insertion missions can go for weeks.
In this case, I think 'irony' is the appropriate term, although possibly not for the reason that the poster of the GP thinks. The irony here is that the behaviour is different from what one would expect from a judge; it is a coincidence that the judge is presiding on an obscentity case.
SSL is not a transport protocol and does not conceal any information except the application layer. The IP (network layer) information is needed for routing your packets, and the TCP (transport layer) information is needed to determine to which port on the remote server you are trying to connect. Once you have completed the TCP handshake to create the socket connection, your application can begin to negotiate a secure protocol, such as SSL.
It is generally said that a man who represents himself in court has a fool for a client. Coincidentally, the same could be said of any other attorney representing the esteemed Mr. Thompson, Esq.
>Well, now I am FORCED to download movies illegally
A load of crap. How is it that you are forced to do anything with a product that is non-essential to support life. Is your family going to stave or lose their home if you don't download movies? You choose to do it, simple as that. You have other alternatives, such as buy a cheap DVD player ($50), rent the movie at Blockbuster ($2), your payback is about 3 movies, assuming that you only buy one ticket for each movie that you would have otherwise gone to see.
Yeah, I'm just not seeing that gun pointing at your head.
I personally hate the movie-theater experience (queues, sticky floor and seats, high levels of ambient noise, unbalanced volume levels - even in THX certified cinemas, and a camera operator that won't pause the movie when I want to go to the bathroom) which is why I have invested in a decent home theater system. I just means that I have to excercise a little patience and wait for new releases to come out on DVD or Blu-ray.
As a helicopter pilot, Prince Andrew flew operational missions in the 1982 Falklands war. IIRC, his job was to make his helicopter a more attractive target than HMS Invincible to an Exocet missile. I think this also counts as putting his arse on the line.
The key point that you are missing is that the treaty must be made 'under the authority of the United States'. As a private citizen, you do not have the authority to enter into a treaty on behalf of the US Federal government.