It might not be as slow as you think. I've pushed a 35 ton boat around by hand rather easily on the water and I imagine in microgravity the behavior of moving massive objects like that would be similar. HOWEVER the strapping down would be rather unsafe as that kind of weight would do your body a world of hurt if you got hung up on it with your feet strapped down - or at least you'd end up a LOT taller:) Another thing to keep in mind is any massive object coming back at you - don't let yourself get pinned. Not only could that 35 ton boat have pretty much torn me apart pulling it would have crushed me to death if it pushed me against a solid object.
You seem to have forgotten this is slashdot where people masturbate over the comments rather than reading the articles......
(I'm not immune to that - unf unf unf.....)
To be honest hydroponics is probably the best solution for the GMO especially if they can contain the chemicals to get rid of them in a safe way instead of just dumping them into the ground. I have no issue with anybody wanting to grow GMO IF they can do so in a RESPONSIBLE manner. I also would like to have them labelled so I can choose if I want to eat it or not. Cross pollination needs to be minimized so we can avoid having organic crops contaminated. Of course this would never happen since it would cost more. Although the cost of growing GMO corn is hidden quite a bit due to various subsidies that make the livestock feed made from it cheaper to buy than the cost to produce it. Not to mention the ethanol/fuel uses which also are hiding the costs, again due to subsidies.
I had a commercial Road Runner account while living in an apartment back when T1 lines were the big business lines at around $2000 a month. I was paying more like $150 a month for guaranteed 1Meg/768K. Like your setup at that time the node wasn't shared and I had the only commercial connection in the complex. If a site I was connected to supported it my download speed was limited to the 10Meg port on my router....:)
HAH! Friend of mine is involved with ATMS (Advanced Traffic Management System) and the county and state having issues at shared intersections with the state wanting the lights controlled with some overpriced systems that won't talk to anything and the county wanting stuff that can be MANAGED (funny how they even have that word in the description of the system they're implementing) but looks like the state may actually play along finally realizing what they're getting out of the deal. BUT we'll see. Overall I'd love to see when all the ATMS is lit up in all the counties that are doing it. Might not hear as many traffic reports about the "Car Strangled Spanner" with some of the bridges during rush hour. Unlikely but hey at least when traffic is moving it might move smoother:)
I don't know if Intel still does this (but no reason to suspect otherwise) but they used to often sell internally used computers to their employees dirt cheap. However they weren't necessarily the boards that were sent out to the market and thus could be more like engineering tests. I hated getting a call into the helpdesk from Intel employees where the first thing they said is they'd just bought this machine for personal use from the company.......
Kel-Tec makes several models. I owned a P-40 which a number of people whined in forums was unreliable but there were plenty of us who had no problem. I used the "pinkie" extender on the clips to get a better grip because it was very unforgiving of anything resembling "limp-wristing" and would stovepipe in a heartbeat if you didn't have a firm grip. My understanding was the 9mm version was less picky which is why a lot of cops carried it as a backup weapon. I don't know too many cops that would carry a weapon they knew was unreliable.....
Incidentally the bullets I had in it while carrying were Corbon 135 gr JHP which I NEVER ONCE had a single issue firing them out of that gun - they just were awfully pricey for on the range but I'd run a couple clips through every trip to be sure it was happy in case I needed to depened on that weapon. Cheap target rounds were typically where I had issues and I ended up swapping to a different set of springs if I was going to run much of that through it which solved that. But once you got around 200 rounds through that gun in one range session my wrists tended to hurt so I typically only ran a couple clips through:) That's one reason why I consolidated to mostly just 1911 style.45 in recent years.
If it's truly justifiable then innocent lives are being saved which is much better than seeing actual murder rates going up. I'd rather see the bad guys buy it any day than seeing especially kids and old people getting murdered.
The purpose of the law was to allow people to "stand your ground" to defend themselves rather than have to attempt to "retreat" and just get shot down doing so. Unfortunately the reports are that law was supposedly interpreted by the initial officers as applying in the Martin/Zimmerman case even though at this point even Zimmerman's lawyer admits it doesn't apply. But there are an awful lot of people who want to use this as an excuse to just revoke any rights the general populace has to defend themselves. One moron who wants to play vigilante shouldn't be a reason to keep people from legitimately defending themselves any more than one drunk driver should be a reason nobody can drive....
I miss the old HeathKit stuff. Used to drool over catalogs and magazines with that stuff in there wishing $3 an hour or so would let me afford that stuff.
Yeah I did a LOT of installs from the Mid '80s on using mostly Wyse 50 or 60 terminals hanging off SCO boxes ( back when SCO was a real company not a lawsuit factory)
And I was supporting software running on old SCO boxes 20 years later that still only ran nicely with Wyse 60 emulation instead of the default VT100 that so much terminal software assumed everything liked. I think it was in the mid-90's that I started replacing the WY60 terminals with emulators as it ended up being cheaper to run that over TCP/IP instead of hanging a terminal off a multi-port serial card. But for a long time one of my disaster backup plans had a couple locations stocked with the old terminals in case a hurricane took out our main office.
Never used any of the newer line of terminals so can't say how good or bad they were but the old Wyse terminals worked great for a LONG time....
I'm rather unclear exactly WHAT has been hacked as it's not the actual voting data. I've verified that with people who worked with the system. It's definitely not normal to have any data easy to get to so it should cause an increased effort at security but nothing has been compromised that would affect any actual votes. One theory is that a test system of some sort got compromised. The fact that it's called a "Florida" database is mystifying as well since it's all county by county. If he's getting into some county's test system then that system needs to be secured.
Actually while they're few and far between there are still some old time employees at Radio Shack that know what they're talking about and hate the way it's deteriorated. They've made 3 major mistakes in refcent years.
1) Getting rid of commission.
2) Focusing almost entirely on cellphones with eveyrhing else just being a reason to get people in to buy cellphones.
3) Attempting to be a "big box" store in far too small of a store.....
There's an awful lot of potential left if they can pick the right market.
Radio Shack has (or had) a larger footprint than the kiosks so they were a HUGE outlet for Sprint especially and they often have deals the kiosks don't because of that. Also the Radio Shack serivce plans weren't oo bad of a deal unless they've changed them since I worked there as they typically were less than the cost of a replcement battery and you could get a new battery once a year. So there were advantages to going to Radio Shack for phones rather than the kiosks.
On the other hand it was rather miserable the way they degraded to wanting to just push only cell phones. We still had a few people coming in once or twice a week to pick up various parts out of the small selection we still carried and they don't exactly appreciate being asked a couple times a week if they're ready to upgrade. If they can seriously revive the DIY stuff it will be interesting.
Long term unemployement thanks to our wonderful economy has wiped out my savings along with many other people. I'd love to see you try to live on 90% of what I made last year - had unemployment benefit of just over $200 a week. After unemployment has ran out most of the temp and part time jobs I've gotten have paid even less. People keep telling me I need to move someplace that has better possibilities of work but I simply can't aford to move. I went for over a year without a single interview. The economy may inded be improving as I'm starting to get occasional interviews now but if it's for a tech job especially my age is working against me.
What about when it's been unseasonably cold for this time of year MULTIPLE times?
I live on the border of a sub-tropical zone and we keep getting record periods of time in recent years of cold weather. So where's MY global warming????
Citrus crops frozen and winter harvests frozen so more food has to come in from South America at higher costs. Where's MY global warming?????
In the past couple years I've had to buy more long pants, long sleeve shirts and a COAT not just a jacket but a COAT!!!!!
Where's MY global warming??????
Interestingly enough I had a cop show up before saying somebody had dialed 911 and we didn't even have a landline installed in the house at the time so that OBVIOUSLY had to be a glitch on the line or confusion in the CO. The officer was quite surprised when I informed her that we didn't have a phone in the house so couldn't possibly have called 911. She gave a phone number that I'd never heard of and I told her the two cell phone numbers we had and she shrugged, radioed in to dispatch and left....
Actually America has always been the place where millions of the poorest have come as we've always needed cheap labor - until recently when we started shifting most of that stuff overseas. The slogan "Give me your tired, your poor" etc. in many respects was almost a billboard proclaiming "We need cheap labor" But that's what built this country so not really a bad thing as many of those people eventually made decent lives for themselves even if they didn't get filthy rich. You're looking at our history through rose-colored glasses. Our history is actually pretty grimy and our current troubles are not anything we can't prevail over. I also love how so many people like to throw around the word "democracy" as if we truly live in one when we actually have a REPUBLIC. A true democracy is something our government would fear. Although Thomas Jefferson would probably have liked it......:)
You've not been at Radio Shack in quite a while have you? They used to collect addresses for their mailings but stopped that some years back. I love Slashdotters policy of commenting without checking the facts.....:)
A little harshly worded but a pretty good summary. For basic purchases no info is collected although the zip code is optionally taken for marketing data like many stores do. For warranties it's a good idea to give valid name and address in case you lose your receipt so it can be looked up if you ever need to make a claim on the warranty. If you pay with a check though full address and such is taken so if the check bounces they can try to collect on it.
A long time a go in a galaxy far, far away Radio Shack DID collect addresses for the purpose of mailing out flyers. HOWEVER most people gave them the address of the White House so they stopped that a LONG time ago...........
Airliners have redundancy on critical systems. Getting a hit on a critical system from a rifle is more luck than skill on a target moving that quickly. If they ever DO start shooting at airliners the odds are what will happen is planes will land with a hole or two in them. Even if they have multiple people shooting at a plane at the same time the worst that would probably happen is you might end up with a couple of people injured and MAYBE a person or two killed but it would be HIGHLY unlikely they could take down the plane. We've had instances of criminals shooting at spotter planes as police were closing in on them and even occasionally hitting a pilot or observer but not shooting down a plane and those are small 2 passenger private planes. What are the odds a terrorist will have better luck?
Unless they hit both the pilot and the co-pilot the plane would still be able to land. A single person firing at an airliner with a rifle, even a.50 cal, isn't going to shoot it down. Even if they managed to hit a critical system there's redundancy in the critical systems. Some years back an airliner I believe going to Hawaii had a large section of the roof peel off and it made an emergency landing. Even with a small Cessna I recently read about where an escaped convict with a large caliber weapon fired at the spotter aircraft as the ground units were converging. He eventually hit the pilot and the observer had to assist in landing the plane but the plane was intact. Incidentally the pilot survived. A few small holes in the plane aren't going to make it crash - they're not THAT fragile......
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It might not be as slow as you think. I've pushed a 35 ton boat around by hand rather easily on the water and I imagine in microgravity the behavior of moving massive objects like that would be similar. HOWEVER the strapping down would be rather unsafe as that kind of weight would do your body a world of hurt if you got hung up on it with your feet strapped down - or at least you'd end up a LOT taller :) Another thing to keep in mind is any massive object coming back at you - don't let yourself get pinned. Not only could that 35 ton boat have pretty much torn me apart pulling it would have crushed me to death if it pushed me against a solid object.
You seem to have forgotten this is slashdot where people masturbate over the comments rather than reading the articles...... (I'm not immune to that - unf unf unf.....)
To be honest hydroponics is probably the best solution for the GMO especially if they can contain the chemicals to get rid of them in a safe way instead of just dumping them into the ground. I have no issue with anybody wanting to grow GMO IF they can do so in a RESPONSIBLE manner. I also would like to have them labelled so I can choose if I want to eat it or not. Cross pollination needs to be minimized so we can avoid having organic crops contaminated. Of course this would never happen since it would cost more. Although the cost of growing GMO corn is hidden quite a bit due to various subsidies that make the livestock feed made from it cheaper to buy than the cost to produce it. Not to mention the ethanol/fuel uses which also are hiding the costs, again due to subsidies.
I had a commercial Road Runner account while living in an apartment back when T1 lines were the big business lines at around $2000 a month. I was paying more like $150 a month for guaranteed 1Meg/768K. Like your setup at that time the node wasn't shared and I had the only commercial connection in the complex. If a site I was connected to supported it my download speed was limited to the 10Meg port on my router.... :)
HAH! Friend of mine is involved with ATMS (Advanced Traffic Management System) and the county and state having issues at shared intersections with the state wanting the lights controlled with some overpriced systems that won't talk to anything and the county wanting stuff that can be MANAGED (funny how they even have that word in the description of the system they're implementing) but looks like the state may actually play along finally realizing what they're getting out of the deal. BUT we'll see. Overall I'd love to see when all the ATMS is lit up in all the counties that are doing it. Might not hear as many traffic reports about the "Car Strangled Spanner" with some of the bridges during rush hour. Unlikely but hey at least when traffic is moving it might move smoother :)
I don't know if Intel still does this (but no reason to suspect otherwise) but they used to often sell internally used computers to their employees dirt cheap. However they weren't necessarily the boards that were sent out to the market and thus could be more like engineering tests. I hated getting a call into the helpdesk from Intel employees where the first thing they said is they'd just bought this machine for personal use from the company.......
And sadly that is the issue that doesn't seem to be looked at nearly as in depth as it should be.
Kel-Tec makes several models. I owned a P-40 which a number of people whined in forums was unreliable but there were plenty of us who had no problem. I used the "pinkie" extender on the clips to get a better grip because it was very unforgiving of anything resembling "limp-wristing" and would stovepipe in a heartbeat if you didn't have a firm grip. My understanding was the 9mm version was less picky which is why a lot of cops carried it as a backup weapon. I don't know too many cops that would carry a weapon they knew was unreliable..... Incidentally the bullets I had in it while carrying were Corbon 135 gr JHP which I NEVER ONCE had a single issue firing them out of that gun - they just were awfully pricey for on the range but I'd run a couple clips through every trip to be sure it was happy in case I needed to depened on that weapon. Cheap target rounds were typically where I had issues and I ended up swapping to a different set of springs if I was going to run much of that through it which solved that. But once you got around 200 rounds through that gun in one range session my wrists tended to hurt so I typically only ran a couple clips through :) That's one reason why I consolidated to mostly just 1911 style .45 in recent years.
If it's truly justifiable then innocent lives are being saved which is much better than seeing actual murder rates going up. I'd rather see the bad guys buy it any day than seeing especially kids and old people getting murdered.
The purpose of the law was to allow people to "stand your ground" to defend themselves rather than have to attempt to "retreat" and just get shot down doing so. Unfortunately the reports are that law was supposedly interpreted by the initial officers as applying in the Martin/Zimmerman case even though at this point even Zimmerman's lawyer admits it doesn't apply. But there are an awful lot of people who want to use this as an excuse to just revoke any rights the general populace has to defend themselves. One moron who wants to play vigilante shouldn't be a reason to keep people from legitimately defending themselves any more than one drunk driver should be a reason nobody can drive....
I miss the old HeathKit stuff. Used to drool over catalogs and magazines with that stuff in there wishing $3 an hour or so would let me afford that stuff.
Yeah I did a LOT of installs from the Mid '80s on using mostly Wyse 50 or 60 terminals hanging off SCO boxes ( back when SCO was a real company not a lawsuit factory) And I was supporting software running on old SCO boxes 20 years later that still only ran nicely with Wyse 60 emulation instead of the default VT100 that so much terminal software assumed everything liked. I think it was in the mid-90's that I started replacing the WY60 terminals with emulators as it ended up being cheaper to run that over TCP/IP instead of hanging a terminal off a multi-port serial card. But for a long time one of my disaster backup plans had a couple locations stocked with the old terminals in case a hurricane took out our main office. Never used any of the newer line of terminals so can't say how good or bad they were but the old Wyse terminals worked great for a LONG time....
Can I borrow a rowboat? I always wanted to take over a country.......
I'm rather unclear exactly WHAT has been hacked as it's not the actual voting data. I've verified that with people who worked with the system. It's definitely not normal to have any data easy to get to so it should cause an increased effort at security but nothing has been compromised that would affect any actual votes. One theory is that a test system of some sort got compromised. The fact that it's called a "Florida" database is mystifying as well since it's all county by county. If he's getting into some county's test system then that system needs to be secured.
Actually while they're few and far between there are still some old time employees at Radio Shack that know what they're talking about and hate the way it's deteriorated. They've made 3 major mistakes in refcent years. 1) Getting rid of commission. 2) Focusing almost entirely on cellphones with eveyrhing else just being a reason to get people in to buy cellphones. 3) Attempting to be a "big box" store in far too small of a store..... There's an awful lot of potential left if they can pick the right market.
Radio Shack has (or had) a larger footprint than the kiosks so they were a HUGE outlet for Sprint especially and they often have deals the kiosks don't because of that. Also the Radio Shack serivce plans weren't oo bad of a deal unless they've changed them since I worked there as they typically were less than the cost of a replcement battery and you could get a new battery once a year. So there were advantages to going to Radio Shack for phones rather than the kiosks. On the other hand it was rather miserable the way they degraded to wanting to just push only cell phones. We still had a few people coming in once or twice a week to pick up various parts out of the small selection we still carried and they don't exactly appreciate being asked a couple times a week if they're ready to upgrade. If they can seriously revive the DIY stuff it will be interesting.
Long term unemployement thanks to our wonderful economy has wiped out my savings along with many other people. I'd love to see you try to live on 90% of what I made last year - had unemployment benefit of just over $200 a week. After unemployment has ran out most of the temp and part time jobs I've gotten have paid even less. People keep telling me I need to move someplace that has better possibilities of work but I simply can't aford to move. I went for over a year without a single interview. The economy may inded be improving as I'm starting to get occasional interviews now but if it's for a tech job especially my age is working against me.
What about when it's been unseasonably cold for this time of year MULTIPLE times?
I live on the border of a sub-tropical zone and we keep getting record periods of time in recent years of cold weather. So where's MY global warming????
Citrus crops frozen and winter harvests frozen so more food has to come in from South America at higher costs.
Where's MY global warming?????
In the past couple years I've had to buy more long pants, long sleeve shirts and a COAT not just a jacket but a COAT!!!!!
Where's MY global warming??????
You're back to the tree rings again which TFA was refuting.
Repeat after me - RTFA......
Interestingly enough I had a cop show up before saying somebody had dialed 911 and we didn't even have a landline installed in the house at the time so that OBVIOUSLY had to be a glitch on the line or confusion in the CO. The officer was quite surprised when I informed her that we didn't have a phone in the house so couldn't possibly have called 911. She gave a phone number that I'd never heard of and I told her the two cell phone numbers we had and she shrugged, radioed in to dispatch and left....
Actually America has always been the place where millions of the poorest have come as we've always needed cheap labor - until recently when we started shifting most of that stuff overseas. The slogan "Give me your tired, your poor" etc. in many respects was almost a billboard proclaiming "We need cheap labor" But that's what built this country so not really a bad thing as many of those people eventually made decent lives for themselves even if they didn't get filthy rich. You're looking at our history through rose-colored glasses. Our history is actually pretty grimy and our current troubles are not anything we can't prevail over. I also love how so many people like to throw around the word "democracy" as if we truly live in one when we actually have a REPUBLIC. A true democracy is something our government would fear. Although Thomas Jefferson would probably have liked it...... :)
You've not been at Radio Shack in quite a while have you? :)
They used to collect addresses for their mailings but stopped that some years back.
I love Slashdotters policy of commenting without checking the facts.....
A little harshly worded but a pretty good summary.
For basic purchases no info is collected although the zip code is optionally taken for marketing data like many stores do.
For warranties it's a good idea to give valid name and address in case you lose your receipt so it can be looked up if you ever need to make a claim on the warranty.
If you pay with a check though full address and such is taken so if the check bounces they can try to collect on it.
A long time a go in a galaxy far, far away Radio Shack DID collect addresses for the purpose of mailing out flyers. HOWEVER most people gave them the address of the White House so they stopped that a LONG time ago...........
Airliners have redundancy on critical systems. Getting a hit on a critical system from a rifle is more luck than skill on a target moving that quickly. If they ever DO start shooting at airliners the odds are what will happen is planes will land with a hole or two in them. Even if they have multiple people shooting at a plane at the same time the worst that would probably happen is you might end up with a couple of people injured and MAYBE a person or two killed but it would be HIGHLY unlikely they could take down the plane. We've had instances of criminals shooting at spotter planes as police were closing in on them and even occasionally hitting a pilot or observer but not shooting down a plane and those are small 2 passenger private planes. What are the odds a terrorist will have better luck?
Unless they hit both the pilot and the co-pilot the plane would still be able to land. A single person firing at an airliner with a rifle, even a .50 cal, isn't going to shoot it down. Even if they managed to hit a critical system there's redundancy in the critical systems. Some years back an airliner I believe going to Hawaii had a large section of the roof peel off and it made an emergency landing. Even with a small Cessna I recently read about where an escaped convict with a large caliber weapon fired at the spotter aircraft as the ground units were converging. He eventually hit the pilot and the observer had to assist in landing the plane but the plane was intact. Incidentally the pilot survived. A few small holes in the plane aren't going to make it crash - they're not THAT fragile......