Just a couple of asides. There are plenty of cases where obsidian aka volcanic glass has been found with sharp undeformed splinters in geological settings, where it cannot have been disturbed for many millions of years hence the inference is no significant flow occured.
There is also the Pitch Drop experiment, showing what a proper fluid will do..
http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/pitchdrop/pitchdrop.shtml
I presume since it's not mentioned there has been no deformation and flow of the glass funnel...
Well with half a dozen only, it's easy to drive over and deliver it by hand... that was one of the main attractions for the places I worked at - manual key exchange was feasible and secure.
I'm not sure that follows. In all the cases I recall the outgoing mail servers were running Exchange or Sendmail (with one looking at migrating to Exim). There are bolt on packages for all three that do encrpytion serverside if you want to go to the trouble and the expense in money and support time. The reason they didn't move in at least one case was that the servers couldn't easily cope with a large increase in the processing load to encrypt the messages.
Many of the financial service companies I contracted for have only been sending sensitive mail to maybe a half dozen clients. It's reasonably easy if the two IT departments get together to establish secure tunnels at the organisation level for transferring mail between them. Doesn't protect the mail outside these of course but it's a reasonably quick solution and effective if enforced with policies within the workgroup about what is and isn't permissible in an email. Requires no extra software and is easy to set up and manage.
Under UK law speeding is an offence of strict liability. If you are breaking the limit, that is there is actus reus as the legal beagles say you are guilty.
For more severe offences, there is the additional requirement of mens rea - guilty mind, or there has to be intent. I would imagine that US law would be similar.
In the UK as you may be aware the entire voting system is paper based. Takes us about 2 hours to count the votes from the stations typically and the system relies on old fashioned wax seals, ripoff plastic tape seals and supervision of the ballet boxes all the way by accredited observers from the council and all parties. Voter based tampering is almost impossible without detection, false voters and electoral roll stuffing is where is occurs.
To address the issue of enfranchising voters that ar disabled, I'd love to see a system where someone needing sip and puff, large buttons etc can have their vote paper issued, carried by the staff and have it loaded into the machine, and then they can have it printed and dispensed into a ballot box. Saves all the hassle surely.
As for lines they are more or less none existant. We processes typically a voter through in 15 seconds (4 staff running each point, 4 voting booths, pencil powered) and lines are IME never seen of more than 5 minutes, even in the buisiest points. The fact that all dwellings must be within something like 2 miles of a station probably helps though.
From my latest trip to the Science Museum. They were part building the new Difference Engine but they had finished for the week so all that was there was a collection of lathes and mills, and a dust sheet covered pile of metalwork in the middle of the room.
Have you checked the complications rates for something like measles? Death, corneal ulceration, scarring, encephalitis? Not being vaccinated against the childhood diseases almost invites you to catch them one after the other as there is still sufficient wild strains running around.
As for autism making a families life hell, please. I have autism, I am quite certain it didn't make my families life hell. As for preventing it - it's not a disease it is a state of being - you might as well try to prevent black skin, or blue eyes, or blond hair for all the good you think it will do.
You say that and you are not far off. I took the trouble to visit my MP and discuss with him. I wasn't expecting him to know background, I wasn't expecting him to have any real technical ability at all, but the sheer indifference that I met to open source, and the inability to understand how this would stifle innovation was scarey.
Comments like "..who develops this open stuff and why..." moved to ".. well if it's given away free it can't be worth anything..." and "but what's the point of this open code source stuff - does anyone actually use it or is it jsut hobbyists?"
Despite fact his website runs Apache....
They legislate without a clue. Not out of malice, just out of ignorance. Until someone who actually understands it gets elected to the Commons, I don't think it will ever change.
There is an organisation in the UK called the Crystal Mark that provides plain easy to understand English on places where it matters, like contracts, bills, Govt documents etc.
http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/
No idea if there is something similar in the US but I think it's a cracking good idea and it's used as a selling point by services and companies in the UK.
I guess you should stop speaking in English then - that's a deal older than 10 years old. Similarly the ASCII representation of it should be banned.
Please. Just getting rid of something because it's old is ridiculous. I *know* I have documents that are in those formats - in fact I have an entire thesis written in Word 2 because we were not permitted to use Latex. I'm converting most of them to OpenOffice precisly because of this reason though - and it's surprising just how much I have in ancient formats.
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Where's my mod points when I need them - some mod the parent up please.
For myself, I still listen to vinyl? Why - well it's got the actual shape of the sound on the surface - no digitisation, no mucking around with dynamic range - it's there and about as unadulterated as you can get. I suspect that is why it does sound better than the same recording that was dumped onto a CD.
OK. Do you know how to put out a lithium based fire in the overhead locker then? Last flight I travelled on I didn't see a solid metal fire extingusher that was readily to hand. Using a CO2 one on a lithium fire would be everso slightly counterproductive.
See here... http://www.helium.com/tm/570058/unlike-countries-tradition-identity
"A 54 year old dry cleaner named Clarence Willock was stopped by police while driving in London in December 1950. He was ordered to produce his ID card at his local police station within 48 hours. He refused point blank, saying he would not produce it at any police station at all. He was prosecuted and the case eventually went all the way to the High Court and the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Goddard. He remarked that the continuance of the ID card was an 'annoyance' and 'tended to turn law abiding subjects into law breakers'."
None of which bothers me in the slightest - after all we lived with the IRA for thirty years in the UK. Egypt and the Middle East are perfectly safe and the media frenzy about the nasty terrorists is just that - on the ground by and large the people don't want to know where you are from. They want your money and will have it off any Western tourists by selling tat at overinflated prices, but that's true of any tourist place of course.
Now the US - fingerprints on entry? Geez, I've not arrived and I'm considered a criminal. The protection offered citizens is not extended to guests, rude and overbearing officials, detention without trial, no thanks. I've been to both and the Middle East wins on general perceived safety.
But they are not recording you with these cameras. All these cameras do is look for a radar target that is exceeding the speed limit. Only if you are already breaking the law does it then record what you are doing.
Now the CCTV cameras that are on permanant record in city centres, and have mounted speakers in them to tell you not to do something "offensive" regardless of the illegality - those are the ones that want torching. Failing that, cutting the cables to them would be ideal.
The worst one however is the automatic numberplate recognition system that does record where and when you went and stores it for years and years. That wants sorting with a small nuke.
I also recall being taught about the Chinese fires in history class a long time ago so I think it's probably likely it's correct. No idea which dynasty or period it was in though.
The Romans were playing this trick 2 millennia ago. An attack on Hadrians Wall could be notified by signal fire to Rome in less than 48 hours - half the length of Europe and crossing the Alps in the process. ISTR from school history (so it may be wrong....) that from the Wall to London via Eboracum it was only something like six beacons were needed and about 30 minutes. Trouble was it would take a month to march the army up there....
As well as this, the attack by the Spanish Armada in 1588 was signalled by beacons and at the 400th anniversiary these were reused and the warning message sent up the country again.
Demon Internet. I can suck down a complete distro from a.torrent at apparantly full speed, and probably do so at least twice a month with no problems whatsoever.
In the US maybe. In the UK you can have (well there is no actual limit) but you can often see six or so candidates for a constituency. Three from the main parties and a few fringe ones, and if the fringe has enough local interest they can and do get in. All you need do is pony up a £500 deposit, not be mad or a bankrupt and you can stand.
While it could be argued we still have two party politics, the third party has enough clout and interest that the two main parties have to take notice of them and not annoy their supporters too much less tactical voting occur. It works resonably well but some form of PR would be better.
It doesn't have to be a 7mm circle though - the laser beam almost certainly will not be properly collimated, and will diverge anyway even if it was set up correctly. It's more like pointing a 2 foot wide beam at a target - there is a lot of leeway and scatter off the glass as well to consider.
That said the effects that are ascribed to a small inefficient hand held device seem way excessive.
This is the reason that by the road advertising is banned in the UK on all motorways (similar roads to the Interstate). Any LED matrix sign you see will be something that you should read - either warning of a traffic problem, or diversions ahead, blocked road etc. They are trying to overturn this ban and bring advertising back in - I hope they don't as the reaction I've seen on slower roads is what you say. People panic and the first thing they do is mat the brakes and suddenly stop.
Is that expensive in that the price is raw product and productions costs? Or is it expensive like a drug is expensive - the first pill cost £2bn in R&D and the second one is 10p - but they of course need to recoup the upfront costs?
The only problem with that, and I agree you are 100% correct, is if the BoE gets it wrong. At that point it goes up the creek and they do have to create that money from somewhere. They can either run presses and damn inflation or raise taxation and damn the electorate. That's what make me uncomfortable with it all as eventually it will fall back on the UK taxpayer *if* the Bank has got it wrong.
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Mens rea... It's not illegal in the UK at least unless you have reason to think it was stolen or should have realised.
Just a couple of asides. There are plenty of cases where obsidian aka volcanic glass has been found with sharp undeformed splinters in geological settings, where it cannot have been disturbed for many millions of years hence the inference is no significant flow occured. There is also the Pitch Drop experiment, showing what a proper fluid will do.. http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/pitchdrop/pitchdrop.shtml I presume since it's not mentioned there has been no deformation and flow of the glass funnel...
Well with half a dozen only, it's easy to drive over and deliver it by hand... that was one of the main attractions for the places I worked at - manual key exchange was feasible and secure.
I'm not sure that follows. In all the cases I recall the outgoing mail servers were running Exchange or Sendmail (with one looking at migrating to Exim). There are bolt on packages for all three that do encrpytion serverside if you want to go to the trouble and the expense in money and support time. The reason they didn't move in at least one case was that the servers couldn't easily cope with a large increase in the processing load to encrypt the messages.
Many of the financial service companies I contracted for have only been sending sensitive mail to maybe a half dozen clients. It's reasonably easy if the two IT departments get together to establish secure tunnels at the organisation level for transferring mail between them. Doesn't protect the mail outside these of course but it's a reasonably quick solution and effective if enforced with policies within the workgroup about what is and isn't permissible in an email. Requires no extra software and is easy to set up and manage.
Under UK law speeding is an offence of strict liability. If you are breaking the limit, that is there is actus reus as the legal beagles say you are guilty. For more severe offences, there is the additional requirement of mens rea - guilty mind, or there has to be intent. I would imagine that US law would be similar.
In the UK as you may be aware the entire voting system is paper based. Takes us about 2 hours to count the votes from the stations typically and the system relies on old fashioned wax seals, ripoff plastic tape seals and supervision of the ballet boxes all the way by accredited observers from the council and all parties. Voter based tampering is almost impossible without detection, false voters and electoral roll stuffing is where is occurs. To address the issue of enfranchising voters that ar disabled, I'd love to see a system where someone needing sip and puff, large buttons etc can have their vote paper issued, carried by the staff and have it loaded into the machine, and then they can have it printed and dispensed into a ballot box. Saves all the hassle surely. As for lines they are more or less none existant. We processes typically a voter through in 15 seconds (4 staff running each point, 4 voting booths, pencil powered) and lines are IME never seen of more than 5 minutes, even in the buisiest points. The fact that all dwellings must be within something like 2 miles of a station probably helps though.
From my latest trip to the Science Museum. They were part building the new Difference Engine but they had finished for the week so all that was there was a collection of lathes and mills, and a dust sheet covered pile of metalwork in the middle of the room.
The first one they built
http://www.chris-street.demon.co.uk/difference1.jpg
A part of the Analytical engine (which would have been Turing complete)
http://www.chris-street.demon.co.uk/analytical1.jpg
And one of Babbages original journals/notebooks. They have his brain pickled in a jar as well.
http://www.chris-street.demon.co.uk/babbage-book1.jpg
Have you checked the complications rates for something like measles? Death, corneal ulceration, scarring, encephalitis? Not being vaccinated against the childhood diseases almost invites you to catch them one after the other as there is still sufficient wild strains running around. As for autism making a families life hell, please. I have autism, I am quite certain it didn't make my families life hell. As for preventing it - it's not a disease it is a state of being - you might as well try to prevent black skin, or blue eyes, or blond hair for all the good you think it will do.
You say that and you are not far off. I took the trouble to visit my MP and discuss with him. I wasn't expecting him to know background, I wasn't expecting him to have any real technical ability at all, but the sheer indifference that I met to open source, and the inability to understand how this would stifle innovation was scarey. Comments like "..who develops this open stuff and why..." moved to ".. well if it's given away free it can't be worth anything..." and "but what's the point of this open code source stuff - does anyone actually use it or is it jsut hobbyists?" Despite fact his website runs Apache.... They legislate without a clue. Not out of malice, just out of ignorance. Until someone who actually understands it gets elected to the Commons, I don't think it will ever change.
There is an organisation in the UK called the Crystal Mark that provides plain easy to understand English on places where it matters, like contracts, bills, Govt documents etc. http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/ No idea if there is something similar in the US but I think it's a cracking good idea and it's used as a selling point by services and companies in the UK.
I guess you should stop speaking in English then - that's a deal older than 10 years old. Similarly the ASCII representation of it should be banned.
Please. Just getting rid of something because it's old is ridiculous. I *know* I have documents that are in those formats - in fact I have an entire thesis written in Word 2 because we were not permitted to use Latex. I'm converting most of them to OpenOffice precisly because of this reason though - and it's surprising just how much I have in ancient formats.
Where's my mod points when I need them - some mod the parent up please. For myself, I still listen to vinyl? Why - well it's got the actual shape of the sound on the surface - no digitisation, no mucking around with dynamic range - it's there and about as unadulterated as you can get. I suspect that is why it does sound better than the same recording that was dumped onto a CD.
OK. Do you know how to put out a lithium based fire in the overhead locker then? Last flight I travelled on I didn't see a solid metal fire extingusher that was readily to hand. Using a CO2 one on a lithium fire would be everso slightly counterproductive.
See here... http://www.helium.com/tm/570058/unlike-countries-tradition-identity "A 54 year old dry cleaner named Clarence Willock was stopped by police while driving in London in December 1950. He was ordered to produce his ID card at his local police station within 48 hours. He refused point blank, saying he would not produce it at any police station at all. He was prosecuted and the case eventually went all the way to the High Court and the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Goddard. He remarked that the continuance of the ID card was an 'annoyance' and 'tended to turn law abiding subjects into law breakers'."
None of which bothers me in the slightest - after all we lived with the IRA for thirty years in the UK. Egypt and the Middle East are perfectly safe and the media frenzy about the nasty terrorists is just that - on the ground by and large the people don't want to know where you are from. They want your money and will have it off any Western tourists by selling tat at overinflated prices, but that's true of any tourist place of course. Now the US - fingerprints on entry? Geez, I've not arrived and I'm considered a criminal. The protection offered citizens is not extended to guests, rude and overbearing officials, detention without trial, no thanks. I've been to both and the Middle East wins on general perceived safety.
But they are not recording you with these cameras. All these cameras do is look for a radar target that is exceeding the speed limit. Only if you are already breaking the law does it then record what you are doing. Now the CCTV cameras that are on permanant record in city centres, and have mounted speakers in them to tell you not to do something "offensive" regardless of the illegality - those are the ones that want torching. Failing that, cutting the cables to them would be ideal. The worst one however is the automatic numberplate recognition system that does record where and when you went and stores it for years and years. That wants sorting with a small nuke.
I also recall being taught about the Chinese fires in history class a long time ago so I think it's probably likely it's correct. No idea which dynasty or period it was in though. The Romans were playing this trick 2 millennia ago. An attack on Hadrians Wall could be notified by signal fire to Rome in less than 48 hours - half the length of Europe and crossing the Alps in the process. ISTR from school history (so it may be wrong....) that from the Wall to London via Eboracum it was only something like six beacons were needed and about 30 minutes. Trouble was it would take a month to march the army up there.... As well as this, the attack by the Spanish Armada in 1588 was signalled by beacons and at the 400th anniversiary these were reused and the warning message sent up the country again.
Demon Internet. I can suck down a complete distro from a .torrent at apparantly full speed, and probably do so at least twice a month with no problems whatsoever.
In the US maybe. In the UK you can have (well there is no actual limit) but you can often see six or so candidates for a constituency. Three from the main parties and a few fringe ones, and if the fringe has enough local interest they can and do get in. All you need do is pony up a £500 deposit, not be mad or a bankrupt and you can stand. While it could be argued we still have two party politics, the third party has enough clout and interest that the two main parties have to take notice of them and not annoy their supporters too much less tactical voting occur. It works resonably well but some form of PR would be better.
It doesn't have to be a 7mm circle though - the laser beam almost certainly will not be properly collimated, and will diverge anyway even if it was set up correctly. It's more like pointing a 2 foot wide beam at a target - there is a lot of leeway and scatter off the glass as well to consider.
That said the effects that are ascribed to a small inefficient hand held device seem way excessive.
Make up your own jingle and sing it to the cashier every time you go and pay? Quid pro Quo......
This is the reason that by the road advertising is banned in the UK on all motorways (similar roads to the Interstate). Any LED matrix sign you see will be something that you should read - either warning of a traffic problem, or diversions ahead, blocked road etc. They are trying to overturn this ban and bring advertising back in - I hope they don't as the reaction I've seen on slower roads is what you say. People panic and the first thing they do is mat the brakes and suddenly stop.
Is that expensive in that the price is raw product and productions costs? Or is it expensive like a drug is expensive - the first pill cost £2bn in R&D and the second one is 10p - but they of course need to recoup the upfront costs?
The only problem with that, and I agree you are 100% correct, is if the BoE gets it wrong. At that point it goes up the creek and they do have to create that money from somewhere. They can either run presses and damn inflation or raise taxation and damn the electorate. That's what make me uncomfortable with it all as eventually it will fall back on the UK taxpayer *if* the Bank has got it wrong.