Or, you could stop committing and covering up crimes and routinely classify any and all information regardless if it's needed or not.
What he said x 1000. Why on earth do we need to redact 80% of what gets 'declassified' in 50 year old documents and re-classify the rest? Whomevers dirty laundry this is is long since gone, but clearly your tax dollars are hard at work...
"Washington, D.C., February 21, 2006 - The CIA and other federal agencies have secretly reclassified over 55,000 pages of records taken from the open shelves at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), according to a report published today on the World Wide Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. Matthew Aid, author of the report and a visiting fellow at the Archive, discovered this secret program through his wide-ranging research in intelligence, military, and diplomatic records at NARA and found that the CIA and military agencies have reviewed millions of pages at an unknown cost to taxpayers in order to sequester documents from collections that had been open for years."....
The "Oh, private universities can pick up the slack" is a handwave of epic proportions that falls apart under even the smallest amount of scrutiny. It's an epidemic problem with Ron Paul, he's a "big ideas" man, but never follows through with the details.
No, he's a "small fed" man. There's no reason that the states can't spend their own money or write their own laws about things if they think they're important enough. I expect that California and Hawaii may find earthquake research valuable and fund it, the rest of the states? Not so much.
Agree. Don't take out a 100,000 loan to study Art History at Harvard. It sucks that Art History doesn't pay well, but those are the facts.
I went to community college for 2 years. I then transferred to an in state 4 year college. My degree is the exact same as the people who went to the 4 year State school the entire 4 years, but I spent a fair amount less.
Oh I did as well, but however you stack it the game has changed. Offshoring and Inshoring (H1) labor has become huge. It was huge before, it just somehow moved up-market from day laborers and auto-workers to engineers and scientists. This hasn't had a significant effect on Art History teachers, but those of us who got technical degrees...yeah.
If you've got experience there's work to be had, but as an entry level worker you will be finding the entry level jobs just aren't there anymore.
And if he died on Saturday why is this on slashdot today, five days later?
The faithful were waiting for him to assert(rise again) in fulfillment of the holy <stdio.h> scriptures.
And yes, it's a sad reflection on our society when an engineer like Ritchie can't even get a byline but a marketing tool like Jobs gets a week+ of global mourning.
If you live in California and haven't yet invested in an alarm system and a firearm, now might be a good time.
Did you mean the alarm system that the cops won't respond to due to budget cuts or the unloaded firearm you're not allowed to leave the house with? (since Brown just outlawed open carry and it's virtually impossible for a normal citizen to get a concealed carry permit in this state).
Remember kids, when seconds count the police are just minutes away!
line or two of C++ - I don't mean access the APIs, but it seems to me that everything you do requires a new object being created. Try writing the code in notepad and you won't like it.
Because C# is an object oriented language strongly related to Java/J++? If you really want procedural code just write it as a static method in a library class, that's 3 extra lines of code sir.
As for C# writing code for you, yes, if you are doing GUI shit and drag controls onto a form then it instantiates the object in your code. We are talking a couple of lines of code that it's smart enough to write for you. If you don't want auto-complete or re-factoring tools,etc. nobody is forcing them on you.
This is entirely different from the Visual C++ 'wizard' interface that would auto-generate stacks of code that you then had to hack apart because it didn't do exactly what you wanted.
PS. Some of us already know how computers work at a low level but would rather not hand-optimize code/memory maps that the compiler does a better job at anyway.
I apologize if this was already mentioned, but one way of fixing is is by comparing track offsets. The idea is that you read the data at the edges of the track for the unreadable or corrupted bits.
If your data isn't critical it's probably not worth the effort/expense, but it is usually possible to recover.
But they are creating slow cultural suicide with declining birth rates and an aging population without enough young workers to support the welfare system for the older generation.
I'm pretty sure the plan was to implant all of the old people into robot bodies but Honda spent all of their R+D money on this 'Asimo' thing instead of the Gundams the Health Ministry asked for.
I'm fairly certain they had a Celeron up to 8.1Ghz several years ago. If this is actually competitive clock for clock with current offerings than I'll be suitably impressed, but clock speed by itself isn't good for anything except frying CPU traces via electron migration and bragging rights.
Yes. It's going from bad to worse. Some would argue that the government has never really supported the interests of the nation but have always supported the interests of business. I can't agree with this in its entirety or there never would have been a NASA and we would not have had child labor laws, the FDA and more. That's not saying they are doing what they should be doing or that they aren't doing enough, but they exist and at one time or another, did serve the interests of the people.
As a matter of perspective, lets take a look back to how things were before AT&T (and the invention of the telephone)...unfortunately not that much better really.
"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. They denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw light upon their crimes" -Abraham Lincoln
Not only is technological advance increasing in speed, the rate of change is increasing. More new tech has been developed in the last 20 years than in the entire previous history of humans, and the next 10 years will do the same again - if we don't blow ourselves up or all die of a horrible epidemic.
7 billion people can come up with more ideas than 4 billion people? Also many of those so called advances are totally derivative. Ex. + "on the Internets" = new technology. I'd trade 5 of Tesla's patents for all 5000+ of Microsoft's.
Practically, the government *can't* watch you all the time, or really at all, unless you are the subject of some investigation worth those resource
Do you own a cell phone? Your carrier knows where you are, right now and has records of where you've been this week. They know who you've talked to, and they're more than happy to share that information with 'interested parties' in the government, no warrant required.
Given that the data sizes are small, there's no reason they can't store everyone's location/phone data on the off chance that one of them will become or come in contact with a 'person of interest'. This does not require the services of analysts and it would be trivial to automate.
How does that invalidate my point exactly? sounds to me like a smart business decision, filling a niche.
It invalidates your point in that your dad won't give you 100K in 1975 dollars to speculate with? This may be because he doesn't own a highly profitable law firm or it may be that he thinks you should finish your degree at Harvard first, I'm not sure. You should ask him.
For myself, I put away money into funds/stocks every year. That does not mean I'll ever be able to retire, it just means I'll be able to supplement my income as a Walmart greeter assuming we still have those in the year 2025. Investing 5% with a real inflation rate of around 9% = not a lot without some serious risk taking.
Also, the "top 1%" isn't a club that's impossible to get in to. hard? sure. impossible? nope. how did Bill Gates get in?
Use his daddy's money to buy QDOS and license it to IBM?
Your 401k would be full of raisins and modeling clay too if you weren't making enough extra to invest, which lots of people aren't...meanwhile, the 'greatest generation' is enjoying prop 13 housing, social security and generous pension benefits. Rock on sir.
And brake pads have had metal tabs on them that give an audible warning even longer than that. I had a friend that owned a garage and he would see cars that didn't get taken in for repair until the rivets gouged grooves into the rotors. Even thought the brakes were squealing for hundreds of miles.
Yes. Some even had metal tabs and a special groove in the rotor(to keep from scoring the surface).
They also had this handy metal stick you'd pull on to see whether your oil was low or dirty.
But apparently this was all far too simple so now we have $800 sensors that do the same thing and occasionally break.
Li-ion batteries lose most capacity only when they are not being used and do not have charge constantly moving through them.
This is also why non-replaceable batteries are a lot better than replaceable ones. The non-replaceable ones never since on/in a shelf/desk/drawer causing them to lose capacity.
I though non-replaceable batteries were a lot better because it helps Apple sell new editions of their products when the old ones fail. You might know how to pull them apart and change them, but grandma and the guy from marketing do not.
In any case, from my (limited) understanding of lithium ion packs, there are a couple of things you want to do to avoid losing capacity.
1. In multi-cell packs you want a balanced amount of charge in each cell (this is part of what that firmware is supposed to do)
2. If you are storing a battery for a while you want to leave it approximately half charged.
And also no way to repair carbon fiber. You broke it? Time to replace it. Oh it's the frame of your car? Sucks to be you, I guess you'll be buying another 'green' car.
It's probably because the 30 year old equipment was pretty high end.
Sure it may be $200 now used, but when it was new, it was probably over $1000. Adding inflation it's probably a $3000 system.
Surely, but there's really a lot more to it than that.
Speakers were generally much better because there was no 7:2 surround sound. You had two rather large speakers, and that's where the music came from. Contrary to what the guy from the BOSE store may tell you, adding a sub-woofer to 4" speakers does not equal high fidelity sound.
Likewise, stereos had two channels called left and right.
Even if cost was no object (which of course it is) if you need to pack lots of different amplified channels and decoders into the same sized box there will be compromises. I have a higher end (ES) Sony receiver (DA333ES-$800 new) at home, and I have a HK730 (circa 1976-$400 new). They're both nice enough to listen to, but guess which one sounds better?
I've been brought up in the middle of this technology era and I honestly think that old stuff is better.
It's usually designed to last, it's not designed to break after warranty. We honestly don't have that any more. Short term profit has taken hold of every industry so that quality barely exists anymore. Of course it wouldn't surprise me if the companies that make things that last are not doing so well, as they wouldn't have a steady stream of customers.
/AGREEx5
...but there's a slight confirmation bias involved. If it was crap it was scrapped a long time ago. Anything that still works after 30-50 years was built like a brick shit house.
Cars, Tools, Appliances, I have a lot of stuff dating back to the before-time, the long long ago.
Plastic wasn't considered a structural component and they're generally simple enough technologically that even if you do break them somehow you can usually mend what you have.
And no, my PC does not use punch cards and switches, thank you very much.
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What he said x 1000. Why on earth do we need to redact 80% of what gets 'declassified' in 50 year old documents and re-classify the rest? Whomevers dirty laundry this is is long since gone, but clearly your tax dollars are hard at work...
"Washington, D.C., February 21, 2006 - The CIA and other federal agencies have secretly reclassified over 55,000 pages of records taken from the open shelves at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), according to a report published today on the World Wide Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. Matthew Aid, author of the report and a visiting fellow at the Archive, discovered this secret program through his wide-ranging research in intelligence, military, and diplomatic records at NARA and found that the CIA and military agencies have reviewed millions of pages at an unknown cost to taxpayers in order to sequester documents from collections that had been open for years."....
No, he's a "small fed" man. There's no reason that the states can't spend their own money or write their own laws about things if they think they're important enough. I expect that California and Hawaii may find earthquake research valuable and fund it, the rest of the states? Not so much.
Oh I did as well, but however you stack it the game has changed. Offshoring and Inshoring (H1) labor has become huge. It was huge before, it just somehow moved up-market from day laborers and auto-workers to engineers and scientists. This hasn't had a significant effect on Art History teachers, but those of us who got technical degrees...yeah.
If you've got experience there's work to be had, but as an entry level worker you will be finding the entry level jobs just aren't there anymore.
The faithful were waiting for him to assert(rise again) in fulfillment of the holy <stdio.h> scriptures.
And yes, it's a sad reflection on our society when an engineer like Ritchie can't even get a byline but a marketing tool like Jobs gets a week+ of global mourning.
Did you mean the alarm system that the cops won't respond to due to budget cuts or the unloaded firearm you're not allowed to leave the house with? (since Brown just outlawed open carry and it's virtually impossible for a normal citizen to get a concealed carry permit in this state).
Remember kids, when seconds count the police are just minutes away!
Because C# is an object oriented language strongly related to Java/J++? If you really want procedural code just write it as a static method in a library class, that's 3 extra lines of code sir.
As for C# writing code for you, yes, if you are doing GUI shit and drag controls onto a form then it instantiates the object in your code. We are talking a couple of lines of code that it's smart enough to write for you. If you don't want auto-complete or re-factoring tools,etc. nobody is forcing them on you.
This is entirely different from the Visual C++ 'wizard' interface that would auto-generate stacks of code that you then had to hack apart because it didn't do exactly what you wanted.
PS. Some of us already know how computers work at a low level but would rather not hand-optimize code/memory maps that the compiler does a better job at anyway.
Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother.
The really awful ones that embed full-screen flash apps instead of javascript?
I apologize if this was already mentioned, but one way of fixing is is by comparing track offsets. The idea is that you read the data at the edges of the track for the unreadable or corrupted bits.
If your data isn't critical it's probably not worth the effort/expense, but it is usually possible to recover.
I'm pretty sure the plan was to implant all of the old people into robot bodies but Honda spent all of their R+D money on this 'Asimo' thing instead of the Gundams the Health Ministry asked for.
I'm fairly certain they had a Celeron up to 8.1Ghz several years ago. If this is actually competitive clock for clock with current offerings than I'll be suitably impressed, but clock speed by itself isn't good for anything except frying CPU traces via electron migration and bragging rights.
As a matter of perspective, lets take a look back to how things were before AT&T (and the invention of the telephone)...unfortunately not that much better really.
"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. They denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw light upon their crimes"
-Abraham Lincoln
7 billion people can come up with more ideas than 4 billion people? Also many of those so called advances are totally derivative. Ex. + "on the Internets" = new technology. I'd trade 5 of Tesla's patents for all 5000+ of Microsoft's.
Do you own a cell phone? Your carrier knows where you are, right now and has records of where you've been this week. They know who you've talked to, and they're more than happy to share that information with 'interested parties' in the government, no warrant required.
Given that the data sizes are small, there's no reason they can't store everyone's location/phone data on the off chance that one of them will become or come in contact with a 'person of interest'. This does not require the services of analysts and it would be trivial to automate.
Is this still a philosophical question?
It invalidates your point in that your dad won't give you 100K in 1975 dollars to speculate with? This may be because he doesn't own a highly profitable law firm or it may be that he thinks you should finish your degree at Harvard first, I'm not sure. You should ask him.
For myself, I put away money into funds/stocks every year. That does not mean I'll ever be able to retire, it just means I'll be able to supplement my income as a Walmart greeter assuming we still have those in the year 2025. Investing 5% with a real inflation rate of around 9% = not a lot without some serious risk taking.
Use his daddy's money to buy QDOS and license it to IBM?
Your 401k would be full of raisins and modeling clay too if you weren't making enough extra to invest, which lots of people aren't...meanwhile, the 'greatest generation' is enjoying prop 13 housing, social security and generous pension benefits. Rock on sir.
Welcome to British 20% youth unemployment + benefit cuts. The UK government might not want to recognize it, but them's the facts.
The car can somehow detect the PPM of contaminants by looking at a sensor?
I can tell if it's fresh or old or contaminated. It's just another thing that overly complicates cars for no good reason.
Yes. Some even had metal tabs and a special groove in the rotor(to keep from scoring the surface).
They also had this handy metal stick you'd pull on to see whether your oil was low or dirty.
But apparently this was all far too simple so now we have $800 sensors that do the same thing and occasionally break.
Drive by Rickroll in 5..4..3..2..1
Microsoft Sync = LOLs
Et tu, Blackwater?
I though non-replaceable batteries were a lot better because it helps Apple sell new editions of their products when the old ones fail. You might know how to pull them apart and change them, but grandma and the guy from marketing do not.
In any case, from my (limited) understanding of lithium ion packs, there are a couple of things you want to do to avoid losing capacity.
1. In multi-cell packs you want a balanced amount of charge in each cell (this is part of what that firmware is supposed to do)
2. If you are storing a battery for a while you want to leave it approximately half charged.
And also no way to repair carbon fiber. You broke it? Time to replace it. Oh it's the frame of your car? Sucks to be you, I guess you'll be buying another 'green' car.
Surely, but there's really a lot more to it than that.
Speakers were generally much better because there was no 7:2 surround sound. You had two rather large speakers, and that's where the music came from. Contrary to what the guy from the BOSE store may tell you, adding a sub-woofer to 4" speakers does not equal high fidelity sound.
Likewise, stereos had two channels called left and right. Even if cost was no object (which of course it is) if you need to pack lots of different amplified channels and decoders into the same sized box there will be compromises. I have a higher end (ES) Sony receiver (DA333ES-$800 new) at home, and I have a HK730 (circa 1976-$400 new). They're both nice enough to listen to, but guess which one sounds better?
Cars, Tools, Appliances, I have a lot of stuff dating back to the before-time, the long long ago.
Plastic wasn't considered a structural component and they're generally simple enough technologically that even if you do break them somehow you can usually mend what you have.
And no, my PC does not use punch cards and switches, thank you very much.