The platforms may vary but at the end of the day, this is just yet another stupid article about stupid people giving away their private data because they did something stupid. Since we, or at least anyone in IT, engineer and support alike already know that stupid people do stupid things why are these articles considered "news worthy" here? Is it meant to inspire us to come up with our own interesting ways to dupe stupid people? Surely we get enough reminders in our day to day that we don't need them for that.
The decision wasn't made on the basis of technological deficiencies but rather on the knee jerk reaction to India becoming a nuclear power a little more than a couple years prior. Like Ford's ban on plutonium reprocessing, Carter's ban on reprocessing spent commercial fuel was based on an irrational political notion. Like Ford he believed that we could motivate the world to keep weapons grade material out of the hands of India and other places that would scare us should they attain nuclear capabilities. Ironically we are now sharing nuclear technology with India so as to counterbalance the growing weight of China.
WRONG. The technology to reprocess nuclear fuel has existed for more than half a century and is currently employed the world over. Just not in the U.S. In fact breeder reactors incorporate reprocessing into the design to use a fraction of the fuel and produce a fraction of the waste of those reactor types permitted in the U.S.
The problem with nuclear waste is one of politics, not of technology. Following on the heels of Gerald Ford's ban of commercial plutonium reprocessing, Jimmy Carter signed an order to ban the reprocessing of spent commercial nuclear fuel. Regan overturned the ban in 1981 but there was no funding provided to start up reprocessing facilities nor has the DOE provided license for anyone to do it. While they've waffled a bit during the Bush-Obama presidencies the DOE presently doesn't want domestic reprocessing. This has accordingly put a rather big crimp in the success of the GNEP which had closed loop nuclear power as a primary goal.
It's a grid designed back in the 50's for a load back in the 50's from technology back in the 50's. Blame it on price regulations, blame it on NIMBY, blame it on what ever you like but the fact remains, we have an obsolete grid, probably an obsolete paradigm (remote vs. local) that exists on a razor's edge of crashing at any given moment.
Is it necessary to have perfect reflection? Wouldn't fractional efficiency still do quite well to deflect directed energy? Throw even some modest heat sinking or ceramic shielding into the mix and I suspect you'd turn that laser into a rather worthless yet ridiculously expensive toy.
spend the last couple decades solving all technological security issues by branding hackers as criminals. Furnish them with outrageous civil and criminal penalties. Then you wonder why there isn't a ready supply of "sufficiently bright" individuals to lock down systems. They've been telling you all along these systems are unsafe and wide open to attack. They even provide you with step by step directions of how they can be exploited so that it can be fixed. How do you reward them? You throw them in jail! Well played sir.
I'm pretty sure it's not an east/west type thing. Of what I've seen first hand and the quick picture tour I took on web sites it appears that attached at the floor is actually not all that common. Besides the Civic what models actually do have a floor based attachment?
While I've only been at the C#/.NET game for a about a year and half now (came from Java), I really have a hard time buying into them being "very nice indeed." On it's own C# isn't horrible, its roots in C++ and Java help. The last incarnation MS pushed with its obscene new PHP/Python features like dynamic typing make me cringe but overall not bad..NET on the other hand suffers from a horrible lack of vision, short sighted design, and poor cross-team communication.
My biggest problem is that the architects seem to have never heard of the notion of "consistent design theory." I'm certainly not a fan of how many parts of.NET appear to be a Win32 bolt on with no adaptation to support a consistent API but my biggest problem with.NET is that it has the appearance to be designed as if by a collection of little fiefdoms with no communication between teams except when it comes time for integration. Even within each fiefdom an architectural design theory will be established but rudely broken in various places. This appears to occur either because the theory wasn't sufficient to contain every use-case and they needed a workaround to support it or they realized that their design would permit undesired coding practices and change the common usage methods just for that particular feature.
...get too big for his britches? So they're selling products too close to the R&D dept. because competitors are closing the distance on existing products. This has certainly never happened before...
If you were given the choice of a $50,000 bounty on a 5ft shot for the price of a misdemeanor would you take it? If you were one of those coast guardies trying to determine whether you're taking pictures at 5ft or harvesting a souvenir how could you make that job easier? If you were say 25ft away and a nice little wave came by are you going to fess up and cough the cash to replace and redeploy that $15,000 boom your boat just trashed?
The point isn't to provide a deterrent for some of the people, the point is to provide a deterrent for ALL of the people, cameramen, nostalgics, and anarchist alike.
Their speeds appear to be based upon not the sustained transfer rate but a normalized rate that incorporates the DNS lookup(s), latency, etc. into the calculation
On a side note, for those stuck with Crapcast (TM), at least those in the Twin Cities area you can achieve substantially snappier web browsing if you replace their DNS server with something decent. Of which there are plenty of free DNS server providers such as OpenDNS among others.
You've forgotten a couple important factors. First people DO save their money in perpetuity. They live off of the capital gains of their paper investments which are not subject to sales tax. Assets left when they die are divided amongst friends and family. Second money stored loses value at the rate of inflation which historically is about 3% for the US. So in the simplified case of Joe saving his income for a year before he spends it there's 3% less sales tax collected on that income.
I don't know of a state that doesn't have a line on their income tax forms enabling an individual to remit sales tax on out-of-state purchases. The notion is no different from having Oregon (a state with no sales tax) retailers collect and remit for their non-resident customers their state of residence sales tax. It's an unrealistic logistical and administrative burden, especially for small, "out of their garage"/"mom and pop" retailers.
The concept of a sales tax is a piss poor idea from a number of different angles. Of which includes the fact that it's horribly regressive, burdening low-income individuals relative to their income substantially more than others. Only a token gesture is made in some states to offset this fact by not taxing food and sometimes clothes. Having untold thousands of revenue collection points (each retailer) as opposed to a single point (state treasury) has got to rank rather high on the stupidity scale as well; especially when nearly all of these states have an income and/or property tax that they're collecting as well anyway. Why not just lump all of the taxation into one revenue stream, eliminate the substantial costs of collecting and administering multiple streams.
With the exception of mail sent by NPOs, congressmen and soldiers, the USPS is actually self-supporting. Perhaps the one and likely only thing Nixon did that actually made sense.
Thanks, you had to go and remind me that my computer is OLD... Holy crap! I've never had a workstation computer for 6 years and still used! Will wonders never cease. Thanks Linux!
If a rather large segment of your population consisted of a unemployed soldiers running about harassing/brutalizing the peasants what solution would you come up with?
I would venture they operate little differently than any other DoD contractor such as Boeing, Lockheed, etc.. DoD is perfectly happy paying whatever their contractors ask so long as the wrong politician doesn't catch wind of it. It would be quite difficult to find any competitively bid DoD contract that doesn't have significant and excessive cost overruns.
Actually the ultra deep drilling is a far more recent activity. We started on land and keep moving out farther and deeper into the ocean. What they were doing is rather new, and actually rather risky compared to other off shore drilling activities.
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I'll be impressed when I DON'T see the feds come busting in as a result of an "anonymous" tip...
The platforms may vary but at the end of the day, this is just yet another stupid article about stupid people giving away their private data because they did something stupid. Since we, or at least anyone in IT, engineer and support alike already know that stupid people do stupid things why are these articles considered "news worthy" here? Is it meant to inspire us to come up with our own interesting ways to dupe stupid people? Surely we get enough reminders in our day to day that we don't need them for that.
The decision wasn't made on the basis of technological deficiencies but rather on the knee jerk reaction to India becoming a nuclear power a little more than a couple years prior. Like Ford's ban on plutonium reprocessing, Carter's ban on reprocessing spent commercial fuel was based on an irrational political notion. Like Ford he believed that we could motivate the world to keep weapons grade material out of the hands of India and other places that would scare us should they attain nuclear capabilities. Ironically we are now sharing nuclear technology with India so as to counterbalance the growing weight of China.
WRONG. The technology to reprocess nuclear fuel has existed for more than half a century and is currently employed the world over. Just not in the U.S. In fact breeder reactors incorporate reprocessing into the design to use a fraction of the fuel and produce a fraction of the waste of those reactor types permitted in the U.S.
The problem with nuclear waste is one of politics, not of technology. Following on the heels of Gerald Ford's ban of commercial plutonium reprocessing, Jimmy Carter signed an order to ban the reprocessing of spent commercial nuclear fuel. Regan overturned the ban in 1981 but there was no funding provided to start up reprocessing facilities nor has the DOE provided license for anyone to do it. While they've waffled a bit during the Bush-Obama presidencies the DOE presently doesn't want domestic reprocessing. This has accordingly put a rather big crimp in the success of the GNEP which had closed loop nuclear power as a primary goal.
It's a grid designed back in the 50's for a load back in the 50's from technology back in the 50's. Blame it on price regulations, blame it on NIMBY, blame it on what ever you like but the fact remains, we have an obsolete grid, probably an obsolete paradigm (remote vs. local) that exists on a razor's edge of crashing at any given moment.
Is it necessary to have perfect reflection? Wouldn't fractional efficiency still do quite well to deflect directed energy? Throw even some modest heat sinking or ceramic shielding into the mix and I suspect you'd turn that laser into a rather worthless yet ridiculously expensive toy.
spend the last couple decades solving all technological security issues by branding hackers as criminals. Furnish them with outrageous civil and criminal penalties. Then you wonder why there isn't a ready supply of "sufficiently bright" individuals to lock down systems. They've been telling you all along these systems are unsafe and wide open to attack. They even provide you with step by step directions of how they can be exploited so that it can be fixed. How do you reward them? You throw them in jail! Well played sir.
I'm pretty sure it's not an east/west type thing. Of what I've seen first hand and the quick picture tour I took on web sites it appears that attached at the floor is actually not all that common. Besides the Civic what models actually do have a floor based attachment?
While I've only been at the C#/.NET game for a about a year and half now (came from Java), I really have a hard time buying into them being "very nice indeed." On it's own C# isn't horrible, its roots in C++ and Java help. The last incarnation MS pushed with its obscene new PHP/Python features like dynamic typing make me cringe but overall not bad. .NET on the other hand suffers from a horrible lack of vision, short sighted design, and poor cross-team communication.
My biggest problem is that the architects seem to have never heard of the notion of "consistent design theory." I'm certainly not a fan of how many parts of .NET appear to be a Win32 bolt on with no adaptation to support a consistent API but my biggest problem with .NET is that it has the appearance to be designed as if by a collection of little fiefdoms with no communication between teams except when it comes time for integration. Even within each fiefdom an architectural design theory will be established but rudely broken in various places. This appears to occur either because the theory wasn't sufficient to contain every use-case and they needed a workaround to support it or they realized that their design would permit undesired coding practices and change the common usage methods just for that particular feature.
...get too big for his britches? So they're selling products too close to the R&D dept. because competitors are closing the distance on existing products. This has certainly never happened before...
Have you considered a helicopter?
If you were given the choice of a $50,000 bounty on a 5ft shot for the price of a misdemeanor would you take it? If you were one of those coast guardies trying to determine whether you're taking pictures at 5ft or harvesting a souvenir how could you make that job easier? If you were say 25ft away and a nice little wave came by are you going to fess up and cough the cash to replace and redeploy that $15,000 boom your boat just trashed?
The point isn't to provide a deterrent for some of the people, the point is to provide a deterrent for ALL of the people, cameramen, nostalgics, and anarchist alike.
Their speeds appear to be based upon not the sustained transfer rate but a normalized rate that incorporates the DNS lookup(s), latency, etc. into the calculation
On a side note, for those stuck with Crapcast (TM), at least those in the Twin Cities area you can achieve substantially snappier web browsing if you replace their DNS server with something decent. Of which there are plenty of free DNS server providers such as OpenDNS among others.
You've forgotten a couple important factors. First people DO save their money in perpetuity. They live off of the capital gains of their paper investments which are not subject to sales tax. Assets left when they die are divided amongst friends and family. Second money stored loses value at the rate of inflation which historically is about 3% for the US. So in the simplified case of Joe saving his income for a year before he spends it there's 3% less sales tax collected on that income.
I don't know of a state that doesn't have a line on their income tax forms enabling an individual to remit sales tax on out-of-state purchases. The notion is no different from having Oregon (a state with no sales tax) retailers collect and remit for their non-resident customers their state of residence sales tax. It's an unrealistic logistical and administrative burden, especially for small, "out of their garage"/"mom and pop" retailers.
The concept of a sales tax is a piss poor idea from a number of different angles. Of which includes the fact that it's horribly regressive, burdening low-income individuals relative to their income substantially more than others. Only a token gesture is made in some states to offset this fact by not taxing food and sometimes clothes. Having untold thousands of revenue collection points (each retailer) as opposed to a single point (state treasury) has got to rank rather high on the stupidity scale as well; especially when nearly all of these states have an income and/or property tax that they're collecting as well anyway. Why not just lump all of the taxation into one revenue stream, eliminate the substantial costs of collecting and administering multiple streams.
With the exception of mail sent by NPOs, congressmen and soldiers, the USPS is actually self-supporting. Perhaps the one and likely only thing Nixon did that actually made sense.
you mean 2m...
Thanks, you had to go and remind me that my computer is OLD... Holy crap! I've never had a workstation computer for 6 years and still used! Will wonders never cease. Thanks Linux!
*sigh* poor Google...
Because the notion of call forwarding is novel and has never been thought of/implemented before...
these folks, random U.S. citizens, etc. why would they give pause for this guy?
If a rather large segment of your population consisted of a unemployed soldiers running about harassing/brutalizing the peasants what solution would you come up with?
I would venture they operate little differently than any other DoD contractor such as Boeing, Lockheed, etc.. DoD is perfectly happy paying whatever their contractors ask so long as the wrong politician doesn't catch wind of it. It would be quite difficult to find any competitively bid DoD contract that doesn't have significant and excessive cost overruns.
but it will sure make a stir for the sake of publicity and revenue gathering.
Actually the ultra deep drilling is a far more recent activity. We started on land and keep moving out farther and deeper into the ocean. What they were doing is rather new, and actually rather risky compared to other off shore drilling activities.