Surely you can't be claiming that your good government is wrong when they spend $1/2 Billion on custom computer solutions that are better done by OTS that would have cost 5% of that and not had to be scrapped as failed projects.
Why certainly it should take a full day to install a few printers in a congressional office - after all, nobody needs to know where they're going or actually figure out how they need to be configured BEFORE the actual install.
Certainly MA's unemployment phone system is a marvel of technology - serving 6000 people a day and only crashing if more than 140 of them call in at the same time. Oh, and lets make the law so you have to talk to a person to restart your unemployment after you've worked a week.
The Internet or phone service that you use to answer the same 3 questions every week isn't good enough. Talking to a person is required, because it only takes 2-6 weeks to actually get through the phone system. Or you can show up at one of the 3 offices covering the western 1/3 of the state and hope that by showing up 1 1/2 hours before the outside doors open you might be lucky enough to get one of the 50 slots for the day --- that are taken 45 minutes before the office even opens.
UL isn't a body of like minded companies working towards a common goal. They're a testing/certifying body that ensures that products meet certain minimum safety standards.
They began as an insurance backed lab. Companies get an insurance discount on products tested through UL as it's less likely to actually have a major claim against it.
ISO,ASME, and IEEE are all standards setting bodies. They have no influence on end product costs, sales venue, etc. The only lobbying they do is for safety standards.
Did a PC on Dell's site. The 17" LCD/Keyboard/Monitor setup that's closest to what I used to use runs about $1200. It's a 1U drawer that holds a flip-up monitor - essentially a laptop with an 8 port KVM instead of a Motherboard. Downside is it's VGA not DVI.
None of the rack mounts w/ monitor/keyboard support DVI, so you would have to get the KVM and a rack mount keyboard/monitor to support it. The 4 port DVI KVMs start at around $200 and push upwards of $600 for extra features - >$1k for IP connectivity.
Cheap KVM's aren't reliable. I've used HP & Dell Rack KVM systems and never had a problem. The cheap $25 2 port KVM systems generally seem to cause more problems than they solve.
I ditched my KVM switch because of this. Mine was USB rather than PS2, but when you switched out to the other machine, it took the USB connection off line --- the 3rd or 4th time it happened it would lock up the USB driver for the hub and you had to move the plug to another port to get it to work again.
the only things that a consumer can't replace in a laptop is the screen, CPU and mainboard.
Power sockets. Power sockets are the #1 repair request I get on laptops. It's insane how much I have to charge for replacing a $3 part to make it worth my while to open up a laptop.
The US possesses a pretty big desert that is nobody's back yard. It also possesses islands big enough for a penitentiary that are US soil and yet in nobody's back yard.
The whole point of GB is that it's NOT US soil & therefore US law doesn't apply. If it were US soil then civil, criminal, or military law would hold sway. Since it's not, people just disappear into a legal black hole that doesn't officially exist.
slide rule, long-hand square roots, minidisc players, zoetropes, cuneiform -- These commentators were pretty presumptuous. "No tool ever goes completely out of use" is a much stronger statement than "every tool I can think of is still in use"--because you won't think of a tool you've never heard of or never used.
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slide rule - have 1, use it infrequently, but use it
minidisc player - have 1, bought up the stock at a discount store of the disks.
Long hand square roots - still teach them in school - fundamentals & foundations you know
zoetropes - still published in kid's magazines as an afternoon project (or were as of the 90's)
cuneiform - tougher to call, the tools used to make the marks are identical to the ones used in clay sculpting today. There are some people who do cuneiform as decorations/museum pieces.
Additionally, I know people who use:
scythe - I prefer it to clear light brush on my property
Quilt Loom - grandmother used one until she died, know several quilt makers who have them.
steam engine pumps - know at least 1 place that actively uses 1.
Water wheels - local restoration vilage around here has a working sawmill with one, guy on the bottom of my street has one that powers his other lawn decorations in the summer.
wind mills - know several places that use them for water pumps, as well as the comeback for making electricity.
It's quite hard to think of something that's not either directly in use still, or it's decedent isn't in use. Someone pointed out that the cylinder shaver for Edison's wax cylinders doesn't have a name, yet it is actually still used in the Edison museum, where they show how the recordings were done - using wax cylinders made just for that purpose.
According to the article you linked to, most of them were charged. One fled the country & at least 1 died before he could be indited.
On the other hand, how exactly do you find child porn on a PC doing virus removal or hardware repairs? Unless the guy is stupid enough to leave the individual files on the desktop or label a folder child porn you shouldn't have any clue that it's there.
how exactly does one commit treason against a country you have no affiliation with? Given that Assange is Australian, it'd be a pretty bizarre contortion of the law to conclude that he's committed treason against the US government. Espionage perhaps, but by definition: only Australia can charge him with treason.
At one point I did tech support for a company that had inherited a block of 1 way cable modems from a company they bought. One way cable modems are the very definition of asynchronous - 56Kb upstream & 3MB downstream at the time (55:1 ratio) - as they bond a dialup connection upstream with a cable connection downstream. Not only does this compound the number of problems - all the problems of a dialup modem and the problems of a cable modem with the added joy of bonding issues - but customers were completely unable to grasp the asynchronous nature of the process.
One customer in particular was quite upset that it took so long to upload his files. I can only blame myself as I asked "What kind of files are you working with?" I then endured a 20 minute rant on how it didn't matter what kind of file it was because he had downloaded the files quickly from the newsgroups earlier and it shouldn't take hours to repost his new donkey porn videos to a different newsgroup.
Depends, it would also have to be false. Defamatory statements are perfectly acceptable in the US when they are true. The UK and several other countries are less concerned with the truth of the matter and more concerned with protecting the character of the subject of the statements.
If you modded the boiler so that it fully or semi bypassed the gas meter in order to provide cheap/free heating then the boiler manufacturer and gas companies would complain.
It's highly unlikely that the boiler mfg would complain - you already bought the boiler & if you modify it, they no longer have to provide warranty coverage. On the other hand, the gas company would certainly complain in that you are stealing a physical product which has a real world cost to produce and distribute.
On the other hand, modding an X-box permits you to use the X-box as you want. While some people may choose to use it to run pirated games, others will choose it to run unofficial games and backups of games they have legally purchased.
This is the issue of 'substantial non-infringing uses'. Movie distributors tried to outlaw VCRs because you could copy tapes - the courts ruled that the fact that someone could break the law with something was not sufficient reason to prohibit it's manufacture or sale. Move forward 30 years and the industries rented politicians have made an end run around the courts reasoned decisions of the court.
The problem with the DMCA is they explicitly stated that the law would not interfere with your 'fair use' rights, then proceeded to make it illegal to make or sell the tools required to exercise those rights.
And a pointless endeavor that is since you can have a Mastercard logo on your ATM card with no age restrictions. Heck, A huge number of kids run around with pre-paid CCs that they got from relatives for some holiday or other.
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Surely you can't be claiming that your good government is wrong when they spend $1/2 Billion on custom computer solutions that are better done by OTS that would have cost 5% of that and not had to be scrapped as failed projects.
Why certainly it should take a full day to install a few printers in a congressional office - after all, nobody needs to know where they're going or actually figure out how they need to be configured BEFORE the actual install.
Certainly MA's unemployment phone system is a marvel of technology - serving 6000 people a day and only crashing if more than 140 of them call in at the same time. Oh, and lets make the law so you have to talk to a person to restart your unemployment after you've worked a week.
The Internet or phone service that you use to answer the same 3 questions every week isn't good enough. Talking to a person is required, because it only takes 2-6 weeks to actually get through the phone system. Or you can show up at one of the 3 offices covering the western 1/3 of the state and hope that by showing up 1 1/2 hours before the outside doors open you might be lucky enough to get one of the 50 slots for the day --- that are taken 45 minutes before the office even opens.
UL isn't a body of like minded companies working towards a common goal. They're a testing/certifying body that ensures that products meet certain minimum safety standards.
They began as an insurance backed lab. Companies get an insurance discount on products tested through UL as it's less likely to actually have a major claim against it.
ISO,ASME, and IEEE are all standards setting bodies. They have no influence on end product costs, sales venue, etc. The only lobbying they do is for safety standards.
Did a PC on Dell's site. The 17" LCD/Keyboard/Monitor setup that's closest to what I used to use runs about $1200. It's a 1U drawer that holds a flip-up monitor - essentially a laptop with an 8 port KVM instead of a Motherboard. Downside is it's VGA not DVI.
None of the rack mounts w/ monitor/keyboard support DVI, so you would have to get the KVM and a rack mount keyboard/monitor to support it. The 4 port DVI KVMs start at around $200 and push upwards of $600 for extra features - >$1k for IP connectivity.
Cheap KVM's aren't reliable. I've used HP & Dell Rack KVM systems and never had a problem. The cheap $25 2 port KVM systems generally seem to cause more problems than they solve.
I ditched my KVM switch because of this. Mine was USB rather than PS2, but when you switched out to the other machine, it took the USB connection off line --- the 3rd or 4th time it happened it would lock up the USB driver for the hub and you had to move the plug to another port to get it to work again.
Power sockets. Power sockets are the #1 repair request I get on laptops. It's insane how much I have to charge for replacing a $3 part to make it worth my while to open up a laptop.
The whole point of GB is that it's NOT US soil & therefore US law doesn't apply. If it were US soil then civil, criminal, or military law would hold sway. Since it's not, people just disappear into a legal black hole that doesn't officially exist.
Cool, as far as I can tell, I'll have to shovel less!
I have 6' drifts on either side of my driveway - I have no problems with a couple of gallons of napalm to clear them.
Possibly still in use in India - they have several steam trains in commercial operation still.
Given the number of things people use in "High Colonic" (WTF!?) treatments, I wouldn't be surprised if at least one person was still using these.
hmm ----
Additionally, I know people who use:
It's quite hard to think of something that's not either directly in use still, or it's decedent isn't in use. Someone pointed out that the cylinder shaver for Edison's wax cylinders doesn't have a name, yet it is actually still used in the Edison museum, where they show how the recordings were done - using wax cylinders made just for that purpose.
Sorry the last Kodachrome processing line in the US just shut down a month or so ago --- you'll have to process them by hand.
According to the article I read, it's visible to everyone on the network.
According to the article you linked to, most of them were charged. One fled the country & at least 1 died before he could be indited.
On the other hand, how exactly do you find child porn on a PC doing virus removal or hardware repairs? Unless the guy is stupid enough to leave the individual files on the desktop or label a folder child porn you shouldn't have any clue that it's there.
how exactly does one commit treason against a country you have no affiliation with? Given that Assange is Australian, it'd be a pretty bizarre contortion of the law to conclude that he's committed treason against the US government. Espionage perhaps, but by definition: only Australia can charge him with treason.
how to get people to read the article.
A fellow survivor - I can tell.
Yes, you are correct. I blame tech support in general for my brain rot.
At one point I did tech support for a company that had inherited a block of 1 way cable modems from a company they bought. One way cable modems are the very definition of asynchronous - 56Kb upstream & 3MB downstream at the time (55:1 ratio) - as they bond a dialup connection upstream with a cable connection downstream. Not only does this compound the number of problems - all the problems of a dialup modem and the problems of a cable modem with the added joy of bonding issues - but customers were completely unable to grasp the asynchronous nature of the process.
One customer in particular was quite upset that it took so long to upload his files. I can only blame myself as I asked "What kind of files are you working with?" I then endured a 20 minute rant on how it didn't matter what kind of file it was because he had downloaded the files quickly from the newsgroups earlier and it shouldn't take hours to repost his new donkey porn videos to a different newsgroup.
Depends, it would also have to be false. Defamatory statements are perfectly acceptable in the US when they are true. The UK and several other countries are less concerned with the truth of the matter and more concerned with protecting the character of the subject of the statements.
It's highly unlikely that the boiler mfg would complain - you already bought the boiler & if you modify it, they no longer have to provide warranty coverage. On the other hand, the gas company would certainly complain in that you are stealing a physical product which has a real world cost to produce and distribute.
On the other hand, modding an X-box permits you to use the X-box as you want. While some people may choose to use it to run pirated games, others will choose it to run unofficial games and backups of games they have legally purchased.
This is the issue of 'substantial non-infringing uses'. Movie distributors tried to outlaw VCRs because you could copy tapes - the courts ruled that the fact that someone could break the law with something was not sufficient reason to prohibit it's manufacture or sale. Move forward 30 years and the industries rented politicians have made an end run around the courts reasoned decisions of the court.
The problem with the DMCA is they explicitly stated that the law would not interfere with your 'fair use' rights, then proceeded to make it illegal to make or sell the tools required to exercise those rights.
Doesn't matter if it wasn't true then, people are still pushing it as a 'solution' now.
And a pointless endeavor that is since you can have a Mastercard logo on your ATM card with no age restrictions. Heck, A huge number of kids run around with pre-paid CCs that they got from relatives for some holiday or other.
This building also has a bad rep.