Indeed. The way it should work is roughly as follows:
For conditions that can wait, you use a regular primary care Physician and schedule the appointments in advance.
For issues that cannot wait a few days or longer (a nasty infection that seems to be getting substantially worse by the day), you use a walk-in clinic (often called "urgent care" clinics). Some hospitals are starting to have separate clinics right next door to the ER, where patents without trauma or life-threatening conditions get directed.
If it cannot wait an hour or so (dangerously high fever, broken nose/arm/leg, possible concussion, etc), or if the condition falls in the previous category and you cannot go to a clinic (perhaps the only clinic nearby is closed on weekends), then you use the Emergency Room.
If it cannot wait more than absolutely necessary (severe allergic reaction, heart attack, stroke, high risk of bleeding out, etc) then you call an ambulance, and are taken to the ER's Trauma or Emergency doctors as appropriate.
How about drawing the line at 1% ownership and/or 1% control (since some stock classes may give more votes than others, but still have equal ownership in the company). 1% is also not entirely arbitrary, IIRC that figure is used in some law or regulation regarding having a "significant interest" in a company. It is a high enough figure that regular retirement investing will not cause a problem, but yet it also excludes owning enough of a company to make abusing political power seem worthwhile.
The official instructions off pretty much every video game console since at least the days of the NES (I've never looked into the older ones) tells you to take regular breaks. I remember one said something like a 15 minute break every hour!
If people don't listen to that warning, there is no way they will listen to this one.
if you're on a home network chances are pretty high your router is acting as your DNS server or setting the DNS servers for your machine via DHCP.
Quite true, but to clarify for those not familiar, very few home routers actually run a recursive resolver. They generally act merely as a proxy, forwarding the requests onto the ISP's recusive resolvers, unless otherwise configured. This design allows for more localized caching, although I'm not sure if the common routers are actually configured to cache or merely always forward requests.
I was not aware the term had been out of use so long it would surprise people. I mean I know I have seen it in active use within the last year or two. I would have used it if the situation seemed appropriate without a second thought.
Unless I am misunderstanding IPSec, it seems very odd that the only major use of IPSec is when doing a form of IP-in-IP encapsulation.
I've seen a bit of talk about opportunistic use of IPSec, but for now it sounds like VPNs are the only major users of the technology, which just strikes me as odd.
True enough. But the point being that information is being transmitted by the pseudorandom sequences themselves, such that even if none of the navigation message is recovered, enough information to determine which satellite numbers are transmitting (although NAV information is needed to translate that into which physical bird is transmitting), as well as timing information (signal skews) can potentially still be recovered. That information if recorded could later be combined with historical ground station data to reconstruct position information. (Granted that AFAIK the skews were never intended to be used for calculating positions, but with a fair bit of work, they can perform that function).
If one actually calculates that out, assuming only 1023 different skew possibilities one is still receiving several bits/ms from each satellite of skew information. So maybe not Mbps, but still Kbps.
BTW, the original L1 NAV message did not have FEC, only the new L2C signal has FEC on the NAV Message.
The DOE has many jobs, but one of which roughly "everything nuclear except that handled by the NRC".
Before you go cutting the DOE, you ought to at least transfer the remaining nuclear concerns to the NRC, which would obviously need to grow to offset this.
A second major component is scientific research funding, especially, but not exclusively, related to energy concerns (research into improving power plant designs, improving the transmission system, and alternative energy research). The DOE sponsors more research than any other government division (except of course, the Executive branch, and entire Government, since those contain the DOE).
The fact that cars in each specific class are more fuel efficient now then they used to be rely at least in part on DOE funded research. Quite a bit of alternative energy research is funded by them. Basically if you are researching anything energy related, you try to get a DOE grant.
The answer to Heinlein's question is that the one man who pretends to be a million men decides (a.k.a. representative democracy).
Not perfect, but indisputably better than autocracies in practice. Since direct democracies are not viable in practice either, it is also better then them.
The tricky part is getting people into office that honestly intend to represent their constituents, without being beholden to interest groups, or being primarily interested in advancing their own careers.
If all the senators and representatives really were like that, then things would be far better than they currently are.
If you really want to play that card, I'll remind you that there are many Ivy League graduates who could still hardly be considered well educated.
That depends at least as much on the individual and how willing they are to learn, especially outside of the classroom, as it depends on the educational institution.
True enough, although the costs of volume licenses can be absurdly cheap.
Microsoft also has quite a few different licensing programs beyond the standard Volume licensing one. For example they have at least one program for Academic Institutions where you pay per product per staff member, rather than per product per installed computer. For example, the Microsoft Enrollment for Education Solutions program works like that.
You are advocating electing Shakespeare to Congress? Based on my experience, nobody will be able to understand what he is saying without the help of English/Literature teachers!
I'm afraid he would end up making our laws, which are already difficult to read without a legal background, just plain incomprehensible!
I was not trying to dispute your argument, but merely correct that one point. Nothing about the others jumped out at me as being incorrect.
Personally, I'd rather not interfere with the DNS lookups, even for ad hosters, and adblock works just fine for my browsing purposes, but for other people Host files may indeed be a better solution.
Many of us who have Cable TV (or some other equivalent, like Satellite, FIOS, or U-Verse) just don't have that much to say about them. I for one have yet to really investigate Netflix's offerings, but hulu and the network sites don't really cut it for me, since they still lack some shows I follow.
(By the way, there is no reason to ever navigate directly to a network's site, since Hulu's search will direct you to them if they have the show and Hulu does not.)
Except for side channel attacks, which many implementations of the crypto primitives are vulnerable to, since avoiding all of them is very hard.
But that would be flaws in the primitives. Primitives can be misused in creating a cryptographic scheme, but the scheme was specified outside OpenBSD so mistakes in the scheme would not be specific to OpenBSD. We also know that the scheme was implemented more or less correctly, or it would fail to inter-operate with other IPSec implementations. Hmm... so unless IPsec code is using its own crypto primitives, that does seem odd.
Of course, since I have never once heard of IPSec being used, I doubt this is really that big an issue.
That said the constitution granted the courts the "judicial Power" of the country, and judicial power by necessity includes interpreting of the laws.
Since the constitution was clearly intended to to be a higher law than those passed by congress in a form other than an amendment, part of interpreting the law would need to be reconciling the normal laws with the constitution. That implies the power in question.
The only other possibility would be for the courts to interpret that the federal laws have equal footing with the Constitution. However, that would make the amendment terms effectively moot, so the courts were basically forced by the implicit structure of the Constitution, combined with the role of a judiciary, to take on the role of Judicial Review.
The navigation message is 50 bits per second, but the C/A signal is 1.023 Mbits/s. Granted that the the pastern is known to the receiver, which is not expected to be able to distinguish all the bits.
Granted though that if one can get the navigational data through some other means (such as a cellular internet connection), it would be possible to derive a position from the satellites while ignoring all 50 bits each second, so calling it 50 bits per second is a bit misleading.
That's absurd. If you are running Adblock, then you do have the source to Adblock. The by design the XPI format is just a form of a zip file (specifically it is based on the jar specification, in that it has a META-INF folder with metadata, much like the ODF format).
Inside an XPI file is almost always[1] a collection of HTML, XML, and JavaScript files, along with a few images, and maybe a DTD or two. That is the source code of the extension[2]. Adblock is no exception to that.
Footnotes: [1] It is possible to have compiled files in an xpi file, but it not common, and Adblock does not utilize that. [2] Of course the JavaScript could be obfuscated or minified, such that it could no longer be considered the actual source, but once again adblock does not do that.
Vacation days should be planned in advanced, and can be rejected by the company, but only if they have a really good reason (like everybody is trying to take that week off, and they need at last a few people to come in).
Personal days would need no advanced notice, and are intended to be used only if something comes up at the last minute that will conflict with work, including but not limited to getting sick.
That was rather obviously an upcoming feature to anybody who had read the Android 2.2 compatibility definition, which forbid allowing access to a front-facing camera via extention options on the Camera API.
The only good reason for that prohibition would be that Google had been planning multi-camera support for a while, but it was not ready for FroYo.
The only problem with that it that specifications vary wildly in the level of detail.
I've seen them be a very brief overview of what the program should do, leaving out all the important details that would belong in a manual. I've also seen specifications that specify the smallest details of the inner workings of the code, making it little better to base the manual on than the source itself.
Nevertheless, for most applications the best specification would be somewhere in between, and probably be well suited as a basis for the manual, so that is a good practice when possible. That said, it would be useful to have a back-up plan for when the specification is not a particularly good source for basing the manual on.
I'm well aware of the development of C++0x, and Stroustrup has not been leading C++ development since it was standardized by ISO. That said, he is still highly involved in the standardization process.
Because Bjarne Stroustrup's C with Classes language is merely an early version of C++. I mean modern C has evolved quite a bit since that time, and it would be a shame to have to limit yourself to the C language constructs of 1983.
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Indeed. The way it should work is roughly as follows:
For conditions that can wait, you use a regular primary care Physician and schedule the appointments in advance.
For issues that cannot wait a few days or longer (a nasty infection that seems to be getting substantially worse by the day), you use a walk-in clinic (often called "urgent care" clinics). Some hospitals are starting to have separate clinics right next door to the ER, where patents without trauma or life-threatening conditions get directed.
If it cannot wait an hour or so (dangerously high fever, broken nose/arm/leg, possible concussion, etc), or if the condition falls in the previous category and you cannot go to a clinic (perhaps the only clinic nearby is closed on weekends), then you use the Emergency Room.
If it cannot wait more than absolutely necessary (severe allergic reaction, heart attack, stroke, high risk of bleeding out, etc) then you call an ambulance, and are taken to the ER's Trauma or Emergency doctors as appropriate.
How about drawing the line at 1% ownership and/or 1% control (since some stock classes may give more votes than others, but still have equal ownership in the company). 1% is also not entirely arbitrary, IIRC that figure is used in some law or regulation regarding having a "significant interest" in a company. It is a high enough figure that regular retirement investing will not cause a problem, but yet it also excludes owning enough of a company to make abusing political power seem worthwhile.
The official instructions off pretty much every video game console since at least the days of the NES (I've never looked into the older ones) tells you to take regular breaks. I remember one said something like a 15 minute break every hour!
If people don't listen to that warning, there is no way they will listen to this one.
if you're on a home network chances are pretty high your router is acting as your DNS server or setting the DNS servers for your machine via DHCP.
Quite true, but to clarify for those not familiar, very few home routers actually run a recursive resolver. They generally act merely as a proxy, forwarding the requests onto the ISP's recusive resolvers, unless otherwise configured. This design allows for more localized caching, although I'm not sure if the common routers are actually configured to cache or merely always forward requests.
I was not aware the term had been out of use so long it would surprise people. I mean I know I have seen it in active use within the last year or two. I would have used it if the situation seemed appropriate without a second thought.
That is what I have been finding.
Unless I am misunderstanding IPSec, it seems very odd that the only major use of IPSec is when doing a form of IP-in-IP encapsulation.
I've seen a bit of talk about opportunistic use of IPSec, but for now it sounds like VPNs are the only major users of the technology, which just strikes me as odd.
Spamhaus outed the Russian network, which took or already had control of an old AnonOps domain, and began a real botnet attach against Spamhaus.
Spamhaus misinterpreted that as in indication that the russians were somehow in control of AnonOps.
Anonymous was never responsible for the Spamhaus attacks, but the russian cybercriminals were, retaliating for outing wikilinks.info.
Spamhaus has since apparently realized this mistake, since they have apparently removed all mention of Anonymous from the page they are now serving.
True enough. But the point being that information is being transmitted by the pseudorandom sequences themselves, such that even if none of the navigation message is recovered, enough information to determine which satellite numbers are transmitting (although NAV information is needed to translate that into which physical bird is transmitting), as well as timing information (signal skews) can potentially still be recovered. That information if recorded could later be combined with historical ground station data to reconstruct position information. (Granted that AFAIK the skews were never intended to be used for calculating positions, but with a fair bit of work, they can perform that function).
If one actually calculates that out, assuming only 1023 different skew possibilities one is still receiving several bits/ms from each satellite of skew information. So maybe not Mbps, but still Kbps.
BTW, the original L1 NAV message did not have FEC, only the new L2C signal has FEC on the NAV Message.
The DOE has many jobs, but one of which roughly "everything nuclear except that handled by the NRC".
Before you go cutting the DOE, you ought to at least transfer the remaining nuclear concerns to the NRC, which would obviously need to grow to offset this.
A second major component is scientific research funding, especially, but not exclusively, related to energy concerns (research into improving power plant designs, improving the transmission system, and alternative energy research). The DOE sponsors more research than any other government division (except of course, the Executive branch, and entire Government, since those contain the DOE).
The fact that cars in each specific class are more fuel efficient now then they used to be rely at least in part on DOE funded research. Quite a bit of alternative energy research is funded by them. Basically if you are researching anything energy related, you try to get a DOE grant.
The answer to Heinlein's question is that the one man who pretends to be a million men decides (a.k.a. representative democracy).
Not perfect, but indisputably better than autocracies in practice. Since direct democracies are not viable in practice either, it is also better then them.
The tricky part is getting people into office that honestly intend to represent their constituents, without being beholden to interest groups, or being primarily interested in advancing their own careers.
If all the senators and representatives really were like that, then things would be far better than they currently are.
If you really want to play that card, I'll remind you that there are many Ivy League graduates who could still hardly be considered well educated.
That depends at least as much on the individual and how willing they are to learn, especially outside of the classroom, as it depends on the educational institution.
True enough, although the costs of volume licenses can be absurdly cheap.
Microsoft also has quite a few different licensing programs beyond the standard Volume licensing one. For example they have at least one program for Academic Institutions where you pay per product per staff member, rather than per product per installed computer. For example, the Microsoft Enrollment for Education Solutions program works like that.
Hey man, you are already posting on Slashdot. How much more non-free can you get?[1] ;)
[1] Admittedly the slashcode project does exist, but Slashdot proper is indisputably not DFSG free.
You are advocating electing Shakespeare to Congress? Based on my experience, nobody will be able to understand what he is saying without the help of English/Literature teachers!
I'm afraid he would end up making our laws, which are already difficult to read without a legal background, just plain incomprehensible!
I was not trying to dispute your argument, but merely correct that one point. Nothing about the others jumped out at me as being incorrect.
Personally, I'd rather not interfere with the DNS lookups, even for ad hosters, and adblock works just fine for my browsing purposes, but for other people Host files may indeed be a better solution.
Many of us who have Cable TV (or some other equivalent, like Satellite, FIOS, or U-Verse) just don't have that much to say about them. I for one have yet to really investigate Netflix's offerings, but hulu and the network sites don't really cut it for me, since they still lack some shows I follow.
(By the way, there is no reason to ever navigate directly to a network's site, since Hulu's search will direct you to them if they have the show and Hulu does not.)
Except for side channel attacks, which many implementations of the crypto primitives are vulnerable to, since avoiding all of them is very hard.
But that would be flaws in the primitives. Primitives can be misused in creating a cryptographic scheme, but the scheme was specified outside OpenBSD so mistakes in the scheme would not be specific to OpenBSD. We also know that the scheme was implemented more or less correctly, or it would fail to inter-operate with other IPSec implementations. Hmm... so unless IPsec code is using its own crypto primitives, that does seem odd.
Of course, since I have never once heard of IPSec being used, I doubt this is really that big an issue.
That said the constitution granted the courts the "judicial Power" of the country, and judicial power by necessity includes interpreting of the laws.
Since the constitution was clearly intended to to be a higher law than those passed by congress in a form other than an amendment, part of interpreting the law would need to be reconciling the normal laws with the constitution. That implies the power in question.
The only other possibility would be for the courts to interpret that the federal laws have equal footing with the Constitution. However, that would make the amendment terms effectively moot, so the courts were basically forced by the implicit structure of the Constitution, combined with the role of a judiciary, to take on the role of Judicial Review.
The navigation message is 50 bits per second, but the C/A signal is 1.023 Mbits/s. Granted that the the pastern is known to the receiver, which is not expected to be able to distinguish all the bits.
Granted though that if one can get the navigational data through some other means (such as a cellular internet connection), it would be possible to derive a position from the satellites while ignoring all 50 bits each second, so calling it 50 bits per second is a bit misleading.
12.) You don't have the sourcecode to Adblock.
That's absurd. If you are running Adblock, then you do have the source to Adblock. The by design the XPI format is just a form of a zip file (specifically it is based on the jar specification, in that it has a META-INF folder with metadata, much like the ODF format).
Inside an XPI file is almost always[1] a collection of HTML, XML, and JavaScript files, along with a few images, and maybe a DTD or two. That is the source code of the extension[2]. Adblock is no exception to that.
Footnotes:
[1] It is possible to have compiled files in an xpi file, but it not common, and Adblock does not utilize that.
[2] Of course the JavaScript could be obfuscated or minified, such that it could no longer be considered the actual source, but once again adblock does not do that.
Exactly. The way it should work:
Vacation days should be planned in advanced, and can be rejected by the company, but only if they have a really good reason (like everybody is trying to take that week off, and they need at last a few people to come in).
Personal days would need no advanced notice, and are intended to be used only if something comes up at the last minute that will conflict with work, including but not limited to getting sick.
That was rather obviously an upcoming feature to anybody who had read the Android 2.2 compatibility definition, which forbid allowing access to a front-facing camera via extention options on the Camera API.
The only good reason for that prohibition would be that Google had been planning multi-camera support for a while, but it was not ready for FroYo.
The only problem with that it that specifications vary wildly in the level of detail.
I've seen them be a very brief overview of what the program should do, leaving out all the important details that would belong in a manual. I've also seen specifications that specify the smallest details of the inner workings of the code, making it little better to base the manual on than the source itself.
Nevertheless, for most applications the best specification would be somewhere in between, and probably be well suited as a basis for the manual, so that is a good practice when possible. That said, it would be useful to have a back-up plan for when the specification is not a particularly good source for basing the manual on.
I'm well aware of the development of C++0x, and Stroustrup has not been leading C++ development since it was standardized by ISO. That said, he is still highly involved in the standardization process.
Because Bjarne Stroustrup's C with Classes language is merely an early version of C++. I mean modern C has evolved quite a bit since that time, and it would be a shame to have to limit yourself to the C language constructs of 1983.