But that's a permit and not a true form of identification, is it not? A permit is something that allows you to operate, posess, or otherwise "do" under the juristdiction of the authority that issued it. Laws regarding conceal and carry vary a good deal from state to state, and is still illegal in a few.
Driver's licenses, aside from being a type of permit, are also a recognized form of photo identification. Although its reciprocity is more widespread (since the laws are much more similar), it isn't valid if you reside in a different state from which it was issued, either.
From Merriam-Webster:
insurgent(noun)
1: a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government; especially : a rebel not recognized as a belligerent
2: one who acts contrary to the policies and decisions of one's own political party
Setting aside the legality of the occupation for a moment, the typical insurgent isn't defending his homeland, but more so fighting for his particular faction to gain control or power, doing whatever harm against others in relatiation for "being wronged" whether by United States or another competing faction.
The troops at this point aren't so much fighting a convential war, but rather working as an "industrial strength" version of a police force to stop one group from attacking the other and vice-versa, getting caught in the middle from "meddling" with each groups objectives. As a police force, they need the tools of a police force in order to locate and identify troublemakers and perform their investigations more efficiently. This is one example (of many) tools to function in this manner. Remember that the military is better equipped for fighting wars and not function as a domestic police force. Equipment like this would allow them to function better with their current mission as such.
Think of it this way for a moment: Would a city's police force be very effective if you took away all of their offender databases, mobile data terminals and other tech tools? Yes, you could equip them all with body armor and machine guns, but their effectiveness is then limited to "shoot first and ask questions later". If the police were only allowed to operate in this mode, it's no wonder that all sorts of uprisings and attacks would result.
Actually, extracting hydrogen gas from methane isn't bizarre at all. In fact, using a process known as steam reformation, it is the preferred way of producing hydrogen gas for industrial use because it is more economical than electrolysis. The industrial gas companies (BOC, Linde, APT) all use steam reformation to produce hydrogen.
The only problem with converting methane into hydrogen gas is the same problem you have when you burn methane. It produces carbon dioxide.
The key point to remember about hydrogen is that it is a energy storage medium, not a energy source. Arugably, one could say the same about crude oil as stored sunlight energy, but we didn't have to produce it to use it./p
FWIW, former senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa) was gunning to prohibit the NWS from providing forecast information directly to the public. Why? AccuWeather, a Pennsylvania-based company was lobbying him to do so on the basis that the government should not be undermining private corporations business interest. In other words, Accuweather wanted to continue to sell their forecast products without the free competition from the NWS forecast products.
As someone who relies upon information from the NWS, I'm glad it went nowhere, and also glad to see that he didn't get re-elected so he doesn't have the chance to reintroduce such a stupid idea.
...and easily taken out of context just like every other form of written communication, perhaps even worse considering their short and limited nature. Don't get me wrong, I use SMS on a daily basis, and agree that it's convenient when sending information that would otherwise need to be copied down, or for replying with a simple response to keep from being tied up in a longer phone call.
I think most people missed the point in my final comment
Once, someone suggested building in voice recognition for entering an SMS...My reply was, "why don't you just call them instead."
The point was the irony of having voice recognition text entry on a phone for the purpose of communicating in written form when you could go directly with voice. It would be akin to reading a written document to someone over the phone for them to copy down, word for word, when you both have a working fax machine at arm's reach. Sure, it can be done, and there may be some extenuating circumstances that would make it advantageous to do it that way, but normally you'd go for the most efficient means and not the most extravagant.
Gaack! Shows what happens when I start attacking math problems before caffiene for the morning.
I didn't catch as to what instrument they were using the measure this voltage. Most DMM's measure in RMS (though the fancier ones will measure the peaks after setting them to do so)
You are forgetting about the LCD screen backlight, which is powered from a stepped-up AC supply in the notebook. My guess is that this supply is shorting out to the notebook chasis, perhaps in the screen hinge, causing this problem.
How about the electroluminescent backlight for the screen? These are usually excited by higher voltages. To boot, the supply wires for it would likely pass through the hinge, providing a mechanical opportunity for failure (i.e. pinch point, resulting in exposed wiring, exposed wiring grounding out on notebook chasis).
I agree. Maybe I'm missing something, but the idea seems to go against simple ergonomics. I would compare it to the early versions of the Garmin hand-held GPS receivers. Several models had their buttons above the screen. You had to "drive" it with two hands; one to hold it and one to run the keypad with a finger so that you could navigate through the menus. It was my major gripe about their GPS at the time, and the reason that I went with a Magellen GPS receiver back then (I have since purchased a Garmin eTrex).
I suppose if the intent is that proficient SMS users would simply tap out their message without looking, then it might work. But for people with big hands who need to see what they're entering, it would present too much of a visual interference issue.
Once, someone suggested building in voice recognition for entering an SMS...My reply was, "why don't you just call them instead."
But since the text is the part that's copyrighted, what's to say that they just don't mask that part of it out of the picture? I'd say that you'd need to find a way to wallpaper your whole house with it in some fashion.
It would seem plausible to me that at some point, they could integrate a car wash into a larger version of these garages. That way, not only do you have the option of parking your car, but you could have the option of getting it washed while not in use. While this could be a totally automated process, I would imagine that there would be a market for subcontracting a manual portering bay in lieu of an automatic system so that other cleaning services (such as an interior vacuum, paste waxing) could be offered. Likewise, another subcontracted bay could offer oil/filter/lube service as well.
It seems to me that if you can integrate other services into something like this, whether automatic or performed by humans, would add to the ROI on something like this.
Looking at the car pallets, they appear solid and bowled, so it would appear that they would collect whatever oil, water, snow that might fall off a vehicle. The trick is to get that cleaned out to prevent accidents (slips, falls) when the next user has the pallet.
Essentially, yes. Bank of America implemented it shortly before Yahoo! did. Yahoo! did one better by letting you upload an image of your own, if you choose. With BOA, you're stuck with using one of their thousands.
Once upon a time, their standard practice was to set you up with your SSN as your login ID. This was long before the implementation of the SiteKey system. Of course, you had the option of choosing a different number at the time (which I did). Now, you can use a letter/number combination for your user ID.
Presuming that when in wi-fi mode, the phone uses VoIP. Is there any layer of security for this connection, or could one simply take a wireless card, packet sniffer and a media player to listen in on calls?
Sort of reminds me of the good old AMPS analog phone days (and 49MHz cordless home phones as well) when a scanner was all you needed to eavesdrop in on other people's calls if you were so inclined.
Perhaps the people phishing for card numbers, SSN#'s have amassed so many at this point that they can still sell large blocks of them to unwitting thieves, even though a small number of them have already been flagged as potentially stolen by the financial institutions.
Then again, maybe the theives can purchase these blocks of numbers from the phishers using their credit card number to try and purchase them...
Just remember that there are LOTS of other search engines out there. If Google starts to freak you out, or just simply begins to annoy you, you're always free to search elsewhere, too. Then, as other people start to feel similarly, they'll switch to something else as well, ultimately leading to a decrease in popularity of Google. That's the general theory, anyway.
Remember, Google isn't a monopoly on search (far from it). They're just the most popular because they've worked hard at providing their users with relevant results and keeping the interface simple to use. As far as I'm concerned, tweaking an algorithm (not just censoring certain terms) is a welcome improvement that should mitigate cheating the page rank and forcing less relevant/desireable results to the top.
It's simple, just wrap your CFLs completely in aluminum foil to reduce the RFI emissions.
Seriously, that is a problem, and although the FCC regulates electronic ballasts for RFI emission, in my opinion the permissible level is way too high. One might hope that some producer would find a market for bulbs that have various forms of noise suppression designed into them and market them as a reduced RFI bulb. That doesn't fix the problem of your nearby neighbor using a crummy CFL, though.
But a metal halide bulb is not a fluorescent. It relies upon electricity arcing through a mixture of gases and halides to produce light. It is, however, more efficient than an incandescent bulb.
As you mentioned, with the advent of solid state ballasts, one should look for higher frequency ballasts to reduce the perception of the flickering.
Rheostats as the primary means of dimming lights have long since gone away over a 100 years ago. The overwhelming vast majority use a low current potentiometer that sets a time in a simple RC time circuit for a SCR/Triac to switch on on circuit (light bulb). The Triac switches on when the RC circuit charges up to the threshold voltage and remains on until the AC waveform crosses the zero voltage point in its cycle, shutting off the SCR/Triac. Basically, the larger the potentiometer value, the longer the RC charge time is set to, and the shorter duration of time that the circuit is on. Check out a typical circuit diagram on Wikipedia
Incandescent bulbs don't care about this chopping of the AC sine wave, since they are simply heating elements that glow brightly...they can smooth out the flicker somewhat effectively. Fluorescents don't like this at all, since they are the product fluorescing gases from high voltage excitation provided by a transformer. However, dimmable CFL bulbs are available. They pretty much reconstitute the voltage through the use of a solid state ballast (instead of a simple transformer), and adjust the "drive" of the bulb excitation based on the input from the wall switch.
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Does anyone else see the irony in this article being submitted by a Canadian?
But that's a permit and not a true form of identification, is it not? A permit is something that allows you to operate, posess, or otherwise "do" under the juristdiction of the authority that issued it. Laws regarding conceal and carry vary a good deal from state to state, and is still illegal in a few.
Driver's licenses, aside from being a type of permit, are also a recognized form of photo identification. Although its reciprocity is more widespread (since the laws are much more similar), it isn't valid if you reside in a different state from which it was issued, either.
1: a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government; especially : a rebel not recognized as a belligerent
2: one who acts contrary to the policies and decisions of one's own political party
Setting aside the legality of the occupation for a moment, the typical insurgent isn't defending his homeland, but more so fighting for his particular faction to gain control or power, doing whatever harm against others in relatiation for "being wronged" whether by United States or another competing faction.
The troops at this point aren't so much fighting a convential war, but rather working as an "industrial strength" version of a police force to stop one group from attacking the other and vice-versa, getting caught in the middle from "meddling" with each groups objectives. As a police force, they need the tools of a police force in order to locate and identify troublemakers and perform their investigations more efficiently. This is one example (of many) tools to function in this manner. Remember that the military is better equipped for fighting wars and not function as a domestic police force. Equipment like this would allow them to function better with their current mission as such.
Think of it this way for a moment: Would a city's police force be very effective if you took away all of their offender databases, mobile data terminals and other tech tools? Yes, you could equip them all with body armor and machine guns, but their effectiveness is then limited to "shoot first and ask questions later". If the police were only allowed to operate in this mode, it's no wonder that all sorts of uprisings and attacks would result.
Actually, extracting hydrogen gas from methane isn't bizarre at all. In fact, using a process known as steam reformation, it is the preferred way of producing hydrogen gas for industrial use because it is more economical than electrolysis. The industrial gas companies (BOC, Linde, APT) all use steam reformation to produce hydrogen.
The only problem with converting methane into hydrogen gas is the same problem you have when you burn methane. It produces carbon dioxide.
The key point to remember about hydrogen is that it is a energy storage medium, not a energy source. Arugably, one could say the same about crude oil as stored sunlight energy, but we didn't have to produce it to use it./p
FWIW, former senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa) was gunning to prohibit the NWS from providing forecast information directly to the public. Why? AccuWeather, a Pennsylvania-based company was lobbying him to do so on the basis that the government should not be undermining private corporations business interest. In other words, Accuweather wanted to continue to sell their forecast products without the free competition from the NWS forecast products.
As someone who relies upon information from the NWS, I'm glad it went nowhere, and also glad to see that he didn't get re-elected so he doesn't have the chance to reintroduce such a stupid idea.
...and easily taken out of context just like every other form of written communication, perhaps even worse considering their short and limited nature. Don't get me wrong, I use SMS on a daily basis, and agree that it's convenient when sending information that would otherwise need to be copied down, or for replying with a simple response to keep from being tied up in a longer phone call.
I think most people missed the point in my final comment
Once, someone suggested building in voice recognition for entering an SMS...My reply was, "why don't you just call them instead."The point was the irony of having voice recognition text entry on a phone for the purpose of communicating in written form when you could go directly with voice. It would be akin to reading a written document to someone over the phone for them to copy down, word for word, when you both have a working fax machine at arm's reach. Sure, it can be done, and there may be some extenuating circumstances that would make it advantageous to do it that way, but normally you'd go for the most efficient means and not the most extravagant.
Gaack! Shows what happens when I start attacking math problems before caffiene for the morning.
I didn't catch as to what instrument they were using the measure this voltage. Most DMM's measure in RMS (though the fancier ones will measure the peaks after setting them to do so)
You are forgetting about the LCD screen backlight, which is powered from a stepped-up AC supply in the notebook. My guess is that this supply is shorting out to the notebook chasis, perhaps in the screen hinge, causing this problem.
For a sine wave AC waveform, your calculation is correct. Vrms x 1.414 = Vp-p
I think the problem they are experiencing is the high voltage for the LCD screen backlight shorting onto the notebook chasis.
How about the electroluminescent backlight for the screen? These are usually excited by higher voltages. To boot, the supply wires for it would likely pass through the hinge, providing a mechanical opportunity for failure (i.e. pinch point, resulting in exposed wiring, exposed wiring grounding out on notebook chasis).
I agree. Maybe I'm missing something, but the idea seems to go against simple ergonomics. I would compare it to the early versions of the Garmin hand-held GPS receivers. Several models had their buttons above the screen. You had to "drive" it with two hands; one to hold it and one to run the keypad with a finger so that you could navigate through the menus. It was my major gripe about their GPS at the time, and the reason that I went with a Magellen GPS receiver back then (I have since purchased a Garmin eTrex).
I suppose if the intent is that proficient SMS users would simply tap out their message without looking, then it might work. But for people with big hands who need to see what they're entering, it would present too much of a visual interference issue.
Once, someone suggested building in voice recognition for entering an SMS...My reply was, "why don't you just call them instead."
But since the text is the part that's copyrighted, what's to say that they just don't mask that part of it out of the picture? I'd say that you'd need to find a way to wallpaper your whole house with it in some fashion.
I think the author of this article tried conserving energy by not using spell check.
It would seem plausible to me that at some point, they could integrate a car wash into a larger version of these garages. That way, not only do you have the option of parking your car, but you could have the option of getting it washed while not in use. While this could be a totally automated process, I would imagine that there would be a market for subcontracting a manual portering bay in lieu of an automatic system so that other cleaning services (such as an interior vacuum, paste waxing) could be offered. Likewise, another subcontracted bay could offer oil/filter/lube service as well.
It seems to me that if you can integrate other services into something like this, whether automatic or performed by humans, would add to the ROI on something like this.
Looking at the car pallets, they appear solid and bowled, so it would appear that they would collect whatever oil, water, snow that might fall off a vehicle. The trick is to get that cleaned out to prevent accidents (slips, falls) when the next user has the pallet.
So not only do we have to defrag our hard drives, we have to defrag the parking structures too??
Essentially, yes. Bank of America implemented it shortly before Yahoo! did. Yahoo! did one better by letting you upload an image of your own, if you choose. With BOA, you're stuck with using one of their thousands.
Once upon a time, their standard practice was to set you up with your SSN as your login ID. This was long before the implementation of the SiteKey system. Of course, you had the option of choosing a different number at the time (which I did). Now, you can use a letter/number combination for your user ID.
Presuming that when in wi-fi mode, the phone uses VoIP. Is there any layer of security for this connection, or could one simply take a wireless card, packet sniffer and a media player to listen in on calls?
Sort of reminds me of the good old AMPS analog phone days (and 49MHz cordless home phones as well) when a scanner was all you needed to eavesdrop in on other people's calls if you were so inclined.
A little more of a direct link to the info on the vortex tube.
Perhaps the people phishing for card numbers, SSN#'s have amassed so many at this point that they can still sell large blocks of them to unwitting thieves, even though a small number of them have already been flagged as potentially stolen by the financial institutions.
Then again, maybe the theives can purchase these blocks of numbers from the phishers using their credit card number to try and purchase them...
Just remember that there are LOTS of other search engines out there. If Google starts to freak you out, or just simply begins to annoy you, you're always free to search elsewhere, too. Then, as other people start to feel similarly, they'll switch to something else as well, ultimately leading to a decrease in popularity of Google. That's the general theory, anyway.
Remember, Google isn't a monopoly on search (far from it). They're just the most popular because they've worked hard at providing their users with relevant results and keeping the interface simple to use. As far as I'm concerned, tweaking an algorithm (not just censoring certain terms) is a welcome improvement that should mitigate cheating the page rank and forcing less relevant/desireable results to the top.
It's simple, just wrap your CFLs completely in aluminum foil to reduce the RFI emissions.
Seriously, that is a problem, and although the FCC regulates electronic ballasts for RFI emission, in my opinion the permissible level is way too high. One might hope that some producer would find a market for bulbs that have various forms of noise suppression designed into them and market them as a reduced RFI bulb. That doesn't fix the problem of your nearby neighbor using a crummy CFL, though.
But a metal halide bulb is not a fluorescent. It relies upon electricity arcing through a mixture of gases and halides to produce light. It is, however, more efficient than an incandescent bulb.
As you mentioned, with the advent of solid state ballasts, one should look for higher frequency ballasts to reduce the perception of the flickering.
Rheostats as the primary means of dimming lights have long since gone away over a 100 years ago. The overwhelming vast majority use a low current potentiometer that sets a time in a simple RC time circuit for a SCR/Triac to switch on on circuit (light bulb). The Triac switches on when the RC circuit charges up to the threshold voltage and remains on until the AC waveform crosses the zero voltage point in its cycle, shutting off the SCR/Triac. Basically, the larger the potentiometer value, the longer the RC charge time is set to, and the shorter duration of time that the circuit is on. Check out a typical circuit diagram on Wikipedia
Incandescent bulbs don't care about this chopping of the AC sine wave, since they are simply heating elements that glow brightly...they can smooth out the flicker somewhat effectively. Fluorescents don't like this at all, since they are the product fluorescing gases from high voltage excitation provided by a transformer. However, dimmable CFL bulbs are available. They pretty much reconstitute the voltage through the use of a solid state ballast (instead of a simple transformer), and adjust the "drive" of the bulb excitation based on the input from the wall switch.