well it was someone we both knew who later kicked his ass for the little joke... so...this isn't a random story off the internet or a story from a casual acquaintance. Maybe the guy had an unknown defect in his eardrum, I said I didn't know all the circumstances. Still, phone call, scream, ass kicking same day, diagnosis of ruptured eardrum next day. Them's the facts.
Vast majority of our calls are cell, however we have 2 young kids in the house and want them to be able to use the phone in an emergency. Landline phone is big, easy to use, always in the same place and doesn't require a code to unlock or navigation of menus. Since bundling my phone/TV/internet from FiOS is cheaper than getting just TV/internet, it works out well.
careful how loud you scream...friend of mine played a prank call on some guy once that incorporated some screaming, ended up rupturing the guy's eardrum. No idea of all the circumstances involved (phone volume etc.) but would be a good idea to not go over the top with it.
oh god that would be great. instead of blanket VAC bans, cheaters can only get matched with other cheaters. Add spectator mode for non-cheater accounts and you have the makings of a popular YouTube channel.
I'm beginning to suspect some new hacks have come out for HL2:Deathmatch recently. I've played regularly for years and I've seen plenty of obvious hacks, but I've also seen plenty of players that are just way better than me. Took a couple month break to play Fallout 4, and now that I'm back I'm seeing a lot of people that were middle of the pack two months ago doing all kinds of crazy crap and suddenly kicking ass. The community is pretty small these days, so it's not like you don't run into the same people over and over and get to know their style. It doesn't seem like VAC really does anything these days.
I always tell people to go outside at night and shine a floodlight on the driveway. put an object in the middle. take a picture of said object and make sure to have the sky in the frame. report number of stars seen...cameras are cool, but they ain't magic. All it takes is watching a full moon through a telescope and forgetting to slip a filter in there to illustrate just how damn bright the lunar surface is...I think i have permanent after-images.
"It would probably make more sense to assign a tractor to drag each aircraft from the gate to the start of the runway rather than use the planes fuel to taxi around."
I was thinking the same thing... wouldn't it make sense to use autonomous tugs powered fuel cell, then tug the planes to the end of the taxiway? most of the tugs i've seen require manual connect/disconnect, so you'd have to automate that. unhook at end of taxi way, and pilot moves onto runway under own power, since you don't want anything else on an active runway. robo-tug heads back to terminal and to next assigned gate.
I just figured out the fatal flaw... pilot and ground crew unions would never allow it...
Yet USMC recruits qualify with the M16 at 500 yds with iron sights. The push for optics on standard issue military weapons was a response to the increase in close quarter combat brought on by a decade of urban war in the middle east. Many of these optics (like the very popular Trijicon ACOG) have little to no magnification (1x or 4x fixed magnification) You don't need a $1500 scope to be effective, you don't need a scope period.
For that matter, a $3000 dollar AR is no more lethal or accurate than an $800 dollar AR at the ranges that the vast majority of their owners are ever likely to shoot in either a self defense or hunting use. I have an AR I bought shortly before Sandy Hook from a local builder for $800 (goes for $1200+ now). It has proven to be extremely accurate, shooting decent factory ammo in 1/2 MOA groups at 100 yards and 1 MOA groups out to 300 yards. So, in the 5 shot groups I usually shoot when testing handloads or new factory ammo, that's 5 shots in approximately 1/2 inch at 100 yards and 5 shots in approximately 3 inches at 300 yards. When you are aiming at a man sized target with a vital area in say, a 12 inch circle, how much accuracy do you reallllly need? Even the crappiest AR available for sale will do 3 MOA at 300 yards, giving you a 9 inch "hit zone". A lot of the guys with expensive AR's are either compensating for poor shooting skills, trying to impress their friends, or are doing competition shooting (particulary 3 gun, with the requirement of shooting on the move having, the most inherently accurate rifle possible helps compensate).
Seriously folks. Is there a way to encrypt my non-rooted phone that does not rely on anything the manufacturer provided and won't kill performance? If we can't trust the manufacturer to leave out backdoors, what's the alternative?
replying to myself to clarify that opening statement...
In New Jersey law states that when "smart guns" are commercially available for sale ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY, all guns sold in the state must be smart guns.
In New Jersey law states that when "smart guns" are commercially available for sale, all guns sold in the state must be smart guns. The side effect of this is that The NRA, gun manufacturers and other 2A supporters do not really do more than make vague gestures in the direction of "smart guns". They are rightfully unwilling to 1. screw the entire gun buying population of NJ, and 2. set a legal precedent for this kind of legislation that legitimizes it in the minds other state governments.
So, not surprisingly, NJ law has done more to slow the progress of "smart gun" technology more than any other factor. Remember the (illegal) gun confiscations in NOLA after hurricane Katrina? Remember the breakdown of law, order and damn near civilization in that area? Do you want some guy sitting safe in a command center to render your most effective means of self defense into a hammer buy sending a kill signal? If you want to delude yourself that the technology would evolve in any other way, I'd like to point out the increasing push for government backdoors in encryption. No politician can resist the thought of having more control...
As i understood it, the primary reason for classifying Pluto as a "dwarf planet" was size. If there were 2000 similar sized bodies in the Kuiper Belt, then they felt obligated to say "there are 2009 planets in the solar system". Of course this was decision was made BEFORE New Horizons, so if Pluto was just another smallish hunk of ice and rock then I guess it makes some sense (still think it was silly). Now, we know that Pluto is a hell of a lot more than that, and is a more active planet than expected. It's time to bring it back as #9 and maybe when we get to the Kuiper Belt to actually get a look, we can rethink the terminology...
Google translate for ""All your base are belong to us" comes out as "Omnia quae nobis sunt turpia". Latin geeks, how accurate is that? I can't wait to pOwn someone online and type that in. : )
whoa there! The article you quoted is misleading. First off, it lists Recommended Power Supplies. This is NOT the same as the power draw by the GPU. This is the manufacturers recommendation of what you need to ensure stable performance of EVERYTHING in the PC with that card installed. The higher end the card, the greater the recommended minimum, partly to compensate for increased GPU needs, but also because the kind of people that run these cards are likely to have a crap load of other stuff that needs feeding as well. Who runs these cards? Gamers. Anyone that does serious PC gaming uses Steam for at least some games. Guess what? Steam does an opt-in hardware survey on a regular basis. While I'm sure they keep it anonymous, I'm also sure they sell that useful data to companies like NVIDIA and AMD. They KNOW what kind of total system power draw the buyers of a particular card have and can certainly extrapolate to a new card.
Anyway, even a screamer like the NVIDIA GTX Titan X is drawing less than 250 watts at max load (the SLI entries on your link are running multiple linked cards). Here's a power consumption test by Tom's Hardware http://www.tomshardware.com/re.... GPU's need a lot of power relative to other components, but they are in fact extremely efficient devices. Every new batch of cards that comes out manages to outperform the last AND use less power doing it.
"I'm curious what other areas you feel we as a society would be better served by investing $4 Billion in? "
How about we spend $4 billion on infrastructure? God knows roads and bridges in this country could use it. Might save a few lives right there. How about $4 billion dollars to setup a national system of alternative fuel stations along the interstates? Fast charge electric, natural gas, hydrogen. Mr. Green President could go a long way to spurring that transition by getting rid of the number one complaint by most people: "if i leave the city, i can't be sure i can find fuel". Stick the damn things every 200 miles along interstates.
On a social note, how about using that money to subsidize adoptions? I know plenty of people, my self included that would be happy to open our home to a kid without one. The expense is a deterrent for a lot of people. Yeah I can afford to raise another child, that doesn't mean I should basically have to BUY them first.
Self driving cars will happen, there are too many major companies involved. If anything it's a future tech that DOESN'T need government aid.
if you mean youTube and not an actual site called "pootube", then I have noticed lately that I have to click the play button twice. First time, it just starts buffering but never plays, second time , play starts. No errors though.
Clearly the most pressing issue the U.S. has at this point are those damn human controlled cars! I'm sure there's no better use for $4 billion than this. Nope, none at all...
What we're seeing here folks is an outgoing president going into full "my legacy" mode. This frequently looks similar to "full retard" but the prez gets a pass...
Look at this another way, someone with the state of New Jersey felt that they were justified in performing a necropsy on a non-food, non-endangered animal. Now they won't share the results. Why did they feel the necropsy was necessary, and what did they find that they don't want to share? The necropsy bit could be perfectly innocent. Someone took advantage of the rarity of having a large dead marine mammal to run tests on, maybe to prove that there wasn't anything in the water, per se, that killed it. It's the refusal to share the results that is suspicious...
If this shakes out as a public safety issue and/or government corruption/cover-up, then it would be money well spent.
you're assuming they have no cash reserves, rainy day fund, legal war chest or whatever you want to call it. I think that's pretty unlikely, if for no other reason than this investigation has been going on for some time and it would have been prudent to sock away some funds in case the outcome was bad.
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well it was someone we both knew who later kicked his ass for the little joke... so...this isn't a random story off the internet or a story from a casual acquaintance. Maybe the guy had an unknown defect in his eardrum, I said I didn't know all the circumstances. Still, phone call, scream, ass kicking same day, diagnosis of ruptured eardrum next day. Them's the facts.
Vast majority of our calls are cell, however we have 2 young kids in the house and want them to be able to use the phone in an emergency. Landline phone is big, easy to use, always in the same place and doesn't require a code to unlock or navigation of menus. Since bundling my phone/TV/internet from FiOS is cheaper than getting just TV/internet, it works out well.
" then scream bloody murder."
careful how loud you scream...friend of mine played a prank call on some guy once that incorporated some screaming, ended up rupturing the guy's eardrum. No idea of all the circumstances involved (phone volume etc.) but would be a good idea to not go over the top with it.
oh god that would be great. instead of blanket VAC bans, cheaters can only get matched with other cheaters. Add spectator mode for non-cheater accounts and you have the makings of a popular YouTube channel.
I'm beginning to suspect some new hacks have come out for HL2:Deathmatch recently. I've played regularly for years and I've seen plenty of obvious hacks, but I've also seen plenty of players that are just way better than me. Took a couple month break to play Fallout 4, and now that I'm back I'm seeing a lot of people that were middle of the pack two months ago doing all kinds of crazy crap and suddenly kicking ass. The community is pretty small these days, so it's not like you don't run into the same people over and over and get to know their style. It doesn't seem like VAC really does anything these days.
you guys! it's not green cheese as in color, it's green cheese because the methane from the moon cows just goes into space!
I always tell people to go outside at night and shine a floodlight on the driveway. put an object in the middle. take a picture of said object and make sure to have the sky in the frame. report number of stars seen...cameras are cool, but they ain't magic. All it takes is watching a full moon through a telescope and forgetting to slip a filter in there to illustrate just how damn bright the lunar surface is...I think i have permanent after-images.
"It would probably make more sense to assign a tractor to drag each aircraft from the gate to the start of the runway rather than use the planes fuel to taxi around."
I was thinking the same thing... wouldn't it make sense to use autonomous tugs powered fuel cell, then tug the planes to the end of the taxiway? most of the tugs i've seen require manual connect/disconnect, so you'd have to automate that. unhook at end of taxi way, and pilot moves onto runway under own power, since you don't want anything else on an active runway. robo-tug heads back to terminal and to next assigned gate.
I just figured out the fatal flaw... pilot and ground crew unions would never allow it...
if he had a newsletter, i'd most certainly subscribe to it!
yeah, but how many Library of Congress shelves is this? I don't think I can process this metric fad.
If it can keep crap out, it can keep crap in right?
Yet USMC recruits qualify with the M16 at 500 yds with iron sights. The push for optics on standard issue military weapons was a response to the increase in close quarter combat brought on by a decade of urban war in the middle east. Many of these optics (like the very popular Trijicon ACOG) have little to no magnification (1x or 4x fixed magnification) You don't need a $1500 scope to be effective, you don't need a scope period.
For that matter, a $3000 dollar AR is no more lethal or accurate than an $800 dollar AR at the ranges that the vast majority of their owners are ever likely to shoot in either a self defense or hunting use. I have an AR I bought shortly before Sandy Hook from a local builder for $800 (goes for $1200+ now). It has proven to be extremely accurate, shooting decent factory ammo in 1/2 MOA groups at 100 yards and 1 MOA groups out to 300 yards. So, in the 5 shot groups I usually shoot when testing handloads or new factory ammo, that's 5 shots in approximately 1/2 inch at 100 yards and 5 shots in approximately 3 inches at 300 yards. When you are aiming at a man sized target with a vital area in say, a 12 inch circle, how much accuracy do you reallllly need? Even the crappiest AR available for sale will do 3 MOA at 300 yards, giving you a 9 inch "hit zone". A lot of the guys with expensive AR's are either compensating for poor shooting skills, trying to impress their friends, or are doing competition shooting (particulary 3 gun, with the requirement of shooting on the move having, the most inherently accurate rifle possible helps compensate).
Seriously folks. Is there a way to encrypt my non-rooted phone that does not rely on anything the manufacturer provided and won't kill performance? If we can't trust the manufacturer to leave out backdoors, what's the alternative?
replying to myself to clarify that opening statement...
In New Jersey law states that when "smart guns" are commercially available for sale ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY, all guns sold in the state must be smart guns.
In New Jersey law states that when "smart guns" are commercially available for sale, all guns sold in the state must be smart guns. The side effect of this is that The NRA, gun manufacturers and other 2A supporters do not really do more than make vague gestures in the direction of "smart guns". They are rightfully unwilling to 1. screw the entire gun buying population of NJ, and 2. set a legal precedent for this kind of legislation that legitimizes it in the minds other state governments.
So, not surprisingly, NJ law has done more to slow the progress of "smart gun" technology more than any other factor. Remember the (illegal) gun confiscations in NOLA after hurricane Katrina? Remember the breakdown of law, order and damn near civilization in that area? Do you want some guy sitting safe in a command center to render your most effective means of self defense into a hammer buy sending a kill signal? If you want to delude yourself that the technology would evolve in any other way, I'd like to point out the increasing push for government backdoors in encryption. No politician can resist the thought of having more control...
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As i understood it, the primary reason for classifying Pluto as a "dwarf planet" was size. If there were 2000 similar sized bodies in the Kuiper Belt, then they felt obligated to say "there are 2009 planets in the solar system". Of course this was decision was made BEFORE New Horizons, so if Pluto was just another smallish hunk of ice and rock then I guess it makes some sense (still think it was silly). Now, we know that Pluto is a hell of a lot more than that, and is a more active planet than expected. It's time to bring it back as #9 and maybe when we get to the Kuiper Belt to actually get a look, we can rethink the terminology...
Google translate for ""All your base are belong to us" comes out as "Omnia quae nobis sunt turpia".
Latin geeks, how accurate is that? I can't wait to pOwn someone online and type that in. : )
"Do they have the gold-lame spandex suits and cool motorcycles too?"
Gold Lame? I can make my MP3's shiny now??
whoa there! The article you quoted is misleading. First off, it lists Recommended Power Supplies. This is NOT the same as the power draw by the GPU. This is the manufacturers recommendation of what you need to ensure stable performance of EVERYTHING in the PC with that card installed. The higher end the card, the greater the recommended minimum, partly to compensate for increased GPU needs, but also because the kind of people that run these cards are likely to have a crap load of other stuff that needs feeding as well. Who runs these cards? Gamers. Anyone that does serious PC gaming uses Steam for at least some games. Guess what? Steam does an opt-in hardware survey on a regular basis. While I'm sure they keep it anonymous, I'm also sure they sell that useful data to companies like NVIDIA and AMD. They KNOW what kind of total system power draw the buyers of a particular card have and can certainly extrapolate to a new card.
Anyway, even a screamer like the NVIDIA GTX Titan X is drawing less than 250 watts at max load (the SLI entries on your link are running multiple linked cards). Here's a power consumption test by Tom's Hardware http://www.tomshardware.com/re....
GPU's need a lot of power relative to other components, but they are in fact extremely efficient devices. Every new batch of cards that comes out manages to outperform the last AND use less power doing it.
"I'm curious what other areas you feel we as a society would be better served by investing $4 Billion in? "
How about we spend $4 billion on infrastructure? God knows roads and bridges in this country could use it. Might save a few lives right there. How about $4 billion dollars to setup a national system of alternative fuel stations along the interstates? Fast charge electric, natural gas, hydrogen. Mr. Green President could go a long way to spurring that transition by getting rid of the number one complaint by most people: "if i leave the city, i can't be sure i can find fuel". Stick the damn things every 200 miles along interstates.
On a social note, how about using that money to subsidize adoptions? I know plenty of people, my self included that would be happy to open our home to a kid without one. The expense is a deterrent for a lot of people. Yeah I can afford to raise another child, that doesn't mean I should basically have to BUY them first.
Self driving cars will happen, there are too many major companies involved. If anything it's a future tech that DOESN'T need government aid.
if you mean youTube and not an actual site called "pootube", then I have noticed lately that I have to click the play button twice. First time, it just starts buffering but never plays, second time , play starts. No errors though.
Clearly the most pressing issue the U.S. has at this point are those damn human controlled cars! I'm sure there's no better use for $4 billion than this. Nope, none at all...
What we're seeing here folks is an outgoing president going into full "my legacy" mode. This frequently looks similar to "full retard" but the prez gets a pass...
Look at this another way, someone with the state of New Jersey felt that they were justified in performing a necropsy on a non-food, non-endangered animal. Now they won't share the results. Why did they feel the necropsy was necessary, and what did they find that they don't want to share? The necropsy bit could be perfectly innocent. Someone took advantage of the rarity of having a large dead marine mammal to run tests on, maybe to prove that there wasn't anything in the water, per se, that killed it. It's the refusal to share the results that is suspicious...
If this shakes out as a public safety issue and/or government corruption/cover-up, then it would be money well spent.
you're assuming they have no cash reserves, rainy day fund, legal war chest or whatever you want to call it. I think that's pretty unlikely, if for no other reason than this investigation has been going on for some time and it would have been prudent to sock away some funds in case the outcome was bad.