Posts by Eddy Ito 4662 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Apr 2007
Where the law doesn't prevent it, it does at least reduce the damage.
Bird committed suicide in the woods. Perhaps he just ran low on ammo and needed the last round for himself or perhaps he had momentarily come to his senses long enough to end it permanently. The law didn't "reduce the damage" to 12 dead and 11 injured. The law didn't prevent any deaths at all since there was nothing in the law that stopped him from continuing.
The typical refrigerator magnet often uses what is called a Halbach array to effectively create a one sided magnet so it shouldn't take much to prevent interference.
So, did anyone see where we queue up?
To get the vulcan nerve pinch login requirement back, do a search for 'run', in order to get the run dialog box, then enter 'netplwiz'. On the new window go to the "Advanced" tab you will find, near the bottom, the check box that will make users provide the three finger salute prior to logging in. It works in 7 and Blew Blue but in XP I believe you have to go to the Local Security Policy setting in the Admin Tools of the Control Panel.
I have to applaud the video find and the key piece where Clapper admits that it gets information on citizens "Not wittingly". I'll be happy to lay odds of 2 to 1 in kegs of home brew [beer, wine, distilled (shhh this is A-merkin-land after all) spirits] that the majority of his information comes about "not wittingly". Be aware, I may, regrettably, have to ask the losers to store my winnings for such a time as I require to secure my own storage area if the volume of suckers takers is so large.
I can honestly say I've voted for neither in over 30 years. Then again I'm one of those fringe looney wacko alternative party voters who picks the party who I feel at least wouldn't be totally pointless on the off chance they actually got elected.
@Alan Brown
There, you've hit the mark. Most rail in the US is owned by freight companies and the passenger rail runs between. It isn't much of a problem in the port cities where the freight originates but anywhere down the line has to deal with the inconsistencies and often it only takes a hundred miles or two to totally screw the commuter schedule.
And that's especially true here in California where folks regularly dart across 5 lanes of traffic at a roughly 45 degree angle to the roadway because they just realized their exit is only a quarter mile up the road. Of course it doesn't help with the highway planners putting half the entrance ramps on the far side of the freeway because they couldn't fit another ramp on the usual side.
That said, I'd be happy to use it and see my niece on the north end of this electric semi-suck tube on the occasional weekend.
Don't forget that FBI had "interviewed" one of the bombers not so long ago and their Russian counterparts had given the FBI a heads up. One might think if you were told to watch out for some guy and had personally spoken to him that you might at least identify him from the pictures.
Now if Larry (evil_1) would get his own Java sandbox in order so it wasn't quite the colander of security that it is, I might actually listen to the guy.
On a side note, is there some magical marketing Kook-aid these folks drink that puts them so far out of touch with reality and is it expensive or does it make you rich? It always seems like some chicken-egg thing to me.
It should also be trivially easy to figure out there is a jamming device in the area. If the GPS which is used to sniffing out a tiny signal is suddenly having to figure out what to do with a couple watts of noise it should be a fairly safe bet that something isn't right. As you say, it could have a time out function to allow for passing some noisy signal source before starving the fuel or something.
You missed today's key patent ingredient, "on a mobile device" so that makes it as valid as all the other shite patents that are nothing more than 40 year old tech "on a mobile device".
"Joke alert" because there isn't a "sarcasm alert" and there is the occasional nutter who wouldn't pick up on it.
"If Samsung ever decide to build a doughnut/spaceship HQ, they could just about do the entire job in-house. About the only market they don't seem to be in in raw materials mining, although they do supply some of the heavy engineering for that."
Give a few weeks, we might still see a headline yet that reads 'Fruity Apple adopts a pet, buys CAT.'
And there's one problem right there. It looks as if RT does even less.
It doesn't help matters that MS makes their RT app store so obscure. If I want a finance app I can see the personal finance apps for windows phone but not for RT unless I'm on RT or W8. Apple makes it easy even with two stores since the iOS store has a nice big simple link to their Mac store. Google only has one store for their devices and there are others stores available also. Why can't MS have one place to find simple links to their store or even better one store where people can filter out what they don't want? Why is it such a hassle to develop apps and why do I need my credit card handy to register?
At first blush, I think Tesla would have a good case for challenging the constitutionality of those state laws based on the dormant commerce clause since these laws effectively regulate interstate commerce which is a power not given to the state. I also think it should be trivial for Tesla to file the necessary paperwork and grease the right palms pay the required fee to declare its centers as dealerships since in theory they should have equal protection under the law. Then again, I'm not some political wanker who is paid to be obstructionist.
Not exactly the same since few car dealers have the clout to cajole all car manufacturers into fixing the prices so no other dealer could sell at a lower price. If one dealer did have that much sway and tried the same thing it is hard to believe that the DOJ wouldn't come down on them just as hard even if the automakers settled and it would hurt the automakers margins. I look at as a lie down with dogs get up with fleas thing.
Given the number of people who have the "automatically log me in" box ticked and don't have it automatically lock after a bit of inactivity there is no way this will be fixed except it would be pretty trivial to add it. If Comodo and Iron can tweak the code then it shouldn't be hard to spin in a master password.
Besides, doesn't Google like having access to all your data anyway? Why would they make it harder on themselves? I'm actually a bit surprised they [Google, MS, Apple, etc] don't automatically cloudify all passwords to help folks log in from anywhere. What could go wrong having all the magic eggs to your life in one basket?
Ok, if I really have to spell it out, Shrub == Bush as used by the blue team and Oh, bummer == Obama from the red team meme. Sorry it was over your head.
"Abort Retry Fail Ito-san?"
Ito-san? Is that the best you've got? I'd have figured a syphilitic gonorrhea ridden redneck xenophobe Teamster would be more eloquent. Go ahead and look up the words with six or more letters on your own time.
"Why do companies want your DOB when you just want to register a vacuum cleaner?"
So they know when my grandmother was born? Note that only one website in the last few years has called bullshit on me being born in 1897 so I had to "lie" and use 1914. But seriously, who registers things like a vacuum cleaner? If they last five years you have to search the depths of ebay to find consumables like bags. Unless you've made your own adapter so you can use an old, slightly modified, pair of knit pants as a bag that you can empty and rewash of course.
"Why does Google need that phone number in case you forget your password?"
So they can call my burner. Which just happened to burn two years ago. Would now be a good time to mention that Google thinks my name is Robert Ornot? It's true, ready, reddy, reedy and redy were all taken so there must be a lot of Ornots around.
Talking about the shape of the curve is pointless since all it does is plot a tax rate, the video mentions the top rate, vs. government revenue while ignoring the fact that the tax rate varies with income. Putting it into perspective, it's perfectly possible for the top tier to be 99% but the question becomes one of where it kicks in.
A lot of people like to talk about top historical rates being much higher like "Oh back in 1936 the top rate was 79% and folks got along just fine." What they don't say is that rate applied to folks who made $5,000,000 in 1936. Today that income would be equal to $82.5M or, for a 40 hour work week, a bit over $39,000/hr in the middle of the depression. I can't but wonder how many people were paying this rate.
Compare more common incomes today and adjust backward for inflation to 1936 tax rates and folks making $50k pay 4%, $75k is 8%, $100k is 9%, $200k is 12%, $500k pays 23% and working up to a modern $1M makes the 39% bracket. Does anyone know anyone earning $100k and being in the 9% bracket? That's 9% U.S. Federal income tax, not 9% California income tax.
And there's the rub, the tax brackets don't keep pace with inflation. Folks are paying a lot more in taxes for the same net pay. It kind of makes the Laffer Curve a bit laughable if you just plot the top tier tax rate if it doesn't effect anyone.
This is their second pass. Sign up and pay money so you can build an app you can run on your very own phone. After submitting it to and having it approved by the app store but it will run in a crippled fashion in the touchydevelopy environment. No money? No tile for you.
You don't suppose the first app could be something that allows you to install more than one more app, do you? That would actually be quite handy.
According to the video on their site they are 8 equal cores and they have the ability to switch on or off as many as needed for the task at hand. That would give them 8 levels of granularity in the CPU core count plus any clock adjustments. I assume all the cores run on the same clock but I could see them clocking 2 banks of 4 cores differently to increase the potential power tweaking but 8 clocks seems a bit extreme.
Bingo, most of the replacement parts I buy are metal and while I could easily print out a wax form for casting it's much easier to hit the local hardware store and buy, let's say, a ball valve for $4.87 than it would be to model, print and cast the same thing. Talk to me about a cheap SLS machine and you've got my attention but the current hobby status is just that.
Consider in the past three years I've spent a total of $16-20 on plastic parts ranging from shower handles to cupboard door catches but I'd have to be pretty ham-handed to need to buy a hundred times that in a single year. Note that includes the things a certain fuzzy one has gnawed to bits during that time, albeit less so now with a proper set of teeth.
Looking at the pic, chart "A" seems to indicate that when folks are huddling for warmth there is a 5% drop in violence and when it's smoking hot there is about an equal rise, perhaps stemming from the 'get off me, man!' feeling. It would be interesting to see what absolute temperature shows in correlation to "anomaly". Perhaps it's me but I seem to remember many more heat waves (+10 °C) in the warm months and 'arctic blasts' (-10 °C) in the cold months. Then again should it really matter if your average 75 °F day boiling over at 93 °F or chilling out at 57 °F? Shocking information.
If you're going to present data as "anomaly in degrees" on one chart, "absolute value in σ" in another, "% change from prior year", a "weighted anomaly index" and a "NINO3 index May-Dec in °C" then I claim there is a potential correlation between the rain in Spain falling mainly on the plain and the volume of urine coming from a cow pissing on a flat rock.
More and more of these jobs are being turned over to such systems in an attempt to promote safety. Sure, it makes it safer for the guy who doesn't have to manhandle pipe stands reaching 90 odd feet in the air but does that really matter if the guy at the drillers console doesn't always have full control? Perhaps drone rigs aren't the best idea.
I've used Nokia Here to peruse the local Home DespotDepot and other stores, it's fairly useful but I'd really like to have it keep up to date with which aisle Costco has moved [insert commonly purchased item here] to this week.
Don't worry about the GOOG, they'll catch up just as soon as Glass takes off.
Ah the good old days when monitors had five Bayonet Neill-Concelman connectors and it was easy to prank the boss less technically inclined by swapping a few connections when they went to the head. Oh the hilarity that ensued when they returned and called our tech guy to help out. I don't think he ever figured out it was usually the tech guy who set it wonky in the first place since it usually took hours to fix and came with an admonishment to avoid looking at porn online.
Hmm, I wonder if he is a Senator now.
There is reason to dawdle since as long as the action is ongoing there is no statute of limitations and it only makes sense to have the greatest possible injury as it gets the greatest possible payout. I expect that if it is as pervasive as they say there will be class action rumblings starting shortly. This could end well, for the lawyers.
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