Posts by cortland 1167 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Mar 2012
Here's an upvote from the US for you, then.
You don't' need the Anarchists Cookbook to scare people; a little audience fear, some imagination, and explaining what can be done with things under the kitchen sink can get you on someone's watch list, if only your (former) girlfiend's Mum.
I am a suspect character;
No one knows what I do,
No one can prove a thing,
Not even you.
A bright child should never be left alone for a second, then. My shop-class rockets were too small, and unflyable. It was interesting to see the melted alumin(i)um puddle up, though.
At 12 I was shooting holes in wallboard with a toroidal magnet (TV focus coil), electric train (N gauge for cognoscenti) transformer, and ball bearings. Neat! Was going to sequence more coils for velocity, but Dad and the landlord agreed I needed a less expensive recreation.
And see Wikipedia on the childhood of Bernhard Schmidt.
But does HM Government actually believe the British Public have ANY legitimate reason for privacy? Isn't this the institution that wanted a copy of every telegram sent?
(I hear we have ways to predict what people will send, over here -- and file charges beforehand. Don't tell anyone.)
Some 20+ years ago, a firm in whose R&D department I worked entered the *really cheap* consumer electronics business. I passed one of those stores on my daily commute, so when I saw a pyramid of color televisions discounted 75%, I had to ask what was going on.
The manager pointed to the sign: AS IS. It seems the Chinese manufacturer was not testing them to see if they worked, and when the US retailer complained, told them they were cheap; throw the bad ones away and try again. It was a simpler time...
I won't mention the name of that (defunct) chain, but see below:
" ... Lay on, [_______],
And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!' "
Perhaps we have not been educating ourselves enough to what makes technology work. There was a time when this was how young people got into what is now called "high-tech"; I am one of them, playing with electrons since 1957.
I won't call for more College degrees, though, not having gotten one myself. Education need not mean certification -- nor a Credentialed States of America, either.
And what of the Dynalogic Hyperion? I had one for a while, a very nice package, though of
sadly limited compatibility.
"Right minds" doesn't appear to apply to NK's strategy.
But suppose their goal is to throw the worlds economies into disarray and supplant Seoul amidst the confusion.
They wouldn't need to launch missiles themselves, though it might please them to; all they need do is provide missiles and warheads to more sincerely irrational (!) regimes and see the counter-blows fall attenuated and diffuse elsewhere, while they act closer to home.
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven," that sort of thing. Considering what NK has done to its own people... Hell might just fit.
Cellphone antennas are physically small, and though they are indeed smaller electrically than a normal antenna, a shortwave antenna built the same way might still be some eight feet on a side. I suspect Aereo has taken advantage of being quite near the transmitting antennas; at that range, with the power the stations use, it's hard NOT to pick them up.
However, they might well be an internet cable service, and may next be hearing from the FCC for not following FCC rules for those.
Treaties cannot be enforced in the US whose provisions violate guarantees or protections of our constitution. Even those protections are not usually invoked preemptively, as the EU's data protection scheme seems to be, but are activated by court decisions that establish precedent and allow subsequent complaints to be acted on.
IMO. But I live here!
Drive down this street? Because we didn't get a speed reading on your car.
Let's see your license!
Cue the police jokes.
From the article. this appears (heh) practical applied with conductive paint on vehicles to renders them indetectible by speed radar and triggers for red-light cameras. Onward to Ångströms!
Mike, didn't there used to be a doughnut shop here? ...
Recently received (today) link
http://globalsecurity.tradepub.com/free/w_ri89/prgm.cgi
excerpt from page:
"In this overview document, find out about the security features BlackBerry 10 can deliver for all the devices in your enterprise, whether they're running on an iOS, Android™ or BlackBerry® platform. "
Naw, old fashioned is an old lady pointing her finger and screeching
"That's 'im, officer! I see'd 'im!"
How many biddy's might be usefully (and comfortably far away from the public's eardrums) employed perusing TV screens?
Technology update: Make them Shanghai call-centre workers, why not? It's only security.
-- "Consumers who encounter a problem with an online purchase will be able to submit a complaint online through the ODR platform, **in the language of their choice**," the Commission said... --
-- Emphasis (ahem!) added.
tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh’a’
http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/klingon.htm
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/11/1052591677008.html
John Peter Zenger when you need him?
Nowhere; he's been dead over 245 years -- but if there's anything left of him, it's laughing bitterly..
See you now:
" You are Englishmen, mind your privilege, give not away your right"
-- William Penn, at his trial in1670
http://www.constitution.org/trials/penn/penn-mead.htm
RIAA does not like me
I buy my music on CD
I buy them used and next to free
RIAA does NOT like me
My dialup line is far too slow
To download music don't 'you know?
My radio is on the air
For online music I don't care.
And in my player, decades old
I've folk songs, klezmer, Russians bold....
With obscure labels yet untold
My carousel is quite enrolled.
RIAA does not like me
I buy my music on CD
I buy them used and next to free
RIAA does NOT like me.
RUM tiddle iddle iddle RUm tim tum!
RUM tiddle iddle iddle RUm tim tum!
RUM tiddle iddle iddle RUm tim tum!
And now my little rhyme is done
Copyright (heh): ME
-- DCTS would be cheaper than the AVGC – quite a lot cheaper --
In aggregate, it is impossible to distinguish one service from another; it's all bits. This sounds as if some oh so CLEVER regulator has decided to treat bits differently based on where they go, perhaps assuming that if one sells ADSL he makes more money.
Texting is much less difficult if done by Morse Code.
It appears that the handicap due to vocal communication is poor multitasking.
As a precaution, then, substantive and immersing intellectual content, or content arousing of emotion, must be forbidden from being aired during commute hours, and at night when truck (lorries to you) drivers are racing down deserted roads to meet deadlines.
Lunchtime (as we say) should similarly be restricted to light and nonabsorbing content as well, protecting those who must drive from the workplace to an eating-place and back.
Or just ban the airing duringcritical times of intellectually and emotionally interesting content by such stations as still have any. "Talk Radio" is included in this category, so that's some good to come of this.
It is, however, not necessary to actually test drivers, as establishments of low type abound wherein test subjects might be set tasks on tablets or laptop computers while being assailed by the sensory blandishments such places are reputed to offer.
More research is obviously needed.
Paris. I don't know why.
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