The Republican bill that would remove ISPs from FCC regulation would allow states to regulate. It would make rent seeking a lot more difficult for ISPs.
Not bloody likely. States are already busy shutting down competition for the incumbent ISPs.
Failures were correlated with the amount of time the disk was spun up, so you should idle a drive not in active use.
That makes no logical sense unless the statement is missing a "not" somewhere, or unless you WANT failures.
You're reading the sentence wrong. You're reading it as "Times the disk was spun up".
What they mean is the total amount of time the disk has spent spinning over its lifetime.
Highway mileage? Hybrids are don't do anything for highway. The battery and motor may as well be ballast for highway driving, so you'll get identical highway mileage, at best (more probably, slightly worse) compared to an otherwise identical conventional vehicle.
If you're doing mostly highway, a hybrid has no benefit for you.
Hybrids only do anything for stop-and-go city driving, where they shine pretty nicely, largely due to not idling.
With the coming $4.50+/gallon gas coming this summer due to the combination of Ukrain and Iraq (plus screw you, we're big oil) I think you'll see sales jump up again.
Yeah, but new conventional vehicles are awfully close to hybrids in terms of fuel economy, without the extra cost. And then fuck-everything-we're-doing-full-electric is eating into the hybrid's market share from the other side.
Yes, but the question is whether having to take insulin is better or worse than having to take anti-rejection drugs.
I believe the insulin is generally considered the better option unless you're needing the anti-rejection drugs for something else anyway.
you have silly ideas about screening, a newly infected HIV case won't register on test for weeks.
Actually, it's not even weeks anymore. The window period for the nucleic acid amplification test Canadian Blood Services uses is 13 days.
1. I'm not the guy you replied to. I was just giving an example of how such testing regimes work where they are done.
2. They should know about it. It's in the pamphlet you're supposed to read.
Wow, OK. So if you don't think giving donors the run around will increase donations then you are the bigoted, homophobic
Run around? "Test everyone for everything" is the standard up here and there's no "run around". They just take a half dozen vials of blood in addition to the unit, all through the same needle.
They first fill a little bag with blood (it's all integrated into the donation pack), then they clamp off that line and direct the blood to the main collection bag and fill the vials from the first bag while you fill the big one. It adds maybe a minute to the collection. The actual testing is all done after donation. If the testing shows something important, you get a letter in the mail.
HIV testing isn't cheap and forcing it on everyone would shrink the donor pool dramatically not increase it.
Sure it is. Canadian Blood Services tests every single blood donation for HIV (also Hep C, West Nile, and others). The testing is done after the fact, so there's no waiting or anything. They just take a half dozen vials of blood in addition to the unit.
Right, so law enforcement can twist that to any meaning they want.
At which point the judge crumples up their illegitimately obtained evidence and tosses it out, along with their case.
Sure, it's possible. You can make a system that bases itself off any byte/word size you like, but why do something non-standard just because? Numbers of bits that are powers of two is the norm and there's no particularly good reason to go against that. It would simply add expense, which would hamper adoption.
He says "Our technology" and "All our patent", so presumably they're meaning every single one of the 169 patents they currently hold, except maybe the 8 design patents.
It's not a 4 set, that's just the human-readable formatting. The actual IPv4 address is an unsigned 32-bit integer. The human-readable format splits those into octets and displays them in decimal.
Your "add an octet" would result in using 40-bit integers, which isn't a normally used size nowadays. A variant of your idea would be to use 64-bit integers and simply double the size of the existing addressing, but this would break things the same way (as everything is predicated on dealing with 32-bit addresses), and going to 128 bits allows more future proofing and allows for some convenient auto-configuration methods, as you can stick a almost-always-unique MAC address (64 bits) into half of the address, then you can just stick the 64 bit network prefix in front of that and you've got a full IPv6 address ready.
You could conceivably write an IPv6 address in the same octets format as an IPv4, but it would be absurdly long i.e. 255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255, hence why they standardized on the "4 sets of 4 hex digits" format.
Out of curiosity, why haven't we just done that with an additional 1 number prefix for continent routing rather than this IPv6 shit anyway?
Because that would break backwards compatibility as thoroughly as IPv6 does without providing anywhere near as much futureproofing.
then give the clean ones a certification with expiry. Re-test as required to continue donating.
Certification shmertication. Test every single damn time. That's what they do up here in Canada. When you donate blood, they take a half-dozen additional vials of blood specifically for testing along with the unit itself.
Any program which runs right is obsolete.
