You don't adjust the arrival time at point B, you adjust the departure time from point A.

I didn't. I proposed that if everything was done on the level, that they come out and show it to restore public faith. They probably won't, because even saying "we used legal tools -- see, here are our warrants" could have negative consequences for the Police State mentality, even if that mentality does not apply here.

They may have averted their own Charlie Hebdo event, but sadly, the credibility of both sides of the "War on Terror" has been shot to hell -- primarily because of the actions of government which they thought people would take lying down. Most of them have, but even if they aren't in the streets protesting, they'll still roll their eyes and say "yeah, right".

Let's assume for the moment that this is completely legitimate, and an opportunity for the authorities to win back some respect. If so, they should carry the ensuing trial(s) openly for all to see. "We used surveillance programs to detect X, Y, and Z and couldn't have done it without them because A, B, and C" is exactly the sort of rational argument we'd like to see. If it turns out they did it through traditionally acceptable (like warrants) means, this weakens the argument of being able to do an end run around such procedures. Obviously this would be unwelcome from an authoritarian perspective, but it might win back some trust from those of us who do respect the actions of legitimate and responsible investigators.

The city government of D.C. likes tweaking the nose of the Federal government. Ever seen one of these? It's a D.C. license plate, and it reads "Taxation Without Representation".

Giving an ineffectual finger to the Feds is a pastime for them.

Yes. That's probably the problem. Still, if it's that simple to shit on an entire n network, this thing had best have a decent wired connection available.

I have an E-350 laptop, and although it has only two cores at 1.6 GHz, it can easily keep up with 1080p video. (Having maxed it out at 8 GB of RAM doesn't hurt.) The thing that tends to be an issue is WiFi bandwidth. If wired to the network (it has GigE) or if the file is copied to local storage first, it's fine. Otherwise, you're just asking for the darn thing to burp several times during your movie.

Even 100Mbps Ethernet (using some old three-pair cable already in the wall) can prove insufficient for pulling 1080p off the NAS box, if there's any kind of contention at all.

How many people have actual mechanical-ringer phones any more? I have one specifically for the purpose of being heard anywhere in the house, but don't actually use it to talk.

Not when the gas stays in the tanks (at least until the liquids run out) and the liquids do the actual work.

And yet there was plenty of controversy caused by those same people a couple of years later. Sometimes people just don't get the joke, and explaining a joke almost never makes it funnier.

You can cue up people by beating them with a pool cue, but I don't think that is what was intended either.

Challenge accepted.

http://sjwar.blogspot.com/2014...

You said a single. There are many references to this case, and it's not the only case, but you can do your own homework.

Mind you, this is from experience with desktops rather than laptops, but just like individual CPUs differ in how hard they can be pushed (even if they are binned the same), so do different cores within a single package. "Turbo Boost" is basically saying "we know SOME of the cores can go this fast." You may get lucky and find they all can handle the sustained load (like my case -- 3.2 GHz, boosts to 3.6... rock-solid stable running at 3.8 24/7/365. Of course I had to turn OFF the boost and just crank it up in general...) But there's no guarantee, and if you are trying to treat these as interchangeable parts, you need to assume a "least common denominator" sort of attitude.

Turn off the Turbo Boost, throw some supplemental cooling at them, and live with how fast they go. Or, spend more for something considerably bulkier that includes said cooling and expects you to pound on it constantly. Either way you're not going to sustain "over 100%" when Intel did this knowing full well it wasn't a sustainable speed (for MOST CPUs, some might actually be OK with it).

And to think I had people oohing and aahing because I installed a functioning scoreboard in someone's Spleef arena, or a binary counter that would tell you how many people had entered and left a given space (though it could be fooled if people pushed through together), or a combination lock for a secured area (with user-configurable combinations). I understand redstone, even in its more recent, more analog-like form. Generating, detecting, and sorting pulses is not hard. Logic gates are not hard. Latches and flip-flops are not hard. Stringing them together is tedious, but not hard. Stacking them up and debugging them is another matter entirely. There are so many ways to do it wrong, not to mention having to have a grasp of the underlying principles of the circuits being emulated.

That's English.

How do you say the "were" part of "werewolf"? You say it just like "where". Or like "wear".

How do you pronounce "read", or "lead"? Is that "reed" or "read"? Is that "red" or "read"?

Some people can remember the rules, but not all of the exceptions. It's far worse if it's not even their native language and they didn't have this drilled in from early childhood. The fact that we write everything down with 26 letters is quite handy. Not so much the fact that there is no unique mapping of symbols to sounds.

ghoughpteighbteau tchoghs? ghoti?

If you can spell accurately, that's nice. It does make you seem more intelligent, or at least more literate. But it's really hard to lay this all at the feet of the people who have problems with it.

We've never had the need or opportunity to test this, but the sealed lead-acid battery built into the VoIP box that is attached to our fiber connection promises two hours of talk time and 36 hours of standby time with no power applied. If true, this would mean that we too could pass the dial tone test after 24 hours of continuous power outage. We did not buy this equipment, this facility was built into equipment provided by Verizon, presumably because they knew it was unacceptable to let phone service go out in the event of power failure.