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Comment Re:Politicans don't understand science (Score 1) 320

I have been in engineering for more than 50 years and I have the same opinion. The political right does not seem to get it. They seem to react to a difference of thought or opinion like it's insulting their intelligence. I think that's because they have never had to prove anything only spout the current thought of the masses.

Comment Without Vaccination (Score 1) 1051

by cramoft (#48596543) Attached to: Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements?
Not vaccinating your children is putting their lives at risk. I am a perfect example of that. I caught polio in 1942, it effected my left leg. This was before there was any vaccine. I was never able to play any sports and I was on crutches and wore braces up until high school. I relied on my parents entirely until I was 18 years old. Why does a parent want to subject their children themselves to this kind of life????? I have been in a wheelchair for the last 10 years.

Comment Re:...and device runtime with stay the same (Score 1) 322

by cramoft (#43941173) Attached to: New All-Solid Sulfur Based Battery Outperforms Lithium Ion
Chevron is so huge they can afford almost anything. They other issue: True, the patent only lasts so long, as a patent holder I understand that. The term of a patent is 17 years, in this day and age that's a very long time, long enough for technology to be prevented from evolving better ideas and hardware....

Comment Re:Yawn (Score 1) 656

by cramoft (#42588981) Attached to: US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide

Fuck off asshole. If you are facing decades in prison and being forever named a felon, wouldn't you consider it?

These prosecutors need to pay for their crimes. They need to be fired, disbarred, and then thrown in jail.

Culprit #1: Stephen P. Heymann, the head of the Cybercrime Unit and lead prosecutor Culprit #2: Carmen M. Ortiz, US Attorney (and Bostonian of the Year as Twitter tells me)

Sign the petitions: [1] [2]

Fuck off asshole. If you are facing decades in prison and being forever named a felon, wouldn't you consider it?

These prosecutors need to pay for their crimes. They need to be fired, disbarred, and then thrown in jail.

Culprit #1: Stephen P. Heymann, the head of the Cybercrime Unit and lead prosecutor Culprit #2: Carmen M. Ortiz, US Attorney (and Bostonian of the Year as Twitter tells me)

Sign the petitions: [1] [2]

Fuck off asshole. If you are facing decades in prison and being forever named a felon, wouldn't you consider it?

These prosecutors need to pay for their crimes. They need to be fired, disbarred, and then thrown in jail.

Culprit #1: Stephen P. Heymann, the head of the Cybercrime Unit and lead prosecutor Culprit #2: Carmen M. Ortiz, US Attorney (and Bostonian of the Year as Twitter tells me)

Sign the petitions: [1] [2]

Fuck off asshole. If you are facing decades in prison and being forever named a felon, wouldn't you consider it?

These prosecutors need to pay for their crimes. They need to be fired, disbarred, and then thrown in jail.

Culprit #1: Stephen P. Heymann, the head of the Cybercrime Unit and lead prosecutor Culprit #2: Carmen M. Ortiz, US Attorney (and Bostonian of the Year as Twitter tells me)

Sign the petitions: [1] [2]

Fuck off asshole. If you are facing decades in prison and being forever named a felon, wouldn't you consider it?

These prosecutors need to pay for their crimes. They need to be fired, disbarred, and then thrown in jail.

Culprit #1: Stephen P. Heymann, the head of the Cybercrime Unit and lead prosecutor Culprit #2: Carmen M. Ortiz, US Attorney (and Bostonian of the Year as Twitter tells me)

Sign the petitions: [1] [2]

These dudes were going for Aarons head to make a name for themselves, most ass hats just don't get it. They were out to prove they were doing their job at Swartz's expense.

Comment Re:Why bother? (Score 1) 847

In my opinion let him go to Ecuador, that in itself would be due punishment. I have been to Ecuador and it's capital is 1 degree off the equator. It is a very miserable place to live. The temperature average is 90 degrees F. and can be as high as 100, with a the humidity is 80%. Assange has no idea what he is asking for.

Comment Re: epitome of globalization (Score 1) 141

by cramoft (#40059073) Attached to: Jaguar and Land Rover Angle For Production In China
Your statement "Jaguar died as a brand in 1987, when Ford took them over." is bullshit. After Ford took over the reliability was much better. If you ever owned a Jaguar prior to Ford and wanted max performance the engine needed a tune-up and the valves needed adjustment quite often (once a month). I got so fed up maintaining the engine I replaced it with 350 cubic inch Chevy V8, got better gas mileage, more power and a hell've a lot more reliability. Had to tune it up every 6 to 8 months.

Comment Re:And patents, of course (Score 1) 625

by cramoft (#38054734) Attached to: Is American Innovation Losing Its Shine?
I completely disagree, Things are so fucked-up because of the current MBA attitude of keeping the profits and stock prices on a 3 month schedule. Engineers and designers are forced to design products that will have an effect on the bottom line, in essence keeping the investors happy whether the product works or not. I fought this for 35 years in SV. It was OK for engineering to release a product to manufacturing that was not 100%. Engineering would not get it back if it didn't full function, but manufacturing engineering would. I refused to release what I was designing until I was happy with it. I have been told by my manager that he was willing to shoot me to get the product away from me. But, I had very few products come back because the didn't work. Steve Jobs knew the value of designing a product until it was viable, even if it took a year. We'll miss him.

Comment Re:OMG (Score 1) 432

by cramoft (#31640660) Attached to: China Hits Back At Google
What is Kimchi or Kimchee. Kimchi is a form of fermented cabbage. Similar to Sauerkraut, but more intensely flavored. It is fermented in wooden barrels with brine, hot peppers, ginger, chopped radish, garlic, salted dried shrimp and fish sauce. In my opinion the best produces a slight a effervescence feel on the tongue. It is the the Korean national dish and has been for 3000 yrs. All households have at least 2 barrels in various stages of fermentation. I'm not Korean...

Comment Re:OMG (Score 1) 432

by cramoft (#31600198) Attached to: China Hits Back At Google

No, your government just bombs the fuck out of countries that disagree with them...

Only if they have something we want, just like every major power since the Roman Empire has done, all throughout history. We don't agree with North Korea, for example ... they don't have a single goddamn thing we want, but do keep making threatening noises about nuking our allies, so we keep buying them off with free food and diesel fuel. So we don't bomb other nations just because they disagree with us: fact is, most of the world is full of complete assholes who disagree with us, and while actually do have enough bombs to take care of them all, there wouldn't be much left when we finished the job.

I disagree on Korea, I want and love Kimchi

Comment Re:No mention of Telebit? (Score 1) 249

by cramoft (#30569158) Attached to: A Brief History of Modems
What history of modems also skips is Vadic and Racal Vadic. The first full duplex 1200 bps modem (VA-3400) was designed John A.C. Bingham. It was patented and was copied by Bell/ATT to make the Bell 212AT. The VA-3400 use offset carriers which gave 2.5 dB better FDX performance than the 212AT modem. Because the VA-3400 had offset carriers it made a great acoustic couple. The 212AT was very poor at acoustic coupling. Vadic also had one of the best performing V32 MODEMs on the market.

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