If you think WoW requires a lot of grinding, you never played EQ or any of the other early MMOs. I actually only activate my account when there's a new expansion and levels to gain because I find the leveling interesting (and after 10 years EQ raiding at the top level WoW raids never got my excited).
Yes, but did you set of any of your devices on school property during hours? If you're bright enough to make these fun experiments you typically know where NOT to set them off.
No, it wasn't a science fair project, it was teenagers playing around in the bathroom at 7 am before school starts making a big bang for kicks and youtube. It was as much science as it was racism.
The problem is that "you didn't suspend/expel/charge A for doing this so you can't charge B" is the main defense in school misbehavior cases, so letting someone getting away with making a bomb "because no one was hurt" isn't going to fly. This is not a case of some first grader having unauthorized scissors, this is someone getting lucky that no one was seriously hurt. It was done on school property, while kids were present, so they can't sweep it under the rug.
Now, the felony charge is a different matter, but again, the question is are they going to try to make it stick? Or is it just an opening salvo in pleading it to a misdemeanor, to be taken off the record after graduation? I wait for the end of the story before coming to a judgement there.
I thought he got lucky that he wound up with federal charges and not a visit from Guido and Raoul discussing the matter in a private setting. Vegas has changed in the last 50 years.
I don't know if you ever deployed Windows on more than one machine at a time, but my last upgrade from scratch roll-out of 25 machines to Win 7 and Office 2010 took 8h, half of which was dealing with 2 older machines with "compatibility issues" and with a legacy printer. Win XP took more running around and hitting the "restart" button for the updates, but the total time in front of a machine was still less than 15 min. For most machines the longest time was manually typing in the license codes.
To me the real story is - how does any large institution get infected with a at the time two year old virus? Confiker was a 2008/2009 infection, this happened in 2010, and not even their servers were secured. But being a German Beamter immunizes you from any negative job action, and there are no merit raises, so why bother.
The big question is, what happened before the final rejection. Sometimes you get a patent clerk who's just not going to pass your patent, no matter what you do. I only run into one of those in the last 10 years, but he just kept rejecting for new reasons. As each turn of "you can't patent that because" required about $5000 worth of technical and lawyer work to refute, it did get very frustrating after a while. We gave up after the fourth round, the economics just didn't work.
Call me cynical, but the only reason the data fits so well is because we made gravity an adjustable parameter by postulating dark matter (to hold stuff together where needed for the galactic rotation) and dark energy (to push it apart to explain expansion). And doing it in a form that does not influence the starting conditions despite 20 times the energy content in the system.
It might all work out in the end, but the model has been force adjust so often over the last three decades that I'm not holding my breath.
Don't worry, if this turns out to be a real problem they'll make up another dark term to add to the model, it's so incredible flexible in that regard. Once we have ordinary matter down to sub 1% of the energy content of the universe every observation inconsistent with the model just becomes a rounding error.
They would have laid him off with a golden parachute and a huge non-disclosure. Unauthorized high-risk trading is not something you let your investors know about, even if it went well. It shows your internal procedures lacking at the very least.
The judge should just schedule one claim at a time for status conferences, lets say once a month, with mandatory attendance of all parties. That's 15 years of monthly trips to Florida, if everybody shows up every time. After a couple years I'm sure the lawyers will have worked it out.
Sure they have a bone to pick. If the service-only model, which is how it's done in the rest of the world btw, wins out in the US people will get used to buy a phone and keep it for years to come. Less people buying the newest gadget every 2 years (with costs buried in a contract for service) means less advertising. Plus the carrier competition will go away too, carriers will start advertising service differences in main stream media instead of "only at XYZ the jphone 6gsl430" in the tech media.
Of course, the fact that extremely high surface area carbon and hydrogen gas might have lead to methane formation long before you get to light it is a completely different issue.
The bad part is, this was an interpretation of a law, not a constitutional decision. As such, proper lobbying/donations will get the law amended to make today's decision moot and restore the publishers profits.
The real trick here is that these speed traps issue "civil citations", not tickets. As such you don't go before a judge, with all the guaranteed rights of due process, but before an administrative hearing officer. In my town, they even tried to institutes a mandatory, non-refundable $50 "service fee" to even be allowed to challenge the citation, even in obvious cases ("my car is a red GM, this is a blue Ford"). That got shot down in court, but they continued by making the hearings "we have to listen to you, but we don't have to do anything else". It only got shot down when the state started to make noise they want their 80% revenue share on traffic fines mandated by state law (something else the "civil citation" was aiming to get around). That made the operation not profitable under the contract, and they went away after the contract expired.
If it's a scientific review panel, you're supposed to review the evidence presented, not (ab)use your position on the panel to publicly promote your own opinion. We all have preconceived notions on most subjects, but in science you're supposed to be able to set those aside and fairly review new evidence. If you can't do that, you're in the wrong place for peer review.
True, but in college talking to a VAX/VMS system was as big as it got for me. Searching "the web" on lynx using a VT100 emulator. Cursing the "rich" people with SUN workstations and the newfangled "Mosaic", with pictures. So now that I think back, there were some odd themed newsgroups to find.
The $195B is strictly based on launch cost for material in space, not on any intrinsic material value if sold on earth. You need a customer first who can use the material in space, and there's a rather limited choice right now. The processing capabilities of the ISS for transforming random mixed grade iron scrap into space battle ships do not justify the purchase of a million tons of raw material at a time.
Utterly pointless, as people of the time considered themselves citizen of their state first. As such, they were fighting foreign soldiers. If you want an historic analogy, use the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Stalin's agents in Mexico. The paper could be used to justify that deed.
Which is the crux of the matter. These people have NOT been stripped of their citizenship (which is a judicial process) but deemed unlawful combatants by (secret) executive decision. No due process, no "cease and desist" letter, your first hint "you're on the list" is a smoke trail moving rapidly towards your window. What is fine for a guy building bombs, but becomes very weak for someone making speeches on the internet.
That's because rich people there have better things to do than to run for public office. And politicians are viewed with suspicion if they do not depend on their salary to live on. You need to show a reasonable income to show "I'm one of you". Unlike the US where "I made it rich" is seen as a sign of potential for POTUS, but you don't want to show that you made it rich by gaming the system.
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If you think WoW requires a lot of grinding, you never played EQ or any of the other early MMOs. I actually only activate my account when there's a new expansion and levels to gain because I find the leveling interesting (and after 10 years EQ raiding at the top level WoW raids never got my excited).
Yes, but did you set of any of your devices on school property during hours? If you're bright enough to make these fun experiments you typically know where NOT to set them off.
No, it wasn't a science fair project, it was teenagers playing around in the bathroom at 7 am before school starts making a big bang for kicks and youtube. It was as much science as it was racism.
The problem is that "you didn't suspend/expel/charge A for doing this so you can't charge B" is the main defense in school misbehavior cases, so letting someone getting away with making a bomb "because no one was hurt" isn't going to fly. This is not a case of some first grader having unauthorized scissors, this is someone getting lucky that no one was seriously hurt. It was done on school property, while kids were present, so they can't sweep it under the rug. Now, the felony charge is a different matter, but again, the question is are they going to try to make it stick? Or is it just an opening salvo in pleading it to a misdemeanor, to be taken off the record after graduation? I wait for the end of the story before coming to a judgement there.
I thought he got lucky that he wound up with federal charges and not a visit from Guido and Raoul discussing the matter in a private setting. Vegas has changed in the last 50 years.
I don't know if you ever deployed Windows on more than one machine at a time, but my last upgrade from scratch roll-out of 25 machines to Win 7 and Office 2010 took 8h, half of which was dealing with 2 older machines with "compatibility issues" and with a legacy printer. Win XP took more running around and hitting the "restart" button for the updates, but the total time in front of a machine was still less than 15 min. For most machines the longest time was manually typing in the license codes. To me the real story is - how does any large institution get infected with a at the time two year old virus? Confiker was a 2008/2009 infection, this happened in 2010, and not even their servers were secured. But being a German Beamter immunizes you from any negative job action, and there are no merit raises, so why bother.
The big question is, what happened before the final rejection. Sometimes you get a patent clerk who's just not going to pass your patent, no matter what you do. I only run into one of those in the last 10 years, but he just kept rejecting for new reasons. As each turn of "you can't patent that because" required about $5000 worth of technical and lawyer work to refute, it did get very frustrating after a while. We gave up after the fourth round, the economics just didn't work.
Call me cynical, but the only reason the data fits so well is because we made gravity an adjustable parameter by postulating dark matter (to hold stuff together where needed for the galactic rotation) and dark energy (to push it apart to explain expansion). And doing it in a form that does not influence the starting conditions despite 20 times the energy content in the system. It might all work out in the end, but the model has been force adjust so often over the last three decades that I'm not holding my breath.
The phone is credit-card thin, but the power connectors equal those on a car battery.
Don't worry, if this turns out to be a real problem they'll make up another dark term to add to the model, it's so incredible flexible in that regard. Once we have ordinary matter down to sub 1% of the energy content of the universe every observation inconsistent with the model just becomes a rounding error.
They would have laid him off with a golden parachute and a huge non-disclosure. Unauthorized high-risk trading is not something you let your investors know about, even if it went well. It shows your internal procedures lacking at the very least.
The judge should just schedule one claim at a time for status conferences, lets say once a month, with mandatory attendance of all parties. That's 15 years of monthly trips to Florida, if everybody shows up every time. After a couple years I'm sure the lawyers will have worked it out.
Sure they have a bone to pick. If the service-only model, which is how it's done in the rest of the world btw, wins out in the US people will get used to buy a phone and keep it for years to come. Less people buying the newest gadget every 2 years (with costs buried in a contract for service) means less advertising. Plus the carrier competition will go away too, carriers will start advertising service differences in main stream media instead of "only at XYZ the jphone 6gsl430" in the tech media.
Of course, the fact that extremely high surface area carbon and hydrogen gas might have lead to methane formation long before you get to light it is a completely different issue.
The bad part is, this was an interpretation of a law, not a constitutional decision. As such, proper lobbying/donations will get the law amended to make today's decision moot and restore the publishers profits.
The real trick here is that these speed traps issue "civil citations", not tickets. As such you don't go before a judge, with all the guaranteed rights of due process, but before an administrative hearing officer. In my town, they even tried to institutes a mandatory, non-refundable $50 "service fee" to even be allowed to challenge the citation, even in obvious cases ("my car is a red GM, this is a blue Ford"). That got shot down in court, but they continued by making the hearings "we have to listen to you, but we don't have to do anything else". It only got shot down when the state started to make noise they want their 80% revenue share on traffic fines mandated by state law (something else the "civil citation" was aiming to get around). That made the operation not profitable under the contract, and they went away after the contract expired.
Begun, the drone wars have.
If it's a scientific review panel, you're supposed to review the evidence presented, not (ab)use your position on the panel to publicly promote your own opinion. We all have preconceived notions on most subjects, but in science you're supposed to be able to set those aside and fairly review new evidence. If you can't do that, you're in the wrong place for peer review.
True, but in college talking to a VAX/VMS system was as big as it got for me. Searching "the web" on lynx using a VT100 emulator. Cursing the "rich" people with SUN workstations and the newfangled "Mosaic", with pictures. So now that I think back, there were some odd themed newsgroups to find.
The $195B is strictly based on launch cost for material in space, not on any intrinsic material value if sold on earth. You need a customer first who can use the material in space, and there's a rather limited choice right now. The processing capabilities of the ISS for transforming random mixed grade iron scrap into space battle ships do not justify the purchase of a million tons of raw material at a time.
Actually, you're making the COBOL people's point. They don't worry about their support being bought out and terminated, they bought IBM for a reason.
You're missing the main point - programmer productivity. You know how hard it is to surf porn on a VT100?
Utterly pointless, as people of the time considered themselves citizen of their state first. As such, they were fighting foreign soldiers. If you want an historic analogy, use the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Stalin's agents in Mexico. The paper could be used to justify that deed.
Which is the crux of the matter. These people have NOT been stripped of their citizenship (which is a judicial process) but deemed unlawful combatants by (secret) executive decision. No due process, no "cease and desist" letter, your first hint "you're on the list" is a smoke trail moving rapidly towards your window. What is fine for a guy building bombs, but becomes very weak for someone making speeches on the internet.
That's because rich people there have better things to do than to run for public office. And politicians are viewed with suspicion if they do not depend on their salary to live on. You need to show a reasonable income to show "I'm one of you". Unlike the US where "I made it rich" is seen as a sign of potential for POTUS, but you don't want to show that you made it rich by gaming the system.