I've had a Windows 7 laptop since March 2010 and the only time it has ever shit the bed is on four occasions where I've done three things at the same time: 1. clocked the memory (6GB is hard to eat when all you're doing is downsampling video, though I've managed to do it by having well over a hundred Virtualdub sessions going at the same time) 2. overheated the processor (by "overheated" read: software monitor readout said 95+ Celsius. I didn't think an AMD E-350 could get that hot and live!) 3. started World of Tanks while crunching video.
Every time this has happened I've had to do a fallback to Last Known Good Configuration, as a normal restart after one of these pukes results in a brief splash then a BSoD.
I think it's down to a problem with the RAM, to be honest; I just haven't had the funds yet to see if a replace/upgrade will fix the problem.
The same hardware has a regular shit with the AMD port of OSX86, which only happens on shutdown (has some sort of kernel puke, no biggie - just kill the VM thread and the restart is just fine).
not even that... you can boot a Macbook Pro from an optical drive (or mounted disc image shared virtual drive) on another computer (I would assume this feature is platform-independent) over ethernet!
Since I discovered Knoppix so many years ago I lost count now, I've never been without a disc. It's come in useful for such diverse projects as forensic recovery prep to running full-install desktops on a variety of gear. Including the most kickarse Dell Dimension upgrade I've ever done, which was basically a new board, dual quad-Xeon, 16GB of RAM, twelve-head video with 4GB GDDR3 between four cards, and so many flight controllers, pedals and freakish-looking throttle controls I began to wonder if I was building someone a backend for their flight simulator cave...
(1) A person is in breach of this section if he— (a) dishonestly makes a false representation, and (b) intends, by making the representation—
(i) to make a gain for himself or another, or
(ii) to cause loss to another or to expose another to a risk of loss.
(2) A representation is false if— (a) it is untrue or misleading, and (b) the person making it knows that it is, or might be, untrue or misleading.
(3) “Representation” means any representation as to fact or law, including a representation as to the state of mind of— (a) the person making the representation, or (b) any other person.
(4) A representation may be express or implied.
(5) For the purposes of this section a representation may be regarded as made if it (or anything implying it) is submitted in any form to any system or device designed to receive, convey or respond to communications (with or without human intervention).
Is the submitter trying to tell us that this third party is potentially a commercial venture intended to collect fees on $whois$ queries, which would also be dependent on giving a damn good reason for wanting to know who owns $domain?
BTW, I think the headline is a: alarmist and b: misleading. It would be better written as "ICANN Working Group seeks to replace WHOIS."
so you make the front pointy. No biggy. All you have to do is cut the water and move it out of the way as you go. Or (and this is a kickarse idea), gather enough speed so you actually ride above most of the water as a result of upward pressure buildup at the bow (a phenomenon known as hydroplaning - great for boats, not so great for road vehicles). It helps if the front of the vessel is angled to encourage this to happen.
the technology's there, why not use it? Why not use *both*, indeed? As someone else has already pointed out, you don't need to lift the load in water, the water does that: the vessel finds a point where its mass equals the mass of water displaced and there finds a neutral buoyancy. All you need to do then, is push it with enough force to overcome hydrostatic friction and send it on its way. 10% of an oceangoing vessel for fuel is a stupendous amount of deadweight. Most tankers have *tiny* fuel tanks - often less than 1% of the deadweight.
Lifting a mass into the air, ever a paltry 32,000 feet (pretty much what heavy haul cargo eg mail does) requires a huge amount of energy. Half an intercontinental airliner's mass at liftoff is fuel. That's how inefficient it is. Take it to the extreme: the amount of energy needed to put a 1kg satellite into orbit would power an average American home (2 adults, 2 children) for six hours. Then you have to factor in the energy needed to lift that fuel and the rocket from a dead stop to 17,000mph in four minutes. Then multiply that requirement by the total mass of the rocket plus payload. Sixty eight tons of shuttle, eight tons of satellite suddenly seems like a ridiculous proposition. The problem is solved by dedicating most of a launch vehicle to fuel. In the case of the shuttle system, that figure runs 729 tons - 99% of the total weight on the pad. Most of that will be gone in the first ninety seconds.
square hulls don't require ballast, they're stable by nature of the shape. Neither do catamarans or trimarans, they're stable for much the same reason that square hulls are: edge displacement equals or is greater than centre displacement.
An ASCII demonstration:
\/ : single-keel trangular hull. Not very stable because at each point on the hull a different upward pressure acts, resulting in something that requires ballast in the bottom to keep it pointed the right way and/or.... Y : triangular hull with sail. Only stable because of the sail (which has ballast in it). Without it, it's about as stable as a log in white water. \_/ : still a triangular hull, this time with a double keel. More stable than the single keel (above), but think of the small rowboats one would use on a lake. Obviously the wider the hull in relation to the length, the more stable it's going to be, but it ain't gonna be capsize-proof. Would still require ballast if it's doing anything other than glass-still laking. |_| : square hull. Very stable because the same upward pressure acts on every point of the hull bottom. Wider=capsize proofing. If you could make a double wardrobe watertight, it would be brilliant as a rescue/evac boat in case of disastrous flooding, because it would hold as much human weight as the total volume of water displaced (40 cubic feet to an inch of the side, for argument's sake, that's 1.13 cubic metres - that's over a ton of water, or a dozen to fifteen full grown adults) and still be rock solid stable.
yeah, strange harmonics and shit, and word around the cooler is that it would require an infinite amount of energy as well... that or set the atmosphere on fire or some shit.
I have this thing called discipline. It means I don't live beyond my means. I also have this thing called a work ethic. If I want something badly enough, I work to earn enough cash to pay for it, or I go without. That way, when it's in my hands, I OWN IT FROM THAT MOMENT ON.
Call me old fashioned, or weird, or whatever. It's also something I've instilled in my kids. That said, I have also developed the habit of leaving my moneyhole balances at zero at the end of every week.
BC aren't transmitting money, if anything's being transmitted it's the users doing it. That is a demonstrable fact. There is no physicality in the packets being transmitted, therefore no "money" changes hands. It's just zeros and ones in a large and decentralised computer system. BC are doing nothing new, SETI@Home, Folding@Home et. al., have been running a community loose cluster situation for years. If SETI@Home "units completed" points were called "BitCoins" instead, would the Treasury be going after them? I think it's purely down to the fact that more and more people are using BitCoin and shucking the Dollar whenever they can, cutting out the Federal Reserve middleman and depriving them of tax revenue is what's got them upset. I got an answer to that: I'll keep my Dollar in cash. I'll still use the Dollar, but your banks aren't getting a sniff. I'll spend it in the community and encourage my community to keep that cash circulating in the community instead of taking up space in bank vaults. Because once cash circulates, it's not under the control of the Treasury or anybody else except the buyer and the seller. Treasury are happy because they're seeing Benjamins floating about but they're none the wiser as to whether or not it's hitting bank accounts, in fact they don't give a shit - as long as no other cash currency or pretender replacement (like the United States Dollar or the Bradbury Pound) is seen, they'll be complacent.
The first, is to put down any protest with violence. Let the peons know who's boss. The second way, and the one more likely not to get you murdered, is to find out what the problem is and sort that out.
Motor insurance companies in England are starting to offer lower premiums for people willing to have installed, black box recorders "to monitor their driving behaviour". This is supposed to encourage better driving (how??) so those who volunteer for this before it becomes mandatory can get discounts of up to 20% on top of their no-claims renewals.
What they don't tell you is that whenever the car has power going through its battery, these things have an always-on connection to the cell networks, with a GPS location and route memory. These black boxes have to be "professionally installed" because they bypass the fuse board but they're jacked into the EMS to collect information from there, so there's no way to disconnect them without snipping a wire or ten and rebuilding the EMS. Like new cars don't have enough problems with EMS failures*...
*source: a friend of mine bought a Citroen in 2006, which had three independent EMS systems all running the same stripped NT kernel. Within TWO WEEKS of delivery, it had to go back for three new EMS units because they'd all failed. A WEEK after it was redelivered, it went back again for three more units - the replacements had failed. Thing is, he had not MOVED the car from the time it was redelivered to the time it was collected for the second time. So what exactly caused the EMS failures particularly the second time round? To this day, he still doesn't know. All he did know was that he sent the car back and got a full refund because of the risk of the cascade EMS failure while he was moving. That would have killed whoever was in the car, because in those things the EMS is tied in to the car's central locking, column lock, e-brake and tiptronic gearbox systems.
I don't think it was anything to do with the uproar, it was to do with Sony's announcement at E3 that the PS4 specifically *would not have a phone home feature* which immediately upstaged Microsoft at the event.
The threat and/or use of force to coerce political change.
When the Government have the monopoly on force, when they have the monopoly on Justice, and when they have the monopoly on policy, they are the terrorists, yet to them the People become the enemy.
Well, if we're to be damned, let's all be damned for what we are.
Pray tell us all, just how does a phone tap prevent some fuck with a boxcutter breaking a secured door to an aircraft cockpit and flying it into a building?
...they broke the Law, they shouldn't get to use it anymore. I stand with Snowden, if what he has exposed shows criminality, then he did not break the Law. Simple as.
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I've had a Windows 7 laptop since March 2010 and the only time it has ever shit the bed is on four occasions where I've done three things at the same time:
1. clocked the memory (6GB is hard to eat when all you're doing is downsampling video, though I've managed to do it by having well over a hundred Virtualdub sessions going at the same time)
2. overheated the processor (by "overheated" read: software monitor readout said 95+ Celsius. I didn't think an AMD E-350 could get that hot and live!)
3. started World of Tanks while crunching video.
Every time this has happened I've had to do a fallback to Last Known Good Configuration, as a normal restart after one of these pukes results in a brief splash then a BSoD.
I think it's down to a problem with the RAM, to be honest; I just haven't had the funds yet to see if a replace/upgrade will fix the problem.
The same hardware has a regular shit with the AMD port of OSX86, which only happens on shutdown (has some sort of kernel puke, no biggie - just kill the VM thread and the restart is just fine).
not even that... you can boot a Macbook Pro from an optical drive (or mounted disc image shared virtual drive) on another computer (I would assume this feature is platform-independent) over ethernet!
Since I discovered Knoppix so many years ago I lost count now, I've never been without a disc. It's come in useful for such diverse projects as forensic recovery prep to running full-install desktops on a variety of gear. Including the most kickarse Dell Dimension upgrade I've ever done, which was basically a new board, dual quad-Xeon, 16GB of RAM, twelve-head video with 4GB GDDR3 between four cards, and so many flight controllers, pedals and freakish-looking throttle controls I began to wonder if I was building someone a backend for their flight simulator cave...
I was right.
I want the computer from Eagle Eye. Aria, I think her name was.
"Operation Guillotine is in effect."
Ooh, that sounds like a new sig happening right there.
Microsoft Update?
I think you'll find that obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception is illegal.
Fraud Act 2006, chapter 35 section 2:
Fraud by false representation
(1) A person is in breach of this section if he—
(a) dishonestly makes a false representation, and
(b) intends, by making the representation—
(i) to make a gain for himself or another, or
(ii) to cause loss to another or to expose another to a risk of loss.
(2) A representation is false if—
(a) it is untrue or misleading, and
(b) the person making it knows that it is, or might be, untrue or misleading.
(3) “Representation” means any representation as to fact or law, including a representation as to the state of mind of—
(a) the person making the representation, or
(b) any other person.
(4) A representation may be express or implied.
(5) For the purposes of this section a representation may be regarded as made if it (or anything implying it) is submitted in any form to any system or device designed to receive, convey or respond to communications (with or without human intervention).
a sail is a broad flat surface designed to resist or capture the energy from a force such as WIND OR CURRENT.
Fuck's sake...
do you think sails only appear on masts? Dafuq?
Is the submitter trying to tell us that this third party is potentially a commercial venture intended to collect fees on $whois$ queries, which would also be dependent on giving a damn good reason for wanting to know who owns $domain?
BTW, I think the headline is a: alarmist and b: misleading. It would be better written as "ICANN Working Group seeks to replace WHOIS."
so you make the front pointy. No biggy. All you have to do is cut the water and move it out of the way as you go. Or (and this is a kickarse idea), gather enough speed so you actually ride above most of the water as a result of upward pressure buildup at the bow (a phenomenon known as hydroplaning - great for boats, not so great for road vehicles). It helps if the front of the vessel is angled to encourage this to happen.
that is a buttload of deadweight for a boat.
the technology's there, why not use it? Why not use *both*, indeed?
As someone else has already pointed out, you don't need to lift the load in water, the water does that: the vessel finds a point where its mass equals the mass of water displaced and there finds a neutral buoyancy. All you need to do then, is push it with enough force to overcome hydrostatic friction and send it on its way. 10% of an oceangoing vessel for fuel is a stupendous amount of deadweight. Most tankers have *tiny* fuel tanks - often less than 1% of the deadweight.
Lifting a mass into the air, ever a paltry 32,000 feet (pretty much what heavy haul cargo eg mail does) requires a huge amount of energy. Half an intercontinental airliner's mass at liftoff is fuel. That's how inefficient it is. Take it to the extreme: the amount of energy needed to put a 1kg satellite into orbit would power an average American home (2 adults, 2 children) for six hours. Then you have to factor in the energy needed to lift that fuel and the rocket from a dead stop to 17,000mph in four minutes. Then multiply that requirement by the total mass of the rocket plus payload. Sixty eight tons of shuttle, eight tons of satellite suddenly seems like a ridiculous proposition. The problem is solved by dedicating most of a launch vehicle to fuel. In the case of the shuttle system, that figure runs 729 tons - 99% of the total weight on the pad. Most of that will be gone in the first ninety seconds.
square hulls don't require ballast, they're stable by nature of the shape. Neither do catamarans or trimarans, they're stable for much the same reason that square hulls are: edge displacement equals or is greater than centre displacement.
An ASCII demonstration:
\/ : single-keel trangular hull. Not very stable because at each point on the hull a different upward pressure acts, resulting in something that requires ballast in the bottom to keep it pointed the right way and/or....
Y : triangular hull with sail. Only stable because of the sail (which has ballast in it). Without it, it's about as stable as a log in white water.
\_/ : still a triangular hull, this time with a double keel. More stable than the single keel (above), but think of the small rowboats one would use on a lake. Obviously the wider the hull in relation to the length, the more stable it's going to be, but it ain't gonna be capsize-proof. Would still require ballast if it's doing anything other than glass-still laking.
|_| : square hull. Very stable because the same upward pressure acts on every point of the hull bottom. Wider=capsize proofing. If you could make a double wardrobe watertight, it would be brilliant as a rescue/evac boat in case of disastrous flooding, because it would hold as much human weight as the total volume of water displaced (40 cubic feet to an inch of the side, for argument's sake, that's 1.13 cubic metres - that's over a ton of water, or a dozen to fifteen full grown adults) and still be rock solid stable.
yeah, strange harmonics and shit, and word around the cooler is that it would require an infinite amount of energy as well... that or set the atmosphere on fire or some shit.
I've never needed a loan. Ever.
I have this thing called discipline. It means I don't live beyond my means.
I also have this thing called a work ethic. If I want something badly enough, I work to earn enough cash to pay for it, or I go without. That way, when it's in my hands, I OWN IT FROM THAT MOMENT ON.
Call me old fashioned, or weird, or whatever. It's also something I've instilled in my kids. That said, I have also developed the habit of leaving my moneyhole balances at zero at the end of every week.
unfortunately, lying on a job application is a criminal offence - tantamount to fraud.
BC aren't transmitting money, if anything's being transmitted it's the users doing it. That is a demonstrable fact.
There is no physicality in the packets being transmitted, therefore no "money" changes hands. It's just zeros and ones in a large and decentralised computer system.
BC are doing nothing new, SETI@Home, Folding@Home et. al., have been running a community loose cluster situation for years. If SETI@Home "units completed" points were called "BitCoins" instead, would the Treasury be going after them?
I think it's purely down to the fact that more and more people are using BitCoin and shucking the Dollar whenever they can, cutting out the Federal Reserve middleman and depriving them of tax revenue is what's got them upset. I got an answer to that: I'll keep my Dollar in cash. I'll still use the Dollar, but your banks aren't getting a sniff. I'll spend it in the community and encourage my community to keep that cash circulating in the community instead of taking up space in bank vaults. Because once cash circulates, it's not under the control of the Treasury or anybody else except the buyer and the seller. Treasury are happy because they're seeing Benjamins floating about but they're none the wiser as to whether or not it's hitting bank accounts, in fact they don't give a shit - as long as no other cash currency or pretender replacement (like the United States Dollar or the Bradbury Pound) is seen, they'll be complacent.
There are two ways to deal with civil protest.
The first, is to put down any protest with violence. Let the peons know who's boss.
The second way, and the one more likely not to get you murdered, is to find out what the problem is and sort that out.
Motor insurance companies in England are starting to offer lower premiums for people willing to have installed, black box recorders "to monitor their driving behaviour". This is supposed to encourage better driving (how??) so those who volunteer for this before it becomes mandatory can get discounts of up to 20% on top of their no-claims renewals.
What they don't tell you is that whenever the car has power going through its battery, these things have an always-on connection to the cell networks, with a GPS location and route memory. These black boxes have to be "professionally installed" because they bypass the fuse board but they're jacked into the EMS to collect information from there, so there's no way to disconnect them without snipping a wire or ten and rebuilding the EMS. Like new cars don't have enough problems with EMS failures*...
*source: a friend of mine bought a Citroen in 2006, which had three independent EMS systems all running the same stripped NT kernel. Within TWO WEEKS of delivery, it had to go back for three new EMS units because they'd all failed. A WEEK after it was redelivered, it went back again for three more units - the replacements had failed. Thing is, he had not MOVED the car from the time it was redelivered to the time it was collected for the second time. So what exactly caused the EMS failures particularly the second time round? To this day, he still doesn't know. All he did know was that he sent the car back and got a full refund because of the risk of the cascade EMS failure while he was moving. That would have killed whoever was in the car, because in those things the EMS is tied in to the car's central locking, column lock, e-brake and tiptronic gearbox systems.
I don't think it was anything to do with the uproar, it was to do with Sony's announcement at E3 that the PS4 specifically *would not have a phone home feature* which immediately upstaged Microsoft at the event.
The threat and/or use of force to coerce political change.
When the Government have the monopoly on force, when they have the monopoly on Justice, and when they have the monopoly on policy, they are the terrorists, yet to them the People become the enemy.
Well, if we're to be damned, let's all be damned for what we are.
um.... he's a brazen fucking liar?
Mod up. Let's beat these fuckheads with their own sticks.
Pray tell us all, just how does a phone tap prevent some fuck with a boxcutter breaking a secured door to an aircraft cockpit and flying it into a building?
...they broke the Law, they shouldn't get to use it anymore. I stand with Snowden, if what he has exposed shows criminality, then he did not break the Law. Simple as.