Venus is borderline habitable, as the sibling said. However, Mars is outside the habitable zone, sinc eht eonly potential liquid water is below the surface.
In the iTunes EULA it forbids you from using it in the manufacture of nuclear or biological weapons. Presumably this is to compply with some US arms law, but it does seem a little pointless given that (1)the only uses for iTunes which might be covered would be listening to music played on it while working on a bomb, or listening to bomb-making instructions, and (2) anyone making nuclear weapons would presumably ignore such a restriction anyway.
Just set up your own soap making plant in your house using fat from liposuction as one of your raw materials. Then use the explosives to blow up all the major US bank offices.
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The chemical reactions that make a cake or a loaf of bread is not very different than making a vinegar/baking soda volcano. Whist baking cakes does tend to rely on sodium bicarbonate reacting with an acid (usually tartaric acid) to produce CO2, and also to a lesser extent on the natural raising agents in eggs, bread is completely different. Bread is risen by the carbon dioxide produced in anaerobic respiration performed by yeast (the same as when brewing), and the alcohol produced then evaporates off when the brad is baked.
I assume that he means that a link to a stream which can be opened outside the browser in your favourite media player would be a better way to include streams in a website. Given the fast video downloader for Fx (and presumably equivalents for other graphical browsers), using flash video to protect the content is pointless. This means that a flash player has little benefit over an MPEG stream.
beg the question: to use circular reasoning (Oxford Paperback Dictionary 1983) So indeed, the world is loosing its ability to speak properly, since whilst evolution is a natural part of the development of language, it is a Bad Thing to use a phrase which has a precise meaning in an ambiguously different manner. It is not as though there is a lack of terms which can be used to mean "raise the question", either.
Film cameras are still better than digital for some things: I forget what resolution a good-quality film is, but the limiting factor in most film cameras is the optics, not the film. Whilst a digital camera is definitely an advantage for most things, the photographers I know who do a lot of landscapes or still life photography tend to prefer a film camera.
Whist as the exploit you described would almost certainly not work, as the siblings pointed out, what might work would be to place an inline sniffer/transmitter onto a network cable. All it would have to contain is a radio transmitter to send the network traffic passing over the cable, which could possibly be done using analogue circuits which would not interfere with the signal, although powering it may be difficult to do unobtrusively. The difficult part of this would be to plug it in without the logging software noticing.
I did work experience on a government site where highly classified work is done, and everyone who had not been fully checked, signed the local version of the official secrets act and so on had to be escorted at all times by a member of staff, from the moment they passed through the gate. If no-one collects them, the person just has to sit in the guardhouse and wait. This way, even if there was a faked message authorising their visit, they would still be supervised by someone, preventing such an attack.
More people reading the firehose would stop a lot of this sort of thing getting past that stage. I think the main reason the respected mags get such a free ride here is that too many people don't RTFA, so they never notice that it is a plug piece. They just see that it is in a major magazine and assume it must be good. Of course, once one person has actually read the article and noticed how bad it is, everyone else goes and has a look, and posts the same thing. It would be interesting to see if it is the same few people every time who spots these articles, but it would take far too much effort to do this manually.
>The UK market seems to be far more driven by fuel efficiency, HT UK fuel prices are much higher. In the UK, 5 years ago, petrol was near 1 pound/litre, IIRC. In the USA petrol is far less.
Google for it: there is a blog entry at about 3 or 4 which lists sources of supply for the materials. Don't worry about accidentally producing chlorine, the posters who warned about that don't know enough about electrochemistry to know what they are on about.
I agree with the content of the post, but there was a minor mistake:
Until the 13th or 14th century AD, Islam had the best and most prolific scientists in the world.
This kinda defeats the objective of not allowing chemistry sets to be sold. Now the terrorists have to go to a specialised supply store to buy their raw materials, which they would quite likely have already, since they can get larger quantities there than a very large number of chemistry sets would provide. For that matter, buying a sack of fertiliser from a garden centre and fuel from wherever you choose, and you have the raw materials for a basic bomb, far less noticeably than buying a large number of chemistry sets.
Maybe they should see if they can get bill Gates to help them out with some fancy lawyers. After all, he hacked into a university computer system to change his grades and only got expelled, and is now insanely rich.
Adelaide has a similar programme, although there they have a 4x$ which collects up the bikes which are left in random places. Since the bikes are clearly marked (they have a plate added with a logo painted on it), theft does not seem to be a problem. I don't use the system myself, since I tend to walk to Uni, but it is fairly popular, especially with tourists.
There was also the Tux Phone, which was reported in New Scientist a while back (unfortunately the article is behind a paywall). This was supposed to use generic hardware and run Linux (of course). No idea what came of it though: I read the article over a year ago, and I haven't heard anything since. This might have merged with, or turned into, what the parent referred to.
But they have every right to put aluminium flywire in the walls, so you can't get a signal (a nice Faraday cage). After all, people manage to go in places where there is no reception now, don't they, and while putting in wire would cost more in the short term, hopefully people would not even try to use their phones inside.
Well, its running a Unixen, so how do the specs compare with an old VAX or PDP-11. They were used for a large number of simultaneous users, so that would give a rough idea
The other excellent feature of the Computer Modern class is that all three families fit visually together, meaning that typewriter text in the middle of a document fits visually with the body text, whether it is Roman or Sans Serif. The only thing I would like to see is a version with old-style numbers (like one of the Vista fonts has), for use in non-technical documents. I also find the typewriter text attractive, and very easy to read (since it was designed by a computer scientist for code listings, this is not surprising), and even the sans serif family is tolerable.
I suppose you think that all the internet traffic, for which oyu would almost certainly be billed, is a fair price to pay to stick it to the RIAA. If all your admins can trace the traffic to is your router, they will charge you for the excess traffic. Even if there is normally no charge for internet usage, there would still be some sort of excess usage fee for situations like this, or continuous torrenting.
They should buy the conversation engine behind the barman in Deus Ex. If you can't talk philosophy with some random guy in the game, the conversation engine isn't good enough. Of course, if I were to try to discuss Plato with a gun-toting grunt, then I would expext him to just kill me, or, if I were on his side, knock me out.
The Americans don't even use normal Imperial units, for example, their Pints are 16floz rather than 20floz. And I bet thet you measure the insulation on your house in R-values, which are the most insanely f*cked up units imaginable, foot^2 x degree Fahrenheit x hour per British Thermal Unit. There are otehr areas where Imperial units, for example in quilting inches are used because 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6, whereas 10 is only divisible by 2 and 5, and an foot happens to be a good size for blocks, and model-makers use a mixture of imperial and metric, depending on the context, but except for 1:100 models, the prototype is usually measured in feet, and model materials specified in thou or fractions of an inch. Then I bet your kitchen cabinets, adn probably most of the rest of your furniture, is specified in multiple of 150mm, or near enough to 6 inches.
Metric was invented because several of Napoleon's senior officers were innumerate, and hte French had an even worse system than teh Imperial one.
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Venus is borderline habitable, as the sibling said. However, Mars is outside the habitable zone, sinc eht eonly potential liquid water is below the surface.
In the iTunes EULA it forbids you from using it in the manufacture of nuclear or biological weapons. Presumably this is to compply with some US arms law, but it does seem a little pointless given that (1)the only uses for iTunes which might be covered would be listening to music played on it while working on a bomb, or listening to bomb-making instructions, and (2) anyone making nuclear weapons would presumably ignore such a restriction anyway.
Just set up your own soap making plant in your house using fat from liposuction as one of your raw materials. Then use the explosives to blow up all the major US bank offices.
I assume that he means that a link to a stream which can be opened outside the browser in your favourite media player would be a better way to include streams in a website. Given the fast video downloader for Fx (and presumably equivalents for other graphical browsers), using flash video to protect the content is pointless. This means that a flash player has little benefit over an MPEG stream.
beg the question: to use circular reasoning (Oxford Paperback Dictionary 1983)
So indeed, the world is loosing its ability to speak properly, since whilst evolution is a natural part of the development of language, it is a Bad Thing to use a phrase which has a precise meaning in an ambiguously different manner. It is not as though there is a lack of terms which can be used to mean "raise the question", either.
"Bugrit, millennium hand and shrimp, I sez. But did they listen..."
An automated Foul Ole Ron could be quite effective, until it gets banned.
Film cameras are still better than digital for some things: I forget what resolution a good-quality film is, but the limiting factor in most film cameras is the optics, not the film. Whilst a digital camera is definitely an advantage for most things, the photographers I know who do a lot of landscapes or still life photography tend to prefer a film camera.
Whist as the exploit you described would almost certainly not work, as the siblings pointed out, what might work would be to place an inline sniffer/transmitter onto a network cable. All it would have to contain is a radio transmitter to send the network traffic passing over the cable, which could possibly be done using analogue circuits which would not interfere with the signal, although powering it may be difficult to do unobtrusively. The difficult part of this would be to plug it in without the logging software noticing.
I did work experience on a government site where highly classified work is done, and everyone who had not been fully checked, signed the local version of the official secrets act and so on had to be escorted at all times by a member of staff, from the moment they passed through the gate. If no-one collects them, the person just has to sit in the guardhouse and wait. This way, even if there was a faked message authorising their visit, they would still be supervised by someone, preventing such an attack.
More people reading the firehose would stop a lot of this sort of thing getting past that stage. I think the main reason the respected mags get such a free ride here is that too many people don't RTFA, so they never notice that it is a plug piece. They just see that it is in a major magazine and assume it must be good. Of course, once one person has actually read the article and noticed how bad it is, everyone else goes and has a look, and posts the same thing. It would be interesting to see if it is the same few people every time who spots these articles, but it would take far too much effort to do this manually.
>The UK market seems to be far more driven by fuel efficiency,
HT UK fuel prices are much higher. In the UK, 5 years ago, petrol was near 1 pound/litre, IIRC. In the USA petrol is far less.
Google for it: there is a blog entry at about 3 or 4 which lists sources of supply for the materials. Don't worry about accidentally producing chlorine, the posters who warned about that don't know enough about electrochemistry to know what they are on about.
This kinda defeats the objective of not allowing chemistry sets to be sold. Now the terrorists have to go to a specialised supply store to buy their raw materials, which they would quite likely have already, since they can get larger quantities there than a very large number of chemistry sets would provide. For that matter, buying a sack of fertiliser from a garden centre and fuel from wherever you choose, and you have the raw materials for a basic bomb, far less noticeably than buying a large number of chemistry sets.
Maybe they should see if they can get bill Gates to help them out with some fancy lawyers. After all, he hacked into a university computer system to change his grades and only got expelled, and is now insanely rich.
Adelaide has a similar programme, although there they have a 4x$ which collects up the bikes which are left in random places. Since the bikes are clearly marked (they have a plate added with a logo painted on it), theft does not seem to be a problem. I don't use the system myself, since I tend to walk to Uni, but it is fairly popular, especially with tourists.
There was also the Tux Phone, which was reported in New Scientist a while back (unfortunately the article is behind a paywall). This was supposed to use generic hardware and run Linux (of course). No idea what came of it though: I read the article over a year ago, and I haven't heard anything since. This might have merged with, or turned into, what the parent referred to.
But they have every right to put aluminium flywire in the walls, so you can't get a signal (a nice Faraday cage). After all, people manage to go in places where there is no reception now, don't they, and while putting in wire would cost more in the short term, hopefully people would not even try to use their phones inside.
Well, its running a Unixen, so how do the specs compare with an old VAX or PDP-11. They were used for a large number of simultaneous users, so that would give a rough idea
The other excellent feature of the Computer Modern class is that all three families fit visually together, meaning that typewriter text in the middle of a document fits visually with the body text, whether it is Roman or Sans Serif. The only thing I would like to see is a version with old-style numbers (like one of the Vista fonts has), for use in non-technical documents. I also find the typewriter text attractive, and very easy to read (since it was designed by a computer scientist for code listings, this is not surprising), and even the sans serif family is tolerable.
You just don't try hard enough, do you: PETRUS*, People for the Ethical Treatment of Rocks Up in Space.
I suppose you think that all the internet traffic, for which oyu would almost certainly be billed, is a fair price to pay to stick it to the RIAA. If all your admins can trace the traffic to is your router, they will charge you for the excess traffic. Even if there is normally no charge for internet usage, there would still be some sort of excess usage fee for situations like this, or continuous torrenting.
They should buy the conversation engine behind the barman in Deus Ex. If you can't talk philosophy with some random guy in the game, the conversation engine isn't good enough. Of course, if I were to try to discuss Plato with a gun-toting grunt, then I would expext him to just kill me, or, if I were on his side, knock me out.
The Americans don't even use normal Imperial units, for example, their Pints are 16floz rather than 20floz. And I bet thet you measure the insulation on your house in R-values, which are the most insanely f*cked up units imaginable, foot^2 x degree Fahrenheit x hour per British Thermal Unit. There are otehr areas where Imperial units, for example in quilting inches are used because 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6, whereas 10 is only divisible by 2 and 5, and an foot happens to be a good size for blocks, and model-makers use a mixture of imperial and metric, depending on the context, but except for 1:100 models, the prototype is usually measured in feet, and model materials specified in thou or fractions of an inch. Then I bet your kitchen cabinets, adn probably most of the rest of your furniture, is specified in multiple of 150mm, or near enough to 6 inches.
Metric was invented because several of Napoleon's senior officers were innumerate, and hte French had an even worse system than teh Imperial one.