Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is — so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
The simple answer is that the phone companies hope you'll be to embarrass to contest the charges.
Simmilar examples can be found in:
1.) Back in the good old days of dial-up, there were adult sites that would give "free" access assuming you (stupidly/unknowingly) dialed into a south-pacific island nation number that had a north American prefix, with your unlimited long distance account.*
2.) All the cell joke and ring tone numbers you can "get for free" that are/were advertised on TV.
I think you have misinterpreted this quote. What they want to do is turn CoD into a pay to play game, where they get monthly fees for multilayer game play like WoW. While I can't find the links now, there was a secretive poll by Activision to judge this possibility and other innuendos like your quote to suggest that this is where they are trying to go.
Who gives a fuck about my post? Either it's a good comment, or it's not. Most Slashdot posts are made to incite flamewars, just a big pile of special effects with a moronic plot, and idiotic dialog (nothing to fix). So, with that in mind, my post was above average.
Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.
Except that in many larger counties for 1996 and newer cars to pass emission tests or vehicle inspection the engine computer must be fully OBD-II compliant. AFIK, no after market engine computer does this directly. The system must either be used in conjunction with the stock computer which limits tuning, or the stock system must be swapped back in each inspection time.
US naval based air-power would have been setback a few years*. Instead of relativity quickly recapturing the outer south pacific islands, we may have moved to further support Australia from threat of invasion, and in their fight in the Pacific. It should be remembered that Japan had been at war for five year prior to the Battle of Midway, and was experiencing shortages of resources and personnel. If Japan hadn't surrendered to the US (in this hypothetical case due a US loss at Midway) it may have faced invasion from the Soviet army, after the fall of Berlin.
*As Adm. Nimitz strongly believed in a carrier based battle group it would seem unlikely that he, or the Admirals in charge of the carriers, would (engage in)/(not disengage from) the battle if the entire carrier fleet was in imminent danger of being sunk; even if this meant sacrificing ships.
Admittedly I don't have experience with either function but..
What I don't understand is why TIOCGWINSZ, or almost any TTY call, can be used from fcntl(2)?
Also, why didn't OS X throw an exception when fcntl(2) tired write outside the program's memory?
My answers were: I ain't telling you shit, Ouch! That fucking hurts, ok-I got the weed from Tony down the street
After witch Rorschach broke the rest of my fingers and took my weed...don't know what happened to Tony. Can't believe it took Dr. Manhattan so long to kill that jerk.
To be fair there is a passport office, and several consulates that issue visas in SF. It's possible the passports didn't even belong to the people carrying them, as it is common to use a third party to get foreign visas.
I don't know what keying option ATMs generally use with 3DES, but assuming they aren't using the weakest (only equivalent to DES), then "14 full 56-bit' searches in 26 days (13 June - 8 Jul) doesn't pose a significant threat. Being generous, their search is about equivalent to a single complete 60-bit (log(14*2^56)/log(2)=59.8) search over the same time, and according to the Wiki article keying option 2 of 3DES provides "80 bits of security". So their setup would take about 27 million days (26 days * 2^80/2^60) to do a single complete 80-bit search.
The problem with giving them something other than your real name, is that they'll run the name you give them through their computer system. When it turns up without a match or not matching you, then they will probably arrest you for something like 'lying to an officer', or 'impeding an investigation'. Finally, they'll throw in a resisting arrest charge to top it off.
The Nevada Supreme Court had held that the Nevada statute required only that the suspect divulge his name; presumably, he could do so without handing over any documents whatsoever. As long as the suspect tells the officer his name, he has satisfied the dictates of the Nevada stop-and-identify law.
In Nevada you are not required to produce an ID, of course this doesn't mean you wont get hassled for not doing so (in NV or any state).
No, I was thinking if you had coffee you'd stay in the room an die, but lacking a cup you might leave the room to get some as you started to feel drowsy.
Passing out due to oxygen deprivation generally isn't instant, but assuming you'll act in a rational manner to save yourself as you black out will probably be fatal.
It's CO2 that causes the discomfort you feel from holding your breath for a long time. All you'd feel from nitrogen displacing all the oxygen in the air would be lethargy. So I guess your survival may depend if you have coffee in the room with you.
While it probably wasn't the point SeaDuck79 was trying to make; by extension from your argument we can conclude that the UN isn't a "freedom-based society", and therefor should be excluded from participating in its self.
Perhaps a corollary to Orwell's "Freedom is Slavery" we have "Liberty is Tyranny".
Was Officer Ettienne a diligent cop who found a gun after chasing an ex-convict weaving through traffic on a stolen motorcycle? Or was his story a devious facade in keeping with the ruthless character he revealed on social network Web sites?
I'd tend to agree that his online conduct was unprofessional, and that the resisting arrest charge that the article is about was probably exaggerated. If live action TV with police is any indication, everyone who is arrested gets a resisting charge added. But, the article is quite vague about what came of the other charges involved in the arrest. Why did the gun possession not result in a conviction, and what of other charges related to his driving a stolen vehicle? Or was it all fake, no gun, no chase, no stolen bike, and no resisting?
I think there are several orders of magnitude difference between you giving a student an unjustified 'F', and a police officer deciding to arrest you because they are having a bad day.
That being said, the article doesn't read like the man was arrested falsely. Instead, the article suggest he was initially stopped for his unsafe driving on a stolen motorcycle.
BSOD and skull fucking I can deal with but why didn't anyone tell me I could get an STD from Microsoft.
But seriously what the fuck is with the link:../microsoft-skull-fucks-icelands-economy-contracts-syphilis/ How is any page with this kind of name even remotely legitimate news.
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Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is — so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
-Glory Road
Simmilar examples can be found in:
1.) Back in the good old days of dial-up, there were adult sites that would give "free" access assuming you (stupidly/unknowingly) dialed into a south-pacific island nation number that had a north American prefix, with your unlimited long distance account.*
2.) All the cell joke and ring tone numbers you can "get for free" that are/were advertised on TV.
*my brother found out about this the hard way
I think you have misinterpreted this quote. What they want to do is turn CoD into a pay to play game, where they get monthly fees for multilayer game play like WoW. While I can't find the links now, there was a secretive poll by Activision to judge this possibility and other innuendos like your quote to suggest that this is where they are trying to go.
Except that Phobos is in Inner Space.
LIES!!! Wikipedia is patently wrong in this case.
It is a well established fact that Innerspace is the area within the human body.
Who gives a fuck about my post? Either it's a good comment, or it's not. Most Slashdot posts are made to incite flamewars, just a big pile of special effects with a moronic plot, and idiotic dialog (nothing to fix). So, with that in mind, my post was above average.
There fixed that for you
Consoles could be fine for all types of gaming if the manufactures allowed for full keyboard and mouse support on their systems.
Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein
I would support any cause to topple the tyrannical forces of the BLNA.
Those murderous bastards will stop at nothing to collect home owner dues.
Except that in many larger counties for 1996 and newer cars to pass emission tests or vehicle inspection the engine computer must be fully OBD-II compliant. AFIK, no after market engine computer does this directly. The system must either be used in conjunction with the stock computer which limits tuning, or the stock system must be swapped back in each inspection time.
US naval based air-power would have been setback a few years*. Instead of relativity quickly recapturing the outer south pacific islands, we may have moved to further support Australia from threat of invasion, and in their fight in the Pacific. It should be remembered that Japan had been at war for five year prior to the Battle of Midway, and was experiencing shortages of resources and personnel. If Japan hadn't surrendered to the US (in this hypothetical case due a US loss at Midway) it may have faced invasion from the Soviet army, after the fall of Berlin.
*As Adm. Nimitz strongly believed in a carrier based battle group it would seem unlikely that he, or the Admirals in charge of the carriers, would (engage in)/(not disengage from) the battle if the entire carrier fleet was in imminent danger of being sunk; even if this meant sacrificing ships.
A good summary of the exploit.
Admittedly I don't have experience with either function but..
What I don't understand is why TIOCGWINSZ, or almost any TTY call, can be used from fcntl(2)?
Also, why didn't OS X throw an exception when fcntl(2) tired write outside the program's memory?
I must have taken the wrong test...
My answers were: I ain't telling you shit, Ouch! That fucking hurts, ok-I got the weed from Tony down the street
After witch Rorschach broke the rest of my fingers and took my weed...don't know what happened to Tony. Can't believe it took Dr. Manhattan so long to kill that jerk.
To be fair there is a passport office, and several consulates that issue visas in SF. It's possible the passports didn't even belong to the people carrying them, as it is common to use a third party to get foreign visas.
I don't know what keying option ATMs generally use with 3DES, but assuming they aren't using the weakest (only equivalent to DES), then "14 full 56-bit' searches in 26 days (13 June - 8 Jul) doesn't pose a significant threat. Being generous, their search is about equivalent to a single complete 60-bit (log(14*2^56)/log(2)=59.8) search over the same time, and according to the Wiki article keying option 2 of 3DES provides "80 bits of security". So their setup would take about 27 million days (26 days * 2^80/2^60) to do a single complete 80-bit search.
The problem with giving them something other than your real name, is that they'll run the name you give them through their computer system. When it turns up without a match or not matching you, then they will probably arrest you for something like 'lying to an officer', or 'impeding an investigation'. Finally, they'll throw in a resisting arrest charge to top it off.
The Nevada Supreme Court had held that the Nevada statute required only that the suspect divulge his name; presumably, he could do so without handing over any documents whatsoever. As long as the suspect tells the officer his name, he has satisfied the dictates of the Nevada stop-and-identify law.
In Nevada you are not required to produce an ID, of course this doesn't mean you wont get hassled for not doing so (in NV or any state).
So long as you don't go on to iterate through all the names of god
No, I was thinking if you had coffee you'd stay in the room an die, but lacking a cup you might leave the room to get some as you started to feel drowsy.
Passing out due to oxygen deprivation generally isn't instant, but assuming you'll act in a rational manner to save yourself as you black out will probably be fatal.
It's CO2 that causes the discomfort you feel from holding your breath for a long time. All you'd feel from nitrogen displacing all the oxygen in the air would be lethargy. So I guess your survival may depend if you have coffee in the room with you.
So long as there isn't a "Seriously 2.0" achievement that requires you to make 100,000 posts in this story.
While it probably wasn't the point SeaDuck79 was trying to make; by extension from your argument we can conclude that the UN isn't a "freedom-based society", and therefor should be excluded from participating in its self.
Perhaps a corollary to Orwell's "Freedom is Slavery" we have "Liberty is Tyranny".
It's the evil alternate reality /. where Microsoft can do no evil and Google has instituted a worldwide surveillance police state.
Also from TFA:
Was Officer Ettienne a diligent cop who found a gun after chasing an ex-convict weaving through traffic on a stolen motorcycle? Or was his story a devious facade in keeping with the ruthless character he revealed on social network Web sites?
I'd tend to agree that his online conduct was unprofessional, and that the resisting arrest charge that the article is about was probably exaggerated. If live action TV with police is any indication, everyone who is arrested gets a resisting charge added. But, the article is quite vague about what came of the other charges involved in the arrest. Why did the gun possession not result in a conviction, and what of other charges related to his driving a stolen vehicle? Or was it all fake, no gun, no chase, no stolen bike, and no resisting?
I think there are several orders of magnitude difference between you giving a student an unjustified 'F', and a police officer deciding to arrest you because they are having a bad day.
That being said, the article doesn't read like the man was arrested falsely. Instead, the article suggest he was initially stopped for his unsafe driving on a stolen motorcycle.
BSOD and skull fucking I can deal with but why didn't anyone tell me I could get an STD from Microsoft. ../microsoft-skull-fucks-icelands-economy-contracts-syphilis/ How is any page with this kind of name even remotely legitimate news.
But seriously what the fuck is with the link: