ParanoidLinux is a distribution with a focus on privacy. All network comms will be encrypted and run through TOR by default. IM programs, etc, will be configured for secure communications by default. You'll have to go out of your way *not* to have a secure conversation in ParanoidLinux. This time they are trying to sell OpenBSD as their own, proprietary, creation.
I'll assume that your country or some local subdivision of it has some sort of tax on real property. If that's the case, you might want to ask why corporations can amass vast amounts of "intellectual property", expect the government to go out of it's way to provide special protections for it, and yet that property, which the corporations will insist is very real, is not taxed. Bad assumption. At least where I live(US) there is no tax on property at the federal level. There are local taxes on land, cars and boats, but general property is not taxed.
Businesses do not pay tax on assets they own, but instead get a tax deduction for the supposed loss in value(depreciation) of the item over its lifetime.
Under your logic, companies should take a tax deduction when a patent or copyright runs out.
Since you seem to be on the fence with this issue, I'll tell you what I think.
If an entity distributes copyrighted material and makes a profit doing so, then a portion of the profit should go to the copyright holder.
If an entity gives away copyrighted material, then said entity has no obligation to compensate the copyright holder.
Unfortunately, this model will only encourage greater use of DRM. Can anybody improve upon it?
Good answer! When I first heard about these projects I thought, "this is pretty cool." Then proceed to think of many illegal things that could be done with them. The greatest potential is drug running. If the UAV gets busted crossing the boarder, have it self destruct (make sure it destroys the memory/ flight plans etc) and no one gets busted.
I personally wouldn't want to leave my machine logged into my account at work all day. I could go off to lunch and forget to lock it down. Somebody could then come along and steal all of my information/money.
If these algorithms actually worked, why would you need to be working for somebody else? The algorithms in question exploit small discrepancies in the market. In order to make money exploiting these discrepancies, one needs to have a substantial sum of money. When I say substantial, I mean Billions with a "B". Your average Joe would have all of his profit taken by broker fees etc. Even a multi-millionaire can't compete with these companies. The person with the most money can take advantage of the smallest discrepancy. This leaves no room for the small investor to make money.
This mission was the heaviest for the shuttle. It was taken all the way to the max. Basically, this one took longer to take off, chewing away at the pad that was designed and built LONG ago to handle such loads. One of the best explanations on the page! I suspect it was a combination of things that ultimately caused the failure. But your post explains why it failed on this mission and not others.
The Pad had been used for many years and probably had some cracking due to thermal cycling. The Statistics used to determine the time the bricks should be replaced assumed an average launch payload. This payload was larger and the safety factors used were not large enough to accommodate it. With it's heavier payload the shuttle took a few split seconds longer to leave the pad. Therefore these bricks were subjected to the heat from the engines for a slightly longer period of time, causing an abnormal amount of cracking to the bricks. One or more of the bricks failed an started a chain reaction of brick failures.
The reason the bricks didn't fail immediately is because it takes time for heat transfer to occur.
Thermal cycling. Cracks can occur in many structural materials while *cooling*, not while heating. Next time try heating a piece of glassware to an unholy temperature, and then dropping it into an ice water bath. Not true, the cracks can occur while either heating or cooling. The cracking occurs due to high temperature gradients (very hot next to very cold).
In your glassware example, you heated the piece of glassware slowly, so the thermal gradient was low. In other words the entire piece of glassware was roughly the same temperature while it was heated. When you dropped it into ice water the outside became much colder than the inside because the change in temperature was sudden. I recommend you read this article.
Making things hot and cold in rapid succession can cause fatigue due to the materials expanding and contracting. Things exposed to the elements, such as this, also have to deal with moisture.
I don't know what these bricks are made of (CNN says they are special bricks but TFA says they are concrete), but I bet water was trapped in between the cracks and crevices of these bricks and then suddenly boiled when it was heated by rocket exhaust. The steam rapidly escapes from the bricks and makes the cracks a little bigger. This occurs over and over again, each time the cracks get a little bigger. Finally, the cracks become big enough that the bricks can't stand the stress anymore. They get heated one more time and explode. It only takes one brick to explode to cause a chain reaction, and wipe out a bunch of them.
This is of course, the simplest explanation. I would hope NASA would have thought of this before. It happens all of the time with the freeze and thaw cycles in highways and bridges. However, sometimes the simplest explanation is the best.
When the kids are young a spare room is all they need. They won't likely be playing with anything dangerous until they are about 10. Lego kits, Erector Sets, and even model rockets (no engine), RC cars and such don't require special equipment. The worst you have to worry about is model glue.
At around 10 (use your own judgment about what your child is capable of) is about the time you should teach your child about workshop safety and introduce him or her to your workshop and tools. This is when you need to devote some serious workspace to your child.
disclaimer: I am not an educator, I am not responsible if anything bad happens.
the only reason cars arent 100% robot made is because in some steps humans are cheaper than building more robots. It's not the cost of the robot that's the problem. Robots would generally pay for themselves in about 2 years if it was just about hardware. Speaking from experience, it's cheaper to retrain a human to do a task than to reprogram a robot. The robot may also require some physical changes, like new end effectors, to complete the new task. Using a robot to build something like a car from start to finish only makes sense if you are making millions of identical cars. This is never true in the real world because even the most popular cars only sell about 100k units a year, the designs are changed every few years, and often the designs are changed mid-year because some defect was found in the original design. Robots are simply not flexible enough to deal with these rapid changes.
The reason robots are used so extensively in fabrication work is because that work tends to be more hazardous to humans. It's cheaper to program a robot to load a sheet metal press than to settle the lawsuit that incurs when a human gets his or her hand stuck in the press.
The exception to this rule is welders. Welders do work in a hazardous environment, but it's not as hazardous as other processes(like painting or pressing). Training a human to make the kind of repeatable welds on a production line is often more expensive than using a robot, and even with the best training the robot will always make fewer mistakes.
I think Workbench has unlimited undo/redo. I asked the rep a few weeks ago. You can delete items you performed previously in workbench (provided you know what it is) but there is no undo in the traditional sense.
Very close, I don't think there is an alert box for whitelisting. I think you have to go into some config file to do it. The correct way to write a pluign is to submit it to Mozilla for review. For some reason, Google decided not to go that way.
I'm not a developer though. That's just how I interparate this page.
I thought the exe was just an installer that installs the plugin for both IE and Firefox. Then why wouldn't they just release the.xpi file? Either they have something to hide, wanted it to be windows only, or only wanted to code it once for both IE and Firefox.
Word up: bring a tiny bit of modelling clay in your pocket Modelling clay, or plastic explosives...? Hello? Anybody home? Hello, Mr. Gopher! It's me, Mr. Squirrel. Just a harmless squirrel. Not a plastic explosive or anything. Nothing to be worried about. I'm just here to make your last hours on earth as peaceful as possible. Don't mind this. This is doctor's orders. You don't mind if I just pop in there for a few laughs? That's right. Or in the words of Jean-Paul Sartre: "Au revoir, gopher." This is going to be sweet.
HD DVD is derived from the same underlying technologies as DVD. Since all variants except the 3x DVD employed a blue laser with a shorter wavelength, it can store about 3¼ times as much data per layer as its predecessor
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I predict a record number of AC posts on this article.
Good observation! That is one way to legally obtain unlimited power. But to keep it you have to get rid of those pesky term limits.
It was a Joke!
So, by remaining continuously at war, the President has unlimited power?
Brilliant!
What defines a war? Does it have to be against another country? Can it be...
a war on terror?
a war on drugs?
a war on cancer?
a war on poverty?
To give Jim Phelps his secret message.
Here is a reference if you don't believe me
Businesses do not pay tax on assets they own, but instead get a tax deduction for the supposed loss in value(depreciation) of the item over its lifetime.
Under your logic, companies should take a tax deduction when a patent or copyright runs out.
Since you seem to be on the fence with this issue, I'll tell you what I think.
If an entity distributes copyrighted material and makes a profit doing so, then a portion of the profit should go to the copyright holder. If an entity gives away copyrighted material, then said entity has no obligation to compensate the copyright holder.
Unfortunately, this model will only encourage greater use of DRM. Can anybody improve upon it?
Good answer! When I first heard about these projects I thought, "this is pretty cool." Then proceed to think of many illegal things that could be done with them. The greatest potential is drug running. If the UAV gets busted crossing the boarder, have it self destruct (make sure it destroys the memory/ flight plans etc) and no one gets busted.
I personally wouldn't want to leave my machine logged into my account at work all day. I could go off to lunch and forget to lock it down. Somebody could then come along and steal all of my information/money.
This is part of the Efficient Market Hypothesis, a great example is Forex.
The Pad had been used for many years and probably had some cracking due to thermal cycling. The Statistics used to determine the time the bricks should be replaced assumed an average launch payload. This payload was larger and the safety factors used were not large enough to accommodate it. With it's heavier payload the shuttle took a few split seconds longer to leave the pad. Therefore these bricks were subjected to the heat from the engines for a slightly longer period of time, causing an abnormal amount of cracking to the bricks. One or more of the bricks failed an started a chain reaction of brick failures.
The reason the bricks didn't fail immediately is because it takes time for heat transfer to occur.
In your glassware example, you heated the piece of glassware slowly, so the thermal gradient was low. In other words the entire piece of glassware was roughly the same temperature while it was heated. When you dropped it into ice water the outside became much colder than the inside because the change in temperature was sudden. I recommend you read this article.
Remember, heat transfer is not instantaneous.
Making things hot and cold in rapid succession can cause fatigue due to the materials expanding and contracting. Things exposed to the elements, such as this, also have to deal with moisture.
I don't know what these bricks are made of (CNN says they are special bricks but TFA says they are concrete), but I bet water was trapped in between the cracks and crevices of these bricks and then suddenly boiled when it was heated by rocket exhaust. The steam rapidly escapes from the bricks and makes the cracks a little bigger. This occurs over and over again, each time the cracks get a little bigger. Finally, the cracks become big enough that the bricks can't stand the stress anymore. They get heated one more time and explode. It only takes one brick to explode to cause a chain reaction, and wipe out a bunch of them.
This is of course, the simplest explanation. I would hope NASA would have thought of this before. It happens all of the time with the freeze and thaw cycles in highways and bridges. However, sometimes the simplest explanation is the best.
When the kids are young a spare room is all they need. They won't likely be playing with anything dangerous until they are about 10. Lego kits, Erector Sets, and even model rockets (no engine), RC cars and such don't require special equipment. The worst you have to worry about is model glue.
At around 10 (use your own judgment about what your child is capable of) is about the time you should teach your child about workshop safety and introduce him or her to your workshop and tools. This is when you need to devote some serious workspace to your child.
disclaimer: I am not an educator, I am not responsible if anything bad happens.
The reason robots are used so extensively in fabrication work is because that work tends to be more hazardous to humans. It's cheaper to program a robot to load a sheet metal press than to settle the lawsuit that incurs when a human gets his or her hand stuck in the press.
The exception to this rule is welders. Welders do work in a hazardous environment, but it's not as hazardous as other processes(like painting or pressing). Training a human to make the kind of repeatable welds on a production line is often more expensive than using a robot, and even with the best training the robot will always make fewer mistakes.
Correct, they might also have issues with Google's development cycle. i.e. perpetual beta
Very close, I don't think there is an alert box for whitelisting. I think you have to go into some config file to do it. The correct way to write a pluign is to submit it to Mozilla for review. For some reason, Google decided not to go that way.
I'm not a developer though. That's just how I interparate this page.
I totally forgot that the developer might read Slashdot and get offended. Sorry, man. Next time release it as an XPI file.
Who makes a Firefox plugin that's an .exe file? Seriously, Google needs to read the how to page and follow the standards.