they maybe someone should threaten to murder them if they DO censor any more south park episodes. Where's a violent gun-toting islam-hating extremist when you need one?
People don't like remembering dozens of passwords so they work around it to break the system.
Back when I with a company with this policy, everyone I know just used their same password with a different number attached to the end. The system remembers your password for the last 3 months and wouldn't let you reuse those. So what you do is just go through iterations of # when prompted to change your password. When # reached 9 then you just restarted at 0.
Some companies are on to this scheme, and won't let you use a new password that contains your previous one. So what people I knew did in this circumstance is just reverse their old password instead, so a password such as "12345678" becomes "87654321". And if it remembers your previous passwords, then just add a # to the end again.
there were plenty of large bipedal herbivore dinosaurs. I don't see how you can assume that barney was a carnivorous dinosaur based on the observations that he is large, bipedal, and purple.
This is a damn shame. "Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines" is one of the best RPGs ever - after the fan-made patches that fixed most of the glaring bugs.
One of the main problems with VTM:B was that it was built using an old buggy, crashy version of Valve's source engine. Once development was sufficiently underway, it was not feasible to port to a newer version of the engine available from Valve. This problem was compounded by the fact that their agreement with Valve prevented them from releasing the "finished" game until after Half-Life 2 was released as Valve wanted HL2 to be the first game released on the source engine. This eventually meant that the game was released at around the same time as HL2 and was lost in the background. The bugs obviously didn't help.
I would recommend anyone interested in strong story-driven RPGs to pick up a copy of VTM:B on steam. It usually goes on sale around halloween every year. Otherwise it still prices for around $20 which goes to show how strong the sales are still for this 6 year old game.
The unofficial fan patches are still being developed, and should be picked up for a good play experience. You usually have the option of selecting just a bug-fix patch, or some sort of "plus" patch with additional fan-finished or added content. Unfortunately, the engine is still buggy and you may encounter memory leaks, hanging or crashing once in a while. It was quite stable for me though.
if they had a large xbox/pc gaming section stocked with games and free demo stations. They'll get the rabid gaming demographic in there, and can then sell them high-end gaming PCs and laptops as well. They can also then get in on the lucrative used games market that lets gamestop/EB laugh all the way to the bank.
Though I can't find more sources right now, I've read numerous reports on the homicides in the past few years are from feuding caucasian gangs killing each other. The asian gangs seem to get along with each other more cordially. The only exception are those in the multi-ethnic "UN" gang.
But how long do you need to retain this information? 48 hours? 1 week? I'd think you'd need to keep it just long enough such that if the minor got arrested or got in an accident, that investigators can verify where he got intoxicated. Keeping this information for this period is reasonable use to cover your liabilities. Any retention of this data longer than this time period should be a breach of privacy laws. These clubs seem to be retaining this private information indefinitely.
I can't speak for other jurisdictions, but this barwatch program in BC was enacted in response to a rash of nightclub shootings in recent years in which gang members got into fights with other patrons or were killed in targeted hits in which innocent bystanders were wounded or killed. The ID scan is to identify persons known to police in a database and refuse them services or entrance to the premises.
The ID scan itself is already of shaky legal status, but the most troubling issue here is that the ID information from the scan (name, address, etc) is retained by the club in a private database.
It's not affordable. You can't compare performance statistics with production cars from traditional manufacturers with intended retail prices of around $50,000 when your car costs $200,000, excluding labor.
Gogoana placed the cost of the project, excluding labor, at around $200,000, but much of the materials were donated and the Electric Vehicle Team isn't paid. The batteries alone hold a price tag of about $80,000, but Gogoana said that as more batteries and cars are produced, cost should be driven down.
100% agree. The DOTA online community is the most hostile online community I've ever encountered. I don't plan on paying these chumps any of my money solely based on my previous experience with these players.
Digital information can be easily duplicated and transferred to other media. You can save the entire library of congress on hard disk, convert it to DVD, or print it out on paper. And all of it can be almost fully automated with near zero chance of error. Try doing a backup of your stone tablet library in a reasonable amount of time, labor, and accuracy. There is just no comparison.
I figured you'd need a car with redundant wheels that can be lowered and retracted while the car was moving. Probably also analogous to how google manages hardware downtime: redundancy.
While technically possible to make such a car, I don't see any practical use for such a system when it's just safer and more efficient to stop the car and replace the wheel.
At first I thought it might be a useful system for an armored car like the presidential limo, but the added weight of another motorized system would probably make it more of a liability than help in most situations, considering if something powerful enough to disable an armored wheel on an armored car will probably also destroy any systems adjacent to it.
But those things have far more uses than just destructive activities. Not much use for rocket engines than to deliver a malignant payload. Do amateur rocketeers really need more powerful rockets to shoot into the sky just for kicks? Do they do anything close to scientific research, or is it just "haha lookit my rockit go!"?
I'm surprised the feds didn't cite terrorist concerns over the deregulation of this rocket propellant. Oh well, I'm sure they'll just lobby to have the laws changed/enacted to bring this propellant under federal regulation. Doesn't anyone else think it's irresponsible to allow anyone to buy powerful rocket motors without a license? Who needs a suicide patsy when you can just set up a rocket? Maybe I'm just being paranoid.
There were plenty of times where I wanted a copyrighted product (movie, song or app) and decided pirate it instead of buy it because it was more convenient. Had it been difficult to find said copyright material online, I would have gone out to the store to buy it. In these circumstances the sales were lost because it was a hassle for me to drive to the store to buy the product.
Going to the store consists of having to get dressed, fight traffic to drive to mall, find parking in a crowded parking lot, walk to the store, find the product on the shelves, stand in line to pay for it, walk back to my car, and fight traffic on the drive home, -a process that takes several hours. Instead, in that same amount of time, I can torrent it and spend the time doing something else, fun like watch TV or play a game, or get some work done. To me, that's a no-brainer more efficient use of my time.
Also, why would I pay for a product when there is an easily obtainable copy available for free? Sure, I'd like to support the artists and developers, but I have to watch out for my own pocketbook too. This may make me a sleazebag, but that's just the way I am. Not gonna get much sympathy from me if it means separating me from my hard earned cash. If the pirating option was not available to me, I'd be a paying customer, and the RIAA realizes that this is true for a lot of people as well, which is why they're fighting so hard with underhanded tactics.
It may look like chaos to us, but they were able to impressively navigate the mess with no accidents whatsoever! I can just imagine all the pile up accidents that would occur within seconds should this ever take place in a modern western country's roadways
We've been able to destroy the entire surface of the planet many times over for decades now, ever since the nuclear arms race with the Soviets. It doesn't really matter whether the surface is destroyed or the entire planet. We're just as screwed.
With Iran having secured the technologies to enrich uranium for manufacturing nukes, I dare say the probability of a nuclear world war wiping out humanity is a hell of a lot more likely than the LHC destroying the planet.
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but let's hope more than one third-party decides to run these tests so we have larger data sets and from separate sources.
they maybe someone should threaten to murder them if they DO censor any more south park episodes. Where's a violent gun-toting islam-hating extremist when you need one?
People don't like remembering dozens of passwords so they work around it to break the system.
Back when I with a company with this policy, everyone I know just used their same password with a different number attached to the end. The system remembers your password for the last 3 months and wouldn't let you reuse those. So what you do is just go through iterations of # when prompted to change your password. When # reached 9 then you just restarted at 0.
Some companies are on to this scheme, and won't let you use a new password that contains your previous one. So what people I knew did in this circumstance is just reverse their old password instead, so a password such as "12345678" becomes "87654321". And if it remembers your previous passwords, then just add a # to the end again.
His mannerisms and behavior indicate that he isn't dangerous. He's gone many, many episodes without eating or molesting his child guests.
there were plenty of large bipedal herbivore dinosaurs. I don't see how you can assume that barney was a carnivorous dinosaur based on the observations that he is large, bipedal, and purple.
This is a damn shame. "Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines" is one of the best RPGs ever - after the fan-made patches that fixed most of the glaring bugs. One of the main problems with VTM:B was that it was built using an old buggy, crashy version of Valve's source engine. Once development was sufficiently underway, it was not feasible to port to a newer version of the engine available from Valve. This problem was compounded by the fact that their agreement with Valve prevented them from releasing the "finished" game until after Half-Life 2 was released as Valve wanted HL2 to be the first game released on the source engine. This eventually meant that the game was released at around the same time as HL2 and was lost in the background. The bugs obviously didn't help. I would recommend anyone interested in strong story-driven RPGs to pick up a copy of VTM:B on steam. It usually goes on sale around halloween every year. Otherwise it still prices for around $20 which goes to show how strong the sales are still for this 6 year old game. The unofficial fan patches are still being developed, and should be picked up for a good play experience. You usually have the option of selecting just a bug-fix patch, or some sort of "plus" patch with additional fan-finished or added content. Unfortunately, the engine is still buggy and you may encounter memory leaks, hanging or crashing once in a while. It was quite stable for me though.
you used to be cool.
if they had a large xbox/pc gaming section stocked with games and free demo stations. They'll get the rabid gaming demographic in there, and can then sell them high-end gaming PCs and laptops as well. They can also then get in on the lucrative used games market that lets gamestop/EB laugh all the way to the bank.
Yes, you're right. While this isn't definitive proof, most of the people getting killed in the BC gang wars are causasian: http://www.cbc.ca/bc/features/homicide/2009.html.
Though I can't find more sources right now, I've read numerous reports on the homicides in the past few years are from feuding caucasian gangs killing each other. The asian gangs seem to get along with each other more cordially. The only exception are those in the multi-ethnic "UN" gang.
But how long do you need to retain this information? 48 hours? 1 week? I'd think you'd need to keep it just long enough such that if the minor got arrested or got in an accident, that investigators can verify where he got intoxicated. Keeping this information for this period is reasonable use to cover your liabilities. Any retention of this data longer than this time period should be a breach of privacy laws. These clubs seem to be retaining this private information indefinitely.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/07/22/bc-barwatch-violates-privacy-laws.html
I can't speak for other jurisdictions, but this barwatch program in BC was enacted in response to a rash of nightclub shootings in recent years in which gang members got into fights with other patrons or were killed in targeted hits in which innocent bystanders were wounded or killed. The ID scan is to identify persons known to police in a database and refuse them services or entrance to the premises. The ID scan itself is already of shaky legal status, but the most troubling issue here is that the ID information from the scan (name, address, etc) is retained by the club in a private database.
100% agree. The DOTA online community is the most hostile online community I've ever encountered. I don't plan on paying these chumps any of my money solely based on my previous experience with these players.
I'm too busy beating something else, thanks to my internet connection.
Sometimes you go on a date, pay for an expensive meal, and the chicks put out. Sometimes they don't. Looks like it works the same in the chimp world.
your going to blow a vein!
how many nerd emoticons can you draw before they all look the same?
Digital information can be easily duplicated and transferred to other media. You can save the entire library of congress on hard disk, convert it to DVD, or print it out on paper. And all of it can be almost fully automated with near zero chance of error. Try doing a backup of your stone tablet library in a reasonable amount of time, labor, and accuracy. There is just no comparison.
I figured you'd need a car with redundant wheels that can be lowered and retracted while the car was moving. Probably also analogous to how google manages hardware downtime: redundancy.
While technically possible to make such a car, I don't see any practical use for such a system when it's just safer and more efficient to stop the car and replace the wheel.
At first I thought it might be a useful system for an armored car like the presidential limo, but the added weight of another motorized system would probably make it more of a liability than help in most situations, considering if something powerful enough to disable an armored wheel on an armored car will probably also destroy any systems adjacent to it.
But those things have far more uses than just destructive activities. Not much use for rocket engines than to deliver a malignant payload. Do amateur rocketeers really need more powerful rockets to shoot into the sky just for kicks? Do they do anything close to scientific research, or is it just "haha lookit my rockit go!"?
I'm surprised the feds didn't cite terrorist concerns over the deregulation of this rocket propellant. Oh well, I'm sure they'll just lobby to have the laws changed/enacted to bring this propellant under federal regulation. Doesn't anyone else think it's irresponsible to allow anyone to buy powerful rocket motors without a license? Who needs a suicide patsy when you can just set up a rocket? Maybe I'm just being paranoid.
There were plenty of times where I wanted a copyrighted product (movie, song or app) and decided pirate it instead of buy it because it was more convenient. Had it been difficult to find said copyright material online, I would have gone out to the store to buy it. In these circumstances the sales were lost because it was a hassle for me to drive to the store to buy the product.
Going to the store consists of having to get dressed, fight traffic to drive to mall, find parking in a crowded parking lot, walk to the store, find the product on the shelves, stand in line to pay for it, walk back to my car, and fight traffic on the drive home, -a process that takes several hours. Instead, in that same amount of time, I can torrent it and spend the time doing something else, fun like watch TV or play a game, or get some work done. To me, that's a no-brainer more efficient use of my time.
Also, why would I pay for a product when there is an easily obtainable copy available for free? Sure, I'd like to support the artists and developers, but I have to watch out for my own pocketbook too. This may make me a sleazebag, but that's just the way I am. Not gonna get much sympathy from me if it means separating me from my hard earned cash. If the pirating option was not available to me, I'd be a paying customer, and the RIAA realizes that this is true for a lot of people as well, which is why they're fighting so hard with underhanded tactics.
It may look like chaos to us, but they were able to impressively navigate the mess with no accidents whatsoever! I can just imagine all the pile up accidents that would occur within seconds should this ever take place in a modern western country's roadways
We've been able to destroy the entire surface of the planet many times over for decades now, ever since the nuclear arms race with the Soviets. It doesn't really matter whether the surface is destroyed or the entire planet. We're just as screwed.
With Iran having secured the technologies to enrich uranium for manufacturing nukes, I dare say the probability of a nuclear world war wiping out humanity is a hell of a lot more likely than the LHC destroying the planet.