1 litre = 10 cm^3 therefore no circular reference.
10cm^3 of what? Under what conditions? Are 10cm^3 of water at 101.325kPa (1atm) equivalent to 10cm^3 of water at 50kPa? Because pressure affects volume of a given mass, and pressure = force / area and force= mass x acceleration, you have a circular reference still.
The Federal Internet tax ban applies only to Internet access. States are allowed to tax goods and services as they see fit, as long as they are used and/or purchased in their state. It is just hard for them to collect tax on purchases I make from a business with no operations in my state.
But what it can do is provide backup horsepower as a math co-processor.
I see great potential for the STI Cell Processor as a SETI@Home accelerator.
Seriously though, there may be good scientific uses for these exactly as you envisioned - in a coprocessor role. From folding proteins and weather simulations to cryptoanalysis, these could provide a great entry for distributed scientific computing.
In Intergraph's case, Intel engineers were up against a wall circa the late 486/early 586 timeframe, and came to Intergraph for help. Intergraph opened their IP portfolio to Intel, taught the Intel engineers how to design a modern CPU, and Intel proceeded to steal the entirety of that IP portfolio - hook, line, and sinker.
Intergraph knew very little about making CPUs. They used MIPS CPUs before moving to Intel. What they were good at, was making fast buses between memory, the CPU and peripherals. They made workstations that rendered 3D in real time, way before AGP came around. Intergraph partnered with Intel because they needed cheaper processors in their platform to compete. Intel needed better memory-cpu-peripheral buses. Intergaph was to help Intel if Intel would provided details about their processors so Intergraph could make high speed buses, primarily for 3D devices. Intel never provided access to their specifications, leaving Intergraph hanging, so they sued. Then Intel used technologies that Intergraph shared with them, so they sued on patent infringement as well.
When I first moved company servers in to a new colo four years ago, their engineers advised me that I should turn auto-negotiation off on every port, including our switches and host NICs. I asked why they recommended this and they replied, "trust us, auto-negotiation causes problems when you least expect it." I went ahead and fixed the port speeds everywhere. Now I understand why.
Well, cockpit windows need some view of the ground. That is quite useful when it is time to land. The view from cockpit windows does not need to look straight down because planes move forward at rapid speed. The angle of incidence of a laser beem from the ground may be low, but the thick glass panes may refract the laser light in a way that causes bright glare on the interior or the laser, from sufficient horizontal distance, may directly hit the eyes of the flight crew.
These aren't your $5 laser pointer keychains we're talking about. These are high powered lasers.
I've been migrating several live production sites and adding new sites to a box with PHP 5.0.3 and Apache 2.0.52. The previous setup was rock solid Apache 1.3.x and PHP 4.x. I started the migration with the lowest traffic sites and plan to slowly move up to higher traffic sites. So far there have been no issues.
Don't you mean a military funded system that we CITIZENS have been given access to because we paid for it?
U.S. citizens paid for defense of their freedoms and lives, and the GPS is a tool for defense. Should U.S. citizens also be able to use military air transports as their personal airlines? They are a tool for defense that U.S. citizens paid for. What about spy satellites? Many citizens would like to know what their neighbors are doing on the other side of their tall fence. They paid for the spy satellite systems, right?
Grub can load in graphical mode or text mode, and then load a kernel (any kernel, not just Linux) that boots in any of many text or graphical modes. The kernel must have framebuffer code loaded to boot in graphical mode. This generally doesn't add significant time to the boot process unless you use a high color depth mode on a slow VGA adapter (causing text to take longer to draw).
Linux can start in any runlevel you specify with kernel parameters. For RedHat, usually run level 3 starts up without loading X Windows. So if you use LILO, add 'append="3"' to your/etc/lilo.conf entry. In GRUB, use [kernel] 3, so '/boot/kernel-2.6.9 3' for example.
That is what happens when you make a History major who only cares about her personal income the CEO of your company.
You conveniently left out the two more important parts of her education from her biography:
Fiorina holds a master's degree in business administration from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park, Md., and a master of science degree from MIT's Sloan School.
Network Solutions changed all domains a few months back to "Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK" automatically in anticipation of the ICANN rule changes. You should have received an email sent to each account detailing these changes in advance of the changes unless you registered the domains after the changes.
At first I read this as a sneaky way to make transfers harder, but then someone tried to hijack one of my most important domains and I began to appreciate it, even if I strongly dislike Network Solutions.
I'm not worried about the interest they charge, though rates could go down as a result of zero liability. I use credit cards as a charge card and never pay interest. Interest rates are linked to the credit risk of an individual and users as a whole.
Merchant fees and holdbacks (the amount of a purchase the credit card processor holds back in case it is fraudulant or otherwise disputed) are linked to rates of fraud. If you work with a merchant account for credit card processing, you will see that even within an account the fees can be reduced if you provide details that reduce the likelyhood of a fraudulant transaction. These include providing a signature, a ZIP code for the billing address, and providing a CID/SID code from the back of the card.
I almost completely agree that if you're dumb enough to fall for the scam, you deserve it.
Most slashdot readers are smart enough to avoid this type of scam, so it's easy to say "these scams don't affect me." Them problem is, they do. Increased success of scams leads to increased fees and holdbacks for credit card transactions, increased retail prices, increased costs for investigations, increased costs for prevention and decreased productivity. These are all small hidden costs but they add up. Maximizing prevetion has real economic benefits for everyone. Sympathizing with the criminals only hurts lawful consumers.
I believe you mean Human papilloma virus (HPV). OK checking the link verifies it. I'm glad you brought it up though because so few people are aware of it. There have been studies showing that 75% of sexually active women harbor the virus, most with no symptoms. Most will never develop symptoms, but the scariest statistic is that 93% of cervical cancer cases are linked to HPV.
A vaccine is in research trials, but it only works before being exposed, so it must be given to younger women before they are sexual active. Until then, OP is correct- watch out guys and gals.
A dot matrix printer may not have the currency detection capabilities, but if you don't get arrested on the spot for passing a $50 bill printed on your old printer, it's because the person accepting the bill feels sorry for you. The output will look nothing like the real thing.
What is more, the ancient (early 90s) AT&T 5200 cordless phone that I brought from the USA has a (very limited) builtin phonebook (but no display, so no callerid on the handset, and no name display either of course)
Sounds like what I'm thinking of. The upgrades to that have been the ability to store whatever name is sent over caller ID, and perhaps some let you type it in now. For the most part I guess no one goes to the trouble to type in additional info so manufacturers skip the expense of making an input interface on US models.
Now, talking about linking callerid to displaying a name from the phonebook might not be that common of course.. wouldn't surprise me since callerid reporting on pstn lines doesn't seem to be standarized that well. For an isdn phone however that is not an issue.
Anyway, any idea where this difference would come from? are there rules preventing peopel from connectign such phones or are they made artificially expensive or such? (seeing how you get those features in a cheapo 15 euro phone here already)
I wonder if it is a data transmission limitation? My understanding is that this is why cell phones don't receive a name from the caller ID, just a number. It saves connect time. In the US the comptetive local carriers use their own switches for PTSN and more often ISDN/PRI and T1 lines, so they all have different standards for what they display that are usually more complete. The larger bells used to have varying equipment in rural areas but that seems to be more consistent here now. I'm not sure if it's the same in Germany.
Uh? I haven't owned a landline phone without such a phonebook for the last 2 decades, either isdn or pstn. I would not know where to buyt one overhere either. Again.. this might be different in the USA....
Everywhere else I've been this seems pretty much the norm for residential lines and business phone systems are similarly limited. I've owned several phones with speed dial or basic phonebooks (name, phonenumber, nothing else) and seen a few with more advanced features, but they are rare, especially when people who demand these features are more likely to spend the money on a mobile phone with this capability. Then again, I am vacationing when I visit other countries, so I don't necessarily hang out with people working from home or in their offices, so I may be missing some of the more advanced phones.
> Further, the name lookup that you see on your display is performed by the terminating switch (serving you), so you can't spoof that.
In most cases (maybe not in the USA, but that is really only like 5% of the world) this service is performed by your local TELEPHONE using its internal addressbook, not by the local exchange.
On mobile phones, yes the name (or in some cases a picture and/or unique ring) is retrieved from the internal address book. On land lines, few phones have internal address books to look this up in. I gave my telecomm provider (not a baby bell) the exact string to appear for each extension calling from my company's PRI. They program this in to their switches and send it to switches at the destination provider which can decide whether to send it on to the destination line.
I can't think of any exact cases off of the top of my head, but I know it has. I also have seen cases where it lead to, say, the son of the registered owner. In other cases it has lead to the review of police reports of gun theft when the stolen firearm is recovered and suspected of use in a crime.
The interesting question is would the registration of the firearm in any of these types of cases prevent a crime?
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1 litre = 10 cm^3 therefore no circular reference.
10cm^3 of what? Under what conditions? Are 10cm^3 of water at 101.325kPa (1atm) equivalent to 10cm^3 of water at 50kPa? Because pressure affects volume of a given mass, and pressure = force / area and force= mass x acceleration, you have a circular reference still.
I imagine someday in the future there will require this type of thing.
When games require 512MB to be acceptable, this card's performance will be barely acceptable, if at all.
Regardless its still an interstate commerce issue.
Agreed. The court cases should present interesting states' rights debates.
The Federal Internet tax ban applies only to Internet access. States are allowed to tax goods and services as they see fit, as long as they are used and/or purchased in their state. It is just hard for them to collect tax on purchases I make from a business with no operations in my state.
But what it can do is provide backup horsepower as a math co-processor.
I see great potential for the STI Cell Processor as a SETI@Home accelerator.
Seriously though, there may be good scientific uses for these exactly as you envisioned - in a coprocessor role. From folding proteins and weather simulations to cryptoanalysis, these could provide a great entry for distributed scientific computing.
I retract my statement. I was WAY misinformed. My bad.
In Intergraph's case, Intel engineers were up against a wall circa the late 486/early 586 timeframe, and came to Intergraph for help. Intergraph opened their IP portfolio to Intel, taught the Intel engineers how to design a modern CPU, and Intel proceeded to steal the entirety of that IP portfolio - hook, line, and sinker.
Intergraph knew very little about making CPUs. They used MIPS CPUs before moving to Intel. What they were good at, was making fast buses between memory, the CPU and peripherals. They made workstations that rendered 3D in real time, way before AGP came around. Intergraph partnered with Intel because they needed cheaper processors in their platform to compete. Intel needed better memory-cpu-peripheral buses. Intergaph was to help Intel if Intel would provided details about their processors so Intergraph could make high speed buses, primarily for 3D devices. Intel never provided access to their specifications, leaving Intergraph hanging, so they sued. Then Intel used technologies that Intergraph shared with them, so they sued on patent infringement as well.
Yes, they did, and as others suggested, they were Cisco switches (this was in 2001) and they were Cisco certified engineers.
When I first moved company servers in to a new colo four years ago, their engineers advised me that I should turn auto-negotiation off on every port, including our switches and host NICs. I asked why they recommended this and they replied, "trust us, auto-negotiation causes problems when you least expect it." I went ahead and fixed the port speeds everywhere. Now I understand why.
Well, cockpit windows need some view of the ground. That is quite useful when it is time to land. The view from cockpit windows does not need to look straight down because planes move forward at rapid speed. The angle of incidence of a laser beem from the ground may be low, but the thick glass panes may refract the laser light in a way that causes bright glare on the interior or the laser, from sufficient horizontal distance, may directly hit the eyes of the flight crew.
These aren't your $5 laser pointer keychains we're talking about. These are high powered lasers.
I've been migrating several live production sites and adding new sites to a box with PHP 5.0.3 and Apache 2.0.52. The previous setup was rock solid Apache 1.3.x and PHP 4.x. I started the migration with the lowest traffic sites and plan to slowly move up to higher traffic sites. So far there have been no issues.
Don't you mean a military funded system that we CITIZENS have been given access to because we paid for it?
U.S. citizens paid for defense of their freedoms and lives, and the GPS is a tool for defense. Should U.S. citizens also be able to use military air transports as their personal airlines? They are a tool for defense that U.S. citizens paid for. What about spy satellites? Many citizens would like to know what their neighbors are doing on the other side of their tall fence. They paid for the spy satellite systems, right?
Grub can load in graphical mode or text mode, and then load a kernel (any kernel, not just Linux) that boots in any of many text or graphical modes. The kernel must have framebuffer code loaded to boot in graphical mode. This generally doesn't add significant time to the boot process unless you use a high color depth mode on a slow VGA adapter (causing text to take longer to draw).
/etc/lilo.conf entry. In GRUB, use [kernel] 3, so '/boot/kernel-2.6.9 3' for example.
Linux can start in any runlevel you specify with kernel parameters. For RedHat, usually run level 3 starts up without loading X Windows. So if you use LILO, add 'append="3"' to your
That is what happens when you make a History major who only cares about her personal income the CEO of your company.
You conveniently left out the two more important parts of her education from her biography:
Fiorina holds a master's degree in business administration from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park, Md., and a master of science degree from MIT's Sloan School.
Can anyone in the U.S. who is getting the h4x0r3d message verify this IP?
Querying a U.S. DNS server and a European DNS server yeilds the same result:
Both have the same Authority Section as well:
Does anyone know of a DNS server that yeilds something differnet?
Since we're talking about flood lights and the OP mentioned outdoor use, I don't think the heat is going to help you much.
Network Solutions changed all domains a few months back to "Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK" automatically in anticipation of the ICANN rule changes. You should have received an email sent to each account detailing these changes in advance of the changes unless you registered the domains after the changes.
At first I read this as a sneaky way to make transfers harder, but then someone tried to hijack one of my most important domains and I began to appreciate it, even if I strongly dislike Network Solutions.
I'm not worried about the interest they charge, though rates could go down as a result of zero liability. I use credit cards as a charge card and never pay interest. Interest rates are linked to the credit risk of an individual and users as a whole.
Merchant fees and holdbacks (the amount of a purchase the credit card processor holds back in case it is fraudulant or otherwise disputed) are linked to rates of fraud. If you work with a merchant account for credit card processing, you will see that even within an account the fees can be reduced if you provide details that reduce the likelyhood of a fraudulant transaction. These include providing a signature, a ZIP code for the billing address, and providing a CID/SID code from the back of the card.
I almost completely agree that if you're dumb enough to fall for the scam, you deserve it.
Most slashdot readers are smart enough to avoid this type of scam, so it's easy to say "these scams don't affect me." Them problem is, they do. Increased success of scams leads to increased fees and holdbacks for credit card transactions, increased retail prices, increased costs for investigations, increased costs for prevention and decreased productivity. These are all small hidden costs but they add up. Maximizing prevetion has real economic benefits for everyone. Sympathizing with the criminals only hurts lawful consumers.
I believe you mean Human papilloma virus (HPV). OK checking the link verifies it. I'm glad you brought it up though because so few people are aware of it. There have been studies showing that 75% of sexually active women harbor the virus, most with no symptoms. Most will never develop symptoms, but the scariest statistic is that 93% of cervical cancer cases are linked to HPV.
A vaccine is in research trials, but it only works before being exposed, so it must be given to younger women before they are sexual active. Until then, OP is correct- watch out guys and gals.
A dot matrix printer may not have the currency detection capabilities, but if you don't get arrested on the spot for passing a $50 bill printed on your old printer, it's because the person accepting the bill feels sorry for you. The output will look nothing like the real thing.
What is more, the ancient (early 90s) AT&T 5200 cordless phone that I brought from the USA has a (very limited) builtin phonebook (but no display, so no callerid on the handset, and no name display either of course)
Sounds like what I'm thinking of. The upgrades to that have been the ability to store whatever name is sent over caller ID, and perhaps some let you type it in now. For the most part I guess no one goes to the trouble to type in additional info so manufacturers skip the expense of making an input interface on US models.
Now, talking about linking callerid to displaying a name from the phonebook might not be that common of course.. wouldn't surprise me since callerid reporting on pstn lines doesn't seem to be standarized that well. For an isdn phone however that is not an issue.
Anyway, any idea where this difference would come from? are there rules preventing peopel from connectign such phones or are they made artificially expensive or such? (seeing how you get those features in a cheapo 15 euro phone here already)
I wonder if it is a data transmission limitation? My understanding is that this is why cell phones don't receive a name from the caller ID, just a number. It saves connect time. In the US the comptetive local carriers use their own switches for PTSN and more often ISDN/PRI and T1 lines, so they all have different standards for what they display that are usually more complete. The larger bells used to have varying equipment in rural areas but that seems to be more consistent here now. I'm not sure if it's the same in Germany.
Uh? I haven't owned a landline phone without such a phonebook for the last 2 decades, either isdn or pstn. I would not know where to buyt one overhere either. Again.. this might be different in the USA....
Everywhere else I've been this seems pretty much the norm for residential lines and business phone systems are similarly limited. I've owned several phones with speed dial or basic phonebooks (name, phonenumber, nothing else) and seen a few with more advanced features, but they are rare, especially when people who demand these features are more likely to spend the money on a mobile phone with this capability. Then again, I am vacationing when I visit other countries, so I don't necessarily hang out with people working from home or in their offices, so I may be missing some of the more advanced phones.
> Further, the name lookup that you see on your display is performed by the terminating switch (serving you), so you can't spoof that.
In most cases (maybe not in the USA, but that is really only like 5% of the world) this service is performed by your local TELEPHONE using its internal addressbook, not by the local exchange.
On mobile phones, yes the name (or in some cases a picture and/or unique ring) is retrieved from the internal address book. On land lines, few phones have internal address books to look this up in. I gave my telecomm provider (not a baby bell) the exact string to appear for each extension calling from my company's PRI. They program this in to their switches and send it to switches at the destination provider which can decide whether to send it on to the destination line.
I can't think of any exact cases off of the top of my head, but I know it has. I also have seen cases where it lead to, say, the son of the registered owner. In other cases it has lead to the review of police reports of gun theft when the stolen firearm is recovered and suspected of use in a crime.
The interesting question is would the registration of the firearm in any of these types of cases prevent a crime?