Studies have shown the satellite data is accurate and the GCM's are not in agreement with it. There are still fundamental flaws in the current models that need to be addressed.
The reality is the scope of the Sec 113 changes have no bearing on trolls, postwhores, anonymous cowards, bloggers, etc. They are in effect exempted. These changes are meant to apply to VoIP type services.
These are the changes...
SEC. 113. PREVENTING CYBERSTALKING.
(a) In General- Paragraph (1) of section 223(h) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 223(h)(1)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking `and' at the end;
(2) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end and inserting `; and'; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
`(C) in the case of subparagraph (C) of subsection (a)(1), includes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet (as such term is defined in section 1104 of the Internet Tax Freedom Act (47 U.S.C. 151 note)).'.
(b) Rule of Construction- This section and the amendment made by this section may not be construed to affect the meaning given the term `telecommunications device' in section 223(h)(1) of the Communications Act of 1934, as in effect before the date of the enactment of this section.
... as applied to 47 U.S.C. 223(h)...
(h) For purposes of this section--
(1) The use of the term ''telecommunications device'' in this section-
-
(A) shall not impose new obligations on broadcasting
station licensees and cable operators covered by obscenity and
indecency provisions elsewhere in this Act; and
(B) does not include an interactive computer service.
(2) The term ''interactive computer service'' has the meaning
provided in section 230(e)(2).
... the sec 113 changes result in...
(h) For purposes of this section--
(1) The use of the term ''telecommunications device'' in this section-
-
(A) shall not impose new obligations on broadcasting
station licensees and cable operators covered by obscenity and
indecency provisions elsewhere in this Act;
(B) does not include an interactive computer service; and
(C) in the case of subparagraph (C) of subsection (a)(1), includes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet (as such term is defined in section 1104 of the Internet Tax Freedom Act (47 U.S.C. 151 note)).
(2) The term ''interactive computer service'' has the meaning
provided in section 230(e)(2).
... subparagraph (c) of subsection (a)(1), which the ammendments applies too reads...
(C) makes a telephone call or utilizes a telecommunications
device, whether or not conversation or communication ensues,
without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse,
threaten, or harass any person at the called number or who receives
the communications;
... further defining what interactive computer means as defined in 230(e)(2)...
(e) DEFINITIONS.--As used in this section:
(2) INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SERVICE.--The term ''interactive
computer service'' means any information service, system, or access
software provider that provides or enables computer access by multiple
users to a computer server, including specifically a service or system that
provides access to the Internet and such systems operated or services
offered by libraries or educational institutions.
... and just to make things clear that the ammendments do not change the meaning of the original law...
(b) Rule of Construction- This section and the amendment made by this section may not be construed to affect t
... and Cisco knows that their core products are not meant for home users. That's why Cisco has the division of LinkSys. Products that are geared for home users and are easy to setup and use. If you are worried about something being too complicated, don't. Cisco has a good understanding of what a business need and what a home user needs.
Just adding my 2cents to what numerous folks have already stated. Depending on what area of IT you work in, you can and will get pretty damn dirty. I've been doing a lot of hardware work lately and that stuff is nasty. I'm awestruck at some of the stuff that gets sucked up into workstations and servers.
WOW is still having major problems in terms of lagging out. I'm a regular player and am very disappointed so far. I still experience disconnects during every gameing session. I lag out and die frequently during encounters with either mobs or other players. Nothing like talking a whack at a player and then suddenly having no response from any key pressed. 1 minute later the game catches up and you find yourself dead and the only evidence of an encounter was the/spit left by your enemy. This scenario happens in all mmorpg's but i've never had it happen with such frequency as in WOW. And it happens a lot.
... and this is news???
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Car tuners have been doing this since the advent of ECU controlled cars... I wouldn't even consider this hacking because it so common. Any reputable car shop can reflash your cars ECU and reprogram a variety of variable from fuel tables, transmission shifts, timing, etc. if it's in the ECU it can be reprogrammed.
Also... on a vehicle from the factory with no aftermarket parts don't expect drastic gains, unless your vehicle is equiped with forced induction and the ECU has the ability to control the wastegate. IE. You're not going to get 50hp by 'hacking' your hondas ECU. More likely you'll get 5-10hp... even then it's usually a trade off of having to use higher octane fuel.
I had my cars ECU reflashed to take advantage of higher octane fuel (increased timing) and recieved 13 rwhp and 15 rwlb/ft.
Actually, the more I look at the pictures and other camera views. the object that looks like a clump of dirt is really the top part of the rear arm that goes down into the wheel. The front arms kind of go in at an angle while the back arms go out, then straight down. You can see that arm in other rear haz cam pictures.
same thing in my neighborhood. large expansions on two school that added ZERO student capacity. yet the schools needed voters to pass a referendum for money in order to make it through the year financially. The money is there but it is wasted. It's a game. Even if the have extra money they spend it in order to have an excuse to ask for more money.
'Specifically, the amendment bans "any written material, any image or any other representation of ideas or theories, which advocates, promotes or incites hatred, discrimination or violence, against any individual or group of individuals, based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, as well as religion if used as pretext for any of these factors." '
Damn, and I have a huge list of blond jokes that I want to put on the web.
I imagine that the same thing will happen if you set you gasoline powered car on fire. It's going to go BOOM. I'm not sure on the math but wouldn't you get less of a bang from hydrogen? Isn't the energy density of hydrogen less than gasoline? Or maybe it is that gasoline burns quicker. I forget.
With their tiny size and relative lack of any bleeding edge R/C car tech all these really are is just toys.
If you are serious about R/C and being competive take a look at 1:12 and 1:10 scale "hobby quality" Electric R/C cars. My car runs 40+mph on an indoor track no bigger than 40x100ft. If I let it rip outside with the proper gearing it will climb to over 60mph.
If you get really into them you could also look at nitro R/C 'argueably' not as fast as electric, nothing can beat the sound of a nitro motor screaming by at 35,000 rpms.
I had stuff just like that, but I think I played with it sooo much that it lost it properties. It was neat. I think most of it worked its way out to the sand box in the back yard.
I've done it. I thought is was stupid. But, I guess you have to like that sort of thing. Generally speaking I don't move my feet around like that unless I'm falling down the stairs.
1.) Carpet, yes, I race on carpet most of the time actually. Most consistant for traction.
2.) Small tracks. yes, I have raced on tracks that looked just as small as the one in the video. Obviously you can't go as fast as on a larger track.
I'm not sure that is was that I couldn't process the video that made it difficult to drive that way. It's a bad perspective to drive fast from. When you race normally you stand up above and can see the whole track. You can make adjustments to your line before you take a turn because you can see the whole track. When you look at it from in-car everything is different. You can't interperet the course as well. Plus, it goes fast as hell from that POV.
I race 1/10 hobby quality RC cars. Yeah, Yeah, 6mph is like 60 scale mph. But is is slow as piss compared to what my cars do. And others that are similar. Depending on the tracks I run my cars at any wheres from 25mph to over 60 mph for the longest straights on the track. Yes. 60+mph, not scale. (I love asphalt tracks!!!)
At one point in time I tried experimenting by mounting a wireless X-10 cam on the car and tried driving it from my computer. The cars just go too fast to control it that way. But, I see no reason why if you had all the appropriate information available in sensors that you couldn't program the vehicle to outperform even the best human driver.
They came out and surveyed the land and pounded stakes in the ground at the corners of the property. That's my land. I don't care if it moves over time. Or shifts from the earths plates moving. Everything inside those markers is mine.
You've got that right, Solar cycles, water vapor, dust, ?cosmic rays?, CO2. Lots of stuff.
But we know for certain that CO2 levels have increased dramatically already
Yeah, we can see that. This is pretty much a given.
due to human activity
Now, this is where things get ugly. As of to date, no one has conclusively shown that the dramatic increase in CO2 is soley caused by us. As natural fluctuations are easily shown in proxy records. The question is how much have we added to the change. Lets say that C02 levels have risen 100% in the last 10 years (just as an example). So, maybe we have contributed 99% of that, or maybe we are responsible for only 1%. Who knows?
If we don't stop that, that will lead to massive, unpredictable changes in our climate and that just can't be good.
The reverse may just as well be true as well. As the biosphere becomes more in tune with higher CO2 levels (a greening perhaps) a sharp reduction may cause just as much unpredictable change.
For as long as I can remember, and read about, people have been living on the banks of the rivers around my area. Every spring the flood waters flow through and there are always a few houses that get washed away. In the last half decade or so, from what I have noticed, every spring now after the waters receed there is a cry. More like a plee. 'We must stop the greenhouse gasses', 'SUV's are flooding my land'. It has become so easy to place blame on CO2. It doesn't do anything when you pick on it. It just stays there and takes. The river banks have flooded in the past, they will flood again.
Okay, that was just sad watching those videos. I want to praise them and call them geeks, but honestly, they looked more like DORKS in the video. 2 thumbs down man.
I once saw a headline in a paper that that read "Teenage drivers and the risks the pose." They had a nice picture of a red convertabnle wrapped around a tree. Funny thing was. I knew the person who was in the crash that was printed. She was broadsided by a van that ran a red light. No way related to anything about age or the fact that is was a fast car. Just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Teens do get a really bad wrap at times. But then there the bad eggs that always show their faces and ruin it for the others. Heck, I know someone who backed out of their garage before opening the door. Age wasn't a factor in that one, just stupidity.
I pay through the teeth for insurance. 20 yrs old and a pony car doesn' make for cheap rates. But still, I've got 4 years of driving and a perfect driving record. But that doesn't matter. They see the age and the car and immediately plaster high risk over everything.
They create a false sense of security. People tend to think that there is someone always watching that particular camera and that as soon as something bad will happen it will only be a matter of seconds before authority shows up to club the perp over the head. Can you say fantasy world? Quite often crimes happen undetected even with the cameras. People find clever ways to avoid them. I still say that more people should be able to carry handguns. No better deterant than not knowing if that person will poke holes in you if try to take their wallet. Camera vs..45ACP. hmm.
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The weather satellite data is in part true.
http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/MSU/msusci.html
Studies have shown the satellite data is accurate and the GCM's are not in agreement with it. There are still fundamental flaws in the current models that need to be addressed.
If you level the playing field out why should anyone give anymore effort than the bare minimum?
These are the changes...
... and Cisco knows that their core products are not meant for home users. That's why Cisco has the division of LinkSys. Products that are geared for home users and are easy to setup and use. If you are worried about something being too complicated, don't. Cisco has a good understanding of what a business need and what a home user needs.
Just adding my 2cents to what numerous folks have already stated. Depending on what area of IT you work in, you can and will get pretty damn dirty. I've been doing a lot of hardware work lately and that stuff is nasty. I'm awestruck at some of the stuff that gets sucked up into workstations and servers.
IT isn't just coding.
WOW is still having major problems in terms of lagging out. I'm a regular player and am very disappointed so far. I still experience disconnects during every gameing session. I lag out and die frequently during encounters with either mobs or other players. Nothing like talking a whack at a player and then suddenly having no response from any key pressed. 1 minute later the game catches up and you find yourself dead and the only evidence of an encounter was the /spit left by your enemy. This scenario happens in all mmorpg's but i've never had it happen with such frequency as in WOW. And it happens a lot.
Car tuners have been doing this since the advent of ECU controlled cars... I wouldn't even consider this hacking because it so common. Any reputable car shop can reflash your cars ECU and reprogram a variety of variable from fuel tables, transmission shifts, timing, etc. if it's in the ECU it can be reprogrammed.
Also... on a vehicle from the factory with no aftermarket parts don't expect drastic gains, unless your vehicle is equiped with forced induction and the ECU has the ability to control the wastegate. IE. You're not going to get 50hp by 'hacking' your hondas ECU. More likely you'll get 5-10hp... even then it's usually a trade off of having to use higher octane fuel.
I had my cars ECU reflashed to take advantage of higher octane fuel (increased timing) and recieved 13 rwhp and 15 rwlb/ft.
Actually, the more I look at the pictures and other camera views. the object that looks like a clump of dirt is really the top part of the rear arm that goes down into the wheel. The front arms kind of go in at an angle while the back arms go out, then straight down. You can see that arm in other rear haz cam pictures.
or... it's a rock on the other side of the wheel.
Maybe it isn't anything sticking to the wheel but rather a rock on the ground behind the wheel.
same thing in my neighborhood. large expansions on two school that added ZERO student capacity. yet the schools needed voters to pass a referendum for money in order to make it through the year financially. The money is there but it is wasted. It's a game. Even if the have extra money they spend it in order to have an excuse to ask for more money.
'Specifically, the amendment bans "any written material, any image or any other representation of ideas or theories, which advocates, promotes or incites hatred, discrimination or violence, against any individual or group of individuals, based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, as well as religion if used as pretext for any of these factors." '
Damn, and I have a huge list of blond jokes that I want to put on the web.
I imagine that the same thing will happen if you set you gasoline powered car on fire. It's going to go BOOM. I'm not sure on the math but wouldn't you get less of a bang from hydrogen? Isn't the energy density of hydrogen less than gasoline? Or maybe it is that gasoline burns quicker. I forget.
With their tiny size and relative lack of any bleeding edge R/C car tech all these really are is just toys.
If you are serious about R/C and being competive take a look at 1:12 and 1:10 scale "hobby quality" Electric R/C cars. My car runs 40+mph on an indoor track no bigger than 40x100ft. If I let it rip outside with the proper gearing it will climb to over 60mph.
If you get really into them you could also look at nitro R/C 'argueably' not as fast as electric, nothing can beat the sound of a nitro motor screaming by at 35,000 rpms.
I had stuff just like that, but I think I played with it sooo much that it lost it properties. It was neat. I think most of it worked its way out to the sand box in the back yard.
I've done it. I thought is was stupid. But, I guess you have to like that sort of thing. Generally speaking I don't move my feet around like that unless I'm falling down the stairs.
1.) Carpet, yes, I race on carpet most of the time actually. Most consistant for traction.
2.) Small tracks. yes, I have raced on tracks that looked just as small as the one in the video. Obviously you can't go as fast as on a larger track.
I'm not sure that is was that I couldn't process the video that made it difficult to drive that way. It's a bad perspective to drive fast from. When you race normally you stand up above and can see the whole track. You can make adjustments to your line before you take a turn because you can see the whole track. When you look at it from in-car everything is different. You can't interperet the course as well. Plus, it goes fast as hell from that POV.
I race 1/10 hobby quality RC cars. Yeah, Yeah, 6mph is like 60 scale mph. But is is slow as piss compared to what my cars do. And others that are similar. Depending on the tracks I run my cars at any wheres from 25mph to over 60 mph for the longest straights on the track. Yes. 60+mph, not scale. (I love asphalt tracks!!!)
At one point in time I tried experimenting by mounting a wireless X-10 cam on the car and tried driving it from my computer. The cars just go too fast to control it that way. But, I see no reason why if you had all the appropriate information available in sensors that you couldn't program the vehicle to outperform even the best human driver.
They came out and surveyed the land and pounded stakes in the ground at the corners of the property. That's my land. I don't care if it moves over time. Or shifts from the earths plates moving. Everything inside those markers is mine.
There are many factors that influence climate.
You've got that right, Solar cycles, water vapor, dust, ?cosmic rays?, CO2. Lots of stuff.
But we know for certain that CO2 levels have increased dramatically already
Yeah, we can see that. This is pretty much a given.
due to human activity
Now, this is where things get ugly. As of to date, no one has conclusively shown that the dramatic increase in CO2 is soley caused by us. As natural fluctuations are easily shown in proxy records. The question is how much have we added to the change. Lets say that C02 levels have risen 100% in the last 10 years (just as an example). So, maybe we have contributed 99% of that, or maybe we are responsible for only 1%. Who knows?
If we don't stop that, that will lead to massive, unpredictable changes in our climate and that just can't be good.
The reverse may just as well be true as well. As the biosphere becomes more in tune with higher CO2 levels (a greening perhaps) a sharp reduction may cause just as much unpredictable change.
For as long as I can remember, and read about, people have been living on the banks of the rivers around my area. Every spring the flood waters flow through and there are always a few houses that get washed away. In the last half decade or so, from what I have noticed, every spring now after the waters receed there is a cry. More like a plee. 'We must stop the greenhouse gasses', 'SUV's are flooding my land'. It has become so easy to place blame on CO2. It doesn't do anything when you pick on it. It just stays there and takes. The river banks have flooded in the past, they will flood again.
Okay, that was just sad watching those videos. I want to praise them and call them geeks, but honestly, they looked more like DORKS in the video. 2 thumbs down man.
I once saw a headline in a paper that that read "Teenage drivers and the risks the pose." They had a nice picture of a red convertabnle wrapped around a tree. Funny thing was. I knew the person who was in the crash that was printed. She was broadsided by a van that ran a red light. No way related to anything about age or the fact that is was a fast car. Just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Teens do get a really bad wrap at times. But then there the bad eggs that always show their faces and ruin it for the others. Heck, I know someone who backed out of their garage before opening the door. Age wasn't a factor in that one, just stupidity.
I pay through the teeth for insurance. 20 yrs old and a pony car doesn' make for cheap rates. But still, I've got 4 years of driving and a perfect driving record. But that doesn't matter. They see the age and the car and immediately plaster high risk over everything.
But the guys I spoke to told me that there was no such agency as the national security agency. What gives?
hah, I made a funny. okay, not really.
They create a false sense of security. People tend to think that there is someone always watching that particular camera and that as soon as something bad will happen it will only be a matter of seconds before authority shows up to club the perp over the head. Can you say fantasy world? Quite often crimes happen undetected even with the cameras. People find clever ways to avoid them. I still say that more people should be able to carry handguns. No better deterant than not knowing if that person will poke holes in you if try to take their wallet. Camera vs. .45ACP. hmm.
One word still comes to mind. FREAK!