Must...control...fist...of...death! OH my god, you're an idiot.
Considering that the main drug of choice for cyclists (EPO) still has no reliable test that can't be beat by a quick I.V. to water down the blood supply. Nope, they do have a test for EPO now; granted you can still get beneficial effects and test clean, but a "quick IV" won't beat it. They also test hematocrit levels - if they're too high, you're suspended (this is actually not a positive test, since no drugs are detected, but you can't race for "health reasons"). This goes to the heart of how EPO helps performance.
Instead he went from being a sprinter who was a middle of the road time trialist and basically poor climber into a virtuoso. I don't buy it for a minute. Is this why he was Junior National Time Trial champion? Is this why he road away from the field at World's (1993, and also as a junior (he didn't win as a junior, but he put the hurt on people)). Lance was never a sprinter - he was much more of a rolleur until he was able to reshape his body after chemotherapy (by losing the upper body mass from his triathalon days). THEN he became a good climber.
Check out the book LA Confidential: Which is the subject of multiple lawsuits by Lance against the author. Also, Walsh (the author) even admits he doesn't prove anything. He merely "implies" that Lance used drugs; I'm guessing Walsh's defence in court will be along these lines.
People like you make me angry. Lance has been the most tested athlete over the last few years and has NEVER tested positive. The French judiciary had a mutli YEAR investigation into his alleged drug taking - the case was thrown out when they couldn't uncover ANY evidence that he had used performance enhancing substances. That investigation even subpeonaed his medical records, btw, so they had full access to all available information.
Um, since they designed the current VIN system in '81 according to the article, your '60s Chevy probably didn't have a VIN in the sense they are speaking of. Oh cool, so there's not even a problem. All those devices already have a way to enter a non-standard (not 17 char) VIN into them for all the older cars on the road. This sounds like a lot of talk about nothing . . .
This is stupid. When anyone appeals a judgement against them, the sentence is suspended until the outcome of the appeal - when the verdict is in doubt (it's being appealled), you shouldn't be punished.
If MS loses the appeal, then the judgement will be reinstated. This is normal.
You'd think that, but most mainstream news reports that I've seen (such as CNN's) make no mention at all of alternative browsers, recommending that the best solution is to update antivirus software and up the security settings on IE.
Too bad that won't work. The cross zone attacks work regardless of your security settings in IE. And AV products don't pick up the attacks (as far as I'm aware). This is a fundamental flaw in IE that _needs_ to be fixed, but isn't (it's over 10 months old).
Don't think it'd vaporize, but a paper thin sheet of carbon fluttering down isn't going to do a whole lot of damage. There are issues (what if there's an elevator on the thing when the ribbon breaks?), but the structure isn't really one of them.
However, WRT the pseudo-db filesystem, does that mean it does away wholly or partly with directories? If so, doesn't this tend to lead to filename collisions, especially among thousands of photos? I wouldn't want to have to work to come up with a globally unique (within my system, of course) filename in place of having a hierarchical directory structure provide the uniqueness.
No. If it's a db based system, you would still have a primary key (which the user never _needs_ to see) which is globally unique - the filename is just another attribute of the file. Just like all the rest of the metadata.
It appears the attraction is if you're running a bandwidth hungry website on a shoestring budget. You can announce that The Next Great Movie is going to be distributed at time and release. People who are into the website will then get the content, without you having to pay all the bandwidth.
It's a very interesting concept, but it may turn out to be more useful for pushing out.torrents or seeding other p2p networks. But there are advantages that I can see (relating specifically to a couple things I'm dealing with right now).
Wrong. The Supreme Court has ruled that the individual is the sole judge of whether the material is pornographic or not. Period. If you fill out the form, mail gets blocked; if whoever keeps sending things, there are three federal agencies that start hassling them (Post Office Inspector General, FBI, and Secret Service).
IANAL, but I would assume because they have an end date/condition. It doesn't permanently restrict your right to speech (the gov can get around this for national security interests).
Basically, an NDA is a trade off: you get info you wouldn't otherwise have known for the promise not to talk about it until a certain condition is met.
The contractor may not be allowed to redistribute the binary again, but GPL may force the corporation to give out the source code to the contractor.
The copyright holder (the corp) has exclusive rights to distribution of it's copyrighted material (by statute). The GPL may force them to let the contractor have access to the source. If that contractor then copied or otherwise broke copyright law after that access, the Corp could (and should) sue the crap out of him/her. But this isn't so different from giving a contractor access to a closed source in house app - the only difference is that he can now see your algorithms and methods.
Basically, a contractor would never ask to see the source as there's very little upside (s/he can't do anything with that knowledge, and if the reused any of the ideas, they could be sued), and hella downside.
I could've sworn they tore down (that crappy one in the middle) to make some room. but checking it out, it appears you're right - though they did tear down some other rides (that were aging).
you also need to consider the fact that there ain't no more land for them to build on. In case you don't know, Cedar Point is on a peninsula (the park has all the land on that peninsula) - they had to tear down some old coasters to make room for this one.
Jon, if you're out that way, and over 21, go to Put-in-Bay
You should also note that while Clinton was president the WTC was bombed and plans were being hatched (and training taking place) to hijack planes and fly them into buildings. While he was POTUS he and his administration passed up an oppurtunity to capture Osama bin Laden.
You should also note that under Bush The Second, the WTC was destroyed. So is he more evil than the Son of Satan Clinton? I think you should also note many of the illegal activites Bush II is engaging in (suspending habeus corpus, ignoring judicial orders, etc).
um, no. YBCO superconducts just fine at LN2 temp (77 K). I haven't been playing with superconductors for a few years, but even then they had some that worked at (IIRC) 168 K (not sure on the exact temp, but a freon fridge could get cold enough).
Of course, what Sony is announcing is a CATV box, *not* a cable modem. Most cable systems force you to rent a cable box (and, wonder of wonders, since they're a monopoly, they can gouge as much as they want) - this allows you to get a unit with the features you want.
(the only info i have to go on is from the article, but I'll feel free to speculate...)
He's not using the T1 to spam directly. He's only using it to connect to the servers that actually send the spam. Ya, it's a technicality, but the ISP would see it as a "he's not violating TOS with this T1" kind of thing.
Now the connections that the server's run through are an entirely different story...
Did anyone else notice the domain name? Why do they let non-RFC compliant registrations through??? It's not like it's that hard to write a regex to find this.... Jon
Seems like smaller impacts that wipe out a few cities and send rather nasty tidal surges might be better than a single big hit that cracks the mantle and spells doom for the human race.
See other posts about ejecta from the impact site. (btw, we're (or should be) talking about civilisation destroying sized asteroids here, so the impact energies are in the mega- to giga- ton range).
Even better might be cracking the asteroid in several pieces so most of the mass misses the Earth.
Noble thought. Where do you place the nuke to accomplish this? You'd have to know the internal structure of the asteroid. Which means you'd have to go out there and do some seismic testing. Which would take a while (plus the fact that we don't have the capability to do this at the moment). And you'd have to precisely place the nuke. This Ain't Gonna Happen...
Your reasoning is correct as far as it goes. But say all those "little" pieces are still too big to burn up in the atmosphere. Now, instead of one big impact, you get N impacts over a wider area (where N>1). Less impacts == good, more impacts == bad (in the general case).
LeDuc said it is fairer to charge researchers for the articles they use than to charge taxpayers for the cost of running a Web site that makes them available for free.
The worst part is, we (taxpayers) will pay either way, since a *LOT* of research is gov funded anyway. So what LeDuc is really saying is, "it's fairer for the gov to give *US* the money that they would be spending on the website". Oh, I'll bet the website cost less to run than the revenue generated for access to the articles...
While the Ice Patrol does map all icebergs, they only map them below the 48th parallel. They explicitly state that if you go above that, you're on your own. So, if this northwest passage is going to be below the 48th parallel (ha!), it'll be ok. but I'd suspect that there's *way* too much ice where it'll open up to do commercial shipping (save possibly ice breakers or other hardened ships).
With MS Office, I imagine users with support questions get help from Microsoft. With an Apple-bundeled OpenOffice, Apple would have to have a team to handle support requests.
So Apple is different from every other OEM why? If any OEM bundles an M$ product, they provide support. The only way you can talk to M$ is to pony up the ~$100 or whatever it is now.
Thought on how to circumvent an EULA:
You have two users, Alice and Dogbert. Dogbert wants to make a codec, but needs to look at Quicktime binaries to do this (this is prohibited by the EULA). So Alice installs Quicktime and agrees to the terms. At a later time, Dogbert comes by and checks the binaries.
Dogbert's fine - he never agreed to anything. Is Alice under the gun here? She, herself, didn't break the EULA, and the one's I've read only specify you, the end user, not "or anyone else".
Jon
This is a question that's bugged me about a lot of laws. The Constitution explicitly denies Congress the right to write an ex post facto law - yet the CTEA certainly goes into the past and extends copyrights. How is this not blatantly unConstitutional?
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Must...control...fist...of...death! OH my god, you're an idiot.
Considering that the main drug of choice for cyclists (EPO) still has no reliable test that can't be beat by a quick I.V. to water down the blood supply.
Nope, they do have a test for EPO now; granted you can still get beneficial effects and test clean, but a "quick IV" won't beat it. They also test hematocrit levels - if they're too high, you're suspended (this is actually not a positive test, since no drugs are detected, but you can't race for "health reasons"). This goes to the heart of how EPO helps performance.
Instead he went from being a sprinter who was a middle of the road time trialist and basically poor climber into a virtuoso. I don't buy it for a minute.
Is this why he was Junior National Time Trial champion? Is this why he road away from the field at World's (1993, and also as a junior (he didn't win as a junior, but he put the hurt on people)). Lance was never a sprinter - he was much more of a rolleur until he was able to reshape his body after chemotherapy (by losing the upper body mass from his triathalon days). THEN he became a good climber.
Check out the book LA Confidential:
Which is the subject of multiple lawsuits by Lance against the author. Also, Walsh (the author) even admits he doesn't prove anything. He merely "implies" that Lance used drugs; I'm guessing Walsh's defence in court will be along these lines.
People like you make me angry. Lance has been the most tested athlete over the last few years and has NEVER tested positive. The French judiciary had a mutli YEAR investigation into his alleged drug taking - the case was thrown out when they couldn't uncover ANY evidence that he had used performance enhancing substances. That investigation even subpeonaed his medical records, btw, so they had full access to all available information.
Go away.
jon
Um, since they designed the current VIN system in '81 according to the article, your '60s Chevy probably didn't have a VIN in the sense they are speaking of.
Oh cool, so there's not even a problem. All those devices already have a way to enter a non-standard (not 17 char) VIN into them for all the older cars on the road. This sounds like a lot of talk about nothing . . .
This is stupid. When anyone appeals a judgement against them, the sentence is suspended until the outcome of the appeal - when the verdict is in doubt (it's being appealled), you shouldn't be punished.
If MS loses the appeal, then the judgement will be reinstated. This is normal.
jon
You'd think that, but most mainstream news reports that I've seen (such as CNN's) make no mention at all of alternative browsers, recommending that the best solution is to update antivirus software and up the security settings on IE.
Too bad that won't work. The cross zone attacks work regardless of your security settings in IE. And AV products don't pick up the attacks (as far as I'm aware). This is a fundamental flaw in IE that _needs_ to be fixed, but isn't (it's over 10 months old).
jon
Don't think it'd vaporize, but a paper thin sheet of carbon fluttering down isn't going to do a whole lot of damage. There are issues (what if there's an elevator on the thing when the ribbon breaks?), but the structure isn't really one of them.
jon
However, WRT the pseudo-db filesystem, does that mean it does away wholly or partly with directories? If so, doesn't this tend to lead to filename collisions, especially among thousands of photos? I wouldn't want to have to work to come up with a globally unique (within my system, of course) filename in place of having a hierarchical directory structure provide the uniqueness.
No. If it's a db based system, you would still have a primary key (which the user never _needs_ to see) which is globally unique - the filename is just another attribute of the file. Just like all the rest of the metadata.
jon
It appears the attraction is if you're running a bandwidth hungry website on a shoestring budget. You can announce that The Next Great Movie is going to be distributed at time and release. People who are into the website will then get the content, without you having to pay all the bandwidth.
.torrents or seeding other p2p networks. But there are advantages that I can see (relating specifically to a couple things I'm dealing with right now).
It's a very interesting concept, but it may turn out to be more useful for pushing out
jon
Wrong. The Supreme Court has ruled that the individual is the sole judge of whether the material is pornographic or not. Period. If you fill out the form, mail gets blocked; if whoever keeps sending things, there are three federal agencies that start hassling them (Post Office Inspector General, FBI, and Secret Service).
IANAL, but I would assume because they have an end date/condition. It doesn't permanently restrict your right to speech (the gov can get around this for national security interests).
Basically, an NDA is a trade off: you get info you wouldn't otherwise have known for the promise not to talk about it until a certain condition is met.
jon
The contractor may not be allowed to redistribute the binary again, but GPL may force the corporation to give out the source code to the contractor.
The copyright holder (the corp) has exclusive rights to distribution of it's copyrighted material (by statute). The GPL may force them to let the contractor have access to the source. If that contractor then copied or otherwise broke copyright law after that access, the Corp could (and should) sue the crap out of him/her. But this isn't so different from giving a contractor access to a closed source in house app - the only difference is that he can now see your algorithms and methods.
Basically, a contractor would never ask to see the source as there's very little upside (s/he can't do anything with that knowledge, and if the reused any of the ideas, they could be sued), and hella downside.
jon
I could've sworn they tore down (that crappy one in the middle) to make some room. but checking it out, it appears you're right - though they did tear down some other rides (that were aging).
Jon
you also need to consider the fact that there ain't no more land for them to build on. In case you don't know, Cedar Point is on a peninsula (the park has all the land on that peninsula) - they had to tear down some old coasters to make room for this one.
Jon,
if you're out that way, and over 21, go to Put-in-Bay
You should also note that under Bush The Second, the WTC was destroyed. So is he more evil than the Son of Satan Clinton? I think you should also note many of the illegal activites Bush II is engaging in (suspending habeus corpus, ignoring judicial orders, etc).
Jon
The Titanic was/is in international waters. The Hudson is in NY state. BIG jurisdictional difference.
Not sure what the right answer to this is, but keeping it under wraps for the time being seems to be the wise course of action.
Jon
um, no. YBCO superconducts just fine at LN2 temp (77 K). I haven't been playing with superconductors for a few years, but even then they had some that worked at (IIRC) 168 K (not sure on the exact temp, but a freon fridge could get cold enough).
Jon
Of course, what Sony is announcing is a CATV box, *not* a cable modem. Most cable systems force you to rent a cable box (and, wonder of wonders, since they're a monopoly, they can gouge as much as they want) - this allows you to get a unit with the features you want.
Jon
(the only info i have to go on is from the article, but I'll feel free to speculate...)
He's not using the T1 to spam directly. He's only using it to connect to the servers that actually send the spam. Ya, it's a technicality, but the ISP would see it as a "he's not violating TOS with this T1" kind of thing.
Now the connections that the server's run through are an entirely different story...
Jon
Did anyone else notice the domain name? Why do they let non-RFC compliant registrations through??? It's not like it's that hard to write a regex to find this....
Jon
See other posts about ejecta from the impact site. (btw, we're (or should be) talking about civilisation destroying sized asteroids here, so the impact energies are in the mega- to giga- ton range).
Even better might be cracking the asteroid in several pieces so most of the mass misses the Earth.
Noble thought. Where do you place the nuke to accomplish this? You'd have to know the internal structure of the asteroid. Which means you'd have to go out there and do some seismic testing. Which would take a while (plus the fact that we don't have the capability to do this at the moment). And you'd have to precisely place the nuke. This Ain't Gonna Happen...
Jon
Jon
The worst part is, we (taxpayers) will pay either way, since a *LOT* of research is gov funded anyway. So what LeDuc is really saying is, "it's fairer for the gov to give *US* the money that they would be spending on the website". Oh, I'll bet the website cost less to run than the revenue generated for access to the articles...
Jon
Jon
With MS Office, I imagine users with support questions get help from Microsoft. With an Apple-bundeled OpenOffice, Apple would have to have a team to handle support requests.
So Apple is different from every other OEM why? If any OEM bundles an M$ product, they provide support. The only way you can talk to M$ is to pony up the ~$100 or whatever it is now.
JonThought on how to circumvent an EULA:
You have two users, Alice and Dogbert. Dogbert wants to make a codec, but needs to look at Quicktime binaries to do this (this is prohibited by the EULA). So Alice installs Quicktime and agrees to the terms. At a later time, Dogbert comes by and checks the binaries.
Dogbert's fine - he never agreed to anything. Is Alice under the gun here? She, herself, didn't break the EULA, and the one's I've read only specify you, the end user, not "or anyone else".
Jon
This is a question that's bugged me about a lot of laws. The Constitution explicitly denies Congress the right to write an ex post facto law - yet the CTEA certainly goes into the past and extends copyrights. How is this not blatantly unConstitutional?
Jon