Not everything burns, and the temperature is higher the higher up you go.
It very well could have been that in only got to the high 100s or low 200s where the computer itself is. The monitor is higher up, and thus, likely got much hotter.
With it powered off surviving that is less impressive than surviving being burned (which is likely impossible) would be.
Demonstrate you can use a computer responsibly and you can get an SSL-like certificate from any number of private companies and other organizations saying so.
People would be free to send email without such a certificate.
People would also be free to reject any such email. Or accept it, it would be their choice.
Because when their job gets outsourced as it will anyway, they can speak the language of our new business overlords.
Being able to speak Japanese means you'll be able to speak the language of all the companies which still actually make stuff. Could be useful for getting a new job.
Using Richard Jewell as an example isn't helping your case.
Whenever I hear that name I don't think "Olympic Park bombing", I think "Man who was falsely accused of the Olympic Park bombing". Almost anyone who still recognizes the name knows he's innocent.
If you are fired unfairly as a result of being charged for a crime you didn't commit, you can sue.
All the more reason it is better to work for the gov't or for yourself (own business), then you can't be fired for being charged for a crime you are innocent of.
I really won't worry about this until I hear a big name other than RMS/St. IGNUcious/Mr. Free Software is not Open Source/Linux is really "GNU/Linux" say that this is a problem.
RMS doesn't want to make any concessions. The Open Source community does, and gets taken seriously. RMS does not do that, and does not get taken seriously.
It is sad, he is so extreme he is even losing credibility with OSS supporters as myself. I trust Linus Torvalds still.
Here is an example of the FSF being pig headed. GCC vs EGCS. EGCS was a free version of GCC taken up by Cygnus (a commercial company). EGCS was better about adding needed patches than GCC was, and was the only usable alternative for a while until the mainstream GCC incorporated the patches.
RMS and the FSF need to play ball. That is how stuff gets done in the Real World.
I still support the FSF and RMS' pro-software freedom stances, but I think a change in tactics is in order.
Complain about the USA not being free while in the USA, what happens? Nothing, unless it is on Slashdot, in which case you get modded up and gain karma.
Try that in some other countries and you don't even want to know what will happen...
The first amendment, after all, doesn't say that "Congress shall make no law except for laws barring child pornography, the exposure of military secrets, and naughty words on the radio."
Not that I don't favor barring child porn, but you know, if you want to do that, you need to change the amendment...
Or make it illegal using STATE or LOCAL laws. Heck murder is almost always prosecuted under STATE law, not FEDERAL (with some exceptions, e.g. on military bases, civil rights, terrorism, naval waters, etc)
Most Federally illegal stuff is illegal under State law (e.g. child porn is a violation of NRS 200.700-200.760 inclusive, murder is a violation of NRS 200.010-200.260 inclusive) anyway, so repealing the Federal law wouldn't change anything other than how/where stuff is prosecuted. And states would be free to cooperate in the enforcement of each other's law, like they do with driver's license violations and related issues.
Would be still be ineligible to vote and would he still get a ten year sentence if he ever possessed a gun (18 USC 922(g) and 18 USC 924) or would those laws be considered to not apply since he was under 18?
I don't see how he could be denied the right to vote, since when he committed his act he didn't HAVE the right to vote. How can you lose what you don't already have? It would be like ordering your car seized, but you don't own one, so one day when you buy one, the gov't takes it.
Slashdot Mirror
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.fbi.g ov
says it is running Linux.
Perhaps that is why Slashdot didn't post the operating system in the summary.
This seems especially true if you use Google news to find out what is getting the most press. ;)
Letting a laptop get too hot has its bad side and its good site.
:)
Bad: You could kill it.
Good: Free birth control. (remember the story about laptops, heat and fertility?)
Fires act in counter-intuitive ways.
Not everything burns, and the temperature is higher the higher up you go.
It very well could have been that in only got to the high 100s or low 200s where the computer itself is. The monitor is higher up, and thus, likely got much hotter.
With it powered off surviving that is less impressive than surviving being burned (which is likely impossible) would be.
Did you try the cached version?
o m/ ;)
:)
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.google.c
BTW: Seems like Google no longer says it isn't affiliated/responsible for the content of its own page.
I only got one irrelevent hit when I tried "vegemite" and "Las Vegas, NV" on Google Local.
I guess that's fair.
How about this idea?
Demonstrate you can use a computer responsibly and you can get an SSL-like certificate from any number of private companies and other organizations saying so.
People would be free to send email without such a certificate.
People would also be free to reject any such email. Or accept it, it would be their choice.
Only in special circumstances one can keep one's license after 70th birthday.
That's fascist. If someone is still competent, they are still competent. Mandatory testing is enough.
There is a reason it is nicknamed "die 15".
I'm in Vegas, and so I end up taking it quite often.
Scary road.
Well their coordination and reaction times must be pretty good if they can manage to drive like that and not crash. As for their common sense... :/
Baltimore has a subway, you could have it a lot worse!
t ml
http://www.roadstothefuture.com/Baltimore_Metro.h
But your point still stands, the USA is too car-centric and car-dependent.
Interesting choice of country to be trying to do this in.
Some people in Belgium apparently don't like him. He got a pie in the face there.
http://www.bitstorm.org/gates/
Because when their job gets outsourced as it will anyway, they can speak the language of our new business overlords.
Being able to speak Japanese means you'll be able to speak the language of all the companies which still actually make stuff. Could be useful for getting a new job.
(this post is only half joking)
Anything that discriminates so flagrantly against people with vision or cognitive disabilities may get companies in trouble with the law.
Guess that means blacklisting *.aol.com is out then.
Using Richard Jewell as an example isn't helping your case.
Whenever I hear that name I don't think "Olympic Park bombing", I think "Man who was falsely accused of the Olympic Park bombing". Almost anyone who still recognizes the name knows he's innocent.
If you are fired unfairly as a result of being charged for a crime you didn't commit, you can sue.
All the more reason it is better to work for the gov't or for yourself (own business), then you can't be fired for being charged for a crime you are innocent of.
And names like "Warty Warthog" and "Hoary Hedgehog" always sound good in business meetings. :)
Seriously, if they'd just support KDE I might try it. It does sound cool.
I really won't worry about this until I hear a big name other than RMS/St. IGNUcious/Mr. Free Software is not Open Source/Linux is really "GNU/Linux" say that this is a problem.
RMS doesn't want to make any concessions. The Open Source community does, and gets taken seriously. RMS does not do that, and does not get taken seriously.
It is sad, he is so extreme he is even losing credibility with OSS supporters as myself. I trust Linus Torvalds still.
Here is an example of the FSF being pig headed. GCC vs EGCS. EGCS was a free version of GCC taken up by Cygnus (a commercial company). EGCS was better about adding needed patches than GCC was, and was the only usable alternative for a while until the mainstream GCC incorporated the patches.
RMS and the FSF need to play ball. That is how stuff gets done in the Real World.
I still support the FSF and RMS' pro-software freedom stances, but I think a change in tactics is in order.
Complain about the USA not being free while in the USA, what happens? Nothing, unless it is on Slashdot, in which case you get modded up and gain karma.
Try that in some other countries and you don't even want to know what will happen...
The first amendment, after all, doesn't say that "Congress shall make no law except for laws barring child pornography, the exposure of military secrets, and naughty words on the radio."
Not that I don't favor barring child porn, but you know, if you want to do that, you need to change the amendment...
Or make it illegal using STATE or LOCAL laws. Heck murder is almost always prosecuted under STATE law, not FEDERAL (with some exceptions, e.g. on military bases, civil rights, terrorism, naval waters, etc)
Most Federally illegal stuff is illegal under State law (e.g. child porn is a violation of NRS 200.700-200.760 inclusive, murder is a violation of NRS 200.010-200.260 inclusive) anyway, so repealing the Federal law wouldn't change anything other than how/where stuff is prosecuted. And states would be free to cooperate in the enforcement of each other's law, like they do with driver's license violations and related issues.
Actually Earth takes closer to 365.2425 days to orbit the Sun, that is from using the full leap year formula.
It's ironic, but true, prisoners are safer in "lower" security prisons.
Makes you wonder.
He will have to be very lucky to not be abused in prison, especially since he is large and has socialization ("afraid to go outside", etc) issues.
18 months confinement is bad enough, but he is at risk of much more:
http://www.spr.org/
Stop the abuse in our nation's prisons.
Would be still be ineligible to vote and would he still get a ten year sentence if he ever possessed a gun (18 USC 922(g) and 18 USC 924) or would those laws be considered to not apply since he was under 18?
I don't see how he could be denied the right to vote, since when he committed his act he didn't HAVE the right to vote. How can you lose what you don't already have? It would be like ordering your car seized, but you don't own one, so one day when you buy one, the gov't takes it.
But laws don't make sense.
Seattle is a very, very,very liberal (or "progressive" :) city for those of you who didn't already know that.