is that it will do nothing to achieve the stated goal. It wouldn't be acceptable if it could net some intelligence, but it is even less so since it can't.
Why can't it, you ask? Might they just collar J. Random Jihadist as he crosses the border to do some evil deed he has all mapped out on his laptop? No. Because no terrorist worth a damn would transmit data that way. If you had to move sensitive data into the country, you would send an emissary to whatever conspirators you had already in the country with a one time pad in his head. He could then relay it to the conspirators, and you could have a perfectly private channel of communication into the country. No amount of NSA supercomputing can crack anything encrypted this way.
This kind of security theater does nothing. In this instance, there is probably a more sinister motive.
That piece of junk's only innovation was the introduction of ridiculous load times and boring cutscenes to gaming, and we've been cursed with them even since.
Paul Erdös seemed to be quite productive on uppers:
His colleague Alfréd Rényi said, "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems", and Erdös drank copious quantities. (This quotation is often attributed incorrectly to Erdös.)[3] After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month. Erdös won the bet, but complained during his abstinence that mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine habit.
residential connection. From there, you can just use X11 forwarding to modify the actual server, which can be your own colo or merely a livejournal account.
Lithium is on the wrong side of iron, at least if you are talking about fission. Fissioning it would be a net energy loss. The other alternative is fusion, and if Toshiba has figured out how to fuse it and make the reactor self-contained as well, I know a few folks that'd would like to know how.
The mass of He-3 on the moon is a ridiculously tiny fraction of the mass of the moon itself. Even if we got all the He-3, it would in no way affect the tides.
But the U.S. isn't run like a corporation. Sorry. If you don't like it, campaign to have the rules changed.
The economy went to shit when the dot-com bubble burst. This happened around January 2000, before Bush was inaugurated. The attacks on September 11th fucked things up much more.
Our democracy is not a continuous thing. The will of the people is heard every four years in the case of the presidency. The president is not obliged to change his actions or opinions every time a new poll comes out.
Nine of the sixteen were just cell phones that had pretty standard variations on the normal designs of any recent cell phone. None were remarkable or any more desirable than an iPhone in terms of function or design.
Some of the UMPCs were nice, but again, aside from the addition of colors, none were significantly better than what can be obtained here.
OS 9 was more responsive, yes. But, due to cooperative multitasking, if any program crashed, your entire computer did as well. I did some fairly memory intensive Photoshop work for a newspaper on an OS 9 Mac that was packed to the gills with RAM, and I'd have an average of two reboots a day. This can be maddening to the point where you'll want to throw the Mac out the window if you just lost an hour's painstaking work to the fucking bomb.
The OS X came about. Systemwide crashes are a rarity, and in my experience mostly due to hardware failure. If some beta version of Firefox crashes, it dies a lonely death while the other programs keep on chugging.
I took a class that involved going to the University of Texas' learning reactor. To get in the front door, one had to get buzzed in by someone behind a desk. To get to the controls or the reactor, one had to get past several security measures and some very solid metal doors. The first time the prof took us back there, he warned us that the door could only be open for 3 minutes. I asked him what happened if that time was exceeded, and he said that a SWAT team would be there within five.
There's no clearly defined border one can "nudge" a payload across. There is a minimum velocity one must hit, and the velocity added by the plane and the fuel savings from the reduced high-altitude would be negligible.
One bit of stupidity stands out: For such a smart bunch of people, NASA sure have been taking a stupid, dangerous and wasteful approach to space travel all these decades. I think it's driven by shady back room deals with the fuel industry, personally.
You do realize that most rockets are powered by hydrogen peroxide and oxygen, right?
before the Columbine massacre and the rest of the bullshit that was going on in that era. I brought it, in printed form, to school and studied it whenever my obligations to school had been fulfilled.
Yes, the intent of the manual was malicious, but I think I gained some insight from it. The computer stuff was obsolete by the time I had it, and the chemical stuff was shaky, at best. However, it inspired me to study science and the potential for change it possessed.
This file contributed more to my love of science than any teacher or professor I've had. Prosecuting kids for being inquisitive is a surefire way to lose one's edge in the natural sciences. Goddammit, don't fuck this up as we have.
I think that before any new nuclear facility is licensed, its operators should be required to pay in advance for the disposal of its spent fuel. I don't think it's right that the cost should be borne by the taxpayer.
This is already built into the cost of every kilowatt-hour consumed by those purchasing nuclear power. Unlike coal, oil, and even solar and wind, the cost of interring the waste from nuclear power is built into the cost from the onset.
Also keep in mind that half-life is generally inversely proportional to the amount of energy something radiates. If an isotope, like U238, has a half-life of 4.5 gigayears, then it is, for all intents and purposes, stable. The stuff that has a half-life in the range of tens of years is the dangerous stuff.
You seem to have a very unrealistic view of nuclear energy. It can be done right. Modern civilizations, even including Chernobyl and TMI, have a very good track record with regards to nuclear energy. More people die mining coal per annum than the number of people, in all of human history that have died due to nuclear energy.
And I would go overseas if I thought I could pull it off before accumulating experience in my home country. I'd go to France in a heartbeat, et je parle français, if any French recruiters see this.
Unfortunately, my general health is not suited to be sent to tours in $ARMPIT_OF_THE_UNIVERSE, and my general disposition is not suited to military discipline. The only upside I can see is that my little brother, a PFC in the Army, would have to salute me.
I've been applying to Rad Health Tech positions for a while now. Demand should be decent due to the demographics of the industry and various other factors, but I haven't had much success. Does anyone have any advice for entering the industry? I have a degree in Physics with a Biophysics/Nuclear specialization, but most of the openings require 2-5 years of experience, and, being fresh out of college, I have none. Does anyone have any ideas where one can get those vital first few years of experience?
Bullshit. Apple releases updates for iPhones. An unlocked iPhone is no longer an iPhone, it is an unlocked iPhone. Applying an update for one piece of hardware to another can and will fuck it up. Since one would have to be at least somewhat in the know, technically, to even know what unlocking is, and even more informed to actually unlock it, Apple can assume that owners of unlocked phones would know that this is a possibility.
Once you mod your hardware, you are essentially trading your warranty for a superior experience. If you don't like it, don't run the fucking update.
If a company intentionally destroys your property and thus denies you the rightful use of your property, how is that *ANY* different than a DDOS?
Well, you would be destroying it by applying an update to hardware that has been modified and is, as a result, incompatible with that update. The phone is your property, and you can modify it as you see fit. However, if you make those modifications, you have to deal with the fact that updates and such won't necessarily work as intended. If you don't like it, don't update your iPhone.
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is that it will do nothing to achieve the stated goal. It wouldn't be acceptable if it could net some intelligence, but it is even less so since it can't.
Why can't it, you ask? Might they just collar J. Random Jihadist as he crosses the border to do some evil deed he has all mapped out on his laptop? No. Because no terrorist worth a damn would transmit data that way. If you had to move sensitive data into the country, you would send an emissary to whatever conspirators you had already in the country with a one time pad in his head. He could then relay it to the conspirators, and you could have a perfectly private channel of communication into the country. No amount of NSA supercomputing can crack anything encrypted this way.
This kind of security theater does nothing. In this instance, there is probably a more sinister motive.
That piece of junk's only innovation was the introduction of ridiculous load times and boring cutscenes to gaming, and we've been cursed with them even since.
I meant to mod you "Funny" and misclicked "overrated". This post is to negate that.
They need to add a Wii app that lets users vote on priorities for VC game porting. I want Blaster Master, dammit.
Can you name one realistic contender in this election cycle that doesn't profess belief in the great sky wizard?
Paul Erdös seemed to be quite productive on uppers:
His colleague Alfréd Rényi said, "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems", and Erdös drank copious quantities. (This quotation is often attributed incorrectly to Erdös.)[3] After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month. Erdös won the bet, but complained during his abstinence that mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine habit.
residential connection. From there, you can just use X11 forwarding to modify the actual server, which can be your own colo or merely a livejournal account.
Lithium is on the wrong side of iron, at least if you are talking about fission. Fissioning it would be a net energy loss. The other alternative is fusion, and if Toshiba has figured out how to fuse it and make the reactor self-contained as well, I know a few folks that'd would like to know how.
The mass of He-3 on the moon is a ridiculously tiny fraction of the mass of the moon itself. Even if we got all the He-3, it would in no way affect the tides.
But the U.S. isn't run like a corporation. Sorry. If you don't like it, campaign to have the rules changed.
The economy went to shit when the dot-com bubble burst. This happened around January 2000, before Bush was inaugurated. The attacks on September 11th fucked things up much more.
Our democracy is not a continuous thing. The will of the people is heard every four years in the case of the presidency. The president is not obliged to change his actions or opinions every time a new poll comes out.
Nine of the sixteen were just cell phones that had pretty standard variations on the normal designs of any recent cell phone. None were remarkable or any more desirable than an iPhone in terms of function or design.
Some of the UMPCs were nice, but again, aside from the addition of colors, none were significantly better than what can be obtained here.
OS 9 was more responsive, yes. But, due to cooperative multitasking, if any program crashed, your entire computer did as well. I did some fairly memory intensive Photoshop work for a newspaper on an OS 9 Mac that was packed to the gills with RAM, and I'd have an average of two reboots a day. This can be maddening to the point where you'll want to throw the Mac out the window if you just lost an hour's painstaking work to the fucking bomb.
The OS X came about. Systemwide crashes are a rarity, and in my experience mostly due to hardware failure. If some beta version of Firefox crashes, it dies a lonely death while the other programs keep on chugging.
I took a class that involved going to the University of Texas' learning reactor. To get in the front door, one had to get buzzed in by someone behind a desk. To get to the controls or the reactor, one had to get past several security measures and some very solid metal doors. The first time the prof took us back there, he warned us that the door could only be open for 3 minutes. I asked him what happened if that time was exceeded, and he said that a SWAT team would be there within five.
There's no clearly defined border one can "nudge" a payload across. There is a minimum velocity one must hit, and the velocity added by the plane and the fuel savings from the reduced high-altitude would be negligible.
One bit of stupidity stands out:
For such a smart bunch of people, NASA sure have been taking a stupid, dangerous and wasteful approach to space travel all these decades. I think it's driven by shady back room deals with the fuel industry, personally.
You do realize that most rockets are powered by hydrogen peroxide and oxygen, right?
before the Columbine massacre and the rest of the bullshit that was going on in that era. I brought it, in printed form, to school and studied it whenever my obligations to school had been fulfilled.
Yes, the intent of the manual was malicious, but I think I gained some insight from it. The computer stuff was obsolete by the time I had it, and the chemical stuff was shaky, at best. However, it inspired me to study science and the potential for change it possessed.
This file contributed more to my love of science than any teacher or professor I've had. Prosecuting kids for being inquisitive is a surefire way to lose one's edge in the natural sciences. Goddammit, don't fuck this up as we have.
I thought that that was Signal 9 or something.
Please disregard, I hit "overrated" when I meant to hit "insightful".
I think that before any new nuclear facility is licensed, its operators should be required to pay in advance for the disposal of its spent fuel. I don't think it's right that the cost should be borne by the taxpayer.
This is already built into the cost of every kilowatt-hour consumed by those purchasing nuclear power. Unlike coal, oil, and even solar and wind, the cost of interring the waste from nuclear power is built into the cost from the onset.
Also keep in mind that half-life is generally inversely proportional to the amount of energy something radiates. If an isotope, like U238, has a half-life of 4.5 gigayears, then it is, for all intents and purposes, stable. The stuff that has a half-life in the range of tens of years is the dangerous stuff.
You seem to have a very unrealistic view of nuclear energy. It can be done right. Modern civilizations, even including Chernobyl and TMI, have a very good track record with regards to nuclear energy. More people die mining coal per annum than the number of people, in all of human history that have died due to nuclear energy.
And I would go overseas if I thought I could pull it off before accumulating experience in my home country. I'd go to France in a heartbeat, et je parle français, if any French recruiters see this.
Unfortunately, my general health is not suited to be sent to tours in $ARMPIT_OF_THE_UNIVERSE, and my general disposition is not suited to military discipline. The only upside I can see is that my little brother, a PFC in the Army, would have to salute me.
I could have gotten this advice from you over on the old K5...
And your advice is appreciated, but joining the armed forces is not an option.
I've been applying to Rad Health Tech positions for a while now. Demand should be decent due to the demographics of the industry and various other factors, but I haven't had much success. Does anyone have any advice for entering the industry? I have a degree in Physics with a Biophysics/Nuclear specialization, but most of the openings require 2-5 years of experience, and, being fresh out of college, I have none. Does anyone have any ideas where one can get those vital first few years of experience?
Bullshit. Apple releases updates for iPhones. An unlocked iPhone is no longer an iPhone, it is an unlocked iPhone. Applying an update for one piece of hardware to another can and will fuck it up. Since one would have to be at least somewhat in the know, technically, to even know what unlocking is, and even more informed to actually unlock it, Apple can assume that owners of unlocked phones would know that this is a possibility.
Once you mod your hardware, you are essentially trading your warranty for a superior experience. If you don't like it, don't run the fucking update.
If a company intentionally destroys your property and thus denies you the rightful use of your property, how is that *ANY* different than a DDOS?
Well, you would be destroying it by applying an update to hardware that has been modified and is, as a result, incompatible with that update. The phone is your property, and you can modify it as you see fit. However, if you make those modifications, you have to deal with the fact that updates and such won't necessarily work as intended. If you don't like it, don't update your iPhone.
Just be glad Apple gave a warning.