Hopefully this means we should start seeing ARM-using motherboards in an ATX form-factor. The Pi and Beaglebone are nice, but I want something that's eassentially just like a commodity x86 motherboard except it uses ARM.
Why? Mini-ATX's not good for a commodity MB? 'cause you don't need a high google-fu to find heaps of them.
If it's the OP AC, whinging about how his games don't work well on ARM - then it's a damage (not that I regret it).
If it's you (thanks for the link: nice to see others on top of RasPi) or me - then its winning.
Speaking about quiet: I recently bough a Proliant Microserver for the "home FS"/NAS - at 15W for the Turion and the 4 NAS grade WD HDDes... mums, I can't hear it (under 60W at peak use). I would have gone with a ARM-board, but could't find enough support for NAS-ing (not when RAID-ing anyway).
btw: I don't have a cellar... yet. When I'll have one, 't'll be for wine only... ummm... maybe a bit of mead as well.
If you think you care so much about metric, why can't you tell me how many liters per 100 km your car takes? Its *your* car... no one is stopping you.
Who says I can't? It's quite easy where I live: the pump dispenses liters of petrol and my car's odometer is in km. Lately, it has been about 7.2 L/100 km - a sign the car is quite old now (about 3 years ago, it was closer to 6.9 l/100km for the same trip).
If you want something truly universal, consider Planck units.
(excerpts from "The Art Of Being Irrelevant")
Plank units are universal inasmuch as the assumption that the spacetime is homogeneous and isotropic.
Granted, if those assumptions are not true, meters or miles would be equally useless.
Personal manufacture though is your right and the government should not be given the power to force changes in these weapons just so that there job becomes easier.
Ummm... is that so? Note: Australia is a democracy and the cited law wasn't issued by a govt. decree or something, it did pass through parliament.
In NSW the manufacture and possession of firearms is already governed by the Firearms Act 1996 (NSW)
Define "manufacture". Depending on the definition of it, obtaining plans/dies for the purpose of manufacturing *is* part of manufacturing. So maybe they are saying that they think the definitions under the law cover downloading patterns.
IANAL, downloading and printing the parts need not to constitute manufacture... after all, one may consider them art/sculptures.
Putting them together is something different. NSW firearm act, Sect 50A
(1) A person who manufactures a firearm is guilty of an offence under this subsection unless the person is authorised by a licence or permit to manufacture the firearm. Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 10 years.
(2) A person who manufactures a prohibited firearm or pistol is guilty of an offence under this subsection unless the person is authorised by a licence or permit to manufacture the prohibited firearm or pistol. Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 20 years.
...
(5) In this section:
"manufacture" a firearm includes assemble a firearm from firearm parts.
In the context of this very issue, what exactly would be the point of lying? Making/owning a gun in Australia without license is already illegal.
BTW, I'm pretty sure Oz already has various departments for consumer protection and safety. It's not their job.
Yeah, sure, the NSW police would better keep their mouth shut, their test and the risks they discovered are not at all relevant... after all, the police isn't meant to protect anyone, much less for protecting a consumer, they'll lie to you most of the time and they only have in mind how to bust you and spend the taxes you pay... Clearly, nothing more than a band of thugs.
The consumer protection agencies are in charge of testing everything that can cause harm, even when it's already illegal, amirite?
What planet are you living on? "Planet America" perchance?
Re "As they aren't in control of the downloads, they can't have a say in banning the download either)"...
How many submarine cable landing sites in Australia? In theory every request via BT could be looked at for that ~file "checksum".
In practice, you didn't hear of Tor and/or proxy SSL/HTTPS services, did you?
I see no problem which what the police are saying here, but it is a very difficult thing to regulate.
No need of additional regulation, in Australia is already forbidden to make/assemble guns without a license. The actual point they were trying to get across:
“My greater concern is that someone would do this, make one, and then suffer the consequences and kill themselves [after a catastrophic failure]. They don’t want to shoot someone, they’re just fascinated [by 3D printing]. If we didn’t alert someone to what happened to us, we would be considered negligent.
Trusting the police. Fashionable up until the 1960s or so.
Please note that this world is quite large. Depending on your place of residence, your mileage will vary: in some places, trusting the police may have never been in fashion, while in others it's still a safe bet.
It's a sad situation when the law enforcers decide what the laws are.
Nothing special about the 3D printed plastic gun: unauthorized manufacturing (or even assembling) a firearm of any kind in Australia is already prohibited (so no, this is not a case in which the police would decide what the laws are. As they aren't in control of the downloads, they can't have a say in banning the download either).
What the TFS fails to mention: the NSW police guys seems genuinely more worried about someone hurting oneself in an attempt to fire one (the first gun printed by the NSW police exploded during tests):
“My greater concern is that someone would do this, make one, and then suffer the consequences and kill themselves [after a catastrophic failure]. They don’t want to shoot someone, they’re just fascinated [by 3D printing]. If we didn’t alert someone to what happened to us, we would be considered negligent.
“Don’t try it, no matter what end of this gun you can be on, you could die. Do not download, do not manufacture The Liberator,” the Commissioner concluded.
What if someone else named Ron Paul wanted the domain? Wouldn't he have as much claim to it as the famous Ron Paul does?
If you want to match the user's expectations, then no. I'm not proposing an actual solution, but the goal is to bring up the websites the user is looking for.
Pardon? Say it again? May I ask: the goal of whom/what?
Our domain name system is totally fucked. If I want to go to Ron Paul's website of course I will try RonPaul.com, and I certainly don't want to go to some scammer's website when I type in that address. The system is broken. We didn't build it to serve the interests of some millionaire scammers, so why are we tolerating this nonsense. Just because we don't like Ron Paul? This is insane.
Tragedy! My expectations and desires are not met, so everything is totally fucked-up, intolerable, non-sensical and insane! I wonder: could this be the most "rational" argument I heard today?
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ignominious?
I can imagine lots of other burial places that would be less famous or reputable than a parking lot.
Xbox One's successor will obviously be Xbox A.
Shouldn't XBoxOne be actually named XBox4Pi to suggest an evolution?
(damn'd: it mid-2013 already and /. still doesn't support Unicode!)
Slowly, they start to appear.
Hopefully this means we should start seeing ARM-using motherboards in an ATX form-factor. The Pi and Beaglebone are nice, but I want something that's eassentially just like a commodity x86 motherboard except it uses ARM.
Why? Mini-ATX's not good for a commodity MB? 'cause you don't need a high google-fu to find heaps of them.
If it's the OP AC, whinging about how his games don't work well on ARM - then it's a damage (not that I regret it).
If it's you (thanks for the link: nice to see others on top of RasPi) or me - then its winning.
Speaking about quiet: I recently bough a Proliant Microserver for the "home FS"/NAS - at 15W for the Turion and the 4 NAS grade WD HDDes... mums, I can't hear it (under 60W at peak use). I would have gone with a ARM-board, but could't find enough support for NAS-ing (not when RAID-ing anyway).
btw: I don't have a cellar... yet. When I'll have one, 't'll be for wine only... ummm... maybe a bit of mead as well.
The article is aimed at supercomputers, not commodity PC. You are not the target.
While not the target, you'll be collateral damage anyway.
If you think you care so much about metric, why can't you tell me how many liters per 100 km your car takes? Its *your* car... no one is stopping you.
Who says I can't? It's quite easy where I live: the pump dispenses liters of petrol and my car's odometer is in km. Lately, it has been about 7.2 L/100 km - a sign the car is quite old now (about 3 years ago, it was closer to 6.9 l/100km for the same trip).
If you want something truly universal, consider Planck units.
(excerpts from "The Art Of Being Irrelevant")
Plank units are universal inasmuch as the assumption that the spacetime is homogeneous and isotropic.
Granted, if those assumptions are not true, meters or miles would be equally useless.
Personal manufacture though is your right and the government should not be given the power to force changes in these weapons just so that there job becomes easier.
Ummm... is that so? Note: Australia is a democracy and the cited law wasn't issued by a govt. decree or something, it did pass through parliament.
In NSW the manufacture and possession of firearms is already governed by the Firearms Act 1996 (NSW)
Define "manufacture". Depending on the definition of it, obtaining plans/dies for the purpose of manufacturing *is* part of manufacturing. So maybe they are saying that they think the definitions under the law cover downloading patterns.
IANAL, downloading and printing the parts need not to constitute manufacture... after all, one may consider them art/sculptures.
Putting them together is something different. NSW firearm act, Sect 50A
(1) A person who manufactures a firearm is guilty of an offence under this subsection unless the person is authorised by a licence or permit to manufacture the firearm. Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 10 years.
(2) A person who manufactures a prohibited firearm or pistol is guilty of an offence under this subsection unless the person is authorised by a licence or permit to manufacture the prohibited firearm or pistol. Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 20 years.
...
(5) In this section:
"manufacture" a firearm includes assemble a firearm from firearm parts.
I think that was supposed to be top four deliverer of pork.
Oh... So that was a typo rather than something alluding a typology.
Ammunition ... is harder to get in Australia
I wouldn't bet (second link to show that the charges may be powerful enough).
Yeah, probably not a good idea unless you know exactly what you're doing. And even then, maybe not so smart anyway...
(speaking of smart... like using a plastic gun to shoot real bullets would be a smart idea anyway)
Because cops never lie, amirite?
In the context of this very issue, what exactly would be the point of lying? Making/owning a gun in Australia without license is already illegal.
BTW, I'm pretty sure Oz already has various departments for consumer protection and safety. It's not their job.
Yeah, sure, the NSW police would better keep their mouth shut, their test and the risks they discovered are not at all relevant... after all, the police isn't meant to protect anyone, much less for protecting a consumer, they'll lie to you most of the time and they only have in mind how to bust you and spend the taxes you pay... Clearly, nothing more than a band of thugs.
The consumer protection agencies are in charge of testing everything that can cause harm, even when it's already illegal, amirite?
What planet are you living on? "Planet America" perchance?
Re "As they aren't in control of the downloads, they can't have a say in banning the download either)" ...
How many submarine cable landing sites in Australia? In theory every request via BT could be looked at for that ~file "checksum".
In practice, you didn't hear of Tor and/or proxy SSL/HTTPS services, did you?
Ammunition ... is harder to get in Australia
I wouldn't bet (second link to show that the charges may be powerful enough).
Rubber band guns are not fatal but they are guns... Water guns (loaded with water) are not fatal but are guns... So tell me again what was your point?
Errr... I bet he's shitless scared about photo-shooting as well... you know? One may be killed by having a bullet ricocheting from a photo.
I see no problem which what the police are saying here, but it is a very difficult thing to regulate.
No need of additional regulation, in Australia is already forbidden to make/assemble guns without a license. The actual point they were trying to get across:
“My greater concern is that someone would do this, make one, and then suffer the consequences and kill themselves [after a catastrophic failure]. They don’t want to shoot someone, they’re just fascinated [by 3D printing]. If we didn’t alert someone to what happened to us, we would be considered negligent.
Trusting the police. Fashionable up until the 1960s or so.
Please note that this world is quite large. Depending on your place of residence, your mileage will vary: in some places, trusting the police may have never been in fashion, while in others it's still a safe bet.
Wha...? In short: [Citation needed] (not saying that's not so, but I'd like to see it).
It's a sad situation when the law enforcers decide what the laws are.
Nothing special about the 3D printed plastic gun: unauthorized manufacturing (or even assembling) a firearm of any kind in Australia is already prohibited (so no, this is not a case in which the police would decide what the laws are. As they aren't in control of the downloads, they can't have a say in banning the download either).
What the TFS fails to mention: the NSW police guys seems genuinely more worried about someone hurting oneself in an attempt to fire one (the first gun printed by the NSW police exploded during tests) :
“My greater concern is that someone would do this, make one, and then suffer the consequences and kill themselves [after a catastrophic failure]. They don’t want to shoot someone, they’re just fascinated [by 3D printing]. If we didn’t alert someone to what happened to us, we would be considered negligent.
“Don’t try it, no matter what end of this gun you can be on, you could die. Do not download, do not manufacture The Liberator,” the Commissioner concluded.
...at least they didn't move to make 3D printing illegal.
If you want to match the user's expectations, then no. I'm not proposing an actual solution, but the goal is to bring up the websites the user is looking for.
Pardon? Say it again? May I ask: the goal of whom/what?
Our domain name system is totally fucked. If I want to go to Ron Paul's website of course I will try RonPaul.com, and I certainly don't want to go to some scammer's website when I type in that address. The system is broken. We didn't build it to serve the interests of some millionaire scammers, so why are we tolerating this nonsense. Just because we don't like Ron Paul? This is insane.
Tragedy! My expectations and desires are not met, so everything is totally fucked-up, intolerable, non-sensical and insane!
I wonder: could this be the most "rational" argument I heard today?
has been a type four deliverer of pork to his district
Apologies for it, but may I ask some more the details on the pork deliverers typology?
blend a mix of starches and sugars. if they avoid all simple and complex carbs, they reduce pop. if they do not, they go in and eat poison.
Ummm... they may start enjoying cellulose, the way termites do.
Better use their mating pheromones for this (yes, I know: may be also a moving target)