OK, maybe someone who has seen the actual site can tell me if the original car was a Camaro or a Z28, seeing as the 2002 Z28 puts out 305HP on its own, and gets well past 125mph at its top speed (I believe the computer limits it to 147mph without mods, and I know I've been to 122 in my 2002 SS with plenty of room to spare). Maybe the modifications that allow it to float interfere with higher speeds?
He made the request (including a checque for 10) to the GCHQ. What he got back were a few papers, as well as a videotape containing several short clips of him in public.
Just because the UK government is exempt from certain parts of the DPA doesn't mean that they'll flip you the bird all the time.
In every other part of the Bill of Rights, "the people" refers to the populace, not the state governments. Were the text of the amendment to be something like, "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the state to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Instead, it refers to the people, which to my reading does not mean the state governments but instead the residents of those states, and there is reason for it: with the exception of Amendment X, all of the other Amendments refer to rights that the people -- the residents of the states -- hold personally.
I dunno... A guy I know recently asked the government for his file, and got back a LOT of photos of him out in public. When he went to backtrack them, he started finding a lot of well-hidden remote cameras that quite clearly are working.
"When two license plates are issued by the department for use upon a vehicle, they shall be attached to the vehicle for which they were issued, one in the front and the other in the rear."
It's not a common item to be stopped for, and it's just a fix-it ticket ($10 administrative costs, I think). I don't use the front plate for my Camaro and haven't been stopped yet, but a buddy was stopped by a cop in a bad mood and had to fashion a bracket to avoid drilling into the front facia of his Ford Probe.
A church is owned by the congregation (or by its parent religious body). Public housing is government-owned, and quite often monitored by cameras now to crack down on drugs and violence. Doesn't seem to me to be doing much other than sending the sellers across the street, but it is being done.
Now you're making me wonder what I've left on all those 2GB and 4GB drives I have tucked in the drawers......or the 540MB drives, for that matter. Sounds like I have a project for the weekend.
All I'd need is a list of addresses and photos from the MPAA/RIAA, a rifle and scope, and immunity from prosecution. No hit list for me to be on -- except maybe those of the ACLU, EFF, and Slashdot.:)
I remember when I used to watch THC and Discovery for their programs on a wide variety of things. Then came Discovery Wings, and I lived in glee for about a year as I watched all the Wings programs I had managed to miss because they couldn't keep a relatively constant schedule on the original channel. Now Discovery is all about redecorating your house and changing your wardrobe (with the occasional crime bit). Discovery Science still has the occasional neat deep-sea exploration, but for the most part, I am no longer able to take naps on the weekend bathed in the glow of useful scientific information.
THC still occasionally has some interesting things, and they have a knack for finding mundane things and making them interesting (like being able to be fascinated by an hour on the history of hand tools). Their library is starting to run thin, though, with more and more WW2 material showing up again (someone once referred to it as The Hitler Channel for its preoccupation with WW2 documentaries), and now they're turning too heavily towards commercial entertainment. I don't mind the occasional such movie (such as when they show "Tora! Tora! Tora!" while discussing the attack on Pearl Harbor), but it's turning into an open entertainment platform instead of the educational platform it could (and, IMHO, should) present.
He's saying "un-fucking-believable" because he realizes the kid he is talking to is a living circumvention device, and the only successful solution is to legalize killing such people.
I wonder if the economics of tracking down and executing violators are better than the economics of suing them.
Might be time for a career change soon. With the number of violators, I'd be guaranteed a job for life!
Unless he has registered the copyright with the USPTO, he is eligible only for actual damages and attorney's fees. There is little scaling involved, except for the number of hours his attorney puts into the case.
That was exactly his point. Much is made of how long it takes to crack whatever random bit of encrypted text because almost everyone loves the idea of brute-forcing their way through a problem, but few people can even see -- let alone appreciate -- the elegance of the guy in the corner working quietly on whittling away at an algorithm. Anyone can attack a problem with raw computing power, but how many people can poke at methods of streamlining the computation to bring down the difficulty by a few orders of magnitude, eventually making some of the toughest algorithms beatable within their lifetime?
Personally, I think it speaks volumes that NSA isn't satisfied with 256-bit algorithms like AES and are pushing for 512- and even 1024-bit in certain government circles. Makes one wonder what weaknesses they've found that concern them.
What nuclear explosion? Maybe the deuterium would burn off, but that would be just a second or two of high-energy flames if all of it could be sucked out at once, or else some low-level burning like a Sterno (albeit invisible -- carry a broom when looking for hydrogen flames!). No nuclear explosions to worry about at all.
I've usually found that "tweaking it up a bit" translates to removing all direct contact information from the document so that their clients can't get in touch with me directly. I've also had a few of them refuse to work with me if I can't get something to them in Word format.
The B-25's empty weight is about 20,000 pounds -- far more than even the heaviest SUV. It also has more front surface area. An SUV would cause damage, yes, but not on too massive a scale.
A B-25 smacked into the Empire State Building in 1945, and the damage to the building wasn't too severe. I doubt an SUV-sized vehicle with a few kilos of deuterium (enmeshed in palladium) could do anything close to even what that did.
I've recently gotten back into gaming, and with three of my original crew from more than ten years ago. The schedule is stretched out -- for the most part, we're only trying for one game session a month -- but it's still there, and everyone was excited when I bounced the idea off of them. I'm finding that now that I can organize my notes and NPCs on a computer, it's far easier to plan out sessions, and I'm getting a scanner soon to pull all of my books into PDF format for access on the road.
This has much to do with the classic hardbound format, which helps the books survive longer, but I think also makes them too expensive. I have plenty of softbound books from that era (Robotech, Rifts, some Vampire supplements, the entire Cyberpunk 2020 book set, lots of Battletech), and while they've been bounced and tossed and folded back for years, they're still in pretty good shape, and still don't cost that much to buy. I think the most expensive of the books are still only about $23, and those are for main rules books.
My parents were in that group. I could play Call of Cthulu, but not D&D.
They never did read the D&D books, but trusted my judgement on everything else.
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It's a rarity that I don't rewrite rules for the games I play. I think the only one I've never really modified much was Cyberpunk 2020, but even that got some tweaks on automatic weapons fire.
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OK, maybe someone who has seen the actual site can tell me if the original car was a Camaro or a Z28, seeing as the 2002 Z28 puts out 305HP on its own, and gets well past 125mph at its top speed (I believe the computer limits it to 147mph without mods, and I know I've been to 122 in my 2002 SS with plenty of room to spare). Maybe the modifications that allow it to float interfere with higher speeds?
I got the information from him.
He made the request (including a checque for 10) to the GCHQ. What he got back were a few papers, as well as a videotape containing several short clips of him in public.
Just because the UK government is exempt from certain parts of the DPA doesn't mean that they'll flip you the bird all the time.
Actually, it is.
In every other part of the Bill of Rights, "the people" refers to the populace, not the state governments. Were the text of the amendment to be something like, "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the state to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Instead, it refers to the people, which to my reading does not mean the state governments but instead the residents of those states, and there is reason for it: with the exception of Amendment X, all of the other Amendments refer to rights that the people -- the residents of the states -- hold personally.
There's a reason those drives are in my drawer and not in the computers of other people. If I ever send them off, they're getting PGP-wiped first.
I dunno... A guy I know recently asked the government for his file, and got back a LOT of photos of him out in public. When he went to backtrack them, he started finding a lot of well-hidden remote cameras that quite clearly are working.
Nope.
Wrong. California Vehicle Code 5200(a):
"When two license plates are issued by the department for use upon a vehicle, they shall be attached to the vehicle for which they were issued, one in the front and the other in the rear."
It's not a common item to be stopped for, and it's just a fix-it ticket ($10 administrative costs, I think). I don't use the front plate for my Camaro and haven't been stopped yet, but a buddy was stopped by a cop in a bad mood and had to fashion a bracket to avoid drilling into the front facia of his Ford Probe.
A church is owned by the congregation (or by its parent religious body). Public housing is government-owned, and quite often monitored by cameras now to crack down on drugs and violence. Doesn't seem to me to be doing much other than sending the sellers across the street, but it is being done.
Now you're making me wonder what I've left on all those 2GB and 4GB drives I have tucked in the drawers... ...or the 540MB drives, for that matter. Sounds like I have a project for the weekend.
Not quite. CBG has scored as of recent.
All I'd need is a list of addresses and photos from the MPAA/RIAA, a rifle and scope, and immunity from prosecution. No hit list for me to be on -- except maybe those of the ACLU, EFF, and Slashdot. :)
I remember when I used to watch THC and Discovery for their programs on a wide variety of things. Then came Discovery Wings, and I lived in glee for about a year as I watched all the Wings programs I had managed to miss because they couldn't keep a relatively constant schedule on the original channel. Now Discovery is all about redecorating your house and changing your wardrobe (with the occasional crime bit). Discovery Science still has the occasional neat deep-sea exploration, but for the most part, I am no longer able to take naps on the weekend bathed in the glow of useful scientific information.
THC still occasionally has some interesting things, and they have a knack for finding mundane things and making them interesting (like being able to be fascinated by an hour on the history of hand tools). Their library is starting to run thin, though, with more and more WW2 material showing up again (someone once referred to it as The Hitler Channel for its preoccupation with WW2 documentaries), and now they're turning too heavily towards commercial entertainment. I don't mind the occasional such movie (such as when they show "Tora! Tora! Tora!" while discussing the attack on Pearl Harbor), but it's turning into an open entertainment platform instead of the educational platform it could (and, IMHO, should) present.
He's saying "un-fucking-believable" because he realizes the kid he is talking to is a living circumvention device, and the only successful solution is to legalize killing such people.
I wonder if the economics of tracking down and executing violators are better than the economics of suing them.
Might be time for a career change soon. With the number of violators, I'd be guaranteed a job for life!
Unless he has registered the copyright with the USPTO, he is eligible only for actual damages and attorney's fees. There is little scaling involved, except for the number of hours his attorney puts into the case.
That was exactly his point. Much is made of how long it takes to crack whatever random bit of encrypted text because almost everyone loves the idea of brute-forcing their way through a problem, but few people can even see -- let alone appreciate -- the elegance of the guy in the corner working quietly on whittling away at an algorithm. Anyone can attack a problem with raw computing power, but how many people can poke at methods of streamlining the computation to bring down the difficulty by a few orders of magnitude, eventually making some of the toughest algorithms beatable within their lifetime?
Personally, I think it speaks volumes that NSA isn't satisfied with 256-bit algorithms like AES and are pushing for 512- and even 1024-bit in certain government circles. Makes one wonder what weaknesses they've found that concern them.
What nuclear explosion? Maybe the deuterium would burn off, but that would be just a second or two of high-energy flames if all of it could be sucked out at once, or else some low-level burning like a Sterno (albeit invisible -- carry a broom when looking for hydrogen flames!). No nuclear explosions to worry about at all.
I've usually found that "tweaking it up a bit" translates to removing all direct contact information from the document so that their clients can't get in touch with me directly. I've also had a few of them refuse to work with me if I can't get something to them in Word format.
The B-25's empty weight is about 20,000 pounds -- far more than even the heaviest SUV. It also has more front surface area. An SUV would cause damage, yes, but not on too massive a scale.
A B-25 smacked into the Empire State Building in 1945, and the damage to the building wasn't too severe. I doubt an SUV-sized vehicle with a few kilos of deuterium (enmeshed in palladium) could do anything close to even what that did.
Wait... Does this mean that Saddam and bin Laden aren't gay lovers?
And I spent so much on that Weekly World News subscriptions...
I've recently gotten back into gaming, and with three of my original crew from more than ten years ago. The schedule is stretched out -- for the most part, we're only trying for one game session a month -- but it's still there, and everyone was excited when I bounced the idea off of them. I'm finding that now that I can organize my notes and NPCs on a computer, it's far easier to plan out sessions, and I'm getting a scanner soon to pull all of my books into PDF format for access on the road.
Give them a call. Doesn't hurt to ask.
This has much to do with the classic hardbound format, which helps the books survive longer, but I think also makes them too expensive. I have plenty of softbound books from that era (Robotech, Rifts, some Vampire supplements, the entire Cyberpunk 2020 book set, lots of Battletech), and while they've been bounced and tossed and folded back for years, they're still in pretty good shape, and still don't cost that much to buy. I think the most expensive of the books are still only about $23, and those are for main rules books.
My parents were in that group. I could play Call of Cthulu, but not D&D.
They never did read the D&D books, but trusted my judgement on everything else.
It's a rarity that I don't rewrite rules for the games I play. I think the only one I've never really modified much was Cyberpunk 2020, but even that got some tweaks on automatic weapons fire.
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