"Now you cannot defend that it wasn't you, because if you do then you've still violated the EULA" -- WTF has breaking the EULA to do with someone doing something bad on the connection that you "sublet"? Those are two separate issues. The former is an issue of contract law and is solely between you and the ISP. The latter may be a matter of copyright or criminal law (media file sharing, kiddie porn sharing, etc).
If the local prosecutor wants to go after whomever was seen, say, torrent-sharing illegal porn from some IP address, they are interested in just that and not in enforcing the EULA or service contract yuu had with the ISP.
No, EULA is not "enforced" like you claim in the 2nd paragraph. You're just confused and make shit up. It doesn't make any sense.
There's nothing illegal about connection "subletting". You may be in breach of contract, but there's no law that prevents such "subletting" otherwise. I don't think that the word illegal applies to breach of contract?
If you are trying to defend youself from, say, accusations of accessing kiddie porn, the issue of whether connection sharing was in breach of the contract you had with your ISP shouldn't matter. The ISP can of course suy you separately, but really both issues got nothing to do with each other.
I find it interesting that when one googles for pachelbel canon and heeding the call together, only your post comes up, or else I gave up browsing too early. I know that it may be that no one else had explicitly mentioned it, but I still find it a bit strange that it's not a widely known piece of trivia given popularity of both the canon and Hammerfall. I've tried to find the similarities, and lo and behold, one can start from the now obvious and go from there.
Heeding The Call takes its entire melody, and even most of its chord progression, directly from Canon in D--and yet they sound so different that a non-musician wouldn't notice that they had anything in common at all.
OK, call me very, very thick today, but I don't understand what you really wanted to say. Do you mean that Pachelbel's Canon [in D?] and Heeding The Call share a melody? When you are comparing Stokes's non-deterministic additions to the difference between PC and HtC, do you mean they are both big?
What kind of a genius must one be to divulge something just because someone asks nicely? It's like social engineering without the 'engineering' part. I routinely give randomly generated answers to various privacy invading "security" questions on bank sites: it's none of their damn business what is the name of my first girlfriend. On pretty much every non-governmental, non-credit-related form, I always use a made up number when asked for the SSN. They are too lazy to figure out what artificial keys are? I give them one.
Stupid parents give out their kids' SSN numbers without thinking. What's new? Google isn't really to blame, I don't think.
Please don't twist my words. Small incremental changes won't work. Doing a lot of little scales up to be just that -- little. Small reductions do nothing much besides making us feel better. They have no real impact. See Sustainable Energy -- without the hot air for numbers to back it up.
One more thing, in case I wasn't explicit enough: the oil layer thickness should be invariant with respect to scaling. The oil in the GOM, if it were to cover the whole Gulf, would create a 0.5um layer. In your tank, you should use a layer of the same thickness. The amount of oil in your tank is then (Vs/Ag)*at.
It doesn't scale as you imply. It's not about the amount of water, because oil doesn't really dissolve all that well in water, and it doesn't stay dispersed in water for very long. It's all about surface area at the interfaces: the interface with air, the interface with seabed, and perhaps a thermal or density boundary or two in between.
So, let's redo the math and see what difference it makes (if any).
Supposedly, we had Vs=780E3 m^3 spilled. Per EPA, there's Vg=2.4E15 m^3 of water in the GOM; the area of the GOM Ag=1.6E12 m^2.
The volumetric fraction is Vs/Vg=3.2E-10; this makes your tank's absolute spill volume of vs=7.0E-11m^3 imply total tank volume of 0.2m^3, or 200L. So far the numbers are in the right ballpark at least.
So now, let's look at the areas. Your tank could be a cube about 0.58m on the side, having the water surface of at=0.34m^2. The spilled oil, if it were to cover the whole surface of the GOM, would do so in a layer Vs/Ag=0.5um thick. That's a volume of 1.6E-7m^3 = 0.2ml. This is nothing to scoff at, and it may make a mess in your tank. Assuming the hydrocarbon molecule diameter in crude to be on the order of 1nm, we're looking at a layer about 500 molecules thick.
You'd probably need to check if agitation or some other artificial wave action would help with evaporation and coalescing the heavier hydrocarbons into tarballs. Then of course tarball behavior may be benign, or it may be messy, I have no clue. Could it kill your coral and other life in the tank? Maybe it's worth checking it out.
Apart from the video display, everything else can run quite satisfactorily off a single USB 2.0 hub, as long as you don't mix device speeds. This means you can have a network adapter to attach to the house wiring, backup storage, USB audio, etc. Again -- as long as all devices are of the same speed, the bandwidth is merely shared. Using multiple device speeds causes lower speed devices to rob higher speed devices of bandwidth, since the USB trunk (hub PC) switches to a lower speed when talking to lower speed device.
I will tell you of one specific application I have in mind: high speed digitizers. Modern graphic hardware can easily process (filter, render, etc) continuous 1Gsample/s data streams. With a commoditized high-speed interconnect, you can have a laptop-based "digital phosphor" oscilloscope that can pretty much blow out of the water every DSO and DPO out there that costs less than say 30k$. Same goes for real-time spectrum analysis, demodulation, software-defined radio, etc.
It should be fairly easy to get a 1Gs/s digitizer hooked up to a light peak link using an FPGA. Even a few of them, or even more slower digitizers. Gigabit Ethernet, can't handle a two channel, 16 bit, 250Ms/s data stream. A 12 bit 250Ms/s chip from Linear costs about $130 qty 1; a 500Ms/s one from Intersil goes for $12 more. A 12 bit 1Gs/s costs about $900.
Perhaps this bit of perspective is important. I'm more worried, though, about complacency. The sensationalist bias in media may just be what's needed to combat complacency. Or maybe it just desensitizes us due to information overload to such an extent that we turn back to complacency. There's always an unintended consequence somewhere there;)
Regarding privacy intrusions / delusional internet use policies, etc: so far it has worked for me to simply cross out and/or amend/modify the terms I disagree with on various forms that the school wants parents to sign. They are bureaucrats: they don't read it. They just look for the signature and file it (at least here). I also refused to sign a couple of "not applicable yet" blanket forms that really apply to middle- and high-schoolers. I count on them forgetting to check later, ha.
I also flatly refuse participation in some things that they make-believe to be compulsory. The school has a mobile dentist office come in to do dental exams every year. I simply never signed the release form in spite of nagging to do so: our kids have a dentist, so thank you and b'uh-bye.
The issue of having parents sign various privacy-limiting agreements is quite iffy, it seems that at least here they can do nothing to force you to sign anything. The kid has to go to school (law says so), the kid goes to school, your end of the deal is done. This may vary state-to-state, of course.
Maybe that's where the real problem is in the U.S.A. States should stop accepting federal money, for any purpose. Local school districts should stop accepting state money, for any purpose. What's wrong with that? It seems to me that money coming from higher levels is there merely as a bait-and-switch to spread federal influence on the states, and state influence on local communities. The freed up money should be returned (as tax cuts) to the source, then the school districts can increase taxes to compensate to some extent.
It's a really fucked up system of funding that bases money allocation on measured attendance. It should be based on legally necessary enrollment, since school is compulsory after all. If a kid lives in given school district and is enrolled in given school, the school gets the money. If the kid fails to show up: so much the better for others, right? That's how it was IIRC in Poland. How is it now -- I don't know.
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"Now you cannot defend that it wasn't you, because if you do then you've still violated the EULA" -- WTF has breaking the EULA to do with someone doing something bad on the connection that you "sublet"? Those are two separate issues. The former is an issue of contract law and is solely between you and the ISP. The latter may be a matter of copyright or criminal law (media file sharing, kiddie porn sharing, etc).
If the local prosecutor wants to go after whomever was seen, say, torrent-sharing illegal porn from some IP address, they are interested in just that and not in enforcing the EULA or service contract yuu had with the ISP.
No, EULA is not "enforced" like you claim in the 2nd paragraph. You're just confused and make shit up. It doesn't make any sense.
There's nothing illegal about connection "subletting". You may be in breach of contract, but there's no law that prevents such "subletting" otherwise. I don't think that the word illegal applies to breach of contract?
If you are trying to defend youself from, say, accusations of accessing kiddie porn, the issue of whether connection sharing was in breach of the contract you had with your ISP shouldn't matter. The ISP can of course suy you separately, but really both issues got nothing to do with each other.
HAHA. $185 is an order of magnitude less than many other journals would charge. PLoS Biology will milk you $2900 per article.
IOW, if you TRIM over the whole medium, you're guaranteed that the drive will physically erase everything in short order. That's good, isn't it?
No, this doesn't suggest anything. People win lottery, you know.
This rant gives even more examples, even if it misses Heeding The Call. And thanks to you I've spent 3 hours on youtube instead of working, great ;)
I find it interesting that when one googles for pachelbel canon and heeding the call together, only your post comes up, or else I gave up browsing too early. I know that it may be that no one else had explicitly mentioned it, but I still find it a bit strange that it's not a widely known piece of trivia given popularity of both the canon and Hammerfall. I've tried to find the similarities, and lo and behold, one can start from the now obvious and go from there.
Heeding The Call takes its entire melody, and even most of its chord progression, directly from Canon in D--and yet they sound so different that a non-musician wouldn't notice that they had anything in common at all.
Very interesting. Obviously I'm not a musician ;)
OK, call me very, very thick today, but I don't understand what you really wanted to say. Do you mean that Pachelbel's Canon [in D?] and Heeding The Call share a melody? When you are comparing Stokes's non-deterministic additions to the difference between PC and HtC, do you mean they are both big?
What kind of a genius must one be to divulge something just because someone asks nicely? It's like social engineering without the 'engineering' part. I routinely give randomly generated answers to various privacy invading "security" questions on bank sites: it's none of their damn business what is the name of my first girlfriend. On pretty much every non-governmental, non-credit-related form, I always use a made up number when asked for the SSN. They are too lazy to figure out what artificial keys are? I give them one.
Stupid parents give out their kids' SSN numbers without thinking. What's new? Google isn't really to blame, I don't think.
Please don't twist my words. Small incremental changes won't work. Doing a lot of little scales up to be just that -- little. Small reductions do nothing much besides making us feel better. They have no real impact. See Sustainable Energy -- without the hot air for numbers to back it up.
Looked at in another way: you have about 0.3ml per 0.5m^2 of surface area.
One more thing, in case I wasn't explicit enough: the oil layer thickness should be invariant with respect to scaling. The oil in the GOM, if it were to cover the whole Gulf, would create a 0.5um layer. In your tank, you should use a layer of the same thickness. The amount of oil in your tank is then (Vs/Ag)*at.
You are correct: 0.2ml is the amount to add to your tank.
The problem is that a 50% reduction is not much. We need to think in terms of orders of magnitude to make real change.
More likely natural-gas derived resins, but generally it comes out of the ground, yes ;)
It doesn't scale as you imply. It's not about the amount of water, because oil doesn't really dissolve all that well in water, and it doesn't stay dispersed in water for very long. It's all about surface area at the interfaces: the interface with air, the interface with seabed, and perhaps a thermal or density boundary or two in between.
So, let's redo the math and see what difference it makes (if any).
Supposedly, we had Vs=780E3 m^3 spilled.
Per EPA, there's Vg=2.4E15 m^3 of water in the GOM; the area of the GOM Ag=1.6E12 m^2.
The volumetric fraction is Vs/Vg=3.2E-10; this makes your tank's absolute spill volume of vs=7.0E-11m^3 imply total tank volume of 0.2m^3, or 200L. So far the numbers are in the right ballpark at least.
So now, let's look at the areas. Your tank could be a cube about 0.58m on the side, having the water surface of at=0.34m^2.
The spilled oil, if it were to cover the whole surface of the GOM, would do so in a layer Vs/Ag=0.5um thick. That's a volume of 1.6E-7m^3 = 0.2ml. This is nothing to scoff at, and it may make a mess in your tank. Assuming the hydrocarbon molecule diameter in crude to be on the order of 1nm, we're looking at a layer about 500 molecules thick.
You'd probably need to check if agitation or some other artificial wave action would help with evaporation and coalescing the heavier hydrocarbons into tarballs. Then of course tarball behavior may be benign, or it may be messy, I have no clue. Could it kill your coral and other life in the tank? Maybe it's worth checking it out.
Apart from the video display, everything else can run quite satisfactorily off a single USB 2.0 hub, as long as you don't mix device speeds. This means you can have a network adapter to attach to the house wiring, backup storage, USB audio, etc. Again -- as long as all devices are of the same speed, the bandwidth is merely shared. Using multiple device speeds causes lower speed devices to rob higher speed devices of bandwidth, since the USB trunk (hub PC) switches to a lower speed when talking to lower speed device.
I will tell you of one specific application I have in mind: high speed digitizers. Modern graphic hardware can easily process (filter, render, etc) continuous 1Gsample/s data streams. With a commoditized high-speed interconnect, you can have a laptop-based "digital phosphor" oscilloscope that can pretty much blow out of the water every DSO and DPO out there that costs less than say 30k$. Same goes for real-time spectrum analysis, demodulation, software-defined radio, etc.
It should be fairly easy to get a 1Gs/s digitizer hooked up to a light peak link using an FPGA. Even a few of them, or even more slower digitizers. Gigabit Ethernet, can't handle a two channel, 16 bit, 250Ms/s data stream. A 12 bit 250Ms/s chip from Linear costs about $130 qty 1; a 500Ms/s one from Intersil goes for $12 more. A 12 bit 1Gs/s costs about $900.
Perhaps this bit of perspective is important. I'm more worried, though, about complacency. The sensationalist bias in media may just be what's needed to combat complacency. Or maybe it just desensitizes us due to information overload to such an extent that we turn back to complacency. There's always an unintended consequence somewhere there ;)
Sounds like an urban legend. Give at least two verifiable examples, please.
Regarding privacy intrusions / delusional internet use policies, etc: so far it has worked for me to simply cross out and/or amend/modify the terms I disagree with on various forms that the school wants parents to sign. They are bureaucrats: they don't read it. They just look for the signature and file it (at least here). I also refused to sign a couple of "not applicable yet" blanket forms that really apply to middle- and high-schoolers. I count on them forgetting to check later, ha.
I also flatly refuse participation in some things that they make-believe to be compulsory. The school has a mobile dentist office come in to do dental exams every year. I simply never signed the release form in spite of nagging to do so: our kids have a dentist, so thank you and b'uh-bye.
The issue of having parents sign various privacy-limiting agreements is quite iffy, it seems that at least here they can do nothing to force you to sign anything. The kid has to go to school (law says so), the kid goes to school, your end of the deal is done. This may vary state-to-state, of course.
Very, very interesting! Thank you!
Maybe that's where the real problem is in the U.S.A. States should stop accepting federal money, for any purpose. Local school districts should stop accepting state money, for any purpose. What's wrong with that? It seems to me that money coming from higher levels is there merely as a bait-and-switch to spread federal influence on the states, and state influence on local communities. The freed up money should be returned (as tax cuts) to the source, then the school districts can increase taxes to compensate to some extent.
It's a really fucked up system of funding that bases money allocation on measured attendance. It should be based on legally necessary enrollment, since school is compulsory after all. If a kid lives in given school district and is enrolled in given school, the school gets the money. If the kid fails to show up: so much the better for others, right? That's how it was IIRC in Poland. How is it now -- I don't know.