To charge a battery, you must apply reverse voltage at a HIGHER voltage than the battery, otherwise it will never charge. Your 12V car battery is charged at around 14V. A higher voltage results in a faster charging. However, battery composition must be compatible with the higher charging voltage. If you try to charge a battery too fast, it can heat up and cause bad things to happen. You can also shorten the life of the battery, both due to heat and overdriving the chemical reactions.
It already happened. I'm at work, so I don't really feel like trying to google for "baby child porn court case bath pictures"
Said baby was just that, young enough that his bathtub was the kitchen sink. Said picture involved him happily waving a bright colored toy around and splashing his parents.
His parents got into trouble when they took the film to the developers.
A lawn? Now that's wierd. Women's shoes I can almost understand in comparison.
I guess it comes down to things like the Big Johnson t-shirts. If you don't have a dirty mind, you might think the person wearing it simply really likes baseball, golf, etc...
Actually, that would be closer to the French system.
Not convincing the prosecuter the subject is of age is enough to get you into court, which, while bad enough already, isn't a conviction. The prosecuter then has to convince the jury that the subject in the picture is underage, beyond a reasonable doubt.
The defense attorny would probably have some interesting research expenses with things titled "barely legal", and the jury would be exposed to a smattering of very young looking 21 year olds. Think about the various high school shows. Most of the "teens" in that are actually over 21. In the states, while 18 is the "legal" age for sex (some states vary as for age and circumstances), 21 is usually the legal age for porn. On the other hand the prosecuter would be trying to track down the "model" to prove that she(or he!) was underage.
I remember some family was prosecuted once for taking pictures of their baby during bath time. I saw a waist up sample of one of them, and it shows a happy baby waving a bright toy around.
Another thing is that most child molestion is done by people the parents know and even trust. Relatives, teachers, priests, etc.
Is internet child porn such a problem that they need this? I almost think that a simple "If you find out anything about child porn, let us know."
Also, are there laws in australia for photo developers to report suspected child porn? I don't care if you're a grocery store clerk. If you suspect child molestation/abuse, you should report it.
As it is, I'd almost call them up and state: "Do to the lack of accurate and effective filters, our service could theoretically be used to access child porn by any user."
partly due to pressure from the specialist photography groups
Sounds almost like the USA "safe highways" speedtrap profit centers. Where you can have a local resident blaze by who doesn't get stopped, but you will for 1mph over if you don't have the proper plates.
And I agree, professional photography, especially in the almost industrial setting of class pictures and such, doesn't cost that much. "Oh, we have to pay for the film and developing the negatives for all the people who don't buy photos", and my response would be "what are you doing still using film?
Actually, from what I understand the zip encryption method is actually pretty weak. Less than DVD encryption weak. So a smart gateway could brute force the zip pretty easily.
Maybe it's stronger if your using the latest version of zip, which a virus probably wouldn't want to do, as it'd be more difficult to get itself executed.
Personally, I use and like RAR. I paid for a licensed copy some time ago, and still love it.
Oops. Completely forgot why ethanol would be in the list:
Fuel cells. We're getting to the point that the price is starting to drop and performance get pretty good. The increase in fuel efficiency of the cell negates the lower energy density of ethanol, and ethanol is far easier to produce, store, and transport than hydrogen, while also being far easier to build a fuel cell for. Gasoline isn't very good for them. Oddly enough, it's likely to require a different fuel stock, as the detergents and additives they add for internal combustion also make the fuels worse for fuel cells, it clogs or poisons them.
From what I've read it depends on how you figure the energy cost of making it. The figures I've seen are that ethonal is now ~30% over the energy cost of making it.
Besides, a 1/3 hit for going to renewable, while tough, is doable. Manufacturers would simply have to put larger fuel tanks on.
In the renewable energy future, I see vehicle's fuel being selected less for universiality than for most appropriate for the task.
Electric for close range communters, bio-diesel for trucks, ethanol for those who simply must have a gasoline analog. Of course, I think that bio-diesel is going to be a strong contender, seeing as how from what I've read the process is less convoluted, and I've driven european diesels. I actually didn't realize it was a diesel until I went to fill it up. The problem with that here is the sulfer levels allowed burn out the turbodiesel engines. Of course, biodiesel is naturally sulfer free, so it'd work better in those engines.
The problem with diesel versus ethanol is that you get higher yeilds per acre from ethanol, especially if you use suger beets or cane versus corn.
Is right click, "Block images from this site" quick enough for you?
I also run flash-block, so it simply shows a play icon (fairly large so it's easy to hit if you want to play it) for flash stuff. If it's content, I enable it with a click.
Yes, OPEC wants oil prices within certain ranges, because alternatives start getting cheaper. I think that the latest price increases will put ethanol more on a parity with gasoline, so I think that E85 might start showing up in more places.
It will also help electric(at least in areas where electricity is cheap) and biodiesel(yumm, turbodiesels...).
Of course, in my town there's exactly ONE alternative fuel station. It's a natural gas station run by the local power/natural gas company. It's not even attended.
Java & flash are REQUIRED for work. I get no option. At home I use firefox w/flashblock.
I'll admit to liking a few joecartoon type sites...
And as for enabling/disabling java and such, it's a very annoying process, and the version of IE we use likes to annoy me with even more annoying popups going "you have java turned off and this page wants to use it".
Nope, I won't put it on the floor, and refridgerated goods go back in the appropriate section. Honestly I've had this problem more in department stores anyways. Clothing/books/DVDs are easy to dump.
But finding a manager or otherwise publicly dropping your items in a fashion letting the higher ups know that they just lost a sale due to their lines makes a big difference.
Like I said, I wasn't really looking for an employee, I'm looking for a manager. There's a few stores where the managers sometimes end up manning the cashiers, but they do have a job function that often precludes them from manning a register. After all, they have to be available to unlock the register or handle any other problems.
And if the lines are that long and employees aren't manning registers, there a problem with how the business is run. Oh, and I'm aware that many stockers aren't qualified to run a register.
Well, I just built my home system. The only 80MM fan in the system is the CPU fan. The Powersupply and two case fans are all 120MM. If you figure it out, each 120MM is worth arount 2.25 80MM fans in air movement, all else being equal. Make some sacrifices, such as rotational speed, and a 120MM fan will last longer, be quieter, and still move more air than an equal 80MM. My case moves a large amount of air, and is still far quieter than my old compter. Best yet, it's a deeper hum, sounds more like a box fan than a computer.
I agree, the annoying ads ruin it for everybody else. It's just as easy to block all flash ads, not just the bad ones. It's also easy to block all images rather than just the rotating gif in annoying colors. Sure, there's the 'just rotate once' option, but again, there's legitimate rotating gifs.
So when the annoyance reaches a certain critical level, like it has for spam and web-ads, the filtration methods get more powerful and easier to use.
A closer analogy would be a television, or DVD player.
There's a certain sweet spot for television. Too many ads and you'll lose viewers, and features such as VCR & TIVO ad skips gain importance.
Such as the disable menu flag on DVD's. As long as DVD manufacturers only used the 'feature' for the FBI/Interpol warning, people weren't too pissed off. As soon as Disney started setting it for their 5+ minute ad bonanzas at the beginning, people starting shoping for players that ignore the flag(and often getting region & macrovision free in the process).
The whole problem came from, like many 'features' from microsoft, is that, used correctly, they are useful features. Now, I have seen a couple sites that open a new window in a more or less useless way, but as a legitimate site(which is why I like white lists). I have also seen sites that use popups in a legitimate fashion, for control and form entry. But just like the scripting in microsoft office that allows a user to mass mail things like customized form letters to customers ultimatly, when combined with other features allows the macroviruses to reign.
There's two that are tied for worse: Those ones that play a sound. It's really annoying when you have two different java ads playing some sound. But here you are trying to read a page, and unless you turn your speakers off or something, you have an engine or something running. The second are the 'fake popups', that are really obvious for me because they mimic the default windowsXP theme, which I don't even use at work (where I HAVE to use WXP & IE). They 'float' over the text you're trying to read.
That's how I saw their advertising. Sure, keep any three movies as long as you like. Just pay our montly subscription fee of $$$. Oh, and you're only allowed to have 3 movies out at a time.
Bingo- And it might explain the 25% for the other store.
You want R- movies? Go to blockbuster, they have better selection. Want the NC17+ movies, go to that store. And from my few pops into the adult section, they also tend to stack the videos much more tightly in there, such that 150 sq feet there would take up almost 600 as they stack them outside.
And yes, part of the Blockbuster thing was being 'famility friendly' meaning that you don't have to worry about your kids accidentally grabbing a copy of debbie does dallas.
And people, Blockbuster stocks STANDARD DVD's, they're the same as what you'll find a best buy. Their only 'censorship' is that they simply won't stock titles that don't meat their standards. Making your own DVD master is much more expensive than making a CD master, and Blockbuster doesn't have the purchasing power that Best Buy has. Best buy can sell thousands of censored CD's, making it profitable despite any extra expense.
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And think of what you could brew while charging, coffee, tea, hot chocolate. Heck, even soups would be nice and hot by the time you're done!
Wrong!
To charge a battery, you must apply reverse voltage at a HIGHER voltage than the battery, otherwise it will never charge. Your 12V car battery is charged at around 14V. A higher voltage results in a faster charging. However, battery composition must be compatible with the higher charging voltage. If you try to charge a battery too fast, it can heat up and cause bad things to happen. You can also shorten the life of the battery, both due to heat and overdriving the chemical reactions.
Nothing about LI-ION batteries, but quite a bit about car batteries
It already happened. I'm at work, so I don't really feel like trying to google for "baby child porn court case bath pictures"
Said baby was just that, young enough that his bathtub was the kitchen sink. Said picture involved him happily waving a bright colored toy around and splashing his parents.
His parents got into trouble when they took the film to the developers.
A lawn? Now that's wierd. Women's shoes I can almost understand in comparison.
I guess it comes down to things like the Big Johnson t-shirts. If you don't have a dirty mind, you might think the person wearing it simply really likes baseball, golf, etc...
Actually, that would be closer to the French system.
Not convincing the prosecuter the subject is of age is enough to get you into court, which, while bad enough already, isn't a conviction. The prosecuter then has to convince the jury that the subject in the picture is underage, beyond a reasonable doubt.
The defense attorny would probably have some interesting research expenses with things titled "barely legal", and the jury would be exposed to a smattering of very young looking 21 year olds. Think about the various high school shows. Most of the "teens" in that are actually over 21. In the states, while 18 is the "legal" age for sex (some states vary as for age and circumstances), 21 is usually the legal age for porn. On the other hand the prosecuter would be trying to track down the "model" to prove that she(or he!) was underage.
I remember some family was prosecuted once for taking pictures of their baby during bath time. I saw a waist up sample of one of them, and it shows a happy baby waving a bright toy around.
Another thing is that most child molestion is done by people the parents know and even trust. Relatives, teachers, priests, etc.
Is internet child porn such a problem that they need this? I almost think that a simple "If you find out anything about child porn, let us know."
Also, are there laws in australia for photo developers to report suspected child porn? I don't care if you're a grocery store clerk. If you suspect child molestation/abuse, you should report it.
As it is, I'd almost call them up and state: "Do to the lack of accurate and effective filters, our service could theoretically be used to access child porn by any user."
partly due to pressure from the specialist photography groups
Sounds almost like the USA "safe highways" speedtrap profit centers. Where you can have a local resident blaze by who doesn't get stopped, but you will for 1mph over if you don't have the proper plates.
And I agree, professional photography, especially in the almost industrial setting of class pictures and such, doesn't cost that much. "Oh, we have to pay for the film and developing the negatives for all the people who don't buy photos", and my response would be "what are you doing still using film?
The problem you get here is that if you include the executable, the executable gets blocked by the antivirus gateway.
It's simply RAR is less popular than ZIP so some gateways aren't programmed to scan them. Lots are.
Our antivirus gatway scans through a huge number of file compression methods. Basically everything winzip can read, and more.
Actually, from what I understand the zip encryption method is actually pretty weak. Less than DVD encryption weak. So a smart gateway could brute force the zip pretty easily.
Maybe it's stronger if your using the latest version of zip, which a virus probably wouldn't want to do, as it'd be more difficult to get itself executed.
Personally, I use and like RAR. I paid for a licensed copy some time ago, and still love it.
Oops. Completely forgot why ethanol would be in the list:
Fuel cells. We're getting to the point that the price is starting to drop and performance get pretty good. The increase in fuel efficiency of the cell negates the lower energy density of ethanol, and ethanol is far easier to produce, store, and transport than hydrogen, while also being far easier to build a fuel cell for. Gasoline isn't very good for them. Oddly enough, it's likely to require a different fuel stock, as the detergents and additives they add for internal combustion also make the fuels worse for fuel cells, it clogs or poisons them.
From what I've read it depends on how you figure the energy cost of making it. The figures I've seen are that ethonal is now ~30% over the energy cost of making it.
Besides, a 1/3 hit for going to renewable, while tough, is doable. Manufacturers would simply have to put larger fuel tanks on.
In the renewable energy future, I see vehicle's fuel being selected less for universiality than for most appropriate for the task.
Electric for close range communters, bio-diesel for trucks, ethanol for those who simply must have a gasoline analog. Of course, I think that bio-diesel is going to be a strong contender, seeing as how from what I've read the process is less convoluted, and I've driven european diesels. I actually didn't realize it was a diesel until I went to fill it up. The problem with that here is the sulfer levels allowed burn out the turbodiesel engines. Of course, biodiesel is naturally sulfer free, so it'd work better in those engines.
The problem with diesel versus ethanol is that you get higher yeilds per acre from ethanol, especially if you use suger beets or cane versus corn.
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I'd forgotten about those!
Of course, I tend to group those as the "in-window popups".
Is right click, "Block images from this site" quick enough for you?
I also run flash-block, so it simply shows a play icon (fairly large so it's easy to hit if you want to play it) for flash stuff. If it's content, I enable it with a click.
Yes, OPEC wants oil prices within certain ranges, because alternatives start getting cheaper. I think that the latest price increases will put ethanol more on a parity with gasoline, so I think that E85 might start showing up in more places.
It will also help electric(at least in areas where electricity is cheap) and biodiesel(yumm, turbodiesels...).
Of course, in my town there's exactly ONE alternative fuel station. It's a natural gas station run by the local power/natural gas company. It's not even attended.
Java & flash are REQUIRED for work. I get no option. At home I use firefox w/flashblock.
I'll admit to liking a few joecartoon type sites...
And as for enabling/disabling java and such, it's a very annoying process, and the version of IE we use likes to annoy me with even more annoying popups going "you have java turned off and this page wants to use it".
Argghhh I hate work sometimes.
Nope, I won't put it on the floor, and refridgerated goods go back in the appropriate section. Honestly I've had this problem more in department stores anyways. Clothing/books/DVDs are easy to dump.
But finding a manager or otherwise publicly dropping your items in a fashion letting the higher ups know that they just lost a sale due to their lines makes a big difference.
Like I said, I wasn't really looking for an employee, I'm looking for a manager. There's a few stores where the managers sometimes end up manning the cashiers, but they do have a job function that often precludes them from manning a register. After all, they have to be available to unlock the register or handle any other problems.
And if the lines are that long and employees aren't manning registers, there a problem with how the business is run. Oh, and I'm aware that many stockers aren't qualified to run a register.
Too true. Of course, as the AC pointed out, porn watcher != child molester, but it's more along the line of do the adults have that impression.
Also you have the bible thumpers who like to boycott and protest any 'adult' oriented site.
Well, I just built my home system. The only 80MM fan in the system is the CPU fan. The Powersupply and two case fans are all 120MM. If you figure it out, each 120MM is worth arount 2.25 80MM fans in air movement, all else being equal. Make some sacrifices, such as rotational speed, and a 120MM fan will last longer, be quieter, and still move more air than an equal 80MM. My case moves a large amount of air, and is still far quieter than my old compter. Best yet, it's a deeper hum, sounds more like a box fan than a computer.
Better yet would be to disable flash for a site.
I agree, the annoying ads ruin it for everybody else. It's just as easy to block all flash ads, not just the bad ones. It's also easy to block all images rather than just the rotating gif in annoying colors. Sure, there's the 'just rotate once' option, but again, there's legitimate rotating gifs.
So when the annoyance reaches a certain critical level, like it has for spam and web-ads, the filtration methods get more powerful and easier to use.
A closer analogy would be a television, or DVD player.
There's a certain sweet spot for television. Too many ads and you'll lose viewers, and features such as VCR & TIVO ad skips gain importance.
Such as the disable menu flag on DVD's. As long as DVD manufacturers only used the 'feature' for the FBI/Interpol warning, people weren't too pissed off. As soon as Disney started setting it for their 5+ minute ad bonanzas at the beginning, people starting shoping for players that ignore the flag(and often getting region & macrovision free in the process).
The whole problem came from, like many 'features' from microsoft, is that, used correctly, they are useful features. Now, I have seen a couple sites that open a new window in a more or less useless way, but as a legitimate site(which is why I like white lists). I have also seen sites that use popups in a legitimate fashion, for control and form entry. But just like the scripting in microsoft office that allows a user to mass mail things like customized form letters to customers ultimatly, when combined with other features allows the macroviruses to reign.
Actually, animations aren't the worst.
There's two that are tied for worse:
Those ones that play a sound. It's really annoying when you have two different java ads playing some sound. But here you are trying to read a page, and unless you turn your speakers off or something, you have an engine or something running.
The second are the 'fake popups', that are really obvious for me because they mimic the default windowsXP theme, which I don't even use at work (where I HAVE to use WXP & IE). They 'float' over the text you're trying to read.
I've found that to be most effective in getting stores to hire more cashiers. Even better is dumping on a manager if you can find one.
That's how I saw their advertising. Sure, keep any three movies as long as you like. Just pay our montly subscription fee of $$$. Oh, and you're only allowed to have 3 movies out at a time.
Bingo- And it might explain the 25% for the other store.
You want R- movies? Go to blockbuster, they have better selection. Want the NC17+ movies, go to that store. And from my few pops into the adult section, they also tend to stack the videos much more tightly in there, such that 150 sq feet there would take up almost 600 as they stack them outside.
And yes, part of the Blockbuster thing was being 'famility friendly' meaning that you don't have to worry about your kids accidentally grabbing a copy of debbie does dallas.
And people, Blockbuster stocks STANDARD DVD's, they're the same as what you'll find a best buy. Their only 'censorship' is that they simply won't stock titles that don't meat their standards. Making your own DVD master is much more expensive than making a CD master, and Blockbuster doesn't have the purchasing power that Best Buy has. Best buy can sell thousands of censored CD's, making it profitable despite any extra expense.