Actually amtrak (the US's passenger rail system) doesn't have security at all. You can arrive as your train boards.
Depends on the station. At Penn, I've seen them out with sniffing dogs on occasion and checking IDs to see if they match tickets, but very rarely. Security theater if you ask me. 1. If you wanted to kill a bunch of people, just blow yourself up at the station during rush hour: 100s of people packed shoulder to shoulder, all watching the big board and not really paying attention to surroundings, and no security at all to get onto concourse. 2. If you really wanted to get onto a train with contraband, board at New Haven or some other intermediate stop. You don't even really need a ticket. A resourceful person could just palm a seat check from above another passenger's seat.
Substantially reduced cost? I don't know about other parts of the country, but BBY to NYP by rail is roughly the same cost as BOS to JFK by air as long as you purchase at least a week in advance. Now I always go by rail whenever I can because I loathe flying (I'd rather take the Fungwa), but if they can't run conventional rail much cheaper than air transit, what makes you think maglev operational costs will be less?
What I've done in our repository is create a/users tree. Every person with commit access gets a directory here if they want one. People have free reign to do whatever they want within their user area. They can create as many private branches as they need without fear of fouling up the/branches tree.
Now, I go on a bit about this, cause I think it's disgusting that banks sell shares. The shareholders _should_ be the people who've put their money in there. (yes yes, naive idealism, I know)
I'm pretty sure what you're describing is a credit union -- it's basically a not-for-profit, depositor owned bank.
State IDs are on the verge of being irrelelvant because the states are starting to issue them to non-citizens. There must be a way to discriminate between citizen and non-citizen for many essential foundations of any sovereign society such as voting.
You do not need an ID of any sort to vote. This is very important because for most people, citizenship is a birthright, not tied to a piece of paper. When you register to vote in MA, they ask you for an SSN or driver's license ID, but if you have neither you just write "NONE" and they assign you a voter ID number. At the polls, they just verbally ask for your street and name and cross you off the list. I've never been asked to prove my identity.
The subway tunnels and probably the foundations of a lot of the larger buildings are below the water table and would flood. The streets above would eventually collapse as the iron and steel supports corrode away.
Interestingly we have the opposite problem here in Boston. A lot of our older buildings are built on wooden pilings. The pilings are driven into landfill and sit below the water table. Over the course of the Big Dig, they did a lot of pumping for the tunnels. The water table dropped and the pilings, deprived of their preservative, began to rot.
Viruses are pretty small. You'd probably be better off with a full respirator than a simple mask in the event of a bird flu pandemic or some such. An N95 mask will supposedly stop bacterial pathogens like TB, but I wouldn't bet on one keeping out everything. The little dust masks people were wearing on the subway during the SARS scare a few years ago will do nothing but might make you feel better.
I don't use gmail except as a throwaway account, so I'm not super familiar with how it handles threads. However, MUAs should use the Message-Id, In-Reply-To, and References headers for threading, not Subject. Assuming non-busted mail clients, changing the Subject header shouldn't break the thread.
That said, if you really wanted to manually group a set of messages, couldn't you just use gmail's label feature and apply the same label to all the messages in the thread?
However, to enforce copyright, the author has to register the work within a certain timeframe and zealously defend his rights. The fact that he took Viacom material and presented it suggests that he was not zealous in defending his copyright. So, he may have lost the chance to sue Viacom and prevail.
Registering copyright is no longer required. All works published after 1989 are automatically protected. Also, you do not have to "zealously defend" copyright — you can be pretty selective about seeking damages without damaging your rights. You're probably thinking of trademarks.
CDMA is a stratum-0 time source, so I would say the cell network is pretty accurate. Individual cell phones might suck, but it's not a reflection on the network.
Current track prices are way too high ($1.30 for usable content with an incredibly limited selection), and while allofmp3's were too low (10-25 cents/track depending on length and compression), a compromise somewhere between the two (maybe 50 cents for no-DRM) would likely be quite successful.
I wouldn't say that allofmp3 prices were too low. At $0.03/MB, a 3:30 FLAC song weighs in at 22.5MB/$0.67 and a ~62 minute album is 417MB/$12.51. I can walk into Newbury Comics and get most albums on CD for $10 to $14. Buying music online should be cheaper for the consumer, not just more profitable for the distributer, who doesn't pay any of the costs associated with physical media. $1.30 per track on iTunes is outrageous.
If you want to buy a console to play Blu-Ray movies, then your argument holds water. If you wanted it to play games, you'd happily buy a 360 and some games or extra controllers instead of the PS3.
I'm haven't made up my mind yet, but I'm leaning PS3 mostly because of SCE. Given that many third parties are going multiplatform, it seems like the main differentiator is going to be first and second party exclusives. And ICO, Shadow of the Colossus, and God of War argue pretty strongly for Sony, especially since I don't care about Halo. I would like to give Viva Pinata a try though. (On the other hand, LittleBigPlanet.)
The other question is where are the quirky third party exclusives going to come out -- things like Rez, Okami, Odin Sphere, KoTOR, Katamari, Amplitude, Eternal Darkness, Ikaruga, Guitar Hero*. Last generation, the PS2 seems like it got the lion's share of these. This round, I'm hoping it's the Wii.
I'm rooting for the PS3 not because I love Sony and hate MS, but because I don't want to buy a PS3 and a 360. I just want to play the games.
* Yes, some of these are no longer exclusives, but they debuted and remained on one platform for a long time. Guitar Hero was exclusive to PS2 for 1 1/2 years, for example.
Allofmp3s users weren't looking for a convenient way to buy music; they wanted a way to buy music at the price they valued it at, which just happens to be so far below cost that just about all all of the purchase price went to the "middlemen" Slashdot seems to despise so much.
allofmp3 provided lossless, DRM-free music for bands whose music could not be downloaded in a lossless format at any price. A 3:30 song encoded with FLAC weighs in at 22.5MB. At $0.03/MB, that comes to $0.67 for an average pop song. A ~62 minute album is 417MB = $12.51. I can walk into Newbury Comics and get most albums on CD for $10 to $14. Looks like a fair price to me.
allofmp3 claimed that they were paying the Russian equivalent of BMI, and the RIAA said otherwise. How is the average consumer supposed to tell the difference, especially given the histrionics the RIAA is known for?
It seems like if the labels weren't so greedy and paranoid, we could have an unambiguously legal, DRM-free, lossless download service in the states that charges a lot less than iTunes. Give the copyright holder 25% of the purchase price, let the provider keep the other 75% for operating costs and profit. Seems like a pretty good deal considering the rights holder risks nothing, pays nothing, and doesn't have to lift a finger besides cashing the checks. If they wanted to be really nice they could throw in a PDF of the album art.
Often times, those pictures are there to authenticate the bank to you, not the other way around. The theory is that only your bank knows what picture you initially selected. If you see your picture on the login page, then it's legitimate. If you don't, it's a phishing site. Bank of America, for example, works this way.
I always wondered what happened to the spirit of the people in the 60s and 70s who were willing to gather by the thousands to protest something.
You're kidding right? The months preceding the March 22nd invasion were marked by some of the largest antiwar protests ever. Millions of people around the world took to the streets. Unfortunately, unless it degenerates into a riot, an antiwar action is lucky to get a 15 second spot on the evening news.
One can't even make the argument that porno _theaters_ are banned, because they do still exist. The fact that you can't find them on every corner is likely more that of market forces than overt censorship.
In many (most?) municipalities, adult entertainment can only take place in areas that are zoned for it or have entertainment or cabaret licenses. So historically, the lack of adult venues has been the result of censorship on the local level. These days, I imagine that DVDs and the internet have supplanted theaters.
I bet you'd see a lot more strip bars if zoning weren't an issue though.
It gets better: If this thing is really 40% efficient, then dissipated heat should only be 120W. The other 80W are hopefully getting converted to electricity;)
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Substantially reduced cost? I don't know about other parts of the country, but BBY to NYP by rail is roughly the same cost as BOS to JFK by air as long as you purchase at least a week in advance. Now I always go by rail whenever I can because I loathe flying (I'd rather take the Fungwa), but if they can't run conventional rail much cheaper than air transit, what makes you think maglev operational costs will be less?
What I've done in our repository is create a /users tree. Every person with commit access gets a directory here if they want one. People have free reign to do whatever they want within their user area. They can create as many private branches as they need without fear of fouling up the /branches tree.
Alternatively you can use svk.
His webbing is designed to break down within 90 minutes or so.
:P
Duh!
The subway tunnels and probably the foundations of a lot of the larger buildings are below the water table and would flood. The streets above would eventually collapse as the iron and steel supports corrode away.
Interestingly we have the opposite problem here in Boston. A lot of our older buildings are built on wooden pilings. The pilings are driven into landfill and sit below the water table. Over the course of the Big Dig, they did a lot of pumping for the tunnels. The water table dropped and the pilings, deprived of their preservative, began to rot.
Viruses are pretty small. You'd probably be better off with a full respirator than a simple mask in the event of a bird flu pandemic or some such. An N95 mask will supposedly stop bacterial pathogens like TB, but I wouldn't bet on one keeping out everything. The little dust masks people were wearing on the subway during the SARS scare a few years ago will do nothing but might make you feel better.
I don't use gmail except as a throwaway account, so I'm not super familiar with how it handles threads. However, MUAs should use the Message-Id, In-Reply-To, and References headers for threading, not Subject. Assuming non-busted mail clients, changing the Subject header shouldn't break the thread.
That said, if you really wanted to manually group a set of messages, couldn't you just use gmail's label feature and apply the same label to all the messages in the thread?
CDMA is a stratum-0 time source, so I would say the cell network is pretty accurate. Individual cell phones might suck, but it's not a reflection on the network.
(Part of this post was recycled from this one)
No, you're right: since it was an electrical fire, you probably don't need no water. I'd just let the motherfucker burn if I were you.
I don't buy it. If it doesn't have a fancy-sounding Latin name, it can't be legal (regus somethingsomething QED)
The other question is where are the quirky third party exclusives going to come out -- things like Rez, Okami, Odin Sphere, KoTOR, Katamari, Amplitude, Eternal Darkness, Ikaruga, Guitar Hero*. Last generation, the PS2 seems like it got the lion's share of these. This round, I'm hoping it's the Wii.
I'm rooting for the PS3 not because I love Sony and hate MS, but because I don't want to buy a PS3 and a 360. I just want to play the games.
* Yes, some of these are no longer exclusives, but they debuted and remained on one platform for a long time. Guitar Hero was exclusive to PS2 for 1 1/2 years, for example.
It's not the heat, it's the humidity! :-P
allofmp3 claimed that they were paying the Russian equivalent of BMI, and the RIAA said otherwise. How is the average consumer supposed to tell the difference, especially given the histrionics the RIAA is known for?
It seems like if the labels weren't so greedy and paranoid, we could have an unambiguously legal, DRM-free, lossless download service in the states that charges a lot less than iTunes. Give the copyright holder 25% of the purchase price, let the provider keep the other 75% for operating costs and profit. Seems like a pretty good deal considering the rights holder risks nothing, pays nothing, and doesn't have to lift a finger besides cashing the checks. If they wanted to be really nice they could throw in a PDF of the album art.
He should totally join SCUL.
Often times, those pictures are there to authenticate the bank to you, not the other way around. The theory is that only your bank knows what picture you initially selected. If you see your picture on the login page, then it's legitimate. If you don't, it's a phishing site. Bank of America, for example, works this way.
I bet you'd see a lot more strip bars if zoning weren't an issue though.
Just do what MA did and make it illegal not to be covered. PROBLEM SOLVED!! :-P
It gets better: If this thing is really 40% efficient, then dissipated heat should only be 120W. The other 80W are hopefully getting converted to electricity ;)