So, your saying that the laws were written by stupid people.
Because from where I'm standing their either very manipulative or very stupid and I don't know which is worse.
I would air on the side of stupid, because if they were that manipulative they would have done a better job. Although I suppose CUBA is about the only communist country left, so the capitalist RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft, Nike sweatshop shoes branded with oil didn't do too badly.
I I've used purple sweet wrappers in an IR remote control, and often the plastic in the housing is good enough to block most visible light but pass IR.
You don't need to for 'night vision', which is what I expect most people will be interested in. Full colour (maybe a tiny bit washed out because of the extra IR) during daylight, and at night switch on the IR light and you've got an IR camera.
Near IR isn't that interesting, except humans cant see it, what would be cool is if the chips could pickup far IR so you could see heat.
Contraction of there aren't exactly many... stating that there could possibly be some when there is obviously none only goes to add weight to the fact that there are none.
Just like stating that there are none when there are a few will get all the people that know about the few scream.
Politicians and religious folks and gambling dens use that tactic all the time.
hmm.. I imagine that the rover would generate some static charge as it moves along (like rubbing your feet on a carpet).
The dust devil would also generate static as the duct particles or dust collide.
So there's a tiny chance that static played a part, but I should imagine that if there's enough wind to generate a dust devil then there's enough wind to blow a bit of dust off of the solar panels, not much of a mystery really.
I think the reactor will have carbon rods in it, that when fully inserted prevent any nuclear reactions. I would expect that it's impossible to remove the rods far enough to causes a melt-down, Chernobyl was a bad old design.
So even if I hit the big red button nothings going to happen, nuclear reactors are safe (well except for the pollution part), your toaster is probably more dangerous.
what possible advantage is there in delaying the release of the patch to some of the userbase?
Well, Microsoft may want to ship a service pack that's been fully integrated and tested, but allow individuals (the government) the opportunity to run integrated systems.
Microsoft doesn't want the nightmare of supporting: Windows XP-.26.CK-Nitro-7 Windows XP-.12.Redhat+AC USB updates etc.. When they can support Windows XP Sp 3 and tell everyone whos running Windows XP Sp 3 to install the latest service pack and see if it fixes their problem.
you'd have to try very hard to blow up a nuclear power plant, even if all the systems crashed or spend half their time spitting out spam it wouldn't blowup.
However if the navigation system failed to a plane then there's a good chance the pilot may crash the plane.
Nuclear power plants aren't a good example of something that could be potentially dangerous, you've been influenced by too much leftie Simpsons propaganda if you think they could blow up at any second.
Is the airforce more important than say, nuclear power plant operators?
Yes, given the en enormous number of friendly fire incidents I would say that the airforce is very buggy compared to a nuclear power plant that has been designed to be fail safe.
Why do you think nuclear power plants modern enough to be running Windows are unsafe?
'but it would be very hard to prove, conclusively, that a word "came from France" or "came from England"'
The Battle of Hastings involved Normans.
Exactly, so go to websters lookup a word, if it's before 1066 then it's 'english' afterwards french.
Fuck is germanic, which is why africans based on duch is like a very corse version english. The closer you get to latin to more police you english gets, because the latic/french derived words were spoken by the higher classes. Chicken must have been eaten by peasants because it hasn't got a french name.
Lets not forget that French has changed a lot too.
There's the dodgy handy cam pre-releases, you could track them down to the theatre, and harras the owners if it looked pertucuarlally empty.
There's the Oscar-previews, guess who's not getting a preview next year?
And theres all the MP3's and Divx's that I doubt originate from some 'pirate underground network', since I known several people who activly rip them. Even if it can be tracked down to rentals, all you have to do is look up the people who rented xyz movie and get a search warrent.
The only way not to be traced would be to buy the item of ebay and have it sent to an anonymous address or some smack head that's just nicked them. or pay cash and hope you don't get caught on camera.
RIP, revovery is possible This script allows you to install and boot the RIP system, from a USB flash/pen drive, and possibly similar devices (compact flash, memory stick, etc.). For it to work, the USB drive probably can't be more than 1GB. Read the USB flash drive section of the RIP README.
Well, you can do all of this today using current technology. google for digital watermarks.
digital watermarks are placed into digital recordings using stenography techniques.
This could be anything, like an extra cloud, or an extra note in a song, but more frequently 'noise' undetectable to the human ear is added to the recording.
This 'noise' has encoded in it a serial number ideitifing the exact recording.
The encoding is performed in such a way that when you encode the data using a lossy compression technique the serial number can still be retrieved.
Basicly, they hide a serial number unique to you in the CD you have purchased as 'noise' on the music tracks, when you make an MP3 or Mpeg the 'noise' is transfered to your recording so that anyone with the correct decoding software can work out the serial number of the origional recording.
If you couple this with RFID, they can track that recording down to the person who purchased the origional copy, if you used a credit card they have your address...
Unknow to most 'english' speekers, 60% of the English language is french.
e.g. Any word that ends in able, ation, ary in english are the same in french. most of the words for meat. alley as in alley way, is a place to go... etc... As someone once said, English is just like french but pronounced very baddley.
So I bet that most people could pick through the french version and make out more-or-less the jist of the story.
Here's the rest of the reading guide.
avoir = own, to have copié = (copy, but pronounced badly)
The little words...
de = from / of du = of/ of the par = per/through/via
pour = for ou = or/also été = were (also summer) près = near/close sur = over
Un = a mois = Me qui = who nous = us - we to = You vous = You (but more polite). La = the ces't = it's (it/that is)
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So, your saying that the laws were written by stupid people.
Because from where I'm standing their either very manipulative or very stupid and I don't know which is worse.
I would air on the side of stupid, because if they were that manipulative they would have done a better job. Although I suppose CUBA is about the only communist country left, so the capitalist RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft, Nike sweatshop shoes branded with oil didn't do too badly.
Lots of things work, you can easily buy a IR pass filter.
I I've used purple sweet wrappers in an IR remote control, and often the plastic in the housing is good enough to block most visible light but pass IR.
You don't need to for 'night vision', which is what I expect most people will be interested in.
Full colour (maybe a tiny bit washed out because of the extra IR) during daylight, and at night switch on the IR light and you've got an IR camera.
Near IR isn't that interesting, except humans cant see it, what would be cool is if the chips could pickup far IR so you could see heat.
Let me guess, remove the IR filter from in-front of the lens.
Contraction of there aren't exactly many... stating that there could possibly be some when there is obviously none only goes to add weight to the fact that there are none.
Just like stating that there are none when there are a few will get all the people that know about the few scream.
Politicians and religious folks and gambling dens use that tactic all the time.
that's not surprising, storms travel quickly across the sufrace of mars (since there aren't many trees and oceans to slow them down)
The air pressure could have dropped enough to cause the dust to evaporate, a dust devil is a sign of low air pressure.
Though this is about as probable as a bugs bunny cleaning the panels with his tail whilst chasing marvin.
hmm..
I imagine that the rover would generate some static charge as it moves along (like rubbing your feet on a carpet).
The dust devil would also generate static as the duct particles or dust collide.
So there's a tiny chance that static played a part, but I should imagine that if there's enough wind to generate a dust devil then there's enough wind to blow a bit of dust off of the solar panels, not much of a mystery really.
What really blows me away is the public acceptance, or at least apathy, of companies like MS because it's more practical to look the other way.
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Well, you could always Fax your MP
I just hope it's not tony Blair or he may take you for a terrorist threat and prevent you from posting on
because their probably not super critical.
I think the reactor will have carbon rods in it, that when fully inserted prevent any nuclear reactions. I would expect that it's impossible to remove the rods far enough to causes a melt-down, Chernobyl was a bad old design.
So even if I hit the big red button nothings going to happen, nuclear reactors are safe (well except for the pollution part), your toaster is probably more dangerous.
company employees who steal their firm's software prior to its public release and provide it to other Warez members.
Jesus, sounds bad those poor software companies won't be able to release their product now someones stolen it.
what possible advantage is there in delaying the release of the patch to some of the userbase?
Well, Microsoft may want to ship a service pack that's been fully integrated and tested, but allow individuals (the government) the opportunity to run integrated systems.
Microsoft doesn't want the nightmare of supporting:
Windows XP-.26.CK-Nitro-7
Windows XP-.12.Redhat+AC USB updates
etc..
When they can support Windows XP Sp 3 and tell everyone whos running Windows XP Sp 3 to install the latest service pack and see if it fixes their problem.
you'd have to try very hard to blow up a nuclear power plant, even if all the systems crashed or spend half their time spitting out spam it wouldn't blowup.
However if the navigation system failed to a plane then there's a good chance the pilot may crash the plane.
Nuclear power plants aren't a good example of something that could be potentially dangerous, you've been influenced by too much leftie Simpsons propaganda if you think they could blow up at any second.
Is the airforce more important than say, nuclear power plant operators?
Yes, given the en enormous number of friendly fire incidents I would say that the airforce is very buggy compared to a nuclear power plant that has been designed to be fail safe.
Why do you think nuclear power plants modern enough to be running Windows are unsafe?
Why not run only/use OSS, that way you know that no Money has gone into the wrong hands.
Or move to Cuba!
The latin bits of English are closer to French than latin so it is more french based (which is based on latin).
My gransfather lives in spain, he has a reasonable knowlage of French, well enough to get by in spain with.
'but it would be very hard to prove, conclusively, that a word "came from France" or "came from England"'
The Battle of Hastings involved Normans.
Exactly, so go to websters lookup a word, if it's before 1066 then it's 'english' afterwards french.
Fuck is germanic, which is why africans based on duch is like a very corse version english. The closer you get to latin to more police you english gets, because the latic/french derived words were spoken by the higher classes. Chicken must have been eaten by peasants because it hasn't got a french name.
Lets not forget that French has changed a lot too.
That's ok, well just take your PC and examine the HDD contents.
Well, it depends.
There's the dodgy handy cam pre-releases, you could track them down to the theatre, and harras the owners if it looked pertucuarlally empty.
There's the Oscar-previews, guess who's not getting a preview next year?
And theres all the MP3's and Divx's that I doubt originate from some 'pirate underground network', since I known several people who activly rip them.
Even if it can be tracked down to rentals, all you have to do is look up the people who rented xyz movie and get a search warrent.
The only way not to be traced would be to buy the item of ebay and have it sent to an anonymous address or some smack head that's just nicked them. or pay cash and hope you don't get caught on camera.
This is not limited to IPODS,any bootable USB storage device will do.
google says
RIP, revovery is possible
This script allows you to install and boot the RIP system,
from a USB flash/pen drive, and possibly similar devices
(compact flash, memory stick, etc.). For it to work, the
USB drive probably can't be more than 1GB. Read the USB
flash drive section of the RIP README.
who am I to differ.
Well, you can do all of this today using current technology.
google for digital watermarks.
digital watermarks are placed into digital recordings using stenography techniques.
This could be anything, like an extra cloud, or an extra note in a song, but more frequently 'noise' undetectable to the human ear is added to the recording.
This 'noise' has encoded in it a serial number ideitifing the exact recording.
The encoding is performed in such a way that when you encode the data using a lossy compression technique the serial number can still be retrieved.
Basicly, they hide a serial number unique to you in the CD you have purchased as 'noise' on the music tracks, when you make an MP3 or Mpeg the 'noise' is transfered to your recording so that anyone with the correct decoding software can work out the serial number of the origional recording.
If you couple this with RFID, they can track that recording down to the person who purchased the origional copy, if you used a credit card they have your address...
Learning French is trivial: the word for beef is beef.
Keep speeking english and eventually they will understand you.
Unknow to most 'english' speekers, 60% of the English language is french.
e.g.
Any word that ends in able, ation, ary in english are the same in french.
most of the words for meat.
alley as in alley way, is a place to go... etc...
As someone once said, English is just like french but pronounced very baddley.
So I bet that most people could pick through the french version and make out more-or-less the jist of the story.
Here's the rest of the reading guide.
avoir = own, to have
copié = (copy, but pronounced badly)
The little words...
de = from / of
du = of/ of the
par = per/through/via
pour = for
ou = or/also
été = were (also summer)
près = near/close
sur = over
Un = a
mois = Me
qui = who
nous = us - we
to = You
vous = You (but more polite).
La = the
ces't = it's (it/that is)
you can probably sed the artical into franglais