The payload net or rope, which has a parachute attached to the end, will unravel and lay out across the surface of the water so that as the pirate boat travels through the water its propeller shaft will pick up the line and become entangled.
What if a pirate ship fires one of these on your ship first?
Well, technically to be on the cutting edge is to be at the forefront of something. If nobody were risking any life in space exploration, then that would still be the cutting edge.
What's the real reason for the schools' objection to it? I always thought it was because it destroyed school property. If it's virtual, then as a student you have to seek it out to see it, rather than seeing it in the bathroom stalls whether you like it or not. Sounds like it was really about control. They want control over what students say to each other at all times. Heaven forbid students organize in various ways without permission.
I tell you what, as much as I like Java as a programming language, I'd fill my underwear in record time if I ever discovered it was used in any nuclear facility.
This implies the time it took would be less than the times of other occasions, I take it?
A car analogy was so close, too: it's like seeing someone open your supposedly locked car door by just pulling the handle, and claiming $100 damage when you find that's how much it'll cost to fix your broken lock.
Freedom of speech is fine, but this isn't. My idea of freedom of speech is that it's fine with me if you say anything that's fine with me, but if you say something I'm not fine with, you shouldn't be free to say it. I don't see any problems with this principle. If everyone followed it they'd all get along with me. What else matters?
What next, you'll be saying that a child who catches a ball thrown by the parent isn't doing quadratics in his head, or that a child recognizing a pitch of sound isn't doing a fourier analysis in his head. Pshaw!
But really, as you say, there are many ways to implement "don't walk past the home nest" than counting the number of ant steps. Assuming a consistent pace, walking for some amount of time would do, or walking until you get run down a certain amount, etc. Once near the nest, there are presumably other markers to help home in.
So in your IRC example, it'd be like someone taking a server log of a chat between to Germans, on a German server, and sending it to a company outside Germany, without the knowledge of the chat participants. Kind of different to your example.
And how is this not already covered by contract law? If you don't want the conversation shared, don't join chat servers which don't guarantee this. If they break that, you can sue for breach of contract. Why does a government need to treat this issue specially?
I was trying to make the joke that you were writing as if you were the single customer responsible for keeping Amazon afloat, their "distinct advantage".
Since Sony's strategy (like Microsoft's) is to sell the consoles below production costs and make money on the games I guess that they are now pretty angry about organizations buying PS3s solely for computing...
So if a German tells someone something personal, and that someone leaves the country, he's broken the law? Or if a German is in an online chat with someone outside the country and shares something personal, the online chat has broken the law? The main question for me is why the law is telling a person what and who he can share information with, even though he can just decide to keep it to himself if he's concerned about privacy.
Amazon has one distinct advantage: I will never buy anything from Walmart. That doesn't necessarily mean I will buy it from them instead, but at least I'm more likely to.
Thank you, sir, for ensuring that Amazon stays the leader. I hope you never switch, because I'd hate to see Amazon disappear.
They may not be allowed to charge more for credit cards, but they can give 'discounts' for every other form of payment.
Is there an echo? Here's what I wrote in a grandparent post:
Laws/card processor contracts prevent merchants from adding a surcharge if you pay with credit card, but they do allow giving you a discount if you pay with cash
Unless it's an Apple mouse, which is sealed for all eternity and cannot be user-serviced.
No, no, not true. I got mine open once (the clear one that's too heavy, and has only one button). It was an ordeal, nothing like the old easy-to-open ADB mice from the PowerMac days.... After making an improvement to the button circuitry, I decided I didn't like the mouse and replaced it with a dinky $5 Microsoft mouse with two buttons and a scroll wheel, and have never looked back.
As an aside, I've found this problem with Apple mice, though it's probably common to all. They have SPDTmicroswitches, but they use the normally-open contacts for clicking. The problem is when the microswitch starts to wear out, the contacts sometimes open momentarily when finger pressure is altered slightly. This is extremely annoying, because it messes up drags; you'll be dragging, and have the icon/window drop in mid-drag.
My solution to the above issue is to rewire it to use the normally-closed contacts of the switch, with suitable inversion of the signal. This way when you're pressing the button, these get open, and a slight change in pressure can't cause them to close, since they only close when you fully release the button. And when the mouse is just sitting there, the pressure keeping the contacts closed isn't varying, so the contacts will never open on their own thus it'll never generate a phantom click.
The actual modification involves making a crude inverter with just a resistor. Where before the contacts brought the button input signal to ground when closed, there is now a pull-down resistor to ground, and the normally-closed contacts tie this to Vcc (or vice-versa if it originally brought the input to Vcc when clicked).
I have a feeling newer mice use SPST microswitches, so there's no way to do the above modification anymore. If only they would make normally-closed SPST microswitches, since I've had excellent results with this modification, even after probably 10 years of using this older Mac mouse for many hours daily. I wouldn't at all be surprised if this extended the useful life of the microswitch by many times, and that being the thing that wears out, it's a shame they don't do this already.
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What if a pirate ship fires one of these on your ship first?
Is there any reason land-based technologies like DRM don't work against piracy on the high seas?
Hey, look on the bright side: at least you don't have to write your scripts in asm.
Well, technically to be on the cutting edge is to be at the forefront of something. If nobody were risking any life in space exploration, then that would still be the cutting edge.
I went to zero stores. I went to zero online retailers. I just enjoyed watching all the mayhem from my computer screen.
No, you can wish for that, it's just that your wish may or may not actually get used up.
What's the real reason for the schools' objection to it? I always thought it was because it destroyed school property. If it's virtual, then as a student you have to seek it out to see it, rather than seeing it in the bathroom stalls whether you like it or not. Sounds like it was really about control. They want control over what students say to each other at all times. Heaven forbid students organize in various ways without permission.
This implies the time it took would be less than the times of other occasions, I take it?
If they did team up, what would they call themselves, and who would they play against? God maybe. That'd be one hell of a fight.
I don't know about that Toshiba back-yard nuclear plant. Browsing the instruction manual, I don't get a lot of confidence.
Washing hands is partly about physical scrubbing, which loosens things on the surface. How is this plasma going to replace that?
And don't go erasing or replacing your hard drive immediately after. That will just make your case worse.
A car analogy was so close, too: it's like seeing someone open your supposedly locked car door by just pulling the handle, and claiming $100 damage when you find that's how much it'll cost to fix your broken lock.
Honey, I wasn't looking at her breasts; I was just tagging the image using Microsoft's new mind tagging, honest!
Freedom of speech is fine, but this isn't. My idea of freedom of speech is that it's fine with me if you say anything that's fine with me, but if you say something I'm not fine with, you shouldn't be free to say it. I don't see any problems with this principle. If everyone followed it they'd all get along with me. What else matters?
What next, you'll be saying that a child who catches a ball thrown by the parent isn't doing quadratics in his head, or that a child recognizing a pitch of sound isn't doing a fourier analysis in his head. Pshaw!
But really, as you say, there are many ways to implement "don't walk past the home nest" than counting the number of ant steps. Assuming a consistent pace, walking for some amount of time would do, or walking until you get run down a certain amount, etc. Once near the nest, there are presumably other markers to help home in.
Maybe they can just stick a dolphin sticker over the power button.
And how is this not already covered by contract law? If you don't want the conversation shared, don't join chat servers which don't guarantee this. If they break that, you can sue for breach of contract. Why does a government need to treat this issue specially?
I was trying to make the joke that you were writing as if you were the single customer responsible for keeping Amazon afloat, their "distinct advantage".
Ahhh, but Sony sold them at government rates.
So if a German tells someone something personal, and that someone leaves the country, he's broken the law? Or if a German is in an online chat with someone outside the country and shares something personal, the online chat has broken the law? The main question for me is why the law is telling a person what and who he can share information with, even though he can just decide to keep it to himself if he's concerned about privacy.
This guy's got nothing on the average Slashdot reader. Not even the sunlight is able to find them in their basement dwellings!
Thank you, sir, for ensuring that Amazon stays the leader. I hope you never switch, because I'd hate to see Amazon disappear.
Is there an echo? Here's what I wrote in a grandparent post:
No, no, not true. I got mine open once (the clear one that's too heavy, and has only one button). It was an ordeal, nothing like the old easy-to-open ADB mice from the PowerMac days.... After making an improvement to the button circuitry, I decided I didn't like the mouse and replaced it with a dinky $5 Microsoft mouse with two buttons and a scroll wheel, and have never looked back.
As an aside, I've found this problem with Apple mice, though it's probably common to all. They have SPDT microswitches, but they use the normally-open contacts for clicking. The problem is when the microswitch starts to wear out, the contacts sometimes open momentarily when finger pressure is altered slightly. This is extremely annoying, because it messes up drags; you'll be dragging, and have the icon/window drop in mid-drag.
My solution to the above issue is to rewire it to use the normally-closed contacts of the switch, with suitable inversion of the signal. This way when you're pressing the button, these get open, and a slight change in pressure can't cause them to close, since they only close when you fully release the button. And when the mouse is just sitting there, the pressure keeping the contacts closed isn't varying, so the contacts will never open on their own thus it'll never generate a phantom click.
The actual modification involves making a crude inverter with just a resistor. Where before the contacts brought the button input signal to ground when closed, there is now a pull-down resistor to ground, and the normally-closed contacts tie this to Vcc (or vice-versa if it originally brought the input to Vcc when clicked).
I have a feeling newer mice use SPST microswitches, so there's no way to do the above modification anymore. If only they would make normally-closed SPST microswitches, since I've had excellent results with this modification, even after probably 10 years of using this older Mac mouse for many hours daily. I wouldn't at all be surprised if this extended the useful life of the microswitch by many times, and that being the thing that wears out, it's a shame they don't do this already.