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I'm not sure where this will end, but I can guarantee you one thing. The myriad of artificial restrictions being placed on property in the western world are most certainly not being applied or enforced in developing countries.
It's just plain inefficient. Before, companies made products that were governed mainly by the "laws" of nature; they tried to offer as much as nature allowed. Now, companies are actively creating new laws and restrictions, which ultimately means the products aren't doing as much as they could do. Any country which avoids this idiotic situation will have an advantage.
Well, I think that a manufacturer, basically once the hardware leaves the factory, and someone's paid whatever the market price is for it, then the user owns it, right? So I mean you could take that piece of hardware, melt it down and use it for the component metals if you want, use it for a doorstop.[...]
Hmmm, for some reason "Zune" popped into my head as I read this.
Now, if that information was somehow "unlisted at the user's request", like an unlisted phone number, then a warrant would be needed to obtain the information. I do not know of an ISP that provides "unlisted" Internet service.
unlisted-no-more.con: Find unlisted IP addresses "they" don't want you to know! For example, did you know that there are over ten million unlisted addresses that begin with 127? There might even be a machine in your own home with this unlisted address, perhaps put there unbeknownst to you!
Another drawback is that the system cannot cope with encrypted files. "Today, about 25 percent of BitTorrent traffic is encrypted," says Schulze. If such a tool became widely used, then anyone with something to hide would almost certainly switch to using encryption, he says.
Drawback? Sounds like a feature. Gentlemen, prepare to enable encryption in 3...2...1...
If you make breathing illegal, only criminals with breath will breathe.
By removing this system, you effectivly remove any executive representation to small states. Preseidents will be elected by large cities (Los Angeles, New York City, etc) of a handfull of states. Executive decisions will be based on the whims of those few zones rather than the country as a whole.
You are missing the point that Amazon is selling the works as both text and audio when they have a contract to only sell text.
Yes, I'd much prefer hearing a book (mis)read by a crappy synthesized voice than a human. To the voice talent that records audio books: your days are numbered!
Him: Yeah, babe, and now you can tell your friends that your Valentine's Day card runs at 14 MHz. Her: Yeah, like I want them to know that you suck at coding and need 14 million cycles per second just to blink a few lights.
the forum administrators now delete anything "critical" of TrueCrypt. Basically, your only allowed to discuss the positives of the software, or problems with the intended operation of it. Any "bugs" or "weaknesses" mentioned result in having the thread either locked, more than likely deleted, and if you push an issue, open a second thread on a 'deleted thread' your likely to have your account locked.
So you just need to be creative. For example, TrueCrypt has some nifty new features. One is its random deletion feature, useful if you need to drum up some extra work on the job. Another is that its forums never have any negative stuff, so you won't get the blues reading it.
Hi! It looks like you're trying to run more than two applications, which is currently not allowed! Would you like to:
- shoot yourself in the other foot (you brought this upon yourself in the first place)
- throw a chair at the nearest bystander
- do the monkey dance while yelling "applications applications applications!"
- write an internal memo whining about your new netbook not being able to do actual work
User: "write an internal memo"
Clippy: You can't do that; you're already running two applications. Quit one then try again.
For those that have OpenDNS running, you go to Settings, Advanced and then at the bottom there is the Network Shortcuts section. Uncheck the box "Enable OpenDNS Proxy"
Maybe I'm clueless, but where do I find this "Settings" thing? I use OpenDNS by typing its two IP addresses into the DNS servers field. Is this on the OpenDNS website?
Ah, correction, writers are still making music. The "artists" or "singers" on the other hand, are finding more and more ways to artificially make themselves sound better than they really are.
Why should it matter how the finished recording is made? As a listener, my only criterion is whether I enjoy it. I don't care whether it's a human or virtual cyborg singing it, and actually, I prefer music lacking lyrics, "authentic" or not. So I guess all the music I listen to is inauthentic, since instruments are merely poor quality versions of the human voic.
You don't have to explicitly open it. As long as your program has some kind of reference to that object, all you need to do is call methods on it, and the data is there as you would expect.
So in other words...
#ifndef PHANTOM_H #define PHANTOM_H
#include <stdio.h>
typedef FILE* phantom_ref;
inline phantom_ref phantom_get_ref ( const char name [] ) { return fopen( name ); } inline void phantom_read ( phantom_ref r, void* out, size_t len ) { fread( out, len, 1, r ); inline void phantom_write ( phantom_ref r, void const* in, size_t len ) { fwrite( out, len, 1, r ); inline void phantom_release_ref( phantom_ref r ) { fclose( r ); }
reducing the yellow will probably make the intersection more dangerous.
From a theoretical point of view, it shouldn't make the intersection more dangerous, it should just increase the ticket revenue. [...] A yellow light means, "try stopping if you can, because the light will turn red soon - if you can't stop, only then you should cross" - with a yellow light you're supposed to stop anyway (just like with a red one) if you still have enough braking distance to stop. [...] A yellow light shortened way too much means that the driver can't escape the ticket : the light turned yellow too late, at a moment when the car can't be stoped before crossing and is forced to continue. But as the light turns red too fast, the car still hasn't reached the other side of the crossing and can be ticketed by the camera. [...] But, yes, in practice, lots of drivers will probably slam their accelerator even harder, and this increase in speed will probably bring more accidents.
Or slam on their brakes no matter when they see a yellow. Thus this theory of increased run-red-light ticketing without change in safety only applies to drivers encountering this the first few times; after that, the meaning itself of the yellow light will have changed to that of a red light.
I've heard of some markets that have already turned off their analog. Instead of one huge cut off, it'll more than likely be a trickle of stations until June.
Well, people with DTV receivers will either learn to use the "rescan for channels" command frequently, or they'll not realize all the channels they're missing. And this applies to all over-the-air receivers, either the convertors or newer DTV-ready TVs. At least the government is consistent.
This project is embarrassing. It took five college seniors ("Wireless and Telecommunications Technology" majors, no less) a whole year to build and use a pointable ham VHF antenna comparable to a fringe-area TV antenna. [...] From their blog, the only big problem was getting permission to go on the roof of a building (a large flat roof) to put up the antenna. If they'd just headed out to an open field (they're using a radio intended for car installation, after all), mounted the antenna on a tripod, and aimed it by hand, they probably could have completed the project in a week.
But apparently mounting it on a tripod and connecting the radio to the car battery would have added a year to the project. Since they were seniors, they didn't have that long.
I'd like to eat meat, but I don't trust the industry enough (even the organic meat industry). Hell, with the growing peanut fiasco, I'm losing trust in other industries too...
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It's just plain inefficient. Before, companies made products that were governed mainly by the "laws" of nature; they tried to offer as much as nature allowed. Now, companies are actively creating new laws and restrictions, which ultimately means the products aren't doing as much as they could do. Any country which avoids this idiotic situation will have an advantage.
Hmmm, for some reason "Zune" popped into my head as I read this.
unlisted-no-more.con: Find unlisted IP addresses "they" don't want you to know! For example, did you know that there are over ten million unlisted addresses that begin with 127? There might even be a machine in your own home with this unlisted address, perhaps put there unbeknownst to you!
Well the obvious solution is to wire everything with no insulation! What could go wrong?
Here's my implementation. It also hasn't been tested for false-positives, but I'm hopeful:
Drawback? Sounds like a feature. Gentlemen, prepare to enable encryption in 3...2...1...
Finished the sentence for you.
God. But watch out for his countersuit...
They nixed the dash a while back. It was bad for privacy as well.
It was nixed too.
There, fixed that for you.
Yes, I'd much prefer hearing a book (mis)read by a crappy synthesized voice than a human. To the voice talent that records audio books: your days are numbered!
Sorry, could someone translate this guy's Unix analogy to a car analogy?
Clippy does too have a point (two of them, actually). And he makes it with style, too!
Him: Yeah, babe, and now you can tell your friends that your Valentine's Day card runs at 14 MHz.
Her: Yeah, like I want them to know that you suck at coding and need 14 million cycles per second just to blink a few lights.
So you just need to be creative. For example, TrueCrypt has some nifty new features. One is its random deletion feature, useful if you need to drum up some extra work on the job. Another is that its forums never have any negative stuff, so you won't get the blues reading it.
User: "write an internal memo"
Clippy: You can't do that; you're already running two applications. Quit one then try again.
Maybe I'm clueless, but where do I find this "Settings" thing? I use OpenDNS by typing its two IP addresses into the DNS servers field. Is this on the OpenDNS website?
Why should it matter how the finished recording is made? As a listener, my only criterion is whether I enjoy it. I don't care whether it's a human or virtual cyborg singing it, and actually, I prefer music lacking lyrics, "authentic" or not. So I guess all the music I listen to is inauthentic, since instruments are merely poor quality versions of the human voic.
So in other words...
Or slam on their brakes no matter when they see a yellow. Thus this theory of increased run-red-light ticketing without change in safety only applies to drivers encountering this the first few times; after that, the meaning itself of the yellow light will have changed to that of a red light.
Well, people with DTV receivers will either learn to use the "rescan for channels" command frequently, or they'll not realize all the channels they're missing. And this applies to all over-the-air receivers, either the convertors or newer DTV-ready TVs. At least the government is consistent.
You know the flier contains a suspicious web address by the fact that there's no phone number of mailing address listed along with it.
That's funny; the notice I received just said
"Urgent! Bogus Parking Tickets Found on Campus Refer Recipients to Virus-laden Web site
Do Not Go To This Web Site!!!
For more information, please visit the following website: [website address was here]"
But apparently mounting it on a tripod and connecting the radio to the car battery would have added a year to the project. Since they were seniors, they didn't have that long.
I'd like to eat meat, but I don't trust the industry enough (even the organic meat industry). Hell, with the growing peanut fiasco, I'm losing trust in other industries too...