At short invervals, AC can be treated as DC of one or the other polarity. During each of these, electrons are flowing from the power company to your wiriting, and the opposite direction through ground. So you are accepting electrons from them, and giving some back. This reverses 15-20 milliseconds later, of course, but since electrons have no identity, you can't really say that they're giving you back the same electrons.
Private property doesn't mean that you can commit whatever crimes you want and be immune from entry by law enforcement, it just means that nobody else may enter without your permission (including law enforcement lacking a warrant). If they have good reason to believe you are committing a crime or are preparing to, they can get a search warrant in order to determine whether their belief is correct. If they can't do that, then how could they investigate many crimes? Kidnapping, oops, sorry, can't enter the house where we think the victim is being held. Screams heard from inside your house? Oh well, you didn't give permission to enter, so nobody can check it out. It's of course critical that search warrants only be granted where there is good reason to believe of crime.
He didn't steal the power, he just borrowed it. For every electron that went into his wires, he sent one right back to the electric company. So he just copied them. Or something.
I always thought these things were to ensure that companies get the same freedom (that is, they are restricted the same amount by government). If ISPs get lots of regulations, then it's only fair that hotels offering WiFi be burdened the same way. It's like when the school bully is only picking on some of the kids, and they argue that he should pick on everyone equally to be fairer.
Today we have roughly 20,000 dismantled plutonium pits (from obsolete weapons) plus a couple metric tons of bulk plutonium. Once produced and refined the plutonium lasts very very very long time.
Couldn't we just bury it somewhere, compacted into a secure, small container? Er, wait...
I don't see the problem. Just dehydrate [the water] so that it takes up less volume, thus drastically improving efficiency!
Indeed. You could take this gaseous dehydrated form and simply let it float through the air to its destination, and then find some way of re-hydrating it there. Maybe if you put small particles in the air, it would precipitate and perhaps even just fall out of the sky. Just an idea though, haven't worked out all the kinks.
If she went to a dinner table she'd see something recognizable too. What, people are still eating with metal utensils? Why not something electronic? Surely those could improve the eating experience. And what about parks? Those things are so unmodernized. They need some TV projection screens, speakers with music, internet terminals, maybe some golf carts to get around them. etc.
The Streetnet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 2017. Human decisions are removed from traffic management. Streetnet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the charging plug.
after surviving lock-up in a Darwinian environment in which "fittest" equates to "most dangerous", then re-entering a society in which convicts are denied the right to a good job, there's a pretty good chance they will. We have a criminal justice system that develops criminals.
They were clearly criminals all along, and were just waiting for an excuse to show it. Clearly. I mean, we're all probably criminals at heart, and deserve to be locked away for life.
No, just because it's not worth the hardship if I resist. I have my life to live, and hell if I'm going to make any sacrifice for the freedom of strangers. It's not like anyone before me ever did for my own freedom. Or wait, hmmm...
I think his point is that ed is less distraction (though I've never used, so I don't really know for sure). If all you can do is write your sentences, or invoke terse commands that you don't use, then you might be more focused. Sort of like using a machine with no internet connection, for example, if one lacks mental discipline. So what if it's a crutch; if it helps, use it.
It's not someone saying you can't do this, it's saying if you do this, we won't sell you our product anymore. It's a way to use the control you have over your own product to your advantage. Of course this is about IP, so it's debatable whether it can really be owned. But let's just imagine it was someone who rented pickup trucks and stated that if you ever rented from anyone else, we wouldn't rent to you anymore.
This is an example of real censorship. Please reserve this word for things like this, and not your boss preventing you from using company computers to chat with someone about whatever you want. Thank you.
Same reason that people call anything with the slightest problem as being bricked, or anything they don't like theft/censorship (depending on the context).
Perhaps we should call this one Nixon's Law: calling something *gate when it's not on the scale of the Watergate scandal.
After reading Janna Levine's How the Universe Got Its Spots, I have to say that the WMAP was all about trying to figure out what kind of space we live in (its topology), even though we can't step outside it and look at it.
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Perhaps uninitialized objects that thus have indeterminate values at any time, and might even crash if you try to read them to determine their value.
Surely you jest. It's been in development since 1997, and still hasn't been released.
Come on, if they had waited until it was finished, it would have been good. Just look at Duke Nukem Forever.
At short invervals, AC can be treated as DC of one or the other polarity. During each of these, electrons are flowing from the power company to your wiriting, and the opposite direction through ground. So you are accepting electrons from them, and giving some back. This reverses 15-20 milliseconds later, of course, but since electrons have no identity, you can't really say that they're giving you back the same electrons.
Private property doesn't mean that you can commit whatever crimes you want and be immune from entry by law enforcement, it just means that nobody else may enter without your permission (including law enforcement lacking a warrant). If they have good reason to believe you are committing a crime or are preparing to, they can get a search warrant in order to determine whether their belief is correct. If they can't do that, then how could they investigate many crimes? Kidnapping, oops, sorry, can't enter the house where we think the victim is being held. Screams heard from inside your house? Oh well, you didn't give permission to enter, so nobody can check it out. It's of course critical that search warrants only be granted where there is good reason to believe of crime.
He didn't steal the power, he just borrowed it. For every electron that went into his wires, he sent one right back to the electric company. So he just copied them. Or something.
I always thought these things were to ensure that companies get the same freedom (that is, they are restricted the same amount by government). If ISPs get lots of regulations, then it's only fair that hotels offering WiFi be burdened the same way. It's like when the school bully is only picking on some of the kids, and they argue that he should pick on everyone equally to be fairer.
Couldn't we just bury it somewhere, compacted into a secure, small container? Er, wait...
Yes, but did he have to modify the device's internal case? That would be impressive if he didn't.
Indeed. You could take this gaseous dehydrated form and simply let it float through the air to its destination, and then find some way of re-hydrating it there. Maybe if you put small particles in the air, it would precipitate and perhaps even just fall out of the sky. Just an idea though, haven't worked out all the kinks.
2010-10-10 in ISO format.
Sorry, it's obligatory. That's why we have moderation. I'll avoid the +1 karma bonus on Skynet jokes in the future.
If she went to a dinner table she'd see something recognizable too. What, people are still eating with metal utensils? Why not something electronic? Surely those could improve the eating experience. And what about parks? Those things are so unmodernized. They need some TV projection screens, speakers with music, internet terminals, maybe some golf carts to get around them. etc.
The Streetnet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 2017. Human decisions are removed from traffic management. Streetnet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the charging plug.
What, you don't keep your house 500 C? You wouldn't believe how much I save on my A/C bill each month.
They were clearly criminals all along, and were just waiting for an excuse to show it. Clearly. I mean, we're all probably criminals at heart, and deserve to be locked away for life.
No, just because it's not worth the hardship if I resist. I have my life to live, and hell if I'm going to make any sacrifice for the freedom of strangers. It's not like anyone before me ever did for my own freedom. Or wait, hmmm...
I think his point is that ed is less distraction (though I've never used, so I don't really know for sure). If all you can do is write your sentences, or invoke terse commands that you don't use, then you might be more focused. Sort of like using a machine with no internet connection, for example, if one lacks mental discipline. So what if it's a crutch; if it helps, use it.
It's not someone saying you can't do this, it's saying if you do this, we won't sell you our product anymore. It's a way to use the control you have over your own product to your advantage. Of course this is about IP, so it's debatable whether it can really be owned. But let's just imagine it was someone who rented pickup trucks and stated that if you ever rented from anyone else, we wouldn't rent to you anymore.
This is an example of real censorship. Please reserve this word for things like this, and not your boss preventing you from using company computers to chat with someone about whatever you want. Thank you.
Perhaps we should call this one Nixon's Law: calling something *gate when it's not on the scale of the Watergate scandal.
After reading Janna Levine's How the Universe Got Its Spots, I have to say that the WMAP was all about trying to figure out what kind of space we live in (its topology), even though we can't step outside it and look at it.
Too bad my lease forbids it. I guess that tells the real story about the geenies: as long as it doesn't offend anyone's fragile sensibilities.
I'm not too worried about flexible cognitive abilities, but jumping humans do bother me too.
Just yesterday I was in Best Buy and they offered a service to open the package for me. Given the tools I'd otherwise need, it was worth it.