Could it be that the cop was prioritizing, and they he other things more important than break-ins? I imagine they would have come out if you had insurance, just to file a report so you would be able to make a claim or something like that.
Before you let your roommates know you've possibly committed a felony make sure they won't turn you in.
How exactly do you go about that? "Hi, let's just say I had committed a felony and told you about it. Would you turn me in? Oh, you would, then nevermind."
No disagreement with the downsides outweighing the upsides, unless perhaps you live in a place where there are 7.0 earthquakes monthly. But I think you misunderstand RFID; it's very short-range, so to track someone constantly with it, you'd need transponders every hundred feet, everywhere. But with transponders at entrances to businesses, you'd be able to track fairly well. This is why having RFID devices inside shoes (for inventory management) is a bad idea, because after being sold the devices would still respond, allowing businesses to track you via transponders under the doorways.
Wait, I remember this sentiment form last year.... I know, it's the Large Hadron Supercollider! One of their black holes must have drifted through Earth and caused this. The doomsayers were right all along. It makes sense, black hole, black gold... oh god, we're all going to die!
Yay, higher prices for software. What, you expected a lower bug rate without any added cost? At least now you won't have the option to buy software of current quality at a discount; you'll only be able to get the finest (at a higher price).
I'm having a similar situation. Slashdot is blocking my login attempts! I used to be able to search for "LOGIN" to find where I enter my info, but now my search fails! They changed it to "Login" or something, which broke my login script. They're blocking me!!! (this is apparently what's happened to Scroogle; not blocked, just a failure on their side)
In my line of business, if we have a loss that we have numbers for, we put it on our taxes. I suggest they do the same. I'm sure the IRS will be more than willing to audit the hell out of them. Oops, I mean, accept their numbers without question.
Most definitely not. Allow me to explain: If a product in inventory is stolen, you, i.e. the company that owned the goods, can write off the cost of goods associated with that product as a loss from theft.
Well, obviously the BSA members have been keeping a lot of unreported stock. I think the IRS would be very interested in back taxes on this $51B of merchandise that has been reported as stolen. Oh, wait, the BSA is suddenly saying it wasn't theft, that they must have just imagined all this property in the first place.
I always think these are stupid, why not throw in the fact that 90% of pirated software is never actually used more than like once or twice if even used at all.
But it's still theft!!11 If you stole someone's HDTV and let it sit unused in your closet, it'd still deprive the rightful owner of its use. Likewise, when you make an unauthorized copy and let it sit in a closet, the rightful owner is deprived of use of their... hmmm let me rethink this flawed comparison.
Before he started the project, there were the GPL libraries, whose copyright is held by some third party. Once he started it, he added code whose copyright he holds. Now the company has added its own code. The author doesn't own this new code, regardless of whether he wrote it, since it was a work-for-hire. Thus the only the latest version of this project can be distributed is if all three copyright holders allow it. The first two do, but the third (the company) does not, therefore this three-party-contributor project cannot be distributed. Again, who wrote the third additions is irrelevant, just who holds the copyright to it.
Sure, movies and TV shows are things; the question is whether someone should be able force others to refrain from forming their own property into the same shape as this thing.
Moving the head requires accelerated head stepping to top speed, stepping to close to the track
I just want to point out that hard drives stopped using stepper motors decades ago. They've used voice coils since, which is basically an electromagnet and strong magnet which it deflects to various positions based on the field strength; in other words, it's continuous, not discrete like a stepper motor (though they can do microstepping as well). OK, so in a way, a voice coil is sort of like a stepper motor with only one phase, which is then microstepped...
The problem isn't that a single (supposed) error can occur, it's that it can cause this. It's like blaming a storm on a butterfly, rather than seeing it more accurately: it's a chaotic system which is somewhat random, based on insignificant values changing.
One million iPads in 28 days -- that's less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,' says Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. 'Demand continues to exceed supply and we're working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers.'
Oh come on, we can read between the lines. The RDF generator expansion project hasn't kept up with sales. Jobs, you slipped up when you used the word "magical".
I hope our US congress claims copyright over the DMCA and files a takedown notice on you Canadians. Stealing our horrible draconian legislation? You wish!
Copying, not stealing. I wish they'd steal the DMCA from us.
The panel was created using a process similar to that of an inkjet printer, producing semiconductor-coated paper imbued with carbon-based dyes that give the cells an efficiency of 1.5 to 2 percent.
The main difference between this and inkjet printing is that it costs about 10 times as much.... normal inkjet printing, I mean.
Don't the viewers know this at some level, and prefer it over factual reporting? I get violent impulses just hearing a commercial on the radio when I'm in a public place, having kept away from TV and radio for a decade now. The news is worse, evern second of it.
If an Office doc contains VBA code, a warning is shown to the user asking them if they trust the source of the file, and would like the code to be enabled. If the user declined, macros won't run but users can see the static content in the file.
But that fails when everyone wants to start using this functionality, and a user has to constantly click allow. Regardless, how are end-users going to know what all this means? They just want to view the document. I think the failure is in even allowing executable code in a document. The point was a common format that could be viewed/printed from any machine. That's fine, let's stick with that. I really see no hope, because everyone wants every damn file format to be everything. Web pages, Flash apps, whatever, they want each one to have all the same features.
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Could it be that the cop was prioritizing, and they he other things more important than break-ins? I imagine they would have come out if you had insurance, just to file a report so you would be able to make a claim or something like that.
How exactly do you go about that? "Hi, let's just say I had committed a felony and told you about it. Would you turn me in? Oh, you would, then nevermind."
No disagreement with the downsides outweighing the upsides, unless perhaps you live in a place where there are 7.0 earthquakes monthly. But I think you misunderstand RFID; it's very short-range, so to track someone constantly with it, you'd need transponders every hundred feet, everywhere. But with transponders at entrances to businesses, you'd be able to track fairly well. This is why having RFID devices inside shoes (for inventory management) is a bad idea, because after being sold the devices would still respond, allowing businesses to track you via transponders under the doorways.
Someone with access to your unlocked car can cause it to malfunction by messing with its systems, story at 11!
Wait, I remember this sentiment form last year.... I know, it's the Large Hadron Supercollider! One of their black holes must have drifted through Earth and caused this. The doomsayers were right all along. It makes sense, black hole, black gold... oh god, we're all going to die!
That's funny, because I don't see anything missing from ask.com. Where did the rip occur, and what did they make off with?
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Yay, higher prices for software. What, you expected a lower bug rate without any added cost? At least now you won't have the option to buy software of current quality at a discount; you'll only be able to get the finest (at a higher price).
I'm having a similar situation. Slashdot is blocking my login attempts! I used to be able to search for "LOGIN" to find where I enter my info, but now my search fails! They changed it to "Login" or something, which broke my login script. They're blocking me!!! (this is apparently what's happened to Scroogle; not blocked, just a failure on their side)
Well, obviously the BSA members have been keeping a lot of unreported stock. I think the IRS would be very interested in back taxes on this $51B of merchandise that has been reported as stolen. Oh, wait, the BSA is suddenly saying it wasn't theft, that they must have just imagined all this property in the first place.
But it's still theft!!11 If you stole someone's HDTV and let it sit unused in your closet, it'd still deprive the rightful owner of its use. Likewise, when you make an unauthorized copy and let it sit in a closet, the rightful owner is deprived of use of their... hmmm let me rethink this flawed comparison.
Before he started the project, there were the GPL libraries, whose copyright is held by some third party. Once he started it, he added code whose copyright he holds. Now the company has added its own code. The author doesn't own this new code, regardless of whether he wrote it, since it was a work-for-hire. Thus the only the latest version of this project can be distributed is if all three copyright holders allow it. The first two do, but the third (the company) does not, therefore this three-party-contributor project cannot be distributed. Again, who wrote the third additions is irrelevant, just who holds the copyright to it.
They just want to be sure it's cracked one day after the release, rather than a week before. Makes sense.
Sure, movies and TV shows are things; the question is whether someone should be able force others to refrain from forming their own property into the same shape as this thing.
I just want to point out that hard drives stopped using stepper motors decades ago. They've used voice coils since, which is basically an electromagnet and strong magnet which it deflects to various positions based on the field strength; in other words, it's continuous, not discrete like a stepper motor (though they can do microstepping as well). OK, so in a way, a voice coil is sort of like a stepper motor with only one phase, which is then microstepped...
The problem isn't that a single (supposed) error can occur, it's that it can cause this. It's like blaming a storm on a butterfly, rather than seeing it more accurately: it's a chaotic system which is somewhat random, based on insignificant values changing.
What units is that measured in? I'm not making sense of this sentence. Since when did the tidal current harvest energy in the first place?
Oh come on, we can read between the lines. The RDF generator expansion project hasn't kept up with sales. Jobs, you slipped up when you used the word "magical".
Copying, not stealing. I wish they'd steal the DMCA from us.
The main difference between this and inkjet printing is that it costs about 10 times as much.... normal inkjet printing, I mean.
Send them an invoice for your shredding services.
What kind of feathers?
Please tell me you see both errors above.
Don't the viewers know this at some level, and prefer it over factual reporting? I get violent impulses just hearing a commercial on the radio when I'm in a public place, having kept away from TV and radio for a decade now. The news is worse, evern second of it.
But that fails when everyone wants to start using this functionality, and a user has to constantly click allow. Regardless, how are end-users going to know what all this means? They just want to view the document. I think the failure is in even allowing executable code in a document. The point was a common format that could be viewed/printed from any machine. That's fine, let's stick with that. I really see no hope, because everyone wants every damn file format to be everything. Web pages, Flash apps, whatever, they want each one to have all the same features.