So make it easy to do what they want in a safe way - give them a program to "view unknown usb drive" that disables autorun and takes any other necessary precautions like temporarily running in a read-only virutal machine.
Except that this isn't a "safe way." As other people have pointed out, what looks like a USB thumbdrive may not in fact present itself to your system as a mass storage device. It can be an HID device and get automatically installed and take over your system; this works even in Linux. Tricking up such a device is not hard for somebody with some hardware chops. There is *NO SAFE WAY* to insert a malicious USB device into your system.
And the answer is: The train traveling at 50 mph that left on Friday. A 72-hour lead is just *way* too big. As to what date it gets there, that depends on the exact length of the journey; obviously a train cannot follow a straight line from LA to New York. The Internet readily provides me with the straight line distance (2,462 miles) and the driving distance (2,778 miles). Railway distance should be greater than either of these, since passenger rail routes are less common than roads. It also depends on what time of the day the train leaves. However, it seem most likely that it will get there Sunday, July 3, particularly if it left Friday morning.
Because a watt-second is so small a unit it's practically useless outside academia.
Indeed, it is much too small. Oh, if only there were some system we could use to indicate that we are working in large multiples of the unit. It could be a system of prefixes indicating orders of magnitude. Alas for the fact that no one has invented such a system.
And they bill every month, so you're talking about kilowatt-hours per month. Once again, the time terms cancel out and the unit of interest is (average) kilowatts.
And for most people, hot water is a big consumer of energy. I guess/.ers reduce that but not showering every day.
Not everybody has electric hot water heaters, either. In fact, I feel sorry for the people who do; running out of hot water when you have one is no fun at all.
No, he's right. He's not talking about transmission losses; he's talking about *generator* losses. Only a fraction of the heat generated at the plant gets made into electricity. *All* the heat gets used when you burn it at home because you're using it for, well, heating.
And we're not even talking about the large percentage of houses heated by natural gas, where it is efficiently piped in.
I have. The law does not support your position. It says the amount of copied material is a consideration in finding whether or not it is fair use; it does not say it determines whether it is fair use. The law, for those of you who do want to read it: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html
Care to cite the copyright code that allowed you to do that?
US Code 17 U.S.C. Â 107. Specifically, exceptions to copyright are allowed when the copying is for "teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research." Assuming the OP is doing it for one of those purposes (and he is faculty at a community college), he falls within fair use.
If you are given options that have a market value of $X, the IRS considers you to have gotten taxable income of $X, even if you can't currently sell them. Even though they only take tax payments in cash and didn't *get* any cash. Yes, a lot of people have been very thoroughly screwed by this.
Those people get to choose whether or not they put pictures on the internet.
No, they don't. The person putting up the picture chooses, but does everyone in the picture get to choose? No, they do not. They're along for ride whether they wish it or not.
Google ignore the fact that there is a massive difference between a public place being public and a public place being available to everyone on the internet (including data gathering servers, and all kinds of face recognition technologies).
No, they're recognizing the fact that this difference WILL go away. It might be Google who does it, or it might be someone less well-known (and less monitored). But someone will do it.
...the article doesn't actually tell you jack about decoding the logos. Instead, the article can mostly be summed up with, "You have lots of logos on your electronic gadgets. They mean things, like meeting safety or RF interference standards! They cost money."
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Or if somebody learns an approved Serial Number and gimmicks a trojan drive to spoof it. Granted, that *is* a fairly high hurdle.
Training for Joe, however, might have been useful. Possibly with a two by four.
Except that this isn't a "safe way." As other people have pointed out, what looks like a USB thumbdrive may not in fact present itself to your system as a mass storage device. It can be an HID device and get automatically installed and take over your system; this works even in Linux. Tricking up such a device is not hard for somebody with some hardware chops. There is *NO SAFE WAY* to insert a malicious USB device into your system.
And the answer is: The train traveling at 50 mph that left on Friday. A 72-hour lead is just *way* too big. As to what date it gets there, that depends on the exact length of the journey; obviously a train cannot follow a straight line from LA to New York. The Internet readily provides me with the straight line distance (2,462 miles) and the driving distance (2,778 miles). Railway distance should be greater than either of these, since passenger rail routes are less common than roads. It also depends on what time of the day the train leaves. However, it seem most likely that it will get there Sunday, July 3, particularly if it left Friday morning.
...President Sarkozy kissed his pinky.
It is the only way.
More appropriately, 1 kWh = 3.6 MJ.
Indeed, it is much too small. Oh, if only there were some system we could use to indicate that we are working in large multiples of the unit. It could be a system of prefixes indicating orders of magnitude. Alas for the fact that no one has invented such a system.
And they bill every month, so you're talking about kilowatt-hours per month. Once again, the time terms cancel out and the unit of interest is (average) kilowatts.
Not everybody has electric hot water heaters, either. In fact, I feel sorry for the people who do; running out of hot water when you have one is no fun at all.
No, he's right. He's not talking about transmission losses; he's talking about *generator* losses. Only a fraction of the heat generated at the plant gets made into electricity. *All* the heat gets used when you burn it at home because you're using it for, well, heating.
And we're not even talking about the large percentage of houses heated by natural gas, where it is efficiently piped in.
Welcome to the human race. I take it this your first time visiting?
Unenforceable. The article camper will just make himself 20 accounts, or however many he needs, to keep reverting the changes to "his" article.
I have. The law does not support your position. It says the amount of copied material is a consideration in finding whether or not it is fair use; it does not say it determines whether it is fair use. The law, for those of you who do want to read it: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html
US Code 17 U.S.C. Â 107. Specifically, exceptions to copyright are allowed when the copying is for "teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research." Assuming the OP is doing it for one of those purposes (and he is faculty at a community college), he falls within fair use.
If you are given options that have a market value of $X, the IRS considers you to have gotten taxable income of $X, even if you can't currently sell them. Even though they only take tax payments in cash and didn't *get* any cash. Yes, a lot of people have been very thoroughly screwed by this.
You say that like it's a *good* thing. Star Wars Galaxies NGE was "a clean break with the past."
Unless you are claiming that we do not understand the basic nature of 80% to 90% of the matter in the ocean, that is a bald-faced lie.
$5 - $0.99 = $3.99?
I believe Steam approves of your arithmetic.
I will tell you right now that if I get a phone call and get told to hold I will hang up immediately. Yes, it's happened, and yes, that's what I did.
Enter http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Classic-WTF-No-Quack.aspx in the URL field to read No Quack.
So just make the check out to "Cash".
No, they don't. The person putting up the picture chooses, but does everyone in the picture get to choose? No, they do not. They're along for ride whether they wish it or not.
No, they're recognizing the fact that this difference WILL go away. It might be Google who does it, or it might be someone less well-known (and less monitored). But someone will do it.
...the article doesn't actually tell you jack about decoding the logos. Instead, the article can mostly be summed up with, "You have lots of logos on your electronic gadgets. They mean things, like meeting safety or RF interference standards! They cost money."