Even if the police leave the bait car running unattended, it is still not entrapment. Most car thefts occur when the owner leaves the car running unattended in front of 7-11, or warming up out on the street; worse yet, many owners leave the keys in their cars.
In fact, leaving the car running 'unattended' may be an even better tactic, since it requires less expensive equipment, plus the police can bust several people an hour in the bad neighborhoods.
Just how many nutcases are there out hot-rodding those old rotary engines??
The rotary engine is a sweet deal, but I've had to rebuild them a bit too often. They just don't take the punishment that a good old leaky big block can handle.
As for computer systems in hot rods, I find it a waste of money on most of my hardware. I don't drive ricers, and I'm content on driving big heavy high horsepower beasts. Maybe I'll attempt to pull together my own fuel injection system, but I might as well not get in to that mess. (Even as an engineer).
Yeah, I give FreeBSD's SMP performance on my old dual P-90 system a C+. My dad reports 5.0 current on a dual Athlon to be excellent. But his opinion might be swayed a bit by the fact that he is/was a FreeBSD kernel developer.
This right here is a perfect example of why so many good kids go bad. You can't rule your house with an iron fist.. that sort of extreme is just as likely to result in rebellion as giving them 'too much' privacy.
A parent-child relationship should be built on trust. Just like a husband-wife relationship. Do you think it's a great idea to invest in a bunch of technology to constantly check up on your wife to make sure she remains faithful?
When I was a kid, if my parents had imposed this sort of restriction on me, it would have sent the clear message that they don't trust me one damn bit. Maybe other people would become submissive to this sort of thing, but I'd be more of the type to reflexively trust my parents as little as they trusted me.
Sure, you should know what your kid(s) is/are up to, and of course you have the right as the owner of the house to know what is going on under your roof. But to enforce things in this fashion is asking for disaster just as much as being a lazy, uncaring parent. There is no peace of mind in extremes. Building a trusting family is the only answer.
You're starting college. Get good grades, lose the junk you don't really need. You will flunk out before the term is over if you have your small dorm room packed with distractions.
Whether locking the cat outside for a week, or stranding the biggest and best ships of the United States Navy in the middle of the ocean, Microsoft Windows is the choice of operating systems for all manner of controls and image recognition systems. With builtin real time capabilities and fail-safe mechanisms, I don't know where I'd be without it.
Yeah, I tried to distance myself from that stuff. Same thing with the fact that I use linux today. Too many groupies and wild eyed zealot fanatics foaming at the mouth really helps denigrate an operating system.
All through these OS fads, I've still used BSD. BSD will outlive all of this crap. Good ol' low-key BSD.. it's always been there for me.
I had every shell, mail, and lab account taken away for running a 'rouge' slashsite. I still haven't recieved access back from my university.
I don't even exist anymore to them, and it's been almost a year.
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Oh yes, open up cells containing packs of toxic materials. You trust the slashdot crowd too much. Me: I just hope that none of my neighbors take this advice. The last thing I need is lead, cadium and who knows what else seeping into my home from some dirty hippies cave.
Most/all mini-fridges lack sufficient heat removal capacity to keep up with the heat production of a fairly hot computer. Think of their intended design: how often does your food heat itself to 30 C while sitting in the fridge?
You could tinker with the pressure ratio, and perhaps even install a stronger/more efficient compressor, but you might as well go with a custom built unit, and only cool the hot spots with a small heat exchanger/[evaporator].
Just use R-134a, an evaporator, a condenser, a throttling valve, and a compressor. Create a sealed system with the components in the right order, and you're set.
It's called a refridgerator, and it's much easier to use to keep your components cool enough. Keeping liquid nitrogen liquid, plus the hardware to pump it is way too expensive. Seriously, what a silly idea. Liquid Nitrogen, pfft!
Ugh.. gasoline. The second I see an alternative at the pump, I'll switch for good.
That's part of my argument: that alternative fuel sources will obsolete public transportation for the most part. As for traffic, unified control/metering systems seem to do a good job improving efficiency. Here in SLC, traffic has actually gotten better over the past few years.
One problem: most people would be embarrased to ride one of those shuttles. At the University of Utah in the Fall of 1997, everyone was fairly about the coming olympics. [of course the olympics were coming four years from then, but anyways]. The U decided that a short range disney-like shuttle tractor+four trailers would greatly augment the perfectly fine university shuttle bus system. It operated on the sidewalks, and was called something like the 'olympic trolley' or something stupid.
This thing drove in an endless loop all day, and I never saw more than 0-2 people on board. People were generally embarrassed to ride the thing. THe driver would usually slow down as one was walking on the sidewalk and practically beg for you to jump on.
It was a mess, and it never even ran during the recent olympics. So much for that idea. I imagine that closing a bunch of inner-city streets and instituting a transportation system people are used to seeing in amusement parks will be a very bad move. No matter how much good publicity you give it, people will still be pissed about the closed streets, plus they will feel like an ass for riding such a clownish mode of transport.
You're not the only one. I'd much rather prefer to own my personal transportation. I'm not in the automotive industry, but I do hope my peers keep working on making personal cars safer and more efficient. Driving is very relaxing to me, it gives me a break from the constant work.
Another ten years, and public transportation will be a thing of the past -- outside of extremely dense urban areas at least.
If censorship on the internet is so futile, explain this, this, and others. Right here on slashdot itself. Not to mention the rampant censorship that happens every day all over the internet.
Foes of various content generally go directly to the ISP hosting the offending material. (Just ask the guy running this site.) That gets things shut down really quick. Just because it's not always the government shutting something down, doesn't mean that is doesn't qualify as censorship.
Futile indeed. Having been censored myself on occasion, I'd hardly say the efforts were as such.
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Robots should not be cute. Look at the Abio, it's a joke!
Robots should be complex, filled with pinch-points and aluminum cross-pieces; and with big stickers stickers labels 'DANGER'.
Even if the police leave the bait car running unattended, it is still not entrapment. Most car thefts occur when the owner leaves the car running unattended in front of 7-11, or warming up out on the street; worse yet, many owners leave the keys in their cars.
In fact, leaving the car running 'unattended' may be an even better tactic, since it requires less expensive equipment, plus the police can bust several people an hour in the bad neighborhoods.
This would be better for most people if this exploit executed solitaire instead.
MAY YOU EAT A BAG OF HELL.
Just how many nutcases are there out hot-rodding those old rotary engines??
The rotary engine is a sweet deal, but I've had to rebuild them a bit too often. They just don't take the punishment that a good old leaky big block can handle.
As for computer systems in hot rods, I find it a waste of money on most of my hardware. I don't drive ricers, and I'm content on driving big heavy high horsepower beasts. Maybe I'll attempt to pull together my own fuel injection system, but I might as well not get in to that mess. (Even as an engineer).
Big deal, noise doesn't bother me. It's the heat that causes a problem.
And I am not wearing pants.
I am sleeping right now.
Yeah, I give FreeBSD's SMP performance on my old dual P-90 system a C+. My dad reports 5.0 current on a dual Athlon to be excellent. But his opinion might be swayed a bit by the fact that he is/was a FreeBSD kernel developer.
Talk about hook, line and sinker! The mere mention of 'OpenBSD running on qaud processor systems' should have set alarm bells off in your little head.
As an OpenBSD user, I am well aware that it does not support more than one processor. Ooh you have been so trolled. Priceless.
This right here is a perfect example of why so many good kids go bad. You can't rule your house with an iron fist .. that sort of extreme is just as likely to result in rebellion as giving them 'too much' privacy.
A parent-child relationship should be built on trust. Just like a husband-wife relationship. Do you think it's a great idea to invest in a bunch of technology to constantly check up on your wife to make sure she remains faithful?
When I was a kid, if my parents had imposed this sort of restriction on me, it would have sent the clear message that they don't trust me one damn bit. Maybe other people would become submissive to this sort of thing, but I'd be more of the type to reflexively trust my parents as little as they trusted me.
Sure, you should know what your kid(s) is/are up to, and of course you have the right as the owner of the house to know what is going on under your roof. But to enforce things in this fashion is asking for disaster just as much as being a lazy, uncaring parent. There is no peace of mind in extremes. Building a trusting family is the only answer.
Throw stuff out window.
You're starting college. Get good grades, lose the junk you don't really need. You will flunk out before the term is over if you have your small dorm room packed with distractions.
Whether locking the cat outside for a week, or stranding the biggest and best ships of the United States Navy in the middle of the ocean, Microsoft Windows is the choice of operating systems for all manner of controls and image recognition systems. With builtin real time capabilities and fail-safe mechanisms, I don't know where I'd be without it.
Yeah, I tried to distance myself from that stuff. Same thing with the fact that I use linux today. Too many groupies and wild eyed zealot fanatics foaming at the mouth really helps denigrate an operating system.
All through these OS fads, I've still used BSD. BSD will outlive all of this crap. Good ol' low-key BSD.. it's always been there for me.
First for Warp.
I used it 'back in the day'.
/s/rouge/rogue/
I had every shell, mail, and lab account taken away for running a 'rouge' slashsite. I still haven't recieved access back from my university.
I don't even exist anymore to them, and it's been almost a year.
Oh yes, open up cells containing packs of toxic materials. You trust the slashdot crowd too much. Me: I just hope that none of my neighbors take this advice. The last thing I need is lead, cadium and who knows what else seeping into my home from some dirty hippies cave.
Most/all mini-fridges lack sufficient heat removal capacity to keep up with the heat production of a fairly hot computer. Think of their intended design: how often does your food heat itself to 30 C while sitting in the fridge?
You could tinker with the pressure ratio, and perhaps even install a stronger/more efficient compressor, but you might as well go with a custom built unit, and only cool the hot spots with a small heat exchanger/[evaporator].
My 2..
Just use R-134a, an evaporator, a condenser, a throttling valve, and a compressor. Create a sealed system with the components in the right order, and you're set.
It's called a refridgerator, and it's much easier to use to keep your components cool enough. Keeping liquid nitrogen liquid, plus the hardware to pump it is way too expensive. Seriously, what a silly idea. Liquid Nitrogen, pfft!
I will NEVER pay for slashdot.
Who's with me?
Ugh.. gasoline. The second I see an alternative at the pump, I'll switch for good.
That's part of my argument: that alternative fuel sources will obsolete public transportation for the most part. As for traffic, unified control/metering systems seem to do a good job improving efficiency. Here in SLC, traffic has actually gotten better over the past few years.
One problem: most people would be embarrased to ride one of those shuttles. At the University of Utah in the Fall of 1997, everyone was fairly about the coming olympics. [of course the olympics were coming four years from then, but anyways]. The U decided that a short range disney-like shuttle tractor+four trailers would greatly augment the perfectly fine university shuttle bus system. It operated on the sidewalks, and was called something like the 'olympic trolley' or something stupid.
This thing drove in an endless loop all day, and I never saw more than 0-2 people on board. People were generally embarrassed to ride the thing. THe driver would usually slow down as one was walking on the sidewalk and practically beg for you to jump on.
It was a mess, and it never even ran during the recent olympics. So much for that idea. I imagine that closing a bunch of inner-city streets and instituting a transportation system people are used to seeing in amusement parks will be a very bad move. No matter how much good publicity you give it, people will still be pissed about the closed streets, plus they will feel like an ass for riding such a clownish mode of transport.
You're not the only one. I'd much rather prefer to own my personal transportation. I'm not in the automotive industry, but I do hope my peers keep working on making personal cars safer and more efficient. Driving is very relaxing to me, it gives me a break from the constant work.
Another ten years, and public transportation will be a thing of the past -- outside of extremely dense urban areas at least.
If censorship on the internet is so futile, explain this, this, and others. Right here on slashdot itself. Not to mention the rampant censorship that happens every day all over the internet.
Foes of various content generally go directly to the ISP hosting the offending material. (Just ask the guy running this site.) That gets things shut down really quick. Just because it's not always the government shutting something down, doesn't mean that is doesn't qualify as censorship.
Futile indeed. Having been censored myself on occasion, I'd hardly say the efforts were as such.