is possible that many people who regard their relationship to God as central to the meaning of their lives would qualify as "devout" by most constructions of devotion.'
You seem to assume that the above definition of "devout" wasn't the one of the ones Marcus Aurelius intended. I disagree. In the quote in question, he clearly means that a just god would not care that a relationship to him/her/it be central in anyone's life, no matter the form.
Ah! Saw that episode of CSI too, did you? You need to remember that a lot of what you see in that show isn't all that accurate... Chimerism is real, but I think it's still rare enough to be mostly insignificant. Plus, if you're going to profile everybody, you only need to get samples of the two sets of DNA when these people are diagnosed.
Remember, they don't have another person's DNA, just two sets all their own. An undiagnosed chimera who's second set of DNA was recovered from a crime scene wouldn't show up as someone else in the database, it would simply be absent. If everybody's profiled, they would suspect chimerism as the cause right away and check their prime suspects for it, so in this case it's not a problem. In fact, it would be less of a problem than it is in the current situation.
Mind you, none of this justifies getting DNA profiles from everyone. DNA evidence is supposed to be taken as a corroborative, it's not supposed to be your whole body of evidence.
Also you'd probably soon find that one/8 network is a tad small for global multicast address usage. Class D is actually a/4 network. That's over 248 million distinct groups! (Even more if you consider that a lot of them will be local only.) Got any sources that show why this wouldn't be enough?
it was possible to fly with machine/animals heavier than air (Montgolfier/hot balloon Just what do you think people are referring to when talking about lighter-than-air vehicles? Just how do you think hot air balloons and airships achieve flight? By buoyancy in air! They are filled with a gas that is less dense (hence lighter) than air in sufficient quantities that the whole craft and its occupants are effectively lighter than the air that would occupy their space would be. This is NOT heavier than air flight.
Wow, I would feel so sorry to have interfered with any of those things, you know, what with each and every one of them being completely worthless... No more worthless than TV! And that's beside the point...
In terms of access it makes perfect sense. The difference is that for access, most of the time, you have a choice. The user knows that in order to work a particular job at the bank, he has to give up a (tiny) little bit of identity privacy. If he has a problem with that, all he has to do is not take the job.
However, when it come to things like purchasing food and supplies, we really don't have any choice. It's much worse to force people to give up privacy in order to conduct those activities that are necessary to our survival, or even to our way of life. That's more and more what society is tending toward, what with all the purchase tracking and the public surveillance.
Perhaps you could mail them your burnt out CFL when you get a few pounds worth. Saves on gas and your expense and time.
God, I hope you're being sarcastic! The price to ship a package that weighs a few pounds may well surpass the price of the gas. Even if it doesn't, you're not supposed to ship hazardous material through regular postal service and though you may save the price of the gas, the postal service will expend it so, environmentally, society comes out at the same loss.
Of course, the local recycling center may need to ship it out anyways... Maybe CFLs just aren't the environmental boon we make them out to be.
I'm thinking about the energy required to correct the orbit.
Remember that the quantity of fuel on board is limited. So if you have to do a longer burn every couple years to bump the station back up, it's going to shorten your total flight time - you'll run out of fuel faster.
Gee, did you even bother to think a little about what the GP said before you replied? If your orbit decays less, you need to correct it less/less often and therefore the extra fuel needs balance out. Besides which, since the fuel can and does get replenished regularly, there if no fixed total flight time, so no big deal.
And that still doesn't explain any talk of "pissing away" anything.
I can't speak for the OP, but one could argue that it's rather impossible for Tigh to be a cylon, as he's been around and known to many characters since before "skin jobs" were created. Personally, I prefer to assume that the writers have a plausible explanation for this and will spin it into an awesome surprise. I could be wrong...
But, from reading about it...it mentions wanting to use FC (Fiber Channel) harddrives...I'm familiar with SATA and IDE...but, the FC ones are new to me..
I've been looking to get a T3 or Storedge array on eBay to hook to it...
The 280R's FC hard drives don't have to be hooked up using an external Fibrechannel enclosure. FC-AL drives are just SCSI hard drives that use an internal, arbitrated loop FC connector (usually fiber) to increase transfer speeds as opposed to a SCSI cable. I can't remember if the drives come with a FC-AL enclosure, or if they're just regular SCSI drives and the FC-AL is on the Sun's backplane...
BTW, if you get an external array, be sure to check SunSolve to see if it's compatible with the 280R, and which OPB firmware version you need to support it, they can be fickle...
The basic problem is one of optimization. THERE WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY NO REASON TO EVER PROGRAM IN PARALLEL IF COMPUTERS WERE FAST ENOUGH.
In answer to this, I'll paraphrase the great Grace Murray Hopper: In olden times, when they needed to rip out a tree stump and the ox wasn't strong enough, they didn't go back to the barn to breed a better ox; they'd just add more oxen until the job got done.
There will always be a bigger job than a single contemporary processor can handle in a reasonable amount of time. Your proposed approach makes sense, but I'm just not sure it makes anything easier.
No one said anything about not charging for reproductions, nor not recouping design costs. The OP simply stated that he felt that a proper litmus test for deciding if something is patentable is if it costs something significant per copy to manufacture. I never even stated that I agreed with that idea.
how can you possibly say software doesn't cost anything to manufacture?
There is lots of costs involved in software development [...]
Not design; manufacture. Designing a chair costs money, making replicas of that chair at a factory in order to sell them also costs money. Designing software costs money, but once that's done, there is no additional cost to manufacture, unless you count the box, CD and jewelcase, which are no longer needed. Selling one copy or one billion copies costs the same, and someone getting a copy for free doesn't "cost" you anything.
Yes, but the OP's point is that Autostitch seems so good at correcting all those problems, that those stitching modes are no longer required. I've looked at the website and it does look miles ahead of everything else. Can't wait to try it!
Not that I'm all for over-legislating everything, but...
-Zero day exploits
If this was an efficient method of defrauding people, they would already be doing it. If they're not, it's because it's less efficient. If we force them to move to less efficient methods, we gain ground.
-Honeytrap
So, we should let valid customer data circulate and be misused, just so we can track the perpetrators? You believe there is a very limited set of people doing this, so that tracking them will solve the problem permanently? Who bares the cost to the economy of letting these followup crimes occur?
-White Noise Defense
I don't see how companies being forced to disclose customer data theft to those customers precludes them from having a honeypot with false information. You realize that they wouldn't be required to disclose false information being leaked! Who would they disclose that to?
Anyone find it ironic that Microsoft's legal costs have reached the size of a long int?
Ironic? Only if Microsoft once said that that datatype was unneeded because no one would ever need to hold a number that large in a computer. It is funny, though!
So in other words, if your internet access goes down you can't print either.
Not necessarily so. It's possible (if not probable) that the printer has an internal tamper-proof register which is polled remotely every once in a while... Maybe the printer posts it's count to HP in order to simplify firewall rules, and refuses to print if it hasn't been able to post in a while.
Oh, and straying even more offtopic, one thing that really annoys me is the assumption by linux users that everyone in the universe has bash installed on their system, and uses it as their default shell. Slightly more annoying is the fact that these users will put !#/bin/bash at the start of their shell scripts, and write scripts with no bash-specific syntax.
I do that. The reason is simple. I haven't had a pure Bourne shell to run scripts against in a long while. So much so that I tend to forget which uses are bash-specific. For me,/bin/sh has always pointed to ash or bash. (I make it point to bash since I always install it anyways.
I make my scripts bash-specific because I haven't tested them against sh and don't want any complaints if someone runs it against a pure Bourne shell and gets bugs. It's a warning of sorts, "Run this in anything other than bash and you may get problems. Read through the script first." I mean really, how hard is it to delete those 2 little characters once you've checked the script for bash-specific code?
but search warrant is an entirely different beast than siezure.
Uh, no it's not! A search warrant allows the police to seize any evidence or illegal items they find. In fact, I believe the police is always allowed to seize evidence, the warrant just allows them to look where they aren't usually allowed to. Just read the first sentence of this Wikipedia page
No one gets deprived of their house during the investigation, do they?
Of course they do, all the time! If your house is the scene of a crime, you can and will be expulsed from it until the CSI team has cleared it. If the house itself is evidence, rather than just the contents, it may be seized and kept until well after the end of the trial.
"Spring forward, Fall back"... you could just as easily say "Spring back, Fall forward"
The Mnemonic isn't arbitrary, it's based on an old tactic of soldiers on the front. You spring forward to attack, and then fall back to your trenches. A lot of people around the time when DST was invented would have been familiar enough with the concept for the mnemonic to work...
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You seem to assume that the above definition of "devout" wasn't the one of the ones Marcus Aurelius intended. I disagree. In the quote in question, he clearly means that a just god would not care that a relationship to him/her/it be central in anyone's life, no matter the form.
You watch too much CSI...
Ah! Saw that episode of CSI too, did you? You need to remember that a lot of what you see in that show isn't all that accurate... Chimerism is real, but I think it's still rare enough to be mostly insignificant. Plus, if you're going to profile everybody, you only need to get samples of the two sets of DNA when these people are diagnosed.
Remember, they don't have another person's DNA, just two sets all their own. An undiagnosed chimera who's second set of DNA was recovered from a crime scene wouldn't show up as someone else in the database, it would simply be absent. If everybody's profiled, they would suspect chimerism as the cause right away and check their prime suspects for it, so in this case it's not a problem. In fact, it would be less of a problem than it is in the current situation.
Mind you, none of this justifies getting DNA profiles from everyone. DNA evidence is supposed to be taken as a corroborative, it's not supposed to be your whole body of evidence.
Oh, so YOU'RE the guy!
However, when it come to things like purchasing food and supplies, we really don't have any choice. It's much worse to force people to give up privacy in order to conduct those activities that are necessary to our survival, or even to our way of life. That's more and more what society is tending toward, what with all the purchase tracking and the public surveillance.
God, I hope you're being sarcastic! The price to ship a package that weighs a few pounds may well surpass the price of the gas. Even if it doesn't, you're not supposed to ship hazardous material through regular postal service and though you may save the price of the gas, the postal service will expend it so, environmentally, society comes out at the same loss.
Of course, the local recycling center may need to ship it out anyways... Maybe CFLs just aren't the environmental boon we make them out to be.
I'm thinking about the energy required to correct the orbit.
Remember that the quantity of fuel on board is limited. So if you have to do a longer burn every couple years to bump the station back up, it's going to shorten your total flight time - you'll run out of fuel faster.
Gee, did you even bother to think a little about what the GP said before you replied? If your orbit decays less, you need to correct it less/less often and therefore the extra fuel needs balance out. Besides which, since the fuel can and does get replenished regularly, there if no fixed total flight time, so no big deal.
I can't speak for the OP, but one could argue that it's rather impossible for Tigh to be a cylon, as he's been around and known to many characters since before "skin jobs" were created. Personally, I prefer to assume that the writers have a plausible explanation for this and will spin it into an awesome surprise. I could be wrong...
The 280R's FC hard drives don't have to be hooked up using an external Fibrechannel enclosure. FC-AL drives are just SCSI hard drives that use an internal, arbitrated loop FC connector (usually fiber) to increase transfer speeds as opposed to a SCSI cable. I can't remember if the drives come with a FC-AL enclosure, or if they're just regular SCSI drives and the FC-AL is on the Sun's backplane...
BTW, if you get an external array, be sure to check SunSolve to see if it's compatible with the 280R, and which OPB firmware version you need to support it, they can be fickle...
In answer to this, I'll paraphrase the great Grace Murray Hopper: In olden times, when they needed to rip out a tree stump and the ox wasn't strong enough, they didn't go back to the barn to breed a better ox; they'd just add more oxen until the job got done.
There will always be a bigger job than a single contemporary processor can handle in a reasonable amount of time. Your proposed approach makes sense, but I'm just not sure it makes anything easier.
Have you seen him lately? Somehow I don't think a bald Han Solo would fly...
Even more likely
No one said anything about not charging for reproductions, nor not recouping design costs. The OP simply stated that he felt that a proper litmus test for deciding if something is patentable is if it costs something significant per copy to manufacture. I never even stated that I agreed with that idea.
Not design; manufacture. Designing a chair costs money, making replicas of that chair at a factory in order to sell them also costs money. Designing software costs money, but once that's done, there is no additional cost to manufacture, unless you count the box, CD and jewelcase, which are no longer needed. Selling one copy or one billion copies costs the same, and someone getting a copy for free doesn't "cost" you anything.
Yes, but the OP's point is that Autostitch seems so good at correcting all those problems, that those stitching modes are no longer required. I've looked at the website and it does look miles ahead of everything else. Can't wait to try it!
If this was an efficient method of defrauding people, they would already be doing it. If they're not, it's because it's less efficient. If we force them to move to less efficient methods, we gain ground.
So, we should let valid customer data circulate and be misused, just so we can track the perpetrators? You believe there is a very limited set of people doing this, so that tracking them will solve the problem permanently? Who bares the cost to the economy of letting these followup crimes occur?
I don't see how companies being forced to disclose customer data theft to those customers precludes them from having a honeypot with false information. You realize that they wouldn't be required to disclose false information being leaked! Who would they disclose that to?
Ironic? Only if Microsoft once said that that datatype was unneeded because no one would ever need to hold a number that large in a computer. It is funny, though!
Not necessarily so. It's possible (if not probable) that the printer has an internal tamper-proof register which is polled remotely every once in a while... Maybe the printer posts it's count to HP in order to simplify firewall rules, and refuses to print if it hasn't been able to post in a while.
I do that. The reason is simple. I haven't had a pure Bourne shell to run scripts against in a long while. So much so that I tend to forget which uses are bash-specific. For me, /bin/sh has always pointed to ash or bash. (I make it point to bash since I always install it anyways.
I make my scripts bash-specific because I haven't tested them against sh and don't want any complaints if someone runs it against a pure Bourne shell and gets bugs. It's a warning of sorts, "Run this in anything other than bash and you may get problems. Read through the script first." I mean really, how hard is it to delete those 2 little characters once you've checked the script for bash-specific code?
Uh, no it's not! A search warrant allows the police to seize any evidence or illegal items they find. In fact, I believe the police is always allowed to seize evidence, the warrant just allows them to look where they aren't usually allowed to. Just read the first sentence of this Wikipedia page
Of course they do, all the time! If your house is the scene of a crime, you can and will be expulsed from it until the CSI team has cleared it. If the house itself is evidence, rather than just the contents, it may be seized and kept until well after the end of the trial.
The Mnemonic isn't arbitrary, it's based on an old tactic of soldiers on the front. You spring forward to attack, and then fall back to your trenches. A lot of people around the time when DST was invented would have been familiar enough with the concept for the mnemonic to work...
You mean a pencil? ;-)
(Yes, I'm only joking, I know that solution still has issues...)