The point is SCOTUS has ruled that it cannot be challenged, and it is the law of the land. Dozens of time sthrought history SCOTUS has ruled that errors in punctuation or capitalization do not invalidate a law. PAY YOUR TAXES.:)
PayPal wants everyone to give them money, with no accountability.
Bingo! If they were to become a bank they couldn't do things like play with the customers' money in various and sundry shady ways, they couldn't freeze accounts at will with no provocation or proof, hold that money for months and months, generally only refunding it when you actually file suit, etc. This way, PayPal can be a "private" bank-like entity to customers, while enjoying the crooked shade provided by not being beholden to banking laws. that company is as crooked as Lombard street. They don't want to divulge these records for their OWN reasons, not because of customer privacy.
If you're one of those people who claim income taxes are unconstitutional, I would like to introduce you to the Sixteenth Amendment!
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
If your'e not arguing unconstitutionality, merely you wish to know the actual law, the poster above me nailed it also.
With all the typos and mixed metaphors in that article, I can only assume they meant "rabbit love" where in we crawl into a hole with Sony and make thouands of little baby Sonys.
But now everyone who reads the comments here knows this is bunk, including people who aren't so quite as mathematically/technologically adept, and they can talk about it with others, etc. Hoaxers and fraudsters grow in the shadows, so exposing them to the light is the best way to keep them at bay.
News media around the world carried the "news" of the Raelians cloning a little girl. The vast majority of intelligent people knew it was crap, most average peopel assumed it was crap, the news media all said to take it with a grain of salt and that they could secure no no proof. News is news, whether it's news of a real advance, or news that a potentially reliable source is making astounding claims. Only through the analysis of these claims can knowledge grow.
And it worked. For several years Apple hardware has been sexy as hell from a hardware geek perspective. Now with them losing the performance bottleneck of the slowly-progressing PPC and switching to x86 CPUs, they got that much sexier. And finally, the last holdback, the ability to still use the installed base of Windows software at a decent speed (IE, not via VirtualPC), and undoubtedly soon via virtualization from WITHIN OSX, I want one.
So, now we'll have a site full of 30 year old male geeks who have never been on a date, and 13 year old girls. I forsee a period of thousands of "hookups" being made, followed by herds of Feds swarming Ann Arbor shortly thereafter.
To paraphrase Larry Niven,it's useful to have a large number of self-programming automatons when shit hits the fan. The lack of automation on ships was to give them something to DO in the meantime. I agree with you. Only 800 crewmen down from over 2000 makes me a little nervous too. Then again, maybe they only need 400 minimum, and the crew is 800 for redundancy.:)
Why the hell can't these folks give a WRITTEN transscript along with the podcasts? Podcasts are just audioblogging, and audioblogs suck. Let me read the damn thing, please.
He didn't say they were, he asked. That sounds less like him trying to be a techie, and more like he's trying to learn. Learning should always be encouraged.
To answer the OP, much "safer", but only if you plan on jamming metal implements into your TV. Plasma TVs make use of highly charged gases (neon and xenon, my favorine noble gases), which means you need to generate that charge in the TV set. CRTs also use high voltage, but LCDs can run on just a few volts of power with little current (I.E. a slow trickle versus a raging river). DLPs are also low power, aside from the lights inside the projector. All TVs can have components blow, in the old days, fuses and tubes, today, capacitors and power transformers. with proper manufacturing, and proper use (No, the TV really doesn't need a chocolate milkshave, I swear, and it's considered bad taste to watch TV in the shower) they're all safe.
Oh wow. Another Bujold fan. My fave scifi author is Larry Niven, but man, Lois McMaster Bujold is a very close second. "borders of Infinity" was on sale for $1.99 about 6-7 years ago in a Barnes and Noble, and so I picked it up. If it sucked, I was only out 2 bucks, which is less than a Starbucks in the B&N stores. I was instantly hooked. I bought every other book published at that time, and read them all in 9 days. IIRC that was 13 or so books. I got NO work done that week. I haven't touched "The Spirit Ring" and her other fantasty stuff, as Fantasy isn't my bag, but her scifi is incredible. The ending of "The Warrior's Apprentice" literally brough ttears to my eyes. I can't think of too many books that manage that.
Now, I'm a late 20's male, but it's good to know this author appeals to the teen girls. I'll bring some with me when I hang out with the high school cheerleaders.;)
I don't know about him, but when I was in high school I have several classes along the way where teachers put extra credit questions on tests. So, you could score above 100% easily. Of course, one teacher seemed to discourage students because he'd deduct a point for each extra credit you got WRONG, so most kids never bothered...
[14:49] <poningru> hahahaha thats a first
[14:50] <poningru> jX was told to get his mind into the gutter
[15:06] <jX> ?
[15:07] <poningru> your slashdot post dude
[15:07] * jX looks
[15:08] <jX> oh christ
Oh crap. Yeah, ok, I see it now. I'm a doofus. I can not believe I didn't see that, and obviously the people who know me are amazed as well. Pardon me while I go to a reeducation camp...
Only in middle class homes close to urban or major suburban centers. Get more than a couple miles away from a CO and you have either cable or nothing. And even with cable, I'm (currently) in an area served by Time Warner, and cable Internet has been coming Real Soon Now for three years. Absolutely NO progress there. I have DSL, but I'm close to the CO. MANY people around here want but can't get DSL. Broadband still has plenty of room to grow once it bothers to reach out and serve more people.
Oh come on. We all know CD DRM is useless. If you're on Windows and still have AutoPunish - er, AutoPlay turned on, just hold shift while you insert the disc. Then use your favorite CDR or CD-ripping software to grab the PCM audio. CD-DRM is the most useless and ill-aimed DRM ever, as it TRULY only punishes those users who are too uninformed to know better. ANYONE with moderate PC knowledge can get around it. And if you're on a Mac or Linux, you're home free without any workarounds.
Except your end product has now been twice compressed, and thus has lost even more data, and sounds worse than the DRM copy you originally bought - er, licensed. While I did exactly what you describe for the "Come And Get It" EP that I was allowed to download for free when buying Liz Pahir's self-titled album a couple Januarys ago (It came as one big WMA, so I had to DL the WMA, burn to CD, import as WAV, chop it up, then re-encode it), I was still displeased about the lack of MP3 or OGG support, and would never have paid money for the WMA. The only reason I went through that process is because it was free, and the music was good.
"Shoulder-surfing for passwords is extremely hard. Try it sometime: at 80 WPM or more, it's virtually impossible to follow and remember every keystroke, especially while trying to be inconspicuous."
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I just said the same thing to myself. Not one comment in HOURS?
The point is SCOTUS has ruled that it cannot be challenged, and it is the law of the land. Dozens of time sthrought history SCOTUS has ruled that errors in punctuation or capitalization do not invalidate a law. PAY YOUR TAXES. :)
PayPal wants everyone to give them money, with no accountability.
Bingo! If they were to become a bank they couldn't do things like play with the customers' money in various and sundry shady ways, they couldn't freeze accounts at will with no provocation or proof, hold that money for months and months, generally only refunding it when you actually file suit, etc. This way, PayPal can be a "private" bank-like entity to customers, while enjoying the crooked shade provided by not being beholden to banking laws. that company is as crooked as Lombard street. They don't want to divulge these records for their OWN reasons, not because of customer privacy.
If you're one of those people who claim income taxes are unconstitutional, I would like to introduce you to the Sixteenth Amendment!
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
If your'e not arguing unconstitutionality, merely you wish to know the actual law, the poster above me nailed it also.
With all the typos and mixed metaphors in that article, I can only assume they meant "rabbit love" where in we crawl into a hole with Sony and make thouands of little baby Sonys.
But now everyone who reads the comments here knows this is bunk, including people who aren't so quite as mathematically/technologically adept, and they can talk about it with others, etc. Hoaxers and fraudsters grow in the shadows, so exposing them to the light is the best way to keep them at bay.
News media around the world carried the "news" of the Raelians cloning a little girl. The vast majority of intelligent people knew it was crap, most average peopel assumed it was crap, the news media all said to take it with a grain of salt and that they could secure no no proof. News is news, whether it's news of a real advance, or news that a potentially reliable source is making astounding claims. Only through the analysis of these claims can knowledge grow.
And it worked. For several years Apple hardware has been sexy as hell from a hardware geek perspective. Now with them losing the performance bottleneck of the slowly-progressing PPC and switching to x86 CPUs, they got that much sexier. And finally, the last holdback, the ability to still use the installed base of Windows software at a decent speed (IE, not via VirtualPC), and undoubtedly soon via virtualization from WITHIN OSX, I want one.
So, now we'll have a site full of 30 year old male geeks who have never been on a date, and 13 year old girls. I forsee a period of thousands of "hookups" being made, followed by herds of Feds swarming Ann Arbor shortly thereafter.
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So...
ASL?
To paraphrase Larry Niven,it's useful to have a large number of self-programming automatons when shit hits the fan. The lack of automation on ships was to give them something to DO in the meantime. I agree with you. Only 800 crewmen down from over 2000 makes me a little nervous too. Then again, maybe they only need 400 minimum, and the crew is 800 for redundancy. :)
Why the hell can't these folks give a WRITTEN transscript along with the podcasts? Podcasts are just audioblogging, and audioblogs suck. Let me read the damn thing, please.
Seriously though, would it be so hard to design and install a windshield-wiper like "broom" to sweep off the solar cells? Cars had 'em decades ago. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening is the URL I assume you meant to post. :)
"Spirit, or Opportunity?"
"I don't knoooooooooooo---"
LED backlighting, hell, even small incandescents, like in flashlights, or any portable video game system/TV.
To answer the OP, much "safer", but only if you plan on jamming metal implements into your TV. Plasma TVs make use of highly charged gases (neon and xenon, my favorine noble gases), which means you need to generate that charge in the TV set. CRTs also use high voltage, but LCDs can run on just a few volts of power with little current (I.E. a slow trickle versus a raging river). DLPs are also low power, aside from the lights inside the projector. All TVs can have components blow, in the old days, fuses and tubes, today, capacitors and power transformers. with proper manufacturing, and proper use (No, the TV really doesn't need a chocolate milkshave, I swear, and it's considered bad taste to watch TV in the shower) they're all safe.
Yes, and he would respond to that libel with a civil tort. It's not criminal to libel someone, it's a civil action.
Oh wow. Another Bujold fan. My fave scifi author is Larry Niven, but man, Lois McMaster Bujold is a very close second. "borders of Infinity" was on sale for $1.99 about 6-7 years ago in a Barnes and Noble, and so I picked it up. If it sucked, I was only out 2 bucks, which is less than a Starbucks in the B&N stores. I was instantly hooked. I bought every other book published at that time, and read them all in 9 days. IIRC that was 13 or so books. I got NO work done that week. I haven't touched "The Spirit Ring" and her other fantasty stuff, as Fantasy isn't my bag, but her scifi is incredible. The ending of "The Warrior's Apprentice" literally brough ttears to my eyes. I can't think of too many books that manage that.
;)
Now, I'm a late 20's male, but it's good to know this author appeals to the teen girls. I'll bring some with me when I hang out with the high school cheerleaders.
I don't know about him, but when I was in high school I have several classes along the way where teachers put extra credit questions on tests. So, you could score above 100% easily. Of course, one teacher seemed to discourage students because he'd deduct a point for each extra credit you got WRONG, so most kids never bothered...
[14:50] <poningru> jX was told to get his mind into the gutter
[15:06] <jX> ?
[15:07] <poningru> your slashdot post dude
[15:07] * jX looks
[15:08] <jX> oh christ
Oh crap. Yeah, ok, I see it now. I'm a doofus. I can not believe I didn't see that, and obviously the people who know me are amazed as well. Pardon me while I go to a reeducation camp...
Only in middle class homes close to urban or major suburban centers. Get more than a couple miles away from a CO and you have either cable or nothing. And even with cable, I'm (currently) in an area served by Time Warner, and cable Internet has been coming Real Soon Now for three years. Absolutely NO progress there. I have DSL, but I'm close to the CO. MANY people around here want but can't get DSL. Broadband still has plenty of room to grow once it bothers to reach out and serve more people.
Oh come on. We all know CD DRM is useless. If you're on Windows and still have AutoPunish - er, AutoPlay turned on, just hold shift while you insert the disc. Then use your favorite CDR or CD-ripping software to grab the PCM audio. CD-DRM is the most useless and ill-aimed DRM ever, as it TRULY only punishes those users who are too uninformed to know better. ANYONE with moderate PC knowledge can get around it. And if you're on a Mac or Linux, you're home free without any workarounds.
Except your end product has now been twice compressed, and thus has lost even more data, and sounds worse than the DRM copy you originally bought - er, licensed. While I did exactly what you describe for the "Come And Get It" EP that I was allowed to download for free when buying Liz Pahir's self-titled album a couple Januarys ago (It came as one big WMA, so I had to DL the WMA, burn to CD, import as WAV, chop it up, then re-encode it), I was still displeased about the lack of MP3 or OGG support, and would never have paid money for the WMA. The only reason I went through that process is because it was free, and the music was good.
"Shoulder-surfing for passwords is extremely hard. Try it sometime: at 80 WPM or more, it's virtually impossible to follow and remember every keystroke, especially while trying to be inconspicuous."
Not if you're good at it.
Am I the only one to miss the official announcement of this? I've heard rumors about it for years, but when did it become a given?