The answer is intel. 50 years ago, you could build a huge army without anyone really noticing. Now, our space surveillance is so much better, we can spot troop movements (and troop communications, etc.) before they reach the level of global war. Conventional troop movements are well-monitored, and any deviation from norms is noted.
Furthermore, the intel is also much better for planning a counter-attack. Even if someone was able to launch a blitzkrieg-like attack, we'd know where they came from and be able to mount a much more effective counter-attack.
I think the first Gulf War (1991) will be last large-scale ground offensive we will see. The Iraqi army was totally overrun, because we knew all their supply lines and organization. That was a message to the world.
I buy CDs, I don't necessarily use them. I've got 5 new disks from Amazon sitting on my desk that cost probably $5 each. I look at it by cost: why would I pay $0.99 per download at Amazon, when I can pay the same amount per track, get a case and physical media (aka backup)?
If tracks were sold for $0.10 each, I'd buy them. For $1.00, there isn't enough difference in price to justify the switch.
I think the problem is that you don't know what to listen for (I can tell there's something different, but I don't think I could explain it).
Can you spot Pan and scan on your T.V.? I couldn't until I took a film class and they showed specifically what it was. It's the same problem with spotting compression artifacts on T.V., but it's harder to explain the sound quality difference. Can you hear an autotune correction?
I'd wager that, no you can't tell the difference between a 128kb MP3 and a.wav in your car.
Hacked or not, am I reading this right that Microsoft is aware of changes to the application? So a legitimate update to one of your programs isn't registered with Microsoft, Microsoft will prevent that program from running?
I'm thinking, for example, Firefox updates itself, Microsoft doesn't know about the update, Windows sees the app has changed, and Firefox won't run.
How will this work once Windows 7 is EOL'ed? Will all your apps slowly stop working as they get updates?
Newsflash: Charter to cap TV watching to 4 hours per day.
I don't watch much TV, and if I could, I would only download the shows I want to watch. That would save more bandwidth than streaming 200 channels 24/7 to my house. Tonight, for example, I will watch Lost and Damages that I downloaded yesterday. That will probably be it for TV.
But cable doesn't want that. They'd rather keep making the same amount of money and provide less service.
But advertising is only a short-term fix. Why doesn't Pandora partner with Amazon and offer one-click purchase of CDs or mp3s, then split the profits with the RIAA?
The RIAA gets their cut of the actual transaction, Pandora makes some money, we all get to buy the music we want. Wait, that makes way more sense than trying to get blood from a stone.
Credit cards are a great example of security theater. It's like walking around with your root password written down in your wallet.
Is there any technical limitation preventing an RSA-like dongle for verifying credit cards? Just like we're all accustomed to logging into VPN, you enter your user id, passpharse AND randomly-generated key. That way, even if the transmission is intercepted, the key is useless for the next translation.
Speaking of which, does that mean that it's illegal to blaspheme in public? So saying God is now illegal? So prayer in school, saying the (modified) Pledge is illegal?
+1 for the separation of Church and State group!
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As a side note, it's not enemy combatants that the govt. is trying to define. That is clearly defined in the Third Geneva Convention as
"Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict and members of militias of such armed forces" or "Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, provided that they fulfill all of the following conditions" consisting of carrying arms openly and wearing identifying insignia (among other things).
The problem is the gap between the Third and Fourth conventions. The Third deals with treatment of Prisoners of War, the Fourth deals with treatment of Civilians in time of war. The government's argument is that a terrorist is neither a civilian or soldier, and not protected at all by the Geneva convention. So it's really not a vague definition of "enemy combatant," but rather the vague definition of "unlawful combatant," which isn't covered explicitly by the Geneva conventions.
At some point, you have to turn your trust over. Why does it make a difference if you put your ballot into a box to be counted compared to pushing a button on a computer? There's still other people involved in actually totaling and reporting those votes.
I voted by mail-in ballot. How do I know where those votes go? Who counts them? When do they count them? Where did the ballots go after being counted? A recount doesn't do any good. If an area has discrepancies or is too close to call, vote again.
The polls look very different this time compared to 2004. Nationally, the total percentages may be close, but that's misleading unless you look at it state by state. Just leading in Ohio and Virginia really change the map. It makes a 270-270 tie into 303-237 rout. Even if McCain wins all the "barely Democratic states," he still can't win. Adding up the strong-D and weak-D states, that still gives 274. Close, but still no win, and highly unlikely.
I think if McCain wins this time, "the left" will be more than shocked.
Spare bike parts. Should be cheap, strong enough for a couple hp, pretty standard. More chain drive than gear drive, but the idea is the same. Lots of variety in bearings.
An old self-propelled lawnmower should have a belt drive to satisfy your requirements as well.
Are blenders direct drive, or are they gear reduction? 500 watts is around 1 hp, so that could work too.
That's why some code coverage tool needs to be run against the unit tests.
Show me that most of the code logic is being tested against a number of different datasets, and then I might start to believe that the code may work. Then we can move on to system or integrated tests.
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Morality is orthogonal to law.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/04/shooting_of_grand_valley_stude.html
We'll wait and see what his trial decides.
The answer is intel. 50 years ago, you could build a huge army without anyone really noticing. Now, our space surveillance is so much better, we can spot troop movements (and troop communications, etc.) before they reach the level of global war. Conventional troop movements are well-monitored, and any deviation from norms is noted.
Furthermore, the intel is also much better for planning a counter-attack. Even if someone was able to launch a blitzkrieg-like attack, we'd know where they came from and be able to mount a much more effective counter-attack.
I think the first Gulf War (1991) will be last large-scale ground offensive we will see. The Iraqi army was totally overrun, because we knew all their supply lines and organization. That was a message to the world.
I buy CDs, I don't necessarily use them. I've got 5 new disks from Amazon sitting on my desk that cost probably $5 each. I look at it by cost: why would I pay $0.99 per download at Amazon, when I can pay the same amount per track, get a case and physical media (aka backup)?
If tracks were sold for $0.10 each, I'd buy them. For $1.00, there isn't enough difference in price to justify the switch.
Do not dispose in fire. Doing so could loose a storm of flaming vortices.
Sounds like a feature, not a bug!
I think the problem is that you don't know what to listen for (I can tell there's something different, but I don't think I could explain it).
Can you spot Pan and scan on your T.V.? I couldn't until I took a film class and they showed specifically what it was. It's the same problem with spotting compression artifacts on T.V., but it's harder to explain the sound quality difference. Can you hear an autotune correction?
I'd wager that, no you can't tell the difference between a 128kb MP3 and a .wav in your car.
Not if it's cloudy.
Hacked or not, am I reading this right that Microsoft is aware of changes to the application? So a legitimate update to one of your programs isn't registered with Microsoft, Microsoft will prevent that program from running?
I'm thinking, for example, Firefox updates itself, Microsoft doesn't know about the update, Windows sees the app has changed, and Firefox won't run.
How will this work once Windows 7 is EOL'ed? Will all your apps slowly stop working as they get updates?
To this I would say, how much tv do you watch?
Newsflash: Charter to cap TV watching to 4 hours per day.
I don't watch much TV, and if I could, I would only download the shows I want to watch. That would save more bandwidth than streaming 200 channels 24/7 to my house. Tonight, for example, I will watch Lost and Damages that I downloaded yesterday. That will probably be it for TV.
But cable doesn't want that. They'd rather keep making the same amount of money and provide less service.
But advertising is only a short-term fix. Why doesn't Pandora partner with Amazon and offer one-click purchase of CDs or mp3s, then split the profits with the RIAA?
The RIAA gets their cut of the actual transaction, Pandora makes some money, we all get to buy the music we want. Wait, that makes way more sense than trying to get blood from a stone.
Credit cards are a great example of security theater. It's like walking around with your root password written down in your wallet.
Is there any technical limitation preventing an RSA-like dongle for verifying credit cards? Just like we're all accustomed to logging into VPN, you enter your user id, passpharse AND randomly-generated key. That way, even if the transmission is intercepted, the key is useless for the next translation.
Speaking of which, does that mean that it's illegal to blaspheme in public? So saying God is now illegal? So prayer in school, saying the (modified) Pledge is illegal?
+1 for the separation of Church and State group!
I've used Project + Project Issue Tracking with success.
http://drupal.org/project/project
http://drupal.org/project/project_issue.
Everything else (except Gantt charts) could be created as content pages within the project.
For a more integrated system, I'm a fan of Trac, which is Python, not PHP. The wiki markup linking of Trac is worth it on its own.
As a side note, it's not enemy combatants that the govt. is trying to define. That is clearly defined in the Third Geneva Convention as
"Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict and members of militias of such armed forces" or "Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, provided that they fulfill all of the following conditions" consisting of carrying arms openly and wearing identifying insignia (among other things).
The problem is the gap between the Third and Fourth conventions. The Third deals with treatment of Prisoners of War, the Fourth deals with treatment of Civilians in time of war. The government's argument is that a terrorist is neither a civilian or soldier, and not protected at all by the Geneva convention. So it's really not a vague definition of "enemy combatant," but rather the vague definition of "unlawful combatant," which isn't covered explicitly by the Geneva conventions.
Or if the stack of tens of thousands fall over on someone.
Not to mention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo-synchronous
Do they seriously have a howstuffworks page for a hammer?
At least Joy's law would be appropriate for government: "No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.â
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy's_Law
At some point, you have to turn your trust over. Why does it make a difference if you put your ballot into a box to be counted compared to pushing a button on a computer? There's still other people involved in actually totaling and reporting those votes.
I voted by mail-in ballot. How do I know where those votes go? Who counts them? When do they count them? Where did the ballots go after being counted? A recount doesn't do any good. If an area has discrepancies or is too close to call, vote again.
I like this game. Politically-correct songs.
"I see a Native American door and want it painted African American."
"Back in African American, I hit the sack. It's been too long and I'm glad to be back."
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Pres/ec_graph-2008.html
The polls look very different this time compared to 2004. Nationally, the total percentages may be close, but that's misleading unless you look at it state by state. Just leading in Ohio and Virginia really change the map. It makes a 270-270 tie into 303-237 rout. Even if McCain wins all the "barely Democratic states," he still can't win. Adding up the strong-D and weak-D states, that still gives 274. Close, but still no win, and highly unlikely.
I think if McCain wins this time, "the left" will be more than shocked.
Spare bike parts. Should be cheap, strong enough for a couple hp, pretty standard. More chain drive than gear drive, but the idea is the same. Lots of variety in bearings.
An old self-propelled lawnmower should have a belt drive to satisfy your requirements as well.
Are blenders direct drive, or are they gear reduction? 500 watts is around 1 hp, so that could work too.
Or this:
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1997-09-10/
Throwing it through a window means destruction of property. Maybe we can charge them with littering?
That's why some code coverage tool needs to be run against the unit tests.
Show me that most of the code logic is being tested against a number of different datasets, and then I might start to believe that the code may work. Then we can move on to system or integrated tests.