For the soldering iron, get a butane powered non-flame iron. Weller Portasol is one name. You can't fly with it, but otherwise it's a lot better than a battery powered iron. I'd estimate it's about the same as a 50-60watt iron.
Re:Mirror of the Mirror?
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I think anyone who calls themselves a "wireless engineer" should be able to figure out how to put an N connector on an Airport. Unless you mean "engineer" in the "sanitation engineer" sense.
Re:I have a better one
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MS didn't invent IP, they only abuse it. You should turn your wrath on your legislator and tell them what needs to be fixed. (i.e. software patents)
Don't ever call MS free software. It is the furthest thing from it.
That's like saying "Don't knock the people detaining you in jail without cause, they are giving you FREE food, FREE housing, and FREE exercise facilities"
And the same arguments apply. The arguments against underage porn generally go along the lines of "these kids are being put into situations that they are not capable of consenting to, and the resulting pictures/media could harm them later in life". Or someone might argue psychological consequences.
Someone who participates in these child beauty contests may regret it later in life, have serious psychological consequences, and the demeaning pictures of them will be floating around for years. How is that different?
Deliberate interference is pretty much always against FCC rules, on any band.
Of course, there are grey areas, a licensed user who interferes (though not "deliberately") with an unlicensed user generally isn't responsible for fixing the interference, as long as the licensed user was using "sound engineering practices", stuff like that.
I was thinking about that same thing just today. I'm pretty strongly Libertarian, and have voted as such since I turned 18. I considered today if maybe it would be better to vote democratic then help another facist regime like Bush/Ashcroft get into power.
I doubt I will vote Democratic, but it was something that I considered today for the first time.
It's not fair use, in fact copying the CD for use at work really isn't Fair Use either. Fair Use is a very narrow exception, which allows you to publish limited parts of a copyrighted work for educational or research purposes.
There are other factors that come into play here, but they aren't called Fair Use. Do some research on the First Sale Doctrine.
I can see us having to figure out how to "coax" behaviors our of them without really knowing the way the base code interacts in order to generate those behaviors.
Like administering a Windows or Mac system. All voodoo and no understanding.
I don't think you understand magic number correctly. The magic number is part of the file format itself. For example, a valid JPEG will always start out with the same bytes "ÿØÿà^@^PJFIF". Most file format specs include a part at the beginning that identify the file to consumer applications.
Re:Metadata benefits
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NTFS already has it, no one uses it because hidden metadata is a stupid idea that breaks all the time. As someone who works with Mac OS 9 clients and Unix servers, I can tell you it's a lame and unnecessary hack, designed to compensate for incompetant users.
Do a google search for "alternate data streams NTFS"
In english, "like" or "as" is often used to show a similarity between two different concepts. This is sometimes called a "simile". Hard to understand, I know.
. How on earth can you justify making something a crime, when you cannot show that it harms anybody?
Lie.
Seriously. They just lie about it. For example, in Virginia, our "crimes against nature" sodomy laws have been attacked each year with a bill to repeal them. When the bill comes up, several reps argue loudly that it will make pedophilia and incest legal. It's a blatent lie, but it seems to work each year.
Same thing happened when GHB became illegal federally. Link
I have it on good authority that IPv6 was originally meant to be a April Fools joke, but some Unix type people took it seriously and implemented it. You'd think the IP addresses that were too long for a normal person to memorize would have been a hint.
Slashdot Mirror
Has anyone started a defense fund?
low hanging fruit
For the soldering iron, get a butane powered non-flame iron. Weller Portasol is one name. You can't fly with it, but otherwise it's a lot better than a battery powered iron. I'd estimate it's about the same as a 50-60watt iron.
Mirror Be gentle.
I think anyone who calls themselves a "wireless engineer" should be able to figure out how to put an N connector on an Airport. Unless you mean "engineer" in the "sanitation engineer" sense.
MS didn't invent IP, they only abuse it. You should turn your wrath on your legislator and tell them what needs to be fixed. (i.e. software patents)
Don't ever call MS free software. It is the furthest thing from it.
That's like saying "Don't knock the people detaining you in jail without cause, they are giving you FREE food, FREE housing, and FREE exercise facilities"
If you make software with pirated tools, you still own it, and there is nothing illegal about the software you wrote.
And the same arguments apply. The arguments against underage porn generally go along the lines of "these kids are being put into situations that they are not capable of consenting to, and the resulting pictures/media could harm them later in life". Or someone might argue psychological consequences.
Someone who participates in these child beauty contests may regret it later in life, have serious psychological consequences, and the demeaning pictures of them will be floating around for years. How is that different?
Well, I made a mirror, but for some reason it came out distorted.
Deliberate interference is pretty much always against FCC rules, on any band.
Of course, there are grey areas, a licensed user who interferes (though not "deliberately") with an unlicensed user generally isn't responsible for fixing the interference, as long as the licensed user was using "sound engineering practices", stuff like that.
I was thinking about that same thing just today. I'm pretty strongly Libertarian, and have voted as such since I turned 18. I considered today if maybe it would be better to vote democratic then help another facist regime like Bush/Ashcroft get into power.
I doubt I will vote Democratic, but it was something that I considered today for the first time.
It's not fair use, in fact copying the CD for use at work really isn't Fair Use either. Fair Use is a very narrow exception, which allows you to publish limited parts of a copyrighted work for educational or research purposes.
There are other factors that come into play here, but they aren't called Fair Use. Do some research on the First Sale Doctrine.
Maybe you weren't talking about US law?
It was Mc DLT and someone from Salem, Virginia won the contest when they pulled the winning record from a trash bin, IIRC.
How could a text file ever have one?
What binary files lack one? I really can't think of one offhand that doesn't have one.
I can see us having to figure out how to "coax" behaviors our of them without really knowing the way the base code interacts in order to generate those behaviors.
Like administering a Windows or Mac system. All voodoo and no understanding.
I don't think you understand magic number correctly. The magic number is part of the file format itself. For example, a valid JPEG will always start out with the same bytes "ÿØÿà^@^PJFIF". Most file format specs include a part at the beginning that identify the file to consumer applications.
NTFS already has it, no one uses it because hidden metadata is a stupid idea that breaks all the time. As someone who works with Mac OS 9 clients and Unix servers, I can tell you it's a lame and unnecessary hack, designed to compensate for incompetant users.
Do a google search for "alternate data streams NTFS"
In english, "like" or "as" is often used to show a similarity between two different concepts. This is sometimes called a "simile". Hard to understand, I know.
. How on earth can you justify making something a crime, when you cannot show that it harms anybody?
Lie.
Seriously. They just lie about it. For example, in Virginia, our "crimes against nature" sodomy laws have been attacked each year with a bill to repeal them. When the bill comes up, several reps argue loudly that it will make pedophilia and incest legal. It's a blatent lie, but it seems to work each year.
Same thing happened when GHB became illegal federally. Link
Dude, you need a 32 bit processor to run the game.
How did you get a web browser to run on a 16 bit processor anyway?
Funny, I thought he was being tried in Norway...
Tsk, you can't let little details like that get in the way of a good US bashing rant.
I have it on good authority that IPv6 was originally meant to be a April Fools joke, but some Unix type people took it seriously and implemented it. You'd think the IP addresses that were too long for a normal person to memorize would have been a hint.
Cyananine dye is named as such because it is cyan (bluish) in color, not because it is related to cyanide.
Oh, I've heard of this, all the components are upside down. Never really built anything personally that would need more than stripboard however.