Since I'm not from the U.S. I might have misunderstood something here, but does the U.S. senate really have the authority to change in employment contracts for the worse?
Where I live, the government can enforce things like minimum wages, but if my contract includes overtime pay, then the only way it can disappear is if my employer and I renegotiate the contract.
I hope this becomes a big hit. I'll be sneaking around in airport lounges with a bit of polarizing film on my cellphone camera, then make a fortune in insider trading.
Pretty stupid thing to say. If the person who inputs the garbage is the admin (which is the case here, since only an admin can create rewrite rules) then it's not surprising that security might be compromised. There's no way you can make software safe from incompetent people with admin privileges.
The camera is actually the least important piece of equipment when it comes to "taking images that actually look good". Any digital SLR will do fine. Unless you need movie capability, I'd strongly suggest getting one of the slightly older models for cheap on ebay, and save the money the more important stuff (listed below) Pick the brand that your friends use. Then you can borrow equipment from each other. (If you don't have friends that are into photography, then go with Canon or Nikon. That's the most likely brands your future friends will have.)
The absolutely easiest way to make "good-looking" pictures is to have plenty of background blur. For that you need at least an APS-sized sensor, and a lens like 85 mm f/1.8. Here is a picture i took a few years ago with a 350d (very cheap today) and a 100 mm f/2. No special lighting, just an overcast day. The background was actually pretty boring in real life, but once it's blurred it looks good.
The easy way to take good-looking indoor pictures is to have one, or preferably two, off-camera flashes. These will cost you about $200 each, plus $70 for a radio sync. Place them on top of a book-shelf and aim at the ceiling. Now you can shoot at iso 400 (any cheap old DSLR works) and because the light is diffused from the ceiling, you get good light in most of the room. (You can also do lots of other cool stuff with off-camera strobes.)
Last: Get a book that explains the basics of photography. It's not that difficult, but there are a few tricks that will help you a lot if you know about them. $50 spent on a book will make a lot of difference for your photos, while an extra $50 spent on the camera body will make no difference at all.
You're neglecting the fact that a smaller sensor needs much lower ISO for the same signal/noise ratio. An s95 at f/2.0 is only as "fast" as a 35 mm camera at f/9.3 when the ISO sensitivity is set so that signal/noise ratios are comparable. At the other end of the zoom range, the s95 is equivalent to a 120 mm f/27 for equivalent signal/noise ratios.
You read the summary, and conclude that the agreement is poorly written? You clearly don't belong here (by which I only mean to say that the slashdot administrators do not own you.)
Of course the actual text does not use simplified language like "belong to a country." Here's the actual text of article 7.
1. The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and. as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents.
2. States Parties shall ensure the implementation of these rights in accordance with their national law and their obligations under the relevant international instruments in this field, in particular where the child would otherwise be stateless.
The other statements you made were equally clueless, but I'm not going to waste my time.
They are not too lazy. They are too stupid. Likely, the same people are also the ones who oppose the U.N Convention of the Rights of the Child (ratified by every country except the U.S.A. and Somalia) because they need to beat the fear of God into their kids.
Here's a better article on the same subject from the same newspaper.
The correct advice would be "Drink water when you are thirsty and when you are sweating[1]." There are no studies showing that drinking while neither thirsty nor sweating would reduce the risk of dehydration.
The EU took a stand against the lobbyist's here. It is the exact opposite of what happened when the US declared pizza a vegetable.
[1] In really dry and hot climate (like a desert) you might not notice that you are sweating, so drink anyways.
How hard would it be to create a modified smallpox virus such that this new vaccine is effective while older vaccines - that China and Russia have - are not?
1) Set up brand new twitter account 2) Start tweeting "I'm handing over this account to my old employer. Please follow my new account instead." at regular intervals. 3) ??? 4) Profit ?
Not everyone will switch, of course. But the ones who do will be the ones who actually read what he tweets.
A Danish security firm says that attempted robberies went down by 80 % after they put stickers saying "taxi under camera surveillance" on cars belonging to Copenhagen taxi. Actual cameras were not allowed in taxis in Denmark at the time.
The novelist would first consult an expert who would tell him that intentionally puncturing a cell in such a way that it catches fire a week later is virtually impossible. Reprogramming the control circuit, on the other hand is doable. In theory, you could open up a battery, replace a chip, and have the battery explode on command.
My point is: the law is unenforceable if "deleting" is not deleting.
- Hey, the law says you have to delete that! - I did. - But it's still on your hard drive! - No, that's just a copy in case law enforcement ever asks for it. - Oh, OK then.
Imo, there is very little difference between chat conversation on facebook and text messages on a cell phone. If I can request deletion of the former, then why not the other?
If "deleting" means that a copy is kept for "things like law enforcement" then it's not really deleting.
As a casual pirate, forcing me to type "pirate bay replacement" into Google is not enough of an inconvenience. The only thing that would stop me from using bittorrent is if American TV series episodes could be legally downloaded in Europe on the same day as they air in the US. I don't mind paying, but having to wait a year is not an option.
With music it's not a year, but it can be a few weeks from a song starts playing on the radio until I can have a legally purchased copy.
What the entertainment industry needs to do is work together to make sure that there's an easy way for me to buy everything I want legally and immediately (and DRM free, of course). Then I might not bother to install a bittorrent client in the first place.
The bitcoins need not be created on the infected machines and then transferred to the crooks. Once the magic number is found, it can transferred in an untraceable way (public key encrypted and bounced around on infected computers) and the crook will appear no different than a regular bitcoin miner with a lot of processing power.
The real cost here is not that of the sensor. It's the actions you have to take each time an alarm goes off. Lots of people (construction workers etc) handle explosives on a regular basis, and it leaves traces on them and their clothes.
And just wait until teenagers realize that all they have to do to get a day off from school is buy a bag of potassium nitrate at the grocery store and pour some out in the hallway.
Why would the police need to "masquerade" as a phone network. They can just get it from the *real* phone network. All phone companies comply with police requests, as long as they are legal. Oh, I see...
No. Hydrogen from a leak burns with a diffusion flame just like the flame from a cigarette lighter. The main difference is that the hydrogen flame is invisible, or nearly so.
To get an explosion, you need the hydrogen to be premixed with air and then ignited. That can't happen with a leak outdoors, as the H2 is lighter than air.
If it happened in your chemistry lab, then you need to check that the ventilation is working properly. It's really not supposed to happen.
This is a common misconception. A hydrogen airship that catches fire does not go 'pop'. In fact, the most likely scenario (assuming a properly constructed airship) is a safe emergency landing where everybody walks away unharmed.
The pure oxygen inside an airship cannot burn or explode. It must be mixed with oxygen first. Hence any burning will take place on the outside of a leak. Hydrogen is lighter than air, so a hydrogen flame is mostly vertical. It is also nearly invisible, which also means it does not radiate much heat. Hence it takes a long time for a fire to spread to neighboring segments.
Even the Hindenburg, which had several construction flaws, allowed most of the passengers and crew to get off alive. A modern airship would not be covered in extremely flammable cellulose nitrate.
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Since I'm not from the U.S. I might have misunderstood something here, but does the U.S. senate really have the authority to change in employment contracts for the worse?
Where I live, the government can enforce things like minimum wages, but if my contract includes overtime pay, then the only way it can disappear is if my employer and I renegotiate the contract.
I hope this becomes a big hit. I'll be sneaking around in airport lounges with a bit of polarizing film on my cellphone camera, then make a fortune in insider trading.
Pretty stupid thing to say. If the person who inputs the garbage is the admin (which is the case here, since only an admin can create rewrite rules) then it's not surprising that security might be compromised. There's no way you can make software safe from incompetent people with admin privileges.
The camera is actually the least important piece of equipment when it comes to "taking images that actually look good". Any digital SLR will do fine. Unless you need movie capability, I'd strongly suggest getting one of the slightly older models for cheap on ebay, and save the money the more important stuff (listed below) Pick the brand that your friends use. Then you can borrow equipment from each other. (If you don't have friends that are into photography, then go with Canon or Nikon. That's the most likely brands your future friends will have.)
The absolutely easiest way to make "good-looking" pictures is to have plenty of background blur. For that you need at least an APS-sized sensor, and a lens like 85 mm f/1.8. Here is a picture i took a few years ago with a 350d (very cheap today) and a 100 mm f/2. No special lighting, just an overcast day. The background was actually pretty boring in real life, but once it's blurred it looks good.
The easy way to take good-looking indoor pictures is to have one, or preferably two, off-camera flashes. These will cost you about $200 each, plus $70 for a radio sync. Place them on top of a book-shelf and aim at the ceiling. Now you can shoot at iso 400 (any cheap old DSLR works) and because the light is diffused from the ceiling, you get good light in most of the room. (You can also do lots of other cool stuff with off-camera strobes.)
Last: Get a book that explains the basics of photography. It's not that difficult, but there are a few tricks that will help you a lot if you know about them. $50 spent on a book will make a lot of difference for your photos, while an extra $50 spent on the camera body will make no difference at all.
You're neglecting the fact that a smaller sensor needs much lower ISO for the same signal/noise ratio. An s95 at f/2.0 is only as "fast" as a 35 mm camera at f/9.3 when the ISO sensitivity is set so that signal/noise ratios are comparable. At the other end of the zoom range, the s95 is equivalent to a 120 mm f/27 for equivalent signal/noise ratios.
I don't care if they have worldwide support. I will stick to my regular vitamin drops, thank you very much.
You read the summary, and conclude that the agreement is poorly written? You clearly don't belong here (by which I only mean to say that the slashdot administrators do not own you.)
Of course the actual text does not use simplified language like "belong to a country." Here's the actual text of article 7.
1. The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and. as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents.
2. States Parties shall ensure the implementation of these rights in accordance with their national law and their obligations under the relevant international instruments in this field, in particular where the child would otherwise be stateless.
The other statements you made were equally clueless, but I'm not going to waste my time.
They are not too lazy. They are too stupid. Likely, the same people are also the ones who oppose the U.N Convention of the Rights of the Child (ratified by every country except the U.S.A. and Somalia) because they need to beat the fear of God into their kids.
Everyone's "average degree of separation" is infinite, because there exist uncontacted indigenous tribes in Brazil.
Perhaps facebook can partner with the OLPC foundation can fix this?
Here's a better article on the same subject from the same newspaper.
The correct advice would be "Drink water when you are thirsty and when you are sweating[1]." There are no studies showing that drinking while neither thirsty nor sweating would reduce the risk of dehydration.
The EU took a stand against the lobbyist's here. It is the exact opposite of what happened when the US declared pizza a vegetable.
[1] In really dry and hot climate (like a desert) you might not notice that you are sweating, so drink anyways.
How hard would it be to create a modified smallpox virus such that this new vaccine is effective while older vaccines - that China and Russia have - are not?
1) Set up brand new twitter account
2) Start tweeting "I'm handing over this account to my old employer. Please follow my new account instead." at regular intervals.
3) ???
4) Profit ?
Not everyone will switch, of course. But the ones who do will be the ones who actually read what he tweets.
A Danish security firm says that attempted robberies went down by 80 % after they put stickers saying "taxi under camera surveillance" on cars belonging to Copenhagen taxi. Actual cameras were not allowed in taxis in Denmark at the time.
The novelist would first consult an expert who would tell him that intentionally puncturing a cell in such a way that it catches fire a week later is virtually impossible. Reprogramming the control circuit, on the other hand is doable. In theory, you could open up a battery, replace a chip, and have the battery explode on command.
My point is: the law is unenforceable if "deleting" is not deleting.
- Hey, the law says you have to delete that!
- I did.
- But it's still on your hard drive!
- No, that's just a copy in case law enforcement ever asks for it.
- Oh, OK then.
Imo, there is very little difference between chat conversation on facebook and text messages on a cell phone. If I can request deletion of the former, then why not the other?
If "deleting" means that a copy is kept for "things like law enforcement" then it's not really deleting.
Dear Service Provider, Please delete all my data (texts, phonecalls, emails, etc) that you have stored due to the data retention directive. Thank you.
As a casual pirate, forcing me to type "pirate bay replacement" into Google is not enough of an inconvenience. The only thing that would stop me from using bittorrent is if American TV series episodes could be legally downloaded in Europe on the same day as they air in the US. I don't mind paying, but having to wait a year is not an option.
With music it's not a year, but it can be a few weeks from a song starts playing on the radio until I can have a legally purchased copy.
What the entertainment industry needs to do is work together to make sure that there's an easy way for me to buy everything I want legally and immediately (and DRM free, of course). Then I might not bother to install a bittorrent client in the first place.
You could make evolution work for you by putting death traps behind light barriers at mosquito breeding grounds.
The bitcoins need not be created on the infected machines and then transferred to the crooks. Once the magic number is found, it can transferred in an untraceable way (public key encrypted and bounced around on infected computers) and the crook will appear no different than a regular bitcoin miner with a lot of processing power.
The real cost here is not that of the sensor. It's the actions you have to take each time an alarm goes off. Lots of people (construction workers etc) handle explosives on a regular basis, and it leaves traces on them and their clothes.
And just wait until teenagers realize that all they have to do to get a day off from school is buy a bag of potassium nitrate at the grocery store and pour some out in the hallway.
Why would the police need to "masquerade" as a phone network. They can just get it from the *real* phone network. All phone companies comply with police requests, as long as they are legal. Oh, I see...
Hydrogen does not burn like that. It explodes.
No. Hydrogen from a leak burns with a diffusion flame just like the flame from a cigarette lighter. The main difference is that the hydrogen flame is invisible, or nearly so.
To get an explosion, you need the hydrogen to be premixed with air and then ignited. That can't happen with a leak outdoors, as the H2 is lighter than air.
If it happened in your chemistry lab, then you need to check that the ventilation is working properly. It's really not supposed to happen.
This is a common misconception. A hydrogen airship that catches fire does not go 'pop'. In fact, the most likely scenario (assuming a properly constructed airship) is a safe emergency landing where everybody walks away unharmed.
The pure oxygen inside an airship cannot burn or explode. It must be mixed with oxygen first. Hence any burning will take place on the outside of a leak. Hydrogen is lighter than air, so a hydrogen flame is mostly vertical. It is also nearly invisible, which also means it does not radiate much heat. Hence it takes a long time for a fire to spread to neighboring segments.
Even the Hindenburg, which had several construction flaws, allowed most of the passengers and crew to get off alive. A modern airship would not be covered in extremely flammable cellulose nitrate.
The limit is 500 recipients per mailbox, so with 20 mailboxes you can potentially communicate with 10 000 people per 24 hours.