Maybe Joe Schmoe belongs to an environmental or animal rights organization, a non-mainstream political or religious group, corresponds with people in "terrorist" countries. There are many things that can put you on a watch list.
The law specifies deadlines for agencies to respond to requests, but as this example illustrates, you may have to file a lawsuit in federal court to get any action. Some of it is due to insufficient funding and some of it is deliberate delay or refusal to release information.
Without a metal case, you should also think about the RFI (radio frequency interference) that will be generated by the computer. You need some sort of electrically conductive coating on the plexiglas. See the previous slashdot discussion, How to Build a Clear Computer Case.
People won't nuke their own planet, it just doesn't take that many bombs to make a planet unlivable.
People tend to grossly overestimate the effects of nuclear weapons. If World War III broke out today, hundreds of millions, maybe a few billion, people would die. Governments would collapse and most of the world would be in bad shape. That does not mean that the entire planet would be uninhabitable or that humans would become extinct. From a biological point of view, it would be a minor catastrophe. Humanity would survive and rebuild large scale civilization.
The problem is when your customers have trouble using your web site because of flakey software. I see far more weird errors on www.microsoft.com than on other web sites. They seem to have a policy of using all of the latest Microsoft bells and whistles, whether they work reliably or not.
The early unmanned space probes contained cameras. This was the mid 1960's, the only way to retrieve the images was to pick up the cameras, which our intrepid astronauts did.
No. The Surveyor spacecraft carried television cameras, not film cameras. They transmitted their pictures back to Earth via radio.
When the FCC says "accept interference", they mean that you do not have a legal recourse. You are free to attempt to fix the problem by shielding or moving your TV. Just don't go to the FCC and demand that they shut down a frequency user with higher precedence. The notice is just a way of saying that you are allowed to use the device with the understanding that you can't interfere with existing spectrum users and if they interfere with you, you will have to live with it. Think of it as flying standby on an airplane. If the space is available, you get to fly. If someone with a normal ticket wants your seat, you get bumped off the plane.
A "high performance" PC does not have to be noisy. If you buy a PC that was designed by engineers, as opposed to slapped together from cheap parts, it can be much quieter. I have an IBM server, with three fans, that is almost silent.
Reading the number of platters that each drive has got me to wondering: could you implement a simple RAID scheme within one drive?
No. The head positioning wouldn't work properly for multiple active heads, assuming you had read/write electronics for each head. Just because the head on surface 0 is properly positioned over the track, does not mean that any of the other heads are correctly positioned. You would need to duplicate the positioner and read/write electronics for each head. This would be extremely expensive and complicated. It would be cheaper to use N drives of 1/N capacity.
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Ethernet typically falls over dead when the net reaches about 40% of capacity.
There already is compulsory licensing for recorded music, it's called radio broadcasting. I can take your super-duper hyper-limited edition record and play it on my radio station 24 hours a day for the next 50 years.
(try going to a judge saying "we want to tap his line because the stuff we already got off his tapped line is really incriminating")
That is why they invented the anonymous informant. It doesn't have to be admissable in court if it can be laundered into probable cause for a wiretap or warrant.
2. Sound that is "outside the range" of human hearing affects the timbre of other sounds on the recording. Even CD's forfeit a little bit of useful sound for the sake of data efficiency, but nowhere near as much as MP3.
So you are saying that you can hear the difference between a 20 kHz square wave and a 20 kHz sine wave? That your ear can perceive the presence or absence of the odd-order harmonics (60 kHz, 100 kHz etc.) in the square wave?
Britney Spears may be synthetic, corporate music, but it is slick, well-produced music. The aural equivalent of a Big Mac.
You don't know what bad music is until you have gone through and listened to a pile of promotional records at a radio station. There is an unbelievable amount of really bad music that never gets played on the air.
Discoveries in science that have potential benefit to society are nearly always strongly protected with patents.
Who patented quantum mechanics, special and general relativity, the photoelectric effect, the structure of the DNA molecule, the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem?
There is a difference between an invention and a discovery.
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The publisher asserts that he is a leading Canadian SF writer in the blurb printed on the book cover, at least on several of the paperback editions of his novels.
Maybe it is the literary equivalent of "Don't shoot me. I'm a Canadian."
I'm not a lawyer. Everything that I have read about restraint of trade is in reference to restrictive clauses in contracts and agreements. Simple refusal to do business with someone is not a restraint of trade. If you want to buy widgets from me, but I refuse because I don't like people who wear green socks, that is your tough luck.
Even granting the premise that ICANN violated their bylaws in not approving Afternic's application, so what? Since when it is the job of the federal courts to hear cases about corporate bylaws brought by outside parties, not by employees, officers or stockholders?
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Watch your step or I will drop you into a volcano like the BT infested scum that you are.
mwa-ha-ha!!
Maybe Joe Schmoe belongs to an environmental or animal rights organization, a non-mainstream political or religious group, corresponds with people in "terrorist" countries. There are many things that can put you on a watch list.
The law specifies deadlines for agencies to respond to requests, but as this example illustrates, you may have to file a lawsuit in federal court to get any action. Some of it is due to insufficient funding and some of it is deliberate delay or refusal to release information.
The two big things are to eliminate or reduce the size of holes and to prevent RFI from getting out via the external cables and AC cord.
Without a metal case, you should also think about the RFI (radio frequency interference) that will be generated by the computer. You need some sort of electrically conductive coating on the plexiglas. See the previous slashdot discussion, How to Build a Clear Computer Case.
People tend to grossly overestimate the effects of nuclear weapons. If World War III broke out today, hundreds of millions, maybe a few billion, people would die. Governments would collapse and most of the world would be in bad shape. That does not mean that the entire planet would be uninhabitable or that humans would become extinct. From a biological point of view, it would be a minor catastrophe. Humanity would survive and rebuild large scale civilization.
The problem is when your customers have trouble using your web site because of flakey software. I see far more weird errors on www.microsoft.com than on other web sites. They seem to have a policy of using all of the latest Microsoft bells and whistles, whether they work reliably or not.
No. The Surveyor spacecraft carried television cameras, not film cameras. They transmitted their pictures back to Earth via radio.
When the FCC says "accept interference", they mean that you do not have a legal recourse. You are free to attempt to fix the problem by shielding or moving your TV. Just don't go to the FCC and demand that they shut down a frequency user with higher precedence. The notice is just a way of saying that you are allowed to use the device with the understanding that you can't interfere with existing spectrum users and if they interfere with you, you will have to live with it. Think of it as flying standby on an airplane. If the space is available, you get to fly. If someone with a normal ticket wants your seat, you get bumped off the plane.
A "high performance" PC does not have to be noisy. If you buy a PC that was designed by engineers, as opposed to slapped together from cheap parts, it can be much quieter. I have an IBM server, with three fans, that is almost silent.
No. The head positioning wouldn't work properly for multiple active heads, assuming you had read/write electronics for each head. Just because the head on surface 0 is properly positioned over the track, does not mean that any of the other heads are correctly positioned. You would need to duplicate the positioner and read/write electronics for each head. This would be extremely expensive and complicated. It would be cheaper to use N drives of 1/N capacity.
I don't think so.
Please see Measured Capacity of an Ethernet: Myths and Reality.
You take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline.
There already is compulsory licensing for recorded music, it's called radio broadcasting. I can take your super-duper hyper-limited edition record and play it on my radio station 24 hours a day for the next 50 years.
That is why they invented the anonymous informant. It doesn't have to be admissable in court if it can be laundered into probable cause for a wiretap or warrant.
They have the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, which look a whole lot like an Army, Navy and Air Force.
This should read "They are not supposed to randomly wiretap people's communications without a reason."
Warrant? We don't need no stinking Warrant!
So you are saying that you can hear the difference between a 20 kHz square wave and a 20 kHz sine wave? That your ear can perceive the presence or absence of the odd-order harmonics (60 kHz, 100 kHz etc.) in the square wave?
So what.
Britney Spears may be synthetic, corporate music, but it is slick, well-produced music. The aural equivalent of a Big Mac.
You don't know what bad music is until you have gone through and listened to a pile of promotional records at a radio station. There is an unbelievable amount of really bad music that never gets played on the air.
You could pay extra money and have the disk permanently (?) enabled. The disk was still locked to a single player.
The astronauts can talk via:
Who patented quantum mechanics, special and general relativity, the photoelectric effect, the structure of the DNA molecule, the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem?
There is a difference between an invention and a discovery.
Maybe it is the literary equivalent of "Don't shoot me. I'm a Canadian."
I'm not a lawyer. Everything that I have read about restraint of trade is in reference to restrictive clauses in contracts and agreements. Simple refusal to do business with someone is not a restraint of trade. If you want to buy widgets from me, but I refuse because I don't like people who wear green socks, that is your tough luck.
Even granting the premise that ICANN violated their bylaws in not approving Afternic's application, so what? Since when it is the job of the federal courts to hear cases about corporate bylaws brought by outside parties, not by employees, officers or stockholders?