CMU already has a private security force, maintains private roads, pays for garbage collection and pays the salaries for police details when they use public spaces. What makes you think they don't pay market rates for sewer and water? You think they are free? Private property owners near a university have higher than average property values due to the demand from students and staff. They would drop dramatically if the university left. You think that would make the owners happy? You should consider getting a college education.
The 1 GW system discussed, if spread over a 1 km x 1 km area on the ground would be 1000 W / m^2. It doesn't have to be focused too tightly. Not sure what aperture that would require for the microwave transmitter design, but lasers don't have the same problem. Presumably, the pilot beam transmitter could be small enough to be carried on an expendable truck.
Well fuck that. I'd like to think we're all equal in the eyes of the law, no matter what our profession is.
Next you'll try to claim that any citizen has equal rights to own guns instead of just sworn police officers. Although I don't understand what bad language has to do with it.
The whole point is that there are precious few details about any of ACTA because nobody outside of the governments involved, their lawyers and a few high-paying lobby groups have been allowed to see any of its contents.
*Everything* about it is hearsay until either someone succeeds in getting an FOI request honoured or the thing gets ratified and it's too late to do anything about it.
There is a section in the agreement allowing the RIAA or MPAA to confiscate all of your possessions if they find a single infringing item on any PC you own. If you don't believe me, just ask the government to show it to you and prove me wrong. Tell all your friends.
Don't worry, there will always be a need for skilled typists, file clerks, elevator attendants, telephone operators and musicians to accompany the silent movies.
hmmm... fits in one rack and has enough processing to do word recognition on all of the calls coming in to one telephone central office simultaneously. I wonder what they want a whole bunch of these for?
The one exception being in the final high-speed I/O stages: serializers, clock generators etc. are better done at the gate level because HDLs still don't give you enough control over time constraints.
It doesn't help to back up a disk if the filesystem did not write the data to it. The big change in ext4 is that it doesn't allocate the disk space for a file until it has to, and the amount of memory in modern PCs means that for small files it never has to.
Average drivers are in Kias. Enthusiasts are driving 1970 Jaguar E type. Who do you think enjoys it more even if they have to spend a few hours tinkering every week to get it to run?
As for the other points, I switched to Linux on the desktop because of the number of things that just don't work well enough in Windows, so to each their own.
Since gas is measured and sold by volume, it only makes sense to talk about energy density in those terms. Ethanol is 23.5 MJ/L while 87 octane gas is 34.8. Fuel use of E100 seems to be growing. The most widely documented cases of damage due to use as an additive is when it is added to the driver.
MO drives were in the same removeable storage market niche as Zip drives but were reliable and actually returned the same data that you wrote. MO used to be standard on some of the IBM OS/2 machines but I haven't seen one lately.
What's interesting to note is that most of the steps outlined in the article for submitting a complaint could be automated on a form, so you don't actually need to reach a live human being.
cite the law (checkbox)
state that this is a case of impersonation (checkbox)
proper ID - require Yahoo! login and have drop-down box and text entry for ID
link to URI of offending website
state what on the page is referring to you (link, phone number, IM, etc.)
Give your contact info - name, address, phone, email, where followup will be sent
If the first level check was automated, I bet the number of non-crank complaints would be fairly manageable. The followup could be either a reply that the site has been taken down, or a reject with a case number for additional steps, or a request for more or missing information.
Can it really be that hard to get hurdle/hurtle right, when you've got an article that uses it correctly right in front of you, which you're copy/pasting into your own submission?
To hurtle is to travel at great speed through the air. A hurdle is a jump, or an obstacle to be jumped.
Also, separate processes provides more isolation, so the malware site I'm visiting has no avenue to get at the banking application in the next tab.
However, web based apps require all browsers to render basic html properly. When is firefox going to fix Bug 33654? It was reported just over 9 years ago. This is the bug that prevents you from using TEXTAREA html elements in forms and getting them to be a consistent size. So far its been reported and marked as a duplicate of this bug at least 25 times.
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CMU already has a private security force, maintains private roads, pays for garbage collection and pays the salaries for police details when they use public spaces. What makes you think they don't pay market rates for sewer and water? You think they are free? Private property owners near a university have higher than average property values due to the demand from students and staff. They would drop dramatically if the university left. You think that would make the owners happy? You should consider getting a college education.
A 1% tax on tuition is lower than the 6% state sales tax on other goods and services in PA.
I was audited by both Pittsburgh and the IRS while a grad student at CMU because my stipend came from a corporation who were funding my research.
The 1 GW system discussed, if spread over a 1 km x 1 km area on the ground would be 1000 W / m^2. It doesn't have to be focused too tightly. Not sure what aperture that would require for the microwave transmitter design, but lasers don't have the same problem. Presumably, the pilot beam transmitter could be small enough to be carried on an expendable truck.
It can also be focused to destroy your enemies. No nation would willingly permit another nation to put this thing up.
Well fuck that. I'd like to think we're all equal in the eyes of the law, no matter what our profession is.
Next you'll try to claim that any citizen has equal rights to own guns instead of just sworn police officers. Although I don't understand what bad language has to do with it.
It would have been better if John Hodgman had been the villain and had the shoot-out with Justin Long at the end.
That's why in my town we have Braille traffic lights.
The whole point is that there are precious few details about any of ACTA because nobody outside of the governments involved, their lawyers and a few high-paying lobby groups have been allowed to see any of its contents.
*Everything* about it is hearsay until either someone succeeds in getting an FOI request honoured or the thing gets ratified and it's too late to do anything about it.
There is a section in the agreement allowing the RIAA or MPAA to confiscate all of your possessions if they find a single infringing item on any PC you own. If you don't believe me, just ask the government to show it to you and prove me wrong. Tell all your friends.
The last time I checked, the only field that runs perpendicular to a magnetic field is an electric field.
Good point, but according to the article this ribbon is defined by a flux of uncharged particles. Weird.
Dark Star fan here. It's obviously the Phoenix Asteroids.
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Don't worry, there will always be a need for skilled typists, file clerks, elevator attendants, telephone operators and musicians to accompany the silent movies.
No. I think Fahrenheit 451 would have been worse.
hmmm... fits in one rack and has enough processing to do word recognition on all of the calls coming in to one telephone central office simultaneously. I wonder what they want a whole bunch of these for?
Firefox provides a way to install extensions which cannot be uninstalled, and that's MS' fault for using it? Interesting.
Troll. Windows Update installs things as Administrator that reguler users cannot uninstall.
The one exception being in the final high-speed I/O stages: serializers, clock generators etc. are better done at the gate level because HDLs still don't give you enough control over time constraints.
It doesn't help to back up a disk if the filesystem did not write the data to it. The big change in ext4 is that it doesn't allocate the disk space for a file until it has to, and the amount of memory in modern PCs means that for small files it never has to.
Average drivers are in Kias. Enthusiasts are driving 1970 Jaguar E type. Who do you think enjoys it more even if they have to spend a few hours tinkering every week to get it to run?
As for the other points, I switched to Linux on the desktop because of the number of things that just don't work well enough in Windows, so to each their own.
Since gas is measured and sold by volume, it only makes sense to talk about energy density in those terms. Ethanol is 23.5 MJ/L while 87 octane gas is 34.8. Fuel use of E100 seems to be growing. The most widely documented cases of damage due to use as an additive is when it is added to the driver.
MO drives were in the same removeable storage market niche as Zip drives but were reliable and actually returned the same data that you wrote. MO used to be standard on some of the IBM OS/2 machines but I haven't seen one lately.
What's interesting to note is that most of the steps outlined in the article for submitting a complaint could be automated on a form, so you don't actually need to reach a live human being.
If the first level check was automated, I bet the number of non-crank complaints would be fairly manageable. The followup could be either a reply that the site has been taken down, or a reject with a case number for additional steps, or a request for more or missing information.
Betamax failed only because it was more expensive than VHS. For one word, try:
"Gigli"
Can it really be that hard to get hurdle/hurtle right, when you've got an article that uses it correctly right in front of you, which you're copy/pasting into your own submission?
To hurtle is to travel at great speed through the air. A hurdle is a jump, or an obstacle to be jumped.
When people that do it don't even get it right?
Also, separate processes provides more isolation, so the malware site I'm visiting has no avenue to get at the banking application in the next tab.
However, web based apps require all browsers to render basic html properly. When is firefox going to fix Bug 33654? It was reported just over 9 years ago. This is the bug that prevents you from using TEXTAREA html elements in forms and getting them to be a consistent size. So far its been reported and marked as a duplicate of this bug at least 25 times.
I value my time at more than $20/hour. That time is wasted driving to and from work. I can read or use a laptop on a train.