so is the fleshy on the end of the game controller a "buster" or a bustee? I could easily see potential for either; imagine game play in a max security prison trying to steer a course between 3 rival inmate gangs, a small group of sadistic asshole guards, and the parole board where alliances between the groups build and crumble muhahahah.
Sounds like we've never actually read the windows EULA now have we, be honest, reading the first paragraph don't count as reading the whole thing; you've probably signed it four or five times with a legally binding "digital" signature, but you haven't actually read what you signed even once now have you?
Maybe linux is just better at handling duff hardware than windows (certainly a good thing). *shrug* No maybe about it, the boss had a dell, running XP and the dvd reader died under windows, device not found errors, we did the uninstall/reinstall routine as per Dell support and nada, so Dell sent a new dvd to the boss and abandons the "bad" dvd on site. We slap the new one in and it came right up in windows no problem, so I took the bad abandoned reader and stick in in my Linux machine and it came right up no problem and works great. Well you guessed it, I showed it to the boss and of course he decide it would be cool to have two DVD-ROMs and since I "fixed" "his" DVD that dell abandoned so I was told to put it back in his machine, where of course it still wouldn't work.
I have absolutely no doubts that Linux is better at recognizing hardware than windows is, if it weren't for that "installation CD" that comes with every trivial piece of hardware, windows would be dead in the water 60% of the time and guessing wrong 20%. I also think that windows is less likely to error check things; it easier to be fast, but at what price?
I just did a first burn on my Arch Linux Machine and K3B, the cd burning software noticed the problem, asked for the root password, added a group "burner", gave the group burner permission to write to the cd burner, then added me to the group, it did all this automagicly and I didn't even have to restart the K3B software to use the burner; so obviously the GP is either a TROLL or an ASTROTURFER. Basicly GP is saying Linux is bad because it's not setup to allow an Industrial Espionage Agent burn all of you company secrets to a cd by default like windows does; OH the HORRORS, if they think that is bad wait untill they get Vista!
On the internet, no one should know you're a teenager. and no one does, everyones who claims to be 18 is more likely 13, everyones who claims to be 21 is more likely to be 16, and everyone who claims to be 24 is more likely 48
IANAL but I'm sure you got it all ass-backwards, downloading a file may not always be illegal because, there are rare occasions there the person downloading has a legitimate fair-use privellage, but the person being downloaded from will never have the right to distribute RIAA music, and so will always be illegal. What the ruling says is that the RIAA most prove that the person being sued must have actually distributed the music, and not merely presented it as available. The RIAA can easily do this by actually downloading the music, and listening to it to insure that it is music that they have the distribution rights to. Where things could get sticky is when the downloading software starts considering the RIAA's agent a "Freeloader" and starts throttling or even shutting them down; of course the RIAA could give them a license to transfer the music onto the P2P network, which would then give them a list of people probably illegally redistributing
A name, hell it's practically an official internet sport! Some people live for a 419 Email, and a chance to play! The idea is to scam the scammer into performing stupid and demeaning tasks, you start slow, build them up.
The part you left out is that while comcast is technicaly losing money in some areas, they are also make more money than we would expect the market to bear in other areas; AT&T on the other hand wants to earn more than the market would be expected to bear, while avoiding the areas that will lose money. Comcast for all of their faults, has struck a deal with communities to provide services to all in a juricdiction in return for the monopoly protection of the franchise. Citys will now have to renig on their end of the deal becuse the FCC made this decision, and they quite possibly don't have the authority to make the decision. A lot of cities are going to be seriously pissed off at AT&T, and hell hath no fury like a pissed of city zoning inspector.
No that's not what it's about at all it's more like AT&T says to the city, we want you to give us right-of-way on city property so we can divey up your population and create two classes of citizen within your boundries.
I read a book written by Peter Lynch and he said an individual investor can kick an institutional investor's ass any day, and when an institutional investor of Lynch's stature says I can kick his institutional ass, I tend to believe him. Just think about it if a stock gets rocked by bad news, I can sell the couple blocks I have pretty quickly, can the instituionals sell thousands as quickly or even sell any without imploding the buy bids?
Well If they don't want to play by the rules set forth by the community, they don't have to, they can negotiate with each property owner for an easement and run their wires over private property rather than the community's right-of-way
Well everybody knows all them niggers and poor white trailer trash that live in that part of town are too stupid to use the internets anyways and if you run the cable tv down there, they just mail-order those jerry-rigged convertor boxes and steal the cable shows anyways, so why should the town try and give them equal protection like the US and state constitions and the town chaters all require?
I'm in Michigan, and I don't think I can even get single pane exterior windows unless it's by special order, and I'd never pass inspection with them. Even old construction has blown in insulation in the wall or foam, unless it a tenement in Detroit. Still I don't think primative areas like California, New York and Florida define average for the United States.
why not send a few random characters in a hidden field as an nounce and a md5sum of the session ID and the nounce, then you can stop most sesion hijacks as well. Give the nonce and checksum a reasonable sounding name and no one would connect the dots.
What everybody forgets is these darned things are attached to the Earth! We have prevailing winds that blow from the west to the east and the new fangled bird shedders are attached to the EARTH which is going to shorten our days! The only way this is going to work is for every wind turbine in the Northern hemisphere to have a counter-ballancing wind turbine in the southern hemisphere where the prevailing wind blow east to west just like we do with flush toilets.
Actually the type of construction your talking about is pretty poorly insulated by american standards. Our windows are universally double pane, often with argon filling to reduce heat conduction, exterior wall are 15 cm thick with the wall filled with fiberglass insulation, and the attic has 30 to 45 Cm of insulation then the whole house is wrapped in plastic to prevent infiltration losses. Right now my thermostat is set at 62F and by opening the drapes to let some sun in the house stays between 65 and 68.
since comcast provides McAfee free of additional charges, I decided to load it up on the Wife's WinXP SP2 machine, and I found it actually painful to run on a machine with rudimentary security measures like limited user privileges; then after I thought about it, the only malware ever found in the machine was in the step son's temp internet files. If the malware is effectively contained in an temp file area and never get a chance to get installed, then things must be locked down, so I yanked McAafee and just run clamWin,adaware and spybot every so often.
I don't think malware is a myth, but I do think that running limited privileges, a dedicated router, and Mozilla does a lot but so does not installing shareware on windows machines and staying out of porn, , gambling and other less reputable sites help a lot. Most reasonably intelligent people know when they're getting into the "bad neighborhoods" on the net, and if they don't shut-down the brain when they turn on the computer they do OK.
I skimmed through the PDF for the article in Cell, and other than not really understanding much of it, I did notice that there were multiple authors located in multiple institutions and I suspect that reduces the chances for outright fraud dramaticall as there is at least some repeatability. I'll be curious to see what happens in swine and primate studies.
Well firstly I'd venture that capsaicin isn't a particularly profitable drug for the pharmas as it is naturally occuring in hot peppers, so for them it would be more a matter of procosseing. I'd suspect unless they patent the actual use as a treatment there is nothing here that can be patented so the pharmas would be uninterested in funding research. That of course leaves the good 'ol US government and the foundations to fund research. One other source might be the health insurance industry, diabetes costs them a bundle of cash so it would be worth while for them to cure it.
Where it gets fuzzy is when a scientist is employed by the USG, she's/he's generally paid salary, which means 24 hrs. a day 360 days a year minus leave time, because of this, and because of credentialing and acknowledgments of sponsors in journals, it can confuse the lay public and media as to what is the scientist's own professional opinion, and what is the official government's opinion on a scientific matter; these scientists really have no "off-the-clock" time like many government workers so when are they going to do personal research?
As far as political speech while in the employ of the government, it's been a while for me, but basicly it's a minefield few venture into willingly, one slip and it's likely to dead-end your career; that's what PACs like the Union of Concerned Scientists do.
Dad Gumit, If I was president I'd want to see the things I wouldn't understand before the public who wouldn't understand sees it too! Shouldn't the boss have the right of first confusion?
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so is the fleshy on the end of the game controller a "buster" or a bustee? I could easily see potential for either; imagine game play in a max security prison trying to steer a course between 3 rival inmate gangs, a small group of sadistic asshole guards, and the parole board where alliances between the groups build and crumble muhahahah.
Sounds like we've never actually read the windows EULA now have we, be honest, reading the first paragraph don't count as reading the whole thing; you've probably signed it four or five times with a legally binding "digital" signature, but you haven't actually read what you signed even once now have you?
Maybe linux is just better at handling duff hardware than windows (certainly a good thing). *shrug*
No maybe about it, the boss had a dell, running XP and the dvd reader died under windows, device not found errors, we did the uninstall/reinstall routine as per Dell support and nada, so Dell sent a new dvd to the boss and abandons the "bad" dvd on site. We slap the new one in and it came right up in windows no problem, so I took the bad abandoned reader and stick in in my Linux machine and it came right up no problem and works great. Well you guessed it, I showed it to the boss and of course he decide it would be cool to have two DVD-ROMs and since I "fixed" "his" DVD that dell abandoned so I was told to put it back in his machine, where of course it still wouldn't work.
I have absolutely no doubts that Linux is better at recognizing hardware than windows is, if it weren't for that "installation CD" that comes with every trivial piece of hardware, windows would be dead in the water 60% of the time and guessing wrong 20%. I also think that windows is less likely to error check things; it easier to be fast, but at what price?
I just did a first burn on my Arch Linux Machine and K3B, the cd burning software noticed the problem, asked for the root password, added a group "burner", gave the group burner permission to write to the cd burner, then added me to the group, it did all this automagicly and I didn't even have to restart the K3B software to use the burner; so obviously the GP is either a TROLL or an ASTROTURFER. Basicly GP is saying Linux is bad because it's not setup to allow an Industrial Espionage Agent burn all of you company secrets to a cd by default like windows does; OH the HORRORS, if they think that is bad wait untill they get Vista!
On the internet, no one should know you're a teenager.
and no one does, everyones who claims to be 18 is more likely 13, everyones who claims to be 21 is more likely to be 16, and everyone who claims to be 24 is more likely 48
IANAL but I'm sure you got it all ass-backwards, downloading a file may not always be illegal because, there are rare occasions there the person downloading has a legitimate fair-use privellage, but the person being downloaded from will never have the right to distribute RIAA music, and so will always be illegal. What the ruling says is that the RIAA most prove that the person being sued must have actually distributed the music, and not merely presented it as available. The RIAA can easily do this by actually downloading the music, and listening to it to insure that it is music that they have the distribution rights to.
Where things could get sticky is when the downloading software starts considering the RIAA's agent a "Freeloader" and starts throttling or even shutting them down; of course the RIAA could give them a license to transfer the music onto the P2P network, which would then give them a list of people probably illegally redistributing
A name, hell it's practically an official internet sport! Some people live for a 419 Email, and a chance to play! The idea is to scam the scammer into performing stupid and demeaning tasks, you start slow, build them up.
Big difference between pulling some replacement copper or fiber and installing 20 or 30 52B's all over town to enable a new class of service.
The part you left out is that while comcast is technicaly losing money in some areas, they are also make more money than we would expect the market to bear in other areas; AT&T on the other hand wants to earn more than the market would be expected to bear, while avoiding the areas that will lose money. Comcast for all of their faults, has struck a deal with communities to provide services to all in a juricdiction in return for the monopoly protection of the franchise. Citys will now have to renig on their end of the deal becuse the FCC made this decision, and they quite possibly don't have the authority to make the decision. A lot of cities are going to be seriously pissed off at AT&T, and hell hath no fury like a pissed of city zoning inspector.
No that's not what it's about at all it's more like AT&T says to the city, we want you to give us right-of-way on city property so we can divey up your population and create two classes of citizen within your boundries.
I read a book written by Peter Lynch and he said an individual investor can kick an institutional investor's ass any day, and when an institutional investor of Lynch's stature says I can kick his institutional ass, I tend to believe him. Just think about it if a stock gets rocked by bad news, I can sell the couple blocks I have pretty quickly, can the instituionals sell thousands as quickly or even sell any without imploding the buy bids?
Well If they don't want to play by the rules set forth by the community, they don't have to, they can negotiate with each property owner for an easement and run their wires over private property rather than the community's right-of-way
Well everybody knows all them niggers and poor white trailer trash that live in that part of town are too stupid to use the internets anyways and if you run the cable tv down there, they just mail-order those jerry-rigged convertor boxes and steal the cable shows anyways, so why should the town try and give them equal protection like the US and state constitions and the town chaters all require?
From what I've seen, 25, 000 lines of javascript has only one linefeed :-)
That's why I threw in the toilet thing, so it woould be obvious anybody with with any education.
I'm in Michigan, and I don't think I can even get single pane exterior windows unless it's by special order, and I'd never pass inspection with them. Even old construction has blown in insulation in the wall or foam, unless it a tenement in Detroit. Still I don't think primative areas like California, New York and Florida define average for the United States.
That is criminal, in my city they wouldn't even be able to get a rental permit for those places.
why not send a few random characters in a hidden field as an nounce and a md5sum of the session ID and the nounce, then you can stop most sesion hijacks as well. Give the nonce and checksum a reasonable sounding name and no one would connect the dots.
What everybody forgets is these darned things are attached to the Earth! We have prevailing winds that blow from the west to the east and the new fangled bird shedders are attached to the EARTH which is going to shorten our days! The only way this is going to work is for every wind turbine in the Northern hemisphere to have a counter-ballancing wind turbine in the southern hemisphere where the prevailing wind blow east to west just like we do with flush toilets.
Actually the type of construction your talking about is pretty poorly insulated by american standards. Our windows are universally double pane, often with argon filling to reduce heat conduction, exterior wall are 15 cm thick with the wall filled with fiberglass insulation, and the attic has 30 to 45 Cm of insulation then the whole house is wrapped in plastic to prevent infiltration losses. Right now my thermostat is set at 62F and by opening the drapes to let some sun in the house stays between 65 and 68.
since comcast provides McAfee free of additional charges, I decided to load it up on the Wife's WinXP SP2 machine, and I found it actually painful to run on a machine with rudimentary security measures like limited user privileges; then after I thought about it, the only malware ever found in the machine was in the step son's temp internet files. If the malware is effectively contained in an temp file area and never get a chance to get installed, then things must be locked down, so I yanked McAafee and just run clamWin,adaware and spybot every so often.
I don't think malware is a myth, but I do think that running limited privileges, a dedicated router, and Mozilla does a lot but so does not installing shareware on windows machines and staying out of porn, , gambling and other less reputable sites help a lot. Most reasonably intelligent people know when they're getting into the "bad neighborhoods" on the net, and if they don't shut-down the brain when they turn on the computer they do OK.
I skimmed through the PDF for the article in Cell, and other than not really understanding much of it, I did notice that there were multiple authors located in multiple institutions and I suspect that reduces the chances for outright fraud dramaticall as there is at least some repeatability. I'll be curious to see what happens in swine and primate studies.
Well firstly I'd venture that capsaicin isn't a particularly profitable drug for the pharmas as it is naturally occuring in hot peppers, so for them it would be more a matter of procosseing. I'd suspect unless they patent the actual use as a treatment there is nothing here that can be patented so the pharmas would be uninterested in funding research. That of course leaves the good 'ol US government and the foundations to fund research. One other source might be the health insurance industry, diabetes costs them a bundle of cash so it would be worth while for them to cure it.
Where it gets fuzzy is when a scientist is employed by the USG, she's/he's generally paid salary, which means 24 hrs. a day 360 days a year minus leave time, because of this, and because of credentialing and acknowledgments of sponsors in journals, it can confuse the lay public and media as to what is the scientist's own professional opinion, and what is the official government's opinion on a scientific matter; these scientists really have no "off-the-clock" time like many government workers so when are they going to do personal research?
As far as political speech while in the employ of the government, it's been a while for me, but basicly it's a minefield few venture into willingly, one slip and it's likely to dead-end your career; that's what PACs like the Union of Concerned Scientists do.
Dad Gumit, If I was president I'd want to see the things I wouldn't understand before the public who wouldn't understand sees it too! Shouldn't the boss have the right of first confusion?