high grade explosive like Ammonium Nitrate? Ammonium Nitrate isn't even close to being a high explosive. Kinesticks are UPS shippable when the Ammonium Nitrate and the nirto-methane componants are in seperate containers. Even dynamite isn't that great of an explosive in the open, to get a really big bang out of it you have to pack it inside a hole drilled in a realy big rock, detonating it in the open is disapointing because it doesn't get enough compression going. Comp B and C4 that's a different story, military stuff is a combination of differnt explosives, compounded for high impulse, low senstivity. Civilian blasting caps will not set off most military explosives, if you steal military explosives, you have to steal military blasting caps too and they are not stored together. That effectively doubles the security.
The point that everybody is missing is these MS machines are very accurate for identifing specific chemicals. We have a pretty good idea of what the popular terrorist explosives are, my personal suspicion is the most likely candidate is the HE from a RPG warhead the the soviet union was so fond of selling to everybody and their brother. The machine is going to be programmed to recognise the signatures of the top of the list explosives, but I think it's obvious that at the size/weight of the machine it wouldn't be able to process everything W/O some heavy-duty back-end processing, so the likelyhood that everybody that fertalized ther lawns with ammonium nitrate or take nitro for their heart is pretty low; somebody like me who has had C4, det cord, and TNT inside their briefcase and even spilled some picric acid on it in organic is going to have problems.
Spoofing the machine is possible, but that gives away intent. At the olympics in '96 we found a bag w/pvc pipe in it over by the pay phone, somebody had done a dry-run to see what they could sneak past security, which tipped us off and security was jacked up quite a bit.
The first major language to have it was Visual Basic Visual Basic and major language is an oxymoron, now if you left off the visual part I might have excepted it as a major language, however sense Basic was a training language for Fortran a some of people still might have problems with the notion.
how me a market where companies are letting go of their best people That's a big problem now, most companies are too anxious to hire in some loud-mouth mighty-mouse type to come in to save the day even before they know what day it is. All they typicaly do is post some good qtr's that make they day-traders happily to flip a few shares, but end up decimating the companies core competancies and send it off into a death spiral.
That would make a tremendous video game, especialy if you threw in some of the incestuous sex scenes to ballance out the rape and pillage; unfortunatly it would be illegal to sell it to minors in my state.
in Michigan the reason for the sale/use is because not everything is sold in a legal definition such as when you lease a car, your pay the tax on the use of it rather than the purchase. The use tax also has implications for interstate commerce CA can't make a retailer in Navada collect sales taxes for them, but it can make it's citizens pay use tax on foriegn purchases and get arround interstate tarrif prohibitions. Of course IANAL
Seems I remember that 3.5 were a high geek-factor add-on for the radio shack color computer, you had to install an alternative OS to use it, Flex Os if memory serves me correctly and it was capable of multi-tasking which was quite advanced for it's day. Using the Motorolla 6809 CPU, the CoCo pre-dated that Mac that used the motorola 68000, and had a sane memory map which the intel chips like the 8080, and later the 8088 and 8086 didn't.( intel mapped top down, where motorola mapped bottom up allowing memory upgrades without jumping over mapped boundries).
Sony has been the undisputed leader in professional grade magnetic video and audio recording equipment for many decades. The stuff wasn't and isn't cheep, but if your equipment for production grade audio-visual recording and editing isn't Sony, chances are a lot of the parts inside are. A lot of your criticisms apply only recently, Sony's history is much deeper. Hopefull Sony is move back from an industry evil-doer to it's former status of highly respected industry leader like in the old days; only time will tell.
stops me from modifying a GPL program like Mozilla and selling binary-only copies to random strangers? forgetting for the moments that mozilla isn't GPL'ed but rather under the Mozilla Public Liciense. That's what the GPL actualy does you can do anything you want with the binaries, sell, give away for free, turn them into smoke to blow up someones ass, literaly anything; well anything as long as you don't prohibit the people you sell the binaries to from doing the same as you can do and you provide the source code to all of the people you've distributed to at no cost and for resonabvle copying fees.
Developers don't get any special privaliges like automaticaly getting your modifications, just the people who you distribute to do. Changes are sent to developers as a courtesy not as a curtesy, and to insure that the changes are available to persons who have your sources while not restricting those who don't.
The more I think about this proposed GPL3 the more I think that it is a violation of GPL 1-2, I for one don't plan to use it, and anything I publish will be GPL 2 period not GPL 2 or later.
even owning encryption software of this type will be 'evidence of intent' sounds worse than that.
... consumers are entitled to run applications and use services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement.
sounds like they are heading in a direction where using a program across state lines could be illegal. I'm conservative enought that I'm usualy considered a Nazi on/. and this seems like seriously spooky shit to me.
thanks I tried to get the doc and the FCC said "The document you are trying to retrieve is temporarily unavailable. Please try again in 5 minutes. If the problems persist, please e-mail EdocsHelp for assistance." looks like the FCC got slashdoted.
Amazing what happens when the government says the cops can decide what progams my computer can run.
point 1 is basicaly correct, even if point 1 is incorrect it's unlikely that a power company would complain because of the public hysteria over EMF, to make the complaint valid they would have to admit that enough power is leaking from their lines to make it worth while to steal which would fuel more public hysteria.
I've heard of some places that had specific laws against inductive power taps, they would have great curiosity appeal, amase your friends back of the comic book type stuff put your not going to get any usable power out of it.
I'm on the western edge of the north-east power grid, in Marysville Mi the HT lines cross the river into Canada and at one point on our side the 375KV at mucho amps is only 50 ft above the ground; you probably wouldn't want to carry an aluminum latter under that monster.
even a loss of a single cent is unacceptable That simply isn't supported by the article because the movie infringed was a Screener copy wich meant it was given away to a Movie Industry Insider, so they automaticaly lost at least one ticket. If the MPAA can't even get their insiders to stop pirateing, they're totaly screwed with the general public
more probably he know as he stated he needs a lawyer, but asking the slashcrowd, will give him enough knowlege about it so he'll be better able to tell if his lawyer knows his shit or is whacked
not just the TA's the profs too, the simple facts are being a good $thingy'er != good $thingy instructor. Normaly the person who got to the point of being so good at his particular $thingy, never realy had to struggle with the course work and is usualy incapable of relating with a student who is.
Get out of the honors or accelerated or whatever classes, they are geared to students who have a native instinct for the course, not student that actualy require teaching
Feel free to substitute any field for $thingy, the problem is pretty universal.
I didn't see anything about google in the WSJ article. Google's stated mission "... is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." would seem at odds with chinese censorship. Cowtowing to it would lead them to loose my page views.
Personaly I don't care about "fair" if it negates valid, I want a PSU that excepts dirty power full of spikes and sags and drop-outs and turns it into nice clean VDC that's with-in my 'puters tollerances while running quiet, cool, efficient day after day. I've repaired power supplies that used 4CX1000's to drive the plate tank, 1KW of plate dissipation on those babies, flat response from 0Hz to 500MHz. One of those bad-boys blow it a lot louder than popcorn!
I guess that means the batteries in your UPS are much better, yeah right. Try this, fire up the ol 'puter and yank the UPS cord out, see what happens, very few of us get the 5 minutes promised.
OBTW, look into getting a desulphater for the tractor battery, they're reported to charge some hopelessly dead lead acid batteries; $5.00 worth of parts or a $25.00 pre-made vs. $70.00 tractor battery seems like a reasonable gamble to me.
As a former NBC (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical) Defense NCO in the US Military, I find it highly suspicious that any country with the incredable amount of NBC Defense equipment as Iraq had and NO chemical or biological warfare agents in even test quantities, could exist. The terms were you destroy the WMD and completely document the destuction; Sadam said basicaly we have no WMD while his people wer doing stupid shit like dumping nerve agents down abandoned wells to hide its existance and destuction, this was in violation of the cease-fire terms, God only knows how much of the stuff got smuggled away only to be used to murder innocent civilian women and children. Also note my use of the words cease-fire terms this was not a new war, it was a continuation of an existing UN approved conflict and was reprossecuted solely by the Iraqi leader's violation of the term. In hindsight my question is because Sadam not only risked himself and people's very existance to hide WMD that only had to be catalogged and destoryed under controlled and supervised conditions, Who was he willing to risk all to protect?
obviously you have never been on parole, you basicaly sign a contract with the government that says I will not have A, B, or C; you may look to see if I have A, B, or C anytime and anyway you see fit; If I either have A, B, or C or do not alow you to look for them I go back to prison without credit for the time served on parole period.
Linux, by amateurs, for amateurs vs. Windows by professional for PHB's who don't know any better; I'll take amatuer. Amatuer used to be a compliment, call your wife a whore and see what happens.
Windows is made pretty much like Linux I think that's BS linux, everywhere I looked in the code, all the way from the kernel to KDE and GNOME is highly Modular, and often OOP's code; in short modern stuff. Windows on the other hand if the article is correct is spaghetti code, not even up the standard software engineering standars of the 1980's!
They have no choise, either refactor the whole thing or eventualy it'll collapse into a stinking mass of unmaintainable crap. Get the thing modular/OOP and pretty some they'll discover costs will drop, less programmers will do more and better. All ready bug reports on the beta of vista are less than expected; go all the way and maybee they will be like Linux where beta software is more stable than commercial production-ready stuff.
I'm surprised you haven't started a real firestorm with that because almost all of what christians say they believe, is in fact religious superstition and a good deal of it is against what actualy in the bible. Don't get me wrong all religions seem to suffer from this to varying degrees, I'm not picking on just christians.
Clearly those wankers should consider converting to the metric system.
maybe the problem is that we're hiring people who aren't intelligent, don't have educations, or were allowed to get degrees despite a lack of proper instruction I'm going to patent that idea as the "American Public University System"
Unfortunately if you actualy RTFA, you might have noticed that it was Llandudno, where Office administration worker Chloe Oldfield works, is in Wales, a country in Great Britian. A quick google on Llandudno brings up the links to a very pleasent looking town.
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high grade explosive like Ammonium Nitrate?
Ammonium Nitrate isn't even close to being a high explosive. Kinesticks are UPS shippable when the Ammonium Nitrate and the nirto-methane componants are in seperate containers. Even dynamite isn't that great of an explosive in the open, to get a really big bang out of it you have to pack it inside a hole drilled in a realy big rock, detonating it in the open is disapointing because it doesn't get enough compression going. Comp B and C4 that's a different story, military stuff is a combination of differnt explosives, compounded for high impulse, low senstivity. Civilian blasting caps will not set off most military explosives, if you steal military explosives, you have to steal military blasting caps too and they are not stored together. That effectively doubles the security.
The point that everybody is missing is these MS machines are very accurate for identifing specific chemicals. We have a pretty good idea of what the popular terrorist explosives are, my personal suspicion is the most likely candidate is the HE from a RPG warhead the the soviet union was so fond of selling to everybody and their brother. The machine is going to be programmed to recognise the signatures of the top of the list explosives, but I think it's obvious that at the size/weight of the machine it wouldn't be able to process everything W/O some heavy-duty back-end processing, so the likelyhood that everybody that fertalized ther lawns with ammonium nitrate or take nitro for their heart is pretty low; somebody like me who has had C4, det cord, and TNT inside their briefcase and even spilled some picric acid on it in organic is going to have problems.
Spoofing the machine is possible, but that gives away intent. At the olympics in '96 we found a bag w/pvc pipe in it over by the pay phone, somebody had done a dry-run to see what they could sneak past security, which tipped us off and security was jacked up quite a bit.
The first major language to have it was Visual Basic
Visual Basic and major language is an oxymoron, now if you left off the visual part I might have excepted it as a major language, however sense Basic was a training language for Fortran a some of people still might have problems with the notion.
how me a market where companies are letting go of their best people
That's a big problem now, most companies are too anxious to hire in some loud-mouth mighty-mouse type to come in to save the day even before they know what day it is. All they typicaly do is post some good qtr's that make they day-traders happily to flip a few shares, but end up decimating the companies core competancies and send it off into a death spiral.
That would make a tremendous video game, especialy if you threw in some of the incestuous sex scenes to ballance out the rape and pillage; unfortunatly it would be illegal to sell it to minors in my state.
in Michigan the reason for the sale/use is because not everything is sold in a legal definition such as when you lease a car, your pay the tax on the use of it rather than the purchase. The use tax also has implications for interstate commerce CA can't make a retailer in Navada collect sales taxes for them, but it can make it's citizens pay use tax on foriegn purchases and get arround interstate tarrif prohibitions. Of course IANAL
Seems I remember that 3.5 were a high geek-factor add-on for the radio shack color computer, you had to install an alternative OS to use it, Flex Os if memory serves me correctly and it was capable of multi-tasking which was quite advanced for it's day. Using the Motorolla 6809 CPU, the CoCo pre-dated that Mac that used the motorola 68000, and had a sane memory map which the intel chips like the 8080, and later the 8088 and 8086 didn't.( intel mapped top down, where motorola mapped bottom up allowing memory upgrades without jumping over mapped boundries).
Sony has been the undisputed leader in professional grade magnetic video and audio recording equipment for many decades. The stuff wasn't and isn't cheep, but if your equipment for production grade audio-visual recording and editing isn't Sony, chances are a lot of the parts inside are. A lot of your criticisms apply only recently, Sony's history is much deeper. Hopefull Sony is move back from an industry evil-doer to it's former status of highly respected industry leader like in the old days; only time will tell.
stops me from modifying a GPL program like Mozilla and selling binary-only copies to random strangers?
forgetting for the moments that mozilla isn't GPL'ed but rather under the Mozilla Public Liciense. That's what the GPL actualy does you can do anything you want with the binaries, sell, give away for free, turn them into smoke to blow up someones ass, literaly anything; well anything as long as you don't prohibit the people you sell the binaries to from doing the same as you can do and you provide the source code to all of the people you've distributed to at no cost and for resonabvle copying fees.
Developers don't get any special privaliges like automaticaly getting your modifications, just the people who you distribute to do. Changes are sent to developers as a courtesy not as a curtesy, and to insure that the changes are available to persons who have your sources while not restricting those who don't.
The more I think about this proposed GPL3 the more I think that it is a violation of GPL 1-2, I for one don't plan to use it, and anything I publish will be GPL 2 period not GPL 2 or later.
sounds worse than that.
sounds like they are heading in a direction where using a program across state lines could be illegal. I'm conservative enought that I'm usualy considered a Nazi on
thanks I tried to get the doc and the FCC said "The document you are trying to retrieve is temporarily unavailable. Please try again in 5 minutes. If the problems persist, please e-mail EdocsHelp for assistance." looks like the FCC got slashdoted.
Amazing what happens when the government says the cops can decide what progams my computer can run.
point 1 is basicaly correct, even if point 1 is incorrect it's unlikely that a power company would complain because of the public hysteria over EMF, to make the complaint valid they would have to admit that enough power is leaking from their lines to make it worth while to steal which would fuel more public hysteria.
I've heard of some places that had specific laws against inductive power taps, they would have great curiosity appeal, amase your friends back of the comic book type stuff put your not going to get any usable power out of it.
I'm on the western edge of the north-east power grid, in Marysville Mi the HT lines cross the river into Canada and at one point on our side the 375KV at mucho amps is only 50 ft above the ground; you probably wouldn't want to carry an aluminum latter under that monster.
even a loss of a single cent is unacceptable
That simply isn't supported by the article because the movie infringed was a Screener copy wich meant it was given away to a Movie Industry Insider, so they automaticaly lost at least one ticket. If the MPAA can't even get their insiders to stop pirateing, they're totaly screwed with the general public
more probably he know as he stated he needs a lawyer, but asking the slashcrowd, will give him enough knowlege about it so he'll be better able to tell if his lawyer knows his shit or is whacked
not just the TA's the profs too, the simple facts are being a good $thingy'er != good $thingy instructor. Normaly the person who got to the point of being so good at his particular $thingy, never realy had to struggle with the course work and is usualy incapable of relating with a student who is.
Get out of the honors or accelerated or whatever classes, they are geared to students who have a native instinct for the course, not student that actualy require teaching
Feel free to substitute any field for $thingy, the problem is pretty universal.
I didn't see anything about google in the WSJ article. Google's stated mission "... is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." would seem at odds with chinese censorship. Cowtowing to it would lead them to loose my page views.
Personaly I don't care about "fair" if it negates valid, I want a PSU that excepts dirty power full of spikes and sags and drop-outs and turns it into nice clean VDC that's with-in my 'puters tollerances while running quiet, cool, efficient day after day. I've repaired power supplies that used 4CX1000's to drive the plate tank, 1KW of plate dissipation on those babies, flat response from 0Hz to 500MHz. One of those bad-boys blow it a lot louder than popcorn!
I guess that means the batteries in your UPS are much better, yeah right. Try this, fire up the ol 'puter and yank the UPS cord out, see what happens, very few of us get the 5 minutes promised.
OBTW, look into getting a desulphater for the tractor battery, they're reported to charge some hopelessly dead lead acid batteries; $5.00 worth of parts or a $25.00 pre-made vs. $70.00 tractor battery seems like a reasonable gamble to me.
It was a static page! www.hexus.net/content/static/psu_roundup.html
As a former NBC (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical) Defense NCO in the US Military, I find it highly suspicious that any country with the incredable amount of NBC Defense equipment as Iraq had and NO chemical or biological warfare agents in even test quantities, could exist. The terms were you destroy the WMD and completely document the destuction; Sadam said basicaly we have no WMD while his people wer doing stupid shit like dumping nerve agents down abandoned wells to hide its existance and destuction, this was in violation of the cease-fire terms, God only knows how much of the stuff got smuggled away only to be used to murder innocent civilian women and children. Also note my use of the words cease-fire terms this was not a new war, it was a continuation of an existing UN approved conflict and was reprossecuted solely by the Iraqi leader's violation of the term.
In hindsight my question is because Sadam not only risked himself and people's very existance to hide WMD that only had to be catalogged and destoryed under controlled and supervised conditions, Who was he willing to risk all to protect?
obviously you have never been on parole, you basicaly sign a contract with the government that says
I will not have A, B, or C;
you may look to see if I have A, B, or C anytime and anyway you see fit;
If I either have A, B, or C or do not alow you to look for them I go back to prison without credit for the time served on parole period.
Linux, by amateurs, for amateurs vs. Windows by professional for PHB's who don't know any better; I'll take amatuer. Amatuer used to be a compliment, call your wife a whore and see what happens.
Windows is made pretty much like Linux
I think that's BS linux, everywhere I looked in the code, all the way from the kernel to KDE and GNOME is highly Modular, and often OOP's code; in short modern stuff. Windows on the other hand if the article is correct is spaghetti code, not even up the standard software engineering standars of the 1980's!
They have no choise, either refactor the whole thing or eventualy it'll collapse into a stinking mass of unmaintainable crap. Get the thing modular/OOP and pretty some they'll discover costs will drop, less programmers will do more and better. All ready bug reports on the beta of vista are less than expected; go all the way and maybee they will be like Linux where beta software is more stable than commercial production-ready stuff.
I'm surprised you haven't started a real firestorm with that because almost all of what christians say they believe, is in fact religious superstition and a good deal of it is against what actualy in the bible. Don't get me wrong all religions seem to suffer from this to varying degrees, I'm not picking on just christians.
Clearly those wankers should consider converting to the metric system.
maybe the problem is that we're hiring people who aren't intelligent, don't have educations, or were allowed to get degrees despite a lack of proper instruction I'm going to patent that idea as the "American Public University System"
Unfortunately if you actualy RTFA, you might have noticed that it was Llandudno, where Office administration worker Chloe Oldfield works, is in Wales, a country in Great Britian. A quick google on Llandudno brings up the links to a very pleasent looking town.