Well, the stance that the ISP is going to take is that they are acting as an agent of the user through rights granted to them in the services agreement.
Except that the copyright holder does not have any sort of agreement with the ISP! The customer can 'want' all the ads in the world - that doesn't make modifying a copyrighted work in flight legal. Suppose an ISP 'accidently' injects code into the download of an application that 'phones home'. Still legal?
Felons convicted before the revocation of parole are still able to take advantage of parole (literally). From the site you reference:
Old Law Sentences (GCA Inmates)
Inmates who committed their offenses before January 1, 1995, may be eligible for parole consideration.
New Law Sentences (FTX Inmates)
Inmates who committed felony offenses on or after January 1, 1995 are not eligible for discretionary or mandatory parole.
As for the dogs, I thought it more apropos since dogs provide only fertilizer. If you know where I can get a dog that operates hedge clippers, let me know! 8-)
You're correct that no power solution, nuclear included, is carbon-neutral, but using a reactor that burns the fuel 50x more efficiently than the current once-thru fuel cycle would eliminate an awful lot of the mining, refining (metallic vs ceramic fuel), and disposal costs.
To paraphrase another reply, "So you haven't read up on modern reactor design?"
Because of Jimmy Friggin' Carter we have the once-thru fuel policy that extracts less than 2% of the available energy from the fuel, and leaves waste that's hot for 10's of thousands of years. With a little work, we could have modern, safe, efficient nuclear energy with waste that's hot for only hundreds of years, with LESS of a plutonium proliferation risk that we have RIGHT NOW.
Your reply makes me think you didn't read what I wrote.
Fan in and and fan out are simple - I can drive 'n' inputs with one output.
Note I did NOT say to forgo the basics of Ohm's law, just the intricacies of FETs, bipolars, triacs, scrs, etc. TO GET YOUR FEET WET, WITH THE MAXIMAL CHANCE OF IT WORKING start with a simple PIC that blinks LEDs (most PICs can drive an LED directly, and a simple Ohm's law calc with give the current-limiting resistor value). LED's are simple to understand. Take that and interface it to a serial port, etc. Design a Tri-color LED driver to slowly crossfade thru the color gamut (my last PIC project - very simple circuit for my wife's stained glass Christmas tree she made). No analog needed - no caps, no crystals, nothing except 3 resistors and an 8 bit PIC.
Transmission lines, microstriplines, and antenna theory are WAY past the beginner stage, whether you're talking analog or digital. You can do dead bug construction up to 150 MHz or so w/o special tricks.
It depends on what you want to accomplish. I know it's heresy to say it, but if your focus will be digital circuits, then learning the intricacies of FETs, bipolar transistors, and the like is probably less important than learning about logic gates, microcontroller operation, etc.
If you're interested in analog circuits (audio, RF, etc), then diving into the world of active analog components would be the way to go.
Learning digital first to get comfortable with soldering and the basics and tackle interfacing to the real world as an entrée into the analog world would be my suggestion.
The in-ground radiation from Hanford is causing it!!!! Soon We'll have to call Gamera and Godzilla to protect us from the giant nuclear worms and mutant, radiation-resistant bacteria.
There's a rumor floating around that they just left a Naval reactor core lying on the surface because the dirt they were going to bury it in was already hotter than the core!
I bet they'd try it. They are attempting to convict the fryer oil to Diesel guy for not paying his road tax on fuel he made out of waste oil. That's the way to support green initiatives!
...capacitors can be charged in a few seconds or so.
That may be true, and possibly do-able on a small scale, but charging 200 kWH worth of caps in a few seconds would be a real feat in the average home garage.
At 300VDC (about right for 220VAC input), that's 671.4 Amp Hours, so for a 1 minute charge, that's 40kA. My current (haha) house service is 200A @ 220V, so the fastest I could recharge the car would be 3.36 hours, with no other loads and the main breaker holding on for dear life at full current.
Remember, much like "The Spice", "The Power Must Flow."
...some people just naturally talk loudly -- that is their 'normal' voice...My brain can instruct my voice to speak in a barely audible whisper, or scream at the top of my lungs...
True, unless your feedback loop is broken. auditory damage, aging, and disease can alter one's perception of how loud one's speech is. I know several older folk who don't realize they're talking loudly when they're trying to whisper. They've said some amazingly rude things that were easily heard by the subject of their derision.
I suffered a severe rupture of my left eardrum as a child, and while it healed people around me told me I was speaking louder than necessary.
Pekka, The Finn Who Got Blown Up, delivers one on my favorite geek lines: "I tune. I calibrate." as he attempts to Van Eck phreak Tom Howard's computer.
In England, it's ok to tell your neighbor how to mow his lawn, how high his shrubbery should be, and who can live in the neighborhood.
You mean like all of the goose-stepping, Swastika-wearing homeowners' association Nazis that have, over the last ten years or so, sprung from the very forehead of Satan himself?
As the article states, the C3 (cubesat 3?) consists of 3 cubesats bolted together. They even have a sexy deployment bin for either 3 10x10x10 or 1 10x10x30 sat.
In order to shorten development time and test and verification procedures, the structural design of Delfi-C3 is based on the increasingly popular CubeSat standard, developed by California Polytechnic State University (CalPoly) and Stanford University for exactly this purpose. A standard (1U) CubeSat is a cube with sides of 10 cm and a mass of up to 1 kg. Delfi-C3 will be the size of three of these standard CubeSats (3U). To standardize the launch process as well, CalPoly has developed a so-called Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployer, or P-POD canister, capable of carrying up to three 1U CubeSats or one single 3U CubeSat. Additionally, CalPoly offers launch services to the CubeSat community with the P-POD canister as a piggyback payload on-board a number of different launchers.
The Delfi-C3 sat is relying on the Amateur Radio operators around the world to help capture telemetry and forward it to their earth station. Pretty cool, in my book.
It depends on how you utilize your resources. Uranium isn't the only fissile or fertile fuel around, and we're currently only extracting 1-2% of the available energy in our current once-thru reactors. See this Q&A for more information on IFR technology.
I have no problem with requiring a license for uses that exceed the MPE where the public may be exposed, but not for experimentation or use in an enclosed (Class I) project (like a home-brew DVD burner, yeah right).
I generally despise proactive regulation designed to protect people from theoretical dangers. I'd rather see more freedom of choice, but also stiff, sure penalties for abuse. In cases where rooting out the abuser is difficult (as in the case of someone lasering a plane), then proactive regulation might be a necessary evil.
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Except that the copyright holder does not have any sort of agreement with the ISP! The customer can 'want' all the ads in the world - that doesn't make modifying a copyrighted work in flight legal. Suppose an ISP 'accidently' injects code into the download of an application that 'phones home'. Still legal?
Old Law Sentences (GCA Inmates)
Inmates who committed their offenses before January 1, 1995, may be eligible for parole consideration.
New Law Sentences (FTX Inmates)
Inmates who committed felony offenses on or after January 1, 1995 are not eligible for discretionary or mandatory parole.
As for the dogs, I thought it more apropos since dogs provide only fertilizer. If you know where I can get a dog that operates hedge clippers, let me know! 8-)
Virginia is a no parole state, and it's the "dogs of lawn fertilization", BTW.
What's up with that? I thought that went out with Lincoln.
I eat every bit of Stollen property I receive!
You're correct that no power solution, nuclear included, is carbon-neutral, but using a reactor that burns the fuel 50x more efficiently than the current once-thru fuel cycle would eliminate an awful lot of the mining, refining (metallic vs ceramic fuel), and disposal costs.
Because of Jimmy Friggin' Carter we have the once-thru fuel policy that extracts less than 2% of the available energy from the fuel, and leaves waste that's hot for 10's of thousands of years. With a little work, we could have modern, safe, efficient nuclear energy with waste that's hot for only hundreds of years, with LESS of a plutonium proliferation risk that we have RIGHT NOW.
I salute India's research into making reactors that 'burn' thorium, since they've got quite a bit of it.
Yobibyte, by Yobi the Bear - "Hey, hey! That's a lotta bytes, Boo-Boo."
Fan in and and fan out are simple - I can drive 'n' inputs with one output.
Note I did NOT say to forgo the basics of Ohm's law, just the intricacies of FETs, bipolars, triacs, scrs, etc. TO GET YOUR FEET WET, WITH THE MAXIMAL CHANCE OF IT WORKING start with a simple PIC that blinks LEDs (most PICs can drive an LED directly, and a simple Ohm's law calc with give the current-limiting resistor value). LED's are simple to understand. Take that and interface it to a serial port, etc. Design a Tri-color LED driver to slowly crossfade thru the color gamut (my last PIC project - very simple circuit for my wife's stained glass Christmas tree she made). No analog needed - no caps, no crystals, nothing except 3 resistors and an 8 bit PIC.
Transmission lines, microstriplines, and antenna theory are WAY past the beginner stage, whether you're talking analog or digital. You can do dead bug construction up to 150 MHz or so w/o special tricks.
If you're interested in analog circuits (audio, RF, etc), then diving into the world of active analog components would be the way to go.
Learning digital first to get comfortable with soldering and the basics and tackle interfacing to the real world as an entrée into the analog world would be my suggestion.
There's a rumor floating around that they just left a Naval reactor core lying on the surface because the dirt they were going to bury it in was already hotter than the core!
I bet they'd try it. They are attempting to convict the fryer oil to Diesel guy for not paying his road tax on fuel he made out of waste oil. That's the way to support green initiatives!
That may be true, and possibly do-able on a small scale, but charging 200 kWH worth of caps in a few seconds would be a real feat in the average home garage.
At 300VDC (about right for 220VAC input), that's 671.4 Amp Hours, so for a 1 minute charge, that's 40kA. My current (haha) house service is 200A @ 220V, so the fastest I could recharge the car would be 3.36 hours, with no other loads and the main breaker holding on for dear life at full current.
Remember, much like "The Spice", "The Power Must Flow."
Cool!!! An ISO-standard cat!
What are ISO standards 1 thru 15, anyway?
- "Proper Method for Furniture Destruction by Willful Application of Claws"
- "Method for Waste Burial in an Attapulgite Clay Medium"
- "Procedure for Maximal Shedding, and Subsequent Hairball Production"
- "Hairball Trajectory Management"
- "Proper Method for control of Insect and Bird Population, with Emphasis on Proper Placement on Owner's Pillow"
Need I go on?Sounds like a Viterbi Decoder. A new Amateur Radio mode called WSPR relies heavily on this algorithm.
True, unless your feedback loop is broken. auditory damage, aging, and disease can alter one's perception of how loud one's speech is. I know several older folk who don't realize they're talking loudly when they're trying to whisper. They've said some amazingly rude things that were easily heard by the subject of their derision.
I suffered a severe rupture of my left eardrum as a child, and while it healed people around me told me I was speaking louder than necessary.
I'd rather see him "...spend huge amounts of money defending his asset..." in prison.
They forgot to mention that each sheet is a 1/4" thick and as stiff as plywood.
From this page of Cryptonomicon.
You mean like all of the goose-stepping, Swastika-wearing homeowners' association Nazis that have, over the last ten years or so, sprung from the very forehead of Satan himself?
From the site:
I read that as "Jabronium."
The Delfi-C3 sat is relying on the Amateur Radio operators around the world to help capture telemetry and forward it to their earth station. Pretty cool, in my book.
It depends on how you utilize your resources. Uranium isn't the only fissile or fertile fuel around, and we're currently only extracting 1-2% of the available energy in our current once-thru reactors. See this Q&A for more information on IFR technology.
I generally despise proactive regulation designed to protect people from theoretical dangers. I'd rather see more freedom of choice, but also stiff, sure penalties for abuse. In cases where rooting out the abuser is difficult (as in the case of someone lasering a plane), then proactive regulation might be a necessary evil.