I sometimes wonder what a company with Bill Gates running the management/technical side and Steve Jobs running the marketing/design side would have produced. A lot of paperwork for the homocide detectives who had to clean up the mess afterwards.
> If a product is completely outlawed though, how the hell is a free trade issue? There's the rub. Gambling is legal in the US. The thing that Congress outlawed was gambling on websites based in other countries through the Interwebs.
Might could also be that all of the "Maybe" responses you get nowadays due to people being easily available via cell phones would previously just have been "No" responses because people didn't know whether or not they could make it at the time they were asked.
Now what would be *really* awesome is if Apple set it up so iPhones' wifi could be used as a mesh network. Imagine being able to get full 802.11 speeds not just if you're close enough to an access point, but if you're close enough to someone who's close enough to an access point. Especially if they threw in a VoIP app.
Saturate the world with enough wifi-enabled phones and who needs a phone company at all?
I think it was more "Only wanting the widescreen iPod running OSX with WiFi and Bluetooth support, allowing me to use it as a tiny Internet tablet anywhere there's an access point" than "Only wanting iPod functionality"
This is a good idea, because terrorists can use any new encryption techniques we think of. So best that we just don't do any encryption research so they can't profit from our efforts.
Okay, this is serious, and the US could be in serious danger. Here's my plan for action to make sure we can come through a potential cyber-war victorious:
1. "Security through Conformity": Standardize on exactly one platform. Make sure everyone in government is using it. That way, if we discover a gaping security hole in that platform, we only have to patch one type of system. Homogeneity is the key. 2. We need to put our trust in professionals. That one platform should definitely be Microsoft Windows. Sure, having people from all over the world looking for bugs might be quicker and more effective, but that also means that people from all over the world have the potential to find a security hole, but we have no clear target to blame for that security hole. And don't forget that backdoor that was almost slipped into Linux (though, fortunately, caught before it got into source control because of all of the people able to look at it)! We wouldn't have to worry about that with Microsoft Windows 3. Don't leave computer decisions in the hands of long-haired computer geeks who spend all day working with technology. They tend to have decidedly leftist--if not communist!--leanings. All IT decisions for the US government should be made by the people best qualified to make them: Career bureaucrats.
What you're not taking into account is that usually the change in majority comes only from a major, major shift in public perception of the current bunch of weasels, faster than they can compensate for with redistricting. E.g., last Congressional election, and the "Republican Revolution" back in the 90s. And this last time, the new majority party just barely managed to squeak through with a majority. I don't recall how much the Republicans won back in the 90s, but I know that the election immediately following it had them just barely keeping their majority.
The congressional incumbancy rate was 98% in 2000.
I think you might be thinking of the Go-Bots. The Transformers' transformation sequences were always a sort of blurry hand-waving affair, as I remember it.
When you make a transaction through a credit processor online, the system can store a reference number that can then be used to make other transactions. Therefore, if the database is compromised, the attacker only gets these reference numbers which (a) require a VeriSign merchant account to use and (b) can be easily voided without having to void the credit card number as a whole.
My personal experience, having owned a Prius for two years now, is that I get about 45mpg in the winter and around 52mpg in the summer. I don't believe I've ever averaged less than 45mpg on a tank of gas.
If it turns out that the stem cell research we weren't able to preform because of the Bush administration will cure many fatal illnesses, will you then say that Bush should be thrown in gitmo? Yes.
More than that. Presumably Ballmer's got a pretty tidy little paycheck each month, and I'm guessing that he gets a damn good employee discount if he even has to pay anything at all. Couldn't he get his uncle one as a present? Is his uncle unwilling to use one even if given by his nephew as a gift, or is Ballmer really that much of a skinflint?
The guy didn't even say that cell phones caused it. The study in question was about cordless phone base stations. And the base station basically had to be right on top of the colony to have an effect. Reporter reported cordless as "mobile phones", that turned into "cell phones"
The 400D tends to err on the side of accurately representing the scene. So if you shoot in yellowish light, your pictures will come out a bit shifted towards the yellowish. It's really easy to override the white balance, though.
I have no idea what is "under the hood" of my Motorola v360 J2ME running on top of something else. Possibly custom. Mainly J2ME. (It just so happens that I also have a V360 and was looking up information on programming it today...)
I'm pretty sure that either Apple or a 3rd party will design a nifty little external battery that will just slip on and plug in I'm pretty sure it'll have a standard iPod dock connector, which means that there are already a bunch of 3rd party batteries to do just that.
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It does seem to be a bit of a step backwards, yeah.
If they'd had any class at all, they'd have named the new combined bill the "PRO-PIRATE" bill.
There's no firm (if you'll pardon the expression) evidence that they slept together while he was in office.
> If a product is completely outlawed though, how the hell is a free trade issue?
There's the rub. Gambling is legal in the US. The thing that Congress outlawed was gambling on websites based in other countries through the Interwebs.
Correlation does not imply causation.
Might could also be that all of the "Maybe" responses you get nowadays due to people being easily available via cell phones would previously just have been "No" responses because people didn't know whether or not they could make it at the time they were asked.
The Kilogram is defined in reference to the chunk of metal in Paris. It's the *definition* of the Kilogram.
Therefore, the Kilogram is not getting lighter.
We're all getting heavier.
Now what would be *really* awesome is if Apple set it up so iPhones' wifi could be used as a mesh network. Imagine being able to get full 802.11 speeds not just if you're close enough to an access point, but if you're close enough to someone who's close enough to an access point. Especially if they threw in a VoIP app.
Saturate the world with enough wifi-enabled phones and who needs a phone company at all?
Because they can charge you extra for SMS.
I think it was more "Only wanting the widescreen iPod running OSX with WiFi and Bluetooth support, allowing me to use it as a tiny Internet tablet anywhere there's an access point" than "Only wanting iPod functionality"
This is a good idea, because terrorists can use any new encryption techniques we think of. So best that we just don't do any encryption research so they can't profit from our efforts.
Yes, I was going for funny. :-P
(See, the joke is that the above is what we're basically doing now)
Okay, this is serious, and the US could be in serious danger. Here's my plan for action to make sure we can come through a potential cyber-war victorious:
1. "Security through Conformity": Standardize on exactly one platform. Make sure everyone in government is using it. That way, if we discover a gaping security hole in that platform, we only have to patch one type of system. Homogeneity is the key.
2. We need to put our trust in professionals. That one platform should definitely be Microsoft Windows. Sure, having people from all over the world looking for bugs might be quicker and more effective, but that also means that people from all over the world have the potential to find a security hole, but we have no clear target to blame for that security hole. And don't forget that backdoor that was almost slipped into Linux (though, fortunately, caught before it got into source control because of all of the people able to look at it)! We wouldn't have to worry about that with Microsoft Windows
3. Don't leave computer decisions in the hands of long-haired computer geeks who spend all day working with technology. They tend to have decidedly leftist--if not communist!--leanings. All IT decisions for the US government should be made by the people best qualified to make them: Career bureaucrats.
Fuji discontinued Velvia 50. They didn't discontinue any of their other E6-process films. Neither did Kodak.
E6 will be around a while yet.
What you're not taking into account is that usually the change in majority comes only from a major, major shift in public perception of the current bunch of weasels, faster than they can compensate for with redistricting. E.g., last Congressional election, and the "Republican Revolution" back in the 90s. And this last time, the new majority party just barely managed to squeak through with a majority. I don't recall how much the Republicans won back in the 90s, but I know that the election immediately following it had them just barely keeping their majority.
The congressional incumbancy rate was 98% in 2000.
Hehe. Sounds like *someone* didn't read the *fine* print.
I think you might be thinking of the Go-Bots. The Transformers' transformation sequences were always a sort of blurry hand-waving affair, as I remember it.
Actually, this isn't true.
When you make a transaction through a credit processor online, the system can store a reference number that can then be used to make other transactions. Therefore, if the database is compromised, the attacker only gets these reference numbers which (a) require a VeriSign merchant account to use and (b) can be easily voided without having to void the credit card number as a whole.
(I write billing software for a living)
That paper's really hard to read.
If only they had some method of breaking up all those long, boring blocks of text so it would be more readable...
My personal experience, having owned a Prius for two years now, is that I get about 45mpg in the winter and around 52mpg in the summer. I don't believe I've ever averaged less than 45mpg on a tank of gas.
(The key is to drive the speed limit)
More than that. Presumably Ballmer's got a pretty tidy little paycheck each month, and I'm guessing that he gets a damn good employee discount if he even has to pay anything at all. Couldn't he get his uncle one as a present? Is his uncle unwilling to use one even if given by his nephew as a gift, or is Ballmer really that much of a skinflint?
The guy didn't even say that cell phones caused it. The study in question was about cordless phone base stations. And the base station basically had to be right on top of the colony to have an effect. Reporter reported cordless as "mobile phones", that turned into "cell phones"
The 400D tends to err on the side of accurately representing the scene. So if you shoot in yellowish light, your pictures will come out a bit shifted towards the yellowish. It's really easy to override the white balance, though.