getting behind the wheel of a 2000-lb vehicle and accelerating it up to speeds of 60mph is inherently dangerous. i don't think manufacturers can, in good faith, feature DVD players, even if they install those minimal safeguards that are supposed to prevent the driver from watching the movie. they're giving drivers clear license to do what they will with their property, and thus, manufacturers are analogously as responsible for such deaths as gun stores are for gun-related deaths. but what's next, licenses to own DVD players? or how about an IQ test? carelessness on the road is ridiculous, and if the DVD player in this truck was installed against manufacturer spec, so is the driver's claim to innocence (see passenger's call to wife post-accident: "they" were watching a movie).
i don't see a greatly pressing need for that...but wow i'm sure i would appreciate it (when i move back to texas that is). it's a great idea for a great state =P.
the thing is, usually people in texas driving on highways are zooming along at 80+ mph anyway...not sure how many people would want to stop to check email or such. might as well get to your destination faster and do the internet stuff there.
as a relative n00b to digital systems (i'm taking part 2 of an intro course), it's my understanding that roundoff in larger digits was one of the major contributing factors to the early cray supercomputers' speed. has cray moved on from that design philosophy?
making friends with other kids who were like me helped a bit in elementary school, but what really made me develop was when i joined the boy scouts in 6th grade. suddenly i had to deal with a lot of kids older than me and kids my age who were all being pushed to achieve, to do well, to learn. the kid will learn the book smarts stuff, like nature identification, knot tying, and procedural stuff, and the bigger kids or any other kids who don't have the heads for that kind of knowledge can learn from him and also help him out with the physical/appearance aspect of scouting (class a uniform appearance, backpacking, manual labor). there's nothing like being forced to work with others toward a common goal to make people learn from each other.
i was told to go back to the counter and check in a handful of tools i was carrying in (pliers, a bike spanner, a half inch wrench, and a couple of seven-sixteenths wrenches). small stuff really, but apparently since they haven't specified exactly how large of a tool can or can't be brought onto a plane, no wrenches or metal tools can go on board.
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that is one cool mother-in-law. hope you got her something equally good =P
but SCO stock immediately upon opening of markets and dump it before noon. well, except for the first part, that's what the SCO execs are doing with every press release.
dagfckingnamit. i refuse to make a killing out of the blatantly predictable rise of SCO stock etc after each of these bullsht moves, but maybe someone else out there should, and donate the money to the EFF or something.
No I don't work at JPL, I work at Ames a bit up the 5 in the Bay Area. Actually that's not true, I'm just still an intern here for the summer.
But it's attitudes like yours that stop up the works when it comes to manned exploration. The people at Ames are working on life support, sustainability issues, and microgravity's effects on biology without defeatist blinders, even though the politicians haven't given a hoot about how much money universities are stealing from Ames (pork legislation, see my post on the Hubble topic) or how we're going to make the next step towards the moon.
So step down and let the rest of NASA get to work on this. It's about time someone understood the vision of spaceflight, and sure it'll cost, but it'll be worth it.
"The RIAA is the Recording Industry Association of America. It is not the Recording Industry and Artists Association of America. It says its concern is artists. That's true, in just the sense that a cattle rancher is concerned about its cattle."
?Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, in an online forum in which he and the RIAA's Matt Opennheim answered questions from readers about the legality of downloading, copying and sharing digital music files.
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lack of funding? that's also cause NASA gets hit with pork bills from universities that steals NASA money ostenibly for purposes that will further NASA's mission but really just serves to fund stuff for the universities. it's really disgusting; University at Buffalo (SUNY) just slammed NASA for several million for a new building that will, in no way, help NASA at all. (all the talk of cooperation and such was non evident in the presentation they gave here. be realistic. free money? of course they're going to bare-mininum the the strings.) of course NASA can't do anything about it since the congresspeople (erm, clinton and someone else) made this mandate happen. f*cking politicians, f*cking greedy university stooges. this is how your taxpayer dollars ends up in pork bills.
mt. holyoke merely boots the XP users (and presumably the 2k users as well) and reregisters their connections after verification.
i'm still waiting for an email from stanford to tell me what they're about to hit us with when we get back to campus...they should send an email; there are a lot of fuzzy majors floating around out there who don't know how to turn off RPC or close port 135.
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getting behind the wheel of a 2000-lb vehicle and accelerating it up to speeds of 60mph is inherently dangerous. i don't think manufacturers can, in good faith, feature DVD players, even if they install those minimal safeguards that are supposed to prevent the driver from watching the movie. they're giving drivers clear license to do what they will with their property, and thus, manufacturers are analogously as responsible for such deaths as gun stores are for gun-related deaths. but what's next, licenses to own DVD players? or how about an IQ test? carelessness on the road is ridiculous, and if the DVD player in this truck was installed against manufacturer spec, so is the driver's claim to innocence (see passenger's call to wife post-accident: "they" were watching a movie).
someone's going to come up with a way to purify THC from industrial hemp someday. i mean, heck, they have do-it-yourself meth labs nowadays.
I suggest the name of the company as 'Universal Exports.'
(surely someone here gets the joke)
i don't see a greatly pressing need for that...but wow i'm sure i would appreciate it (when i move back to texas that is). it's a great idea for a great state =P.
the thing is, usually people in texas driving on highways are zooming along at 80+ mph anyway...not sure how many people would want to stop to check email or such. might as well get to your destination faster and do the internet stuff there.
the site looks /.'ed. anyone got a mirror?
looks like the sort of project a less than legally-conscious prof might have handed to me in digital systems classes this year =P
seriously? the good ./'ers of NJ should be indebted to you for this =P
as a relative n00b to digital systems (i'm taking part 2 of an intro course), it's my understanding that roundoff in larger digits was one of the major contributing factors to the early cray supercomputers' speed. has cray moved on from that design philosophy?
making friends with other kids who were like me helped a bit in elementary school, but what really made me develop was when i joined the boy scouts in 6th grade. suddenly i had to deal with a lot of kids older than me and kids my age who were all being pushed to achieve, to do well, to learn. the kid will learn the book smarts stuff, like nature identification, knot tying, and procedural stuff, and the bigger kids or any other kids who don't have the heads for that kind of knowledge can learn from him and also help him out with the physical/appearance aspect of scouting (class a uniform appearance, backpacking, manual labor). there's nothing like being forced to work with others toward a common goal to make people learn from each other.
i was told to go back to the counter and check in a handful of tools i was carrying in (pliers, a bike spanner, a half inch wrench, and a couple of seven-sixteenths wrenches). small stuff really, but apparently since they haven't specified exactly how large of a tool can or can't be brought onto a plane, no wrenches or metal tools can go on board.
that is one cool mother-in-law. hope you got her something equally good =P
but SCO stock immediately upon opening of markets and dump it before noon. well, except for the first part, that's what the SCO execs are doing with every press release.
many SCO linux licences? and alienware hardware =P
maybe it would have gotten the same response gigli did...! oh the horror...!
i seriously doubt ten-forward's windows are merely transparent aluminum. if you find it in writing, let me know.
please /. spell your titles right...! launches with an e!
check the stock price correlation before/after the public hears about this letter. then watch SCO execs dump stock. $@!#!
here's hoping stanford decides to start including free internet in dorms before kazaa goes stupid...
what about kazaalite?
dagfckingnamit. i refuse to make a killing out of the blatantly predictable rise of SCO stock etc after each of these bullsht moves, but maybe someone else out there should, and donate the money to the EFF or something.
look for stock dumping by SCO execs after news of this hits the market.
sign of too many donuts and too much beer:
couch: "welcome back, homer simpson."
's only cause you don't like perl =P
No I don't work at JPL, I work at Ames a bit up the 5 in the Bay Area. Actually that's not true, I'm just still an intern here for the summer.
But it's attitudes like yours that stop up the works when it comes to manned exploration. The people at Ames are working on life support, sustainability issues, and microgravity's effects on biology without defeatist blinders, even though the politicians haven't given a hoot about how much money universities are stealing from Ames (pork legislation, see my post on the Hubble topic) or how we're going to make the next step towards the moon.
So step down and let the rest of NASA get to work on this. It's about time someone understood the vision of spaceflight, and sure it'll cost, but it'll be worth it.
?Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, in an online forum in which he and the RIAA's Matt Opennheim answered questions from readers about the legality of downloading, copying and sharing digital music files.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/june03/copyrigh
lack of funding? that's also cause NASA gets hit with pork bills from universities that steals NASA money ostenibly for purposes that will further NASA's mission but really just serves to fund stuff for the universities. it's really disgusting; University at Buffalo (SUNY) just slammed NASA for several million for a new building that will, in no way, help NASA at all. (all the talk of cooperation and such was non evident in the presentation they gave here. be realistic. free money? of course they're going to bare-mininum the the strings.) of course NASA can't do anything about it since the congresspeople (erm, clinton and someone else) made this mandate happen. f*cking politicians, f*cking greedy university stooges. this is how your taxpayer dollars ends up in pork bills.
mt. holyoke merely boots the XP users (and presumably the 2k users as well) and reregisters their connections after verification.
i'm still waiting for an email from stanford to tell me what they're about to hit us with when we get back to campus...they should send an email; there are a lot of fuzzy majors floating around out there who don't know how to turn off RPC or close port 135.