In part the article talks about how to handle yourself in a conversation with a someone who is wrong but (successfully) verbally agressive. This reminds me of a great book called _The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense_ [insert your own Amazon affiliate link here...] which discusses all kinds of conversation techniques for dealing with people who have mastered various annoying habits that seem to keep you from making your point. And if you don't think you need this book to help yourself then you should read it to learn about all the unfair, annoying and childish ways you can dominate a conversation. Just in case...
Mine is about 5 months old, but I've been babying the battery. Wish I'd known I'd be getting a freebie! To find out how many cycles your battery already has:
I had already made several phone calls and emails to my co-location facility, and they told me they were doing their best to get a hold of someone there.
So your ISP was frantic to resolve a spam complaint on a weekend. DNSBLs aren't perfect, and the guys at MAPS are no angels, but that sounds damn effective to me. You think MAPS is hard to get ahold of? How accessible do you think your ISP would have been if one of its IPs had deluged me with spam over the weekend?
I really wanted to mod this up, because I hate the theme song. Since your comment is already at +5, please drop me a line when the dupe of this story is posted so I can mod it up there.
I'm amazed at the interior shots. He didn't even take the plastic cases off of things like the flash card reader or the firewire hub he added. He didn't even solder the new USB cables directly to the devices -- there are entire molded plastic plugs in there!
With all the blackhole lists, private IP filters and now screensaver-based DDOS, large parts of the IPv4 address space are becoming wastelands that won't be inhabitable even after spammers are driven out. Heck, a friend of mine just heard that a few class A blocks were just assigned to APNIC and immediately firewalled them off. There's got to be a better solution!
There's a link to the original Slashdot posting about the cyclotron (Oct, 2002) from the project page. If everyone did this think of the time we'd save searching for dups!
I keep waiting for someone else to point this out...
Cameras timestamp their photos. GPSs can maintain tracklogs of where they go with timestamps. You don't have to connect them with a tangle of wires. Just keeep the time on your camera relatively close to right and post process the tracklog when you download the pictures.
If you spill something on a HD you can almost certainly recover it by buying an identical model of drive and transferring the controller board from the new drive to the "dead" one. The actual platters are pretty well sealed off. If the drive is older try Ebay. You might find an identical laptop being sold as "parts" due to a broken hinge or other problem that will still have a servicable hd controller board.
The system is more of a replacement for two humans talking on a radio to keep two computers (the ATC system and the FMS) updated with the same information. It's not remote control; it's not piloting at all. The autopilots in these planes can already do everything that was described. This just saves the PNF (pilot not flying) from doing some typing.
They're going to have mirrors, snapshots, backups, offsite backups, remote replication... Expecting them to purge your email when you delete your account is crazy.
It probably does slightly more than nothing. The green cycle that includes pedestrians will be longer than the green cycle for cars. Around here I've seen signals that are green for as little as 4 seconds (getting clever with the road sensors I assume) but if there's a crosswalk active it will last long enough to let you cross.
They release all the individual raw pictures on the mars rovers website.
They release all the ones they shoot but they don't often use the red filter. For publicity images they try to use the real red. In one of their 'coffee talks' that happened to be on NASA TV someone explained that the Spirit lander portrait was an accident -- they planned to do it in stereo (has to use IR because only one of the pancams has the true red) but changed at the last minute to use only one pancam and accidentally chose the wrong subset of filters.
The pseudo science of it was that the rats were give enough saccharin to make a 55 gallon drum of soda...
I've probably consumed 55 gallons of diet soda. But more to the point: You can feed a rat an absurd amount of aspirin and it doesn't get cancer. It's not just a matter of degree. In fact, a quick search turns up some articles about the tumor-inhibiting properties of aspirin in rats.
It probably said much the same thing as the plain text, so all you've done is force the officer to pay attention to your license more carefully than he would have if he'd just swiped it. You already said you got questioned about it -- don't you think the officer also checked your records extra carefully when he was able to pull them up despite your trick?
If you're handing your license to an officer you're way beond anonymity. Your best hope at that point is to keep a low profile.
BTW, anyone know why there hasn't been any new Spirt images in the last 3 or 4 days?
After egress they stopped to test the instruments on the arm. The Mossbauer and APXS both take a long time (hours to days depending on how detailed a result you want) so there wasn't anything flashy to show. After that they drove to a nearby rock. They released images of the traverse and the rock today.
There will be another slowdown in MER-A activities as MER-B arrives on Wednesday. They were talking about finding a good patch of soil to test during that time.
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In part the article talks about how to handle yourself in a conversation with a someone who is wrong but (successfully) verbally agressive. This reminds me of a great book called _The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense_ [insert your own Amazon affiliate link here...] which discusses all kinds of conversation techniques for dealing with people who have mastered various annoying habits that seem to keep you from making your point. And if you don't think you need this book to help yourself then you should read it to learn about all the unfair, annoying and childish ways you can dominate a conversation. Just in case...
Mine is about 5 months old, but I've been babying the battery. Wish I'd known I'd be getting a freebie! To find out how many cycles your battery already has:
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ioreg -l -w 0 | grep Capacity
I only used 22 cycles.
Just shut up. You had me at "screw hello kitty".
So your ISP was frantic to resolve a spam complaint on a weekend. DNSBLs aren't perfect, and the guys at MAPS are no angels, but that sounds damn effective to me. You think MAPS is hard to get ahold of? How accessible do you think your ISP would have been if one of its IPs had deluged me with spam over the weekend?
I really wanted to mod this up, because I hate the theme song. Since your comment is already at +5, please drop me a line when the dupe of this story is posted so I can mod it up there.
I'd hate to try to write a quine in an XML programming language!
I'm amazed at the interior shots. He didn't even take the plastic cases off of things like the flash card reader or the firewire hub he added. He didn't even solder the new USB cables directly to the devices -- there are entire molded plastic plugs in there!
With all the blackhole lists, private IP filters and now screensaver-based DDOS, large parts of the IPv4 address space are becoming wastelands that won't be inhabitable even after spammers are driven out. Heck, a friend of mine just heard that a few class A blocks were just assigned to APNIC and immediately firewalled them off. There's got to be a better solution!
There's a link to the original Slashdot posting about the cyclotron (Oct, 2002) from the project page. If everyone did this think of the time we'd save searching for dups!
I just ordered one of the new iBooks and I was looking for new software to install when it arrives!
1) Put up a porn site,
2) Report it to Chinese officials,
3) Profit!
I keep waiting for someone else to point this out...
Cameras timestamp their photos. GPSs can maintain tracklogs of where they go with timestamps. You don't have to connect them with a tangle of wires. Just keeep the time on your camera relatively close to right and post process the tracklog when you download the pictures.
If you spill something on a HD you can almost certainly recover it by buying an identical model of drive and transferring the controller board from the new drive to the "dead" one. The actual platters are pretty well sealed off. If the drive is older try Ebay. You might find an identical laptop being sold as "parts" due to a broken hinge or other problem that will still have a servicable hd controller board.
*points to the doll* "And that's where Mr Patronizing rammed it up my ass!"
It is made out of coarse aggregate cement and it isn't aligned with the sun correctly. I wouldn't even stop by on the way to the Mary Hill museum.
The system is more of a replacement for two humans talking on a radio to keep two computers (the ATC system and the FMS) updated with the same information. It's not remote control; it's not piloting at all. The autopilots in these planes can already do everything that was described. This just saves the PNF (pilot not flying) from doing some typing.
That explains Guinan's hat...
They're going to have mirrors, snapshots, backups, offsite backups, remote replication... Expecting them to purge your email when you delete your account is crazy.
It probably does slightly more than nothing. The green cycle that includes pedestrians will be longer than the green cycle for cars. Around here I've seen signals that are green for as little as 4 seconds (getting clever with the road sensors I assume) but if there's a crosswalk active it will last long enough to let you cross.
Dammit, here I am with mod points and that post is already at 5. We need '+1, goes to 11'
If you're handing your license to an officer you're way beond anonymity. Your best hope at that point is to keep a low profile.
There will be another slowdown in MER-A activities as MER-B arrives on Wednesday. They were talking about finding a good patch of soil to test during that time.