Except, not. If potential victim is going to have RFID implant, potential criminal is going to have one too. Sure, we'll know where to find the body. But if they're even half-way intelligent about it, we'll also know who came into contact with the victim before her death as well.
Sure, you may be easy to find; but so is everyone else.
Not that I condone this in any, way, shape or form (the day they try and force me to get an RFID implant is the day I go on an armed killing spree); I just think people have to realize that the only way this would happen is if everyone (including politicians and military personnel) was required to have one. Chance for abuse is greatly reduced because of the fact the person doing the abusing would be tracked quickly.
They measure resistance conducted through the human body. Any standard electronic voltmeter can be programmed to measure resistance in the low ohm range.
Problem: The human body is NOT low resistance. There is never a point where our bodys put up less than 350 ohms of resistance. Most the time it's >3500 ohms.
Furthermore, it wouldn't be a voltmeter used to measure said resistance, it would be at the very least an ohmmeter or a multimeter.
You'd be surprised how difficult it is to predict the resistance of a human body, anything from wet skin to the type of shoes you're wearing can drastically increase or decrease your ohm rating;)
This is the biggest problem with skin-mounted electronic interface devices, calibration is a bitch
Macro-evolution (between species) can be neither measured nor observed. Perhaps your definition of prove is having been told something over and over and over again.
You are wrong. Plain and simple. If "macro"-evolution wasn't observable, then we wouldn't be able to see, smell, touch or taste any other evolution except for any genetic twins we happened to have. We wouldn't be able to kill a deer and eat it because we'd never know it's there. Just observing something causes a change, which could thus lead to an evolutionary event.
The train of thought you are following is a broken trail based on the frivolous assumption that to observe means to take no action. Our very existance stands to cause a change that an ecosystem would have to evolve to withstand and thrive in.
When you get off your high-horse of your so called "logical thinking", you might actually see what it really takes to think logically; instead of shooting down points of view that was actually derived from logical thinking.
The programmers knew how to program, problem was they only knew how to program for a computer that didn't necessarily have a full feature OS.
From what I remember, WP was a standalone program up until 6 at which point a GUI was considered more prudent. I remember at 6 being able to throw WP 3 in the disk slot on archaic 386 we had with no OS and have it boot right up.
Wrong, the parent posts a good question because the answer is not only quite potent but quite obvious: they do. And we have made that way ourselves, people. The problem is many of you don't know that.
The reason they get to decide is because of the DMCA, an act passed by our representatives in government. People that we elected. Is this situation a problem? Yes. Who's fault is it? Ours.
The good thing is we can rectify this problem by being more responsible with our voting than we have been in the past. Look at Bush, only in the office in the first place because people felt picking the lesser of 2 evils (Gore would have been a nightmare)was prudent. Yet they had more than 2 choices. It's time to start looking at the ballot carefully folks.
All would-be presidents promise to fix problems. Noone has made it to office on the premise of changing things, just on the premise of fixing broken things. Half the time, what they promise to fix isn't broken and the change stands to make the candidate's current employer benefit greatly. The promise of fixing things is their trick, it makes you think of his intentions as opposed to his motivation. Although determing motivation is hard, there is a way to vote responsibly even not knowing this information.
Next time you go to the ballot, try thinking about things like a natural human being. Think about their negatives. All the advertising is meant to focus your mind on things the are a benefit to them when you see or hear their name (even accusationally slanderous ads, everyone knows who funded those ads--the opposing team). If everyone thought about the problems Bush would cause as opposed to the "good" things he'd do, he would have never been elected. Same thing could be said about Gore too, but if everyone had taken my advice 5 years ago they would have never been elected to candidacy either.
Call it tradition. Prefixed "nauts" have been used to identify the space pilots of their respective countries for little over 50 years now, to stop in this day and age would be to end a rather novel and respectable nomenclature.
Now, instead of the massive amount of people who purchase racing games because of the cars they can drive/customize/bastardize; the market will grow tenfold because of the people who buy racing games because of the ability to destroy said cars.;)
This is quite exciting. TA was by far the best RTS to come out of the 90's. Being (practically) abandonware now, a sequel is the holy grail for many gamers who enjoyed the original.
Being an earth shattering game in the first installment, hopefully the second installment will raise the bar again for RTS games.
45 degrees fahrenheit is a comfortable temperature for us. As long as that's the temperature of the air surrounding us.
Replace air with liquid, and you've got a different situation altogether. Figure this, water at 70 degrees fahrenheit literally feels like ice water on human skin. 45 degrees is about the temperature of arctic seawater.
As someone said earlier, the final composition of the glue excludes iron. It is, however, needed for stabilizing the synthesis.
Which is quite handy, really. All one needs to do is reduce the iron content of the water to prevent mollusks. This could be done using magnets (it is iron, after all). When buildup is critical, simply switch the magnets off and direct the iron away from the ship, where it will mix back into the water harmlessly.
As I hate stating the obvious, it should be apparent that I say this with a grimace:
You, my friend, are a dumbass.
A bank's income isn't based on the fact that most of it's customers subscribe to it's services publicly. The only thing banks make money off of are overdraw and ATM fees. Both of which can be implemented regardless of anonymity. In the minds of many bankers, offering anonymity to those who want it is merely improving demographics. A decision any businessman would favor.
Who was it that said %40 of sales were between the 14th and the 23rd last year? Isn't that any indicator that such "Captain Obvious" statements should be belated until at least the 23rd?
The fact that I have seen this argument in use more than once scares the shit out of me. Are people that stupid not to realize that media on radio has already been paid for? Clear channel sometimes pays a million or so for the broadcast licensing of just one song. To me, that's well and paid for.
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You, my friend, are an idiot.
All forms of leisurely (sp?) enjoyable alcohol contain ethanol. Every single one. The difference is in the fermentation.
Speaking from experience, Everclear is the purest form of ethanol available at your local Beverage Plus. It is strong enough to knock you on your ass and is that way for one reason: it was fermented from grains specifically for that purpose. Look at all your favorite alcoholic beverages, less than %15 of them are made from grain. Grains are an extremely good way to produce alcohol, but definitely not good for taste; hence the awful flavor of most grain-fermented beverages.
Everclear means business, so should you when you drink it;)
Let us assume that IBM plays nice and GPLs all changes to the Linux kernel. They could still keep the code that uses those changes proprietary, but the kernel is improved. (And IBM offers Torvalds $1B to oversee the project, and he would take it because it would mean fantastic progress for GPL'd Linux.)
Emphasis mine.
Have you even read the GPL? Any modifications to the Linux kernel are necessarily GPL'd as well. The fact they have not released the source for the kernel changes is going against the GPL whole-heartedly. Seems IBM is still around and un-harassed as far as obeying the GPL, so I'd guess they have not made any un-published changes to the kernel. End of story.
Remember: Windows-haters want to try to destroy Windows and Microsoft so that they (Linux-lovers) can grab a bigger share of the market - too bad they can't play fair!
Play fair? Play fair! You use this in defense of Microsoft? A company known for it's shady business practices and even shadier pricing structures? A company who has knowingly and publically cheated many people out of many millions of dollars by forcing them into "upgrade" contracts and heinous licensing plans? A company who has been responsible for the demise of many companies who stood to compete? Play fair?
What irks me the most is that you relevated virus-writers and exploit-finders to "Linux-lovers". I know not one person who glorifies open-source software that is malicious enough to write things like Blaster or Sobig. The only people I know who are that mean are (you guessed it) avid Windows users.
No sir, the Open-Source community (which we prefer to be called, BTW) doesn't want to destroy Microsoft for a bigger market share; we want to destroy MS because it is the Right(TM) thing to do;)
Tell them your situation (any half-assed phone co. would have records on hand to find the culprit number), tell them to block said number.
If faxes persist, send the phone company a letter with a hefty dose of legalese, reminding them of the fact they are charging you for something you have already told them to stop. Companies tend to take people more seriously when they show resolve and are seemingly willing to settle the situation in court.
At this point, the phone company is pissed and will turn it's efforts towards the culprit. Worked for me, should definately work for you.
The device detects accelleration and parks the heads when accelleration is akin to that of say: falling off a table. Acts such as jogging with an "airbag equipped" MP3 player wouldn't trigger this reaction, but losing grip of it and significantly increasing the rate of accelleration by flinging it down the jogging path will.
You are wrong, plain and simple. Among the most popular of the first videogames to hit the market were based off of D&D. To this day we still see analogs of the D20 system fostered by Gygax and Arneson, such games still happen to be a staple of the industry.
And BTW, editors, D&D spawned 3 industries. The first CCG to go mainstream (M:tG) was heavily influenced by D&D itself (spoke the creator).
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Except, not. If potential victim is going to have RFID implant, potential criminal is going to have one too. Sure, we'll know where to find the body. But if they're even half-way intelligent about it, we'll also know who came into contact with the victim before her death as well.
Sure, you may be easy to find; but so is everyone else.
Not that I condone this in any, way, shape or form (the day they try and force me to get an RFID implant is the day I go on an armed killing spree); I just think people have to realize that the only way this would happen is if everyone (including politicians and military personnel) was required to have one. Chance for abuse is greatly reduced because of the fact the person doing the abusing would be tracked quickly.
They measure resistance conducted through the human body. Any standard electronic voltmeter can be programmed to measure resistance in the low ohm range.
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Problem: The human body is NOT low resistance. There is never a point where our bodys put up less than 350 ohms of resistance. Most the time it's >3500 ohms.
Furthermore, it wouldn't be a voltmeter used to measure said resistance, it would be at the very least an ohmmeter or a multimeter.
You'd be surprised how difficult it is to predict the resistance of a human body, anything from wet skin to the type of shoes you're wearing can drastically increase or decrease your ohm rating
This is the biggest problem with skin-mounted electronic interface devices, calibration is a bitch
Motiv
There you people go again with that "Lesser of two evils" bullshit. It's thinking like that which got us into this mess in the first place.
If you'd use your fucking brains at the ballot box, maybe you'd have a little bit less to bitch about.
Macro-evolution (between species) can be neither measured nor observed. Perhaps your definition of prove is having been told something over and over and over again.
You are wrong. Plain and simple. If "macro"-evolution wasn't observable, then we wouldn't be able to see, smell, touch or taste any other evolution except for any genetic twins we happened to have. We wouldn't be able to kill a deer and eat it because we'd never know it's there. Just observing something causes a change, which could thus lead to an evolutionary event.
The train of thought you are following is a broken trail based on the frivolous assumption that to observe means to take no action. Our very existance stands to cause a change that an ecosystem would have to evolve to withstand and thrive in.
When you get off your high-horse of your so called "logical thinking", you might actually see what it really takes to think logically; instead of shooting down points of view that was actually derived from logical thinking.
I guess the fact that the word unbiased is a contradiction in terms is lost on you.
Try 113448 hits mostly consisting of "Why Bill Gates is filthy rich" pages.
The programmers knew how to program, problem was they only knew how to program for a computer that didn't necessarily have a full feature OS.
From what I remember, WP was a standalone program up until 6 at which point a GUI was considered more prudent. I remember at 6 being able to throw WP 3 in the disk slot on archaic 386 we had with no OS and have it boot right up.
Wrong, the parent posts a good question because the answer is not only quite potent but quite obvious: they do . And we have made that way ourselves, people. The problem is many of you don't know that.
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The reason they get to decide is because of the DMCA, an act passed by our representatives in government. People that we elected. Is this situation a problem? Yes. Who's fault is it? Ours
The good thing is we can rectify this problem by being more responsible with our voting than we have been in the past. Look at Bush, only in the office in the first place because people felt picking the lesser of 2 evils (Gore would have been a nightmare)was prudent. Yet they had more than 2 choices. It's time to start looking at the ballot carefully folks.
All would-be presidents promise to fix problems. Noone has made it to office on the premise of changing things, just on the premise of fixing broken things. Half the time, what they promise to fix isn't broken and the change stands to make the candidate's current employer benefit greatly. The promise of fixing things is their trick, it makes you think of his intentions as opposed to his motivation. Although determing motivation is hard, there is a way to vote responsibly even not knowing this information.
Next time you go to the ballot, try thinking about things like a natural human being. Think about their negatives. All the advertising is meant to focus your mind on things the are a benefit to them when you see or hear their name (even accusationally slanderous ads, everyone knows who funded those ads--the opposing team). If everyone thought about the problems Bush would cause as opposed to the "good" things he'd do, he would have never been elected. Same thing could be said about Gore too, but if everyone had taken my advice 5 years ago they would have never been elected to candidacy either.
Call it tradition. Prefixed "nauts" have been used to identify the space pilots of their respective countries for little over 50 years now, to stop in this day and age would be to end a rather novel and respectable nomenclature.
Now, instead of the massive amount of people who purchase racing games because of the cars they can drive/customize/bastardize; the market will grow tenfold because of the people who buy racing games because of the ability to destroy said cars. ;)
This is quite exciting. TA was by far the best RTS to come out of the 90's. Being (practically) abandonware now, a sequel is the holy grail for many gamers who enjoyed the original.
Being an earth shattering game in the first installment, hopefully the second installment will raise the bar again for RTS games.
45 degrees fahrenheit is a comfortable temperature for us. As long as that's the temperature of the air surrounding us.
Replace air with liquid, and you've got a different situation altogether. Figure this, water at 70 degrees fahrenheit literally feels like ice water on human skin. 45 degrees is about the temperature of arctic seawater.
Was Chemicals Between Us from Bush. I was all of 14 years old, just discovering napster.
As someone said earlier, the final composition of the glue excludes iron. It is, however, needed for stabilizing the synthesis.
Which is quite handy, really. All one needs to do is reduce the iron content of the water to prevent mollusks. This could be done using magnets (it is iron, after all). When buildup is critical, simply switch the magnets off and direct the iron away from the ship, where it will mix back into the water harmlessly.
Before I insult you, I would be happy to guide you to howstuffworks.com to get an idea of how stupid the comment you just made actually is.
As I hate stating the obvious, it should be apparent that I say this with a grimace:
You, my friend, are a dumbass.
A bank's income isn't based on the fact that most of it's customers subscribe to it's services publicly. The only thing banks make money off of are overdraw and ATM fees. Both of which can be implemented regardless of anonymity. In the minds of many bankers, offering anonymity to those who want it is merely improving demographics. A decision any businessman would favor.
Who was it that said %40 of sales were between the 14th and the 23rd last year? Isn't that any indicator that such "Captain Obvious" statements should be belated until at least the 23rd?
The fact that I have seen this argument in use more than once scares the shit out of me. Are people that stupid not to realize that media on radio has already been paid for? Clear channel sometimes pays a million or so for the broadcast licensing of just one song. To me, that's well and paid for.
You, my friend, are an idiot.
;)
All forms of leisurely (sp?) enjoyable alcohol contain ethanol. Every single one. The difference is in the fermentation.
Speaking from experience, Everclear is the purest form of ethanol available at your local Beverage Plus. It is strong enough to knock you on your ass and is that way for one reason: it was fermented from grains specifically for that purpose. Look at all your favorite alcoholic beverages, less than %15 of them are made from grain. Grains are an extremely good way to produce alcohol, but definitely not good for taste; hence the awful flavor of most grain-fermented beverages.
Everclear means business, so should you when you drink it
If it's not distributed, then they are obviously not making any profit off of it.
No harm, no foul.
Let us assume that IBM plays nice and GPLs all changes to the Linux kernel. They could still keep the code that uses those changes proprietary, but the kernel is improved. (And IBM offers Torvalds $1B to oversee the project, and he would take it because it would mean fantastic progress for GPL'd Linux.)
Emphasis mine.
Have you even read the GPL? Any modifications to the Linux kernel are necessarily GPL'd as well. The fact they have not released the source for the kernel changes is going against the GPL whole-heartedly. Seems IBM is still around and un-harassed as far as obeying the GPL, so I'd guess they have not made any un-published changes to the kernel. End of story.
Remember: Windows-haters want to try to destroy Windows and Microsoft so that they (Linux-lovers) can grab a bigger share of the market - too bad they can't play fair!
;)
Play fair? Play fair! You use this in defense of Microsoft? A company known for it's shady business practices and even shadier pricing structures? A company who has knowingly and publically cheated many people out of many millions of dollars by forcing them into "upgrade" contracts and heinous licensing plans? A company who has been responsible for the demise of many companies who stood to compete? Play fair?
What irks me the most is that you relevated virus-writers and exploit-finders to "Linux-lovers". I know not one person who glorifies open-source software that is malicious enough to write things like Blaster or Sobig. The only people I know who are that mean are (you guessed it) avid Windows users.
No sir, the Open-Source community (which we prefer to be called, BTW) doesn't want to destroy Microsoft for a bigger market share; we want to destroy MS because it is the Right(TM) thing to do
Tell them your situation (any half-assed phone co. would have records on hand to find the culprit number), tell them to block said number.
If faxes persist, send the phone company a letter with a hefty dose of legalese, reminding them of the fact they are charging you for something you have already told them to stop. Companies tend to take people more seriously when they show resolve and are seemingly willing to settle the situation in court.
At this point, the phone company is pissed and will turn it's efforts towards the culprit. Worked for me, should definately work for you.
Accelleration is not movement, remember that.
The device detects accelleration and parks the heads when accelleration is akin to that of say: falling off a table. Acts such as jogging with an "airbag equipped" MP3 player wouldn't trigger this reaction, but losing grip of it and significantly increasing the rate of accelleration by flinging it down the jogging path will.
Videogames? Um, no. Dumbass.
You are wrong, plain and simple. Among the most popular of the first videogames to hit the market were based off of D&D. To this day we still see analogs of the D20 system fostered by Gygax and Arneson, such games still happen to be a staple of the industry.
And BTW, editors, D&D spawned 3 industries. The first CCG to go mainstream (M:tG) was heavily influenced by D&D itself (spoke the creator).