I beg your pardon, but I am most certainly allowed to use my concealed handgun to protect my own safety or to prevent the theft of my personal property and my family's property.
See here for the relevant sections of the Texas Penal code regarding the use of deadly force.
Deadly force, by the way, has a very precise legal definition and is different from the normal use of force. Neither would be acceptable in your silly little road rage example.
First of all, I'd like to thank you for handing down your expert knowledge.
This particular ribbon cable, like most all others, is in fact keyed. But the connector on the back of the drive was not keyed. I know that as a rule, pin 1 goes towards the power connector, but apparently I had this one backwards. As another poster mentioned, accidents do happen.
And yes, it did start a fire. I'd never seen anything like it before, and I know I've plugged cables in backwards in the past. This isn't very high-end equipment, really. Kinda cheap stuff. Maybe this particular floppy drive didn't have circuitry that most others have, I don't know. I'm not an EE, and I really don't know much about how electrical fires start when you've got current going places where it shouldn't. I don't even know what a diode is.
I threw the melted segment of the power harness into my box of floppy drives, as a warning to the rest of them.
Just a few days ago I caught a rackmounted server on fire.
Turns out (and I know I've done this many times before without starting any type of fire) I had the ribbon cable in backwards on the floppy drive. When I turned the power on, immediately the power wires started glowing orange and the flames were about a foot high and smoke poured out of the case.
After I pulled the plug, only one segment of the power harness was melted (the part with the small floppy connector), so I cut that out, put the floppy cable in correctly, plugged in the other floppy power lead, and turned it back on.
Shocked the Hell outta me, but the thing still worked, and has been working ever since.
I've been lurking on this group for some time now, and have never seen this poll. I just logged in and still don't see any poll even remotely similar to what you mentioned.
Bayesian statistial analysis can't match posts to posters anymore than Keynesian (sp?) economic theory can tell you what I'm going to pick up for dinner on the way home tonight.
sarcasm n.
1. A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound.
2. A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.
3. The use of sarcasm. See Synonyms at wit.
See this article on slate for some interesting ideas on why Google's page-ranking system is being undermined due to the evolution of ecommerce and price-comparing portals.
Yeah, but when J. Consumer sticks the light bulb in the toilet tank and complains that he still can't see when he takes a shower, would the light bulb manufacturer, the toilet factory, or the local water supplier be expected to make it work?
I have used Real Time Sports for fantaysy football, and I think it's one of the best. Near real-time updates from the AP wire, pretty comprehensive league tracking, reasonable fees for the service, etc.
I was born and raised in Fort Worth, and I now go to UTA in Arlington. I remember as a kid going with my mom to park in the big lot on the river, and riding the car to the Tandy Center to go ice skating or to go to the library. Now that Sundance Square has grown up so much, and there are numerous public parking garages in the downtown area, remote parking isn't really necessary anymore. I guess the subway has outlived it's usefulness.
Next door to my office is a boot repair shop that has been there for over 70 years (started by the old man's father). He even has an apprentice working for him who's about 19 years old. He tells me that he doesn't think the shop will be around much longer, 'cause no one ever repairs boots or saddles anymore (ok, maybe saddles, 'cause they can be pretty expensive to buy). It's sad to hear him say that too. The sense of history and tradition inside his shop is way cool.
What exactly is it that Lindows has a copyright on? Aren't they simply re-distributing software which is copyrighted by other people? Shouldn't it be the responsibility of those other people to provide source, and shouldn't Lindows only have to indicate where the source is available from the original authors or copyright holders?
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I beg your pardon, but I am most certainly allowed to use my concealed handgun to protect my own safety or to prevent the theft of my personal property and my family's property.
See here for the relevant sections of the Texas Penal code regarding the use of deadly force.
Deadly force, by the way, has a very precise legal definition and is different from the normal use of force. Neither would be acceptable in your silly little road rage example.
I happen to think this is a classic example of video game music. Makes me wish I could still play the piano.
If SCO owns 0x0D:
- would 0x0D 0x0A be a derived work?
If SCO owns 0x0D 0x0A:
- would 0x0D be prior art?
What if I define '\n' to be 0x00 in my next OS? Or 0x2A?
Just who's definition of '\n' might they own?
I was picturing guys walking around making goofy modem noises to each other.
I hadn't even thought of the crypto-nerds. Good line
First of all, I'd like to thank you for handing down your expert knowledge.
This particular ribbon cable, like most all others, is in fact keyed. But the connector on the back of the drive was not keyed. I know that as a rule, pin 1 goes towards the power connector, but apparently I had this one backwards. As another poster mentioned, accidents do happen.
And yes, it did start a fire. I'd never seen anything like it before, and I know I've plugged cables in backwards in the past. This isn't very high-end equipment, really. Kinda cheap stuff. Maybe this particular floppy drive didn't have circuitry that most others have, I don't know. I'm not an EE, and I really don't know much about how electrical fires start when you've got current going places where it shouldn't. I don't even know what a diode is.
I threw the melted segment of the power harness into my box of floppy drives, as a warning to the rest of them.
Just a few days ago I caught a rackmounted server on fire.
Turns out (and I know I've done this many times before without starting any type of fire) I had the ribbon cable in backwards on the floppy drive. When I turned the power on, immediately the power wires started glowing orange and the flames were about a foot high and smoke poured out of the case.
After I pulled the plug, only one segment of the power harness was melted (the part with the small floppy connector), so I cut that out, put the floppy cable in correctly, plugged in the other floppy power lead, and turned it back on.
Shocked the Hell outta me, but the thing still worked, and has been working ever since.
Or perhaps "she" sniffed a password?
I refuse to believe that the really hot, Debian-using, password-sniffing, root-exploiting geek girl is a myth.
but I read this on kuro5hin the other day.
Unfortunately, so are the required network-usage fees that you pay, regardless of whether or not you even own a computer.
I've been lurking on this group for some time now, and have never seen this poll. I just logged in and still don't see any poll even remotely similar to what you mentioned.
I think we've been trolled.
Since when did NIC device drivers become responsible for DHCP leases?
Please.
Bayesian statistial analysis can't match posts to posters anymore than Keynesian (sp?) economic theory can tell you what I'm going to pick up for dinner on the way home tonight.
sarcasm n.
1. A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound.
2. A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.
3. The use of sarcasm. See Synonyms at wit.
facetious adj.
Playfully jocular; humorous: facetious remarks.
See this article on slate for some interesting ideas on why Google's page-ranking system is being undermined due to the evolution of ecommerce and price-comparing portals.
Yeah, but when J. Consumer sticks the light bulb in the toilet tank and complains that he still can't see when he takes a shower, would the light bulb manufacturer, the toilet factory, or the local water supplier be expected to make it work?
I have used Real Time Sports for fantaysy football, and I think it's one of the best. Near real-time updates from the AP wire, pretty comprehensive league tracking, reasonable fees for the service, etc.
That's the way it is here (Fort Worth, TX) too. As I understand it, a lot of municipal police departments are moving to the same thing.
Kind of like Texas? Even New York wants to copy us.
:)
Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and New Mexico - well they're all just a bunch of back-woods hicks who don't know nuthin 'bout them 'puters.
I was born and raised in Fort Worth, and I now go to UTA in Arlington. I remember as a kid going with my mom to park in the big lot on the river, and riding the car to the Tandy Center to go ice skating or to go to the library. Now that Sundance Square has grown up so much, and there are numerous public parking garages in the downtown area, remote parking isn't really necessary anymore. I guess the subway has outlived it's usefulness.
Would Schoolmall be held responsible if one of those companies they sold addresses to sent emails with explicit content to a minor?
My boss.
You know, the one with the guy and the phone...
Can you hear me now?
Next door to my office is a boot repair shop that has been there for over 70 years (started by the old man's father). He even has an apprentice working for him who's about 19 years old. He tells me that he doesn't think the shop will be around much longer, 'cause no one ever repairs boots or saddles anymore (ok, maybe saddles, 'cause they can be pretty expensive to buy). It's sad to hear him say that too. The sense of history and tradition inside his shop is way cool.
What exactly is it that Lindows has a copyright on? Aren't they simply re-distributing software which is copyrighted by other people? Shouldn't it be the responsibility of those other people to provide source, and shouldn't Lindows only have to indicate where the source is available from the original authors or copyright holders?
That makes no sense at all. How could Lindows be held responsible for what other people distribute?