In the UK, free-pour of spirits is not common. Most bars use optics, a picture of one is here.
If the bar has a large range of spirits, the less frequently used ones may be poured into a measuring glass (a small steel cylinder), before being put into the customer's glass.
I haven't seen optics or measuring glasses being used in The States, are they common?
She has recently moved house, and the previous occupant downloaded the files, or
She has cable TV, but not cable internet, and the ISP made a mistake, possibly they looked up the customer number for the IP number, then made a mistake when getting the customer details for that customer number.
Err. Milk (unless its in glass bottles) is sold by the (half) litre in the UK. Only loose fruit and veg, (and beer/cider, but not spirits or wine) can legally be sold in imperial units. On a related point is a pint 24 or 20 fl. oz? It all depends on which side of the pond you live.
Thanks for the heads-up on that site, but it wasn't the one I was thinking off.
I decided to have another hunt, (the last one was a while ago) and came up with Kidon Media Link, which
is more like the one I was thinking of, it might even be the same one, redesigned.
It gives all news sites, who provide web access.
It also gives a list of all news sources in these languages:
English (excluding UK, US, Canadian, Australian),
Spanish,
French,
German,
Arabic,
Russian,
Chinese, and
Dutch.
Personally, I'd use Australian Broadcasting Company,
though their site seems FUBAR'ed at present, or
RTE (Irish state TV)
A while ago, I found a website, listing all the major news websites, by country,
unfortunatly, no amount of googling refound it for me.
One alternative way is for the DNS server to guess what country the DNS request is coming from
(For most people, the request comes from their ISP's/company's DNS server*)
and then to automatically redirect the request to the nearest mirror.
E.g. a request from the UK for ftp.debian.org is redirected to ftp.uk.debian.org, which may be round-robined across the UK mirrors. Of course, for HTTP requests this can be handled at the HTTP level.
The exact method of the guessing is tricky, a rDNS can be used, but it migt be slow,
and not all non-US ISPs (or companies) use their country TLD in thier
canonical or alias names. The visual-traceroute style locactions might be more accurate, but
the lookup time might be prohibitivly expensive.
* This generally true unless the program does its own lookups (some versions of Netscape), or the machine is running its own DNS server.
Here
is someone auctioning off his middle name for the
Comic Relief charity,
who hold bi-annual Donate-a-phons, called Red Nose Day.
The current winner is "Slurms" for 90 UKP,
previous was "Lethargy", for 85 UKP.
This is off-topic, but the conspiricy freeks will not like this monitoring,
even if it is anomised, and GPS devices use a fair amount of
power, if it is determing your location all the time (or even every 10 mins).
The operators do know the areas they don't have any masts,
and it is possible for them to determine where the blind spots are.
This can be done by:- (Slight detour into how the cell-to-cell handover works)
The cell-towers are grouped into Location Registers,
generally there is the same average number of phones in each LR,
so rural LRs cover a area bigger than urban ones.
Each cell has its 'Home' LR, generaly (for contracts) where the owner lives, this stores most of the information about the phone.
When your phone changes LR, the HLR sends a Update Location
to the Vistor (current) LR, and then sends a Cancel Location to
the old VLR.
Anyway, if the phone wasn't off, and there was a gap in its
heatbeats, then there is a dead spot. Using the signal strengths
at the new and old locations, thier locations, and the
geography of the region, to infere where the dead spot are
(Or the company can call the owner).
There is a device which is idea for this, unfortunatly I can't remember what its called.
However, it is shaped a bit like an egronomic trackerball., with no ball, and 5 buttons under
where your fingers naturally lie. The device is normally right handed,
but there probably are left-handed versions. I remeber a PDA about ten
years ago having one, as well as a regualar keyboard.
In use, you press a combination of buttons for each letter you want,
the combinations are chosen so that they resemble the glyphs for
each letter, say X is all but middle, J is middle and thumb (both are of thse
are based on the end points), etc.
I've used one before, and eventaully could learn how to get it work,
but I fimd a keyboard far easier.
IANAL, but it is my understanding that that part of the GPL is
refering to a case like this.
Say I release Frobonicator V1.0 under the GPL, and then decide
to release V2.0 under a closed licence (which I can [legally] do, as
the copyright holder). I can not revoke the GPL on V1.0, (attempt to make making it
illegal for anyone elese to distribute V1.0), nor can I stop anyone elese
releasing thier own V2.0 o it.
However, (and this is where it gets
a little fuzzy), is the trade mark on Froboniciator, persumerably,
I retain it, so any further GPL'ed versions will have to be released under a
different name.
Except with good data mining, the ad company can record
every ad served to you*, which ones you click on (they redirect throught their site).
The REFERER http field for images gives the URL the image is
emmeded in, so they can tell what you have searched for
(the search results for most search-engines encode the search-text in the URL).
All it takes is for a website to leak personal information
(say a web-mail site that has your email addy in the URL), and they can get that as well...
You could use Shoutcast (or other net radio program) as the source,
and XMMS on each machine. xmm-shell can be used to
stop/start xmms when the stream ends, if the streaming protocols
don't support this. I envisage a program than looks for
the presence/absence of a file, and then resumes/pauses XMMS
appropiatly.
IIRC,
Under Oracle, a trigger's conditions can be
ON [ DELETE | CREATE | MODIFY ]
PER [ ROW | UPDATE ]
FIRE [ BEFORE | AFTER ]
The MODIFY PER ROW BEFORE trigger can inspect the row
before and after the modification, and can block the update
by returning FALSE.
All triggers are triggered when the statement is exectured, not on
the COMMIT.
Whether a planet/moon can support an atmosphere,
its dependant on whether the gas velocity is greater than the
object's escape velocity.
The gas velocity is depedant on the
Ideal gas law, here solved for velocity.
v = sqrt(3 R T / M )
where v is the velocity,
R the Ideal Gas constant, (0.08206 L atm / kg Kelven),
T the surface temperture in Kelvin,
and M the molar mass ( 2 * 16 for oxygen, 12 + 2*x16 = 44 for CO2 )
and the escape velocity is
v = sqrt(2 Ga M/R)
where;
Gc is Newton's constant ( 6.6715 E - 11,
M the mass of the Object,
R the surface velocity.
Basicaly, this means the larger (and cooler) an object is, the
more atmosphere it can support.
Incidently, once an object gets an atmosphere, the surface temprature (sun side),
is likely to be cooler, allowing more of an atmosphere to be supported.
Solving for Titan, and Mars are left as an exersize for the interested reader,
Nine planets
will give the remaining values needed
Ok, apart from the obvious link to 'How to get ahead in advertising'
I'd say he'd be excelent. Although a bit old (according to
IMDB
he's 55, he's played the cock-sure, dashing
Scarlet Pimpernel.
I'd actually say they should have GPL'ed all thier code,
but also allowing it to be used in propriety (closed) program
for a fee of, say, $1,000, plus 5cents for each unit sold.
The GPL explicatly allows the code's orignial author to relicense
under both GPL and any other license, but authors of derived
code must ask the orignal author for permission first if it's not GPL'ed.
This would be the best of all worlds, the free software community gets good
audio and video codecs (and free coders/decoders),
Xiph gets (hopefully) a good income stream, and
business gets a low-cost decoder.
Of course, businesses who don't lile this licensing terms
are free to spend the time and money writng they own decoder,
as Xiph has said, in the past, the codec standard is free and open,
but thier code isn't.
I'd imagine most buisnesses would pay to relicense (or just GPL it)
as its probably cheeper than the development costs unless
they are likely to sell a large amount of units.
Since it takes High-Presure Sodium (the orange lamps, that start red)
about 3minutes to fire properly, this will rule out motion sensors on them. I don't know how efficent these are, but they should be alot better than the
5% (incandesiant) or 15% (normal fluresant) lamps.
But I'd agree, the amount of light that spils upwards from
streetlights is ridiculous. I don't know why they don't design
the reflector better so that the light is directed at about 120 degrees, which should stop direct spill, but there isn't much you can do about that, except paint the pavment black. BTW for the grandparent, there is normally a fuse or circuit breaker in the lamppost with the sensor,
if you have the triangular 'key' to open it, this might be a bit easier
Except you can only get extradited if the crime you commited
*is* a crime in the country you are being extradited from,
and you will not be punished more severly in the extraditing country.
(Or at least extradition can not be refused in these cases, given
reasonable evidence)
For example, most of the EU refuses to extradite suspected murders
to the US, unless the US says it will not seek the death sentance.
(It is a condition of EU membership to renounce the death penalty)
Simce crashing a P2P server is not a crime in the US, then
the US authorites can (and probably will) refuse the extradition.
Qouth the grandparent: I think that the sticking point WILL BE HERE. I'm not yet convinced that EVEN ONE such planet exists within the entire universe. My emphasis.
Dimensio isn't suggesting that there isn't alien intelligence, but rather that there isn't
much intelligence on this small rocky sphere.
As a wise man once said Sometimes I think the surest sign of alien intelligence is that we haven't meet any of it - Hobbes
The University of Guelph
has built some new apartments. They have 1 Cat-5 point in each bed-room, this is normally connected to your VoIP phone (routed via the University's central switchboard, [call-managment/or operator]), but you can use it instead for your ethernet card. It seemed like a geek's paradise, except Guelph is in the middle of no-where, about 1hr north-westish of Toronto, and it is a agriculture/food University.
I'm not exactly how their stuff works, I spent a week on a mate's floor when I was out visiting him.
No,
You pay the loan with the highest interest first, unless there is an early redepmption penalty, which makes things harder to figure out
You can also extend your morgage/get a second homeloan to pay of the other loans, which can save yourself a fair amount. However, saving $200 a month seems a bit optimistic.
I assume 'license' is the for the building, akin to a liquor or firesafety (public saftey) license.
If I read that law correctly, then you can't get a brothel or 'rest-station' (somewhere for the prostitues to stay when they are oncall, but not attending a client). But if the pimp works out of an office, and calls the girls at home to go to out, does this need a license? Or for that matter, if the girl just works for herself, giving out a mobile (cell) phone's number, I can't see that needing a license.
Slashdot Mirror
I haven't seen optics or measuring glasses being used in The States, are they common?
- She has recently moved house, and the previous occupant downloaded the files, or
- She has cable TV, but not cable internet, and the ISP made a mistake, possibly they looked up the customer number for the IP number, then made a mistake when getting the customer details for that customer number.
In either case, it's not the RIAA's direct fault.Err. Milk (unless its in glass bottles) is sold by the (half) litre in the UK. Only loose fruit and veg, (and beer/cider, but not spirits or wine) can legally be sold in imperial units. On a related point is a pint 24 or 20 fl. oz? It all depends on which side of the pond you live.
It also gives a list of all news sources in these languages: English (excluding UK, US, Canadian, Australian), Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, and Dutch.
Google Directories also provides a huge list on http://directory.google.com/Top/News/Directories/
Personally, I'd use Australian Broadcasting Company, though their site seems FUBAR'ed at present, or RTE (Irish state TV)
A while ago, I found a website, listing all the major news websites, by country, unfortunatly, no amount of googling refound it for me.
Try telling that to Hoover, who managed bankrupt themselves after a disaterous Free Flight promo, and are now owned by Maytag.
No, its called Sol 3a. :-/
On a totally different note, is it possible for a large moon, orbiting far from its planet, to capture an asteroid?
The exact method of the guessing is tricky, a rDNS can be used, but it migt be slow, and not all non-US ISPs (or companies) use their country TLD in thier canonical or alias names. The visual-traceroute style locactions might be more accurate, but the lookup time might be prohibitivly expensive.
* This generally true unless the program does its own lookups (some versions of Netscape), or the machine is running its own DNS server.
Here is someone auctioning off his middle name for the Comic Relief charity, who hold bi-annual Donate-a-phons, called Red Nose Day.
The current winner is "Slurms" for 90 UKP, previous was "Lethargy", for 85 UKP.
The operators do know the areas they don't have any masts, and it is possible for them to determine where the blind spots are. This can be done by :- (Slight detour into how the cell-to-cell handover works)
The cell-towers are grouped into Location Registers, generally there is the same average number of phones in each LR, so rural LRs cover a area bigger than urban ones.
Each cell has its 'Home' LR, generaly (for contracts) where the owner lives, this stores most of the information about the phone.
When your phone changes LR, the HLR sends a Update Location to the Vistor (current) LR, and then sends a Cancel Location to the old VLR.
Anyway, if the phone wasn't off, and there was a gap in its heatbeats, then there is a dead spot. Using the signal strengths at the new and old locations, thier locations, and the geography of the region, to infere where the dead spot are (Or the company can call the owner).
that a good clue-by-four is hard to damage.
In use, you press a combination of buttons for each letter you want, the combinations are chosen so that they resemble the glyphs for each letter, say X is all but middle, J is middle and thumb (both are of thse are based on the end points), etc.
I've used one before, and eventaully could learn how to get it work, but I fimd a keyboard far easier.
IANAL, but it is my understanding that that part of the GPL is refering to a case like this.
Say I release Frobonicator V1.0 under the GPL, and then decide to release V2.0 under a closed licence (which I can [legally] do, as the copyright holder). I can not revoke the GPL on V1.0, (attempt to make making it illegal for anyone elese to distribute V1.0), nor can I stop anyone elese releasing thier own V2.0 o it.
However, (and this is where it gets a little fuzzy), is the trade mark on Froboniciator, persumerably, I retain it, so any further GPL'ed versions will have to be released under a different name.
The REFERER http field for images gives the URL the image is emmeded in, so they can tell what you have searched for (the search results for most search-engines encode the search-text in the URL).
All it takes is for a website to leak personal information (say a web-mail site that has your email addy in the URL), and they can get that as well...
By 'You' I mean the cookie, of course.
You could use Shoutcast (or other net radio program) as the source, and XMMS on each machine. xmm-shell can be used to stop/start xmms when the stream ends, if the streaming protocols don't support this. I envisage a program than looks for the presence/absence of a file, and then resumes/pauses XMMS appropiatly.
Under Oracle, a trigger's conditions can be
ON [ DELETE | CREATE | MODIFY ]
PER [ ROW | UPDATE ]
FIRE [ BEFORE | AFTER ]
The MODIFY PER ROW BEFORE trigger can inspect the row before and after the modification, and can block the update by returning FALSE. All triggers are triggered when the statement is exectured, not on the COMMIT.
The gas velocity is depedant on the Ideal gas law, here solved for velocity.
v = sqrt(3 R T / M )
where v is the velocity,
R the Ideal Gas constant, (0.08206 L atm / kg Kelven),
T the surface temperture in Kelvin,
and M the molar mass ( 2 * 16 for oxygen, 12 + 2*x16 = 44 for CO2 )
and the escape velocity is v = sqrt(2 Ga M/R)
where; Gc is Newton's constant ( 6.6715 E - 11,
M the mass of the Object,
R the surface velocity.
Basicaly, this means the larger (and cooler) an object is, the more atmosphere it can support.
Incidently, once an object gets an atmosphere, the surface temprature (sun side), is likely to be cooler, allowing more of an atmosphere to be supported.
Solving for Titan, and Mars are left as an exersize for the interested reader, Nine planets will give the remaining values needed
Ok, apart from the obvious link to 'How to get ahead in advertising' I'd say he'd be excelent. Although a bit old (according to IMDB he's 55, he's played the cock-sure, dashing Scarlet Pimpernel.
This would be the best of all worlds, the free software community gets good audio and video codecs (and free coders/decoders), Xiph gets (hopefully) a good income stream, and business gets a low-cost decoder. Of course, businesses who don't lile this licensing terms are free to spend the time and money writng they own decoder, as Xiph has said, in the past, the codec standard is free and open, but thier code isn't. I'd imagine most buisnesses would pay to relicense (or just GPL it) as its probably cheeper than the development costs unless they are likely to sell a large amount of units.
Since it takes High-Presure Sodium (the orange lamps, that start red) about 3minutes to fire properly, this will rule out motion sensors on them. I don't know how efficent these are, but they should be alot better than the 5% (incandesiant) or 15% (normal fluresant) lamps. But I'd agree, the amount of light that spils upwards from streetlights is ridiculous. I don't know why they don't design the reflector better so that the light is directed at about 120 degrees, which should stop direct spill, but there isn't much you can do about that, except paint the pavment black.
BTW for the grandparent, there is normally a fuse or circuit breaker in the lamppost with the sensor, if you have the triangular 'key' to open it, this might be a bit easier
Except you can only get extradited if the crime you commited *is* a crime in the country you are being extradited from, and you will not be punished more severly in the extraditing country. (Or at least extradition can not be refused in these cases, given reasonable evidence)
For example, most of the EU refuses to extradite suspected murders to the US, unless the US says it will not seek the death sentance. (It is a condition of EU membership to renounce the death penalty)
Simce crashing a P2P server is not a crime in the US, then the US authorites can (and probably will) refuse the extradition.
Qouth the grandparent: I think that the sticking point WILL BE HERE. I'm not yet convinced that EVEN ONE such planet exists within the entire universe. My emphasis.
Dimensio isn't suggesting that there isn't alien intelligence, but rather that there isn't much intelligence on this small rocky sphere.
As a wise man once said Sometimes I think the surest sign of alien intelligence is that we haven't meet any of it - Hobbes
The University of Guelph has built some new apartments. They have 1 Cat-5 point in each bed-room, this is normally connected to your VoIP phone (routed via the University's central switchboard, [call-managment/or operator]), but you can use it instead for your ethernet card. It seemed like a geek's paradise, except Guelph is in the middle of no-where, about 1hr north-westish of Toronto, and it is a agriculture/food University.
I'm not exactly how their stuff works, I spent a week on a mate's floor when I was out visiting him.
You pay the loan with the highest interest first, unless there is an early redepmption penalty, which makes things harder to figure out
You can also extend your morgage/get a second homeloan to pay of the other loans, which can save yourself a fair amount. However, saving $200 a month seems a bit optimistic.
IANAA (I am not an accountant)
If I read that law correctly, then you can't get a brothel or 'rest-station' (somewhere for the prostitues to stay when they are oncall, but not attending a client). But if the pimp works out of an office, and calls the girls at home to go to out, does this need a license? Or for that matter, if the girl just works for herself, giving out a mobile (cell) phone's number, I can't see that needing a license.