At least with their deskjet printers, HP is already being undercut by competitors on refill cartridges. These people, for example, will be more than happy to sell you their own catridges for $20, what HP charges $30 for. If their TV printers are incompatible by design (which would needlessly add complexity to HP's operations, but hey it could happen), then others will follow in a year or two with some healthy competition.
Let me just clarify my last point, which I didn't do much to elaborate upon. What is effective about both this research method and quantum computers is that they are both massively parallel. If you throw all possible answers at a question and have some efficient means of culling the mostly correct ones from the definitely wrong ones, you can zero in on the best answer rather quickly.
Not only that, but it'll force parents to install IE in their children's excretory tracks. It's bad enough when IE bombs and poops all over people's computers. You don't want to have to see what it'll do in living organisms.
In the meantime, relax! There will be lots more such announcements in this hotly contested field. It's just like chip wars.
It's precisely because it appeals to the same human emotions as do chipwars that people can't manage to relax. Everyone loves prerelease specs. This is exciting stuff.
Most of pharmacological R&D is total trial-and-error.
And heck, why not? Most of your own immune system is done via the same method trial and error + evolution -- when a pathogen invades your body, the appropriate antigen-producing cells involved undergo rapid mutation/weeding so that within a bunch of quick generations, an effective antigen-producer is evolved. It's the same reason why quantum computers are so capable of solving traveling salesman problems.
The point isn't that he is not eligible for the death penalty under current law. The point is that with political forces as they are in the Philippines right now, we could see such eligibility being legislated in the future.
First slashdot spelled "Terrance" as "Terence" and "Philip" as "Phillip". Now extrapolating from the latter, we find "Philippines" spelled as "Phillipines". We can do better, guys.
As for what the Philippines will do with the guy, I'd hate to be in his shoes. Remember, the Philippines is the country that is most expanding its use of the death penalty (whereas most countries are banning it or continuing to enforce it for certain established crimes like murder). Legislators in the Philippines have recently called for the death penalty for negligent ferry operators (in response to the recent ferry disastors there). Perhaps we'll soon see calls for the death penalty for billion-dollar-in-losses virus writers?
Back when the Philippines were a US colony, they were bound by the equivalent of the US's constitution, including the right against cruel and unusual punishments. My understanding is that the modern Philippines have moved away from such standards. It's sad, really.
But as Lucien points out, checking this out will void your warranty.
In otherwords, by opening this package (in order to determine its terms), you assent to being bound by whatever's contained therein. Hooray for shrinkwrap liscenses on hardware. At least there's no prohibition of reverse engineering....
[from the "Illuminatus Trilogy"] 1. A word used in email and news postings to tag utterances as surrealist mind-play or humor, esp. in connection with Discordianism and elaborate conspiracy theories. "I heard that David Koresh is sharing an apartment in Argentina with Hitler. (Fnord.)" "Where can I fnord get the Principia Discordia from?" 2. A metasyntactic variable, commonly used by hackers with ties to Discordianism or the Church of the SubGenius.
There's something about the idea of having to see Microsoft's private parts that makes me wish Judge Jackson would reconsider. Certainly Gates and Balmer are well endowed in the pocket book, but can we expect the same about the entire corporation in every respect?
If you follow the instructions in this guide, you can rip your own original music tracks from all those NES roms your *cough* friends *cough* have lying around on their computers. Why settle for a clean remix with proper instrumentation when you can relive the original cheesy 4-track goodness?
What about fully ionized deuterium and tritium? That would be a proton with one or two neutrons. Or are we supposed to assume that they would've mentioned either of those by name? In any event, it'd be better described as a "plasma" than a gas....
Once radar was resolved, the LAPD sprang into action and pulled the asteroid over for speeding and gave it some of their famous oldfashioned-loving with a 25-mile billy club.:-)
Think about how what you're suggesting isn't what I'm suggesting. Each program ought to be given its own space to poop in, but there's no reason for them to poop globally on the system as a whole. Any of that ought to be determine upon installing the software initially, which is presumably done by an intelligent and informed user or superuser.
Nah, that's not half as funny as this bit of conversation:
*allway*> let's talk about something else
*allway* ok what about? *allway*> allright *allway* what about? *allway*> what is it you are getting at? *allway* pick a topic *allway*> continue, please *allway* now *allway*> right now? *allway* yes now *allway*> are you sure? *allway* YES *allway*> really? *allway* YES *allway*> you sound quite positive *allway* stop fucking around *allway*> could you be more precise? *allway* either have netsex or pick another topic *allway*> I want some turkey *allway* you can have my bone *allway*> I don't seem to understand you. *allway* bone cock *allway*> hmm *allway* dick *allway* boner *allway* penis *allway*> Bigamy is having one spouse too many. Monogamy is the same.
It's a trick question. It would take you much longer to turn around (assuming for the sake of argument that you can stay within the dictates of the law of conservation of angular momentum by spinning like a flywheel) than the day it'd take for the light to travel -- even if you could do it at the speed of light, you'd have to sweep out an arc of pi*1lightday.
If you're going to go ahead and disregard contraints like that and posit instantaneous transportation, then go ahead. But don't be surprised if you end up with a paradox. Nature has a wonderful tendency to resolve physical paradoxes before we get to see them.
For example, this guy has used a semi-intelligent bot script to troll for pathetic horny teenagers on IRC. The difference there is, however, that the human experience is published without publishing the exact identities of the humans involved.
The Wall-of-Shame fellow ought to be careful about slapping names like "pedophile" on random people. He's just begging for a libel suit.
Since then, our mailadmins have done an admirable job, and I've seen none. I'm glad somebody took Melissa as a wake-up call.
You mean they took the obvious step of ceasing to use software whose crappy design makes it specifically vulnerable to this sort of virus? Or do you mean they just engaged in damage control and will still be whacked the next time such a virus comes around?
No software should be able to edit a registry file or its equivalent without specific permission from an informed user. Period.
It seems quite plain that "jouster" refers to the star of David (jouster-->'Jew star'), and the boxer refers to the yellow box in the corner. Clearly the two are supposed to be "combined", but how is not clear. Perhaps the "sundry" aspect of the two refers to their yellowness (sundry-->sunny).
If I had more time, I'd proceed on the theory that the passage is just full of really bad puns based on the words' phonetic sounds.
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At least with their deskjet printers, HP is already being undercut by competitors on refill cartridges. These people, for example, will be more than happy to sell you their own catridges for $20, what HP charges $30 for. If their TV printers are incompatible by design (which would needlessly add complexity to HP's operations, but hey it could happen), then others will follow in a year or two with some healthy competition.
The correct anchor is this one, but you already figured that out.
For anyone interested, the Federal law in question is Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II (Common Carriers) 227 subsection (b)(1)(C) of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 . With a name like that, it sure looks like Congress has had practice in security through obscurity. :-)
Let me just clarify my last point, which I didn't do much to elaborate upon. What is effective about both this research method and quantum computers is that they are both massively parallel. If you throw all possible answers at a question and have some efficient means of culling the mostly correct ones from the definitely wrong ones, you can zero in on the best answer rather quickly.
Not only that, but it'll force parents to install IE in their children's excretory tracks. It's bad enough when IE bombs and poops all over people's computers. You don't want to have to see what it'll do in living organisms.
In the meantime, relax! There will be lots more such announcements in this hotly contested field. It's just like chip wars.
It's precisely because it appeals to the same human emotions as do chipwars that people can't manage to relax. Everyone loves prerelease specs. This is exciting stuff.
Most of pharmacological R&D is total trial-and-error.
And heck, why not? Most of your own immune system is done via the same method trial and error + evolution -- when a pathogen invades your body, the appropriate antigen-producing cells involved undergo rapid mutation/weeding so that within a bunch of quick generations, an effective antigen-producer is evolved. It's the same reason why quantum computers are so capable of solving traveling salesman problems.
The point isn't that he is not eligible for the death penalty under current law. The point is that with political forces as they are in the Philippines right now, we could see such eligibility being legislated in the future.
First slashdot spelled "Terrance" as "Terence" and "Philip" as "Phillip". Now extrapolating from the latter, we find "Philippines" spelled as "Phillipines". We can do better, guys.
As for what the Philippines will do with the guy, I'd hate to be in his shoes. Remember, the Philippines is the country that is most expanding its use of the death penalty (whereas most countries are banning it or continuing to enforce it for certain established crimes like murder). Legislators in the Philippines have recently called for the death penalty for negligent ferry operators (in response to the recent ferry disastors there). Perhaps we'll soon see calls for the death penalty for billion-dollar-in-losses virus writers?
Back when the Philippines were a US colony, they were bound by the equivalent of the US's constitution, including the right against cruel and unusual punishments. My understanding is that the modern Philippines have moved away from such standards. It's sad, really.
But as Lucien points out, checking this out will void your warranty.
In otherwords, by opening this package (in order to determine its terms), you assent to being bound by whatever's contained therein. Hooray for shrinkwrap liscenses on hardware. At least there's no prohibition of reverse engineering....
There's something about the idea of having to see Microsoft's private parts that makes me wish Judge Jackson would reconsider. Certainly Gates and Balmer are well endowed in the pocket book, but can we expect the same about the entire corporation in every respect?
And anyone who's too lazy to do it himself can find plenty of mp3s available.
If you follow the instructions in this guide , you can rip your own original music tracks from all those NES roms your *cough* friends *cough* have lying around on their computers. Why settle for a clean remix with proper instrumentation when you can relive the original cheesy 4-track goodness?
But if so, then what would you use as your keel?
What about fully ionized deuterium and tritium? That would be a proton with one or two neutrons. Or are we supposed to assume that they would've mentioned either of those by name? In any event, it'd be better described as a "plasma" than a gas....
Once radar was resolved, the LAPD sprang into action and pulled the asteroid over for speeding and gave it some of their famous oldfashioned-loving with a 25-mile billy club. :-)
Think about how what you're suggesting isn't what I'm suggesting. Each program ought to be given its own space to poop in, but there's no reason for them to poop globally on the system as a whole. Any of that ought to be determine upon installing the software initially, which is presumably done by an intelligent and informed user or superuser.
It's a trick question. It would take you much longer to turn around (assuming for the sake of argument that you can stay within the dictates of the law of conservation of angular momentum by spinning like a flywheel) than the day it'd take for the light to travel -- even if you could do it at the speed of light, you'd have to sweep out an arc of pi*1lightday.
If you're going to go ahead and disregard contraints like that and posit instantaneous transportation, then go ahead. But don't be surprised if you end up with a paradox. Nature has a wonderful tendency to resolve physical paradoxes before we get to see them.
If he won't let her post it on her corporate network, will she at least release it to the rest of the internet? It would solve so many problems....
For example, this guy has used a semi-intelligent bot script to troll for pathetic horny teenagers on IRC. The difference there is, however, that the human experience is published without publishing the exact identities of the humans involved.
The Wall-of-Shame fellow ought to be careful about slapping names like "pedophile" on random people. He's just begging for a libel suit.
Since then, our mailadmins have done an admirable job, and I've seen none. I'm glad somebody took Melissa as a wake-up call.
You mean they took the obvious step of ceasing to use software whose crappy design makes it specifically vulnerable to this sort of virus? Or do you mean they just engaged in damage control and will still be whacked the next time such a virus comes around?
No software should be able to edit a registry file or its equivalent without specific permission from an informed user. Period.
It seems quite plain that "jouster" refers to the star of David (jouster-->'Jew star'), and the boxer refers to the yellow box in the corner. Clearly the two are supposed to be "combined", but how is not clear. Perhaps the "sundry" aspect of the two refers to their yellowness (sundry-->sunny).
If I had more time, I'd proceed on the theory that the passage is just full of really bad puns based on the words' phonetic sounds.