A magnetron from a microwave oven + a suitable waveguide , whilst not being very selective, would likely knock out any power amps / head units at quite a distance.
It'd also only (probably) cause minor heating effects to people at any appreciable distance from it, considering the amount of time it would take to fry the electronics (a few seconds,say).... well, maybe as a precaution you shouldn't point that thing at yourself:-)
Blame your current administration, everyone else seems to.
(tinfoil-hat on) A bit of a coinicidence that these events are not visible or clouded out, isn't it? Those "Clouds" are carefully engineered using stratotankers dumping chemtrails to keep you passive and unresisting, and also to obscure your view of anything that might possibly cause you to question your leaders.
Ah, crap, I can't keep up this tinfoil hat charade... but surely someone can extrapolate further from what I've posted. Carry on:-)
Yes, but there's always the hassle of having to deal with daleks, or cylons, or madmen bent on taking over the world to deal with. Curiously enough, they all seem to either want to do this in disused quarries, futuristic nuclear facilities, or abandoned warehouses, which you may note, have poor studio facilities.
How the hell your good friend the Doctor manages to get anything simple done (like popping down the shop for some milk) with all these distractions is beyond me. He'd be just settling down with a nice cup of tea and its, (bing,bong!) (opens door) "Oh, For FUCK'S SAKE! Daleks AGAIN!?"
I notice a definite change in pitch on my system fans when I go from low to 100% CPU now. That and the fact that I dropped 10 degrees C on my CPU and mobo temps has to help.
I prefer a long towbar, rated for a couple of tons. Normally, with sudden enough braking, I can punch a hole right through into their engine block without any hassle. Of course, the bumper on my 1968 landrover is a solid chunk of steel spanning the whole width of the vehicle, so small irritants like the headlights,grill and front bumpers of modern vehicles barely scratch the paint off it.
The best part of it is when, after you exchange details, you say "Well, I gotta go... mind putting your foot on your brakes for a second?" and then casually pick low range and oh-so-slowly-and-painfully drive out of the front of their car without even touching the accelerator. Sure , you could use high range, but then you'd have to rev the motor a little and that'd spoil the effect.
But in the time I've been idly following this issue, it seems to me that the whole conflagration is over one small mention that your emails may last forever in their system even if you delete them.
Now , when first reading that, I just assume that this is standard ass-covering legal boilerplate. Stuff that conveys to the user," hey, you might have deleted it, and we might have deleted it, but, you know, *somewhere* on a partition of one of our many cluster machines, there *might* be a copy of your email that possibly could be read with forensic tools, so don't sue us in the unlikely event of this happening."
I'd say there's no laws to protect you there, seeing that it's *their* home directory, you just rent it out. And certainly in their TOS somewhere, they'd mention that fact.
The old phrase "never say anything that you don't want repeated in court" springs to mind.
Especially in this age of eternally stored emails. (And it's not just Gmail - there's emails on my company's systems that are 3 or four years old, within easy reach of a evidence search)
PDF is a (relatively) open standard - you can get white papers from Adobe describing how to read/encode PDF files for free and build your own reader/writer if you're enclined.
Notice the lack of any white papers from Microsoft descibing the Word 10.0 format.
And hell, PDF files are *so* much more consistent across PC's - the old "word-repaginate-to-a-different-printer-page-size" has bitten a few of my workmates, let alone the font problems we have between PC's.
Caution! This is a explanation involving a astonomical unit called "Really", that astronomers often use when talking to laymen.
Sedna is Really small and Really far away.
The rest of the universe is Really Really far away, but is also Really, Really Big.
Hubble's lenses, when imaging, take into account these Really's so that when you cancel out the Really's, Sedna ends up small and the rest of the universe ends up Big in hubble pictures.
1. Persuade judge to install a program that does some frivolous thing (eg. changes wallpaper every hour) and bundles gator along with a 45 page EULA from hell.
2a. Watch them skip EULA without reading it. OR 2b. Time how long it takes for them to read and fully understand EULA.
3. Convince judge that such EULA's are a crock and no ordinary person would bother reading and comprehending such an EULA, especially for such a frivolous , free, program.
I also like one of the sentences in the first few paragraphs: In the near future, reusable launch vehicles will routinely take off and land (intact) from just about anywhere there's a prepared surface
The "(intact)" suggesting that perhaps it's not quite the case at the moment;-)
If I recall correctly, I saw a NASA image of one of the shuttles with a small "Experimental" designation on it.
I can imagine NASA talking to the FAA going "oh yah, we're working on a new er, aircraft, yeah, aircraft... we need a experimental type certificate for it... no,no, nothing fancy really, just a pretty standard glider design... in the post by tuesday afternoon? Ok, thanks!"
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A magnetron from a microwave oven + a suitable waveguide , whilst not being very selective, would likely knock out any power amps / head units at quite a distance.
.... well, maybe as a precaution you shouldn't point that thing at yourself :-)
It'd also only (probably) cause minor heating effects to people at any appreciable distance from it, considering the amount of time it would take to fry the electronics (a few seconds,say)
Blame your current administration, everyone else seems to.
:-)
(tinfoil-hat on)
A bit of a coinicidence that these events are not visible or clouded out, isn't it?
Those "Clouds" are carefully engineered using stratotankers dumping chemtrails to keep you passive and unresisting, and also to obscure your view of anything that might possibly cause you to question your leaders.
Ah, crap, I can't keep up this tinfoil hat charade... but surely someone can extrapolate further from what I've posted. Carry on
Sounds like what he meant to say was that it would be the first rock from another planet's moon.
even with antivirus protection, she could have been backdoored already... you just never know.
Yes, but there's always the hassle of having to deal with daleks, or cylons, or madmen bent on taking over the world to deal with. Curiously enough, they all seem to either want to do this in disused quarries, futuristic nuclear facilities, or abandoned warehouses, which you may note, have poor studio facilities.
How the hell your good friend the Doctor manages to get anything simple done (like popping down the shop for some milk) with all these distractions is beyond me. He'd be just settling down with a nice cup of tea and its, (bing,bong!) (opens door) "Oh, For FUCK'S SAKE! Daleks AGAIN!?"
Get something along the lines of CPUIdle.
I notice a definite change in pitch on my system fans when I go from low to 100% CPU now.
That and the fact that I dropped 10 degrees C on my CPU and mobo temps has to help.
You're 54 years behind :
Cathode-ray tube memory
I prefer a long towbar, rated for a couple of tons.
Normally, with sudden enough braking, I can punch a hole right through into their engine block without any hassle. Of course, the bumper on my 1968 landrover is a solid chunk of steel spanning the whole width of the vehicle, so small irritants like the headlights,grill and front bumpers of modern vehicles barely scratch the paint off it.
The best part of it is when, after you exchange details, you say "Well, I gotta go... mind putting your foot on your brakes for a second?" and then casually pick low range and oh-so-slowly-and-painfully drive out of the front of their car without even touching the accelerator. Sure , you could use high range, but then you'd have to rev the motor a little and that'd spoil the effect.
But in the time I've been idly following this issue, it seems to me that the whole conflagration is over one small mention that your emails may last forever in their system even if you delete them.
Now , when first reading that, I just assume that this is standard ass-covering legal boilerplate. Stuff that conveys to the user," hey, you might have deleted it, and we might have deleted it, but, you know, *somewhere* on a partition of one of our many cluster machines, there *might* be a copy of your email that possibly could be read with forensic tools, so don't sue us in the unlikely event of this happening."
Is this the case? Is there more of an issue here?
Nobody's cultivating any triffids in their backyard greenhouses are they?
Ok, Good.
Just making sure, that's all.
I'd say there's no laws to protect you there, seeing that it's *their* home directory, you just rent it out. And certainly in their TOS somewhere, they'd mention that fact.
It's more likely that english is not his (or the sub-editor's) strong suit.
;-)
Most people in Malaysia speak...... Malaysian, ya know
The old phrase "never say anything that you don't want repeated in court" springs to mind.
Especially in this age of eternally stored emails.
(And it's not just Gmail - there's emails on my company's systems that are 3 or four years old, within easy reach of a evidence search)
Freeciv is good to play - linux/mac/win clients.
freeciv.org
PDF is a (relatively) open standard - you can get white papers from Adobe describing how to read/encode PDF files for free and build your own reader/writer if you're enclined.
" has bitten a few of my workmates, let alone the font problems we have between PC's.
Notice the lack of any white papers from Microsoft descibing the Word 10.0 format.
And hell, PDF files are *so* much more consistent across PC's - the old "word-repaginate-to-a-different-printer-page-size
Search for "over unity motor" on google , you'll find a heap of these.
I always get suspicious when those sites say, "and my motor/generator at full load begins to get cold"
+5 , informative!?
God help us all if slashot is supposed to be a cross-section of the techno-elite.
Caution! This is a explanation involving a astonomical unit called "Really", that astronomers often use when talking to laymen.
Sedna is Really small and Really far away.
The rest of the universe is Really Really far away, but is also Really, Really Big.
Hubble's lenses, when imaging, take into account these Really's so that when you cancel out the Really's, Sedna ends up small and the rest of the universe ends up Big in hubble pictures.
People rarely spend 8 hours a day interacting with an ATM/Phone/Cash Register and high resolution and small type.
See here :Apollo 15 Passive Seismic Experiment
Depending on the judge...
1. Persuade judge to install a program that does some frivolous thing (eg. changes wallpaper every hour) and bundles gator along with a 45 page EULA from hell.
2a. Watch them skip EULA without reading it.
OR
2b. Time how long it takes for them to read and fully understand EULA.
3. Convince judge that such EULA's are a crock and no ordinary person would bother reading and comprehending such an EULA, especially for such a frivolous , free, program.
4. Profit from lawsuit.
what's stopping me from changing something then recalcing the md5 sum to suit?
Remember , the original news content is only available via p2p and could be anywhere. There's no one definitive source.
I also like one of the sentences in the first few paragraphs :
;-)
In the near future, reusable launch vehicles will routinely take off and land (intact) from just about anywhere there's a prepared surface
The "(intact)" suggesting that perhaps it's not quite the case at the moment
I point you to Legal Issues for Commercial Reusable Launch Vehicles
If I recall correctly, I saw a NASA image of one of the shuttles with a small "Experimental" designation on it.
I can imagine NASA talking to the FAA going "oh yah, we're working on a new er, aircraft, yeah, aircraft... we need a experimental type certificate for it... no,no, nothing fancy really, just a pretty standard glider design... in the post by tuesday afternoon? Ok, thanks!"
er, lead-free solder?
;-)
Maybe some alloy with cadmium could replace it