This is all a conspiracy by the US government. They *say* they got hacked and the designs got stolen, but we all know that sneakilly they've just given them all to the Chinese.
The reason for this is of course obvious: The Chinese can make these things much cheaper! So it's all about savings!
(If you think this might be something with tongues and cheeks, you might possibly be somewhat right)
And then someone else sees someone shooting someone and that someone shoots the someone shooting someone else who sees someone shooting someone....
Escalating gunfights are not pretty.
Leaving out the fact that a fair amount of people in a stressed situation have serious problems actually aiming, so any surrounding 'innocents' become accidental targets.
It's not as simple as the NRA makes it sound. Ask any policeman who's been in a similar situation.
You do realize we're talking about a book here, right? (Or at least, that's what it's generally used for), and actually reading a dead-tree book isn't an issue?
Right. Glad to get that out of the way. But don't let me stop your diatribe about gadgets.
But still I imagine most people don't really care where their solar panels come from, and if they get paid for the surplus energy they provide, they'll probably care even less.
The difference most probably being that Germany isn't pumping money into making their own solar panels, but just buying them from the chinese, and then setting everything up locally.
And the really funny thing here is, that these clocks (in use all over Europe by the way, not just in Switzerland) actually *do* run fast.
The seconds dial goes around in (IIRC) 58 seconds, so it stops at the top, where it waits for a central resync.
This has 2 reasons/effects. One is that all clocks are always synced exactly to the minute. The other is that with the dial stopped at the 'minute' mark, the train has 3 seconds to actually leave exactly on time:)
Number 1 is correct, in the sense that it allows them to track anyone, anywhere.
Number 2 is incorrect, since storing license plates does not in any way, shape or form increase the chance of catching someone.
The only thing needed for number 2 to function, is to have a license plate read read the license plate (it's what they do right), and then NOT STORE ANYTHING, but do an immediate query to a database of license plates that are known to be wrong (stolen, no insurance, etc).
This does NOT require them to store all license plates at all times, it actually doesn't require them to store any scanned license plates at all.
Iran and Iraq just used POWs and 'undesirables', sometimes kids. Very efficient, although possibly not entirely in accordance to the Geneva convention...
Price for 1Gb? Depends on what you want your uplink to be, but with a decent Docsis3 implementation, this is quite easy to get, and if it costs 600 euros per month, I'm sure that's not too terrible for 1000 students.
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This is all a conspiracy by the US government. They *say* they got hacked and the designs got stolen, but we all know that sneakilly they've just given them all to the Chinese.
The reason for this is of course obvious: The Chinese can make these things much cheaper! So it's all about savings!
(If you think this might be something with tongues and cheeks, you might possibly be somewhat right)
And then someone else sees someone shooting someone and that someone shoots the someone shooting someone else who sees someone shooting someone....
Escalating gunfights are not pretty.
Leaving out the fact that a fair amount of people in a stressed situation have serious problems actually aiming, so any surrounding 'innocents' become accidental targets.
It's not as simple as the NRA makes it sound. Ask any policeman who's been in a similar situation.
Can't resist..
He was kissing his ass goodbye.
You do realize we're talking about a book here, right? (Or at least, that's what it's generally used for), and actually reading a dead-tree book isn't an issue?
Right. Glad to get that out of the way. But don't let me stop your diatribe about gadgets.
Also, we're nerds here. What's a good NFL game in the first place?
National Fuck League! Sort of the logical follow up to Leisure Suit Larry.
We're all nerds here, right?
If you dispute any payment made on Origin, your account will be banned with no recourse.
Yes, they're brilliant like that.
I think in congress you might want to melt the occupants after 8 uses, not the chair.
At least we can be sure that Ikea isn't interested, since their chair already do that by default.
(And I had a good laugh about the article :)
Ah. I wasn't aware of that :) Thanks!
But still I imagine most people don't really care where their solar panels come from, and if they get paid for the surplus energy they provide, they'll probably care even less.
The difference most probably being that Germany isn't pumping money into making their own solar panels, but just buying them from the chinese, and then setting everything up locally.
It's called the Skillex method.
Making a giant bass drop.
Also reference http://what-if.xkcd.com/12/ :)
And that song was wholesale 'stolen' or 'copied' from Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack to begin with, so the irony is doubled :)
Yes...
For a while now I get a lot of congratulations accompanied by 15 modpoints I have no idea what to do with.
Not sure when that started, but I seem to have 15 modpoints about 50% of the time I'm even on Slashdot :)
Normally I'd much prefer the people actually maintaining and supporting the software to install it in QA and promote it to Production.
This gives them some more knowledge about what they're supporting, and also avoids the 'Just gotta change this' mentality so prevalent in developers :)
I think you meant:
(Iff (pathent-on-ssoftware p) 'reject 'affept)
(Yes yes, I didn't know exactly how I'd do that with a lisp..)
And the really funny thing here is, that these clocks (in use all over Europe by the way, not just in Switzerland) actually *do* run fast.
The seconds dial goes around in (IIRC) 58 seconds, so it stops at the top, where it waits for a central resync.
This has 2 reasons/effects. One is that all clocks are always synced exactly to the minute. The other is that with the dial stopped at the 'minute' mark, the train has 3 seconds to actually leave exactly on time :)
Set your song lead-in to 0.
This is just an attempt to farm low UIDs, isn't it? Just admit it! You want old farts to respond to your post.
Ha! I'm not falling for it. Nosiree!
No.
Number 1 is correct, in the sense that it allows them to track anyone, anywhere.
Number 2 is incorrect, since storing license plates does not in any way, shape or form increase the chance of catching someone.
The only thing needed for number 2 to function, is to have a license plate read read the license plate (it's what they do right), and then NOT STORE ANYTHING, but do an immediate query to a database of license plates that are known to be wrong (stolen, no insurance, etc).
This does NOT require them to store all license plates at all times, it actually doesn't require them to store any scanned license plates at all.
It's really very simple.
Most pre-order companies put it middle of September, so that seems a fairly reasonable bet.
Iran and Iraq just used POWs and 'undesirables', sometimes kids. Very efficient, although possibly not entirely in accordance to the Geneva convention...
Don't know where you get your 80 from, but my punch cards only had 72 usable columns..
(Yes. IBM Mainframe..)
Price for 100Mb connection?
Where I live, about 60 euros per month..
Price for 1Gb? Depends on what you want your uplink to be, but with a decent Docsis3 implementation, this is quite easy to get, and if it costs 600 euros per month, I'm sure that's not too terrible for 1000 students.
Splut.
I think you made a small typo there. I'm sure you meant to type 'policy actions'.
Well, just look at what you said for a simple explanation.
US (Big S, Big Satan)
Israel (Small S, Small Satan)
United Kingdom (No S at all, so no Satan)