Two points, which are as much directed to you as any of the other "stoopid FBI" posters above:
1) *Almost* falling for something is like *almost* getting laid -- either it happened, or it didn't.
2) Clicking on links is practically a Pavlovian response. Banks can do their part by not including links in their e-mails, and along with a reminder that they will never ask for passwords, include verbiage that they will never include links.
3) Let's be honest: There are two types of people who have received (legitimate) e-mails from their banks: Those who have clicked on an included link *at least* once, rather than manually typing the FQDN into their browser, and those who are lying about it.
Most likely you've never received an e-mail that was both fraudulent AND posing as *your* bank. Or perhaps you have and didn't even notice that it was a fake. It's easy to call out other people, especially when your actions have never been scrutinized. Instead of shooting the messenger, let's admit that humans are flawed, and figure out a way to protect people from themselves. Espousing perfect user behavior is no different than preaching abstinence-only education.
Wow, that's some impressive crackpottery you've got going on there.
If the "resonant frequency of the planet" was 30-40Hz, then ghetto blastas be causin earfquakes, yo. The resonant frequency of an object is mostly determined by its size, such that internally reflected energy on a given frequency experiences positive feedback because it's exactly in phase. Frequency = Phase speed / Wavelength, and I have no idea what the speed of electromagnetic radiation through the earth is, but using the speed of light (which will likely give us a higher value for f) gives us 0.023Hz. So you're only about 3 orders of magnitude off. That's a 43 second period, by the way. I'll go ahead and let you look up things like rms power and antenna theory, but suffice to say that the idea is impractical on its own, and resonance adds nothing to help out there.
To the poster about farmers above, what that essentially does (besides presenting a huge safety/fire risk) is basically create a transformer, with the lines above acting as the primary winding and the barbed wire as the secondary. It creates a load on the system which can easily be measured, no different than tapping into the grid with physical connections. That said, it's still inefficient, because for omnidirectional transmissions, received power = 1/d^2, so at just 20 meters you're getting 0.0025 * P. That's why radio stations broadcast in MegaWatts, and why the only practical wireless power devices to date (like cell phone chargers) require you to place the device on a pad which might as well be wired, with the slight advantage that there's no contact pads to wear out.
Appellate courts in the US don't hear cases -- they review them, and they cant just decide whether or not they want to review a case; it has to be appealed to them in the first place. Additionally, the appellant cannot raise new issues, and since the judge vacated the judgment based on insufficient evidence from the plaintiff, then if the appeals court concurs, the plaintiff is SOL. Remember folks, always hire a *competent* lawyer.
From TFOpinion: Printed on each jewel box of a retail software product is a 25-character alphanumeric string called a Product Key (e.g., MQ9WT-3D8PY-6VF76-GMHVX-DCXFM).
Assuming that the power supply didn't mind being submerged in water. I don't think swimming is on the list of approved activities for people with artificial hearts.
It's got an external power supply with a cable going into the chest is pretty much its own badge right there.
Seriously, what do you think would possibly happen without a bracelet? The EMT's going to arrive and say "Oh hey, here's the problem.. there's a *cable* going into her chest. I'll just yank that out and.. [tug, grunt] There we go!"
There are plenty of reasons to be outraged regardless of the inherent morality of porn, or lack thereof:
* Porn is usually explicitly (no pun intended) prohibited -- certainly in every government IT policy I've ever seen or signed -- so it's not even arguably permitted. If you don't like it, find another job.. maybe a job in porn. * Assuming he was using porn for its intended purposes, that raises health and sanitation issues. * It's an abuse of taxpayer dollars. * It's indicative of an entitlement mentality and a lack of self-discipline, which is somewhat undesirable in any employee, let alone an executive. Is this the extent of his poor judgment, or symptomatic of a larger problem?
I have no problem with what people do on their own time, on their own dime, between consenting adults (or between a consenting adult and himself) and I *certainly* have no problem with watching porn -- if anything it's the single biggest driving factor in my quest for endless storage space -- but it doesn't belong at work any more than working for your employer belongs in your free time. Maybe it doesn't deserve to be on the front page of a national newspaper, but it certainly doesn't deserve to be defended as some sort of violation of civil liberties.
All *I* require is a spectacle repair kit, a flat surface, some bubble gum, an arc welder, and some spare case backings in case of catastrophic failure. It's really quite simple. Oh sure, some people carry around charge cords since electricity is ubiquitous in places where cell phones work, and many places they don't, but they're just rank amateurs who aren't in transit for every hour of every day.
Yeah, it's way better when those are consolidated into a single, apathetic post. Plus, I bet that will keep anyone else from posting similar sentiments in a more serious tone. Maybe you could attach that to the beginning of every article from now on, just in case one of the regular killjoys forgets to log on and we miss our usual dose of frowns.
Good point. It's certainly not worth enjoying the company of hot women who don't care about operating systems. Only the company of like-minded individuals is worthwhile. Quick, everyone to the Linux or Windows party, depending on your choice of OS!
Yeah, Windows sucks. Well, except that it's the only viable platform for PC gaming. And there's a plethora of software available. And the Win7 UI is nice and shiny and easy to use. And it's easy to disable the frills if you prefer performance over appearance. And it's not tied to hardware. And it's easy to develop on. And it's quite stable -- at least on par with any Mac, despite myths to the contrary. And its ubiquity all but guarantees that you'll find answers to your questions and/or support for your problems. And there's hardware drivers for pretty much any third party peripheral ever made (cause when there's not, lots and lots of people throw fits and refuse to buy Vista). And 64-bit support is not a "work in progress." And it's dead simple to find almost any codec. And NTFS is fast and robust. And it's easy to administer. And being familiar with it will unlock, by far, more job opportunities than any other OS.
But aside from that stuff, yeah.. Windows sucks and people who use it are poor and/or dumb.
The very fact that you believe launch parties are appropriate for movies and games belies the fact that said parties are appropriate for whatever the marketers say they are. Those things were once considered ridiculous as well (and still are, by at least one person I know, who is also writing this).
Um, yeah.. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the *parts* that cost $1M, but the salaries of a small R&D team that actually bothered to test and modify their concept until they had a working model, then a small-run production to demo the working prototypes, which probably had to meet little standards like environmental, shock, and anti-corrosive metrics.
The first of anything always costs a lot -- it's the economies of scale that bring the cost down in the long run, the same way these clowns could buy LEDs for $.25 online instead of setting up a lab and clean room to experiment with the semiconductor properties of various materials.
I'm not the GP, but yeah, my computer takes 20-30 seconds to start loading the OS, and I have "fastboot" (skip RAM testing) enabled. The longest part is waiting for the 6 hard drives to spin up, as has been posted before, but also waiting for the AHCI subsystem to identify them. Throw in another 10-30 seconds if I have RAID mode enabled, especially if there were any RAID errors, which has a countdown that obviously can't be bypassed if I'm not physically at the machine.
Nonsense. This is a tool, like any other, which can be used beneficially or maliciously. It's *how* you use it that's important.
It doesn't prevent mistakes, like getting lost, but it certainly helps to resolve them. The child won't be any less distraught (especially if you don't tell him what the watch does), so he'll still learn his lesson, but it removes "finding his body in the woods 5 days later" from the set of possible outcomes.
The extremophiles on Earth cannot last more than a few generations without the recycling and delivery services performed by the rest of 'life.'
That's old hat, and has since been disproved. Life surrounding undersea vents receive 100% of their energy from said vents, whereas everything else gets its energy from the solar radiation, either directly or indirectly.
I'm not saying we shouldn't look for earth-like habitats, if only as a possible life boat in the distant future, just that the Drake equation is an over-hyped guess, with results no more reliable than picking a number at random, because it is seeded by untested assumptions.
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a digital HDTV capable of 1080i (which ALL of them are)
Wrong. 720p was the limit of many consumer sets just a few years ago.
1080p is superior in detail for static scenes to 720p. That's why they televise golf tournaments in that resolution
Nothing is broadcast in 1080p, in the US anyway.
Two points, which are as much directed to you as any of the other "stoopid FBI" posters above:
1) *Almost* falling for something is like *almost* getting laid -- either it happened, or it didn't.
2) Clicking on links is practically a Pavlovian response. Banks can do their part by not including links in their e-mails, and along with a reminder that they will never ask for passwords, include verbiage that they will never include links.
3) Let's be honest: There are two types of people who have received (legitimate) e-mails from their banks: Those who have clicked on an included link *at least* once, rather than manually typing the FQDN into their browser, and those who are lying about it.
Most likely you've never received an e-mail that was both fraudulent AND posing as *your* bank. Or perhaps you have and didn't even notice that it was a fake. It's easy to call out other people, especially when your actions have never been scrutinized. Instead of shooting the messenger, let's admit that humans are flawed, and figure out a way to protect people from themselves. Espousing perfect user behavior is no different than preaching abstinence-only education.
Wow, that's some impressive crackpottery you've got going on there.
If the "resonant frequency of the planet" was 30-40Hz, then ghetto blastas be causin earfquakes, yo. The resonant frequency of an object is mostly determined by its size, such that internally reflected energy on a given frequency experiences positive feedback because it's exactly in phase. Frequency = Phase speed / Wavelength, and I have no idea what the speed of electromagnetic radiation through the earth is, but using the speed of light (which will likely give us a higher value for f) gives us 0.023Hz. So you're only about 3 orders of magnitude off. That's a 43 second period, by the way. I'll go ahead and let you look up things like rms power and antenna theory, but suffice to say that the idea is impractical on its own, and resonance adds nothing to help out there.
To the poster about farmers above, what that essentially does (besides presenting a huge safety/fire risk) is basically create a transformer, with the lines above acting as the primary winding and the barbed wire as the secondary. It creates a load on the system which can easily be measured, no different than tapping into the grid with physical connections. That said, it's still inefficient, because for omnidirectional transmissions, received power = 1/d^2, so at just 20 meters you're getting 0.0025 * P. That's why radio stations broadcast in MegaWatts, and why the only practical wireless power devices to date (like cell phone chargers) require you to place the device on a pad which might as well be wired, with the slight advantage that there's no contact pads to wear out.
Appellate courts in the US don't hear cases -- they review them, and they cant just decide whether or not they want to review a case; it has to be appealed to them in the first place. Additionally, the appellant cannot raise new issues, and since the judge vacated the judgment based on insufficient evidence from the plaintiff, then if the appeals court concurs, the plaintiff is SOL. Remember folks, always hire a *competent* lawyer.
From TFOpinion: Printed on each jewel box of a retail software product is a 25-character alphanumeric string called a Product Key (e.g., MQ9WT-3D8PY-6VF76-GMHVX-DCXFM).
Because I'm sure they would love you laying on their power cord...
Assuming that the power supply didn't mind being submerged in water. I don't think swimming is on the list of approved activities for people with artificial hearts.
It's got an external power supply with a cable going into the chest is pretty much its own badge right there.
Seriously, what do you think would possibly happen without a bracelet? The EMT's going to arrive and say "Oh hey, here's the problem.. there's a *cable* going into her chest. I'll just yank that out and.. [tug, grunt] There we go!"
Pretty sure the wire coming out of her chest to the external power supply would be a *dead* giveaway...
Coincidental pun.
Doesn't really matter, as long as someone else isn't at your home when it happens!
Extra caution is advised if your wife suddenly has unexplained cash and/or herpes.
There are plenty of reasons to be outraged regardless of the inherent morality of porn, or lack thereof:
* Porn is usually explicitly (no pun intended) prohibited -- certainly in every government IT policy I've ever seen or signed -- so it's not even arguably permitted. If you don't like it, find another job.. maybe a job in porn.
* Assuming he was using porn for its intended purposes, that raises health and sanitation issues.
* It's an abuse of taxpayer dollars.
* It's indicative of an entitlement mentality and a lack of self-discipline, which is somewhat undesirable in any employee, let alone an executive. Is this the extent of his poor judgment, or symptomatic of a larger problem?
I have no problem with what people do on their own time, on their own dime, between consenting adults (or between a consenting adult and himself) and I *certainly* have no problem with watching porn -- if anything it's the single biggest driving factor in my quest for endless storage space -- but it doesn't belong at work any more than working for your employer belongs in your free time. Maybe it doesn't deserve to be on the front page of a national newspaper, but it certainly doesn't deserve to be defended as some sort of violation of civil liberties.
Pfft. Maybe YOU can't remove the battery...
All *I* require is a spectacle repair kit, a flat surface, some bubble gum, an arc welder, and some spare case backings in case of catastrophic failure. It's really quite simple. Oh sure, some people carry around charge cords since electricity is ubiquitous in places where cell phones work, and many places they don't, but they're just rank amateurs who aren't in transit for every hour of every day.
Yeah, it's way better when those are consolidated into a single, apathetic post. Plus, I bet that will keep anyone else from posting similar sentiments in a more serious tone. Maybe you could attach that to the beginning of every article from now on, just in case one of the regular killjoys forgets to log on and we miss our usual dose of frowns.
I'm sedentary, you insensitive clod!
Good point. It's certainly not worth enjoying the company of hot women who don't care about operating systems. Only the company of like-minded individuals is worthwhile. Quick, everyone to the Linux or Windows party, depending on your choice of OS!
*heads back to the bar*
Yeah, Windows sucks. Well, except that it's the only viable platform for PC gaming. And there's a plethora of software available. And the Win7 UI is nice and shiny and easy to use. And it's easy to disable the frills if you prefer performance over appearance. And it's not tied to hardware. And it's easy to develop on. And it's quite stable -- at least on par with any Mac, despite myths to the contrary. And its ubiquity all but guarantees that you'll find answers to your questions and/or support for your problems. And there's hardware drivers for pretty much any third party peripheral ever made (cause when there's not, lots and lots of people throw fits and refuse to buy Vista). And 64-bit support is not a "work in progress." And it's dead simple to find almost any codec. And NTFS is fast and robust. And it's easy to administer. And being familiar with it will unlock, by far, more job opportunities than any other OS.
But aside from that stuff, yeah.. Windows sucks and people who use it are poor and/or dumb.
Great idea, let me know how it goes. I'll be at the bar downtown with all the lonely chicks.
The very fact that you believe launch parties are appropriate for movies and games belies the fact that said parties are appropriate for whatever the marketers say they are. Those things were once considered ridiculous as well (and still are, by at least one person I know, who is also writing this).
Um, yeah.. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the *parts* that cost $1M, but the salaries of a small R&D team that actually bothered to test and modify their concept until they had a working model, then a small-run production to demo the working prototypes, which probably had to meet little standards like environmental, shock, and anti-corrosive metrics.
The first of anything always costs a lot -- it's the economies of scale that bring the cost down in the long run, the same way these clowns could buy LEDs for $.25 online instead of setting up a lab and clean room to experiment with the semiconductor properties of various materials.
I'm not the GP, but yeah, my computer takes 20-30 seconds to start loading the OS, and I have "fastboot" (skip RAM testing) enabled. The longest part is waiting for the 6 hard drives to spin up, as has been posted before, but also waiting for the AHCI subsystem to identify them. Throw in another 10-30 seconds if I have RAID mode enabled, especially if there were any RAID errors, which has a countdown that obviously can't be bypassed if I'm not physically at the machine.
It's just a comment system, with no way to amplify the signal vs the noise.
Yo dawg, we'll just put a comment system in the comment system so we can comment on the comments on the web page while we comment on the web page.
Nonsense. This is a tool, like any other, which can be used beneficially or maliciously. It's *how* you use it that's important.
It doesn't prevent mistakes, like getting lost, but it certainly helps to resolve them. The child won't be any less distraught (especially if you don't tell him what the watch does), so he'll still learn his lesson, but it removes "finding his body in the woods 5 days later" from the set of possible outcomes.
The extremophiles on Earth cannot last more than a few generations without the recycling and delivery services performed by the rest of 'life.'
That's old hat, and has since been disproved. Life surrounding undersea vents receive 100% of their energy from said vents, whereas everything else gets its energy from the solar radiation, either directly or indirectly.
I'm not saying we shouldn't look for earth-like habitats, if only as a possible life boat in the distant future, just that the Drake equation is an over-hyped guess, with results no more reliable than picking a number at random, because it is seeded by untested assumptions.
Moot. M-O-O-T.
n. Of no practical importance; irrelevant.
Mute is what people wish you'd be. Moot is what you are.
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Sure... for values of full resolution where pixelCount == colorDepth == x == y.