any attempt to gain access to a system where you're not authorized is hacking. You can try to delude yourself that it isn't, but a reasonable person will conclude that it is hacking.
Who are these "reasonable persons" and why are they so stupid?
18.2-92. Breaking and entering dwelling house with intent to commit other misdemeanor.
If any person break and enter a dwelling house while said dwelling is occupied, either in the day or nighttime, with the intent to commit any misdemeanor except assault and battery or trespass, he shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony. However, if the person was armed with a deadly weapon at the time of such entry, he shall be guilty of a Class 2 felony.
(Code 1950, 18.1-88.1; 1968, c. 530; 1970, c. 381; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1992, c. 486.)
They can't even understand the things they quote! Where do you find these reasonable idiots?
Not doing any harm and leaving a note to tell them to lock the doors is strong evidence of a lack of intent to commit a misdemeanor.
The problem is, unlike you lucky folks with you spy satellites, we have to rely on such open techs as Google Earth. If only you guys would share the info and the tech with us.
They share with google, google shares with you... it's trickle-down intelligence.
there seems to be something about the culture which seems to raise terrorists very easily compared to other cultures. Is it because the culture prohibits all contact with members of other sex except in marriage
No, it's because that culture uses that tactic against your culture's use of massive armies with sophisticated, laser-guided, satellite-targeted weapons. If your culture was Sinhalese it would seem to you that there is something about the Tamils that makes them terrorists more than others.
Now stop trying to make yourself feel better by calling The Other a bunch of sexist terrorists.
By "hypermilers" I'm talking about the people who accelerate excruciatingly slowly and never really get up to speed...
Yeah, I got that, I was just making a point... Incidentally, some of those people aren't hypermilers, they just scare easy and take it slow to ease their anxiety (I know some of those people... yes, they're women).
What gets me really frustrated is people in the left lane, going at or slightly below the speed limit, with a LONG line behind them.
Alright, that's frustrating, but I'll one up ya: People who are in a super hurry to get in front of you... and then go slow.
They know they won't be driving fast, but they HAVE to be in front! It's more important than driving safely, more important than driving fast, they have to be in front. That's people I wish I could take out with rocket propelled grenades.
Article also says to always obey the 3 second rule. This doesn't make sense. In heavy traffic most folks are 1/2 to one second apart. If you spread them 3 seconds apart, throughput goes down by a factor of between three and six.
Too bad, the original research is impressive and spot on.
Too bad you don't understand the difference between having enough room to maneuver at speeds and being so clumped up together that you cause standing waves of traffic.
Woah, woah, wait a second, there, pal. If you back up 4 or 5 car lengths, and expect everyone else to, then you're, in effect, increasing traffic by 4-5 times. Rush hour traffic jams are caused by too many cars on the road at one time. If you say each car needs to extend its personal sphere by 3-4 times, then you're turning every civic into a double-trailer. Suddenly, the capacity for a highway goes from 500 cars per lane per mile down to 200 cars per lane per mile.
500 cars going at walking speed or 200 cars going at highway speeds. Hmmm, which is worse for traffic, I wonder...
on your motorcycle and then get pissed that someone who couldn't see you because THEY DIDN'T CHECK THEIR MIRRORS AND ANGLES tried to change lanes and you wrecked.
Yeah, I fixed that for you. There's no reason not to see a passing vehicle. And passing vehicles, by definition, go faster than the traffic they're passing.
While they make the situation better for everybody, the people breaking the rules benefit the most. This is sort of like the "tragedy of the commons," with a twist.
It seems to me like this is a case of "the rules are wrong".
1. "hypermilers" who don't understand lights are timed for the speed limit, and if you don't get up to speed in a reasonable amount of time, you're just going to waste all that gas at red lights.
2. During rush hour, the problem on "surface" streets is that lights can't be long enough to allow everyone to go through during the green light, so those people just sitting there when the light turns green are racking up the number of cars that are going to get stuck for an extra cycle... but the problem, as I see it, is people have largely stopped honking, so they'll just sit behind such an oblivious person and just wait. If people honked, we could get things moving again. It doesn't have to be a nasty lean on the horn, just a toot-toot.
And lately, the past year or so, I wouldn't necessarily call them "hypermilers" but so many people seem unwilling to even get up to the speed limit, let alone exceed it by a few miles per hour, as if you're going to get a ticket for 48 in a 45... I know the police aren't going to give me a ticket for 5 miles over, and I often get passed by cops when doing so.
He's a thing I do: When the light in front of me turns red, I get my foot off the gas, and I let the car decelerate towards the red light. When I'm in the zone, I pretty much don't stop at red lights because they have the time to turn back to green before I get to them.
Now, here's the problem with that: The masses of idiots who are in a fucking hurry to go park on the red. They cut me off, and then I have to stop behind them while I wait for them to start up again when the light turns green. Some of them are salvageable, as after seeing me do my thing for a few lights they understand the principle and start laying off the gas when they see the next red, some are not, and insist on cutting me off and, I dunno... win the street race going on in their demented little heads. First one wasting gas and brake lining wins! Woo!
Anyway, leadfoot, remember that red lights mean "stop accelerating", not "this is the finish line to the race, quick, get here before anybody else":)
in the sense that people with pacemakers or cochlear implants aren't "cyborgs": That is, they actually are; but they aren't what people imagine when they say so, so we don't really consider them to be.
Incidentally, a cochlear implants was one of the "powers" of the 6 million dollar woman.
What I don't understand is why evolution would self-select for prettier women, but not prettier men. A man who is ugly is not going to get any play or opportunity to pass his ugly genes to the next generation. Right?
If you need a citation, how about looking at: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/ [...] The site and its owners may have it's own axes to grind (don't we all) but let's stop with the "oil-company" conspiracy theory. It's just another distraction tactic by those with something to hide. Publish your data and models please.
The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) is a global warming skeptics group which appears to primarily be the work of Robert Ferguson, its President. Prior to founding SPPI in approximately mid-2007, Ferguson was the Executive Director of the Center for Science and Public Policy (CSPP), a project of the corporate-funded group, the Frontiers of Freedom Institute.
Frontiers of Freedom receives money of tobacco and oil companies, including Philip Morris Cos, ExxonMobil and RJ Reynolds Tobacco. According to a 2003 New York Times report, "Frontiers of Freedom, which has about a $700,000 annual budget, received $230,000 from Exxon in 2002, up from $40,000 in 2001, according to Exxon documents. George Landrith, President of FoF told the New York Times "They've determined that we are effective at what we do" and that Exxon essentially took the attitude, "We like to make it possible to do more of that".
And according to this news, it will be unlikely what anyone will be able to decipher your handwriting by then : )
So the next John Titor hoax will be a guy who drives his time-traveling convertible back from 40 years in the future so he can... take grade-school penmanship classes?
Huh, I'd never heard of that sci-fi story.
I guess "pretend to be a time traveler day" was in his honor:)
I'm an Engineer, and my logbook must be kept for 6 years after my death for legal reasons. If all goes well, that'll be in 70+ years. It is unlikely at best that anything written on a computer will be readable in that time frame.
And according to this news, it will be unlikely what anyone will be able to decipher your handwriting by then : )
Oh yay. Lets fill our landfills with more useless crap. Why the hell do I need LED's and battery is PACKAGING? They go into the trash! We as a society are trying to move towards LESS PACKAGING and recyclable packaging not MORE packaging. Is the consumer expected to rip out that LED and battery and recycle that separate for ever single ceral box they purchase?
Calm down, this will make it more easy for the trash robots to find and sort future garbage thrown out of passing flying cars.
the cost per bokcode is like 20x-200x that of printing a barcode.
Currently, the tags are expensive to produce - around $5 (£3) each. This is, in part, because the early prototypes require a lens and a powered LED. However, the researchers believe the technology could be refined so that tags were reflective and require no power.
"We already have prototypes which are completely passive," said Dr Mohan. In this form, they could cost around 5 cents each, he added.
Slashdot Mirror
Iirc it was 1964 when Star Trek came out.
Nooooooo it wasn't http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060028/
"Star Trek" TV series 1966-1969
Nobody at NASA actually wants to destroy it so soon after completing it, but if Congress doesn't fund it they won't have a choice.
Maybe Rutan will have a new toy that needs a place to park by then :)
any attempt to gain access to a system where you're not authorized is hacking. You can try to delude yourself that it isn't, but a reasonable person will conclude that it is hacking.
Who are these "reasonable persons" and why are they so stupid?
They can't even understand the things they quote! Where do you find these reasonable idiots?
Not doing any harm and leaving a note to tell them to lock the doors is strong evidence of a lack of intent to commit a misdemeanor.
The problem is, unlike you lucky folks with you spy satellites, we have to rely on such open techs as Google Earth. If only you guys would share the info and the tech with us.
They share with google, google shares with you... it's trickle-down intelligence.
there seems to be something about the culture which seems to raise terrorists very easily compared to other cultures. Is it because the culture prohibits all contact with members of other sex except in marriage
No, it's because that culture uses that tactic against your culture's use of massive armies with sophisticated, laser-guided, satellite-targeted weapons.
If your culture was Sinhalese it would seem to you that there is something about the Tamils that makes them terrorists more than others.
Now stop trying to make yourself feel better by calling The Other a bunch of sexist terrorists.
that that level of military technology should be given only to our closest and most stable allies.
WITH a backdoor, thankyouverymuch.
By "hypermilers" I'm talking about the people who accelerate excruciatingly slowly and never really get up to speed...
Yeah, I got that, I was just making a point...
Incidentally, some of those people aren't hypermilers, they just scare easy and take it slow to ease their anxiety (I know some of those people... yes, they're women).
It's great to slow down and keep rolling so you don't have to come to a complete stop, but be mindful of turn lane situations.
That is a good point.
What gets me really frustrated is people in the left lane, going at or slightly below the speed limit, with a LONG line behind them.
Alright, that's frustrating, but I'll one up ya: People who are in a super hurry to get in front of you... and then go slow.
They know they won't be driving fast, but they HAVE to be in front! It's more important than driving safely, more important than driving fast, they have to be in front. That's people I wish I could take out with rocket propelled grenades.
Article also says to always obey the 3 second rule. This doesn't make sense. In heavy traffic most folks are 1/2 to one second apart. If you spread them 3 seconds apart, throughput goes down by a factor of between three and six.
Too bad, the original research is impressive and spot on.
Too bad you don't understand the difference between having enough room to maneuver at speeds and being so clumped up together that you cause standing waves of traffic.
Educate yourself: http://trafficwaves.org/trafexp.html
The fact that in heavy traffic cars are invariably clumped too close is a GIANT CLUE that it's not something that eases traffic.
Woah, woah, wait a second, there, pal. If you back up 4 or 5 car lengths, and expect everyone else to, then you're, in effect, increasing traffic by 4-5 times. Rush hour traffic jams are caused by too many cars on the road at one time. If you say each car needs to extend its personal sphere by 3-4 times, then you're turning every civic into a double-trailer. Suddenly, the capacity for a highway goes from 500 cars per lane per mile down to 200 cars per lane per mile.
500 cars going at walking speed or 200 cars going at highway speeds. Hmmm, which is worse for traffic, I wonder...
on your motorcycle and then get pissed that someone who couldn't see you because THEY DIDN'T CHECK THEIR MIRRORS AND ANGLES tried to change lanes and you wrecked.
Yeah, I fixed that for you. There's no reason not to see a passing vehicle.
And passing vehicles, by definition, go faster than the traffic they're passing.
While they make the situation better for everybody, the people breaking the rules benefit the most. This is sort of like the "tragedy of the commons," with a twist.
It seems to me like this is a case of "the rules are wrong".
1. "hypermilers" who don't understand lights are timed for the speed limit, and if you don't get up to speed in a reasonable amount of time, you're just going to waste all that gas at red lights.
2. During rush hour, the problem on "surface" streets is that lights can't be long enough to allow everyone to go through during the green light, so those people just sitting there when the light turns green are racking up the number of cars that are going to get stuck for an extra cycle... but the problem, as I see it, is people have largely stopped honking, so they'll just sit behind such an oblivious person and just wait. If people honked, we could get things moving again. It doesn't have to be a nasty lean on the horn, just a toot-toot.
And lately, the past year or so, I wouldn't necessarily call them "hypermilers" but so many people seem unwilling to even get up to the speed limit, let alone exceed it by a few miles per hour, as if you're going to get a ticket for 48 in a 45... I know the police aren't going to give me a ticket for 5 miles over, and I often get passed by cops when doing so.
He's a thing I do: When the light in front of me turns red, I get my foot off the gas, and I let the car decelerate towards the red light.
When I'm in the zone, I pretty much don't stop at red lights because they have the time to turn back to green before I get to them.
Now, here's the problem with that: The masses of idiots who are in a fucking hurry to go park on the red. They cut me off, and then I have to stop behind them while I wait for them to start up again when the light turns green. Some of them are salvageable, as after seeing me do my thing for a few lights they understand the principle and start laying off the gas when they see the next red, some are not, and insist on cutting me off and, I dunno... win the street race going on in their demented little heads. First one wasting gas and brake lining wins! Woo!
Anyway, leadfoot, remember that red lights mean "stop accelerating", not "this is the finish line to the race, quick, get here before anybody else" :)
"We already have prototypes which are completely passive," said Dr Mohan.
In this form, they could cost around 5 cents each, he added
If you need something printed, which most products do, it doesn't cost anything to add a barcode.
But if it's infrared, you can have it be part of the packaging without ruining your neat design with a big block or monochromatic technicality.
A "keyboard"... how quaint.
So why was he so good with it?
Because he's Scotty.
Punch cards are quaint from my perspective but I wouldn't know where to start with them.
You, sir, are no Scotty.
Is he also proficient with using a morse code transmitter?
Yes. The Starfleet Engineering program is a thorough motherfucker.
in the sense that people with pacemakers or cochlear implants aren't "cyborgs": That is, they actually are; but they aren't what people imagine when they say so, so we don't really consider them to be.
Incidentally, a cochlear implants was one of the "powers" of the 6 million dollar woman.
Treason
Seriously though, I wanna see this movie, and I like the spelling; I just tried un1337ing the title : )
I'll miss trying to pronounce the working title. Trihtoon, Tratoowon, The movie concept formerly known as Tron 2.
TR2N - TRZN - TREZON - Treason
That's true.
What I don't understand is why evolution would self-select for prettier women, but not prettier men. A man who is ugly is not going to get any play or opportunity to pass his ugly genes to the next generation. Right?
Wrong, Jeremy.
If you need a citation, how about looking at: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/ [...]
The site and its owners may have it's own axes to grind (don't we all) but let's stop with the "oil-company" conspiracy theory. It's just another distraction tactic by those with something to hide. Publish your data and models please.
The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) is a global warming skeptics group which appears to primarily be the work of Robert Ferguson, its President.
Prior to founding SPPI in approximately mid-2007, Ferguson was the Executive Director of the Center for Science and Public Policy (CSPP), a project of the corporate-funded group, the Frontiers of Freedom Institute.
Frontiers of Freedom receives money of tobacco and oil companies, including Philip Morris Cos, ExxonMobil and RJ Reynolds Tobacco.
According to a 2003 New York Times report, "Frontiers of Freedom, which has about a $700,000 annual budget, received $230,000 from Exxon in 2002, up from $40,000 in 2001, according to Exxon documents. George Landrith, President of FoF told the New York Times "They've determined that we are effective at what we do" and that Exxon essentially took the attitude, "We like to make it possible to do more of that".
And according to this news, it will be unlikely what anyone will be able to decipher your handwriting by then : )
So the next John Titor hoax will be a guy who drives his time-traveling convertible back from 40 years in the future so he can... take grade-school penmanship classes?
Huh, I'd never heard of that sci-fi story.
I guess "pretend to be a time traveler day" was in his honor :)
I keep my weekly logbook in cursive writing.
I'm an Engineer, and my logbook must be kept for 6 years after my death for legal reasons. If all goes well, that'll be in 70+ years. It is unlikely at best that anything written on a computer will be readable in that time frame.
And according to this news, it will be unlikely what anyone will be able to decipher your handwriting by then : )
How do you know anyone can decipher it now?
Touché, Mr Heisenberg. Touché.
Oh yay. Lets fill our landfills with more useless crap. Why the hell do I need LED's and battery is PACKAGING? They go into the trash! We as a society are trying to move towards LESS PACKAGING and recyclable packaging not MORE packaging. Is the consumer expected to rip out that LED and battery and recycle that separate for ever single ceral box they purchase?
Calm down, this will make it more easy for the trash robots to find and sort future garbage thrown out of passing flying cars.
the cost per bokcode is like 20x-200x that of printing a barcode.
Currently, the tags are expensive to produce - around $5 (£3) each. This is, in part, because the early prototypes require a lens and a powered LED.
However, the researchers believe the technology could be refined so that tags were reflective and require no power.
"We already have prototypes which are completely passive," said Dr Mohan.
In this form, they could cost around 5 cents each, he added.