I'd guess in that case, they would just confiscate the computer as they are allowed to do and your company can hash it out with them... however, once property falls into gov't hands, it's not very easy to get back, innocent or no.
My wife is in most of my porn, you insensitive clod!:)
Seriously, though... neither of us feel that porn is anything evil or bad, but i'd rather not have to explain it to my daughter at this point. Sooner or later she'll be ready, but not now.
Don't be so quick to judge.
Returning from numerous business trips to Mexico over the years, I've received extra scrutiny twice. Once because I had declared liquor on a prior trip and I was over my limit. I actually got to keep the booze and was told to 'watch it' next time. The next time, I came back with some medication for dysentery and looked pretty rough (my next stop was a hospital for a week long stay)
The customs guy asked, "Where did you get this strange Mexican medicine?" I answered, "From a strange Mexican doctor. Where is the bathroom?" The guy laughed and sent me on my way before I shat on his floor.
A 60G laptop drive can be had for $50-100 USD now. They are not hard to swap. I have a travel drive and a home drive and save any documents or source code encrypted on a thumb drive and have caching and password saving turned off on my travel drive browser. I do this in case the laptop is stolen, but it works just as well for border security.
ditto. i'm using my Q9c tethered to my laptop via bluetooth several hours a day on secondlife and never has my bill gone over. I pay $40/mo for unlimited data and tethering from sprint. $40/mo more for 450 minutes of voice. so for what i was paying for a cable modem and vonage, i now have the same service but portable. I used the verizon air card for a few years with the same results, but sprint was cheaper and allows me do voice on the same device... less crap to carry on the road.
Me. I'd easily say the last two dozen physical CDs I purchased were bought at the venue after a show. Our local community radio, WMNF, sponsors tons of small venue shows every year with awesome acts that will never make it to the Clear Channel scene... nor would they want to. Usually, it's no problem to get the CD autographed, or have a member of the band or crew take your money and say 'Thank you' like they mean it. If I do purchase RIAA music, it's from iTunes because I refuse to take 9 bullshit songs just to get the one piece I like.
Don't you know that you put your cables up on risers? (http://www.cableisolators.com/index.html) Besides showing off your purchase, everyone that enters your room should know immediately that you're immune from floor borne vibrations, the harmful effects of the dielectric build up in carpet and they dissipate static charges away from your cables. Cable Isolators(TM) remove any minute layers of distortion and haze in your cables providing a clean background for your music to emerge. Cable Isolators(TM) also promote proper organization of your cables so power cords and signal cables are not laying next to one another which would cause interference.
Try this with your system - set the input to something that's not on or something you don't have hooked up, then crank the volume all the way to 10. Listen carefully. Then turn lights on and off, the TV on and off, make a cellphone call, turn the ceiling fan on and off.
Most of that can be written off to a lack of power supply filtration and/or shielding on the input cables or the amp circuity itself. Yes, quality shielded interconnects make a difference, but they make a much bigger difference BEFORE amplification than after. Speaker wire? Not so much.
Take advantage of the program then, spend $400 and send one to a 3rd world country, but take the one you get and learn about it. Let your kids play with it. See how it works and where it can be applied locally. Then, instead of writing to slashdot, write to the OLPC project and your school board with sound proposals of how our own children can benefit from the things we are 'giving' away to others.
My 6 year old has her own PC already, but I feel strongly enough about this to do exactly what I've suggested above. I do everything I can to help my local schools.... these kids are going to be the ones taking care of me in 30 years. And no, I'm not one of those 'think about the children' types... most of them are spoiled brats. But, like it or not, they will be shaping (y)our future. Invest in them.
Are you sure that they are speed limiters and not RPM limiters? Many motorcycles do in fact have rev limiters which kick in at or just beyond redline, but they work in every gear. In first you might be limited to 75 MPH, but in second, you could hit 90. And so on up through top gear (about 155MPH at 9k RPM on my bike).
The purpose has nothing to do with limiting the speed at which your wheels turn (MPH), but everything to do with preventing you from fragging your motor. Most cars top out at 120 or so simply because they don't have the right mix of HP/aerodynamics/gearing to go faster. It's my guess that any similar circuitry in cars is to protect the motor and not the driver.
That said... I'm sure it's heresay, but there is supposedly a gentleman's agreement between motorcycle manufacturers to limit street production machines to below 200MPH, but I always figured the darwin factor would take over there so why bother. A 50MPH machine is every bit as deadly as a 200MPH machine if you are driving/riding beyond your abilities or the conditions.
Also, with regards to states requiring different equipment, the only one I've EVER heard of is California requiring higher emmision standards. The NHTSA pretty much sets the standards for equipment at federal levels since it would be pretty impractical to enforce codes from one state to the next on our interstate highways....but now we're getting WAY off topic:)
I agree that outlawing P2P to limit illegal downloading is like outlawing cars to limit speeding.
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Yep!!! That's the one! As I recall, it worked great and I still get product update notifications from them since I bought a key years back. Maybe it's time to dig out one of them old PC laptops and make an 'net radio TiVo out of it.
and you die from the same thing the guy in aisle 3 is taking NyQuil for.
He was out of beer and pot?
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If you're using an Apple, it's called Audio Hijack Pro and it allows you to capture ANY audio that you can listen to with your computer and save it to a nice & tidy.mp3 file. I used to have something similar for windows before my enlightenment, but the name escapes me. Anyway, AHP can even be set to fire off at a certain time if you wanted to catch a specific program while you sleep, leaving it on your desktop to be dropped onto your iPod at your convenience. I use it specifically for NPR programming so I can jack it into my helmet on the way to work.
The trend of looking back at technology is hardly new. I recall RadioShack selling the old style candlestick phones of the 30's back in the 70's and just about every catalog they've published has had the old 'antique radio' with the solid state guts in it.
If the case was nearly a perfect insulator, and the fan was responsible for pushing all the hot and cool air in and out of the case, you'd have a laptop that sounded like a small jet engine.;-)
Man, wouldn't that be cool! Roger Apple 196, you are cleared for takeoff!
"Face it, for these actors, this is it. None of them are break-out stars. None have any real expectation of much of a career after this."
Are you serious? Take a look up a few comments to the IMDB links for any of these actors or go search it yourself. While they may not be Tom Cruise or Catherine Zeta Jones's, none of these people are sitting around idle. Hank Azaria & Harry Shearer have done quite well for themselves either writing, producing, or working as character actors, and Dan Castellenta & Nancy Cartwright have been (and still are) prolific voiceover talents. Hell, even Lunch Lady Doris has been working in the industry since the mid 60's.
I'm all for them getting a bigger piece of the pie, but don't try to tell us that 'this is it' for these guys.
I'll wager they can expect much more of a career after this than most/. readers.:)
...if you value your laptop. I ride an average of 20k miles per year on my motorcycle and my powerbook G4 never leaves my side. Last summer, after exiting the NJ Turnpike, my Zero Centurian parted company with the K1200RS's rear seat when a strap worked loose. The case was flattened by both wheels of a following car and came to rest beneath another car that managed to straddle it. I parked the bike, darted through traffic to recover my baby and was horrified at the carnage. However, the laptop worked fine when I got back to the side of the road and opened it up. I was pissed about the loss of the case, but I figured it was gods way of telling me it's time to backup my drive.
There is no soft case, no matter how hip or trendy, that can offer anywhere near the protection of a solid, foam lined case. I'm now using a Pelican 1490, which is a little closer fit for the powerbook, and it offers a watertight seal which the Zero did not. The Pelican also has a ring on each side for attaching a nicely padded shoulder strap if you are worried about comfort. You can also use them to attach a bicycle cable & lock to your wrist if you're worried about someone walking off with it.
If you care about your gear, put it in a real case. Anvil, Pelican, & Zero are a few names that professionals use to protect expensive equipment. $200 ~ $400 is a cheap insurance policy for a $3500 laptop.
Mod parent to this one up! I have been licensed for 25+ years now and this was my first thought upon reading this article. I didn't notice if this guy was a ham or not, but off the cuff, I'd bet he (or the others that are whining about this) isn't.
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I'd guess in that case, they would just confiscate the computer as they are allowed to do and your company can hash it out with them... however, once property falls into gov't hands, it's not very easy to get back, innocent or no.
My wife is in most of my porn, you insensitive clod! :)
Seriously, though... neither of us feel that porn is anything evil or bad, but i'd rather not have to explain it to my daughter at this point. Sooner or later she'll be ready, but not now.
Don't be so quick to judge.
Returning from numerous business trips to Mexico over the years, I've received extra scrutiny twice. Once because I had declared liquor on a prior trip and I was over my limit. I actually got to keep the booze and was told to 'watch it' next time. The next time, I came back with some medication for dysentery and looked pretty rough (my next stop was a hospital for a week long stay) The customs guy asked, "Where did you get this strange Mexican medicine?" I answered, "From a strange Mexican doctor. Where is the bathroom?" The guy laughed and sent me on my way before I shat on his floor.
A 60G laptop drive can be had for $50-100 USD now. They are not hard to swap. I have a travel drive and a home drive and save any documents or source code encrypted on a thumb drive and have caching and password saving turned off on my travel drive browser. I do this in case the laptop is stolen, but it works just as well for border security.
ditto. i'm using my Q9c tethered to my laptop via bluetooth several hours a day on secondlife and never has my bill gone over. I pay $40/mo for unlimited data and tethering from sprint. $40/mo more for 450 minutes of voice. so for what i was paying for a cable modem and vonage, i now have the same service but portable. I used the verizon air card for a few years with the same results, but sprint was cheaper and allows me do voice on the same device... less crap to carry on the road.
Me. I'd easily say the last two dozen physical CDs I purchased were bought at the venue after a show. Our local community radio, WMNF, sponsors tons of small venue shows every year with awesome acts that will never make it to the Clear Channel scene... nor would they want to. Usually, it's no problem to get the CD autographed, or have a member of the band or crew take your money and say 'Thank you' like they mean it. If I do purchase RIAA music, it's from iTunes because I refuse to take 9 bullshit songs just to get the one piece I like.
Geeze!
Don't you know that you put your cables up on risers? (http://www.cableisolators.com/index.html) Besides showing off your purchase, everyone that enters your room should know immediately that you're immune from floor borne vibrations, the harmful effects of the dielectric build up in carpet and they dissipate static charges away from your cables. Cable Isolators(TM) remove any minute layers of distortion and haze in your cables providing a clean background for your music to emerge. Cable Isolators(TM) also promote proper organization of your cables so power cords and signal cables are not laying next to one another which would cause interference.
Moron.
Try this with your system - set the input to something that's not on or something you don't have hooked up, then crank the volume all the way to 10. Listen carefully. Then turn lights on and off, the TV on and off, make a cellphone call, turn the ceiling fan on and off.
Most of that can be written off to a lack of power supply filtration and/or shielding on the input cables or the amp circuity itself. Yes, quality shielded interconnects make a difference, but they make a much bigger difference BEFORE amplification than after. Speaker wire? Not so much.
Whatever happened to fun? amusement? play? Who knows that these guys AREN'T doing something more noble and aspiring with the rest of their lives?
Take advantage of the program then, spend $400 and send one to a 3rd world country, but take the one you get and learn about it. Let your kids play with it. See how it works and where it can be applied locally. Then, instead of writing to slashdot, write to the OLPC project and your school board with sound proposals of how our own children can benefit from the things we are 'giving' away to others.
My 6 year old has her own PC already, but I feel strongly enough about this to do exactly what I've suggested above. I do everything I can to help my local schools.... these kids are going to be the ones taking care of me in 30 years. And no, I'm not one of those 'think about the children' types... most of them are spoiled brats. But, like it or not, they will be shaping (y)our future. Invest in them.
EffectsLab does a fantastic job on light-sabers if you're among the value-driven (or just a cheap bastard like me).
... like they're just using an old Jedi mind trick. These are the books you're looking for. Buy them and move along.
Are you sure that they are speed limiters and not RPM limiters? Many motorcycles do in fact have rev limiters which kick in at or just beyond redline, but they work in every gear. In first you might be limited to 75 MPH, but in second, you could hit 90. And so on up through top gear (about 155MPH at 9k RPM on my bike).
The purpose has nothing to do with limiting the speed at which your wheels turn (MPH), but everything to do with preventing you from fragging your motor. Most cars top out at 120 or so simply because they don't have the right mix of HP/aerodynamics/gearing to go faster. It's my guess that any similar circuitry in cars is to protect the motor and not the driver.
That said... I'm sure it's heresay, but there is supposedly a gentleman's agreement between motorcycle manufacturers to limit street production machines to below 200MPH, but I always figured the darwin factor would take over there so why bother. A 50MPH machine is every bit as deadly as a 200MPH machine if you are driving/riding beyond your abilities or the conditions.
Also, with regards to states requiring different equipment, the only one I've EVER heard of is California requiring higher emmision standards. The NHTSA pretty much sets the standards for equipment at federal levels since it would be pretty impractical to enforce codes from one state to the next on our interstate highways....but now we're getting WAY off topic :)
I agree that outlawing P2P to limit illegal downloading is like outlawing cars to limit speeding.
Monday football as a terrorist target. It would be right before the election, would be very public, and would impact a large group of people.
You've not seen Black Sunday, have you.
Yep!!! That's the one! As I recall, it worked great and I still get product update notifications from them since I bought a key years back. Maybe it's time to dig out one of them old PC laptops and make an 'net radio TiVo out of it.
and you die from the same thing the guy in aisle 3 is taking NyQuil for.
He was out of beer and pot?
If you're using an Apple, it's called Audio Hijack Pro and it allows you to capture ANY audio that you can listen to with your computer and save it to a nice & tidy .mp3 file. I used to have something similar for windows before my enlightenment, but the name escapes me. Anyway, AHP can even be set to fire off at a certain time if you wanted to catch a specific program while you sleep, leaving it on your desktop to be dropped onto your iPod at your convenience. I use it specifically for NPR programming so I can jack it into my helmet on the way to work.
The trend of looking back at technology is hardly new. I recall RadioShack selling the old style candlestick phones of the 30's back in the 70's and just about every catalog they've published has had the old 'antique radio' with the solid state guts in it.
If the case was nearly a perfect insulator, and the fan was responsible for pushing all the hot and cool air in and out of the case, you'd have a laptop that sounded like a small jet engine. ;-)
Man, wouldn't that be cool! Roger Apple 196, you are cleared for takeoff!
Yeah, I was on a roll....:)
"Face it, for these actors, this is it. None of them are break-out stars. None have any real expectation of much of a career after this."
Are you serious? Take a look up a few comments to the IMDB links for any of these actors or go search it yourself. While they may not be Tom Cruise or Catherine Zeta Jones's, none of these people are sitting around idle. Hank Azaria & Harry Shearer have done quite well for themselves either writing, producing, or working as character actors, and Dan Castellenta & Nancy Cartwright have been (and still are) prolific voiceover talents. Hell, even Lunch Lady Doris has been working in the industry since the mid 60's.
I'm all for them getting a bigger piece of the pie, but don't try to tell us that 'this is it' for these guys.
I'll wager they can expect much more of a career after this than most /. readers. :)
No, *I* worked out that PennMUSH code that saves links :)
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...if you value your laptop. I ride an average of 20k miles per year on my motorcycle and my powerbook G4 never leaves my side. Last summer, after exiting the NJ Turnpike, my Zero Centurian parted company with the K1200RS's rear seat when a strap worked loose. The case was flattened by both wheels of a following car and came to rest beneath another car that managed to straddle it. I parked the bike, darted through traffic to recover my baby and was horrified at the carnage. However, the laptop worked fine when I got back to the side of the road and opened it up. I was pissed about the loss of the case, but I figured it was gods way of telling me it's time to backup my drive.
There is no soft case, no matter how hip or trendy, that can offer anywhere near the protection of a solid, foam lined case. I'm now using a Pelican 1490, which is a little closer fit for the powerbook, and it offers a watertight seal which the Zero did not. The Pelican also has a ring on each side for attaching a nicely padded shoulder strap if you are worried about comfort. You can also use them to attach a bicycle cable & lock to your wrist if you're worried about someone walking off with it.
If you care about your gear, put it in a real case. Anvil, Pelican, & Zero are a few names that professionals use to protect expensive equipment. $200 ~ $400 is a cheap insurance policy for a $3500 laptop.
Mod parent to this one up! I have been licensed for 25+ years now and this was my first thought upon reading this article. I didn't notice if this guy was a ham or not, but off the cuff, I'd bet he (or the others that are whining about this) isn't.
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