It doesn't have to be readable, it just has to look like my signature on other documents
What? A signature is so that YOU can recognize that you signed something. It's not like a fingerprint, or DNA, and for all that lawyers love to talk to "calligraphy experts", etc to try to use your signature to "prove" that you signed the document, it's usually inconclusive. Signatures are easy to forge, especially in the digital age.
When I sign a cheque it's so that if the bank debits my account and presents me with a copy of the cheque because I have doubts/can't remember, I can recognize MY signature and know that I signed. It can be an "X" for all anyone cares. In fact, my own signature is just a scribble, and it has evolved over time (and the amount of documents I have had to sign).
Smoke signalling is a dead art. No one remembers the old smoke signals used by native american tribes - not even native americans! Should we worry?
It's called progress. Those grade school teachers who insist on continuing to preach arcane methods would probably find a more efficient use of their time if they taught their students to type right after teaching them basic writing skills. I don't know many people who can spout out cursive at over 80 words per minute.
I've watched dead people produce the occasional "heartbeat" on a monitor, even hours after being pronounced dead. It's called "pulseless electrical activity", and it doesn't mean anything except that obviously not all the cells in your body die at once. Some of them try to continue to function, expending their last ATP reserves as their membranes become permeable and they start to flood with previously stored calcium.
Just because "brain death" occurs at roughly 4 minutes after circulation/oxygen supply is interrupted in humans does not necessarily mean that every single neuron dies at the same time. Simply the brain ceases to function as intended, and individual surviving neurons die depending on how stocked they were with ATP initially, what the microenvironment around them was like, etc. However (with few exceptions, ie people submerged in nearly freezing water), enough neurons die at 4 minutes to cause an irreversible damage to the brain that is incompatible with life.
I can only talk about humans, because that is my specialty. However I don't think anything with a brain can be much different. All vertebrates are generally similar when you disregard the specific biochemical or physiological adaptations for specific environments.
For those wanting to believe this as some sort of "evidence" of "life after death", ask the researchers if they got the same reaction from these fish when they had been dead for a few weeks... I don't know about fish, but human brains generally liquefy after about 24 hours... yes that's right, they turn to mush.
Obviously everyone has forgotten DECWARS, MUD1, Island of Kesmai, etc.
The patent is invalid. That Microsoft chose to "settle for an undisclosed sum" according to TFA (because of HALO) only encourages these idiots - in fact, that's probably what Microsoft wanted... it takes the heat off them and puts it on the other guys.
When oh when will the USPTO learn how evil software patents can be, especially vague ones like this.
Slash-and-burn does not leech nitrates out of the soil any faster than modern agriculture
Actually it does - because most of the nitrates lie on top of the soil in the form of ash from the burning, and are washed off almost immediately in the first rains. Slash and burn will only get you one - or if you're lucky and it doesn't rain too much two - good harvests.
Of course letting the land return to fallow is PART of crop rotation (with the added twist that modern rotation adds the planting of nitrogen fixing plants/legumes for a season), so I don't see how slash and burn could be "better".
SUN was fixated in repeating all DEC's strategic mistakes......much of what is said about it is just false. To try to hype it up now is the clasic case of trying to 'polish a turd'.
Wait, you said DEC but it sure as hell sounds to me as if you meant Microsoft... now I'm confused!
past and "primitive" societies would have exploited or would exploit nature as thoroughly as we do, anyway, were it not for limitations of populations and technology.
Dead on. The only reason the buffalo was still around in huge quantities was because native americans didn't have rifles, or horses for that matter.
Native cultures were famous for "slash and burn" agriculture, possibly the most destructive farming method around that leeches all the nitrates out of the soil in just a few years, forcing the farmer to keep moving (and destroying his surrounding jungle). Crop rotation was a European invention.
One mustn't let guilty feelings about the de facto destruction of native cultures by European civilization lead us into believing that somehow these people were much better than us. They were just people. Some were good. Some were bad. Every one of them left an environmental mark on the world around them.
So, while NZ may no longer be looking to go to war, back the F' up if they ever do.
The same can be said from all of England's colonies/conquests. The ANZACs surely earned their reputation in both world wars, but would you discount the role played by the Gurkhas, Canadians, or even the Scots? When you heard bagpipes, saw turbans, or heard "eh" or "no worries" on the battlefield, it was time to run...
As a day trader I can safely say that the more monitors the better. It's a pain in the ass to get 8 monitors working nowadays with just one computer - there are some quad cards out there but they really aren't that fast. Good enough to display charts, but after hours you can forget gaming.
I am so scared now I was asked a whole bunch of questions about how every single person in the world uses the internet, from online banking to facebook, and now Symantec has told me I'm a MEDIUM risk and criminals are out to get me!!!!!!!!!
I guess I should buy their software right away! SAVE ME SYMANTEC, SAVE ME!!!!
Oh, wait - the cost of their subscription fee over 10 years is less than what they say I am "worth". Or are they the criminals telling me what I'm worth to them? I'm so confused now...
For the love of God, just don't try to send any data throgh it's secure socket...
This has been tried, but the pigeon's "secure" socket is not as "secure" as you would think. First of all it only holds a tiny amount of data, and secondly, there's a vulnerability which can cause your data to be dropped on random objects including statues, cars and people.
I never leave my basement. Why should I expose myself to you vile scum? I need enough firewalls and anti-virus to keep you all out, and still you invade my domain with trojans. And after playing games with you, tormenting you and listening to your pathetic whining and complaining, as well as being the victim of your merciless exploits and hacks, I know what kind of shits you are. Now you expect me to risk my LIFE and go out into the REAL WORLD and get close enough to you to get infected??? NO THANKS! You can't sucker ME into attending this so called "gaming conventions". You can keep your swine flu and your tempting but also disease-ridden breasted humanoids, I'm staying put with my firewall, my games and my porn.
After all, socialism's ideal is to control the sources of materials and production. China is a growing country and is looking ahead. Why not build a stockpile, since future economic growth will probably depend on that stockpile. They already own the US' debt anyway (the rest exists in the form of IOU's from the Federal Reserve, and any individual foolish enough to buy US treasuries nowadays). No need to play nice anymore.
Expect terms and conditions to be dictated to the world by China in 20 years or so. I expect them to play nice with the Russians/CIS because they share so much land border with them defending it wholly would bankrupt both countries - much like the US and Canada are obliged to be best friends. But the rest of the world? No one has done China any favors in the past century - expect none.
However the Chinese government has shown itself to be hugely oppressive at times, and Chinese people tend to be quite racially intolerant (we are after all the "barbarians"). Perhaps they will be the answer to islamic extremism - a Chinese bullet to the back of the head.
How 'bout we call them what they are until they have their day in court: SUSPECTS.
When caught in flagrante like that on video tape, it would take a hell of a lot more than OJ Simpson's lawyers to argue about "reasonable doubt". Who knows, maybe the whole video was photoshopped by police? No, these people are guilty. To call them "suspects" is an insult to any living thing with a brain. Now proving that John Doe is actually the person seen in the video is a job for the prosecutor.
Would you call someone who shoots your wife in front of your eyes an "alleged killer" or a "suspect", and consider them "innocent until proven guilty"? A smoking gun is a smoking gun.
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It doesn't have to be readable, it just has to look like my signature on other documents
What? A signature is so that YOU can recognize that you signed something. It's not like a fingerprint, or DNA, and for all that lawyers love to talk to "calligraphy experts", etc to try to use your signature to "prove" that you signed the document, it's usually inconclusive. Signatures are easy to forge, especially in the digital age.
When I sign a cheque it's so that if the bank debits my account and presents me with a copy of the cheque because I have doubts/can't remember, I can recognize MY signature and know that I signed. It can be an "X" for all anyone cares. In fact, my own signature is just a scribble, and it has evolved over time (and the amount of documents I have had to sign).
Smoke signalling is a dead art. No one remembers the old smoke signals used by native american tribes - not even native americans! Should we worry?
It's called progress. Those grade school teachers who insist on continuing to preach arcane methods would probably find a more efficient use of their time if they taught their students to type right after teaching them basic writing skills. I don't know many people who can spout out cursive at over 80 words per minute.
I've watched dead people produce the occasional "heartbeat" on a monitor, even hours after being pronounced dead. It's called "pulseless electrical activity", and it doesn't mean anything except that obviously not all the cells in your body die at once.
Some of them try to continue to function, expending their last ATP reserves as their membranes become permeable and they start to flood with previously stored calcium.
Just because "brain death" occurs at roughly 4 minutes after circulation/oxygen supply is interrupted in humans does not necessarily mean that every single neuron dies at the same time. Simply the brain ceases to function as intended, and individual surviving neurons die depending on how stocked they were with ATP initially, what the microenvironment around them was like, etc. However (with few exceptions, ie people submerged in nearly freezing water), enough neurons die at 4 minutes to cause an irreversible damage to the brain that is incompatible with life.
I can only talk about humans, because that is my specialty. However I don't think anything with a brain can be much different. All vertebrates are generally similar when you disregard the specific biochemical or physiological adaptations for specific environments.
For those wanting to believe this as some sort of "evidence" of "life after death", ask the researchers if they got the same reaction from these fish when they had been dead for a few weeks... I don't know about fish, but human brains generally liquefy after about 24 hours... yes that's right, they turn to mush.
It's the iPod that nobody buys and it has this feature that causes it to stop working for a few days towards the end of the year.
Obviously everyone has forgotten DECWARS, MUD1, Island of Kesmai, etc.
The patent is invalid. That Microsoft chose to "settle for an undisclosed sum" according to TFA (because of HALO) only encourages these idiots - in fact, that's probably what Microsoft wanted... it takes the heat off them and puts it on the other guys.
When oh when will the USPTO learn how evil software patents can be, especially vague ones like this.
Slash-and-burn does not leech nitrates out of the soil any faster than modern agriculture
Actually it does - because most of the nitrates lie on top of the soil in the form of ash from the burning, and are washed off almost immediately in the first rains. Slash and burn will only get you one - or if you're lucky and it doesn't rain too much two - good harvests.
Of course letting the land return to fallow is PART of crop rotation (with the added twist that modern rotation adds the planting of nitrogen fixing plants/legumes for a season), so I don't see how slash and burn could be "better".
It was hard for me to type that: I'm half Scots, my mother and grandmother were born in Aberdeen, and I belong to the Stuart clan, I guess :)
But history is what history is... and at least I know that Scotch is a drink...
SUN was fixated in repeating all DEC's strategic mistakes... ...much of what is said about it is just false. To try to hype it up now is the clasic case of trying to 'polish a turd'.
Wait, you said DEC but it sure as hell sounds to me as if you meant Microsoft... now I'm confused!
Actually there is no evidence that there was ever any land animals whatsoever in NZ except for lizards, insects and spiders.
However unlike Australia, not all of them are poisonous and potentially fatal to humans...
past and "primitive" societies would have exploited or would exploit nature as thoroughly as we do, anyway, were it not for limitations of populations and technology.
Dead on. The only reason the buffalo was still around in huge quantities was because native americans didn't have rifles, or horses for that matter.
Native cultures were famous for "slash and burn" agriculture, possibly the most destructive farming method around that leeches all the nitrates out of the soil in just a few years, forcing the farmer to keep moving (and destroying his surrounding jungle). Crop rotation was a European invention.
One mustn't let guilty feelings about the de facto destruction of native cultures by European civilization lead us into believing that somehow these people were much better than us. They were just people. Some were good. Some were bad. Every one of them left an environmental mark on the world around them.
So, while NZ may no longer be looking to go to war, back the F' up if they ever do.
The same can be said from all of England's colonies/conquests. The ANZACs surely earned their reputation in both world wars, but would you discount the role played by the Gurkhas, Canadians, or even the Scots? When you heard bagpipes, saw turbans, or heard "eh" or "no worries" on the battlefield, it was time to run...
As a day trader I can safely say that the more monitors the better. It's a pain in the ass to get 8 monitors working nowadays with just one computer - there are some quad cards out there but they really aren't that fast. Good enough to display charts, but after hours you can forget gaming.
This might actually sound like what I need.
He's wife is in a coma!
My name is Buck, and I'm here to fuck...
I am so scared now I was asked a whole bunch of questions about how every single person in the world uses the internet, from online banking to facebook, and now Symantec has told me I'm a MEDIUM risk and criminals are out to get me!!!!!!!!!
I guess I should buy their software right away! SAVE ME SYMANTEC, SAVE ME!!!!
Oh, wait - the cost of their subscription fee over 10 years is less than what they say I am "worth". Or are they the criminals telling me what I'm worth to them? I'm so confused now...
Actually you're BORTH wrong.
A DDDoS (distributed DoS) attack involves large flocks of pigeons arriving at the same time.
A DoS attack involves putting a screen door (plate glass window, cat) in front of the pigeon coop.
And a man (falcon?) in the middle attack is, well, self explanatory.
For the love of God, just don't try to send any data throgh it's secure socket...
This has been tried, but the pigeon's "secure" socket is not as "secure" as you would think. First of all it only holds a tiny amount of data, and secondly, there's a vulnerability which can cause your data to be dropped on random objects including statues, cars and people.
According to some of the films I've seen, she swallows ANYTHING...
play an online game using pigeons as packet carriers.
You can if you're a falconer...
A major source of packet loss...
I never leave my basement. Why should I expose myself to you vile scum? I need enough firewalls and anti-virus to keep you all out, and still you invade my domain with trojans. And after playing games with you, tormenting you and listening to your pathetic whining and complaining, as well as being the victim of your merciless exploits and hacks, I know what kind of shits you are. Now you expect me to risk my LIFE and go out into the REAL WORLD and get close enough to you to get infected??? NO THANKS! You can't sucker ME into attending this so called "gaming conventions". You can keep your swine flu and your tempting but also disease-ridden breasted humanoids, I'm staying put with my firewall, my games and my porn.
Signed - a gamer.
PS: It's a joke, stupid.
Maybe the wool industry should start investing in this?
What, after centuries of trying to figure out how to get the melanin OUT of wool, you suddenly want us to put it back IN?
After all, socialism's ideal is to control the sources of materials and production. China is a growing country and is looking ahead. Why not build a stockpile, since future economic growth will probably depend on that stockpile. They already own the US' debt anyway (the rest exists in the form of IOU's from the Federal Reserve, and any individual foolish enough to buy US treasuries nowadays). No need to play nice anymore.
Expect terms and conditions to be dictated to the world by China in 20 years or so. I expect them to play nice with the Russians/CIS because they share so much land border with them defending it wholly would bankrupt both countries - much like the US and Canada are obliged to be best friends. But the rest of the world? No one has done China any favors in the past century - expect none.
However the Chinese government has shown itself to be hugely oppressive at times, and Chinese people tend to be quite racially intolerant (we are after all the "barbarians"). Perhaps they will be the answer to islamic extremism - a Chinese bullet to the back of the head.
PS: I am not Chinese.
This is no a surprise, considering that we originally belong to Sagittarius and are being devoured ourselves by this alien "Milky Way" galaxy...
How 'bout we call them what they are until they have their day in court: SUSPECTS.
When caught in flagrante like that on video tape, it would take a hell of a lot more than OJ Simpson's lawyers to argue about "reasonable doubt". Who knows, maybe the whole video was photoshopped by police? No, these people are guilty. To call them "suspects" is an insult to any living thing with a brain. Now proving that John Doe is actually the person seen in the video is a job for the prosecutor.
Would you call someone who shoots your wife in front of your eyes an "alleged killer" or a "suspect", and consider them "innocent until proven guilty"? A smoking gun is a smoking gun.
You should visit steve jobs ASAP and offer your bum-hole
Nah, he's more the liver type.