Actually, the breathalyzer is a painfully simple device, none of it is a trade secret. It's basically a pair of heated-wire anerometers in parallel, where both have a gas sample travelling at the same velocity, at the same temperature run through an anerometer.
A heated-wire anerometer works by running a current through a wire and measuring the voltage drop through the wire. The resistance will change with the speed and specific heat of the substance you're passing across the wire, because the substance will cool the heated wire based on a number of factors. A breathalyzer simply eliminates the speed measurement, and the other measurements, and what remains is the specific heat of the substance passing through the device. They simply run a reference gas in the opposite anerometer, and take the differential, and the alcohol will give a certain value.
Not a trade secret, unless something being common knowledge for all instrument engineers taught in the past 40 years is a trade secret.
Don't worry at all. The thing is, the Bush administration is simply doing this, ONCE AGAIN, to hide the fact that they've behaved ethically for the past 8 years. All the problems? All the lies used to justify an illegal war of aggression? All the illegal prisons in Cuba, all the secret prisons in Europe? All the secret illegal wire-tapping programs? All the firing attorneys for purely political reasons? All of them had perfectly good explanations, but the Bush Administration is simply too humble to want everyone to know, so they use things like "state secrets" or "executive privilege" to protect themselves from the lack of controversy.
Actually, if the fighter jets scrambled when 4 planes were hijacked like they were supposed to, very few people would have died, because the jets would have been in position to shoot down the planes before they were used to attack civilians.
But nobody wants to talk about that. It's way better to fuck the American people over and send our boys off to die in the asshole of the world than to actually keep Americans safe while protecting everyone's civil liberties.
Let's not even TALK about the fact that the debt this is running up has to get paid back someday.
This was never released, it was only part of the initial script, but Mr. Fusion is actually a midget with really strong legs, who lives in that Mr. Fusion box, and rides an exercycle. Mr Fusion will eat just about anything, and that's why Doc Brown was seen putting garbage into it.
Since when as the Bush administration cared about national security except as an excuse not to tell anyone when they break the law?
Answer: They don't. If you don't believe me, maybe you'd like to explain why one of our operatives names was leaked to the media by the Bush administration for purely political reasons.
Oh, I totally agree. I used free web hosts for years on my site, until one day I realised SPHOSTING was installing gator on my readers machines. I was NOT about to tolerate that, and I've paid for hosting ever since. I was absolutely OK with letting them display ads, but not with them trying to install crap on my readers machines.
Intelligent and well educated citizens ought to be able to possess weapons up to (and beyond) tactical nuclear weapons.
I'm glad you added the brackets. Otherwise I would have DEMANDED that I be given the right to store Tsar Bomba in my back yard, but this time with a uranium taint, not a lead one.
I don't think you've been keeping track. They're even more stupid than I think. Anyone who hires counsel who intimidate and threaten witnesses into giving false testimony, or who starts a p2p lawsuit against people who don't own a computer is actually falls outside my ability to conceptualise their stupidity.
Such contracts are formed when one party accepts something of value knowing that the other party expects compensation. I pay my cable bill like a happy little capitalist. The fact that television or internet advertisers don't get to have their way with my brain is of little consequence.
I'd like to flip the logic on it's head too. When I'm driving down the highway to get to the next town, I've got to watch advertisement after advertisement on billboards, for hundreds of kilometers.
I paid for the roads with my tax dollars. In the logic they're presenting, they're criminals for not providing a good or service in return for my exposure to these advertisements.
Yeah, the only adblocking I use is domain redirection. Funny how many ads are hosted on this 127.0.0.1 server. It's always down though. Probably slashdot effect.
It's funny. Nobody using an ad blocker was going to click the ads anyway. It seems like it just saves everyone some time and effort.
On the other hand, if it's true that "Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending", why turn this into a big battle? This reminds me of O'Reilly and his war against the fictional "war against Christmas" supposedly being waged by secular forces. Move along, nothing to see here except a whiny loser with sand in his or her vagina.
Technically, I'd say that the copyright industry has stolen far more content from the public domain through their lobbying efforts to make copyright perpetual than a bunch of kids ever did downloading the latest crappy albums.
But I'm sort of a deviation from the norm. I think the good of the many outweighs the good of the few, so when the copyright industry uses unethical tactics to turn their "limited time" monopoly into a perpetual one, thus stealing 70 years of public domain material from the public, I sort of stop caring about their pleas to stop stealing.
Keep putting me into your little boxes, if it makes you feel better. Sure, first I'm just another typical anti-microsoft zealot, now I'm a typical troll. Why even bother chatting on slashdot if you're only planning to bash your head against imaginary groupthink?
I'm going to start by saying that I was underinformed. I knew about the "one activation ever" controversy which occurred, I hadn't heard that Microsoft changed their policy in response to the public outcry.
Despite that, your response is asinine. The simple fact of the matter is that Windows XP and Windows Vista are different programs with different licenses. Saying "There was no problem last time" is feigning ignorance of the already increased license enforcement included in Vista, and the fact that there WAS an issue that required a public outcry to alter. If Microsoft thinks they can get away with stricter activation today than in 2001 when XP came out, they will, and they have.
You must be new here. Slashdot is where people come to bash Microsoft and extoll the virtues of Linux, while using Windows XP on their Dells. It's pretty much Slashdot's raison d'etre.
Thing is, hatred of Microsoft isn't going to keep you on an OS. To think it will is asinine. Nobody does. Every single anti-Microsoft zealot I've ever met uses Windows. Myself, I've used dozens of operating systems on my main machine over the years, but if something isn't good, if something makes using a computer more difficult, and reduces the amount of time I spend actually using the computer, then simple hatred for a monopolist will never be enough to keep me from using Windows if it's the best solution.
No need. Microsoft just revoked your license because you upgraded to a new Socket AM2 motherboard. Have a nice day. Enjoy buying another copy of Windows Vista.
I'm sick and tired of you far left nutcases and your consipiracy theories. I bet you think we should just go out and change every aspect of how we live to protect against the boogeymen, right?
"Don't worry, we're not changing everything like the communists would! We're changing things in a completely different way! The state doesn't doesn't own and control everything, it just controls everything, and it's all for your protection against the capitalist pigdog -- erm, I meant to say the terrorists."
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Actually, the breathalyzer is a painfully simple device, none of it is a trade secret. It's basically a pair of heated-wire anerometers in parallel, where both have a gas sample travelling at the same velocity, at the same temperature run through an anerometer.
A heated-wire anerometer works by running a current through a wire and measuring the voltage drop through the wire. The resistance will change with the speed and specific heat of the substance you're passing across the wire, because the substance will cool the heated wire based on a number of factors. A breathalyzer simply eliminates the speed measurement, and the other measurements, and what remains is the specific heat of the substance passing through the device. They simply run a reference gas in the opposite anerometer, and take the differential, and the alcohol will give a certain value.
Not a trade secret, unless something being common knowledge for all instrument engineers taught in the past 40 years is a trade secret.
LINUX YOU, YOU LINUXING LINUXERS!
I can't believe these linuxheads are doing this. linux isn't linuxing inappropriate language, linux-linux-it!
I can't believe this linux. It's linuxing insane.
Don't worry at all. The thing is, the Bush administration is simply doing this, ONCE AGAIN, to hide the fact that they've behaved ethically for the past 8 years. All the problems? All the lies used to justify an illegal war of aggression? All the illegal prisons in Cuba, all the secret prisons in Europe? All the secret illegal wire-tapping programs? All the firing attorneys for purely political reasons? All of them had perfectly good explanations, but the Bush Administration is simply too humble to want everyone to know, so they use things like "state secrets" or "executive privilege" to protect themselves from the lack of controversy.
If you're reasonable, the terrorists have already won, and the white man will forever subjugate the black man.
(Figure I'd make it blanket, I hate all extremists, no matter what arbitrary direction they claim to be walking in)
Actually, if the fighter jets scrambled when 4 planes were hijacked like they were supposed to, very few people would have died, because the jets would have been in position to shoot down the planes before they were used to attack civilians.
But nobody wants to talk about that. It's way better to fuck the American people over and send our boys off to die in the asshole of the world than to actually keep Americans safe while protecting everyone's civil liberties.
Let's not even TALK about the fact that the debt this is running up has to get paid back someday.
This was never released, it was only part of the initial script, but Mr. Fusion is actually a midget with really strong legs, who lives in that Mr. Fusion box, and rides an exercycle. Mr Fusion will eat just about anything, and that's why Doc Brown was seen putting garbage into it.
Since when as the Bush administration cared about national security except as an excuse not to tell anyone when they break the law?
Answer: They don't. If you don't believe me, maybe you'd like to explain why one of our operatives names was leaked to the media by the Bush administration for purely political reasons.
To be fair, I have not heard many reports of people owning a PS3.
If your SCADA systems can be easily made to blow up your plant, you need to redesign your systems to include interlocks below the SCADA level.
Once again, you have failed to learn the most important lesson of all.
Slashdot: Not just one person. Duh?
Oh, I totally agree. I used free web hosts for years on my site, until one day I realised SPHOSTING was installing gator on my readers machines. I was NOT about to tolerate that, and I've paid for hosting ever since. I was absolutely OK with letting them display ads, but not with them trying to install crap on my readers machines.
Intelligent and well educated citizens ought to be able to possess weapons up to (and beyond) tactical nuclear weapons.
I'm glad you added the brackets. Otherwise I would have DEMANDED that I be given the right to store Tsar Bomba in my back yard, but this time with a uranium taint, not a lead one.
I don't think you've been keeping track. They're even more stupid than I think. Anyone who hires counsel who intimidate and threaten witnesses into giving false testimony, or who starts a p2p lawsuit against people who don't own a computer is actually falls outside my ability to conceptualise their stupidity.
Such contracts are formed when one party accepts something of value knowing that the other party expects compensation. I pay my cable bill like a happy little capitalist. The fact that television or internet advertisers don't get to have their way with my brain is of little consequence.
I'd like to flip the logic on it's head too. When I'm driving down the highway to get to the next town, I've got to watch advertisement after advertisement on billboards, for hundreds of kilometers.
I paid for the roads with my tax dollars. In the logic they're presenting, they're criminals for not providing a good or service in return for my exposure to these advertisements.
But THIS way, they don't HAVE to see it.
Yeah, the only adblocking I use is domain redirection. Funny how many ads are hosted on this 127.0.0.1 server. It's always down though. Probably slashdot effect.
It's funny. Nobody using an ad blocker was going to click the ads anyway. It seems like it just saves everyone some time and effort.
On the other hand, if it's true that "Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending", why turn this into a big battle? This reminds me of O'Reilly and his war against the fictional "war against Christmas" supposedly being waged by secular forces. Move along, nothing to see here except a whiny loser with sand in his or her vagina.
Technically, I'd say that the copyright industry has stolen far more content from the public domain through their lobbying efforts to make copyright perpetual than a bunch of kids ever did downloading the latest crappy albums.
But I'm sort of a deviation from the norm. I think the good of the many outweighs the good of the few, so when the copyright industry uses unethical tactics to turn their "limited time" monopoly into a perpetual one, thus stealing 70 years of public domain material from the public, I sort of stop caring about their pleas to stop stealing.
I thought it was a hooka.
Keep putting me into your little boxes, if it makes you feel better. Sure, first I'm just another typical anti-microsoft zealot, now I'm a typical troll. Why even bother chatting on slashdot if you're only planning to bash your head against imaginary groupthink?
I'm going to start by saying that I was underinformed. I knew about the "one activation ever" controversy which occurred, I hadn't heard that Microsoft changed their policy in response to the public outcry.
Despite that, your response is asinine. The simple fact of the matter is that Windows XP and Windows Vista are different programs with different licenses. Saying "There was no problem last time" is feigning ignorance of the already increased license enforcement included in Vista, and the fact that there WAS an issue that required a public outcry to alter. If Microsoft thinks they can get away with stricter activation today than in 2001 when XP came out, they will, and they have.
You must be new here. Slashdot is where people come to bash Microsoft and extoll the virtues of Linux, while using Windows XP on their Dells. It's pretty much Slashdot's raison d'etre.
Thing is, hatred of Microsoft isn't going to keep you on an OS. To think it will is asinine. Nobody does. Every single anti-Microsoft zealot I've ever met uses Windows. Myself, I've used dozens of operating systems on my main machine over the years, but if something isn't good, if something makes using a computer more difficult, and reduces the amount of time I spend actually using the computer, then simple hatred for a monopolist will never be enough to keep me from using Windows if it's the best solution.
Give me a reason to get rid of them first
No need. Microsoft just revoked your license because you upgraded to a new Socket AM2 motherboard. Have a nice day. Enjoy buying another copy of Windows Vista.
Ok, we can't ALL be first in line. Be reasonable.
I'm sick and tired of you far left nutcases and your consipiracy theories. I bet you think we should just go out and change every aspect of how we live to protect against the boogeymen, right?
"Don't worry, we're not changing everything like the communists would! We're changing things in a completely different way! The state doesn't doesn't own and control everything, it just controls everything, and it's all for your protection against the capitalist pigdog -- erm, I meant to say the terrorists."