I think that the intention is to seize your color laser printer and use it and its serial number against you in court as gathered evidence.
Of course, filling out your warrant-y card could help the process if you'd gotten rid of your printer after the crime. But then again, you'd have to be pretty stupid to leave a paper trail back to you by using a credit card to buy the printer, filling out the warrant-y card, and keeping the evidence (your printer) around.
It kind of reminds me of how they caught the first World Trade Center bombers in the early nineties. The idiot actually went back to the rental place to get his money back for the "stolen" moving van they used as the bomb. As Napoleon Dynamite would say, "Freakin' idiot!"
Pressing CDs isn't the issue, it's distribution. How will local musicians find the means to get Tower Records, Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, and all the other chains to carry their music? Not too mention other production costs like album artwork and CD jacket printing. That brings up costs considerably out of the range of struggling musicians.
I agree with you on the fact that musicians can do all their own production from recording to the production of CDs, but that will only get them into local markets. They'll need a distributor at some point unless they plan on selling CDs out of their car trunk and at the door of their gigs for the rest of their careers.
The most significant step to solving a problem is first to identify it.
The underlying problem is still not identified here. At best, this will always be a reactionary stance for containment and triage purposes. There is no way to identify the problems before they're problems in this scenario. It's like the boss asking for a list of all unknown issues that might arise in a software project.
Linux atol was destroyed in 1958 by the US military during what was code named "Operation Buck Shot." The 12Mt thermonuclear device completely destroyed Linux atol, displacing 934 penguins.
TFA on CNN didn't base its story on the tabloid one. It seems to have done an independent investigation and is reporting that the tabloid got facts wroing per an interview with the inventor.
Comets are much worse than asteroids. Since asteroids are in the planetary plane and usually relatively close, they can be discovered and tracked years and years ahead of any potential impact (it's finding them that needs more focus.) With comets, they come from the Oort cloud far outside the orbit of Neptune and are not seen regularly enough to calculate orbits for them. That means we'd only have months at most to prepare for an impact or try to prevent it.
Plus, comets are travelling much faster than asteroids and have much higher kinetic energy.
A less dense comet would act as a shock absorber to the energy released by a nuclear warhead.
Plus, nukes just don't have nearly enough energy to do anything to a comet-sized object unless they are detonated well under the surface. Even then, that most likely will not alter the course of the now multi-fragment comet, but it may make pieces that are small enough to be stopped by the Earth's atmosphere.
Didn't know, but were pretty sure is more like it.
In 1959, the Soviets sent an impacter to the moon, and photographed the far side of the moon. In 1966, the Soviets had already made a soft landing on the moon.
Heck, where's the LEGAL dvd player to watch your newly mastered holyday vid?
Ummm... why do you need a "legal" dvd player to watch a dvd YOU mastered? Are you applying CSS to protect your dvds? Maybe you're worried about someone stealing them and making unauthorized copies?
DVD playing isn't legal/illegal. It's the breaking of CSS that's illegal. Which, of course, you can sill find legal players for Linux.
Did NASA "clear the jungle path" on rubber/NOS engines? Yes, a separate company did it for Scaled, but NASA subcontracts way more. Did NASA ever seriously consider simplifying designs to make for fool-proof reentries? No. NASA hangs onto their 40 year old technology and hangs on more bells and whistles which adds more complexity. Case in point, the Space Shuttle. They have been critisized for over 20 years that it is too complex and fundamentaly flawed, but they hold onto the program, tying up billions of dollars better spent on truely innovative achievments in space flight.
Where NASA deserves credit is in its inter planetary efforts. This is where their innovations have been. I believe NASA needs to scrap all current human space flight efforts and start from a clean slate like Scaled.
One thing we can expect from Google: if this is true, they will explicitly not make it for Linux.
Let's just hope they settle on an open and published IM standard (new or existing) so it will be easier to shoehorn into Gaim. That way, I can add it to my 4 IM logins I already use centrally.
Yes, tissue "donation" would be fine for me. It would not be fine for my Vegan friends though. They are against the exploitation of animals, not just killing.
The spirit of Open Source is openness FOR ALL. When it is applied to certain organization just because they can afford it, you break the spirit of openness.
If you want to stifle the growth of Linux and Open Source in general, this is a sure bet to get it done.
What if the "meat" had to be grown from an original source. A kind of donor pork chop per se.
In that case, then this product originated from an animal from a technical sense.
As a vegetarian, I've thought of this same scenario. For me, being a vegetarian stems from the ethical stance of not wanting to introduce unnecesary harm into the world through the killing of animals. Since, theoretically, one animal's death could result in the perputual production of meat without pain or harm down the line, I'm still a little torn about whether or not I'd actually eat this stuff.
I always thought the most flawed aspect of the Holodeck AI characters coming to life is that it was the much, much, much, much more powerful ship's computer system that was generating them in the first place (or maybe independant computers, who knows.)
The point is that if AI routines naturally lead to the spontaneous desire for survival, then why didn't the ship's computer go HAL on the crew when they first booted it up and kill everyone in order to survive? I mean, if a holodeck computer system adapts and evolves a survival instinct, why not the main computer with assumingly more power and better AI algorithms?
Of course, if that MITM attack were able to gather your IP username and password, they could make calls to East Timor at $2.45/min. That's $8,820 for a month's worth of calls at 2 hours/day.
Like you said, though, why do you care? It's the VoIP provider who will have to eat the charges. It's not like businesses actually pass on those charges to customers.;)
Imagine is "VoIP zombie" boxes became as common and unpatched Windows boxes are today. That's millions of dollars a month in potential losses.
Maybe we should preempt that while the industry is still young by utilizing reliable encryption and standardizing security from major carriers down to the home brewers using Asterisk.
Honestly, the only way IE will come up to standards is if web developers stop intentionally writing work arounds for it. I mean, what incentive is there for standards adherance when your incompatibility with standards is the status quo?
It will NEVER be possible to simulate the entire universe in a computer simulation regardless of the computing power. The limit will always be simulating the simulator.
It kind of reminds me of the Steven Wright joke, "I have a map of the united states.... it's original size... it says one mile equals one mile."
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I think that the intention is to seize your color laser printer and use it and its serial number against you in court as gathered evidence.
Of course, filling out your warrant-y card could help the process if you'd gotten rid of your printer after the crime. But then again, you'd have to be pretty stupid to leave a paper trail back to you by using a credit card to buy the printer, filling out the warrant-y card, and keeping the evidence (your printer) around.
It kind of reminds me of how they caught the first World Trade Center bombers in the early nineties. The idiot actually went back to the rental place to get his money back for the "stolen" moving van they used as the bomb. As Napoleon Dynamite would say, "Freakin' idiot!"
Come on. Where else are you gonna see a VD infected rabbit, a gun toting love-stricken hippo, and a gorey ending to rival Scarface?
Pressing CDs isn't the issue, it's distribution. How will local musicians find the means to get Tower Records, Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, and all the other chains to carry their music? Not too mention other production costs like album artwork and CD jacket printing. That brings up costs considerably out of the range of struggling musicians.
I agree with you on the fact that musicians can do all their own production from recording to the production of CDs, but that will only get them into local markets. They'll need a distributor at some point unless they plan on selling CDs out of their car trunk and at the door of their gigs for the rest of their careers.
No, no, no. It's an speaker grill that plays the theme to "2001 A Space Odyssey" for the aliens to hear.
Linux atol was destroyed in 1958 by the US military during what was code named "Operation Buck Shot." The 12Mt thermonuclear device completely destroyed Linux atol, displacing 934 penguins.
TFA on CNN didn't base its story on the tabloid one. It seems to have done an independent investigation and is reporting that the tabloid got facts wroing per an interview with the inventor.
Please RTFA next time
Comets are much worse than asteroids. Since asteroids are in the planetary plane and usually relatively close, they can be discovered and tracked years and years ahead of any potential impact (it's finding them that needs more focus.) With comets, they come from the Oort cloud far outside the orbit of Neptune and are not seen regularly enough to calculate orbits for them. That means we'd only have months at most to prepare for an impact or try to prevent it.
Plus, comets are travelling much faster than asteroids and have much higher kinetic energy.
Just the opposite.
A less dense comet would act as a shock absorber to the energy released by a nuclear warhead.
Plus, nukes just don't have nearly enough energy to do anything to a comet-sized object unless they are detonated well under the surface. Even then, that most likely will not alter the course of the now multi-fragment comet, but it may make pieces that are small enough to be stopped by the Earth's atmosphere.
Didn't know, but were pretty sure is more like it.
In 1959, the Soviets sent an impacter to the moon, and photographed the far side of the moon. In 1966, the Soviets had already made a soft landing on the moon.
Plus, the Americans had previous data from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_programRanger missions about the Moon.
No doubt the Americans knew the Moon was solid long before Armstrong and Aldrin landed in 1969.
Ummm... why do you need a "legal" dvd player to watch a dvd YOU mastered? Are you applying CSS to protect your dvds? Maybe you're worried about someone stealing them and making unauthorized copies?
DVD playing isn't legal/illegal. It's the breaking of CSS that's illegal. Which, of course, you can sill find legal players for Linux.
Did NASA "clear the jungle path" on rubber/NOS engines? Yes, a separate company did it for Scaled, but NASA subcontracts way more. Did NASA ever seriously consider simplifying designs to make for fool-proof reentries? No. NASA hangs onto their 40 year old technology and hangs on more bells and whistles which adds more complexity. Case in point, the Space Shuttle. They have been critisized for over 20 years that it is too complex and fundamentaly flawed, but they hold onto the program, tying up billions of dollars better spent on truely innovative achievments in space flight.
Where NASA deserves credit is in its inter planetary efforts. This is where their innovations have been. I believe NASA needs to scrap all current human space flight efforts and start from a clean slate like Scaled.
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Let's just hope they settle on an open and published IM standard (new or existing) so it will be easier to shoehorn into Gaim. That way, I can add it to my 4 IM logins I already use centrally.
Yes, tissue "donation" would be fine for me. It would not be fine for my Vegan friends though. They are against the exploitation of animals, not just killing.
The spirit of Open Source is openness FOR ALL. When it is applied to certain organization just because they can afford it, you break the spirit of openness.
If you want to stifle the growth of Linux and Open Source in general, this is a sure bet to get it done.
In that case, then this product originated from an animal from a technical sense.
As a vegetarian, I've thought of this same scenario. For me, being a vegetarian stems from the ethical stance of not wanting to introduce unnecesary harm into the world through the killing of animals. Since, theoretically, one animal's death could result in the perputual production of meat without pain or harm down the line, I'm still a little torn about whether or not I'd actually eat this stuff.
The point is that if AI routines naturally lead to the spontaneous desire for survival, then why didn't the ship's computer go HAL on the crew when they first booted it up and kill everyone in order to survive? I mean, if a holodeck computer system adapts and evolves a survival instinct, why not the main computer with assumingly more power and better AI algorithms?
If the USA made an offer using their current technologies, it would be a one way trip. You'd die from radiation exposure before you got back.
Like you said, though, why do you care? It's the VoIP provider who will have to eat the charges. It's not like businesses actually pass on those charges to customers. ;)
Imagine is "VoIP zombie" boxes became as common and unpatched Windows boxes are today. That's millions of dollars a month in potential losses.
Maybe we should preempt that while the industry is still young by utilizing reliable encryption and standardizing security from major carriers down to the home brewers using Asterisk.
Honestly, the only way IE will come up to standards is if web developers stop intentionally writing work arounds for it. I mean, what incentive is there for standards adherance when your incompatibility with standards is the status quo?
do you post just for the hell of posting? Brilliant.
It will NEVER be possible to simulate the entire universe in a computer simulation regardless of the computing power. The limit will always be simulating the simulator.
.... it's original size ... it says one mile equals one mile."
It kind of reminds me of the Steven Wright joke, "I have a map of the united states
Translucent windows ARE more functional than opaque, or "faked" versions like Gnome and KDE.
One example that I use is tailing a file on a lower window while working on a top one.
How many successful businesses has President Bush run? An oil man who couldn't make money in Texas in the 70s and 80s? Lost money on a MLB team?
;)
Yeah, I'm sure these professors are the business-impaired, not our business-savvy President.