Look at it this way: how old will you be in 4 years if you don't do this? What will you be doing then? (nb. the answer better not be "posting another 'Ask Slashdot'...;-) )
Too many people use the excuse that they will be 'x' years old when they get out of the schooling they need to pursue the job they really want instead of the fry-slinging they are presently doing. Do yourself a favour: get the buy-in of the significant people in your life, take a deep breath, and pay the first year tuition all at once. Then instead of having an excuse not to go to school, you will have an excuse not to skip/stop.
If you happen to grab a DC power line this is especially dangerous, as an AC line with throw you off while a DC line will cause you to simply grab harder and you can't let go.
From http://www.andamooka.org/reader.pl?pgid=liecDCDC_3, AC will tend to induce fibrillation of the heart, while DC will tend to 'freeze' it. A 'frozen' heart is more likely to regain a normal beat than a fibrillating (rapid, irregular beat) heart. Either way, not a 'Good Thing'.
Note to the wise: Wherever possible, always approach a circuit with the back of your hand. If it is DC, the muscle reaction in case of contact/shock will tend to pull your arm away. If it is AC, same thing will happen. Depending on the voltage present on the conductor, you may even feel the hairs on the back of your hand react to the field produced, i.e., they will 'stand up'.
1. Add Germany to the "Axis of Evil"
2. "Liberate" the Germans from their "anti-American" (read:anti-corporate America) government
3. Write the DMCA into Germany's new constitution.
4. Accept suitcases of money from the RIAA.
Oddly enough, by the same logic he's using in this legislation prescription drugs should be illegal because they can be used to kill as well as heal.
Lets not forget the internet itself... ftp, p2p, http, etc. all run on that evil invention, and can all be used for infringing copyright or distribution of kiddie porn... Oh, the humanity...
The patent doesn't cover *mouse* clicks. It covers a way to get at least 3 different actions from the "application buttons" on your PDA --- short click, long click, and double-click.
I don't know whether this was being done back in 2002, though I know that Palm enhancements used application button chords back in 2002 or 2003.
Tealpoint Software, for one. I have a Handspring right here with the software on it. See http://www.tealpoint.com/softlnch.htm for details. I know I was using it around 2001/2002.
According to this article, the metal frame of an automobile acts as a faraday cage and is therefore immune to EMP blasts.
http://www.aussurvivalist.com/nuclear/empprotectio n.htm
Of course this wouldn't be the case with cars built with plastic frames.
Even if the metal frame acted as a perfect faraday cage (ignoring the fact there are window sized holes in it and resistive connections (lubricated hinges) to the doors), things that puncture through the cage would render its protection moot anyhow. Things like, oh, idunno, antennas...;)
I've seen demos where you put an EM radiator/transmitter inside a decent faraday cage and an EM receiver placed outside the cage picks up very little from the radiator. Put a short wire through a hole in the faraday cage and the receiver picks up a heck of a lot...
Besides, if you're within range of a nuclear EM pulse, you've probably got other things to worry about besides whether or not your car runs or not...
Consider the following paragraph from the article:
The essential paradigm of cyberspace is creating partially situated identities out of actual or potential social reality in terms of canonical forms of human contact, thus renormalizing the phenomenology of narrative space and requiring the naturalization of the intersubjective cognitive strategy, and thereby resolving the dialectics of metaphorical thoughts, each problematic to the other, collectively redefining and reifying the paradigm of the parable of the model of the metaphor.
Now read an essay by the postmodernism generator. Can you tell the difference?;-)
Paragraph nothing... Thats just one sentence, and a run-on one at that.:-P Y'know, if I had handed something like that to my English teacher (elementary or high school), lets just say I wouldn't have received an 'A'...;-)
meh. The RIAA would just have to brand them Terrorists (probably wouldn't be a stretch from their pov), then with liberal application of the 'Patriot' Act they could lock them away w/o charges or telling anyone.
For a while, many people have been speculating that SCO-Caldera is looking to get bought out. The usual assumption is that the purchasing party would be IBM....
I present to you, gentle reader, another possibility. One that has the purchaser as not IBM, but Microsoft... think about it for a bit.. MS buys a SCO license at the first possible minute (more or less), then later starts openly postulating similar things as SCO...
Yes, if MS repeatedly changes the code(s?) involved here, it may keep mod chippers busy trying to keep up (as suggested in a previous post), but NVidia would be forced to keep near zero inventory of chips, and thus the leadtimes for the XBox will increase by a fair amount I expect. Then the question will be: Do you want a PS today or an XBox next week/month? Not good for the MS bottom line, and thus I would be surprised if they do repeately change codes.
That's why they have to low ball the Fed. Gov. to harvest in public forests and why the US logging companies lobbied our Government to impose those protectionist tarriffs on the Canadians.
Actually, when one looks at the tariff issue, one finds it weird that raw logs are exempt, as are log homes (built here, disassembled and shipped to the US)... also it I find it strange that the tariff level =(approx) exchange rate... and the fact that the tariff funds go directly to the complaintant lumber companies (ruled Bad by a recent WTO preliminary finding...). The lumber companies were in a no lose situation... get the tariff, their timber holdings value goes up, they get the money from the tariffs, the competition goes down, they can charge more for their product... the two losers are people buying homes in the US (dimensional lumber is Not exempt), and millworkers in Canada (3 mills shut down so far in BC with approx 700+ jobs gone)... sigh. I believe the WTO also recently issued a prelim finding that the US's previous 19% tariff to be Bad as well... no word yet on the current 27% tariff...
"Despite the successful operations against Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan, the emergence of asymmetric terrorist warfare - attacks such as September 11 where the enemy is unseen - has led the Pentagon to identify the need for a more sophisticated and deadly weapons system."
So.... what they're saying is "We didn't see them coming, so we need bigger guns". Is it just me, or is that logic flawed? How do they get from A to B there? I think that the real need should be for better intelligence so they know more about what's going on, not bigger bang-bangs. Proactive is always better than Reactive, IMHO.
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Look at it this way: how old will you be in 4 years if you don't do this? What will you be doing then? (nb. the answer better not be "posting another 'Ask Slashdot'... ;-) )
Too many people use the excuse that they will be 'x' years old when they get out of the schooling they need to pursue the job they really want instead of the fry-slinging they are presently doing. Do yourself a favour: get the buy-in of the significant people in your life, take a deep breath, and pay the first year tuition all at once. Then instead of having an excuse not to go to school, you will have an excuse not to skip/stop.
CPD.
From http://www.andamooka.org/reader.pl?pgid=liecDCDC_
Note to the wise: Wherever possible, always approach a circuit with the back of your hand. If it is DC, the muscle reaction in case of contact/shock will tend to pull your arm away. If it is AC, same thing will happen. Depending on the voltage present on the conductor, you may even feel the hairs on the back of your hand react to the field produced, i.e., they will 'stand up'.
CPD.
Making a bomb from power grade Pu is definitely quite a bit harder than making one out of pure Pu-239,
I don't know about you, but I think that it would be quite easy to make a bomb out of the Pu that my daughter puts out on a daily basis...
239 or any other type.
You forgot the most important step:
5. PROFIT!!!
Lets not forget the internet itself... ftp, p2p, http, etc. all run on that evil invention, and can all be used for infringing copyright or distribution of kiddie porn... Oh, the humanity...
CPD.
Tealpoint Software, for one. I have a Handspring right here with the software on it. See http://www.tealpoint.com/softlnch.htm for details. I know I was using it around 2001/2002.
CPD.
Even if the metal frame acted as a perfect faraday cage (ignoring the fact there are window sized holes in it and resistive connections (lubricated hinges) to the doors), things that puncture through the cage would render its protection moot anyhow. Things like, oh, idunno, antennas ... ;)
I've seen demos where you put an EM radiator/transmitter inside a decent faraday cage and an EM receiver placed outside the cage picks up very little from the radiator. Put a short wire through a hole in the faraday cage and the receiver picks up a heck of a lot...
Besides, if you're within range of a nuclear EM pulse, you've probably got other things to worry about besides whether or not your car runs or not...
Yah... thankfully I only suffer from rational paranoia... not like those poor unfortunates you mention...
hey, how did you know the Dart is green anyways?? ... you-you're one of THEM, aren't you ... NNNOOoooo...
Paragraph nothing... Thats just one sentence, and a run-on one at that. :-P Y'know, if I had handed something like that to my English teacher (elementary or high school), lets just say I wouldn't have received an 'A'... ;-)
CPD ... and who, exactly decides what is illegal???
CPD.PINNNNNNGGGSSS IIIINNN SPAAAAaaaccceee.... ?? cpd.
meh. The RIAA would just have to brand them Terrorists (probably wouldn't be a stretch from their pov), then with liberal application of the 'Patriot' Act they could lock them away w/o charges or telling anyone.
CPD.
For a while, many people have been speculating that SCO-Caldera is looking to get bought out. The usual assumption is that the purchasing party would be IBM....
I present to you, gentle reader, another possibility. One that has the purchaser as not IBM, but Microsoft... think about it for a bit.. MS buys a SCO license at the first possible minute (more or less), then later starts openly postulating similar things as SCO...
Deep pockets vs. deep pockets... who will win?...
And you thought the DOJ vs MS was a long trial...
But if nothing ever enters public domain due to copyrights approaching forever... CPD.
Top Technical Challenges
* Start, throttling, shutdown, and restart
* Sustained operations
Hmmm... about the only thing that isn't listed as a challenge is funding.... but then, it IS the government... :)
Yes, if MS repeatedly changes the code(s?) involved here, it may keep mod chippers busy trying to keep up (as suggested in a previous post), but NVidia would be forced to keep near zero inventory of chips, and thus the leadtimes for the XBox will increase by a fair amount I expect. Then the question will be: Do you want a PS today or an XBox next week/month? Not good for the MS bottom line, and thus I would be surprised if they do repeately change codes.
That's why they have to low ball the Fed. Gov. to harvest in public forests and why the US logging companies lobbied our Government to impose those protectionist tarriffs on the Canadians.
Actually, when one looks at the tariff issue, one finds it weird that raw logs are exempt, as are log homes (built here, disassembled and shipped to the US)... also it I find it strange that the tariff level =(approx) exchange rate... and the fact that the tariff funds go directly to the complaintant lumber companies (ruled Bad by a recent WTO preliminary finding...). The lumber companies were in a no lose situation... get the tariff, their timber holdings value goes up, they get the money from the tariffs, the competition goes down, they can charge more for their product... the two losers are people buying homes in the US (dimensional lumber is Not exempt), and millworkers in Canada (3 mills shut down so far in BC with approx 700+ jobs gone)... sigh. I believe the WTO also recently issued a prelim finding that the US's previous 19% tariff to be Bad as well... no word yet on the current 27% tariff...
The joys of being so close to the US I guess...
"Despite the successful operations against Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan, the emergence of asymmetric terrorist warfare - attacks such as September 11 where the enemy is unseen - has led the Pentagon to identify the need for a more sophisticated and deadly weapons system."
So.... what they're saying is "We didn't see them coming, so we need bigger guns". Is it just me, or is that logic flawed? How do they get from A to B there? I think that the real need should be for better intelligence so they know more about what's going on, not bigger bang-bangs. Proactive is always better than Reactive, IMHO.