There are no legally binding contracts outside of a country (with some minor exception in the U.N.). What we have are treaties and agreements, and if we want other countries to continue to do what we want them to do then we must comply with our end of the treaties. Once we find that the services that the countries on the other end of the treaty supply to us are no longer useful, we withdraw from the treaty. The latest and most obvious example would be the U.S. withdrawal from the 1972 ABM treaty. The U.S. has been developing ABM type mechanisms ever since the day the treaty was signed (although we, and the treaty, assured otherwise, heh) and has finally come to a point at which we are almost ready to start implementing these mechanisms. So, we withdraw from the treaty so that when we do implement the mechanisms, we aren't breaking the treaty.
There wasn't a term limit on the treaty, or anything similar, so the U.S. can't be called on the actions here other than in a debate or whatnot.
What I interpreted that statement to say was that other countries have spent the equivalent of billions of U.S. dollars on these programs. Not that they have spent billions of Yen, etc, but rather trillions or whatnot of Yen, etc, when you do the conversions. It seems as though the Slashdot crew sees their community, and their influence primarily American, and so they adjusted the information to regard Americans. I think it was just a way to get a perspective on other country's contributions for a major portion of the Slashdot community, rather than a bias towards American contribution or whatever.
Yeh, I remember using my sega genesis controllers on there as well. I was quite young when I did that, and didn't have too much of a clue about wiring and such... so, I just saw 2 plugs that looked alike, put 1 and 1 together, and it worked! heheh. Quite nicely might I say, but not for all games.
Someone is pretty arrogant and assumes everyone around them is stupid, hmmmm...
So I see...:)
You obviously didn't realize the neutral joking nature of the question:P - but no harm either way.
As well, the following sentence can be interpreted in two ways. Although the later part of the post might suggest the the other way, there are most likely some people who were reading the post and thought only of just putting freezers in a room to cool the room. Most of us probably didn't though:D
Is there any real reason why you can't just buy a couple of those big basement freezers and put them in there?
...put them in there? - "them in there" can refer to the freezers in the basement, or the boxes in the freezer.
Someone doesn't know their thermodynamics, hmmm....
Fridges and freezers work by pumping the heat out of a certain space (the space inside the fridge/freezer). Guess where that heat goes tho? Outside the back of the appliance. That's why the backs of em are always hot, it's not just cuz' there are "things working back there". The heat that is coming out the back is exactly equivalent to the heat that is being lost inside of the appliance, causing the decrease in temperature.
So, the net heat change by sticking a freezer in a server room is zero ( 0 )! And it'll be just as hot as it was before.
Now, if you were to stick the backside of the freezer outside of the house (cut a hole in the wall) then you would be able to cool the room down. But then all you would have is a not-as-effective air conditioner, and you might as well just buy a window A/C for a couple hundred and get a lot more efficient cooling out of it.
And ya know what's funny? When you do try a subscription game and realize how badly sucks, they won't stop billing you if you tell them to cancel the subscription. Happened to my brother, he signed up for FighterAce, go tired with it, and canceled the account... he thought he canceled it. They kept chargind the credit card for the money and wouldn't stop. Pretty lame huh?
I've been seeing sites use this type of advertising for some time now. In particular, I think techtv.com might have been using this advertising technique... not entirely sure though. I remember it was a car advertisement or something, a car zoome across the screen and then popped up in the middle with some words on it. It was a heck of a lot longer than that 8-ball advertisement. The 8-ball doesn't seem too bad, only up for a second or two. The car was up for a helluva long time, closer to 5 seconds most likely.
Really though, I dunno if StarCraft will ever die anytime soon. It's already going into its 5th year of being one of the most popular RTS games out there. I remember when I got it a little while after the release and began playing it on my dad's brand new 333 MHz system, lol. And since then, I've given it up multiple times in the hopes that I would spend more time on school work, but I always end up coming back to it after a few weeks to a month. It totally rocks. But I do agree that a StarCraft 2 is in due order. I would love to see what Blizzard could do with something like that. The one thing I really don't wanna see is another add-on for StarCraft. BroodWar is good, and I really only play that, but another add-on would stretch the community thin when they are already begging for StarCraft 2.
I think you interpreted what was being said wrong. Or at least, I have a different interpretation that seems to come from several abroad. The question of whether or not we (humans) wish to mix our gene pool with other animals (pigs, dogs, cats, those little things you step on outside) is more of a question of genetics than anything else. With independent gene pools, you have unique pros and cons. When combining vastly different gene pools, the pros and cons will mix together, and the result is what is being questioned. Perhaps in combining our gene pool with another specie of animal, we would gain greater characteristics such as better blood cleaning mechanisms or increased resistance to certain damages.
But, the main concern most likely is the combination of cons. The combining of certain genetic characteristics in other animals with our characteristics that would detriment us. Things such as humans being able to get mad cow disease as easy as cows do would be of concern in this areas.
You guys have it all wrong. See, M$ will not get any more money back from the schools other than the $.9 Billion they get initially because the schools don't have any money to upgrade. I think this could be one area that the M$ people overlooked when they thought of robbing all the money from our public schools... what money?
"If they made one of these things that would increase my bandwidth by pedaling faster, I'd be a world-class athlete."
If someone somehow created this machine, I don't think there would be another problem with geeks being overweight. We would have tons of super-buff comp people, heh. You could sure bet yourself I would be on that thing 24/7 pumping like crazy:) .
Running that high, seems like you would start risking a performance drop. As well, that could reflect the board temp around the cpu, and I would assume that's pretty high then. I've got my athlon at 42 C and the board at 29 C... maximum protection.
I'm at school using a computer with Netscape Navigator 4.08 and I still can't access the MSN site. As well, using different browsers (kinds, versions) I haven't been able to access the MSN site at different times since they first started blocking out other browsers. The funny thing is that I used the OffByOne web browser that I found at TinyApps.org that is only HTML 3.2 compliant and only 1100k in size, and the MSN site was displayed perfectly fine. This helps evidence that this whole shenanigan from M$ is completely BS.
"After graduating from Ohio State with a combined master's degree in physics, mathematics, astronomy..."
"In 1948 he started his own company, Permaglass, and perfected the process of bending and tempering glass."
"In 1969, McMaster merged Permaglass with Detroit-based Guardian Industries, forming what is today the third-largest glass company in the world. Two years later he started another company, Glasstech, which in the next 20 years would garner more than 700 glass-bending and -tempering patents. Today 80 percent of the world's automotive glass runs through Glasstech machines. In 1989, McMaster sold the company for $227 million."
I think this guy knows a little more about what he is talking about than you give him credit for. Although his ideas may be radical and new on the horizon, he is more than a "quack" as you so eloquently put it. Looks as though he has been around the block just a FEW times, give what he says some more thought kiddo. Many other informed people may not necessarily agree with his ideas, but at least they have some thought to prove their opinion on.
You might have to understand more nuclear phsyics or just know this otherwise to realize that anything that is created along the lines of a black hole (by humans, for now) will have no adverse effects on the earth. Just a bunch more paranoid freaks sending out email telling everyone what they're scared about.
No, a terrorist could kill you and then immediately afterwords use your finger, which would still retain enough properties to be identifiable, to gain access to the configuration and then just change the identity required for access. Or at least gain temporary access to the information. C'mon, think, it's not that hard.
Not necessarily. If you look at child porn, or even adult porn, it can be seen as an action rather than an expression. Whatever lame excuse for "ideas" may be present in the presentations (vides, still pics, etc), they can have an actual _action_ embedded in them. The focus is placed upon the relationship of the presentation to the consumer (one who indulges themselves in the porn). To refute your example of the effect of violent movies on children in comparison to child porn presentations on anyone (typically adult males), the majority of children who have seen violent movies will not directly act upon their exposure to the violence. Otherwise, we would have some mass force or uprising of children trying to kill everyone around them (due to all types of violence found on TV, in movies, in cartoons, toys, etc). However, if you were to look at child porn in this fashion, you would see that a much larger majority of those who indulge themselves in child porn actually will act out the things they indulge themselves in. Therefore, you can not fully protect virtual child porn as an expression under the 1st amendment because there are inherent actions associated with it. This argument can be extended to regular porn, which can cause a person to be so overwhelmed by sex that they could turn to rape (although this doesn't really apply to the many casual porn viewers, only porn-"zealots"). And this can definetly be extended to extremely hardcore porn and things such as snuff films.
A few people lose a bit of money because some company had a security flaw that they didn't feel like taking care of and made the absurdly stupid mistake in the first place of storing CC info for themselves. Seems like the company is almost as much at fault as the cracker. Still, for many credit card companies, if there are charges on your account that you obviously didn't make, then you only pay a nominal fee, like $50 or something. If the cracker has also monitored your behaviour enough to only make the same purchases that you make... well, then your just screwed, lol. The crime here is somewhat severe, but the effects of the crime are hardly severe at all to the end user.
"and increase the maximum sentence for computer intrusion to life in prison."
And exactly how is this supposed to help everyone out and teach someone their lesson? How can sending some of the smarter people in our society (assuming this won't be a script kiddie in many instances) to jail for the rest of their lives help better our lives? Although I should assume that every case under this proposed act would come with the possibility of paroll due to its complete lack of immediate physical or mental damage to any persons, right? What's next? The death sentence for avid computer users? Gimme a break.
I did find the map nifty, because I really didn't feel like I knew the extent of the damage. I didn't have any sort of diagram that could relate what happened.
Just don't let it go to their head.
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You can imagine what the ISS would be like with a couple of tipsy astronauts/cosmonauts, etc.
This is interesting that Lynn Rivers is part of leading this cause because she represents my district of Michigan. For anyone else in this area, I urge you to attend her town hall meeting that will be held September 19th. It will be held at the Plymouth-Salem high school auditorium at 7:30 pm. We need people who are up to speed on these matters and that have a good perspective on these issues like so many/.ers are.
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There are no legally binding contracts outside of a country (with some minor exception in the U.N.). What we have are treaties and agreements, and if we want other countries to continue to do what we want them to do then we must comply with our end of the treaties. Once we find that the services that the countries on the other end of the treaty supply to us are no longer useful, we withdraw from the treaty. The latest and most obvious example would be the U.S. withdrawal from the 1972 ABM treaty. The U.S. has been developing ABM type mechanisms ever since the day the treaty was signed (although we, and the treaty, assured otherwise, heh) and has finally come to a point at which we are almost ready to start implementing these mechanisms. So, we withdraw from the treaty so that when we do implement the mechanisms, we aren't breaking the treaty.
There wasn't a term limit on the treaty, or anything similar, so the U.S. can't be called on the actions here other than in a debate or whatnot.
What I interpreted that statement to say was that other countries have spent the equivalent of billions of U.S. dollars on these programs. Not that they have spent billions of Yen, etc, but rather trillions or whatnot of Yen, etc, when you do the conversions. It seems as though the Slashdot crew sees their community, and their influence primarily American, and so they adjusted the information to regard Americans. I think it was just a way to get a perspective on other country's contributions for a major portion of the Slashdot community, rather than a bias towards American contribution or whatever.
Yeh, I know that, I was just simplifying the situation for explanation. You could make it even more complicated than what you mentioned as well.
Yeh, I remember using my sega genesis controllers on there as well. I was quite young when I did that, and didn't have too much of a clue about wiring and such... so, I just saw 2 plugs that looked alike, put 1 and 1 together, and it worked! heheh. Quite nicely might I say, but not for all games.
Someone is pretty arrogant and assumes everyone around them is stupid, hmmmm...
So I see...
You obviously didn't realize the neutral joking nature of the question
As well, the following sentence can be interpreted in two ways. Although the later part of the post might suggest the the other way, there are most likely some people who were reading the post and thought only of just putting freezers in a room to cool the room. Most of us probably didn't though
Is there any real reason why you can't just buy a couple of those big basement freezers and put them in there?
Someone doesn't know their thermodynamics, hmmm....
Fridges and freezers work by pumping the heat out of a certain space (the space inside the fridge/freezer). Guess where that heat goes tho? Outside the back of the appliance. That's why the backs of em are always hot, it's not just cuz' there are "things working back there". The heat that is coming out the back is exactly equivalent to the heat that is being lost inside of the appliance, causing the decrease in temperature.
So, the net heat change by sticking a freezer in a server room is zero ( 0 )! And it'll be just as hot as it was before.
Now, if you were to stick the backside of the freezer outside of the house (cut a hole in the wall) then you would be able to cool the room down. But then all you would have is a not-as-effective air conditioner, and you might as well just buy a window A/C for a couple hundred and get a lot more efficient cooling out of it.
And ya know what's funny? When you do try a subscription game and realize how badly sucks, they won't stop billing you if you tell them to cancel the subscription. Happened to my brother, he signed up for FighterAce, go tired with it, and canceled the account... he thought he canceled it. They kept chargind the credit card for the money and wouldn't stop. Pretty lame huh?
I've been seeing sites use this type of advertising for some time now. In particular, I think techtv.com might have been using this advertising technique... not entirely sure though. I remember it was a car advertisement or something, a car zoome across the screen and then popped up in the middle with some words on it. It was a heck of a lot longer than that 8-ball advertisement. The 8-ball doesn't seem too bad, only up for a second or two. The car was up for a helluva long time, closer to 5 seconds most likely.
Anyhow, this isn't anything new.
Really though, I dunno if StarCraft will ever die anytime soon. It's already going into its 5th year of being one of the most popular RTS games out there. I remember when I got it a little while after the release and began playing it on my dad's brand new 333 MHz system, lol. And since then, I've given it up multiple times in the hopes that I would spend more time on school work, but I always end up coming back to it after a few weeks to a month. It totally rocks. But I do agree that a StarCraft 2 is in due order. I would love to see what Blizzard could do with something like that. The one thing I really don't wanna see is another add-on for StarCraft. BroodWar is good, and I really only play that, but another add-on would stretch the community thin when they are already begging for StarCraft 2.
I think you interpreted what was being said wrong. Or at least, I have a different interpretation that seems to come from several abroad. The question of whether or not we (humans) wish to mix our gene pool with other animals (pigs, dogs, cats, those little things you step on outside) is more of a question of genetics than anything else. With independent gene pools, you have unique pros and cons. When combining vastly different gene pools, the pros and cons will mix together, and the result is what is being questioned. Perhaps in combining our gene pool with another specie of animal, we would gain greater characteristics such as better blood cleaning mechanisms or increased resistance to certain damages.
But, the main concern most likely is the combination of cons. The combining of certain genetic characteristics in other animals with our characteristics that would detriment us. Things such as humans being able to get mad cow disease as easy as cows do would be of concern in this areas.
You guys have it all wrong. See, M$ will not get any more money back from the schools other than the $.9 Billion they get initially because the schools don't have any money to upgrade. I think this could be one area that the M$ people overlooked when they thought of robbing all the money from our public schools... what money?
"If they made one of these things that would increase my bandwidth by pedaling faster, I'd be a world-class athlete."
:) .
If someone somehow created this machine, I don't think there would be another problem with geeks being overweight. We would have tons of super-buff comp people, heh. You could sure bet yourself I would be on that thing 24/7 pumping like crazy
M$ has its hand in the gov, we'll see more and more restrictions ... *cough*notobeyed*cough* yay!
Running that high, seems like you would start risking a performance drop. As well, that could reflect the board temp around the cpu, and I would assume that's pretty high then. I've got my athlon at 42 C and the board at 29 C... maximum protection.
I'm at school using a computer with Netscape Navigator 4.08 and I still can't access the MSN site. As well, using different browsers (kinds, versions) I haven't been able to access the MSN site at different times since they first started blocking out other browsers. The funny thing is that I used the OffByOne web browser that I found at TinyApps.org that is only HTML 3.2 compliant and only 1100k in size, and the MSN site was displayed perfectly fine. This helps evidence that this whole shenanigan from M$ is completely BS.
"After graduating from Ohio State with a combined master's degree in physics, mathematics, astronomy..." "In 1948 he started his own company, Permaglass, and perfected the process of bending and tempering glass." "In 1969, McMaster merged Permaglass with Detroit-based Guardian Industries, forming what is today the third-largest glass company in the world. Two years later he started another company, Glasstech, which in the next 20 years would garner more than 700 glass-bending and -tempering patents. Today 80 percent of the world's automotive glass runs through Glasstech machines. In 1989, McMaster sold the company for $227 million." I think this guy knows a little more about what he is talking about than you give him credit for. Although his ideas may be radical and new on the horizon, he is more than a "quack" as you so eloquently put it. Looks as though he has been around the block just a FEW times, give what he says some more thought kiddo. Many other informed people may not necessarily agree with his ideas, but at least they have some thought to prove their opinion on.
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You might have to understand more nuclear phsyics or just know this otherwise to realize that anything that is created along the lines of a black hole (by humans, for now) will have no adverse effects on the earth. Just a bunch more paranoid freaks sending out email telling everyone what they're scared about.
No, a terrorist could kill you and then immediately afterwords use your finger, which would still retain enough properties to be identifiable, to gain access to the configuration and then just change the identity required for access. Or at least gain temporary access to the information. C'mon, think, it's not that hard.
Not necessarily. If you look at child porn, or even adult porn, it can be seen as an action rather than an expression. Whatever lame excuse for "ideas" may be present in the presentations (vides, still pics, etc), they can have an actual _action_ embedded in them. The focus is placed upon the relationship of the presentation to the consumer (one who indulges themselves in the porn). To refute your example of the effect of violent movies on children in comparison to child porn presentations on anyone (typically adult males), the majority of children who have seen violent movies will not directly act upon their exposure to the violence. Otherwise, we would have some mass force or uprising of children trying to kill everyone around them (due to all types of violence found on TV, in movies, in cartoons, toys, etc). However, if you were to look at child porn in this fashion, you would see that a much larger majority of those who indulge themselves in child porn actually will act out the things they indulge themselves in. Therefore, you can not fully protect virtual child porn as an expression under the 1st amendment because there are inherent actions associated with it. This argument can be extended to regular porn, which can cause a person to be so overwhelmed by sex that they could turn to rape (although this doesn't really apply to the many casual porn viewers, only porn-"zealots"). And this can definetly be extended to extremely hardcore porn and things such as snuff films.
A few people lose a bit of money because some company had a security flaw that they didn't feel like taking care of and made the absurdly stupid mistake in the first place of storing CC info for themselves. Seems like the company is almost as much at fault as the cracker. Still, for many credit card companies, if there are charges on your account that you obviously didn't make, then you only pay a nominal fee, like $50 or something. If the cracker has also monitored your behaviour enough to only make the same purchases that you make... well, then your just screwed, lol. The crime here is somewhat severe, but the effects of the crime are hardly severe at all to the end user.
"and increase the maximum sentence for computer intrusion to life in prison." And exactly how is this supposed to help everyone out and teach someone their lesson? How can sending some of the smarter people in our society (assuming this won't be a script kiddie in many instances) to jail for the rest of their lives help better our lives? Although I should assume that every case under this proposed act would come with the possibility of paroll due to its complete lack of immediate physical or mental damage to any persons, right? What's next? The death sentence for avid computer users? Gimme a break.
I did find the map nifty, because I really didn't feel like I knew the extent of the damage. I didn't have any sort of diagram that could relate what happened.
You can imagine what the ISS would be like with a couple of tipsy astronauts/cosmonauts, etc.
This is interesting that Lynn Rivers is part of leading this cause because she represents my district of Michigan. For anyone else in this area, I urge you to attend her town hall meeting that will be held September 19th. It will be held at the Plymouth-Salem high school auditorium at 7:30 pm. We need people who are up to speed on these matters and that have a good perspective on these issues like so many /.ers are.