Now there's an idea!
If you wanted to set something on fire without being caught, all you'd have to do is set the lens up someplace (on top of a car sunroof is good) and leave!
Plus, you can blind people with the intense sunlight as an extra bonus!
I wonder if you could use this in conjunction with some swivel-mounted computer-controlled mirrors to mount a death ray above your doorstep? >:D
Ah, but Costco only asks for your card when you enter the store, not at the checkout (this is necessary because they allow you to bring a friend in with you who doesn't have a card).
So all they get is aggregate purchasing data, which any store can do, and in fact must do for a market economy to work (things that people don't buy get less future orders, thus companies try to lower prices and improve their products, etc etc).
...before geeks start migrating to Japan in large droves? Between the neat gadgets and the whole anime thing, plus the wacky DMCA-type stuff going on here, it can't be long now...the US better watch out if they want to have a tech economy five years from now.;)
Heck, fully three-fourths of the non-X-rated Japanese comics I've read have casual nudity in them someplace, often of a character who's under 18 (Mai the Psychic Girl comes to mind)...only the, erm, upper half, mind you, which I don't believe the Japanese consider obscene...
Viz Comics better watch themselves if this becomes enforced...
Well, technically it's "pro bono publico" - "for the public good" (Latin). "Pro bono" is a common abbreviation for it that doesn't really mean anything by itself- "for good"?
The International Channel is also showing Dragon Ball Z (Majin Buu saga) in Japanese (no subbing). dbzoa.net has schedule info and translated English scripts to watch with. Much better than what's showing on Toonami, IMO.
The way to go with Legos is what I've been doing of late, which is pick up the "unpopular" or "old" sets from clearance bins. The pieces are basically the same and they're much cheaper (I've found a number of 30+ piece packages for like 2 bucks each). Then, you get home, dump all the pieces into the "master bin" and enjoy!
I do dislike the amount of specialty lego pieces now, but if you mix and match them from many different sets there's still room for lots of creativity.
I remember those! I remember I got a little set that made a go-cart thing with a motor and stuff. And then I used tape to attach bunch of copper wire to the electric connectors and used a little switch at the other end as a remote control. >:D
The main thing I didn't like about them was they were a bugger to put together and take apart; it took way more strength than I had at 9 or so, and I wound up breaking several of the capsule things.
"Owner" as in owner of the copyright. Contrary to popular opinion, Linux and other GPL software is actually copyrighted. The GPL is essentially a EULA, and has no legal force unless the program it is included with is copyrighted.
Since the FSF did not write the Linux kernel, they have no copyright on it and therefore no legal rights to it, so their power is limited in this matter.
Presumaby Linus Torvalds holds the Linux copyright, but I really don't know. Probably it's co-owned by several people, but it does *not* include everyone who's ever submitted a patch.
Oh, yeah, you can recover a little black box from the giant pile of rubble of one of the tallest buildings in the world, after it collapsed on itself, after a jet crashed into it and exploded. That'll work.
For the first quote, Google only returns a page that says it's a bogus quote they made up as an example, and no results at all for the second. If these were authentic predictions, they should be listed on many pages.
How is it that the "rest of the world" will be able to have 3G wireless, but the US is running out of spectrum space? Are we really using that many more frequencies? Or are they just inefficiently allocated or something?
It seems to me like the way things should work is that if a company doesn't use a frequency (or is only duplicating things available on other frequencies) for a certain amount of time, it should revert to the government for reassignment. After all, they don't "own" the frequencies like they do physical property - they're on loan from the government. Just my $.02...
...when it starts affecting them personally. What are good examples of things that mainstream people enjoy doing that would be hampered by increasingly restrictive legislation? And I don't mean Napster, I mean something that most people would consider perfectly legal.
Technically, the inverse would be: Any sufficiently advanced technology is distinguishable from magic. You probably want something like the converse: Any magic is indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced technology.
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Now there's an idea! If you wanted to set something on fire without being caught, all you'd have to do is set the lens up someplace (on top of a car sunroof is good) and leave! Plus, you can blind people with the intense sunlight as an extra bonus! I wonder if you could use this in conjunction with some swivel-mounted computer-controlled mirrors to mount a death ray above your doorstep? >:D
Quick! Everybody start hiding pictures of the goatse man in as many images as you can! See how eager researchers are to decode the pictures then! >:D
Umm...I don't think eBay actually hosts any images other than basic layout stuff. All the auction images are linked from other providers.
So all they get is aggregate purchasing data, which any store can do, and in fact must do for a market economy to work (things that people don't buy get less future orders, thus companies try to lower prices and improve their products, etc etc).
There's still a number of BBS's around, they've just moved to Telnet. Check out http://www.thedirectory.org/ for a listing...
Took them long enough. How long ago was the first /. story on this?
...before geeks start migrating to Japan in large droves? Between the neat gadgets and the whole anime thing, plus the wacky DMCA-type stuff going on here, it can't be long now...the US better watch out if they want to have a tech economy five years from now. ;)
Heck, fully three-fourths of the non-X-rated Japanese comics I've read have casual nudity in them someplace, often of a character who's under 18 (Mai the Psychic Girl comes to mind)...only the, erm, upper half, mind you, which I don't believe the Japanese consider obscene... Viz Comics better watch themselves if this becomes enforced...
Well, technically it's "pro bono publico" - "for the public good" (Latin). "Pro bono" is a common abbreviation for it that doesn't really mean anything by itself- "for good"?
FileMirrors.com has 26 mirrors listed at last count.
The International Channel is also showing Dragon Ball Z (Majin Buu saga) in Japanese (no subbing). dbzoa.net has schedule info and translated English scripts to watch with. Much better than what's showing on Toonami, IMO.
Nooo! Then I'd never be able to get up off the couch or sleep for fear of missing something! Aaaugh!!! I'd shrivel away to nothing! ;)
Depending on your monitor, past 80fps or so and you can't even refresh the screen that fast, let alone see a difference.
Wow, such prescience! I, for one, would never have guessed that! ;)
The way to go with Legos is what I've been doing of late, which is pick up the "unpopular" or "old" sets from clearance bins. The pieces are basically the same and they're much cheaper (I've found a number of 30+ piece packages for like 2 bucks each). Then, you get home, dump all the pieces into the "master bin" and enjoy! I do dislike the amount of specialty lego pieces now, but if you mix and match them from many different sets there's still room for lots of creativity.
I remember those! I remember I got a little set that made a go-cart thing with a motor and stuff. And then I used tape to attach bunch of copper wire to the electric connectors and used a little switch at the other end as a remote control. >:D
The main thing I didn't like about them was they were a bugger to put together and take apart; it took way more strength than I had at 9 or so, and I wound up breaking several of the capsule things.
"Owner" as in owner of the copyright. Contrary to popular opinion, Linux and other GPL software is actually copyrighted. The GPL is essentially a EULA, and has no legal force unless the program it is included with is copyrighted. Since the FSF did not write the Linux kernel, they have no copyright on it and therefore no legal rights to it, so their power is limited in this matter. Presumaby Linus Torvalds holds the Linux copyright, but I really don't know. Probably it's co-owned by several people, but it does *not* include everyone who's ever submitted a patch.
Oh, yeah, you can recover a little black box from the giant pile of rubble of one of the tallest buildings in the world, after it collapsed on itself, after a jet crashed into it and exploded. That'll work.
For the first quote, Google only returns a page that says it's a bogus quote they made up as an example, and no results at all for the second. If these were authentic predictions, they should be listed on many pages.
That's 40-50 thousand, not 40-500 thousand. Small difference.
It seems to me like the way things should work is that if a company doesn't use a frequency (or is only duplicating things available on other frequencies) for a certain amount of time, it should revert to the government for reassignment. After all, they don't "own" the frequencies like they do physical property - they're on loan from the government. Just my $.02...
...when it starts affecting them personally. What are good examples of things that mainstream people enjoy doing that would be hampered by increasingly restrictive legislation? And I don't mean Napster, I mean something that most people would consider perfectly legal.
Are the /. coders really that inadequate?
Why not check out the source code and find out yourself?
But no one cares. :)