Case in point, USB harddrives and flash-sticks are cheap (near ubiquitous in the case of the latter).
My co-workers "trade" harddrives with hundreds of GB of data regularly. It would take way too long to send it over the interwebs.
Sneakernet can be much faster than standard over-the-wire communication, if you factor in economy of scale.
Seems like setting a precedent for "if you send somebody your copyrighted material with the intent that they redistribute it for you , you can't be sued" would be useful, especially with respect to RIAA honeypots.
FTFY, more to clarify this specific incident by which precendent could be set.
I'm pretty sure, though, that Google/Youtube covered their own ass with the "enable embedding" option. There has to be some sort of clause within that that, if allowed, expressly permits third-parties to embed the video on their own site, for whatever purpose they see fit.
OTOH, if the content was sent with an explicit "do not distribute" disclaimer (similar to mailed out dvd-screeners for theaters and awards-ceremony consideration), this precedent would not affect those situations, and the recipient would still be in an actionable position if he/she were to redistribute (clearly not the case here, though).
This "that guy no longer works for us, everything he said is bunk" defense that the lawyers are falling back on is pure bullshit, in that at the time the individual was working on behalf of Discovery Channel. As such, anything said by him can be taken as the opinion of TDC (at least until they print a retraction, but even that is not un-saying it retroactively).
People would be fine. If NASA did have actual evidence, they would anouce it and then get a big fat increase in funding.
Hardly.
Much more funding can be requisitioned by continued efforts in search of something, than by actually finding it.
If they cure cancer/HIV/AIDS/illness-du-jour, then that's done; no more "cure cancer now" funding.
If Bush discovered WMD, he would have just turned the Evil Axis into glass, and been done with it. No more giant military spending budget.
If NASA did have evidence of extra-terrestrial life, the military (I realize they're a subset of USAF, but they're a more scientific branch than an offensive/defensive branch) would take over, get all the funding, and either try to protect us from those nasty aliens, or try to neutralize those nasty aliens.
While a person may be intelligent, people, humans in general, are quite stupid (especially in groups). Without being acclamated to the idea that "the truth is out there", there would be panic in the streets, riots, and general disarray were news of extraterrestrial life ever to be displayed, beyond the shadow of a doubt.
When did Who ever say we were his favourites?
The prophecies all say that Earth is Important, in the same way that he is Important, and that Master is Important. That's the only reason he works so hard to keep it around.
(I capitalize Important because, within the context, this isn't "who won last night's game" important, or "we just unlocked the secrets to cold fusion" important, but more "the continued existence of, well, existence" Important)
If we ever do discover aliens, it would be reasonable for Christians to conclude that God created them too, but their existence isn't something we need to know about to please God.
Too true; Knowledge of God's other creations does nothing but incite jealousy.
Look at the Angels. They were created to serve God. They have no choice in the matter, they just are. Then God goes and creates Man, puts him in a garden, gives him free will and (at least the illusion of) control over his own destiny.
We pick up sticks and stones and start beating each other up over pieces of ground, and all the angels can do is cry that God wasted his time with us.
It's the sibling situation; they were first, and were no longer the favorite when we came along.
The same would be true of aliens. If this God created them before us (or even before the angels, potentially), then when they find out how amazing(*) man is, they might be jealous and destroy us.
Similarly, if God has given up on man, left us to destroy ourselves (as is our very nature) and run off to create aliens somewhere else in his universe, would we not be upset to learn this?
Of course, this entire post is bunk, and subject to ones own faith and interpretation, but it's a possible view, and, if there really is a God, a plausible one at that.
Trust me, as an employee, the RIM job jokes never stop, and get old very quickly.
Be thankful that you're on the receiving end.
It must be a million times worse for HR kids there, being the ones whose job is to literally give rim jobs to people.
That's nearly 10 miles.
Current Phalanx CIWS has an effective range of 3.6 km (~2.2mi).
From TFA:
Although Booen says that for security reasons he cannot divulge the distance at which the laser-based systems can shoot down incoming threats (or the UAVs' altitudes during the Navy test), he notes that the military would not be interested in the new laser technology if it could not at least double the range of existing weapons.
That puts the effective range of the laser CIWS at minimum 5 miles, drastically short of the 10 miles high the plane would be directly above the carrier.
Add to that, that the plane would drop its ordinance well before being directly above (giving that slug a ballistic trajectory down to the carrier) and it's even further than 10 miles you'd have to fire.
At that point, you just send interceptor/air-superiority fighters up to take care of the bomber before it gets anywhere near the carrier.
Better still, though, would be taking one of those short-range missiles (or mortars) and replacing the fuel and/or explosives with lead, which c/would still achieve a 1-tonne slug incoming at mach 3. It simply wouldn't be dropped from 50,000 ft anymore, instead (in the case of a missile with its munitions removed) fired from 50-100 miles away, as is the case today with HE-yield missiles such as Cruise.
Or, if the servers kept tabs on such taunts (fag, mother, teabagging, etc...) when playing, say, CoDMW, and upon loading MW2 for the first time, if you've still got a '0' on this counter, you get an achievement for not being a douchebag.
Being locked out of platinum achievements in games (as generally there's an achievement for getting all the achievements) for your previous crimes could start making the "hardcores" stop being asshats and actually play the game.
Another similar one, taking advantage of broken logic (as the show so often does), would be that if the doctor, similar to how we silly apes build buildings, just skips his 13th image altogether and starts fresh into 14.
Perhaps the timelords put some code in timelord DNA at the exit/destructor loop stating "If current_version == 13 end".
Simply going from "current_version = 12" to "current_version = 14" would bypass that, and leave us with an infinite loop (unless someday one doctor decides to hardcode himself as unlucky #13)
This is Slashdot. You can certainly reveal that he was never human at all, just one of those plastic guys.
Perhaps, though, she's not really human either.
Maybe they're both plastic (or shiny-metal) toys, and the real human versions will show up eventually; all in good time, as one might say.
If you can't square 18 in your head you can always do it on paper in the margin via long multiplication. If, by grade 9/10, you still can't do basic arithmetic (multiplication tables to 10 are a fairly basic skill, learned iirc around grade 3/4?) then perhaps you shouldn't be taking advanced secondary school math courses (noone will make you do polynomial algebra or trig in a basic-level math course)
My highschool math teacher always created new tests (so that one year couldn't just pass their old tests to the next year's class) and always worked backwards.
He'd pick a number to be the answer (so that it was always nice whole-number answers or simple fractions with a low prime as either the numerator or denominator) and figure out the question from there, applying the principal being tested in reverse.
In this way, not only was he able to test a student's ability to grasp the concept, but it also provided a nice simple way to give the student an idea if he at least thinks he had the right answer or not.
If you ended up with some messy repeating decimal, or fractions > 100 in numerator or denominator, it was a guarantee you screwed up somewhere.
He'd then go and write the test himself. If he could do it in 15 minutes, he was pretty confident that 95% of the class could complete it in the alloted 76 minutes.
As others have said too, he preferred you answer with SQRT(5) instead of 2.2, or 1/3 instead of 0.3~, and would dock marks for showing the decimal without the "real" answer.
People didn't need a calculator in his class until trig (halfway through gr.11) and statistics and probability (introduced in gr.11, but covered much more in gr.13 finite math), and it was only allowed for trig tests. Even in his calculus and algebra/geometry courses (gr.13) a calculator wasn't required.
In Minority Report, there was a particular scene where Tom was on the run, ran into a mall, and was identified by a global retinal scan that hits everyone entering the store.
Once identified, the man on the billboard in front of him greeted him personally, asked him if he liked [whatever he last bought], and advised that they have new fashions in a similar style in stock that he might be interested in.
It then went on to greet the next person.
Don't know if this is so great for NZ. If this decision hurts the US economy too much, there might be weapons of mass destruction not found in NZ.
FTFY, you'd "find" the same WMDs that were found in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I.e. the ones that the US brought to support its "liberation" of the NZ peoples from their oppressive regime.
Mr. Burns: I can't believe we've overlooked this week's winner for so very, very long. We simply could not function without his tireless efforts. So, a round of applause for...this inanimate carbon rod!
Not all TVs are plagued with that "doesn't report 1080p over VGA" issue, and it may also have been a problem with your video card not wanting to support 1920x1080/60.
My bravia had no issues reporting itself over a standard VGA connection as a PnP monitor supporting 1080p.
The G20 is just a ploy to allow the little nations not cool enough to be in the G8 think they're something special.
The G8 doesn't actually discuss anything important with them at the conference, or really listen to anything they say.
Our leaders will go behind their wooden curtain next week in Muskoka and deal with the real problems, like who'll host next year, and what type of food will be served.
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Case in point, USB harddrives and flash-sticks are cheap (near ubiquitous in the case of the latter).
My co-workers "trade" harddrives with hundreds of GB of data regularly. It would take way too long to send it over the interwebs.
Sneakernet can be much faster than standard over-the-wire communication, if you factor in economy of scale.
Seems like setting a precedent for "if you send somebody your copyrighted material with the intent that they redistribute it for you , you can't be sued" would be useful, especially with respect to RIAA honeypots.
FTFY, more to clarify this specific incident by which precendent could be set.
I'm pretty sure, though, that Google/Youtube covered their own ass with the "enable embedding" option. There has to be some sort of clause within that that, if allowed, expressly permits third-parties to embed the video on their own site, for whatever purpose they see fit.
OTOH, if the content was sent with an explicit "do not distribute" disclaimer (similar to mailed out dvd-screeners for theaters and awards-ceremony consideration), this precedent would not affect those situations, and the recipient would still be in an actionable position if he/she were to redistribute (clearly not the case here, though).
This "that guy no longer works for us, everything he said is bunk" defense that the lawyers are falling back on is pure bullshit, in that at the time the individual was working on behalf of Discovery Channel. As such, anything said by him can be taken as the opinion of TDC (at least until they print a retraction, but even that is not un-saying it retroactively).
People would be fine. If NASA did have actual evidence, they would anouce it and then get a big fat increase in funding.
Hardly.
Much more funding can be requisitioned by continued efforts in search of something, than by actually finding it.
If they cure cancer/HIV/AIDS/illness-du-jour, then that's done; no more "cure cancer now" funding.
If Bush discovered WMD, he would have just turned the Evil Axis into glass, and been done with it. No more giant military spending budget.
If NASA did have evidence of extra-terrestrial life, the military (I realize they're a subset of USAF, but they're a more scientific branch than an offensive/defensive branch) would take over, get all the funding, and either try to protect us from those nasty aliens, or try to neutralize those nasty aliens.
While a person may be intelligent, people, humans in general, are quite stupid (especially in groups). Without being acclamated to the idea that "the truth is out there", there would be panic in the streets, riots, and general disarray were news of extraterrestrial life ever to be displayed, beyond the shadow of a doubt.
When did Who ever say we were his favourites?
The prophecies all say that Earth is Important, in the same way that he is Important, and that Master is Important. That's the only reason he works so hard to keep it around.
(I capitalize Important because, within the context, this isn't "who won last night's game" important, or "we just unlocked the secrets to cold fusion" important, but more "the continued existence of, well, existence" Important)
If we ever do discover aliens, it would be reasonable for Christians to conclude that God created them too, but their existence isn't something we need to know about to please God.
Too true; Knowledge of God's other creations does nothing but incite jealousy.
Look at the Angels. They were created to serve God. They have no choice in the matter, they just are. Then God goes and creates Man, puts him in a garden, gives him free will and (at least the illusion of) control over his own destiny.
We pick up sticks and stones and start beating each other up over pieces of ground, and all the angels can do is cry that God wasted his time with us.
It's the sibling situation; they were first, and were no longer the favorite when we came along.
The same would be true of aliens. If this God created them before us (or even before the angels, potentially), then when they find out how amazing(*) man is, they might be jealous and destroy us.
Similarly, if God has given up on man, left us to destroy ourselves (as is our very nature) and run off to create aliens somewhere else in his universe, would we not be upset to learn this?
Of course, this entire post is bunk, and subject to ones own faith and interpretation, but it's a possible view, and, if there really is a God, a plausible one at that.
Trust me, as an employee, the RIM job jokes never stop, and get old very quickly.
Be thankful that you're on the receiving end.
It must be a million times worse for HR kids there, being the ones whose job is to literally give rim jobs to people.
+1 pwnage, of the pure variety
What do noobs do all day? other than, you know, suck at games?
Just hover your mouse and it'll automatically be checked for you.
FTFY
well, the unemployed, veterans and the ill could [...] be targets for these devices if they had even the slightest motivation to be useful.
"Bring us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses" [so we can shoot them with lasers]
Sounds like America would be a great place to live
Current Phalanx CIWS has an effective range of 3.6 km (~2.2mi).
From TFA:
Although Booen says that for security reasons he cannot divulge the distance at which the laser-based systems can shoot down incoming threats (or the UAVs' altitudes during the Navy test), he notes that the military would not be interested in the new laser technology if it could not at least double the range of existing weapons.
That puts the effective range of the laser CIWS at minimum 5 miles, drastically short of the 10 miles high the plane would be directly above the carrier.
Add to that, that the plane would drop its ordinance well before being directly above (giving that slug a ballistic trajectory down to the carrier) and it's even further than 10 miles you'd have to fire.
At that point, you just send interceptor/air-superiority fighters up to take care of the bomber before it gets anywhere near the carrier.
Better still, though, would be taking one of those short-range missiles (or mortars) and replacing the fuel and/or explosives with lead, which c/would still achieve a 1-tonne slug incoming at mach 3. It simply wouldn't be dropped from 50,000 ft anymore, instead (in the case of a missile with its munitions removed) fired from 50-100 miles away, as is the case today with HE-yield missiles such as Cruise.
Ooh... sick burn
Or, if the servers kept tabs on such taunts (fag, mother, teabagging, etc...) when playing, say, CoDMW, and upon loading MW2 for the first time, if you've still got a '0' on this counter, you get an achievement for not being a douchebag.
Being locked out of platinum achievements in games (as generally there's an achievement for getting all the achievements) for your previous crimes could start making the "hardcores" stop being asshats and actually play the game.
Another similar one, taking advantage of broken logic (as the show so often does), would be that if the doctor, similar to how we silly apes build buildings, just skips his 13th image altogether and starts fresh into 14.
Perhaps the timelords put some code in timelord DNA at the exit/destructor loop stating "If current_version == 13 end".
Simply going from "current_version = 12" to "current_version = 14" would bypass that, and leave us with an infinite loop (unless someday one doctor decides to hardcode himself as unlucky #13)
This is Slashdot. You can certainly reveal that he was never human at all, just one of those plastic guys.
Perhaps, though, she's not really human either.
Maybe they're both plastic (or shiny-metal) toys, and the real human versions will show up eventually; all in good time, as one might say.
If you can't square 18 in your head you can always do it on paper in the margin via long multiplication. If, by grade 9/10, you still can't do basic arithmetic (multiplication tables to 10 are a fairly basic skill, learned iirc around grade 3/4?) then perhaps you shouldn't be taking advanced secondary school math courses (noone will make you do polynomial algebra or trig in a basic-level math course)
My highschool math teacher always created new tests (so that one year couldn't just pass their old tests to the next year's class) and always worked backwards.
He'd pick a number to be the answer (so that it was always nice whole-number answers or simple fractions with a low prime as either the numerator or denominator) and figure out the question from there, applying the principal being tested in reverse.
In this way, not only was he able to test a student's ability to grasp the concept, but it also provided a nice simple way to give the student an idea if he at least thinks he had the right answer or not.
If you ended up with some messy repeating decimal, or fractions > 100 in numerator or denominator, it was a guarantee you screwed up somewhere.
He'd then go and write the test himself. If he could do it in 15 minutes, he was pretty confident that 95% of the class could complete it in the alloted 76 minutes.
As others have said too, he preferred you answer with SQRT(5) instead of 2.2, or 1/3 instead of 0.3~, and would dock marks for showing the decimal without the "real" answer.
People didn't need a calculator in his class until trig (halfway through gr.11) and statistics and probability (introduced in gr.11, but covered much more in gr.13 finite math), and it was only allowed for trig tests.
Even in his calculus and algebra/geometry courses (gr.13) a calculator wasn't required.
Meh, when I was in school we hadn't yet evolved fingers.
When I was in school we were just starting to figure out out to be multicellular.
Get off my primordial ooze.
In Minority Report, there was a particular scene where Tom was on the run, ran into a mall, and was identified by a global retinal scan that hits everyone entering the store.
Once identified, the man on the billboard in front of him greeted him personally, asked him if he liked [whatever he last bought], and advised that they have new fashions in a similar style in stock that he might be interested in.
It then went on to greet the next person.
I would rather see Country Western be banned. Why you may ask? It makes me go "catatonic" because it makes me so utterly sad.
The lyrics and scores are somewhat depressing, too.
Don't know if this is so great for NZ. If this decision hurts the US economy too much, there might be weapons of mass destruction not found in NZ.
FTFY, you'd "find" the same WMDs that were found in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I.e. the ones that the US brought to support its "liberation" of the NZ peoples from their oppressive regime.
Your planetary body is so fat, that even its moons have moons.
Mr. Burns: I can't believe we've overlooked this week's winner for so very, very long. We simply could not function without his tireless efforts. So, a round of applause for...this inanimate carbon rod!
In Rod We Trust!
- She
Not all TVs are plagued with that "doesn't report 1080p over VGA" issue, and it may also have been a problem with your video card not wanting to support 1920x1080/60.
My bravia had no issues reporting itself over a standard VGA connection as a PnP monitor supporting 1080p.
Just FYI
Oh look, someone who can see the forest despite the trees!
But it's way more fun to see the forest to spite the trees...
Damn you, vile tree; always tryin' to be up in my field of vision...
I sure showed you!
Ooh... something shiny... *walks away*
The G20 is just a ploy to allow the little nations not cool enough to be in the G8 think they're something special.
The G8 doesn't actually discuss anything important with them at the conference, or really listen to anything they say.
Our leaders will go behind their wooden curtain next week in Muskoka and deal with the real problems, like who'll host next year, and what type of food will be served.
that's no cherry (not anymore)