In a Criminal Case, it must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. A reasonable doubt is a fair doubt based upon reason and common sense, not an arbitrary or possible doubt. To convict a criminal defendant, a jury must be persuaded of his or her guilt to a level beyond "apparently" or "probably". Proof beyond a reasonable doubt is the highest level of proof that law requires.
In a Civil Lawsuit on the other hand, the preponderance of evidence carries the day. It means that the greater weight and value of the credible evidence, taken as a whole. belongs to one side in a lawsuit rather to the other side. In other words, the party whose evidence is more convincing has a "preponderance of evidence" on its side and must, as a matter of law, prevail in the lawsuit because it has met its burden of proof.
Renewal registration becaome optional on June 26th, 1992. Works copyrighted between January 1, 1964, and December 31, 1977, automatically renewed even if registration not made.
There's no regulation threatening to ban model rocketry, there's a requirement for shipping companies who deliver the larger motors to have their employees undergo background checks and the like, because the larger motors are classed as dangerous/explosive objects.
If you can get the motors, there's nothing new stopping you from firing them off. It's the delivery of the big motors that's the issue.
They use the Russian Progress M1 to ferry supplies and fuel, and to provide for reboosts when it's there. It's also used as a trash container, and is jetisoned to burn up in the atmosphere when it's full.
That said, the Progress carries something on the order of 2-3 tons tons of cargo, fuel, and water. Total Payload limit is 2230-3200 KG, which includes the fuel necessary to rendevous with the ISS; 1700 - 1950 KG, 185-250 of which are available as surplus fuel for the station. It has a maximum pressurized (dry) cargo capacity of 1800 KG, and up to 300 KG of water.
The Italian built (US owned) Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules, that fly on the space shuttle, and can be docked to any ISS port for an extended stay can carry up to 10 tons of cargo in 16 standard space station equipment racks. They can carry self-contained experiments or equipment upgrades in these racks and just float them into the ISS and plug them in. They are also capable of carrying refrigerated storage compartments to carry fresh food to the ISS.
What if I buy a candy bar in one store, stick it in my pocket, then go to another store.
If it ever gets to the point that all the RFID paranoids claim, each product will have a globally unique serial number, so the store you enter will know that the candy-bar in your pocket was never in that stores inventory, or had been sold previously.
NASA told them there has been a foam impact on the wing once they found out about it (a day or two after the launch during routine review of the high-speed film of the launch).
They also told them there was nothing to worry about, and that all the engineer's on the ground had gone through the scenarios and didn't think it'd pose a problem. It wasn't some big secret or anything.
The foam fell into the slip-stream between the shuttle and the external tank (it's actually where it came from, the front bipod that connects the shuttle's nose to the external tank)
All the footage you've seen has been dramatically slowed down, so that you could actually see the event occur. It's a pretty simple matter to analyze the video footage to determine how fast any object in the frame was moving, in relation to the relatively stable (in the frame) shuttle.
Columbia was in the wrong sort of orbit to be able to rendevous with the ISS, nor was it capable of generating enough delta-v to enter a rendevous orbit.
This is one of the reasons the board recommended that all future shuttle flights (apart from the already scheduled Hubble Servicing Mission), fly to the ISS, or in Orbits that are capable of rendevousing with the ISS.
Hubble was designed for on-orbit servicing (which is different from repairs).
It's got nice easy equipment racks, such that they can just pull one piece of science equipment out, and roll another one in and hook it up.
Quite a bit different from repairs, patching broken tiles on the Shuttle (each one is different, and actually quite brittle), or replacing the carbon-carbon leading edge panels.
This was the 7th Test, firing a chunk of foam at an actual Carbon-Carbon panel from Shuttle Atlantis.
The first story from over a month ago, was a test on one of the Fiber-glass panels from Enterprise.
So it costs him $900 in the first year with the laser printer, and $700 in the first year with the InkJet ($100 for the Printer, $100/2 months on ink).
The second year, it only costs him another $100 for the Laser, and another $600 for the InkJet, which is where it makes a difference.
give us what we want, or we will release it publically.
Quit modding this idiot up.
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The exact same post get's made to every RFID story, and it's completely paranoid rambling that is far more expensive and complex to actually get to work than simply kidnapping these people when they show up at their supposed place of employment.
This is the kind of information people need to read, to counter all the paranoid babbling, by people who are only reading negative articles about this stuff and don't really know how it works.
when you head up to the local military base to take an M1A1 Abrahm's for a test spin. You're a tax payer, you paid for the damn thing, about time they let you drive it, right?
and subscribe to the ideals that the source code should be freely given away, don't go crying to the government that companies that have the "audacity" to charge for their product have more money to put towards development than you do.
The Government of Australia could always require that a "closed source" company provide their source-code in Escrow, to protect their investment should the "closed source" software provider go bankrupt.
The company I work for has done that before for some large clients. Provided our Source Code (fully compilable) to an Escrow firm as part of our contract. If we go out of business, they get the source code so they can continue to maintain the application as needed.
Imagine your hypothetical network, your own individual device had a theoritical speed of 11Mbps.
Everyone in your office of 60 people has their own little personal communicator. They're all "plugged" into the metropolitan "mesh network".
Someone in your office picks up his communicator to call home. Punches in his number and hits the dial button.
It sends this number out to all 60 people in your office, looking for the number. It's not one of these, so all 60 communicators broadcast it out to someone else. Each of the 60 is seeing crosstalk from each other as they get resent that number, and they're also passing it along to the people walking by on the street, 34 people on a bus passing by the office building, and all 300 other people in the building.
Gradually, your phonecall keeps propagating out like the ripples on a pond, taking a bit of the bandwidth and a bit of the processing time of every single person in the metro area as it searches for your home phone (which your wife happens to have with her at the supermarket, because she's doing some grocery shopping before picking the kids up from soccer practice)
Eventually, your call makes it over to someone in the area of the supermarket, who finally finds your home phone number on your wife's communicator. Then several other people also passing the call along, searching for the number pass it along and your wife's device is flooded by 800 people all trying to initiate your call to her for you.
Ok, so maybe broadcasting isn't the right way to do it. How about we maintain routing tables on everyone's little communicator, so that they know how to pick a route to find any given number.
So now everyone's communicator has to have a couple of gigabytes of ram to store routing tables for the entire planet. Routing tables that are constantly changing updating and propagating, by the way, as countless millions of people are hurtling down a highway at 100kmh, or flying over a metro area (or the rocky mountains, or the pacific oceean) in a plane at 500kmh.
So 90% of the bandwidth of the system is consumed updating the constantly changing routing information, and folks outside of a metro area are still dependant on a truck hurtling down the highway to route their calls from the farm to the fire department as their barn burns down.
It's simply an idiotic idea that has the kind of technological hurdles that make real network engineers who do this kind of stuff with a relatively fixed state wired network, curl up into the fetal position and sob themselves to sleep at thought of them.
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In a Criminal Case, it must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. A reasonable doubt is a fair doubt based upon reason and common sense, not an arbitrary or possible doubt. To convict a criminal defendant, a jury must be persuaded of his or her guilt to a level beyond "apparently" or "probably". Proof beyond a reasonable doubt is the highest level of proof that law requires.
In a Civil Lawsuit on the other hand, the preponderance of evidence carries the day. It means that the greater weight and value of the credible evidence, taken as a whole. belongs to one side in a lawsuit rather to the other side. In other words, the party whose evidence is more convincing has a "preponderance of evidence" on its side and must, as a matter of law, prevail in the lawsuit because it has met its burden of proof.
Renewal registration becaome optional on June 26th, 1992. Works copyrighted between January 1, 1964, and December 31, 1977, automatically renewed even if registration not made.
Did you read the article you're linking to?
There's no regulation threatening to ban model rocketry, there's a requirement for shipping companies who deliver the larger motors to have their employees undergo background checks and the like, because the larger motors are classed as dangerous/explosive objects.
If you can get the motors, there's nothing new stopping you from firing them off. It's the delivery of the big motors that's the issue.
They use the Russian Progress M1 to ferry supplies and fuel, and to provide for reboosts when it's there. It's also used as a trash container, and is jetisoned to burn up in the atmosphere when it's full.
That said, the Progress carries something on the order of 2-3 tons tons of cargo, fuel, and water. Total Payload limit is 2230-3200 KG, which includes the fuel necessary to rendevous with the ISS; 1700 - 1950 KG, 185-250 of which are available as surplus fuel for the station. It has a maximum pressurized (dry) cargo capacity of 1800 KG, and up to 300 KG of water.
The Italian built (US owned) Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules, that fly on the space shuttle, and can be docked to any ISS port for an extended stay can carry up to 10 tons of cargo in 16 standard space station equipment racks. They can carry self-contained experiments or equipment upgrades in these racks and just float them into the ISS and plug them in. They are also capable of carrying refrigerated storage compartments to carry fresh food to the ISS.
Info on Progress M1
Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules Information
Davey and Goliath, the stop-motion "cartoon" of the 1960's.
Though, I'm not really sure how Napster vs the RIAA is a Davey and Goliath story of the 21st Century.
http://www.daveyandgoliath.org/
For it to have any correlation to the reported drop in file sharing, 100% of file sharers would have to be teens taking 1 day off for the 4th of July.
It's completely absurd.
any time they want, because they would break every game in existence, their own older titles included. Use your head for christsake!
If the music isn't as good, why are people going to the concerts?
What if I buy a candy bar in one store, stick it in my pocket, then go to another store.
If it ever gets to the point that all the RFID paranoids claim, each product will have a globally unique serial number, so the store you enter will know that the candy-bar in your pocket was never in that stores inventory, or had been sold previously.
NASA told them there has been a foam impact on the wing once they found out about it (a day or two after the launch during routine review of the high-speed film of the launch).
They also told them there was nothing to worry about, and that all the engineer's on the ground had gone through the scenarios and didn't think it'd pose a problem. It wasn't some big secret or anything.
The foam fell into the slip-stream between the shuttle and the external tank (it's actually where it came from, the front bipod that connects the shuttle's nose to the external tank)
All the footage you've seen has been dramatically slowed down, so that you could actually see the event occur. It's a pretty simple matter to analyze the video footage to determine how fast any object in the frame was moving, in relation to the relatively stable (in the frame) shuttle.
Columbia was in the wrong sort of orbit to be able to rendevous with the ISS, nor was it capable of generating enough delta-v to enter a rendevous orbit.
This is one of the reasons the board recommended that all future shuttle flights (apart from the already scheduled Hubble Servicing Mission), fly to the ISS, or in Orbits that are capable of rendevousing with the ISS.
Hubble was designed for on-orbit servicing (which is different from repairs).
It's got nice easy equipment racks, such that they can just pull one piece of science equipment out, and roll another one in and hook it up.
Quite a bit different from repairs, patching broken tiles on the Shuttle (each one is different, and actually quite brittle), or replacing the carbon-carbon leading edge panels.
This was the 7th Test, firing a chunk of foam at an actual Carbon-Carbon panel from Shuttle Atlantis. The first story from over a month ago, was a test on one of the Fiber-glass panels from Enterprise.
How do you remote in to fix the machine if they're on a firewalled broadband ISP, and their network card is borked?
viewable area as that 21" Monitor.
So it costs him $900 in the first year with the laser printer, and $700 in the first year with the InkJet ($100 for the Printer, $100/2 months on ink). The second year, it only costs him another $100 for the Laser, and another $600 for the InkJet, which is where it makes a difference.
It was unfit for human consumption. It was too hot to drink as it was sold.
give us what we want, or we will release it publically.
The exact same post get's made to every RFID story, and it's completely paranoid rambling that is far more expensive and complex to actually get to work than simply kidnapping these people when they show up at their supposed place of employment.
This is the kind of information people need to read, to counter all the paranoid babbling, by people who are only reading negative articles about this stuff and don't really know how it works.
when you head up to the local military base to take an M1A1 Abrahm's for a test spin. You're a tax payer, you paid for the damn thing, about time they let you drive it, right?
and subscribe to the ideals that the source code should be freely given away, don't go crying to the government that companies that have the "audacity" to charge for their product have more money to put towards development than you do.
The Government of Australia could always require that a "closed source" company provide their source-code in Escrow, to protect their investment should the "closed source" software provider go bankrupt.
The company I work for has done that before for some large clients. Provided our Source Code (fully compilable) to an Escrow firm as part of our contract. If we go out of business, they get the source code so they can continue to maintain the application as needed.
You didn't actually think about this did you?
Imagine your hypothetical network, your own individual device had a theoritical speed of 11Mbps.
Everyone in your office of 60 people has their own little personal communicator. They're all "plugged" into the metropolitan "mesh network".
Someone in your office picks up his communicator to call home. Punches in his number and hits the dial button.
It sends this number out to all 60 people in your office, looking for the number. It's not one of these, so all 60 communicators broadcast it out to someone else. Each of the 60 is seeing crosstalk from each other as they get resent that number, and they're also passing it along to the people walking by on the street, 34 people on a bus passing by the office building, and all 300 other people in the building.
Gradually, your phonecall keeps propagating out like the ripples on a pond, taking a bit of the bandwidth and a bit of the processing time of every single person in the metro area as it searches for your home phone (which your wife happens to have with her at the supermarket, because she's doing some grocery shopping before picking the kids up from soccer practice)
Eventually, your call makes it over to someone in the area of the supermarket, who finally finds your home phone number on your wife's communicator. Then several other people also passing the call along, searching for the number pass it along and your wife's device is flooded by 800 people all trying to initiate your call to her for you.
Ok, so maybe broadcasting isn't the right way to do it. How about we maintain routing tables on everyone's little communicator, so that they know how to pick a route to find any given number.
So now everyone's communicator has to have a couple of gigabytes of ram to store routing tables for the entire planet. Routing tables that are constantly changing updating and propagating, by the way, as countless millions of people are hurtling down a highway at 100kmh, or flying over a metro area (or the rocky mountains, or the pacific oceean) in a plane at 500kmh.
So 90% of the bandwidth of the system is consumed updating the constantly changing routing information, and folks outside of a metro area are still dependant on a truck hurtling down the highway to route their calls from the farm to the fire department as their barn burns down.
It's simply an idiotic idea that has the kind of technological hurdles that make real network engineers who do this kind of stuff with a relatively fixed state wired network, curl up into the fetal position and sob themselves to sleep at thought of them.