actually every state in the country has some sort of legal mechanism that compells electors to vote for the candidate that recieved the majority popular vote of that state. either the vote is actually for a group of electors who have promised to vote for one of the candidates or there is a law that explicitly states that the electors must vote for the winning candidate in the state. the problem in florida in the last election was that the popular vote was very close and that there were some voting discrepencies.
the project involves the much needed expasion of secitons of interstate highways, and that's why the federal governement is involved. and you may never have been to boston, but if you've ever driven on an interstate highway then you can't complain too loudly, because everyone else's tax dollars pays to help maintain that highway too. the project isn't about making the city pretty so much as upgrading a highway that has been overcappacity since it opened.
they're basically expanding/renovating the existing highway system in the city of boston without shutting the city down. it's the most expensive public works project in history and has pushed the limits of civil engineering. info here. it was supposed to be done first in the late 90's around 2000 but it's looking more like 2010 if we're lucky. several phases have been completed and the new tunnel and bridge are open i believe.
neutron bombs. small nukes that could be launched by a single soldier that have an effective radius of about 1 mile. a flash of light followed by the death of ever human and animal in the area. the radiation lasts about half an hour and then it's perfectly safe. the idea durring the cold war was to use it on a tank batallion, wait and then clean the dead bodies out and use the tanks
not directed at anyone on this thread in particular, but i think they should also add an "idiot" classification. that way you can mod down people who say assinine stuff but aren't trying to be dicks.
if you actually read the article you'd have realized that one of the conditions for the DMA to support anti-spam legislation is that it would have overturn the regulations in 20 states. so basically they want "no forged headers" to be the extent of all the anti-spam laws in the country, which will make somewhat of an impact, say maybe 50 instead of 100 pieces of junkmail a day.
Notre Dame does the same thing also, although the University does not approve of filesharing on a moral level, but decided to respect student privacy. they packet shaping comes in because the network is dangerously overloaded as it is and letting filesharing run uninhibited would probably kill the network. they usually only worry about the popular ones (kazaa, winmx. etc) but some of the lesser known ones like blubster can still get fast downloads. the university also doesn't seem to be doing anything about internal p2p. one student set up an efficient search engine for windows shares that's very handy.
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except i doubt the headphones are anything but cheap ass sony ones, easily replaceable. it'd probably be just as easy to rip them out of the socket and then reglue an identical pair in there, good as new.
of course no matter what they do, someone somewhere is going to be able to record it. if you can hear it, it can be picked up by a microphone and can be digitally encoded. just set up a mic to each ear piece one at a time and record the chanels as wave seperately then combine them, may not be the best quality rip, but if done properly it'd be good enough
the case may be common sense to anyone who regularly reads/. but there are people out there who still don't really understand the internet. some of those people could be judges in higher courts; this way he explains the internet and clearly lays out why he made the judgement. i'm sure that 27 pages is a relatively short judgement.
i was considering applying for one fo the pre-frosh slots, sounded like a really good deal, take a year to help the school set up the classes and you get 4 years of college education for free. the incentive to not make the classes all joke classes is that if the school thanks to some of your imput becomes a top engineering school at some point it reflects pretty well on you. and the students they sent the applications to were not exactly slackers. from what i remember of the information they sent me, they only sent out a few hundred applicaiton to top students. i was #2 in my class, 1470 sats and all that stuff.
I chose not to because the risk of going to a school with no track record scared me away. I'm at Notre Dame now and i'm gonna plug the engineering school there for a bit. There have been a lot of curriculum changes in the past few years and the departments all have a goal to produce "renaissance engineers." they teach you a lot about other engineering disciplines and you interact with other majors a fair amount your first few years. freshman year they had us doing stuff like launching softballs from slingshots for acuracy, building lego robots, designing bridges and writing software to control a chemical reaciton. Then there's the fact that there are a bunch of other colleges in the university in case engineering turns out not to be your thing. football games are fun too:)
basically what i'm getting at is that the idea that olin college isn't the first college to try the new approach, but they're making it the whole purpose of their school.
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i code in haiku
makes it much more challenging
beauty, funciton, bliss
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should have previewed it
i forgot to add the tags
made ass of myself
should read:
you missed the point
haiku is copyrighted
same one can be sent
spammers will get sued
if they do not comply
with copywright notice
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you missed the point
haiku is copyrighted
same one can be sent
spammers will get sued
if they do not comply with
copywright notice
IBM also pattents EVERYTHING. The head of the R and D department came and gave a guest lecutre at our school and explained that what they do is pattent anything that has to do with anything so that in a dispute (esp. with small companies) they almost always win by sheer volume of pattents.
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actually every state in the country has some sort of legal mechanism that compells electors to vote for the candidate that recieved the majority popular vote of that state. either the vote is actually for a group of electors who have promised to vote for one of the candidates or there is a law that explicitly states that the electors must vote for the winning candidate in the state. the problem in florida in the last election was that the popular vote was very close and that there were some voting discrepencies.
the project involves the much needed expasion of secitons of interstate highways, and that's why the federal governement is involved. and you may never have been to boston, but if you've ever driven on an interstate highway then you can't complain too loudly, because everyone else's tax dollars pays to help maintain that highway too. the project isn't about making the city pretty so much as upgrading a highway that has been overcappacity since it opened.
14 billion about 4 years ago, that was when the shit hit the fan and the federal government cleaned house of the most corrupt officials working on it
they're basically expanding/renovating the existing highway system in the city of boston without shutting the city down. it's the most expensive public works project in history and has pushed the limits of civil engineering. info here. it was supposed to be done first in the late 90's around 2000 but it's looking more like 2010 if we're lucky. several phases have been completed and the new tunnel and bridge are open i believe.
:gasp: not foam DNA and enzymes
sometimes i really wish there was a bad joke moderation option, like right now
neutron bombs. small nukes that could be launched by a single soldier that have an effective radius of about 1 mile. a flash of light followed by the death of ever human and animal in the area. the radiation lasts about half an hour and then it's perfectly safe. the idea durring the cold war was to use it on a tank batallion, wait and then clean the dead bodies out and use the tanks
funny, i always thought that washing machines were for clothes; maybe i have to update the firmware on mine...
hey, maybe they left a debuging id# in there, like 11111 or 000001, the way microsoft does with the cd keys.
not directed at anyone on this thread in particular, but i think they should also add an "idiot" classification. that way you can mod down people who say assinine stuff but aren't trying to be dicks.
THIRD BASE!
no, what's the guy's name on second base
naturally!
if you actually read the article you'd have realized that one of the conditions for the DMA to support anti-spam legislation is that it would have overturn the regulations in 20 states. so basically they want "no forged headers" to be the extent of all the anti-spam laws in the country, which will make somewhat of an impact, say maybe 50 instead of 100 pieces of junkmail a day.
Notre Dame does the same thing also, although the University does not approve of filesharing on a moral level, but decided to respect student privacy. they packet shaping comes in because the network is dangerously overloaded as it is and letting filesharing run uninhibited would probably kill the network. they usually only worry about the popular ones (kazaa, winmx. etc) but some of the lesser known ones like blubster can still get fast downloads. the university also doesn't seem to be doing anything about internal p2p. one student set up an efficient search engine for windows shares that's very handy.
"a lawyer who defends himself has a fool for a client"
good job reading the article
of course no matter what they do, someone somewhere is going to be able to record it. if you can hear it, it can be picked up by a microphone and can be digitally encoded. just set up a mic to each ear piece one at a time and record the chanels as wave seperately then combine them, may not be the best quality rip, but if done properly it'd be good enough
the case may be common sense to anyone who regularly reads /. but there are people out there who still don't really understand the internet. some of those people could be judges in higher courts; this way he explains the internet and clearly lays out why he made the judgement. i'm sure that 27 pages is a relatively short judgement.
I chose not to because the risk of going to a school with no track record scared me away. I'm at Notre Dame now and i'm gonna plug the engineering school there for a bit. There have been a lot of curriculum changes in the past few years and the departments all have a goal to produce "renaissance engineers." they teach you a lot about other engineering disciplines and you interact with other majors a fair amount your first few years. freshman year they had us doing stuff like launching softballs from slingshots for acuracy, building lego robots, designing bridges and writing software to control a chemical reaciton. Then there's the fact that there are a bunch of other colleges in the university in case engineering turns out not to be your thing. football games are fun too :)
basically what i'm getting at is that the idea that olin college isn't the first college to try the new approach, but they're making it the whole purpose of their school.
i code in haiku
makes it much more challenging
beauty, funciton, bliss
i forgot to add the tags
made ass of myself
should read:
you missed the point
haiku is copyrighted
same one can be sent
spammers will get sued
if they do not comply
with copywright notice
you missed the point haiku is copyrighted same one can be sent spammers will get sued if they do not comply with copywright notice
IBM also pattents EVERYTHING. The head of the R and D department came and gave a guest lecutre at our school and explained that what they do is pattent anything that has to do with anything so that in a dispute (esp. with small companies) they almost always win by sheer volume of pattents.
heh turn the environmentalists against themselves, then maybe i can eat my doublecheseburger in peace while drinking out of a styrafoam cup.