It happens with
my other account
too. I think the
comment window is
even narrower in
IE7 than in firefox
So, three different browsers, two different usernames, and three different machines, with two different operating systems, all give me a narrow comment box.
Once you're at border security, you're not in the US anymore, so your rights don't apply.
If that's the case, then the border guards are also not in the US anymore, and are thus acting without any authority whatsoever, other than being armed with big guns and no sense of humour.
I thought that you had the right to be secure in your papers and personal effects. Fourth ammendment, google tells me. I hope this raises a big enough stink to become an election issue. The DHS needs to be reigned in something fierce.
Well, technically ICBMs leave the atmosphere on their path to the target so we can do that already...
Although the fact that they're ballistic (following the path determined only by initial velocity and gravity)) technically means that they are in orbit, most people don't consider a highly eccentric trajectory that intersects the planet's surface to be an orbit. Also, merely leaving the atmosphere does not count as being in orbit.
It appears that within an hour there was a workaround posted on the same forum.
Okay, so ten out of ten for Linux and Open Source, but minus several million for needing to tweak perfectly good code to compensate for deliberate sabotage by a BIOS.
Whatever happened to the concept of generic hardware? It usedc to be that when you bought a printer, it would work with everything. They published the escape codes that you used to change fonts, or draw lines, or whatever. Same thing with modems. You used to be able to grab any modem off the shelf and expect it to work with any computer.
Somewhere along the line, hardware started becoming Windows Only. Modems became Winmodems. Printers became Winprinters. I'm guessing the same thing applies to webcams, and scanners, and other hardware. Now we've got a motherboard with a Windows only BIOS. It sickens me.
I stand (or rather sit) corrected. I never understood the purpose of overlapping memory addresses, having never got around to programming down at that level. My only concern was in freeing as much memory as I could. The tools I used broke memory down as I described above, so that's the mental picture I have.
In the olden days if you had 637K of free space, then you had a virus that had reset the top of memory pointer. The x86 computers had a one megabyte address space, broken down into 16 64K pages. The first 10 pages (10*64K=640K) were RAM, the last 6 were reserved for hardware, ROM, etc.
I've met Les Stroud. Trust me, there is a lot of background work that happens before he goes out there and films it all himself. After he and his team decide what scenario they're going to shoot, they scout out locations, talk with local experts, rent equipment, etc. Hooking a lift from the local seal hunter only gets you to Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet, Baffin Island, Nunavut territory, Canada). It doesn't get you back to Toronto.
When Les is out there filming, there is a crew on standby, ready to pull him out. There are airfare costs, helicopter rentals, satellite phone (Les carries a satellite phone with him on these outings so that he can call for help if need be). None of this is free.
Actually, no I did not realize that. However, it does make sense: The bigger the surface, the more signal gets captured. I've only ever seen radio telescopes on TV and in print, so they all seem to be roughly the same size to me. I have seen pictures of arrays of telesopes, all pointing in the same direction. I came to the conclusion that it is cheaper/easier/better to build an array of "standard" sized dishes than to build a huge super-dish.
You do realize that they can take the signals from two distant observatories, crank them through some math, and wind up with an image as if seen by a telescope that has a diameter of the distance between the observatories, right? We already measure stuff with a virtual dish the size of the planet. Its called interferometry. Dish the size of France: Yawn. Dish on the quiet side of the moon: Priceless.
Yes, it costs money; but isn't your privacy worth $20-50?
You just sent shivers down my spine. That line sounded like one of those insurance commercials: "Isn't the peace of mind from knowing your family won't be burdened with unexpected funeral costs worth $1 a day?"
So, we have to buy our privacy now? Do you propose that we pay to guarantee our other rights as well? How much is the right to free speech worth? How much would you pay to be able to travel, to meet with your friends and family? How about my right to legal representation? Who do I buy this "protection" from? The Government... Big Business... The Mob?
We will have to wait for telegraphy to die before that happens. There are many ways to send telegrams other than Western Union. Ask any ham radio operator.
Oh, give me a clone Of my own flesh and bone With its Y-chromosome changed to X And when it is grown Then my own little clone Will be of the opposite sex.
(Chorus) Clone, clone of my own, With your Y-Chromosome changed to X And when I'm alone With my own little clone We will both think of nothing but sex.
I vote that we stop these "grand tour" types of missions. We need to have more Cassini style missions: placing the satellite in orbit around the target. As far as I know only Earth, Mars, and Saturn have satellites (in the telemetry sense, not the astonomy sense) around them.
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It happens with
my other account
too. I think the
comment window is
even narrower in
IE7 than in firefox
So, three different browsers, two different usernames, and three different machines, with two different operating systems, all give me a narrow comment box.
Somehow I don't think it's just me.
My brain is a device that can record patterns in an analog form. If they want it, they'll have to get it over my dead body
Your proposal is acceptable.
Once you're at border security, you're not in the US anymore, so your rights don't apply.
If that's the case, then the border guards are also not in the US anymore, and are thus acting without any authority whatsoever, other than being armed with big guns and no sense of humour.
I thought that you had the right to be secure in your papers and personal effects. Fourth ammendment, google tells me. I hope this raises a big enough stink to become an election issue. The DHS needs to be reigned in something fierce.
In more plain language: if you throw it up and it comes back down, it's not in orbit.
Even if you throw it high enough to reach the vacuum of space itself.
Well, technically ICBMs leave the atmosphere on their path to the target so we can do that already...
Although the fact that they're ballistic (following the path determined only by initial velocity and gravity)) technically means that they are in orbit, most people don't consider a highly eccentric trajectory that intersects the planet's surface to be an orbit. Also, merely leaving the atmosphere does not count as being in orbit.
It appears that within an hour there was a workaround posted on the same forum.
Okay, so ten out of ten for Linux and Open Source, but minus several million for needing to tweak perfectly good code to compensate for deliberate sabotage by a BIOS.
Whatever happened to the concept of generic hardware? It usedc to be that when you bought a printer, it would work with everything. They published the escape codes that you used to change fonts, or draw lines, or whatever. Same thing with modems. You used to be able to grab any modem off the shelf and expect it to work with any computer.
Somewhere along the line, hardware started becoming Windows Only. Modems became Winmodems. Printers became Winprinters. I'm guessing the same thing applies to webcams, and scanners, and other hardware. Now we've got a motherboard with a Windows only BIOS. It sickens me.
"winging it off the dunes at break neck speeds" - You just reminded me of the video clip of the Jawa sandcrawler participating in the pod race.
I stand (or rather sit) corrected. I never understood the purpose of overlapping memory addresses, having never got around to programming down at that level. My only concern was in freeing as much memory as I could. The tools I used broke memory down as I described above, so that's the mental picture I have.
In the olden days if you had 637K of free space, then you had a virus that had reset the top of memory pointer. The x86 computers had a one megabyte address space, broken down into 16 64K pages. The first 10 pages (10*64K=640K) were RAM, the last 6 were reserved for hardware, ROM, etc.
When Les is out there filming, there is a crew on standby, ready to pull him out. There are airfare costs, helicopter rentals, satellite phone (Les carries a satellite phone with him on these outings so that he can call for help if need be). None of this is free.
Oh man, that's funny.... Lawyers in heaven... that's rich.
Well then you wouldn't be able to receive tv signals, would you?
Are they intending to chip the janitorial staff as well? What about management, security, etc? Do they get chipped as well?
VCR stands for Virtual Creation Resequencer, not Video Cassette Recorder silly!
Actually, no I did not realize that. However, it does make sense: The bigger the surface, the more signal gets captured. I've only ever seen radio telescopes on TV and in print, so they all seem to be roughly the same size to me. I have seen pictures of arrays of telesopes, all pointing in the same direction. I came to the conclusion that it is cheaper/easier/better to build an array of "standard" sized dishes than to build a huge super-dish.
You do realize that they can take the signals from two distant observatories, crank them through some math, and wind up with an image as if seen by a telescope that has a diameter of the distance between the observatories, right? We already measure stuff with a virtual dish the size of the planet. Its called interferometry. Dish the size of France: Yawn. Dish on the quiet side of the moon: Priceless.
Yes, it costs money; but isn't your privacy worth $20-50?
You just sent shivers down my spine. That line sounded like one of those insurance commercials: "Isn't the peace of mind from knowing your family won't be burdened with unexpected funeral costs worth $1 a day?"
So, we have to buy our privacy now? Do you propose that we pay to guarantee our other rights as well? How much is the right to free speech worth? How much would you pay to be able to travel, to meet with your friends and family? How about my right to legal representation? Who do I buy this "protection" from? The Government... Big Business... The Mob?
We will have to wait for telegraphy to die before that happens. There are many ways to send telegrams other than Western Union. Ask any ham radio operator.
Telegrams were alive and well in 1955, the year Marty received the telegram from "Doc" Brown. Get your time lines straight.
I had an email in a frame once, but then I closed the browser...
Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With its Y-chromosome changed to X
And when it is grown
Then my own little clone
Will be of the opposite sex.
(Chorus)
Clone, clone of my own,
With your Y-Chromosome changed to X
And when I'm alone
With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
Asimov and Garrett
I vote that we stop these "grand tour" types of missions. We need to have more Cassini style missions: placing the satellite in orbit around the target. As far as I know only Earth, Mars, and Saturn have satellites (in the telemetry sense, not the astonomy sense) around them.
Every time someone uses a '±' symbol, I'm going to get $50!
I'm sure that some font creator has beaten you to that, my friend.