When the court is corrupted by intimidation, the law is kind of beside the point. Keith's trial was illegal on many, many points, which is why people are objecting to it.
Keith wasn't stalking anyone. He was picketing outside the Scientology compound in Hemet, California. The clams pulled out all the stops to shut him up, including lying in court. Keith wasn't allowed to even mention that the clams are trained in how to lie convincingly. Read and learn.
The 12 people on the jury never got to hear Keith's defense. Basically, he was prohibited from even telling them why he was picketing. That so-called "trial" was an absolute farce.
It's not like there are huge scientology gangs in prisons.
It doesn't take a "huge gang" to arrange a murder. Also, FYI, scientology's front groups pose as drug and alcohol treatment programs, and in many cases prison officials have let these clambots into the prisons without knowing who they are. Scientology recruitment in prisons does happen.
Ironic, that the law describes precisely what the clams did to Keith. He was exercising his first-amendment right by picketing, and they pulled out all the stops to shut him up.
Diamond is the hardest material known, but many other materials have higher tensile strength, elasicity, etc. You can shatter a diamond pretty easily, which is why diamond cutters have to be so well-trained.
These are not mutually exclusive. With Microsoft rendering real differentiation impossible, the race to the bottom was a foregone conclusion. It was going to happen eventually, whether it was Dell or some other company that started it. Now, with the lion's share of the profit in the industry going to Microsoft, all that windows users can look forward to is stagnation.
That assertion tells me that you're rather young, or that you have a short memory. At the time that I left the PC world for the Mac (1984), you could buy PCs from HP, DEC, IBM, Grid, and many other suppliers that were built like tanks.
Go on down to a surplus store sometime, and have a look at a Compaq, DEC Rainbow or TI PC from the mid-80's. That was some serious quality construction, and it was possible back when a manufacturer was able to make 25% gross margin or better on a PC. The motherboards wouldn't flex in your hand if you waved them in the air, the power supplies weren't under-spec'd, and the fans were adequate even if you had every slot populated. Ever since Dell and Gateway got into their headlong race to the bottom of the barrel, makers of higher quality hardware have been very hard to find.
Asus may be about as good as it gets today in that market, but that's not saying much.
you're forgetting the crucial point, No one* wants Windows to be secure
I beg to differ. I'm a Mac user, and I certainly do wish Microsoft would get their act together w/r/t security. I don't want to keep getting spam from botnets, and I don't want my cable modem bandwidth wasted by my neighbor's zombies trying to send me copies of their malware.
This is the Dell model. Hollow out your suppliers and when one dies, move to another.
That may be the Dell model, but there's one supplier they can't do that to, and that's Microsoft. The bulk of the profit on any PC these days goes to Redmond, and there just isn't enough margin available for the hardware makers to afford quality.
That's not geothermal energy, that's a ground-loop heat pump. It's a fine technology, but its promoters have been misappropriating the terminology for a few years now. Geothermal energy is energy derived from the heat of deep rocks, such as geysers.
Don't forget that it's a lot cooler in the desert at night. The optimal time for water-gathering probably isn't midday.
-jcr
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More like, reversing the observed effects of deforestation in other instances. Lebanon, like much of the rest of the middle east, used to be heavily forested. It's basically a desert today.
-jcr
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What's the mechanism that causes the air to cool?
TFA doesn't say, but there's a couple of ways it could be done. Just dropping air pressure would tend to cool the air somewhat, and that will happen on the leeward side of any airfoil moving through the atmosphere. When aircraft fly into icing conditions, the ice tends to collect on the upper surfaces of the wings where the air pressure is lower.
One other possibility is using a windmill to drive a Sterling-cycle engine. That will pump heat from one cylinder to the other, and water will condense on the cool side.
Any time I looked at my phone during the day, there'd be an alert on it asking if I wanted to accept the transfer. Of course, by then, the perp trying to spam me was out of range so I couldn't take the message just to figure out whose ass needed kicking.
Still, I think this is a great opportunity! How often do you have a spammer close enough to strangle them?
It turns out the owner was trying to sell the company, and had lied about material financial data.
This doesn't surprise me at all. In my experience, dishonesty is pervasive if it's present at all. I've never heard of any company that only lied about little things.
Well, maybe. If it gets fixed, then you know it's a company that can still act with competence. If the HR department wins the tussle, then sell them short.
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Well, no.
This would have to qualify as very good physical security.
-jcr
When the court is corrupted by intimidation, the law is kind of beside the point. Keith's trial was illegal on many, many points, which is why people are objecting to it.
-jcr
And you know this how?
Because I know the man, and because I trust his word over that of people who are trained to lie.
he was legitimately convincted.
If you think so, try reading the trial transcript.
-jcr
So, what's his defense for stalking?
Gee, when did you stop beating your wife?
Keith wasn't stalking anyone. He was picketing outside the Scientology compound in Hemet, California. The clams pulled out all the stops to shut him up, including lying in court. Keith wasn't allowed to even mention that the clams are trained in how to lie convincingly. Read and learn.
-jcr
The 12 people on the jury never got to hear Keith's defense. Basically, he was prohibited from even telling them why he was picketing. That so-called "trial" was an absolute farce.
-jcr
It's not like there are huge scientology gangs in prisons.
It doesn't take a "huge gang" to arrange a murder. Also, FYI, scientology's front groups pose as drug and alcohol treatment programs, and in many cases prison officials have let these clambots into the prisons without knowing who they are. Scientology recruitment in prisons does happen.
-jcr
Ironic, that the law describes precisely what the clams did to Keith. He was exercising his first-amendment right by picketing, and they pulled out all the stops to shut him up.
-jcr
Diamond is the hardest material known, but many other materials have higher tensile strength, elasicity, etc. You can shatter a diamond pretty easily, which is why diamond cutters have to be so well-trained.
-jcr
I know people on /. love Google without reservation,
Whatever gave you that idea? Google gets knocked when they deserve it, just like any other company.
-jcr
These are not mutually exclusive. With Microsoft rendering real differentiation impossible, the race to the bottom was a foregone conclusion. It was going to happen eventually, whether it was Dell or some other company that started it. Now, with the lion's share of the profit in the industry going to Microsoft, all that windows users can look forward to is stagnation.
-jcr
There are plenty of quality PC makers out there
That assertion tells me that you're rather young, or that you have a short memory. At the time that I left the PC world for the Mac (1984), you could buy PCs from HP, DEC, IBM, Grid, and many other suppliers that were built like tanks.
Go on down to a surplus store sometime, and have a look at a Compaq, DEC Rainbow or TI PC from the mid-80's. That was some serious quality construction, and it was possible back when a manufacturer was able to make 25% gross margin or better on a PC. The motherboards wouldn't flex in your hand if you waved them in the air, the power supplies weren't under-spec'd, and the fans were adequate even if you had every slot populated. Ever since Dell and Gateway got into their headlong race to the bottom of the barrel, makers of higher quality hardware have been very hard to find.
Asus may be about as good as it gets today in that market, but that's not saying much.
-jcr
you're forgetting the crucial point, No one* wants Windows to be secure
I beg to differ. I'm a Mac user, and I certainly do wish Microsoft would get their act together w/r/t security. I don't want to keep getting spam from botnets, and I don't want my cable modem bandwidth wasted by my neighbor's zombies trying to send me copies of their malware.
-jcr
#2 is wishful thinking.
-jcr
I have never owned DELL, except for the fact that someone opened an account with my SSN#
WTF? Why in the hell is a computer vendor asking for a customer's SSN?
-jcr
This is the Dell model. Hollow out your suppliers and when one dies, move to another.
That may be the Dell model, but there's one supplier they can't do that to, and that's Microsoft. The bulk of the profit on any PC these days goes to Redmond, and there just isn't enough margin available for the hardware makers to afford quality.
-jcr
when man plays with mother nature, we almost inevitably come out on the losing end.
I'm sure that will come as a surprise to all of the people who routinely live longer than 40 years, as our ancestors in the stone age did.
Of course, if you really believe what you say, then you should probably go freeze in the dark.
-jcr
That's not geothermal energy, that's a ground-loop heat pump. It's a fine technology, but its promoters have been misappropriating the terminology for a few years now.
Geothermal energy is energy derived from the heat of deep rocks, such as geysers.
-jcr
Don't forget that it's a lot cooler in the desert at night. The optimal time for water-gathering probably isn't midday.
-jcr
More like, reversing the observed effects of deforestation in other instances. Lebanon, like much of the rest of the middle east, used to be heavily forested. It's basically a desert today.
-jcr
What's the mechanism that causes the air to cool?
TFA doesn't say, but there's a couple of ways it could be done. Just dropping air pressure would tend to cool the air somewhat, and that will happen on the leeward side of any airfoil moving through the atmosphere. When aircraft fly into icing conditions, the ice tends to collect on the upper surfaces of the wings where the air pressure is lower.
One other possibility is using a windmill to drive a Sterling-cycle engine. That will pump heat from one cylinder to the other, and water will condense on the cool side.
-jcr
I can't wait for the luddite arguments against tide power. "But it will slow the moon down! EEEK!"
-jcr
Any time I looked at my phone during the day, there'd be an alert on it asking if I wanted to accept the transfer. Of course, by then, the perp trying to spam me was out of range so I couldn't take the message just to figure out whose ass needed kicking.
Still, I think this is a great opportunity! How often do you have a spammer close enough to strangle them?
-jcr
I would have thought that, after all these years, Slashdot editors would have learned to be editors.
Ok, that's worth a +5 "funny" right there.
-jcr
It turns out the owner was trying to sell the company, and had lied about material financial data.
This doesn't surprise me at all. In my experience, dishonesty is pervasive if it's present at all. I've never heard of any company that only lied about little things.
-jcr
Then you hang up, and shit gets fixed.
Well, maybe. If it gets fixed, then you know it's a company that can still act with competence. If the HR department wins the tussle, then sell them short.
-jcr