Mordor's not so bad. It's was a cold, wet, tough climb, and the descent wrecked my knee, and the smell of sulfur was in fact present. But there were no armies of Orcs or Urak-Hai (just level 1 Tourists, mostly friendly), and no giant spiders either.
My Congressman on the other hand - he rifles through my wallet as if it was his own personal treasury - grabbing whatever he desires to take. So that makes corporations the lesser of two evils (imho).
Short term. But in the medium and long terms (which have already arrived), the corporations just use the hand of government to reach into your pocket.
First amendment rights have been curtailed in this area--see the decision in Thomas v. Chicago Park District.
The Supreme Court of the United States decided that park police can require permits for public gatherings or photography/videorecordings on publicly owned property.
Nice bluff. But the ordinance in Thomas v. Chicago Park was a permit for large-scale events, not a photography permit. The opinion fails to even mention photography or video recordings.
The Chicago Parks District does require a permit for certain photography, but that permit was not the subject of that case.
With the equity markets down over 32% last year and the economy still deeply intrenched in a deflationary correction, buying any "stock" right now without a large and reliable dividend is not wise.
What, you'd prefer to buy when stocks are up? While it is true that a lot of investors do buy high and sell low, it's really not the best way to make money.
What do I know about THEIR job? Could I be a psychologist, nurse, heavy equipment technician, chemist, etc with my current knowledge? Then why should I expect them to know how to do my job?
When a plumber goes out to the same house, same people, to fix the same problem with the same simple cause and way of avoiding it (e.g. draining the outside faucet in the winter) that he informed them of the previous three times, he probably thinks of them as idiots.
Similarly, when an IT person has to fix the same problem, caused by the same person, which cause he has explained three times to that person, he probably thinks of that person as an idiot.
Neither of them is wrong. You don't have to be an expert to pay attention to expert advice, especially after having found out the hard way that not doing so results in problems.
A major advantage to natural gas is that it typically stays available during electrical outages. Gas stations around here can't sell you gas when the power is out, so if you underestimated how much to stockpile, you may end up with a shiny new generator that becomes useless when you need it most.
Some gas stations do have generators. If you get a gasoline generator, it's probably good to make a point of finding out which ones do, before the next major outage.
NOTE: Assume 150 hours to an oil change and 300 hours for plugs, so if you are expecting to be out for a week or more you'll need extra oil, oil filters and possibly a couple of extra spark plugs.
Probably not. Those numbers likely assume intermittent service; in continuous service the plugs and oil should last much longer.
I suppose you could give somebody the physical disk it's on and you'd be okay (legally, even loading into RAM is making a copy, but if you are a legal owner of a copy, the law gives you a right to make temporary copies in RAM).
Actually, it doesn't. 17 USC 117(a) applies to computer programs only, not music. Even the RIAA hasn't tried to play that card, however.
Color _Temperature_ is a red herring. You can get fluorescents in all sorts of color temperatures.
Color Rendering Index is the problem. Sunlight and incandescent bulbs have a CRI of 100 -- perfect. Those crappy greenish fluorescents everyone knows and hates have a CRI of about 55. A more common modern fluorescent in an office has a CRI in the high 70s. Colors just look wrong under fluorescents, and until someone comes up with practical fluorescents in the high 90s, they always will.
(there are a few very high CRI fluorescents, but they are expensive, inefficient, hard to find, and not available as CFLs)
You're going to go with a fancypants expensive satellite-based high-tech solution requiring lots of new legislation, training, infrastructure, and other costs, not to mention the overwhelming privacy violation -- instead of just raising the tax a little bit? What, seriously? I call shenanigans.
...and the bear says "You didn't really come here to HUNT, did you?"
The Miller test is beside the point; he was convicted on a federal child pornography statute, not just the federal obscenity statute. The child porn statute forbids mere possession.
..it appears they haven't broken the cipher, but instead managed to trick the handset and base into not enabling encryption in the first place. I'd guess (without any actual information) that it's an active attack where you intentionally interfere to force a disconnect, then trace the reconnection up to the point where encryption is requested, then fake a packet with encryption not requested (it's TDMA so you know exactly when it is going to come). For cordless phones this is a problem, but for PIN terminals and other dedicated DECT devices, it should in theory be simple to refuse to make certain non-encrypted connections or transmit sensitive data over them. However, in actual practice, nothing involving DECT is simple...
- Is ok i.e. drawn child pornography because no real childs harmed. What about more realistic 3d generation of the same scenes? (think in Final Fantasy movie or better quality). Where you draw that line?
You don't. No real child, it's not child porn. "Perfect" simulated child pornography can already be created without recourse to 3d rendering, by finding a willing adult who looks underage. So tech changes nothing.
I hope the circuit court takes this up en blanc and either reverses the 3-judge panel in favor of the 2002 Supreme Court ruling, or gives a point-by-point legal argument to the Supreme Court detailing exactly why the 2002 ruling either does not apply in this case or was itself wrong as it applies to this case and and why it should be refined to exempt cases like this one.
I hope the case goes to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court reverses it without comment. Rarely happens, though.
If you don't like any of the available parties then the realistic option is to start your own party and stand for government.
Because that's worked out SO well in the past. The two significant political parties in the United States both trace their origins to one of the original parties founded in the 18th century. The UK isn't quite so bad; they've replaced one of the major parties, once, since then.
The parents will either get the password or confiscate the computer.
That's why I always advise teens with Linux to set up a layered approach, with a false administrative user/password leading only to a virtual machine; the machine should contain a copy of the teen's real documents, not including anything it's vital the parents not see.
I've said it before on Slashdot, but I'll ask again: what can we do when our politicians try to do things like this. Writing letters (yes, real ones, on paper), voting and protesting have all been ignored. What realistic options are left to us?
If any realistic options were available, they'd be illegal -- and dangerous to talk about.
Sad as it may be, you might be able to get away with patenting it. Assuming there aren't rules against patenting what is already illegal. I say someone patents "A Method For Hiding Illegally Obtained Moolah By Utilizing A Shell Company."
Prior art, already published, and even taught in a class a few decades ago by one Tom J. Billman (now a guest of the Federal Bureau of Prisons).
For a software patent, "the machine" is the machine that results when the software is running on it. For example, when a computer is running a spreadsheet application, "the machine" is a "spreadsheet machine." (Don't believe it? Look it up.)
And that's the LESS-silly dodge.
Many software patents also claim the media that contains the software as a patentable device.
(only a software engineer)... but when you tell me that replacing copper wires with a (wireless) transmitter and receiver helps save power: well I am a non-believer. Sorry.
You're missing two things
1) High frequency RF is just plain weird and 2) This is all near-field stuff; even at 5Ghz a chip package is substantially smaller than a wavelength.
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Mordor's not so bad. It's was a cold, wet, tough climb, and the descent wrecked my knee, and the smell of sulfur was in fact present. But there were no armies of Orcs or Urak-Hai (just level 1 Tourists, mostly friendly), and no giant spiders either.
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Yeah, but what isn't?
Short term. But in the medium and long terms (which have already arrived), the corporations just use the hand of government to reach into your pocket.
Nice bluff. But the ordinance in Thomas v. Chicago Park was a permit for large-scale events, not a photography permit. The opinion fails to even mention photography or video recordings. The Chicago Parks District does require a permit for certain photography, but that permit was not the subject of that case.
What, you'd prefer to buy when stocks are up? While it is true that a lot of investors do buy high and sell low, it's really not the best way to make money.
When a plumber goes out to the same house, same people, to fix the same problem with the same simple cause and way of avoiding it (e.g. draining the outside faucet in the winter) that he informed them of the previous three times, he probably thinks of them as idiots. Similarly, when an IT person has to fix the same problem, caused by the same person, which cause he has explained three times to that person, he probably thinks of that person as an idiot. Neither of them is wrong. You don't have to be an expert to pay attention to expert advice, especially after having found out the hard way that not doing so results in problems.
No, they aren't. Anti-elitism is fashionable, but basically wrong. There really is a difference between idiots and intelligent people.
Prozac
Cymbalta
Wellbutrin
And if those don't cut it, there's always Heroin or even LSD.
If reality sucks, you shouldn't be upbeat. Unless you decouple your mood from reality, or your entire mind.
Some gas stations do have generators. If you get a gasoline generator, it's probably good to make a point of finding out which ones do, before the next major outage.
Probably not. Those numbers likely assume intermittent service; in continuous service the plugs and oil should last much longer.
Actually, it doesn't. 17 USC 117(a) applies to computer programs only, not music. Even the RIAA hasn't tried to play that card, however.
Color _Temperature_ is a red herring. You can get fluorescents in all sorts of color temperatures. Color Rendering Index is the problem. Sunlight and incandescent bulbs have a CRI of 100 -- perfect. Those crappy greenish fluorescents everyone knows and hates have a CRI of about 55. A more common modern fluorescent in an office has a CRI in the high 70s. Colors just look wrong under fluorescents, and until someone comes up with practical fluorescents in the high 90s, they always will. (there are a few very high CRI fluorescents, but they are expensive, inefficient, hard to find, and not available as CFLs)
The Miller test is beside the point; he was convicted on a federal child pornography statute, not just the federal obscenity statute. The child porn statute forbids mere possession.
But Dr. Falken, the same is true of chess, for at least one player.
..it appears they haven't broken the cipher, but instead managed to trick the handset and base into not enabling encryption in the first place. I'd guess (without any actual information) that it's an active attack where you intentionally interfere to force a disconnect, then trace the reconnection up to the point where encryption is requested, then fake a packet with encryption not requested (it's TDMA so you know exactly when it is going to come). For cordless phones this is a problem, but for PIN terminals and other dedicated DECT devices, it should in theory be simple to refuse to make certain non-encrypted connections or transmit sensitive data over them. However, in actual practice, nothing involving DECT is simple...
You don't. No real child, it's not child porn. "Perfect" simulated child pornography can already be created without recourse to 3d rendering, by finding a willing adult who looks underage. So tech changes nothing.
I hope the case goes to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court reverses it without comment. Rarely happens, though.
Because that's worked out SO well in the past. The two significant political parties in the United States both trace their origins to one of the original parties founded in the 18th century. The UK isn't quite so bad; they've replaced one of the major parties, once, since then.
That's why I always advise teens with Linux to set up a layered approach, with a false administrative user/password leading only to a virtual machine; the machine should contain a copy of the teen's real documents, not including anything it's vital the parents not see.
If any realistic options were available, they'd be illegal -- and dangerous to talk about.
Prior art, already published, and even taught in a class a few decades ago by one Tom J. Billman (now a guest of the Federal Bureau of Prisons).
And that's the LESS-silly dodge.
Many software patents also claim the media that contains the software as a patentable device.
You're missing two things
1) High frequency RF is just plain weird and
2) This is all near-field stuff; even at 5Ghz a chip package is substantially smaller than a wavelength.
Well, at least Microsoft has sped up their development cycle. Now they're stealing Apple's ideas before Apple has even implemented them.
ObInnuendo: Though somehow I'm not surprised it's Microsoft promoting a new way to take it in the rear.