Actually you can thank the buildings designers for that. most skyscrapers suffer from updrafts, that could be strong enough to lift 120 pounds. Think about it, that cute secretary in those awesome heels, walks by the open window and gets sucked out of it because the wind shifts just right. It has happened.
Ever heard of an amazing invention called screens?
I'm getting a feeling of déjà vu. This sounds like last summer's offshore oil well leak all over again. Sooner or later the truth will come out. Trying to hide things now only makes it look like they're trying to cover something up.
Actually, IANAL either, BUT I do know this much - if you give a false statement to the cops (whether a witness report, police report, or otherwise) you could be charged with:
- Giving a false statement to police.
- Filing a false police report.
- Impeding an official investigation.
Actually, I believe the above is true only if the police officer has identified him/herself as such. So this wouldn't cover chats with an undercover cop.
If you compare Cuba to its neighbors, it has much less human rights violations than for example in Mexico, Peru, Colombia or Chile (which are US allies and recognized as "democracies").
People are free to leave any of the other countries you mentioned. Not so with Cuba. Nuff said.
And "e" is not just the Euler constant, but also the charge of an electron... what's your point?
I think you've just helped to make my point. The alphabet is crowded enough already.
In fact, I've actually read a text book that said the symbol e means both the electron charge and Euler's constant, and unfortunately both appear in formulas. Therefore, if you see e with a real or complex exponent, it is understood to be Euler's constant, but if you see e with an integer exponent, you should assume it's the electron charge! I think this example illustrates why we should try to avoid choosing letters which can cause this type of confusion.
Tau is a particularly bad choice, since both time constants and natural temperatures frequently appear in the argument to the exponential function, and so does 2pi, a fact which would lead to great confusion if the symbol tau were used for 2pi. Imagine a formula like e^i tau tau, where the two taus meant different things!
I do agree with the basic premise of the paper, I just don't agree with the choice of the letter tau.
Even CNN is acknowledging this idea. Personally, I do think 2*pi is a more fundamental constant than pi, but I don't like the idea of devoting another letter of the Greek alphabet to it. Tau is used for too many other things (time constants, temperature in "natural units" (absolute temp * Boltzmann's constant), and several other things). Perhaps there should be a new symbol introduced for this quantity, and then we can eventually phase out pi, freeing up another letter of the alphabet for other purposes.
No, Moore's Law would suggest exponential growth in power output. The problem is, there are only so many watts per square meter that the sun puts out, so you have a hard limit at 100% efficiency.
It's quite possible, and even likely that he wasn't the thief. Say someone traded the rings for drugs or a car stereo? The police don't have an unbroken chain from the victims house to the thieves hands, so unless he confesses they are going to have a pretty hard time convicting him.
If he isn't the thief, he'll certainly have to explain where he got the ring. The police could follow the trail back to find the thief in that case. Otherwise, if he is the thief he'll have a hard time explaining where he got it.
I think you're completely missing the point. Whether the system really was Unix or not is not the issue. What is so cringe inducing about the scene is that it leaves a far more important question unanswered: how does knowing that a system is running Unix enable one to understand the complex control software running a dinosaur park?
You wouldn't hear someone say, "hey the computers at my bank are running Windows 7: I know this," followed by the sound of all your money being drained from your account.
I have to agree. That scene in Jurassic Park was probably the worst computer scene I can remember.
What guarantee do we have that the samples will be destroyed and the database records will be deleted if the suspect is found not guilty or the charges are dropped?
Never ever use your ISPs DNS. Just drop a bunch of trusted DNS servers in resolv.conf; hell start a collection of them.
Modem/routeurs provided by ISPs are massively crippled, I have one, I hate it but apparenly I'd loose free VoIP if I were to use my own so... I just ignore it as a DNS on my machines and soon ill section it and put my machines behind a real routeur.
Don't many ISPs direct all UDP port 53 traffic to their own nameservers regardless of the IP address appearing in the DNS request?
This is why it is always a bad idea to complain about spelling on the internet. You eventually end up being a hypocrite.
Actually, his post was complaining about the number of errors in the short post; he wasn't complaining about one simple typo. But your point is a good one. If one is complaining about someone else's spelling, it behooves one to proofread one's own post extremely carefully. I do think his basic point is valid notwithstanding.
Freedom of speech is about being allowed to say "pedophiles should be hanged".
False testimony/libel is saying "mr. teacher x is a pedophile".
Former is legal. Latter is not. Do not mix one with the other. Location the libel is irrelevant - internet is governed by same laws as everything else.
No. False testimony would be saying "Mr. Teacher X raped me." or "I saw Mr. Teacher X raping a fellow student." Saying "Mr. Teacher X is a pedophile" is a general, vague statement of opinion unless there is a specific incident to back it up. No school board would fire a teacher based on a general statement like that. There'd need to be an accusation of a specific incident.
As to your final point about location being irrelevant, that is simply not true. There is a difference between publication and private conversation. The former is subject to liable laws, the later is not. (The latter may be subject to slander laws, but there are other requirements that must be met for slander to apply). Since the comments were posted on a Facebook wall which was NOT publicly accessible (the principle had to coerce a student to log into his/her Facebook account to even SEE the comments), I would suggest that this speech is better described as a private conversation rather than a publication.
I'm pretty sure you can be arrested in America as well for posting illegal things on your Facebook page. Try posting a threat to the President of the United States on your Facebook page and you'll probably get arrested in the USA.
There's nothing sacred about Facebook. Even high school students have gotten into trouble for Facebook postings about school staff.
I was under the impression that you need to film using a special camera? Did Lucas actually film the last three movies in anticipation of a 3D release?
No, but if you can colorize a black & white movie (and we all know how beautiful those colorization jobs are!), then why can you use those computer thingies to turn a 2D movie into 3D! I'm still waiting for my 3D, color, super hi-def version of Casablanca!
Yeah... If the college wants you to go, they should pony up for the fare. I had a paper accepted as an undergraduate in Vienna, and my university sprang for the plane ticket (from New Jersey).
It's a good thing for the college, too - you're spreading their name out there.
Yeah. I've never heard of a student having to spend his/her own money to travel to a conference to present a paper before. Maybe it's different in CS (I was in physics), but all my travel expenses were paid for: transportation, hotel, conference fee, car rental (when necessary), and even a generous per deum for food. It was always paid for out of the grant money.
It's morons like you that know just enough to be dangerous that make medical providers shudder.
What you fail to explain is how the fact that the poster as seen CT images of his head or his dad's heart makes him dangerous. I don't recall him saying that he plans to perform home surgery based on these pictures.
Would peer to peer services which offer end to end encryption like Skype be required to re-engineer their software to allow government wiretaps? This could be the end of personal use encryption as we know it.
Give the FBI a run for their money.... are they *really* going to spend millions of dollars to bust down every Slashdot nerd's door just for clicking on that link?
They don't have to bust down everyone's door. Just a dozen or so, and make sure it's well publicized. Screw with them and go to jail.
Facebook is a huge waste of time anyways. I'd guess that blocking it increases drone productivity...
MOD parent up. That's the most sensible post I've read all day! There's no reason I can think of that corrections officers need to be using Facebook at work.
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Actually you can thank the buildings designers for that. most skyscrapers suffer from updrafts, that could be strong enough to lift 120 pounds. Think about it, that cute secretary in those awesome heels, walks by the open window and gets sucked out of it because the wind shifts just right. It has happened.
Ever heard of an amazing invention called screens?
I'm getting a feeling of déjà vu. This sounds like last summer's offshore oil well leak all over again. Sooner or later the truth will come out. Trying to hide things now only makes it look like they're trying to cover something up.
Actually, IANAL either, BUT I do know this much - if you give a false statement to the cops (whether a witness report, police report, or otherwise) you could be charged with:
- Giving a false statement to police. - Filing a false police report. - Impeding an official investigation.
Actually, I believe the above is true only if the police officer has identified him/herself as such. So this wouldn't cover chats with an undercover cop.
you cannot get sued by sony if you don't buy a ps3
You can't? Since when?
If you compare Cuba to its neighbors, it has much less human rights violations than for example in Mexico, Peru, Colombia or Chile (which are US allies and recognized as "democracies").
People are free to leave any of the other countries you mentioned. Not so with Cuba. Nuff said.
And "e" is not just the Euler constant, but also the charge of an electron... what's your point?
I think you've just helped to make my point. The alphabet is crowded enough already.
In fact, I've actually read a text book that said the symbol e means both the electron charge and Euler's constant, and unfortunately both appear in formulas. Therefore, if you see e with a real or complex exponent, it is understood to be Euler's constant, but if you see e with an integer exponent, you should assume it's the electron charge! I think this example illustrates why we should try to avoid choosing letters which can cause this type of confusion.
Tau is a particularly bad choice, since both time constants and natural temperatures frequently appear in the argument to the exponential function, and so does 2pi, a fact which would lead to great confusion if the symbol tau were used for 2pi. Imagine a formula like e^i tau tau, where the two taus meant different things!
I do agree with the basic premise of the paper, I just don't agree with the choice of the letter tau.
Even CNN is acknowledging this idea. Personally, I do think 2*pi is a more fundamental constant than pi, but I don't like the idea of devoting another letter of the Greek alphabet to it. Tau is used for too many other things (time constants, temperature in "natural units" (absolute temp * Boltzmann's constant), and several other things). Perhaps there should be a new symbol introduced for this quantity, and then we can eventually phase out pi, freeing up another letter of the alphabet for other purposes.
No, Moore's Law would suggest exponential growth in power output. The problem is, there are only so many watts per square meter that the sun puts out, so you have a hard limit at 100% efficiency.
It's quite possible, and even likely that he wasn't the thief. Say someone traded the rings for drugs or a car stereo? The police don't have an unbroken chain from the victims house to the thieves hands, so unless he confesses they are going to have a pretty hard time convicting him.
If he isn't the thief, he'll certainly have to explain where he got the ring. The police could follow the trail back to find the thief in that case. Otherwise, if he is the thief he'll have a hard time explaining where he got it.
Didn't Star Trek do a couple episodes about the Twibel problem?
Yes. The Twouble With Twibels.
Except that it actually WAS a UNIX system, SGI IRIX to be exact. And it was a real file browser as well.
I think you're completely missing the point. Whether the system really was Unix or not is not the issue. What is so cringe inducing about the scene is that it leaves a far more important question unanswered: how does knowing that a system is running Unix enable one to understand the complex control software running a dinosaur park?
You wouldn't hear someone say, "hey the computers at my bank are running Windows 7: I know this," followed by the sound of all your money being drained from your account.
I have to agree. That scene in Jurassic Park was probably the worst computer scene I can remember.
What guarantee do we have that the samples will be destroyed and the database records will be deleted if the suspect is found not guilty or the charges are dropped?
this from an anonymous coward
WHOOOSH!
Never ever use your ISPs DNS. Just drop a bunch of trusted DNS servers in resolv.conf; hell start a collection of them.
Modem/routeurs provided by ISPs are massively crippled, I have one, I hate it but apparenly I'd loose free VoIP if I were to use my own so... I just ignore it as a DNS on my machines and soon ill section it and put my machines behind a real routeur.
Don't many ISPs direct all UDP port 53 traffic to their own nameservers regardless of the IP address appearing in the DNS request?
That aside, how to you judge the "market rate"
This is why it is always a bad idea to complain about spelling on the internet. You eventually end up being a hypocrite.
Actually, his post was complaining about the number of errors in the short post; he wasn't complaining about one simple typo. But your point is a good one. If one is complaining about someone else's spelling, it behooves one to proofread one's own post extremely carefully. I do think his basic point is valid notwithstanding.
Freedom of speech is about being allowed to say "pedophiles should be hanged".
False testimony/libel is saying "mr. teacher x is a pedophile".
Former is legal. Latter is not. Do not mix one with the other. Location the libel is irrelevant - internet is governed by same laws as everything else.
No. False testimony would be saying "Mr. Teacher X raped me." or "I saw Mr. Teacher X raping a fellow student." Saying "Mr. Teacher X is a pedophile" is a general, vague statement of opinion unless there is a specific incident to back it up. No school board would fire a teacher based on a general statement like that. There'd need to be an accusation of a specific incident.
As to your final point about location being irrelevant, that is simply not true. There is a difference between publication and private conversation. The former is subject to liable laws, the later is not. (The latter may be subject to slander laws, but there are other requirements that must be met for slander to apply). Since the comments were posted on a Facebook wall which was NOT publicly accessible (the principle had to coerce a student to log into his/her Facebook account to even SEE the comments), I would suggest that this speech is better described as a private conversation rather than a publication.
I'm pretty sure you can be arrested in America as well for posting illegal things on your Facebook page. Try posting a threat to the President of the United States on your Facebook page and you'll probably get arrested in the USA.
There's nothing sacred about Facebook. Even high school students have gotten into trouble for Facebook postings about school staff.
I was under the impression that you need to film using a special camera? Did Lucas actually film the last three movies in anticipation of a 3D release?
No, but if you can colorize a black & white movie (and we all know how beautiful those colorization jobs are!), then why can you use those computer thingies to turn a 2D movie into 3D! I'm still waiting for my 3D, color, super hi-def version of Casablanca!
Yeah... If the college wants you to go, they should pony up for the fare. I had a paper accepted as an undergraduate in Vienna, and my university sprang for the plane ticket (from New Jersey).
It's a good thing for the college, too - you're spreading their name out there.
Yeah. I've never heard of a student having to spend his/her own money to travel to a conference to present a paper before. Maybe it's different in CS (I was in physics), but all my travel expenses were paid for: transportation, hotel, conference fee, car rental (when necessary), and even a generous per deum for food. It was always paid for out of the grant money.
It's morons like you that know just enough to be dangerous that make medical providers shudder.
What you fail to explain is how the fact that the poster as seen CT images of his head or his dad's heart makes him dangerous. I don't recall him saying that he plans to perform home surgery based on these pictures.
What exactly is "our" country? This is slashdot. This particular event occurred in Germany.
I just read TFA, and it doesn't say anything about this happening in Germany.
Would peer to peer services which offer end to end encryption like Skype be required to re-engineer their software to allow government wiretaps? This could be the end of personal use encryption as we know it.
The parents may sue him for failing to get signed model releases if they like. Accusing him of being a sexual predator is a perversion of the system.
Correct, and you only need signed model releases if you are using their images for commercial purposes.
Give the FBI a run for their money.... are they *really* going to spend millions of dollars to bust down every Slashdot nerd's door just for clicking on that link?
They don't have to bust down everyone's door. Just a dozen or so, and make sure it's well publicized. Screw with them and go to jail.
Facebook is a huge waste of time anyways. I'd guess that blocking it increases drone productivity...
MOD parent up. That's the most sensible post I've read all day! There's no reason I can think of that corrections officers need to be using Facebook at work.