Say you're a small shop. You have need of 3 copies of s/w package X.
You go down to BigBox store, and buy 3 copies of X.
Back at the office, you use one CD to load all the machines. Leave the other 2 in the shrinkwrapped boxes, on the shelf. Perfectly normal...happens all the time.
The running s/w sees 2 other copies of the same s/n on the LAN, and phones home. PIRATE! PIRATE!
You're 'legal'. You have paid your fees for the 3 copies. But Company X, due to their incorrect reporting and intrusive networking, thinks you are in violation. They send the BSA after you, with all the attendant fees.
At this point, you're guilty until you can prove your innocence.
They had not one, but TWO signs 6 and 4 blocks, respectively, that said, "DUI checkpoint ahead". There were plenty of opportunities to turn down another street and avoid it altogether.
And down those side streets, they may have had a cop or two waiting for the drunken avoiders to come weaving their way.
Boxers or briefs? vi or emacs? Did you pay for your Linux licenses? Do you understand Dselect?
So freakin what! Enough of the geekoid softball questions.
How about fixing the California deficit? Or fixing/ending political corruption? or doing something about pollution/wildfires/global warming or cooling(whichever you prefer) or some actual relevant political question. After all, this is going to decide the next leader of the 5th largest economy in the world.
She may well be a good candidate. But if a large segment of her core constituency can't think past "she's hot! I wonder what she's wearing under those pants?", then her campaign is doomed before it starts.
A pedal wheelchair might be valuable for a variety of reasons. People that cannot walk/stand for long periods of time, people with balance problems, people in recovery.
For instance, if you have Parkinson's, one of these may let you get around without the fear of falling.
Plus, I don't think the pedal was meant to be the sole motive force. But as an add on, to provide some daily motion for the lower extremeties, it may well help prevent further atrophy.
Not all wheelchair users have lost complete leg functionality.
Here's a novel twist on a wheelchair that provides a little muscle movement. Some future iteration of the iBot could be pedal powered when on level ground, and go into gyro mode for more strenuous movements.
EZ-Chair
What's next, automatic indictment by computer? "Sorry sir, the computer has ascertained that there is a 94% probability that you murdered your wife. The trial begins Wednesday."
What's next is automatic conviction.
"Sorry sir. The computer has decided, based up certain file names found on your webserver, that you are guilty as charged. Please report to the Processing Center immediately."
...2 recent graduates, and 1 still in HS and 1 in middle school, I say no.
Not only no, but hell no Fuck no No goddammed way over my dead body The school board and I would rumble over this
Shall I explain myself?
These cameras will do no good Asshole kids, bent on destruction, will still do it, cameras or no cameras. They do not care. Other kids will be made to feel under suspicion all the time. Teachers will feel pressured. You can't 'force' someone to be a good teacher. Either they are, or fire them. Hey...here's a concept. Pay them a respectable wage.
"Oh, but times have changed! Columbine, drugs, hazing..." BULLSHIT. These cams would not stop a Columbine incident. Metal detectors don't, how would cameras?
You know what is needed? Competent teachers and administrators. School district in Mississippi spends 2 million on cameras in the classroom. At $40,000 per, thats 50 teachers. How much good could 50 well paid teachers do? A lot more than some silly cameras, that do not enhance the teaching experience. They can only (possibly) punish the true assholes that do not care. The true assholes will do whatever it is they do with or without cameras.
This concept has so much opportunity for abuse it's not funny. Schools, being quasi-government organizations, will be forced to investigate every little infraction, perceived or real. Instead of letting the teacher and administrators handle things. What? Incompetent teachers? Crappy principals? Pay them a better wage, and maybe we'll get some competent ones.
The further possibilities of abuse abound. Where are these cameras? In every classroom? OK...no funny stuff going on there. In the bathrooms? In the gym locker rooms? Riiiight. YGBSM. How soon until he cam feed gets hacked?
A bully, bent on hassling some other kid, will simply wait. You gotta go to the bathroom sometime. Or after school.
This will solve nothing
Cameras cannot turn a bad teacher into a good one, nor change the course of an asshole kid. Only human interaction can do that. And cameras are anything but 'human'. Have cameras stopped shoplifting? Not a chance. Have they stopped redlight running? Again, no. Would you feel comfortable under the camera every day, all day, at work? I wouldn't. Then why is it OK to do this to kids?
Give up some freedom, for some perceived security....well...you can see where that goes.
And maybe they can get 9i to actually work reliably with various flavors of Linux, instead of throwing various subtle (and not-so-subtle) errors when it feels like it.
The real problem is...all that stuff in the picture is totally wasted. We are ground creatures. Anything that shines up is almost totally wasted light.
If we could use that light intelligently, we could cut the ambient light by almost 50%.
I've had a variation of that pic as my wallpaper for years.
"H.R. 1377, the Military Overseas Voter Empowerment Act of 2001 introduced by Representatives Mac Thornberry, Duke Cunningham, Sam Johnson and Helen Tauscher would be a major step in improving the process. This legislative initiative provides for the Secretary of Defense to expand an electronic voting pilot program to test the system in the 2002 general election for the implementation of the ultimate solution - Electronic Voting."
5/10LBS of bio or chem is not going to do anything. Jesus you've been reading the Dept. Homeland Defense propaganda again, haven't you?
Right. And your experience with these types of weapons is what, exactly? How many people will a pound of blister or nerve agent affect in a standard western city at noontime?
For years, all through the ColdWar, the US and the fUSSR deployed various chemical and possibly bio weapons. Some of these included small, battlefield use, artillery shells. Payload no more than a very few pounds.
"Ken Alibek, a former top official in the Soviet germ weapons program who is now president of Advanced Biosystems, a consulting company in Manassas, Va., said that it was routinely possible to create dry anthrax that contained 100 billion spores per gram and that, with some effort, 500 billion was possible."
"The infectious dose," Dr. Alibek said, "can be quite large."
Seeing as an infectious dose can be as little as 10,000 spores and seeing as 5 lbs at that concentration is 11 trillion spores...you figure it out.
Nerve agents are even worse. 70 mg. min/m3 can be fatal to all but the most resistant. 70 milligrams. How much is 5 lbs of that?
The best chemical weapon is one that has a large percentage of pb. Injected at over Mach 1.
Sure, one on one. For a widescale terror weapon, though...a bullet is somewhat ineffective, unless you're the target "one".
No need to go through all that for bio or other wmd.
A. Large payload not needed. A bio or chem payload could be as small as 5/10 lbs. B. Range. No need to fly all the way across the Atlantic. Launch from a ship 20-30 miles out. C. Targeting/Guidance. Not needed. All it has to do is be able to fly a straight line. Aim it for NYC or Washington, and let fly. If it misses a little, so what. Local population density makes that a non issue. Or London, Or Amsterdam. Any city near a coast. Let it fly over at 5000 feet for good dispersal. Put the weapons release on a timer. (X miles at Y mph = Z seconds)
Are there problems blending different verions of Windows and various products? Sure.
But it is disingenuous and incorrect to say that every time Redmond puts out a new version, you must upgrade immediately, and never ever use a previous version. And with the OS upgrade, all the other tools.
Wrong. With Windows, you have to upgrade EVERYTHING to the latest release. That means migrating software configurations, and modifying everything to use whatever the latest standard is.
Really? Office97 runs quite happily on top of WinXP, and I expect 2003 Server. All you have done is upgrade the OS. All your custom and commercial apps are still in place. On one of my laptops, I'm running.NET server 2003 beta. And it has a couple of Win95 era programs tooling along nicely.
At work, we've had more problems with Linux x.x, Apache, and Oracle 9i playing nicely than problems with varying flavors of Windows.
Just because Bill and the gang trot out a new release, doesn't mean you have to follow along behind.
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Or maybe it'll be impossible to tip over like a Segway.
I take it you haven't seen our illustrious president trying to ride one?
Kamen just wishes it was crash-proof.
Any two wheeled vehicle (inline or side by side) can be made to crash.
Run it into a pothole at 12mph as see how fast you're picking gravel out of your teeth.
Say you're a small shop. You have need of 3 copies of s/w package X.
You go down to BigBox store, and buy 3 copies of X.
Back at the office, you use one CD to load all the machines. Leave the other 2 in the shrinkwrapped boxes, on the shelf. Perfectly normal...happens all the time.
The running s/w sees 2 other copies of the same s/n on the LAN, and phones home. PIRATE! PIRATE!
You're 'legal'. You have paid your fees for the 3 copies. But Company X, due to their incorrect reporting and intrusive networking, thinks you are in violation. They send the BSA after you, with all the attendant fees.
At this point, you're guilty until you can prove your innocence.
Absolute BS, I say.
They had not one, but TWO signs 6 and 4 blocks, respectively, that said, "DUI checkpoint ahead". There were plenty of opportunities to turn down another street and avoid it altogether.
And down those side streets, they may have had a cop or two waiting for the drunken avoiders to come weaving their way.
Why is this not a front page story? Laws do have a tendency to spread, you know.
Exactly. If this was the US, it'd be front page at 1000+ posts already.
"GEORGE BUSH is a low IQ asshole!"
"John Ashcroft is a Nazi!"
"New World Order = US Rule!"
All of which may or may not be 'true'. But because it's 'only' Oz, it languishes back here...15 posts in 10 hours. Sad.
Boxers or briefs?
vi or emacs?
Did you pay for your Linux licenses?
Do you understand Dselect?
So freakin what!
Enough of the geekoid softball questions.
How about fixing the California deficit?
Or fixing/ending political corruption?
or doing something about pollution/wildfires/global warming or cooling(whichever you prefer)
or some actual relevant political question. After all, this is going to decide the next leader of the 5th largest economy in the world.
She may well be a good candidate. But if a large segment of her core constituency can't think past "she's hot! I wonder what she's wearing under those pants?", then her campaign is doomed before it starts.
Aah...thats for wimps
How bout a jet powered bike?
But there are big engineering issues--... noise.
"God is knocking. And He wants in. BAD!"
--Footfall
There are plenty of ladies. It's just that they are the old, blue-haired type.
At this point in time...the situation is still being evaluated. *we don't know*
More importantly, the people that run the power grid *do not know*.
Some poor schmuck on the front lines probably knows...but he ain't talking yet.
It is a well known fact that all electronics and electrical systems run on smoke. Once you let the smoke out of the box, it no longer runs.
A pedal wheelchair might be valuable for a variety of reasons. People that cannot walk/stand for long periods of time, people with balance problems, people in recovery.
For instance, if you have Parkinson's, one of these may let you get around without the fear of falling.
Plus, I don't think the pedal was meant to be the sole motive force. But as an add on, to provide some daily motion for the lower extremeties, it may well help prevent further atrophy.
Not all wheelchair users have lost complete leg functionality.
I've never understood why the media has always gone on about polar ice melting causing the oceans to rise....
Because it is the media. Frequently (often, usually?), anything they discuss has little connection with reality.
Here's a novel twist on a wheelchair that provides a little muscle movement. Some future iteration of the iBot could be pedal powered when on level ground, and go into gyro mode for more strenuous movements.
EZ-Chair
What's next, automatic indictment by computer? "Sorry sir, the computer has ascertained that there is a 94% probability that you murdered your wife. The trial begins Wednesday."
What's next is automatic conviction.
"Sorry sir. The computer has decided, based up certain file names found on your webserver, that you are guilty as charged. Please report to the Processing Center immediately."
...2 recent graduates, and 1 still in HS and 1 in middle school, I say no.
Not only no, but hell no
Fuck no
No goddammed way
over my dead body
The school board and I would rumble over this
Shall I explain myself?
These cameras will do no good
Asshole kids, bent on destruction, will still do it, cameras or no cameras. They do not care. Other kids will be made to feel under suspicion all the time. Teachers will feel pressured. You can't 'force' someone to be a good teacher. Either they are, or fire them. Hey...here's a concept. Pay them a respectable wage.
"Oh, but times have changed! Columbine, drugs, hazing..."
BULLSHIT.
These cams would not stop a Columbine incident. Metal detectors don't, how would cameras?
You know what is needed? Competent teachers and administrators. School district in Mississippi spends 2 million on cameras in the classroom. At $40,000 per, thats 50 teachers. How much good could 50 well paid teachers do? A lot more than some silly cameras, that do not enhance the teaching experience. They can only (possibly) punish the true assholes that do not care. The true assholes will do whatever it is they do with or without cameras.
This concept has so much opportunity for abuse it's not funny. Schools, being quasi-government organizations, will be forced to investigate every little infraction, perceived or real. Instead of letting the teacher and administrators handle things.
What? Incompetent teachers? Crappy principals? Pay them a better wage, and maybe we'll get some competent ones.
The further possibilities of abuse abound. Where are these cameras? In every classroom? OK...no funny stuff going on there. In the bathrooms? In the gym locker rooms? Riiiight. YGBSM. How soon until he cam feed gets hacked?
A bully, bent on hassling some other kid, will simply wait. You gotta go to the bathroom sometime. Or after school.
This will solve nothing
Cameras cannot turn a bad teacher into a good one, nor change the course of an asshole kid. Only human interaction can do that. And cameras are anything but 'human'. Have cameras stopped shoplifting? Not a chance. Have they stopped redlight running? Again, no. Would you feel comfortable under the camera every day, all day, at work? I wouldn't. Then why is it OK to do this to kids?
Give up some freedom, for some perceived security....well...you can see where that goes.
Again...
No
No way
Fuck no
No goddamned way.
Dent is a singularly poor moniker for a car.
And maybe they can get 9i to actually work reliably with various flavors of Linux, instead of throwing various subtle (and not-so-subtle) errors when it feels like it.
The real problem is...all that stuff in the picture is totally wasted. We are ground creatures. Anything that shines up is almost totally wasted light.
If we could use that light intelligently, we could cut the ambient light by almost 50%.
I've had a variation of that pic as my wallpaper for years.
Absentee electronic voting.
"H.R. 1377, the Military Overseas Voter Empowerment Act of 2001 introduced by Representatives Mac Thornberry, Duke Cunningham, Sam Johnson and Helen Tauscher would be a major step in improving the process. This legislative initiative provides for the Secretary of Defense to expand an electronic voting pilot program to test the system in the 2002 general election for the implementation of the ultimate solution - Electronic Voting."
5/10LBS of bio or chem is not going to do anything. Jesus you've been reading the Dept. Homeland Defense propaganda again, haven't you?
Right. And your experience with these types of weapons is what, exactly? How many people will a pound of blister or nerve agent affect in a standard western city at noontime?
For years, all through the ColdWar, the US and the fUSSR deployed various chemical and possibly bio weapons. Some of these included small, battlefield use, artillery shells. Payload no more than a very few pounds.
"Ken Alibek, a former top official in the Soviet germ weapons program who is now president of Advanced Biosystems, a consulting company in Manassas, Va., said that it was routinely possible to create dry anthrax that contained 100 billion spores per gram and that, with some effort, 500 billion was possible."
"The infectious dose," Dr. Alibek said, "can be quite large."
Seeing as an infectious dose can be as little as 10,000 spores and seeing as 5 lbs at that concentration is 11 trillion spores...you figure it out.
Nerve agents are even worse. 70 mg. min/m3 can be fatal to all but the most resistant. 70 milligrams. How much is 5 lbs of that?
The best chemical weapon is one that has a large percentage of pb. Injected at over Mach 1.
Sure, one on one. For a widescale terror weapon, though...a bullet is somewhat ineffective, unless you're the target "one".
A DIY Cruise MIssile
"Watch me build one for under $5000."
No need to go through all that for bio or other wmd.
A. Large payload not needed. A bio or chem payload could be as small as 5/10 lbs.
B. Range. No need to fly all the way across the Atlantic. Launch from a ship 20-30 miles out.
C. Targeting/Guidance. Not needed. All it has to do is be able to fly a straight line. Aim it for NYC or Washington, and let fly. If it misses a little, so what. Local population density makes that a non issue. Or London, Or Amsterdam. Any city near a coast. Let it fly over at 5000 feet for good dispersal. Put the weapons release on a timer. (X miles at Y mph = Z seconds)
Think of a smaller, quieter Nazi V-1/V-2.
Are there problems blending different verions of Windows and various products? Sure.
But it is disingenuous and incorrect to say that every time Redmond puts out a new version, you must upgrade immediately, and never ever use a previous version. And with the OS upgrade, all the other tools.
That is simply not true.
Wrong. With Windows, you have to upgrade EVERYTHING to the latest release. That means migrating software configurations, and modifying everything to use whatever the latest standard is.
.NET server 2003 beta. And it has a couple of Win95 era programs tooling along nicely.
Really? Office97 runs quite happily on top of WinXP, and I expect 2003 Server. All you have done is upgrade the OS. All your custom and commercial apps are still in place. On one of my laptops, I'm running
At work, we've had more problems with Linux x.x, Apache, and Oracle 9i playing nicely than problems with varying flavors of Windows.
Just because Bill and the gang trot out a new release, doesn't mean you have to follow along behind.
eventually result in laws requiring babies being surgicaly modified with helmets pre-attached and sheathed with bubble-wrap.
Getting there - The effectiveness of wearing pedestrian helmet while walking from home to school in elementary school children