If you're insanely rich, and your lawyer is insanely greedy, you can pay them to preceed you in arriving at the pearly gates in order to be there to plead your case for you.
I didn't say it was a good idea,I just said it was an idea.
You are annoyingly insightful and thought provoking. However, I stand by my original assertion that it is not a typographical error.
A typographer usually works from copy written by someone else, and doesn't have time to proofread as he or she goes. A typographical error is when the typographer's output doesn't match the input given to them.
Either we've got "Its configuration are", which is not a typo, but a grammatical error, or Yoda typed it up whilst intoxicated.
Since someone at Slashdot has shoved the original sentence down the memory hole and left a different wording in its place, it has become a moot point.
Assuming that "configuration" is the subject of the sentence, it's improper grammar. If, as has been suggested in reply to another of my posts elsewhere in this thread where I attempt to point out the difference between grammatical errors and typographical errors, the subject is "processors", then it's the right verb but a very convoluted sentence structure.
However, since someone at Slashdot has since re-written the sentence in question, and shoved the original down the memory hole, the point is now moot.
A typo (typographical error) would be an accidental mis-spelling, such as having started this sentence "A type...", or, perhaps, reversing the relative positions of two words.
This was the apparently deliberate choice of a verb and/or a subject which did not agree with one another in number. An error of grammar and usage, not a slip of the fingers as they fly on the keyboard.
Never mind the grammar (I can hardly believe that I'm saying that), I thought that operating systems were designed to work with the processor(s). When did it get to be the other way around?
You just gave me a mental image of some TSA bureaucrat sitting at his computer putting black magic marker lines on the CRT screen as he reviews the PDF.
Even if he had downloaded the images to look at - what harm would it have caused? He didn't ruin some girls life by looking at pictures that already exist.
It's still an invasion of their privacy, therefore wrong.
I had a princess phone for a short time back in '72 or '73. In addition to the phone wire it had a separate "wall wart" which powered the dial light. This particular wall wart didn't enclose a transformer, though, just 2 dropping/current-limiting resistors.
I don't believe there's any reason, for example, that Coaxial cables couldn't be manufactured such that, in addition to the current center conductor and outer conductor (which carry the data signal), they would have additional 'rings' of outer conductors designed to carry some DC power for powering phones and other devices.
Not necessarily necessary. There's something called "phantom power". You can have direct current and alternating current on the same wire,adding them together at one end and splitting them off from each other at the other end. The two wires inside the cable that connects a POTS telephone to the phone company's central office carry both voice (audio is a form of alternating current) and the direct current necessary to power said phone. That's one version of phantom power. Another is when you mount a pre-amplifier on a television antenna and feed the direct current it needs up to it over the same co-ax that runs to your television receiver.
The breakup of AT&T began in 1974 (either Nixon or Ford administration) with the filing of an anti-trust lawsuit by the government. That suit lead to a settlement in 1982 (Reagan administration) that brought about the 1984 breakup. Started before Carter, dragged on through the courts all during and after his term of office.
My cell phone always works when the electricity goes out...
...provided that the cell phone towers near you are still powered. Most of them don't have their very own generator to keep them going after the UPS battery is dead and the power company's people are still 2 days away from getting service restored in that area because some severe weather event took out several counties worth of transmission lines and transformers.
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You've just given me an idea.
If you're insanely rich, and your lawyer is insanely greedy, you can pay them to preceed you in arriving at the pearly gates in order to be there to plead your case for you.
I didn't say it was a good idea,I just said it was an idea.
You are annoyingly insightful and thought provoking. However, I stand by my original assertion that it is not a typographical error.
A typographer usually works from copy written by someone else, and doesn't have time to proofread as he or she goes. A typographical error is when the typographer's output doesn't match the input given to them.
Either we've got "Its configuration are", which is not a typo, but a grammatical error, or Yoda typed it up whilst intoxicated.
Since someone at Slashdot has shoved the original sentence down the memory hole and left a different wording in its place, it has become a moot point.
Assuming that "configuration" is the subject of the sentence, it's improper grammar. If, as has been suggested in reply to another of my posts elsewhere in this thread where I attempt to point out the difference between grammatical errors and typographical errors, the subject is "processors", then it's the right verb but a very convoluted sentence structure.
However, since someone at Slashdot has since re-written the sentence in question, and shoved the original down the memory hole, the point is now moot.
A typo (typographical error) would be an accidental mis-spelling, such as having started this sentence "A type...", or, perhaps, reversing the relative positions of two words.
This was the apparently deliberate choice of a verb and/or a subject which did not agree with one another in number. An error of grammar and usage, not a slip of the fingers as they fly on the keyboard.
Never mind the grammar (I can hardly believe that I'm saying that), I thought that operating systems were designed to work with the processor(s). When did it get to be the other way around?
And so you felt compelled to best us both in that category?
Don't you understand? The terrorists are all changing all of the 28 gauge wire on all of their suitcase bombs to 30 gauge wire even as we speak!
You just gave me a mental image of some TSA bureaucrat sitting at his computer putting black magic marker lines on the CRT screen as he reviews the PDF.
What, you don't recognize transport transport protocol when you see it?
The PDF is being delivered by Zip Trucking Company.
"They're the zippiest!"
Every time you close firefox, your Google cookie will be tossed...
The last time I closed my browser and tossed my cookies, it was because I'd accidently clicked on goat.se!
If you can, it's not perfect.
The real problem isn't detecting it. It's knowing that you need to be trying to detect it in the first place, and approximately when and in what area.
In that scenario aren't you supplying the particle launcher yourself?
Even if he had downloaded the images to look at - what harm would it have caused? He didn't ruin some girls life by looking at pictures that already exist.
It's still an invasion of their privacy, therefore wrong.
I had a princess phone for a short time back in '72 or '73. In addition to the phone wire it had a separate "wall wart" which powered the dial light. This particular wall wart didn't enclose a transformer, though, just 2 dropping/current-limiting resistors.
I don't believe there's any reason, for example, that Coaxial cables couldn't be manufactured such that, in addition to the current center conductor and outer conductor (which carry the data signal), they would have additional 'rings' of outer conductors designed to carry some DC power for powering phones and other devices.
Not necessarily necessary. There's something called "phantom power". You can have direct current and alternating current on the same wire,adding them together at one end and splitting them off from each other at the other end. The two wires inside the cable that connects a POTS telephone to the phone company's central office carry both voice (audio is a form of alternating current) and the direct current necessary to power said phone. That's one version of phantom power. Another is when you mount a pre-amplifier on a television antenna and feed the direct current it needs up to it over the same co-ax that runs to your television receiver.
The breakup of AT&T began in 1974 (either Nixon or Ford administration) with the filing of an anti-trust lawsuit by the government. That suit lead to a settlement in 1982 (Reagan administration) that brought about the 1984 breakup. Started before Carter, dragged on through the courts all during and after his term of office.
My cell phone always works when the electricity goes out...
...provided that the cell phone towers near you are still powered. Most of them don't have their very own generator to keep them going after the UPS battery is dead and the power company's people are still 2 days away from getting service restored in that area because some severe weather event took out several counties worth of transmission lines and transformers.
Instead of actually sending me a new keyboard, just transfer the money into my account and I'll pick one up locally.
So is this guy's name H.M. Brain?
It's liable to give you rights *and* lefts.
I see it's time to add a new moderation category: SPAM!
Hence the Cookie's comb...
Do you mean Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, of "77 Sunset Strip"?
That short lifespan for incandescents is a somewhat recent development.
Your security process must continuously evolve to meat...
We'll be having none of your sissy vegetable security processes here, my lad.
...I think that a phonebooth analogy ought to do pretty well here.
Sorry, this is /. It's gotta be a car analogy.