Um... that's not correct at all. It's not fair to people in a movie theater to yell 'fire!' and create a panic, and that's why such speech is not constitutionally protected.
Fairness has nothing to do with it. The risk of trampling injuries and such combined with the intent being to cause a panic rather than to communicate is why it's not protected speech.
Actually, I would disagree. It should be perfectly legal to shout FIRE in a theater. If people get trampled, whose fault is it? Not the guy who yelled -- he hasn't hurt anyone. It's the ones doing the trampling that are in the wrong.
Each person who hears the word FIRE has the ability to assess the fire danger for themselves, and if appropriate, proceed calmly towards the exit in an orderly fashion. To act otherwise is irresponsible.
One word for you guys: DNSMasq. RR's slimy tactic is not new, Verisign started it years ago and DNSMasq has had a fix for a long time. From the man page:
-B, --bogus-nxdomain=
Transform replies which contain the IP address given into "No such domain" replies. This is intended to counteract a devious move made by Verisign in September 2003 when they started returning the address of an advertising web page in response to queries for unregistered names, instead of the correct NXDOMAIN response. This option tells dnsmasq to fake the correct response when it sees this behaviour. As at Sept 2003 the IP address being returned by Verisign is 64.94.110.11
Not to mention that your dish has to 'track' the satellite to get a decent connection time. Then it has to swing back to the 'start' position to pick up the next satellite in orbit.
Don't use a dish, use something like a collinear array that has it's gain spread along a thin line (the path of the satellite as seen from earth). You'll need a reflector of course. You only have to aim it once (if the satellite is passing nearly overhead -- won't work as well if the sat is describing an arc nearer to the horizon, though).
Cheap compact cars in the late 1980's got higher mileage than the latest compacts do now (excluding expensive hybrids).
Oh, I don't know. Diesel Volkswagens from the late 70s and early 80s got about 50MPG, so it still seems like those fancy hybrids aren't making much headway.
I, too, wonder why we don't care about fuel economy. Europe currently has 70MPG diesels, but they're not exported into the US because there is no market for them here.
Yep. Great book, if you can stand the preachy extended monologues. It should be required reading for college graduation. Oh wait, that will never happen while the moochers and looters are in control.;)
Also, it should be said that, with few exceptions, Jay Leno has not been funny for at least a decade. I'm not the only one who thinks that: "Leno's long-standing dominance of the ratings must rank as one of the world's inexplicable cultural tragedies."
It's because Leno is far better than Letterman and his music guy Paul. It's hard to watch Letterman without feeling sorry for those two guys when they embarrass themselves so often... it's just sad. Kimmel might be worth watching if he dropped his lame "Uncle" and stupid Guillermo bits, so until that happens we're left with Leno as the lesser of three evils.
I'll be glad when Conan replaces Leno in a few years, late night might actually be worth watching again.
What if your Homeowners Association says you cannot have a dish on your property. Does a Homeowners Association have the legal right to enforce
NO. Put up your dish and tell your HOA to stuff it. Many, many HOAs have dashed themselves upon the FCC and been ground into the dirt. See http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/otard.html. Even wireless internet antennas are now protected and there's nothing a snooty HOA can do to forbid them.
That was the coolest thing of living in Canada and the USA. For some reason, apartments don't have ceiling lights like the UK. Instead residents had to buy Halogen floor lamps that faced upwards.
Er no, this is one of my biggest pet peeves living in the States. You KNOW you're going to need to light a room, why the heck don't they put lights in the ceiling! I hate spending hard-earned money on lamps, finding places to put them, and then buying more lamps when they get knocked over and broken. And they're often a pain to turn on and off since many outlets are not switch-controlled. Stupid Americans can't do anything right.
Good point. I did run 98 until XP had been out for a while and 2k licenses were liquidated on the cheap. Plus I got really sick of all of 98's crashes. Indeed, I could be running NT except a lot of games won't run on it.
XP's UI is not appreciably better than 2k and is not appreciably more stable than 2k. Obviously you have to draw a line somewhere, I chose to draw it at 2k as it has the features I want without the bloat I don't (allowing me to save money on hardware upgrades). When the day comes that the game I want to play won't run on 2k, I'll upgrade to XP.
I don't know what you're smoking. At work we re-image to Win2k and XP in our test lab. Our patched Win2k SP4 images weigh in at about 1.5GB, and XP SP2 == 2.6GB. So Win2k is a lot smaller than a 100MB difference.
At the risk of sounding like one of those "in my day we walked uphill both ways" posts, let me say that 2k also runs fine on my ancient 266MHz AMD laptop with 128MB of RAM -- it's great for IE6, OWA, and RDP as long as you don't run Office or anti-virus software (I recently found another 64MB SODIMM and now it's quite snappy). We also have a number of old PII test PCs ranging from 233Mhz to 333Mhz and ranging from 96MB to 128MB, and they run a lightweight custom app fine too (admittedly, with some disk grinding), again sans Office etc.
I also run 2k at home on a 1.2Ghz Duron w/ 256MB of DDR and I like it just fine (though 384MB or 512MB for that memory hog known as FireFox would be nice). No reason to "upgrade" to XP yet and I often recommend friends and family favor XP over Vista, and I discourage upgrading from 2k to XP. There's just no point.
So... why not use QoS to prioritize packets based on IP or MAC addresses? Simply count the number of bytes sent/received by each, and the IPs/MACs with the biggest counts go to the bottom of the list. Then you don't care what port or protocol they're using, the light users are (almost*) unaffected by heavy users. I believe iptables already lets you count the number of packets (if not bytes) processed by a rule, so all you need is a bash script in a cron job.
* Obviously throttling incoming traffic is a little trickier, and you'll have to drop a lot of the bandwidth hog's incoming packets on the floor before the other side backs off and allows your light user's peer to start sending more data, but the problem is not insurmountable.
You've just described the ground equivalent of OTEC, which you could call GTEC to differentiate it from geothermal (tapping subterranean heat sources). If I were a rich man with time to kill, I would definitely buy some desert and/or tundra property and play with GTEC.
It's a neat idea and would work, but as you note, current technology can't efficiently use such small temperature differentials. Build that mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door with fistfuls of cash.
but it seems like they should make the cable more obviously different.
I agree, but for a different reason. The user has a 50/50 chance of trying to plug in upside down (or in my case, a 99% chance). Even a marking dimple on the top of the cable wouldn't help when the USB port is sideways (as on the back of a tower PC).
A U shaped connector with clear visual and tactile orientation feedback -- or even better, a round barrel that can be used in any orientation -- would be superior to the user-unfriendliness of the USB connectors we have today.
but to transfer that information there does need to be a connection somewhere.
Yes, and I'll tell you how do it. Have an infrared transmitter on the avionics side and an IR receiver on the passenger side (the avionics has no receiver and the passengers have no transmitter) and aim them at each other. Now you can broadcast speed, altitude etc information without ever worrying about vulnerabilities (not even a raw power surge).
There, I've just done three hundred man-hours of six-figure-salary engineering... in 5 minutes. I'll wait by my mailbox for the check. Thanks!
If a book is of divine revelation, does that not mean that it has to be true in its entirety?
No, it does not mean it's "perfect". That seems to be a common misconception among both believers and non-. The Bible has many deletions, later additions, mistranslations, and deliberate tampering (which is, in large part, why there are so many different denominations all based on the same book). Doesn't invalidate the message though -- you can watch an old VHS tape of Dune with static, rainbows, dropouts, and tracking issues and still get the basic concepts of Frank Herbert's masterpiece.
However, a better solution than monitoring that through the web is to shut the damn valves at the hose connection (you're supposed to do that every time you finish washing clothes, the hoses are prone to failure if left under pressure, but nobody, including me, does that.)
They have hoses with integral valves now. There is a reducer in the washer end to restrict the flow, and a spring loaded valve in the supply side. If there is low flow, the safety valve is open (to allow the washer to operate). If there is high flow (burst hose), the valve closes, stopping the flood. Won't help you with a slow leak but it's still an improvement.
There are also electric models that sit between the washer and the outlet. When it senses a current draw from the washer, it opens the solenoids to allow the water to flow. If the washer is off, the solenoids snap shut. This is safer but of course much more expensive.
I don't get this. I switched to CFLs 5 or 6 years ago, and the color has never bothered me, even back when CFLs were in their infancy. In fact, I even have a few of the "blue" 6500K "daylight" bulbs and I love the cleaner whiter color. It's a little surprising at first but I actually prefer them to the dirty dingy yellow that incandescents produce.
Admittedly, CFLs don't work with motion sensors, as I found out the hard way. However, by 2012 the people making motion sensors (and presumably, home automation devices) are going to change their circuitry design to work with CFLs, so this will be non-issue eventually.
If a locksmith has physical custody of the safe at the time, opens it and finds a dead body inside then of course he should be able to call the police over straight away. Anything else is absurd.
Assuming you are a US citizen, you are absurd. Do you lose your constitutional rights just because someone accuses you of something? You know what, I accuse you of having child porn. There, we don't need a warrant to search your home now. In fact why even bother with a trial, let's just throw you in jail because I say you're a pedo.
Apparently you aren't familiar with such advanced and difficult concepts as libel, slander, false accusations, or lying. You obviously don't deserve the 4th amendment rights your ancestors died to secure and protect.
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Each person who hears the word FIRE has the ability to assess the fire danger for themselves, and if appropriate, proceed calmly towards the exit in an orderly fashion. To act otherwise is irresponsible.
Motorcyclists have been known to carry ball bearings of various sizes for a similar purpose.
I, too, wonder why we don't care about fuel economy. Europe currently has 70MPG diesels, but they're not exported into the US because there is no market for them here.
Yep. Great book, if you can stand the preachy extended monologues. It should be required reading for college graduation. Oh wait, that will never happen while the moochers and looters are in control. ;)
I'll be glad when Conan replaces Leno in a few years, late night might actually be worth watching again.
You forgot that
6. Half of their passenger cars are diesel
I hate HOAs, in case you couldn't tell.
Note for the humor-impaired: I'm an American.
Revenge is a dish that is best served cold, but this would work pretty well too.
XP's UI is not appreciably better than 2k and is not appreciably more stable than 2k. Obviously you have to draw a line somewhere, I chose to draw it at 2k as it has the features I want without the bloat I don't (allowing me to save money on hardware upgrades). When the day comes that the game I want to play won't run on 2k, I'll upgrade to XP.
I don't know what you're smoking. At work we re-image to Win2k and XP in our test lab. Our patched Win2k SP4 images weigh in at about 1.5GB, and XP SP2 == 2.6GB. So Win2k is a lot smaller than a 100MB difference.
At the risk of sounding like one of those "in my day we walked uphill both ways" posts, let me say that 2k also runs fine on my ancient 266MHz AMD laptop with 128MB of RAM -- it's great for IE6, OWA, and RDP as long as you don't run Office or anti-virus software (I recently found another 64MB SODIMM and now it's quite snappy). We also have a number of old PII test PCs ranging from 233Mhz to 333Mhz and ranging from 96MB to 128MB, and they run a lightweight custom app fine too (admittedly, with some disk grinding), again sans Office etc.
I also run 2k at home on a 1.2Ghz Duron w/ 256MB of DDR and I like it just fine (though 384MB or 512MB for that memory hog known as FireFox would be nice). No reason to "upgrade" to XP yet and I often recommend friends and family favor XP over Vista, and I discourage upgrading from 2k to XP. There's just no point.
So... why not use QoS to prioritize packets based on IP or MAC addresses? Simply count the number of bytes sent/received by each, and the IPs/MACs with the biggest counts go to the bottom of the list. Then you don't care what port or protocol they're using, the light users are (almost*) unaffected by heavy users. I believe iptables already lets you count the number of packets (if not bytes) processed by a rule, so all you need is a bash script in a cron job.
* Obviously throttling incoming traffic is a little trickier, and you'll have to drop a lot of the bandwidth hog's incoming packets on the floor before the other side backs off and allows your light user's peer to start sending more data, but the problem is not insurmountable.
You've just described the ground equivalent of OTEC, which you could call GTEC to differentiate it from geothermal (tapping subterranean heat sources). If I were a rich man with time to kill, I would definitely buy some desert and/or tundra property and play with GTEC.
It's a neat idea and would work, but as you note, current technology can't efficiently use such small temperature differentials. Build that mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door with fistfuls of cash.
A U shaped connector with clear visual and tactile orientation feedback -- or even better, a round barrel that can be used in any orientation -- would be superior to the user-unfriendliness of the USB connectors we have today.
There, I've just done three hundred man-hours of six-figure-salary engineering... in 5 minutes. I'll wait by my mailbox for the check. Thanks!
There are also electric models that sit between the washer and the outlet. When it senses a current draw from the washer, it opens the solenoids to allow the water to flow. If the washer is off, the solenoids snap shut. This is safer but of course much more expensive.
Admittedly, CFLs don't work with motion sensors, as I found out the hard way. However, by 2012 the people making motion sensors (and presumably, home automation devices) are going to change their circuitry design to work with CFLs, so this will be non-issue eventually.
Apparently you aren't familiar with such advanced and difficult concepts as libel, slander, false accusations, or lying. You obviously don't deserve the 4th amendment rights your ancestors died to secure and protect.
Idiot.