you Call, and if you get a busy signal, assume that at least one other person already managed to call faster than you did, in the case of something major that's visible to lots of people. If it's somethign not a lot of people might have seen, keep trying to call.
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I'll tell you what the smart kids won't leanr in standard classes:
Good study habits.
As an example of myself: in my high school English class, I was reading my own novels for entertainment, cause it was painful lsitening to other students stumble through reading the assigned story out loud, that I had finished the first night.
I never studied for ANY tests.
I cut an entire week of school between tests for my Econ class, and got a perfect A on the next test, despite nto having even been present for any fo the material. I figured it all out on the fly. (not that high shcool econ is exactly hard)
When I actually got to the math classes where I had to do the homework and study to learn the material (Trigonomy and above), I stumbled hard for a while, because I wasn't adapating to the need to actually practice this stuff.
not sure about MSPaint, but MS Photo Editor you can use percentage, inches, or pixels.
i find it does most of my simple tasks well enough. that is, until I actually want to make an image look decent after I enlarge it. the sharpen & soften tools are not enough.
actually, the water's nto a good idea if you can't get a continous supply of it. Sure, for a few moment's it's absorb the heat, but it'll then steam-cook you..
consumers woudl push for it with only a little bit of motivation. Any one else ever have to pay $400 to replace a windshield thanks to spreading cracks caused by a flying rock? or $250 for a broken passenger side window when some one decided to break in? (plus havign to make sure every last bit of glass was vacummed up).
Insurance companies woudl likely offer theft insurance breaks for people who had all windows made out of this stuff.
Perhaps in 20-30 years, this will be standard in all new vehicales and buildings as a safety feature, the begining of a total phase out of glass excepting where metal in any form would be bad (beakers for holding chemicals such as Acid for example)
Has any one ever considered that maybe if we find ways to use up materials like plutonium as quickly as possible in safe ways (ie, reactors), that we'll be safer in the long run? There is no way for us to generate more plutoniam or uranium. Once it's gone.. that's it. And by the time we can harvest materials from super novas or tame other energy sources enough to produce our own uranium or plutonium at will, I doubt micro H-bombs will be the worst minature weaposn available to us.
If I go into a store and pay money to get a CD, at no point is there so much a hint that I am renting, not buying. I am not signing a rental agreement, I am not using an account for rentals, nothing. So how is it not a purchase?
So, as much as I generally like the EFF, I think we should be asking them some very hard questions about how well they review their sources before releasing that sort of rumor.
Maybe there is a flaw in my logic, but please, bear with me. I propose that any paradox based on causality is a paradox only in the human mind (and most likely, in the mind of any entity that follows a similar time-experience to our own)
'Causality' is mostly a construct of the human mind. Cause-and-effect matters to the universe only on a moment to moment basis, this instance determining the events in the next instance, which makes doing something like going back in time to kill your father a non-paradox.
If you travel back in time, you add your mass to the universe, matter an energy having been suddenly created as far as the universe is concerned at that moment. So now you travel to kill your father... the universe doesn't 'care' about where you came from, for the universe, cause and effect is all about the path the projectile takes to cause massive damage to your father's body, etc. So on that end, there is nothing constraining you against doing that.
Now you travel back to the present, removing energy/matter from the past, adding it to the present, and... although you have a perfectly valid drivers liscense etc, no matter how perfect your physical proof of yoru identity is, you no longer have an identity in our modern system, becuase you were nevr born.. this is where most people claim paradox. It is not, the paradox is only tot he human mind, which cares abotu where this person came from. The universe DOES NOT CARE.
The universe does not trace the person back through his travels. There is no true temporal paradox because the universe doesn't 'see' the paradox. The universe simply deals with you as a new entity that wasn't there before.
But their parents can. And when the child reaches 18, and tries to leave the contract, the courts won't let them. Yes, this has happened, and was brought to trial. The girl even wound up suing her father over it and lost IIRC
Why was this listed as a troll? Admittedly, he could have done a better editing job, but a quick scan shows that it's a copy of the information in that PDF file.
Well, I was in the Coast Guard, not the Airforce, but there were a grand total of 4 different computer networks on my ship:
2 were running on the same (outdated) hardware/software, but one was a secure network and the other was unclassified. For how outdated: Black screen with green text, no mouse.
Another unclassifed system, used for non-critical work, was a win2k system. This was brnad new, just installed stuff, with fiberglass networking etc. Used for word processing, Digital photo storage (digital photography is a great thing for the coast guard, makes it easy to keep visual records of events.), etc.
The forth system was classified and ran on Unix. All the computers invovled in this system were brought down and rebooted once a day. If we didn't manually reboot, we'd get performance degredation until the system crashed 2-3 days after it's last reboot. Of course, we were asking a lot of these poor systems... they had to be able to keep track of not only our location in regards to the world at large, but locations of all other known resources (A limited selection of the possible military data... though we did get subs on our screens a couple of times) which was relatively simple, unless it was being asked to overlay that data ontop of a navigation-detailed chart, and then throw a live-feed of our own radar sweep on top of that.
Combining GPS data & constantly updating us relative to a navigation chart and other contacts was bad enough, but throwing a live radar overlay ontop just made the poor machine chug.
Oh, the PC -based tech of the new radar also ment that it had to be rebooted about once a day. all critical systems got rebooted before any criticla operations, like trying to navigate into/out of a port.
No, they do NOT cache the entire picture. They Cache a Thumbnail of the picture, which is smaller and has a lot less detail, and is in itself a link back to the original site.
And that's where you are wrong. You see, it IS a competing market, because there ARE independant groups who are A) not part of the RIAA and B) Deliberatly choose to use peer-to-peer technology to distribute their music to raise a fan base, who will in turn want to buy band-merchandise and see concerts.
Independant film makers are also sometimes inclined to free share some files over the internet, which included P2P services.
there are 'walled off' lanes in some states for carpool lanes. You can only get on/off these lanes at certain areas. this means you can not zip out of the lane if you spot a cop and you don't have a passenger. I talso makes it used for people driving long distances.
according to my Computer, CD-alarm clock, CD/Radio, and Cel phone (hey, who needs a watch?), it's Monday, 08 November 2004. And 5pm. Come crying to us in about.. mm, 15 hours. that'll be 8 am pacific time.
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you Call, and if you get a busy signal, assume that at least one other person already managed to call faster than you did, in the case of something major that's visible to lots of people. If it's somethign not a lot of people might have seen, keep trying to call.
I'll tell you what the smart kids won't leanr in standard classes: Good study habits. As an example of myself: in my high school English class, I was reading my own novels for entertainment, cause it was painful lsitening to other students stumble through reading the assigned story out loud, that I had finished the first night. I never studied for ANY tests. I cut an entire week of school between tests for my Econ class, and got a perfect A on the next test, despite nto having even been present for any fo the material. I figured it all out on the fly. (not that high shcool econ is exactly hard) When I actually got to the math classes where I had to do the homework and study to learn the material (Trigonomy and above), I stumbled hard for a while, because I wasn't adapating to the need to actually practice this stuff.
not sure about MSPaint, but MS Photo Editor you can use percentage, inches, or pixels.
i find it does most of my simple tasks well enough. that is, until I actually want to make an image look decent after I enlarge it. the sharpen & soften tools are not enough.
actually, the water's nto a good idea if you can't get a continous supply of it. Sure, for a few moment's it's absorb the heat, but it'll then steam-cook you..
consumers woudl push for it with only a little bit of motivation. Any one else ever have to pay $400 to replace a windshield thanks to spreading cracks caused by a flying rock? or $250 for a broken passenger side window when some one decided to break in? (plus havign to make sure every last bit of glass was vacummed up).
Insurance companies woudl likely offer theft insurance breaks for people who had all windows made out of this stuff.
Perhaps in 20-30 years, this will be standard in all new vehicales and buildings as a safety feature, the begining of a total phase out of glass excepting where metal in any form would be bad (beakers for holding chemicals such as Acid for example)
Well, I can Dream at least.
Has any one ever considered that maybe if we find ways to use up materials like plutonium as quickly as possible in safe ways (ie, reactors), that we'll be safer in the long run? There is no way for us to generate more plutoniam or uranium. Once it's gone.. that's it. And by the time we can harvest materials from super novas or tame other energy sources enough to produce our own uranium or plutonium at will, I doubt micro H-bombs will be the worst minature weaposn available to us.
If I go into a store and pay money to get a CD, at no point is there so much a hint that I am renting, not buying. I am not signing a rental agreement, I am not using an account for rentals, nothing. So how is it not a purchase?
So, as much as I generally like the EFF, I think we should be asking them some very hard questions about how well they review their sources before releasing that sort of rumor.
Maybe there is a flaw in my logic, but please, bear with me. I propose that any paradox based on causality is a paradox only in the human mind (and most likely, in the mind of any entity that follows a similar time-experience to our own)
'Causality' is mostly a construct of the human mind. Cause-and-effect matters to the universe only on a moment to moment basis, this instance determining the events in the next instance, which makes doing something like going back in time to kill your father a non-paradox.
If you travel back in time, you add your mass to the universe, matter an energy having been suddenly created as far as the universe is concerned at that moment. So now you travel to kill your father... the universe doesn't 'care' about where you came from, for the universe, cause and effect is all about the path the projectile takes to cause massive damage to your father's body, etc. So on that end, there is nothing constraining you against doing that.
Now you travel back to the present, removing energy/matter from the past, adding it to the present, and... although you have a perfectly valid drivers liscense etc, no matter how perfect your physical proof of yoru identity is, you no longer have an identity in our modern system, becuase you were nevr born.. this is where most people claim paradox. It is not, the paradox is only tot he human mind, which cares abotu where this person came from. The universe DOES NOT CARE.
The universe does not trace the person back through his travels. There is no true temporal paradox because the universe doesn't 'see' the paradox. The universe simply deals with you as a new entity that wasn't there before.
There should be a way to vote to 'un-mod' something that's been modded a troll when it's not.
Mod parent up, he has a good point, he simply made you stop and think in order to get it. Obviously, who ever modded him a troll didn't like to think.
But their parents can. And when the child reaches 18, and tries to leave the contract, the courts won't let them. Yes, this has happened, and was brought to trial. The girl even wound up suing her father over it and lost IIRC
That would be the robots in Iraq were tested with those weapons. By us. This is merely part of what gave S. Korea the idea to use robots themselves.
Er... I think the parent ment Piro, despite being as a response to a pot about Greg Dean?
The article said that none of the attacks on any system except WinXP SP1 were succesful
"But in the end, none of the attacks were successful."
That's why he went to the trouble of explaining it in the article.
FUD = Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
Why was this listed as a troll? Admittedly, he could have done a better editing job, but a quick scan shows that it's a copy of the information in that PDF file.
ANf if you had RTFA, you'd have seen that his camera was takign a series of photographs only a few seconds apart.
Well, I was in the Coast Guard, not the Airforce, but there were a grand total of 4 different computer networks on my ship:
2 were running on the same (outdated) hardware/software, but one was a secure network and the other was unclassified. For how outdated: Black screen with green text, no mouse.
Another unclassifed system, used for non-critical work, was a win2k system. This was brnad new, just installed stuff, with fiberglass networking etc. Used for word processing, Digital photo storage (digital photography is a great thing for the coast guard, makes it easy to keep visual records of events.), etc.
The forth system was classified and ran on Unix. All the computers invovled in this system were brought down and rebooted once a day. If we didn't manually reboot, we'd get performance degredation until the system crashed 2-3 days after it's last reboot. Of course, we were asking a lot of these poor systems... they had to be able to keep track of not only our location in regards to the world at large, but locations of all other known resources (A limited selection of the possible military data... though we did get subs on our screens a couple of times) which was relatively simple, unless it was being asked to overlay that data ontop of a navigation-detailed chart, and then throw a live-feed of our own radar sweep on top of that.
Combining GPS data & constantly updating us relative to a navigation chart and other contacts was bad enough, but throwing a live radar overlay ontop just made the poor machine chug.
Oh, the PC -based tech of the new radar also ment that it had to be rebooted about once a day. all critical systems got rebooted before any criticla operations, like trying to navigate into/out of a port.
No, they do NOT cache the entire picture. They Cache a Thumbnail of the picture, which is smaller and has a lot less detail, and is in itself a link back to the original site.
And that's where you are wrong. You see, it IS a competing market, because there ARE independant groups who are A) not part of the RIAA and B) Deliberatly choose to use peer-to-peer technology to distribute their music to raise a fan base, who will in turn want to buy band-merchandise and see concerts.
Independant film makers are also sometimes inclined to free share some files over the internet, which included P2P services.
there are 'walled off' lanes in some states for carpool lanes. You can only get on/off these lanes at certain areas. this means you can not zip out of the lane if you spot a cop and you don't have a passenger. I talso makes it used for people driving long distances.
but if it's an auto-execute program that runs with say a DVD movie, then he never gets the chance to rread the EULA
Mod Parent up! that's funny stuff.. I like it!
Added: stupid 20 second rule.. I get short posts done in 15 seconds...
according to my Computer, CD-alarm clock, CD/Radio, and Cel phone (hey, who needs a watch?), it's Monday, 08 November 2004. And 5pm. Come crying to us in about.. mm, 15 hours. that'll be 8 am pacific time.