OK, I'll go out and buy an NVidia video card, now can you show me how to install it in my laptop?
Actually, I've got a laptop with an NVidia card, and it's pretty powerful stuff... but the newer models are mostly carrying ATI. Also, the newer/better brands/models seem to have more compatible components (soundcard, modem, wireles, etc) for Linux... but lack the NVidia card.
Personally I'd just like to see ATI release some good drivers, but I guess that's still hoping for too much.
Says who? Most people I know have enough money to buy a few games or a console or two... it just means a little less beer/rum for the next weekend party. When a car+repairs costs in the thousands a game really doesn't seem all that bad.
Rewards for accepting or denying an application are bad. It give you a situation where one outcome is preferred, then erroneous judgements will be made in favour of that outcome. It's like getting a speeding ticket a 2km/h over the limit because *somebody* is meeting a quota... not a good way of doing things.
It's not just about the money, it's about the precedent. Though this guy might have been making a million already, how about the guy who just makes $10/h and had to sign a similar non-compete in order to work at all...
RFID chips right now are big enough to be identifiable... but how small can they get. What worries me more than the government discussing implementing RFID is when they decide to implement RFID without us knowing.
Maybe in about a decade or so our children will be getting special shots with their immunizations. Except they won't be getting a real immunization shot, but rather a small RFID-type pill to be inserted under the skin... small, deep, and almost impossible to find by physical investigation.
Let's say somebody buys a printer to use for counterfeiting. To be safe, they buy it cash, using false ID, in a different city... etc etc
While the serial ID might be somewhat less-than-useful in tracking down the individual culprit to his/her home, if you start finding a lot of bills with the same serial you could at least determine that they were all produced by the same person/printer (rather than several different printers/counterfeiters). From that, you might gather logistics based on the area-spread wherein the phony bills are used, etc.
Well, seems to me I spend time listening online because music I like (due to current trends, etc) is less available. That being so, it takes more time to find stuff I like, and thus I buy more.
Be careful not to associate results with possibly unrelated causes...
If you have physical access, you can do a lot. The problem otherwise with anything-over-IP is the potention that a kid in Russia can hack your connection while you are in Canada....
a) They'd have to know the IP's of the allowed machines
b) The ban would only last 3 minutes.
c) A 3 minute blockout is much better than an owned server:-)
My HP zd7000 has been working quite nicely - with the exception of a nasty defect wherein the RAM has issues when DIMM slot 2 is filled (not in the later models). It has a 17" display, with 1440x900 (close to what you want), a full keyboard, two memory slots, NVidia GPU, and I think it has bluetooth (but I have no BT devices).
From what I remember of my last visit to Aus, the koalas have some pretty damn big claws. They'd make for good sneak-assassins (awwww cuteaarrrrrggh).
Just sniff the air for Eucalyptus... Koalas can be quite fragrant so you'll smell 'em coming. Of course they also sleep for 22h of the day so they're not very efficient...
Telus also, at some point, decided to block various incoming ports for non-business customers. Port 80, port 21, and various others are blocked, basically because if you're "hosting" they want you to pay for the more expensive "business" packages.
When I initially was a Telus customer these ports were all unblocked. My IP didn't change very often and I was able to host on port 80 without problems. Somewhere along the line they (without notice) changed that.
This didn't bother me, as I had a business account, until I moved. My new roomate had a standard account, and I wanted to get my servers up ASAP so I was hoping to point the DNS servers at the dynamic IP and just rebind when my account took over. However, with Telus' IP blocking this was not possible.
As far as speed Telus is fairly reliable, but customer service ain't great and they definately do some sneaky things with their lines/blocking.
A lot of games are rather gender inspecific. My girlfriend is quite into racing games and simulations, as well as some of the standard fun ones like SuperTux, etc that everyone can enjoy (did you know that SuperTux is available for windows now).
Exactly. So as long as a warrant is still required to request such information, it's no different than any other situation where you could be required to allow access to a physical location.
If they want to search my bedroom, they get a warrant, and they search my bedroom. If they want to search my computer, including encrypted files, they get a warrant and I give up my key...
This is a reference to Niven's universe, I've heard it first mentioned in the book "Flatlander." Basically, a wirehead is somebody who has become a current addict. A hole is drilled into the skull, and a wire inserted into the pleasure center of the brain.
The end result is that the person becomes addicted to the pleasure supplied by the device, worse than a cokehead or heroin addict.
Addiction should be something we should be careful of, we don't need "wireheads" outside of book-worlds.
Around here (BC, Canada) we have a right to due process. This partly depends on the charge(s) laid, and the "reasonable" time for them to see a judge.
If you dispute a ticket and don't get a court date within a reasonable amount of time, you can (at least two weeks before the actual dispute trial) alter your dispute to includes the grounds that your right to due process has been violated. Basically, you shouldn't have to wait forever to get your day in court, if you do you can have charges dropped because your right to due-process is violated - even though the charges in the ticket might be valid.
3. you could have several small units instead of one big one
There's an idea, having specialized units would allow you to place peltiers by the various sections of the car... front/rear left/right... allowing for more customized air temperatures.
Yes, because we all know that when CaptainNoob37 kills somebody in Half-Life a real civilian plops down dead
Pacifist-geeks might not find this interesting, others prefer to live in the real world where all technology is of consequence... some for reasons that we wish to avoid being victim of it rather than intending to use it ourselves.
If it applies equally to both spouses, it wouldn't be so silly.
My mother just recently walked out on my father with another mine. By law she's still entitled to half their ownings, despite the fact that she was unfaithful while married. The other party was also married and left his wife.
So this leaves my mother in a decent situation, half of what she has from the previous marriage, half of what her boyfriend has, and financially they have a better life. My father now has no wife, heavy debts, and is not a very happy person (and no, he was not a bad husband).
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OK, I'll go out and buy an NVidia video card, now can you show me how to install it in my laptop?
Actually, I've got a laptop with an NVidia card, and it's pretty powerful stuff... but the newer models are mostly carrying ATI. Also, the newer/better brands/models seem to have more compatible components (soundcard, modem, wireles, etc) for Linux... but lack the NVidia card.
Personally I'd just like to see ATI release some good drivers, but I guess that's still hoping for too much.
Says who? Most people I know have enough money to buy a few games or a console or two... it just means a little less beer/rum for the next weekend party. When a car+repairs costs in the thousands a game really doesn't seem all that bad.
Rewards for accepting or denying an application are bad. It give you a situation where one outcome is preferred, then erroneous judgements will be made in favour of that outcome. It's like getting a speeding ticket a 2km/h over the limit because *somebody* is meeting a quota... not a good way of doing things.
It's not just about the money, it's about the precedent. Though this guy might have been making a million already, how about the guy who just makes $10/h and had to sign a similar non-compete in order to work at all...
Which sounds quite nice for killing off spyware nasties/etc on the system...
RFID chips right now are big enough to be identifiable... but how small can they get. What worries me more than the government discussing implementing RFID is when they decide to implement RFID without us knowing.
Maybe in about a decade or so our children will be getting special shots with their immunizations. Except they won't be getting a real immunization shot, but rather a small RFID-type pill to be inserted under the skin... small, deep, and almost impossible to find by physical investigation.
Or just install a light-sensor at about every 15-degrees and rotate towards the greatest source of light...
And not only that, but you could mod your girlfriend. Install a mute button or some other... more interesting... attachment.
Let's say somebody buys a printer to use for counterfeiting. To be safe, they buy it cash, using false ID, in a different city... etc etc
While the serial ID might be somewhat less-than-useful in tracking down the individual culprit to his/her home, if you start finding a lot of bills with the same serial you could at least determine that they were all produced by the same person/printer (rather than several different printers/counterfeiters). From that, you might gather logistics based on the area-spread wherein the phony bills are used, etc.
Well, seems to me I spend time listening online because music I like (due to current trends, etc) is less available. That being so, it takes more time to find stuff I like, and thus I buy more.
Be careful not to associate results with possibly unrelated causes...
If you have physical access, you can do a lot. The problem otherwise with anything-over-IP is the potention that a kid in Russia can hack your connection while you are in Canada....
a) They'd have to know the IP's of the allowed machines :-)
b) The ban would only last 3 minutes.
c) A 3 minute blockout is much better than an owned server
My HP zd7000 has been working quite nicely - with the exception of a nasty defect wherein the RAM has issues when DIMM slot 2 is filled (not in the later models). It has a 17" display, with 1440x900 (close to what you want), a full keyboard, two memory slots, NVidia GPU, and I think it has bluetooth (but I have no BT devices).
From what I remember of my last visit to Aus, the koalas have some pretty damn big claws. They'd make for good sneak-assassins (awwww cuteaarrrrrggh).
Just sniff the air for Eucalyptus... Koalas can be quite fragrant so you'll smell 'em coming. Of course they also sleep for 22h of the day so they're not very efficient...
Telus also, at some point, decided to block various incoming ports for non-business customers. Port 80, port 21, and various others are blocked, basically because if you're "hosting" they want you to pay for the more expensive "business" packages.
When I initially was a Telus customer these ports were all unblocked. My IP didn't change very often and I was able to host on port 80 without problems. Somewhere along the line they (without notice) changed that.
This didn't bother me, as I had a business account, until I moved. My new roomate had a standard account, and I wanted to get my servers up ASAP so I was hoping to point the DNS servers at the dynamic IP and just rebind when my account took over. However, with Telus' IP blocking this was not possible.
As far as speed Telus is fairly reliable, but customer service ain't great and they definately do some sneaky things with their lines/blocking.
A lot of games are rather gender inspecific. My girlfriend is quite into racing games and simulations, as well as some of the standard fun ones like SuperTux, etc that everyone can enjoy (did you know that SuperTux is available for windows now).
Exactly. So as long as a warrant is still required to request such information, it's no different than any other situation where you could be required to allow access to a physical location.
If they want to search my bedroom, they get a warrant, and they search my bedroom. If they want to search my computer, including encrypted files, they get a warrant and I give up my key...
Does anyone actually do this? Who was the survey for?
Somehow I think it would be even more amusing with male callers... so long as they don't show interest back anyhow
(for whomever labelled this as flamebait)
This is a reference to Niven's universe, I've heard it first mentioned in the book "Flatlander." Basically, a wirehead is somebody who has become a current addict. A hole is drilled into the skull, and a wire inserted into the pleasure center of the brain.
The end result is that the person becomes addicted to the pleasure supplied by the device, worse than a cokehead or heroin addict.
Addiction should be something we should be careful of, we don't need "wireheads" outside of book-worlds.
Around here (BC, Canada) we have a right to due process. This partly depends on the charge(s) laid, and the "reasonable" time for them to see a judge.
If you dispute a ticket and don't get a court date within a reasonable amount of time, you can (at least two weeks before the actual dispute trial) alter your dispute to includes the grounds that your right to due process has been violated. Basically, you shouldn't have to wait forever to get your day in court, if you do you can have charges dropped because your right to due-process is violated - even though the charges in the ticket might be valid.
3. you could have several small units instead of one big one
There's an idea, having specialized units would allow you to place peltiers by the various sections of the car... front/rear left/right... allowing for more customized air temperatures.
Yes, because we all know that when CaptainNoob37 kills somebody in Half-Life a real civilian plops down dead
Pacifist-geeks might not find this interesting, others prefer to live in the real world where all technology is of consequence... some for reasons that we wish to avoid being victim of it rather than intending to use it ourselves.
If it applies equally to both spouses, it wouldn't be so silly.
My mother just recently walked out on my father with another mine. By law she's still entitled to half their ownings, despite the fact that she was unfaithful while married. The other party was also married and left his wife.
So this leaves my mother in a decent situation, half of what she has from the previous marriage, half of what her boyfriend has, and financially they have a better life. My father now has no wife, heavy debts, and is not a very happy person (and no, he was not a bad husband).