Uhm, year to year? In my AP Eng/Comp class we took last year's AP test last thursday (This year's was monday and for the record I think I did well). Yes, last years test verbatim, as released by the college board. Its not about year to year, its about having the ability to sue people that piss them off.
Although, you can't use the same english test year to year because the selections are different. In USH however we did take last year's AP exam yesterday (And got back the scores today; unless I fall asleep I'll get a 5 on it). I'm fairly confident that the reason is not to keep next year's students from knowing what was on this year's test because for a reasonable fee they can find out!
Clear Channel however does have a point in that they're "unfairly" being regulated in the 88mhz-108mhz range while these other operators have free reign in the 2400mhz-2800mhz range.
Uhm, if you read the blurb: "They think that companies having huge databases containing existing parts, such as in the automotive or the airline industries, will be able to save millions of dollars annually by saving up to 80 percent of the time necessary to search information on parts."
Its not intended for abstract concepts, but for someone who knows basically what they're looking for and doesn't have a product number or anything to identify the part via text.
IANAAP, but Vulcan is already reserved, it was a theoretical planet in the early 20th century that would be closer into the Sun that Mercury's orbit that would account for irregularities in Mercury's orbital path. There was actually no planet and Mercury's behavior is proof of the special theory of relativity (IIRC).
I'd presume that for historical reasons Vulcan would be reserved. Also recall that theres lots of trans pluto pluto sized objects that have names, I forget what the naming mechanism is for them, but I think they're roman.
Erm, the problem is that this is a local exploit, not a remote one. I doubt that very many crackers have been using this exploit, because you have to have a local account in the first place to do it.
I have a friend that plays exclusively on his Sager 4080. Hes far better at using a touchpad in FPS's than a mouse, and is one of the better gamers I know. Just because you can't beat Half Life on hardest difficulty in the back of your physics class doesn't mean that everyone can't.
There is a market out there for these notebooks, but I would rather have a clevo of some sort (sagers appear to be the best), but I guess some people would want to pay more for Dell...
PS. LCDs are pretty good for gaming these days, the LCD gaming problems were with the older ones.
I'm just saying that the 1 in 9 thing doesn't make sense. You should need a majority to stop things (5 out of 9), or even a decent minority (3 out of 9). But one 1 out of 9 is rediculous. Especially when countries are allowed to vote on things that directly effect them. For example, if the UN were to talk about military action against Germany, it can never happen because Germany can use their 1 vote to veto it and stop anything. It makes no sense.
Germany doesn't have a veto, only the US, UK, Russia, PRC and France have veto in the UNSEC. These nations were chosen so that they could not be targets of one another's aggression; ie they are/were super powers who when pissed off thouroughly would initiate a war the horrors of WWII could hardly touch on.
BTW, there are 15 members of the UNSEC, 5 permanent, 10 non permanent. For any resolution to pass none of the 5 permanent members can vote nay. (the word veto is never mentioned in the UN Constituation)
The problem with the U.N. is not that it doesn't respect its members' sovereignty but the exact opposite: that it places members' sovereignty above such goals as peace or justice. That's why the U.N. was completely ineffective in stopping the genocide in Rwanda, why the Clinton administration had to go to NATO to intervene in the Balkans, and why the U.N. vigorously opposed the war in Iraq; in each case, it was terrified of stepping on the toes of sovereign states (even when those states were killing their own or another state's citizens) or offending the sensibilities of its members.
The UN was set up in this way because the US, UK and USSR would have it no other way back in '45. If there was no guarentee of sovereignty no nation would join the UN; most notable of those who threatened to not join was the USSR. Without the USSR in the UN, the UN would be taught about in history class as a second failed attempt at creating a world peace body. Perhaps the language would be Russian... or perhaps it only taught to a hundred thousand people many a mile underground somewhere in the middle of north dakota. Who knows... the US was certainly greatful that it had the UN during the cold war years.
The UN has alot of problems, many of which seem to defy logic. For example, where but in the UN security counsel is 1 person out of 9 a majority that can stop ANYTHING that's going on?
The UN was formed in 1945. The Soviets were in Berlin, the US was preparing for an invasion of Japan. In this context, a lot of stuff about the organization of the UN should make more sense. The true power is vested in the Security Council where the super powers can keep each other in check.
The security council is the only body the UN has that can make binding resolutions. The GAs may say that Israel is evil and needs to withdraw back to teh 1967 boundaries every year, but it doesn't mean a thing. The architects of the UN knew this, thats why theres a security council.
Where but the UN can countries with tons of human rights violations be on and chair commities to end human rights violations? (Iraq was going to be on it or chair it soon before we removed Saddam from power). Maybe the US should follow their leadership and put serial killers incharge of the courts and molesters in charge of counseling sex-abuse victims.
The chair of a committee doesn't really do anything, its basically an administrative position with the day to day chores of the Speaker of the House in the US without any of the political power. Membership into committees are elected by the GA body as an entirety, of course with every nation having a vote (all 150+ of them) weirdness starts to happen. Especially when you have large voting blocs (e.g. the mid east).
And I won't go into how the members of the UN aren't elected and are appointed and aren't out to better the world but (usually) to their country. This has already been pointed out by other posters.
If by appointed you mean recommended by the Security Council (a vote) and then decided upon by the Generally Assembly (a 2/3 majority vote required) then yes, they are appointed. If you mean individual diplomats, then I might understand you a little bit better, but I fail to see any reason why. No other diplomats are elected, and they routinely sign treaties and other foreign agreements.
The League of Nations (doesn't that sound like it's from a comic book?) was destroyed becaused it didn't prevent Hitler from taking power and causing things like WWII (which it was supposed to). The UN failed to stop Saddam from all the things he did to his people and others, and with the rest of their oddball rules and complaints of useless things and hipocritical actions, I don't think they'll be around for long either (or at least they will lose what little power they have left). Instead they charge us dues and tons of money to do next to nothing but waste it on burocracy. And then what happenes when their building is old and needs to be replaced or fixed? They demand that the US builds them a new one FOR FREE, because all that money they collect is needed to swim in (or something). Personally, I hope the UN building is declared unfit for occupancy and they are forced to move to some other country (France, Germany, you guys have any openings?).
The League of Nations was already irrelevant by the time Hitler arrose to power. The US didn't join and a nay vote by any nation would vote down any resolution before the body. This made the body irrelevant in the twenties, nevermind the thirties or forties.
When they need a new building? Well you have FDR to thank for it in this country for the first place. It was his dream, just like it was Wilson's. Without the US there would literally be no UN, because the UN was the US's idea. Will we keep it in the future? Who knows...
Uhm, because then everyone's card will associate with your AP and leech all your bandwidth? Its one thing if you have free bandwidth within a few hundred feet, its another thing if its a few miles. And also, if theres access for a few miles, everyone else's will overlap, providing that much more bandwidth for anyone who wants it...
Its one thing if you have an unsecured access point that can be accessed by someone accross the street, its a completely different thing to have an unsecured access point accessible accross town.
The article says that if the movie has not been released, having it on a network even if no copyright infringement occurs makes you eligible for the 3 years in prison.
This makes no sense to me, as it would make a crminal out of yourself for creating a film and not releasing it, yet having it on a LAN.
Hold it, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this mean that instead of collecting thousands of weak packets in RFMon you just need to collect one packet from each network and brute force it?
Which method is harder to crack? I'd take WEP. Simply because its takes longer to collect the necessary packets; especially on a smaller network. On a larger network it may work out to be better from a security standpoint for the cracker to start a brute force attack on the packet on a spare computer and let it sit for a few days instead of having him hide a pocket PC with a wifi card in range of the AP for a few days.
No, it was clearly stated that the subway station was a "portal between your (Neo's) world and the matrix".
Machines exist in the real world however. Its the router between the machine's network in the real world and the machine's network in the Matrix world.
Everyone needs to remember that Neo is still part machine, he has all the interfaces. Hes also a human. And has source access. As the one hes cracked the machine's control mechanisms, at least for the lower ones, and has hacked his mechanical cyborg or whatever communications to do remote connections with the machines. Thus, he can do the equivalent of ssh (machine);kill -9 * or rm -rf / or whatever it takes to blow those suckers to smitherines.
Hes been able to see all the daemons within the matrix in at the end of the first film. At the end of the second film he has this ability in the real world and begins to understand how to affect the machines. In the third film he applies these powers to try to stop what he started by inadvertantly mutating Agent Smith into a virus.
Well, it made perfect sense to me when I saw it; I suppose if you didn't pick up on this stuff you wouldn't get very much out of the film other than "ooohhh, they spent serious cash on this scene!"
I think what they're trying to do is keep Microsoft away from any sizeable percent of that 15% of the company thats going public. If they can sell their shares to a lot of individual people, preferably techies and other folk that are not interested in making ludicrous amounts of money at the cost of their company, then they will have revolutionized the market. In their own minds anyways...
A vast majority of that cash goes into research into aircraft and unmanned spacecraft. Yes that aeronautical part of NASA exists and they do lots of research in regards to the safety of commercial, private and military aircraft, in addition to researching and testing new aircraft ideas and so forth. Manned spaceflight is around 1/3 that budget, and the space shuttle takes up almost all of that. The research into new manned vehicles is where the rest of the 'almost' goes.
I guess you don't have a modern bios, my Dell Dimension desktop and dell inspiron both have power on at X time daily options, and also wake on lan options. So in fact, your computer could put itself to sleep and wake up every day. That is these options work well, I haven't used them myself.
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Uhm, year to year? In my AP Eng/Comp class we took last year's AP test last thursday (This year's was monday and for the record I think I did well). Yes, last years test verbatim, as released by the college board. Its not about year to year, its about having the ability to sue people that piss them off.
Although, you can't use the same english test year to year because the selections are different. In USH however we did take last year's AP exam yesterday (And got back the scores today; unless I fall asleep I'll get a 5 on it). I'm fairly confident that the reason is not to keep next year's students from knowing what was on this year's test because for a reasonable fee they can find out!
I think he meant that nVidia's cards suck power.
Clear Channel however does have a point in that they're "unfairly" being regulated in the 88mhz-108mhz range while these other operators have free reign in the 2400mhz-2800mhz range.
Not agreeing, just pointing it out.
Uhm, if you read the blurb: "They think that companies having huge databases containing existing parts, such as in the automotive or the airline industries, will be able to save millions of dollars annually by saving up to 80 percent of the time necessary to search information on parts."
Its not intended for abstract concepts, but for someone who knows basically what they're looking for and doesn't have a product number or anything to identify the part via text.
IANAAP, but Vulcan is already reserved, it was a theoretical planet in the early 20th century that would be closer into the Sun that Mercury's orbit that would account for irregularities in Mercury's orbital path. There was actually no planet and Mercury's behavior is proof of the special theory of relativity (IIRC).
I'd presume that for historical reasons Vulcan would be reserved. Also recall that theres lots of trans pluto pluto sized objects that have names, I forget what the naming mechanism is for them, but I think they're roman.
Erm, the problem is that this is a local exploit, not a remote one. I doubt that very many crackers have been using this exploit, because you have to have a local account in the first place to do it.
I have a friend that plays exclusively on his Sager 4080. Hes far better at using a touchpad in FPS's than a mouse, and is one of the better gamers I know. Just because you can't beat Half Life on hardest difficulty in the back of your physics class doesn't mean that everyone can't.
There is a market out there for these notebooks, but I would rather have a clevo of some sort (sagers appear to be the best), but I guess some people would want to pay more for Dell...
PS. LCDs are pretty good for gaming these days, the LCD gaming problems were with the older ones.
I installed the Win64 beta off MSDN and I discovered the real reason why its being delayed: NO DRIVERS!
Unfortunately 3 Soyuz capsuls would be required to rescue a full space shuttle, not 1.
We did it with the transcontinental railroads and the Panama canal, why not do it with space?
And they have USB. You know what that means? Wifi and lynx in the middle of math class. Oh yeah!
Germany doesn't have a veto, only the US, UK, Russia, PRC and France have veto in the UNSEC. These nations were chosen so that they could not be targets of one another's aggression; ie they are/were super powers who when pissed off thouroughly would initiate a war the horrors of WWII could hardly touch on.
BTW, there are 15 members of the UNSEC, 5 permanent, 10 non permanent. For any resolution to pass none of the 5 permanent members can vote nay. (the word veto is never mentioned in the UN Constituation)
The UN was set up in this way because the US, UK and USSR would have it no other way back in '45. If there was no guarentee of sovereignty no nation would join the UN; most notable of those who threatened to not join was the USSR. Without the USSR in the UN, the UN would be taught about in history class as a second failed attempt at creating a world peace body. Perhaps the language would be Russian... or perhaps it only taught to a hundred thousand people many a mile underground somewhere in the middle of north dakota. Who knows... the US was certainly greatful that it had the UN during the cold war years.
The UN was formed in 1945. The Soviets were in Berlin, the US was preparing for an invasion of Japan. In this context, a lot of stuff about the organization of the UN should make more sense. The true power is vested in the Security Council where the super powers can keep each other in check.
The security council is the only body the UN has that can make binding resolutions. The GAs may say that Israel is evil and needs to withdraw back to teh 1967 boundaries every year, but it doesn't mean a thing. The architects of the UN knew this, thats why theres a security council.
The chair of a committee doesn't really do anything, its basically an administrative position with the day to day chores of the Speaker of the House in the US without any of the political power. Membership into committees are elected by the GA body as an entirety, of course with every nation having a vote (all 150+ of them) weirdness starts to happen. Especially when you have large voting blocs (e.g. the mid east).
If by appointed you mean recommended by the Security Council (a vote) and then decided upon by the Generally Assembly (a 2/3 majority vote required) then yes, they are appointed. If you mean individual diplomats, then I might understand you a little bit better, but I fail to see any reason why. No other diplomats are elected, and they routinely sign treaties and other foreign agreements.
The League of Nations was already irrelevant by the time Hitler arrose to power. The US didn't join and a nay vote by any nation would vote down any resolution before the body. This made the body irrelevant in the twenties, nevermind the thirties or forties.
When they need a new building? Well you have FDR to thank for it in this country for the first place. It was his dream, just like it was Wilson's. Without the US there would literally be no UN, because the UN was the US's idea. Will we keep it in the future? Who knows...
Uhm, because then everyone's card will associate with your AP and leech all your bandwidth? Its one thing if you have free bandwidth within a few hundred feet, its another thing if its a few miles. And also, if theres access for a few miles, everyone else's will overlap, providing that much more bandwidth for anyone who wants it...
Its one thing if you have an unsecured access point that can be accessed by someone accross the street, its a completely different thing to have an unsecured access point accessible accross town.
The article says that if the movie has not been released, having it on a network even if no copyright infringement occurs makes you eligible for the 3 years in prison.
This makes no sense to me, as it would make a crminal out of yourself for creating a film and not releasing it, yet having it on a LAN.
That depends. If its an underutilized network, it would be more time efficient to dictionary attack it than airsnort it.
Thats my experience anyways. If its a corporate wide network perhaps it could be owned far more easily by cracking WEP.
It takes far longer than that. Getting thousands of interesting packets takes weeks for a 256bit WEP network being used by only one person.
And yes, this is from experience. I will neither confirm nor deny that I was given permission to try this...
Hold it, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this mean that instead of collecting thousands of weak packets in RFMon you just need to collect one packet from each network and brute force it?
Which method is harder to crack? I'd take WEP. Simply because its takes longer to collect the necessary packets; especially on a smaller network. On a larger network it may work out to be better from a security standpoint for the cracker to start a brute force attack on the packet on a spare computer and let it sit for a few days instead of having him hide a pocket PC with a wifi card in range of the AP for a few days.
No, it was clearly stated that the subway station was a "portal between your (Neo's) world and the matrix".
Machines exist in the real world however. Its the router between the machine's network in the real world and the machine's network in the Matrix world.
Everyone needs to remember that Neo is still part machine, he has all the interfaces. Hes also a human. And has source access. As the one hes cracked the machine's control mechanisms, at least for the lower ones, and has hacked his mechanical cyborg or whatever communications to do remote connections with the machines. Thus, he can do the equivalent of ssh (machine);kill -9 * or rm -rf / or whatever it takes to blow those suckers to smitherines.
Hes been able to see all the daemons within the matrix in at the end of the first film. At the end of the second film he has this ability in the real world and begins to understand how to affect the machines. In the third film he applies these powers to try to stop what he started by inadvertantly mutating Agent Smith into a virus.
Well, it made perfect sense to me when I saw it; I suppose if you didn't pick up on this stuff you wouldn't get very much out of the film other than "ooohhh, they spent serious cash on this scene!"
I think what they're trying to do is keep Microsoft away from any sizeable percent of that 15% of the company thats going public. If they can sell their shares to a lot of individual people, preferably techies and other folk that are not interested in making ludicrous amounts of money at the cost of their company, then they will have revolutionized the market. In their own minds anyways...
A vast majority of that cash goes into research into aircraft and unmanned spacecraft. Yes that aeronautical part of NASA exists and they do lots of research in regards to the safety of commercial, private and military aircraft, in addition to researching and testing new aircraft ideas and so forth. Manned spaceflight is around 1/3 that budget, and the space shuttle takes up almost all of that. The research into new manned vehicles is where the rest of the 'almost' goes.
I guess you don't have a modern bios, my Dell Dimension desktop and dell inspiron both have power on at X time daily options, and also wake on lan options. So in fact, your computer could put itself to sleep and wake up every day. That is these options work well, I haven't used them myself.