It seems a lot of people have already figured it out. Caltrain/AmTrak comes in at a distant second.
It seems there are groups supporting Cancer though: notice the signs and suicide helpline phones posted every hundred feet or so along the bridge and train tracks. There also seems to be a strong contingent that wants to force it to continue to grow by making suicide impossible!
Creatine isn't really a drug. I mean you can get it in some Sobe drinks. Or at least you could. If creatine is a drug then so is protein and I guess all athletes will have to be vegetarians who eat no nuts.
Creatine is a natural part of your body's chemistry, just like testosterone. Its part of the Krebs cycle (ATP-ADP) of metabolism, and is used by your body to turn the ADP back into ATP. The supplement ups the concentrations of it in the muscles, resulting mainly in shorter recovery time, but also higher capacity for anaerobic exercises. Its also not a banned substance for the NCAA or Olympics.
However, the NCAA does regulate what the schools can distribute to athletes, and creatine is on that banned list, as are most protein supplements (anything with 30% or more of its calories from protein is banned). This does not disallow the athlete from buying it and using it themselves, just prevents the school from supplying it.
Olympic athletes have done just as much doping as professional ones.
Doubtful, but who truly knows? "Just as much" is a very broad term, is that a percentage of clean athletes? Who do you count, everyone in the sport or just those that make the olympics that particular year? Most of the dopers get found out before they make it to the games, unlike baseball or le tour, where they are found and kicked out later.
They don't get paid for their olympic performances
Actually.... they do, sorta. Each athlete that goes to the games gets a TON of stuff from the sponsors of the games. Outfits, shoes, phones, game consoles... the list goes on. If you dig around, you will find plenty of articles about the athletes from the poorer nations actually going out of the village to sell the stuff to the public for cash that is much more useful to them once they get home.
Most olympic committees or national sports bodies will also pay for the trip, and pay bonuses for breaking records and winning medals. True, the bulk of the money comes from endorsement deals, but winning a gold for the US in swimming right now nets you about $25k. The problem is, in most of the olympic sports, the athletes are still NCAA athletes, so if they take the $$ they can no longer compete in NCAA events (as Phelps did in 2000).
I don't see any major damage from having a presentation delayed for all of 72 hours either
Excepting, as pointed out in another reply, that this caused a presentation at a conference to be "Restrained" past the end of the conference, thus causing great damage to both the conference itself (one less presentation, bunch of pissed-off people that came to see said presentation) and the presenters (missed opportunity for a large live audience to present to). Since DefCon lists the presentations ahead of time, the MBTA should have had plenty of time to issue their TRO, get the facts straight, and get on with life such that the presentation could go on. Instead they waited and filed the TRO just prior, in a successful attempt to quash the presentation. Looking back through pages, the wifi warcarting article was posted to Slashdot on the 5th, along with mention of the subway hack presentation, so given normal slashdot posting times, it must have been on the DefCon site since at least late July. And checking further, confirmation: "An MBTA vendor tipped off the authority on July 30 that the talk was scheduled"
The TRO was not filed until the 8th. They knew a permanent injunction would not hold up, so they waited until the last minute to request the temporary one. They had plenty of time, 9+ days, to work with the courts and the presenters and they didnt....
The part that bugs me is where Toder (defense lawyer) says that the plaintiff can't introduce evidence of the investigators downloading files from the defendant. According to TFA:
Those downloads, Toder said, cannot be considered unauthorized downloads because the RIAA authorized them.
I don't think that's going to stand up. Undercover cops buy drugs and the state doesn't have to prosecute them for buying them. Why couldn't investigators "illegally" download copyrighted material and still have it considered infringing on the part of the defendant, but not be prosecuted?...
The reason undercover cops arent charged is because they are officers of the law, and are thus believed to be pursuing the upholding of the law. See entrapement as it relates to undercover cops "selling" illegal drugs. Since the RIAA "Investigators", many of whom are not even licensed, they are not officers of the law, and thus should not face the same privilege. For similar reasons, setting up your own drug sting operation to help cleanup your neighborhood by trying to sell oregano will probably get you thrown in jail instead of any "customers" you might catch. The defense is arguing that if the investigators are not liable for downloading the content illegally, then the content must be authorized by the RIAA. In this case, its like they sent their own "Johns" out on the street to find prostitutes, and then rather than turning over their own Johns after the deed is done, only turn over the prostitutes, all while not being official law enforcement agents. They are overstepping their rights and should not be afforded the privilege they have assumed.
Does this mean that the street will be opened every week, when the next person in a neighbourhood wants fiber, instead of every month?...
Nope! Thanks to the innovative people at Google, there is no trenching involved! With their latest beta release of TiSP, all the end user has to do is flush one end of the fiber down the nearest toilet, and wait for the plumbing techs to plug it in to the nearest node!
Please mod parent up. You can't just tap an existing active fiber optic line any more than you can just take a sip from an open fire hose.
Better "series of tubes" analogy: you cant just cut a hole and screw your garden hose to the nearest water main, you need pressure reducers, check valves, cuttoffs, a meter, and other pipe fittings, and it reduces the service level to everyone else on the same pipe, and you have to take it out of service to put in the T.
With fiber its that * 10, generally your fiber will run with with everyone elses' (and maybe even along side the backbone) to a fiber hut somewhere down the line, where they all patch into transceivers and fiber-mux's to be piped back upstream or around the ring. Sure, the backbone itself might be laid at the edge of the road 20' from your door, but the nearest fiber hut could be a few miles down the road. Same reason you dont normally see the houses directly under high-tension power lines running taps to them...
. Using vibration and rotation tests NASA scientists were able to determine the center of gravity...
If they couldn't determine the center of gravity before they built the thing, they have some serious issues./p>
THAT should be: If they couldn't engineer the thing with the center of gravity exactly where they want it... Center of Gravity and Center of Lift are usually two things aircraft are designed around. Hopefully a rocket based craft would be designed with the center of lift centered in the engine cluster, with the vector pointing generally up the middle and through the center of Gravity of the whole ship. Vectored or differential thrust shifting this lift vector around that CG point to change where its going. If you dont put the CG where you want it, it doesnt fly where you want it to. Granted, the CG of the capsule is high enough on the rocket and of low enough mass that its CG point can probably be off a good bit and still be compensated for, but the CG should still be an easy engineering calculation given the computer models, etc. They should even have the CG pinpointed for every load scenario of passengers and other cargo items, so they can load the craft without displacing the CG too greatly.
When asked about how soon after the servers are turned off users could expect their coupons, a Yahoo spokesperson said "the information is streaming in from Real, and we expec...Buffering...."
Think PXE-GRUB. Instead of downloading and launching a minimal kernel and installer (as its used for in most cases for jump/kickstart) it downloads and launches the kernel and other OS binaries needed to run the OS. That the GUI is a browser of sorts isnt much different than if it were a "classic" gui, its just using html/xml/ajax/js/jxta/buzzword instead of the other APIs, and resources are pulled from net addresses rather than localdisc. There are a few AJAX desktops out there already, this would just bypass the need for booting another OS to get an AJAX (silverlight or whatever buzzword this will run on, no I didnt rtfa) capable browser running.
On mars, they kinda are.... its called sublimation. Watching a water based ice cube melt on Mars is like watching dry-ice (frozen CO2) "melt" here on earth. No wetness involved, unless you greatly increase the atmospheric pressure.
For me, once I report my pda lost, the boys in corp will send a command to wipe the contents of the phone and remove all settings. I believe this option also exists for blackberry.
As well initiate the self destruct code on the small thermonuclear charge.
As others stated, disabling its ability to receive said kill signal is not difficult. Past that, the other barriers to gaining the data on the device can probably be circumvented as well. 10 password fails wipes the device? They probably wont bother trying a single one on the device itself, if this is truly an organized attempt. Rather they would probably crack it open and copy the contents of its memory directly from the pins of the chips themselves, and then work from that copy. Remember, once physical access is obtained, you can bypass any software deterrences and most hardware ones as well.
They exist in groups of two or three that create a neutral color charge. For example, a particle can consist of red, green, and blue or of blue and anti-blue.
What about a hyper intelligent shade of the color blue?
Its a fairly standard util included with most Linux distros. Specifically check the -Sx option (where x is an integer > 0), which sets idle-spindown time. Note, there is a warning regarding hdparm use with software/bios raid, and I havent tried using it myself on drives involved in RAID, so YMMV. Changing spindown time shouldnt adversely effect the RAID though, as it would just block IO until the drives spin up. I think the warning is more in regards to setting the DMA, 32 bit IO and other more IO/low level oriented options.
Since you only hit the drives occasionally, this would keep them turned "off" most of the time, so long as you dont keep swap or some active partition on the drives as well.
Does VOIP really use TCP usually? Shouldn't it be using UDP?...
Yeh... the RTP protocol to transmit voice is UDP. This causes a lot of the problems with sip and nat/firewalls. SIP is also generally UDP, though it can use TCP. SIP is used to setup the session, do the auth, figure out where the streams need to go and how to translate addresses and even do billing stuff, etc, then it lets RTP do the grunt work of transporting the media. MGCP and other VoIP protocols also use RTP for the transport.
What most people dont understand about VoIP (even just SIP) HAS filled many books, and websites;)
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It seems there are groups supporting Cancer though: notice the signs and suicide helpline phones posted every hundred feet or so along the bridge and train tracks. There also seems to be a strong contingent that wants to force it to continue to grow by making suicide impossible!
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I think they have stopped now, or got kicked out, I havent seen any more similar activity from the bunch....
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Creatine isn't really a drug. I mean you can get it in some Sobe drinks. Or at least you could. If creatine is a drug then so is protein and I guess all athletes will have to be vegetarians who eat no nuts.
Creatine is a natural part of your body's chemistry, just like testosterone. Its part of the Krebs cycle (ATP-ADP) of metabolism, and is used by your body to turn the ADP back into ATP. The supplement ups the concentrations of it in the muscles, resulting mainly in shorter recovery time, but also higher capacity for anaerobic exercises. Its also not a banned substance for the NCAA or Olympics.
However, the NCAA does regulate what the schools can distribute to athletes, and creatine is on that banned list, as are most protein supplements (anything with 30% or more of its calories from protein is banned). This does not disallow the athlete from buying it and using it themselves, just prevents the school from supplying it.
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Olympic athletes have done just as much doping as professional ones.
Doubtful, but who truly knows? "Just as much" is a very broad term, is that a percentage of clean athletes? Who do you count, everyone in the sport or just those that make the olympics that particular year? Most of the dopers get found out before they make it to the games, unlike baseball or le tour, where they are found and kicked out later.
They don't get paid for their olympic performances
Actually.... they do, sorta. Each athlete that goes to the games gets a TON of stuff from the sponsors of the games. Outfits, shoes, phones, game consoles... the list goes on. If you dig around, you will find plenty of articles about the athletes from the poorer nations actually going out of the village to sell the stuff to the public for cash that is much more useful to them once they get home.
Most olympic committees or national sports bodies will also pay for the trip, and pay bonuses for breaking records and winning medals. True, the bulk of the money comes from endorsement deals, but winning a gold for the US in swimming right now nets you about $25k. The problem is, in most of the olympic sports, the athletes are still NCAA athletes, so if they take the $$ they can no longer compete in NCAA events (as Phelps did in 2000).
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I don't see any major damage from having a presentation delayed for all of 72 hours either
Excepting, as pointed out in another reply, that this caused a presentation at a conference to be "Restrained" past the end of the conference, thus causing great damage to both the conference itself (one less presentation, bunch of pissed-off people that came to see said presentation) and the presenters (missed opportunity for a large live audience to present to). Since DefCon lists the presentations ahead of time, the MBTA should have had plenty of time to issue their TRO, get the facts straight, and get on with life such that the presentation could go on. Instead they waited and filed the TRO just prior, in a successful attempt to quash the presentation. Looking back through pages, the wifi warcarting article was posted to Slashdot on the 5th, along with mention of the subway hack presentation, so given normal slashdot posting times, it must have been on the DefCon site since at least late July. And checking further, confirmation: "An MBTA vendor tipped off the authority on July 30 that the talk was scheduled"
The TRO was not filed until the 8th. They knew a permanent injunction would not hold up, so they waited until the last minute to request the temporary one. They had plenty of time, 9+ days, to work with the courts and the presenters and they didnt....
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The part that bugs me is where Toder (defense lawyer) says that the plaintiff can't introduce evidence of the investigators downloading files from the defendant. According to TFA:
I don't think that's going to stand up. Undercover cops buy drugs and the state doesn't have to prosecute them for buying them. Why couldn't investigators "illegally" download copyrighted material and still have it considered infringing on the part of the defendant, but not be prosecuted?...
The reason undercover cops arent charged is because they are officers of the law, and are thus believed to be pursuing the upholding of the law. See entrapement as it relates to undercover cops "selling" illegal drugs. Since the RIAA "Investigators", many of whom are not even licensed, they are not officers of the law, and thus should not face the same privilege. For similar reasons, setting up your own drug sting operation to help cleanup your neighborhood by trying to sell oregano will probably get you thrown in jail instead of any "customers" you might catch. The defense is arguing that if the investigators are not liable for downloading the content illegally, then the content must be authorized by the RIAA. In this case, its like they sent their own "Johns" out on the street to find prostitutes, and then rather than turning over their own Johns after the deed is done, only turn over the prostitutes, all while not being official law enforcement agents. They are overstepping their rights and should not be afforded the privilege they have assumed.
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Does this mean that the street will be opened every week, when the next person in a neighbourhood wants fiber, instead of every month? ...
Nope! Thanks to the innovative people at Google, there is no trenching involved! With their latest beta release of TiSP, all the end user has to do is flush one end of the fiber down the nearest toilet, and wait for the plumbing techs to plug it in to the nearest node!
Tm
Please mod parent up. You can't just tap an existing active fiber optic line any more than you can just take a sip from an open fire hose.
Better "series of tubes" analogy: you cant just cut a hole and screw your garden hose to the nearest water main, you need pressure reducers, check valves, cuttoffs, a meter, and other pipe fittings, and it reduces the service level to everyone else on the same pipe, and you have to take it out of service to put in the T.
With fiber its that * 10, generally your fiber will run with with everyone elses' (and maybe even along side the backbone) to a fiber hut somewhere down the line, where they all patch into transceivers and fiber-mux's to be piped back upstream or around the ring. Sure, the backbone itself might be laid at the edge of the road 20' from your door, but the nearest fiber hut could be a few miles down the road. Same reason you dont normally see the houses directly under high-tension power lines running taps to them...
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. Using vibration and rotation tests NASA scientists were able to determine the center of gravity...
If they couldn't determine the center of gravity before they built the thing, they have some serious issues. /p>
THAT should be: If they couldn't engineer the thing with the center of gravity exactly where they want it... Center of Gravity and Center of Lift are usually two things aircraft are designed around. Hopefully a rocket based craft would be designed with the center of lift centered in the engine cluster, with the vector pointing generally up the middle and through the center of Gravity of the whole ship. Vectored or differential thrust shifting this lift vector around that CG point to change where its going. If you dont put the CG where you want it, it doesnt fly where you want it to. Granted, the CG of the capsule is high enough on the rocket and of low enough mass that its CG point can probably be off a good bit and still be compensated for, but the CG should still be an easy engineering calculation given the computer models, etc. They should even have the CG pinpointed for every load scenario of passengers and other cargo items, so they can load the craft without displacing the CG too greatly.
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When asked about how soon after the servers are turned off users could expect their coupons, a Yahoo spokesperson said "the information is streaming in from Real, and we expec...Buffering...."
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Not to mention...
The remote nuke option.
For me, once I report my pda lost, the boys in corp will send a command to wipe the contents of the phone and remove all settings. I believe this option also exists for blackberry.
As well initiate the self destruct code on the small thermonuclear charge.
As others stated, disabling its ability to receive said kill signal is not difficult. Past that, the other barriers to gaining the data on the device can probably be circumvented as well. 10 password fails wipes the device? They probably wont bother trying a single one on the device itself, if this is truly an organized attempt. Rather they would probably crack it open and copy the contents of its memory directly from the pins of the chips themselves, and then work from that copy. Remember, once physical access is obtained, you can bypass any software deterrences and most hardware ones as well.
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They exist in groups of two or three that create a neutral color charge. For example, a particle can consist of red, green, and blue or of blue and anti-blue.
What about a hyper intelligent shade of the color blue?
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Is it any surprise that the most laid back particle evar was discovered in California?
More specifically at the SLAC!
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I would post "Hello World" written in it here, but the comment thingy refused to accept it: "Filter error: Please use less whitespace."
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My disks would be pretty much spinning all the time even though for home usage i'd say I actually hit non-local disks maybe a few times a week at most
man hdparm
Its a fairly standard util included with most Linux distros. Specifically check the -Sx option (where x is an integer > 0), which sets idle-spindown time. Note, there is a warning regarding hdparm use with software/bios raid, and I havent tried using it myself on drives involved in RAID, so YMMV. Changing spindown time shouldnt adversely effect the RAID though, as it would just block IO until the drives spin up. I think the warning is more in regards to setting the DMA, 32 bit IO and other more IO/low level oriented options.
Since you only hit the drives occasionally, this would keep them turned "off" most of the time, so long as you dont keep swap or some active partition on the drives as well.
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Does VOIP really use TCP usually? Shouldn't it be using UDP?...
Yeh... the RTP protocol to transmit voice is UDP. This causes a lot of the problems with sip and nat/firewalls. SIP is also generally UDP, though it can use TCP. SIP is used to setup the session, do the auth, figure out where the streams need to go and how to translate addresses and even do billing stuff, etc, then it lets RTP do the grunt work of transporting the media. MGCP and other VoIP protocols also use RTP for the transport.
What most people dont understand about VoIP (even just SIP) HAS filled many books, and websites ;)
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