I can't help but feel that the video game publishers lucked-out on who heard their case. James Rosenbaum isn't inclined to assume that technology invalidates common sense application of the law. To this end, he has written several "thought articles" about search and seizure involving data. His article "In defense of the DELETE key" attempts to set some rational restrictions of mining a hard drive for incriminating evidence. He has expanded on this with several other "In defense of..." articles:
In Defense of the Delete KeyIn Defense of the Hard DriveIn Defense Of The Sugar Bowl
Uhh, you bitch that Apple doesn't tell you enough, yet you mis-read the article about Quicktime that you cite as an example of how Apple's patches are somehow defective. The article states that the QT patch is 33MB, the installer is 18MB, the internationalization stuff 15MB.
I know. I know. All those numbers juz kinda run together when you're an IT professional.
That's precisely the issue!
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"A senior engineer from Real explains how to get RealPlayer 10 to act nicely on one's system."
Explain to me why a "senior engineer" is needed to help us make the Real player work properly (by properly I mean in a simply and unobtrusively)? It is refreashing to find that other people are as annoyed with the "hide the free player" game that Real has been playing -- I thought I was the only one.
GWB supposedly speaks to the President of Mexico in Spanish. Are we to believe that GWB's Spanish is better than his English? If not, why aren't we at war with Mexico?
Barnes and Noble booksellers (NYSE symbol BKS) is not the same as bn.com (NASDAQ symbol BNBN). They are separate companies with separate management. BKS does however own about 38% of BNBN's stock. BNBN is a joint venture between BKS and Bertelsmann. Don't feel bad, the fools (Motley and otherwise) at Fool.com and Forbes magazine don't seem to know the difference either -- and they are both selling investment advice!
But DAMN that (tam.plannet21.com) has got to be the UGLIEST web site I know of. Check it out. I hope this means that they spent all of their effort on the plane;^)
Apple once developed and marketed something call AU/X. It was, if I remember correctly, a System V style Unix that almost no one liked. They also resold AIX on one of their server products c. 1995 or so. The reference you found may not be to OS X.
Pillip Katz wrote PKZip (the PK in stand for, ta da, Phillip Katz). Katz drank himself to death 3 years ago (he was 37). Unisys did not aquire the rights to LZW -- they patented it when Welch, a Unisys employee and the W in LZW, altered the open algorithm originally developed by Lempel and Ziv. I have no idea who Strawlman is.
I realize that this is an aside, but, HotHardware's article is a mess and should never been cited here. The raw Sandra benchmarks are all screwed up (the P4 3.0Mhz MM B/M has an AMD memory B/M in its stead; the numbers in the CPU section for P4 3.0/200 vs. P4 3.06/133 look wrong unless one has HT turned off). This is just sloppy.
Go to some of the other hardware sites that have been posted above.
The iLoo (portable toilet with Internet access) thing that has been floating around the media for the last week (CNN, CNET, etc, all had articles) turns out to be a "April Fools joke" according to MS representatives (CNET). The only problem: they released it on May 2nd. Damn! They can't even release their jokes on time.
Science and industry are full of these "best days are past" type of quotes. It really doesn't matter how influential or knowledgeable the individual is, they are most often wrong. My favorite of these pronouncements was that of Francis Crick of Watson-Crick-Wilkins fame. Fifteen years after receiving the Nobel prize for the structure of DNA, he stopped do genetics research and proclaimed that all the great discoveries had been made in genetics. He told his friends that the next "hot" area of biology was going to be neurobiochemistry. He left Cambridge and went to the Salk Institute to do research in this field. Within a year of his career change, using restriction endonucleases, labs around the world began cutting and splicing DNA. The "dead" study of genetics was once again resurrected.
ABC News has an article that discusses data from the magnetic tape of the OESS (Orbiter Experiment Support System). According to the article, the launch data show a spike in temperature just after the foam struck the leading edge of the left wing. The spike was in the area of a sensor behind one of the left wing's spars and was registered for 40 seconds. It goes on to say that this sensor would have normally shown a steady to decreasing temperature under normal conditions.
You are very correct - this is the definitive site on polygraphs. The most important point for/.ers to understand is that a polygraph "test" is really an interrogation. The examiner is always less interested in what the machine "says" than he is in the things he can get you to admit. The typical polygraph session is a highly scripted interview that is designed to convince you that the machine is infallible. The most important points of the polygraph session are those points where the examiner tries to get you to volunteer information that can be used against you later.
There is an excellent book at the site called "The Lie Behind the Lie Detector." It's in PDF form.
My daughter has a moderate hearing loss (congenital, discovered when she was 3 1/2 years old). I have spent many hours discussing the nature and cause of hearing loss with physicians and audiologists. From every thing I've been told and have read, the only known basis of hearing loss caused by sound is related to the total energy in the sound signal entering the ear. That is to say that a high-energy signal will cause nerve damage that can result in possible long term hearing loss.
To believe that the "type" or waveform could be the basis of hearing loss and no one has figured this out but some flunky on an obscure German site that contains no real background -- just this dumbassed "thought experiment" -- is just plain silly. I say, prove it or lose it.
As someone else above noted this deals with concealed carry (CC) laws not general gun ownership. In many parts of this (US) country it is quite difficult to get a CC permit. You are selecting your sample by nature of CC requirements. Beyond that there are statistical issues regarding relatively small samples. John Allen Paulos who authored the "Innumeracy" books discusses this at greater length.
A lot of articles about this are just saying that it supports 10.2 when in fact it requires 10.2. On my 10.1.5 system, double-clicking on the install package brings up the installer and just stops there. No error message, nothing.
Actually, '86' the verb, means "to get rid of." Example: "John was told to 86 the gun." It is sometimes used to describe murder as in "Ted was 86ed by Carol."
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I can't help but feel that the video game publishers lucked-out on who heard their case. James Rosenbaum isn't inclined to assume that technology invalidates common sense application of the law. To this end, he has written several "thought articles" about search and seizure involving data. His article "In defense of the DELETE key" attempts to set some rational restrictions of mining a hard drive for incriminating evidence. He has expanded on this with several other "In defense of ..." articles:
In Defense of the Delete Key
In Defense of the Hard Drive
In Defense Of The Sugar Bowl
Uhh, you bitch that Apple doesn't tell you enough, yet you mis-read the article about Quicktime that you cite as an example of how Apple's patches are somehow defective. The article states that the QT patch is 33MB, the installer is 18MB, the internationalization stuff 15MB. I know. I know. All those numbers juz kinda run together when you're an IT professional.
"A senior engineer from Real explains how to get RealPlayer 10 to act nicely on one's system." Explain to me why a "senior engineer" is needed to help us make the Real player work properly (by properly I mean in a simply and unobtrusively)? It is refreashing to find that other people are as annoyed with the "hide the free player" game that Real has been playing -- I thought I was the only one.
GWB supposedly speaks to the President of Mexico in Spanish. Are we to believe that GWB's Spanish is better than his English? If not, why aren't we at war with Mexico?
Paycheck-Style Memory Erasure: How Close Are We?
For me, we are already there:
1) Get Paycheck
2) Cash Paycheck at Bar
3) Drink Paycheck (figuratively, of course)
4) Voila! Memory Erased.
10.2.8 = current Jag version 10.3.1 = current Pan version
Barnes and Noble booksellers (NYSE symbol BKS) is not the same as bn.com (NASDAQ symbol BNBN). They are separate companies with separate management. BKS does however own about 38% of BNBN's stock. BNBN is a joint venture between BKS and Bertelsmann. Don't feel bad, the fools (Motley and otherwise) at Fool.com and Forbes magazine don't seem to know the difference either -- and they are both selling investment advice!
It states clearly on the EULA that is located inside the SSO that once you've removed the shrink-wrap, you can't return it.
But DAMN that (tam.plannet21.com) has got to be the UGLIEST web site I know of. Check it out. I hope this means that they spent all of their effort on the plane ;^)
Close, try Betaium. Dyslexia is a bitch.
Apple once developed and marketed something call AU/X. It was, if I remember correctly, a System V style Unix that almost no one liked. They also resold AIX on one of their server products c. 1995 or so. The reference you found may not be to OS X.
Pillip Katz wrote PKZip (the PK in stand for, ta da, Phillip Katz). Katz drank himself to death 3 years ago (he was 37). Unisys did not aquire the rights to LZW -- they patented it when Welch, a Unisys employee and the W in LZW, altered the open algorithm originally developed by Lempel and Ziv. I have no idea who Strawlman is.
I realize that this is an aside, but, HotHardware's article is a mess and should never been cited here. The raw Sandra benchmarks are all screwed up (the P4 3.0Mhz MM B/M has an AMD memory B/M in its stead; the numbers in the CPU section for P4 3.0/200 vs. P4 3.06/133 look wrong unless one has HT turned off). This is just sloppy. Go to some of the other hardware sites that have been posted above.
The iLoo (portable toilet with Internet access) thing that has been floating around the media for the last week (CNN, CNET, etc, all had articles) turns out to be a "April Fools joke" according to MS representatives (CNET). The only problem: they released it on May 2nd. Damn! They can't even release their jokes on time.
Science and industry are full of these "best days are past" type of quotes. It really doesn't matter how influential or knowledgeable the individual is, they are most often wrong. My favorite of these pronouncements was that of Francis Crick of Watson-Crick-Wilkins fame. Fifteen years after receiving the Nobel prize for the structure of DNA, he stopped do genetics research and proclaimed that all the great discoveries had been made in genetics. He told his friends that the next "hot" area of biology was going to be neurobiochemistry. He left Cambridge and went to the Salk Institute to do research in this field. Within a year of his career change, using restriction endonucleases, labs around the world began cutting and splicing DNA. The "dead" study of genetics was once again resurrected.
ABC News has an article that discusses data from the magnetic tape of the OESS (Orbiter Experiment Support System). According to the article, the launch data show a spike in temperature just after the foam struck the leading edge of the left wing. The spike was in the area of a sensor behind one of the left wing's spars and was registered for 40 seconds. It goes on to say that this sensor would have normally shown a steady to decreasing temperature under normal conditions.
You are very correct - this is the definitive site on polygraphs. The most important point for /.ers to understand is that a polygraph "test" is really an interrogation. The examiner is always less interested in what the machine "says" than he is in the things he can get you to admit. The typical polygraph session is a highly scripted interview that is designed to convince you that the machine is infallible. The most important points of the polygraph session are those points where the examiner tries to get you to volunteer information that can be used against you later.
There is an excellent book at the site called "The Lie Behind the Lie Detector." It's in PDF form.
My daughter has a moderate hearing loss (congenital, discovered when she was 3 1/2 years old). I have spent many hours discussing the nature and cause of hearing loss with physicians and audiologists. From every thing I've been told and have read, the only known basis of hearing loss caused by sound is related to the total energy in the sound signal entering the ear. That is to say that a high-energy signal will cause nerve damage that can result in possible long term hearing loss. To believe that the "type" or waveform could be the basis of hearing loss and no one has figured this out but some flunky on an obscure German site that contains no real background -- just this dumbassed "thought experiment" -- is just plain silly. I say, prove it or lose it.
As someone else above noted this deals with concealed carry (CC) laws not general gun ownership. In many parts of this (US) country it is quite difficult to get a CC permit. You are selecting your sample by nature of CC requirements. Beyond that there are statistical issues regarding relatively small samples. John Allen Paulos who authored the "Innumeracy" books discusses this at greater length.
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I drove a Model-T once. Was slower than my horse. Haven't driven a car since.
A lot of articles about this are just saying that it supports 10.2 when in fact it requires 10.2. On my 10.1.5 system, double-clicking on the install package brings up the installer and just stops there. No error message, nothing.
Actually, '86' the verb, means "to get rid of." Example: "John was told to 86 the gun." It is sometimes used to describe murder as in "Ted was 86ed by Carol."
It seems to confirm my newfound belief that "Anonymous" is Latin for stupid.
If a "Dragon Chip" is in any way related to a "Cow Chip," I predict its performance to be shitty.