Hmm, i've seen this report a year or so ago, where reporters 'under cover' tested the possibility to change the mileage on both digital and mechanical, under the pretext of trying to sell a used car with a high mileage.
Long story short, it seems devices to change digital odometers were ubiquitous among the tested mechanics and seemingly easy to use, and last but not least, it has not been much of a problem to find mechanics willing to do this illegal (fraud?) task.
well since I have some biological background, I can't resist to reply.
The organism(s) (Plasmodium falciparum et al) responsible for malaria are not bacteria, but protozoa. They are single-celled like bacteria, but have cell organelles (eg mitochondria, core, golgi) and are thus eucaryotes, like humans and unlike bacteria, which are procaryotes.
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so the two g's should be pronounced the same way in both syllables, no?
not really. In most european languages you have a clear distinction between the "light" vowels i and e, and the "dark" vowels a,o,u.
e.g.:
french/freedom: "gelatine, genre" - "gauche, gout"
phonetic : jh vs g
German: "Bach, wucht" - "weich, licht" (phonetic notation unknown)
spanish: "publicacion" k vs th
the free spain example holds for pretty much all latin derived languages, the german example should hold for germany and scandinavia. it works for many consonants (or consonant "compunds" like "ch"), not only g,ch,c.
i admit not being too good with old greek, but it would be consistent with the other examples to say ji-gga. that being said, i've learnt to say giga, because in my native tongue, "g" is never pronounced as "jh".
i'd rather say don't you don't go dyin' on me.
We make an army of enhanced elderly! We solve the problem of paying pension, and we have soldiers that aren't afraid to die, because with their old age depression thay wish to be dead anyway, even if they are happy, they only have a couple of years to lose.
I think he means the US enclave Guantanamo Bay, where all those evil turbans are being held under human-right-defying conditions.
oops... oh well, flame on
i doubt he meant computer generated noise, rather the noise you'd get when you turn your microphone input on, without a microphone. you'll get whatever interferences you have as noise.
the process at hand can be described by the
Poisson distribution or Gamma distribution(hint:
these are not linux distros). Poisson is discrete
and can be used to describe processes where you
have some event e with some small
probability p(e) for a finite number of trials
n, so it would work for a maximum life time
of a million years but not immortality. e would be
"survive a year". then, if you have some good
estimate for p(e) (ask your local life insurance)
you can look up the formula, fill in the values
and compute your p(becoming 600 years) or
p(becoming at least 600). You can model the same
with gamma distr., but as a continuous process.
finding p and n such that E(life
length) = 600 is trivial and left as an exercise
to the reader...
statistics is fun, go learn some:P
Actually, none of those countries are in the EU. Some of them are in Europe. Those that are, are in Eastern Europe. They might be in the EU one day, but for the time being, they are rather the main source of piracy in Europe. Many warez sites are hosted there, and illegal "physical" copies are also mostly originated there. It seems, that this treaty is rather a sign of goodwill of the respective governments to do something about it. I wouldn't be surprised, if those countries were pushed to sign, by being hinted they would have problems ever getting close to be in the EU if they didn't sign. It's also conspicious that all of those countries that have signed (except for the US) are rather poor, yet western oriented. The citizens of those countries would be better off, if they could copy freely, because they probably can't afford to buy the originals. Hence, all of those countries might have been pushed to sign in order to maintain some sort of political or financial help. I can't say that it helped much though from my experience. Also, most of the stuff I download, i mean: would download if I wasn't terribly law-abiding comes from within the EU, like Sweden where they seem to have rather liberal laws, and they are rather well off, so the US government wasn't able to pursue it's globalized war against terroristic piracy there. ..and frankly I hope they never will
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I was just reminded of that story a while ago about these kids hacking the xbox and sorta trying to blackmail microsoft. Anyone know what happened?
Hmm, i've seen this report a year or so ago, where reporters 'under cover' tested the possibility to change the mileage on both digital and mechanical, under the pretext of trying to sell a used car with a high mileage.
Long story short, it seems devices to change digital odometers were ubiquitous among the tested mechanics and seemingly easy to use, and last but not least, it has not been much of a problem to find mechanics willing to do this illegal (fraud?) task.
well since I have some biological background, I can't resist to reply.
The organism(s) (Plasmodium falciparum et al) responsible for malaria are not bacteria, but protozoa. They are single-celled like bacteria, but have cell organelles (eg mitochondria, core, golgi) and are thus eucaryotes, like humans and unlike bacteria, which are procaryotes.
behold my 1337 html sk1llz
i love reading with "Flamebait +6" modifier !!!
That'll only guide you to the pearly gates.
And the exhaust gasses might produce a fancy noise!
i guess he forgot the tags.
just for the record, my siemens phone does that, too. (see above for ericson fanboys)
not really. In most european languages you have a
e.g.: french/freedom: "gelatine, genre" - "gauche, gout" phonetic : jh vs gclear distinction between the "light" vowels i
and e, and the "dark" vowels a,o,u.
German: "Bach, wucht" - "weich, licht" (phonetic notation unknown)
spanish: "publicacion" k vs th
the free spain example holds for pretty much all latin
derived languages, the german example
should hold for germany and scandinavia. it
works for many consonants (or consonant "compunds"
like "ch"), not only g,ch,c. i admit not being too
good with old greek, but it would be consistent
with the other examples to say ji-gga.
that being said, i've learnt to say giga,
because in my native tongue, "g" is never pronounced as "jh".
i'd rather say don't you don't go dyin' on me.
We make an army of enhanced elderly! We solve the
problem of paying pension, and we have soldiers
that aren't afraid to die, because with their
old age depression thay wish to be dead anyway,
even if they are happy, they only have a couple
of years to lose.
did i mention world domination yet?
I think he means the US enclave Guantanamo Bay, where all those evil turbans are being held under human-right-defying conditions.
oops... oh well, flame on
Wanna be a PIMP?
i doubt he meant computer generated noise, rather the noise you'd get when you turn your microphone input on, without a microphone. you'll get whatever interferences you have as noise.
the process at hand can be described by the :P
Poisson distribution or Gamma distribution(hint:
these are not linux distros). Poisson is discrete
and can be used to describe processes where you
have some event e with some small
probability p(e) for a finite number of trials
n, so it would work for a maximum life time
of a million years but not immortality. e would be
"survive a year". then, if you have some good
estimate for p(e) (ask your local life insurance)
you can look up the formula, fill in the values
and compute your p(becoming 600 years) or
p(becoming at least 600). You can model the same
with gamma distr., but as a continuous process.
finding p and n such that E(life
length) = 600 is trivial and left as an exercise
to the reader...
statistics is fun, go learn some
Few of those countries, oddly, are in the EU
Actually, none of those countries are in the EU.
Some of them are in Europe. Those that are, are in Eastern Europe.
They might be in the EU one day, but for the time being, they are rather the main source of piracy in Europe. Many warez sites are hosted there, and illegal "physical" copies are also mostly originated there. It seems, that this treaty is rather a sign of goodwill of the respective governments to do something about it.
I wouldn't be surprised, if those countries were pushed to sign, by being hinted they would have problems ever getting close to be in the EU if they didn't sign.
It's also conspicious that all of those countries that have signed (except for the US) are rather poor, yet western oriented. The citizens of those countries would be better off, if they could copy freely, because they probably can't afford to buy the originals. Hence, all of those countries might have been pushed to sign in order to maintain some sort of political or financial help.
I can't say that it helped much though from my experience. Also, most of the stuff I download, i mean: would download if I wasn't terribly law-abiding comes from within the EU, like Sweden where they seem to have rather liberal laws, and they are rather well off, so the US government wasn't able to pursue it's globalized war against terroristic piracy there.
..and frankly I hope they never will