it's my understanding that because of BU's total population, we basically merit our own department of boston PD. perhaps they add the extra letter on their cars to make parents feel better or something. however, they are regular cops. even seen em pull someone over for speeding - must have been a slow night.
wow... we must go to totally different Boston Universities. BU does not have their own police department. An entire district of the Boston PD is restricted to BU (and yes, they carry Glock 20's that fire the.40 S&W) However, dorm security is outsourced to a regular "we carry no weapons and don't care what you do" rent-a-cop outfit. Similarly, the RA's don't give a damn about what you do. Many of the rules you've mentioned are of the "it's on the books, but we don't care" variety.
as for privacy... if they don't have probable cause, and they can't find it in a visual inspection in which nothing is moved (like, they won't open drawers, etc) they can't take it. As far as filesharing itself goes... i've had no troubles, but stage one, two, and three are increasingly angry letters from the university telling you to stop... probably because they don't want to get sued and are cheap bastards who don't like paying for the bandwidth.
Having played lots and lots of CS, TFC back in the day, Splinter Cell, and many other games that involve "real life" guns (ok, the guns in tfc aren't real), i can testify that just because you can outsnipe anybody on your CS clan's servers doesn't mean you can actually shoot anything in real life. i've tried. at 25 yards with a.22 rifle (which basically has no kick), i couldn't hit shit. 20 rounds, 12 actually hit the target, and only around the edges. if this moron wants to argue that "games==murder training programs", he should play lots of quake, and then try to actually shoot something - preferably a paper target.
the war of 1812 can hardly be considered an american victory -- at best, it was a stalemate that the British decided wasn't worth their time. I mean, it's not exactly something to cheer about when the "victors" have their capitol torched, and the "losers" simply stop attacking. We 'won' in the strictest sense that we didn't loose and once again rejoin the British Empire.
I'm an engineer at BU, sophomore year. I bring my heavy-as-heck-but-powerful desktop to school so i can game on it and work in my dorm. As far as notetaking goes, I stick with the graph-paper composition notebooks and a pen...
I will probably be adding a laptop to the mix because i don't trust the dumb terminals scattered across campus, and being stuck with my copy of PuTTY on a floppy is sometimes inconvient, and having a laptop to give presentations on is invaluable, especially as a soon-to-be-upperclassmen.
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remember, folks.. just because we have a genetic sequence is about 10% of the story. Proteomics is the next big thing, and there are a lot more protiens than genes.
yeah. my old highschool uses bess... it was a pain in the ass. it banned the homepage of the comp sci department (hosted off campus on one of the teacher's personal servers) for being "a hate webpage" that also had kiddy porn and hacking tools.
it would've been a pain, if i hadn't known the admin's username, and figured out that his passwords changed monthly, but were just the president's last names, starting from washington...
last i checked, incidentally, Bess/N2H2 is under litigation for selling user browsing information in breach of their own privacy policy and contract.
those show promise. difficulties lie in two areas, iirc. first, making them long enough without significant imperfection is still a challenge, and second, methods of manufacture are slow, costly, and ineffective (only about a 20% yield)
Again, this is one of those "it works well in theory" deals. In theory, diamonds are superconductive. This relies heavily upon the symmetry of the crystalline structure. In nature, diamonds have enough imperfections to destroy the superconductive nature. SciAm had an article last summer.
physics is a very terse discipline - most words have only one meaning. to be completely technical, Work is one of several things : the dot product of Force and Distance vectors, or the integration of Force with respect to distance. Defining it as the transfer of energy isn't wrong, per se... but it's definetly hazy, and that kind of sloppy definition has a nasty habit of leading to trouble.
Maaaybe... but i'd be careful. Counter-strike, for example, is rife with cheaters. However, i've seen someone play who'se really good, and it works something like this : whoever he's playing against gets headshotted, or he dies - and he doesn't die too often. It's mind-boggling to watch, but he is just that good...and gets banned from 3 or 4 servers a day for it.
I hereby invoke Godwin's Law. This thread is over.
Godwin's Law prov.
[Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
CAPPS II will collect data and rate each passenger's risk potential //begin code snippet
if(PassengerEthnicity()=='arab')
{
InitiateSearch();
SetThreatLevel(doom);
};
...at this point, wouldn't it be a good idea to pick ONE of the scripting languages, and make it a co-standard? Yes! I wholeheartedly agree!...so, vi or emacs?
As coincidence would have it,a friend of mine forgot her password on her laptop, which runs XP Home. She needed access, obviously, so she asked me for help. First thing i tried was booting into safe mode, which gave me admin privelages. Win2k recovery disks? who needs em?
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the shuttle does have a black box - but not anything like what you'd find in a commercial aircraft, for obvious kinetics reasons. what it does have is a pretty state-of-the-art radio signal encryption device used for air-to-ground communication. IIRC, it has yet to be recovered, and a large group of searchers are walking 50 or 100 people abreast across stretches of texas cornfields looking for the thing.
I am holding off on buying a PDA for similar reasons... namely, the Utility Belt Factor will grow quite high. I recently read an article about a widget being developed over at MIT that uses a series of LED's to project a keyboard pattern on any flat surface, which can then be used as a keyboard. When they come out with something that is a small (like iPod size) box that has one of those keyboards and a pair of wireless glasses for a screen, and is a cellphone/pda/mp3 player... then i'll bite. right now, i'll stick to my cell phone and a pen.
ARKIN: The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us.
I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council
permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept
away.
TAGGE: That's impossible! How will the Emperor maintain control
without the bureaucracy?
TARKIN: The regional governors now have direct control over
territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this
battle station.
it's my understanding that swelling precedes formation of clots - that is, extra fluids in your body tend to flow to the lower extremities when you've been sitting down for extended periods of time. This is a lot less serious than clot formation, which is potentially deadly, if the clot detatches, and makes it's way to the heart, resulting in cardiac arrest, or the brain, resulting in stroke.
this shouldn't come as a surprise, if you think about it. I'm reminded of the high occurence of lower-extremity (particularly foot) swelling that occurs on airlines. This isn't due to a change in pressure, it's due to the fact that you're sitting in one place for a longass time. Stands to reason that if you stagnate for too long, bad things happen.
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Roads? where we're going we don't need ...roads.
it's my understanding that because of BU's total population, we basically merit our own department of boston PD. perhaps they add the extra letter on their cars to make parents feel better or something. however, they are regular cops. even seen em pull someone over for speeding - must have been a slow night.
wow... we must go to totally different Boston Universities. BU does not have their own police department. An entire district of the Boston PD is restricted to BU (and yes, they carry Glock 20's that fire the .40 S&W) However, dorm security is outsourced to a regular "we carry no weapons and don't care what you do" rent-a-cop outfit. Similarly, the RA's don't give a damn about what you do. Many of the rules you've mentioned are of the "it's on the books, but we don't care" variety.
as for privacy... if they don't have probable cause, and they can't find it in a visual inspection in which nothing is moved (like, they won't open drawers, etc) they can't take it. As far as filesharing itself goes... i've had no troubles, but stage one, two, and three are increasingly angry letters from the university telling you to stop... probably because they don't want to get sued and are cheap bastards who don't like paying for the bandwidth.
Having played lots and lots of CS, TFC back in the day, Splinter Cell, and many other games that involve "real life" guns (ok, the guns in tfc aren't real), i can testify that just because you can outsnipe anybody on your CS clan's servers doesn't mean you can actually shoot anything in real life. i've tried. at 25 yards with a .22 rifle (which basically has no kick), i couldn't hit shit. 20 rounds, 12 actually hit the target, and only around the edges.
if this moron wants to argue that "games==murder training programs", he should play lots of quake, and then try to actually shoot something - preferably a paper target.
the war of 1812 can hardly be considered an american victory -- at best, it was a stalemate that the British decided wasn't worth their time. I mean, it's not exactly something to cheer about when the "victors" have their capitol torched, and the "losers" simply stop attacking. We 'won' in the strictest sense that we didn't loose and once again rejoin the British Empire.
Oblig. Chicken Run quote:
"chickens go in...pies come out!"
I'm an engineer at BU, sophomore year. I bring my heavy-as-heck-but-powerful desktop to school so i can game on it and work in my dorm. As far as notetaking goes, I stick with the graph-paper composition notebooks and a pen...
I will probably be adding a laptop to the mix because i don't trust the dumb terminals scattered across campus, and being stuck with my copy of PuTTY on a floppy is sometimes inconvient, and having a laptop to give presentations on is invaluable, especially as a soon-to-be-upperclassmen.
remember, folks.. just because we have a genetic sequence is about 10% of the story. Proteomics is the next big thing, and there are a lot more protiens than genes.
yeah. my old highschool uses bess... it was a pain in the ass. it banned the homepage of the comp sci department (hosted off campus on one of the teacher's personal servers) for being "a hate webpage" that also had kiddy porn and hacking tools. it would've been a pain, if i hadn't known the admin's username, and figured out that his passwords changed monthly, but were just the president's last names, starting from washington... last i checked, incidentally, Bess/N2H2 is under litigation for selling user browsing information in breach of their own privacy policy and contract.
those show promise. difficulties lie in two areas, iirc. first, making them long enough without significant imperfection is still a challenge, and second, methods of manufacture are slow, costly, and ineffective (only about a 20% yield)
Again, this is one of those "it works well in theory" deals. In theory, diamonds are superconductive. This relies heavily upon the symmetry of the crystalline structure. In nature, diamonds have enough imperfections to destroy the superconductive nature. SciAm had an article last summer.
physics is a very terse discipline - most words have only one meaning. to be completely technical, Work is one of several things : the dot product of Force and Distance vectors, or the integration of Force with respect to distance. Defining it as the transfer of energy isn't wrong, per se... but it's definetly hazy, and that kind of sloppy definition has a nasty habit of leading to trouble.
heh. to the Business Calculus mind, lim(EOL,EOL,datex)==EOL.
Maaaybe... but i'd be careful. Counter-strike, for example, is rife with cheaters. However, i've seen someone play who'se really good, and it works something like this : whoever he's playing against gets headshotted, or he dies - and he doesn't die too often. It's mind-boggling to watch, but he is just that good...and gets banned from 3 or 4 servers a day for it.
mod parent up, it's rot13. it's funny. laugh!
I hereby invoke Godwin's Law. This thread is over.
Godwin's Law prov.
[Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
CAPPS II will collect data and rate each passenger's risk potential
//begin code snippet
if(PassengerEthnicity()=='arab')
{
InitiateSearch();
SetThreatLevel(doom);
};
Yes! I wholeheartedly agree!
As coincidence would have it,a friend of mine forgot her password on her laptop, which runs XP Home. She needed access, obviously, so she asked me for help. First thing i tried was booting into safe mode, which gave me admin privelages. Win2k recovery disks? who needs em?
the shuttle does have a black box - but not anything like what you'd find in a commercial aircraft, for obvious kinetics reasons. what it does have is a pretty state-of-the-art radio signal encryption device used for air-to-ground communication. IIRC, it has yet to be recovered, and a large group of searchers are walking 50 or 100 people abreast across stretches of texas cornfields looking for the thing.
I am holding off on buying a PDA for similar reasons... namely, the Utility Belt Factor will grow quite high. I recently read an article about a widget being developed over at MIT that uses a series of LED's to project a keyboard pattern on any flat surface, which can then be used as a keyboard. When they come out with something that is a small (like iPod size) box that has one of those keyboards and a pair of wireless glasses for a screen, and is a cellphone/pda/mp3 player... then i'll bite. right now, i'll stick to my cell phone and a pen.
i propose a new corrolary to Godwin's Law:
As the number of posts on a LEGO-related thread increase, the probability of a slashdot effect goes to one.
ARKIN: The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.
TAGGE: That's impossible! How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?
TARKIN: The regional governors now have direct control over territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station.
it's my understanding that swelling precedes formation of clots - that is, extra fluids in your body tend to flow to the lower extremities when you've been sitting down for extended periods of time. This is a lot less serious than clot formation, which is potentially deadly, if the clot detatches, and makes it's way to the heart, resulting in cardiac arrest, or the brain, resulting in stroke.
this shouldn't come as a surprise, if you think about it. I'm reminded of the high occurence of lower-extremity (particularly foot) swelling that occurs on airlines. This isn't due to a change in pressure, it's due to the fact that you're sitting in one place for a longass time. Stands to reason that if you stagnate for too long, bad things happen.