Some pistols don't have an additional safety beyond those that are built-in. Some incorporate the safety into the trigger itself -- i.e., when you pull on the trigger you automatically deactivate the safety. Revolvers typically don't have an external safety button but are considered safe with the hammer down. If you are paranoid about accidental discharge, you would keep the hammer down over an empty cylinder -- 100% impossibility of firing without pulling the trigger. Newer revolvers usually use a bar between the firing pin and hammer. The bar rises during the trigger pull. In this way, the hammer can be down over a full cylinder and still be completely safe because the hammer physically can't contact the firing pin. Scroll down to page 11 for a nice mechanical diagram.
Linus makes no secret about it -- he wrote Linux to be the kernal for GNU's tools. RMS et al. were trying to make a free unix -- they had made compiler and tools and such, but no kernal. Linus made x86 kernal. Linux would not exist today as it does without BOTH Linus and RMS. Certainly Linus would have been hesitant to write a kernal if there were no tools whatsoever to use it with.
I think the dictionary reference cleary shows "faking it" is part of the meaning of simulation. "to assume a false appearance of someone or something.... pretend to have, do, or feel... not genuine". A simulation is merely something that is not the actual thing -- it can be a representation of something real, or it can try to deceive you by convincing you its real, when in fact it isn't. "Faking It".
That said, what the heck is "imitation simulated leather"... I always prefer REAL simulated leather over fake faked leather!
It's just time to quit using SSNs as personal secret passcodes. In some ways, it's good. At what percentage point of compromised SSNs will it stop being used for its present purposes? A few hundred is just a drop in the bucket, but it happens every day. Eventually, SSNs will be meaningless. Like a phone number, at which a slightly better system will (hopefully) be devised.
Could this be an easy way to get rid of all those excess mountain dews??? Burn off the extra calories, power some electonics to boot?
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I don't know anything about the specifics of the license between KHTML and Apple or whether the GPL would have been a better format. But, here's one way to think about it -- plain old contract law.
When two parties agree that party-A will give party-B product-X in exhange for payment-Y, if party-A fulfills it's obligation to give product-X to party-B, but party-B fails to pay for product-X as agreed, then party party-A is entitled to sue for breach of contract. Party-A could seek monetary damages and/or specific performance, i.e., an order for party-B to do the thing agreed.
Now, I don't know if Apple's actions constitute a breach, but if they do, a lawsuit would be in order. There is mention that Apple is living up to the letter of the agreement, but even then, that isn't always good enough. For example, a person angry about a car loan may still create legal problems for himself if he drops off 250,000 pennies as payment on the loan. While he might have paid off the $25k obligation, the lender has suffered damages due to the unreasonable form of payment (processing costs). If Apple is paying KHTML off in pennies so to speak, KHTML should sue.
Well, liquidated damages are specifically designed to meet those situations where showing actual cost is is very difficult. A liquidated damages clause is not enforceable if it acts as a penalty as you say though. Given the potential value of losing customers though or admin costs as pointed out by another person, or any other myriad factors, $250 isn't that much.
Well, if banging your head against a wall doesn't work, how about shutting down internet access for affected machines. The machine owners would get the hint rather quickly. Secondly, make a liquidated damages clause in the user agreement. Something like, "if your machine is hijacked and you are found to have sent in excess of 25,000 email messages, you owe us $250 -- oh and BTW, here some tools to use to prevent becoming infected."
On occaision, I connect my powerbook to my TV (powerbook has DVI out). I keep the TV in the bedroom - lay on the bed with bluetooth mouse and keyboard - surf slashdot, watch por^H^Hreviews in full screen - I love it! Anyway, apple's notebooks are quiet and easily connected to a television -- although the ibook doesn't have dvi, you can get a VGA adapter (it comes with an S-Video adapter I believe). Of importance, neither an ibook nor a powerbook would look monstrously out of place in the same way a whirring glowing Alienware machine would.
"I can see how Buddhism is attractive to you--it doesn't ever ask you to change."
That idea come from any source readings? I doubt it. I'm not a buhdist, but I've read a bit. How "feel good" is a notion such as this?: "desire is the source of misery." In other words, eliminate desire from your being and you will live a better life. That doesn't sound easy at all!
I always wanted to have a leather jacket painted on the back. A big roast turkey with P E T A on the top arc. At the bottom it would read "People for the Epicurian Treatment of Animals".
You are wrong, or we are talking about something else and not understanding each other.
Civil suits, of which libel would be a flavor, are often decided by juries. In any trial, it takes only one party to request a jury trial and it happens. Now, there may well be a disposition on pretrial motions, or there may be a specific statute taking an area out of the purview of a jury (for example, certain appeals from adminstrative tribunals are not entitled to a jury trial, e.g. civil driver's license revocations or the like (depending on jurisdiction etc. yadda yadda yadda), but that in no way means that civil suits are not decided by juries every day.
Ask yourself this, if juries never decide civil cases, why would you hear things in the news such as "Jury awards plaintiff $1m in product liability suit against Ford and Firestone" or similar things. If you don't believe, call up an attorney's office. Ask the question, "if I was in a car accident and had to sue the other person, am I allowed to have a jury trial?"
Ah yes, here at slashdot, any mention of lawsuit means we hate the plaintiff. And maybe we ought to. But the parents here seem pretty low too.
I looked around for what the hubbub is all about. You might say that the schools actions were flagrantly shocking, despicable, and almost too egregious to publish. Alternatively, it might be related to the current trend of parents becoming more and more obnoxious. Anyway, if you suffer nightmares easily, stop reading here. If you are a spelling nazi, you might also want to avoid reading the parent's description of events. I quote:
Re: Principal failings
Reply #13 on: May 02, 2005, 05:43:36 AM
I was in the cafeteria I am a pto member and have first hand knowledge.
On pizza day, children turn their money in for pizza and recieve a poker chip. Insted of the help taking the money it makes it easier to just drop poker chips into a bucket. We have had problems with kids bringing in fake poker chips to recieve free pizza. On that particular Friday, we decided to watch carefully as each of the classes went threw the line and dropped their chips into the bucket.
We had one person watching the bucket as the chips went in. As a class passed through sure enough a fake chip was dropped in.
The child was told to wait a minute, when questioned as to where she recieved the poker chip the child said "from my mother"
Can anyone guess who the mother is? Yes..Dr.Nauss.
So if they are stealing pizza from the pto, imagine what other damage is being done?
"This would be a civil matter, not a criminal matter, there is no jury."
Please mods, this is not insightful. It's flat wrong. Please save the poster the embarrassment of having his name prominently attached to such a statement.
Agreed -- I touch type as well. But show me a phone with a built-in full-sized keyboard and I'll show you a phone doomed to sell no more than 18 units worldwide.
FWIW, I won't do text messaging. Typing is so easy and natural that the annoyance level involved in trying to make a word on a phone key pad is infuriatingly frustrating. I'd rather call, or wait and email later.
"continuing investigation that uses observation, hypothesis testing, measurement, experimentation, logical argument and theory building to lead to more adequate explanations of natural phenomena."
Maybe I need to check my eyes, but what about that definition even suggests a "supreme being"?
The problem is that they have injected many words certainly with ulterior motives. I'm a lawyer and
"trust me", the longer you make a sentence, the more things you can make it mean. It provides no help in defining what "lead to more adequate explanations of natural phonomena" means. And in the context, it is pretty clear that this phrase at least will be used to posit explanations that fit with certain individuals' religious views. I'm sure "logical argument" means questioning scientists along the lines of "prove to me god doesn't exist, and if you can't, he must" type questions. The previous article on creationists' 10 questions for biologists is a good example. "Theory building" will certainly be used in the non-scientific meaning of the word, i.e., theory=definitely false.
The problem with the definition is that it's wiggley -- it can easily be molded to fit any number of views. Beware the lawmaker's use of language.
And then you go and destroy your own point out of the water by hyping a future boat anchor with a nice $500 LCD permenently attached.:)
I guess I'm having a really hard time making myself understood. I don't think the non-upgradeability of an imac is a big deal. I think PCs are often equally non-upgradeable. At least that has been my experience. So my point is, I think the "you can't upgrade it" argument against buying a mac is not all that valid.
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It's a funny joke. Let me be a wet blanket.
Some pistols don't have an additional safety beyond those that are built-in. Some incorporate the safety into the trigger itself -- i.e., when you pull on the trigger you automatically deactivate the safety. Revolvers typically don't have an external safety button but are considered safe with the hammer down. If you are paranoid about accidental discharge, you would keep the hammer down over an empty cylinder -- 100% impossibility of firing without pulling the trigger. Newer revolvers usually use a bar between the firing pin and hammer. The bar rises during the trigger pull. In this way, the hammer can be down over a full cylinder and still be completely safe because the hammer physically can't contact the firing pin. Scroll down to page 11 for a nice mechanical diagram.
Funny and insightful. Great point!
Linus makes no secret about it -- he wrote Linux to be the kernal for GNU's tools. RMS et al. were trying to make a free unix -- they had made compiler and tools and such, but no kernal. Linus made x86 kernal. Linux would not exist today as it does without BOTH Linus and RMS. Certainly Linus would have been hesitant to write a kernal if there were no tools whatsoever to use it with.
I think the dictionary reference cleary shows "faking it" is part of the meaning of simulation. "to assume a false appearance of someone or something .... pretend to have, do, or feel ... not genuine". A simulation is merely something that is not the actual thing -- it can be a representation of something real, or it can try to deceive you by convincing you its real, when in fact it isn't. "Faking It".
... I always prefer REAL simulated leather over fake faked leather!
That said, what the heck is "imitation simulated leather"
It's just time to quit using SSNs as personal secret passcodes. In some ways, it's good. At what percentage point of compromised SSNs will it stop being used for its present purposes? A few hundred is just a drop in the bucket, but it happens every day. Eventually, SSNs will be meaningless. Like a phone number, at which a slightly better system will (hopefully) be devised.
Simulation is easy (in the "faking it sense of course"). Just watch Star Trek.
Could this be an easy way to get rid of all those excess mountain dews??? Burn off the extra calories, power some electonics to boot?
I don't know anything about the specifics of the license between KHTML and Apple or whether the GPL would have been a better format. But, here's one way to think about it -- plain old contract law.
When two parties agree that party-A will give party-B product-X in exhange for payment-Y, if party-A fulfills it's obligation to give product-X to party-B, but party-B fails to pay for product-X as agreed, then party party-A is entitled to sue for breach of contract. Party-A could seek monetary damages and/or specific performance, i.e., an order for party-B to do the thing agreed.
Now, I don't know if Apple's actions constitute a breach, but if they do, a lawsuit would be in order. There is mention that Apple is living up to the letter of the agreement, but even then, that isn't always good enough. For example, a person angry about a car loan may still create legal problems for himself if he drops off 250,000 pennies as payment on the loan. While he might have paid off the $25k obligation, the lender has suffered damages due to the unreasonable form of payment (processing costs). If Apple is paying KHTML off in pennies so to speak, KHTML should sue.
Well, liquidated damages are specifically designed to meet those situations where showing actual cost is is very difficult. A liquidated damages clause is not enforceable if it acts as a penalty as you say though. Given the potential value of losing customers though or admin costs as pointed out by another person, or any other myriad factors, $250 isn't that much.
Well, if banging your head against a wall doesn't work, how about shutting down internet access for affected machines. The machine owners would get the hint rather quickly. Secondly, make a liquidated damages clause in the user agreement. Something like, "if your machine is hijacked and you are found to have sent in excess of 25,000 email messages, you owe us $250 -- oh and BTW, here some tools to use to prevent becoming infected."
On occaision, I connect my powerbook to my TV (powerbook has DVI out). I keep the TV in the bedroom - lay on the bed with bluetooth mouse and keyboard - surf slashdot, watch por^H^Hreviews in full screen - I love it! Anyway, apple's notebooks are quiet and easily connected to a television -- although the ibook doesn't have dvi, you can get a VGA adapter (it comes with an S-Video adapter I believe). Of importance, neither an ibook nor a powerbook would look monstrously out of place in the same way a whirring glowing Alienware machine would.
OK -- now I get it. Too true. ;-)
"I can see how Buddhism is attractive to you--it doesn't ever ask you to change."
That idea come from any source readings? I doubt it. I'm not a buhdist, but I've read a bit. How "feel good" is a notion such as this?: "desire is the source of misery." In other words, eliminate desire from your being and you will live a better life. That doesn't sound easy at all!
"Also hunting on foot is a lot more noble and is a tradition that has been carried out for thousands of years."
Ah yes, you can even see cave paintings of hunters mounting their trusty steeds to motor off into the untouched wilderness.
I always wanted to have a leather jacket painted on the back. A big roast turkey with P E T A on the top arc. At the bottom it would read "People for the Epicurian Treatment of Animals".
You are wrong, or we are talking about something else and not understanding each other.
Civil suits, of which libel would be a flavor, are often decided by juries. In any trial, it takes only one party to request a jury trial and it happens. Now, there may well be a disposition on pretrial motions, or there may be a specific statute taking an area out of the purview of a jury (for example, certain appeals from adminstrative tribunals are not entitled to a jury trial, e.g. civil driver's license revocations or the like (depending on jurisdiction etc. yadda yadda yadda), but that in no way means that civil suits are not decided by juries every day.
Ask yourself this, if juries never decide civil cases, why would you hear things in the news such as "Jury awards plaintiff $1m in product liability suit against Ford and Firestone" or similar things. If you don't believe, call up an attorney's office. Ask the question, "if I was in a car accident and had to sue the other person, am I allowed to have a jury trial?"
As for Ally McBeal -- I don't watch TV.
Ah yes, here at slashdot, any mention of lawsuit means we hate the plaintiff. And maybe we ought to. But the parents here seem pretty low too.
I looked around for what the hubbub is all about. You might say that the schools actions were flagrantly shocking, despicable, and almost too egregious to publish. Alternatively, it might be related to the current trend of parents becoming more and more obnoxious. Anyway, if you suffer nightmares easily, stop reading here. If you are a spelling nazi, you might also want to avoid reading the parent's description of events. I quote:
Re: Principal failings
Reply #13 on: May 02, 2005, 05:43:36 AM
I was in the cafeteria I am a pto member and have first hand knowledge.
On pizza day, children turn their money in for pizza and recieve a poker chip. Insted of the help taking the money it makes it easier to just drop poker chips into a bucket. We have had problems with kids bringing in fake poker chips to recieve free pizza. On that particular Friday, we decided to watch carefully as each of the classes went threw the line and dropped their chips into the bucket.
We had one person watching the bucket as the chips went in. As a class passed through sure enough a fake chip was dropped in.
The child was told to wait a minute, when questioned as to where she recieved the poker chip the child said "from my mother"
Can anyone guess who the mother is? Yes..Dr.Nauss.
So if they are stealing pizza from the pto, imagine what other damage is being done?
"This would be a civil matter, not a criminal matter, there is no jury."
Please mods, this is not insightful. It's flat wrong. Please save the poster the embarrassment of having his name prominently attached to such a statement.
Does it come with a wireless headset? I don't think I'd want to lug around a full sized handset and have to deal with the cord.
Yeah -- I mean full size as in all the keys, numberpad, 1.5' long. Show me THAT phone. ;-)
Agreed -- I touch type as well. But show me a phone with a built-in full-sized keyboard and I'll show you a phone doomed to sell no more than 18 units worldwide.
FWIW, I won't do text messaging. Typing is so easy and natural that the annoyance level involved in trying to make a word on a phone key pad is infuriatingly frustrating. I'd rather call, or wait and email later.
Thanks for the link to that story. Recent trends are so depressing -- the power of religion never seems to wane.
Maybe I need to check my eyes, but what about that definition even suggests a "supreme being"?
The problem is that they have injected many words certainly with ulterior motives. I'm a lawyer and "trust me", the longer you make a sentence, the more things you can make it mean. It provides no help in defining what "lead to more adequate explanations of natural phonomena" means. And in the context, it is pretty clear that this phrase at least will be used to posit explanations that fit with certain individuals' religious views. I'm sure "logical argument" means questioning scientists along the lines of "prove to me god doesn't exist, and if you can't, he must" type questions. The previous article on creationists' 10 questions for biologists is a good example. "Theory building" will certainly be used in the non-scientific meaning of the word, i.e., theory=definitely false.
The problem with the definition is that it's wiggley -- it can easily be molded to fit any number of views. Beware the lawmaker's use of language.
We don't need scientists to make nuclear weapons. They are gift from god. Like manna from heaven.
I guess I'm having a really hard time making myself understood. I don't think the non-upgradeability of an imac is a big deal. I think PCs are often equally non-upgradeable. At least that has been my experience. So my point is, I think the "you can't upgrade it" argument against buying a mac is not all that valid.