If you make arrangements to buy (say) a bag of powder you think is drugs, but turns out to be baking soda (or whatever), you will be charged with attempting to buy drugs. I would assume it's the same deal (assuming they can make the charges stick) downloading fake torrents.
Disclaimer: everything I learned about the legal system I got from watching "Law & Order"...
Assuming:
2000 lbs in a ton
20 ton spacecraft
$10,000/pound to get to geosynchronous transfer orbit
Why are you assuming the 20 tons has to come from Earth? Is there some reason to think the appropriate raw materials wouldn't be available on Luna, or some convenient asteroid?
It seems to me if we're ever going to do something significant in space, one of the first things we need to do is establish a mining operation for raw materials -- either on the moon, or on an asteroid captured to one of the Lagrange points (or both).
Any company that wants to put copyright material on their web site, but doesn't want it indexed, should learn about the robots.txt file.
As stated in TFA, the law would make any search engine illegal. Given that hiding your site from all search engines makes it pretty much invisible to the rest of the internet, why bother to have a public web site anyway?
If they want to do something real, make ignoring robots.txt actionalbe.
I try to use the rules, but if I understand you, what else matters?
You should regard the grammar and format of your writing as out-of-band information. Many will regard such errors as an indication the author is careless, immature, and an undisciplined thinker.
Spelling and grammar errors distract from the flow of your prose. They make what is written harder to read. Assume you lose half your audience for each spelling and grammar error.
Got, or want a job that requires any kind of writing? A reputation as a poor writer will cost you raises and promotions. And a spelling error on your resume? It's the kiss of death.
I've managed to find to make the hash
of the two documents collide.
OK. But it seems to me, this can only work once, since a critical part of the scheme requires
Thinking I'm a nice employer, you sign the first document
The first employee this happens to goes out, sets up a blog, and broadcasts his unhappiness all over the world.
As a result, you become everyone's last choice for an employer. This is a good strategy only if your goals include keeping the level of talent working for you as low as possible, and running your business into bankruptcy as quickly as possible.
Sometimes it amazes me what kind of bullshit even people with a scientific background fall for. It's cloth, a fucking cloth bag thrown over a primate. There's no magic hoodoo work/casual magic in any of it. It's your own lack of self awareness that's allowing little tricks of texture or colour influence your mood or behavior.
The fact is, your clothes do have a profound effect on your attitude, and the people who see you. It's why judges have robes, soldiers have uniforms, and hot babes have little black dresses.
It's also why so many geeks hate suits -- anyone who associates them with the cog-in-the-machine, corporate-drone, creativity-crushing attitude is naturally going to feel like they're wearing a straight jacket when they put one on.
If you truley think clothes are nothing more than "a cloth bag througwn over a primate", you're missing a key factor influencing your own attitudes, as well as how people respond to you.
Any compiler that doesn't treat if (ptr) exactly the same as if (ptr != NULL) should be taken out with the rest of the trash.
There's lots of research on optimizing algorithms; most of the time they will do as well or better than even an experienced assembler programmer.
Remember the 90/10 rule (90% of the cycles are executed in 10% of the code). Use the profiler to find out what needs optimizing; if you just guess you'll be wasting your effort 9 times out of 10.
If and when you do decide the optimizer isn't doing a good enough job, just go ahead and code the offending section in assembler (of course, providing an implementation for each platform and OS as needed). mpg123 is a good example of a program that has taken this approach.
Ahhh... but grasshoppah... that toothead boozehound pot smoker G. W. Bush IS in office.;P
Gasp! You mean our president was something of a partier 30 years ago?! Shocking!
Oh, wait. That's been widely known for more than 5 years. It's not shocking at all. It's really funny, in a pathetically sad kind of way, the way the Bush-haters cling to this story, and at the same time give Clinton's "I tried it but I didn't inhale story" a pass.
You don't need to present a shred of identification to get a card -- you don't even have to give the right address, since they give it to you right when you apply for it.
You don't even need an actual card -- stores will allow you to enter a phone number in place of swiping the card -- and there's no way for them to know if you enter the right number.
If this was critical evidence in their case, they didn't have a case. (In which case, it's no surprise they jumped on the 3rd party who came forward to confess).
The "100%" or "0%" approach is silly because it doesn't actually _get_ you anywhere. You could argue in the same way that the roll of a die has a 100% or 0% chance of being a six and you'll just have to roll it to find out which.
No, it's not the same. I roll a six-sided die, there are six possible outcomes. The original poster wondered
Now, just for fun, what are the odds that the odds for a day beign Friday the 13th end in 13?
The probability that a randomly selected date happens to fall on the 13th day of the month, and on a Friday, is a fixed constant. The answer is not random, and it's not going to change. Pick your way to express the probability. Either it ends with '13', or it doesn't.
what are the odds that the odds for a day beign Friday the 13th end in 13?
There are 100 two digit combinations, so 1/100.
Actually, the correct answer is either 100% (the answer does end in '13') or 0% (the answer does not end in '13'). Of course, it all depends on how you express the probability, what base you choose, etc, etc.
I've got a PhD in Mechanical Engineering [...] I can only stand in awe of anyone who independently is able to solve the Rubic's Cube
Solving the cube is a math problem, not an engineering problem. I bought my first cube in the late spring of 1981. I had it solved (on my own) before the Abstract Algebra class I was taking that summer started using it as an example. I got an easy 'A' in that class (while others were struggling), prolly at least in part because of my experience solving the cube...
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If you make arrangements to buy (say) a bag of powder you think is drugs, but turns out to be baking soda (or whatever), you will be charged with attempting to buy drugs. I would assume it's the same deal (assuming they can make the charges stick) downloading fake torrents.
Disclaimer: everything I learned about the legal system I got from watching "Law & Order"...
(btw -- where does /. get its color schemes -- somethingawful?!)
It seems to me if we're ever going to do something significant in space, one of the first things we need to do is establish a mining operation for raw materials -- either on the moon, or on an asteroid captured to one of the Lagrange points (or both).
- Any company that wants to put copyright material on their web site, but doesn't want it indexed, should learn about the robots.txt file.
- As stated in TFA, the law would make any search engine illegal. Given that hiding your site from all search engines makes it pretty much invisible to the rest of the internet, why bother to have a public web site anyway?
If they want to do something real, make ignoring robots.txt actionalbe.Bill Gates: OK.
Minion: Revenues for this last quarter were 9.62 billion dollars, up 5%!
Bill Gates: Wow! That's amazing! What's the bad news?
Minion: Revenues were only 99.18% of projections.
Bill Gates: OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!!
It's also why so many geeks hate suits -- anyone who associates them with the cog-in-the-machine, corporate-drone, creativity-crushing attitude is naturally going to feel like they're wearing a straight jacket when they put one on.
If you truley think clothes are nothing more than "a cloth bag througwn over a primate", you're missing a key factor influencing your own attitudes, as well as how people respond to you.
In Soviet Russia, you hide from alarm clock!
Oh, wait. That's been widely known for more than 5 years. It's not shocking at all. It's really funny, in a pathetically sad kind of way, the way the Bush-haters cling to this story, and at the same time give Clinton's "I tried it but I didn't inhale story" a pass.
- You don't need to present a shred of identification to get a card -- you don't even have to give the right address, since they give it to you right when you apply for it.
- You don't even need an actual card -- stores will allow you to enter a phone number in place of swiping the card -- and there's no way for them to know if you enter the right number.
If this was critical evidence in their case, they didn't have a case. (In which case, it's no surprise they jumped on the 3rd party who came forward to confess).is it possible to make a robot that eats old peoples' medicine for fuel?
I love the Google ads that come up on this page: 'Subpoena Servers', 'Download Subpoena Forms', 'Process Server Directory'.