That's mighty thoughty of ya, but y'all forgot to convert those pesky sexagecimal bits.
Those hours-minutes-seconds (and days-weeks-months, for that matter) have just got to go. Using a conversion factor of 1 second = 31.7 nano-years (nY), let's re-translate that:
"The rocket powered sled covered the 4.8 km track in roughly 6 seconds (190 nY). Preliminary numbers put the sled's speed at mach 8.6 or about 10300 km/h (90.29 km/mY [milli-years]) - it covered the last 2.9 km in just 1.3 seconds (41.2 nY). The previous record of 9851 km/h (86.35 km/mY) was set on Oct. 5, 1982 ([Unhandled Decimal Overflow Exception at offset x'007E84']...)"
If this was true, then why are all these lame ass lawsuits popping up in the news from the US, all the time?
You have to be able to keep a straight face as you say, "Yes, yer Honor, dems da ones what pilfered me Unix code."
If you crack even the slightest smile, your case is lost. That's why lawyers get paid the big bucks - they have no sense of humor. None. People who try to argue their own cases are dumb. Only trained legal professionals can handle this type of situation without laughing.
A condominium can be any sort of multi-family dwelling - a high-rise tower, five acres of two-unit side-by-sides or even an old remodeled warehouse. The thing that makes it a condo is that the units are purchased instead of rented.
"This proves that life can survive a fiery impact with the earth -- like that of a meteor impact."
Provided that the life form in question is carefully organised into petri-dishes, hematically sealed in a selection of jars, and stored in a locker.
So then, SETI should be looking for tiny alien worms that have mastered petri-dish technology, or if you prefer a less causal explanation, we should search for a dust-cloud nebula that tends to coalesce into petri-dishes full of worm-supporting nutrients.
What struck me as really weird was that, in the Verizon case, the SAME judge that found for the RIAA also found for them again in the appeal. I thought the appeal would go to another judge.
Nah, it's always best to keep incest in the family.
Let's face it-- if you run a small and/or non-profit site, and if some company or businessperson with lots of money (or even a moderate amount of money) makes a credible threat to send in the lawyers, you're at least as likely as not to give in to their pressure. It's simple survival instinct-- no one wants to get sued, especially (A) in this economy and (B) by someone with much fatter coffers than themselves.
The issue here is your "comfort zone." If you, a geek, start talking tech in a threatening way to your techno-phobe neighbor, he's not going to argue with you or try to fight back. He's out of his element. Same with a geek who is being intimidated by someone who is law-savvy. We tend to cringe, apologize and hope they go away. The fact that they might be able to hurt us financially makes us take their threats seriously. If they did the same thing to a lawyer they would probably get a far different response.
Think about it - you and you neighbor have a little spat about a fence or a barking dog or something. You threaten to "route his Roadrunner connection through your proxy sniffer and VPN his DoS to every kiddie-porn site in the country." Imagine the expression on his face. What are his options? Hire a techie to defend himself? That costs money. He doesn't even understand what you said, except that it sounds bad and you sound serious. He's gonna fold.
What we really need to do to stop this legal-bullying is to get more familiar with the law.
I made a launcher about ten years ago and our Boy Scout troop had a water rocket contest.
The 2-liter bottles didn't work well at all - 50, 60 feet, tops. The 1-liter bottles were excellent, though - a couple hundred feet easily. One went completely out of sight, pretty much straight up.
We cut fins out of plastic and attached them with duct tape. The bottles with the flat area near the neck work best (Schwepps tonic, etc.) Angle the fins very slightly so the rocket will spiral (like an arrow). The real trick is to cut a raquet ball in half and duct tape it over the "nose". (Actually, about 1/3 of the ball is about the right weight.) This gives the rocket the proper balance.
For safety, I tested the bottles to 160-psi and the launch pressure limit was 120-psi.
Sorry, I don't have launcher plans to post, but it worked like one of those wine bottle stoppers that expand a rubber seal inside the neck when you push down the lever. Release the catch and
That kid is 19, now. In 1996 he would have been what, 10 or 11 years old?
The law was passed in 1996. The kid was arrested on Jan. 2, 2003. The P4 smart card is rather recent, so the theft was probably committed late in 2002.
I agree that 1) what the kid did was legally and morally wrong 2) he violated a trust 3) he was stupid.
What I was concerned about was "The Man's" view that bragging on a newsgroup (or wherever) constitutes a confession. Sure, that statement can be introduced as evidence, but it can also be refuted - "Hey, I was lying. It wasn't true." Then it's for the jury to decide.
"These weren't just instructions like, 'do this and do that.' He was putting up the actual changes to make to the card -- specific code bytes that needed to be changed," says Zwillinger. "People say you should be able to log onto the Internet and say anything. But if you go on the Internet and admit to misconduct, that's called a confession."
IANAL, but my sister is, and her three rules are:
Never confess.
Never confess!
NEVER CONFESS !!
Her fourth rule is: Since it's illegal to lie to a policeman, if you're caught red-handed say nothing. Refuse to answer questions, demand an attorney, but never confess. A confession makes things soooo easy for the prosecutor.
So how is posting something to the Internet, not under oath and without Miranda rights, considered a confession?
Much of this discussion against GM boils down to "We're happy with what we have - let's not mess it up." Add to that, "Well, maybe if we just snip out some of those defective genes, that would be OK, but that's all."
Okay, maybe if we start playing around with GM we'll have some successes and some failures. Nature has been doing this, slowly, for thousands of generations. The successes flourish and the failures don't. I think we all agree that this scheme has worked well in the past and we are better, overall, than our ancestors. We are at the highest point on the graph - the highest point so far, that is.
So if we start with GM, maybe the graph will take a little dip. Has the human species ever done anything right the first time? No. We probably will make some mistakes at first, but in time we'll figure it out and the graph will go much higher, much faster than if we let nature take its course.
Supposedly, the Sun will explode in a few billion years and anyone still living on this planet will be toast. We as a species owe it to ourselves and our descendents to use whatever means necessary to figure out how to be elsewhere when the big day arrives. If that means GM-ing humans to withstand space travel, so be it. If it requires some GM assisted IQ to figure out propulsion systems, I'm all for it.
Is a few billion years enough time for nature to save us? I doubt it. Would we be able to fly if we waited for nature to give us wings?
Some fuck doesn't wear a condom or some bitch doesn't wear a diaphram, and now all of the sudden, the rest of us have to change our lives because of their mistake and unwillingness to accept responsibility for their children.
Are you suggesting that amazon.com is somebody's love child?
The old self-winding wrist watches operate via a weighted arm that rotates around a pivot at the center of the watch. It's sort of like the Tilt-A-Whirl at the amusement park.
When it turns one direction, it winds the mainspring. When it turns in the other direction it just freewheels.
Obviously this is designed for non-electronic watches. Is there an electronic counterpart for this, where the swinging weight generates electricity?
Now they just leave the passwords on a post-it-note on their monitor and still share it with everyone else.
Sounds like they need to have a "Hey, Asshole!" note e-mailed to the boss from their account. Then let them try to figure out which of their trusted co-workers sent it.
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I asked my great grandfather about this.
He couldn't remember.
"Look over here, YatNag-36997! This is your great-great-great-grandbot, AIBO."
"But.. it looks like a.. dog!""Well, yes.. it was a dog.."
"But.. but..Those hours-minutes-seconds (and days-weeks-months, for that matter) have just got to go. Using a conversion factor of 1 second = 31.7 nano-years (nY), let's re-translate that:
"The rocket powered sled covered the 4.8 km track in roughly 6 seconds (190 nY). Preliminary numbers put the sled's speed at mach 8.6 or about 10300 km/h (90.29 km/mY [milli-years]) - it covered the last 2.9 km in just 1.3 seconds (41.2 nY). The previous record of 9851 km/h (86.35 km/mY) was set on Oct. 5, 1982 ([Unhandled Decimal Overflow Exception at offset x'007E84']You have to be able to keep a straight face as you say, "Yes, yer Honor, dems da ones what pilfered me Unix code."
If you crack even the slightest smile, your case is lost. That's why lawyers get paid the big bucks - they have no sense of humor. None. People who try to argue their own cases are dumb. Only trained legal professionals can handle this type of situation without laughing.A condominium can be any sort of multi-family dwelling - a high-rise tower, five acres of two-unit side-by-sides or even an old remodeled warehouse. The thing that makes it a condo is that the units are purchased instead of rented.
Provided that the life form in question is carefully organised into petri-dishes, hematically sealed in a selection of jars, and stored in a locker.
So then, SETI should be looking for tiny alien worms that have mastered petri-dish technology, or if you prefer a less causal explanation, we should search for a dust-cloud nebula that tends to coalesce into petri-dishes full of worm-supporting nutrients.Nah, it's always best to keep incest in the family.
The issue here is your "comfort zone." If you, a geek, start talking tech in a threatening way to your techno-phobe neighbor, he's not going to argue with you or try to fight back. He's out of his element. Same with a geek who is being intimidated by someone who is law-savvy. We tend to cringe, apologize and hope they go away. The fact that they might be able to hurt us financially makes us take their threats seriously. If they did the same thing to a lawyer they would probably get a far different response.
Think about it - you and you neighbor have a little spat about a fence or a barking dog or something. You threaten to "route his Roadrunner connection through your proxy sniffer and VPN his DoS to every kiddie-porn site in the country." Imagine the expression on his face. What are his options? Hire a techie to defend himself? That costs money. He doesn't even understand what you said, except that it sounds bad and you sound serious. He's gonna fold.What we really need to do to stop this legal-bullying is to get more familiar with the law.
The 2-liter bottles didn't work well at all - 50, 60 feet, tops. The 1-liter bottles were excellent, though - a couple hundred feet easily. One went completely out of sight, pretty much straight up.
We cut fins out of plastic and attached them with duct tape. The bottles with the flat area near the neck work best (Schwepps tonic, etc.) Angle the fins very slightly so the rocket will spiral (like an arrow). The real trick is to cut a raquet ball in half and duct tape it over the "nose". (Actually, about 1/3 of the ball is about the right weight.) This gives the rocket the proper balance.For safety, I tested the bottles to 160-psi and the launch pressure limit was 120-psi.
Sorry, I don't have launcher plans to post, but it worked like one of those wine bottle stoppers that expand a rubber seal inside the neck when you push down the lever. Release the catch andWHOOOSSHH !!
You won't be needing your identity here any longer. There are no scheduled return flights.
The law was passed in 1996. The kid was arrested on Jan. 2, 2003. The P4 smart card is rather recent, so the theft was probably committed late in 2002.
What I was concerned about was "The Man's" view that bragging on a newsgroup (or wherever) constitutes a confession. Sure, that statement can be introduced as evidence, but it can also be refuted - "Hey, I was lying. It wasn't true." Then it's for the jury to decide.
From the article:
"These weren't just instructions like, 'do this and do that.' He was putting up the actual changes to make to the card -- specific code bytes that needed to be changed," says Zwillinger. "People say you should be able to log onto the Internet and say anything. But if you go on the Internet and admit to misconduct, that's called a confession."IANAL, but my sister is, and her three rules are:
Never confess.Never confess!
NEVER CONFESS !!Her fourth rule is: Since it's illegal to lie to a policeman, if you're caught red-handed say nothing. Refuse to answer questions, demand an attorney, but never confess. A confession makes things soooo easy for the prosecutor.
So how is posting something to the Internet, not under oath and without Miranda rights, considered a confession?The tapes may last that long, but that's asking a lot from the tape drives, especially since you bought them used.
In 5-10 years, replacement drives might be very hard to find.Okay, maybe if we start playing around with GM we'll have some successes and some failures. Nature has been doing this, slowly, for thousands of generations. The successes flourish and the failures don't. I think we all agree that this scheme has worked well in the past and we are better, overall, than our ancestors. We are at the highest point on the graph - the highest point so far, that is.
So if we start with GM, maybe the graph will take a little dip. Has the human species ever done anything right the first time? No. We probably will make some mistakes at first, but in time we'll figure it out and the graph will go much higher, much faster than if we let nature take its course.Supposedly, the Sun will explode in a few billion years and anyone still living on this planet will be toast. We as a species owe it to ourselves and our descendents to use whatever means necessary to figure out how to be elsewhere when the big day arrives. If that means GM-ing humans to withstand space travel, so be it. If it requires some GM assisted IQ to figure out propulsion systems, I'm all for it.
Is a few billion years enough time for nature to save us? I doubt it. Would we be able to fly if we waited for nature to give us wings?If we never take risks, we forfeit the rewards.
Or did you get your dick caught in the veg-a-matic again?
Are you suggesting that amazon.com is somebody's love child?
Yeah!
When it turns one direction, it winds the mainspring. When it turns in the other direction it just freewheels.
Obviously this is designed for non-electronic watches. Is there an electronic counterpart for this, where the swinging weight generates electricity?So I mail myself an empty, unsealed envelope...
Well, that's the first part, but what does the &fM symbolic resolve to?
Sounds like they need to have a "Hey, Asshole!" note e-mailed to the boss from their account. Then let them try to figure out which of their trusted co-workers sent it.
A little paranoia would work wonders here.
... but they were not wearing bras...
Thank God they didn't!
I don't think I could have typed another 54,000.BSA definition of win users:
winter - yup
wine - uh-huh, tax 'em
wind - yeah! guaranteed revenue
Winnie the Pooh - double tax 'em - sounds like 'pooter
Winchester - tax 'em retroactively back to 1868