If I was able to get ANY boradband service other than a highly expensive T1, I'd prefer cable. The cable company is less likely to interfere with VOIP because it doesn't compete with any of their existing services unless they already offer VOIP.
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There are some things scare-tactics can do. For everything else, use Google.
(I'll laugh when they try to open that log file in notepad before checking it's size...)
I don't understand why they censored this formula. Gun cotton is obviously less powerful than ammonium nitrate + diesel fuel. Maybe because it was created with common household ingredients? They obviously had a formula for making no2. They must have gotten it from somewhere... probably the internet. They probably just did a Google search. Chances are somebody was curious. You could probably even find the censored recipes by doing a Google search for 'Censored MythBusters Nitrous Oxide Recipe' or 'Censored MythBusters Gun Cotton Recipe'.
I read about this a while back. The SSA does not recycle old (i.e. DEAD) SSNs. The SSA is actually in the process of updating the system IIRC for a 14 digit system versus the out dated 9 digit system which only allows for 999,999,999 numbers. The SSA also refuses to assign any number that contains 666 as well as a few others so the actual number of possible SSNs is less than 999,999,999. Additionally, in certain circumstances, people can request that their number be changed. If this is done, the SSA's record for the new number points to the old number/record. Therefore certain people may have more than one SSN, but must use the newer SSN for taxation purposes.
Somebody who works for the SSA also once told me that the SSA wants to take legal ownership of all SSNs so that IIRC it would be a crime for a non-governmental entity to require the number for any reason or something along those lines.
(For those who don't know or are dense: SSA == Social Security Administration, SSN == Social Security Number)
i think the end attached to the earth will collapse and drift lazily down the the ground, while the other end, floating in space might either remain stationary or drift outwards...
I'm still waiting for cable or dsl in my area. I live in northern los angeles county in southern california and we don't even have cable tv in the area. Nextel is the only cell phone provider we can get service with. We even tried to get ISDN to no avail.
North Korea and China both have better broadband coverage and it's pissing me off. I'm willing to pay a premium for services, but can't get them. T1 is the only option and we can't afford to run the cables the 3 miles required to get to our house.
I think more R&D should be spent on getting areas like mine wired services before they go and develop the next bleeding edge wireless technology on delivering fat band internet that won't ever be available to me.
3g will finaly be available in my area when US comapanies roll out g4 nationwide.
A college campus is where four students were killed by the National Guard in 1970.
Exactly. Can you imagine the public outrage if something like that happened again? It's relatively safe to have a peaceful assembly at a college campus.
My understanding of the peaceful assembly thing might be read as:
"... guarantees the right to peaceful assembly on public land such that it doesn't violate non-participants' right to use such land for designed purposes and doesn't violate the rights* of participants, bystanders, or non-participants..."
In other words, protests on private property (without the property owner's permission), as well as protests which block streets and/or sidewalks without a permit to do so, are not legal. (Remember kids, IANAL)
College campuses (usu. in free speech zones) as well as parks are good examples of where the right place for a peaceful assembly could legally occur.
It is very important that you don't confuse a riot with peaceful assembly.
If you go to a protest and people are throwing rocks and police and lighting stuff/buildings/themselves/etc on fire, it is generally not considered peaceful.
*'rights' should be read as, if I hit you or sexually molest you, I've violated your 'rights'.
Simply problem and solution. Execute the time travel in a vacuum. Unfortunately, there cannot be guaranteed vacuum at the destination. Have the vehicle appear outside of the atmosphere. The shockwave caused by displaceing material in solar wind is not nearly as bad as displacing a similar volume of, say, air.
Depending on whether you have the hover conversion or not, I'm inclined to only suggest that you DON'T park next to anything. Those gull-wing doors are quite anti-productive as far as allowing you to easily exit the vehicle when parked near just about anything.
It's likely that if future travelers have time travel they'll also have a half decent set of fourth-dimensional headlights so they can avoid those random inconveniences such as solid objects existing at the same exact location where they themselves were previously attempting to exist.
You end up with a bi-universal parodox in that case:
Them shooting you would prevent you from travilng back in time (because you chose not to). Because of that, you don't get shot and choose TO travel back in time and get shot. This, again, prevents you from traveling back in time and so forth...
In every other time line you are shot, with the remaing time lines having you not being shot.
I think about these things a little too much. The scenario above effectivly cures grandfather syndrome.
You could even prevent things like what happened in H.G. Wells, Time Machine: to prevent the girl from being killed while forcing the creation of the time machine, he should kidnap the girl moment prior to her being killed and bring her foward in the future by a good four years or so, to the time after he created the time machine. He might even leave plans for the time machine for his earlier self to discover and build the machine from. In other words, to get the girl, he must build the time machine.
Like I said before, I think about these things a bit too much and it's begining to hurt my social life. God I love Slashdot...
Actually, if they rotate one of the two polarization films by 90 degrees, on become transparent while off become opaque.
I've been trying to design a new type of LCD for a little while now, so I've had to do a bit of research.
Technically speaking, as I understand it, you can also do translucent by sending an analog voltage level to the pixel, but this probably won't work on a TFT type display as it actually uses a transistor for each pixel.
Although if you take that number (3.131131113111131111131111113111111311111113) and create a cd the uses a series of digits that represent an offset from the decimal of specified number above, you could theoretically use a 1 as a binary bit = 1 and a three as a binary bit = 0 and reconstruct some contents for said cd... In other words, 1255298 would be equal to 1000001 based on the offset of the digits from the decimal in the above number. As we all know, 1000001 = 65 = 'A'. But then you're talking about a 1 to 8 expansion ratio.
w00t I just invented a new encryption system... a week one, but still.
Wait a sec... this is no longer on topic... please disregard this post.
under no cercumstances does violating a copyright deprive the copyright holder of his copy of the copyrighted material. If, and only if, it did, then it would be theft.
Explain to me why copyright violation is bad. If material can be duplicated, that prevents us from depriving the copyright holder of anything but profits.
Pay artists on commission, not on copyright. Problem solved.
This guy (and most teleprompter designs I've seen) both require that the image displayed on the screen is mirrored so that the reflected image is not mirrored.
Simple fix: have the point outward toward the subject and put a REAL mirror to reflect the image upwards in front of the display. Then put your beamsplitter glass in front of the lense. Think like it's a periscope.
doesn't fedex cost a lot of money to send something?
I do believe that it's simply a matter of people avoiding the expenditure of money.
FedEx != eDonkey because FedEx is not free. Make it totally free and see what happens.
A little background story: the usps charged me $1.06 (if I remember correctly) to send a cd in a jewel case to a friend in another state. It took five days to get there. (All original media, nothing illegal here.)
It would have been a very simple matter to instead send a DVD with 100+ hours of downloaded music. Even on dsl, usps would probably still be faster than eDonkey or even BitTorrent.
My comparison, on this, btw, works like this: for DVD of music via usps: friend emails me big list of songs they want. Most songs are already in my collection. I download ones that aren't. Burn dvd, usps it to friend.
for bittorrent: friend has to search for each song or album and manually download it. This may take several weeks or longer (my friend is stuck on 56k)
I have never done this, it is just a hypothetical scenario.
USPS is more efficient and econimical than Kazaa over a 56k modem. Thanks for the idea.
I'm thinking of changing my catch-phrase to "Gee, thanks for making 'going postal' a bad thing."
for some reason, I typed BASIC while thinking of Visual Basic... my bad. Compiled Visual Basic is always slow. (They may have fixed that in.net, but I'm not sure yet)
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Phone company != Cable company
If I was able to get ANY boradband service other than a highly expensive T1, I'd prefer cable. The cable company is less likely to interfere with VOIP because it doesn't compete with any of their existing services unless they already offer VOIP.
Scare-tactic sponsored by Grokster by logging your IP and mentioning it: 18 unique clicks
Slashdot story posting that mentions said scare-tacting: 182,395,483 unique clicks in 8 hours
102mb log file and an $8000+ bandwidth overage charge: priceless
There are some things scare-tactics can do. For everything else, use Google.
(I'll laugh when they try to open that log file in notepad before checking it's size...)
I don't understand why they censored this formula. Gun cotton is obviously less powerful than ammonium nitrate + diesel fuel. Maybe because it was created with common household ingredients? They obviously had a formula for making no2. They must have gotten it from somewhere... probably the internet. They probably just did a Google search. Chances are somebody was curious. You could probably even find the censored recipes by doing a Google search for 'Censored MythBusters Nitrous Oxide Recipe' or 'Censored MythBusters Gun Cotton Recipe'.
I read about this a while back. The SSA does not recycle old (i.e. DEAD) SSNs. The SSA is actually in the process of updating the system IIRC for a 14 digit system versus the out dated 9 digit system which only allows for 999,999,999 numbers. The SSA also refuses to assign any number that contains 666 as well as a few others so the actual number of possible SSNs is less than 999,999,999. Additionally, in certain circumstances, people can request that their number be changed. If this is done, the SSA's record for the new number points to the old number/record. Therefore certain people may have more than one SSN, but must use the newer SSN for taxation purposes.
Somebody who works for the SSA also once told me that the SSA wants to take legal ownership of all SSNs so that IIRC it would be a crime for a non-governmental entity to require the number for any reason or something along those lines.
(For those who don't know or are dense: SSA == Social Security Administration, SSN == Social Security Number)
i think the end attached to the earth will collapse and drift lazily down the the ground, while the other end, floating in space might either remain stationary or drift outwards...
I'm still waiting for cable or dsl in my area. I live in northern los angeles county in southern california and we don't even have cable tv in the area. Nextel is the only cell phone provider we can get service with. We even tried to get ISDN to no avail.
North Korea and China both have better broadband coverage and it's pissing me off. I'm willing to pay a premium for services, but can't get them. T1 is the only option and we can't afford to run the cables the 3 miles required to get to our house.
I think more R&D should be spent on getting areas like mine wired services before they go and develop the next bleeding edge wireless technology on delivering fat band internet that won't ever be available to me.
3g will finaly be available in my area when US comapanies roll out g4 nationwide.
Please forgive the drunkeness of this post.
Security through inferiority?
Just like expecting the use of RSA-2048 and instead finding ROT-13...
riot != peaceful assembly
My understanding of the peaceful assembly thing might be read as:
"... guarantees the right to peaceful assembly on public land such that it doesn't violate non-participants' right to use such land for designed purposes and doesn't violate the rights* of participants, bystanders, or non-participants..."
In other words, protests on private property (without the property owner's permission), as well as protests which block streets and/or sidewalks without a permit to do so, are not legal. (Remember kids, IANAL)
College campuses (usu. in free speech zones) as well as parks are good examples of where the right place for a peaceful assembly could legally occur.
It is very important that you don't confuse a riot with peaceful assembly.
If you go to a protest and people are throwing rocks and police and lighting stuff/buildings/themselves/etc on fire, it is generally not considered peaceful.
*'rights' should be read as, if I hit you or sexually molest you, I've violated your 'rights'.
No, actually books can be quite lethal if applied at sufficient velocity.
it could use the frame of reference of itself.
x = timemachine.x;
y = timemachine.y;
z = timemachine.x;
time -= timemachine.timeoffset;
But it's generally enough incentive to avoid the area.
Simply problem and solution. Execute the time travel in a vacuum. Unfortunately, there cannot be guaranteed vacuum at the destination. Have the vehicle appear outside of the atmosphere. The shockwave caused by displaceing material in solar wind is not nearly as bad as displacing a similar volume of, say, air.
4. Travel to locations prior to the existance of the time-machine is impossible or otherwise prevented in some way.
Depending on whether you have the hover conversion or not, I'm inclined to only suggest that you DON'T park next to anything. Those gull-wing doors are quite anti-productive as far as allowing you to easily exit the vehicle when parked near just about anything.
It's likely that if future travelers have time travel they'll also have a half decent set of fourth-dimensional headlights so they can avoid those random inconveniences such as solid objects existing at the same exact location where they themselves were previously attempting to exist.
You end up with a bi-universal parodox in that case:
Them shooting you would prevent you from travilng back in time (because you chose not to). Because of that, you don't get shot and choose TO travel back in time and get shot. This, again, prevents you from traveling back in time and so forth...
In every other time line you are shot, with the remaing time lines having you not being shot.
I think about these things a little too much. The scenario above effectivly cures grandfather syndrome.
You could even prevent things like what happened in H.G. Wells, Time Machine: to prevent the girl from being killed while forcing the creation of the time machine, he should kidnap the girl moment prior to her being killed and bring her foward in the future by a good four years or so, to the time after he created the time machine. He might even leave plans for the time machine for his earlier self to discover and build the machine from. In other words, to get the girl, he must build the time machine.
Like I said before, I think about these things a bit too much and it's begining to hurt my social life. God I love Slashdot...
Actually, if they rotate one of the two polarization films by 90 degrees, on become transparent while off become opaque.
I've been trying to design a new type of LCD for a little while now, so I've had to do a bit of research.
Technically speaking, as I understand it, you can also do translucent by sending an analog voltage level to the pixel, but this probably won't work on a TFT type display as it actually uses a transistor for each pixel.
Why not use a Nuclear Battery to power electrolysis?
They can be made small and compact and could probably even be loaded into the car to be used as the primary power source.
Wait... there is that 'nuclear' part... and the 'terrorists with nuclear' part is also quite bad...
That's the exact reason http://www.thepiratebay.com/ is still around
You might also check out http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/ for several legal threat against Pirate Bay and the responses... quite a good laugh.
Although if you take that number (3.131131113111131111131111113111111311111113) and create a cd the uses a series of digits that represent an offset from the decimal of specified number above, you could theoretically use a 1 as a binary bit = 1 and a three as a binary bit = 0 and reconstruct some contents for said cd... In other words, 1255298 would be equal to 1000001 based on the offset of the digits from the decimal in the above number. As we all know, 1000001 = 65 = 'A'. But then you're talking about a 1 to 8 expansion ratio.
w00t I just invented a new encryption system... a week one, but still.
Wait a sec... this is no longer on topic... please disregard this post.
Copyright violation != theft
under no cercumstances does violating a copyright deprive the copyright holder of his copy of the copyrighted material. If, and only if, it did, then it would be theft.
Explain to me why copyright violation is bad. If material can be duplicated, that prevents us from depriving the copyright holder of anything but profits.
Pay artists on commission, not on copyright. Problem solved.
(sorry about the subject, couldn't resist)
This guy (and most teleprompter designs I've seen) both require that the image displayed on the screen is mirrored so that the reflected image is not mirrored.
Simple fix: have the point outward toward the subject and put a REAL mirror to reflect the image upwards in front of the display. Then put your beamsplitter glass in front of the lense. Think like it's a periscope.
quick question:
doesn't fedex cost a lot of money to send something?
I do believe that it's simply a matter of people avoiding the expenditure of money.
FedEx != eDonkey because FedEx is not free. Make it totally free and see what happens.
A little background story: the usps charged me $1.06 (if I remember correctly) to send a cd in a jewel case to a friend in another state. It took five days to get there. (All original media, nothing illegal here.)
It would have been a very simple matter to instead send a DVD with 100+ hours of downloaded music. Even on dsl, usps would probably still be faster than eDonkey or even BitTorrent.
My comparison, on this, btw, works like this:
for DVD of music via usps: friend emails me big list of songs they want. Most songs are already in my collection. I download ones that aren't. Burn dvd, usps it to friend.
for bittorrent: friend has to search for each song or album and manually download it. This may take several weeks or longer (my friend is stuck on 56k)
I have never done this, it is just a hypothetical scenario.
USPS is more efficient and econimical than Kazaa over a 56k modem. Thanks for the idea.
I'm thinking of changing my catch-phrase to "Gee, thanks for making 'going postal' a bad thing."
for some reason, I typed BASIC while thinking of Visual Basic... my bad. Compiled Visual Basic is always slow. (They may have fixed that in .net, but I'm not sure yet)