Yes, but there is nothing SMART can do to warn you that a piece of dust is about to get in, causing the heads to crash and gouge a massive scratch across the suface of the disk before they snap.
And speaking of hard-drive crashes, a friend of mine was laughing at the senesless waste of having a 4 drives set up in a RAID0 mirror where I work. "No way will you lose three. Classic waste of taxdollars!" I month or so later, three of them crashed at once. So there you go. If they had asked ME, the lowely student, I would have told them not to 4 drives of the same model, bought at the same time from the same place...
Yeah, I've notice that book piracy has becoming more of a problem lately. I mean, I saw this website crammed full of book downloads for free. These weren't old, public domain ones, either. These were fairly new fantasy and sci-fi, from authors such as David Webber, David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Larry Niven. And they weren't just crappy scans, either, these were richtext files, and HTML, and PDF, and E-Books, complete with instructions on how to view them on PDA's! Those poor authors must be STARVING after having all of these freeloaders downloading their works for NOTHING!
Oh wait, that is the publishers website, and authors have found that when they put a book up, its sales skyrocket, even if it an OLD book that has already stopped selling. And these are EASY TO GET, SMALL, HIGH QUALITY files. I doubt harder to aquire, low quality, large files will hurt authors if these not only don't, but have the opposite effect.
Even with 128 kbits it is barely noticable. I mean, I can definatly hear a little bit of drop off in the low end, easily compensated for by an equalizer (A real one, not a software one). But with the right encoder settings, that is just about it. High end doesn't sound muted or clipped, or anything like that. Of course, I only listen on Sennheiser HD 490's, so my opinion doesn't count until I buy $10,000 speakers and solid platinum speaker wire...
SPEWS is the crap. There is no oversight, and there are a lot of compalints of the admins, who are completely anonymous, adding entire ISPs to the blacklist just because they don't like somebody who uses that ISP.
Spamhaus SBL is a better list, IMHO, because there is oversight, and they confirm that the ISP is aware, and has chosen not to do anything about it.
Because if you only have them in shampoo, you won't be able to track a fair number of/. readers, for one;). Put them in Cheetos, on the other hand...
And the only reason they wouldn't work in your gut would be if the stomach acid broke them down, as I don't think a few inches of flesh would block the signal. Encase them in something that doesn't disolve in hydrochloric acid, and you're all set.
You'd think so...
In Monopoly, if you land on property owned by the bank, you have the option of buying it for the listed price. If not, it goes up for auction.
Of course, eBay does this on a COMPUTER, so it's different, right? But I remember playing Monopoly on a C64, well before eBay OR this patent. And since THIS patent held up...
No, not terrorism at all. Treason, yes, but not terrorism.
The US soldiers were fighting against the Taliban military, and Afghani militia. Joining the militia is no more terrorism than joining the US army. (Some would argue less so, due to the WMD the USAF deployed indiscriminately) Both were legitimate forces engaged in legal combat. He would be no more a terrorist than the US soldiers. (It does however, exactly fit the definition of treason)
Treason: Breaking your oath of allegiance to your state. Usually by engaging in warfare against the state, or providing assistance to those who are doing so.
Terrorism: Attacking civilian targets with the intent of inciting fear and terror in the population.
Aparenntly it's impossible in the US to make someone personally responsible for the statements he issues or to make a corporation responsible for the statements their management issues.
The people can't be charged with anything since the corporation did it, not the person. I mean the person actually DID say it, but that's just pedantics, according to law.
The corporation, on the other hand, CAN be, but those laws have been challanged as unconstitutional, since they gag the corporation (Who is a person), which violates its right to free speech.
What COULD happen, though, is that AFTER the stock price collapses, the shareholders can sue the execs, IF they can prove that they KNEW they were BSing, and that their actions were not in the best interest of the corporation's profits.
Oh, don't worry, they also have patents on connecting a wireless receiver and a wireless transmitters to a computer bus of some sort, so as long as you have a WiFi card, you violate, regardless of what you use it for. They also have patents on transmitting and receiving WiFi signals, and on FM encoding.:D
Yes. Let's build hundreds of photo arrays in space, where we don't need to worry about clouds. Then we can beam the energy down to receiving stations via microwave beams (Good frequency for cutting through clouds)...but would you want to be anywhere NEAR the target of a highpower heat-ray fired from orbit? You'd need to be damn certain it never missed, that's for sure.
Why not?
"Now lets see...intelligence indicates nothing out of the ordinary...but the stock brokers are betting on a nuclear attack on US soil. I'm afraid we have no choice but a preemptive strike against Luxemburg"
Canadian reactors can be used to burn weapons grade plutonium and uranium, if mixed in with their regular fuel (That is a simplification) During the Clinton administration, they wanted to do this to dispose of a bunch of US nukes, but as you say, nobody wanted it shipped anywhere near THEM. There is also the issue of security: A terrorist would LOVE to get his hands on some disassembled nuclear weapons.
But generally, plutonium is not burnt in Candu reactors. They usually run on unenriched uranium. This saves the environment because the enrichment process is very polluting, but it also means more plutonium in the waste. Less waste, but longer lasting.
Another environmentally friendly feature of a Candu reactor is that, rather than having carbon rods to absorb the neutrons and control the chain reacton, the reacton relies on a medium of heavy water, and is controlled that way. To shut down an American reactor, all of the control rods must be fully inserted. But if the reaction has progressed to far, this may not be enough. In a Candu reactor, it can be shut down by draining the heavy water from between the fuel rods. Without the medium to slow the neutrons, the reactron cannot progress. In the event of a catastrophic safety failure, where the system does NOT drain the reactor, the very act of overheating and rupturing the housing would drain the medium away (In theory, it hasn't happened yet, that I know of) thus stopping the reacton.
They are, however, water cooled, so you end up with thermal pollution of the lake you are on. But not radioactive pollution, since the water used to turn the turbines is a closed system, and the external water is only used to cool the steam, which is not sufficantly radioactive to contaminate the coolant water in any appreciable way, AFAIK.
It's more likely to be software patents and design patents. For example, they have patents on manipulating stack pointers during garbage collection, they have pattents for loading an OS theme from a remote computer. Any font they made will have a design patent on it. They have a patent on an IM that displays contact lists from multiple IM providers, allows you to message them using different protocols, and formats all of their incoming messages into a consistent theme for your client. Sounds like GAIM, or Trillian, etc...
They have a patent on fast conversion of floats to ints...by not caring what rounding mode the CPU is in and just taking what it gives.
There are lots more. A total of 2713, including all of their design patents on mice and mouse buttons and keyboards and keyboard KEYS, etc.
Oh, and while copyright may not protect you from having your UI look and feel cloned, design patents WILL, although they are more specific.
The people next door to me had a bunch of bamboo growing along the road in front of their house. They didn't like it, for whatever reason, and cut it all down, dumping it all on their grass clippings pile. Within a week, the stuff by the road was back to its old height of about 5 feet, and there was a forest of taller stuff growing around the clippings pile.
Iraq? I'd imagine not very good, since the US hired Hillary Rosen to write the new Iraqi copyright laws...last I heard of it she was axing fair use entierly, and dramatically increasing the fines.
All in all, without being a lawyer, it seems to me that this doesn't make it any more illegal, it just establishes numbers. I would THINK that this would prevent the RIAA from says "Oh, well...500 people downloaded from your...and you have 10,000 songs shared, so that is...250 billion dollars. Now it is only $25 million...still stupid, but less so. AND they must establish that you had them shared for 180 days or more. Then again, your lawyer could argue against the RIAA, but I don't think they can against this...
Further, this law requires that spy-ware CLEARLY alert you before downloading, that it poses a risk to your security and/or privacy, and elicit an acceptance from you. And an EULA doesn't cover it, because it isn't CLEAR.
It ALSO establishes penalties for obtaining a domain name using fraudulent information.
...enforce mandatory prayer several times a day...
Only once a week (Minimum) in some states, but Yes. Of course, you don't HAVE to, but if you DON'T, you have to stand in the corner, they call your parents, and it goes in your record.:D
But lying about a blowjob is SO MUCH WORSE! That is worth impeaching over, not silly "falsified" reports. Besides, that's not even a LIE, didn't you hear him? All these CIA reports sent to the White House about how all this Iraq stuff was false, they like, totally got lost in the mail or something. Until just now.
C was based on B, which was based on BCPL (Basic CPL), which itself was a simplified version of CPL, which was a language based loosely on Algol 60, but highly bloated. BCPL was supposed to be a dumbed down version of CPL that they could write the first CPL compiler in without having to use assembly, but it ended up being more popular.
Kinda like those kids caught with the trenchcoats and guns, led by a guy who called himself "Neo" and said he was "fighting to free mankind." Yup, it was GRAND THEFT AUTO that was behind that one. Although he MAY have gotten his name from that GAME called Enter the Matrix. But definatly NOT the movie. I mean, EVERYBODY knows that movies arn't real, right? Not like those games made of BLOCKY POLYGONS AND PIXILATED SPRITES! Too close to reality, they are!
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Yes, but there is nothing SMART can do to warn you that a piece of dust is about to get in, causing the heads to crash and gouge a massive scratch across the suface of the disk before they snap.
And speaking of hard-drive crashes, a friend of mine was laughing at the senesless waste of having a 4 drives set up in a RAID0 mirror where I work. "No way will you lose three. Classic waste of taxdollars!" I month or so later, three of them crashed at once. So there you go. If they had asked ME, the lowely student, I would have told them not to 4 drives of the same model, bought at the same time from the same place...
Yeah, I've notice that book piracy has becoming more of a problem lately. I mean, I saw this website crammed full of book downloads for free. These weren't old, public domain ones, either. These were fairly new fantasy and sci-fi, from authors such as David Webber, David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Larry Niven. And they weren't just crappy scans, either, these were richtext files, and HTML, and PDF, and E-Books, complete with instructions on how to view them on PDA's! Those poor authors must be STARVING after having all of these freeloaders downloading their works for NOTHING!
Oh wait, that is the publishers website, and authors have found that when they put a book up, its sales skyrocket, even if it an OLD book that has already stopped selling. And these are EASY TO GET, SMALL, HIGH QUALITY files. I doubt harder to aquire, low quality, large files will hurt authors if these not only don't, but have the opposite effect.
Even with 128 kbits it is barely noticable. I mean, I can definatly hear a little bit of drop off in the low end, easily compensated for by an equalizer (A real one, not a software one). But with the right encoder settings, that is just about it. High end doesn't sound muted or clipped, or anything like that. Of course, I only listen on Sennheiser HD 490's, so my opinion doesn't count until I buy $10,000 speakers and solid platinum speaker wire...
SPEWS is the crap. There is no oversight, and there are a lot of compalints of the admins, who are completely anonymous, adding entire ISPs to the blacklist just because they don't like somebody who uses that ISP.
Spamhaus SBL is a better list, IMHO, because there is oversight, and they confirm that the ISP is aware, and has chosen not to do anything about it.
Because if you only have them in shampoo, you won't be able to track a fair number of /. readers, for one ;). Put them in Cheetos, on the other hand...
And the only reason they wouldn't work in your gut would be if the stomach acid broke them down, as I don't think a few inches of flesh would block the signal. Encase them in something that doesn't disolve in hydrochloric acid, and you're all set.
If it is their cell-phone, and they make you agree as a condition for having it, then they can.
You'd think so...
In Monopoly, if you land on property owned by the bank, you have the option of buying it for the listed price. If not, it goes up for auction.
Of course, eBay does this on a COMPUTER, so it's different, right? But I remember playing Monopoly on a C64, well before eBay OR this patent. And since THIS patent held up...
No, not terrorism at all. Treason, yes, but not terrorism.
The US soldiers were fighting against the Taliban military, and Afghani militia. Joining the militia is no more terrorism than joining the US army. (Some would argue less so, due to the WMD the USAF deployed indiscriminately) Both were legitimate forces engaged in legal combat. He would be no more a terrorist than the US soldiers. (It does however, exactly fit the definition of treason)
Treason: Breaking your oath of allegiance to your state. Usually by engaging in warfare against the state, or providing assistance to those who are doing so.
Terrorism: Attacking civilian targets with the intent of inciting fear and terror in the population.
Aparenntly it's impossible in the US to make someone personally responsible for the statements he issues or to make a corporation responsible for the statements their management issues.
The people can't be charged with anything since the corporation did it, not the person. I mean the person actually DID say it, but that's just pedantics, according to law.
The corporation, on the other hand, CAN be, but those laws have been challanged as unconstitutional, since they gag the corporation (Who is a person), which violates its right to free speech.
What COULD happen, though, is that AFTER the stock price collapses, the shareholders can sue the execs, IF they can prove that they KNEW they were BSing, and that their actions were not in the best interest of the corporation's profits.
Oh, don't worry, they also have patents on connecting a wireless receiver and a wireless transmitters to a computer bus of some sort, so as long as you have a WiFi card, you violate, regardless of what you use it for. They also have patents on transmitting and receiving WiFi signals, and on FM encoding. :D
The grandparent post suggested a limit of between 5% and 20% of their expendatures, which is the range the parent used to calculate their payoff.
Yes. Let's build hundreds of photo arrays in space, where we don't need to worry about clouds. Then we can beam the energy down to receiving stations via microwave beams (Good frequency for cutting through clouds)...but would you want to be anywhere NEAR the target of a highpower heat-ray fired from orbit? You'd need to be damn certain it never missed, that's for sure.
Why not?
"Now lets see...intelligence indicates nothing out of the ordinary...but the stock brokers are betting on a nuclear attack on US soil. I'm afraid we have no choice but a preemptive strike against Luxemburg"
Canadian reactors can be used to burn weapons grade plutonium and uranium, if mixed in with their regular fuel (That is a simplification) During the Clinton administration, they wanted to do this to dispose of a bunch of US nukes, but as you say, nobody wanted it shipped anywhere near THEM. There is also the issue of security: A terrorist would LOVE to get his hands on some disassembled nuclear weapons.
But generally, plutonium is not burnt in Candu reactors. They usually run on unenriched uranium. This saves the environment because the enrichment process is very polluting, but it also means more plutonium in the waste. Less waste, but longer lasting.
Another environmentally friendly feature of a Candu reactor is that, rather than having carbon rods to absorb the neutrons and control the chain reacton, the reacton relies on a medium of heavy water, and is controlled that way. To shut down an American reactor, all of the control rods must be fully inserted. But if the reaction has progressed to far, this may not be enough. In a Candu reactor, it can be shut down by draining the heavy water from between the fuel rods. Without the medium to slow the neutrons, the reactron cannot progress. In the event of a catastrophic safety failure, where the system does NOT drain the reactor, the very act of overheating and rupturing the housing would drain the medium away (In theory, it hasn't happened yet, that I know of) thus stopping the reacton.
They are, however, water cooled, so you end up with thermal pollution of the lake you are on. But not radioactive pollution, since the water used to turn the turbines is a closed system, and the external water is only used to cool the steam, which is not sufficantly radioactive to contaminate the coolant water in any appreciable way, AFAIK.
Any font they made will have a design patent on it.
They have a patent on an IM that displays contact lists from multiple IM providers, allows you to message them using different protocols, and formats all of their incoming messages into a consistent theme for your client. Sounds like GAIM, or Trillian, etc...
They have a patent on fast conversion of floats to ints...by not caring what rounding mode the CPU is in and just taking what it gives.
There are lots more. A total of 2713, including all of their design patents on mice and mouse buttons and keyboards and keyboard KEYS, etc.
Oh, and while copyright may not protect you from having your UI look and feel cloned, design patents WILL, although they are more specific.
The people next door to me had a bunch of bamboo growing along the road in front of their house. They didn't like it, for whatever reason, and cut it all down, dumping it all on their grass clippings pile. Within a week, the stuff by the road was back to its old height of about 5 feet, and there was a forest of taller stuff growing around the clippings pile.
Iraq? I'd imagine not very good, since the US hired Hillary Rosen to write the new Iraqi copyright laws...last I heard of it she was axing fair use entierly, and dramatically increasing the fines.
But Activision, who is publishing the game, IS. And it's the publisher who puts pressure on developers to release, and give release dates.
It's more like, if I own land, and you own a similar piece of land, and you build a house on your land, thanks, you just built me a house.
All in all, without being a lawyer, it seems to me that this doesn't make it any more illegal, it just establishes numbers. I would THINK that this would prevent the RIAA from says "Oh, well...500 people downloaded from your...and you have 10,000 songs shared, so that is...250 billion dollars. Now it is only $25 million...still stupid, but less so. AND they must establish that you had them shared for 180 days or more. Then again, your lawyer could argue against the RIAA, but I don't think they can against this...
Further, this law requires that spy-ware CLEARLY alert you before downloading, that it poses a risk to your security and/or privacy, and elicit an acceptance from you. And an EULA doesn't cover it, because it isn't CLEAR.
It ALSO establishes penalties for obtaining a domain name using fraudulent information.
But lying about a blowjob is SO MUCH WORSE! That is worth impeaching over, not silly "falsified" reports. Besides, that's not even a LIE, didn't you hear him? All these CIA reports sent to the White House about how all this Iraq stuff was false, they like, totally got lost in the mail or something. Until just now.
C was based on B, which was based on BCPL (Basic CPL), which itself was a simplified version of CPL, which was a language based loosely on Algol 60, but highly bloated. BCPL was supposed to be a dumbed down version of CPL that they could write the first CPL compiler in without having to use assembly, but it ended up being more popular.
Kinda like those kids caught with the trenchcoats and guns, led by a guy who called himself "Neo" and said he was "fighting to free mankind." Yup, it was GRAND THEFT AUTO that was behind that one. Although he MAY have gotten his name from that GAME called Enter the Matrix. But definatly NOT the movie. I mean, EVERYBODY knows that movies arn't real, right? Not like those games made of BLOCKY POLYGONS AND PIXILATED SPRITES! Too close to reality, they are!
How about THIS?
- Kid dresses in black trench-coat
- Kid calls himself Neo
- Kid says he is a warrior fighting for mankind's freedom
Conclusion: GTA made him do it. And also Warriors of Freedom, because, like, the name is just SO CLOSE.They barely even mention the Matrix connection, and they make SURE to point out that there is a Matrix COMPUTER GAME.