Where I work, the lights are on all the time there are workers, even with light coming in from windows (many workplaces don't have windows). We use the same power regardless of daylight saving time. DST does not affect the number of hours spent at work.
Now, if we convert our society to a nocturnal lifestyle, maybe that would help. Then workplace power consumption for lighting would only exist when truly needed and we wouldn't need to expend so much power in all our homes during our daytime sleeping hours.
The ceramic ball was detected with a Hall effect sensor (named after EH Hall). The ferric balls would induce a current as they passed over the loop sensor; the ceramic ball would not. In the case of a launch at the start of the game, if that sensor got out of alignment, it would never see a current and thus register every ball as the Powerball.
A three-step skill shot where you must skip step 2.
A special IN SOVIET RUSSIA mode where the machine takes over the flippers and launches a special pinball with mechanical parts inside which you can influence with a trackball.
And recovering a ball that went out an outlane is deemed a Slashback.
Unfortunately, they use style attributes to apply their absolute positioning, and I have this rule in my client-side stylesheet:
*[style*="position"] {
position: static ! important;
width: auto ! important;
height: auto ! important; }
which is designed to counter their abuses on more annoying sites. If they'd recode to use script-based style manipulation through the DOM instead of script-based HTML generation with style attributes, it would probably work for me. Or if they had a clear way for me to tailor a counter CSS rule to restore their styles targeted to their site, such as:
to restore their positioning markup at least. (I have such a rule if the style attribute also uses visibility: hidden; for sites that use pull-down menus.)
If only I had a proxy that would insert that id attribute for me, or it was part of the CSS specification that such an identifier exist, even if not provided by the author, so I could always hang client-side styles in a site-specific manner.
The virtual weapon was no less an intangible asset than is a computer password. It too is just bits in a computer. And like a password, a gaming object can give access to places on a server otherwise inaccessible.
What are their laws like in other information crime? Is the taking of an impression of a key for the purpose of making a copy and gaining unauthorized access to a locked room illegal, or only the act of gaining unauthorized access? The impression is also only information.
Actually, with people living longer, plus the ever extending post mortem limits, baby's first copyrighted digital work could require media longevity of 200 years or more.
The creeping sluggishness of the UI has one unexpected benefit for me. Since they took out the shortcut TiVo-Slow to take you to Messages & Setup, I find TiVo-PgDn-Select has become more effective as the star item on TiVo Central is often the last to appear.
I frequently use this to access the Standby option which I use with an automatic signal-sensing source switcher to jump between TiVos.
If it is anything like my alma mater, any proposed legitimate uses will also have to be legitimate educational uses. That became the policy when they decided to drop all of the alt.* hierarchy of Usenet. Individual groups could be requested to be added back to the feed on a group-by-group request basis, but only if a legitimate educational purpose could be argued before a committee.
But would you accept having to pay differently for distance on a county-by-county basis within the US? Or be restricted against sending mail to New York City just because you live in New Jersey because the two carriers won't play nice with each other, because they aren't forced to play nice with each other?
What if telephone service got reclassified as an information service?
To me, an information service sends data one way, from provider to consumer. A telecommunications service allows two-way communication.
The Internet's most popular service is e-mail.
What if the Postal Service was (privatized and) declared an information service? Would I no longer be able to send letters to some addresses because they belong to a different carrier service? Would I have to pay extra postage for cross-carrier service?
Seeing that if the information is leaked they'll know exactly how it got out and can proceed with both civil and criminal proceedings against him, I think that's a much better incentive for him not to disclose the monetary penalty.
It isn't like someone's offering to give him ten times as much to tell. There's nothing in it for him to disclose the number.
This obviously doesn't apply to having one's picture taken and being fingerprinted as that happens to everybody who get arrested, felon or not.
How is DNA any different?
As different has having a very large hash of a program's object code that also incorporates its serial number to verify its validity and having a complete copy of the source code of that program. Unless you regularly distribute your personal genetic code according to the terms of the GPL, there are several reasons you may have for not wanting someone to have your DNA.
Why mention the serial number? Because identical siblings do not have identical fingerprints, and can easily have different disfigurements as well (tattoos, piercings, a once-broken nose to name but a few). DNA alone might not be enough to perfectly identify some people, but it discloses a whole lot more information than should be necessary.
Indeed, there should be a privacy issue where a twin elects to give up his DNA without his identical sibling's consent. Giving up your DNA even invades the privacy of all blood relatives.
I could contribute...
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I did a few stitch-togethers for games in MAME. Somewhere I have the maps of Jr. Pac-Man (including intermissions), Tutankham, and Congo Bongo.
Been thinking about putting together the map for the Atari 2600's Pitfall, but haven't had the time to play it to get the whole thing. Plus the problem that travelling underground takes you (if memory serves) three screens at a time across the map, so there'd be three underground maps to create. A complete Pitfall 2 map though would be more interesting.
I like to do the same thing with animated shows that do long pans over a single plate.
Who has the theatrical re-releases of eps IV to VI? Only those who snuck video cameras into the theaters. Those versions will never again see the light of day. The special edition DVD sets are not what was shown in the theater.
"Renig on their social contract"?? What contract is that?
The one that grants authors exclusive rights to their works for limited times, i.e. the bargain by which they were granted copyright. The works must eventually fall to the public domain.
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Serves me right for not reading to the end of the article first.
All you need then are drive bays big enough to include a LaserDisc burner as well, supporting both CAV and CLV burning! (Probably some side panel-replacing bay system.)
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Don't you mean to say you'd prefer having a Blu-Ray / HD-DVD-R / HD-DVD-RW / DVD+DL / DVD+-RW / DVD-RAM / CD+-RW / CD-ROM / DVD-ROM / HD-DVD-ROM drive?
With either an internal Rube Goldberg device to swap lasers and lenses accordingly or a requirement to insert blue-laser disks upside down so they can be read/burned by lasers on the other side (with consequent ability to spin the disc backwards).
Except HD-DVD uses red so that could cause a problem
RTFA
[T]he minimum "spot size" that a laser can be focused is limited by diffraction, and depends on the wavelength of the light and the numerical aperture of the lens used to focus it. By decreasing the wavelength (moving toward the violet end of the spectrum), using a higher dual-lens system, and making the disk thinner, the laser beam can be focused much more tightly at the disk surface. This is, in a few words (in addition to the optical improvements), the technological advancement proposed by Blu-Ray.
The protecting layer for CDs and DVDs (cover layer) is 0.6 mm in thickness, while Blu-Ray's cover layer is only 0.1 mm thick, which, roughly, means a better access to the recording area....
Like Blu-Ray, HD-DVD uses [a] 405 nm blue laser, but it has more similarities with the DVD format: [t]he numerical aperture of the lens is the same..., [as is] the protective layer thickness of 0.6 mm.
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I think this is more of a product of men realizing that modern music sucks.
Kids on the other hand....
5,872,666: Method and apparatus for remotely blowing up head of presented subscriber if they change channel during commericals.
That's the one held by Zik-Zak, right?
Where I work, the lights are on all the time there are workers, even with light coming in from windows (many workplaces don't have windows). We use the same power regardless of daylight saving time. DST does not affect the number of hours spent at work.
Now, if we convert our society to a nocturnal lifestyle, maybe that would help. Then workplace power consumption for lighting would only exist when truly needed and we wouldn't need to expend so much power in all our homes during our daytime sleeping hours.
The ceramic ball was detected with a Hall effect sensor (named after EH Hall). The ferric balls would induce a current as they passed over the loop sensor; the ceramic ball would not. In the case of a launch at the start of the game, if that sensor got out of alignment, it would never see a current and thus register every ball as the Powerball.
Multiplay after three first-posts in a row.
Except multiball is instead a Beowulf Cluster.
A three-step skill shot where you must skip step 2.
A special IN SOVIET RUSSIA mode where the machine takes over the flippers and launches a special pinball with mechanical parts inside which you can influence with a trackball.
And recovering a ball that went out an outlane is deemed a Slashback.
If only I had a proxy that would insert that id attribute for me, or it was part of the CSS specification that such an identifier exist, even if not provided by the author, so I could always hang client-side styles in a site-specific manner.
The virtual weapon was no less an intangible asset than is a computer password. It too is just bits in a computer. And like a password, a gaming object can give access to places on a server otherwise inaccessible.
What are their laws like in other information crime? Is the taking of an impression of a key for the purpose of making a copy and gaining unauthorized access to a locked room illegal, or only the act of gaining unauthorized access? The impression is also only information.
Actually, with people living longer, plus the ever extending post mortem limits, baby's first copyrighted digital work could require media longevity of 200 years or more.
The creeping sluggishness of the UI has one unexpected benefit for me. Since they took out the shortcut TiVo-Slow to take you to Messages & Setup, I find TiVo-PgDn-Select has become more effective as the star item on TiVo Central is often the last to appear.
I frequently use this to access the Standby option which I use with an automatic signal-sensing source switcher to jump between TiVos.
If it is anything like my alma mater, any proposed legitimate uses will also have to be legitimate educational uses. That became the policy when they decided to drop all of the alt.* hierarchy of Usenet. Individual groups could be requested to be added back to the feed on a group-by-group request basis, but only if a legitimate educational purpose could be argued before a committee.
I don't know if anyone ever did.
But would you accept having to pay differently for distance on a county-by-county basis within the US? Or be restricted against sending mail to New York City just because you live in New Jersey because the two carriers won't play nice with each other, because they aren't forced to play nice with each other?
What if telephone service got reclassified as an information service?
I don't think a clicker wheel would be the best on a phone.
Are you kidding? I'd love to do some rotary dialing on one using wheel-gestures.
To me, an information service sends data one way, from provider to consumer. A telecommunications service allows two-way communication.
The Internet's most popular service is e-mail.
What if the Postal Service was (privatized and) declared an information service? Would I no longer be able to send letters to some addresses because they belong to a different carrier service? Would I have to pay extra postage for cross-carrier service?
Seeing that if the information is leaked they'll know exactly how it got out and can proceed with both civil and criminal proceedings against him, I think that's a much better incentive for him not to disclose the monetary penalty.
It isn't like someone's offering to give him ten times as much to tell. There's nothing in it for him to disclose the number.
Generally if you don't want to take part in a case against someone who committed a crime against you, they won't be prosecuted.
Though a federal case once started cannot be stopped by the victim pulling out.
So yes, hence "generally".
This obviously doesn't apply to having one's picture taken and being fingerprinted as that happens to everybody who get arrested, felon or not.
How is DNA any different?
As different has having a very large hash of a program's object code that also incorporates its serial number to verify its validity and having a complete copy of the source code of that program. Unless you regularly distribute your personal genetic code according to the terms of the GPL, there are several reasons you may have for not wanting someone to have your DNA.
Why mention the serial number? Because identical siblings do not have identical fingerprints, and can easily have different disfigurements as well (tattoos, piercings, a once-broken nose to name but a few). DNA alone might not be enough to perfectly identify some people, but it discloses a whole lot more information than should be necessary.
Indeed, there should be a privacy issue where a twin elects to give up his DNA without his identical sibling's consent. Giving up your DNA even invades the privacy of all blood relatives.
I did a few stitch-togethers for games in MAME. Somewhere I have the maps of Jr. Pac-Man (including intermissions), Tutankham, and Congo Bongo.
Been thinking about putting together the map for the Atari 2600's Pitfall, but haven't had the time to play it to get the whole thing. Plus the problem that travelling underground takes you (if memory serves) three screens at a time across the map, so there'd be three underground maps to create. A complete Pitfall 2 map though would be more interesting.
I like to do the same thing with animated shows that do long pans over a single plate.
How has he prevented access to the originals?
Who has the theatrical re-releases of eps IV to VI? Only those who snuck video cameras into the theaters. Those versions will never again see the light of day. The special edition DVD sets are not what was shown in the theater.
"Renig on their social contract"?? What contract is that?
The one that grants authors exclusive rights to their works for limited times, i.e. the bargain by which they were granted copyright. The works must eventually fall to the public domain.
Serves me right for not reading to the end of the article first.
Make that a Blu-Ray-R / Blu-Ray-RW / HVD-R / HVD-RW / HD-DVD-R / HD-DVD-RW / DVD+DL / DVD+-R / DVD+-RW / DVD-RAM / CD+-RW / CD-ROM / DVD-ROM / HD-DVD-ROM / Blu-Ray-ROM / HVD-ROM drive.
All you need then are drive bays big enough to include a LaserDisc burner as well, supporting both CAV and CLV burning! (Probably some side panel-replacing bay system.)
Don't you mean to say you'd prefer having a Blu-Ray / HD-DVD-R / HD-DVD-RW / DVD+DL / DVD+-RW / DVD-RAM / CD+-RW / CD-ROM / DVD-ROM / HD-DVD-ROM drive?
With either an internal Rube Goldberg device to swap lasers and lenses accordingly or a requirement to insert blue-laser disks upside down so they can be read/burned by lasers on the other side (with consequent ability to spin the disc backwards).
RTFA
A couple other stories that dealt with small black holes/singularities loose on Earth: Artifact and Thrice Upon A Time.
Interesting that the New Scientist article, in the portion of it that is free, says it "lasts as mere 10-23 seconds".
Ten to twenty-three seconds? That's a lot longer!
Turns out that they made a markup error, wrapping the "-23" with <UP></UP> instesad of <SUP></SUP>.
When reached for comment on the error, the New Scientist web editor quipped, "Whas sup?"
Why are they measuring pirates per penny? Has "percent" suddenly ceased to be a word?