Well, in fact there is an awful lot of this, largely because of the total lack of money, trade, banks, art, rainfall, or anything else that might keep all the non-existent people of the Universe occupied. However, it's not worth embarking on a long discussion of it now, because it really is terribly complicated. For further information see Chapters Seven, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Fourteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, Nineteen, Twenty-One to Eighty-Four inclusive, and... most of the rest of the book.
That depends if you can think of words without pronouncing them in your head. When someone says, "Think of the letter W," do you think about hearing or saying "W" or pronouncing a "W"? think about the shape of a "W"? or do you think about the concept of a "W"? what "W" means to you? how it makes you feel? it's associations to certain people?
If they're only getting under 2 words a minute, they're probably having people think hard about saying the letter. So they're basically monitoring speech patterns and not deeper thoughts.
The depiction on TV and in movies of people having constant internal monologues of their thoughts makes no sense to me. Who constantly thinks in words? That would drive me insane!
Lorien's line in Babylon 5, "You can't create language without thought, and you can't conceive a thought without language," to me, is bullshit. I may not be able to communicate a thought to you without using language, but I surely can have a thought without using language, such as imagining Bester in a condition which is anatomically impossible.
I've visit a nearby Culver's for WiFi over some of my lunch breaks.
Despite being very near the local cable company and getting their access from them (TWC Road Runner, had to use a reverse traceroute to confirm as pings and traceroutes are blocked from going out), most times I can't get anywhere from there. There is no click-through login web page (which prevents some classes of devices from using free WiFi) but often by the time I can get somewhere, I'm already done eating and am finishing my first refill of my soft drink and needing to get back to work. I suspect their DNS is unreliable.
I have all the bills I can go to my credit card. If there's a mistake I can contest the charge.
Only seven bills do I pay by cheque: trash pickup (I prepay for the whole year by cheque), natural gas (has $5 service charge for credit card payments), electricity (same $5 service charge), water/wastewater (city won't do recurring credit card billing, so it's not convenient), house payment and loan payment (which I overpay to reduce principal), and of course the credit card.
My credit card company keeps sending me cheques in the mail that apply to the credit card account, but I doubt my gas, electric, or water bill will accept them for automatic recurring bill pay. Or at least, I'd hope my credit card company wouldn't.
Most of my bills would convert a check to an EFT anyway so I wouldn't get the canceled cheque back. My bank doesn't even give me back what canceled cheques do come in anymore: I get reduced single-sided photocopies instead. I couldn't even get a copy of, for example, Krusty the Klown's Cayman Islands Off-Shore Holding Corporation's endorsement stamp.
You never hyphenate with an adverb ending in -ly. This is one hard and fast rule of the English language.
The purpose of the hyphen in this construct is to remove ambiguity over which words are paired. Since "The hastily changes" makes no sense semantically, there's no purpose served by the hyphen (that isn't served by the -ly suffix itself, i.e. "The haste changes" or more clearly "The haste deployed changes," vs. "The haste-deployed changes...").
"Family-owned restaurant" is correct because "Family" is not an adverb.
Then you have the instances where the hyphen is incorrectly omitted, such as "eight legged freaks" and "game changing performance". The game doesn't change the performance, the performance changes the game, thus "game-changing performance".
It's disturbing how often this error crops up not just in popular media but also on Wikipedia and modern journalism.
I'd have tagged the story as typo instead, but I seem to have no access to tagging anymore. Clicking on the triangle has no effect: it's not even recognized by the mouse as a clickable object. I run Firefox 2.0.0.20 because nothing newer will run on this workplace-provided operating system and I have no authority to update the missing libpangocairo and GTK+ dependencies.
It was at Heathrow Terminal 5. That's the UK. The person affected had to change into a different shirt and pack the T-shirt, and was threatened with arrest if he were to put it back on, but was allowed to fly.
A Google search will find many more articles about the incident.
Some airport screeners don't even allow pictures of guns. Not even pictures of fictional guns held by giant robots on T-shirts, even if was an Autobot and not a Decepticon.
IANAL, but maybe if they found some sort of a closed box on the suspect, the police could open it to see if there is, for example, a gun inside.
I believe that's for the safety of the officer. Cell phone data though is not an imminent threat to anyone. At most they could disassemble the phone physically such as removing its battery, but that should not extend to the data on the phone.
This is often why an officer will walk you around your car so that the whole car can be seen as being within your reach giving them authority to search for weapons.
It sounds like the officers in this case were seeking confirmation of the phone call of which they monitored the other end with their informant, but forgot to or could not get a warrant for the phone or the records from the phone company beforehand. Or seeking to ID a suspect by making a call to the phone and have the phone confirm the call and thus the ID, seeking an exigent circumstances exception before the suspect ditches the phone or clears the memory.
I wonder if it matters whether or not it is a flip-phone or had a locked control panel/screen.
They don't have the R18+ rating yet. Instead the games are refused classification, and those games that are refused classification (RC) are banned.
But so what if they introduce an R18+ rating? How is that going to differ from being banned?
Compare the US's ESRB's "Ao" rating. Not only will vendors not carry it, all the current console makers say they won't allow them to be played on their systems. And so the publishers edit the games to get an M rating.
Add a R18+ rating to Australia? There will be no net effect compared to being RC.
You do realize that skipping the commercials deprives the advertiser of the eyeballs that he is paying for and such is stealing from the advertiser.
People who skip commercials are stealing television. People who wear body armor are stealing my ammunition. People who fluoridate water are sapping and impurifying all our precious bodily fluids.
And, as you say, it's a shitty option. Smart Sound is one of the trademarked terms for it. If the show you're watching has quiet scenes, you hear this hissing noise start coming up, and when the next word comes out of a character it's loud and squelches down rapidly.
I have TiVo, and if I forget to fast-forward over the commercials, their loudness wakes me up and gets me to fast-forward anyway (or rather reverse to see how much of the show I just missed).
More annoying is how some stations are louder than others. Some channels on my cable differ in volume by 15 dB: one show is comfortable at -25 dB, another I have to turn to -10 dB.
According to the researchers, the paper batteries will be low-cost, may be crumpled or folded, and can even be soaked in acidic or basic solutions, yet their performance does not degrade.
A few more tests and it might even be suitable for use on paper currency, and suddenly the paranoid fears of having tracking devices in every paper bill could become a reality (starting with $100, $50, and $20 bills).
The cable company doesn't even acknowledge that it would be possible. They don't acknowledge the existence of cable boxes with Firewire outputs, so they don't have to support them.
I don't currently have the ability to record KPTM 42 over an antenna let alone hardware that checks for flags on the broadcast stream so as yet I can't confirm whether the protection is in the broadcast signal, introduced at the cable company, or set in the direct stream the local cableco gets.
I was able to record Fringe via the cable box's Firewire output until The World Series was on. I presume MLB was getting an exemption, and then they just left the protection on. I had a similar problem with College Football last year where I could record a game off of ABC KETV 7 (Omaha) but not the same game on ABC KLKN 8 (Lincoln).
Then there were the unique problems with 24 midway through last season where video conversion tools could play back the 5.1 audio but not the video. The TiVo had no difficulties.
That and at the bottom of every half hour a local hospital has a bug thrown on the screen with time and temperature during the show, which kicks the HD w/5.1 to SD Stereo, often dropping a second of content on one side and doubling it on the other. This is the third year of that. (CW KXVO 15 does it too, but since they're at 1080i they don't drop down to 480i stereo. Fox is 720p and the hardware used here apparently can't inject that bug into a progressive stream. KPTM and KXVO have the same parent company: Pappas Telecasting.) The other Fox broadcaster isn't yet carried in HD on cable.
Local cable franchise board? We tried that when we were a test market for their buggy mystro software which still cannot change channels on schedule for owners of pre-Series3 TiVos and even disrupted their own DVR service. It's been years now and we've gotten no reparations, no concessions, and no opening of the market to competition.
They don't have to care; cable is a monopoly. The only video the phone company can provide is satellite.
The card must be paired with the Host ID of the slot in which it is inserted by the head office, requiring a phone call. Once paired with a slot, it can't be used with any other slot in any other device.
Also there's a quality problem with the cards, causing many not to pair properly to the device, and it can still take over an hour for the device pairing authorization to go out over the network.
They require a visit because they have to check to make sure they're installed only in authorized secure devices. If they let it into just one unsecured device, all their digital encrypted programming will be available for copying.
Though when I got my second TiVo HD, I called up and the person on the phone told me I could pick them up and install them myself and save myself the roll-out cost. Turns out the people who handle the local number are not local. They handle the national call center, they don't know local policy, and just didn't want to have to do anything at the end of that day. They were even wrong about the local branch's hours.
Also they don't have any clue about cable boxes with IEEE 1394/Firewire ports and disavow their existence.
When I got my first CableCARD-enabled TiVo, I was overjoyed to finally be rid of Time Warner Cable's Scientific Atlanta cable box with its mystro software designed to penalize you if you use an external device to control it to change channels precisely on time. If you started changing channels before the guide data updates for the timeslot but don't finish until after it does, you find it throwing out the initial or all the digits and either changing to the wrong channel or not changing channels at all. Though that cable box was still useful as a conduit over Firewire for recording to my desktop computer.
OK, so maybe there were a few problems now and then, but the CableCARD experience had settled down... until TWC decided to use Switched Digital Video and required TiVo users to use their Tuning Adapters to watch certain channels. Not IR controlled though. These use USB, so at least they could handshake to ensure that the device switched properly, yes?
No, of course not. For many of my HD channels I now have to have a second unit also recording the non-HD version of the same program in order to be sure I at least get to see the shows I want.
Meanwhile broadcasters like Fox (KPTM 42) are setting broadcast flags on their prime-time shows, preventing me from playing back my recordings made through the cable box on my computer, their being flagged "Copy Once" instead of "Copy Freely". And this after last season doing something else that made their video non-standard so I could only access the audio stream with the computer. At least the TiVo not only still records and plays back those shows, it also still lets me transfer them to the computer for burning to DVD.
And that's not even considering HTML coding style, since substituting 4 <small> tags with a <font size="-4"> may change the effect of the application of an undisclosed stylesheet (where <small> and even <font color=white> may have been rendered impotent).
However, I'd dare say option 3 is the most correct in its adherence to what was written and how a strict (not strict.dtd) application of HTML parsing rules would render it, if it were to render at all, in preparation for the application of the stylesheet.
If there's no such thing as a bandwidth hog, then why are is anyone worried about "hunting" them?
A bandwidth hog is simply someone who is an outlying statistical anomaly in bandwidth usage, regardless of whether the system handled that anomaly without incident. And they seek these anomalies out by whatever means they can think of, just so that they can ID an e-witch so they can burn her Internet access.
The last site that cut me off was for consuming bandwidth at a rate of 25% of a DVD for a week. And it was a taxpayer-funded city government services website, without notice or justification other than being a bandwidth consumption statistical outlier. And they cut off not just me but everyone at my place of employment!
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Well, in fact there is an awful lot of this, largely because of the total lack of money, trade, banks, art, rainfall, or anything else that might keep all the non-existent people of the Universe occupied. However, it's not worth embarking on a long discussion of it now, because it really is terribly complicated. For further information see Chapters Seven, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Fourteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, Nineteen, Twenty-One to Eighty-Four inclusive, and... most of the rest of the book.
Can someone please tell me the difference between "governments" and "well-funded criminal organizations"?
According to the quotation, the difference is that well-funded criminal organizations are reasonable.
On an outer-space adventure
They got hit by cosmic rays
And the four would change forever
In some most fantastic ways
No need to fear
They're here
Just call for Four
Fantastic Four
"Don't need no more."
"That's ungrammatical!"
Oh, Reed Richards is elastic
Sue can fade from sight
Johnny is The Human Torch
The Thing just loves to fight
Call for Four
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four
There's Galactus looking hungry
And old Dr. Doom is near
Here come the Skrulls invading
Do you run and hide in fear?
No way, no way
No way
Just call for Four
Fantastic Four
"That's all. No more. Now that's grammatical!"
Oh, Reed Richards is elastic
Sue can fade from sight
Johnny is The Human Torch
The Thing just loves to fight
Call for Four
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four
Does it run as a last accessed, last executed, last used, last in, last out queue?
Can brainwaves have accents or slurring?
That depends if you can think of words without pronouncing them in your head. When someone says, "Think of the letter W," do you think about hearing or saying "W" or pronouncing a "W"? think about the shape of a "W"? or do you think about the concept of a "W"? what "W" means to you? how it makes you feel? it's associations to certain people?
If they're only getting under 2 words a minute, they're probably having people think hard about saying the letter. So they're basically monitoring speech patterns and not deeper thoughts.
The depiction on TV and in movies of people having constant internal monologues of their thoughts makes no sense to me. Who constantly thinks in words? That would drive me insane!
Lorien's line in Babylon 5, "You can't create language without thought, and you can't conceive a thought without language," to me, is bullshit. I may not be able to communicate a thought to you without using language, but I surely can have a thought without using language, such as imagining Bester in a condition which is anatomically impossible.
I've visit a nearby Culver's for WiFi over some of my lunch breaks.
Despite being very near the local cable company and getting their access from them (TWC Road Runner, had to use a reverse traceroute to confirm as pings and traceroutes are blocked from going out), most times I can't get anywhere from there. There is no click-through login web page (which prevents some classes of devices from using free WiFi) but often by the time I can get somewhere, I'm already done eating and am finishing my first refill of my soft drink and needing to get back to work. I suspect their DNS is unreliable.
Let the bad guys access that feed. Then it will be like an upgraded Hacker II.
I have all the bills I can go to my credit card. If there's a mistake I can contest the charge.
Only seven bills do I pay by cheque: trash pickup (I prepay for the whole year by cheque), natural gas (has $5 service charge for credit card payments), electricity (same $5 service charge), water/wastewater (city won't do recurring credit card billing, so it's not convenient), house payment and loan payment (which I overpay to reduce principal), and of course the credit card.
My credit card company keeps sending me cheques in the mail that apply to the credit card account, but I doubt my gas, electric, or water bill will accept them for automatic recurring bill pay. Or at least, I'd hope my credit card company wouldn't.
Most of my bills would convert a check to an EFT anyway so I wouldn't get the canceled cheque back. My bank doesn't even give me back what canceled cheques do come in anymore: I get reduced single-sided photocopies instead. I couldn't even get a copy of, for example, Krusty the Klown's Cayman Islands Off-Shore Holding Corporation's endorsement stamp.
Good luck buying a house with that cash.
I wouldn't accept a cheque for a house, especially not if I was incommunicado and thus unable to verify it immediately.
Why not? Surely you'll be able to find the house's address again if the cheque bounces.
the hastily-deployed changes
You never hyphenate with an adverb ending in -ly. This is one hard and fast rule of the English language.
The purpose of the hyphen in this construct is to remove ambiguity over which words are paired. Since "The hastily changes" makes no sense semantically, there's no purpose served by the hyphen (that isn't served by the -ly suffix itself, i.e. "The haste changes" or more clearly "The haste deployed changes," vs. "The haste-deployed changes...").
"Family-owned restaurant" is correct because "Family" is not an adverb.
Then you have the instances where the hyphen is incorrectly omitted, such as "eight legged freaks" and "game changing performance". The game doesn't change the performance, the performance changes the game, thus "game-changing performance".
It's disturbing how often this error crops up not just in popular media but also on Wikipedia and modern journalism.
I'd have tagged the story as typo instead, but I seem to have no access to tagging anymore. Clicking on the triangle has no effect: it's not even recognized by the mouse as a clickable object. I run Firefox 2.0.0.20 because nothing newer will run on this workplace-provided operating system and I have no authority to update the missing libpangocairo and GTK+ dependencies.
It was at Heathrow Terminal 5. That's the UK. The person affected had to change into a different shirt and pack the T-shirt, and was threatened with arrest if he were to put it back on, but was allowed to fly.
A Google search will find many more articles about the incident.
Some airport screeners don't even allow pictures of guns. Not even pictures of fictional guns held by giant robots on T-shirts, even if was an Autobot and not a Decepticon.
IANAL, but maybe if they found some sort of a closed box on the suspect, the police could open it to see if there is, for example, a gun inside.
I believe that's for the safety of the officer. Cell phone data though is not an imminent threat to anyone. At most they could disassemble the phone physically such as removing its battery, but that should not extend to the data on the phone.
This is often why an officer will walk you around your car so that the whole car can be seen as being within your reach giving them authority to search for weapons.
It sounds like the officers in this case were seeking confirmation of the phone call of which they monitored the other end with their informant, but forgot to or could not get a warrant for the phone or the records from the phone company beforehand. Or seeking to ID a suspect by making a call to the phone and have the phone confirm the call and thus the ID, seeking an exigent circumstances exception before the suspect ditches the phone or clears the memory.
I wonder if it matters whether or not it is a flip-phone or had a locked control panel/screen.
I prefer one big spiral cut.
They don't have the R18+ rating yet. Instead the games are refused classification, and those games that are refused classification (RC) are banned.
But so what if they introduce an R18+ rating? How is that going to differ from being banned?
Compare the US's ESRB's "Ao" rating. Not only will vendors not carry it, all the current console makers say they won't allow them to be played on their systems. And so the publishers edit the games to get an M rating.
Add a R18+ rating to Australia? There will be no net effect compared to being RC.
You do realize that skipping the commercials deprives the advertiser of the eyeballs that he is paying for and such is stealing from the advertiser.
People who skip commercials are stealing television.
People who wear body armor are stealing my ammunition.
People who fluoridate water are sapping and impurifying all our precious bodily fluids.
Many TVs have the ability to auto-level stuff.
And, as you say, it's a shitty option. Smart Sound is one of the trademarked terms for it. If the show you're watching has quiet scenes, you hear this hissing noise start coming up, and when the next word comes out of a character it's loud and squelches down rapidly.
I have TiVo, and if I forget to fast-forward over the commercials, their loudness wakes me up and gets me to fast-forward anyway (or rather reverse to see how much of the show I just missed).
More annoying is how some stations are louder than others. Some channels on my cable differ in volume by 15 dB: one show is comfortable at -25 dB, another I have to turn to -10 dB.
According to the researchers, the paper batteries will be low-cost, may be crumpled or folded, and can even be soaked in acidic or basic solutions, yet their performance does not degrade.
A few more tests and it might even be suitable for use on paper currency, and suddenly the paranoid fears of having tracking devices in every paper bill could become a reality (starting with $100, $50, and $20 bills).
The cable company doesn't even acknowledge that it would be possible. They don't acknowledge the existence of cable boxes with Firewire outputs, so they don't have to support them.
I don't currently have the ability to record KPTM 42 over an antenna let alone hardware that checks for flags on the broadcast stream so as yet I can't confirm whether the protection is in the broadcast signal, introduced at the cable company, or set in the direct stream the local cableco gets.
I was able to record Fringe via the cable box's Firewire output until The World Series was on. I presume MLB was getting an exemption, and then they just left the protection on. I had a similar problem with College Football last year where I could record a game off of ABC KETV 7 (Omaha) but not the same game on ABC KLKN 8 (Lincoln).
Then there were the unique problems with 24 midway through last season where video conversion tools could play back the 5.1 audio but not the video. The TiVo had no difficulties.
That and at the bottom of every half hour a local hospital has a bug thrown on the screen with time and temperature during the show, which kicks the HD w/5.1 to SD Stereo, often dropping a second of content on one side and doubling it on the other. This is the third year of that. (CW KXVO 15 does it too, but since they're at 1080i they don't drop down to 480i stereo. Fox is 720p and the hardware used here apparently can't inject that bug into a progressive stream. KPTM and KXVO have the same parent company: Pappas Telecasting.) The other Fox broadcaster isn't yet carried in HD on cable.
Local cable franchise board? We tried that when we were a test market for their buggy mystro software which still cannot change channels on schedule for owners of pre-Series3 TiVos and even disrupted their own DVR service. It's been years now and we've gotten no reparations, no concessions, and no opening of the market to competition.
They don't have to care; cable is a monopoly. The only video the phone company can provide is satellite.
The tech for swapping fingerprints apparently exists.
The tech for swapping fingerprint cards has existed even longer. Sometimes it's the people taking the prints that swap them for you.
The card must be paired with the Host ID of the slot in which it is inserted by the head office, requiring a phone call. Once paired with a slot, it can't be used with any other slot in any other device.
Also there's a quality problem with the cards, causing many not to pair properly to the device, and it can still take over an hour for the device pairing authorization to go out over the network.
They require a visit because they have to check to make sure they're installed only in authorized secure devices. If they let it into just one unsecured device, all their digital encrypted programming will be available for copying.
Though when I got my second TiVo HD, I called up and the person on the phone told me I could pick them up and install them myself and save myself the roll-out cost. Turns out the people who handle the local number are not local. They handle the national call center, they don't know local policy, and just didn't want to have to do anything at the end of that day. They were even wrong about the local branch's hours.
Also they don't have any clue about cable boxes with IEEE 1394/Firewire ports and disavow their existence.
When I got my first CableCARD-enabled TiVo, I was overjoyed to finally be rid of Time Warner Cable's Scientific Atlanta cable box with its mystro software designed to penalize you if you use an external device to control it to change channels precisely on time. If you started changing channels before the guide data updates for the timeslot but don't finish until after it does, you find it throwing out the initial or all the digits and either changing to the wrong channel or not changing channels at all. Though that cable box was still useful as a conduit over Firewire for recording to my desktop computer.
OK, so maybe there were a few problems now and then, but the CableCARD experience had settled down... until TWC decided to use Switched Digital Video and required TiVo users to use their Tuning Adapters to watch certain channels. Not IR controlled though. These use USB, so at least they could handshake to ensure that the device switched properly, yes?
No, of course not. For many of my HD channels I now have to have a second unit also recording the non-HD version of the same program in order to be sure I at least get to see the shows I want.
Meanwhile broadcasters like Fox (KPTM 42) are setting broadcast flags on their prime-time shows, preventing me from playing back my recordings made through the cable box on my computer, their being flagged "Copy Once" instead of "Copy Freely". And this after last season doing something else that made their video non-standard so I could only access the audio stream with the computer. At least the TiVo not only still records and plays back those shows, it also still lets me transfer them to the computer for burning to DVD.
Can you please post a corrected version for us so that we can learn from you?
"Corrected" depends on what the original poster expected. The provided markup is invalid. I can give four specific answers:
Note trailing side-effect.
Again with a trailing side effect.
And that's not even considering HTML coding style, since substituting 4 <small> tags with a <font size="-4"> may change the effect of the application of an undisclosed stylesheet (where <small> and even <font color=white> may have been rendered impotent).
However, I'd dare say option 3 is the most correct in its adherence to what was written and how a strict (not strict.dtd) application of HTML parsing rules would render it, if it were to render at all, in preparation for the application of the stylesheet.
If there's no such thing as a bandwidth hog, then why are is anyone worried about "hunting" them?
A bandwidth hog is simply someone who is an outlying statistical anomaly in bandwidth usage, regardless of whether the system handled that anomaly without incident. And they seek these anomalies out by whatever means they can think of, just so that they can ID an e-witch so they can burn her Internet access.
The last site that cut me off was for consuming bandwidth at a rate of 25% of a DVD for a week. And it was a taxpayer-funded city government services website, without notice or justification other than being a bandwidth consumption statistical outlier. And they cut off not just me but everyone at my place of employment!