No, but someone who wants to kill their spouse, for example, could have no prior background check history so the only warning that they are buying a gun to murder someone would be suspicious questions they ask (i.e, if they didn't ask the questions they would appear to be an upstanding citizen). Another example could be an unknowing grandparent/etc. acting as an illegal "straw purchaser" for an inelegible relative.
The sad thing is that it appears that the lesson learned there has been forgotten. Can you imagine what the world would be like today, if the US had, instead of invading Iraq, chosen to bring the Marshall Plan to Afganistan?
Not only would the quality of life for hundreds of thousands of people been improved (an absolute good in of itself) an America that chose to treat Afganistan benevolently, that rebuilt industry and infrastructure and got the country cleaned up and back on its feet, would have torn the heart out of the support base for the people who attacked the US in the first place. It's hard to get people to hate the guy whose making your life better.... Hmm, true, I guess we have no effort by the military/govt to rebuild Iraq or Afghanistan; maybe the Iraqi/Afghani terrorists hate us because of their religion instead of the infrastructure improvements.
They can easily ask/force/bribe/coerce someone in the IT department to provide the logs and maybe analize them. I think most IT personnel would react somewhat violently to a random professor trying to analize them?
AFAIK this is how adaptive LASIK works - they pass light through your eye to measure the distortions and then calculate how to do the laser shaping so your cornea (sp?) will compensate for the shape of your eye. Apparently, it works - many of my friends competing for military pilot training slots have had this done and report 20/15 or 20/10 after having glasses since the adaptive optic eliminate the eyes natural imperfections as well.
True, but while companies certainly can put whatever features they want in their products, the GP's point is that the company should not be able to sue those who help you get around the features of your product. Summary: restrictive features=bad but OK; being able to make the government enforce your restrictive features=very bad.
Wouldn't a homosexual gene be reduced through natural selection, though, since someone who had it probably would not reproduce and pass on the gene (yes, homosexual couples can do artificial insemination/etc, but the majority probably either don't have kids/adopt)?
This mouse uses RFID, it must be an evil plot by the goverment to spy on your mouse clicks; not only can Big Brother read your every click, but any rogue with a 10 megawatt transmitter and 50' dish in his unmarked van could read your mouse from 100 feet away.
That's the whole point of patenting it - if you reverse engineer it and indepenently implement it, they can still sue you since the patent covers all uses of the idea (unlike copyrights which generally cover a particular implementation in software). The patent allows them to prevent anyone from using it while not having to worry about secrecy; for example, lock companies have been doing this for years with their high-security locks, patenting the shape of the keyway to prevent others from making key blanks to be used to copy keys.
He built a small breader reactor in his back yard. Usually people keep their breader reactors in the kitchen - easier to coat the chicken and fish that way.
However if you break traffic rules on most military bases, you can have your base driving privileges revoked, which are enforced by serious people with M-16s.
On another civil liberties-related note, Naperville has a constitutionally controversial "presence restriction" law. Basically since there were a few cases where the police would bust a party and the few people who were drinking would put their drinks down, they got a law passed that allows them to ticket any minor present at an event where any other minors were drinking, regardless of whether they were in posession/consumption of alchohol; this has even included perfectly sober people picking up their impaired friends from the parties instead of letting them drive home. As far as I know, our law is the only one which allows non-drinkers to be charged - do any Slashdotters know of other towns with this kind of law?
An oxyacid of chlorine (HClO) containing monovalent chlorine that acts as an oxidizing or reducing agent.
(from PubChem); and sodium hypochlorite is just bleach; when dissolved the chlorite ions will form acidic solution; so HClO+NaOCl=bleach in water, which is a common disinfectant but would probably be a bad idea to drink.
Uhh... no. In the lab where I work we have a 17.2T magnet (largest one in the state) and crawling around in the high field underneath it does not produce any wierd effects unless you happen to have steel plates in your body in which case we won't let you near the magnet anyway:-)
If you read the linked New Scientist article, it says that the scientists developed a tracer for the plaques that can be detected by a regular MRI machine, so the expense of the test would be the design/production of the tracer.
Yes-The ITU (International Telecommunications Union) prefixes for the US are W,K,N, and A (IIRC) so the FCC when it assigns call letters decided to assign Wxxx calls to TV and radio stations east of the Missisippi and Kxxx calls to western ones, with other call formats starting with WKNA used for other services, (like K9COP, N3RD, AT1C, or W1AW for ham radio)
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No, but someone who wants to kill their spouse, for example, could have no prior background check history so the only warning that they are buying a gun to murder someone would be suspicious questions they ask (i.e, if they didn't ask the questions they would appear to be an upstanding citizen). Another example could be an unknowing grandparent/etc. acting as an illegal "straw purchaser" for an inelegible relative.
(even people who are otherwise upstanding citizens, but just ask some of the wrong questions)
What would be an example of a "wrong question" that would result in an "otherwise upstanding citizen" not being sold a gun?
"What is the most effective gun for killing people?" or "What guns can penetrate body armor?"
Easy!
1. Get some Cat powering equipment
2. Plug your MP3 player AC adapter into it
3. Sell excess Cat power to local utility
4. Profit!
Then people would be whining about somebody who accidentally got hit by a pallet of MREs coming down..
The specific nature of the "accident" is unpredictable, but the fact that there will be an unintended release is certain.
Wow! Since my computer will eventually crash anyway I guess I'll just take this thermal lance and have a little fun@#!*^$..NO CARRIER
The sad thing is that it appears that the lesson learned there has been forgotten. Can you imagine what the world would be like today, if the US had, instead of invading Iraq, chosen to bring the Marshall Plan to Afganistan?
Not only would the quality of life for hundreds of thousands of people been improved (an absolute good in of itself) an America that chose to treat Afganistan benevolently, that rebuilt industry and infrastructure and got the country cleaned up and back on its feet, would have torn the heart out of the support base for the people who attacked the US in the first place. It's hard to get people to hate the guy whose making your life better....
Hmm, true, I guess we have no effort by the military/govt to rebuild Iraq or Afghanistan; maybe the Iraqi/Afghani terrorists hate us because of their religion instead of the infrastructure improvements.
They can easily ask/force/bribe/coerce someone in the IT department to provide the logs and maybe analize them.
I think most IT personnel would react somewhat violently to a random professor trying to analize them?
AFAIK this is how adaptive LASIK works - they pass light through your eye to measure the distortions and then calculate how to do the laser shaping so your cornea (sp?) will compensate for the shape of your eye. Apparently, it works - many of my friends competing for military pilot training slots have had this done and report 20/15 or 20/10 after having glasses since the adaptive optic eliminate the eyes natural imperfections as well.
True, but while companies certainly can put whatever features they want in their products, the GP's point is that the company should not be able to sue those who help you get around the features of your product. Summary: restrictive features=bad but OK; being able to make the government enforce your restrictive features=very bad.
Wouldn't a homosexual gene be reduced through natural selection, though, since someone who had it probably would not reproduce and pass on the gene (yes, homosexual couples can do artificial insemination/etc, but the majority probably either don't have kids/adopt)?
He's a Slashdotter - he probably already has too much smacked beef...
This mouse uses RFID, it must be an evil plot by the goverment to spy on your mouse clicks; not only can Big Brother read your every click, but any rogue with a 10 megawatt transmitter and 50' dish in his unmarked van could read your mouse from 100 feet away.
That's the whole point of patenting it - if you reverse engineer it and indepenently implement it, they can still sue you since the patent covers all uses of the idea (unlike copyrights which generally cover a particular implementation in software). The patent allows them to prevent anyone from using it while not having to worry about secrecy; for example, lock companies have been doing this for years with their high-security locks, patenting the shape of the keyway to prevent others from making key blanks to be used to copy keys.
He built a small breader reactor in his back yard.
Usually people keep their breader reactors in the kitchen - easier to coat the chicken and fish that way.
However if you break traffic rules on most military bases, you can have your base driving privileges revoked, which are enforced by serious people with M-16s.
On another civil liberties-related note, Naperville has a constitutionally controversial "presence restriction" law. Basically since there were a few cases where the police would bust a party and the few people who were drinking would put their drinks down, they got a law passed that allows them to ticket any minor present at an event where any other minors were drinking, regardless of whether they were in posession/consumption of alchohol; this has even included perfectly sober people picking up their impaired friends from the parties instead of letting them drive home. As far as I know, our law is the only one which allows non-drinkers to be charged - do any Slashdotters know of other towns with this kind of law?
for hypochlorous acid, it is
An oxyacid of chlorine (HClO) containing monovalent chlorine that acts as an oxidizing or reducing agent.
(from PubChem); and sodium hypochlorite is just bleach; when dissolved the chlorite ions will form acidic solution; so HClO+NaOCl=bleach in water, which is a common disinfectant but would probably be a bad idea to drink.
Funny post... BTW, what's an off-license for those of us who haven't heard of it?
Let me guess...3CXXX or 2EXXX? :-)
Uhh... no. In the lab where I work we have a 17.2T magnet (largest one in the state) and crawling around in the high field underneath it does not produce any wierd effects unless you happen to have steel plates in your body in which case we won't let you near the magnet anyway :-)
In the final mission where you kill Big Smoke and Officer Tenpenny - seeing their remorse/reaction to a life of corruption.
If you read the linked New Scientist article, it says that the scientists developed a tracer for the plaques that can be detected by a regular MRI machine, so the expense of the test would be the design/production of the tracer.
Yes-The ITU (International Telecommunications Union) prefixes for the US are W,K,N, and A (IIRC) so the FCC when it assigns call letters decided to assign Wxxx calls to TV and radio stations east of the Missisippi and Kxxx calls to western ones, with other call formats starting with WKNA used for other services, (like K9COP, N3RD, AT1C, or W1AW for ham radio)
I think you mean geography, unless by GIS you meant something like simulating oil wells (probably a good money maker now anyway)
A good example of work by an organization that invests millions a year into promoting FLOSS can be found here.