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I guess, after googling, that it is a on-Bluetooth Bluetooth? Wat the fuck is the point of yet another short-range communications standard? Is that nickel royalty payment going to hurt the device manufacturer that much?
No, whatever royalty payment that might be applicable isn't going to hurt that much. But the lack of pairing requirements, much lower power requirements under most circumstances, ability to work with some existing RFID tags, faster connection establishment, and ability to work with passive devices all are things that NFC give you that Bluetooth doesn't.
The down side of lacking NFC is that you can't say that you can bump your phone into random strangers' phones until they "squirt" files at each other.
NFC range isn't nearly as far as Bluetooth so it takes more of an effort to establish a connection. That reduces interception in a large area where many NFC devices might exist. It also requires that devices are noticeably close so if an exploit is found, someone trying to exploit it hopefully would be a little more apparent.
Depends on what exactly they are designing. If the house is nothing more than a box with a door and a window or two, then 18 months is ridiculously long. If the house is a 400 sq meter completely custom sprawling house and the owner has gone through multiple iterations of different designs, then 18 months doesn't seem all that unreasonable. If everything is being cast in stone before everything is printed, you get one shot to make sure your wiring, plumbing, hvac, etc are all places exactly where you want them.
What about blow them up or otherwise effectively destroy them? If you're going to bury them, you're obviously willing to take the risk that someone could digs them back up and salvage parts and/or technology from them if they were not in a weatherproof or otherwise sealed container. Blowing them up with charges in key locations destroys the plan, most of the technology, and they can still be buried if you really wanted.
As everyone should know, modern airliners are pressurized. Now it is generally considered a BAD idea if it was to depressurize in midflight by say a window or door blowing out. How do you make it hard for this to happen? Well, you make the door open to the INSIDE, so that when locked and the airplane is under pressure, the pressure will press the door INTO the frame, making it impossible to blow out. This is why airline doors open INTO the aircraft and NOT out.
Basic stuff right? Only a company with no care for safety would change it.
Well boeing did it, so they could shove more cargo in it.
AirBus A330 and A380 both have outward opening doors. CRJ700 does too. From pictures I've seen, it looks like at least some MD-80, DC-8 and DC-10 did well.
Apparently it's not that stupid of an idea to change it.
Radioshack, for example, wont stop until you say No. I saw a guy in front of me give them his name, address, phone number, zipcode, I was astonished.
RadioShack for years asked for that information to add you to their mailing list for circulars. Just saying no thanks always quickly moved the transaction on. I haven't been asked that at a RadioShack for years though. The only time I hear someone giving that information is if they are activating a phone or some other type of contract-based purchase.
Can't that be said for ANY test that isn't suitable for your requirements? The test could be an otherwise perfectly modeled and execute experiment but if it doesn't meet your requirements, then what good is it.
Sandy Hook stopped as soon as the police showed up, so a lower rate of fire certainly would have reduced the death toll.
Presuming that what we see in movies or on TV is at least close to being accurate, it takes all of what, 3 or 4 seconds to replace a magazine if you're prepared and know what you are doing. Yeah maybe it might have reduced the death toll, but I think it's more likely that it just slows it or makes such an event slightly less effective.
In the case of Sandy Hook, some of the 30 round magazines were only half used. Approximately 10 minutes passed between when he first started shooting at the school and police spotted him according to most timelines. In that time he shot between 50 and 100 rounds. So at most, it would be 10 rounds a minute. That's not that hard to do.
In both of those cases though, the player has control over when or how strong the pull is, therefor it's a skill based game. With the giant wheel, the harder/faster you pull the lever determines the strength of the spin. With the spinning light, when you press the button determines where the light lands. There is no "randomness" to either game.
With a slot machine, there is no skill in winning. It's based solely on a random number determined once the lever is pulled (or button is pressed).
But what Google is doing is no different than what other search engines are doing. If I search for "Starbucks" on Bing, I get the web results I'd expect. I also get a Bing Map for Starbucks in the area. I also get Bing News results for articles about Starbucks.
From the sounds of the article, it would be hard to find a unbiased jury in the area anyways. The stadium holds half the population of the town. Everyone is related within a few degrees of the situation.
Not even just Walmart. Every mass merchandiser big box store has a "photolab" as well as every drug store. And since CVS, Walgreens, et al have a location on every corner in just about every city, you're never about 30 seconds away from one in any decent sized town.
Beyond the novelty value these things are only salable in the most primitive regions of the world where people still have CRT's.
I'd even limit their ability to be sold to less than that. They are only salable there between when the movie comes out and a screener, dvd, or bluray makes its way into the distribution stream.
This does NOT apply one bit to citizens having a go at one another, and if it can be shows that it's truly smear and there's nothing tangible to the accusations, then it can most definitely be treated as libelous and freedom of speech is irrelevant here. You can't just say whatever you like without there being consequences, particularly if you lie.
The problem is that if they live and/or host in a foreign country with a foreign domain, the legal options become more complicated, more expensive, and more difficult to enforce should you win. And even if you go through all the hassles and expenses and win to get journalistsnamesux.co.xx taken down, the whole thing can repeat itself in journalistnameblows.co.yy. It's a legal whack a mole and the only way to win is to get them to stop doing it.
But you're ok with your young daughter and her boyfriend conceiving a child when their hormones override their common sense? Are you willing to take full financial responsibility for raising her child?
Why is it either/or and not neither/nor? I'd not be OK with that either. But given the choice, I think I'd rather help support a child born to a teenage mother or father than forcibly sterilizing my child during their teenage years.
Horny teenagers have been in existence for about as long as teenagers have existed. There also isn't any, to my knowledge, reversible sterilization where the initial sterilization has a reasonable certainty it will be successful and the reversal has an equal chance to be reversed.
Heck in some cases it's not even the refineries themselves which blend ethanol but rather the distribution terminals. Although there is a trend towards making refineries do the blending since they have an in house lab and if they certify the product they can actually hit the octane target.
There is no evidence, statistical or otherwise, which links autism to violence.
Violence of this type. Kids with ASD for instance often can have reactive violence, but it's more towards a specific stimulus. If my son annoys on my other son with Aspergers, the other son may turn and punch the annoying one. Or he may start bumping his head against something if he does something wrong. He doesn't shoot the annoying brother then go after all his friends at school.
Certainly, people look for answers as to why someone would do these sorts of things, and "he was nuts" is an obvious, knee-jerk, reaction. That doesn't make it so.
I think "he was nuts" is a very accurate layman's diagnosis of anyone who does something like this. Maybe he wasn't clinically depressed, a psychopath, or any other legitimate, widely recognized mental condition. But I don't think that anyone would say that he didn't "go nuts".
I'll be very interested to see if that report turns out to be true - if so, there probably was more going on with him than a high-functioning Autism Spectrum disorder. I'd say that the simple evidence of what he did is proof that there was a HELL of a lot more wrong with him than Asperger's.
ASDs don't cause people to go on planned, intentional violent rampages. Those who have ASD can have reactive violence when they become overloaded or overstimulated, lashing out on their perceived stimulus with impulsive outbursts, hitting, or screaming. However with most people with ASD, even the sight of blood is enough to freak them out and shut them down. I can't imagine my son who has Aspergers or any of the kids my wife work with that have ASD shooting their mother multiple times, then driving and shooting additional people.
It wasn't an ASD that caused the shooting last Friday. That might have triggered an emotional break down at some point in time, but something else triggered the violence that resulted.
While we're at it, maybe we can lock up not only those people that are convicted beyond a reasonable doubt, but also those that have indeterminable guilt that they did something wrong. I mean, yeah maybe they didn't actually commit a crime, but come on, they look or act like they could! Why won't you think of the children that will be saved! You're not for hurting children, are you?
In this instance, they would hire an attorney familiar with topology, who can argue that one object cannot be "inside" another unless entirely enclosed by it. thus, "rape" cannot happen. esp. if no action is occurring.
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No, whatever royalty payment that might be applicable isn't going to hurt that much. But the lack of pairing requirements, much lower power requirements under most circumstances, ability to work with some existing RFID tags, faster connection establishment, and ability to work with passive devices all are things that NFC give you that Bluetooth doesn't.
NFC range isn't nearly as far as Bluetooth so it takes more of an effort to establish a connection. That reduces interception in a large area where many NFC devices might exist. It also requires that devices are noticeably close so if an exploit is found, someone trying to exploit it hopefully would be a little more apparent.
Depends on what exactly they are designing. If the house is nothing more than a box with a door and a window or two, then 18 months is ridiculously long. If the house is a 400 sq meter completely custom sprawling house and the owner has gone through multiple iterations of different designs, then 18 months doesn't seem all that unreasonable. If everything is being cast in stone before everything is printed, you get one shot to make sure your wiring, plumbing, hvac, etc are all places exactly where you want them.
What about blow them up or otherwise effectively destroy them? If you're going to bury them, you're obviously willing to take the risk that someone could digs them back up and salvage parts and/or technology from them if they were not in a weatherproof or otherwise sealed container. Blowing them up with charges in key locations destroys the plan, most of the technology, and they can still be buried if you really wanted.
AirBus A330 and A380 both have outward opening doors. CRJ700 does too. From pictures I've seen, it looks like at least some MD-80, DC-8 and DC-10 did well.
Apparently it's not that stupid of an idea to change it.
RadioShack for years asked for that information to add you to their mailing list for circulars. Just saying no thanks always quickly moved the transaction on. I haven't been asked that at a RadioShack for years though. The only time I hear someone giving that information is if they are activating a phone or some other type of contract-based purchase.
Can't that be said for ANY test that isn't suitable for your requirements? The test could be an otherwise perfectly modeled and execute experiment but if it doesn't meet your requirements, then what good is it.
Presuming that what we see in movies or on TV is at least close to being accurate, it takes all of what, 3 or 4 seconds to replace a magazine if you're prepared and know what you are doing. Yeah maybe it might have reduced the death toll, but I think it's more likely that it just slows it or makes such an event slightly less effective.
In the case of Sandy Hook, some of the 30 round magazines were only half used. Approximately 10 minutes passed between when he first started shooting at the school and police spotted him according to most timelines. In that time he shot between 50 and 100 rounds. So at most, it would be 10 rounds a minute. That's not that hard to do.
Well, it's a little hard to investigate a schools role in events before they even happen.
In both of those cases though, the player has control over when or how strong the pull is, therefor it's a skill based game. With the giant wheel, the harder/faster you pull the lever determines the strength of the spin. With the spinning light, when you press the button determines where the light lands. There is no "randomness" to either game.
With a slot machine, there is no skill in winning. It's based solely on a random number determined once the lever is pulled (or button is pressed).
But what Google is doing is no different than what other search engines are doing. If I search for "Starbucks" on Bing, I get the web results I'd expect. I also get a Bing Map for Starbucks in the area. I also get Bing News results for articles about Starbucks.
From the sounds of the article, it would be hard to find a unbiased jury in the area anyways. The stadium holds half the population of the town. Everyone is related within a few degrees of the situation.
No different than Apple at one time (and maybe still) running iCloud on Microsoft's Azure cloud service in addition to Amazon's.
Not even just Walmart. Every mass merchandiser big box store has a "photolab" as well as every drug store. And since CVS, Walgreens, et al have a location on every corner in just about every city, you're never about 30 seconds away from one in any decent sized town.
I'd even limit their ability to be sold to less than that. They are only salable there between when the movie comes out and a screener, dvd, or bluray makes its way into the distribution stream.
The problem is that if they live and/or host in a foreign country with a foreign domain, the legal options become more complicated, more expensive, and more difficult to enforce should you win. And even if you go through all the hassles and expenses and win to get journalistsnamesux.co.xx taken down, the whole thing can repeat itself in journalistnameblows.co.yy. It's a legal whack a mole and the only way to win is to get them to stop doing it.
Presuming the summary is correct, by many you mean two.
How many parents that have bought a 3DS even realize that it can take and/or store pictures? If that number is anywhere above 10%, I'd be shocked.
Why is it either/or and not neither/nor? I'd not be OK with that either. But given the choice, I think I'd rather help support a child born to a teenage mother or father than forcibly sterilizing my child during their teenage years.
Horny teenagers have been in existence for about as long as teenagers have existed. There also isn't any, to my knowledge, reversible sterilization where the initial sterilization has a reasonable certainty it will be successful and the reversal has an equal chance to be reversed.
Even then there can still be problems. Just see the recent contaminated gas in the Chicago-land.
Violence of this type. Kids with ASD for instance often can have reactive violence, but it's more towards a specific stimulus. If my son annoys on my other son with Aspergers, the other son may turn and punch the annoying one. Or he may start bumping his head against something if he does something wrong. He doesn't shoot the annoying brother then go after all his friends at school.
I think "he was nuts" is a very accurate layman's diagnosis of anyone who does something like this. Maybe he wasn't clinically depressed, a psychopath, or any other legitimate, widely recognized mental condition. But I don't think that anyone would say that he didn't "go nuts".
ASDs don't cause people to go on planned, intentional violent rampages. Those who have ASD can have reactive violence when they become overloaded or overstimulated, lashing out on their perceived stimulus with impulsive outbursts, hitting, or screaming. However with most people with ASD, even the sight of blood is enough to freak them out and shut them down. I can't imagine my son who has Aspergers or any of the kids my wife work with that have ASD shooting their mother multiple times, then driving and shooting additional people.
It wasn't an ASD that caused the shooting last Friday. That might have triggered an emotional break down at some point in time, but something else triggered the violence that resulted.
While we're at it, maybe we can lock up not only those people that are convicted beyond a reasonable doubt, but also those that have indeterminable guilt that they did something wrong. I mean, yeah maybe they didn't actually commit a crime, but come on, they look or act like they could! Why won't you think of the children that will be saved! You're not for hurting children, are you?
I see we had the same college TAs and professors.
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Todd Akin? Rupurt Mourdock? Is that you?