I once placed a TOS on an essay stating that any for profit use of the content required a $5 fee, sent to the author. I never did get any mailbox money from turnitin.com.
There are numerous stories about people using existing satellites covertly to do this. Apparently many older communications birds, including TV satellites, are more or less dumb repeaters with directional antennas. With the right equipment and during the right time windows, it's possible to start your own personal little TV station or broadcast. I don't have any links but some searching should turn up an article or two.
For several years a major antivirus product would kill a connection if it detected the string "startkeylogger" in certain TCP streams. To this day you can go into a very busy IRC channel, type startkeylogger, and watch a handful of people disconnect.
I write almost exclusively in cursive, and I sure as hell can't write the full ABCs properly. You just sort of make a scribble wherever you're not quite sure what you're writing. It also helps my inability to spell well.
You've never done this? We normally host them indoors around here because it rains a lot, but it's the same thing. I've been hosting several small dance parties a year just in my living room, and I have passed the tradition on to some of my friends as well. Occasionally we have slightly larger ones in a local church. No harm done, just a small social gathering. They happen all the time and no one notices because they normally don't cause any problems.
Ads have always been a bottleneck. I first started using an ad blocker years ago because of this. Slashdot used to be one of the worst offenders; none of the content would display until after the ads had loaded. Sometimes the ad hosts would stop responding and you'd be left with a mostly blank page.
Actually, there are a number of vehicles on the road with electrically powered brakes. They are mostly in short buses and similarly sized trucks. If the hydraulic pump fails, there is no backup mechanical connection like in a normal car. Luckily they don't fail too often, and use battery power when the alternator isn't spinning.
In some places with lightly traveled gravel and dirt roads, it's considered common courtesy to slow down substantially (below 20mph) when you encounter oncoming traffic. Most people ignore this though.
I was headed out to the Mt. Adams area to do some hiking, if I recall correctly, when I encountered this. There is a remote forest road that snakes several times between two counties, who only maintain their sections of the road. You'll be driving for miles on an old, wide but poorly maintained and washboarded gravel road, and it would suddenly turn into a smooth asphalt highway with signs, lines, and a 50mph or so speed limit. A while later, you'd be back to gravel.
It's sort of a shame that many of our old gravel forest roads are no longer maintained and even closed off. You used to be able to drive to the top of a lot of the smaller mountains in Washington, but not in my life time. Some of the roads also make reasonable paths between some cities that aren't well connected by main highways, but they can't be trusted to be passable.
You're saying it's a good idea to hang out in the wrong lane for as long as possible when passing? Have you ever driven on a two lane road before? The only safe procedure involves waiting for a large opening in traffic and, in most situations, putting the pedal all the way to the floor for as long as necessary to build up speed, get past, and get out of harm's way.
Yeah, my dad is 6'5'' and sometimes tries out small cars to see what he fits in. He said he was very comfortable in a Toyota Yaris. It looked hilarious because he had about half an ince oh clearance on every side of him. The next year, he tried to buy one but they moved a single control knob right where his knee had to go so he didn't fit any more...
It's also possible to have a car modified to fit a tall person. My friend did that with his Volvo 240, they bolted the whole seat assembly several inches back from the initial position. And that's a big car to begin with.
I wouldn't be quite so confident in the hosting company - I've seen all sorts of interesting applications running on old desktops in a closet somewhere.
Sometimes when it's 4pm and you need a diode right now and are willing to pay ten bucks to get it, you have no choice but to go to the most well equipped radio shack in the area and shell out.
Not really. Of course, as with many terms related to religion, you will find many widely varying definitions of the word "atheist." However, it's generally accepted to describe a person who does not believe in a supreme being, but not necessarily one who doesn't have a religion. They just aren't mutually exclusive. As a Unitarian Universalist, I know many many people who are both atheist and have a religion.
A new school went up in my area. They installed a projector mounted to the ceiling of every classroom, with wiring run through the wall to the teacher's computer, with additional hookups for elmos, DVD players, etc. That's a pretty nifty solution.
At my school, there's a limited number of projector carts available, and an even smaller number of carts with their own computer or an elmo included. If a teacher planned a lesson around certain tools and suddenly the cart they need isn't available, they are out of luck. Some teachers end up purchasing their own equipment because they can't reliably get a hold of the school's. You should see some of the hack jobs that are done just to get a projector running - video cables suspended across pathways to a projector pointing at an angle to a wall, stuff like that.
Apparently the cops around here leave all the strobes on after they pull people over, even in the dead of night. I passed a cop, and saw the driver in front of me get distracted and almost hit a curb. On the way back past the same cop, I found myself almost mesmerized by the light. I ended up skidding part way into an intersection at a red light...
I have to agree about the ESP. None of the vehicles I drive regularly have it, and I'm familiar enough with their handling that it would be unlikely to be extremely useful on them. But it probably saved my butt in a big rental car on a dirt road.
From what I hear, most cheap little engines like those used in small generators, riding lawn motors, etc., are made so cheaply that by the time you're run them enough to need an oil change or two, most modifications made to fix emissions are already worn out and useless.
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You all have it wrong, the real source of the nuanced clean warmth is the handcrafted hardwood knob attached to the gain control potentiometer.
I once placed a TOS on an essay stating that any for profit use of the content required a $5 fee, sent to the author. I never did get any mailbox money from turnitin.com.
There are numerous stories about people using existing satellites covertly to do this. Apparently many older communications birds, including TV satellites, are more or less dumb repeaters with directional antennas. With the right equipment and during the right time windows, it's possible to start your own personal little TV station or broadcast. I don't have any links but some searching should turn up an article or two.
For several years a major antivirus product would kill a connection if it detected the string "startkeylogger" in certain TCP streams. To this day you can go into a very busy IRC channel, type startkeylogger, and watch a handful of people disconnect.
I write almost exclusively in cursive, and I sure as hell can't write the full ABCs properly. You just sort of make a scribble wherever you're not quite sure what you're writing. It also helps my inability to spell well.
That's standard practice around here.
You've never done this? We normally host them indoors around here because it rains a lot, but it's the same thing. I've been hosting several small dance parties a year just in my living room, and I have passed the tradition on to some of my friends as well. Occasionally we have slightly larger ones in a local church. No harm done, just a small social gathering. They happen all the time and no one notices because they normally don't cause any problems.
Ads have always been a bottleneck. I first started using an ad blocker years ago because of this. Slashdot used to be one of the worst offenders; none of the content would display until after the ads had loaded. Sometimes the ad hosts would stop responding and you'd be left with a mostly blank page.
Actually, there are a number of vehicles on the road with electrically powered brakes. They are mostly in short buses and similarly sized trucks. If the hydraulic pump fails, there is no backup mechanical connection like in a normal car. Luckily they don't fail too often, and use battery power when the alternator isn't spinning.
In some places with lightly traveled gravel and dirt roads, it's considered common courtesy to slow down substantially (below 20mph) when you encounter oncoming traffic. Most people ignore this though.
I was headed out to the Mt. Adams area to do some hiking, if I recall correctly, when I encountered this. There is a remote forest road that snakes several times between two counties, who only maintain their sections of the road. You'll be driving for miles on an old, wide but poorly maintained and washboarded gravel road, and it would suddenly turn into a smooth asphalt highway with signs, lines, and a 50mph or so speed limit. A while later, you'd be back to gravel. It's sort of a shame that many of our old gravel forest roads are no longer maintained and even closed off. You used to be able to drive to the top of a lot of the smaller mountains in Washington, but not in my life time. Some of the roads also make reasonable paths between some cities that aren't well connected by main highways, but they can't be trusted to be passable.
You're saying it's a good idea to hang out in the wrong lane for as long as possible when passing? Have you ever driven on a two lane road before? The only safe procedure involves waiting for a large opening in traffic and, in most situations, putting the pedal all the way to the floor for as long as necessary to build up speed, get past, and get out of harm's way.
Yeah, my dad is 6'5'' and sometimes tries out small cars to see what he fits in. He said he was very comfortable in a Toyota Yaris. It looked hilarious because he had about half an ince oh clearance on every side of him. The next year, he tried to buy one but they moved a single control knob right where his knee had to go so he didn't fit any more... It's also possible to have a car modified to fit a tall person. My friend did that with his Volvo 240, they bolted the whole seat assembly several inches back from the initial position. And that's a big car to begin with.
I wouldn't be quite so confident in the hosting company - I've seen all sorts of interesting applications running on old desktops in a closet somewhere.
What if I have wifi?
So?
Sometimes when it's 4pm and you need a diode right now and are willing to pay ten bucks to get it, you have no choice but to go to the most well equipped radio shack in the area and shell out.
Not really. Of course, as with many terms related to religion, you will find many widely varying definitions of the word "atheist." However, it's generally accepted to describe a person who does not believe in a supreme being, but not necessarily one who doesn't have a religion. They just aren't mutually exclusive. As a Unitarian Universalist, I know many many people who are both atheist and have a religion.
Before they had the big server upgrade not too long ago, there were times that Slashdot was down pretty darn often indeed.
Or something important was configured with a default password.
A new school went up in my area. They installed a projector mounted to the ceiling of every classroom, with wiring run through the wall to the teacher's computer, with additional hookups for elmos, DVD players, etc. That's a pretty nifty solution.
At my school, there's a limited number of projector carts available, and an even smaller number of carts with their own computer or an elmo included. If a teacher planned a lesson around certain tools and suddenly the cart they need isn't available, they are out of luck. Some teachers end up purchasing their own equipment because they can't reliably get a hold of the school's. You should see some of the hack jobs that are done just to get a projector running - video cables suspended across pathways to a projector pointing at an angle to a wall, stuff like that.
Apparently the cops around here leave all the strobes on after they pull people over, even in the dead of night. I passed a cop, and saw the driver in front of me get distracted and almost hit a curb. On the way back past the same cop, I found myself almost mesmerized by the light. I ended up skidding part way into an intersection at a red light...
Safety my ass.
I have to agree about the ESP. None of the vehicles I drive regularly have it, and I'm familiar enough with their handling that it would be unlikely to be extremely useful on them. But it probably saved my butt in a big rental car on a dirt road.
From what I hear, most cheap little engines like those used in small generators, riding lawn motors, etc., are made so cheaply that by the time you're run them enough to need an oil change or two, most modifications made to fix emissions are already worn out and useless.
In Washington all you have to do is check a box that says it's broken when you register your car, same as if it's rolled over.