Near the beginning of the article, it states that the Japan tsunami was "unexpectedly high." this is false. Upon closer review of the historiical data, it was identified that the Japanese inappropriately dismissed some of the large tsunamis from the historical data. This led the Japanese to underestimate the probability of a large tsunami and not design enough protection into the nuclear plant. When all the historical data is included, a tsunami of the size that hit Fukushima is not only probable, but expected to occur over the lifetime of the nuclear plants. If anything, Fukushima proves that the methods of calculating hazards are correct - provided you don't fudge the data. Fortunately for those in the US, nuclear plants are strongly regulated and this type of error would have been identified a long time ago.
Some ice cream flavors must cost more than others to make. And some flavors must be more popular than others. Same question goes for coke vs diet coke vs sprite. My guess is the potential for customer outrage. If I typically went to $5 movies then splurged on a $20 movie but didn't like it as much as the $5 movies I'd seen, I would be pissed and complain. Same would go for the ice cream scenario. The tiered pricing for these types of situations may look good on paper, but end up being more trouble than it's worth.
So the 'problem kids' were spanked and most of them ended up dead or in jail. Perhaps another form of punishment should be pursued that may yield a higher success rate?
The above link is the official explanation, but the jist of it is on a USB drive with wear leveling the drive will evenly spread data over the entire drive to extend the life of the drive. This means that truecrypt can not ensure that the old header is overwritten if you do something like change the password on the drive.
My understanding is that if you encrypt the entire USB drive and never change the password you should be OK.
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What if instead of placing the ballot in the ballot box I left with it. Then photocopied it 200 times and gave it to accomplices. When each of the accomplices returned they eah drop additional ballots in the box along with their ballot?
I agree the electronic voting process could be much simpler, but it isn't quite that simple.
Fractions are difficult for some people. I worked in a deli in high school and people would come in and request 'three fourths' or 'half' a pound of meat or cheese, but the scale read in decimal numbers. We had the following sign hanging behind the scale for one of my coworkers:
one and a half = 1.50 1 pound = 1.00 three quarters = 0.75 two thirds = 0.66 one half = 0.50 one third = 0.33 one quarter = 0.25
What amazed me the most was after working there for a year he still needed to use the sign. And if someone was around he'd typically ask to save time from looking it up. He would frequently ask "What is one pound, point zero one?" Amazing.
My 2003 accord has a navigation system which I would like to program before I start driving, but instead it flashes a warning about 'not programming the system while driving' for about 20 seconds (not an exaggeration) so I usually drive away and program it while i'm moving. I tried to find a hack to skip the warning, but apparently it's a hardware limitation b/c they used the leftover shitty sega saturn cpu's as the processor. The voice is annoying so I keep it off, unless I'm going somewhere I've never been. The most useful use of the navigation system is to navigate around traffic jams. People living in 25 mph neighborhoods near busy roads must hate navigation systems!
My friend just bought a new Lexus GS300. It has an RFID key. This means he keeps the key in his pocket, walks up to the door, pushes a button on the door to unlock it. He then sits in the car and turns the starter with the key still in his pocket. I imagine you could clone the key if you knew it was broadcasting '2F0103047541A430000001F9'.
My first car was a 1981 honda accord hatchback. It didn't have power steering. (it did at one point, but it was broken long before I bought the car) Let me tell you power steering is practically useless. The only time I could even tell I didn't have it was when I was turning the steering wheel while stopped, which you aren't supposed to do anyway. Now power brakes were very noticible. My car had trouble maintaining an idle so when I put in the clutch the engine would frequently stall, unless I gave it gas. Now I was 16, a new driver, and had my car stalling out at ~50 mph while I was shifting from fourth gear to fifth gear. It wasn't that big of a deal. I coasted put it in neutral and restarted the engine. No sweat. What was worse was when I was slowing to a stop, put in the clutch, and the car stalled. Then braking got tough, but it wasn't that difficult either. Presumably the police wouldn't disable the cars electronics while the car is approaching a traffic light, most likely after he goes through a light, but even if they did it shouldn't be a big deal.
Definitely. I was holding off buying an HD TV until hockey came back. But then I ended up buying Flyers season tix instead, which were cheaper than an HD TV anyway. I sometimes visit my parents just to watch away games on their HD TV.
It's a civil demand. Basically a legal form of extortion. Basically better for everyone though, you don't get a record and the owner gets compensated a little extra for the people he didn't catch and security costs.
What I got out of it was that the results were NOT like a branch decision. If the results were like a branch decision you would see the subject not move the mouse until all the data was received, then move in a straight line to the correct object. What actually happened was that as the subject heard the first part of the word they slowly moved the mouse around in a curve (gray area), toward what they thought would be the correct object, but wasn't 100% sure yet. Then the subject went to the correct object when the word was completed. Thus, human minds do not behave like computers.
I keep a copy of my encrypted password file at briefcase.yahoo.com The download of the program is small, and it is a zip file, which you just unzip, (as opposed to installing it) so you don't need admin rights. The unzipped prog also can run off a floppy disk or CD. The only thing I'm concerned about when I'm offsite is keystroke loggers. (if they get my PWSAFE password and have the file, then I'm pretty screwed. So I don't use it at work.
To put it mildly, if you pirate this film you are a dork.
Whatever. There are other reasons to DL a movie other than being a cheapskate. I saw it at 12:01 last night, (although they didn't start it until 12:20-12:30 to let the concession stand line clear out) and I'm dl'ing it now. I want to watch it now, but I'm to drunk to drive to the theater. I'll probably see it in the theater again this weekend, and again next week. But I'll still DL it b/c it is such a kickass movie that I want to watch it other times when it isn't convenient for me to go to a theater.
PS this movie is (in my opinion) the best in the series, including the originals.
I agree. Criminals already have to wear anklets to make sure they are home when they are supposed to be. But when they are allowed out (work/school) there is no way to verify that they are indeed at work or school.
Why does everyone say this? I stream video over my wireless connection all the way to my basement and I can't tell the difference. I'm talking about compressed video I downloaded off the internet ie: simpson's episodes and movies. Am I just lucky or when people say this do they mean uncompressed DVD's? I'm wondering b/c I don't have a DVD player on the desktop I stream from, so I can't try it.
Notice that you get more than 3 times more dose if you live near a coal plant than if you live near a nuclear plant. (If you live within 50 miles of a nuke plant you get 0.009 mrem as opposed to 0.03 mrem if you live within 50 miles of a coal plant.)
So. If I disable filesharing and only download files, then I suppose I am not required to give out my email address since I'm only downloading and not sharing. Right?
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The study only used 6 fonts. Calibri and arial were not studied, so they could turn out to be even more agreeable than baskerville.
Near the beginning of the article, it states that the Japan tsunami was "unexpectedly high." this is false. Upon closer review of the historiical data, it was identified that the Japanese inappropriately dismissed some of the large tsunamis from the historical data. This led the Japanese to underestimate the probability of a large tsunami and not design enough protection into the nuclear plant. When all the historical data is included, a tsunami of the size that hit Fukushima is not only probable, but expected to occur over the lifetime of the nuclear plants. If anything, Fukushima proves that the methods of calculating hazards are correct - provided you don't fudge the data. Fortunately for those in the US, nuclear plants are strongly regulated and this type of error would have been identified a long time ago.
Some ice cream flavors must cost more than others to make. And some flavors must be more popular than others. Same question goes for coke vs diet coke vs sprite. My guess is the potential for customer outrage. If I typically went to $5 movies then splurged on a $20 movie but didn't like it as much as the $5 movies I'd seen, I would be pissed and complain. Same would go for the ice cream scenario. The tiered pricing for these types of situations may look good on paper, but end up being more trouble than it's worth.
It's 1 car length for every 10 mph over the speed limit. Jackass.
They do, but their job is to mop up the puke.
So the 'problem kids' were spanked and most of them ended up dead or in jail. Perhaps another form of punishment should be pursued that may yield a higher success rate?
Be careful when using truecrypt on a USB flash drive.
http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/wear-leveling.php
The above link is the official explanation, but the jist of it is on a USB drive with wear leveling the drive will evenly spread data over the entire drive to extend the life of the drive. This means that truecrypt can not ensure that the old header is overwritten if you do something like change the password on the drive.
My understanding is that if you encrypt the entire USB drive and never change the password you should be OK.
What if instead of placing the ballot in the ballot box I left with it. Then photocopied it 200 times and gave it to accomplices. When each of the accomplices returned they eah drop additional ballots in the box along with their ballot?
I agree the electronic voting process could be much simpler, but it isn't quite that simple.
Fractions are difficult for some people. I worked in a deli in high school and people would come in and request 'three fourths' or 'half' a pound of meat or cheese, but the scale read in decimal numbers. We had the following sign hanging behind the scale for one of my coworkers:
one and a half = 1.50
1 pound = 1.00
three quarters = 0.75
two thirds = 0.66
one half = 0.50
one third = 0.33
one quarter = 0.25
What amazed me the most was after working there for a year he still needed to use the sign. And if someone was around he'd typically ask to save time from looking it up. He would frequently ask "What is one pound, point zero one?" Amazing.
My 2003 accord has a navigation system which I would like to program before I start driving, but instead it flashes a warning about 'not programming the system while driving' for about 20 seconds (not an exaggeration) so I usually drive away and program it while i'm moving. I tried to find a hack to skip the warning, but apparently it's a hardware limitation b/c they used the leftover shitty sega saturn cpu's as the processor. The voice is annoying so I keep it off, unless I'm going somewhere I've never been. The most useful use of the navigation system is to navigate around traffic jams. People living in 25 mph neighborhoods near busy roads must hate navigation systems!
My friend just bought a new Lexus GS300. It has an RFID key. This means he keeps the key in his pocket, walks up to the door, pushes a button on the door to unlock it. He then sits in the car and turns the starter with the key still in his pocket. I imagine you could clone the key if you knew it was broadcasting '2F0103047541A430000001F9'.
Just in control schemes: Directional Pad, shoulder buttons, rumble packs, analog sticks, touch screens, and soon motion sensors.
I recall using a motion sensor controller with the NES back in the 80's.
Don't forget the POWERGLOVE!
My first car was a 1981 honda accord hatchback. It didn't have power steering. (it did at one point, but it was broken long before I bought the car) Let me tell you power steering is practically useless. The only time I could even tell I didn't have it was when I was turning the steering wheel while stopped, which you aren't supposed to do anyway. Now power brakes were very noticible. My car had trouble maintaining an idle so when I put in the clutch the engine would frequently stall, unless I gave it gas. Now I was 16, a new driver, and had my car stalling out at ~50 mph while I was shifting from fourth gear to fifth gear. It wasn't that big of a deal. I coasted put it in neutral and restarted the engine. No sweat. What was worse was when I was slowing to a stop, put in the clutch, and the car stalled. Then braking got tough, but it wasn't that difficult either. Presumably the police wouldn't disable the cars electronics while the car is approaching a traffic light, most likely after he goes through a light, but even if they did it shouldn't be a big deal.
Definitely. I was holding off buying an HD TV until hockey came back. But then I ended up buying Flyers season tix instead, which were cheaper than an HD TV anyway. I sometimes visit my parents just to watch away games on their HD TV.
Thus proving the point that nerds don't pirate movies to avoid paying, they do it to avoid leaving the house and having to interact with other humans.
I think I'll need to get the 3d working for my ATI card on my laptop before I can use this.
It's a civil demand. Basically a legal form of extortion. Basically better for everyone though, you don't get a record and the owner gets compensated a little extra for the people he didn't catch and security costs.
Was I reading the same article?
What I got out of it was that the results were NOT like a branch decision. If the results were like a branch decision you would see the subject not move the mouse until all the data was received, then move in a straight line to the correct object. What actually happened was that as the subject heard the first part of the word they slowly moved the mouse around in a curve (gray area), toward what they thought would be the correct object, but wasn't 100% sure yet. Then the subject went to the correct object when the word was completed. Thus, human minds do not behave like computers.
I keep a copy of my encrypted password file at briefcase.yahoo.com The download of the program is small, and it is a zip file, which you just unzip, (as opposed to installing it) so you don't need admin rights. The unzipped prog also can run off a floppy disk or CD. The only thing I'm concerned about when I'm offsite is keystroke loggers. (if they get my PWSAFE password and have the file, then I'm pretty screwed. So I don't use it at work.
To put it mildly, if you pirate this film you are a dork.
Whatever. There are other reasons to DL a movie other than being a cheapskate. I saw it at 12:01 last night, (although they didn't start it until 12:20-12:30 to let the concession stand line clear out) and I'm dl'ing it now. I want to watch it now, but I'm to drunk to drive to the theater. I'll probably see it in the theater again this weekend, and again next week. But I'll still DL it b/c it is such a kickass movie that I want to watch it other times when it isn't convenient for me to go to a theater.
PS this movie is (in my opinion) the best in the series, including the originals.
I agree. Criminals already have to wear anklets to make sure they are home when they are supposed to be. But when they are allowed out (work/school) there is no way to verify that they are indeed at work or school.
FYI: Most states only currently incarcerated criminals can't vote, once they have served their sentence they are allowed to vote. Here's a more official source for PA. It makes sense that felons can vote; otherwise how would they be able to vote against the laws that put them there.
And another tidbit is that convicted felons are the only people that can have a gun, but don't have to register it.
You do NOT want to pipe video over 802.11g.
Why does everyone say this? I stream video over my wireless connection all the way to my basement and I can't tell the difference. I'm talking about compressed video I downloaded off the internet ie: simpson's episodes and movies. Am I just lucky or when people say this do they mean uncompressed DVD's? I'm wondering b/c I don't have a DVD player on the desktop I stream from, so I can't try it.
since when does a fossil fuel power plant produce radioactive waste? :)
heh heh. Actually coal plants do produce radioactive waste. Instead of putting it in a container and storing it, they disperse it in the atmosphere.
Look at this link
Notice that you get more than 3 times more dose if you live near a coal plant than if you live near a nuclear plant. (If you live within 50 miles of a nuke plant you get 0.009 mrem as opposed to 0.03 mrem if you live within 50 miles of a coal plant.)
I bought my laptop (no OS or, more importantly, no stupid windows sticker on it) from here.
So. If I disable filesharing and only download files, then I suppose I am not required to give out my email address since I'm only downloading and not sharing. Right?