So murderers and rapists should just be able to go free if they can, and this is somehow a check against the injustice of the system as a whole? The very notion that the Mexican prison system's turning a blind eye to escapees as some kind of solution to overcrowding or a fundamentally flawed justice system is ludicrous. Though it's interesting to us living on this side of that border, I wouldn't want our system in the States to follow suit.
The woman in TFA was convicted of murder, and that's a serious offense. If she didn't want to spend her life paying for someone else's crime, she should've tried an appeal instead. That's why we have them.
Semantic quibblings aside it's an interesting idea. Too bad the black hole theory is basically the one that least adequately explains what actually happened (for example: why was there no exit event?). I only brought it up because it's definitely the most creative of all the possibilities. I mean come on. A black hole collision is so much sexier than a mere comet explosion.
Really? I disagree. Though it's easy to watch someone's fingers and see which keys they're hitting, it's far more difficult to watch someone's hand and imagine exactly how they typically draw a password. Though this can't have too much subtlety to it because then no one would ever be able to remember their password exactly enough to reproduce it, it can be fine-grained enough that no one but you can draw your password like you do.
Now just stop it right there. I understand you're super hyped about quoting something from your physics textbook to try to make TFA seem ridiculous, but just simmah down a second. Soldiers already have to run/march all over the place and they do a lot of moving around. Provided this shirt (read "shirt" not "cumbersome bodysuit") doesn't impair their movement any more than the rest of their equipment (or if it impairs them negligibly) then yes this is basically while not necessarily "free" energy it's "ridiculously damn cheap energy".
Basically, while you're right that the energy has to come from somewhere, there's no need to be pedantic about it, and the fact of the matter is that this is a pretty cool idea. You should just sit back and admire it, knowing that everybody else on this site knows all about the laws of thermodynamics—some of them probably much more intimately than you do.
I agree wholeheartedly. For those who have truly obscure knowledge that really doesn't belong in Wikipedia, they can just start their own . . . with blackjack, and hookers! In fact... forget about Wikipedia!
Is Jack Thompson's kid even allowed by his father to own a video game console? A PC? Anything? Seems to me a man as anti-videogame as him wouldn't permit it, lest something like this happen.
And on a related note: I feel really sorry for any of this guy's unfortunate offspring....
That's their problem with science, though. It raises too many inconsistencies and too many questions to their faith, so in order for them to continue thinking that the Flood killed the dinosaurs and that the Earth is only 5,000 years old, like their religion tells them to, so they can keep feeling that joy and peace and whatnot, they have to go to some pretty crazy extremes.
You should read Kevin Mitnick's book on the human element of security. There's a lot more reasons beyond laziness why security fails in a lot of circumstances. His book covers physical as well as abstract security.
Way to go on that security model thing, Microsoft! Uhh... That's exactly what ActiveX was created to do (perhaps unfortunately)...
That's kinda what I meant.... It's one big giant security breach and it's there by design. That's pretty messed up; not only are the bugs features, but the gaping holes in the castle walls are, too.
Easy enough with Congress: just don't elect the ones you don't like. Easy enough with the Supreme Court, too: just wait around a while and the bad ones will eventually die/step down. Too bad the War on Drugs is the result of an executive order (thanks, Reagan!).
Why should they? If foo() and newFoo() have the same defined API but newFoo offers additional, completely optional functionality, I don't see a compelling reason for maintaining both of them.
They wouldn't be maintaining them both. They'd be deprecating one but keeping the old one around. This is done constantly in a lot of APIs and it keeps old software working while encouraging new development. "Deprecated" is just another word for "we're gonna keep this one around for a while, but seriously folks don't use it in any new code".
This "tecnobrega" only favours the new or the unsuccesful.
Isn't that how the free market works? The audience pays the bills, so they decide what they want and spend accordingly. The way that copyright law was originally framed, by producing a creative work you get a monopoly on it for a while (used to not be that long; now it's 70 years after death WTF???). Then it becomes part of the culture. This is a double-edged sword, too. It encourages the creation of unique new works, because those are the ones that will get you paid, and also allows for the fact that there's very little left that's truly unique and never been done before. Those were the good old days....
Also, FYI, if you're not doing shows you're not a musician, in my opinion. You have to be out there and you have to be performing. If you're a studio-only act, then you get paid accordingly. Tough cookies.
Ok. This is getting a liiiittle bit offtopic, but I've gotta put in my US$0.02.
I'm from northern California (Santa Cruz, specifically) and I grew up in Georgia, where some people are still waging the Civil War. The only thing that I take from the southern side of the Civil War arguments for/against secession is states' rights. According to the Constitution, those powers not explicitly given the Federal government are reserved for the States (silly me; I left my pocket Constitution at home so someone else will have to quote which article/section that is). Although Congress is tasked with the regulation of interstate commerce, this does not (at least not to us strict constructionists) give them the right to regulate the sale of items in an individual state.
Precedent: gambling, automobiles with emission control systems only required in CA, sex toys (oh yes; I just went there), etc etc etc.
While I was living in California the US government sent agents to wreck up marijuana farms that had been authorized for State use. If you have a prescription for marijuana, and you sell it to your friend in Nevada, you have clearly violated federal law. If you consume it for your own medicinal use, as you are authorized to by the State of California, I don't see what the problem is. After the raids, the city council of Santa Cruz gave out muffins to anyone who had a prescription on the steps of City Hall, and there wasn't a damn thing that the Feds could do about it.
The Federal government has every right to regulate whatever they want if it truly is interstate commerce. They also have an obligation to act for the greater good of the Nation as a whole, and I think a lot more than just 20% of americans realize that the marijuana prohibition causes more problems and more anguish than it prevents. The other 80% (or whatever it really is) just haven't seen someone who's suffering greatly have their pain eased by physician-prescribed and physician-monitored marijuana use (full disclosure: my father died of cancer when he was in his early fifties; he would have died sooner had he not been given a certain miracle drug that regulated his appetite and reduced the damage to his body done by chemotherapy/radiation).
Also... I think you probably should read The Federalist Papers, specifically Federalist 64, 65, 41-43. A lot of people forget what our forefathers were really thinking, but it's all there.
Agreed. I used to have a job cleaning viruses and spyware and such off of students' laptops at a university campus, which gave me a lot of insight into what not to buy and which AV programs not to trust. There were soooooooooooo many students, faculty, and staff who had entrusted their box entirely to Norton, and it was just an epic fail every single time—even when it was fully up-to-date. The whole of the entire computer security industry would be in Defcon 4 about some virus that'd been out for a week and Norton would still be on its smoke break. Weak.
Between Avast!, AVG, Clamwin, Panda, and any other free antivirus software out there, there's got to be something to replace Norton.
"Avast!"? Sounds awesome, if a touch nautical.... What struck me the most when I was working at Resnet was how many free programs there were that were extremely effective (especially if used together), almost always catching files that Norton missed entirely. Side note: it's really scary that a lot of these antivirus programs were web-based, and somehow Windows is perfectly okay having web applications that are capable of deleting files, analyzing the content of local files, accessing the registry.... Really scary. Way to go on that security model thing, Microsoft!
You might be interested to know that there has been research in the past (abandoned now AFAIK) into ballistic orbital insertion of satellites. Maybe they should've used a trebuchet....
Exactly. That's why you can define a list of fonts for the CSS "font-family" setting. Some things can't really be prevented though, and to this day I haven't designed a site that doesn't look atrocious in 90% of Windows computers (primarily because most windows users don't know about the "font smoothing" setting (why?!?!?!)). I generally list a couple at least and hope for the best.
Side note: I think a lot of the reason why people initially like Vista is that in Vista the font smoothing is turned on by default, whereas it isn't in XP.
Actually tracking is the average lateral distance between glyphs. Line-spacing and leading are, essentially, the same thing even if they're not always measured the same. There's actually no way to adjust tracking in CSS that I know of.
Not to be mistaken for kerning, which only applies to certain combinations of glyphs where a ligature wouldn't be appropriate.
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So murderers and rapists should just be able to go free if they can, and this is somehow a check against the injustice of the system as a whole? The very notion that the Mexican prison system's turning a blind eye to escapees as some kind of solution to overcrowding or a fundamentally flawed justice system is ludicrous. Though it's interesting to us living on this side of that border, I wouldn't want our system in the States to follow suit.
The woman in TFA was convicted of murder, and that's a serious offense. If she didn't want to spend her life paying for someone else's crime, she should've tried an appeal instead. That's why we have them.
Semantic quibblings aside it's an interesting idea. Too bad the black hole theory is basically the one that least adequately explains what actually happened (for example: why was there no exit event?). I only brought it up because it's definitely the most creative of all the possibilities. I mean come on. A black hole collision is so much sexier than a mere comet explosion.
Really? I disagree. Though it's easy to watch someone's fingers and see which keys they're hitting, it's far more difficult to watch someone's hand and imagine exactly how they typically draw a password. Though this can't have too much subtlety to it because then no one would ever be able to remember their password exactly enough to reproduce it, it can be fine-grained enough that no one but you can draw your password like you do.
So... I'm a United Statesian? Sounds lame....
Now just stop it right there. I understand you're super hyped about quoting something from your physics textbook to try to make TFA seem ridiculous, but just simmah down a second. Soldiers already have to run/march all over the place and they do a lot of moving around. Provided this shirt (read "shirt" not "cumbersome bodysuit") doesn't impair their movement any more than the rest of their equipment (or if it impairs them negligibly) then yes this is basically while not necessarily "free" energy it's "ridiculously damn cheap energy".
Basically, while you're right that the energy has to come from somewhere, there's no need to be pedantic about it, and the fact of the matter is that this is a pretty cool idea. You should just sit back and admire it, knowing that everybody else on this site knows all about the laws of thermodynamics—some of them probably much more intimately than you do.
I agree wholeheartedly. For those who have truly obscure knowledge that really doesn't belong in Wikipedia, they can just start their own . . . with blackjack, and hookers! In fact... forget about Wikipedia!
Because otherwise it's a "belief" at worst and at best a "hypothesis".
There has been a lot of speculation that this is what caused the Tunguska event.
Is Jack Thompson's kid even allowed by his father to own a video game console? A PC? Anything? Seems to me a man as anti-videogame as him wouldn't permit it, lest something like this happen.
And on a related note: I feel really sorry for any of this guy's unfortunate offspring....
That's their problem with science, though. It raises too many inconsistencies and too many questions to their faith, so in order for them to continue thinking that the Flood killed the dinosaurs and that the Earth is only 5,000 years old, like their religion tells them to, so they can keep feeling that joy and peace and whatnot, they have to go to some pretty crazy extremes.
You should read Kevin Mitnick's book on the human element of security. There's a lot more reasons beyond laziness why security fails in a lot of circumstances. His book covers physical as well as abstract security.
Come on. Bruce Schneier is like the Chuck Norris of the IT industry. He'd outlast us all!
Remember. There are no prime numbers, only numbers that Bruce Schneier doesn't want you to factor!
That's kinda what I meant.... It's one big giant security breach and it's there by design. That's pretty messed up; not only are the bugs features, but the gaping holes in the castle walls are, too.
Easy enough with Congress: just don't elect the ones you don't like. Easy enough with the Supreme Court, too: just wait around a while and the bad ones will eventually die/step down. Too bad the War on Drugs is the result of an executive order (thanks, Reagan!).
In Soviet Russia, comment fails to post YOU!
Wait wait, mods, I've got more! I, for one, welcome our new one failed comment posting overlords!
They wouldn't be maintaining them both. They'd be deprecating one but keeping the old one around. This is done constantly in a lot of APIs and it keeps old software working while encouraging new development. "Deprecated" is just another word for "we're gonna keep this one around for a while, but seriously folks don't use it in any new code".
Isn't that how the free market works? The audience pays the bills, so they decide what they want and spend accordingly. The way that copyright law was originally framed, by producing a creative work you get a monopoly on it for a while (used to not be that long; now it's 70 years after death WTF???). Then it becomes part of the culture. This is a double-edged sword, too. It encourages the creation of unique new works, because those are the ones that will get you paid, and also allows for the fact that there's very little left that's truly unique and never been done before. Those were the good old days....
Also, FYI, if you're not doing shows you're not a musician, in my opinion. You have to be out there and you have to be performing. If you're a studio-only act, then you get paid accordingly. Tough cookies.
It's called Civil disobedience
Ok. This is getting a liiiittle bit offtopic, but I've gotta put in my US$0.02.
I'm from northern California (Santa Cruz, specifically) and I grew up in Georgia, where some people are still waging the Civil War. The only thing that I take from the southern side of the Civil War arguments for/against secession is states' rights. According to the Constitution, those powers not explicitly given the Federal government are reserved for the States (silly me; I left my pocket Constitution at home so someone else will have to quote which article/section that is). Although Congress is tasked with the regulation of interstate commerce, this does not (at least not to us strict constructionists) give them the right to regulate the sale of items in an individual state.
Precedent: gambling, automobiles with emission control systems only required in CA, sex toys (oh yes; I just went there), etc etc etc.
While I was living in California the US government sent agents to wreck up marijuana farms that had been authorized for State use. If you have a prescription for marijuana, and you sell it to your friend in Nevada, you have clearly violated federal law. If you consume it for your own medicinal use, as you are authorized to by the State of California, I don't see what the problem is. After the raids, the city council of Santa Cruz gave out muffins to anyone who had a prescription on the steps of City Hall, and there wasn't a damn thing that the Feds could do about it.
The Federal government has every right to regulate whatever they want if it truly is interstate commerce. They also have an obligation to act for the greater good of the Nation as a whole, and I think a lot more than just 20% of americans realize that the marijuana prohibition causes more problems and more anguish than it prevents. The other 80% (or whatever it really is) just haven't seen someone who's suffering greatly have their pain eased by physician-prescribed and physician-monitored marijuana use (full disclosure: my father died of cancer when he was in his early fifties; he would have died sooner had he not been given a certain miracle drug that regulated his appetite and reduced the damage to his body done by chemotherapy/radiation).
Also... I think you probably should read The Federalist Papers, specifically Federalist 64, 65, 41-43. A lot of people forget what our forefathers were really thinking, but it's all there.
Agreed. I used to have a job cleaning viruses and spyware and such off of students' laptops at a university campus, which gave me a lot of insight into what not to buy and which AV programs not to trust. There were soooooooooooo many students, faculty, and staff who had entrusted their box entirely to Norton, and it was just an epic fail every single time—even when it was fully up-to-date. The whole of the entire computer security industry would be in Defcon 4 about some virus that'd been out for a week and Norton would still be on its smoke break. Weak.
Between Avast!, AVG, Clamwin, Panda, and any other free antivirus software out there, there's got to be something to replace Norton."Avast!"? Sounds awesome, if a touch nautical.... What struck me the most when I was working at Resnet was how many free programs there were that were extremely effective (especially if used together), almost always catching files that Norton missed entirely. Side note: it's really scary that a lot of these antivirus programs were web-based, and somehow Windows is perfectly okay having web applications that are capable of deleting files, analyzing the content of local files, accessing the registry.... Really scary. Way to go on that security model thing, Microsoft!
Did it seriously take almost five hours after this story was posted for someone to make a Soviet Russia joke? Come on, slashdotters! Get on the ball!
You might be interested to know that there has been research in the past (abandoned now AFAIK) into ballistic orbital insertion of satellites. Maybe they should've used a trebuchet....
Exactly. That's why you can define a list of fonts for the CSS "font-family" setting. Some things can't really be prevented though, and to this day I haven't designed a site that doesn't look atrocious in 90% of Windows computers (primarily because most windows users don't know about the "font smoothing" setting (why?!?!?!)). I generally list a couple at least and hope for the best.
Side note: I think a lot of the reason why people initially like Vista is that in Vista the font smoothing is turned on by default, whereas it isn't in XP.
Actually tracking is the average lateral distance between glyphs. Line-spacing and leading are, essentially, the same thing even if they're not always measured the same. There's actually no way to adjust tracking in CSS that I know of.
Not to be mistaken for kerning, which only applies to certain combinations of glyphs where a ligature wouldn't be appropriate.
Even this guy?