I think the funniest thing would have been to replace Slashdot's homepage with a RIAA domain takeover notice. Of course, with a link to the real page that you can spot after reading it a second.
The article says that the Dream Act will give them In-state tuition eligibility and temporary residency status. This doesn't divert funds or create much more beauracracy, it just gives them the same college cost as anyone else who has been residing in the state. I'm very much against illegal immigration to the point that I wouldn't protest against a minefield along the border. However, in most cases the kids of illegal immigrants didn't make the choice to come here and they can't just decide to go back to Mexico. Denying them an equal chance at an education is unfair in the same way that providing them with special funding is unfair to US Residents. The only exception to this that I see is that it might encourage Mexican families to move here in order to procure a better life for their children.
That would be incredibly inefficient. Let's say your have your 13.8V DC source with 12, 9 and 6V outputs. For the voltage regulator to deliver 6V, it has to dissipate half the load through it's heatsink. Other posts have mentioned transformers with multiple windings, this is the way to go. 13.8V with a 12V regulator, another tap at 9.6V with a 9V regulator, and so on for whatever outputs you need. This way the regulators only have to dissipate a small piece of the load and won't be wasting most of your power as heat.
I'm getting really tired of sensationalist articles that are all FUD. Someone needs to research this stuff at least a *little* or at the minimum read the article and make sure the summary is accurate before posting it. PLEASE!!
Rent a 24' uhaul. Make a screen mesh wall at the back with a hole at the top and a hole at the bottom.
Get some ventilation duct like they use for sewer work and a strong fan. Connect one piece of duct to the back of the fan for suction and one to the front for delivery.
cover the bottom hole and fill the truck with the fan aparatus. Once there, reverse the connection and suck all the popcorn out through the bottom hole (may require getting in and sweeping it into the intake)
I would think that the biggest use of cheaper phone electronics will be for devices that need to transmit information. Drink machines that call in when they need refilling, smoke alarms that politely tell you that your house is burning down, sound-activated eavesdropping devices, etc.
In the last 5 years I've had cable modem in Austin and Dallas, I've always been able to it my max speed (usually 3/384) even during peak times. The one time I had crappy performance during peak times was found to be a filter/splitter hidden in the wall behind one of my outlets. Once this was removed, peak-time bandwidth was full-speed.
You're missing a rather large period of time between the point that Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden up until the point of the flood. Also, God tells them they can eat from any tree in the garden except for one. He doesn't say there that they can't eat animals. However, I think the whole point of the Garden of Eden was that there was no death or worries. After they were cast out, I think that would change because, of course, the lions and such were free to eat them at that point.
Martha Stewart is doing xx? months of federal prison time for reacting to what someone told her in order to save money that was hers, so I don't think 9 years is too much for this case. While spam might not seem worth 9 years to someone else, I prefer to look at it and estimate how much of a negative impact this person is having on society as a whole. With this view in mind, spamming millions is more of a negative drain than beating someone bloody and cutting off one of their fingers. Sending them to prison probably saves American society more than it costs to hold them there and is a great deterent for other spammers. Anyone who sends spam obviously knows how much people hate it. To me, stealing time is no different than stealing property.
Read the article. Appearantly he was 'controlling access' to a network of computers at MIT involved in warez. This puts his actions on U.S. soil much in the same way as the extreme example of someone in Mexico shooting you in the U.S. from across the border. I'm sure that Australia has laws respecting US copyright and vice-versa. He has definetly commited a crime *in* the US, albeit remotely.
Footed messengers and carrier pigeons are specific implementations of physical delivery.
In the same way you could say that copper wire, fiber optics and RF are all specific implementations of digital delivery. Transporting a physical package by foot, horse, truck or plane are just as much evolutionary advances in transportation as the previously mentioned digital media are. The same basic method of 1's and 0's has remained.
... adding to my last comment; A more recent example is distance communication by electricity over wires. 60 years ago who could have imagined that it would ever go away? Today we are moving away from copper telephone lines and TV to optical. We're even exploring optical pathways in next generations of computers. In 50 years, why would some kid want to communicate in voice/video over pair of wires when he can do full holographic display over a discarded trunk of fiber that's obsolete? Before saying that something will never go away, look back on history. Eventually technology will progress to the point that RF is substandard for any kind of communication purposes beyond Highschool science projects.
... Just like we haven't abandoned footed messengers, carrier pigeons and smoke signals. Everyone knows they'll never go away because they will always be cheaper than an RF setup.
The purpose I see in SETI is to find a radio source, possibly unintentional. As another poster suggested, maybe we'll receive their version of the NORAD system or some high-intensity pulses from an intergalactic war. Whatever the signal we receive is, if we can associate it with probable intelligent life, then we could send them something they would be unlikely to miss. I wonder what an ultra-high-powered laser directed at their planet would appear like to them? Of course, this assumes that they can see in our visible spectrum. Perhaps it would appear as a dim star blinking in their sky, visible to some advanced observation system. Meanwhile, some random alien orbiting our planet would be sliced in half by our communication attempt.
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I think the funniest thing would have been to replace Slashdot's homepage with a RIAA domain takeover notice. Of course, with a link to the real page that you can spot after reading it a second.
The article says that the Dream Act will give them In-state tuition eligibility and temporary residency status. This doesn't divert funds or create much more beauracracy, it just gives them the same college cost as anyone else who has been residing in the state. I'm very much against illegal immigration to the point that I wouldn't protest against a minefield along the border. However, in most cases the kids of illegal immigrants didn't make the choice to come here and they can't just decide to go back to Mexico. Denying them an equal chance at an education is unfair in the same way that providing them with special funding is unfair to US Residents. The only exception to this that I see is that it might encourage Mexican families to move here in order to procure a better life for their children.
I propose we use battery-laden African Swallows or carrier pigeons.
That would be incredibly inefficient. Let's say your have your 13.8V DC source with 12, 9 and 6V outputs. For the voltage regulator to deliver 6V, it has to dissipate half the load through it's heatsink. Other posts have mentioned transformers with multiple windings, this is the way to go. 13.8V with a 12V regulator, another tap at 9.6V with a 9V regulator, and so on for whatever outputs you need. This way the regulators only have to dissipate a small piece of the load and won't be wasting most of your power as heat.
I'm getting really tired of sensationalist articles that are all FUD. Someone needs to research this stuff at least a *little* or at the minimum read the article and make sure the summary is accurate before posting it. PLEASE!!
MS should just patent buffer overflows and rootkits and we'd have nothing to worry about!
Rent a 24' uhaul. Make a screen mesh wall at the back with a hole at the top and a hole at the bottom.
Get some ventilation duct like they use for sewer work and a strong fan. Connect one piece of duct to the back of the fan for suction and one to the front for delivery.
cover the bottom hole and fill the truck with the fan aparatus. Once there, reverse the connection and suck all the popcorn out through the bottom hole (may require getting in and sweeping it into the intake)
This is just another case of companies patenting anything and everything just in case it has any commercial use in the future.
I would think that the biggest use of cheaper phone electronics will be for devices that need to transmit information. Drink machines that call in when they need refilling, smoke alarms that politely tell you that your house is burning down, sound-activated eavesdropping devices, etc.
In the last 5 years I've had cable modem in Austin and Dallas, I've always been able to it my max speed (usually 3/384) even during peak times. The one time I had crappy performance during peak times was found to be a filter/splitter hidden in the wall behind one of my outlets. Once this was removed, peak-time bandwidth was full-speed.
You're missing a rather large period of time between the point that Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden up until the point of the flood. Also, God tells them they can eat from any tree in the garden except for one. He doesn't say there that they can't eat animals. However, I think the whole point of the Garden of Eden was that there was no death or worries. After they were cast out, I think that would change because, of course, the lions and such were free to eat them at that point.
I wasn't saying what she did was right. My point is that her crime did much less damage than the spammer's.
Martha Stewart is doing xx? months of federal prison time for reacting to what someone told her in order to save money that was hers, so I don't think 9 years is too much for this case. While spam might not seem worth 9 years to someone else, I prefer to look at it and estimate how much of a negative impact this person is having on society as a whole. With this view in mind, spamming millions is more of a negative drain than beating someone bloody and cutting off one of their fingers. Sending them to prison probably saves American society more than it costs to hold them there and is a great deterent for other spammers. Anyone who sends spam obviously knows how much people hate it. To me, stealing time is no different than stealing property.
Usually its the people that say size doesn't matter who have small ones.
Read the article. Appearantly he was 'controlling access' to a network of computers at MIT involved in warez. This puts his actions on U.S. soil much in the same way as the extreme example of someone in Mexico shooting you in the U.S. from across the border. I'm sure that Australia has laws respecting US copyright and vice-versa. He has definetly commited a crime *in* the US, albeit remotely.
I like my porn, but this seems like it would be too easy to abuse by spammers and cheap porn operators.
I'll have one cock sandwich for dining in. Hold the mayo please.
Would someone please get this person a bubble?
Footed messengers and carrier pigeons are specific implementations of physical delivery.
In the same way you could say that copper wire, fiber optics and RF are all specific implementations of digital delivery. Transporting a physical package by foot, horse, truck or plane are just as much evolutionary advances in transportation as the previously mentioned digital media are. The same basic method of 1's and 0's has remained.
... adding to my last comment; A more recent example is distance communication by electricity over wires. 60 years ago who could have imagined that it would ever go away? Today we are moving away from copper telephone lines and TV to optical. We're even exploring optical pathways in next generations of computers. In 50 years, why would some kid want to communicate in voice/video over pair of wires when he can do full holographic display over a discarded trunk of fiber that's obsolete? Before saying that something will never go away, look back on history. Eventually technology will progress to the point that RF is substandard for any kind of communication purposes beyond Highschool science projects.
... Just like we haven't abandoned footed messengers, carrier pigeons and smoke signals. Everyone knows they'll never go away because they will always be cheaper than an RF setup.
The purpose I see in SETI is to find a radio source, possibly unintentional. As another poster suggested, maybe we'll receive their version of the NORAD system or some high-intensity pulses from an intergalactic war. Whatever the signal we receive is, if we can associate it with probable intelligent life, then we could send them something they would be unlikely to miss. I wonder what an ultra-high-powered laser directed at their planet would appear like to them? Of course, this assumes that they can see in our visible spectrum. Perhaps it would appear as a dim star blinking in their sky, visible to some advanced observation system. Meanwhile, some random alien orbiting our planet would be sliced in half by our communication attempt.
I would consider this just another excuse for US companies to give their employees for taking all their jobs overseas.
I've been working all weekend to cluster 4 Honda Civics. When I'm done, I expect it to go 280MPH, get 12MPG and 0-60 in under 3 seconds.
I wonder if any gigantic Venutian shadow-puppets were seen? Surely they have a sense of humor there.