Next they'll be prosecuting young mothers breastfeeding their kids on sexual molestation charges...
It's happened. There was a case about 15 years back where a woman asked her doctor if it was normal to get sexually aroused while breastfeeding, and after misinterpretation of the question by a secretary, was hauled up on charges of child molestation.
It's not a matter of feeding data directly into our cabinet; (as you suggested) have that fed to a PLC. The situation is a bit different than described in the summary. The IDF is already in place, and the decision has been made to place a new furnace in this area. My options include moving the IDF, which would require an impossible amount of downtime, setting up a new IDF with identical equipment and run both in parallel, which is more expensive but tolerable regarding downtime, or "fireproofing" our current IDF.
What sort of furnace is it? If it's an electric induction furnace, your only choice is to get the IDF out of the area because electromagnetic interference will cause serious problems. If it's a gas or electric thermal furnace, you can leave the IDF in place, but you'll need to provide cooling (flow-through water cooling will work) and you'll need to armor it against impacts (depending on the situation, either guy-with-sledgehammer impacts or guy-with-forklift impacts), heat, and possibly spills of liquid metal.
Just me or is that a big hypocritical? On the other hand, I'm sure there is a "business philosophy" disconnect between the HD DVD and music groups/divisions.
My understanding is that if Sony were a person, they'd be diagnosed with severe multiple-personality disorder.
You can stop the reselling problem by a simple expedient: a different color case. Make purchased OLPCs black, and kid ones in cheerful old-school iMac colors, and now they are vastly different products from a retail viewpoint.
That would wreck part of the value from my perspective: nobody in their right mind would steal a laptop in bright Playskool colors.
I've always thought that a Dead Man's Switch held too many problems. Unless you have people that are 'out to get you' and your switch is your leverage, then it's not much use.
What happens if you get into a severe accident and end up in the hospital without the ability to 'check in' with it? What happens if you are stranded at an airport with a snowstorm? What if you are stranded at a ski lodge in the mountains in the middle of a snow storm? etc...
That's why my "dead man's switch" doesn't assume I'm dead. What it does is, if I haven't accessed my computer in two weeks, it posts generic "something may have happened to me" messages on various forums and newsgroups, and requests that someone take over my activities on Wikipedia. Nothing irreversable, and it's equally valid if I'm in the hospital with a broken nose, or if I fell off the edge of the world.
I checked Home Depot a few weeks ago. They have a 50/100/150w equivalent three-way, but it's much larger than A21 and won't fit in my existing lamps. They have a bulb that fits an A21 profile, but it's only 60W equivalent.
From a gaming point of view, there's nothing special about that lawsuit. It's a bog-standard labor-relations lawsuit, and ones like it have been filed on a regular basis for at least half a century.
The slippery slope began the moment a judge (in the 1860's or 70's, I believe) ruled on the side of the corporation being a "person", an exploit that arose from the misuse of a piece of legislation designed (horribly, it seems) to protect the rights of the black man in the United States after slavery had been abolished. Again, fleets of lawyers exploiting loopholes.
Actually, corporate personhood arose in the 1500s in England. Under common law at the time, only a person could enter into a contract, and only a person could bear liability. As a result, a collective enterprise would need a designated agent to deal with contracts. This had a problem, though: if something went wrong, any liability came out of the agent's personal finances. The legal fiction of "corporate personhood" was established so that the corporation as a whole would bear liability, rather than having it fall on any one member.
The problem with motion detectors is that they only detect motion. If you're just sitting in a chair, you quickly become invisible to the motion detector.
Once you realize how much it costs per month to operate a 100 watt incandescent light bulb, that's the real incentive for switching to compact fluorescent wherever you can (slow startup-time and all).
I'm still waiting for someone to invent a 50/100/150 three-way bulb (or even a 30/70/100 bulb) in an A21 form factor. Until then, I'll keep putting incandescents in my living room lamps.
Unless you're somewhere with exceptionally cheap electric power (the Pacific Northwest, for example), or somewhere with unusually expensive gas, gas heating is about half the cost of electric.
Some? I didn't know there was such a thing as an electric stove without dials. That sounds idiotic.
Trust me, they exist. They're also idiotic. It's even worse when the labeling is inconsistent (HI-2-3-LO-WM-OFF) and the buttons are placed over the rear burners.
Ok... if you're storing the session id via cookie... what's the best solution for preventing cookie theft abuse? Pardon my stupidity for not knowing this already...
1) Make the session ID a random value so it can't be guessed 2) On the backend server, tie the session ID to a given access time and IP range 3) Invalidate the session ID and force a re-login if a request with that ID comes too long after the last access, or from a different IP range.
I'm wondering if our farming ancestors back in the day when everyone farmed ever suffered from burnout. Did they ever stand up and say "that's it, no food this winter, I'm not plowing one more row!" After all, these farmers had no room for personal growth, very little way to express themselves creatively on the job, had very hard deadlines, and most of their lives were affected by things well outside of their control (weather, taxes).
At the same time, their work had a clear, definite result after a well-defined timeframe: when fall comes around, you've got a cellar full of food. It's hard to burn out when you can see the effect your work is having.
I almost gave up IT this year. I was working at a financial institute and the work was fun. I wrote a BlackBerry app using java with a.Net backend. Fun stuff. But my manager was a complete jerk. Constantly moody. At my review he said "99% of the time we love you, but that 1% is killing us". I was out for a few days earlier in the year when my son's babysitter almost died, and this was brought up. "I don't care about your babysitter, I don't care about your kid. I just want you to be here for eight hours a day." I gave my notice at the end of the week.
You actually waited that long? I would have grabbed the nearest piece of paper and given written notice right then and there.
What if one of those 386's breaks down? It's not like you can run down the store and buy a replacement CPU or RAM. Somehow they'll have to upgrade in the future, if only because of the lack of available spare parts. Incrementally upgrading might be painful, but not upgrading at all might be many times more costly when stuff starts to break.
As long as you don't need more than 640x480 16-colors, Win 3.1 runs just fine on modern hardware. You'll need to provide a more modern DOS if you want to use large hard drives, but the DOS that comes with Win98SE does just fine for that, as do a number of third-party DOSs.
I just don't understand how spilling hot coffee on oneself is grounds for a lawsuit, but shredded fingers is not. Especially in America.
Length of hospital stay. If you can get a half-dozen stitches, you've got a case. If you can manage to get kept overnight for observation, so much the better. The woman who sued McDonalds required skin grafts and a week in the hospital.
Sorry to break it to you, but Windows's security model is now superior to Linux's. Like in Unix, you can now run as a regular user and only raise to admin permissions when required. The permission system has finer granularity and can more easily be controlled from a central server. Internet Explorer 7 runs inside a sandbox, unlike Linux web browsers. And not only do you have more power, it can be managed more easily by nonexperts using GUIs instead of text files. Realistically, Vista will still be much more worm-infested than Linux but this will be mainly attributable to market share.
From an abstract point of view, this is true. In practice, I find myself hitting the "Elevate to admin permissions and continue" button a dozen times a day, often for surprisingly trivial reasons. This is going to be the main vector for malware infection on Vista: people will get so habituated to hitting that button that they'll say "yes" even when they shouldn't.
"... Conditioned upon the parties' compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the parties, and their respective officers, directors, agents, servants, employees, parents, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, attorneys, successors and assigns, hereby release each other from any and all claims, demands, damages, losses, liabilities, rights or causes of action, including but not limited to any claim for attorneys fees, arising out of or relating to the Action and/or the allegations asserted therein...."
Reading this please make your own conclusions about the inner structure of the underlying legal system (IMAGINE YOU WOULD STRUCTURE CODE THE SAME WAY!).
Reading this sort of legalese is actually quite simple: whenever you see an agglomeration of terms like that, read the first one, and mentally replace the rest of them with "or similar". It's actually quite similar to programming, since you need to explicity enumerate the cases. Neither computers nor lawyers are very good with fuzziness.
I know they do also build proper brick and concrete houses in the major cities ( e.g New York ) so why don't they all build proper brick houses and not have them knocked down by every minor tornado which blows through ?
God no. Brick construction has no tensile strength and no shear strength. If a tornado went through a line of brick houses, all you'd have left is a mound of bricks to dig through in the hopes that you'd find a survivor. Wood can be fastened together. Concrete slabs can be fastened together. But brick? Have you ever wondered why relatively minor earthquakes in the Near East tend to produce tens of thousands of casualties?
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It's happened. There was a case about 15 years back where a woman asked her doctor if it was normal to get sexually aroused while breastfeeding, and after misinterpretation of the question by a secretary, was hauled up on charges of child molestation.
(The answer, incidentally, is "yes".)
What sort of furnace is it? If it's an electric induction furnace, your only choice is to get the IDF out of the area because electromagnetic interference will cause serious problems. If it's a gas or electric thermal furnace, you can leave the IDF in place, but you'll need to provide cooling (flow-through water cooling will work) and you'll need to armor it against impacts (depending on the situation, either guy-with-sledgehammer impacts or guy-with-forklift impacts), heat, and possibly spills of liquid metal.
My understanding is that if Sony were a person, they'd be diagnosed with severe multiple-personality disorder.
That would wreck part of the value from my perspective: nobody in their right mind would steal a laptop in bright Playskool colors.
That's why my "dead man's switch" doesn't assume I'm dead. What it does is, if I haven't accessed my computer in two weeks, it posts generic "something may have happened to me" messages on various forums and newsgroups, and requests that someone take over my activities on Wikipedia. Nothing irreversable, and it's equally valid if I'm in the hospital with a broken nose, or if I fell off the edge of the world.
I checked Home Depot a few weeks ago. They have a 50/100/150w equivalent three-way, but it's much larger than A21 and won't fit in my existing lamps. They have a bulb that fits an A21 profile, but it's only 60W equivalent.
From a gaming point of view, there's nothing special about that lawsuit. It's a bog-standard labor-relations lawsuit, and ones like it have been filed on a regular basis for at least half a century.
Actually, corporate personhood arose in the 1500s in England. Under common law at the time, only a person could enter into a contract, and only a person could bear liability. As a result, a collective enterprise would need a designated agent to deal with contracts. This had a problem, though: if something went wrong, any liability came out of the agent's personal finances. The legal fiction of "corporate personhood" was established so that the corporation as a whole would bear liability, rather than having it fall on any one member.
The problem with motion detectors is that they only detect motion. If you're just sitting in a chair, you quickly become invisible to the motion detector.
I'm still waiting for someone to invent a 50/100/150 three-way bulb (or even a 30/70/100 bulb) in an A21 form factor. Until then, I'll keep putting incandescents in my living room lamps.
Unless you're somewhere with exceptionally cheap electric power (the Pacific Northwest, for example), or somewhere with unusually expensive gas, gas heating is about half the cost of electric.
Trust me, they exist. They're also idiotic. It's even worse when the labeling is inconsistent (HI-2-3-LO-WM-OFF) and the buttons are placed over the rear burners.
Does your computer have enough memory? One thing that Apple has never gotten the hang of is virtual memory.
1) Make the session ID a random value so it can't be guessed
2) On the backend server, tie the session ID to a given access time and IP range
3) Invalidate the session ID and force a re-login if a request with that ID comes too long after the last access, or from a different IP range.
Boot up? What's that?
$ uptime
23:44:37 up 341 days, 9:07, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
At the same time, their work had a clear, definite result after a well-defined timeframe: when fall comes around, you've got a cellar full of food. It's hard to burn out when you can see the effect your work is having.
You actually waited that long? I would have grabbed the nearest piece of paper and given written notice right then and there.
As long as you don't need more than 640x480 16-colors, Win 3.1 runs just fine on modern hardware. You'll need to provide a more modern DOS if you want to use large hard drives, but the DOS that comes with Win98SE does just fine for that, as do a number of third-party DOSs.
I've never had reason to look into it in detail, but I believe you can claim a deduction for theft.
Length of hospital stay. If you can get a half-dozen stitches, you've got a case. If you can manage to get kept overnight for observation, so much the better. The woman who sued McDonalds required skin grafts and a week in the hospital.
No, it is a federal offense to deface the United States' currency with fraudulent intent. It's a very different thing.
From an abstract point of view, this is true. In practice, I find myself hitting the "Elevate to admin permissions and continue" button a dozen times a day, often for surprisingly trivial reasons. This is going to be the main vector for malware infection on Vista: people will get so habituated to hitting that button that they'll say "yes" even when they shouldn't.
I wish they would. The later SNES games had some of the best graphics I've seen.
Reading this sort of legalese is actually quite simple: whenever you see an agglomeration of terms like that, read the first one, and mentally replace the rest of them with "or similar". It's actually quite similar to programming, since you need to explicity enumerate the cases. Neither computers nor lawyers are very good with fuzziness.
The code equivalent would be
if(is_party($complainant) || is_party_director($complainant) || is_party_agent($complainant) || is_party_servant($complainant) || is_party_employee($complainant) || is_party_parent($complainant)....)
Yes, you need to include all the clauses in order for the if() statement to work properly.
God no. Brick construction has no tensile strength and no shear strength. If a tornado went through a line of brick houses, all you'd have left is a mound of bricks to dig through in the hopes that you'd find a survivor. Wood can be fastened together. Concrete slabs can be fastened together. But brick? Have you ever wondered why relatively minor earthquakes in the Near East tend to produce tens of thousands of casualties?