Careful, this is just a plot to make internet usage go through the roof so that terrorists can hack through American nuclear power plants' firewalls undetected!
"Subjective style points are awarded if the player performs feats of style that are not necessary tasks of the game, depend upon the type of game, and may include sliding, spinning, jumping, blocking an opponent, passing an opponent, and avoiding obstacles."
I'm pretty sure the first Tony Hawk game came out before 2003. Of course there were probably plenty of other games before that, but I don't feel like researching or remembering them
It's the same as eye color - blue eyed parents having blue eyed children and all. Engineers, predominately guys, are more likely to have male children, while Nurses, predominately gals, are more likely to have female children! What's so hard to understand?
Now the real question is, if a guy and a gal somehow got together and had a kid, what kind of a freak would that be?
Hey, if Dogbert suggests it, it must be good!
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I've always wondered about this. So if you leave Earth and fly around at near the speed of light and come back, more time would have passed on Earth than would for you. But with everything being relative, couldn't you see it that the Earth was flying around at near light speeds in relation to you, while you were standing still? So then why does the time pass slower for you than the other way around?
Sure, and by the time they get around to doing that, it San Francisco will be a glowing ruin.
Anyway, according to thomas.loc.gov, Latest Major Action: 2/17/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. . Hopefully the committee is smart enough to cut sec 102 out.
That's a completely ridiculous claim. This law is specific to improving barriers at borders, anything that isn't directly related to doing that falls outside of this law.
I'm going to try to put this into terms you can understand. You think the bill says:
if (relatesToBarriers(action)) {
doActionIgnoreLaw(action);
}
When in actuality the bill says:
if (DODSecretary.claimsRelatesToBarriers(action)) {
doActionIgnoreLaw(action);
}
See the difference? It doesn't actually have to relate to the barriers. The DOD Secretary just has to claim that it does, and as the bill is written no one has the authority to challege the claim.
For those who don't know, Section 102 of the bill allows the Secretary of Homeland Security to disregard any and all laws that HE ALONE DEEMS NECESSARY to the construction of barriers at borders, without any oversight, judicial or otherwise. He could claim that setting landmines along the borders is necessary. Hell, he could claim that nuking San Francisco is necessary. Doesn't matter what he claims - as long as he makes a claim, no one has the authority to stop him.
"SEC. 102. WAIVER OF LAWS NECESSARY FOR IMPROVEMENT OF BARRIERS AT BORDERS.
Section 102(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note) is amended to read as follows:
`(c) Waiver-
`(1) IN GENERAL- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to waive, and shall waive, all laws such Secretary, in such Secretary's sole discretion, determines necessary to ensure expeditious construction of the barriers and roads under this section.
`(2) NO JUDICIAL REVIEW- Notwithstanding any other provision of law (statutory or nonstatutory), no court, administrative agency, or other entity shall have jurisdiction--
`(A) to hear any cause or claim arising from any action undertaken, or any decision made, by the Secretary of Homeland Security pursuant to paragraph (1); or
`(B) to order compensatory, declaratory, injunctive, equitable, or any other relief for damage alleged to arise from any such action or decision.'"
Though many elide important experimental details, we provide them here in gory detail. We instrumented a deployment on MIT's Planetlab cluster to disprove the work of French information theorist N. Zhou. To begin with, we added some RISC processors to our mobile telephones. We removed some 10MHz Pentium IIIs from our mobile telephones to understand our system. We added 25MB of NV-RAM to our underwater cluster. Configurations without this modification showed exaggerated distance. Further, we removed 100 200GB floppy disks from the KGB's virtual testbed. Had we deployed our sensor-net testbed, as opposed to emulating it in bioware, we would have seen degraded results. Similarly, we reduced the hard disk speed of our 2-node overlay network. In the end, we quadrupled the clock speed of our desktop machines to discover the expected work factor of the NSA's Planetlab cluster.
Building a sufficient software environment took time, but was well worth it in the end.. All software was hand hex-editted using a standard toolchain built on Leslie Lamport's toolkit for provably refining independent SoundBlaster 8-bit sound cards. All software was compiled using Microsoft developer's studio with the help of F. Ito's libraries for extremely improving Atari 2600s. this concludes our discussion of software modifications.
In a sense, any light travelling through a medium other than a vacuum travels below c as a result of refraction.
Wait, if this is just refraction, then the light isn't slowed at all, right? The light might take longer to get wherever it is going, but that's just because it's taking the long way there instead of a straight line. Of course I could just be confused as to how refraction works.
I have read plenty of online stories, including ones on slashdot, talking about how Comcast and other cable ISPs cut off users who download or upload more than some undisclosed minimum. Also it is impossible to find out just what that minimum is, but it might be based on something like "X times the median usage in your area".
This is one reason I am still on dial-up: being too far from any DSL hub (or whatever it's called) I don't want to switch to Comcast. I just know my lack of willpower will have me downloading hundreds of gigs of anime a month.
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Section 102 must in no circumstances be approved by senate. www.congress.org (got the address from another comment) gives a couple ways to contact your representative and two senators, and the one by email is free. Granted the chances of them even looking at the messages are rather small, but those chances are better than nothing! I figure this bill was passed in the House because a lot of the people who voted for it never even looked at Sec . 102. Lets do what we can to make sure this section is killed in the Senate!
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Hey, at least they were compliant with the 5th Amendment, assuming hyperspace bypasses are not private projects.
Careful, this is just a plot to make internet usage go through the roof so that terrorists can hack through American nuclear power plants' firewalls undetected!
But can it do the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs?
Will they provide residents of San Francisco with sunglasses to avoid being blinded by the lasers?
What Nintendo needs to do is fund a PSP emulator for the DS. That way the DS will by default be able to run all the PSP emulators!
From the linked Microsoft patent:
"Subjective style points are awarded if the player performs feats of style that are not necessary tasks of the game, depend upon the type of game, and may include sliding, spinning, jumping, blocking an opponent, passing an opponent, and avoiding obstacles."
I'm pretty sure the first Tony Hawk game came out before 2003. Of course there were probably plenty of other games before that, but I don't feel like researching or remembering them
It's the same as eye color - blue eyed parents having blue eyed children and all. Engineers, predominately guys, are more likely to have male children, while Nurses, predominately gals, are more likely to have female children! What's so hard to understand?
Now the real question is, if a guy and a gal somehow got together and had a kid, what kind of a freak would that be?
see the highly relevant dilbert cartoon
I agree.
*goes back to studying for the JSP & Servlets Certification exam*
Just think of it as a really thick condom.
The linked blog thread talks about a different patent from.
I've always wondered about this. So if you leave Earth and fly around at near the speed of light and come back, more time would have passed on Earth than would for you. But with everything being relative, couldn't you see it that the Earth was flying around at near light speeds in relation to you, while you were standing still? So then why does the time pass slower for you than the other way around?
Sure, and by the time they get around to doing that, it San Francisco will be a glowing ruin.
Anyway, according to thomas.loc.gov, Latest Major Action: 2/17/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. . Hopefully the committee is smart enough to cut sec 102 out.
That's a completely ridiculous claim. This law is specific to improving barriers at borders, anything that isn't directly related to doing that falls outside of this law.
I'm going to try to put this into terms you can understand. You think the bill says:
if (relatesToBarriers(action)) {
doActionIgnoreLaw(action);
}
When in actuality the bill says:
if (DODSecretary.claimsRelatesToBarriers(action)) {
doActionIgnoreLaw(action);
}
See the difference? It doesn't actually have to relate to the barriers. The DOD Secretary just has to claim that it does, and as the bill is written no one has the authority to challege the claim.
For those who don't know, Section 102 of the bill allows the Secretary of Homeland Security to disregard any and all laws that HE ALONE DEEMS NECESSARY to the construction of barriers at borders, without any oversight, judicial or otherwise. He could claim that setting landmines along the borders is necessary. Hell, he could claim that nuking San Francisco is necessary. Doesn't matter what he claims - as long as he makes a claim, no one has the authority to stop him.
"SEC. 102. WAIVER OF LAWS NECESSARY FOR IMPROVEMENT OF BARRIERS AT BORDERS.
Section 102(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note) is amended to read as follows:
`(c) Waiver-
`(1) IN GENERAL- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to waive, and shall waive, all laws such Secretary, in such Secretary's sole discretion, determines necessary to ensure expeditious construction of the barriers and roads under this section.
`(2) NO JUDICIAL REVIEW- Notwithstanding any other provision of law (statutory or nonstatutory), no court, administrative agency, or other entity shall have jurisdiction--
`(A) to hear any cause or claim arising from any action undertaken, or any decision made, by the Secretary of Homeland Security pursuant to paragraph (1); or
`(B) to order compensatory, declaratory, injunctive, equitable, or any other relief for damage alleged to arise from any such action or decision.'"
how long do you think until the guy logs into his network only to see "4££ ¥0ur B4$3 4r3 B3£0n9 70 |_|$" scrolling across the screen?
Yeah, but at least I can be a dumbass without being a coward.
Probably not, but I still have nothing to say.
I'll start stocking up on antibiotics right away.
From the paper I "wrote":
5.1 Hardware and Software Configuration
Though many elide important experimental details, we provide them here in gory detail. We instrumented a deployment on MIT's Planetlab cluster to disprove the work of French information theorist N. Zhou. To begin with, we added some RISC processors to our mobile telephones. We removed some 10MHz Pentium IIIs from our mobile telephones to understand our system. We added 25MB of NV-RAM to our underwater cluster. Configurations without this modification showed exaggerated distance. Further, we removed 100 200GB floppy disks from the KGB's virtual testbed. Had we deployed our sensor-net testbed, as opposed to emulating it in bioware, we would have seen degraded results. Similarly, we reduced the hard disk speed of our 2-node overlay network. In the end, we quadrupled the clock speed of our desktop machines to discover the expected work factor of the NSA's Planetlab cluster.
Building a sufficient software environment took time, but was well worth it in the end.. All software was hand hex-editted using a standard toolchain built on Leslie Lamport's toolkit for provably refining independent SoundBlaster 8-bit sound cards. All software was compiled using Microsoft developer's studio with the help of F. Ito's libraries for extremely improving Atari 2600s. this concludes our discussion of software modifications.
In a sense, any light travelling through a medium other than a vacuum travels below c as a result of refraction.
Wait, if this is just refraction, then the light isn't slowed at all, right? The light might take longer to get wherever it is going, but that's just because it's taking the long way there instead of a straight line. Of course I could just be confused as to how refraction works.
I have read plenty of online stories, including ones on slashdot, talking about how Comcast and other cable ISPs cut off users who download or upload more than some undisclosed minimum. Also it is impossible to find out just what that minimum is, but it might be based on something like "X times the median usage in your area".
This is one reason I am still on dial-up: being too far from any DSL hub (or whatever it's called) I don't want to switch to Comcast. I just know my lack of willpower will have me downloading hundreds of gigs of anime a month.
Isn't there a mod for "Too Informative"?
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Section 102 must in no circumstances be approved by senate. www.congress.org (got the address from another comment) gives a couple ways to contact your representative and two senators, and the one by email is free. Granted the chances of them even looking at the messages are rather small, but those chances are better than nothing! I figure this bill was passed in the House because a lot of the people who voted for it never even looked at Sec . 102. Lets do what we can to make sure this section is killed in the Senate!