I didn't watch the show or see the finale, but there was a short column in the paper this morning that suggested that David Chase was thumbing his nose at all the people who bitched about loose ends from earlier in the series.
While doing some research as an undergrad I stumbled upon the fact that my school, the University at Buffalo, had Playboy on microfilm. My curiosity piqued, I found a secluded microfilm reader and found that they had the whole issue on film, nudie pics and all.
Not to mention that the bad guys would have to look at it anyway to have any effect. This has been discussed ad nauseum in the America's Army forums and according to the vets there, the concussive blast from a flashbang in a confined space like an airline cabin would be just as bad as or worse than the flash and completely unavoidable. I agree that they would be a poor choice though and likely difficult to deploy in an effective manner, i.e. blinding/disabling the terrorist more than the people meant to subdue him.
I think thick slabs of polyethylene are impractical.
it's uncomfortable and will have you sopping wet with your own perspiration within an hour. Perhaps that is why the polyethylene is being used in the form of a woven fiber fabric rather than "thick slabs".
Thank you for the English lesson, but in Catholic dogma the "Immaculate Conception" refers to the conception of Mary without original sin. This is quite commonly confused by many with the "Virgin Birth" of Jesus. Catholic dogma views Mary's conception as a miraculous event all by its self and necessary in preparation for the later miraculous birth of Jesus.
Hopefully, you will be more likely to believe that the people at catholic.com were able to get it right.
On Schneier's blog today on this topic there was one smart commenter with an interesting idea. What the terrorists should do is still rig a phone up to a bomb that detonates a second after phone signal is lost. This way you can plant a bomb and you know you only need to blow up an area the size of a football field!
Isn't it wonderful that the terrorists have time to prepare now with so much warning? This is a movie plot threat straight out of James Bond. Security theatre at best. It is conceivable that someone might be able to conceal a bomb along the motorcade route big enough to blow up Bush's limo as it passes by. A bomb big enough to blow it up while a football field length away should easily be detected by security when they pre-sweep the area along the route.
You are correct. A dynamometer is not used to measure fuel economy and the EPA is not using it to do so. The dynamometer is being used to measure HP and keep it constant at a level equivalent to what would be required to maintain a certain speed. The carbon content of the exhaust is then determined to calculate the gas consumption. The dyno may be just a component of a larger system but it is still a dyno.
Far as i know they still test EPA mileage ratings by using an exhaust sniffer and rollers.... indoors.... it fails to account for AIR RESISTANCE! Apparently, the air resistance and weight of that car is accounted for in the resistance of the rollers. Obviously, if they didn't do this their numbers would be even more wildly off, i.e. SUVs and cars with the same engine would give the same numbers, which they don't.
Driving cars on different days, at different weather and traffic conditions would never pass QA. The indoor, well-controlled tests provide a standardized way of comparing one car to another. The EPA needs to have well-controlled experiments to cover its ass. Real world numbers can be obtained from the site linked above.
On the other hand, after getting a virtual taste of what they desire, they may find the virtual nature of it lacking but have even more interest in trying the real thing.
I'm not saying you're wrong and I am right, just that one can just as easily construct an argument to support the opposite. The actual truth is probably somewhere in between, where some people find it sufficiently satisfying and others not.
If it is anything like my copy of the game for the original NES, the movie will freeze up just as he gets to the Grim Reaper and you will be forced to either sit through the whole movie once more hoping it won't happen again or leave in disgust.
People are more like to sympathize and feel grateful towards a machine that saves their life, than to one that does something like vacuuming the carpet or assembling their car. I wouldn't necessarily expect these anecdotes to generalize to the world at large.
The other implication here is somewhat more startling: that the intercept itself was legally proper. You have to have evidence to show probable cause, and that evidence has to be obtained by proper means. The grounds by which the intercept was ruled proper would be very interesting to know. Is it permissible to intercept your neighbor's wi-fi, or is that a special power the police are allowed? What if the wi-fi is encrypted and you have means to decrypt it? What happens when your neighbor beams his satellite TV shows over wi-fi? What intercept? My interpretation of the story was that the woman the kiddie porn was IM'd to was not a fellow aficionado and reported the sender. Or perhaps she was and she was already under investigation. In any case, I don't see anything about sniffing his wi-fi traffic.
Whenever you see the RIAA whining about how Piracy/IP Theft/Copyright Theft etc. is a major crime, remember this list.
Piracy is not even in the top ten. Because copyright infringement is a civil matter, not a criminal one.
He actually did make LEDs and measured some of the properties of them. He then used Einstein's theories to explain his observations. Not purely theoretical in the least.
What he did is explained a little more fully here (pdf warning).
SDBot is incredibly popular because it's open source
Yeah, I used to Oscarbot, but the EULA with their latest upgrade was freakin' joke! Then they dropped support for Oscarbot 98, meanwhile their crappy software isn't even compatible with Vista. Thank God for OSS!
Ryanair has announced that their entire fleet is being fitted with equipment to allow calls on board. Ryanair don't fly to the USA (yet!) but it does raise the question as to whether the FCC would have jurisdiction over a non-US airline.
Why wouldn't they? Unless they are going to send their planes over the internet, they will have to obey U.S. laws and regulations just like any other business that physically operates in the U.S.
Cellphones were used effectively by passengers and cabin crew during the 9/11 hijackings, apparently without messing up ground communications. But that was maybe a couple dozen people on a few planes. I imagine it would be a different story if the thousands of people in a holding pattern around a major airport all decided to call home and tell someone they were going to be late.
Logically, if it's a technical problem using a cellphone from a plane, it would also be a problem using it from the top of a tall building. In a metropolitan area, the top of a skyscraper would be "line of sight" to hundreds of cellphone towers. Most skyscrapers are still pretty low compared to an airplane. Perhaps the fact that a person in a skyscraper is not moving at 600 mph and not rapidly switching between cell towers is important, too.
Why can't they be more like astronomers who call things as they see them, like how spots on the sun are called "sunspots"? Because naming thousands of species of bacteria microscopius blobbium wouldn't be very useful?
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I didn't watch the show or see the finale, but there was a short column in the paper this morning that suggested that David Chase was thumbing his nose at all the people who bitched about loose ends from earlier in the series.
While doing some research as an undergrad I stumbled upon the fact that my school, the University at Buffalo, had Playboy on microfilm. My curiosity piqued, I found a secluded microfilm reader and found that they had the whole issue on film, nudie pics and all.
Thank you for the English lesson, but in Catholic dogma the "Immaculate Conception" refers to the conception of Mary without original sin. This is quite commonly confused by many with the "Virgin Birth" of Jesus. Catholic dogma views Mary's conception as a miraculous event all by its self and necessary in preparation for the later miraculous birth of Jesus.
Hopefully, you will be more likely to believe that the people at catholic.com were able to get it right.
No, he got it right. Immaculate conception
Isn't it wonderful that the terrorists have time to prepare now with so much warning? This is a movie plot threat straight out of James Bond. Security theatre at best. It is conceivable that someone might be able to conceal a bomb along the motorcade route big enough to blow up Bush's limo as it passes by. A bomb big enough to blow it up while a football field length away should easily be detected by security when they pre-sweep the area along the route.
But it sounds like in Europe it works like this:
-Landline-to-cell-
Calling end: $$$+$$$(given to receiving cell company)
Receiving end: 0
-Cell-to-cell-
Calling end: $$$+$$$(given to receiving cell company)
Receiving end: 0
The phone companies are still double-dipping, but somebody else pays.
You are correct. A dynamometer is not used to measure fuel economy and the EPA is not using it to do so. The dynamometer is being used to measure HP and keep it constant at a level equivalent to what would be required to maintain a certain speed. The carbon content of the exhaust is then determined to calculate the gas consumption. The dyno may be just a component of a larger system but it is still a dyno.
Driving cars on different days, at different weather and traffic conditions would never pass QA. The indoor, well-controlled tests provide a standardized way of comparing one car to another. The EPA needs to have well-controlled experiments to cover its ass. Real world numbers can be obtained from the site linked above.
On the other hand, after getting a virtual taste of what they desire, they may find the virtual nature of it lacking but have even more interest in trying the real thing. I'm not saying you're wrong and I am right, just that one can just as easily construct an argument to support the opposite. The actual truth is probably somewhere in between, where some people find it sufficiently satisfying and others not.
If it is anything like my copy of the game for the original NES, the movie will freeze up just as he gets to the Grim Reaper and you will be forced to either sit through the whole movie once more hoping it won't happen again or leave in disgust.
People are more like to sympathize and feel grateful towards a machine that saves their life, than to one that does something like vacuuming the carpet or assembling their car. I wouldn't necessarily expect these anecdotes to generalize to the world at large.
Piracy is not even in the top ten. Because copyright infringement is a civil matter, not a criminal one.
> ...to realize that they did broke something.
Like grammar.
It looks OK at my end. Must be a user problem at your end.This guy is obviously playing on free market evangelist dad21.
He actually did make LEDs and measured some of the properties of them. He then used Einstein's theories to explain his observations. Not purely theoretical in the least. What he did is explained a little more fully here (pdf warning).
Additionally if you click on "search options" you can select to search within a day/week/month/etc of a particular day or month.
SDBot is incredibly popular because it's open source
Yeah, I used to Oscarbot, but the EULA with their latest upgrade was freakin' joke! Then they dropped support for Oscarbot 98, meanwhile their crappy software isn't even compatible with Vista. Thank God for OSS!
Are they arrested in thrown in jail? No, they are living very well in Russia from their ill-gotten gains.
There is no liability unless you are a complete idiot. Or don't want to live in Russia.
Why wouldn't they? Unless they are going to send their planes over the internet, they will have to obey U.S. laws and regulations just like any other business that physically operates in the U.S.
Logically, if it's a technical problem using a cellphone from a plane, it would also be a problem using it from the top of a tall building. In a metropolitan area, the top of a skyscraper would be "line of sight" to hundreds of cellphone towers. Most skyscrapers are still pretty low compared to an airplane. Perhaps the fact that a person in a skyscraper is not moving at 600 mph and not rapidly switching between cell towers is important, too.