Yes, I know it's bad form to reply to yourself, but I neglected to RTFOpinion... had I done so, I'd've seen that this case is a 1983 suit, and we're long past settlin' time. F*ck the Police!
Unless we're living in Bizarro World, the cop's not going to get charged with anything. Why would the DA punish one of his own thugs? A more likely scenario, if the law is eventually held unconstitutional, is that the cop in question might draw a civil suit under 42 USC 1983 (establishes civil liability for those who violate the civil rights of others "under color of law"), but it'd probably settle out for the cost of the phone stolen and Court costs incurred, which can be billed to the taxpayers. Either way, everyone's getting off essentially scot-free.
If you're fraking your significant other, I doubt that'll do any damage to the water table, unless you produce volume like Peter "Two Quarts" North, in which case there's a slight risk of organic contamination.
As for hydraulic fracturing, there is no such thing as "drinking-water-safe", just like there's no such thing as "clean coal". Cracks in the bedrock resulting from the frackage can propagate for thousands of feet above the well pipe, often unpredictably. That's kind of the point; the longer the cracks, the more gas-bearing rock is opened for collection in the well. Even if the well is drilled far below the water table, the cracks can still reach it, thus allowing hydrocarbon gases to enter and poison the water. Then there's the risk that the well casing can fail at the point where it crosses the water table, thus releasing gas and "frack fluid" (which is significantly more toxic than your "frack fluid" referenced above) into the environment.
Take this a step further and run an actual Pringles-can directional. Even if the cantenna doesn't work, the novelty factor of running one, or trying to, in order to overcome the white-noise like interference might draw extra foot traffic. "I see you're rolling bootleg. What else have you got?"
WAV stores absolute values of the samples, but it seems to me that it would be far more efficient to store the difference between two adjoining samples, rather than the absolute value, so you could store a 16 bit sample in a single byte, or even less; look at any sampled waveform and there isn't much difference between one sample and the following sample. Rather than storing a 237 and 242, where the 242 would be would be a 5, only three bits (four counting the flag that shows whether it's a positive or negative value). When the waveform is descending, you would store a negative value. With this scheme, the higher the sampling rate, the greater the compression would be, since the higher the sampling rate the closer the two adjoining samples' values would be.
I believe you've just described the derivative function of the waveform... Slope of a function at a given point, if I remember my high school calc right.
It'd probably take longer for the machine to process it, but assuming you start at zero and go from there, it sounds possible... I know nothing about codecs, but it's an interesting theory.
Depends on whether "reeking so badly of corruption as to blanket a mile radius with the stench" constitutes bad Behaviour on the part of a Federal judge (U.S. Const. Art. III Sec. 1) and whether two-thirds of the Senate agrees with the proposition. (Art. I Sec. 3 cl. 6). Yeah, that's... not gonna happen anytime soon.
Law is not a "Do as I say, not as I do" type thing.
When it's written by corporations, enacted by buffoons and sociopaths elected by those same corporations, enforced by hired thugs in both flak jackets and suits, and interpereted by judges who are bought, paid for, and traded like so many Goddamn stocks, yeah, it pretty much is. Just a question of how much it'll cost. Somehow, people seem to be okay with this. Some even consider it normal. I don't get it.
No, you can't sue the DHS, or the government in general, because of a most pernicious doctrine called "sovereign immunity." Since the government created the courts and endows them with legitimacy, you can't use its own courts against it, except in very limited circumstances. (It's like dividing by zero, sort of.)
However, if an agent of the government uses his/her position to commit a crime, you can sue the agent him/herself, but not their employer. (Of course, that's no guarantee that the suit won't get tossed, only that you can, in fact, proceed with it.) Also, if they use the apparatus of the government for purposes of racial discrimination, they can also be sued. But generally, no, you can't sue.
Wait till you get to Evidence / Trial Advocacy... it's the exact same reason why you object, knowing you're going to get overruled. You can't preserve something for appeal that you never brought up / filed at trial. It may be a shotgun approach, but if you don't use too wide of a spread, it works. (I recommend a modified choke.)
/ By that analogy, Brother Syfert's trying to blow kneecaps off these punk bitches... I hope he lays the smackdown at trial.
The 9/11 hijackers did bring the boxcutters with them. They were allowed to do so because at the time boxcutters were permitted on planes. Why this was the case is beyond me (hadn't anyone ever nicked themselves with a boxcutter and thought, "gee, these things might be dangerous"?) but that's what happened.
Amen, brother. Limewire-induced viruses paid my beer money all through college, and in fact got me laid on more than one occasion. (Yes, I know Slashdotters don't get laid, but I'm not joking!) I found it was quicker and easier to pull a backup-and-reinstall job with most virus infections, rather than trying to fight them. The process takes about two hours, the majority of which is waiting for file copying or OS installation. Combine this with clueless (not to mention broke) frosh women who were surprised the resident geek was unstereotypically cute... yup. Good times. Cheers to Limewire, savior of geeks everywhere.
Now if such a thing also had wifi for night owls, then you've just gone from "nice" to "awesome". The Acela already has it, no reason it couldn't be scaled up. Wifi + laptop + movie + wine = teh winz0rz
TFA states that "within five minutes of starting the car, the interlock will order the driver to pull over and restart the car. For longer rides, drivers will be required at random times to stop the car and restart."
What if the driver fails to comply? Will the interlock kill the engine? Or will it just keep "ordering the driver to pull over and restart the car"? I can picture a disembodied electronic voice repeating, "STOP! OR I SHALL TELL YOU TO STOP AGAIN!"
The former is probably just as dangerous as someone driving drunk. (No engine = no power steering, no ABS, &c.) The latter is irritating, but comically ineffective, unless it notifies the police as it's doing so.
The law AFAIK is quite clear: Unidentified man, in unidentified car leaps out pointing a gun at you? YES, you are within your rights to SHOOT HIM IN THE FACE.
Disclaimer: IANAL. Even if I was, I am not *your* lawyer. Many States say that if you can retreat (i.e. flee) without undue risk to yourself or others, you are required to do so. Usually you're not required to retreat in your own home, it being your castle and all. (They actually call it the 'Castle Doctrine'.) But on a public road, if someone draws on you, you must attempt to retreat first. If you cannot retreat safely, then you may shoot the malefactor in the face. If you are in Texas, however, there is no duty to retreat. If someone draws on you in Texas, you may stand your ground and start popping caps immediately.
Think about it: most customers would rather discuss their web designs (which you'll be making) in person rather than someone at the end of a phone line, chat room, or email thread.
Good point. Any design gig (not just web design) is equal parts people skills and technical skills. I'd venture that the former is almost more important, since the design ought to be tailored to the client if it's any good.
My friends band were left with an album finished, already pressed, and sitting in warehouse
Sounds like they should be trying to recover their (real, physical) property, not dicking around with the terms of the contract. (Unless, as nomadic points out, there's some funky clause already in the contract permitting such a situation to happen.) Either that or locate said warehouse, drive there, and pick up the CDs. Perhaps hire the actual Mafia to help out, if necessary.
Manual override requires some sort of communication link between Progress and ISS. In order to fly an unmanned craft by wire, there has to be a wire in the first place. The summary says that they "lost a telemetry lock", I'm guessing that's what happened.
Carl Malamud — underrated work shedding sunshine on the sort of things that 'sunshine laws' may make legally accessible, but that often are not practically accessible.
He also sells shells by the seashore. Tongue-twisters tend to torture those who might think about reading the article, but are now too confused to continue. Good Gods, sir, at least read it out loud before hitting "Post".
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Yes, I know it's bad form to reply to yourself, but I neglected to RTFOpinion... had I done so, I'd've seen that this case is a 1983 suit, and we're long past settlin' time. F*ck the Police!
Unless we're living in Bizarro World, the cop's not going to get charged with anything. Why would the DA punish one of his own thugs? A more likely scenario, if the law is eventually held unconstitutional, is that the cop in question might draw a civil suit under 42 USC 1983 (establishes civil liability for those who violate the civil rights of others "under color of law"), but it'd probably settle out for the cost of the phone stolen and Court costs incurred, which can be billed to the taxpayers. Either way, everyone's getting off essentially scot-free.
If you're fraking your significant other, I doubt that'll do any damage to the water table, unless you produce volume like Peter "Two Quarts" North, in which case there's a slight risk of organic contamination.
As for hydraulic fracturing, there is no such thing as "drinking-water-safe", just like there's no such thing as "clean coal". Cracks in the bedrock resulting from the frackage can propagate for thousands of feet above the well pipe, often unpredictably. That's kind of the point; the longer the cracks, the more gas-bearing rock is opened for collection in the well. Even if the well is drilled far below the water table, the cracks can still reach it, thus allowing hydrocarbon gases to enter and poison the water. Then there's the risk that the well casing can fail at the point where it crosses the water table, thus releasing gas and "frack fluid" (which is significantly more toxic than your "frack fluid" referenced above) into the environment.
Take this a step further and run an actual Pringles-can directional. Even if the cantenna doesn't work, the novelty factor of running one, or trying to, in order to overcome the white-noise like interference might draw extra foot traffic. "I see you're rolling bootleg. What else have you got?"
The fact that this was modded "Insightful" adds a sublime ridiculosity to the Slashdot Friday Night.
So basically, IP over something akin to CB or SSB? Sort of like a radio rig for a laptop?
WAV stores absolute values of the samples, but it seems to me that it would be far more efficient to store the difference between two adjoining samples, rather than the absolute value, so you could store a 16 bit sample in a single byte, or even less; look at any sampled waveform and there isn't much difference between one sample and the following sample. Rather than storing a 237 and 242, where the 242 would be would be a 5, only three bits (four counting the flag that shows whether it's a positive or negative value). When the waveform is descending, you would store a negative value. With this scheme, the higher the sampling rate, the greater the compression would be, since the higher the sampling rate the closer the two adjoining samples' values would be.
I believe you've just described the derivative function of the waveform ... Slope of a function at a given point, if I remember my high school calc right.
It'd probably take longer for the machine to process it, but assuming you start at zero and go from there, it sounds possible ... I know nothing about codecs, but it's an interesting theory.
Depends on whether "reeking so badly of corruption as to blanket a mile radius with the stench" constitutes bad Behaviour on the part of a Federal judge (U.S. Const. Art. III Sec. 1) and whether two-thirds of the Senate agrees with the proposition. (Art. I Sec. 3 cl. 6). Yeah, that's... not gonna happen anytime soon.
When it's written by corporations, enacted by buffoons and sociopaths elected by those same corporations, enforced by hired thugs in both flak jackets and suits, and interpereted by judges who are bought, paid for, and traded like so many Goddamn stocks, yeah, it pretty much is. Just a question of how much it'll cost. Somehow, people seem to be okay with this. Some even consider it normal. I don't get it.
Not to mention a superstitious overreaction to ergot poisoning caused by eating infected rye grain.
No, you can't sue the DHS, or the government in general, because of a most pernicious doctrine called "sovereign immunity." Since the government created the courts and endows them with legitimacy, you can't use its own courts against it, except in very limited circumstances. (It's like dividing by zero, sort of.)
However, if an agent of the government uses his/her position to commit a crime, you can sue the agent him/herself, but not their employer. (Of course, that's no guarantee that the suit won't get tossed, only that you can, in fact, proceed with it.) Also, if they use the apparatus of the government for purposes of racial discrimination, they can also be sued. But generally, no, you can't sue.
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Well, you can always launch a preemptive strike:
phoenix@olympus:~$ sudo nano /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 *.cn
Or has NYCL on speed-dial. That dude's gangsta.
Wait till you get to Evidence / Trial Advocacy... it's the exact same reason why you object, knowing you're going to get overruled. You can't preserve something for appeal that you never brought up / filed at trial. It may be a shotgun approach, but if you don't use too wide of a spread, it works. (I recommend a modified choke.)
/ By that analogy, Brother Syfert's trying to blow kneecaps off these punk bitches... I hope he lays the smackdown at trial.
The 9/11 hijackers did bring the boxcutters with them. They were allowed to do so because at the time boxcutters were permitted on planes. Why this was the case is beyond me (hadn't anyone ever nicked themselves with a boxcutter and thought, "gee, these things might be dangerous"?) but that's what happened.
Amen, brother. Limewire-induced viruses paid my beer money all through college, and in fact got me laid on more than one occasion. (Yes, I know Slashdotters don't get laid, but I'm not joking!) I found it was quicker and easier to pull a backup-and-reinstall job with most virus infections, rather than trying to fight them. The process takes about two hours, the majority of which is waiting for file copying or OS installation. Combine this with clueless (not to mention broke) frosh women who were surprised the resident geek was unstereotypically cute ... yup. Good times. Cheers to Limewire, savior of geeks everywhere.
And with his mind. Sleight-of-hand works better when she's drunk :^D
Losers do not tell winners what to do.
No, they just whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.
Now if such a thing also had wifi for night owls, then you've just gone from "nice" to "awesome". The Acela already has it, no reason it couldn't be scaled up. Wifi + laptop + movie + wine = teh winz0rz
TFA states that "within five minutes of starting the car, the interlock will order the driver to pull over and restart the car. For longer rides, drivers will be required at random times to stop the car and restart."
What if the driver fails to comply? Will the interlock kill the engine? Or will it just keep "ordering the driver to pull over and restart the car"? I can picture a disembodied electronic voice repeating, "STOP! OR I SHALL TELL YOU TO STOP AGAIN!"
The former is probably just as dangerous as someone driving drunk. (No engine = no power steering, no ABS, &c.) The latter is irritating, but comically ineffective, unless it notifies the police as it's doing so.
Disclaimer: IANAL. Even if I was, I am not *your* lawyer. Many States say that if you can retreat (i.e. flee) without undue risk to yourself or others, you are required to do so. Usually you're not required to retreat in your own home, it being your castle and all. (They actually call it the 'Castle Doctrine'.) But on a public road, if someone draws on you, you must attempt to retreat first. If you cannot retreat safely, then you may shoot the malefactor in the face. If you are in Texas, however, there is no duty to retreat. If someone draws on you in Texas, you may stand your ground and start popping caps immediately.
Good point. Any design gig (not just web design) is equal parts people skills and technical skills. I'd venture that the former is almost more important, since the design ought to be tailored to the client if it's any good.
My friends band were left with an album finished, already pressed, and sitting in warehouse
Sounds like they should be trying to recover their (real, physical) property, not dicking around with the terms of the contract. (Unless, as nomadic points out, there's some funky clause already in the contract permitting such a situation to happen.) Either that or locate said warehouse, drive there, and pick up the CDs. Perhaps hire the actual Mafia to help out, if necessary.
Manual override requires some sort of communication link between Progress and ISS. In order to fly an unmanned craft by wire, there has to be a wire in the first place. The summary says that they "lost a telemetry lock", I'm guessing that's what happened.
He also sells shells by the seashore. Tongue-twisters tend to torture those who might think about reading the article, but are now too confused to continue. Good Gods, sir, at least read it out loud before hitting "Post".