When I was a teenager, I was arrested on one or another about half a dozen times... and wasn't ever actually prosecuted.... not even once.
That's because being arrested is supposed to be enough of a deterrent to make you think twice before doing it again. Would you prefer to have been hauled before a court and fined? Or would you whine even more about the waste of time and money?
Going to court is supposed to be the whole point of an arrest. If you start using the arrest itself as a deterrent what happens when it doesn't work - do you allow police officers to kick the shit out of people "as a deterrent" because they weren't scared of being arrested? What you are doing is giving the police the power to punish. This is wrong. Their job is to apprehend, it is up to the court system to decide guilt and assign punishment. Allowing these functions to be given to the police results in what is called "A Police State". This is considered a bad thing.
That article also mentions that he was hiding a truckload for someone, and lied about it. I'd bet that he actually went to jail for giving false information, aiding and abetting or perjury depending on who he lied to.
For some reason (please someone explain why), the 1B = 10dB rule seems to apply only when measuring actual sound (as apposed to an electrical signal representing the sound). In most cases 1B = 20dB!
This would explain why the dynamic range of 16 bit audio is 96.33dB (20 * log(2^16)) instead of 48.165dB (10 * log(2^16)) as logic would suggest.
It's a because of a combination of two things:
1/ Decibels are a logarithmic scale, as you say. If you want to multiply things together, you can add their logarithms
2/ Decibels are a relative measurement generally applied to waveforms, eg. voltage, current, power.
However, Power = Voltage X Current. If you double the voltage (10 dB), you double the current (10dB), which quadruples the power (20dB).
This is why the variation between 10 and 20, it depends on the dimensions of the quantities you are comparing. I don't know of any offhand, but there are probably quantities where 1B = 30dB.
You can't. By posting it in a public place like Slashdot like you just did, you renounce all copyrights. If you wrote a short story about Robocock instead, and registered it as copyrighted work, you'd own the story -and- the characters, together with their names.
Yes, but you'd only own it for your lifetime + 495 years before it became public domain.
It's not quite that simple. Most linear barcodes can be implemented using only a font, but you can't just type in the number and change the font. There are start and stop codes of (I think) 3 digits, and each code digit is encoded as 3 characters to get the number of lines on the barcode.
If they are going to separate different types of vehicles then this would be the perfect opportunity to build guide/control wires etc into a few lanes to allow automated vehicles to travel it.
There used to be a station (that's a ranch to you yanks) in West Australia that actually was bigger than Texas. Pity it got broken up a few years ago as it was fun pointing it out to texans.
Like it or not your brain is a meat based computer.
If it's not running code, then how are you thinking?
ps. Pavlovian conditioning IS programming, just done in an inefficient way because we have not yet reverse engineered the code running in your (or anybody elses') head.
They are talking about artificial intelligence. By the time it is smarter than you it will talk in what ever accent it feels like, and will be able to shmooze with the shmooziest. And personally I'd take advice from an intelligent computer over that of a human sales rep any day.
Hell, I'd take advice from a dumb computer over that of higher management:)
Actually, at a pressure above 5 atmospheres (3800 mmHg at 980 cm/sec^2), and considerably colder than earth, ammonia is actually a fairly good candidate for replacing water as the fluid of life.
Not true. Printing is cheap. With digital presses even runs of less than a hundred are economical.
Editing, layout and publishing may cost more but the cost of printing and binding a couple of hundred pages is only a few dollars per copy, and goes down as the print run goes up. Factor in handling/postage/shipping etc, and you are looking at a cost of less than $10 per issue.
The reason they are so expensive is the overheads are spread across so few copies.
The reason there are so few copies is because they are so expensive.
Chicken and Egg.
The only CDs I've bought in the last year were two that I paypalled $10 (US) each for, that I bought direct from the artist. I am in Aust. and the artist is in the US. Inkjet cover art and high quality burnt CDs. But the music is good, and the **AAs get nothing. I think this is what scares the shit out of them.
Business administration, accounting and/or sales. You may hate it but skills in those fields will make your tech skills pay far more. They will also be very valuable if you ever start your own business.
A large percenatage of geothermal energy is from the radioactivity of potassium 40. This has a half-life of 1.28e9 years. I don't think it's going to run out soon.
There have sensors in them that measure the actual quality of the print on the page. No way would they work if you put the wrong toner cartriges in. And even if they did, then you'd just be making the pattern easier to see - printing it in magenta or cyan.
I sometimes use some of these printers (xerox's 2060, 5252, 6060's) at work. The dots are straight yellow toner, much smaller than 1 mm, but are large enough to see in bright light if you have excellent eyesight. They are easily visible under a printer's glass, or a decent magnifying glass. The pattern repeats itself across the entire page, whitespace and all. As yellow is the last colour laid on the paper I would expect that they can easily detect the pattern in any area that doesn't have solid yellow. Interesting - I just checked a couple of prints and it is all across the colour one, but not on the one run in black and white mode even though it uses the same print engine.
He said "When CEO's attack" and he has a point. A CEO generally has to project an image of a controlled competent businessman. A public verbal attack on a competitor is often a sign that a CEO is under a fair bit of stress and/or that their company is in an untenable position and they don't know to fix it.
Well, think of it like this - some analogies are like sports cars fast, sleek, expensive and to the point. The ones you want to avoid are the SUVs, big, clunky and wasteful of space.
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But where in there was due process and right to a trial?
Convicting someone on the unsubstantiated word of an official thug is one of the hallmarks of a police state.
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And if that became popular how hard would it be to generate dvorak equivalents for a dictionary attack file?
Going to court is supposed to be the whole point of an arrest.
If you start using the arrest itself as a deterrent what happens when it doesn't work - do you allow police officers to kick the shit out of people "as a deterrent" because they weren't scared of being arrested?
What you are doing is giving the police the power to punish. This is wrong.
Their job is to apprehend, it is up to the court system to decide guilt and assign punishment. Allowing these functions to be given to the police results in what is called "A Police State". This is considered a bad thing.
That article also mentions that he was hiding a truckload for someone, and lied about it. I'd bet that he actually went to jail for giving false information, aiding and abetting or perjury depending on who he lied to.
It's a because of a combination of two things:
1/ Decibels are a logarithmic scale, as you say. If you want to multiply things together, you can add their logarithms
2/ Decibels are a relative measurement generally applied to waveforms, eg. voltage, current, power.
However, Power = Voltage X Current. If you double the voltage (10 dB), you double the current (10dB), which quadruples the power (20dB).
This is why the variation between 10 and 20, it depends on the dimensions of the quantities you are comparing. I don't know of any offhand, but there are probably quantities where 1B = 30dB.
You can't. By posting it in a public place like Slashdot like you just did, you renounce all copyrights. If you wrote a short story about Robocock instead, and registered it as copyrighted work, you'd own the story -and- the characters, together with their names.
Yes, but you'd only own it for your lifetime + 495 years before it became public domain.
It's not quite that simple. Most linear barcodes can be implemented using only a font, but you can't just type in the number and change the font. There are start and stop codes of (I think) 3 digits, and each code digit is encoded as 3 characters to get the number of lines on the barcode.
If they are going to separate different types of vehicles then this would be the perfect opportunity to build guide/control wires etc into a few lanes to allow automated vehicles to travel it.
There used to be a station (that's a ranch to you yanks) in West Australia that actually was bigger than Texas. Pity it got broken up a few years ago as it was fun pointing it out to texans.
Like it or not your brain is a meat based computer.
If it's not running code, then how are you thinking?
ps. Pavlovian conditioning IS programming, just done in an inefficient way because we have not yet reverse engineered the code running in your (or anybody elses') head.
They are talking about artificial intelligence. By the time it is smarter than you it will talk in what ever accent it feels like, and will be able to shmooze with the shmooziest. :)
And personally I'd take advice from an intelligent computer over that of a human sales rep any day.
Hell, I'd take advice from a dumb computer over that of higher management
(or at least I can convince a judge I was defrauded, someone posting FreeBSD_5.3.ISO when it is really some music CD for instance)
And when the procecution cites this post in response to your defence you'll do what?
He will likely say exactly what he said in that post. He was trying to download FreeBSD and someone posted a music CD under that title.
Actually, at a pressure above 5 atmospheres (3800 mmHg at 980 cm/sec^2), and considerably colder than earth, ammonia is actually a fairly good candidate for replacing water as the fluid of life.
If you believe in God then you are by definition a religious nut.
Not true. Printing is cheap. With digital presses even runs of less than a hundred are economical.
Editing, layout and publishing may cost more but the cost of printing and binding a couple of hundred pages is only a few dollars per copy, and goes down as the print run goes up. Factor in handling/postage/shipping etc, and you are looking at a cost of less than $10 per issue.
The reason they are so expensive is the overheads are spread across so few copies.
The reason there are so few copies is because they are so expensive.
Chicken and Egg.
you didn't read the date of that event
18.12.2003
So this is Christmas?
The only CDs I've bought in the last year were two that I paypalled $10 (US) each for, that I bought direct from the artist. I am in Aust. and the artist is in the US. Inkjet cover art and high quality burnt CDs. But the music is good, and the **AAs get nothing. I think this is what scares the shit out of them.
He was talking about inexperienced with linux.
Business administration, accounting and/or sales. You may hate it but skills in those fields will make your tech skills pay far more. They will also be very valuable if you ever start your own business.
A large percenatage of geothermal energy is from the radioactivity of potassium 40. This has a half-life of 1.28e9 years. I don't think it's going to run out soon.
There have sensors in them that measure the actual quality of the print on the page. No way would they work if you put the wrong toner cartriges in.
And even if they did, then you'd just be making the pattern easier to see - printing it in magenta or cyan.
I sometimes use some of these printers (xerox's 2060, 5252, 6060's) at work. The dots are straight yellow toner, much smaller than 1 mm, but are large enough to see in bright light if you have excellent eyesight. They are easily visible under a printer's glass, or a decent magnifying glass.
The pattern repeats itself across the entire page, whitespace and all. As yellow is the last colour laid on the paper I would expect that they can easily detect the pattern in any area that doesn't have solid yellow.
Interesting - I just checked a couple of prints and it is all across the colour one, but not on the one run in black and white mode even though it uses the same print engine.
He said "When CEO's attack" and he has a point.
A CEO generally has to project an image of a controlled competent businessman. A public verbal attack on a competitor is often a sign that a CEO is under a fair bit of stress and/or that their company is in an untenable position and they don't know to fix it.
Well, think of it like this - some analogies are like sports cars fast, sleek, expensive and to the point. The ones you want to avoid are the SUVs, big, clunky and wasteful of space.
No, Lokal, ie States run by Loki
But where in there was due process and right to a trial?
Convicting someone on the unsubstantiated word of an official thug is one of the hallmarks of a police state.