Something i left out... As for "zipping up the car", i should have stated, encasing/entirely zipping up the car, not just covering it and securing it by closing the hood and trunk over the ends and lanyard-tying the sides to the wheels. This way, if the car is "encased", then the cops have NO choice left but to dick with the covering, which ought to (if a warning is spray-painted on stating "no GPS or other kinds of tracking devices to be placed on or under this covering, nor on or in the contents of this covering"... or something to that effect.
ANYONE should be allowed to zip up their car in a car cover and once it's zipped with the licence plate viewable in front and in the rear, and clear plastic windows permit viewing of the normally viewable areas of the car (to address concerns of car abandoned with bodies in the seats), THEN, Wisconsin police would ONLY be able to (reduced to/ass-kicked-down-to) attaching GPS devices on the cover.
Now, if the motorist disposes of the car cover, or de-bugs it, TOUGH SHIT for the WPD! Cutting/tearing the cover and inserting a device should be regarded as breaking and entering. "Exploitation" of a slit/cut car cover should offer NO protection, even if in some states a home's open front door might be a permission for police to enter...
(if you don't have nor want a subscription to the NYT....)
This part probably is getting lots of attention here in/.:
Cadet Brian McCord, part of the team that installed the operating system, said he was chosen because his senior project was deeply reliant on Linux. The West Point team used this open-source operating system, freely available on the Internet, instead of relying on proprietary products from big-name companies like Microsoft or Sun Microsystems.
But this part probably says it all:
""It seems weird for the Army with its large contracts to be using Linux, but it's very cheap and very customizable," McCord said. It is also much easier to secure because "you can tweak it for everything you need" and there are not as many known ways to attack it, he said."
CPL might be confusing enough... Don't tell the PHB that thanks to the new tech merger, Oracle can penetrate new openings where the Sun don't shine... hehhehe
"You only have a limited lifespan, and there are no extensions. Moreover, the value of time is a diminishing quantity once you're an adult. "
If Ben Loebin is his name, then, he can just download into another body. If he's not, then he needs to take the money, run, and sequester himself to figure out how to build a "Resurrection Ship", hehehehe...
"The samples they took were from every Apollo mission, ever. Sometime between the heist and its resolution, Tiffany and Thad arranged the moon rocks on a bed--and had sex amongst them."
1. clamp down on piracy and get people to pay or register quicker 2. get new people to get addicted quicker 3. help obtain a closer-to-the- the PAID SEATS/licenses count and reduce shareholder qualms 4. get a better handle on which OS are run on multiple machines (real and virtual) and at what general locations
Debunking in this story. Unfortunately, none of it will help debug windows... MIght end up de-debugging and de-debunking myths...
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not SWOLLEN colons... ass in swollen parts of speech...
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Unless they accept this as a BSG-esque re-envisioning of ST as was done with Battlestar Galactica.
This Trek movie features an Uhura-Spock relationship NO other episode of Trek i know of refers to.
Kirk served on Farragut, and did not simply get medevaced by a friend doctor/physician and ascend to command. This kirk might have been from Mirror, Mirror. So...
As i stated in my yesterday journal about this (yeh, i got lucky last Saturday and 5 friends along with me at a bar got 5 tickets (one each) to see it):
"Canon is Canon, so, i personally consider this Trek movie as an alternate universe event, similar to Trek's "Mirror, Mirror", and Deep Space Nine's "In a Mirror, Darkly"...."
Kirk's fathers' ship, and this new Enterprise featured a stunning weapons array unlike any in most other Trek episodes/films, so this was just some grab/reach for special WOW effects.
Annoyingly, the engineroom looked and felt more like an industrial cracking facility. At least we got to see beams, pillars, columns/stancions and more. But, the waterpipe swim was kinda lame, and by all rights should have been fatal if not injurious.
Nothing in the canon Trek suggests nor directly fits some of the Kirk-Spock events on the bridge. Sulu from the time we've known of him, had NO deficiencies in his helmsmanship of the Enterprise, so i was mildly torqued that he would commit the error they put in the film.
The transporter capabilities were well ahead of the canon TOS tech, and to me, everything IN this movie says, "ALTERNATE TIMELINE! ALTERNATE TIMELINE". Not that that is bad, it's just devious or subterfuge to foist it on the existing and new fans to fill seats.
I won't spoil the details around Vulcan and Romulus, but canon Trek episodes i recall say NOTHING about what happened in this movie. I don't care what novels say, and don't consider them canon unless they fit with episodes or don't introduce convoluted/inexplicable anomalies.
The pace of the film was too damned fast. That i saw it in imax was not impressive in the least mainly because i was in front row, seat 4 from left, and felt like a turtle or worm, neck swiveling to and fro to see things. imax and theatre designers are pretty stupid to insist on inserting "revenue-generating" seats that close to the screen. New screen geometry is needed, or ripping out the super-close seats is called for. I *might* go back an pay to watch this movie, but will wait for a few more days for things to thin out so i can almost guarantee myself a good, center seat.
But, since i *did* like the film as i'd almost immediately told myself "ALternate UniWerse", it was watchable. Hard-core Trek fans will probably seethe, hiss, and feel let down. Probably...
It seems to some that Win7 is more like Windows Server 2008.... What i found so far is ok, but i could not figure out in the interface (start or in menu/explorer/tools how to make win7 restore open folders on reboot/looging in. Vista and XP have it (but not w2k). So, is this something ms is doing deliberately to see how many people scream?
OTOH, removing that feature *might* be to deny people having umpteen number of explorers open (file explorers and ie?) up on logging back in. This could be a feint to make people get to the desktop faster. But, it creates the aggravation due to the need to put shortcuts of things into the startup folder. Failing that, the user has to go trawling around for folders from previous sessions.... Rather Annoying.
What i noticed, too, is that whereas in Vista in VirtualBox i could open and use files, win 7 croaks/complains if i try to open some files traversing via VBox to a Linux share. It is not just shares or less-net-savvy apps from 1999 or 2003, but even modern ones released just 3 weeks ago. I'll try again, but my initial workaround was to create in the win7 volume a folder containing the files to be used.
But, when i buy another laptop (probably December), i may be ok with w7 on it -- as long as i have the reinstallation media so i can shove win7 into VirtualBox. I don't run native instances/instantiations of windows, and i don't surf with win, and since it seems to be tough finding service packs without having to go online, my vista install is still at home premium, sans any service packs. Probably ms' way of trying to keep a closer-to-real-life tally on the number of vista users (legit or bootleg) and what version of vista they're on. I be w7 will be similarly operating.
But, for now, i'm going to keep using Vista and likely dump w7 beta before it even expires, otherwise i'll have far too much stuff to track to avoid forking what i'm doing in Vista and testing in w7. At least w7 nicely dynamically expanded to the max res of VBox and my laptop.
Well, if the fans of that facility want to generate some sizzle and buzz, they can just become angry enough and recoil from the light of speed to the speed of light, put some copper and argon in the air, and zap the naysayers. Buzz and hype will drive the media into a shock frenzy.
Listenting to NPR and searching around the Internet(s), i learned that in the EU (or parts of it) or even in Australia, one can be charged with "Holocaust Denial". But, i suppose only those who go well out of their way to stridently and vociferously set out to dismantle the history and debunk the evidence will get charged. Then again, maybe high school kids or young adults just mouthing off might be sent to remedial or reeducation facilities...
The CHAIR FORCE, the CHAIR FORCE A GREAT way of STREIF, a GREAT way of STREIffff...
(for any of you old enough to remember the USAF commercials jingle)
Now, mix "chair force" (seated, w/ little ground action) work style with chair-throwing generals.... hehehehe... who needs bunker busters and snazzy guidance systems when generals will be able to out-Balmer Balmer by throwing government standard chairs at quanto-molecular speeds?
"Sensors hidden in every cupboard door, appliance and utensil tell a central computer exactly what a dementia patient is doing at any time.
If the kitchen thinks the individual has become confused, it projects written reminders of what to do next on to the closest wall."
I sense a Diabolical Dance Dance Revolution coming along.... Could be a virtual Soylent Green of sorts... for those at their wits end..
But, this sort of technology could be useful for tracking and directing house-arrest subjects; prisoners; uncontrollable police; mayors visiting brothels; students; pets; and those who design such systems....
otony may be why SatNav systems guide or confuse the elderly over or onto piers, cliffs, rail tracks....
Diabolical SatNav: Turn right and head into Aisl 5. Increase speed. Aim directly for open electrical box behind flapping chill curtain. Worried? Don't worry. Continue pushing cart into open, live panel...
Bjzjjzhhhzhzhuhhh
Ku-thunk...
Diabolical SatNav: Non-perishable non-go-back flapping in Aisle 5. Bring air evacuator! Reason: Boiling/evaporating Ensure and Depends in high concentration.
Can't those avatar contracts be called "avatracts"? It seems silly to regulate virtual contracts if there is no hidden real-world contracting going on inside these avatracts.
I first want to say, I bet intel will compute with as many threads as HQ can to get out of paying this fine, or at least they'll compute like hell to reduce it.
i had your sentiment (i think), and someone (no, TWO ppl) got high marks for parroting the separation of profit-making from morality...
"Why is it so hard for some people to believe that Apple isn't this wonderful non-profit business with only intentions of making the world better? They are a for profit business, like the rest of them, with profit as the bottom line. They sell products to make money. That is all. Some people like their products better than others. But don't equate the products they sell with how they run their corporation."
If I had mod points, I'd mod you to 4 or higher. But, i guess, the way things are around here, i'll get downmodded, and if you get upmodded, someone will snatch it away from you.
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They want to pass the federal government's pass/pass grading system.
Something i left out... As for "zipping up the car", i should have stated, encasing/entirely zipping up the car, not just covering it and securing it by closing the hood and trunk over the ends and lanyard-tying the sides to the wheels. This way, if the car is "encased", then the cops have NO choice left but to dick with the covering, which ought to (if a warning is spray-painted on stating "no GPS or other kinds of tracking devices to be placed on or under this covering, nor on or in the contents of this covering"... or something to that effect.
To answer Wisconsin's specious assertions:
ANYONE should be allowed to zip up their car in a car cover and once it's zipped with the licence plate viewable in front and in the rear, and clear plastic windows permit viewing of the normally viewable areas of the car (to address concerns of car abandoned with bodies in the seats), THEN, Wisconsin police would ONLY be able to (reduced to/ass-kicked-down-to) attaching GPS devices on the cover.
Now, if the motorist disposes of the car cover, or de-bugs it, TOUGH SHIT for the WPD! Cutting/tearing the cover and inserting a device should be regarded as breaking and entering. "Exploitation" of a slit/cut car cover should offer NO protection, even if in some states a home's open front door might be a permission for police to enter...
Cadets trade trenches for firewalls
http://news.cnet.com/2100-7350_3-6249633.html
(if you don't have nor want a subscription to the NYT....)
This part probably is getting lots of attention here in /.:
Cadet Brian McCord, part of the team that installed the operating system, said he was chosen because his senior project was deeply reliant on Linux. The West Point team used this open-source operating system, freely available on the Internet, instead of relying on proprietary products from big-name companies like Microsoft or Sun Microsystems.
But this part probably says it all:
""It seems weird for the Army with its large contracts to be using Linux, but it's very cheap and very customizable," McCord said. It is also much easier to secure because "you can tweak it for everything you need" and there are not as many known ways to attack it, he said."
Maybe TPB is a SOF (Ship of Fools)?....
CPL might be confusing enough... Don't tell the PHB that thanks to the new tech merger, Oracle can penetrate new openings where the Sun don't shine... hehhehe
then VAGUE is his game...
"You only have a limited lifespan, and there are no extensions. Moreover, the value of time is a diminishing quantity once you're an adult. "
If Ben Loebin is his name, then, he can just download into another body. If he's not, then he needs to take the money, run, and sequester himself to figure out how to build a "Resurrection Ship", hehehehe...
"The samples they took were from every Apollo mission, ever. Sometime between the heist and its resolution, Tiffany and Thad arranged the moon rocks on a bed--and had sex amongst them."
Talk about getting your rocks off....
1. clamp down on piracy and get people to pay or register quicker
2. get new people to get addicted quicker
3. help obtain a closer-to-the- the PAID SEATS/licenses count and reduce shareholder qualms
4. get a better handle on which OS are run on multiple machines (real and virtual) and at what general locations
Debunking in this story. Unfortunately, none of it will help debug windows... MIght end up de-debugging and de-debunking myths...
not SWOLLEN colons... ass in swollen parts of speech...
Unless they accept this as a BSG-esque re-envisioning of ST as was done with Battlestar Galactica.
This Trek movie features an Uhura-Spock relationship NO other episode of Trek i know of refers to.
Kirk served on Farragut, and did not simply get medevaced by a friend doctor/physician and ascend to command. This kirk might have been from Mirror, Mirror. So...
As i stated in my yesterday journal about this (yeh, i got lucky last Saturday and 5 friends along with me at a bar got 5 tickets (one each) to see it):
"Canon is Canon, so, i personally consider this Trek movie as an alternate universe event, similar to Trek's "Mirror, Mirror", and Deep Space Nine's "In a Mirror, Darkly"...."
Kirk's fathers' ship, and this new Enterprise featured a stunning weapons array unlike any in most other Trek episodes/films, so this was just some grab/reach for special WOW effects.
Annoyingly, the engineroom looked and felt more like an industrial cracking facility. At least we got to see beams, pillars, columns/stancions and more. But, the waterpipe swim was kinda lame, and by all rights should have been fatal if not injurious.
Nothing in the canon Trek suggests nor directly fits some of the Kirk-Spock events on the bridge. Sulu from the time we've known of him, had NO deficiencies in his helmsmanship of the Enterprise, so i was mildly torqued that he would commit the error they put in the film.
The transporter capabilities were well ahead of the canon TOS tech, and to me, everything IN this movie says, "ALTERNATE TIMELINE! ALTERNATE TIMELINE". Not that that is bad, it's just devious or subterfuge to foist it on the existing and new fans to fill seats.
I won't spoil the details around Vulcan and Romulus, but canon Trek episodes i recall say NOTHING about what happened in this movie. I don't care what novels say, and don't consider them canon unless they fit with episodes or don't introduce convoluted/inexplicable anomalies.
The pace of the film was too damned fast. That i saw it in imax was not impressive in the least mainly because i was in front row, seat 4 from left, and felt like a turtle or worm, neck swiveling to and fro to see things. imax and theatre designers are pretty stupid to insist on inserting "revenue-generating" seats that close to the screen. New screen geometry is needed, or ripping out the super-close seats is called for. I *might* go back an pay to watch this movie, but will wait for a few more days for things to thin out so i can almost guarantee myself a good, center seat.
But, since i *did* like the film as i'd almost immediately told myself "ALternate UniWerse", it was watchable. Hard-core Trek fans will probably seethe, hiss, and feel let down. Probably...
chance for Shatner to redo Kingdom of the Spiders..... but, in ESPERANTO...
It seems to some that Win7 is more like Windows Server 2008.... What i found so far is ok, but i could not figure out in the interface (start or in menu/explorer/tools how to make win7 restore open folders on reboot/looging in. Vista and XP have it (but not w2k). So, is this something ms is doing deliberately to see how many people scream?
OTOH, removing that feature *might* be to deny people having umpteen number of explorers open (file explorers and ie?) up on logging back in. This could be a feint to make people get to the desktop faster. But, it creates the aggravation due to the need to put shortcuts of things into the startup folder. Failing that, the user has to go trawling around for folders from previous sessions.... Rather Annoying.
What i noticed, too, is that whereas in Vista in VirtualBox i could open and use files, win 7 croaks/complains if i try to open some files traversing via VBox to a Linux share. It is not just shares or less-net-savvy apps from 1999 or 2003, but even modern ones released just 3 weeks ago. I'll try again, but my initial workaround was to create in the win7 volume a folder containing the files to be used.
But, when i buy another laptop (probably December), i may be ok with w7 on it -- as long as i have the reinstallation media so i can shove win7 into VirtualBox. I don't run native instances/instantiations of windows, and i don't surf with win, and since it seems to be tough finding service packs without having to go online, my vista install is still at home premium, sans any service packs. Probably ms' way of trying to keep a closer-to-real-life tally on the number of vista users (legit or bootleg) and what version of vista they're on. I be w7 will be similarly operating.
But, for now, i'm going to keep using Vista and likely dump w7 beta before it even expires, otherwise i'll have far too much stuff to track to avoid forking what i'm doing in Vista and testing in w7. At least w7 nicely dynamically expanded to the max res of VBox and my laptop.
Red Matter? Sure, Spock will take the blame, too, and have double indemnity and double identity...
Live Long(er) and prosp(er)...
this idea.
Last year, we read about/or i read about:
http://corporate.honda.com/safety/details.aspx?id=pedestrian
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/lifestyle/autos/news/article_1435518.php/Honda_improves_pedestrian_safety_with_new_generation_dummies
http://world.honda.com/news/2004/4040824_02.html
https://www.japancorp.net/Article.Asp?Art_ID=8166
Well, if the fans of that facility want to generate some sizzle and buzz, they can just become angry enough and recoil from the light of speed to the speed of light, put some copper and argon in the air, and zap the naysayers. Buzz and hype will drive the media into a shock frenzy.
Listenting to NPR and searching around the Internet(s), i learned that in the EU (or parts of it) or even in Australia, one can be charged with "Holocaust Denial". But, i suppose only those who go well out of their way to stridently and vociferously set out to dismantle the history and debunk the evidence will get charged. Then again, maybe high school kids or young adults just mouthing off might be sent to remedial or reeducation facilities...
I bet this created SH*T LOADS of carbon...
Google didn't use mowers to get rid of the grass, but i'll bet they'll use vehicles vacuum the ass grass (poop).
But, those workers better be careful not to drive to fast on the assy knoll... LOL!
The CHAIR FORCE, the CHAIR FORCE
A GREAT way of STREIF, a GREAT way of STREIffff...
(for any of you old enough to remember the USAF commercials jingle)
Now, mix "chair force" (seated, w/ little ground action) work style with chair-throwing generals.... hehehehe... who needs bunker busters and snazzy guidance systems when generals will be able to out-Balmer Balmer by throwing government standard chairs at quanto-molecular speeds?
Gateway THUG or gateway PUG, or even more scary... gatway to mslug (ms linux users' group)
"Sensors hidden in every cupboard door, appliance and utensil tell a central computer exactly what a dementia patient is doing at any time.
If the kitchen thinks the individual has become confused, it projects written reminders of what to do next on to the closest wall."
I sense a Diabolical Dance Dance Revolution coming along.... Could be a virtual Soylent Green of sorts... for those at their wits end..
But, this sort of technology could be useful for tracking and directing house-arrest subjects; prisoners; uncontrollable police; mayors visiting brothels; students; pets; and those who design such systems....
otony may be why SatNav systems guide or confuse the elderly over or onto piers, cliffs, rail tracks....
Diabolical SatNav: Turn right and head into Aisl 5. Increase speed. Aim directly for open electrical box behind flapping chill curtain. Worried? Don't worry. Continue pushing cart into open, live panel...
Bjzjjzhhhzhzhuhhh
Ku-thunk...
Diabolical SatNav: Non-perishable non-go-back flapping in Aisle 5. Bring air evacuator! Reason: Boiling/evaporating Ensure and Depends in high concentration.
Can't those avatar contracts be called "avatracts"? It seems silly to regulate virtual contracts if there is no hidden real-world contracting going on inside these avatracts.
I first want to say, I bet intel will compute with as many threads as HQ can to get out of paying this fine, or at least they'll compute like hell to reduce it.
Incidentally
In my:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1214651&cid=27761197
i had your sentiment (i think), and someone (no, TWO ppl) got high marks for parroting the separation of profit-making from morality...
"Why is it so hard for some people to believe that Apple isn't this wonderful non-profit business with only intentions of making the world better? They are a for profit business, like the rest of them, with profit as the bottom line. They sell products to make money. That is all. Some people like their products better than others. But don't equate the products they sell with how they run their corporation."
If I had mod points, I'd mod you to 4 or higher. But, i guess, the way things are around here, i'll get downmodded, and if you get upmodded, someone will snatch it away from you.