I suspect violation the ITAR and Arms Export Control Act will lead to a far more speedy shutdown of such a "service" than a protacted copyright or patent case might.
... except if the air fuel mixture above the gasoline pool is in the flammable range (about 1.4 to 7.6% gasoline by volume) in which case the match will not reach the pool and eyebrows will be badly singed.
Now not having a Facebook account is treated by HR departments as suspicious behavior.
This, I fear, is quite believable given some of the looks of incredulity I have had when asked by HR for my mobile (cell, for our American brethren) number. I politely decline on the grounds that I neither own nor want a mobile phone. One HR drone even accused me of being dishonest because it was so far beyond her youthful experience as to be unbelievable that one could survive without a mobile. Heck, our home phone when I was a child was made of bakelite and had a handle on the front you turned vigorously to get the operator's attention: our complete phone number was "78". (For the record I am only 45.)
Perjury is a felony in the US (see 18 USC 1621) so one might expect the relevant government to intervene and prosecute. One might also be disappointed.
Sunny Wynnum (not this morning though)... and I've only just noticed that Slashdot ate the remainder of my post, must have been an unencoded < or > symbol:( I made further comment that Northern Territory mosquitoes seem to start the day by downing a glass of DEET, and that only 40%+ DEET products even make a dent.
As someone with the pleasure of living near mangroves (Brisbane Australia) I can attest to the relatively ineffective deterrence offered by common DEET-based repellents (
but can't ANY sort of radio transmission be used for triangulating the transmitter?
Yes, that's true, but your transmissions don't have to cooperate with the person trying to triangulate. You do everything you can to make the transmissions very short, hard to find in the first place, and hard to follow over time. This includes doing things like minimising the data volume, rapid frequency hopping using cryptographic strength randomisation, spreading the signal over large frequency range, adaptively making the signal barely strong enough to reach its receiver, beam forming and steering, etc. Depending on application you could even make of point of communication by reflection so the signal comes from many directions.
The US has a long history of not sharing its latest toys, even with the current crop of "allies", so I don't think there is anything new here.
Use Linux day to day, and Windows where I have to. I have a legit Win 8 Pro upgrade and a home built machine: i7-2600, 16GB RAM, Nvidia 8800GTS, no built-in video. I cannot get Win 8 to install on this machine, never get to the "Personalize" screen after the reboot during install: just a black screen. No diagnostics, no safe mode available unless the machine can boot far enough to get a display, no failed to boot menu because Win8 thinks it has booted successfully. Great experience all round...
By "large" balsy2001 seems to mean "large, densely packed population". NY City is very densely packed and that is definitely an aid to trip distance and time reduction. Unfortunately for both the US and Australia large is almost always synonymous with sprawling when it comes to cities. Coupled with "transport infrastructure" being a euphemism for "bare minimum road network for private vehicles" there's little hope that mass public transport can come to the rescue.
The chapter on electromagnetism could just read, "James Clerk Maxwell is God": or at least it could if he wasn't one of those pesky foreigners. It is, of course, axiomatic that God is a Texan or at least American.
Any numbers on how many criminal perjury charges for allegedly false DMCA claims have been laid, prosecuted, and convicted (or not)? I suspect precisely zero, but I do not have access to the requisite US legal records. A criminal offence that is not prosecuted is moot.
An ellipse is "a plane curve such that the sums of the distances of each point in its periphery from two fixed points, the foci, are equal." Quite how that is useful in this discourse escapes me. Perhaps you meant ellipsis. Anonymous Cowards in glass houses...
Teaching some sort of computer literacy at an early age, however crass a marketing strategy, is probably preferable to the recent push to have economics taught to primary school students in Australia. I cannot imagine a worse strategy than to indoctrinate children with the economic fallacies of endless resources and growth.
The logic of ambit claims will goes like this (figures are examples only): the most revenue (not profit) we have ever taken in an hour is 1.5M, we were off-the-air for 2 hours (rounded up of course), therefore we 'lost' 3M. For that 2 hours our company-wide expenditure was 0.5M which was not bringing in money and therefore a 'loss'. Total 3.5M 'lost'. It, of course, completely ignores the massive spike in payments during the few hours after their system came back as the vast majority of payments that could not be completed in the outage were completed later anyway (that spike may even have driven the peak revenue figure used above). It also ignores the average global revenue for PayPal (USD1.54 billion Q4 2012 https://www.paypal-media.com/about) of about GBP 450,000/hr, the fact the majority of expense would have been incurred anyway and is not additional etc. etc. Usually ambit claims are made with the intent to negotiate down to something sane, but negotiation in criminal matters is something only corporations get to do.
These pointer lasers are controlled items in many places because, aside from the obvious general hazard, morons deliberately point them at aircraft cockpits. Only occasionally do the fools get identified but it warms the cockles of my heart when they do: I am an amateur astronomer and have also been involved in the airborne end of this stupidity.
Europeans struggling as the result of neoliberalism (while the top 0.1% do very well for themselves) is a Good Thing(tm), honest;)... but if you struggle as a result of the policies of the "Axis of Evil" (while the top 1% do very well for themselves) then that's bad through and through.
No, the article clearly says it is the Attorney-General's department (the public service organisation that contains ASIO) through an anonymous "spokesman for the Attorney-General's Department" not the Attorney-General herself that is "pushing for new powers for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to hijack the computers of suspected terrorists." ASIO playing the fear card in public arenas and making excessive demands is the typical method of ratcheting up their existing powers to some some lesser degree.
I, too, hope for minor damage only. After first-hand experience of the bushfire that destroyed Mount Stromlo 18 Jan 2003 (and the ensuing shit fight with insurers) I would not wish a similar loss on the ANU and others again.
Just for the record, the land burnt or burning in the current outbreak is 368,940 hectares (~911,670 acres) in the State of New South Wales (with a few just over State borders) where most of the fires are concentrated. The largest single fire is approx 177,000 hectares (437,000 acres). (Source: http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/feeds/majorIncidents.xml at 2013-01-09T21:10Z)
There does not appear to be "a whole lot in central Australia to burn" but what is present, not forests but grassland, is tinder dry and burns routinely and for extended periods. The last few years have seen abnormally high rainfall in large parts of the interior (result of cyclones) which has made the fuel load higher than usual. Take a look at the NASA Black Marble imagery: almost all light not on the coastal fringe is the result of a fire in this compound imagery (22 days in 2012). http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/aus-fires.html
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I suspect violation the ITAR and Arms Export Control Act will lead to a far more speedy shutdown of such a "service" than a protacted copyright or patent case might.
... except if the air fuel mixture above the gasoline pool is in the flammable range (about 1.4 to 7.6% gasoline by volume) in which case the match will not reach the pool and eyebrows will be badly singed.
Is there a $35 charge for that? ;)
Now not having a Facebook account is treated by HR departments as suspicious behavior.
This, I fear, is quite believable given some of the looks of incredulity I have had when asked by HR for my mobile (cell, for our American brethren) number. I politely decline on the grounds that I neither own nor want a mobile phone. One HR drone even accused me of being dishonest because it was so far beyond her youthful experience as to be unbelievable that one could survive without a mobile. Heck, our home phone when I was a child was made of bakelite and had a handle on the front you turned vigorously to get the operator's attention: our complete phone number was "78". (For the record I am only 45.)
Perjury is a felony in the US (see 18 USC 1621) so one might expect the relevant government to intervene and prosecute. One might also be disappointed.
Sunny Wynnum (not this morning though) ... and I've only just noticed that Slashdot ate the remainder of my post, must have been an unencoded < or > symbol :( I made further comment that Northern Territory mosquitoes seem to start the day by downing a glass of DEET, and that only 40%+ DEET products even make a dent.
As someone with the pleasure of living near mangroves (Brisbane Australia) I can attest to the relatively ineffective deterrence offered by common DEET-based repellents (
but can't ANY sort of radio transmission be used for triangulating the transmitter?
Yes, that's true, but your transmissions don't have to cooperate with the person trying to triangulate. You do everything you can to make the transmissions very short, hard to find in the first place, and hard to follow over time. This includes doing things like minimising the data volume, rapid frequency hopping using cryptographic strength randomisation, spreading the signal over large frequency range, adaptively making the signal barely strong enough to reach its receiver, beam forming and steering, etc. Depending on application you could even make of point of communication by reflection so the signal comes from many directions.
The US has a long history of not sharing its latest toys, even with the current crop of "allies", so I don't think there is anything new here.
Use Linux day to day, and Windows where I have to. I have a legit Win 8 Pro upgrade and a home built machine: i7-2600, 16GB RAM, Nvidia 8800GTS, no built-in video. I cannot get Win 8 to install on this machine, never get to the "Personalize" screen after the reboot during install: just a black screen. No diagnostics, no safe mode available unless the machine can boot far enough to get a display, no failed to boot menu because Win8 thinks it has booted successfully. Great experience all round...
By "large" balsy2001 seems to mean "large, densely packed population". NY City is very densely packed and that is definitely an aid to trip distance and time reduction. Unfortunately for both the US and Australia large is almost always synonymous with sprawling when it comes to cities. Coupled with "transport infrastructure" being a euphemism for "bare minimum road network for private vehicles" there's little hope that mass public transport can come to the rescue.
The chapter on electromagnetism could just read, "James Clerk Maxwell is God": or at least it could if he wasn't one of those pesky foreigners. It is, of course, axiomatic that God is a Texan or at least American.
Relying on any form of email for multi-million dollar tender delivery is the career limiting move here.
Any numbers on how many criminal perjury charges for allegedly false DMCA claims have been laid, prosecuted, and convicted (or not)? I suspect precisely zero, but I do not have access to the requisite US legal records. A criminal offence that is not prosecuted is moot.
An ellipse is "a plane curve such that the sums of the distances of each point in its periphery from two fixed points, the foci, are equal." Quite how that is useful in this discourse escapes me. Perhaps you meant ellipsis. Anonymous Cowards in glass houses...
I doubt the US government has any interest in me.
Yes, but how do they know that you are as pure as the driven snow and hardly a threat before they look?
Teaching some sort of computer literacy at an early age, however crass a marketing strategy, is probably preferable to the recent push to have economics taught to primary school students in Australia. I cannot imagine a worse strategy than to indoctrinate children with the economic fallacies of endless resources and growth.
I don't think HMV will have to worry about if for long.. even if the trademark could be enforced in the UK, Ireland, Singapore and Hong Kong.
D'oh! Meant to reply to GP.
The logic of ambit claims will goes like this (figures are examples only): the most revenue (not profit) we have ever taken in an hour is 1.5M, we were off-the-air for 2 hours (rounded up of course), therefore we 'lost' 3M. For that 2 hours our company-wide expenditure was 0.5M which was not bringing in money and therefore a 'loss'. Total 3.5M 'lost'. It, of course, completely ignores the massive spike in payments during the few hours after their system came back as the vast majority of payments that could not be completed in the outage were completed later anyway (that spike may even have driven the peak revenue figure used above). It also ignores the average global revenue for PayPal (USD1.54 billion Q4 2012 https://www.paypal-media.com/about) of about GBP 450,000/hr, the fact the majority of expense would have been incurred anyway and is not additional etc. etc. Usually ambit claims are made with the intent to negotiate down to something sane, but negotiation in criminal matters is something only corporations get to do.
These pointer lasers are controlled items in many places because, aside from the obvious general hazard, morons deliberately point them at aircraft cockpits. Only occasionally do the fools get identified but it warms the cockles of my heart when they do: I am an amateur astronomer and have also been involved in the airborne end of this stupidity.
Europeans struggling as the result of neoliberalism (while the top 0.1% do very well for themselves) is a Good Thing(tm), honest ;) ... but if you struggle as a result of the policies of the "Axis of Evil" (while the top 1% do very well for themselves) then that's bad through and through.
No, the article clearly says it is the Attorney-General's department (the public service organisation that contains ASIO) through an anonymous "spokesman for the Attorney-General's Department" not the Attorney-General herself that is "pushing for new powers for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to hijack the computers of suspected terrorists." ASIO playing the fear card in public arenas and making excessive demands is the typical method of ratcheting up their existing powers to some some lesser degree.
I, too, hope for minor damage only. After first-hand experience of the bushfire that destroyed Mount Stromlo 18 Jan 2003 (and the ensuing shit fight with insurers) I would not wish a similar loss on the ANU and others again.
Just for the record, the land burnt or burning in the current outbreak is 368,940 hectares (~911,670 acres) in the State of New South Wales (with a few just over State borders) where most of the fires are concentrated. The largest single fire is approx 177,000 hectares (437,000 acres). (Source: http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/feeds/majorIncidents.xml at 2013-01-09T21:10Z)
There does not appear to be "a whole lot in central Australia to burn" but what is present, not forests but grassland, is tinder dry and burns routinely and for extended periods. The last few years have seen abnormally high rainfall in large parts of the interior (result of cyclones) which has made the fuel load higher than usual. Take a look at the NASA Black Marble imagery: almost all light not on the coastal fringe is the result of a fire in this compound imagery (22 days in 2012). http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/aus-fires.html
Not unlike the average Subway "restaurant" then... even out here in Australia.