I suspect Popular Mechanics plagiarised this from elsewhere. According to H.G. Wells in War of the Worlds the martians had this technique perfected in the late 19th century.
IMHO (IANAL), the big difference between this and filesharing should be the intention of the user. However much we all do it, and whatever the moral arguments regarding record companies fixing prices and ripping off artists, filesharing is obviously against the law. (Please note I said against the law rather than wrong). With this service it could be argued that the end user has made a payment to an apparently legal service in return for music, and therefore I think it should be a lot harder for the record companies to take legal action against those users. I guess this would never stand up in court if it got that far, but it should make issuing the lawsuits harder. Hopefully...
In answer to your question, and according to the Register, free-floating laptops restrained only by thin ethernet cable and BNC connectors. Of course the URL would seem to indicate that the pic is in actual fact the shuttle rather than the ISS, but why let the facts get in the way of a good story!
One of my colleagues swiftly changed one of his passwords recently. It was analyst with a capital A and the 'y' replaced with a '1'. The day he changed it was the day he had to give it to a support techie over the phone, when she read it back as "anal first" he realised what he'd done...
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I suspect Popular Mechanics plagiarised this from elsewhere. According to H.G. Wells in War of the Worlds the martians had this technique perfected in the late 19th century.
IMHO (IANAL), the big difference between this and filesharing should be the intention of the user. However much we all do it, and whatever the moral arguments regarding record companies fixing prices and ripping off artists, filesharing is obviously against the law. (Please note I said against the law rather than wrong). With this service it could be argued that the end user has made a payment to an apparently legal service in return for music, and therefore I think it should be a lot harder for the record companies to take legal action against those users. I guess this would never stand up in court if it got that far, but it should make issuing the lawsuits harder. Hopefully...
This makes you wonder what specification of hardware gets used in spacefaring vehicles/structures.
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In answer to your question, and according to the Register, free-floating laptops restrained only by thin ethernet cable and BNC connectors. Of course the URL would seem to indicate that the pic is in actual fact the shuttle rather than the ISS, but why let the facts get in the way of a good story!
Not sure about the rest of it, but there's no shortage of banana peels over here
Integrity? Come on, whatever the pedigree he's still a salesman
His boss: OK, you're on probation until you get this first sale. There's this council in Munich...
Los Angeles, 18th April 2004
./ story about me in just a couple of days.
Clay Claiborne: But I am somebody, I have made somthing of myself. Hell, if I wanted to I could get a whole
Clay Claiborne's Mum (bored voice): Yes dear, I'm sure you could...
One of my colleagues swiftly changed one of his passwords recently. It was analyst with a capital A and the 'y' replaced with a '1'. The day he changed it was the day he had to give it to a support techie over the phone, when she read it back as "anal first" he realised what he'd done...
I'm not a big fan of the two party system (the UK is much like the US in this respect), because it divides everything into left or right
Shouldn't that be right and right?