Anecdotal evidence: all the dells I've used (7-8) never needed a repair in the first year. When they did break it was stuff like the clips to hold the media bay stuff in. My niece's MacBook? Less than 6 months before the hard drive burned out.
You know when I play my video games? Between he time I start putting my toddler to bed and when he actually goes to sleep. So now a days I am limited to my Nintendo DS. When I hear him get up I can quickly click it closed (especially since most of the newer games auto pause when the clamshell is closed) and go put him back down. This takes up to a half hour or so.
The only real problem is if he gets a hold of it. I either need to wait for two hours when he finally drops it (he doesn't play the games, just takes the pen out and tries to scribble ont he top screen) or I have to bear two hours of him screaming "GAME GAME GAAAAAMMMEEE!!!" when I take it away from him. And I can jsut forget about playing it in front of him. That means it's at least a year or so before I can buy the Wii and put it somewhere other than the closet.
Wrong, one time pads can be broken, but the problem is you aren't sure you have broken it. Take the cryptext "ABCDE" you can break a perfect one time pad, but unless you know the decrypted text you won't know if the word was "apple" or "venus" or "my dog" or "EDCBA."
What makes a one time pad work so well is that you are not sure when you have broken it. This is due to the lack of a repeting block (which most current encryption uses to some extent) where you continue to get sensible results. after you get "apple" out of the cryptext.
While the US didn't find the mass stockpile of WMDs that the intelligence community swore were there (and the conspirocy theorists say that Russia helped move to Syria under teh watchful nose of George Clooney). There were some individual munitions found with mustard gas, nerve agents, but not a whole lot of them, I beleive you can count the total number of shells without untieing your shoes.
I bet with that fact you can get the same 60/20 split just by how you phrase the survey questions... "Did the US find any WMDs in Iraq?" "Did we find the WMDs George Bush said we would find?" I would answer yes and no respectivly. And Wasington did not say no WMDs were found, but the WMDs that the intelligence said we would find wern't there.
The details of how and what you say can inform the listener, and you can give both spins without really going too far off of the ethics beidge and make solid defenses. That is why I feel it is importiant to get both sides from two different sources who can admit, tacitly or explicitly, they are on opposite sides.
No one will agree ever on what the balanced middle is, but if you braket it on both sides then you can find it easier.
Actually, if done properly the two series could still interact.
Consider this speculation based on my interpretation of Brother Cavlis statement "Somehow we got it in our head that we were the children of Humanity." What if the Humano-Cylons are not descended from the tin-suit cylons but are more likely...Cylon Clones of the Lords of Kobol.
You see, the Lords of Kobol either were already the Humano-Cylons or a few of them are still around and somewhat immortal. But they still have a god they worship who commands that they multiply and replinish the galaxy (the cylon god). So if they found a stray Cylon ship, and with their and the cylon's technology were able to create the Humano-Cylons in thieir own image.
Still with me? So how does this fit into the prequel? Prior to us discovering this in BSG we have a plot that develops in Caprica where we either see the Lords og Kobol manipulating Cylons or where they discover it. So everyone is wondering "WTF is Boomer/Six/Xena doing guest starring on Caprica?" If written properly there could be some messed up things happening on BSG that all of the sudden this explains and helps make sense. We set up a big secret on BSG but the reveal is on Caprica! BSG gets their reveal, but several episodes later ald loyal viewers know it in advance.
A more sustainable twist may be that the Greystones discover some banned LoK Tech (perhaps they knew abot Kobol all along and got it there) and that is what seeds the Cylons. Any return to Kobol will be paid for in blood, and Cylon War I could be the cause of that. That may help to fill the mythology of the religion being used to keep the colonies from retrieving LoK tech from Kobol.
Who said it was Admirl Adama who was the cylon? All that he said to Roslin was "Adam is a Cylon..." not which Adama. It does seem weasley to make apollo adopted or switched at birth or something, but there is room. What if Mrs. Adam was a Cylon and Apollo is a hybrid like Hera?
This partisan stuff gets old, Kerry had a lower GPA at yale and can't pronounce "idea" instead pronouncing it "idear." There's something wrong with eery politicain, watching people point it out as though it is relevant gets tireing.
Dude, comedy is best when it is self mocking. That's why I'll take Glenn Beck when he is doing is "Evil Conservitive" bits over posers like Colbert. The whole "This is what Lefties think of Righties" is old hat, and the "This is where Righties know we've gone too far" is the new poo!
Wow, it used to be that slashdot was the place I saw stories before I read them elsewhere. However, I saw this story in my dead-tree sunday newspaper in Denver... Yesterday! Which means the copy was ready by saturday sometime, and being an news wire story it was likely ready by Friday. Scooped on a nationally syndicated story by a dead-tree newspaper. Oh how the mighty have fallen!
Unless it's tracking something like a login and only if it's from the originating site should one eat a cookie. Not an aytime food like when they want to track you all across the web!
But by blocking VIOP connections they are either modifying the communication or participatin in the source/destination step, by changing the destination to the bit bucket.
By doing this they operate without the safe harbor and are hence suable via vicarious liability.
Take the logical step the opposite direction. If they have shown an ability and willingness to block a certian kind of traffic, then they have the ability to block other, probably illegal, kinds of traffic. I.e. gnutella/bittorrent. Hence, RIAA can sue them instead of the end users.
By sniffing into the content of the data steam said ISP is no longer a common carrier and can and IMHO should be held by law liable for other such content brought to their attention or reasonable attention. So any P2P networks data should also be blockaded. That "common carrier" state is what was keeping ISPs from being sued in the neo-napster lawsuits and what they are doing with VIOP is taking action that disqualifies them from being a common carrier: concerning themselves with what their customers are doing and acting on it.
I hope for freedoms sake RIAA puts them out of business. It's either all permitted or resitricted to the fullest extent of the law, not what makes you competitively advantageous.
Ask Slashdot: Used Car Salesmen I am looking into replaceing my '73 Ford Pinto and am considering going to a used car lot rather than a private sale. I know used car salesmen have a bad repuration, but some of them insist they are trustworthy. When a Used Car Salesman says they are telling the truth, can I beleive them?
Answer: On occasion: yes. As a rule of thumb: don't count on it.
It's the delemma of return business. Sell one that's a lemon and you won't come back to the lot. Sell one that's too good and you'll never see them again. It needs to last just long enough (ideally after the lease ends) so that you may sill be there when they need to replace it again.
It really is return business they are concerend about. They are not extorting as much markup on the financing percentage or the value of the car itself that they can.
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Maybe they are going into a better paying industry.
http://newsone.com/nation/news-one-staff/more-women-considering-stripping-in-struggling-economy/
Or maybe they are running away from an industry that considers jokes like that acceptable.
Anecdotal evidence: all the dells I've used (7-8) never needed a repair in the first year. When they did break it was stuff like the clips to hold the media bay stuff in. My niece's MacBook? Less than 6 months before the hard drive burned out.
To me that sounds a lot like what antitrust is designed to thwart.
But hey it's not like they did something awful like preloaded a media player into their OS or something.
Yep, good think Quicktime and iTunes doesn't come on every freaking Macintosh Apple sells.
See... they've been tampering with it!
Number could have been better. Should have been ISO 32768. And the OSS implementations could have been called 32Kib. So close, yet so far.
Wasn't the stock symbol SELL available?
You know when I play my video games? Between he time I start putting my toddler to bed and when he actually goes to sleep. So now a days I am limited to my Nintendo DS. When I hear him get up I can quickly click it closed (especially since most of the newer games auto pause when the clamshell is closed) and go put him back down. This takes up to a half hour or so.
The only real problem is if he gets a hold of it. I either need to wait for two hours when he finally drops it (he doesn't play the games, just takes the pen out and tries to scribble ont he top screen) or I have to bear two hours of him screaming "GAME GAME GAAAAAMMMEEE!!!" when I take it away from him. And I can jsut forget about playing it in front of him. That means it's at least a year or so before I can buy the Wii and put it somewhere other than the closet.
The joys of parenthood.
Try as I might, I cannot get google to tell me how many black monoliths are needed to make Jupiter 87 times more massive than it is...
Wrong, one time pads can be broken, but the problem is you aren't sure you have broken it. Take the cryptext "ABCDE" you can break a perfect one time pad, but unless you know the decrypted text you won't know if the word was "apple" or "venus" or "my dog" or "EDCBA."
What makes a one time pad work so well is that you are not sure when you have broken it. This is due to the lack of a repeting block (which most current encryption uses to some extent) where you continue to get sensible results. after you get "apple" out of the cryptext.
All, the devil is in the details.
While the US didn't find the mass stockpile of WMDs that the intelligence community swore were there (and the conspirocy theorists say that Russia helped move to Syria under teh watchful nose of George Clooney). There were some individual munitions found with mustard gas, nerve agents, but not a whole lot of them, I beleive you can count the total number of shells without untieing your shoes.
I bet with that fact you can get the same 60/20 split just by how you phrase the survey questions... "Did the US find any WMDs in Iraq?" "Did we find the WMDs George Bush said we would find?" I would answer yes and no respectivly. And Wasington did not say no WMDs were found, but the WMDs that the intelligence said we would find wern't there.
The details of how and what you say can inform the listener, and you can give both spins without really going too far off of the ethics beidge and make solid defenses. That is why I feel it is importiant to get both sides from two different sources who can admit, tacitly or explicitly, they are on opposite sides.
No one will agree ever on what the balanced middle is, but if you braket it on both sides then you can find it easier.
Actually, if done properly the two series could still interact. Consider this speculation based on my interpretation of Brother Cavlis statement "Somehow we got it in our head that we were the children of Humanity." What if the Humano-Cylons are not descended from the tin-suit cylons but are more likely...Cylon Clones of the Lords of Kobol.
You see, the Lords of Kobol either were already the Humano-Cylons or a few of them are still around and somewhat immortal. But they still have a god they worship who commands that they multiply and replinish the galaxy (the cylon god). So if they found a stray Cylon ship, and with their and the cylon's technology were able to create the Humano-Cylons in thieir own image.
Still with me? So how does this fit into the prequel? Prior to us discovering this in BSG we have a plot that develops in Caprica where we either see the Lords og Kobol manipulating Cylons or where they discover it. So everyone is wondering "WTF is Boomer/Six/Xena doing guest starring on Caprica?" If written properly there could be some messed up things happening on BSG that all of the sudden this explains and helps make sense. We set up a big secret on BSG but the reveal is on Caprica! BSG gets their reveal, but several episodes later ald loyal viewers know it in advance.
A more sustainable twist may be that the Greystones discover some banned LoK Tech (perhaps they knew abot Kobol all along and got it there) and that is what seeds the Cylons. Any return to Kobol will be paid for in blood, and Cylon War I could be the cause of that. That may help to fill the mythology of the religion being used to keep the colonies from retrieving LoK tech from Kobol.
SPOILER ALERT:
Who said it was Admirl Adama who was the cylon? All that he said to Roslin was "Adam is a Cylon..." not which Adama. It does seem weasley to make apollo adopted or switched at birth or something, but there is room. What if Mrs. Adam was a Cylon and Apollo is a hybrid like Hera?
(note to self: use spel checker next time.)
This partisan stuff gets old, Kerry had a lower GPA at yale and can't pronounce "idea" instead pronouncing it "idear." There's something wrong with eery politicain, watching people point it out as though it is relevant gets tireing.
Dude, comedy is best when it is self mocking. That's why I'll take Glenn Beck when he is doing is "Evil Conservitive" bits over posers like Colbert. The whole "This is what Lefties think of Righties" is old hat, and the "This is where Righties know we've gone too far" is the new poo!
Time for another Religious Zelot Update!
It's not the answer that is in error, but the question. It should be ax^2 -bx + c = 0.
Remember, a correct program is one with an even number of sign errors!
The picture that they have in their database is OLD OLD OLD.
Most of Hwy 85 is missing, from stevens creek down south. That is like over 20 years old or something like that.
The city center at the southwest corner of De Anza and Stevens Creek isn't there either.
And there is still a car dealrship of sorts at Stevens Creek and Vista.
And most importiantly, 280 isn't a parking lot.
Wow, it used to be that slashdot was the place I saw stories before I read them elsewhere. However, I saw this story in my dead-tree sunday newspaper in Denver... Yesterday! Which means the copy was ready by saturday sometime, and being an news wire story it was likely ready by Friday. Scooped on a nationally syndicated story by a dead-tree newspaper. Oh how the mighty have fallen!
Cookie monster is already teaching us all we need to know... Cookies are a sometimes food
Unless it's tracking something like a login and only if it's from the originating site should one eat a cookie. Not an aytime food like when they want to track you all across the web!
But by blocking VIOP connections they are either modifying the communication or participatin in the source/destination step, by changing the destination to the bit bucket.
By doing this they operate without the safe harbor and are hence suable via vicarious liability.
Take the logical step the opposite direction. If they have shown an ability and willingness to block a certian kind of traffic, then they have the ability to block other, probably illegal, kinds of traffic. I.e. gnutella/bittorrent. Hence, RIAA can sue them instead of the end users.
By sniffing into the content of the data steam said ISP is no longer a common carrier and can and IMHO should be held by law liable for other such content brought to their attention or reasonable attention. So any P2P networks data should also be blockaded. That "common carrier" state is what was keeping ISPs from being sued in the neo-napster lawsuits and what they are doing with VIOP is taking action that disqualifies them from being a common carrier: concerning themselves with what their customers are doing and acting on it.
I hope for freedoms sake RIAA puts them out of business. It's either all permitted or resitricted to the fullest extent of the law, not what makes you competitively advantageous.
Also in the audit it was revealed that the lead containment around the reactor weighs 30kg more than it did in 1977....
Don't let this get your .NET rules Java Sucks panties in a wad...
What next, a study proving that men are bad at speling?
We know that already!
Ask Slashdot: Used Car Salesmen
I am looking into replaceing my '73 Ford Pinto and am considering going to a used car lot rather than a private sale. I know used car salesmen have a bad repuration, but some of them insist they are trustworthy. When a Used Car Salesman says they are telling the truth, can I beleive them?
Answer:
On occasion: yes. As a rule of thumb: don't count on it.
It's the delemma of return business. Sell one that's a lemon and you won't come back to the lot. Sell one that's too good and you'll never see them again. It needs to last just long enough (ideally after the lease ends) so that you may sill be there when they need to replace it again.
It really is return business they are concerend about. They are not extorting as much markup on the financing percentage or the value of the car itself that they can.
And you can trust me on that one.
I thought that original slogal was Source Completely Open. Wait... that's not their logo just the reputation they want.