Like when a heavy bag of groceries smashes an entire box of new CFL's in the backseat of the car while making a sudden stop? Good thing that can never happen...
Like the ones in blister packs? This happened to me. Mercury is a heavy metal, really doubt it penetrates sealed plastic blister packs. My scissors have a hard time for that matter. I just tossed the whole pack even though 2/3 were broken. I've never seen them in boxes, probably for this reason.
I go to an OSU branch campus, and I worked at the IT dept when I went to the main campus in Stillwater, OK.
They have monitors in place which detect what's being traded, where to, and by whom. It takes a lot of trading to get on the list of banned computers (they'll do that if you get caught). I'm sure if they sent names, they were probably guilty, or someone who was using their computer was. The system stores the room number, IP and MAC addresses at least, that's all I was able to view.
There's the chance that it's torrent traffic, to be fair, trading legal files. I'm not really sure about the specifics of the system because I worked at the help desk, people had to call us to get their jacks re-activated. Most wouldn't argue to having done illegal trading, though again, I'm sure there were mistakes.
Because the next thing I know there might be a truck full of robots claiming that they need to stop my vehicle while we're both traveling well in excess of the speed limit in a poorly lit tunnel, all for my safety. Cinematic history will ensue, but at what price!?
With what has been spent on the Iraq war, the US could have funded a national health service.
Are you sure about that? Considering that the British NHS costs about $200 million a year, and America having five times the population, it would cost at least a trillion dollars a year, over twice the budget of the entire US military.
In response to you and the AC who responded to you, I did some searching. A NY Times article says the NHS costs Britain 30 billion (presumably in pounds) which equates to 61.5 billion US$. That means (assuming that the two countries are comparable per-capita) the USA could expect it to cost 307.5 billion US$ after the system settled, which is notably less than the USA military budget. This is assuming my source is correct, I don't have more time to find extra citations.
Because a bomb squad, who should have handled the dismantling of these devices, should have known in 5 minutes it wasn't a fucking bomb.
You don't remember? The bomb squad actually detonated a charge over one of the devices.
One wise slashdotter pointed out that all of his electronic devices in conspicuous public places had a tag on it describing what the device was and who to contact for questions. In the future, that's pretty much the only way to avoid this kind of bullcrap because my intuition tells me that law enforcement at large does not think the Boston PD reacted strangely.
I'm not going to try and search for it, but some time ago I recall a case coming up on Slashdot in which a company had went through federal courts to obtain intellectual property for an invention which their (former) employee had in his head. He hadn't patented it yet, it wasn't related to the company in any way and he had thought this up on his own time, yet they still took him to court and won the idea in his head.
So, regardless of the contract, federal law is on their side. As for the six months thing, how are you going to get a patent that fast?
A man with cybernetic limbs shoots and kills a woman. During the court trials, his defense lawyer (highly experienced with defending people with cybernetic prosthetics) says that the defendant wasn't used to his newly upgraded/installed cybernetic body parts (and the new control software for them) and thus fired the gun unintentionally.
When I saw this episode, it was a bit of a shock to consider those kinds of situations where the natural self-control we take for granted could potentially no longer be in place, if we were to start to rely on technology to take the place of our physical bodies...
So what are you trying to say, the second amendment doesn't apply to handicapped people now? I'm dialing the NRA emergency hotline right now.
6. add beet sugar to the corn sugar and make Butanol instead of inefficient Ethanol
I read the wikipedia article, and noticed this at the end:
The key research challenge that must be resolved is that butanol production inhibits microbial growth even at low concentrations. The result is that the product of the fermentation is less than 2% butanol. The overwhelming majority of the fermentation broth is water, so an energy-intensive distillation step is required for purification. This may be acceptable if the goal is to produce butanol for use as a solvent, but if butanol is to gain traction as a motor fuel, energy inputs into the process need to be minimized.
So with that in mind, wouldn't a genetically modified yeast be more acceptable? You could harvest the piss from a bar's bathroom and get 2% ethanol.
I'm always scared of the day that someone finds my electronic test equipment and somehow connects it to my egg hatcher then creates a terrorist plot.
I think this one's an incubator sir. For biological agents? I believe it's used to hatch eggs, sir. Eggs can be used to cultivate biological agents, proceed with the anal probe. He does have several dozen chickens outside... Damnit, follow orders or the terrorists win!
As I understand it, XP is the last of a series of upgrades dating back to DOS.
I suppose it is mostly based in code that was designed to maximize performance since early systems didn't have the resources to waste with modern day code.
Does this mean Vista was written with no care whatsoever to memory management and CPU time?
Mine were black an white, no color illustrations, and had "illegal" indicated all over them. Apparently they were sold at cost on the foreign markets as a part of international scholastic outreach.
For those that are wondering, I didn't realize they were international editions until I got them, and at that point I didn't feel like there was anything I could do about it to stop the "illegal" import of them. I don't really understand how the eventual wherabouts of a copy of a non-classified book can be controlled by copyright law.
For used or new books? I was referring to used books, though that's not so clear. I saw this happening a lot, a book would be bought back for $20 and sold for two or three times that much. Usually it was less than that though, more like 80% mark-up. I'm kind of incredulous that you'd dispute that, maybe it didn't happen at your college but it's happened at two out of three colleges/universities I've went to. The other I don't really know about, because by that time I didn't even visit the University book store anymore.
I've always wondered if online circumvention of the system made prices worse, but I wouldn't know because by the time I was in college online book trading was already booming.
God forbid you mess with the media mafiosi. What I found funny was that some Chinese students were smuggling international editions in and selling them for $10-20 after they were done with them. These were books that were supposed to cost me $150. I also used to wait in front of the buyback tables and offer $5 or $10 more than the bookstores low low buyback price for the books (required for my classes) that they would later sell for five times as much. That really pissed them off, even though the employees were just students getting paid a flat hourly rate.
I used to have a really hard time believing they were worth that much until I got some bad assigned textbooks. Problem was that the bad textbooks had the same damn price.
The definition of interesting has a lot do do with stimulating your curiosity. Curiosity is the state of wanting to know more about something. Sex is pretty simple and there's not a whole hell of a lot to learn about it, it just feels really good. So I maintain that the internet is more interesting but I'd still rather be having sex.
Internet addiction, as much as people joke about it, is pretty real. I've found myself glued to the computer in every free moment and foregoing food just to get a little more time in to read something or do that one last check to see if anyone responded to my posts or emailed me.
It was mostly an information addiction, there's this instant satisfaction for anything you want to know. Being away from the computer is kind of like being crippled because I have to remember things that I might normally just look up over and over.
I spent a year away from the net when I dropped out of college to earn some $$$ and I'm a whole lot better about it now, though ironically I'm currently taking all internet courses.
More interesting than sex? Definitely. More satisfaction? Never.
This guy showed us a clear liquid that turns bright blue when it reacts with peroxide based explosives about four years ago in my chem for Engineers class. If this stuff is so useful, I kind of wonder why THIS chemical hasn't come into popular use. It was also sprayable, non-toxic, etc etc. He was always bragging about meeting with generals and executives to discuss it.
Makes me wonder why they're bothering to develop more when they're not coming into widespread use.
So in the end, my question is what can we do about it? It's impossible to get the masses (in the US) to actually get out and do something about this right now, I just don't think they care enough. Mass opinion is that if you don't have anything to worry about the government finding then don't worry about them watching you.
The only credible methods I've seen for avoiding surveilance involve actually destroying the surveilance equipment.
The only way to circumvent them is by RF jamming, wire cutting and creating a bright spot around you at all times to flood the camera view - which involves wearing bright LED's or a laser.
Does this mean that eventually there are going to be rogue groups going around and destroying government surveilance equipment? I think so. When you feel you're cornered you do what you have to.
Does this mean that people who are planning terrorist attacks in the future will develop plans to destroy/jam all of the surveilance equipment if they want to get out alive? Definately.
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It's not illegal here, and it was sealed. You know how long it takes for plastic to degrade?
I go to an OSU branch campus, and I worked at the IT dept when I went to the main campus in Stillwater, OK. They have monitors in place which detect what's being traded, where to, and by whom. It takes a lot of trading to get on the list of banned computers (they'll do that if you get caught). I'm sure if they sent names, they were probably guilty, or someone who was using their computer was. The system stores the room number, IP and MAC addresses at least, that's all I was able to view. There's the chance that it's torrent traffic, to be fair, trading legal files. I'm not really sure about the specifics of the system because I worked at the help desk, people had to call us to get their jacks re-activated. Most wouldn't argue to having done illegal trading, though again, I'm sure there were mistakes.
How come there's no mention of this on slashdot.cn?
You don't remember? The bomb squad actually detonated a charge over one of the devices.
One wise slashdotter pointed out that all of his electronic devices in conspicuous public places had a tag on it describing what the device was and who to contact for questions. In the future, that's pretty much the only way to avoid this kind of bullcrap because my intuition tells me that law enforcement at large does not think the Boston PD reacted strangely.
I'm not going to try and search for it, but some time ago I recall a case coming up on Slashdot in which a company had went through federal courts to obtain intellectual property for an invention which their (former) employee had in his head. He hadn't patented it yet, it wasn't related to the company in any way and he had thought this up on his own time, yet they still took him to court and won the idea in his head.
So, regardless of the contract, federal law is on their side. As for the six months thing, how are you going to get a patent that fast?
As I understand it, XP is the last of a series of upgrades dating back to DOS.
I suppose it is mostly based in code that was designed to maximize performance since early systems didn't have the resources to waste with modern day code.
Does this mean Vista was written with no care whatsoever to memory management and CPU time?
Mine were black an white, no color illustrations, and had "illegal" indicated all over them. Apparently they were sold at cost on the foreign markets as a part of international scholastic outreach.
Here's the cover of my Digital logic book, and the warning on the back. I found my semiconductor physics book this way too.
For those that are wondering, I didn't realize they were international editions until I got them, and at that point I didn't feel like there was anything I could do about it to stop the "illegal" import of them. I don't really understand how the eventual wherabouts of a copy of a non-classified book can be controlled by copyright law.
For used or new books? I was referring to used books, though that's not so clear. I saw this happening a lot, a book would be bought back for $20 and sold for two or three times that much. Usually it was less than that though, more like 80% mark-up. I'm kind of incredulous that you'd dispute that, maybe it didn't happen at your college but it's happened at two out of three colleges/universities I've went to. The other I don't really know about, because by that time I didn't even visit the University book store anymore.
I've always wondered if online circumvention of the system made prices worse, but I wouldn't know because by the time I was in college online book trading was already booming.
God forbid you mess with the media mafiosi. What I found funny was that some Chinese students were smuggling international editions in and selling them for $10-20 after they were done with them. These were books that were supposed to cost me $150. I also used to wait in front of the buyback tables and offer $5 or $10 more than the bookstores low low buyback price for the books (required for my classes) that they would later sell for five times as much. That really pissed them off, even though the employees were just students getting paid a flat hourly rate.
I used to have a really hard time believing they were worth that much until I got some bad assigned textbooks. Problem was that the bad textbooks had the same damn price.
The definition of interesting has a lot do do with stimulating your curiosity. Curiosity is the state of wanting to know more about something. Sex is pretty simple and there's not a whole hell of a lot to learn about it, it just feels really good. So I maintain that the internet is more interesting but I'd still rather be having sex.
Internet addiction, as much as people joke about it, is pretty real. I've found myself glued to the computer in every free moment and foregoing food just to get a little more time in to read something or do that one last check to see if anyone responded to my posts or emailed me.
It was mostly an information addiction, there's this instant satisfaction for anything you want to know. Being away from the computer is kind of like being crippled because I have to remember things that I might normally just look up over and over.
I spent a year away from the net when I dropped out of college to earn some $$$ and I'm a whole lot better about it now, though ironically I'm currently taking all internet courses.
More interesting than sex? Definitely. More satisfaction? Never.
This guy showed us a clear liquid that turns bright blue when it reacts with peroxide based explosives about four years ago in my chem for Engineers class. If this stuff is so useful, I kind of wonder why THIS chemical hasn't come into popular use. It was also sprayable, non-toxic, etc etc. He was always bragging about meeting with generals and executives to discuss it.
Makes me wonder why they're bothering to develop more when they're not coming into widespread use.
I live here, I grew up here, that's why I think it's weird that I didn't know about this.
This law was gone before I knew it existed. I think very few people must have been following it.
So in the end, my question is what can we do about it? It's impossible to get the masses (in the US) to actually get out and do something about this right now, I just don't think they care enough. Mass opinion is that if you don't have anything to worry about the government finding then don't worry about them watching you.
The only credible methods I've seen for avoiding surveilance involve actually destroying the surveilance equipment.
The only way to circumvent them is by RF jamming, wire cutting and creating a bright spot around you at all times to flood the camera view - which involves wearing bright LED's or a laser.
Does this mean that eventually there are going to be rogue groups going around and destroying government surveilance equipment? I think so. When you feel you're cornered you do what you have to.
Does this mean that people who are planning terrorist attacks in the future will develop plans to destroy/jam all of the surveilance equipment if they want to get out alive? Definately.