they don't knock the civilian networks off (the police have civilian phones) they make the cells in the effected area stop accepting calls from phones not set up with the ACCOLC system. The idea being that the police, fire birgade, paramedics, doctors etc have these phones, so that the system will let them through.
er, the second example isn't an example of justice, it's an exacmple of excessive retribution required by corruptly introduced laws.
So thousands of businesses had to do without computers for a few days - they'd have had to if there was a major power outage too. His intent (afaik) wasn't to take down delta airlines. Would you be calling for large fines and jail sentences against utility company employees if businesses were crippled by their ineptness?
Fining people, particularly those with little ability to pay, is an entirely pointless exercise. 21 months suspended sentence and 30 hours community service is entirely appropriate to the crime and it looks like the judge thinks so too.
It depends on the risks the things posed. I don't think many people could have predicted two terrorist-flown planes hitting the towers on the same day, (shameless ripoff of parsons and nailer) Here's how we do things differently, threat assesment:
WTC: We consider the risks to our centre, someone could plant a bomb in the foyer
M$: Well, there's this virus weakness we've found
WTC: We employ security guards
M$: We'll get a patch out to you in a year or so, don't worry, just bkeep running windows update
WTC: Someone at the FBI tells us that there's a threat to fly some planes into the buildings
M$: Someone tips us off about a huge security vulnerability which someone could write a worm to exploit
WTC: Er, well, we can't buy patriot missile batteries easily (and shooting down civilian airlines would cause a bit of a stink). We'll leave it to the airforce to worry about this, they're the ones charged with air defence of this country
M$: Hey have you heard about that new starbucks? wanna get some coffee?
WTC: *boom*. Uh-huh, so you only had 2 planes for the whole of the east coast?
M$: *crash* Ooh, er, well, we did release a patch but didn't tell many people about it (and they only had two weeks before the inevitable worm hit). He's a very tiny portion of our annual profits as a reward for the person who wrote the worm only two weeks after we finished the patch between visits to starbucks
yes, I'd have expected high-tech stuff to be in Japan too, but Japan is a geologically unstable country - a fusion reactor is an expensive bit of kit, and if it can be located in a less unstable country then yay! It'll reduce the costs of building an earthquake-proof building for it too.
iirc Japan currently has difficulty supplying itself with power and until it's producing power (somewhere near the end of the project, I suspect) it's gonna need a good source of power to guzzle from - France (and, if necessary, the power infrastructure of the rest of Western Europe - Japan being an island next to China and the back end of Russia)
Oh, and it'll be closer to CERN for access to clever particle physicist boffin types.
But most importantly, it'll be close enough to the UK for education establishments here to organise visits
there's no re-doing in it. You open it back up in word, hit [file] [save as], click the [format] drop down box and select *.rtf. You then save the document and send that.
The problem with that (say in the case of your friend) is if the big guy is trying to stomp on the little guy and wins, this little guy is now lumbered with not only the judgement, not even the judgement and his own legal costs, but the judgement, his own legal costs and the legal costs of the massive legal machine stomping on him (who's likely to have the expensive lawyers with a joe sixpack individual fighting an international corporation?).
It needs a modification to 'loser pays opponents legal fees up to the cost of his own legal fees'. Thus the little guy can recoup all his legal costs from the big guy, but the little guy isn't left with lawyers bills that are just way out of their ability to pay.
have a closed loop of pipe filled with water.
Run this pipe (in a nice bendy formation to increase surface area) through the cistern of the toilet
Preferably a toilet above you with a 1-way valve in the pipe so the hot water at the bottom will pump itself to the top. Else use an electric/wind pump
It won't do nearly as much cooling (and the amount of heat it can take away is dependent on how often people go to the toilet) but it's free to run and doesn't produce any extra heat to get rid of.
It takes a few degrees from your room (maybe only 1 degree) and who cares if the water you flush your toilet with is a bit warmer?
What tactical advantage does Mars offer - other than maybe as a publicity stunt???
It's completely out of reach of anyone else, you can do whatever you like there and noone else can do a single thing about it. Stockpile WMD's, store/launch antimatter bombs, genetic supersoldier research etc. 1) get there, 2) develop an easier method of getting lots of stuff there and you're set.
Have you ever seen the alpha-site concept in stargate? (i.e. military colonisation)
and SOME will say that BitTorrent and Windows which allows it to run (among other evil devices, Linus) are BOTH evil. Then the question becomes, is Bill the master or the apprentice
actually, there's another episode where Crusher is in command for a night shift and then suggests that Troi should think about doing such a thing (after Troi is forced to take command because she's the highest ranking person on the ship). In the process of this it is revealed that Crusher had, infact, taken basic command training and we then get to watch Troi going through it aboard the Enterprise.
I have read of this before, but it is very strange that in a democracy (?) laws for the popluation can be discussed/made by not letting the population know about them.
Yes, I thought that was weird too. If the people aren't allowed to see the piece of paper saying what they can and can't do how can that piece of paper be enforced.
The obvious answer is that it can't. Ignorance is not a defence (well, actually it is, but if that could fly then lots of criminal and loads of civil trials would collapse pretty fast) but ignorance because you're not allowed to know?
Do the populace no longer have a say on what laws will be enforced on individual members to protect them as a group?
Of course not. Why? Because of the unending barrage of 'patriotism' which basically says 'your country is the most important thing in the world, even above your own life. If the leader of your country tells you that it will be good for the country for you to do something you must do it'. This is the single most dangerous mindset that people can have - [hypothetical situation] if everyone thought for themselves then they'd refuse to arrest someone under what are, to the person they're arresting, nonexistant laws, why would they do this? because the person above them would recognise that not arresting the 'criminal' was the right thing to do and wouldn't do anything about it, and nothing would be a done about that because the army would recognise that it was being misused and refuse to carry out orders to 'restore order' and the man at the top will suddenly realise that because he gives no reason for people to be loyal, he'll just be standing there talking to himself. Would it be right? yes. Would it result in anarchy? yes.
Remember, loyalty is the most dangerous thing in the world - loyalty to the government because they're the government is very dangerous. Case in point: watch the 1am-2am episode of the latest edition of 24
"I can't imagine X-rays being used as porn, but whatever....."
"The web brings people together because no matter what kind of twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out there. Type in, 'find people that have sex with goats that are on fire,' and the computer will say, 'specify type of goat.' " - Richard Jeni
ah yes, the secret 'back-door codes' that magically decrypt data from a harddisk, and then make all the files magically open on a CTU laptop...
rant: The gibberish in the latest episode of 24:
1, Why would the US be routinely patroling their own airspace with expensive stealth fighters?
2, So they can't find it because the pilot had the RADAR on, resulting in RADAR transmissions from the aircraft
3, Nor can they find it by switching one of their satellites to infrared and looking in the general area of air force 1 for a whopping great "ooh look at me I'm a jet engine!" signature
4, Air force one's pilot apparently doesn't know how to fly evaside maneuvers of any kind
5, and magically air force one's raft of countermeasures were never used.
Do the script writers have it in for the president?
...Judge Harry Edwards was found dead today in his Washington home today after being brutally bludgeoned to death. A blood-stained Star Trek:The Next Generation season 2 box-set case was found in bushes outside his home.
A white-faced county coroner appeared with a shady looking man in a black suit behind him at the local morgue announced that Judge Edwards had died from natural causes, before sueeling "I have to go now" and running inside.
Even better:
1) Find a format that IBM has a (still valid) patent on squirreled away somewhere but was never widely released. The more archaic the better.
2) Give it to SCO in this format and set the minimum cost of a reader at $100Billion(US).
3) Profit!
well, to most people with fully functioning common sense getting someone to pay $10 for a service then finding a minor reason to refuse to supply the service until a further $10 is paid ad infinitum is theft.
Legally, you're right, it's not, they have a ToS which says they can ban you and expect another $10 for whatever reason they like.
The problem is that if you build up a community that peoplem like they will be willing to pay the $10 'fine' every time they do something wrong and that leaves a huge gap for profiteering by abusive admins.
I wouldn't choose to pay $10 to post on a forum for an indefinate ammount of time governed entirely by the whim or mood swings of the mods, but that doesnt mean that other won't and won't get suckered into paying over & over again.
er, I think you mean "It's a rather effective form of theft", except of course you have a ToS which legalises it. I don't subscribe to SA because I'm an impoverished student, but I was having a look around a few months ago and spotted some sort of photoshopping thread. The rules were post images only, or get banned.
If you posted a comment on an image your account got banned and you had to pay to reregister. On any other forum you'd get ignored or at the worst your post would get nuked. But banned? you wouldn't get a temporary ban from any free forum that I frequent, so for a forum which will charge to unban you that's inexcusable. When you start pulling stunts like that it screams "money-grab!", I saw at least 3 people who posted 'wrong' and got banned, that's $30 income, it must be like shooting fish in a barrel to generate income.
For a free forum there's no real incentive to abusively ban people left right & centre for minor infractions unless you get some sadistic pleasure out of annoying people, but on a pay-for forum there's the lovely profit motive.
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they don't knock the civilian networks off (the police have civilian phones) they make the cells in the effected area stop accepting calls from phones not set up with the ACCOLC system. The idea being that the police, fire birgade, paramedics, doctors etc have these phones, so that the system will let them through.
er, the second example isn't an example of justice, it's an exacmple of excessive retribution required by corruptly introduced laws.
So thousands of businesses had to do without computers for a few days - they'd have had to if there was a major power outage too. His intent (afaik) wasn't to take down delta airlines. Would you be calling for large fines and jail sentences against utility company employees if businesses were crippled by their ineptness?
Fining people, particularly those with little ability to pay, is an entirely pointless exercise.
21 months suspended sentence and 30 hours community service is entirely appropriate to the crime and it looks like the judge thinks so too.
SCO *IS* bad news
It depends on the risks the things posed. I don't think many people could have predicted two terrorist-flown planes hitting the towers on the same day, (shameless ripoff of parsons and nailer) Here's how we do things differently, threat assesment:
WTC: We consider the risks to our centre, someone could plant a bomb in the foyer
M$: Well, there's this virus weakness we've found
WTC: We employ security guards
M$: We'll get a patch out to you in a year or so, don't worry, just bkeep running windows update
WTC: Someone at the FBI tells us that there's a threat to fly some planes into the buildings
M$: Someone tips us off about a huge security vulnerability which someone could write a worm to exploit
WTC: Er, well, we can't buy patriot missile batteries easily (and shooting down civilian airlines would cause a bit of a stink). We'll leave it to the airforce to worry about this, they're the ones charged with air defence of this country
M$: Hey have you heard about that new starbucks? wanna get some coffee?
WTC: *boom*. Uh-huh, so you only had 2 planes for the whole of the east coast?
M$: *crash* Ooh, er, well, we did release a patch but didn't tell many people about it (and they only had two weeks before the inevitable worm hit). He's a very tiny portion of our annual profits as a reward for the person who wrote the worm only two weeks after we finished the patch between visits to starbucks
yes, I'd have expected high-tech stuff to be in Japan too, but Japan is a geologically unstable country - a fusion reactor is an expensive bit of kit, and if it can be located in a less unstable country then yay! It'll reduce the costs of building an earthquake-proof building for it too.
iirc Japan currently has difficulty supplying itself with power and until it's producing power (somewhere near the end of the project, I suspect) it's gonna need a good source of power to guzzle from - France (and, if necessary, the power infrastructure of the rest of Western Europe - Japan being an island next to China and the back end of Russia)
Oh, and it'll be closer to CERN for access to clever particle physicist boffin types.
But most importantly, it'll be close enough to the UK for education establishments here to organise visits
there's no re-doing in it. You open it back up in word, hit [file] [save as], click the [format] drop down box and select *.rtf. You then save the document and send that.
"Will Robert Kilroy Silk be on the board?"
Why yes, yes he will. Symantec software will all now come in orange boxes.
argh! it could be straight out of the sloashdot story generator
"...but it's bound to have a stupid name."
The problem with that (say in the case of your friend) is if the big guy is trying to stomp on the little guy and wins, this little guy is now lumbered with not only the judgement, not even the judgement and his own legal costs, but the judgement, his own legal costs and the legal costs of the massive legal machine stomping on him (who's likely to have the expensive lawyers with a joe sixpack individual fighting an international corporation?).
It needs a modification to 'loser pays opponents legal fees up to the cost of his own legal fees'. Thus the little guy can recoup all his legal costs from the big guy, but the little guy isn't left with lawyers bills that are just way out of their ability to pay.
duh, it's gonna be the Master in Davros' chair wearing a Cyberman outfit. I mean, what else could it be?
have a closed loop of pipe filled with water.
Run this pipe (in a nice bendy formation to increase surface area) through the cistern of the toilet
Preferably a toilet above you with a 1-way valve in the pipe so the hot water at the bottom will pump itself to the top. Else use an electric/wind pump
It won't do nearly as much cooling (and the amount of heat it can take away is dependent on how often people go to the toilet) but it's free to run and doesn't produce any extra heat to get rid of.
It takes a few degrees from your room (maybe only 1 degree) and who cares if the water you flush your toilet with is a bit warmer?
What tactical advantage does Mars offer - other than maybe as a publicity stunt???
It's completely out of reach of anyone else, you can do whatever you like there and noone else can do a single thing about it. Stockpile WMD's, store/launch antimatter bombs, genetic supersoldier research etc. 1) get there, 2) develop an easier method of getting lots of stuff there and you're set.
Have you ever seen the alpha-site concept in stargate? (i.e. military colonisation)
and SOME will say that BitTorrent and Windows which allows it to run (among other evil devices, Linus) are BOTH evil. Then the question becomes, is Bill the master or the apprentice
actually, there's another episode where Crusher is in command for a night shift and then suggests that Troi should think about doing such a thing (after Troi is forced to take command because she's the highest ranking person on the ship). In the process of this it is revealed that Crusher had, infact, taken basic command training and we then get to watch Troi going through it aboard the Enterprise.
I have read of this before, but it is very strange that in a democracy (?) laws for the popluation can be discussed/made by not letting the population know about them.
Yes, I thought that was weird too. If the people aren't allowed to see the piece of paper saying what they can and can't do how can that piece of paper be enforced.
The obvious answer is that it can't. Ignorance is not a defence (well, actually it is, but if that could fly then lots of criminal and loads of civil trials would collapse pretty fast) but ignorance because you're not allowed to know?
Do the populace no longer have a say on what laws will be enforced on individual members to protect them as a group?
Of course not. Why? Because of the unending barrage of 'patriotism' which basically says 'your country is the most important thing in the world, even above your own life. If the leader of your country tells you that it will be good for the country for you to do something you must do it'. This is the single most dangerous mindset that people can have - [hypothetical situation] if everyone thought for themselves then they'd refuse to arrest someone under what are, to the person they're arresting, nonexistant laws, why would they do this? because the person above them would recognise that not arresting the 'criminal' was the right thing to do and wouldn't do anything about it, and nothing would be a done about that because the army would recognise that it was being misused and refuse to carry out orders to 'restore order' and the man at the top will suddenly realise that because he gives no reason for people to be loyal, he'll just be standing there talking to himself. Would it be right? yes. Would it result in anarchy? yes.
Remember, loyalty is the most dangerous thing in the world - loyalty to the government because they're the government is very dangerous.
Case in point: watch the 1am-2am episode of the latest edition of 24
"I can't imagine X-rays being used as porn, but whatever....."
"The web brings people together because no matter what kind of twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out there. Type in, 'find people that have sex with goats that are on fire,' and the computer will say, 'specify type of goat.' " - Richard Jeni
ah yes, the secret 'back-door codes' that magically decrypt data from a harddisk, and then make all the files magically open on a CTU laptop...
rant: The gibberish in the latest episode of 24:
1, Why would the US be routinely patroling their own airspace with expensive stealth fighters?
2, So they can't find it because the pilot had the RADAR on, resulting in RADAR transmissions from the aircraft
3, Nor can they find it by switching one of their satellites to infrared and looking in the general area of air force 1 for a whopping great "ooh look at me I'm a jet engine!" signature
4, Air force one's pilot apparently doesn't know how to fly evaside maneuvers of any kind
5, and magically air force one's raft of countermeasures were never used.
Do the script writers have it in for the president?
...Judge Harry Edwards was found dead today in his Washington home today after being brutally bludgeoned to death. A blood-stained Star Trek:The Next Generation season 2 box-set case was found in bushes outside his home.
A white-faced county coroner appeared with a shady looking man in a black suit behind him at the local morgue announced that Judge Edwards had died from natural causes, before sueeling "I have to go now" and running inside.
Even better:
1) Find a format that IBM has a (still valid) patent on squirreled away somewhere but was never widely released. The more archaic the better.
2) Give it to SCO in this format and set the minimum cost of a reader at $100Billion(US).
3) Profit!
when they haven't released linux drivers for it (or the X850) yet?
:-(
\me Still can't get a graphics linux interface working on his new, X800XL equipped computer
it DOES run linux, and they've got several so you can't ask us to imagine a beowulf cluster either...
Does it run MSDOS?
well, to most people with fully functioning common sense getting someone to pay $10 for a service then finding a minor reason to refuse to supply the service until a further $10 is paid ad infinitum is theft.
Legally, you're right, it's not, they have a ToS which says they can ban you and expect another $10 for whatever reason they like.
The problem is that if you build up a community that peoplem like they will be willing to pay the $10 'fine' every time they do something wrong and that leaves a huge gap for profiteering by abusive admins.
I wouldn't choose to pay $10 to post on a forum for an indefinate ammount of time governed entirely by the whim or mood swings of the mods, but that doesnt mean that other won't and won't get suckered into paying over & over again.
am I the only person who thinks that those look exactly like standard alienware PC's with pretty pictures featuring starwars characters on the side?
It's a rather effective form of regulation.
er, I think you mean "It's a rather effective form of theft", except of course you have a ToS which legalises it.
I don't subscribe to SA because I'm an impoverished student, but I was having a look around a few months ago and spotted some sort of photoshopping thread. The rules were post images only, or get banned.
If you posted a comment on an image your account got banned and you had to pay to reregister. On any other forum you'd get ignored or at the worst your post would get nuked. But banned? you wouldn't get a temporary ban from any free forum that I frequent, so for a forum which will charge to unban you that's inexcusable. When you start pulling stunts like that it screams "money-grab!", I saw at least 3 people who posted 'wrong' and got banned, that's $30 income, it must be like shooting fish in a barrel to generate income.
For a free forum there's no real incentive to abusively ban people left right & centre for minor infractions unless you get some sadistic pleasure out of annoying people, but on a pay-for forum there's the lovely profit motive.
Microsoft says a lot of things. In a related development 99.9% of the population of the planet think everything Microsoft says is twaddle.
Film at 11.