Microscopes, glassware, obscure-looking dyes and chems, breadboards and little electronic components, miles of wire, books explaining incidentally how to do 'bad' things, powerful lasers and magnets, etc. etc. Welding and brazing equipment, gasoline, propane, MAPP, mercury and lead, gunpowder and primers, flares- these are among some of the things I have on my property. And I do have some leftovers from my childhood chemistry set which might not let you mix up a batch of meth or HDX but you can do some interesting things (and more importantly, LEARN things).
Jabari, a 300-pound gorilla, escaped from his enclosure and went on an angry rampage through the zoo. Police shot and killed him on the zoo grounds, but not before he seriously injured Reichert, Heard and 3-year-old Rivers Heard.
The Dallas City Council, which oversees the zoo, is scheduled to approve a $500,000 financial settlement with Heard and Reichert during a special meeting Friday at City Hall. The money is meant to compensate the women and their children for their physical injuries and emotional trauma.
State law caps civil damage awards against a city government at $500,000.
So the RIAA gets nearly $2 Million, while these people with real physical and emotional injuries get 25% of that.
It's a university... they have thousands of undergrad CS students who can work for free. Just assign it as a 4 year project to the incoming freshmen and voila! In four years you have a system that cost $0!
And if it doesn't work, you give them all 'F's and start again with the next incoming class.
Here's some rules to insure your code reviews go badly:
1) You want the meeting to be the first time you've looked at the code. That way you can ask a lot of questions that could have been answered in two minutes of reading the code (and thus waste minutes of everyone's time).
2) Don't assign roles. That way everyone can look at the code from the same viewpoint.
3) Don't stay professional or objective. Ad hominem attacks always help in reviews.
4) Don't set a time limit. Everyone loves meetings that drag on and on.
5) Be sure to review at least 5,000 lines of code in each review.
One nice thing about credit cards- they are not really that picky about disputing payments. They don't exactly go out of their way to promote the service, though.
I like the 'one-time' credit cards that you can use online. You specify the amount and expiration for them, but you can go in and cancel them as soon as the initial payment has gone through. So when they try to 'renew' for you the charge won't be accepted.
It's not quite the same as GMT. There can be a few seconds difference between the two.
"... a few seconds...." ? According to the link you reference:
For most common and legal-trade purposes, the fractional second difference between UTC and UT (GMT) is inconsequentially small, so UTC is often called GMT, for example by the BBC, although that usage is ambiguous.
The GPS navigation message includes the difference between GPS time and UTC, which as of 2009 is 15 seconds due to the leap second added to UTC December 31 2008.
Apple did this, not once but twice. Why is Redmond so afraid of trading out the basic underpinnings? I guess they married the concept of permenant backwards compatibility when they used that very stick to beat OS/2 into the ground.
The fortune program describe this very well...
"I've finally learned what `upward compatible' means.
The external tank doesn't make it into space. It separates from the shuttle before that. Unless the bat managed to switch horses in the middle of the stream.
I would agree with you, but the same design flaw exists near the Canadian border. You can be on U.S. soil, and yet still be charged international rates because your dumb phone connected to a Canadian tower. That's a technological flaw, and the customer should not have to pay the price for the mistake.
There are 3GPP specs that require the phone to prefer the home network, but when you are roaming the phone is supposed to prefer networks in the same country that you are currently registered. AT&T, being the 600 pound gorilla that they are, requires some slightly different rules (to avoid roaming when the home network is/becomes available). This all gets sticky when you are driving along an international border in North America.
Your first login attempt may fail as the password is redirected to the attacker, but once your attacker has your password, he can return things to normal so your second login attempt will succeed. You'll just think you mistyped the password on the first try.
That's why I always type my password in wrong on purpose the first time!
I'm all for more security though, most places don't error on the side of caution. Nuke plants tend to (and actually security it generally even 'tougher' at casinos)...
Of course it is! With nukes plants your merely talking about human lives. With casinos; well, there your talking about money.
There is no reason any changes to broadcast TV will ever affect your cable.
You're correct, the cable companies, not being in the broadcast TV business, aren't affected by the FCC ruling. They must abide by their local city franchise agreements. Unless those get amended, I don't think they can just drop 'basic cable'.
I hope when the analog stations go off the air, they do the old horizontal line to a bright dot in the center of the screen. Like Outer Limits did at the end of the show.
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Microscopes, glassware, obscure-looking dyes and chems, breadboards and little electronic components, miles of wire, books explaining incidentally how to do 'bad' things, powerful lasers and magnets, etc. etc. Welding and brazing equipment, gasoline, propane, MAPP, mercury and lead, gunpowder and primers, flares- these are among some of the things I have on my property. And I do have some leftovers from my childhood chemistry set which might not let you mix up a batch of meth or HDX but you can do some interesting things (and more importantly, LEARN things).
Is that you Adam?
Jabari, a 300-pound gorilla, escaped from his enclosure and went on an angry rampage through the zoo. Police shot and killed him on the zoo grounds, but not before he seriously injured Reichert, Heard and 3-year-old Rivers Heard.
The Dallas City Council, which oversees the zoo, is scheduled to approve a $500,000 financial settlement with Heard and Reichert during a special meeting Friday at City Hall. The money is meant to compensate the women and their children for their physical injuries and emotional trauma.
State law caps civil damage awards against a city government at $500,000.
So the RIAA gets nearly $2 Million, while these people with real physical and emotional injuries get 25% of that.
And if it doesn't work, you give them all 'F's and start again with the next incoming class.
1) You want the meeting to be the first time you've looked at the code. That way you can ask a lot of questions that could have been answered in two minutes of reading the code (and thus waste minutes of everyone's time).
2) Don't assign roles. That way everyone can look at the code from the same viewpoint.
3) Don't stay professional or objective. Ad hominem attacks always help in reviews.
4) Don't set a time limit. Everyone loves meetings that drag on and on.
5) Be sure to review at least 5,000 lines of code in each review.
One nice thing about credit cards- they are not really that picky about disputing payments. They don't exactly go out of their way to promote the service, though.
I like the 'one-time' credit cards that you can use online. You specify the amount and expiration for them, but you can go in and cancel them as soon as the initial payment has gone through. So when they try to 'renew' for you the charge won't be accepted.
s/you reference/referenced above/
It's not quite the same as GMT. There can be a few seconds difference between the two.
"... a few seconds ...." ? According to the link you reference:
For most common and legal-trade purposes, the fractional second difference between UTC and UT (GMT) is inconsequentially small, so UTC is often called GMT, for example by the BBC, although that usage is ambiguous.
You might be thinking of GPS time.
The GPS navigation message includes the difference between GPS time and UTC, which as of 2009 is 15 seconds due to the leap second added to UTC December 31 2008.
C'mon Canada. You used to be cool.
We were?
When the hell was that?
February.
Apple did this, not once but twice. Why is Redmond so afraid of trading out the basic underpinnings? I guess they married the concept of permenant backwards compatibility when they used that very stick to beat OS/2 into the ground.
The fortune program describe this very well...
"I've finally learned what `upward compatible' means.
It means we get to keep all our old mistakes."
-- Dennie van Tassel
... to pillage and a user base to rape!
Always rape BEFORE you pillage (and burn)!
MECO is around 185,000 feet (35 miles). The start of 'space' is commonly defined as 50 miles. But yes, that's damn high.
The external tank doesn't make it into space. It separates from the shuttle before that. Unless the bat managed to switch horses in the middle of the stream.
I would agree with you, but the same design flaw exists near the Canadian border. You can be on U.S. soil, and yet still be charged international rates because your dumb phone connected to a Canadian tower. That's a technological flaw, and the customer should not have to pay the price for the mistake.
There are 3GPP specs that require the phone to prefer the home network, but when you are roaming the phone is supposed to prefer networks in the same country that you are currently registered. AT&T, being the 600 pound gorilla that they are, requires some slightly different rules (to avoid roaming when the home network is/becomes available). This all gets sticky when you are driving along an international border in North America.
Your first login attempt may fail as the password is redirected to the attacker, but once your attacker has your password, he can return things to normal so your second login attempt will succeed. You'll just think you mistyped the password on the first try.
That's why I always type my password in wrong on purpose the first time!
Why couldn't the dumb device emulate a PC and just agree to give the phone what it wants?
You mean have the dumb device emulate a smart device? What a great idea!
A valid analogy to Exchange would be if ClamAV fell to a buffer overflow while trying to scan attachments.
You mean like this?
I'm all for more security though, most places don't error on the side of caution. Nuke plants tend to (and actually security it generally even 'tougher' at casinos)...
Of course it is! With nukes plants your merely talking about human lives. With casinos; well, there your talking about money.
I think pwgen is better yet.
May as well give a link
Isn'z zlib LGPL?
No
No Start button?
There is no reason any changes to broadcast TV will ever affect your cable.
You're correct, the cable companies, not being in the broadcast TV business, aren't affected by the FCC ruling. They must abide by their local city franchise agreements. Unless those get amended, I don't think they can just drop 'basic cable'.
I hope when the analog stations go off the air, they do the old horizontal line to a bright dot in the center of the screen. Like Outer Limits did at the end of the show.
Pictures and bullet points. That's your way in. We all know management can't read.
Convert it to a Powerpoint presentation. Be sure to use words like 'Synergism' and 'Paradigm'.
No need to hard-code, there's an established algorithm for computing this.
Why not call it by its name: Zeller's Congruence.
Um, flag day?
Yes, a Flag Day.