The Constitution enumerates the powers of the government. The Bill of Rights lists things the _government_ cannot do. It has nothing to do with corporations. The government can't prohibit you from free speech on the land it owns, but any entity can prohibit you from free speech on the land _it_ owns.
The new Natural Elite Pro manages to be even smaller than the Natural Elite AND do the arrow keys correctly. WAY nifty..check it out. Just ignore the extra buttons;)
Nuclear batteries work this way, I think: a small amount of some radioactive substance is placed in a container. The substance slowly decays, giving off neutrons or gamma rays or whatnot. These decay by products are absorbed by the encasing material, which turns the heat into electricity (nature of the substance..that's all I know, i'm not a materials guy;)). They usually generate quite a few milliwatts. Of course, the amount of electricity they generate is exponentially decaying, but you can get a good balance of half life and power output to last quite a while.
The first slashback, if I recall, was a couple of follow ups to stories posted previously on slashdot. timothy coined the term to refer to the follow up, and the word and format became popular very quickly - it was a great way to let/.'ers know how things turned out on some of the more interesting stories. It caught on and became a regular item with its own icon. Cool idea, and it's use has broadened slightly to include not only direct follow ups to stories, but more information or different directions from the subjects of other stories (lots of optical info lately, here's another blurb about optical stuff).
The other poster is absolutely right. It is not entrapment if the party in question was merely given the opportunity the commit a crime. It IS entrapment if the idea of the committing the crime came from the entrapping party. So, if leave my car door unlocked and booby trap it so that if someone enters, it locks them in, that's not entrapment. However, if i walk past a guy there and go "hey look at that car..it's open..wanna steal it?" ad it's my car, that is entrapment.
No one is stopping you from going to the porn store and buying some serious hardcore porn. The FCC is trying to keep that kind of stuff off, say, ABC during after school hours when (like it or not) lots of kids watch TV unattended. Parents like that kind of stuff.
The sail gets its acceleration from the inertia imparted on it by bouncing photons, essentially. So imagine a tennis ball bouncing off a wall. Whatever direction you throw the ball, the net force on the wall is directly perpendicular to it - it changed the ball's velocity only in the perpendicular direction. The ball maintained all of its momentum parallel to the wall, but its momentum perpendicular to it changed. Hence, the wall wants to accelerate perpendicularly to its own face.
The same is the case with the solar sail. It will accelerate perpendicularly to its own sails. The magnitude of the acceleration will be greatest when the sails are perpendicular to the "light beams" or however you want to refer to them - that way, the sail absorbs all of the momentum times two of each photon. when at an angle, the sail will only absorb (total momentum) sin (whatever the angle is) times two.
Ok, I did a fresh install of windows on a computer at work. Windows 98 first edition. I popped in the cd, the install ran, and in 30 minutes the computer booted and I went to the Windows Update site. Four downloads and two reboots later, I have a reasonably secure system with no known exploits. Full install, all fixes applied - less than an hour and a half.
Compare this with Redhat 7. Of course, everyone will complain that either these are for other apps (not the beloved linux kernel) or that RH 7 is just chock full o bugs. These are not excuses - and it's not an excuse that a knowledgeable person can plug up all the security holes in their GNU/Linux distro. Windows is a rather secure OS. OpenBSD it is not, but I garuantee that if you replaced every Windows user's desktop with KDE running on RH or SuSe, in absolutely no time at all 1337 4ax0rs will be having field days.
And on top of it, my copy of Windows ME that I use on my main desktop is the most stable full GUI system I've ever run. After turning off stupid things like system restore and PCHealth, it's quick, unobtrusive, and NEVER CRASHES. I haven't had a crash on this machine not caused by RealPlayer or Mozilla since I installed it. My current uptime is around 29 days, and that was only to change the ethernet card. Same goes with my Thinkpad.
I run an OpenBSD server, and I'm impressed with its default install security, and the fact that everything is turned off. I like OpenBSD, and I like Linux. However, putting X on Linux and running windows-equivalent apps, in my experience, makes it just as buggy and not much, if at all, more secure.
No one cares how fucking wonderful, stable, bug-free, and brilliant the Linux kernel is when common Linux apps aren't. I don't give a shit if Linux has better memory management when I can just click "open from location" and have apps install right there and give me a nice icon. Users won't care about the source code to the gnu c++ compiler when I can click TWICE and have ALL of the latest bug fixes and security updates install THEMSELVES WITH NO EXTRA INTERVENTION.
I don't care if Linux is more powerful when Windows is just so much easier to manage. I do WORK with my time, not bug downloads and system management.
According to liner notes, it's almost french, but mostly a made-up language. I've done a lot of searching and can't find anything that explains what she's singing, so I assume it isn't anything in particular. Maybe it's some strange japanese/french hybrid.
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The Constitution enumerates the powers of the government. The Bill of Rights lists things the _government_ cannot do. It has nothing to do with corporations. The government can't prohibit you from free speech on the land it owns, but any entity can prohibit you from free speech on the land _it_ owns.
the expression is "all intents and purposes," not "all intensive purposes."
:)
As bad as they usually are, that's correct. The noun "data" can be used with a singular or plural verb. The word data is the plural of datum.
data (dt, dt, dät)
pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
Saw the G3 show or something just now?
;)
It did rock
The new Natural Elite Pro manages to be even smaller than the Natural Elite AND do the arrow keys correctly. WAY nifty..check it out. Just ignore the extra buttons ;)
Nuclear batteries work this way, I think: a small amount of some radioactive substance is placed in a container. The substance slowly decays, giving off neutrons or gamma rays or whatnot. These decay by products are absorbed by the encasing material, which turns the heat into electricity (nature of the substance..that's all I know, i'm not a materials guy ;)). They usually generate quite a few milliwatts. Of course, the amount of electricity they generate is exponentially decaying, but you can get a good balance of half life and power output to last quite a while.
You're quite off. I get around 10 years, so 2011.
4 million? Try more than 8.
Right here.
No, no, you don't get it. The cat is _both alive and dead_ until you look at it ;)
Um..please forgive me, but you are stupid.
2^64 / 2^62 would be 4.
2^64 / 2^32 = 2 ^32 = 4,294,967,296.
Hardly 4.
Er...So I Married an Axe Murderer?
;)
This week at CompUSA you can get a 100 pack for $14. Head over to pricewatch and see 100 for $15, 50 for $5. That's no more than .15 each ;)
Er, i hope you're not serious. I don't see this anywhere.
"all sorts of wrong"? are you from troy?
The first slashback, if I recall, was a couple of follow ups to stories posted previously on slashdot. timothy coined the term to refer to the follow up, and the word and format became popular very quickly - it was a great way to let /.'ers know how things turned out on some of the more interesting stories. It caught on and became a regular item with its own icon. Cool idea, and it's use has broadened slightly to include not only direct follow ups to stories, but more information or different directions from the subjects of other stories (lots of optical info lately, here's another blurb about optical stuff).
The other poster is absolutely right. It is not entrapment if the party in question was merely given the opportunity the commit a crime. It IS entrapment if the idea of the committing the crime came from the entrapping party. So, if leave my car door unlocked and booby trap it so that if someone enters, it locks them in, that's not entrapment. However, if i walk past a guy there and go "hey look at that car..it's open..wanna steal it?" ad it's my car, that is entrapment.
No one is stopping you from going to the porn store and buying some serious hardcore porn. The FCC is trying to keep that kind of stuff off, say, ABC during after school hours when (like it or not) lots of kids watch TV unattended. Parents like that kind of stuff.
It's like this, if i can explain it.
The sail gets its acceleration from the inertia imparted on it by bouncing photons, essentially. So imagine a tennis ball bouncing off a wall. Whatever direction you throw the ball, the net force on the wall is directly perpendicular to it - it changed the ball's velocity only in the perpendicular direction. The ball maintained all of its momentum parallel to the wall, but its momentum perpendicular to it changed. Hence, the wall wants to accelerate perpendicularly to its own face.
The same is the case with the solar sail. It will accelerate perpendicularly to its own sails. The magnitude of the acceleration will be greatest when the sails are perpendicular to the "light beams" or however you want to refer to them - that way, the sail absorbs all of the momentum times two of each photon. when at an angle, the sail will only absorb (total momentum) sin (whatever the angle is) times two.
aren't "user," "idiot," and "fool" all synonyms?
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh7-errata-se curity.html
u gfixes.html
p dates.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh7-errata-b
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh7-errata-u
Ok, I did a fresh install of windows on a computer at work. Windows 98 first edition. I popped in the cd, the install ran, and in 30 minutes the computer booted and I went to the Windows Update site. Four downloads and two reboots later, I have a reasonably secure system with no known exploits. Full install, all fixes applied - less than an hour and a half.
Compare this with Redhat 7. Of course, everyone will complain that either these are for other apps (not the beloved linux kernel) or that RH 7 is just chock full o bugs. These are not excuses - and it's not an excuse that a knowledgeable person can plug up all the security holes in their GNU/Linux distro. Windows is a rather secure OS. OpenBSD it is not, but I garuantee that if you replaced every Windows user's desktop with KDE running on RH or SuSe, in absolutely no time at all 1337 4ax0rs will be having field days.
And on top of it, my copy of Windows ME that I use on my main desktop is the most stable full GUI system I've ever run. After turning off stupid things like system restore and PCHealth, it's quick, unobtrusive, and NEVER CRASHES. I haven't had a crash on this machine not caused by RealPlayer or Mozilla since I installed it. My current uptime is around 29 days, and that was only to change the ethernet card. Same goes with my Thinkpad.
I run an OpenBSD server, and I'm impressed with its default install security, and the fact that everything is turned off. I like OpenBSD, and I like Linux. However, putting X on Linux and running windows-equivalent apps, in my experience, makes it just as buggy and not much, if at all, more secure.
No one cares how fucking wonderful, stable, bug-free, and brilliant the Linux kernel is when common Linux apps aren't. I don't give a shit if Linux has better memory management when I can just click "open from location" and have apps install right there and give me a nice icon. Users won't care about the source code to the gnu c++ compiler when I can click TWICE and have ALL of the latest bug fixes and security updates install THEMSELVES WITH NO EXTRA INTERVENTION.
I don't care if Linux is more powerful when Windows is just so much easier to manage. I do WORK with my time, not bug downloads and system management.
Sorry about that, I just had a bone to pick.
had to, it just sounded great
at http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/short/98/6/2961
if you trust me
According to liner notes, it's almost french, but mostly a made-up language. I've done a lot of searching and can't find anything that explains what she's singing, so I assume it isn't anything in particular. Maybe it's some strange japanese/french hybrid.
:P
Any linguists?
Dude.
6H2O + 6CO2 ----------> C6H12O6+ 6O2
That's photosynthesis.
More like Rand McNally patenting continents and rivers.