I would think the tightly contained 1 big bit of a satellite is much safer than the thousands of little tiny parts in all sorts of orbits you are going to get if you try and destroy the one big bit.
The more people who use Linux and OpenOffice the less people will be stealing from the BSA members.
So is the BSA pushing the use of free software where people find it to costly to use commercial software? Somehow I don't think so. But that is the real solution to the piracy.
I run with the "launcher" panel on the left and the applicaion panel on the right. Both are auto-hide. This gives an lot of screen space on widescreen monitors.
The big pain is the few icons that don't translate well to the side panels.
So has anyone considered what will happen when we massively start harvesting global tidal energy?
Will it affect global oceanic heat redistribution? (( If the ocean currents slow down then northern Europe reverts to looking like northern siberia. ))
What about the earth/moon relationship that drives the tides? Do we end up sucking more energy out of the moons orbital velocity leading to a decay in the moons orbit?
Environmentally, what happens to the organisms that live in the tidal zone?
Someone should have done the calculations before we started the petrochemical revolution. Where are we headed with the tidal energy thing?
Wrap your card in tinfoil and keep it in your pocket and go to class. Then ask to see the attendance record immediately after class, before leaving the class. Because you are worried about the attendance being correctly recorded. You will not be on the list. Just pull out the card to prove it was on your person.
System proven to fail. Go on record as protesting the failure of the attendance system to accurately record your presence.
For bonus points: Then have everyone bug the system every time after every class to confirm their attendance, so they don't get deducted by the system for not being present.
Get $15 set of rabbit ears and see what you can pull of the air. I have no cable but still got March Madness in HDTV and am getting NHL playoff hockey in HDTV.
When SCO decides to stop spending money on lawyers. The problem is SCO managed to sucker the lawyers in at the beginning into an up front fee and the lawyers are committed to see it through "all appeals". So while SCO is now bankrupt and running on a loan in bankruptcy over its non-existant IP the lawyers are still "happily paid" and running this thing.
So the lawyers are committed. I sort of hope this is the lawyers doing an exit strategy of over committing on a stupid claim that will get denied so they can then make a short appeal which will also get denied then exit. Then they can point at this filing and say "see we did our best".
5Ghz is where a lot of military radar like stuff operates. In particular Israel has specific 802.11a restrictions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels
5.5Gz up is a not supposed to be used in Israel, but is open for use in US, Japan and Europe.
Here is a good, but not current, discussion of the various issues around wifi. http://wifinetnews.com/archives/2007/01/5_ghz_or_bust.html
Cash up front is the only way to get corporations to commit to this. The government is too likely to pull a "that costs to much" about turn and leave the company holding the debt. -- I don't see private companies betting big on long term government contracts. The commitment is just to large and the sleazy government turnarounds just to likely.
Imagine being a company and investing $20B and 10 years of real effort into something expecting a big payout of years of ferrying astronauts into space. Then someone else gets elected and NASA changes it plans. Kiss your $20B good bye.
See Northrop F20/F5G. It even had a politically correct name. --- Much of the F-20's development was carried out as part of a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) project called "FX", which intended to sell less-advanced fighter designs to U.S. allies to limit the possibility of front-line U.S. technology falling into Soviet hands. FX developed out of a general re-working of U.S. military export policy started under the Carter administration in 1977. Although Northrop had high hopes for the F-20 in the international market, changes in policy following Ronald Reagan's election left the F-20 competing for sales with front line fighters like the F-16. The development program was eventually abandoned in 1986 after three prototypes had been built and a fourth partially completed.[1] -- (congressional hearing!!) Thomas V. Jones, Northrop's CEO, stated that there was little point in having companies develop aircraft on their own if they were utterly reliant on the government to sell them. He suggested that the entire FX concept be dropped, and Northrop be allowed to sell the F-20 on the market like any other vendor.[41] ---
What about those of us who don't want to see flying-rotating-3d-semitransparent-glowing-shaded adverts flying across our web pages.
I want fast clean loads of information. Not bloated pages full of shiny dodads designed to divert my attention from the information I am looking for.
Corporate Incarceration - by stock ownership
on
The Short Arm of the Law
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Simply create new stock in the company that is owned by the government. The new stock would be a significant fraction of existing stock even to a multiple of the current existing public stock.
1) This potential loss/shock to stock holders would have the incentive to make stock holders pay attention and keep the company from violating laws 2) Government would be a stock holder and able to provide direction and observation 3) Government would eventually be able to sell the stock "release from jail" and realize a profit
Minor offenses less than 100% of stock is newly created as government stock Major offenses 101% of current stock is newly created at government stock, instantly making the government the majority share holder and causing 50% loss to current stock holders. Even higher multiples 200% etc for more grievous actions.
This does not hurt employees, customers or any other corporate relations. It directly damages share holders and executives who are responsible for company behavior . It encourages proper oversight and control. The government eventually gets some money back for enforcement.
There is supposed to be a legal process where one gets found guilty in a court of law, gets to appeal and then get sentenced to execution. Even then most states have recognized the process has a number of flaws.
Here we apparently have the US government selecting US citizens for death and then carrying out the killing without the involvement of the courts. The ACLU is asking how such operation is valid under the US constitution. Every US citizen should be worried about a process where the government is able to execute citizens without going through the court system. Because the men in black masks might start making local visits.
It's am abuse of the rules. It's all in how you compile it.
This program is (supposedly) the smallest C program able to
print "Hello world.". The compilation itself produces the
desired printout and the program need not be actually run.
I had a 1 line game for the commodore series of computers. Something like the below. You could do it in less than 40 characters with the short cuts. It even worked on the TRS80 line with slight modifications. I liked walking into their sales rooms with the "don't touch serious stuff" feel and having a game going in 30 seconds.
You had to clear the screen and start it with RUN at the bottom for it to work
poke 32788+loc,65 # Display your lander "A" at the middle top of the screen+ offset loc=loc+peek(151)*2-1 # update your location to the right if shift is pressed, otherwise to the left. No going straight. print "XXX" # but a block XXX at the bottom of the screen and scroll the previous display of your lander A off the top
# the blocks would scroll up towards the top of the screen and you had to dodge them if peek() # loop if you are not going to hit a block
In O'Gara's transcribed testimony she states that after she writes a story she destroys the notes that were used. That is not what journalists are supposed to do. What it indicates is that the "journalist" wants the story to replace the notes rather than the story be supported by the notes.
Page 29
1 O'Gara
2 Q Do you have the notes of the
3 short phrases still?
4 A No.
5 Q What is your practice of the
6 short phrases, if you will, in terms of
7 whether you keep them or not?
8 A I throw everything out.
9 Q When do you do that? 10 A If not when the story is 11 written, then every week, and I've been 12 doing that since 1972.
At least that is what the headline could be. Disabling foreign internet service is a big deal.
Could be a serves them right for registering as.com rather than.country. But this is one branch of the US government disabling some foreign infrastructure.
Slashdot Mirror
Stuff does not deorbit like a syfy movie.
I would think the tightly contained 1 big bit of a satellite is much safer than the thousands of little tiny parts in all sorts of orbits you are going to get if you try and destroy the one big bit.
No answer to that simple question. Just the usual search results.
You would think Google would know the answer to that question.
Following up on Stephen Hawkings comments on extra-terrestrial life.
The more people who use Linux and OpenOffice the less people will be stealing from the BSA members.
So is the BSA pushing the use of free software where people find it to costly to use commercial software?
Somehow I don't think so. But that is the real solution to the piracy.
I just don't see why we can't have lawsuits over the the stuff that caused the warming in the first place?
Oh yeah, all those people fighting to not have CO2 be a controlled emission.
Seriously, there are far to many people on this planet and we need to be careful of everything we do. It all has consequences.
I run with the "launcher" panel on the left and the applicaion panel on the right.
Both are auto-hide. This gives an lot of screen space on widescreen monitors.
The big pain is the few icons that don't translate well to the side panels.
I say if they want to do this the capped rate has to be stated before any peak rate in advertisements
IE 60GBytes/month cap == 0.185Mbits/sec
Or they can state how long you can connect at your peak rate.
IE 5Mb/sec with a 60GB cap == 1.11 days of actual usage per month
So has anyone considered what will happen when we massively start harvesting global tidal energy?
Will it affect global oceanic heat redistribution? (( If the ocean currents slow down then northern Europe reverts to looking like northern siberia. ))
What about the earth/moon relationship that drives the tides? Do we end up sucking more energy out of the moons orbital velocity leading to a decay in the moons orbit?
Environmentally, what happens to the organisms that live in the tidal zone?
Someone should have done the calculations before we started the petrochemical revolution. Where are we headed with the tidal energy thing?
Wrap your card in tinfoil and keep it in your pocket and go to class.
Then ask to see the attendance record immediately after class, before leaving the class. Because you are worried about the attendance being correctly recorded.
You will not be on the list. Just pull out the card to prove it was on your person.
System proven to fail. Go on record as protesting the failure of the attendance system to accurately record your presence.
For bonus points:
Then have everyone bug the system every time after every class to confirm their attendance, so they don't get deducted by the system for not being present.
Get $15 set of rabbit ears and see what you can pull of the air. I have no cable but still got March Madness in HDTV and am getting NHL playoff hockey in HDTV.
The airwaves are still there.
There just is not the content out there worth paying the amounts they want.
The price set exceeds my demand.
Also 99% of it is crap.
Off the air for what I can get if it fits my time. Really don't even watch stuff off the net.
When SCO decides to stop spending money on lawyers. The problem is SCO managed to sucker the lawyers in at the beginning into an up front fee and the lawyers are committed to see it through "all appeals". So while SCO is now bankrupt and running on a loan in bankruptcy over its non-existant IP the lawyers are still "happily paid" and running this thing.
So the lawyers are committed. I sort of hope this is the lawyers doing an exit strategy of over committing on a stupid claim that will get denied so they can then make a short appeal which will also get denied then exit. Then they can point at this filing and say "see we did our best".
We all know where betamax ended up in the video tape wars.
5Ghz is where a lot of military radar like stuff operates. In particular Israel has specific 802.11a restrictions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels
5.5Gz up is a not supposed to be used in Israel, but is open for use in US, Japan and Europe.
Here is a good, but not current, discussion of the various issues around wifi.
http://wifinetnews.com/archives/2007/01/5_ghz_or_bust.html
Cash up front is the only way to get corporations to commit to this. The government is too likely to pull a "that costs to much" about turn and leave the company holding the debt.
--
I don't see private companies betting big on long term government contracts. The commitment is just to large and the sleazy government turnarounds just to likely.
Imagine being a company and investing $20B and 10 years of real effort into something expecting a big payout of years of ferrying astronauts into space. Then someone else gets elected and NASA changes it plans. Kiss your $20B good bye.
See Northrop F20/F5G. It even had a politically correct name.
---
Much of the F-20's development was carried out as part of a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) project called "FX", which intended to sell less-advanced fighter designs to U.S. allies to limit the possibility of front-line U.S. technology falling into Soviet hands. FX developed out of a general re-working of U.S. military export policy started under the Carter administration in 1977. Although Northrop had high hopes for the F-20 in the international market, changes in policy following Ronald Reagan's election left the F-20 competing for sales with front line fighters like the F-16. The development program was eventually abandoned in 1986 after three prototypes had been built and a fourth partially completed.[1]
--
(congressional hearing!!)
Thomas V. Jones, Northrop's CEO, stated that there was little point in having companies develop aircraft on their own if they were utterly reliant on the government to sell them. He suggested that the entire FX concept be dropped, and Northrop be allowed to sell the F-20 on the market like any other vendor.[41]
---
What about those of us who don't want to see flying-rotating-3d-semitransparent-glowing-shaded adverts flying across our web pages.
I want fast clean loads of information. Not bloated pages full of shiny dodads designed to divert my attention from the information I am looking for.
Simply create new stock in the company that is owned by the government. The new stock would be a significant fraction of existing stock even to a multiple of the current existing public stock.
1) This potential loss/shock to stock holders would have the incentive to make stock holders pay attention and keep the company from violating laws
2) Government would be a stock holder and able to provide direction and observation
3) Government would eventually be able to sell the stock "release from jail" and realize a profit
Minor offenses less than 100% of stock is newly created as government stock
Major offenses 101% of current stock is newly created at government stock, instantly making the government the majority share holder and causing 50% loss to current stock holders.
Even higher multiples 200% etc for more grievous actions.
This does not hurt employees, customers or any other corporate relations. It directly damages share holders and executives who are responsible for company behavior . It encourages proper oversight and control. The government eventually gets some money back for enforcement.
The requirements need to be set by purchasing and strictly followed.
Buy only Software that meets OOXML-Strict or OpenDocument. If no supplier is able to meet OOXML-Strict then no purchases will be made.
There is supposed to be a legal process where one gets found guilty in a court of law, gets to appeal and then get sentenced to execution. Even then most states have recognized the process has a number of flaws.
Here we apparently have the US government selecting US citizens for death and then carrying out the killing without the involvement of the courts. The ACLU is asking how such operation is valid under the US constitution. Every US citizen should be worried about a process where the government is able to execute citizens without going through the court system. Because the men in black masks might start making local visits.
> Doesn't say "Hello" to me!
It's am abuse of the rules. It's all in how you compile it.
This program is (supposedly) the smallest C program able to
print "Hello world.". The compilation itself produces the
desired printout and the program need not be actually run.
See
http://www2.latech.edu/~acm/helloworld/c.html
I had a 1 line game for the commodore series of computers.
Something like the below. You could do it in less than 40 characters with the short cuts. It even worked on the TRS80 line with slight modifications.
I liked walking into their sales rooms with the "don't touch serious stuff" feel and having a game going in 30 seconds.
0 poke 32788+loc,65; loc=loc+peek(151)*2-1; print tab(rand(37)),"XXX"; if peek(32788+loc) == 32 GOTO 0
You had to clear the screen and start it with RUN at the bottom for it to work
poke 32788+loc,65 # Display your lander "A" at the middle top of the screen+ offset
loc=loc+peek(151)*2-1 # update your location to the right if shift is pressed, otherwise to the left. No going straight.
print "XXX" # but a block XXX at the bottom of the screen and scroll the previous display of your lander A off the top
# the blocks would scroll up towards the top of the screen and you had to dodge them
if peek() # loop if you are not going to hit a block
It ran nice and fast.
In O'Gara's transcribed testimony she states that after she writes a story she destroys the notes that were used.
That is not what journalists are supposed to do. What it indicates is that the "journalist" wants the story to replace the notes rather than the story be supported by the notes.
Full deposition
http://scofacts.org/Novell-OGara-deposition.pdf
http://scofacts.org/Novell-OGara-deposition.txt
Page 29
1 O'Gara
2 Q Do you have the notes of the
3 short phrases still?
4 A No.
5 Q What is your practice of the
6 short phrases, if you will, in terms of
7 whether you keep them or not?
8 A I throw everything out.
9 Q When do you do that?
10 A If not when the story is
11 written, then every week, and I've been
12 doing that since 1972.
That's 100 hours of motor operation before you have to overhaul the engine.
At 30 minutes per flight that is 200 flights.
Still not good for distance or anything more than short hops.
At least that is what the headline could be. Disabling foreign internet service is a big deal.
Could be a serves them right for registering as .com rather than .country. But this is one branch of the US government disabling some foreign infrastructure.
Nice the disclaimer at the end is bigger than the article.
Article == 338 words
Identifier == 88 words
Disclaimer == 393 words
So if nothing happens in the end they are coverd.