This would be seriously easy to crack: GPS receivers must have a clear view of the sky. This gives you a limited amount of obvious places to mount the device. Now cover with a tasteful home-made faraday cage (made from recycled cans or some-such, this being California) and voila, no tax.
So in effect this is a tax on people who flunked physics 101. Just like lottery is a tax on people who failed Math.
As others have pointed out, you are slightly misinformed about the state of Iraq pre-war - I'd like to point out that Iraq had possibly the most liberal and "western" society of the Arabic middle-eastern nations, and it was perfectly acceptable for women to be educated and hold doctorates. If I remember correctly they had a female president.
Guys, we know that Gabe and Tycho look nothing like you, but how close is the resemblance between your signigicant others and their cartoon representations, and do they like themselves in strip?
Do they simply plan to test the technology in a straightforward drag-test away from the sun, or is it "truely" controlled - will they send it away from earth and then bring it back?
I was just making a pun on the word "expense", but if you extrapolate your principle (in monetary terms): I sell you a computer for 50 dollars. You write a program, and sell it for 100 dollars. Where does the 100 dollars come from? From someone else. At the end of the day, someone pays.
Just ponder, for a moment, the mind boggling stupidity of putting RFID tags in money. I can just see thugs with high-powered, directional readers standing around street corners until a "worthwhile" target strolls by.
Making a copy of a CD, and using someone elses code without citation are somewhat different things. The number of people who copy music is high. The number of people here who copy their CD version of "Brick in the Wall", change the tags (but not the music), and pass it off as their the result of their own creative genius is probably zero.
I'm not sure why everyone is so scared of proportional representation. We have an excellent electoral system in Ireland, the Single Transferrable Vote. A better description than I could give is to be found here
We also have more than two parties, and therefore more than two stances to choose between.
If I understand the principles of Economics, everyone who gets rich, does so at someone elses "expense". You can't get rich without acquiring someone elses money...
If I understand the principle correctly, prison is the place where you put people who can't function in society: the murderers and rapists of the world.
While spammers are a menace to online society, they're more than likely perfectly harmless in the real world. Fines, bans on internet use, these would be more appropriate punishments.
As for those who want to give money back to the gullible twats who lost money: I have a diametrically opposed view: fine people who respond to spam! If that one person per 100,000 or whatever didn't click on the damn link I wouldn't get 100 messages a day trying to sell me $29 penis enlargements. Oh, and *anyone* who' s willing to mess with their manhood with cheap products deserves what's coming to them.
I wouldn't deride it too much: "...the sole reason it [the US economy] is still floating, is the willingness of China and Japan to buy US debt" : the Financial Times on Thursday.
Seriously though, while possibly the cause of exploits - obscure? Almost every programmer I know, knows C++. There is no viable alternative in many cases.
Many people deride camera phones, however I too have a 7610, and I'm completely in awe of its abilities.
Each raw image goes through 4 processing stages before it is displayed on screen or captured. I've seen technical articles detailing the condition of the image at each stage, and the transformation from unintelligible blur to relatively clear image is astounding.
The image processing that takes care of white balance in particular is striking. On many occasions I've gone from very dark to very light conditions or vice versa, and watched the viewfinder compensate. The nightmode doesn't make up for a flash, but in the absence of one it tries it makes a good effort. When you consider the lack of resources available to the system it's quite impressive. That and the fact that I can take continuous video for over ten minutes.
Ah but that omits the core tenet: the design is not random, it was done by an intelligent creator. All this random coming together of molecules, it'd just to *filthy* for creatonists - it's abhorrent that we're derived from bacteria, rather than, oh, God.
Is there a chance that this is accidental? I mean I'm living in Helsinki, and both Bush and Kerry posters are appearing at bus-stops, probably for expats who are eligible to vote...
Seems silly to spend money on an poster campaign, and then block your website...
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This would be seriously easy to crack: GPS receivers must have a clear view of the sky. This gives you a limited amount of obvious places to mount the device. Now cover with a tasteful home-made faraday cage (made from recycled cans or some-such, this being California) and voila, no tax.
So in effect this is a tax on people who flunked physics 101. Just like lottery is a tax on people who failed Math.
As others have pointed out, you are slightly misinformed about the state of Iraq pre-war - I'd like to point out that Iraq had possibly the most liberal and "western" society of the Arabic middle-eastern nations, and it was perfectly acceptable for women to be educated and hold doctorates. If I remember correctly they had a female president.
Guys, we know that Gabe and Tycho look nothing like you, but how close is the resemblance between your signigicant others and their cartoon representations, and do they like themselves in strip?
Well, if you take the "wind" metaphor, and the "sail" metaphor, I was wondering if someone had figured a way to metaphorically "tack"
Do they simply plan to test the technology in a straightforward drag-test away from the sun, or is it "truely" controlled - will they send it away from earth and then bring it back?
For providing me with a link to O Henry, you have a new fan :)
Thank you. I always was a wordy bastard :)
I was just making a pun on the word "expense", but if you extrapolate your principle (in monetary terms): I sell you a computer for 50 dollars. You write a program, and sell it for 100 dollars. Where does the 100 dollars come from? From someone else. At the end of the day, someone pays.
Just ponder, for a moment, the mind boggling stupidity of putting RFID tags in money. I can just see thugs with high-powered, directional readers standing around street corners until a "worthwhile" target strolls by.
Making a copy of a CD, and using someone elses code without citation are somewhat different things. The number of people who copy music is high. The number of people here who copy their CD version of "Brick in the Wall", change the tags (but not the music), and pass it off as their the result of their own creative genius is probably zero.
I'm not sure why everyone is so scared of proportional representation. We have an excellent electoral system in Ireland, the Single Transferrable Vote. A better description than I could give is to be found here
We also have more than two parties, and therefore more than two stances to choose between.
Three iyt if five of these criteria for solid punishment: timewasting, bandwidth wasting, users don't want it; can be leveled at advertisers.
If I understand the principles of Economics, everyone who gets rich, does so at someone elses "expense". You can't get rich without acquiring someone elses money...
If I understand the principle correctly, prison is the place where you put people who can't function in society: the murderers and rapists of the world.
While spammers are a menace to online society, they're more than likely perfectly harmless in the real world. Fines, bans on internet use, these would be more appropriate punishments.
As for those who want to give money back to the gullible twats who lost money: I have a diametrically opposed view: fine people who respond to spam! If that one person per 100,000 or whatever didn't click on the damn link I wouldn't get 100 messages a day trying to sell me $29 penis enlargements. Oh, and *anyone* who' s willing to mess with their manhood with cheap products deserves what's coming to them.
you mean: "we still talk funnily" - it's because we know the language :)
I wouldn't deride it too much: "...the sole reason it [the US economy] is still floating, is the willingness of China and Japan to buy US debt" : the Financial Times on Thursday.
Scripters? I rest my case :D
Seriously though, while possibly the cause of exploits - obscure? Almost every programmer I know, knows C++. There is no viable alternative in many cases.
Obviously it's all the fault of C++... because no other vendor but Microsoft uses this obscure and arcane language...
Many people deride camera phones, however I too have a 7610, and I'm completely in awe of its abilities.
Each raw image goes through 4 processing stages before it is displayed on screen or captured. I've seen technical articles detailing the condition of the image at each stage, and the transformation from unintelligible blur to relatively clear image is astounding.
The image processing that takes care of white balance in particular is striking. On many occasions I've gone from very dark to very light conditions or vice versa, and watched the viewfinder compensate. The nightmode doesn't make up for a flash, but in the absence of one it tries it makes a good effort. When you consider the lack of resources available to the system it's quite impressive. That and the fact that I can take continuous video for over ten minutes.
Ah but that omits the core tenet: the design is not random, it was done by an intelligent creator. All this random coming together of molecules, it'd just to *filthy* for creatonists - it's abhorrent that we're derived from bacteria, rather than, oh, God.
*hangs head in shame* Even so, I suspect this is going to require more than an Epson deskjet, or whatever :)
Yes - there is no need for multiple masks (in fact there is no need for any masks) so it is cheaper.
They're talking about laying nanometres of ink, I think a 150 dollar inkjet isn't quite going to cut it... 1.5 million dollar inkjet more likely :)
Is there a chance that this is accidental? I mean I'm living in Helsinki, and both Bush and Kerry posters are appearing at bus-stops, probably for expats who are eligible to vote...
Seems silly to spend money on an poster campaign, and then block your website...
Fascinating! Thank you :)