It's a crime because the government passed a law that makes a criminal offense of sending nude pictures to people you believe are teens (adding the "you believe" part explicitly into the law).
If they pass a law that prescribes 5 years in prison for having a bad haircut, then having a bad haircut will be crime as well - simple, isn't it ?:)
Well, no, for CRT monitors (especially older) screen savers are useful and essential, as having changing pictures on it for years is ok, but a month or two with a fixed picture will result in pretty horrible burn-in of that picture - I have seen quite a few monitors which are functional, but were thrown out because of a login screen permanently visible in the middle of it.
Well, they clearly aren't striving to get electricity in 2007 - if they want to start developing nuclear power now, then this means that they are aiming for electricity production at 2030-2040+. Which (by pure coincidence of course), is the general timeframe when the current oilfields (their oilfields) will be running out, and the remaining oil production will be in places like Russia and North America (faraway, expensive oilfields for them).
Also, another two flaws - 1) in the 'choose a movement to be replayed' - I pointed at one of the items, and a 'Go' popped up on the left of the name. I wanted to point at another item - the next one, but in the process of doing so, the mouse went through the 'Go' button, which closed the choice window and started an animation..
2) no visible way to stop the prerecorded animation, since it didn't respond to movements, didn't respond to clicks.
The interface is unusable for me - In the 'Story' part I am unable to read any of these texts, because they disappear as soon as I move the mouse cursor away - and I need to move the mouse cursor away because it obscures the text that I want to read.
Yes, I have the problem also, it's very painful - my upload speed at home is severely limited, and GMail gets timeout messages occasionally - and if something like Bittorrent is running, then it's impossible to send anything with attachments - for example, a small 50 kb document is impossible to send.
ATM PIN encryption is concerned with hiding the PIN's from employees of either the store or the bank with full physical access to the systems. Irregardless of wether it's wireless, phone-wired ATM, leased lines - it's pretty much expected that the network is not confidential.
Wireless lines don't create a new risk - even a dozen years ago any technician from the telecommunication's company could've listened on the data and tried to extract $$$ from that. And if it would be feasible, then he could get a sizeable 'equipment investment' from the mob wanting to earn some free cash.
So a good use of the money would be to purchase the copyright to Happy Birthday, and then hire lawyers to enforce the copyright extremely strictly on a mass scale. In this way, it would take only a couple of months to make sure that copyright laws get some kind of reform, as the unhappy citizens finally start raising copyright issues to their congresscritters.
18kW max limit on circuit breaker/wiring doens't mean that you are averaging total consumption of 18kW for 24/7.
Get your total kWh spent for a month, divide that by 30(days)*24(hours), and you'll get your average consumption - and if it'll be those 3kW that you were laughing about, then you really do use more electricity than most people (given slashdot target audience, the cause of this is probably a lot of electronic devices left powered 24/7)
The issue is that if the site gets promoted electronically, then the name/link tends to be correct. But, if the issue is promoted on TV (like it was with the google buyout), then people just hear the name "youtoob" and with the trend of naming things iThis, eThat, it's quite likely that these people think that it should be written uTube. Noone is going to make the mistake if they get the recommendation in writing - via e-mail, IM, etc - then YouTube can't be confused with uTube - but they do sound the same.
Well, no, you produce a LOWER percentage of the world's goods. USA produces approx. 21% of the Gross World Product (for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_economy#Economy _-_overview), and, as you said, you consume 25-30% of all resources.
The fact that we do know, is that our Sun and Earth is young - formed later than average star/planet in this galaxy.
By the time the first life arose on Earth, countless stars and planets have already passed through their full life cycle - so no, if life (according to Fermi's calculations) is supposed to be in many, many places, then it's not really sensible to expect that life wasn't even on a single one of all the planets that got to Sun/Earth like maturity before Earth was even formed out of space dust.
Their oil will run out within 25-30 years, and since it takes around the same time to build the many, many nuclear powerplants that would be needed, then it's pretty smart to start that right now.
But that's the point!
The company doesn't want the game to become prettier after 3 years, when Halo2 isn't selling anymore. If anything, they would be ready to invest money to make sure that after 3 years Halo2 gets exceptionally ugly so that the consumers would stop playing the old game and would go out and buy the new Halo3.
With government-paid higher education you can only allow as many students as much you have money for, and you do contests to determine the students most suited for this government funding - just like in fully paid stipend/grant allocation in USA or UK.
If your discs are valueable to you, then you should make backups of them in any case. And for these copies of discs that you will need to make, HDD space is cheaper and more convenient to use than plastic CDR's and DVDR's.
Mount the disc images from your HDD - you can easily sort them there - and put your original discs in storage, you won't need to access them often.
Unless you have a hundred employees doing the same one job description (as in a factory) you cannot easily specify what to they 'need to do'. For any more complex jobs the job descriptions are awfully flexible un unspecific. It is quite likely that a manager or marketing person would need some technical capability (say, USB access) on an unpredictable, irregular basis. It is quite likely that within 1 year of implementing such a restriction you would have found that out the hard way - project delays because of data exchange problems can easily cost more than an increased security risk costs (if your company is calculating such things).
But that's the point - in real life, people do have to take data away from the company to different companies to do their jobs; they know what data they need; they are allowed to do that; they are trying to do in the best way possible; but they don't have appropriate technical ways to get the files from person A in one company to person B in another company. And IMHO it is not their fault, it is not their job, it is not their skillset, and it is not within their power to force a policy change.
If there is no other way, then you get a CD burned or USB written, and deliver the data via sneakernet. If cdwriters and usb are blocked, as they often are, then they get a special permit and have it done anyway(it HAS to be done, after all), only it creates bigger delays.
What I am saying, is that if two companies need to exchange data and then they don't have the technical infrastructure to do it properly, then the only possible solution is to exchange data insecurely - not 'disabling external storage' (that would be like securing a webserver by turning it off). It is an institutional problem, of course! But if institution needs the infrastructure improved, then anyway it needs to function until (and IF) such improvements are completed. USB/CD is the best solution available (compared to unsecured e-mail), so it cannot be a 'no-no' until a better solution is implemented and working and available to the non-technical endusers. Not exchanging the data is not an option, naturally. And the data exchange needs are on a completely different timescale (less than two weeks) than any corporate/IT technical infrastructure change (many months), so they cannot wait. If changes need to be done, then at first the more secure alternative must be created, and only afterwards the insecure way can be restricted.
I work in a financial institution and people really do need USB drives to get data from someone in company A to someone in company B, where no direct link is possible because it all is firewalled to hell and to get a workable shared drive or direct network connection would take 8+ weeks to get through the bureaucracy of two different companies managements/IT/whatever people.
The other possible alternative is unencrypted e-mail, because there is no working and usable (for non-techies) encrypted e-mail solution that would work reliably between two completely unrelated companies - say, your bank, and a marketing agency that needs to send out a message to 10,000 of the bank's customers. Your bank might get the data connections working good and secure within itself, but your employees do need to exchange data with people that are outside.
Brothers in Arms - road to hill 21 had a great feature - if you died at a level too many times, then it would offer you the option of respawning with full health etc, instead of requiring you to replay the level forever if you can't handle that spot.
For me, the first levels are often more fun, and it's the overblown weapons in the endgame that seem boring...
Getting to the rocket launcher is pointless, having a decent challenge fighting the enemies is interesting - and if I am overpowered, then the fight is just a whack-a-mole clicking in the general direction of the enemies, with no tactics/strategy, and that's not fun for me.
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It's a crime because the government passed a law that makes a criminal offense of sending nude pictures to people you believe are teens (adding the "you believe" part explicitly into the law).
:)
If they pass a law that prescribes 5 years in prison for having a bad haircut, then having a bad haircut will be crime as well - simple, isn't it ?
Well, no, for CRT monitors (especially older) screen savers are useful and essential, as having changing pictures on it for years is ok, but a month or two with a fixed picture will result in pretty horrible burn-in of that picture - I have seen quite a few monitors which are functional, but were thrown out because of a login screen permanently visible in the middle of it.
The Korean DMZ is 4 km / 2.5 miles wide - so anyone within range of firearms is an acceptable target.
Well, they clearly aren't striving to get electricity in 2007 - if they want to start developing nuclear power now, then this means that they are aiming for electricity production at 2030-2040+. Which (by pure coincidence of course), is the general timeframe when the current oilfields (their oilfields) will be running out, and the remaining oil production will be in places like Russia and North America (faraway, expensive oilfields for them).
Also, another two flaws -
1) in the 'choose a movement to be replayed' - I pointed at one of the items, and a 'Go' popped up on the left of the name. I wanted to point at another item - the next one, but in the process of doing so, the mouse went through the 'Go' button, which closed the choice window and started an animation..
2) no visible way to stop the prerecorded animation, since it didn't respond to movements, didn't respond to clicks.
The interface is unusable for me - In the 'Story' part I am unable to read any of these texts, because they disappear as soon as I move the mouse cursor away - and I need to move the mouse cursor away because it obscures the text that I want to read.
Yes, I have the problem also, it's very painful - my upload speed at home is severely limited, and GMail gets timeout messages occasionally - and if something like Bittorrent is running, then it's impossible to send anything with attachments - for example, a small 50 kb document is impossible to send.
Well, why not ?
ATM PIN encryption is concerned with hiding the PIN's from employees of either the store or the bank with full physical access to the systems. Irregardless of wether it's wireless, phone-wired ATM, leased lines - it's pretty much expected that the network is not confidential.
Wireless lines don't create a new risk - even a dozen years ago any technician from the telecommunication's company could've listened on the data and tried to extract $$$ from that. And if it would be feasible, then he could get a sizeable 'equipment investment' from the mob wanting to earn some free cash.
So a good use of the money would be to purchase the copyright to Happy Birthday, and then hire lawyers to enforce the copyright extremely strictly on a mass scale.
In this way, it would take only a couple of months to make sure that copyright laws get some kind of reform, as the unhappy citizens finally start raising copyright issues to their congresscritters.
What punishment ?
After you have died, no force on this earth can punish you in any way whatsoever, that's the domain of Higher Powers.
Well, the article does say that Steely Dan was 50 songs out of more than 3000, so it shouldn't repeat that often.
18kW max limit on circuit breaker/wiring doens't mean that you are averaging total consumption of 18kW for 24/7.
Get your total kWh spent for a month, divide that by 30(days)*24(hours), and you'll get your average consumption - and if it'll be those 3kW that you were laughing about, then you really do use more electricity than most people (given slashdot target audience, the cause of this is probably a lot of electronic devices left powered 24/7)
The issue is that if the site gets promoted electronically, then the name/link tends to be correct.
But, if the issue is promoted on TV (like it was with the google buyout), then people just hear the name "youtoob" and with the trend of naming things iThis, eThat, it's quite likely that these people think that it should be written uTube.
Noone is going to make the mistake if they get the recommendation in writing - via e-mail, IM, etc - then YouTube can't be confused with uTube - but they do sound the same.
Well, no, you produce a LOWER percentage of the world's goods.y _-_overview), and, as you said, you consume 25-30% of all resources.
USA produces approx. 21% of the Gross World Product (for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_economy#Econom
So your efficiency is below average.
The fact that we do know, is that our Sun and Earth is young - formed later than average star/planet in this galaxy.
By the time the first life arose on Earth, countless stars and planets have already passed through their full life cycle - so no, if life (according to Fermi's calculations) is supposed to be in many, many places, then it's not really sensible to expect that life wasn't even on a single one of all the planets that got to Sun/Earth like maturity before Earth was even formed out of space dust.
Their oil will run out within 25-30 years, and since it takes around the same time to build the many, many nuclear powerplants that would be needed, then it's pretty smart to start that right now.
There are significant medical uses of low-level radioactivity, and irradiated biological samples.
But that's the point!
The company doesn't want the game to become prettier after 3 years, when Halo2 isn't selling anymore. If anything, they would be ready to invest money to make sure that after 3 years Halo2 gets exceptionally ugly so that the consumers would stop playing the old game and would go out and buy the new Halo3.
With government-paid higher education you can only allow as many students as much you have money for, and you do contests to determine the students most suited for this government funding - just like in fully paid stipend/grant allocation in USA or UK.
If your discs are valueable to you, then you should make backups of them in any case. And for these copies of discs that you will need to make, HDD space is cheaper and more convenient to use than plastic CDR's and DVDR's.
Mount the disc images from your HDD - you can easily sort them there - and put your original discs in storage, you won't need to access them often.
Unless you have a hundred employees doing the same one job description (as in a factory) you cannot easily specify what to they 'need to do'. For any more complex jobs the job descriptions are awfully flexible un unspecific. It is quite likely that a manager or marketing person would need some technical capability (say, USB access) on an unpredictable, irregular basis. It is quite likely that within 1 year of implementing such a restriction you would have found that out the hard way - project delays because of data exchange problems can easily cost more than an increased security risk costs (if your company is calculating such things).
But that's the point - in real life, people do have to take data away from the company to different companies to do their jobs; they know what data they need; they are allowed to do that; they are trying to do in the best way possible; but they don't have appropriate technical ways to get the files from person A in one company to person B in another company. And IMHO it is not their fault, it is not their job, it is not their skillset, and it is not within their power to force a policy change.
If there is no other way, then you get a CD burned or USB written, and deliver the data via sneakernet. If cdwriters and usb are blocked, as they often are, then they get a special permit and have it done anyway(it HAS to be done, after all), only it creates bigger delays.
What I am saying, is that if two companies need to exchange data and then they don't have the technical infrastructure to do it properly, then the only possible solution is to exchange data insecurely - not 'disabling external storage' (that would be like securing a webserver by turning it off). It is an institutional problem, of course! But if institution needs the infrastructure improved, then anyway it needs to function until (and IF) such improvements are completed. USB/CD is the best solution available (compared to unsecured e-mail), so it cannot be a 'no-no' until a better solution is implemented and working and available to the non-technical endusers. Not exchanging the data is not an option, naturally. And the data exchange needs are on a completely different timescale (less than two weeks) than any corporate/IT technical infrastructure change (many months), so they cannot wait. If changes need to be done, then at first the more secure alternative must be created, and only afterwards the insecure way can be restricted.
I work in a financial institution and people really do need USB drives to get data from someone in company A to someone in company B, where no direct link is possible because it all is firewalled to hell and to get a workable shared drive or direct network connection would take 8+ weeks to get through the bureaucracy of two different companies managements/IT/whatever people.
The other possible alternative is unencrypted e-mail, because there is no working and usable (for non-techies) encrypted e-mail solution that would work reliably between two completely unrelated companies - say, your bank, and a marketing agency that needs to send out a message to 10,000 of the bank's customers. Your bank might get the data connections working good and secure within itself, but your employees do need to exchange data with people that are outside.
Brothers in Arms - road to hill 21 had a great feature - if you died at a level too many times, then it would offer you the option of respawning with full health etc, instead of requiring you to replay the level forever if you can't handle that spot.
For me, the first levels are often more fun, and it's the overblown weapons in the endgame that seem boring...
Getting to the rocket launcher is pointless, having a decent challenge fighting the enemies is interesting - and if I am overpowered, then the fight is just a whack-a-mole clicking in the general direction of the enemies, with no tactics/strategy, and that's not fun for me.