Yeah....I thought feeding the meter was technically not legal anyways since you are not supposed to hold the space for more than one hour or two hours, whatever the max time limit is. You probably won't get a ticket for going back and feeding the meter every hour since the meter-maids usually only check to see if the meter is expired, but it's odd to me that the city would be making it really easy to do this over a cel phone.
While the idea of an internet license is interesting, I don't think it applies in the same sense as drivers licenses because your stupidity on the internet can really only harm you. I guess the only exception to that is people that get bot-netted. Yes, people should learn how to use the internet responsibly, but there is plenty of incentive to do that since if you don't, then you can incur actual losses. But it's not like you can crash your computer into someone else's.
Your argument is interesting, but you overlook one point: Right now, Windows is loosing marketshare to people that migrate to an OS that not only breaks every piece of software they own, but they may have to buy new hardware as well, if they go to OSX.
Linux and Apple are getting bigger, and probably because they are getting a much larger percentage of new computer buyers than their marketshare would suggest. MS knows that they are losing ground in that area and it's because they have an OS that isn't that attractive to new users. Most people keep buying windows because that's what they've always used, and it's hard to migrate.
If they can make an OS that is shiny and new and has good (albeit maybe slow) compatibility with older Windows apps, then they will have a strong leg up over the other OS options and maybe be able to lure new computer buyers again.
Would it be more correct to say this is a measurement of the event horizon?
Well, we ARE talking about a black hole here and I think that if you dwell upon other instances of holes in the world (that they are empty space) then talking about the size of a black hole does make sense.
Yes....you generally need higher buffers for USB audio devices which means more latency in your system which = bad. USB has nothing on Firewire in the audio world.
I bought and live in a house near high voltage lines. Remember the distance-squared law? If you're worried about high voltage power lines 400 feet from a house, you should be very concerned about the 110v 2 feet away in the wall, and absolutely terrified by an electric blanket a fraction of an inch away!
Ummm.....yeah.....two things:
First, the electromagnetic field generated from the wires in your house or the high voltage transmission lines are both dependent on the current flowing through the wire which is a hellova lot higher in the transmission lines, orders of magnitude higher.
Second, the distance squared law applies to a point source of radiation, and the high voltage lines more closely resemble a wire of infinite length, so the EM field drops linearly with relation to the distance from it, not exponentially.
I mean, you HAVE seen the photos of fluorescents lighting up by themselves near power lines, right? Do they do that in your house? Do they do that when wrapped in an electric blanket?
Regardless of all this, I still think Sebastapol is ridiculous for thinking that wifi is a health hazard.
I know I'm asking a lot but if you read TFA, you will find out that what you describe is EXACTLY what the new law is trying to prevent from prosecution. It even says it in TFS when it describes the infraction as intentional use of someone elses wireless.
Can't companies make routers that are out of the box locked? Like when I buy a padlock it comes with a key? There should just be a piece of paper in the box with the router that has a WEP name and password that is unique to the router....or maybe even printed on the bottom of the thing. Then you have to know what you're doing to OPEN it up.....
You speak nonsense.....what a ridiculous example of forgetting logic for the sake of argument.
Well, since you need physical access to the machines since they are not on the network, this could take a while.
How can you even say that physical access to the voting machines is a hurdle for an electronic system when you are talking about stuffing friggin ballot boxes?
You mean to print ballots that are pre-filled out?
Ummm....yeah....it doesn't even take a retard to look at a ballot and see if it has been filled out by a printer or filled in with a pencil. If you change digital data you can leave no trace.
If I pre-stuff the box with my pre-printed ballots before the polls even open... Zero.
Okaaaay....then you have a ballot box that anyone can easily look in to see that it has been tampered with? If you have tampered with an electronic machine then it looks and acts the same.
I only agree that the best system should have a paper trail, but I lean towards the optical scan machines that let a voter fill out a ballot, then it counts it and drops it into a box. Then you have a physical record of what the voter wrote down, not just a printout of what the voter typed in. In a complicated election that has many measures, props, and a host of positions to elect, many voters are not going to scrutinize the printout. Its just easier to fill out a paper ballot that gets collected.
Okay, but if you have enough physical access to the computer to remove the ram chips.....then why don't you just remove the capacitor before you do your stunt?
Very informative....so I guess then in the case of destroying a satellite with an explosive, then most of the debris will enter an elliptical orbit that at some point goes lower than the original orbit, thus increasing the chance of reentry for the particles? I would say that the only debris that won't go into an orbit that takes it lower, is debris that is accelerated in exactly the same direction as the original orbit. So, destroying this satellite while it is in a very low orbit would give a very good chance of all particles reentering.....
The fuel tanks, which are compact and very strongly built, will have a rather good chance of surviving, and reaching the earth's surface still containing some of that extremely toxic hydrazine (so toxic that a drop can kill a person).
Okay, I have a question....if you know there is a chance of these satellites breaking and eventually coming down, then can't you make fuel tanks that are designed to fail during re-entry? I understand that they need to be tough to hold in the pressurized gas, but do they really need to be tough enough to take the stresses of de-orbit?
Okay, yes...the power plant is not nuclear. But did you RTFA? Wait, where am I again? It clearly says in the article that this thing is designed for the DDG-100, which could use some of it's propulsion energy to power the rail gun. This sounds like not a direct drive system, but an electrical drive.
Kinda splitting hairs, no? I'm no fan of CoS (or religion in general), but most of the general hatred towards CoS is nothing more than bigotry.
No, it's not bigotry. It has a lot of basis. The CoS is the only religion that was built from the ground up to be a money making business. I would reference some of this but it's really hard to find anything to reference since the CoS legally suppresses any writing that is not approved and written by them, so you end up with books about Hubbard wrestling broncos to the ground at age four and taming wild animals with his eyes at age seven. I worked on a show with someone who did a lot of research on the subject so that is my only reference, and I won't even give his name for fear that the CoS would come down on him. There is some stuff on Wikipedia. The CoS harasses people that give them their address, comes to their home, calls them repeatedly, maxes out people's credit cards for their "seminars", and uses scientific psychological mind control techniques to make people think that they are messed up and Scientology can help them. At the same time they make people feel alienated from the rest of society so they can't leave the church. They even go so far as to physically restrain people from leaving. (if you can find it, look up any stories about Sea Org) They are a fucking cult that steals money from the weak minded to support the lavish lifestyle that the higher in command live. It's not bigotry to hate an organization that preys on the poor and unhappy.
Yeah....I don't know why everyone on this thread is so concerned with the length and registration of copyright. That's not the problem. The problem comes from the transferral of copyright to corporations who then exploit the creators and give them nothing in return. If it wasn't legal to sign away all your rights to a creation then it would vastly change the creative landscape. You might say "Well, people shouldn't be so stupid to sign away all their rights" but when your only options from the companies that run the media are to sign away everything, or lose out on your big break, you can't really blame people for doing it. There are certain things that you can't legally sign away, like certain liabilities, so I don't see why your copyrights can't be the same.
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Yeah....I thought feeding the meter was technically not legal anyways since you are not supposed to hold the space for more than one hour or two hours, whatever the max time limit is. You probably won't get a ticket for going back and feeding the meter every hour since the meter-maids usually only check to see if the meter is expired, but it's odd to me that the city would be making it really easy to do this over a cel phone.
While the idea of an internet license is interesting, I don't think it applies in the same sense as drivers licenses because your stupidity on the internet can really only harm you. I guess the only exception to that is people that get bot-netted. Yes, people should learn how to use the internet responsibly, but there is plenty of incentive to do that since if you don't, then you can incur actual losses. But it's not like you can crash your computer into someone else's.
Your argument is interesting, but you overlook one point: Right now, Windows is loosing marketshare to people that migrate to an OS that not only breaks every piece of software they own, but they may have to buy new hardware as well, if they go to OSX.
Linux and Apple are getting bigger, and probably because they are getting a much larger percentage of new computer buyers than their marketshare would suggest. MS knows that they are losing ground in that area and it's because they have an OS that isn't that attractive to new users. Most people keep buying windows because that's what they've always used, and it's hard to migrate.
If they can make an OS that is shiny and new and has good (albeit maybe slow) compatibility with older Windows apps, then they will have a strong leg up over the other OS options and maybe be able to lure new computer buyers again.
I happen to prefer my left hand....my right hand is on the mouse.
Not to nitpick, but Flash is not ROM. I guarantee that you don't have any of your apps in ROM.
Yes....you generally need higher buffers for USB audio devices which means more latency in your system which = bad. USB has nothing on Firewire in the audio world.
This stinks like the CD-R tax in canada except that now EVERYONE must pay a surcharge. What a bunch of crap.
Ummm.....yeah.....two things:
First, the electromagnetic field generated from the wires in your house or the high voltage transmission lines are both dependent on the current flowing through the wire which is a hellova lot higher in the transmission lines, orders of magnitude higher.
Second, the distance squared law applies to a point source of radiation, and the high voltage lines more closely resemble a wire of infinite length, so the EM field drops linearly with relation to the distance from it, not exponentially.
I mean, you HAVE seen the photos of fluorescents lighting up by themselves near power lines, right? Do they do that in your house? Do they do that when wrapped in an electric blanket?
Regardless of all this, I still think Sebastapol is ridiculous for thinking that wifi is a health hazard.
...because if they hadn't then I never would've heard of this movie.
Nothing like censorship to bring a lot of attention to something.....
I know I'm asking a lot but if you read TFA, you will find out that what you describe is EXACTLY what the new law is trying to prevent from prosecution. It even says it in TFS when it describes the infraction as intentional use of someone elses wireless.
Can't companies make routers that are out of the box locked? Like when I buy a padlock it comes with a key? There should just be a piece of paper in the box with the router that has a WEP name and password that is unique to the router....or maybe even printed on the bottom of the thing. Then you have to know what you're doing to OPEN it up.....
Okaaaay....then you have a ballot box that anyone can easily look in to see that it has been tampered with? If you have tampered with an electronic machine then it looks and acts the same.
I only agree that the best system should have a paper trail, but I lean towards the optical scan machines that let a voter fill out a ballot, then it counts it and drops it into a box. Then you have a physical record of what the voter wrote down, not just a printout of what the voter typed in. In a complicated election that has many measures, props, and a host of positions to elect, many voters are not going to scrutinize the printout. Its just easier to fill out a paper ballot that gets collected.
Yes, you are quite right....iPhone 2.0 firmware is still in beta, which is what the listing post is regarding:
iPhone 2.0 SDK is entirely covered by NDA, including the documentation. All of it requires login to access it at the iPhone Dev Center.Items specifically discussed in the announcement are public. But even still, they're not appropriate for discussion on this list.
Okay, but if you have enough physical access to the computer to remove the ram chips.....then why don't you just remove the capacitor before you do your stunt?
Very informative....so I guess then in the case of destroying a satellite with an explosive, then most of the debris will enter an elliptical orbit that at some point goes lower than the original orbit, thus increasing the chance of reentry for the particles? I would say that the only debris that won't go into an orbit that takes it lower, is debris that is accelerated in exactly the same direction as the original orbit. So, destroying this satellite while it is in a very low orbit would give a very good chance of all particles reentering.....
Okay, I have a question....if you know there is a chance of these satellites breaking and eventually coming down, then can't you make fuel tanks that are designed to fail during re-entry? I understand that they need to be tough to hold in the pressurized gas, but do they really need to be tough enough to take the stresses of de-orbit?
Smaller things turn faster!! What a concept.....I'll bet if they studied flies they would find out that they turn even FASTER!!
Okay, yes...the power plant is not nuclear. But did you RTFA? Wait, where am I again? It clearly says in the article that this thing is designed for the DDG-100, which could use some of it's propulsion energy to power the rail gun. This sounds like not a direct drive system, but an electrical drive.
Yeah....32MJ is a little less than 9KWh....which could be charged up by the 75MW reactor on a DDG-100 class destroyer in 0.432 seconds.
....of having a really bright flashlight when everything you shine it on in the dark turns black....
I take this video with a grain of salt.
No, it's not bigotry. It has a lot of basis. The CoS is the only religion that was built from the ground up to be a money making business. I would reference some of this but it's really hard to find anything to reference since the CoS legally suppresses any writing that is not approved and written by them, so you end up with books about Hubbard wrestling broncos to the ground at age four and taming wild animals with his eyes at age seven. I worked on a show with someone who did a lot of research on the subject so that is my only reference, and I won't even give his name for fear that the CoS would come down on him. There is some stuff on Wikipedia. The CoS harasses people that give them their address, comes to their home, calls them repeatedly, maxes out people's credit cards for their "seminars", and uses scientific psychological mind control techniques to make people think that they are messed up and Scientology can help them. At the same time they make people feel alienated from the rest of society so they can't leave the church. They even go so far as to physically restrain people from leaving. (if you can find it, look up any stories about Sea Org) They are a fucking cult that steals money from the weak minded to support the lavish lifestyle that the higher in command live. It's not bigotry to hate an organization that preys on the poor and unhappy.
Yeah....I don't know why everyone on this thread is so concerned with the length and registration of copyright. That's not the problem. The problem comes from the transferral of copyright to corporations who then exploit the creators and give them nothing in return. If it wasn't legal to sign away all your rights to a creation then it would vastly change the creative landscape. You might say "Well, people shouldn't be so stupid to sign away all their rights" but when your only options from the companies that run the media are to sign away everything, or lose out on your big break, you can't really blame people for doing it. There are certain things that you can't legally sign away, like certain liabilities, so I don't see why your copyrights can't be the same.