OTOH, even though nail guns are wildly popular, they might not be able to handle the oversize head on those nails.If you had RTFA you would know that the version described in the summary, the HurriQuake 1, was specifically designed to fit in a standard nail gun.
Two points. One, SMS/IM and email are fundamentally quite different because they function in a different capacity. Among other things, SMS/IM allow for you to know if the recepient is connected at a given moment, they allow for the real time transfer of information, and they're not designed to be edited and well thought-out before being sent. Simply put, there's a reason slander and libel are different words just like SMS/IM and email are. There's simply less weight given to an "off the cuff" remark than one which a person had conceivably several minutes to consider before transmitting.Webster:
1 : a means or system for transmitting messages electronically (as between computers on a network) 2 a : messages sent and received electronically through an e-mail system b : an e-mail message http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=e-mai l
The difference between SMTP and SMS/IM was not relevant to the case. Emails are as instantaneous as IM unless your on a crappy system. Email can be just as off the cuff as IM. And I've had many live conversations by email when on systems where IM was blocked. The two are just different implementations of the same basic system.
Everyone should really read the information on Bussard. He has been saying for some time that ITER will be years before it produces more energy than it consumes, if ever. His upgraded IEC Fusor may be the real answer the world has been looking for. If you want all the, rather dry, details watch the video at the end of the Wiki article above.
My "brilliant" idea: an MMO with a built in scripting language. See, it'd be all about coming up with algorithms and scripts to maximize lewt/experience levels.
In the strictest sense you are right. However, both descriptions are used. Many of the masters of hard SF focus on the people and their thoughts just as much as the science which is part of what blurs the line so much. So while you're definition is right that does not mean that asuffield's definition is wrong.
This is still available on the HBO site and is titled Hacking Democracy. You can also lookup the schedule for when it will air on TV again. Excellent movie which shows lies told by Diebold and an actual hack of one of their boxes. It can occasionally be found on Google video in a higher resolution, but the link I had is now dead.
Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law" states that "the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy."
After Katrina people screamed that Bush didn't activate the National Guard fast enough. Bush said he didn't have permission from the Governor. Now we have this <sarcasm>wonderful</sarcasm> law. When will people be careful what they wish for?
You're thinking of criminal trials. This is a very common mistake. In civil trials there is no constitutional right to face your accuser or to council.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
The real issue here is that concessions were not written into the local law to give leniency to defendants who were displaced due to the hurricane. The fact that she was out of the state should not have been ignored. On the other hand she stated she knew the trial was pending, but didn't know the exact date. How long had she been back in town before the trial and how much effort did she make to learn the date during that time? Did the court or lawyer for the plaintiff (not sure who is responsible here) make additional attempts to contact her after the initial letters were returned? The answer to these questions could answer why the judge ignored the fact that she was not present.
I disagree that a lot of people wouldn't mind. A lot of nerds wouldn't mind this, but the Average Joe would. Sure, Joe will love this when he first sets it up. The first time he tries to use another computer and has to remember his normal login that he hasn't used in a year he will be pissed, you can't expect him to remember 'password1'. And what about when his hard drive dies and he has to rebuild his box, he doesn't know how to do a backup you know. I know, I know, you said thumbdrives; thumbdrives are great for us geeks, but tell Average Joe he needs to buy one, even a cheap one, in order to use this new system and he'll just say F*** IT!.
No, your employer is supposed to report that to the IRS. (Unless you work for the bank.)
They said capital gains tax, not income tax. Your bank, mortgage broker, etc would be much more likely to know about your capital gains than your employer.
We're talking about mandating bad security, so that it will be easier for police with a warrant to break it. If you understand anything about security, you'll see that it also makes it easier for anyone, including criminals inside and outside the police force, to break it.
In other words: this increases the risk of crime in order to make a wiretapper's job more convenient.
I never have mod points when I need them. Someone mod parent up.
Just because you don't see it doesn't mean you aren't infected. Many viruses are invisible to the end user as they collect your personal info, use your box as a proxy for higher profit targets or just act as a zombie in a DDoS botnet. I laugh everytime someone says "I don't use AV and I've never had a virus." It's like a blind man saying "I've never seen it so it doesn't exist."
Nothing new here, this was first published at the beginning of last month. Kind of funny for a game that had an advertising campaign of "Friends don't let friends play solo"
Democrats want to make every person equal and take the toys away from the rich to give them to the poor.
Sorry, but I have a very hard time seeing that agenda coming out of any of the Democrats I follow. Not that I think the Republicans are any better, but you can't really call either the lesser of two evils.
How to tell when people are spouting bullshit, #1: They post as AC.
Walking near shows no intent. It is when you show clear intent to follow through with the thought that it should become a crime. Thus you have to actually walk directly up to the door in a manner that indicates you plan to enter.
If the bank is out of money is the robber not still commiting a crime when he asks the teller for all the money? Attempted shoplifting is generally ignored as it is a very minor crime, usually commited by children whom the judge would be likely to give the benefit of the doubt to. On the other hand violent and/or sexual crimes need to allow the police to take pre-emptive action against criminals. Stopping someone who is attempting a crime is very different than stopping someone who is merely thinking about commiting a crime. Sometimes there can be a grey area in which the police must be careful of peoples rights, such as if the "minor" was doing the soliciting to name but one, but I see none in these situations described here. Remember this next time someone has a gun to your head and the police say, "Sorry, but that guy is only thinking about commiting murder."
Please, explain to me the difference between sending you to jail for not doing (insert nasty and horrible thing here) and some guy not soliciting a "minor"? In my mind sending someone to jail for soliciting a person pretending to be a minor because when they did the soliciting they thought it was a minor is no different then sending someone to jail for merely thinking about any other crime. They have a word for that kind of thing.
Thoughtcrime
In the US it is a crime to walk into a bank with a gun, but it is not a crime to stand outside of a bank with a gun. So by your logic, if a man walks up to the door of a bank with a gun in his hand and a policeman sees him he should not be arrested for attempted armed robbery? The policeman should wait until the man with the gun actually says, "give me the money", and takes hostages before trying to arrest him? From the description given in the above posts these are people who solicited for sex and then showed up at this "minor's" house. My hypothetical bank robber didn't think about robbing a bank, many people do that, he actually bought a gun and went to the bank with it fully loaded. The perverts described above didn't think about having sex with a child, they went to the child's house after having already solicited them for sex. This is the difference between thoughtcrime and an attempted crime. Remember simply showing up at a kids house by itself is not enough for a conviction, these men or women would have had to at some point indicated that they had the intent of having sex or sexual contact with the "minor".
You got it. It has been a couple of years since I rented anime, but a few years ago most of the localized packaging had no ratings on them at all. If something had lots of tenticles involved you could bet it was a selling point on the box art, but other than that it was luck of the dice more often than not how much sex and nudity was involved.
Slashdot Mirror
Lets call them Smartphones!
OTOH, even though nail guns are wildly popular, they might not be able to handle the oversize head on those nails.If you had RTFA you would know that the version described in the summary, the HurriQuake 1, was specifically designed to fit in a standard nail gun.
Two points. One, SMS/IM and email are fundamentally quite different because they function in a different capacity. Among other things, SMS/IM allow for you to know if the recepient is connected at a given moment, they allow for the real time transfer of information, and they're not designed to be edited and well thought-out before being sent. Simply put, there's a reason slander and libel are different words just like SMS/IM and email are. There's simply less weight given to an "off the cuff" remark than one which a person had conceivably several minutes to consider before transmitting.Webster: 1 : a means or system for transmitting messages electronically (as between computers on a network)i l
2 a : messages sent and received electronically through an e-mail system b : an e-mail message http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=e-ma
The difference between SMTP and SMS/IM was not relevant to the case. Emails are as instantaneous as IM unless your on a crappy system. Email can be just as off the cuff as IM. And I've had many live conversations by email when on systems where IM was blocked. The two are just different implementations of the same basic system.
Everyone should really read the information on Bussard. He has been saying for some time that ITER will be years before it produces more energy than it consumes, if ever. His upgraded IEC Fusor may be the real answer the world has been looking for. If you want all the, rather dry, details watch the video at the end of the Wiki article above.
You mean like Second Life?
In the strictest sense you are right. However, both descriptions are used. Many of the masters of hard SF focus on the people and their thoughts just as much as the science which is part of what blurs the line so much. So while you're definition is right that does not mean that asuffield's definition is wrong.
This is still available on the HBO site and is titled Hacking Democracy. You can also lookup the schedule for when it will air on TV again. Excellent movie which shows lies told by Diebold and an actual hack of one of their boxes. It can occasionally be found on Google video in a higher resolution, but the link I had is now dead.
You're damned right I'm willing to pay more for a stripper with a fully loaded rack! But when did they start dancing at car dealers?
After Katrina people screamed that Bush didn't activate the National Guard fast enough. Bush said he didn't have permission from the Governor. Now we have this <sarcasm>wonderful</sarcasm> law. When will people be careful what they wish for?
But how am I supposed to fill 250GB other than with downloaded movies and songs? Oh wait... Pr0n!
Nuclear War, kiss your ass goodbye!
The knife bit deep. So red!
Bill of Rights
The real issue here is that concessions were not written into the local law to give leniency to defendants who were displaced due to the hurricane. The fact that she was out of the state should not have been ignored. On the other hand she stated she knew the trial was pending, but didn't know the exact date. How long had she been back in town before the trial and how much effort did she make to learn the date during that time? Did the court or lawyer for the plaintiff (not sure who is responsible here) make additional attempts to contact her after the initial letters were returned? The answer to these questions could answer why the judge ignored the fact that she was not present.
I disagree that a lot of people wouldn't mind. A lot of nerds wouldn't mind this, but the Average Joe would. Sure, Joe will love this when he first sets it up. The first time he tries to use another computer and has to remember his normal login that he hasn't used in a year he will be pissed, you can't expect him to remember 'password1'. And what about when his hard drive dies and he has to rebuild his box, he doesn't know how to do a backup you know. I know, I know, you said thumbdrives; thumbdrives are great for us geeks, but tell Average Joe he needs to buy one, even a cheap one, in order to use this new system and he'll just say F*** IT!.
They said capital gains tax, not income tax. Your bank, mortgage broker, etc would be much more likely to know about your capital gains than your employer.
I never have mod points when I need them. Someone mod parent up.
Really smart buyers do not get emotionally attached to the auction, and let the proxy do all the work.
And now you see why sellers love sniping.
Just because you don't see it doesn't mean you aren't infected. Many viruses are invisible to the end user as they collect your personal info, use your box as a proxy for higher profit targets or just act as a zombie in a DDoS botnet. I laugh everytime someone says "I don't use AV and I've never had a virus." It's like a blind man saying "I've never seen it so it doesn't exist."
Nothing new here, this was first published at the beginning of last month. Kind of funny for a game that had an advertising campaign of "Friends don't let friends play solo"
Democrats want to make every person equal and take the toys away from the rich to give them to the poor.
Sorry, but I have a very hard time seeing that agenda coming out of any of the Democrats I follow. Not that I think the Republicans are any better, but you can't really call either the lesser of two evils.
How to tell when people are spouting bullshit, #1:
They post as AC.
What if I walk near a bank with a gun ?
Walking near shows no intent. It is when you show clear intent to follow through with the thought that it should become a crime. Thus you have to actually walk directly up to the door in a manner that indicates you plan to enter.
If the bank is out of money is the robber not still commiting a crime when he asks the teller for all the money? Attempted shoplifting is generally ignored as it is a very minor crime, usually commited by children whom the judge would be likely to give the benefit of the doubt to. On the other hand violent and/or sexual crimes need to allow the police to take pre-emptive action against criminals. Stopping someone who is attempting a crime is very different than stopping someone who is merely thinking about commiting a crime. Sometimes there can be a grey area in which the police must be careful of peoples rights, such as if the "minor" was doing the soliciting to name but one, but I see none in these situations described here. Remember this next time someone has a gun to your head and the police say, "Sorry, but that guy is only thinking about commiting murder."
Please, explain to me the difference between sending you to jail for not doing (insert nasty and horrible thing here) and some guy not soliciting a "minor"? In my mind sending someone to jail for soliciting a person pretending to be a minor because when they did the soliciting they thought it was a minor is no different then sending someone to jail for merely thinking about any other crime. They have a word for that kind of thing.
Thoughtcrime
In the US it is a crime to walk into a bank with a gun, but it is not a crime to stand outside of a bank with a gun. So by your logic, if a man walks up to the door of a bank with a gun in his hand and a policeman sees him he should not be arrested for attempted armed robbery? The policeman should wait until the man with the gun actually says, "give me the money", and takes hostages before trying to arrest him? From the description given in the above posts these are people who solicited for sex and then showed up at this "minor's" house. My hypothetical bank robber didn't think about robbing a bank, many people do that, he actually bought a gun and went to the bank with it fully loaded. The perverts described above didn't think about having sex with a child, they went to the child's house after having already solicited them for sex. This is the difference between thoughtcrime and an attempted crime. Remember simply showing up at a kids house by itself is not enough for a conviction, these men or women would have had to at some point indicated that they had the intent of having sex or sexual contact with the "minor".
You got it. It has been a couple of years since I rented anime, but a few years ago most of the localized packaging had no ratings on them at all. If something had lots of tenticles involved you could bet it was a selling point on the box art, but other than that it was luck of the dice more often than not how much sex and nudity was involved.