There could still be free-flowing water under the ice with life swimming around in it.
Highly unlikely...scientists believe that there may be liquid water under the ice of Europa (I assume that's the parallel you're attempting to draw here) because of the heating caused by the tidal action of Jupiter's gravity (don't take my word for it...here's an informative link).
As far out from the Sun as this planet is, it is certain that it recieves an insufficient supply of either radiation or tidal friction to warm water ice to the melting point.
Some suggestions to help ease the tensions over at the USPTO:
Every day is Casual Day.
Liberal supply of rum in company coffee.
Liberal supply of ecstacy in company sugar.
Doughnuts, bagels, and "special" brownies supplied every morning, courtesy of management.
Naked Fridays!
Patent infringement issues now decided by Trial By Combat.
Applicants whose patent application is judged to be spurious goes through the Spanking Machine.
All patent applications must be submitted in person, after running the Gauntlet (involving rotating knives, enraged badgers, and of course, lots and lots of lava).
After running the Gauntlet, all applicants for the day must take part in a Royal Rumble Cage Match...last one standing gets to submit application.
All employees are granted ringside seats at Royal Rumble...popcorn and beer is complimentary.
All employees now required to surf porn.
Employee of the Month earns use of jacuzzi-office for the month.
Unfortunately, having tabs doesn't always mean you'll pass the acid test.
OK...so IE7 fails the acid test...just like IE6. Are there any browsers out there (other than that patched-up Safari version) that have actually passed the Acid Test? Any of them available for use?
In the counterfeit report, you also have to supply a receipt for the pirated software from the vendor. No receipt, no free XP.
Of course, you can always fake up a receipt...I think the law calls that 'uttering and publishing', and although it's not counterfeiting per se, it still carries a hefty penalty.
Have fun with your scheme, and don't pick up the soap.
A simple hack has been found that disables the check.
It's simple, all right...as simple as the kids over at Microsoft who decided to implement an anti-piracy measure utilizing javascript without any input validation. Sheesh.
If a parent attends an R-rated movie with their child, are they "contributing to deliquency?"
While the case can be made that taking a child to a R-rated movie is indeed contributing to delinquency, I'm going to focus instead on the second part of your statement: Because it's exactly the same circumstance.
Wrong. Unless Grandma sits next to the child during every second of gameplay, sharing in the experience with him, it is not even remotely the same circumstance. The situation would be closer to Grandma getting the kid inside a theater where an R-rated movie is playing, and then leaving him to his own devices.
Next time, think through your analogy before you post, please.
I hear that...we've had more than our share of cheap bastards that essentially want us to work for free. After a certain amount of hassle, they simply aren't worth keeping as customers any longer. It's difficult to perform this sort of customer base weeding when you have precious few clients, but it's absoutely essential...those parasites will suck the lifeblood right out of your business.
I'm hoping she dies before anything comes of this.
I certainly don't. I'm hoping that she gets convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for buying a M-rated game for a 14-year-old, gets sentenced to a few weeks in a minimum-security institution (a lenient sentence due to her advnced age), and subequently dies in prison. I want this to be resolved before she shuffles off this mortal coil.
My partner and I initially priced our services very low...the idea was to gain a customer base and spread favorable word-of-mouth before we raised prices...but it didn't work out that way. Our customer base remained very small until we raised our rates...and then suddenly it expanded precipitiously.
It seems that customers didn't really take us seriously with the lower rates, but when we raised them, they asumed that we must know what we're doing to command such rates, and the business flooded in.
Malware removal accounts for about 70% of my business's revenue...that and data recovery are very big. In today's economy of throwaway computers, you can't make a living with hardware, but protecting and recovering people's data will always be worth something.
Bravo, Zonk. Posting a story that is purely flamebait, referencing an article that is little more than flamebait itself. Any comments posted to this story will be by definition responses to a flame...involuntary draftees in the flame war to follow.
(Definition of irony: This comment will inevitably be modded as 'Flamebait'. See if it doesn't.)
Space tourists will not land on its surface but will circle its dark side and orbit close enough to examine its cratered lunar crust. They would live in two cramped modules about three metres across and eat biscuits and food in tubes.
Doesn't sound all that great, really...$100 mil for that? I can do that right now for free...in fact, I am doing that right now (sitting in my cramped cubicle, eating Ding-Dongs from the snack machine, and examining the cratered lunar crust.
Oh, and by the way,
"There is no dark side of the moon really...matter of fact it's all dark."
Pink Floyd,
Dark Side of the Moon
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From TFA:
is an umbrella term used forthesoftware some more introductionary information Considerating the stability and reliability of the tradional telephony networks so it's roll out is most likely inevidable. particular relevence to most VoIP and it's implementation.
And all these errors are in just the introduction.
Now, I don't expect perfection, but the sheer amount of errors present here is beyond the pale, and renders the reader incapable of trusting the subject matter presented, or taking the author seriously.
Mr. Anderson, about 98% of the errors in your article could have been avoided by the use of a simple spell-checker. Nowadays, people don't actually need to know how to spell, as we have software to do that for us...but you have to actually use the software.
VSE: Visual Surveillance of Extremities...it's a term from the Thomas Covenant: The Unbeliever series. Thomas, suffering from leprosy, needed to constantly check his body for signs of damage, as he was unable to feel pain from injuries. I thought the term was especially appropriate for the current situation with the Shuttle, as a visual inspection will have to be performed to identify potentially life-threatening damage.
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There could still be free-flowing water under the ice with life swimming around in it.
Highly unlikely...scientists believe that there may be liquid water under the ice of Europa (I assume that's the parallel you're attempting to draw here) because of the heating caused by the tidal action of Jupiter's gravity (don't take my word for it...here's an informative link).
As far out from the Sun as this planet is, it is certain that it recieves an insufficient supply of either radiation or tidal friction to warm water ice to the melting point.
The link to the BBC story in the summary is broken.
A functioning link can be found here.
So....the race is on to give this mysterious new planet a proper name! (Planet X is soooo Gen X...)
Please post your ideas below.
Funny...my install of Konqueror fails it quite spectacularly.
Just fill the post of Patent Examiner with ordinary people chosen at random, like jury selection.
"Sorry, boss...I won't be in this week...got a summons for patent duty."
Some suggestions to help ease the tensions over at the USPTO:
Hope this helps.
From TFA:OK...so IE7 fails the acid test...just like IE6. Are there any browsers out there (other than that patched-up Safari version) that have actually passed the Acid Test? Any of them available for use?
Precisely my point.
In the counterfeit report, you also have to supply a receipt for the pirated software from the vendor. No receipt, no free XP.
Of course, you can always fake up a receipt...I think the law calls that 'uttering and publishing', and although it's not counterfeiting per se, it still carries a hefty penalty.
Have fun with your scheme, and don't pick up the soap.
It's obvious that this is a completely bogus study, as no mention whatsoever is made of pr0n.
A simple hack has been found that disables the check.
It's simple, all right...as simple as the kids over at Microsoft who decided to implement an anti-piracy measure utilizing javascript without any input validation. Sheesh.
Somehow, I'm not surprised.
If a parent attends an R-rated movie with their child, are they "contributing to deliquency?"
While the case can be made that taking a child to a R-rated movie is indeed contributing to delinquency, I'm going to focus instead on the second part of your statement:
Because it's exactly the same circumstance.
Wrong. Unless Grandma sits next to the child during every second of gameplay, sharing in the experience with him, it is not even remotely the same circumstance. The situation would be closer to Grandma getting the kid inside a theater where an R-rated movie is playing, and then leaving him to his own devices.
Next time, think through your analogy before you post, please.
I hear that...we've had more than our share of cheap bastards that essentially want us to work for free. After a certain amount of hassle, they simply aren't worth keeping as customers any longer. It's difficult to perform this sort of customer base weeding when you have precious few clients, but it's absoutely essential...those parasites will suck the lifeblood right out of your business.
I'm hoping she dies before anything comes of this.
I certainly don't. I'm hoping that she gets convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for buying a M-rated game for a 14-year-old, gets sentenced to a few weeks in a minimum-security institution (a lenient sentence due to her advnced age), and subequently dies in prison. I want this to be resolved before she shuffles off this mortal coil.
From TFASorry, Grandma, but you don't have a case, although the state may have a case against you for Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor...
My two cents on pricing:
My partner and I initially priced our services very low...the idea was to gain a customer base and spread favorable word-of-mouth before we raised prices...but it didn't work out that way. Our customer base remained very small until we raised our rates...and then suddenly it expanded precipitiously.
It seems that customers didn't really take us seriously with the lower rates, but when we raised them, they asumed that we must know what we're doing to command such rates, and the business flooded in.
Just something to consider...
Malware removal accounts for about 70% of my business's revenue...that and data recovery are very big. In today's economy of throwaway computers, you can't make a living with hardware, but protecting and recovering people's data will always be worth something.
That's probably because a leaky DLL never caused the server to explode, instantly killing the entire IT staff.
Bravo, Zonk. Posting a story that is purely flamebait, referencing an article that is little more than flamebait itself. Any comments posted to this story will be by definition responses to a flame...involuntary draftees in the flame war to follow.
(Definition of irony: This comment will inevitably be modded as 'Flamebait'. See if it doesn't.)
From TFA:Doesn't sound all that great, really...$100 mil for that? I can do that right now for free...in fact, I am doing that right now (sitting in my cramped cubicle, eating Ding-Dongs from the snack machine, and examining the cratered lunar crust.
Oh, and by the way,
From TFA:And all these errors are in just the introduction.
Now, I don't expect perfection, but the sheer amount of errors present here is beyond the pale, and renders the reader incapable of trusting the subject matter presented, or taking the author seriously.
Mr. Anderson, about 98% of the errors in your article could have been avoided by the use of a simple spell-checker. Nowadays, people don't actually need to know how to spell, as we have software to do that for us...but you have to actually use the software.
VSE: Visual Surveillance of Extremities...it's a term from the Thomas Covenant: The Unbeliever series. Thomas, suffering from leprosy, needed to constantly check his body for signs of damage, as he was unable to feel pain from injuries. I thought the term was especially appropriate for the current situation with the Shuttle, as a visual inspection will have to be performed to identify potentially life-threatening damage.
The Apollo craft were not reusable. The Shuttle tiles are remarkably fragile compared to the Apollo craft reentry capsule's heat shield.
In fact, the remarkable thing is not that the tiles were damaged by falling launch debris, but that it hadn't happened sooner.
There. There's another post that is simultaneously true and a troll.