I was wondering about that too. I got a remote control car when I was a kid and about $50 of rechargeable AA batteries to go with it, and they almost didn't fit. The rechargeable batteries were very slightly larger in all directions and when you need to stick them in a 4 x 2 configuration the extra space adds up. I think I had to peel the plastic layer off them to make them fit, but then they were more likely to short during storage etc.
ok, if it's parallel it will probably go out in smoke if you place them wrong, still
Nope. Even parallel using Microsoft's invention will still work. If the batteries were in parallel (a stupid design but they do exist) but one was incorrectly inserted this new connection would still wire them correctly.
Let's say it use 2 batteries and the user place them like this
[- +}{+ -]
Well... doesn't look like it's going to work...
Just when Microsoft thought they'd built the ultimate idiot proof device, nature comes along with a better idiot.
To be fair though, those sort of devices are less common, and it's easier to spot when you've got it wrong (two batteries nose to nose or tail to tail is more obviously wrong than a single battery in backwards).
Now if only someone could invent something that would stop my wife putting non-rechargable batteries in my charger and blowing them up. She said it was an accident... I just think she likes the explosions.
If the relationship is over in every sense except the legal one, and you aren't going behind your ex's back in pursuing another relationship (eg it was well understood by both parties that the relationship was over) then you don't fulfill any of the requirements of 'cheating' in my book, and i'm sure most would view it the same way (except the legal system, for some reason).
So yea - if you had an account and deleted it for whatever reason, i'd like to hear.
I'm keeping mine. You can find out why on my facebook page:)
Seriously though, facebook is whatever you make of it. Sounds like you made a bit of a mess. If you post anything on there that you wouldn't want _everyone_ in the world to see (not that they'd really care) then you're doing it wrong.
, and it has nothing to do with the fact that their partner might be completely unsuitable for them and/or positively damaging to them.
If the marriage isn't working out for you and you think there is no way it's ever going to work then grow a spine and be upfront about it _before_ you go chasing someone else. Don't go behind the other persons back because that's what makes it cheating.
I *love* black and white morality. I thought we had some people that appreciate shades of grey on/.
I like to think i'm not so black and white when it comes to this sort of stuff but I can't think of a situation where sneaking around behind someones back is anything but the wrong thing to do.
Marriage should not restrict you to have sex to only one person in any way
If you said "to the exclusion of all others" or something to that effect when you took your wedding vows then yes it should. Otherwise you are cheating the other person out of what they signed up for.
If you want to have an open marriage then go right ahead and do whatever works for you, but don't tell other people what works for them because that's just dumb.
And if you got married on the basis that you would only have sex with your partner and then change your mind, at least be honest about it. It's the not being honest about it that makes it "cheating".
Baby monitors are another. Could be being used between when baby goes to bed and when the adults go to bed or something. You'd know if your neighbors have kids though:)
I wonder how precise the 8:30-10:00 statement was... if it's exactly 8:30-10:00 then it sounds like some equipment running on a timer. If it's approximate then it's more likely to be a human...
Two reasons for SSL: verification and encryption. Sure, if the domains don't match you don't have verification, but the communication is still encrypted, and if you happen to control both ends of the exchange, that's all you need.
IMHO, that's a fail. If your users are trained to just click through certificate exception errors then all someone needs to do is intercept your dns or otherwise subvert your dns lookups and when your users go to www.mybank.com but end up at the bad guys site they won't know the difference and you'll be giving the bad guys your credentials (over an encrypted stream - woohoo!)
If you control both ends of the exchange (eg a corporate intranet) then use a self signed cert and give your users the CA public key via a secure means, but make sure that everything else is correct. IMHO, if done right this is even more secure as no 'trusted' third party is involved, but it doesn't scale up to publicly accessible websites.
I don't like the idea of smacking kids, but you can't just tell people not to smack their kids without teaching them how to replace it with something else at least as effective, otherwise you'll end up with a generation of self centered teens with no respect for anyone.
I cant find a cite but thanks to the ACCC, Telstra are legally required to wholesale ADSL1 to any ISP that wants to buy a port from Telstra Wholesale.
When Telstra started rolling out ADSL2+, they had it in a lot of exchanges pretty quickly, but wouldn't turn it on until a competitor had ADSL2+ equipment in the same exchange, to get around this ruling.
They've since changed their mind (i'm using a Telstra DSLAM wholesaled to another ISP right now), so I guess they figured that wholesale revenue is still revenue.
I don't think that most higher organisms survive 'limb tearing off' events often enough for it to have a significant impact on evolution. Even having a finger torn off 20 thousand years ago would likely have killed you due to infection, and if it didn't, being short one finger wasn't going to be a huge problem for most things. Having an arm or leg torn off would almost certainly have killed you, on that basis that you'd lose a lot of blood, infection would kill you if the blood loss didn't, whatever tore your arm or leg off probably isn't going to just leave it at that, and nobody else is going to want to wait around while your arm or leg grew back. It takes about 15-20 years to grow an adult sized leg... you could probably do it much faster if you were growing just a leg but even then you are probably talking a few years which is a significant chunk out your useful lifespan, and the end result is a person with a known history of losing limbs in battle/hunting.
Evolution pretty much results in an outcome that is only as good as it needs to be to get the job done.
There was with GSM, and I think it was a pretty hard 35km limit - something to do with timeslot allocations. I don't know that CDMA and 3G signals suffer from the same issues though.
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My charger is not a trickle charger. Alkaline batteries go pop.
I was wondering about that too. I got a remote control car when I was a kid and about $50 of rechargeable AA batteries to go with it, and they almost didn't fit. The rechargeable batteries were very slightly larger in all directions and when you need to stick them in a 4 x 2 configuration the extra space adds up. I think I had to peel the plastic layer off them to make them fit, but then they were more likely to short during storage etc.
ok, if it's parallel it will probably go out in smoke if you place them wrong, still
Nope. Even parallel using Microsoft's invention will still work. If the batteries were in parallel (a stupid design but they do exist) but one was incorrectly inserted this new connection would still wire them correctly.
more obviously wrong ?
are you some kind of anti-gay righteous activist ?
What sort of contraption do you have in your possession that is fueled by gay people? A 'fabulous' one I would guess.
Microsoft has invented the diode? Thank goodness for that, I don't think electronics could progress any further without it.
If you insist on thinking of it as a diode, then it's a diode with a voltage drop of 0, which is pretty impressive!
Let's say it use 2 batteries and the user place them like this
[- +}{+ -]
Well... doesn't look like it's going to work...
Just when Microsoft thought they'd built the ultimate idiot proof device, nature comes along with a better idiot.
To be fair though, those sort of devices are less common, and it's easier to spot when you've got it wrong (two batteries nose to nose or tail to tail is more obviously wrong than a single battery in backwards).
Now if only someone could invent something that would stop my wife putting non-rechargable batteries in my charger and blowing them up. She said it was an accident... I just think she likes the explosions.
Sometimes the stuff you learn in basic electronics can be really useful. In this case though it just made you look like a dick. RTFA.
Even the bible says "Love thy fellow man". Now there's a passage more Christians should take literally.
We could have had distro's with names like DebDoesIan and YouCanLeaveYourRedHatOn
That was how I read the title at first glance. So disappointed.
It's not a 5400RPM 'LP' drive is it? That would suck. The press release doesn't seem to say...
If the relationship is over in every sense except the legal one, and you aren't going behind your ex's back in pursuing another relationship (eg it was well understood by both parties that the relationship was over) then you don't fulfill any of the requirements of 'cheating' in my book, and i'm sure most would view it the same way (except the legal system, for some reason).
Hope it worked/works out for you :(
So yea - if you had an account and deleted it for whatever reason, i'd like to hear.
I'm keeping mine. You can find out why on my facebook page :)
Seriously though, facebook is whatever you make of it. Sounds like you made a bit of a mess. If you post anything on there that you wouldn't want _everyone_ in the world to see (not that they'd really care) then you're doing it wrong.
Oh yes, because people who cheat are ALWAYS bad
That's pretty much my opinion.
, and it has nothing to do with the fact that their partner might be completely unsuitable for them and/or positively damaging to them.
If the marriage isn't working out for you and you think there is no way it's ever going to work then grow a spine and be upfront about it _before_ you go chasing someone else. Don't go behind the other persons back because that's what makes it cheating.
I *love* black and white morality. I thought we had some people that appreciate shades of grey on /.
I like to think i'm not so black and white when it comes to this sort of stuff but I can't think of a situation where sneaking around behind someones back is anything but the wrong thing to do.
Marriage should not restrict you to have sex to only one person in any way
If you said "to the exclusion of all others" or something to that effect when you took your wedding vows then yes it should. Otherwise you are cheating the other person out of what they signed up for.
If you want to have an open marriage then go right ahead and do whatever works for you, but don't tell other people what works for them because that's just dumb.
And if you got married on the basis that you would only have sex with your partner and then change your mind, at least be honest about it. It's the not being honest about it that makes it "cheating".
Oh, wait... my ex effectively did that with my daughter pre-facebook...
Wait a minute... people were @sshole's _before_ facebook existed? Surely you jest?
Baby monitors are another. Could be being used between when baby goes to bed and when the adults go to bed or something. You'd know if your neighbors have kids though :)
I wonder how precise the 8:30-10:00 statement was... if it's exactly 8:30-10:00 then it sounds like some equipment running on a timer. If it's approximate then it's more likely to be a human...
Two reasons for SSL: verification and encryption. Sure, if the domains don't match you don't have verification, but the communication is still encrypted, and if you happen to control both ends of the exchange, that's all you need.
IMHO, that's a fail. If your users are trained to just click through certificate exception errors then all someone needs to do is intercept your dns or otherwise subvert your dns lookups and when your users go to www.mybank.com but end up at the bad guys site they won't know the difference and you'll be giving the bad guys your credentials (over an encrypted stream - woohoo!)
If you control both ends of the exchange (eg a corporate intranet) then use a self signed cert and give your users the CA public key via a secure means, but make sure that everything else is correct. IMHO, if done right this is even more secure as no 'trusted' third party is involved, but it doesn't scale up to publicly accessible websites.
If your girlfriend tags you in a facebook picture everyone including your wife will see it too. What's the big deal?How is this a huge privacy hole?
Because we hate Microsoft here, that's why.
Don't hit your kids.
I don't like the idea of smacking kids, but you can't just tell people not to smack their kids without teaching them how to replace it with something else at least as effective, otherwise you'll end up with a generation of self centered teens with no respect for anyone.
The first time my kid runs to Mommy because Daddy said no is when Daddy will hit for distance.
Except you'll miss due to your underdeveloped stereopsis from too much 3D media watching.
I cant find a cite but thanks to the ACCC, Telstra are legally required to wholesale ADSL1 to any ISP that wants to buy a port from Telstra Wholesale.
When Telstra started rolling out ADSL2+, they had it in a lot of exchanges pretty quickly, but wouldn't turn it on until a competitor had ADSL2+ equipment in the same exchange, to get around this ruling.
They've since changed their mind (i'm using a Telstra DSLAM wholesaled to another ISP right now), so I guess they figured that wholesale revenue is still revenue.
I don't think that most higher organisms survive 'limb tearing off' events often enough for it to have a significant impact on evolution. Even having a finger torn off 20 thousand years ago would likely have killed you due to infection, and if it didn't, being short one finger wasn't going to be a huge problem for most things. Having an arm or leg torn off would almost certainly have killed you, on that basis that you'd lose a lot of blood, infection would kill you if the blood loss didn't, whatever tore your arm or leg off probably isn't going to just leave it at that, and nobody else is going to want to wait around while your arm or leg grew back. It takes about 15-20 years to grow an adult sized leg... you could probably do it much faster if you were growing just a leg but even then you are probably talking a few years which is a significant chunk out your useful lifespan, and the end result is a person with a known history of losing limbs in battle/hunting.
Evolution pretty much results in an outcome that is only as good as it needs to be to get the job done.
There was with GSM, and I think it was a pretty hard 35km limit - something to do with timeslot allocations. I don't know that CDMA and 3G signals suffer from the same issues though.