Looks like it uses a gas stream as a laser waveguide... Perhaps a noble gas, like Argon. That would account why there appears to be a force upon the melted debris.
Why not the reporter attend but when taken to the witness stand, every question asked should be answered with "I am under duress and I am not here under my free will". If I recall correctly, people who are under duress with threat on their person are permitted to commit perjury, which is why defendants, when found guilty, cannot be charged with perjury for claiming to be not guilty. So when asked a question, the reporter should state that he is under duress and then give an obviously nonsense answer. So when asked to name his source, he should give the name of the Judge's dog, for example.
I may be very wrong but it would be interesting...
With how American Politicians almost uniformly deny global warming and sea level rise, I am surprised that none of them have yet suggested building a couple of large gigawatt nuclear power station barges and huge pumps then pump seawater into the middle of Antarctica where it may freeze...
The problem is that they only fine corporations because there isn't any "one" to imprison
Yes there is. Probably more than one. Someone gave the order to perform an illegal activity. Someone followed the order to perform an illegal activity.
...If the the general orders his troops to go on a raping spree, and they all do it, then they all go to jail.
I beg to differ. What really happens is the incident is covered up and nobody goes to jail unless the press gets hold of the story and then there's a slight chance that a few of the lowest-level soldiers will go to jail.
Yeah... It always seems that they always find some scapegoat at the lowest-level who was "operating independently". It would be nice if the "buck stops here" happens and after identifying the henchman who dunnit, they imprison all managers from him upwards including the CEO.
Keep in mind this fine isn't for all of that. It's just for deleting a bunch of data. There are more fines to come.
That in itself is a criminal act that if you did it in a non-corporate trial would result in prison time, not a fine.
The problem is that they only fine corporations because there isn't any "one" to imprison. What would be a logical equivalence would be to to require corporations to give the govt a percentage ownership of stock in the company as a fine and the govt will dump the stock on the open market after the equivalent jail time has expired.
If the order was given to destroy data then there HAS to be a person who gave that order. It's time they were hunted down.
The thing is, this being Halliburton, it's possible that the person that gave the order to destroy evidence has already gotten away with much more heinous crimes and effectively has immunity from prosecution for anything he does. And if they try to hunt him down, he might shoot them in the face.
No, I'm sure he would only shoot his friends in the face but he probably would have an airtight walk-in safe for everyone else.
You may not believe it but I am actually a fan of IBM and some of their past products. They are an excellent example to show that FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) is actually great for business. They were relatively early at being openly FOSS friendly since the mid 1990s.
IBM's motivation for involvement in open source is not wholly altruistic but is entirely profit motivated. In this instance, it makes sense for them to donate completed features from their Symphony product to Apache OO so that eventually, their engineers can work on new features.
For IBM, Open Source == Out Sourcing. Cheaper than employing programmers in faraway places is to get them to volunteer for free to maintain their code.
Not new really... They have been doing that for years.
It looks like they're exporting, deleting and then reimporting cookies before the cookies are set to expire. They can then get back into the site they just had access to. I fail to see how this "exploit" isn't actually the expected behavior of a properly functioning login tracked with a cookie.
The complaint is that the expectation of "logging off" should invalidate existing cookies.
Since they say that they will be showing advertisements on the desktop, does that mean that they will get rid of the Windows Home/Pro/Expert editions and just have a single Windows 8.1 which is free to download and install?
This is only potentially bad because of the way how people have now completely misunderstood the purpose of DNA fingerprinting.
DNA Fingerprinting was originally conceived to exclude suspects and was never intended to prove that a suspect was present. (let that sink in for a bit)
(a bit longer)
This is why DNA fingerprinting is usually combined with probabilities with regard to how many other people share the similar DNA fingerprint match. A DNA fingerprint match should not be considered proof of anyone's guilt. It only means that the suspect cannot be excluded.
However, in America, it seems that DNA fingerprint match is seen as proof of guilt instead of how it should be used where a fingerprint mismatch is proof of innocence. Far too often, I have heard of cases where the prosecution excludes DNA fingerprint evidence because it doesn't show a match... which is an abuse and misrepresentation of the technology.
*sigh*
(I'm sure that many people will read what I had written and still completely fail to understand the difference)
Just imagine if someone buying a computer had to get separate permission from its hundreds of patent holders after purchasing it before being able to legally switch it on?
I think it would be fairer for the "grain elevator" in this story to be one one who had to pay Monsanto.
Why not regulate lathes? They can be used to make a barrel of a high powered rifle. Why not regulate mills? They can be used to make land mines. Why not regulate sheet metal? They can be used to make the skin of missiles. Why not regulate screwdrivers? They can be used to make bombs.
Why not just regulate and put a serial number in each and every bullet manufactured? I doubt that anyone would be able to 3D-print a bullet and its charge for many years to come.
At some point, it would have been cheaper to pay another country to take it away for reprocessing and vitrification, even after considering the obscene cost of safely transporting one barrel at a time to said foreign country and transporting the glass logs back for long term storage.
For all the vehicles that I have owned in America, including my current vehicle, I have usually exceeded the EPA estimates except during weeks of especially poor traffic. I consider myself a fairly aggressive driver, especially when compared to the majority of the drivers I see every day.
I think that the EPA estimates are a reasonable "middle ground" but people who drive poorly or inefficiently should not expect to achieve them.
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Looks like it uses a gas stream as a laser waveguide... Perhaps a noble gas, like Argon. That would account why there appears to be a force upon the melted debris.
This is the madness of high-speed trading...
Why not the reporter attend but when taken to the witness stand, every question asked should be answered with "I am under duress and I am not here under my free will". If I recall correctly, people who are under duress with threat on their person are permitted to commit perjury, which is why defendants, when found guilty, cannot be charged with perjury for claiming to be not guilty. So when asked a question, the reporter should state that he is under duress and then give an obviously nonsense answer. So when asked to name his source, he should give the name of the Judge's dog, for example.
I may be very wrong but it would be interesting...
Just my 2.
With how American Politicians almost uniformly deny global warming and sea level rise, I am surprised that none of them have yet suggested building a couple of large gigawatt nuclear power station barges and huge pumps then pump seawater into the middle of Antarctica where it may freeze...
The problem is that they only fine corporations because there isn't any "one" to imprison
Yes there is. Probably more than one. Someone gave the order to perform an illegal activity. Someone followed the order to perform an illegal activity.
...If the the general orders his troops to go on a raping spree, and they all do it, then they all go to jail.
I beg to differ. What really happens is the incident is covered up and nobody goes to jail unless the press gets hold of the story and then there's a slight chance that a few of the lowest-level soldiers will go to jail.
Yeah... It always seems that they always find some scapegoat at the lowest-level who was "operating independently".
It would be nice if the "buck stops here" happens and after identifying the henchman who dunnit, they imprison all managers from him upwards including the CEO.
Keep in mind this fine isn't for all of that. It's just for deleting a bunch of data. There are more fines to come.
That in itself is a criminal act that if you did it in a non-corporate trial would result in prison time, not a fine.
The problem is that they only fine corporations because there isn't any "one" to imprison. What would be a logical equivalence would be to to require corporations to give the govt a percentage ownership of stock in the company as a fine and the govt will dump the stock on the open market after the equivalent jail time has expired.
If the order was given to destroy data then there HAS to be a person who gave that order. It's time they were hunted down.
The thing is, this being Halliburton, it's possible that the person that gave the order to destroy evidence has already gotten away with much more heinous crimes and effectively has immunity from prosecution for anything he does. And if they try to hunt him down, he might shoot them in the face.
No, I'm sure he would only shoot his friends in the face but he probably would have an airtight walk-in safe for everyone else.
You may not believe it but I am actually a fan of IBM and some of their past products. They are an excellent example to show that FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) is actually great for business. They were relatively early at being openly FOSS friendly since the mid 1990s.
IBM's motivation for involvement in open source is not wholly altruistic but is entirely profit motivated. In this instance, it makes sense for them to donate completed features from their Symphony product to Apache OO so that eventually, their engineers can work on new features.
For IBM, Open Source == Out Sourcing.
Cheaper than employing programmers in faraway places is to get them to volunteer for free to maintain their code.
Not new really... They have been doing that for years.
It looks like they're exporting, deleting and then reimporting cookies before the cookies are set to expire. They can then get back into the site they just had access to. I fail to see how this "exploit" isn't actually the expected behavior of a properly functioning login tracked with a cookie.
The complaint is that the expectation of "logging off" should invalidate existing cookies.
Don't be silly. There's no such place as Ireland in the bible.
So... The guy was knowingly driving with a revoked license. They should throw the library at him.
I have seen drivers of vehicles in the USA perform an act which looks like a deliberate "nudge" to a random cyclist before driving away at high speed.
If I had an always-on dash-mounted video camera, I would be tempted to post videos of people doing such nonsense.
So sad.
Since they say that they will be showing advertisements on the desktop, does that mean that they will get rid of the Windows Home/Pro/Expert editions and just have a single Windows 8.1 which is free to download and install?
Which is how DNA fingerprinting is being abused. DNA fingerprinting cannot prove guilt. DNA fingerprinting is not a substitute for good investigation.
This is only potentially bad because of the way how people have now completely misunderstood the purpose of DNA fingerprinting.
DNA Fingerprinting was originally conceived to exclude suspects and was never intended to prove that a suspect was present.
(let that sink in for a bit)
(a bit longer)
This is why DNA fingerprinting is usually combined with probabilities with regard to how many other people share the similar DNA fingerprint match.
A DNA fingerprint match should not be considered proof of anyone's guilt. It only means that the suspect cannot be excluded.
However, in America, it seems that DNA fingerprint match is seen as proof of guilt instead of how it should be used where a fingerprint mismatch is proof of innocence. Far too often, I have heard of cases where the prosecution excludes DNA fingerprint evidence because it doesn't show a match ... which is an abuse and misrepresentation of the technology.
*sigh*
(I'm sure that many people will read what I had written and still completely fail to understand the difference)
Just imagine if someone buying a computer had to get separate permission from its hundreds of patent holders after purchasing it before being able to legally switch it on?
I think it would be fairer for the "grain elevator" in this story to be one one who had to pay Monsanto.
Why not regulate lathes? They can be used to make a barrel of a high powered rifle.
Why not regulate mills? They can be used to make land mines.
Why not regulate sheet metal? They can be used to make the skin of missiles.
Why not regulate screwdrivers? They can be used to make bombs.
Why not just regulate and put a serial number in each and every bullet manufactured? I doubt that anyone would be able to 3D-print a bullet and its charge for many years to come.
At some point, it would have been cheaper to pay another country to take it away for reprocessing and vitrification, even after considering the obscene cost of safely transporting one barrel at a time to said foreign country and transporting the glass logs back for long term storage.
How long before we start seeing missiles with highly polished chrome finish on the outside?
For all the vehicles that I have owned in America, including my current vehicle, I have usually exceeded the EPA estimates except during weeks of especially poor traffic. I consider myself a fairly aggressive driver, especially when compared to the majority of the drivers I see every day.
I think that the EPA estimates are a reasonable "middle ground" but people who drive poorly or inefficiently should not expect to achieve them.
Well... There are two conjectures which need to be tested.
1. Are anti-particles just like normal particles except with their direction of time reversed?
2. Do anti-particles have negative energy?
If they are the "travelling backwards in time", then gravity would be repulsive.
Isn't this somewhat reminiscent of part of the VR hardware shown in the 1994 film?
But detecting that light from the flood of all the other light is a problem.
Fast download rates, okay. But what about the return/upload path?