Yes, if you want to get technical, it's the current passing through your tissue, in particular your heart, that does the damage.
But all other things being equal, current is proportional to voltage. Two systems at the same voltage but differing currents will deliver the same shock if you make contact. In fact if anything, if the system with the higher current is near capacity, it might deliver a slightly smaller shock because more of the available current will get drawn by the load.
The only problems with higher currents is the need for thicker wires, and the increased risk of thermal effects.
There seems to be some confusion here. A lot of people think the inverted image shows the TSA is showing doctored images rather than showing us what the scanners actually show. As far as I can tell, the inverted image has never been released by the TSA or the scanner companies. They were part of a hoax suggesting the scanners can see more than they were letting on.
I don't think there's any reason to think images released by the TSA aren't real scanner images.
How many guns were smuggled onto planes as part of 9/11 again? You could easily conceal a weapon in a tin that size.
His point is that a metal detector would've actually detected that tin, and allowed them to inspect the contents to see if contained something that might be used as a weapon, with much less impact on his privacy.
If you're really that lacking in imagination, what the hell do you need 200GB/mo for? If the most bandwidth intensive thing you do is download streaming media, and you prefer your porn^W video at 1.5Mbps, you really watch more than 8 hours of video a day?
Some transfer protocols don't support reliable streaming. Streaming just doesn't make sense for the most bandwidth intensive tasks.
A modern game typically takes me more than 2 hours to download (with my ~2km ADSL connection). That'd be ready to go in 15 minutes at 100Mbps.
A 200GB cap equates to around 600kbit/month, so what your actually getting is a 600kbit connection which is burstable to 100mbit.
Now you're getting it! The original question was: "what is the point of a speed that fast with a download cap that small?". The answer is kind of obvious, right? "[The] connection [...] is burstable to 100mbit."
Not sure of the relevance of 600kbps is though - I don't know too many people that aim to spread their quota evenly throughout the month. Most downloads are bursted.
Umm.. Because a file download 10 times faster than ADSL? I'm a pretty average user, and don't need anything close to 200GB.
But a 1GB video would download in about a minute at 100Mbps, vs about 10 minutes with ADSL. Then there's the latency of fibre vs copper (not to mention wireless).
Microsoft's C++11 support in VS2010 was pretty good at the time: lambdas, auto, new function decl syntax, and that's about it. They've really dropped the ball in VS11 though: They've basically added strongly types enums, and that's about it.
Still no word on variadic templates, template aliases or initializer lists.
Actually, there was an interesting case recently here in Australia. Some bloke had been wandering around a carpark stealing valuables and at least one car. One of the mobiles he had stolen had kiddy porn on it. He turned it over to the police. They warned him that he'd be charged with theft, but he decided it was a price he was willing to pay.
The pedo has been charged (and I assume is awaiting trial). A judge commended the thief, and gave him a relative slap on the wrist for his crimes. (Okay, so it was a month in prison, but it was a pretty impressive rap sheet).
Just look at what's happening in other countries with different systems of election.
Lets see:
* Australia. Lower house is representative preferential, upper house is technically preferential too, but with a proportional bent (multi-seat voting). While there are two main parties in Australia, neither has a majority in either house. Until recently, there was a viable third party - a role slowly being taken up by the Greens at the moment. Lower house has a significant number of Independents. There are a number of instances of seats being won by candidates who polled quite badly on their primary vote, but were outright preferred over the major parties.
* Holland. Bicameral proportional system, with 10 parties in each of their two houses of parliament. Neither house is controlled by a majority. In fact no *two* parties could even band together to form a majority in either house.
* New Zealand. Unicameral proportional system with direct representation: Single house with 50% representative FPP seats, and 50% "list" seats which are granted to parties in such a way that parliament becomes proportional. Again, currently two main parties, but neither has a majority of seats. Parliament is made up of 8 parties in total.
* Switzerland. Bicameral proportional: 6 parties in each house, with the greatest proportion being 31%.
Compare with:
* USA: Bicameral FPP with separate executive. Each house is made up of exactly 2 parties. One party, "the winner", holds an absolute majority, while the other party, "the loser" holds virtually no power. The only saving grace is the split terms of the senate, where you might get lucky and have each house independently controlled ("a tie"). In such cases, the two parties are said to "compromise", by filibustering.
While they got heaps of stuff right, FPP voting breeds two-party systems. It's a classic moral dilemma: People who vote for "the better of two evils" get more power from their vote that people who vote for a third party.
No, you guys need a preferential or proportional system - then you don't have to throw your vote away for the sake of making a point.
Ahh, I've answered my own question by re-reading TFA. They accept payment by WebMoney.
To those that answered "they use stolen credit cards", seriously, just think that through. Just because they're criminals, does not mean they're stupid. That they're not getting caught suggests they're not *that* stupid.
But surely the owners of the botnet would already have access to thousands of stolen credit cards. Surely the owner's of the botnet are going to be pretty pissed off if the payment bounces because someone notices the several thousand dollar change on their stolen card.
Yeah, because the situation is terrible. 69% of people not getting payrises in the last 6 months, suggesting an average of 19-20 months between pay rises, in the worst economy many of you have seen in most of your lifetimes. It's time to picket!
There's certainly an element of that in there, but I think it's more thought out and planned than you suggest.
If a company has 100 staff, all being paid 20% below "market" rate, it'll cost them 20% more to bring all their salaries up. By leaving your pay where it is, they're calling your bluff and assuming they'll get it right most of the time.
If they give you a payrise, then their line that no-one's getting pay rises this year won't stick so well, and they'll need to give more people payrises.
If 20% of people leave because of the pay, and they need to hire replacements at market rate, increasing the total salary costs by a whopping 4%.
Sure, *we* know that the productivity of new hires will take ages to match those they're replacing, but try telling a manager that a 20% increase in costs is better than a 4% increase.
GBP 85 / hr doesn't seem outlandishly expensive to me if you consider it a professional IT service. What would surprise me, is if there were ISPs valuing their time at less than GBP 50. What would concern me, is if ISPs were spending 10 minutes on these requests and just giving out data willie nillie.
What's the benefit in using LEDs to grow something for fuel? Surely the LEDs can't cause the algae to "produce" more power than they consume. The power from the LEDs has to come from somewhere, right?
Doesn't using electricity to grow algae for fuel kind of defeat the purpose?
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Why is this piece of misinformation so pervasive?
Yes, if you want to get technical, it's the current passing through your tissue, in particular your heart, that does the damage.
But all other things being equal, current is proportional to voltage. Two systems at the same voltage but differing currents will deliver the same shock if you make contact. In fact if anything, if the system with the higher current is near capacity, it might deliver a slightly smaller shock because more of the available current will get drawn by the load.
The only problems with higher currents is the need for thicker wires, and the increased risk of thermal effects.
There seems to be some confusion here. A lot of people think the inverted image shows the TSA is showing doctored images rather than showing us what the scanners actually show. As far as I can tell, the inverted image has never been released by the TSA or the scanner companies. They were part of a hoax suggesting the scanners can see more than they were letting on.
I don't think there's any reason to think images released by the TSA aren't real scanner images.
How many guns were smuggled onto planes as part of 9/11 again? You could easily conceal a weapon in a tin that size.
His point is that a metal detector would've actually detected that tin, and allowed them to inspect the contents to see if contained something that might be used as a weapon, with much less impact on his privacy.
Thanks for the links! I was really concerned MS were going to drop the ball.
If you're really that lacking in imagination, what the hell do you need 200GB/mo for? If the most bandwidth intensive thing you do is download streaming media, and you prefer your porn^W video at 1.5Mbps, you really watch more than 8 hours of video a day?
Some transfer protocols don't support reliable streaming. Streaming just doesn't make sense for the most bandwidth intensive tasks.
A modern game typically takes me more than 2 hours to download (with my ~2km ADSL connection). That'd be ready to go in 15 minutes at 100Mbps.
Now you're getting it! The original question was: "what is the point of a speed that fast with a download cap that small?". The answer is kind of obvious, right? "[The] connection [...] is burstable to 100mbit."
Not sure of the relevance of 600kbps is though - I don't know too many people that aim to spread their quota evenly throughout the month. Most downloads are bursted.
Umm.. Because a file download 10 times faster than ADSL? I'm a pretty average user, and don't need anything close to 200GB.
But a 1GB video would download in about a minute at 100Mbps, vs about 10 minutes with ADSL. Then there's the latency of fibre vs copper (not to mention wireless).
Microsoft's C++11 support in VS2010 was pretty good at the time: lambdas, auto, new function decl syntax, and that's about it.
They've really dropped the ball in VS11 though: They've basically added strongly types enums, and that's about it.
Still no word on variadic templates, template aliases or initializer lists.
You are mistaken. Zero divided by zero is not inifinity.
Actually, there was an interesting case recently here in Australia. Some bloke had been wandering around a carpark stealing valuables and at least one car. One of the mobiles he had stolen had kiddy porn on it. He turned it over to the police. They warned him that he'd be charged with theft, but he decided it was a price he was willing to pay.
The pedo has been charged (and I assume is awaiting trial). A judge commended the thief, and gave him a relative slap on the wrist for his crimes. (Okay, so it was a month in prison, but it was a pretty impressive rap sheet).
http://www.smh.com.au/national/im-bad--but-not-that-bad-thief-goes-straight-after-finding-child-porn-20120208-1rb6b.html
To quote the judge, "'We don't want to discourage other like-minded people to act in the manner you have."
Patents != Trademark != Copyright
I should probably have included the obligatory link:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-28-2010/appholes
Seriously, they added "store" to a word we've been using in the industry for decades. Surely there's no merit in this...
It's probably a dvorak user. 'o' and 'e' are right next to each other on my keyboard.
You three must all be new here.
Lets see:
* Australia. Lower house is representative preferential, upper house is technically preferential too, but with a proportional bent (multi-seat voting). While there are two main parties in Australia, neither has a majority in either house. Until recently, there was a viable third party - a role slowly being taken up by the Greens at the moment. Lower house has a significant number of Independents. There are a number of instances of seats being won by candidates who polled quite badly on their primary vote, but were outright preferred over the major parties.
* Holland. Bicameral proportional system, with 10 parties in each of their two houses of parliament. Neither house is controlled by a majority. In fact no *two* parties could even band together to form a majority in either house.
* New Zealand. Unicameral proportional system with direct representation: Single house with 50% representative FPP seats, and 50% "list" seats which are granted to parties in such a way that parliament becomes proportional. Again, currently two main parties, but neither has a majority of seats. Parliament is made up of 8 parties in total.
* Switzerland. Bicameral proportional: 6 parties in each house, with the greatest proportion being 31%.
Compare with:
* USA: Bicameral FPP with separate executive. Each house is made up of exactly 2 parties. One party, "the winner", holds an absolute majority, while the other party, "the loser" holds virtually no power. The only saving grace is the split terms of the senate, where you might get lucky and have each house independently controlled ("a tie"). In such cases, the two parties are said to "compromise", by filibustering.
No, it's your forefathers that are to blame.
While they got heaps of stuff right, FPP voting breeds two-party systems. It's a classic moral dilemma: People who vote for "the better of two evils" get more power from their vote that people who vote for a third party.
No, you guys need a preferential or proportional system - then you don't have to throw your vote away for the sake of making a point.
Ahh, I've answered my own question by re-reading TFA. They accept payment by WebMoney.
To those that answered "they use stolen credit cards", seriously, just think that through. Just because they're criminals, does not mean they're stupid. That they're not getting caught suggests they're not *that* stupid.
But surely the owners of the botnet would already have access to thousands of stolen credit cards. Surely the owner's of the botnet are going to be pretty pissed off if the payment bounces because someone notices the several thousand dollar change on their stolen card.
Slightly related question: how on Earth would one pay for use of a botnet like this?
It's not like you're going to hand your credit card details over to someone like this, right?
Yeah, because the situation is terrible. 69% of people not getting payrises in the last 6 months, suggesting an average of 19-20 months between pay rises, in the worst economy many of you have seen in most of your lifetimes. It's time to picket!
There's certainly an element of that in there, but I think it's more thought out and planned than you suggest.
If a company has 100 staff, all being paid 20% below "market" rate, it'll cost them 20% more to bring all their salaries up. By leaving your pay where it is, they're calling your bluff and assuming they'll get it right most of the time.
If they give you a payrise, then their line that no-one's getting pay rises this year won't stick so well, and they'll need to give more people payrises.
If 20% of people leave because of the pay, and they need to hire replacements at market rate, increasing the total salary costs by a whopping 4%.
Sure, *we* know that the productivity of new hires will take ages to match those they're replacing, but try telling a manager that a 20% increase in costs is better than a 4% increase.
It's Prineville (without a "c").
GBP 85 / hr doesn't seem outlandishly expensive to me if you consider it a professional IT service. What would surprise me, is if there were ISPs valuing their time at less than GBP 50. What would concern me, is if ISPs were spending 10 minutes on these requests and just giving out data willie nillie.
Yeah, I wonder what the machine thought of "The Forester and the Lion", and "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". They seem strangely appropriate.
What's the benefit in using LEDs to grow something for fuel? Surely the LEDs can't cause the algae to "produce" more power than they consume. The power from the LEDs has to come from somewhere, right?
Doesn't using electricity to grow algae for fuel kind of defeat the purpose?