Speaking of using the Konami code in netflix... A slightly modified version can be to deactivate the account, so you can reactivate it. In theory you could use trial accounts, and just keep deactivating it to start a new trial account. I wouldn't be surprised if they tracked this and disabled Wiis that do it too much, but I also wouldn't be surprised if they didn't bother. (Got this from their tech support when we had a phantom account issue. Re-activating with the same account fixed our issue, but cleared our instant queue, recently watched, etc.).
Slightly modified: U U D D L R L R U U U U
Oh, and I'd say for now we use the Wii for Netflix and the homebrew WiiMC ( http://www.wiimc.org/ ) (for shoutcast 'radio', mostly) for about 80% of the Wii usage, and about 50% of total tv use. There is a 360 wrapped and under the tree, so those numbers will go down very soon.
You are absolutely correct! They are doing exactly as I would expect the service to do. She got her info on a police report. The police department gave a media outlet the report in such a way that her personal information was exposed. LifeLock called the media outlet and asked to remove her data. There is no way anybody could have prevented the info from getting there in the first place... except maybe not giving the police department your SSN when reporting a crime happening to someone else.
If I was a customer of theirs, and a police department did the same to me, then LifeLock is doing exactly as I would expect them to do, if they wanted to continue getting my monthly fee.
However, Tamika is one of their own, and the police report was published in an article about them. I don't think they would even notice if it had happened to a regular customer and/or if it had not been an article concerning LifeLock.
Where is the interaction between prime numbers and the praxeology of buying and selling securities?
Primes don't have anything to do with Stock Market analysis.
From the article (ha! I didn't read it, I just skimmed it, but it's not think with maths), what the researchers found, using primes, is a generalization of Benford's Law. It's this Generalized Benford's Law that can be used in Analysis.
In addition, many applications that have been developed for Benford's law could eventually be generalized to the wider context of the Generalized Benford's law. One such application is fraud detection: while naturally generated data obey Benford's law, randomly guessed (fraudulent) data do not, in general.
(OK, so the article doesn't mention stock market except for the part that is quoted in the summary, but better fraud detection would play a part in stock market analysis, yes?)
They do have chapters. But IRC sections are unique across all chapters. There is only one Section 12, so chapter is irrelevent in your parent's citation. (If you wanted to be nit-picky, there is no "IRS Code", it's simply IRC or "Internal Revenue Code") IRC is US Code Title 26. There are also subtitles and subchapters, which you failed to mention, and THEN parts.
Specifically, IRC Section 12 is in subtitle A, Chapter 1, subchapter A, Part II. Unfortunately for Ottair, there is no Paragraph 14. There is no other (US) IRC Section 12. And no, I am not a CPA, enrolled agent, or a lawyer (though I play one on TV...), so my citation is probably not written properly, but I can still provide a reference: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sec_26_00000012----000-.html
That is the site to which the IRS links when you look for Internal Revenue Code. Funny how even the IRS doesn't want anything to do with the code.
California Society of Certified Public Accountants Find-a-CPA page.
24 found when searching city of San Jose, and selecting Tax Return Preparation and Planning as an offered service. Obviously, they won't all be "top-notch" but it's a start.
I especially enjoy how they complied with the letter by making the entire site's theme magenta (rather than just the mobile news blogs), and putting forth the table to describe the differences between the companies, while at the same time making it look like they are laughing at T-Mobile/DT.
Pure Genius.
...and for those who go there, but don't read everything... the current logo with the final T of engadget combined with mobile... they explain that is just for today, being April 1 and all.
I have a bajillion Legos, and a Save feature as well.
I've modeled many individual bricks in SketchUp, so I can create the models and SAVE them. Of course, it's a lot easier, and far more fun, to model using real bricks, and then virtualize them.
I think that was about when I got my Galaxy Explorer, too. Or maybe it was Christmas '79.
Anyway, I still have every space set from 1980-1983 (released in the US). I'm missing one that was only available in 1978 and '79 (Moon Radar Station #926). But I found a site with all the instructions not too long ago, so I think I could build it if I wanted to. http://www.hccamsterdam.nl/brickfactory/ It is in English. Turns out there were a couple space models released in Europe that we didn't get, but that's par for the course with Lego.
For the last month or so, my children (11 and 4) have been playing with them... And I've been modeling them with SketchUp, brick by brick. Galaxy Explorer was my second Shetchup model, first was, I think Space Shuttle (no relation to the real thing.) It's a blast! My 4 year old was amazed when he saw the actual model next to the monitor with the virtual one.
I always hate when an instructor/lecturer/presenter is at the board with his/her back to the room.
How about using an IR laser pointer from behind the audience? the dot reflects the IR, the Wiimote picks it up.
maybe a combo green/IR pointer, with the IR is switched separately from the green. That way, the green dot is your cursor. (otherwise you're clicking blind)
But yeah, I love this. inset an LCD display into a desk, and have a mount for the Wiimote at the back of the desk. Who needs a mouse? (hmm... how to right click though?)
Oh, you mean a device like a USB Hub + Software RAID?
Sure, it won't be as fast as SATA or a controller connected to the PCI(express) bus, but it is flash in a RAID and at least as fast as the 5400rpm IDE HD in my laptop.... (no I haven't tried it, but all my flash drives do rate faster than my HD according to SiSoft)
I remember seeing something like this quite a while ago... I think 256MB sticks were high-end at the time, and they put 4 of them in a single hub to get a full, amazing GB of flash storage. Old News.
According to Merriam Webster, to censor is: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable (censor the news); also : to suppress or delete as objectionable (censor out indecent passages)
So, yes, what Walmart does is in fact censorship of the things they sell in their stores, as they "censor out indecent passages." It is just not government enforced censorship.
In 2001, I worked (seasonally) for Sony Disk Manufacturing. I know for an absolute certainty that when new Sony label CD's were released, there was a normal version, and an edited Walmart version, so censrship was done at that time.
That said, my wife does buy CD's from Walmart occasionally. The Gorrilaz' Demon Days that she bought from Walmart DOES contain bad words of the "7 words you can't say on television" variety. This was maybe a year ago. I don't recall if the 'explicit lyrics' label was on the package or not, but it appears that the censorship is not consistent.
For those who don't care if it's censored (like parents of young children who might {gasp} want songs with no bad words for the kids to overhear while riding in the car), Walmart selling non-DRM music is a good thing. Kudos to Walmart.
I had Comcast. IE is used during the install, so the modem can be provisioned without calling them using IE scripts. Once the modem is taken care of, you can hook anything you want up *that isn't a server* I had an old Linux box running for a year in my router's DMZ, and they never called me on it. Was pretty much zero traffic though. I had a friend who hosted the server for some 3-d shooter for a couple of games, and Comcast threatened to disconnect (weeks later) if he did it again. (Why is it always a "friend" with the problems?)
I had Comcats for about 5 years, moved three times. I never had any problems.
My in-laws had Comcast for 6 months, then moved to another house in the same neighborhood. In the 1 week that it was disconnected, their (leased) modem's serial number was "being used" in Denver. We were in Arizona. Since it was leased, we just swapped it at the office. That was the only trouble with Comcast Internet that I've ever been part of.
That was about the time the Intellivoice came out for Intellivision. I can't even begin to count the number of hours I'd spend in a week's time playing B-17 Bomber ("Bandits! Twelve O'clock!"), or Space Spartans ("Hello commander. Computer reporting."). They were why I only got C's in Jr High, rather than A's. The only reason I don't still play those very same two games is that my wife made me throw the damn thing out about 5 years ago. I tried the PC versions (Intellivision Lives?), but I had a hard time without an old Intellivision style controller.
There were a couple other Intellivoice games as well, but Bomb Squad ("The code! The code! Figure out the code!"), while initially fun, had low replay value, and Tron: Solar Sailor (didn't play enough to remember a quote!) was just kinda dorky.
1) Now matter how you produce it, evenif a miracle in effciency happened, at the end of the process any ethanol produced is going to be dissolved in water. Drying it out is going to eat the efficiency.
Except you only need to dry it if you mix it with something not water soluble, such as gasoline. 85% Ethanol/15% water will work fine in an engine, if a little underpowered, assuming no gas goes into the tank. The reduction of cost by not drying may make up for the reduction in power per litre. But I haven't figured any numbers, so maybe not.
ENERGY RECOVERY RATES
20 POUND CAR TIRE BY PRODUCT BREAKDOWN:
OIL (# 4) - 1.2 GALLONS 8.5 POUNDS
GAS - 50 CF - 3000 BTUS 2.0 POUNDS
STEEL 2.0 POUNDS
CARBON BLACK 7.5 POUNDS
No mention of how much goes into removing that stuff though.
The tech can also convert the oil in shale and tar sands into natural gas and some other gases that can converted into oil... at least that's what they say. No word on how to purchase said device.
Tax anytime real world money is exchanged for virtual goods.
If I sell you an item in a game for $50, I would be required to declare that $50 as income for tax purposes.
This is already the case. It is income. It must be declared.
If I give Linden Labs 100 L$ and get $50 back, I would be required to declare that $50 as income for tax purposes.
Possibly. (do you mean US$? if L$ no income has actually been made... unless they are collecting in-world)
Hobby Expenses may be used to offset Hobby Income, so for the casual gamer (or, Second Lifer, rather) as long as you get back less than you put into it, there is no gain. But hobby still must be reported. You simply report the hobby expenses as well.
And I don't think they are really referring to WoW type items, are they? TFA did not say, but some of the "related" articles (which I did not read) may have. If so, then the need to collect it in WoW gold, or whatever the in game currency would be if the currency is declared by the publisher to have no value.
I was starting to think I had gone crazy.... I didn't remember having actual moving graphics when I played as a kid! There were a few (but only a few) pictures... If you can call them that by today's standards
And, to someone else who asked, yes I think you can still buy newer versions. I checked out a copy from a local library (a great source for educational games such as this) maybe five years ago. I thought my daughter would be interested, but I guess she was still too young. I don't think I still have a copy.... It was a Windows version, with fancy graphics. I remember seeing it somewhere for sale new around the same time
Actually, looks like you can get it from
Amazon.
Oregon Trail 5, and someone is selling Oregon Trail 3 on the cheap.
My favorite way to make coffee is to let them do it at Cafe du Monde in New Orleans at the French market. It's actually a coffee and chicory blend, and half milk (I suppose you can order it black). Along with an order of beignets, let them bring it, sit back, listen to the jazz, and watch the people walk by on Decatur.
Unfortunately, I don't live near enough new Orleans to do that more than once a year.
I prefer pressed, but settle for drip cause it's less work for me. Too much trouble to grind it myself. I've recently switched from grinding it in-store to buying the blend from Cafe du Monde over the internet. http://www.cafedumonde.com/
HCCL is for gasoline engines, allowing them to operate as a diesel does, ie ignition by compression, no spark needed. Side benefit of a more complete burn. Variable Valve Actuation can be also be applied to diesels.
But it seemed like the news was really about the computer model of the engine, and that VVA is just something that having the model could enable (allows development of the algorithms to control VVA)
All the little openings on those things have seals placed over them, so it becomes quite obvious that the box has been tampered with because the seal is broken. True, some county clerk (or Diebold employee maybe) could probably get a replacement to replace it, but it would be hard to cover the evidence.
Now i'm not saying that everythings hunky dory just becuase we know if it's been tampered with. Obviously, if a machine is tampered with, you can't trust the votes. Which means they can't (shouldn't) be counted. Which means that some poeple's votes are getting counted when maybe there was no vote changing after all, but you can't tell and the whole process breaks down, because by not counting any of the machines in a certain area of [town|county|state] the vote is, in effect, altered.
Similar to what would happen if someone snuck a few hundred forged ballots into the ballot box.... the count wouldn't be right when compared to the rolls, and they couldn't trust the entire precinct's ballots.
So why don't they just modify the software so it doesn't 'read' anything from the card, (and yes modify the boot process if need be)... except maybe space left on it. so it can't pick up a virus in the first place.
Bah! i never actually post on/. what am i thinking? I'm just a lurker, grrr
From TFA:
Different areas of the network tend to emphasize different functional classifications. As a result, one can infer a protein's function by the coordinate of the protein in the network.
I don't do any protein research, so i can't get anything useful from seeing it this way, but I'm sure someone can.
Speaking of using the Konami code in netflix... A slightly modified version can be to deactivate the account, so you can reactivate it. In theory you could use trial accounts, and just keep deactivating it to start a new trial account. I wouldn't be surprised if they tracked this and disabled Wiis that do it too much, but I also wouldn't be surprised if they didn't bother. (Got this from their tech support when we had a phantom account issue. Re-activating with the same account fixed our issue, but cleared our instant queue, recently watched, etc.).
Slightly modified: U U D D L R L R U U U U
Oh, and I'd say for now we use the Wii for Netflix and the homebrew WiiMC ( http://www.wiimc.org/ ) (for shoutcast 'radio', mostly) for about 80% of the Wii usage, and about 50% of total tv use. There is a 360 wrapped and under the tree, so those numbers will go down very soon.
You are absolutely correct! They are doing exactly as I would expect the service to do. She got her info on a police report. The police department gave a media outlet the report in such a way that her personal information was exposed. LifeLock called the media outlet and asked to remove her data. There is no way anybody could have prevented the info from getting there in the first place... except maybe not giving the police department your SSN when reporting a crime happening to someone else.
If I was a customer of theirs, and a police department did the same to me, then LifeLock is doing exactly as I would expect them to do, if they wanted to continue getting my monthly fee.
However, Tamika is one of their own, and the police report was published in an article about them. I don't think they would even notice if it had happened to a regular customer and/or if it had not been an article concerning LifeLock.
Where is the interaction between prime numbers and the praxeology of buying and selling securities?
Primes don't have anything to do with Stock Market analysis.
From the article (ha! I didn't read it, I just skimmed it, but it's not think with maths), what the researchers found, using primes, is a generalization of Benford's Law. It's this Generalized Benford's Law that can be used in Analysis.
In addition, many applications that have been developed for Benford's law could eventually be generalized to the wider context of the Generalized Benford's law. One such application is fraud detection: while naturally generated data obey Benford's law, randomly guessed (fraudulent) data do not, in general.
(OK, so the article doesn't mention stock market except for the part that is quoted in the summary, but better fraud detection would play a part in stock market analysis, yes?)
They do have chapters. But IRC sections are unique across all chapters. There is only one Section 12, so chapter is irrelevent in your parent's citation. (If you wanted to be nit-picky, there is no "IRS Code", it's simply IRC or "Internal Revenue Code") IRC is US Code Title 26. There are also subtitles and subchapters, which you failed to mention, and THEN parts.
Specifically, IRC Section 12 is in subtitle A, Chapter 1, subchapter A, Part II. Unfortunately for Ottair, there is no Paragraph 14. There is no other (US) IRC Section 12. And no, I am not a CPA, enrolled agent, or a lawyer (though I play one on TV...), so my citation is probably not written properly, but I can still provide a reference:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sec_26_00000012----000-.html
That is the site to which the IRS links when you look for Internal Revenue Code. Funny how even the IRS doesn't want anything to do with the code.
http://www.calcpa.org/public/referral/findcpa.aspx
California Society of Certified Public Accountants Find-a-CPA page.
24 found when searching city of San Jose, and selecting Tax Return Preparation and Planning as an offered service. Obviously, they won't all be "top-notch" but it's a start.
I especially enjoy how they complied with the letter by making the entire site's theme magenta (rather than just the mobile news blogs), and putting forth the table to describe the differences between the companies, while at the same time making it look like they are laughing at T-Mobile/DT.
...and for those who go there, but don't read everything... the current logo with the final T of engadget combined with mobile... they explain that is just for today, being April 1 and all.
Pure Genius.
I have a bajillion Legos, and a Save feature as well.
I've modeled many individual bricks in SketchUp, so I can create the models and SAVE them. Of course, it's a lot easier, and far more fun, to model using real bricks, and then virtualize them.
I think that was about when I got my Galaxy Explorer, too. Or maybe it was Christmas '79.
Anyway, I still have every space set from 1980-1983 (released in the US). I'm missing one that was only available in 1978 and '79 (Moon Radar Station #926). But I found a site with all the instructions not too long ago, so I think I could build it if I wanted to. http://www.hccamsterdam.nl/brickfactory/ It is in English. Turns out there were a couple space models released in Europe that we didn't get, but that's par for the course with Lego.
For the last month or so, my children (11 and 4) have been playing with them... And I've been modeling them with SketchUp, brick by brick. Galaxy Explorer was my second Shetchup model, first was, I think Space Shuttle (no relation to the real thing.) It's a blast! My 4 year old was amazed when he saw the actual model next to the monitor with the virtual one.
He does mention that the Wiimote line of sight can't be blocked. That was his explanation for setting it to the side.
point taken on the other issues though.
I always hate when an instructor/lecturer/presenter is at the board with his/her back to the room.
How about using an IR laser pointer from behind the audience? the dot reflects the IR, the Wiimote picks it up.
maybe a combo green/IR pointer, with the IR is switched separately from the green. That way, the green dot is your cursor. (otherwise you're clicking blind)
But yeah, I love this. inset an LCD display into a desk, and have a mount for the Wiimote at the back of the desk. Who needs a mouse? (hmm... how to right click though?)
Right or wrong, I applaud your movie reference. One of my favorites!
Inconceivable!
Oh, you mean a device like a USB Hub + Software RAID?
Sure, it won't be as fast as SATA or a controller connected to the PCI(express) bus, but it is flash in a RAID and at least as fast as the 5400rpm IDE HD in my laptop.... (no I haven't tried it, but all my flash drives do rate faster than my HD according to SiSoft)
I remember seeing something like this quite a while ago... I think 256MB sticks were high-end at the time, and they put 4 of them in a single hub to get a full, amazing GB of flash storage. Old News.
Sometimes I have to give my two cents...
According to Merriam Webster, to censor is: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable (censor the news); also : to suppress or delete as objectionable (censor out indecent passages)
So, yes, what Walmart does is in fact censorship of the things they sell in their stores, as they "censor out indecent passages." It is just not government enforced censorship.
In 2001, I worked (seasonally) for Sony Disk Manufacturing. I know for an absolute certainty that when new Sony label CD's were released, there was a normal version, and an edited Walmart version, so censrship was done at that time.
That said, my wife does buy CD's from Walmart occasionally. The Gorrilaz' Demon Days that she bought from Walmart DOES contain bad words of the "7 words you can't say on television" variety. This was maybe a year ago. I don't recall if the 'explicit lyrics' label was on the package or not, but it appears that the censorship is not consistent.
For those who don't care if it's censored (like parents of young children who might {gasp} want songs with no bad words for the kids to overhear while riding in the car), Walmart selling non-DRM music is a good thing. Kudos to Walmart.
I had Comcast. IE is used during the install, so the modem can be provisioned without calling them using IE scripts. Once the modem is taken care of, you can hook anything you want up *that isn't a server* I had an old Linux box running for a year in my router's DMZ, and they never called me on it. Was pretty much zero traffic though. I had a friend who hosted the server for some 3-d shooter for a couple of games, and Comcast threatened to disconnect (weeks later) if he did it again. (Why is it always a "friend" with the problems?)
I had Comcats for about 5 years, moved three times. I never had any problems.
My in-laws had Comcast for 6 months, then moved to another house in the same neighborhood. In the 1 week that it was disconnected, their (leased) modem's serial number was "being used" in Denver. We were in Arizona. Since it was leased, we just swapped it at the office. That was the only trouble with Comcast Internet that I've ever been part of.
Well, at least one person got the obscure reference to the color song. :)
Crash of '83? Nonsense!
That was about the time the Intellivoice came out for Intellivision. I can't even begin to count the number of hours I'd spend in a week's time playing B-17 Bomber ("Bandits! Twelve O'clock!"), or Space Spartans ("Hello commander. Computer reporting."). They were why I only got C's in Jr High, rather than A's. The only reason I don't still play those very same two games is that my wife made me throw the damn thing out about 5 years ago. I tried the PC versions (Intellivision Lives?), but I had a hard time without an old Intellivision style controller.
There were a couple other Intellivoice games as well, but Bomb Squad ("The code! The code! Figure out the code!"), while initially fun, had low replay value, and Tron: Solar Sailor (didn't play enough to remember a quote!) was just kinda dorky.
Crash? Didn't notice it!
Except you only need to dry it if you mix it with something not water soluble, such as gasoline. 85% Ethanol/15% water will work fine in an engine, if a little underpowered, assuming no gas goes into the tank. The reduction of cost by not drying may make up for the reduction in power per litre. But I haven't figured any numbers, so maybe not.
ENERGY RECOVERY RATES
20 POUND CAR TIRE BY PRODUCT BREAKDOWN:
OIL (# 4) - 1.2 GALLONS 8.5 POUNDS
GAS - 50 CF - 3000 BTUS 2.0 POUNDS
STEEL 2.0 POUNDS
CARBON BLACK 7.5 POUNDS
No mention of how much goes into removing that stuff though.
The tech can also convert the oil in shale and tar sands into natural gas and some other gases that can converted into oil... at least that's what they say. No word on how to purchase said device.
If I sell you an item in a game for $50, I would be required to declare that $50 as income for tax purposes.
This is already the case. It is income. It must be declared.
If I give Linden Labs 100 L$ and get $50 back, I would be required to declare that $50 as income for tax purposes.
Possibly. (do you mean US$? if L$ no income has actually been made... unless they are collecting in-world)
Hobby Expenses may be used to offset Hobby Income, so for the casual gamer (or, Second Lifer, rather) as long as you get back less than you put into it, there is no gain. But hobby still must be reported. You simply report the hobby expenses as well.
And I don't think they are really referring to WoW type items, are they? TFA did not say, but some of the "related" articles (which I did not read) may have. If so, then the need to collect it in WoW gold, or whatever the in game currency would be if the currency is declared by the publisher to have no value.
I was starting to think I had gone crazy.... I didn't remember having actual moving graphics when I played as a kid! There were a few (but only a few) pictures... If you can call them that by today's standards
And, to someone else who asked, yes I think you can still buy newer versions. I checked out a copy from a local library (a great source for educational games such as this) maybe five years ago. I thought my daughter would be interested, but I guess she was still too young. I don't think I still have a copy.... It was a Windows version, with fancy graphics. I remember seeing it somewhere for sale new around the same time
Actually, looks like you can get it from Amazon. Oregon Trail 5, and someone is selling Oregon Trail 3 on the cheap.
My favorite way to make coffee is to let them do it at Cafe du Monde in New Orleans at the French market. It's actually a coffee and chicory blend, and half milk (I suppose you can order it black). Along with an order of beignets, let them bring it, sit back, listen to the jazz, and watch the people walk by on Decatur.
Unfortunately, I don't live near enough new Orleans to do that more than once a year.
I prefer pressed, but settle for drip cause it's less work for me. Too much trouble to grind it myself. I've recently switched from grinding it in-store to buying the blend from Cafe du Monde over the internet. http://www.cafedumonde.com/
http://www.lgphilips-lcd.com/homeContain/jsp/eng/i nv/inv101_j_e.jsp?BOARD_IDX=1280&languageSec=E&kin ds=IN1
includes a picture, and a little tiny bit more info.
It's TFT LCD on a flexible plastic substrate instead of glass.
HCCL is for gasoline engines, allowing them to operate as a diesel does, ie ignition by compression, no spark needed. Side benefit of a more complete burn. Variable Valve Actuation can be also be applied to diesels.
But it seemed like the news was really about the computer model of the engine, and that VVA is just something that having the model could enable (allows development of the algorithms to control VVA)
All the little openings on those things have seals placed over them, so it becomes quite obvious that the box has been tampered with because the seal is broken. True, some county clerk (or Diebold employee maybe) could probably get a replacement to replace it, but it would be hard to cover the evidence. Now i'm not saying that everythings hunky dory just becuase we know if it's been tampered with. Obviously, if a machine is tampered with, you can't trust the votes. Which means they can't (shouldn't) be counted. Which means that some poeple's votes are getting counted when maybe there was no vote changing after all, but you can't tell and the whole process breaks down, because by not counting any of the machines in a certain area of [town|county|state] the vote is, in effect, altered. Similar to what would happen if someone snuck a few hundred forged ballots into the ballot box.... the count wouldn't be right when compared to the rolls, and they couldn't trust the entire precinct's ballots. So why don't they just modify the software so it doesn't 'read' anything from the card, (and yes modify the boot process if need be)... except maybe space left on it. so it can't pick up a virus in the first place. Bah! i never actually post on /. what am i thinking? I'm just a lurker, grrr
From TFA: Different areas of the network tend to emphasize different functional classifications. As a result, one can infer a protein's function by the coordinate of the protein in the network. I don't do any protein research, so i can't get anything useful from seeing it this way, but I'm sure someone can.