Don't know for sure about the battery on the motherboard and the circuits it powers either.
Don't know for sure about any optical drives either. The water might leave traces on the laser lens.
Don't know for sure about the harddrives either. They generally have a tiny hole in them to allow them to breathe. But since it's a tiny hole, I doubt that whole drops of water can enter it. Submerging a harddrive might not actually let water inside. If you try this at home, make backups and/or use an old obsolete harddrive!
This fits in nicely with the Japanese casemodder who designed a cardboard case. IIRC, there was a Slashdot article about that a while ago. He wrote that he made the case out of cardboard because computer hardware gets outdated so quickly, and computers are being thrown away, so why bother having a steel case, anyway?
I'm not sure it's a good idea from an EM interference perspective, though. Or if you have cats (you know how they are with cardboard boxes;-) ).
I think the state wants to only consider software that uses open data formats, whether the software is open source or closed source. The data formats must be open.
This means that no-one is excluded from competing for the software contracts, as long as their software uses open data formats.
It's not unfair, and it is indeed the least that the people deserve. Proprietary data formats will become very expensive in the future. The Slashdot-post example of this is the proverbial Word 95 document that is hard to import into a newer version of MS Word without loss of something. (Note: I haven't checked that myself, I just see it posted here over and over again.)
GPS used to be less accurate for civilian use than for US Military use. That's what got cancelled in 2000, so now it's as accurate for civilians as it was for the US Military.
<tinfoil hat> Perhaps this was because the US Military's GPS is now even more accurate than it was before, and they didn't tell us? </tinfoil hat>
Notify your customers yourself and explain that they are being investigated by your legal team, etc.
Note: OP means the monitoring company with "they". Pissing off your customers by telling them that they themselves are under legal investigation is a kind of SCO idea...
DU has an enormously long halflife and produces mostly alpha particles when it decays (if my sources are correct) which can be blocked with a sheet of notebook paper!
But not by cell membranes! And alpha particles are the most dangerous form of radiation, if not blocked. Alpha-emitters are very dangerous if inhaled.
I would be much more concerned with the toxic properties of DU rather than the radioactive ones. However, lead(Pb) is pretty damn poisonous as well and you never see anyone complaining about it being used in bullets or munitions.
Actually, I do (or did). A couple of years ago, there was a lot of news about military practice terrains being heavily polluted with lead. I wouldn't be surprised if the Dutch army has since switched to lead-free amminution.
No, he meant that e.g. the janitor could read the passwords from the Post-it notes, not that the janitor would use a Post-it note to store his/her password on. Janitors are smarter than that!
Actually, the site itself points to the front page as http://64.78.42.11/index.asp, which means that the index page is an ASP page too. In fact, it looks like ALL pages are ASP pages.
You mentioned that CD-RWs weren't all that good, and I have the same experience, but why not try normal CD-R discs? They're cheap and pretty reliable. You can even make multiple backup copies if you want, or a multi-session disc to store several backups on one CD to cut costs.
That was probably because the helldesk person at AOL was trying to tell you about the user level of this person. He could just as well have instructed the user to tell you that you needed to fix the PEBKAC or ID 10T error;-)
When I was a little kid, there was a period in which I kept saying "bad" words. My mom then told me to say the "bad" word a hundred times, after which it had lost all of its "magic" to me;-)
I am amazed at the hypocrite way the Americans are trying to control swear words. The fact is, they've only become popular, as illustrated in your example.
I mean, if you literally translated some phrases full of swearwords into Dutch and spoke them out loud, people would probably think you were nuts! Not cool or anything like it. Nuts (as in crazy).
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Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process.
Don't know for sure about the battery on the motherboard and the circuits it powers either.
Don't know for sure about any optical drives either. The water might leave traces on the laser lens.
Don't know for sure about the harddrives either. They generally have a tiny hole in them to allow them to breathe. But since it's a tiny hole, I doubt that whole drops of water can enter it. Submerging a harddrive might not actually let water inside. If you try this at home, make backups and/or use an old obsolete harddrive!
Heh. I do have quite a stack of books on my trusty old steel AT form factor minitower case...
;-)
But are you insinuating that steel is electrically insulating?
One advantage of having a cardboard case is that you don't need a drawing program to draw on your computer
This fits in nicely with the Japanese casemodder who designed a cardboard case. IIRC, there was a Slashdot article about that a while ago. He wrote that he made the case out of cardboard because computer hardware gets outdated so quickly, and computers are being thrown away, so why bother having a steel case, anyway?
;-) ).
I'm not sure it's a good idea from an EM interference perspective, though. Or if you have cats (you know how they are with cardboard boxes
I think the state wants to only consider software that uses open data formats, whether the software is open source or closed source. The data formats must be open.
This means that no-one is excluded from competing for the software contracts, as long as their software uses open data formats.
It's not unfair, and it is indeed the least that the people deserve. Proprietary data formats will become very expensive in the future. The Slashdot-post example of this is the proverbial Word 95 document that is hard to import into a newer version of MS Word without loss of something. (Note: I haven't checked that myself, I just see it posted here over and over again.)
Apparently, that is what they call "usability"...
GPS used to be less accurate for civilian use than for US Military use. That's what got cancelled in 2000, so now it's as accurate for civilians as it was for the US Military.
<tinfoil hat>
Perhaps this was because the US Military's GPS is now even more accurate than it was before, and they didn't tell us?
</tinfoil hat>
Note: OP means the monitoring company with "they". Pissing off your customers by telling them that they themselves are under legal investigation is a kind of SCO idea...
What's the lesser of the two evils here? I've had to do both, poor me, but luckily not for long :-)
But not by cell membranes! And alpha particles are the most dangerous form of radiation, if not blocked. Alpha-emitters are very dangerous if inhaled.
Actually, I do (or did). A couple of years ago, there was a lot of news about military practice terrains being heavily polluted with lead. I wouldn't be surprised if the Dutch army has since switched to lead-free amminution.
Bite my shiny radioactive metal ass! ;-)
Infrasound! Now that explains why many people have this irrational fear of black holes! :-)
Don't be so hard on the poor AC. He actually has an account, but he's unable to log in because he can't spell his password right!
83% Energy conversion efficiency is much higher than existing widespread technologies achieve!
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Yes, they do that on the Amsterdam subway cars too. Very annoying.
Btw, did you know you can eat off the floor of the subway cars in Edmonton, Alberta? A huge contrast!
No, he meant that e.g. the janitor could read the passwords from the Post-it notes, not that the janitor would use a Post-it note to store his/her password on. Janitors are smarter than that!
Duh.
Actually, the site itself points to the front page as http://64.78.42.11/index.asp, which means that the index page is an ASP page too. In fact, it looks like ALL pages are ASP pages.
One Word: Knoppix.
You mentioned that CD-RWs weren't all that good, and I have the same experience, but why not try normal CD-R discs? They're cheap and pretty reliable. You can even make multiple backup copies if you want, or a multi-session disc to store several backups on one CD to cut costs.
Or in Star Wars Episode II, where the characters were falling from flying cars onto other flying cars that were much lower, without getting hurt.
That was probably because the helldesk person at AOL was trying to tell you about the user level of this person. He could just as well have instructed the user to tell you that you needed to fix the PEBKAC or ID 10T error ;-)
Then why does Symantec offer a program to remove the virus from a computer, for free?
When I was a little kid, there was a period in which I kept saying "bad" words. My mom then told me to say the "bad" word a hundred times, after which it had lost all of its "magic" to me ;-)
I am amazed at the hypocrite way the Americans are trying to control swear words. The fact is, they've only become popular, as illustrated in your example.
I mean, if you literally translated some phrases full of swearwords into Dutch and spoke them out loud, people would probably think you were nuts! Not cool or anything like it. Nuts (as in crazy).