Honestly, it sounds more like a routine stop where the guard was just curious. The questions about types of algorithms and censorship resistance are the sorts of questions I'd expect from someone who (personally) hadn't heard of it but thought it sounded pretty cool. Imagine if you were a nerd and somebody told you they worked on a crypto system you'd never heard of - what questions would you ask? I know I would ask similar questions, not for anything nefarious but just because being a border guard must be intensely boring and it'd be interesting to talk about.
Interesting. The brain is quite powerful, specifically with regards to psychosomatic issues. As a kid, I used to love kettle popcorn, but I ate too much of it and it... well, let's just say that it was sharp on the other side and I was in agony for a few days. Since then, even the thought of kettle corn makes me quite nauseous. I tried to eat some a few weeks later and it made me so sick I couldn't leave the house. I'd throw up if I tried to stand.
It was all in my head, of course. The intensely bad experience spoiled it for me, and my brain made my body react very strongly to it. There wasn't anything about the popcorn that had changed. Even though I know now that it's all in my head, I still can't eat the stuff.
Perhaps that's what happened to you? It explains the Red Bull situation.
They used that glass because it was stronger and more durable than plastic for the same weight. Had they been plastic (and they were before the iPhone 4), they'd crack more frequently.
What are the giant list of negative effects, exactly? The wiki doesn't seem to show more than a few Aside from the high blood pressure stuff (which kicks in with more than the study's amount of coffee), everything else is either benign or a reason people drink it in the first place (it keeps you awake)
Exactly. Steam is the only DRM I've ever seen that's not simply a screw-you. It actually provides advantages that you can't get with non-DRM'd physical media. Most of the DRM (that Valve makes use of, anyway) is actually a side-effect; anybody can download the game files for any game by nature of the service, and your account just needs a key in order to use it. Yeah, it's DRM, but without it they'd just be free games. It's more like access control than a "we think the user has too many rights" thing.
Well, the problem with a lend/resale type thing for electronic distribution is that there's no value to a new copy. You'd get the same game the original buyer purchased. It's not like a used disc that might have broken or smudgy covers or broken holding tabs or scratched disks or missing booklets or something. If that possibility doesn't bother you, used CDs/DVDs/console games are for you. I buy used music CDs that I have little physical interest in, other than to rip them, but if I care about the artwork or liner notes or something I buy it new.
There's no concept of "usage" with electronic media, so there's no possibility of degradation of the product. So what's the incentive for a online distribution system to allow it? They could take a cut, which would piss people off, or restrict the number of times a game can be moved between accounts (so that each time it's worth less to the new owner; a game that can be sold 5 times is worth more than a game that can only be sold 1 more time). But that would piss people off too.
Frankly, though, Valve does a masterful job of setting their prices, so I don't feel like I need to "make back" what I spend. I haven't paid more than $10 for a game since Portal 2 came out last year (which I preordered), and the Orange Box before that. That includes buying some AAA titles like Bioshock, Left 4 Dead 2, GTA, Brink, etc.
3) The country crumbles because kids don't like school and wouldn't go themselves if they had the choice, stupid parents don't realize the value of education and won't force them, and thus half the country is educated out of the Bible at best. Bam, you're back in 1650.
Windows: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Mac:/etc/hosts (it's just Unix, although/etc is a symlink to/private/etc) iOS: See above, since iOS is OSX on ARM.
Not disagreeing with your premise, but the point is that every OS has the ability to do this. That's even disregarding the ability to run your own DNS server with whatever you want.
Actually, that's a better analogy than you give it credit for. If you eat less than you need, the only choice is to burn fat. Exercising makes you need more calories, but it's not strictly necessary to do anything if you always eat slightly less than you use. Much like CO2 in the atmosphere. Plants need CO2 to live, just like we need calories, and they "burn" it by converting it to biomass. We're putting more into the atmosphere than they use, so we're gaining CO2. If we put less into the atmosphere than they consume, global CO2 levels will fall. If we add more plants, or scrub CO2 out of the air ourselves or something, they "burn" more CO2 and we don't need to cut back quite as much.
This type of thing is typical from people who don't really know what EMS is, and thus think up all sorts of things that are - unwittingly - counterproductive.
I'm an EMT for my town's volunteer agency. I don't know if the story says "paramedics" to mean paramedics, or EMS in general, but there's a difference. Paramedics, or ALS (advanced life support), can do things like intubate and place IVs for anyone serious. EMTs, or B(asic)LS, handle everything, working with paramedics on anything serious. Not really relevant, but it bugs me.
Anyway, if we show up to a house and the person is conscious, they can tell us their medications or give us a list. If they're not, their medication list is not one of our priorities. Neither us nor ALS can do anything much about people taking too much or to little of any medication they might have, unless it's insulin. The point of EMS isn't to treat - it's to stabilize (i.e., do what we can) and get them to a hospital. Anything life-threatening has a treatment with essentially no contraindications (reasons you can't use it), and so medical history isn't helpful. Anything not life-threatening, there's not much that has to be done before the hospital so they hold off unless the person knows their medical history and medications.
Couple that with the expense (smartphones and dataplans, and the constant replacement of the ones that are dropped/bled on/etc), the time waste of screwing around with a phone when you should be working on the patient (and if you're not working on the patient, why aren't you transporting?), and all the rest, mean that this is a stupid idea. It doesn't sound like a stupid idea, but that's just because people don't really know how we work. There's no downtime.
It would be great if all lawsuits that affect an entire industry like this had to be decided by a judge familiar with the industry.
y Be careful what you wish for. If you have any experience in, say, hydraulic fracking for natural gas expansion, it's because you worked for a company that did it. Assuming you left on somewhat-amiable terms, you'll harbor generally-kind feelings to the company in particular and the industry in general, if only to justify to yourself why you did it. In this case, it turned out great - but mostly because you can program as a hobby, which isn't possible for banking, fracking, telco, etc...
Imagine the worst of regulatory capture (when the only people with sufficient experience to regulate an industry are the ones being regulated), but with much broader consequences. Not pretty. There's a reason our judges are supposed to be experts in law, and the lawyers are supposed to bring in expert witnesses to explain the relevant details of the subject to him.
That's what I thought, but they cut off the leg (not do it on the cockroach), use juvenile cockroaches that can grow their legs back, and they anesthetize the roach with icewater first.
Sounds almost exactly like a Steam gift, with the minor exception that the payment wouldn't be up front. Determining whether the gift has been accepted, re-sending to another person, even allowing the recipient to "forward" it to someone else or outright decline it is all part of Steam.
Then with a few precedents under their belt they are better armed to go against bigger fish.
Settlements (I assume you meant the "small fish" would settle) aren't precedent for precisely that reason. IANAL but as I understand it, the court doesn't much concern itself with the results of prior litigation unless there's a verdict.
Despite a damning FCC report released last month claiming that senior manager within Google were aware that a 'rogue' engineer was working on the project on the side, he said a second investigation wouldn't yield any new results. [...] "In reaching this decision, I have considered the FCC's report and don't consider that a new investigation would reveal any information that would change our original finding.'"
So, despite information in the FCC report, he's not doing an investigation because it's already in the FCC's report?
Sounds to me like he said "oh, the FCC found this, I trust that they did a good job on it so I won't waste everybody's time/money"
The Republican Party was formed for the sole purpose of overturning Democratic Legislation that allowed slavery to expand into the Western Territories. The first Republican President freed the slaves. Every Governor of every state that let loose the police, the fire hoses and the dogs on minority students was a Democrat. Republicans broke the Democrat's filibuster of the Civil Rights Laws of the 60's.
While saying that the Democrats in aggregate opposed the CRA is technically true, it's not really relevant. The South opposed the CRA, and that was so important to them that party lines not only didn't matter, but they changed what the party lines were.
The debate about evolution was history a century ago. I'm sure you've heard of the Scopes trial, but the public opinion shifted away from creationism towards science, and went even further with the national focus on and trust in science after Sputnik.
Frankly, if my President is too stupid to think about more than one thing at a time, I don't much want him as my President. The rest of us have multiple "really important" things that we deal with all the time; the President should be even better at it than the average Joe.
Easy, get a GPS receiver and use its time. The point is that the times all need to be the *same* (so things that happen at the same time are recorded as such); accuracy is secondary. Even if every week or two some guy goes and fixes the clock on the server, that should be acceptable.
But you don't get it. The point is, you shouldn't be building language-specific parsers (do you know how complex parsers are?) into an IDE! MSVS, to their credit, don't - they use a similar compiler architecture to LLVM, where the compiler is made up of various components that can be reused elsewhere.
The point is that the text editor is a really good text editor that can be augmented with scripts and external tools to do the same things as an IDE, but so vastly more flexible it's not even worth comparing them.
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Honestly, it sounds more like a routine stop where the guard was just curious. The questions about types of algorithms and censorship resistance are the sorts of questions I'd expect from someone who (personally) hadn't heard of it but thought it sounded pretty cool. Imagine if you were a nerd and somebody told you they worked on a crypto system you'd never heard of - what questions would you ask? I know I would ask similar questions, not for anything nefarious but just because being a border guard must be intensely boring and it'd be interesting to talk about.
Interesting. The brain is quite powerful, specifically with regards to psychosomatic issues. As a kid, I used to love kettle popcorn, but I ate too much of it and it ... well, let's just say that it was sharp on the other side and I was in agony for a few days. Since then, even the thought of kettle corn makes me quite nauseous. I tried to eat some a few weeks later and it made me so sick I couldn't leave the house. I'd throw up if I tried to stand.
It was all in my head, of course. The intensely bad experience spoiled it for me, and my brain made my body react very strongly to it. There wasn't anything about the popcorn that had changed. Even though I know now that it's all in my head, I still can't eat the stuff.
Perhaps that's what happened to you? It explains the Red Bull situation.
Wrong wrong wrong wrong. Gorilla glass is actually very flexible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYaQnvVwStc
They used that glass because it was stronger and more durable than plastic for the same weight. Had they been plastic (and they were before the iPhone 4), they'd crack more frequently.
What are the giant list of negative effects, exactly? The wiki doesn't seem to show more than a few Aside from the high blood pressure stuff (which kicks in with more than the study's amount of coffee), everything else is either benign or a reason people drink it in the first place (it keeps you awake)
Exactly. Steam is the only DRM I've ever seen that's not simply a screw-you. It actually provides advantages that you can't get with non-DRM'd physical media. Most of the DRM (that Valve makes use of, anyway) is actually a side-effect; anybody can download the game files for any game by nature of the service, and your account just needs a key in order to use it. Yeah, it's DRM, but without it they'd just be free games. It's more like access control than a "we think the user has too many rights" thing.
Well, the problem with a lend/resale type thing for electronic distribution is that there's no value to a new copy. You'd get the same game the original buyer purchased. It's not like a used disc that might have broken or smudgy covers or broken holding tabs or scratched disks or missing booklets or something. If that possibility doesn't bother you, used CDs/DVDs/console games are for you. I buy used music CDs that I have little physical interest in, other than to rip them, but if I care about the artwork or liner notes or something I buy it new.
There's no concept of "usage" with electronic media, so there's no possibility of degradation of the product. So what's the incentive for a online distribution system to allow it? They could take a cut, which would piss people off, or restrict the number of times a game can be moved between accounts (so that each time it's worth less to the new owner; a game that can be sold 5 times is worth more than a game that can only be sold 1 more time). But that would piss people off too.
Frankly, though, Valve does a masterful job of setting their prices, so I don't feel like I need to "make back" what I spend. I haven't paid more than $10 for a game since Portal 2 came out last year (which I preordered), and the Orange Box before that. That includes buying some AAA titles like Bioshock, Left 4 Dead 2, GTA, Brink, etc.
3) The country crumbles because kids don't like school and wouldn't go themselves if they had the choice, stupid parents don't realize the value of education and won't force them, and thus half the country is educated out of the Bible at best. Bam, you're back in 1650.
Windows: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts /etc/hosts (it's just Unix, although /etc is a symlink to /private/etc)
Mac:
iOS: See above, since iOS is OSX on ARM.
Not disagreeing with your premise, but the point is that every OS has the ability to do this. That's even disregarding the ability to run your own DNS server with whatever you want.
Actually, that's a better analogy than you give it credit for. If you eat less than you need, the only choice is to burn fat. Exercising makes you need more calories, but it's not strictly necessary to do anything if you always eat slightly less than you use. Much like CO2 in the atmosphere. Plants need CO2 to live, just like we need calories, and they "burn" it by converting it to biomass. We're putting more into the atmosphere than they use, so we're gaining CO2. If we put less into the atmosphere than they consume, global CO2 levels will fall. If we add more plants, or scrub CO2 out of the air ourselves or something, they "burn" more CO2 and we don't need to cut back quite as much.
Just grab a pair of trauma shears. You can cut through a penny with them, a clamshell package isn't a big deal.
This type of thing is typical from people who don't really know what EMS is, and thus think up all sorts of things that are - unwittingly - counterproductive.
I'm an EMT for my town's volunteer agency. I don't know if the story says "paramedics" to mean paramedics, or EMS in general, but there's a difference. Paramedics, or ALS (advanced life support), can do things like intubate and place IVs for anyone serious. EMTs, or B(asic)LS, handle everything, working with paramedics on anything serious. Not really relevant, but it bugs me.
Anyway, if we show up to a house and the person is conscious, they can tell us their medications or give us a list. If they're not, their medication list is not one of our priorities. Neither us nor ALS can do anything much about people taking too much or to little of any medication they might have, unless it's insulin. The point of EMS isn't to treat - it's to stabilize (i.e., do what we can) and get them to a hospital. Anything life-threatening has a treatment with essentially no contraindications (reasons you can't use it), and so medical history isn't helpful. Anything not life-threatening, there's not much that has to be done before the hospital so they hold off unless the person knows their medical history and medications.
Couple that with the expense (smartphones and dataplans, and the constant replacement of the ones that are dropped/bled on/etc), the time waste of screwing around with a phone when you should be working on the patient (and if you're not working on the patient, why aren't you transporting?), and all the rest, mean that this is a stupid idea. It doesn't sound like a stupid idea, but that's just because people don't really know how we work. There's no downtime.
It would be great if all lawsuits that affect an entire industry like this had to be decided by a judge familiar with the industry.
y
Be careful what you wish for. If you have any experience in, say, hydraulic fracking for natural gas expansion, it's because you worked for a company that did it. Assuming you left on somewhat-amiable terms, you'll harbor generally-kind feelings to the company in particular and the industry in general, if only to justify to yourself why you did it. In this case, it turned out great - but mostly because you can program as a hobby, which isn't possible for banking, fracking, telco, etc...
Imagine the worst of regulatory capture (when the only people with sufficient experience to regulate an industry are the ones being regulated), but with much broader consequences. Not pretty. There's a reason our judges are supposed to be experts in law, and the lawyers are supposed to bring in expert witnesses to explain the relevant details of the subject to him.
That's what I thought, but they cut off the leg (not do it on the cockroach), use juvenile cockroaches that can grow their legs back, and they anesthetize the roach with icewater first.
Sounds almost exactly like a Steam gift, with the minor exception that the payment wouldn't be up front. Determining whether the gift has been accepted, re-sending to another person, even allowing the recipient to "forward" it to someone else or outright decline it is all part of Steam.
Then with a few precedents under their belt they are better armed to go against bigger fish.
Settlements (I assume you meant the "small fish" would settle) aren't precedent for precisely that reason. IANAL but as I understand it, the court doesn't much concern itself with the results of prior litigation unless there's a verdict.
Despite a damning FCC report released last month claiming that senior manager within Google were aware that a 'rogue' engineer was working on the project on the side, he said a second investigation wouldn't yield any new results. [...] "In reaching this decision, I have considered the FCC's report and don't consider that a new investigation would reveal any information that would change our original finding.'"
So, despite information in the FCC report, he's not doing an investigation because it's already in the FCC's report?
Sounds to me like he said "oh, the FCC found this, I trust that they did a good job on it so I won't waste everybody's time/money"
The Republican Party was formed for the sole purpose of overturning Democratic Legislation that allowed slavery to expand into the Western Territories.
The first Republican President freed the slaves.
Every Governor of every state that let loose the police, the fire hoses and the dogs on minority students was a Democrat.
Republicans broke the Democrat's filibuster of the Civil Rights Laws of the 60's.
True, but missing the point. LBJ managed to get the Civil Rights Act passed, largely using the political capital of JFK's death (by describing it as an enduring legacy) and nearly all Republicans and Democrats in the North (but more Democrats) voted for it, while nearly all in the South of either party voted against it. This correlation reverses when you combine the figures (Simpson's paradox) which is what you are talking about. The divide was so intense that it changed the base of the parties - the Democrats "lost the South", and they went to the Republicans - which changed the GOP more than the GOP changed them. Starting with the next election after this shift (Nixon's), the GOP started winning elections by playing to racist fears
While saying that the Democrats in aggregate opposed the CRA is technically true, it's not really relevant. The South opposed the CRA, and that was so important to them that party lines not only didn't matter, but they changed what the party lines were.
The debate about evolution was history a century ago. I'm sure you've heard of the Scopes trial, but the public opinion shifted away from creationism towards science, and went even further with the national focus on and trust in science after Sputnik.
We've regressed. That's all there is to it.
Qt was like that before Nokia bought Trolltech. None of the dire predictions came to pass, but a bunch of people called the switch to the LGPL.
God, that was back in 08/09. I feel old.
To be fair, they're the only ones who've ever done it...
Read up on the privacy extensions, which are essentially like ephemeral ports except they're just randomly-changing addresses. They work quite nicely.
Furthermore, why would you ever want to reuse an address, unless it's static? There's effectively no limit.
Frankly, if my President is too stupid to think about more than one thing at a time, I don't much want him as my President. The rest of us have multiple "really important" things that we deal with all the time; the President should be even better at it than the average Joe.
Tele = remote
Kinesis = movement
You probably mean telepathy.
Easy, get a GPS receiver and use its time. The point is that the times all need to be the *same* (so things that happen at the same time are recorded as such); accuracy is secondary. Even if every week or two some guy goes and fixes the clock on the server, that should be acceptable.
But you don't get it. The point is, you shouldn't be building language-specific parsers (do you know how complex parsers are?) into an IDE! MSVS, to their credit, don't - they use a similar compiler architecture to LLVM, where the compiler is made up of various components that can be reused elsewhere.
The point is that the text editor is a really good text editor that can be augmented with scripts and external tools to do the same things as an IDE, but so vastly more flexible it's not even worth comparing them.