Probably. There are existing legal mechanisms for submitting material to courts - amicus curiae come to mind. Trying to influence the judge by sending letters/emails to him strikes me as pretty disrepectful of the court's authority - judges follow the law and are decidedly not democratic (juries can only decide questions of fact, not law). As a general rule anyone in a position of power is going to come down hard on anyone who challenges them.
how many of those are dual boot systems with Windows?
Probably the same no. of systems that are running GRUB Legacy, even though GRUB2 was the default. GRUB Legacy was way easier to configure - just one text file. GRUB2 is a pain in comparison, since you have to modify a script, run it, etc.
I agree. I had to set up one system with a static IP - in the end I just removed the network manager all together and manually edited the config file. It was a lot faster and easier than cajoling the GUI into doing what I wanted.
This isn't the scene of an "accident." If police gun down an armed suspect and you run over to render aid, the police are going to detain you. If you pick up the weapon the armed suspect had the police are going to order you to drop it. If you don't, they will gun you down.
Great. Show me exactly where they were given the opportunity to drop everything and surrender. Or do you consider it normal to be shot on without warning?
There are times to be a good Samaritan and times to mind your own business.
Only if you're a selfish jerk. I personally believe that you should *always* help someone in need, unless others are already attending to them (this includes placing them under arrest).
Exactly, dehumanizing the enemy is a necessary part of war if your soldiers aren't sociopaths (and the US military is fairly good at weeding those out).
Dehumanizing the enemy is a necessary prerequisite for committing atrocities. It isn't necessary for war, nor should it be considered the norm. You can kill someone if your life is at stake, but to kill someone without cause you either have to see them as monsters or be a sociopath.
They won't come close to matching Earth's rotation, so I don't see a point to dragging out the length of night and thus requiring larger batteries.
Was't sure about that, so I crunched the numbers:
s = Circumference of the earth = 40 041.47 kilometers t = Period of orbit = 1 day v = s/t = 463 m/s = 1 667 km/hr
Actual speed achieved in article: 70 km/hr
If they can increase the power by a factor of 24, they could do it. Given that this is a proof of concept, it'll probably be feasible in a few decades.
the nations with the largest data service revenues were: the US, Japan, China, the UK, Italy, Germany, France, Australia, Spain and Korea, respectively."
I'm not surprised. Optus et al will charge you 55c / KB if you exceed your allotted data, and many plans don't include any. The more economical options are 300 MB for $10 (Virgin) or 1 GB for $20 (ThinkMobile), but they're rather difficult to find, so it's no surprise that they're collecting so much revenue from this. On the plus side, at least we're allowed to tether.
I have no idea if there's a legal provision for it in the Australian constitution (and I doubt there is) but there ought to be.
There won't be. The Australian constitution doesn't have a bill of rights like the US does. There are some acts (e.g. the Victorian Charter of Human Rights) but they're more like guidelines then rules.
Sadly, it would be against the Australian constitution. Few people know this (outside of law circles), but we actually don't have an equivalent of the Bill of Rights. Each state has a charter of sorts, but it's on the same level as a statute so it's easily overridden. There's been talk of putting a Bill of Rights into the constitution, but I don't see it happening in time to save us for ACTA:(
It's common to be given class time to work on assignments, which often involve research. I was fortunate that my school had a fairly reasonable policy (i.e. no porn or social media) but some of the schools out there have incredibly restrictive ones which do block research. The worst I've heard of blocked anything with the word death, which caused problems when they were studying the Bubonic Plague. I reckon a reasonable content filter could be justified, but whether or not they go overboard seems to be entirely dependent on the administration, which is problematic.
Odd, when I had to get mine repaired one of the instructions was to remove the hard drive. So unless you had a dead drive, perhaps the issue was not following instructions?
Your average total boot time is more than 30s, more like a minute in my experience with slightly faster shutdown times. Still it isn't much for security.
Canada had to do this in response to the US. The US required everyone entering to have a passport. If Canada didn't do the same they'd be stuck with a bunch Americans who came over the border with their drivers licenses and couldn't easily pass back into the US for lack of the required passport.
Sounds like a pretty good way to get the law reversed, actually.
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For C++ I quite like Qt Creator - it's open source, cross platform and the libraries are about as capable as .NET.
If it's just a one line change, use Notepad and MsBuild. MsBuild is part of the .NET runtime, so you should have no trouble finding a copy.
Wise friend. Tit for tat is strongly supported by game theory.
Plus it will (probably) run under Linux if you use mono.
I agree. And so do I.
Probably. There are existing legal mechanisms for submitting material to courts - amicus curiae come to mind. Trying to influence the judge by sending letters/emails to him strikes me as pretty disrepectful of the court's authority - judges follow the law and are decidedly not democratic (juries can only decide questions of fact, not law). As a general rule anyone in a position of power is going to come down hard on anyone who challenges them.
how many of those are dual boot systems with Windows?
Probably the same no. of systems that are running GRUB Legacy, even though GRUB2 was the default.
GRUB Legacy was way easier to configure - just one text file. GRUB2 is a pain in comparison, since you have to modify a script, run it, etc.
I agree. I had to set up one system with a static IP - in the end I just removed the network manager all together and manually edited the config file. It was a lot faster and easier than cajoling the GUI into doing what I wanted.
A) It reveals military tactics
shooting up civvies doesn't count as "military tactics"
I hope to God that you're right.
This isn't the scene of an "accident." If police gun down an armed suspect and you run over to render aid, the police are going to detain you. If you pick up the weapon the armed suspect had the police are going to order you to drop it. If you don't, they will gun you down.
Great. Show me exactly where they were given the opportunity to drop everything and surrender. Or do you consider it normal to be shot on without warning?
There are times to be a good Samaritan and times to mind your own business.
Only if you're a selfish jerk. I personally believe that you should *always* help someone in need, unless others are already attending to them (this includes placing them under arrest).
Exactly, dehumanizing the enemy is a necessary part of war if your soldiers aren't sociopaths (and the US military is fairly good at weeding those out).
Dehumanizing the enemy is a necessary prerequisite for committing atrocities. It isn't necessary for war, nor should it be considered the norm. You can kill someone if your life is at stake, but to kill someone without cause you either have to see them as monsters or be a sociopath.
They won't come close to matching Earth's rotation, so I don't see a point to dragging out the length of night and thus requiring larger batteries.
Was't sure about that, so I crunched the numbers:
s = Circumference of the earth = 40 041.47 kilometers
t = Period of orbit = 1 day
v = s/t = 463 m/s = 1 667 km/hr
Actual speed achieved in article: 70 km/hr
If they can increase the power by a factor of 24, they could do it. Given that this is a proof of concept, it'll probably be feasible in a few decades.
the nations with the largest data service revenues were: the US, Japan, China, the UK, Italy, Germany, France, Australia, Spain and Korea, respectively."
I'm not surprised. Optus et al will charge you 55c / KB if you exceed your allotted data, and many plans don't include any. The more economical options are 300 MB for $10 (Virgin) or 1 GB for $20 (ThinkMobile), but they're rather difficult to find, so it's no surprise that they're collecting so much revenue from this.
On the plus side, at least we're allowed to tether.
The worst part is that they're all showing up as posted on the 2nd for me. Guess it's cause I'm in GMT+10 (Aus).
nerd != geek
So, there were 2 girls and a cup...
I have no idea if there's a legal provision for it in the Australian constitution (and I doubt there is) but there ought to be.
There won't be. The Australian constitution doesn't have a bill of rights like the US does. There are some acts (e.g. the Victorian Charter of Human Rights) but they're more like guidelines then rules.
http://www.xkcd.com/699/
Sadly, it would be against the Australian constitution. Few people know this (outside of law circles), but we actually don't have an equivalent of the Bill of Rights. Each state has a charter of sorts, but it's on the same level as a statute so it's easily overridden. There's been talk of putting a Bill of Rights into the constitution, but I don't see it happening in time to save us for ACTA :(
It's common to be given class time to work on assignments, which often involve research. I was fortunate that my school had a fairly reasonable policy (i.e. no porn or social media) but some of the schools out there have incredibly restrictive ones which do block research. The worst I've heard of blocked anything with the word death, which caused problems when they were studying the Bubonic Plague.
I reckon a reasonable content filter could be justified, but whether or not they go overboard seems to be entirely dependent on the administration, which is problematic.
Odd, when I had to get mine repaired one of the instructions was to remove the hard drive. So unless you had a dead drive, perhaps the issue was not following instructions?
Your average total boot time is more than 30s, more like a minute in my experience with slightly faster shutdown times. Still it isn't much for security.
It's going to be a lot more booting of a CD.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/
Canada had to do this in response to the US. The US required everyone entering to have a passport. If Canada didn't do the same they'd be stuck with a bunch Americans who came over the border with their drivers licenses and couldn't easily pass back into the US for lack of the required passport.
Sounds like a pretty good way to get the law reversed, actually.
Because they'd just copy and paste the malware links anyway