It still happens anywhere to a lot of people, it's called wedding. The funny thing is that they can't really complain, since it is the only spying procedure that involve opt-in.
First, a bugged phone could still record what you were saying and transmmit that later. Remember that the people who bug phones don't want them to drain their batteries dry in only a couple of hours, it would be suspicious.
Secondly, those bars are more a qualitative information than a quantitative one, at 4 or 5 bars, the signal is clear with low power, with less bars, it means that there are transmition errors or that the radio needs a boost, either way, it is an indication to the phone it might be a good idea to look for another base station, but only a "no signal" notification will prove (if you can trust your phone display) that it is incapable of communication. If you shield your phone, it won't see any good base station and will lose a lot of energy scanning the frequencies looking for one.
You can try to shield your phone, but then, you need to test its effciency. I once tried to put a phone in a tin box and I still could call it. Of course, grounding that box terminated the call.
So I would say shielding is a lot of effort for what you want, if you are only slightly paraniod, shut the bugger down, if you are a real paranoid, leave it at your place with the TV on (during a movie you already saw, in case they will check your alibi) then use the bus to meet whoever you need in a parking lot.
What a wonderfull proof! You say something is true because it is how you modeled it in your game... People need gas, so even if they will eventually reduce their unnecessary usage, they will just pay more money to buy almost as much gas as before and sacrifice other less important expenses(movies, CD, leisure...). You also need to consider the gas price as an incentive to buy a more efficient or smaller car, the catastrophic effect that a brutal price increase would have on the economy (everything will be more expensive), the increased risk of war in the middle east and of course the availability of alternative transportation systems or alternative fuels.
Remember, the difference between an economist and a scientist is that the scientist know that all models are essencially false and can only help working on the measured data they were build to match. Bring measured data, then your model will have a meaning.
How bad it would be, no plan can be successful if it doesn't involve the goodwill of both Iran and Syria so even the worst possible plan ever is not going to work.
It is similar only on the surface. Most people using professional sex services do this to try to fullfil physical needs because they have no better way available to do so, some because of their lonelyness, other because their official relation is now just a sad joke. Yes, it is pathetic, but it is something I can understand. This service, on the other hand, is pointless unless you actually have friends to impress in the first place, so it is just similar to what ringtones vendors or gold farmers can sell you: a way to look cool.
At least that would mean that someone cared about him, even if he used a very bad way of showing it.
I think this kind of fake friends will probably only be used in the "my blog has more visitors than yours" childish competitions that take place in every school today.
Underpaid staff is not the only problem. I remember having read that doctor's neckties were nice contamination vector for several kind of germs, but this is as offtopic as your point.
Of course, but here, you could legally get them 6 monthes later with 20yo VCR quality, FBI warning and ad breaks for only 29$99. And you could read it exactly once, but you can keep the anti-copy package forever if you want.
Remember Vietnam. An army can win almost all the battles it is engaged in and still lose a war for non-tactical reasons. American army technical superiority is great when they need to go somewhere, do the job and get away quickly or simply sterilize an area from the stratosphere, but when they have to stay somewhere, they suffer from their low headcount.
Of course, there are a couple stupid people who pretend to be geeks because they use a 56kb/s phone instead of a cheaper full speed ADSL/cable to surf the net. Maybe the author is one of those morons.
Years ago, I was working for a cell phone manufacturer and when we sold our first affordable cameraphone, several person I know bought one, but when I asked them, they all told me they almost never used the camera after the first few days.
The funny thing is that many big corps will spend a lot of money to swith to Vista+Office2007 in the name of productivity but cannot afford at least decent chairs for the people spending 8+ hours a day on them.
The ICANN tries to give a technical reason to a political problem, although this reason may be valid, it is not a very good idea. With the UN, it will be handled by international comitees and we will all be long dead before they finally agree on which country will be in that comitee.
Absolutely. Last year, I was working on a General Electric product based on NT4 that we had to port to 2K. NT was considered "good enough" by the team and the change was made only because they were near the end of their licenses stock for the new manufactured equipments and most of the deployed ones are still on NT.
The team had a very ugly dragon-like teady bear and each time someone commited a bad code, he got to have on his screen for the week. Of course, everyone was encouraged to ask him what he did to deserve that shame. It was very efficient: everyone was trying hard to avoid making mistakes, and if someone did one, all the other coders could also benefit from the experience.
No, I can't do the math. But considering that they would only have to help gravitation instead of fighting against it, I'm still sure of my words.
The ISS is globally on an almost stable orbit, requiring some thrust from time to time to make up for the light air friction. From that position, if you eject the trash at only a few m/s in the right direction, it will soon go down to altitudes where the air friction will be higher, be slowed down from its orbital speed and fall. Since you don't want a controled rentry, all you need is a small initial kick in the right direction to remove it from the ISS orbit and friction and gravity will then do the hard work.
while reading your post, the fortune cooky just above was "Sodd's Second Law: Sooner or later, the worst possible set of circumstances is bound to occur.", right on topic, I would say.
There may be a few technical issues to solve (and it may not be optimal), but it really seem to be a good way to recycle junk into propelant, which is always a scarce resource in space flight.
The problem is that if you simply pack your trash and eject it at high speed to get your thrust, you can only do that in some directions where there is nothing you might destroy, but fortunately, from the relatively low altitude of the ISS, the downward direction is cleared most of the time.
They could pack their trash and, with minimal thrust, send it on a quick reentry path in which it will burn in higher atmosphere a few days or weeks later. On the other hand, if they just dump things at random, they may be their own victims mounthes to years later.
There is a major flaw in your argument: -when someone steals your car, you loose it, therefore the damage you suffer is easy to determine (the current value of the car, usually only a portion of its initial value). -When someone downloads a song, the real damage is determined by the objective of the downloader: *He wouldn't have bought the CD because he doesn't have the money, let's say it's free advertisement with potential long term payback (it was my case when I was student, and I then bought many CDs). *He already has the CD but fears to put it in his PC because of the fear of rootkits or other malwares (that's currently my case), no real harm. but of course, there is also: *He burns CDs and sell them for a couple of bucks on markets to finance Al Quaida thermonuclear program, possible harm: millions of deaths + thousands of billions $ of damages.
So the 750$ is just the weighted average of the real potential damges, the only thing I don't understand is why the money doesn't got to the DHS.
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It still happens anywhere to a lot of people, it's called wedding. The funny thing is that they can't really complain, since it is the only spying procedure that involve opt-in.
First, a bugged phone could still record what you were saying and transmmit that later. Remember that the people who bug phones don't want them to drain their batteries dry in only a couple of hours, it would be suspicious.
Secondly, those bars are more a qualitative information than a quantitative one, at 4 or 5 bars, the signal is clear with low power, with less bars, it means that there are transmition errors or that the radio needs a boost, either way, it is an indication to the phone it might be a good idea to look for another base station, but only a "no signal" notification will prove (if you can trust your phone display) that it is incapable of communication. If you shield your phone, it won't see any good base station and will lose a lot of energy scanning the frequencies looking for one.
You can try to shield your phone, but then, you need to test its effciency. I once tried to put a phone in a tin box and I still could call it. Of course, grounding that box terminated the call.
So I would say shielding is a lot of effort for what you want, if you are only slightly paraniod, shut the bugger down, if you are a real paranoid, leave it at your place with the TV on (during a movie you already saw, in case they will check your alibi) then use the bus to meet whoever you need in a parking lot.
What a wonderfull proof! You say something is true because it is how you modeled it in your game...
People need gas, so even if they will eventually reduce their unnecessary usage, they will just pay more money to buy almost as much gas as before and sacrifice other less important expenses(movies, CD, leisure...). You also need to consider the gas price as an incentive to buy a more efficient or smaller car, the catastrophic effect that a brutal price increase would have on the economy (everything will be more expensive), the increased risk of war in the middle east and of course the availability of alternative transportation systems or alternative fuels.
Remember, the difference between an economist and a scientist is that the scientist know that all models are essencially false and can only help working on the measured data they were build to match. Bring measured data, then your model will have a meaning.
How bad it would be, no plan can be successful if it doesn't involve the goodwill of both Iran and Syria so even the worst possible plan ever is not going to work.
Actually, we did not retreat from Indochine, we were besieged in Dien Bien Phu and eventually had to surrender.
Yes, thank god we are mature enouth to only compete on our user# and karma score only.
It is similar only on the surface.
Most people using professional sex services do this to try to fullfil physical needs because they have no better way available to do so, some because of their lonelyness, other because their official relation is now just a sad joke. Yes, it is pathetic, but it is something I can understand.
This service, on the other hand, is pointless unless you actually have friends to impress in the first place, so it is just similar to what ringtones vendors or gold farmers can sell you: a way to look cool.
At least that would mean that someone cared about him, even if he used a very bad way of showing it.
I think this kind of fake friends will probably only be used in the "my blog has more visitors than yours" childish competitions that take place in every school today.
Underpaid staff is not the only problem. I remember having read that doctor's neckties were nice contamination vector for several kind of germs, but this is as offtopic as your point.
Of course, but here, you could legally get them 6 monthes later with 20yo VCR quality, FBI warning and ad breaks for only 29$99. And you could read it exactly once, but you can keep the anti-copy package forever if you want.
Do we now love or hate B. Cohen?
And the logical next step would be to offer discounts to people submitting more stupid videos shot with their cellphones.
Remember Vietnam. An army can win almost all the battles it is engaged in and still lose a war for non-tactical reasons.
American army technical superiority is great when they need to go somewhere, do the job and get away quickly or simply sterilize an area from the stratosphere, but when they have to stay somewhere, they suffer from their low headcount.
Of course, there are a couple stupid people who pretend to be geeks because they use a 56kb/s phone instead of a cheaper full speed ADSL/cable to surf the net. Maybe the author is one of those morons.
Years ago, I was working for a cell phone manufacturer and when we sold our first affordable cameraphone, several person I know bought one, but when I asked them, they all told me they almost never used the camera after the first few days.
You didn't get it, true hackers simply do not put their machines into cases.
For laptop, it's not new. Do you remember having ever seen a beige laptop?
The funny thing is that many big corps will spend a lot of money to swith to Vista+Office2007 in the name of productivity but cannot afford at least decent chairs for the people spending 8+ hours a day on them.
The ICANN tries to give a technical reason to a political problem, although this reason may be valid, it is not a very good idea. With the UN, it will be handled by international comitees and we will all be long dead before they finally agree on which country will be in that comitee.
Absolutely.
Last year, I was working on a General Electric product based on NT4 that we had to port to 2K. NT was considered "good enough" by the team and the change was made only because they were near the end of their licenses stock for the new manufactured equipments and most of the deployed ones are still on NT.
I saw it the other way around.
The team had a very ugly dragon-like teady bear and each time someone commited a bad code, he got to have on his screen for the week. Of course, everyone was encouraged to ask him what he did to deserve that shame.
It was very efficient: everyone was trying hard to avoid making mistakes, and if someone did one, all the other coders could also benefit from the experience.
No, I can't do the math. But considering that they would only have to help gravitation instead of fighting against it, I'm still sure of my words.
The ISS is globally on an almost stable orbit, requiring some thrust from time to time to make up for the light air friction. From that position, if you eject the trash at only a few m/s in the right direction, it will soon go down to altitudes where the air friction will be higher, be slowed down from its orbital speed and fall. Since you don't want a controled rentry, all you need is a small initial kick in the right direction to remove it from the ISS orbit and friction and gravity will then do the hard work.
while reading your post, the fortune cooky just above was "Sodd's Second Law: Sooner or later, the worst possible set of circumstances is bound to occur.", right on topic, I would say.
There may be a few technical issues to solve (and it may not be optimal), but it really seem to be a good way to recycle junk into propelant, which is always a scarce resource in space flight.
The problem is that if you simply pack your trash and eject it at high speed to get your thrust, you can only do that in some directions where there is nothing you might destroy, but fortunately, from the relatively low altitude of the ISS, the downward direction is cleared most of the time.
and criminal.
They could pack their trash and, with minimal thrust, send it on a quick reentry path in which it will burn in higher atmosphere a few days or weeks later. On the other hand, if they just dump things at random, they may be their own victims mounthes to years later.
There is a major flaw in your argument:
-when someone steals your car, you loose it, therefore the damage you suffer is easy to determine (the current value of the car, usually only a portion of its initial value).
-When someone downloads a song, the real damage is determined by the objective of the downloader:
*He wouldn't have bought the CD because he doesn't have the money, let's say it's free advertisement with potential long term payback (it was my case when I was student, and I then bought many CDs).
*He already has the CD but fears to put it in his PC because of the fear of rootkits or other malwares (that's currently my case), no real harm.
but of course, there is also:
*He burns CDs and sell them for a couple of bucks on markets to finance Al Quaida thermonuclear program, possible harm: millions of deaths + thousands of billions $ of damages.
So the 750$ is just the weighted average of the real potential damges, the only thing I don't understand is why the money doesn't got to the DHS.