Why? This would mean that American online companies would no longer be competitive with those in other countries. Tracking brings in BIG BUCKS. When you take away, say 80% of advertising profits, but you can still make those profits in Europe, Australia, or Asia, you're going to go there. With an opt-in system, fewer people are going to register as most people don't care anyway. Less profit would be lost, and the costs of relocating would still far outweigh the benefits.
Guessing that you're the OP responding to the OP as AC, sigh.:\
I know some Civil Servants at JSC. It's "big talk" around there. As in, they are making a huge amount of hype about it, but evidently, it's nothing new.
And no, they wouldn't tell me what part of NASA is pushing this or what "it" was other than a desperate attempt to get NASA some attention.
I have seen this quark-gluon plasma one other time. My, it has been a while. I never thought I'd see a resonance cascade, let alone create one. But there, at that point, we did it. At Black Mesa. We...unleashed...Gordon, you're alive! Thank God for that hazard suit. I'm afraid to move him and all our phones are out. Please get to the surface as soon as you can and let someone know we're stranded down here. You'll need me to access the retinal scanners. I'm sure the rest of the science team will gladly he$EOF
Oh, Janet! Sure we can take over boats and wreck them using mere boxcutters and explosives. I'm sure you've seen the movie Speed.
But let me give you a hint. Trains? Didn't you watch old cartoons as a kid? When we want to derail them, we don't need to be on them, and if we are, we have wasted some kamikaze brothers who could have better employed elsewhere.
I also think understanding what causes someone to become a terrorist will be helpful.
Breaking out a tiny window and throwing a bunch of heavy clothes 30 feet crosswind when the plane's doing 500mph? Good luck with that. Even if the plane were stopped and you had PCP strength, you wouldn't be able to find a window to get a good enough shot. And to think that your fellow passengers would let you get away with this?
For reference as to what an airliner looks like, click here.
And how hard is it to apply what you have hopefully learned with the rest of the legislation passed in the ten years?
Repeat after me. This legislation exists to build a presence.
At the best, it will do what the FAA's legislation has done to General Aviation over the past fifty years. Overregulation of federal standards which cripples usefulness/availability and stagnates innovation because new ideas are either illegal to implement, or they become too expensive to try. Give it five or ten years, and we will of course have the need for DHS to be able to overtake the Internet during "national technological emergencies" declared by the president. These boys would already have had that kind of legislation in place if any security problem really did exist on the Net and we had been attacked because of it.
Between 1960 and 1991 organs were taken from 76 people who had worked at nuclear sites around Britain.
And elsewhere in the article, I can see no other actual dates. Four decades looks like a bit of a stretch as does the magnitude of the story. The thief/scientist that initiated and carried out most of the autopsies is long since dead.
It's probably that AMD doesn't want to claim that they ever marketed the feature as such. If they did, it would put Intel up to create and release a debugging interface for their silicon. Then both would be forced into competing to produce a better debugging interface. This drives production costs up for a component that may be used by less than 1/100 of a percent of the users when they should have been putting their efforts elsewhere.
By the way, here's a guy who does this in his spare time. He may not have the $10+ million budget that the big boys have, but it should give you a little context as to what really happens in industry.
(As the original article was instantly slashdotted, I can only guess that the AMD exploit was found through software avenues.)
One of my pals at NVIDIA was talking about this in a generic sense. Evidently, all of the big design houses have reverse engineering departments where they scrape down to the silicon and get things running. They never make any public info, but it's crazy what kind of logic blocks they find on silicon.
These exist on "all processors" as ways to test the processors and increase yield cheaply. The moment that the engineering samples go out, competitors get their hands on them, and it's only days or weeks before they figure out what's really going on. Kind of cat-and-mouse.
My guess is that it was the Navy testing some sort of prototype missile. Most of this stuff is highly classified, and you're not going to know about it until it is incredibly inconvenient to keep it a secret anymore. My uncle used to work with McDonnell Douglas and told that by the time that something became public, it had been under development for ten years, and the potential enemies already knew the details through leaks. At the testing phase, it would become feasible to make it known to the general public.
For instance, it was years before the Lockheed F-117 was widely known due to secrecy and then general media suppression once it was known to exist.
Must be the default before Javascript calculates it...
You say that.
They covered this in an issue of 2600 several years back. Some sites have done this. The shopping cart calculations actually were offloaded to the user's browser. So some guy wrote in an demonstrated how he purchased a graphics tablet at something like $90 instead of $250, and it went through.
Anal Vapors Part 1
by Drunken Bastard i.e. Brian Shanor
Dr. Jurkov, the world renowned gynecologist sat in his office examining the patient file he agreed to examine because he owed a nonsexual favor (for once) to his brother. This case interested him as they sat discussing it one day, and he decided to take the case just because he thought his brother was full of shit and misinterpreted the results of the tests. That was 6 weeks ago. Today, he believed the outrageous test results which were in front of him as he waited for the patient to show up for her appointment.
A few moments later, he was interrupted from his daydreams of young boy scouts by a knock on the door. His receptionist poked her head in.
" Doctor, your next appointment is in the waiting room."
"Yeah, the nasty bitch with the constipation problem. She's here for her test results. Send her in." As the receptionist went to get the patient, he reached into his pants and pulled a worm out of a festering sore on his penis. "Here comes your mother, you little bastard," he said and ate it with a flourish. He turned around as the nasty woman was shown in. "Good afternoon," he said and held out his hand to shake hers, but thought better of it when he saw her slick pus coated fingers. "Have you been scratching your herpes sores again? I thought we discussed that earlier."
"I'm sorry, doctor, but it felt so good. Uh, do you have my test results?" she asked as she started to lick her fingers. The doctor fought back the urge to help lick her fingers and her crotch, remembering that he actually gave her the disease during a previous appointment.
"Yes... And they are very interesting. Tell me, do you engage in anal intercourse?"
"Yes, especially with this itch."
"Hmmm. I see. Are you, by any chance, bisexual?"
"Yes I like to carpet munch."
"Were you engaging in cunnilingus and ingested menses?"
"Cunni.....what?"
"Carpet munching."
"Yes, and I pulled out a couple of bloody tampons before I started, but I ended up getting a mouthful of tomato paste."
"And you swallowed it?"
"Yes."
"And you took it in the rear and ate bloody fish within 48 hours of each other?"
"Yes. Does this have anything to do with this killer constipation?"
"Oh I think it explains your condition quite nicely. You see, you are pregnant. More precisely, you have a rectal pregnancy. You were impregnated up the anus. I've seen this in porno movies and medical journals before. That is why I had to ask you those questions. This will be the first bowel movement birth I have ever seen. You are going to have a bunghole baby."
"When?"
"Well, you're about 2 months along now. At 8 months, we can give you a laxative to induce labor. The constipation will get worse, but it will feel good to take a birth shit."
"Alright, doctor, I guess I'll see you in 2 weeks."
Six months passed. During this time, the woman came in regularly for examinations. The doctor stopped using his penis and started fisting her on his desk. When he examined her anus, he would trim back her hemorrhoidal tissue and take it home to cook and serve as ravioli. Gradually, his penile worm problem cleared up, but the festering sore remained, so he found a woman who would give him head and suck out all the rancid pus.
When the time to give birth approached, he met the woman as she was wheeled into the hospital. "Ah. So good to see you. How are you feeling?" he asked as he looked over her shit-bloated body.
"It hurts!!! Oh God, IT HUUURRRRTTSSSS!!!!!"
"There. There....There. There.... Nurse! Wheel her into the delivery room."
She was taken to a room, stripped, and bent over a table and strapped into that position. A nurse came and began feeding her bars of Ex Lax and started a Milk of Magnesia I.V. A bit later, the doctor came in to examine her. "Well, let's have a look and see wha....." He
Why are all of these pointless, irrelevant questions asked? This site is now worse than Yahoo Answers at the exception of the lame cartoon avatars. Get a job, and get to work. You might find yourself doing something productive.
Indeed. We have such instruments in our laboratory. I suggest that you visit a library and read some texts covering the topic of electrolytic charge condensers. These units are capable of storing vast quantities of charges and may be employed in such a "voltage buffer."
When you product changes all the time, people are going to have to deal with these changes. When I "upgraded" versions of Ubuntu, I had to deal with a completely different looking interface. WHY? Change for the sake of change seems to be a big driving force in this project. Honestly, the UI that I am using now is no different than it was in 2004. I could have made something in 2004 look exactly like what Ubuntu looks like today. So there really isn't even an excuse that things are being changed to add features. We get a "new look" every rev because some dev thinks that it looks cool. It gets really old when your task bar is moved to the other side of the screen, your menus are all reorganized, and the terminal session shortcut that used to be on a particular convenient context menu is now gone.
Up until recently (Vista/Ribbon interface) and arguably even now, Microsoft has been able to provide more consistency than a lot of these Linux distros.
There is no need to capitalize north or south in this context. Maybe you didn't make it that far in grammar school (sigh) to know this, but if you didn't, you really need to turn in your editor's badge and give it to someone who knows his stuff. Like me.
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Not should be. Must be!
Why? This would mean that American online companies would no longer be competitive with those in other countries. Tracking brings in BIG BUCKS. When you take away, say 80% of advertising profits, but you can still make those profits in Europe, Australia, or Asia, you're going to go there. With an opt-in system, fewer people are going to register as most people don't care anyway. Less profit would be lost, and the costs of relocating would still far outweigh the benefits.
:\
Guessing that you're the OP responding to the OP as AC, sigh.
This is tough to say as a woman, but I applaud you for this statement.
I know some Civil Servants at JSC. It's "big talk" around there. As in, they are making a huge amount of hype about it, but evidently, it's nothing new.
And no, they wouldn't tell me what part of NASA is pushing this or what "it" was other than a desperate attempt to get NASA some attention.
Would you care to suck my balls?
Just because the US doesn't suck as badly as China doesn't mean that this is acceptable. So go die in a fire.
And we let the our own government get away with irradiating our bodies at no benefit to the traveler.
Thanks, terrorists, for buttering up an incompetent bureaucracy to give itself a reason to take a power trip.
I have seen this quark-gluon plasma one other time. My, it has been a while. I never thought I'd see a resonance cascade, let alone create one. But there, at that point, we did it. At Black Mesa. We...unleashed...Gordon, you're alive! Thank God for that hazard suit. I'm afraid to move him and all our phones are out. Please get to the surface as soon as you can and let someone know we're stranded down here. You'll need me to access the retinal scanners. I'm sure the rest of the science team will gladly he$EOF
I resemble that remark.
--TrisexualPuppy
Oh, Janet! Sure we can take over boats and wreck them using mere boxcutters and explosives. I'm sure you've seen the movie Speed.
But let me give you a hint. Trains? Didn't you watch old cartoons as a kid? When we want to derail them, we don't need to be on them, and if we are, we have wasted some kamikaze brothers who could have better employed elsewhere.
I also think understanding what causes someone to become a terrorist will be helpful.
Yours,
The Terrorists
Breaking out a tiny window and throwing a bunch of heavy clothes 30 feet crosswind when the plane's doing 500mph? Good luck with that. Even if the plane were stopped and you had PCP strength, you wouldn't be able to find a window to get a good enough shot. And to think that your fellow passengers would let you get away with this?
For reference as to what an airliner looks like, click here.
Serioulsy?
Well, for the record, there is an architect named I. M. Pei.
And how hard is it to apply what you have hopefully learned with the rest of the legislation passed in the ten years?
Repeat after me. This legislation exists to build a presence.
At the best, it will do what the FAA's legislation has done to General Aviation over the past fifty years. Overregulation of federal standards which cripples usefulness/availability and stagnates innovation because new ideas are either illegal to implement, or they become too expensive to try. Give it five or ten years, and we will of course have the need for DHS to be able to overtake the Internet during "national technological emergencies" declared by the president. These boys would already have had that kind of legislation in place if any security problem really did exist on the Net and we had been attacked because of it.
Maybe if you were the crackhead that broke into a truck and decided to keep the laptop and take the route to Enlightenment rather than pawning it off?
Just a thought...
And elsewhere in the article, I can see no other actual dates. Four decades looks like a bit of a stretch as does the magnitude of the story. The thief/scientist that initiated and carried out most of the autopsies is long since dead.
It's probably that AMD doesn't want to claim that they ever marketed the feature as such. If they did, it would put Intel up to create and release a debugging interface for their silicon. Then both would be forced into competing to produce a better debugging interface. This drives production costs up for a component that may be used by less than 1/100 of a percent of the users when they should have been putting their efforts elsewhere.
By the way, here's a guy who does this in his spare time. He may not have the $10+ million budget that the big boys have, but it should give you a little context as to what really happens in industry.
(As the original article was instantly slashdotted, I can only guess that the AMD exploit was found through software avenues.)
One of my pals at NVIDIA was talking about this in a generic sense. Evidently, all of the big design houses have reverse engineering departments where they scrape down to the silicon and get things running. They never make any public info, but it's crazy what kind of logic blocks they find on silicon.
These exist on "all processors" as ways to test the processors and increase yield cheaply. The moment that the engineering samples go out, competitors get their hands on them, and it's only days or weeks before they figure out what's really going on. Kind of cat-and-mouse.
My guess is that it was the Navy testing some sort of prototype missile. Most of this stuff is highly classified, and you're not going to know about it until it is incredibly inconvenient to keep it a secret anymore. My uncle used to work with McDonnell Douglas and told that by the time that something became public, it had been under development for ten years, and the potential enemies already knew the details through leaks. At the testing phase, it would become feasible to make it known to the general public.
For instance, it was years before the Lockheed F-117 was widely known due to secrecy and then general media suppression once it was known to exist.
Must be the default before Javascript calculates it...
You say that.
They covered this in an issue of 2600 several years back. Some sites have done this. The shopping cart calculations actually were offloaded to the user's browser. So some guy wrote in an demonstrated how he purchased a graphics tablet at something like $90 instead of $250, and it went through.
Anal Vapors Part 1 by Drunken Bastard i.e. Brian Shanor
Dr. Jurkov, the world renowned gynecologist sat in his office examining the patient file he agreed to examine because he owed a nonsexual favor (for once) to his brother. This case interested him as they sat discussing it one day, and he decided to take the case just because he thought his brother was full of shit and misinterpreted the results of the tests. That was 6 weeks ago. Today, he believed the outrageous test results which were in front of him as he waited for the patient to show up for her appointment.
A few moments later, he was interrupted from his daydreams of young boy scouts by a knock on the door. His receptionist poked her head in.
" Doctor, your next appointment is in the waiting room."
"Yeah, the nasty bitch with the constipation problem. She's here for her test results. Send her in." As the receptionist went to get the patient, he reached into his pants and pulled a worm out of a festering sore on his penis. "Here comes your mother, you little bastard," he said and ate it with a flourish. He turned around as the nasty woman was shown in. "Good afternoon," he said and held out his hand to shake hers, but thought better of it when he saw her slick pus coated fingers. "Have you been scratching your herpes sores again? I thought we discussed that earlier."
"I'm sorry, doctor, but it felt so good. Uh, do you have my test results?" she asked as she started to lick her fingers. The doctor fought back the urge to help lick her fingers and her crotch, remembering that he actually gave her the disease during a previous appointment.
"Yes... And they are very interesting. Tell me, do you engage in anal intercourse?"
"Yes, especially with this itch."
"Hmmm. I see. Are you, by any chance, bisexual?"
"Yes I like to carpet munch."
"Were you engaging in cunnilingus and ingested menses?"
"Cunni.....what?"
"Carpet munching."
"Yes, and I pulled out a couple of bloody tampons before I started, but I ended up getting a mouthful of tomato paste."
"And you swallowed it?"
"Yes."
"And you took it in the rear and ate bloody fish within 48 hours of each other?"
"Yes. Does this have anything to do with this killer constipation?"
"Oh I think it explains your condition quite nicely. You see, you are pregnant. More precisely, you have a rectal pregnancy. You were impregnated up the anus. I've seen this in porno movies and medical journals before. That is why I had to ask you those questions. This will be the first bowel movement birth I have ever seen. You are going to have a bunghole baby."
"When?"
"Well, you're about 2 months along now. At 8 months, we can give you a laxative to induce labor. The constipation will get worse, but it will feel good to take a birth shit."
"Alright, doctor, I guess I'll see you in 2 weeks."
Six months passed. During this time, the woman came in regularly for examinations. The doctor stopped using his penis and started fisting her on his desk. When he examined her anus, he would trim back her hemorrhoidal tissue and take it home to cook and serve as ravioli. Gradually, his penile worm problem cleared up, but the festering sore remained, so he found a woman who would give him head and suck out all the rancid pus.
When the time to give birth approached, he met the woman as she was wheeled into the hospital. "Ah. So good to see you. How are you feeling?" he asked as he looked over her shit-bloated body.
"It hurts!!! Oh God, IT HUUURRRRTTSSSS!!!!!"
"There. There....There. There.... Nurse! Wheel her into the delivery room."
She was taken to a room, stripped, and bent over a table and strapped into that position. A nurse came and began feeding her bars of Ex Lax and started a Milk of Magnesia I.V. A bit later, the doctor came in to examine her. "Well, let's have a look and see wha....." He
My balls. Lick them.
You can cook food with one. End of story.
Why are all of these pointless, irrelevant questions asked? This site is now worse than Yahoo Answers at the exception of the lame cartoon avatars. Get a job, and get to work. You might find yourself doing something productive.
some kind of intermediate electricity 'buffer'
Indeed. We have such instruments in our laboratory. I suggest that you visit a library and read some texts covering the topic of electrolytic charge condensers. These units are capable of storing vast quantities of charges and may be employed in such a "voltage buffer."
Consistency.
When you product changes all the time, people are going to have to deal with these changes. When I "upgraded" versions of Ubuntu, I had to deal with a completely different looking interface. WHY? Change for the sake of change seems to be a big driving force in this project. Honestly, the UI that I am using now is no different than it was in 2004. I could have made something in 2004 look exactly like what Ubuntu looks like today. So there really isn't even an excuse that things are being changed to add features. We get a "new look" every rev because some dev thinks that it looks cool. It gets really old when your task bar is moved to the other side of the screen, your menus are all reorganized, and the terminal session shortcut that used to be on a particular convenient context menu is now gone.
Up until recently (Vista/Ribbon interface) and arguably even now, Microsoft has been able to provide more consistency than a lot of these Linux distros.
Are we going to see a Gubuntu now?
Please edit your submissions.
There is no need to capitalize north or south in this context. Maybe you didn't make it that far in grammar school (sigh) to know this, but if you didn't, you really need to turn in your editor's badge and give it to someone who knows his stuff. Like me.
A mask for the CCTVs...
...and a raincoat for the DNA spray?
--TSP