Be the first one on your block to have Personal Interceptor Missiles! Now available with micro-nukes for those neighbors that just won't turn the music down when asked.
Aluminum is OK as a transmission medium, but it's not too good in end use applications. Turns out aluminum has a property called "cold flow", when you put it under pressure (like a screw or clamp terminal) the metal literally moves away and creates a loose connection which causes heat and often fire.
Next, greatly varying expansion/contraction properties make aluminum still more likely to work loose when terminated to a dissimilar metal like a lug or screw of brass, steel, etc..
Lastly, all aluminum has a coat of oxide that has high electrical resistance, and it reforms very quickly when it is cleaned off. Proper cleaning and antioxidant paste are critical to avoid failures in such home applications as the line dropping from the service weather head to the meter socket of a dwelling (a common application).
Once the circuits are in the walls of a dwelling you do not want aluminum because of the fire danger. While it has been used for mobile home wiring in the past during times of high copper prices, it is currently hard to insure one of those homes. If you DO have aluminum wire inside your walls you should be checking the torque (but don't over tighten) of every connection at six month intervals... forever...
To sum up, you only want aluminum where you can easily inspect and adjust any connections on a regular basis.
You'd rather I left my parent's basement and went to the store for hand lotion and tissue? What would your creep-o-meter think of that?
Not much compared to seeing someone in the checkout line with half a dozen large cucumbers and a big tube of personal lubricant... and nothing else... except a smile... (it freaks the cashiers out too) http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/collecting_double_takes.png
I agree that it should be opt in, but I'm for it. Ideally, when things get advanced enough I figure Google can save me a lot of work. Once they know enough about my searching and buying habits they'll be able to do both for me. Every once in a while a box will show up at my door: "You need this. We found it at an awesome price. You will be billed via Google Finance".
Deliveries could get really personalized once you fill out this page: http://www.realdoll.com/cgi-bin/snav.rd?action=viewpage§ion=frealdoll2 Be sure and check the shipping container for signs of tampering, because in this case the "handling" in "shipping and handling" may have deeper meaning.
Piracy involves the stealing of property, but the copy PRIVILEGE is not property. As Thomas Jefferson wisely explained: "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself. But the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
"Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine...
"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
Therefore:
While I can claim ownership of this computer, and label you a "thief" if you steal it (because I have been deprived of use of the computer), I have NO natural right to claim ownership of an idea. Your copying of my idea deprives me of nothing. I still possess the idea.
She was not taping an idea, she was taping part of a performance that had acknowledged value in that they all went to a particular place and paid a some of money to witness the performance.
A lot of effort, money and time goes into producing these works, and if you don't believe they are of worth then opt out. If no one pays them, they will stop producing and we can all just talk about ideas... freeing billions of dollars for other uses. Of course, quoting any long section of a published work may come to be considered piracy, or at the very least unauthorized performance, but that's another day's problem.
But in any case don't say that another person's work is of no value. They are entitled to all the rewards their effort can bring them, just as you are. I don't spend money on this sort of thing, and I don't bootleg it either. Again, if you don't agree with the system of middlemen and sharks that has evolved, put action to your beliefs by not partaking in the fruits of the process.
Personally, I have not watched a non-televised movie in years. I also own no sound system other than the stock one (FM radio) in my vehicle. I buy or rent no CD's or DVD's, I just declined a gift of a DVD this week (my buddy was literally rendered speechless for a few moments). I do listen to music on the web ($20 computer speakers) or on cable TV, and it would seem to be paying off for someone as it has been ongoing for a very long time now. I do appreciate the effort and skill some artists bring to their work, and when it is in a public venue such as television, radio, or art exhibits, I will enjoy a bit of diversion for a short time. I don't stand in line for it and I have yet to see or hear anything that would cause me to change my current consumption pattern. I support local musicians at the coffee house downtown buy tipping them and of course I buy coffee or something... and that's about it as far as my contributions to the star machine.
Back on topic, I doubt the bust is valid, as it sounds like she was not going to the trouble to bootleg the whole movie... The theater owners are either being dicks or have put themselves into a position where they will press charges just to save face. TFA hints that the cops and judge are sympathetic to the young woman's case, so I hope this will just die off or get tossed out.
i am pretty sure we are all criminals, no such thing as a citizen anymore
Fixed that, you had too many words in there. The incredible volume of laws and regulations under which everyone must live makes it a certainty that we all have been or are in violation of something... that is neither accident or coincidence.
You mean the space-time continuum doesn't exist? Star Trek is wrong?
Oh, it's there as long as you just look at it. It's when higher energies are involved that things might get a bit wobbly... and even that might let us turn things inside out, or maybe do some other interesting tricks. As long as it doesn't turn out that we are in the Simpson's Universe I'm OK with it all.
Indeed. In fact it seems that Google will be just as selective as you tell it to be... here is a good example: http://slashdot.org/robots.txt and it would seem The Wall Street Journal already knows about robots.txt files http://online.wsj.com/robots.txt
I've actually read about this being done with buses using nitrogen in a closed loop... but it was only to get moving again, not a primary drive. Here is one program that was tried, don't know if it took off... PDF file at http://www.fibacanning.com/brochures/gtphoto%20from%20moee.pdf
True for google.cn, not google.com. TFA is talking about any search done at bing.com done in Chinese. I agree that both parties are dirty, google chose to keep the dirt where it started and bing makes it world wide... not the same thing.
Oh thank God. I thought maybe over driving the electron gun on my CRT to make it much brighter had introduced some unplanned side effect... that whole "truth" thing accounts for the arcing and smoke coming from my dental work too, right?
Seriously, my favorite gripe about legislative behavior is the number of laws that do not apply to the legislative body itself...
Right. The fine is just a legal way to give the EU a butt load of money because Intel made nine butt loads of money... So the EU can say "See, we didn't take the evil profit mongers bribe, we punished them by accepting a check for a butt load of money!"
The only thing that has me guessing is whether we are talking about metric butt loads or imperial butt loads.
Do we need further evidence that slashdot moderation is broken and does not in practice self correct. +5 funny, while tasteless, I could accept. But +4 insightful says people here have considered this and really would like to start eating other people. That is of course ridiculous.
Like to, no. Resort to, of course they would. History does tend to bare this out. While the OP may have been going for the joke, and some folks played along, this topic makes many people nervous because they think they know who they are... thinking about this topic may take them places they don't want to go, psychologically speaking. Also, eating someone that has died is not the same (in my book at least) as killing someone to eat them. If they are already dead there is no selection process or criteria. But to think that entertaining the idea is out of bounds for some reason is choosing to place yourself in a small box and ignoring history. As for the tasteless jokes, well, someone with such a low uid should not need to be told but "Welcome to Slashdot!"
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Be the first one on your block to have Personal Interceptor Missiles! Now available with micro-nukes for those neighbors that just won't turn the music down when asked.
Definite Maybe.
Aluminum is OK as a transmission medium, but it's not too good in end use applications. Turns out aluminum has a property called "cold flow", when you put it under pressure (like a screw or clamp terminal) the metal literally moves away and creates a loose connection which causes heat and often fire.
Next, greatly varying expansion/contraction properties make aluminum still more likely to work loose when terminated to a dissimilar metal like a lug or screw of brass, steel, etc..
Lastly, all aluminum has a coat of oxide that has high electrical resistance, and it reforms very quickly when it is cleaned off. Proper cleaning and antioxidant paste are critical to avoid failures in such home applications as the line dropping from the service weather head to the meter socket of a dwelling (a common application).
Once the circuits are in the walls of a dwelling you do not want aluminum because of the fire danger. While it has been used for mobile home wiring in the past during times of high copper prices, it is currently hard to insure one of those homes. If you DO have aluminum wire inside your walls you should be checking the torque (but don't over tighten) of every connection at six month intervals... forever...
To sum up, you only want aluminum where you can easily inspect and adjust any connections on a regular basis.
The researchers plan to play back recordings to the monkeys to test their theories for syntax errors.
Create a very long string of recordings of unrelated calls and play them back to check for buffer overflow errors...
Well, in keeping with the spirit of the site and mostly disregarding the way a first post is usually wasted by some AC, I'd say it should have read:
"that Martians need some beano eh? Also, first farts BTW (but they're wet)..."
Still, I'll give it a 3.8 out of 5...
I'd go higher but we must stamp out and eliminate redundancy, right?
You'd rather I left my parent's basement and went to the store for hand lotion and tissue? What would your creep-o-meter think of that?
Not much compared to seeing someone in the checkout line with half a dozen large cucumbers and a big tube of personal lubricant... and nothing else... except a smile...
(it freaks the cashiers out too)
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/collecting_double_takes.png
I agree that it should be opt in, but I'm for it. Ideally, when things get advanced enough I figure Google can save me a lot of work. Once they know enough about my searching and buying habits they'll be able to do both for me. Every once in a while a box will show up at my door: "You need this. We found it at an awesome price. You will be billed via Google Finance".
Deliveries could get really personalized once you fill out this page:
http://www.realdoll.com/cgi-bin/snav.rd?action=viewpage§ion=frealdoll2
Be sure and check the shipping container for signs of tampering, because in this case the "handling" in "shipping and handling" may have deeper meaning.
Wow, even hacking is branded these days.
I look forward to the Pepsi Challenge being revised to an RSA cracking contest.
I prefer algorithm "B"
Mmmm, algorithm... {drool sound}
So when the big guy does show up we will know what kind of a processor he'll be rockin', cool.
Just remember:
"Thou shalt NOT rootkit The Lord thy Admin."
Indeed, this looks like a job for a Monty Python Clip!
Piracy involves the stealing of property, but the copy PRIVILEGE is not property. As Thomas Jefferson wisely explained: "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself. But the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
"Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine...
"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."
Therefore:
While I can claim ownership of this computer, and label you a "thief" if you steal it (because I have been deprived of use of the computer), I have NO natural right to claim ownership of an idea. Your copying of my idea deprives me of nothing. I still possess the idea.
She was not taping an idea, she was taping part of a performance that had acknowledged value in that they all went to a particular place and paid a some of money to witness the performance.
A lot of effort, money and time goes into producing these works, and if you don't believe they are of worth then opt out. If no one pays them, they will stop producing and we can all just talk about ideas... freeing billions of dollars for other uses. Of course, quoting any long section of a published work may come to be considered piracy, or at the very least unauthorized performance, but that's another day's problem.
But in any case don't say that another person's work is of no value. They are entitled to all the rewards their effort can bring them, just as you are. I don't spend money on this sort of thing, and I don't bootleg it either. Again, if you don't agree with the system of middlemen and sharks that has evolved, put action to your beliefs by not partaking in the fruits of the process.
Personally, I have not watched a non-televised movie in years. I also own no sound system other than the stock one (FM radio) in my vehicle. I buy or rent no CD's or DVD's, I just declined a gift of a DVD this week (my buddy was literally rendered speechless for a few moments). I do listen to music on the web ($20 computer speakers) or on cable TV, and it would seem to be paying off for someone as it has been ongoing for a very long time now. I do appreciate the effort and skill some artists bring to their work, and when it is in a public venue such as television, radio, or art exhibits, I will enjoy a bit of diversion for a short time. I don't stand in line for it and I have yet to see or hear anything that would cause me to change my current consumption pattern. I support local musicians at the coffee house downtown buy tipping them and of course I buy coffee or something... and that's about it as far as my contributions to the star machine.
Back on topic, I doubt the bust is valid, as it sounds like she was not going to the trouble to bootleg the whole movie... The theater owners are either being dicks or have put themselves into a position where they will press charges just to save face. TFA hints that the cops and judge are sympathetic to the young woman's case, so I hope this will just die off or get tossed out.
This is the radiant dawn. Not without clouds, however.
Also, floods, tornadoes and some hail, but you'd know all that if you just pick up a newspaper...
Oh, wait...
To be fair, sliced bread didn't help much for movies.
So I should watch The Princess Bride while enjoying
a nice mutton, lettuce and tomato smoothie ?
Won't anybody think of the pizzas?
I do... way too much... Thinking about a turkey & stuffing pizza right now.
Oh, and maybe a ham, pineapple and jalapeno pizza too.
i am pretty sure we are all criminals, no such thing as a citizen anymore
Fixed that, you had too many words in there. The incredible volume of laws and regulations under which everyone must live makes it a certainty that we all have been or are in violation of something... that is neither accident or coincidence.
You mean the space-time continuum doesn't exist? Star Trek is wrong?
Oh, it's there as long as you just look at it. It's when higher energies are involved that things might get a bit wobbly... and even that might let us turn things inside out, or maybe do some other interesting tricks.
As long as it doesn't turn out that we are in the Simpson's Universe I'm OK with it all.
Indeed. In fact it seems that Google will be just as selective as you tell it to be... here is a good example:
http://slashdot.org/robots.txt
and it would seem The Wall Street Journal already knows about robots.txt files
http://online.wsj.com/robots.txt
I've actually read about this being done with buses using nitrogen in a closed loop... but it was only to get moving again, not a primary drive. Here is one program that was tried, don't know if it took off... PDF file at http://www.fibacanning.com/brochures/gtphoto%20from%20moee.pdf
True for google.cn, not google.com. TFA is talking about any search done at bing.com done in Chinese. I agree that both parties are dirty, google chose to keep the dirt where it started and bing makes it world wide... not the same thing.
It burns your ears because it's true.
Oh thank God. I thought maybe over driving the electron gun on my CRT to make it much brighter had introduced some unplanned side effect... that whole "truth" thing accounts for the arcing and smoke coming from my dental work too, right?
Seriously, my favorite gripe about legislative behavior is the number of laws that do not apply to the legislative body itself...
While strong language may occasionally be appropriate, I tend to believe the old axiom that:
"Profanity is the last bastion of desperately inarticulate motherfuckers"
How about a pony the size of a kitten!!! That would be so cool...
I thought about a kitten the size of a pony but that might create some undesirable food chain issues...
Hate to say this, but you may be the only one in the country who pays use tax.
Yup, you'd think that would be a BIG red flag somewhere.
Alarms going off and auditors sharpening anal probes, I mean pencils, real big pencils...
Right. The fine is just a legal way to give the EU a butt load of money because Intel made nine butt loads of money... So the EU can say "See, we didn't take the evil profit mongers bribe, we punished them by accepting a check for a butt load of money!"
The only thing that has me guessing is whether we are talking about metric butt loads or imperial butt loads.
Do we need further evidence that slashdot moderation is broken and does not in practice self correct. +5 funny, while tasteless, I could accept. But +4 insightful says people here have considered this and really would like to start eating other people. That is of course ridiculous.
Like to, no. Resort to, of course they would. History does tend to bare this out. While the OP may have been going for the joke, and some folks played along, this topic makes many people nervous because they think they know who they are... thinking about this topic may take them places they don't want to go, psychologically speaking. Also, eating someone that has died is not the same (in my book at least) as killing someone to eat them. If they are already dead there is no selection process or criteria. But to think that entertaining the idea is out of bounds for some reason is choosing to place yourself in a small box and ignoring history. As for the tasteless jokes, well, someone with such a low uid should not need to be told but "Welcome to Slashdot!"