Where I live we can choose the electric company to pay for our energy. Many of them have plans for electricity from 100% renewable sources. The difference in cost is usually about 2-3 cents a kilowatt hour for a year long agreement.
Not to say that if you sign up with one of these plans that the specific electron you use comes from a renewable source. It just means that for each kwh you use, they'll either produce or buy a kwh from a renewable source.
This isn't so much about banning each of the drugs from use or use in combination. This is the FDA forbidding the sale of these two in combination because no one bothered to check (with them) if it was safe. The FDA doesn't give a shit what you do with the stuff you buy after you buy it. Their job is just to make sure that the stuff on the shelf labeled for human consumption is safe for human consumption. If you buy eggs and let them sit out for 2 weeks on the counter the FDA doesn't give a shit if that made you sick and they don't give a shit if you mix a red bull and vodka. They just don't want you mixing them, bottling them up, and then offering it for sale without checking to make sure that its safe and proving to them that its safe.
Now on the other hand if you do decide you REALLY want to sell that. You can jump through their hoops performing studies to demonstrate how your specific caffeinated alcoholic drink is safe. If they then approve it based on those studies then you are all good for selling it.
Their beef, as it stands right now, is that on one bothered to check with them first before just mixing stuff and putting it up for sale. This isn't some OMG WE MUST BAN THIS ITS KILLING OUR CHILDREN HALP DEA! This is just the FDA saying "hey you broke the rules, the very well known and publicly available rules that helps us ensure that stuff sitting on the shelf for sale won't kill you."
Because we can accurately predict which technologies will be useful in the future right?
And we can also get the entire planet to focus all of our problem solving skills into a few subset of problems?
Even if we could who gets to decide which problems we focus on?
Whats important to you is not important to me, so why should I follow your priorities?
If it is a waste of technology then its Sony blowing money on nothing, does that bother you? We have this concept of personal property where I come from, not sure about you, but if someone wants to take something they own and do something stupid with it as long as its not hurting someone else its ok (opportunity cost not included).
You're acting like innovation doesn't exist, as if this technology will stay in the exact same form as when it was originally invented. The world sure would suck if you were best friends with the guy who invented the first transistor. "Its useless! Its too big, too costly to make, takes way to much power and is too inefficient to do anything of real use! We should go back to working on flying cars, thats a real problem in the world today!"
Wouldn't those shitty little devices that broad cast your iPod over public radio waves so you can listen to it in your car fall into the same category?
Unless something changed recently they weren't banned. I think they just sucked hard (low quality music), and were replaced by other technologies. They might even sell them if you looked for it. Yup they still exist.
Almost all anti-virus programs do not play well together. Nortan will yell at macafee while they're both yelling about AVG and all three of them will yell about combofix. Virus/Test is actually an industry wide standard string that if found will set off any anti-virus. In order for each of them to know what it is they have to have it stored someplace... which is one of the reasons why they'll yell and scream about eachother.
I went to a school about your size, just more recently. My graduating class was somewhere in the mid 700's. There was more than 2 levels of math and science. Granted there was only two with the same name, AP calc 2 and calc 2, or AP calc 1 and calc 1 etc. but not everyone even made it to calc1. By 12th grade students were spread out into any of the following math classes: Algebra 2, Algebra 2 AP, Pre-Calculus, Calc 1, AP Calc 1, Calc 2, or AP Calc2. Thats 7 different "senior" levels of math in a single highschool. If you're goal is just to graduate then Algebra 2 is where you finished. Depending on your academic ability and how far you really wanted to go you could be as much as 7 "levels" ahead of that by the time graduation rolled around. Thats not to say that you'd have to take the other 6 to make it to AP Calc2. The highest "path" you could take would look something like Alg 2AP -> Calc1 AP -> Calc2AP. But in order to do that you'd need to start Alg 1 in 7th grade (Alg1 in middle school was split into two years taking 7th and 8th grade to complete allowing you to go straight into geometry/trig your freshmen year in highschool, again this was optional and a "level" above what most 7th and 8th graders take, as well as 8th graders who took the first part of alg1 in order to breeze through it freshmen year). There was also summer school if you wanted to get ahead although that option wasn't very popular. Most kids I knew also jumped around different levels taking Alg 2 and Calc1 before taking AP Calc2 or say they took AP Calc 1 but not AP Calc2. It was surprisingly close to college where you're just told to take classes in these categories and this is how many years of these classes you had to take and certain classes require other classes to already have been taken or to be taken at the same time. Science and Math crossed paths like that a lot.
Science was pretty much the same but you could further specialize ending in a physics or chemistry path or a more basic level of both if you wanted and basic levels of each were required before graduation.
English had less options but still ended up with 4 different levels you could end up taking your senior year, one of those being a "college" level course taught by a professor that drove in from a community college 3 days a week. We didn't have anything called "social studies" past elementary. We had geography, poly sci-ish classes (not called that but the name escapes me and the subject was basically the same), history etc. They each had 3-4 levels you could end up with your senior year as well and again you could sort of 'specialize' in your favorite.
This is ~5 years ago in a public school in Texas. The district currently has 6 or 7 highschools all about the same size with the same curriculum. I think its 7 now, they keep building more and I dont live in the area anymore and my parents rarely talk to me about it. Also just like to point out that you calling into question someone elses experience, given he did say "most", as atypical is kind of funny seeing as how you only really have on view point to look from as well and it is admittedly ~20 years old if not closer to 30.
Moral of the story is things change, and public education across the US varies WILDLY in terms of quality and choices available.
Also just remembered that for each of those AP classes there was a "Pre-AP" version. So make that 3 sublevels for each level.
My old laptop had svideo out. My old TV had svideo in. I'm surprised its taken this long for people to realize they can hook their computer up to their TV to watch whatever they want.
1. DVI? Nearly (if not every) HD tv has one. If you don't have that then your tv should at least have s-video. Of course if somehow your computer doesn't even have s-video there are vga to svideo cables. They're like $5.
2. My grandparents don't even own only a single computer. Even if you do you could build another one for pretty cheap who's only function is to have 5TB of space and play HD videos. They sell computer cases for this exact purpose.
3. Can't really respond to this one because I'm not quite sure how your computer can't go 2h without error messages, programs crashing, the video card turning off (while playing a video) or screen savers coming on (again while playing a video).
4. Again if your internet connection goes down every 2h or so then agreed, this option isn't for you. In my experience however, when something happens that makes my DSL shit out, the cable shits out too. The times that each one of those goes out on their own due to some other problem, they dont last long and are very infrequent. They also seem to go out at about the same frequency which is almost never.
5. See point 2.
6. The remote controls your TV. It has nothing to do with which device your TV is receiving input from. If you're talking about being able to tell your computer from your couch which episode you wish to watch then that problem has been solved for a long long time. Computers have been taking wireless input for years, through mouses, keyboards, presentation clickers, TV remotes, wii controllers etc.
And for your final statement, I think the point the parent was trying to make was exactly what you said. It'll be a box and you'll buy from someplace else which you just plug your TV into. It'll be like a ps3 or xbox360 or tivo or a (newer) mac (let the foaming of the fan boy mouths begin), just a fancy box with PC parts inside. Or in other words, a PC.
I go to a university now that requires a VPN to login to their wireless network anywhere. Also required to VPN in if you want to access anything private from your home connection. They don't seem to have too many problems with it, actually none that I'm aware of but I'm sure there is some.
>>>>- Walmart has an *obligation* to replace those broken songs with working songs (or get sued by angry consumers).
Whats this obligation you speak of?
ianal but its perfectly legal for stores to have return policies such as "NO RETURNS NO EXCEPTIONS". buyer beware and what not. If you buy a toaster from a store like that and it breaks or is broken as soon as you get home you're shit out of luck.
I do believe stores have to follow their POSTED return policy but thats why stores put things in like "Must be new and unused and contain all original packaging" little catch alls in there. While that line won't prevent you from returning a toaster that didn't work in the first place, if you used it, even once, then they don't HAVE to take it back. Most stores do because they realize you're going to buy another $50 worth of useless shit while you're getting your new toaster but they don't HAVE to.
I'm not sure on the return policy Walmart has for its online music but I have a feeling its probably somewhere in the realm of "no returns". Even if it was a lenient as their posted in store policy they could always just slap you in the face with "its not new and unused." Not to mention most returns have a time limit. Usually in the realm of 30-60 days. Target is 90 and Walmart is 90 for most merchandise but they have exceptions for things like electronics and books which are considerably shorter. So anyone over whatever time limit Walmart deeps appropriate is sol as well.
If you do know of some weird rule/law that says stores MUST replace defective merchandise please let me know what it is.
Also if you're going to go try and lookup what the return policy is for walmarts online music downloads, you must use IE (which is why I couldn't check). Anything else and it tells you "We noticed you're not using IE blah blah blah come back with IE." Might be able to get around that by changing the reported browser but I can't be assed to do that. If they really wanted my money they'd let me use what I want to view their website.
You know both of my grandparents on one side of my family are very active, alert, and otherwise don't seem to be showing any signs of Alzheimer's or dementia. They also happen to own 50 cats. Following your logic it makes sense that the cats must be warding off these diseases!
You don't have to travel faster than the speed of light for time to slow down. Just faster relative to whatever you are comparing your time to. This was a problem with the initial launch of GPS as they didn't correct for it correctly and got some weird readings until they fixed it. Another way to slow down time is to be in a higher gravitational field relative to whatever you are measuring against.
They could possibly try to make the argument that this ID is also a drivers license. Although that would be stretching it, but it does seem sort of ridiculous to say we wont fund your highways if you wont agree to force people to wear seat belts as if the cost of a highway is in anyway related to the amount of adults wearing seat belts (Unless of course someone pulls of a law suet claiming it was the federal goverments problem for building a highway out of concrete and not fluffy pillows that lead to poor ol aunties death when she wasn't wearing her seat belt thus winning a lot of money and driving up the cost of the highway).
I must admit I have worked on a few simple cheats in my time for various games that were already hacked to shit by the time I got into it (read: I'm not bragging to be some super h4x0r, I'm just saying I have looked at and played with and edited code others have already written to implement features other people long before me had figured out) and I haven't seen a cheat in YEARS that simulated keyboard/mouse input. Maybe the old ogl hacks of counter-strike 1.x-1.5 because they didn't have access to the games engine itself but past that every hack out there has only used keyboard/mouse to let the user configure the cheat in game. In no way did it ever send keyboard/mouse events to the game to simulate play. Think about that for a second, how ridiculous would it be to say "the mouse moved to the left" "the mouse moved up" over and over again until the player was aiming at the head of other players. So many variations could throw that off and make it inaccurate such as mouse sensitivity and the number of function calls you'll need until the mouse is pointing at cord x,y on the screen your data of where the target players head is very likely out of date by now. Now instead you simply calculate the vector between you're pov and the enemies head in game without having to convert 3d vectors to 2d screen cords. Then make a single function call to change your view to that vector and one more to fire. No keyboard or mouse activity was simulated and the functions that were called are normally called AFTER the game has handled these inputs therefor already bypassing any check the game would make with Intel's anti-cheat. Intel: They didn't press anything Game: nope they did not. This is how cheats have been working for a LONG time now, Intel is about 10 years to late with this method. Instead developers should write their server's to not trust anything from a client and tell it nothing that it doesn't need to know. Even more recent games are guilty of this for example BF2/2142 tells you the location of EVERY PLAYER on the map, their health, their name, and a WHOLE LOT OF OTHER SHIT YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW. In addition to that BF2 and 2142 trust the player to know if they are commander, what team they are on, what squad they are in, and AS THE COMMANDER TO TIME THE USE OF THEIR OWN ASSETS. A simple *(*BYTE)(0xD3ADC0D3)=1 re-enables the assets with absolutely no check by the server to see if enough time has passed since they were last used. Cheating isn't going to stop anytime soon but you could at least stop making it easy. Punkbuster and VAC both failed from the get-go(cat and mouse games are forever lost). Games need to be designed from the ground up with the possibility of cheating in mind. This isn't a client problem, its a server problem.
It could be that this is a sort of *wink* in our direction but he can't take a strong stance on the issue yet because the RIAA and MPAA do have a lot of money and its that money that he either wants as part of his campaign or at least doesn't want it in someone else's campaign. That said, and following what politicians are all alike from past experience I'd say its a good chance hes just throwing a bone so someone comes up with the above idea and votes for him regardless of how true it is.
Its actually amazing what you can get if you don't bitch at all. I work for a major retailer (not walmart) for a number of years, originally at the return desk and now a front end manager. I've transfered to three different stores over the years because I moved (from home to campus 1 then to campus 2) and all have treated people the same. When people come in with an attitude or start bitching you can believe that immediately they get the shaft. We (managers included) find what ever reason we can to tell them no and if they persist tell them to leave the store. On the other hand when people come in nice, calm, and understanding we will break the system (Most of us have worked there for years and believe me there is a way around just about everything) and try as hard as we can to give them what they want. I have a few friends that work at some other major retailers and they are even more abrasive to people who try to be the "bully customer". And before anyone thinks to question it, it is very easy to tell the difference between someone who is pissed because something didn't work the way they thought and those who are trying to bully.
Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act), as amended, prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings, and in other housing-related transactions, based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status (including children under the age of 18 living with parents of legal custodians, pregnant women, and people securing custody of children under the age of 18), and handicap (disability)
So go ahead and discriminate against druggies slobs and people without jobs all you want. Discrimination isn't illegal unless its based on what is mentioned above.
http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/FHLaws/
This isn't anything new. Its even main stream enough to have an entire chapter devoted to how to design and implement this in a root kit in a very popular book available through rootkit.com. The book was written mid 2005, and these guys are not the first to think of it by far.
Read the article next time, no where in it does it say it requires nanorust, its just simply more efficient.
From the article itself
"One kilogram of nanorust has the same surface area as a football field," says Colvin. "Basically, you can treat a whole lot more arsenic with less material."
While that would be really hilarious if it worked, I'd assume the DVD would tell the player "I'm a RFID DVD" and the player would go "But I cant read anything" and then give you a nasty error message.
The article said nothing about ss#'s And if you must know these businesses usually keep this stuff on record for more than one reason which includes taxes (incase of an audit) returns (so they can put it back on the original credit card because it would be illegal to transfer the balance to another) and believe it or not but some people do actually sign up to have their cc billed automatically everymonth.
And that the rover actually got back rock from the mars?
the rock in question is actually a metiorite(sp?) that fell in antartica, I dont believe we(humans) have ever brought anything back from mars, its a one way trip.
If some scientists believe there is life on mars, why try hard to disprove them?
Its part of the scientific process, nothing is considered fact even so called "Laws" its just not disproven yet.
One of the other posts on here outlined the scienfic process in a really simplistic way, maybe look at that or google the scienfic process so you understand why its so important to attempt to disprove things. If you are to lazy for that or want the easy quick answer it basically comes down to this. If you never attempt to disprove something then you'd never know if it was really true or not. Lets say I have some evidence that supports my hypothesis that (just making stuff up dont flame for this) I am somehow genetically surperior to you, if you never attempt to disprove me how will you know if I am right? my evidence could very well suport that hypothesis but I could miss something that points in a totally different direction. This post is a lot longer than I originally intended so the end.
I would like to see your source for Sally Kristen Ride (born May 26, 1951) is a former astronaut and became the first woman to reach outer space, in 1983. Everywhere I look (even on nasa's website) the first woman in space was Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. You can google it yourself or if you are lazy simply look here http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos _who_level2/tereshkova.html The only posible conclusion I can come to as to where you got your quote is the wikipedia article for Sally Ride but even they got it right Sally Kristen Ride (born May 26, 1951) is a former astronaut and became the first American woman to reach outer space, in 1983. Nice how that one little word got left out of your quote.
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Where I live we can choose the electric company to pay for our energy. Many of them have plans for electricity from 100% renewable sources. The difference in cost is usually about 2-3 cents a kilowatt hour for a year long agreement. Not to say that if you sign up with one of these plans that the specific electron you use comes from a renewable source. It just means that for each kwh you use, they'll either produce or buy a kwh from a renewable source.
They're not talking about that joke, they're talking about this joke.
This isn't so much about banning each of the drugs from use or use in combination. This is the FDA forbidding the sale of these two in combination because no one bothered to check (with them) if it was safe. The FDA doesn't give a shit what you do with the stuff you buy after you buy it. Their job is just to make sure that the stuff on the shelf labeled for human consumption is safe for human consumption. If you buy eggs and let them sit out for 2 weeks on the counter the FDA doesn't give a shit if that made you sick and they don't give a shit if you mix a red bull and vodka. They just don't want you mixing them, bottling them up, and then offering it for sale without checking to make sure that its safe and proving to them that its safe.
Now on the other hand if you do decide you REALLY want to sell that. You can jump through their hoops performing studies to demonstrate how your specific caffeinated alcoholic drink is safe. If they then approve it based on those studies then you are all good for selling it.
Their beef, as it stands right now, is that on one bothered to check with them first before just mixing stuff and putting it up for sale. This isn't some OMG WE MUST BAN THIS ITS KILLING OUR CHILDREN HALP DEA! This is just the FDA saying "hey you broke the rules, the very well known and publicly available rules that helps us ensure that stuff sitting on the shelf for sale won't kill you."
Because we can accurately predict which technologies will be useful in the future right?
And we can also get the entire planet to focus all of our problem solving skills into a few subset of problems?
Even if we could who gets to decide which problems we focus on?
Whats important to you is not important to me, so why should I follow your priorities?
If it is a waste of technology then its Sony blowing money on nothing, does that bother you? We have this concept of personal property where I come from, not sure about you, but if someone wants to take something they own and do something stupid with it as long as its not hurting someone else its ok (opportunity cost not included).
You're acting like innovation doesn't exist, as if this technology will stay in the exact same form as when it was originally invented. The world sure would suck if you were best friends with the guy who invented the first transistor. "Its useless! Its too big, too costly to make, takes way to much power and is too inefficient to do anything of real use! We should go back to working on flying cars, thats a real problem in the world today!"
Wouldn't those shitty little devices that broad cast your iPod over public radio waves so you can listen to it in your car fall into the same category? Unless something changed recently they weren't banned. I think they just sucked hard (low quality music), and were replaced by other technologies. They might even sell them if you looked for it. Yup they still exist.
Almost all anti-virus programs do not play well together. Nortan will yell at macafee while they're both yelling about AVG and all three of them will yell about combofix. Virus/Test is actually an industry wide standard string that if found will set off any anti-virus. In order for each of them to know what it is they have to have it stored someplace... which is one of the reasons why they'll yell and scream about eachother.
I went to a school about your size, just more recently. My graduating class was somewhere in the mid 700's. There was more than 2 levels of math and science. Granted there was only two with the same name, AP calc 2 and calc 2, or AP calc 1 and calc 1 etc. but not everyone even made it to calc1. By 12th grade students were spread out into any of the following math classes: Algebra 2, Algebra 2 AP, Pre-Calculus, Calc 1, AP Calc 1, Calc 2, or AP Calc2. Thats 7 different "senior" levels of math in a single highschool. If you're goal is just to graduate then Algebra 2 is where you finished. Depending on your academic ability and how far you really wanted to go you could be as much as 7 "levels" ahead of that by the time graduation rolled around. Thats not to say that you'd have to take the other 6 to make it to AP Calc2. The highest "path" you could take would look something like Alg 2AP -> Calc1 AP -> Calc2AP. But in order to do that you'd need to start Alg 1 in 7th grade (Alg1 in middle school was split into two years taking 7th and 8th grade to complete allowing you to go straight into geometry/trig your freshmen year in highschool, again this was optional and a "level" above what most 7th and 8th graders take, as well as 8th graders who took the first part of alg1 in order to breeze through it freshmen year). There was also summer school if you wanted to get ahead although that option wasn't very popular. Most kids I knew also jumped around different levels taking Alg 2 and Calc1 before taking AP Calc2 or say they took AP Calc 1 but not AP Calc2. It was surprisingly close to college where you're just told to take classes in these categories and this is how many years of these classes you had to take and certain classes require other classes to already have been taken or to be taken at the same time. Science and Math crossed paths like that a lot.
Science was pretty much the same but you could further specialize ending in a physics or chemistry path or a more basic level of both if you wanted and basic levels of each were required before graduation.
English had less options but still ended up with 4 different levels you could end up taking your senior year, one of those being a "college" level course taught by a professor that drove in from a community college 3 days a week. We didn't have anything called "social studies" past elementary. We had geography, poly sci-ish classes (not called that but the name escapes me and the subject was basically the same), history etc. They each had 3-4 levels you could end up with your senior year as well and again you could sort of 'specialize' in your favorite.
This is ~5 years ago in a public school in Texas. The district currently has 6 or 7 highschools all about the same size with the same curriculum. I think its 7 now, they keep building more and I dont live in the area anymore and my parents rarely talk to me about it. Also just like to point out that you calling into question someone elses experience, given he did say "most", as atypical is kind of funny seeing as how you only really have on view point to look from as well and it is admittedly ~20 years old if not closer to 30.
Moral of the story is things change, and public education across the US varies WILDLY in terms of quality and choices available.
Also just remembered that for each of those AP classes there was a "Pre-AP" version. So make that 3 sublevels for each level.
My old laptop had svideo out. My old TV had svideo in. I'm surprised its taken this long for people to realize they can hook their computer up to their TV to watch whatever they want.
1. DVI? Nearly (if not every) HD tv has one. If you don't have that then your tv should at least have s-video. Of course if somehow your computer doesn't even have s-video there are vga to svideo cables. They're like $5.
2. My grandparents don't even own only a single computer. Even if you do you could build another one for pretty cheap who's only function is to have 5TB of space and play HD videos. They sell computer cases for this exact purpose.
3. Can't really respond to this one because I'm not quite sure how your computer can't go 2h without error messages, programs crashing, the video card turning off (while playing a video) or screen savers coming on (again while playing a video).
4. Again if your internet connection goes down every 2h or so then agreed, this option isn't for you. In my experience however, when something happens that makes my DSL shit out, the cable shits out too. The times that each one of those goes out on their own due to some other problem, they dont last long and are very infrequent. They also seem to go out at about the same frequency which is almost never.
5. See point 2.
6. The remote controls your TV. It has nothing to do with which device your TV is receiving input from. If you're talking about being able to tell your computer from your couch which episode you wish to watch then that problem has been solved for a long long time. Computers have been taking wireless input for years, through mouses, keyboards, presentation clickers, TV remotes, wii controllers etc.
And for your final statement, I think the point the parent was trying to make was exactly what you said. It'll be a box and you'll buy from someplace else which you just plug your TV into. It'll be like a ps3 or xbox360 or tivo or a (newer) mac (let the foaming of the fan boy mouths begin), just a fancy box with PC parts inside. Or in other words, a PC.
I go to a university now that requires a VPN to login to their wireless network anywhere. Also required to VPN in if you want to access anything private from your home connection. They don't seem to have too many problems with it, actually none that I'm aware of but I'm sure there is some.
>>>>- Walmart has an *obligation* to replace those broken songs with working songs (or get sued by angry consumers).
Whats this obligation you speak of?
ianal but its perfectly legal for stores to have return policies such as "NO RETURNS NO EXCEPTIONS". buyer beware and what not. If you buy a toaster from a store like that and it breaks or is broken as soon as you get home you're shit out of luck.
I do believe stores have to follow their POSTED return policy but thats why stores put things in like "Must be new and unused and contain all original packaging" little catch alls in there. While that line won't prevent you from returning a toaster that didn't work in the first place, if you used it, even once, then they don't HAVE to take it back. Most stores do because they realize you're going to buy another $50 worth of useless shit while you're getting your new toaster but they don't HAVE to.
I'm not sure on the return policy Walmart has for its online music but I have a feeling its probably somewhere in the realm of "no returns". Even if it was a lenient as their posted in store policy they could always just slap you in the face with "its not new and unused." Not to mention most returns have a time limit. Usually in the realm of 30-60 days. Target is 90 and Walmart is 90 for most merchandise but they have exceptions for things like electronics and books which are considerably shorter. So anyone over whatever time limit Walmart deeps appropriate is sol as well.
If you do know of some weird rule/law that says stores MUST replace defective merchandise please let me know what it is.
Also if you're going to go try and lookup what the return policy is for walmarts online music downloads, you must use IE (which is why I couldn't check). Anything else and it tells you "We noticed you're not using IE blah blah blah come back with IE." Might be able to get around that by changing the reported browser but I can't be assed to do that. If they really wanted my money they'd let me use what I want to view their website.
You know both of my grandparents on one side of my family are very active, alert, and otherwise don't seem to be showing any signs of Alzheimer's or dementia. They also happen to own 50 cats. Following your logic it makes sense that the cats must be warding off these diseases!
You don't have to travel faster than the speed of light for time to slow down. Just faster relative to whatever you are comparing your time to. This was a problem with the initial launch of GPS as they didn't correct for it correctly and got some weird readings until they fixed it. Another way to slow down time is to be in a higher gravitational field relative to whatever you are measuring against.
They could possibly try to make the argument that this ID is also a drivers license. Although that would be stretching it, but it does seem sort of ridiculous to say we wont fund your highways if you wont agree to force people to wear seat belts as if the cost of a highway is in anyway related to the amount of adults wearing seat belts (Unless of course someone pulls of a law suet claiming it was the federal goverments problem for building a highway out of concrete and not fluffy pillows that lead to poor ol aunties death when she wasn't wearing her seat belt thus winning a lot of money and driving up the cost of the highway).
I must admit I have worked on a few simple cheats in my time for various games that were already hacked to shit by the time I got into it (read: I'm not bragging to be some super h4x0r, I'm just saying I have looked at and played with and edited code others have already written to implement features other people long before me had figured out) and I haven't seen a cheat in YEARS that simulated keyboard/mouse input. Maybe the old ogl hacks of counter-strike 1.x-1.5 because they didn't have access to the games engine itself but past that every hack out there has only used keyboard/mouse to let the user configure the cheat in game. In no way did it ever send keyboard/mouse events to the game to simulate play. Think about that for a second, how ridiculous would it be to say "the mouse moved to the left" "the mouse moved up" over and over again until the player was aiming at the head of other players. So many variations could throw that off and make it inaccurate such as mouse sensitivity and the number of function calls you'll need until the mouse is pointing at cord x,y on the screen your data of where the target players head is very likely out of date by now. Now instead you simply calculate the vector between you're pov and the enemies head in game without having to convert 3d vectors to 2d screen cords. Then make a single function call to change your view to that vector and one more to fire. No keyboard or mouse activity was simulated and the functions that were called are normally called AFTER the game has handled these inputs therefor already bypassing any check the game would make with Intel's anti-cheat. Intel: They didn't press anything Game: nope they did not. This is how cheats have been working for a LONG time now, Intel is about 10 years to late with this method. Instead developers should write their server's to not trust anything from a client and tell it nothing that it doesn't need to know. Even more recent games are guilty of this for example BF2/2142 tells you the location of EVERY PLAYER on the map, their health, their name, and a WHOLE LOT OF OTHER SHIT YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW. In addition to that BF2 and 2142 trust the player to know if they are commander, what team they are on, what squad they are in, and AS THE COMMANDER TO TIME THE USE OF THEIR OWN ASSETS. A simple *(*BYTE)(0xD3ADC0D3)=1 re-enables the assets with absolutely no check by the server to see if enough time has passed since they were last used. Cheating isn't going to stop anytime soon but you could at least stop making it easy. Punkbuster and VAC both failed from the get-go(cat and mouse games are forever lost). Games need to be designed from the ground up with the possibility of cheating in mind. This isn't a client problem, its a server problem.
It could be that this is a sort of *wink* in our direction but he can't take a strong stance on the issue yet because the RIAA and MPAA do have a lot of money and its that money that he either wants as part of his campaign or at least doesn't want it in someone else's campaign.
That said, and following what politicians are all alike from past experience I'd say its a good chance hes just throwing a bone so someone comes up with the above idea and votes for him regardless of how true it is.
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/2788 you can thank your bundled software for being vulnerable to these four http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/2738 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/2737 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/2580 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/2565 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/1186 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/1185 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3230 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3200 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3166 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3130 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3110 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3077 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3072 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3064 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/2700 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/1715 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/1712 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/1583 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/1545 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/799 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/770 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/759 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/758 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/391 I didnt look at the dates on the other ones, but I did notice all of these came out in the last month http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3219 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3181 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3173 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3167 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3151 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3136 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3130 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3110 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3088 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3087 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/2464 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/2463 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/2111 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/2108 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/2107 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/2106 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/1973 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/1962 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/1519 http://www.
Its actually amazing what you can get if you don't bitch at all. I work for a major retailer (not walmart) for a number of years, originally at the return desk and now a front end manager. I've transfered to three different stores over the years because I moved (from home to campus 1 then to campus 2) and all have treated people the same. When people come in with an attitude or start bitching you can believe that immediately they get the shaft. We (managers included) find what ever reason we can to tell them no and if they persist tell them to leave the store. On the other hand when people come in nice, calm, and understanding we will break the system (Most of us have worked there for years and believe me there is a way around just about everything) and try as hard as we can to give them what they want. I have a few friends that work at some other major retailers and they are even more abrasive to people who try to be the "bully customer". And before anyone thinks to question it, it is very easy to tell the difference between someone who is pissed because something didn't work the way they thought and those who are trying to bully.
Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act), as amended, prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings, and in other housing-related transactions, based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status (including children under the age of 18 living with parents of legal custodians, pregnant women, and people securing custody of children under the age of 18), and handicap (disability) So go ahead and discriminate against druggies slobs and people without jobs all you want. Discrimination isn't illegal unless its based on what is mentioned above. http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/FHLaws/
This isn't anything new. Its even main stream enough to have an entire chapter devoted to how to design and implement this in a root kit in a very popular book available through rootkit.com. The book was written mid 2005, and these guys are not the first to think of it by far.
Read the article next time, no where in it does it say it requires nanorust, its just simply more efficient. From the article itself "One kilogram of nanorust has the same surface area as a football field," says Colvin. "Basically, you can treat a whole lot more arsenic with less material."
While that would be really hilarious if it worked, I'd assume the DVD would tell the player "I'm a RFID DVD" and the player would go "But I cant read anything" and then give you a nasty error message.
The article said nothing about ss#'s
And if you must know these businesses usually keep this stuff on record for more than one reason which includes taxes (incase of an audit) returns (so they can put it back on the original credit card because it would be illegal to transfer the balance to another)
and believe it or not but some people do actually sign up to have their cc billed automatically everymonth.
And that the rover actually got back rock from the mars?
the rock in question is actually a metiorite(sp?) that fell in antartica, I dont believe we(humans) have ever brought anything back from mars, its a one way trip.
If some scientists believe there is life on mars, why try hard to disprove them?
Its part of the scientific process, nothing is considered fact even so called "Laws" its just not disproven yet. One of the other posts on here outlined the scienfic process in a really simplistic way, maybe look at that or google the scienfic process so you understand why its so important to attempt to disprove things. If you are to lazy for that or want the easy quick answer it basically comes down to this. If you never attempt to disprove something then you'd never know if it was really true or not. Lets say I have some evidence that supports my hypothesis that (just making stuff up dont flame for this) I am somehow genetically surperior to you, if you never attempt to disprove me how will you know if I am right? my evidence could very well suport that hypothesis but I could miss something that points in a totally different direction. This post is a lot longer than I originally intended so the end.
I would like to see your source for Sally Kristen Ride (born May 26, 1951) is a former astronaut and became the first woman to reach outer space, in 1983.s _who_level2/tereshkova.html
Everywhere I look (even on nasa's website) the first woman in space was Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. You can google it yourself or if you are lazy simply look here http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/who
The only posible conclusion I can come to as to where you got your quote is the wikipedia article for Sally Ride but even they got it right
Sally Kristen Ride (born May 26, 1951) is a former astronaut and became the first American woman to reach outer space, in 1983.
Nice how that one little word got left out of your quote.