Merging RL with another world: I'd really like to be able to for instance merge RL with Second Life and make it so that somebody from SL can virtually sit near me and appear to be there.
You thought people talking to "themselves" on cellphones was bad now...
I believe the pattern barcode scanners use is simply trying to look for the barcode in several different directions, but I could be wrong.
I also believe there's either rudimentary correction for common types of distortion (i.e. on cylindrical objects) or just wide enough tolerances to allow it to work anyways.
IANAL, so take this entire post with a grain of salt.
but I believe that the US Supreme Court could only rule that a given law is or is not unconstitutional, according to the US Constitution. If they do rule something as unconsitutional, it effectively nullifies any convictions/etc that were a result of the that law IIRC.
States are permitted to grant additional rights beyond those granted by the US Constitution, but cannot take anything away. In this particular case, since the suspect was protected by a provision in the State Constitution, and states are permitted to grant said freedoms, it's highly unlikely there's an angle that could be played to claim that that provision of the state constitution is unconstitutional according to the federal constitution.
The flipside of this is that the legal precedent here only really applies in New York -- states that don't have a similar law might be able to get away with it (at which point another case could be filed and presumably make it all the way up to SCOTUS as a federal constitutional matter)
Note that if the NY Court had said the Police COULD track the suspect with the GPS, the suspect would have the option of appealing to SCOTUS... and if the judge's ruling was based on the federal constitution (jurisdiction of SCOTUS) rather than the state one, the police could appeal to SCOTUS too.
Even though it doesn't appear on the list, I have it on good authority that they are also researching a communications network technology based on a series of tubes...
Considering that your shell would treat 'firefox' and 'foo.html' as separate cmdline arguments since you didn't escape the space or wrap it in quotes, nothing.
The owner of an ATM generally trusts whoever is in charge of maintaining it (usually an employee or a contractor), and assumes that they won't tell the machine it has $5 bills when it really has $20s and output 4 times as much money as it should and that the maintainer won't tamper with it to try to alter the records of how much money was withdrawn so they can pocket the difference.
The owner of the bank account also trusts the ATM to not take more money than it says its taken, and to take it from the correct account. Also worth noting, ATMs do have a verified paper trail (there's a receipt at the end of the transaction.)
Of course, ATMs aren't infallible either -- I had one crash in the middle of a withdraw once -- deducting $60 from an account without actually giving me the money. The second attempt actually ended up overdrafting my account, but the bank fixed it.:)
This is somewhat the premise of 'high deductible' health plans, and is very similar to how they work.
You still get the insurance company's contracted rate, but most of the money is coming out-of-pocket. Furthermore, the money you pay may be tax-deductible.
And, in the event that you do need some expensive procedure (i.e. something you may not be able to afford even with a Health Savings Account), you'll likely hit the deductible.
(Disclaimer: IANAAccountant, but my wife works at a bank, we have a HSA, and we are on a high deductible plan ourselves.)
I've sent e-mails without ever touching a keyboard - Vista Voice makes that pretty easy to do.
I don't want to be around when the executive order reading "Dear aunt, letâ(TM)s set so double the killer delete select all" causes an international incident.
Chris Metzen is primarily in charge of organizing lore in WoW. "Every quest that is proposed during the game's development, no matter how small, must first be validated by Metzen, as well."
Unencrypted protocols still have perfectly valid uses. Should we really waste CPU overhead (encryption is time-consuming) and bandwidth (it usually adds some overhead, I believe) to download a 250MB hey_the_game_really_works_now___patch_1_02.exe which is freely downloadable for anyone?
I would never be able to bike to work and not offend people.
Is there a secret trick?
Disclaimer: I don't bike (but I want to.)
From what I've heard, it's not the sweat itself that stinks but something like the waste products from the bacteria that 'eat' the sweat. So you bike to work, hit a bathroom, and towel yourself off and change into work clothes, and nobody will be able to tell... supposedly.
[...]Transport Tycoon didn't start (and after using some player-made patch it had black spots and occasional blackouts)
TTD Patch works fine for me in XP, though I took a liking to Open TTD instead. OpenTTD is a complete replacement (i.e. written from the ground up), rather than patches for the EXE file.
My mother-in-law actually has a computer chair that was somehow fabricated from a semi-truck seat, but I don't know the details of how exactly she came to acquire it.
Think car seats and then think one that's specifically designed for someone who will be driving 12+ hours a day.
I apologize then, as I was making a relatively general assumption and it apparently is not valid.
I would further assume that my explanation is the reason it is illegal, though it is not necessarily the reason it should be.
Solar panels are fairly expensive. Not to mention the fact they tend to not be very effective at night, and are less effective in cloudy weather. Both of those problems can be solved by massive batteries, but that's even more expensive and possibly hazardous if something goes wrong. Add on wind storms and the possibility of debris hitting a roof and damaging the panels...
Plus, in say an apartment complex (or a larger home), you have a lower ratio of surface area for solar panels vs interior volume. (I'm just assuming this is an issue here, and you know what they say about the word "assume").
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You thought people talking to "themselves" on cellphones was bad now...
I believe the pattern barcode scanners use is simply trying to look for the barcode in several different directions, but I could be wrong.
I also believe there's either rudimentary correction for common types of distortion (i.e. on cylindrical objects) or just wide enough tolerances to allow it to work anyways.
IANAL, so take this entire post with a grain of salt.
but I believe that the US Supreme Court could only rule that a given law is or is not unconstitutional, according to the US Constitution. If they do rule something as unconsitutional, it effectively nullifies any convictions/etc that were a result of the that law IIRC.
States are permitted to grant additional rights beyond those granted by the US Constitution, but cannot take anything away. In this particular case, since the suspect was protected by a provision in the State Constitution, and states are permitted to grant said freedoms, it's highly unlikely there's an angle that could be played to claim that that provision of the state constitution is unconstitutional according to the federal constitution.
The flipside of this is that the legal precedent here only really applies in New York -- states that don't have a similar law might be able to get away with it (at which point another case could be filed and presumably make it all the way up to SCOTUS as a federal constitutional matter)
Note that if the NY Court had said the Police COULD track the suspect with the GPS, the suspect would have the option of appealing to SCOTUS... and if the judge's ruling was based on the federal constitution (jurisdiction of SCOTUS) rather than the state one, the police could appeal to SCOTUS too.
Do you mean TiSP?
Considering that your shell would treat 'firefox' and 'foo.html' as separate cmdline arguments since you didn't escape the space or wrap it in quotes, nothing.
This is not YRO. This did not happen online.
It's been argued numerous times in the past that "YRO" means "Your rights, discussed online" not "Your online rights."
I subscribe to the former school of thought myself.
And if you're the Oracle, you remove users with ZOT
The owner of an ATM generally trusts whoever is in charge of maintaining it (usually an employee or a contractor), and assumes that they won't tell the machine it has $5 bills when it really has $20s and output 4 times as much money as it should and that the maintainer won't tamper with it to try to alter the records of how much money was withdrawn so they can pocket the difference.
The owner of the bank account also trusts the ATM to not take more money than it says its taken, and to take it from the correct account. Also worth noting, ATMs do have a verified paper trail (there's a receipt at the end of the transaction.)
Of course, ATMs aren't infallible either -- I had one crash in the middle of a withdraw once -- deducting $60 from an account without actually giving me the money. The second attempt actually ended up overdrafting my account, but the bank fixed it. :)
I know someone who does just that with a ceiling-mounted InFocus projector and a mirror to aim it down at a table.
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.
This is an outdated model. Nowadays, it's Fear, Uncertainty, and Debt
Do you believe it is possible for one side of the transaction to be happy while the other side is not?
Thanks for being prompt with giving me your $50. Here, let me send this absolute piece of crap that doesn't even work.
Happy seller, not so happy buyer.
This is somewhat the premise of 'high deductible' health plans, and is very similar to how they work.
You still get the insurance company's contracted rate, but most of the money is coming out-of-pocket. Furthermore, the money you pay may be tax-deductible.
And, in the event that you do need some expensive procedure (i.e. something you may not be able to afford even with a Health Savings Account), you'll likely hit the deductible.
(Disclaimer: IANAAccountant, but my wife works at a bank, we have a HSA, and we are on a high deductible plan ourselves.)
I've sent e-mails without ever touching a keyboard - Vista Voice makes that pretty easy to do.
I don't want to be around when the executive order reading "Dear aunt, letâ(TM)s set so double the killer delete select all" causes an international incident.
Chris Metzen is primarily in charge of organizing lore in WoW. "Every quest that is proposed during the game's development, no matter how small, must first be validated by Metzen, as well."
Unencrypted protocols still have perfectly valid uses. Should we really waste CPU overhead (encryption is time-consuming) and bandwidth (it usually adds some overhead, I believe) to download a 250MB hey_the_game_really_works_now___patch_1_02.exe which is freely downloadable for anyone?
But it's right there!
Do people just not sweat or something?
I would never be able to bike to work and not offend people.
Is there a secret trick?
Disclaimer: I don't bike (but I want to.)
From what I've heard, it's not the sweat itself that stinks but something like the waste products from the bacteria that 'eat' the sweat. So you bike to work, hit a bathroom, and towel yourself off and change into work clothes, and nobody will be able to tell... supposedly.
I'm pretty sure a flying XBOX controller aimed precisely at your roommate's head would classify as a 'weapon'.
Some quick Googling found this site, which has a Zenburn scheme for VS2005.
I have no idea whether it works for earlier/later versions of VS though.
Posting to cancel accidental moderation.
My mother-in-law actually has a computer chair that was somehow fabricated from a semi-truck seat, but I don't know the details of how exactly she came to acquire it.
Think car seats and then think one that's specifically designed for someone who will be driving 12+ hours a day.
It's quite comfortable to sit in.
I apologize then, as I was making a relatively general assumption and it apparently is not valid. I would further assume that my explanation is the reason it is illegal, though it is not necessarily the reason it should be.
The difference is that those movies don't exploit minors during production.
By making child porn illegal, you reduce the demand for it and thus reduce the supply as well.
Solar panels are fairly expensive. Not to mention the fact they tend to not be very effective at night, and are less effective in cloudy weather. Both of those problems can be solved by massive batteries, but that's even more expensive and possibly hazardous if something goes wrong. Add on wind storms and the possibility of debris hitting a roof and damaging the panels... Plus, in say an apartment complex (or a larger home), you have a lower ratio of surface area for solar panels vs interior volume. (I'm just assuming this is an issue here, and you know what they say about the word "assume").