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People are still stealing it like crazy. Here's a link for a Google search on the phrase "copper wire stolen" in the last two weeks. I know there are repeats but 36,400 results is still a lot.

It's not the military industrial complex anymore, it's the politico-legal-media complex. Fear sells.

"State of Fear" was widely decried as an anti-global warming spiel by Michael Crichton, but it was more about how politicians and the media use fear to sell us their product. It had some lame dialog, but it was a good book.

What? Many approaches didn't envision the cooling systems that you mention. They still turn out to not give any returns, at best, when studied closer.

How most of the flight must happen outside the atmosphere (which dumb rocket knows, getting the hell out of it as quickly as possible - while spaceplane you envisioned lingers), the basics of rocket equation / how spaceplane wastes lots of payload fraction for airframe - probably means things won't change significantly for a long time, except for some niche uses (like in this case, military)

Remember how the Shuttle was advertised? How it delivers? What actually turns out to be cheapest per launch? (and we barely tried mass production - basically only with very first widely used launcher)

Look at those airplanes (/. & unicode links) from "our" times, as envisioned ~130 years ago (and probably influenced by rapid advances in (sub?)marine technology) - we can build them! (take a Harrier, get rid of the wings and canopy). But strangely, we have settled on something quite different in concept, also when it comes to the mode of operation. Spaceplanes are a dream from scifi of the '40s and '50s (a lot of Shuttle designers probably raised on it...), fueled by rapid advances in airplane technology. But they are a bit analogous to flying boats - and not many those around nowadays (except, again, for very niche uses)

The Shuttle was generally a compromise between what is possible on one hand and fantasies on the other (many of them - so the "vision" itself was a compromise too) - plus, I guess, a lot of its designers raised on scifi from 1940s, partly '50s, which (no doubt influenced by rapid advances in aircraft technology) had lots of shiny spaceplanes, Buck Rogers style.

Similarly to those airplanes from "our" times (/. & unicode links...), as imagined ~130 years ago, no doubt influenced by rapid advances in (sub?)marine technology. I have difficulties finding similarities between them and this - and not merely technical, also in regards to the usage concept. We can build them! (take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy), doesn't change how they are a horrible idea. Not many flying boats around nowadays, too (not a bad analogy to what the Shuttle is, IMHO)

My old Canon S1IS had a 380mm equivalent lens on it http://goo.gl/jxdxu
and my present Panasonic ZS5 has a 300mm equivalent in a pretty small pocket camera.

Try here

1: Did we somehow escape the Archimedes' principle of buoyancy? I mean - come on, it's over two thousand years old, surely with our scientific and technological progress we should be able to build ships which are not constrained by it!

Problem is, people seem to assume (and wish) how our dreams from works of fiction should inevitably come true, if we only "work hard enough"... but Real World(tm) has practical limits; ignoring them won't do us any good (however pleasant it seems now to live beyond sustainability - though, truth be told, perhaps most of humanity lives on detritus already)

Just look at those airplanes from "our" times (/. & unicode links...), as imagined ~130 years ago (depiction no doubt influenced by rapid advances in (sub?)marine technology, capturing imagination of observers) - we can build them! (take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy), but it would be a horrible idea, at the least. Probably something similar gave us Shuttle (designers of which raised on scifi of ~1940s, inspired by rapid advances in aircraft technology & with lots of shiny spaceplanes) - which, in light of its purpose, is somewhat analogous to flying boats (not many those around nowadays)

2: http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm

Economic mobility != Social mobility
http://goo.gl/K8Pg

Hm, true (though also: lately /me semi-automatically assuming that an URL from Wiki might be non-ASCII / this one gave issues on /. recently...). At least surprise sort of fits with the content of the two above.

You're a fucking nigger. It had to be said.

Hm, true (though also: lately /me semi-automatically assuming that an URL from Wiki might be non-ASCII / this one gave issues on /. recently...). At least surprise sort of fits with the content of the two above.

Of course such place (or generally) was considered evil. Any day now?

Of course such place (or generally) was considered evil. Any day now?

One of the biggest selling points for DTrace is its scripting language. It is extremely powerful and you can find dtrace scripts shared by others that allow you to do very powerful system stats gathering (e.g. here) How about doing something similar for LTTng - you could even do something simple like Lua hooks for LTTng

Vickram Bedi and girlfriend Helga Invarsdottir

Indians among most corrupt while doing business abroad

There aren't hovercars but we're almost living in the future.

We're actually not that far away when it comes to hovercars either: DARPA's flying Humvee

seems like there was no shortages of GTX 580 reviews this morning

http://bit.ly/dlinFY
http://goo.gl/fmfJM

seems like there was no shortages of GTX 580 reviews this morning

http://bit.ly/dlinFY
http://goo.gl/fmfJM

http://managementsoftwares.org/: yeah true buddy

seems like there was no shortages of GTX 580 reviews this morning

http://bit.ly/dlinFY
http://goo.gl/fmfJM

seems like there was no shortages of GTX 580 reviews this morning

http://bit.ly/dlinFY
http://goo.gl/fmfJM

http://managementsoftwares.org/: yeah true buddy

seems like there was no shortages of GTX 580 reviews this morning http://bit.ly/dlinFY http://goo.gl/fmfJM

Dummy Democracy (because 99.99% people cannot vote their conscience) http://goo.gl/K8Pg and (Crony) Capitalism http://goo.gl/gcLHn within the context of Global Economy is not suitable and scalable.
Hope somebody finds a comprehensive solution for the World.

Dummy Democracy (because 99.99% people cannot vote their conscience) http://goo.gl/K8Pg and (Crony) Capitalism http://goo.gl/gcLHn within the context of Global Economy is not suitable and scalable.
Hope somebody finds a comprehensive solution for the World.

Google would have a better case to make if they had not threatened to block their content for facebook just yesterday. http://goo.gl/WyBJM (slashdot.org)

According to 18 USC 3553 the judge MUST consider the issue of disparate punishment. So the judge does. And does what he/she wants anyway.

It's a HUGE business, the prison industry, and it needs a steady flow of bodies, which it easily gets.

He allegedly "admitted" to what looks like ten counts or more, but since his special assessement was $200, he was only convicted of a single felony count. So, then, why ever would he have admitted anything else? That would be allocution, relevant conduct and further admitted behavior. When I plead out in February 2007, I admitted guilt on one count and all others were dismissed. I denied them (they were indeed false) and no one admits other behavior and gets done for one count.

According to the sentencing table, assuming this is his first offense, his offense was Level 22. He got a standard three-point reduction for admission of guilt and the judge gave him the low end of Level 19. He will do 87.5% of it, (no parole in feds) a little more than 26 months. He'll go to halfway house in 23.

But he will not go to a Camp. His relevant conduct will affect his custody, and he will probably go to a Low (basically a Medium with cubicles instead of cells), perhaps even FCI Elkton in Ohio where I was. Not fun.

My suspicion is whether he really admitted all those other counts, or this is journalistic excess.

Sorry, link is http://goo.gl/CoIcB

He allegedly "admitted" to what looks like ten counts or more, but since his special assessement was $200, he was only convicted of a single felony count. So, then, why ever would he have admitted anything else? That would be allocution, relevant conduct and further admitted behavior. When I plead out in February 2007, I admitted guilt on one count and all others were dismissed. I denied them (they were indeed false) and no one admits other behavior and gets done for one count.

According to the sentencing table, assuming this is his first offense, his offense was Level 22. He got a standard three-point reduction for admission of guilt and the judge gave him the low end of Level 19. He will do 87.5% of it, (no parole in feds) a little more than 26 months. He'll go to halfway house in 23.

But he will not go to a Camp. His relevant conduct will affect his custody, and he will probably go to a Low (basically a Medium with cubicles instead of cells), perhaps even FCI Elkton in Ohio where I was. Not fun.

My suspicion is whether he really admitted all those other counts, or this is journalistic excess.

Sorry, link is http://goo.gl/CoIcB

He allegedly "admitted" to what looks like ten counts or more, but since his special assessement was $200, he was only convicted of a single felony count. So, then, why ever would he have admitted anything else? That would be allocution, relevant conduct and further admitted behavior. When I plead out in February 2007, I admitted guilt on one count and all others were dismissed. I denied them (they were indeed false) and no one admits other behavior and gets done for one count.

According to the sentencing table, assuming this is his first offense, his offense was Level 22. He got a standard three-point reduction for admission of guilt and the judge gave him the low end of Level 19. He will do 87.5% of it, (no parole in feds) a little more than 26 months. He'll go to halfway house in 23.

But he will not go to a Camp. His relevant conduct will affect his custody, and he will probably go to a Low (basically a Medium with cubicles instead of cells), perhaps even FCI Elkton in Ohio where I was. Not fun.

My suspicion is whether he really admitted all those other counts, or this is journalistic excess.

Unless something was not the best idea in the first place, and even worse implementation (did the Shuttle deliver on any of its main points, as advertised?)

60s, 70s...its designers probably raised on scifi with a whole lot of spaceplanes - no doubt influenced by huge airplane advances in the 40s. Which differed quite a lot from those 130 year old depiction of "our" times (/. & links with unicode...), apparently influenced by rapid advances in (sub?)marine technology. We can build them (take a Harrier, remove wings and canopy), but it doesn't make those past dreams a good idea. Not a lot flying boats around nowadays, too.

He meant bold-faced lie, not bald-faced. See here for proof: http://goo.gl/GOShs (it's a google-fight link in case I mistyped it).

Except if you put the phrases in quotes... then "bald-faced lie" wins.
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22bald-faced+lie%22&word2=%22bold-faced+lie%22

Since I'm not sure if the parent was a joke or not, I won't bother finding a credible source.

Today that is only possible with airplanes - http://goo.gl/d5W7 (nytimes)
The distinction is blurring perhaps

What's the problem? Can't Facebook get attract good developers the regular way anymore? Hmm. Maybe all the smart ones know Zuckerberg is a jerk and the company culture is rendered uninhabitable by the swarms of junior-grade developers writing junior-grade PHP, and demand more money than they could negotiate this way.

On this topic, an Australian newspaper article about devs leaving Google for Facebook

link here

My ISP caps me to 2 GB/month and 10$ per GB for overuse

While it doesn't have the guns, it won't be hard to mount them there

Dude you should join my IE6 supporters group. It's a community that's pressuring Microsoft to continue support for IE6.

Come on, the law is so weird, it has to be real. Fiction has to make sense.

An example: ever hear of Relevant Conduct? I've talked about this before. Here's the scenario: you get caught with a small bag of weed. You get arrested. While being booked some Fed sees you and says "hey! Aren't you the guy who mowed down all those nuns and orphans with an AK at McDonald's last week?" You deny it, but he's sure and you are charged with mass murder. You go to trial, and win. You are found not guilty after two minutes of deliberation. There was no evidence and the witness said it wasn't you.

But since the McDonald's was in another state, the case is federal, and you get six months for the weed. Think you'll do it in some easy Club Fed? No way, you have mass murder as relevant conduct. I am not kidding: your custody can be affected by dismissed or acquitted charges. You have been found not guilty, but it's on your Pre-Sentence Investigation and the Bureau of Prisons will send you to a much tougher place: after all, you're a murderer! So, you go to a USP, and are dead in a week.

As I've posted, I recently did five years in the feds, and rather than be close to my home in a Camp, I was sent to a disciplinary FCI as far away as they could send me, due to charges which were dismissed. The xBox thing does not surprise me in the least...there is so much bad law on the books, which is one reason we have so many people in jail.

When I was a kid, oh, those many decades ago, there was a radio observatory just outside of town where they discovered this "microwave background pattern of the universe" thing. It was, roughly, here. They called it "Project Orion" back then - though I understand the name has been appropriated since. The site itself was called "Big Ears on the Desert." I have no idea if it's still there. The last time I was there was over 20 years ago, and I wandered about an empty campus for a couple hours and went home. (It was a holiday weekend. The computers were still humming, the dishes were still tracking. I overcame my innate urge to geek on the console.)

The guys from there did come into town now and then. They were a talkative bunch. Full of ideas and theories, and "but don't tell." They had great computers, and I hoped to work with them, but it was not to be. They had visitors from all the tech world - I met a guy on the design team for the Straw Man implementation of ADA there. IIRC I stole his girlfriend. Fun times.

If you get out that way, let us know how it went. If anybody knows the answer to this question, they do.

Actually, while reading the comments on the article, I found this rather amazing link to a "street view" care of Google that lets you walk right through there from the comfort of your own PC terminal.

Do I see the aligned object on the right days of the year?

Actually, while reading the comments on the article, I found this rather amazing link to a "street view" care of Google that lets you walk right through there from the comfort of your own PC terminal.

A much better writeup can be found here

Sorry, Rëndsfleesch.

In Luxembourg the site to leave church is called www.fraiheet.lu which translates to 'Freedom'.

Yeah, these sites used to be big during the debate about euthanasia and about the Grand Duke's constitutional veto powers. Another site is Rëndsfleesch, which translates to 'beef'.

What's the difference between an Iraqian and a Norvegian?

Answer: it would be quite unusual if the only victim of an IED would be an Iraqian... Iraqians tend to know their country, and which roads are dangerous. Apparently this Norvegian still needs to learn about the weird critters that live under the bridges of his beautiful country ...

They still live under bridges...

You mipselled beef

I saw this when I picked up the paper and after having a good laugh wrote up my thoughts.

It would be very difficult to entertain the illusion of privacy on the web. You would immeditly strip half the comfort code that is build in by disabling JavaScript and Cookies. Local storage (and others) does little, if anything, to reduce that hit.

Teach like in the olden days

...is that he's connected to Bayer, maker of pesticides, whose confirmed bee-killing effects were notably absent from this study. It's described in detail here (CNN.com).

Since we are calling names.. I call google (NSFW) to the rescue. ;)

At least for medical, they already exist. Dental too.

At least for medical, they already exist. Dental too.

At least for medical, they already exist. Dental too.