If the NATO countries really cared for the Libyan people then they would have killed that asshole DECADES ago.
And why would they care so much about the Libyan people and not the Syrian people? Might it be because Syria is not a significant source of oil? Does your media even report what is happening in Syria today? (and for the past half year)
A trial would have been a farce. How can you try a dictator in the heat of battle, especially in a nation where the very same dictator had destroyed civil society?
I don't marginalize Gaddafi's brutality, but Libya was freer six months ago than it will ever be again. Do you have any idea what is becoming of "free" Egypt today?
What's the best platform for my project that Tivo-izes Linux?
Right, anyone who makes money with Linux is evil. He should use Windows Mobile instead, right, because there is no chance of his publishing his changes and others using them on similar hardware? Hint: the GPL ensures that the changes will be public and he's going to be using COTS hardware.
A) This is different than x-ray because it is using the reflection, not a film or detector on the other side of the object.
C) The image created is not a 3D image like what you would expect if the wall were glass, instead it detects distance to objects. So what you get is like a overhead map, as if you were playing Zelda and or had the Harry Potter marauder's map. Which may be more useful in some situations.
B) Somebody uses a Dvorak keyboard!
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I don't know the power of the apparatus being tested in the article, but the person walking around was behind a wall, which reduces the dose to 1%.
Which is still 100 times larger than is needed for regular detecting equipment, as the "dose" needs to cross the wall again. So the "other side" dose is still significantly strong.
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Eh? As you said, it's non-ionizing. The heat is the radiation damage.
Sounds more like a feature than a bug. Remember: military applications.
But I cannot see myself on a train, working for an hour literally on the back of my hand. I would probably still want a flat, white, sturdy surface to work on.
The problem is that MS gives it's products very generic names (Office, Media Player) and therefore hijacks the terms. How many people know that _other_ office suits even exist? Surface, isn't that a Microsoft innovation?
As the mall has provided me no contract with which to agree or disagree, they do not have the right to know where I am by tracking my mobile phone movements within the premises, regardless of their motives.
Then stop broadcasting it. Or does that argument only apply to SSID-broadcasting open routers?
1) Behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.
2) Strength of emotion or an unpleasant or destructive natural force.
You are right, there is an esoteric definition of the word "violence" which does not constitute physical harm. I find that interesting, and I thank you for the education.
Agreed. To paraphrase Stallman, once Stallman is dead, I'll be sorry that he is dead, but glad that he is gone.
Actually, Stallman _did_ in a roundabout way imply that he is glad that Jobs is dead. Steve Jobs was "gone" last month when he quit Apple (and presumably Pixar), but RMS kept his mouth shut then. Only now that Steve is dead does he open his mouth.
Abusing one's moderation power to cover up someone's opinion on the other hand is an act of violence.
No, Gaza shooting rockets at my house all this year is an act of violence. You seem to live in a nice, peaceful bubble where the worst that happens in your life is someone censoring your slashdot comment. If censoring a slashdot comment equates to violence for you, then thank your lucky stars that you don't live downwind of Islamic fundamentalists who sacrifice their own people in order to kill infidels like me and my children.
What about people who have their emails automatically filed through filters (like Sieve on the IMAP server) and search them when they need to? Their productivity must the through the roof.
Those are the people who value their time, and thus did answer the survey.
I don't know about that. I've had to swear off some places for less than a dollar for sure. The Amazon rep didn't know that I'd go on/. telling about the incident, in fact, I'm surprised that the rep had the authority to do what he did at all.
Too young to have experienced the joys of modem connections?
I used to do the adat connection by hand on my commodore. I probably should have said that he wouldn't have pressed Preview, waited, then pressed Submit. In any case, the joke is from Monty Python: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiT_5cr3tYI
Before Google Apps Engine had an edge with its free plans, but why would anyone seriously use it now when there are much more capable Amazon cloud and Microsoft Azure available?
The Amazon cloud offerings win on more than just specs. I have a Paypal credit card, but I don't live in the US. Thus, getting the physical plastic card to me is a hassle as I have to route it through someone in the US. That means that I've now been without my card for two months, and my Amazon bill has gone unpaid. When I got the "we're going to shut you down if you don't pay" letter, I wrote back explaining the situation and asked that they defer my payment until November with interest.
How did Amazon handle that? They didn't defer my payment: they waived it outright! Granted that I've been a customer since almost the beginning and these charges were for under a dollar at my current usage level, however, what other company would go that far? Amazon has won itself a customer for life and I'm more than happy to spread the goodwill that they've demonstrated.
Would Microsoft waive two months payment? Would Google? At their own initiative, after the customer asked only for deferment?
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If the NATO countries really cared for the Libyan people then they would have killed that asshole DECADES ago.
And why would they care so much about the Libyan people and not the Syrian people? Might it be because Syria is not a significant source of oil? Does your media even report what is happening in Syria today? (and for the past half year)
A trial would have been a farce. How can you try a dictator in the heat of battle, especially in a nation where the very same dictator had destroyed civil society?
What? Libya was one of the most free countries in the world, have you ever head of direct democracy? I think that only Switzerland and Finland come close:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamahiriya#Transition_to_the_Jamahiriya
I don't marginalize Gaddafi's brutality, but Libya was freer six months ago than it will ever be again. Do you have any idea what is becoming of "free" Egypt today?
What's the best platform for my project that Tivo-izes Linux?
Right, anyone who makes money with Linux is evil. He should use Windows Mobile instead, right, because there is no chance of his publishing his changes and others using them on similar hardware? Hint: the GPL ensures that the changes will be public and he's going to be using COTS hardware.
Two points:
A) This is different than x-ray because it is using the reflection, not a film or detector on the other side of the object.
C) The image created is not a 3D image like what you would expect if the wall were glass, instead it detects distance to objects. So what you get is like a overhead map, as if you were playing Zelda and or had the Harry Potter marauder's map. Which may be more useful in some situations.
B) Somebody uses a Dvorak keyboard!
I don't know the power of the apparatus being tested in the article, but the person walking around was behind a wall, which reduces the dose to 1%.
Which is still 100 times larger than is needed for regular detecting equipment, as the "dose" needs to cross the wall again. So the "other side" dose is still significantly strong.
Eh? As you said, it's non-ionizing. The heat is the radiation damage.
Sounds more like a feature than a bug. Remember: military applications.
Yes, I was corroborating your observation!
Now we just have to wait for Apple to patent the concept of using this on a rectangular surface with rounded edges.
http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-10-18/
The idea is that you could have a touch panel on the back of your phone (or whatever) that could respond to gestures while it's still in your pocket.
Like this guy?
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/15/0055242/us-bishop-charged-for-not-reporting-priests-child-porn-to-police
But I cannot see myself on a train, working for an hour literally on the back of my hand. I would probably still want a flat, white, sturdy surface to work on.
You see, that would be the back of _my_ hand!
And I'm pretty sure when apple releases a similar device in a few years time, people will think they invented it, too.
Why not, the MS fanbois did too:
http://what-is-what.com/what_is/microsoft_surface.html
The problem is that MS gives it's products very generic names (Office, Media Player) and therefore hijacks the terms. How many people know that _other_ office suits even exist? Surface, isn't that a Microsoft innovation?
Privately owned, yet, but still a public space.
As the mall has provided me no contract with which to agree or disagree, they do not have the right to know where I am by tracking my mobile phone movements within the premises, regardless of their motives.
Then stop broadcasting it. Or does that argument only apply to SSID-broadcasting open routers?
WTF is up with companies these days who think they can track everywhere you go and everything you do?
What ever happened to "no expectation of privacy in public" or other such slogans? Or does that only apply to police and other public servants?
(real question, not troll, though I will be modded as such for abandoning the /. groupthink)
I don't think that will compile without including stdio.
And they plan to launch it with which man-rated rocket?
Noun:
1) Behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.
2) Strength of emotion or an unpleasant or destructive natural force.
You are right, there is an esoteric definition of the word "violence" which does not constitute physical harm. I find that interesting, and I thank you for the education.
Agreed. To paraphrase Stallman, once Stallman is dead, I'll be sorry that he is dead, but glad that he is gone.
Actually, Stallman _did_ in a roundabout way imply that he is glad that Jobs is dead. Steve Jobs was "gone" last month when he quit Apple (and presumably Pixar), but RMS kept his mouth shut then. Only now that Steve is dead does he open his mouth.
Abusing one's moderation power to cover up someone's opinion on the other hand is an act of violence.
No, Gaza shooting rockets at my house all this year is an act of violence. You seem to live in a nice, peaceful bubble where the worst that happens in your life is someone censoring your slashdot comment. If censoring a slashdot comment equates to violence for you, then thank your lucky stars that you don't live downwind of Islamic fundamentalists who sacrifice their own people in order to kill infidels like me and my children.
What about people who have their emails automatically filed through filters (like Sieve on the IMAP server) and search them when they need to? Their productivity must the through the roof.
Those are the people who value their time, and thus did answer the survey.
Amazon knows how to keep customers.
That is why I like dealing with them!
I don't know about that. I've had to swear off some places for less than a dollar for sure. The Amazon rep didn't know that I'd go on /. telling about the incident, in fact, I'm surprised that the rep had the authority to do what he did at all.
Too young to have experienced the joys of modem connections?
I used to do the adat connection by hand on my commodore. I probably should have said that he wouldn't have pressed Preview, waited, then pressed Submit. In any case, the joke is from Monty Python:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiT_5cr3tYI
Before Google Apps Engine had an edge with its free plans, but why would anyone seriously use it now when there are much more capable Amazon cloud and Microsoft Azure available?
The Amazon cloud offerings win on more than just specs. I have a Paypal credit card, but I don't live in the US. Thus, getting the physical plastic card to me is a hassle as I have to route it through someone in the US. That means that I've now been without my card for two months, and my Amazon bill has gone unpaid. When I got the "we're going to shut you down if you don't pay" letter, I wrote back explaining the situation and asked that they defer my payment until November with interest.
How did Amazon handle that? They didn't defer my payment: they waived it outright! Granted that I've been a customer since almost the beginning and these charges were for under a dollar at my current usage level, however, what other company would go that far? Amazon has won itself a customer for life and I'm more than happy to spread the goodwill that they've demonstrated.
Would Microsoft waive two months payment? Would Google? At their own initiative, after the customer asked only for deferment?
Even activity on such a subversive site as Slashdot is being ... hold on, doorbell
NO CARRIER
If he was really caught, he wouldn't have taken the time to type NO CARRIER. Maybe he was dictating?