Uh...there are lots of telcos in Australia that will give you ADSL2+. I'm living in little ol' Adelaide and I can get ADSL2+ http://www.internode.on.net/.
I'm going to assume we're talking about U.S. courts. Care to cite the law you believe gives a manufacturer the right to dictate what I do with their product after I purchase it?
DMCA.
Has this guy recently spent some time legally dead for tax reasons?
Just come down under and borrow ours. No one here uses it for fear of inciting the omgnuclearpowereviljohnhowardbushblairwarcriminals bringinnocentdavidhickshomebanthenetespslashdotoil isevileivlevil! crowd.
Most Airbus planes have reversing cams, that let you see out the back of the plane from your seat.
That said, the pilot couldn't have seen it from 5 nm (9.26km, for the non-plane nut/.ers), and to my knowledge, commercial airliners don't carry radar to pick up that sort of stuff. They carry weather and transponder radar, not the fancy military radar you'd need to detect flying pieces of metal in the sky.
This story smell like something the fools at airliners.net would drag up. Chili? Russion! Seriously, slashdot is really going downhill recently...
Matthew Reilly published a book online, for free: Hover Car Racer. It still sold plenty of copies when it got to the bookstores and Matt's still rolling around in a DeLorean. And a Lotus.
The point is, give people a bite, or even a whole serving, and if they like it, they'll come back for the next course.
Any decent sci-fi should have at least a basing in science (the sci-): and then 'jazz it up' a bit to appeal to the non-PhD holding reader. For example, I recall using a sci-fi film as an introduction to Genetics and the issue of ethics in science. Our teacher made it clear that it was a work of fiction, but the point was to get us thinking about the topic. I think the tactic worked pretty well.
Of course, there is also heaps of 'Popular Science' out there, which is as easy to read as sci-fi and more informative. Personally, I recommend Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, but if you want something more Biology, anything by Jarred Diamond (Guns, Germs and Steel, The Third Chimpanzee, etc) is excellent.
Joining the Navy: If you're an in the Reserve you could probably transfer and work on ships or something. Sounds like a natural progression of what you want to do: and it offers job security.
...and their pet goldfish, for not stopping the acts of piracy committed by the aid children, despite being in full view of the illegal activities 24-7. I think we need to ban goldfish.
Next thing you know they'll try and shut down slashdot because sometimes people browse slashdot and listen to fileshared music at the same time! The horror! Arrest CmdrTaco! Burn the servers! Make sure the children are safe!
I respect your point of view, but I disagree. The US military can whip anyone they want, but that would reflect *very* badly on them.
Vietnam was always unwinable. Iraq is unwinable. But not because the US military is not capable of winning them. The US could have won 'Nam. It would have involved destroying the North pretty much totally, and large parts of the south. If you're gonna fight the war, fight it properly. Fight to win. Or don't bother in the first place. The only way we can 'win' iraq is to pound it into the ground.
On the Book: Maybe it's right wing propaganda, but it's well citied and makes a decent point. But please, I've read at least ten books on 'Nam that some would class as left-wing propaganda. I don't, because as long it's well citied and accurate, I'll read it and make up my own mind. I agree that Vietnam and Iraq are unwinable. But I disagree that it's because the US can't win them militarily. The US can't win Iraq because they a) they will never let their military of a tight leash and b) they have a lost the war PR wise. With the US military budget at what it is, if they can't pound a country into the dirt know and them, why not spend the money on (gasp) hospitals or education!
The US, to put it bluntly, kicked ass in Vietnam. They annihilated the Vietcong, and throughly defeated the NVA. It was said (by the North Vietnamese, none the less) that the NVA needed 9-10 battalions to defeat one US one. The US didn't lose Vietnam. The US Army didn't 'fail to understand the situation'. Who 'failed to understand the situation' where the campus protesters. Incidentally, the more prestigious the college, the more anti-war it was. Just like your typically 'no-blood-for-oil' teenager today, most of them didn't have a clue what was actually happening over there. They didn't know anyone who had been drafted, because all their mates used college to get deferrals.
What lost the war in Vietnam was public opinion and political hamstrings, caused by ill-informed media coverage. The US shouldn't have gone into a war they couldn't have won. Militarily, we could have won Vietnam and Iraq. But wars aren't fought on the battlefields anymore, they are fought in the public's minds. And these days you just can sell a war that isn't going to involve danger to the public. No one cares what happens in Iraq or Vietnam, just as long as it doesn't come here. The media these days doesn't tell the truth about the war, they tell what ever will get people tuning in and selling them ads.
Note: I'm not a redneck hick. I'm not even American. I base most of my facts from an book called Unheralded Victory, by Mark Woodruff (ISBN 0-00-472540-9). I recommend it to all with even a passing interest in Vietnam.
Hopeful he'll start a walk towards Washington with a mission to ban all forms of electrical entertainment. Y'know, with the support RV and everything.
I need a good laugh.
And Inquisitor, and Battlefleet gothic....etc
Practically all the specialist games use odd dice, but the regular ones (40k FB, LOTR) use D6's and the odd scatter/artillery dice. Which you can make if you're good.
If eradicating the botnet problem is what you want to do, a far better solution would be if someone were to write a virus/trojan/worm/whatever that used all the latest Windows exploits for the sole purpose of infecting a machine, hanging around long enough to spread to other machines, and then just fucking formatted every last writable disk drive to which it had access. Preferably this would be a cryptographically secure wipe and not a regular format, so that the data could not be recovered. This would be the biggest favor anyone could do for the Internet.
And you can just see a GIF of rms as the last image before 'format c' is activated:
So at what level do they stop believing? When a previously unexplained phenonma is explain, do they do a 360 and state that what they had said had been the work of God for all their lives is now explained by science? Sounds kinda hypocritical to me.
I'm assuming so, but you could just show up with the Linux kernel or the Firefox source.
Failing that, grab the FreeBSD source code and change all the varible names to some version of 'foobar'
As I recall, he did not mention ever having worked with aircraft avionics equipment before, he was just an ordinary computer expert from Silicon Valley. They did not have radio contact with any experts on the ground and did not have access to any wiring diagrams or manuals. How likely is it that he would have been able grab some bundle of wires and within several hours get them hooked up and working with some program on his computer? Would those be some common type of wires using some common protocols that are well know outside the aviation industry? Perhaps he might have had to quickly use some boolean algebra to reverse engineer what the circuits were doing and then within several hours quickly write, debug and compile some C++ code and interface that with a flight simulator or game program on his computer. He is good! Bah. Haven't you used FlightGear? The hardware input/output system is so good you proably just shove a bunch of power cables linked to the toliet lights into a USB port and be able to fly the plane!
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Uh...there are lots of telcos in Australia that will give you ADSL2+. I'm living in little ol' Adelaide and I can get ADSL2+ http://www.internode.on.net/.
DMCA.
Has this guy recently spent some time legally dead for tax reasons?
This is just a tad late: Ulteo has been around for a while. The first time I heard it was in back in Nov 06.
Just come down under and borrow ours. No one here uses it for fear of inciting the omgnuclearpowereviljohnhowardbushblairwarcriminals bringinnocentdavidhickshomebanthenetespslashdotoil isevileivlevil! crowd.
Most Airbus planes have reversing cams, that let you see out the back of the plane from your seat.
/.ers), and to my knowledge, commercial airliners don't carry radar to pick up that sort of stuff. They carry weather and transponder radar, not the fancy military radar you'd need to detect flying pieces of metal in the sky.
That said, the pilot couldn't have seen it from 5 nm (9.26km, for the non-plane nut
This story smell like something the fools at airliners.net would drag up. Chili? Russion! Seriously, slashdot is really going downhill recently...
Matthew Reilly published a book online, for free: Hover Car Racer. It still sold plenty of copies when it got to the bookstores and Matt's still rolling around in a DeLorean. And a Lotus. The point is, give people a bite, or even a whole serving, and if they like it, they'll come back for the next course.
Most Windows that comes with pre-bought PC's is OEM software, which means it is tied to a single computer: i.e the one you bought.
IANAL, but if you refuse the License agreement, you might be in the clear.
Any decent sci-fi should have at least a basing in science (the sci-): and then 'jazz it up' a bit to appeal to the non-PhD holding reader. For example, I recall using a sci-fi film as an introduction to Genetics and the issue of ethics in science. Our teacher made it clear that it was a work of fiction, but the point was to get us thinking about the topic. I think the tactic worked pretty well. Of course, there is also heaps of 'Popular Science' out there, which is as easy to read as sci-fi and more informative. Personally, I recommend Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, but if you want something more Biology, anything by Jarred Diamond (Guns, Germs and Steel, The Third Chimpanzee, etc) is excellent.
I think what will decide the Blu-Ray / HD-DVD war is which one can hold the longest recital of pi...........
If they get rid of the emos on myspace where am I going to get pictures to turn into plinking targets!!!
Well, Jimbo has done the right think by letting him stand down. If not, he should be kicked and fired.
What the hell's a
Joining the Navy: If you're an in the Reserve you could probably transfer and work on ships or something. Sounds like a natural progression of what you want to do: and it offers job security.
...and their pet goldfish, for not stopping the acts of piracy committed by the aid children, despite being in full view of the illegal activities 24-7. I think we need to ban goldfish.
Next thing you know they'll try and shut down slashdot because sometimes people browse slashdot and listen to fileshared music at the same time! The horror! Arrest CmdrTaco! Burn the servers! Make sure the children are safe!
I respect your point of view, but I disagree. The US military can whip anyone they want, but that would reflect *very* badly on them.
Vietnam was always unwinable. Iraq is unwinable. But not because the US military is not capable of winning them. The US could have won 'Nam. It would have involved destroying the North pretty much totally, and large parts of the south. If you're gonna fight the war, fight it properly. Fight to win. Or don't bother in the first place. The only way we can 'win' iraq is to pound it into the ground.
On the Book: Maybe it's right wing propaganda, but it's well citied and makes a decent point. But please, I've read at least ten books on 'Nam that some would class as left-wing propaganda. I don't, because as long it's well citied and accurate, I'll read it and make up my own mind. I agree that Vietnam and Iraq are unwinable. But I disagree that it's because the US can't win them militarily. The US can't win Iraq because they a) they will never let their military of a tight leash and b) they have a lost the war PR wise. With the US military budget at what it is, if they can't pound a country into the dirt know and them, why not spend the money on (gasp) hospitals or education!
Best wishes to your mates serving.
The US, to put it bluntly, kicked ass in Vietnam. They annihilated the Vietcong, and throughly defeated the NVA. It was said (by the North Vietnamese, none the less) that the NVA needed 9-10 battalions to defeat one US one. The US didn't lose Vietnam. The US Army didn't 'fail to understand the situation'. Who 'failed to understand the situation' where the campus protesters. Incidentally, the more prestigious the college, the more anti-war it was. Just like your typically 'no-blood-for-oil' teenager today, most of them didn't have a clue what was actually happening over there. They didn't know anyone who had been drafted, because all their mates used college to get deferrals.
What lost the war in Vietnam was public opinion and political hamstrings, caused by ill-informed media coverage. The US shouldn't have gone into a war they couldn't have won. Militarily, we could have won Vietnam and Iraq. But wars aren't fought on the battlefields anymore, they are fought in the public's minds. And these days you just can sell a war that isn't going to involve danger to the public. No one cares what happens in Iraq or Vietnam, just as long as it doesn't come here. The media these days doesn't tell the truth about the war, they tell what ever will get people tuning in and selling them ads. Note: I'm not a redneck hick. I'm not even American. I base most of my facts from an book called Unheralded Victory, by Mark Woodruff (ISBN 0-00-472540-9). I recommend it to all with even a passing interest in Vietnam.
Hopeful he'll start a walk towards Washington with a mission to ban all forms of electrical entertainment. Y'know, with the support RV and everything. I need a good laugh.
And Inquisitor, and Battlefleet gothic....etc Practically all the specialist games use odd dice, but the regular ones (40k FB, LOTR) use D6's and the odd scatter/artillery dice. Which you can make if you're good.
'your harddisk/ass is mine, bitch. and it's gnu.'
So at what level do they stop believing? When a previously unexplained phenonma is explain, do they do a 360 and state that what they had said had been the work of God for all their lives is now explained by science? Sounds kinda hypocritical to me.
I'm assuming so, but you could just show up with the Linux kernel or the Firefox source. Failing that, grab the FreeBSD source code and change all the varible names to some version of 'foobar'
Please get a copies of GTA 3, VC and SA. A gamer that has not played GTA is a (culturally) poorer gamer.
Hmm...there are a "few" for linux, though? Wait...OLPC runs linux! Amazing!