I'd rather live on Mercury. The sun has other problems beside a lack of Oxygen. Shooting jets of superheated plasma come to mind.
Too much Mercury will drive you insane.
And we already have shooting jets here - though I know people on the receiving end of those would rather live on Mercury.. but hasn't anyone woken up to the real implications here... if there's less O2 on the Sun.. does that mean we've grossly over-calculated the amount of oxygen on the Earth? Oh no!! I can't breeeeaaaaathe...
Many countries (the UK certainly does, and perhaps the US too) have schemes where you're rewarded financially for telling the police about anyone who's up to no good. But will the police prosecute you if you failed to tell them someone was up to no good? That's what could well happen to those who failed to push the button on someone in China.
Yes it's censorship. Yes it is annoying to some. But that's the price of living whealty. That's the price of surviving with limited resources.
Whilst I agree with you partly, I think the reason people are aghast at these kinds of news reports is because suppressing debate, perpetuating fear and generating an 'us and them' culture prevents China from advancing to become a liberal society (liberal as in beer.. or something).
Oppression doesn't have to be the price of surviving with limited resources. Part of the reason China remains poor and in many respects a 3rd world nation is precisely because it has a stupid system of government. It is an oligarchy, it remains a totalitarian state. I'm not saying China has to be a 'Democracy' like, for example, Canada, but anywhere in the world you find the absence of a meritocracy, you have this problem. The US is no shining example anymore of promotion on the basis of merit, either.
On the other hand, anyone who wants to point the finger at China had better sweep in front of their own door first. Everyone's liberties are being eroded at this time, and we all must fight the fight on our own turf.
Staircase of no return. The adventure of a lifetime!
$5 per ride* (conditions apply).
Simply sign on the dotted line and enter.
EULA / CONDITIONS OF ENTRY:
We will not be held responsible for coincidental loss or damage due to black holes, worms or falls from heights. Darkness is expected during parts of the journey. By signing you agree to hand over all assets, including life insurance payments but excluding all debts to the vendors. A discount of $1 per ride applies is you bring a rich friend. Etc..etc..
..in Ubuntu I can install applications with it, in Windows I just can uninstall them. I think I find Ubuntu's solution much more useful then:)
.. and that doesn't even take into account that removing programmes in Windows doesn't completely remove them, which can be SO annoying!
I think a very telling example of what's happening to Vista and how it rates on the coalface can be seen at the BBC website on the Vista related 'talkback'. If you read the 'most recommended' posts, they are invariably strongly anti-Vista, pro-Mac and pro-Ubuntu/Suse Linux. If Vista is such a popular OS that is selling like hotcakes, as alleged by MS, then how come everybody hates it (not just on Slashdot). Everywhere I go at work people are bagging it and looking to buy PC's with XP and talking about how to dual-boot with Linux. Others are just giving up and buying Mac's (but that road, I believe, will eventually also lead to Linux adoption).
If I were a Microsoft shareholder, reading such reports on BBC and other relatively unbiased websites would make me very nervous.
Are you kidding? There was porn, prostitution, substance abuse and invasion of privacy long before... Yes, but it's not so easy for a corporation to trade in such industries without doing so in secret, risking prosecution and having to launder money unless there are laws to support it. Once the laws are passed, organized crime in the particular industry is best placed to take the lead in the newly opened market. Additionally, individuals who are adversely affected by the industry lose their legal defence against it. Once legislation is in place, it becomes difficult to go back, so it's a very significant event when it happens and the implications are far reaching.
I guess by the time the technology exists to travel that far in space, we'll have humourless holographic images of ourselves acting as the straightman of some man-cat-hybrid making jokes to the sexy female voice of the on-board computer, giving soothing but meaningless status announcements as we make our way along the unimaginably boring journey to the Red Dwarf, only to find it got bulldozed by Vogons several years before arrival.
There comes a point when people do refuse to accept the laws dictated at them. This has been in true in the past, but there is no guarantee that public revolt is able to work in the future. The way the net has been woven this time around may well allow governments to anticipate revolts long before there is even a remote chance of them occurring. With wiretapping and data mining advancing to unprecedented and truly Orwellian proportions, the only revolt which cannot be predicted is the truly spontaneous one. Unfortunately these practically never happen. Even the ones in history that looked spontaneous were far from it.
Moral desensitization leads to legal deregulation. With enough exposure and promotion, the public will accept the legalization of just about anything (as history has shown). It is in the interests of large businesses to protect their market and to discover new markets by having the upper hand in intelligence.
The problem has become that legitimate and morally acceptable markets are generally well serviced and difficult to break into. Companies are therefore very tempted to create new markets, or break into markets which hitherto have been illegal (usually because they are viewed as immoral or socially destructive), such as porn, prostitution, addictive substances, and now privacy invasion.
As the only way to create these kinds of markets is to change legislation, these companies are very active in infiltrating and influencing government. The US government is particularly prone to this kind of corruption.
All of this is obvious. But the techniques used are subtle. They will try to sell the idea to make it appear to be in the public interest. Who knows, maybe we can expect to see a report of a missing child found because of spyware, or some shit like that.
As the parent said, he can do whatever he wants. ....except get a blowjob by anybody other then his wife. ... or rather, he can get a blowjob by anyone BUT his wife!
The fact that a simple Word document can cause such a big problem is really sad. How can you tell a few thousand of people not to open word document attachment?
Of course this is a popular article because it's more evidence of how Microsoft's 'professional' products are so amateurish, but you're right, you can't tell thousands of people not to open an attachment.
The root of the problem doesn't lie in Word documents, or Word for Windows. The problem lies in Windows, period. The operating system is practically incapable of separating important and sensitive data from junk-mail and untrusted documents from the outside. In such a place as the State Department, it's scandalous.
Whilst hypothetically, Linux is also vulnerable (eg: through some flaw in Open Office), a properly configured system could protect itself without needing to rely on the end user to manually screen every bit of junk they come across. Sure there would potentially have been some corruption of data, maybe some low level leakage, but really, this all points to a hopelessly overcomplicated and poorly designed OS. Naughty Bill!
Now we're talking! Nothing like a hot blooded, saucy and universally accepted (even though many won't, on religious grounds) product that sells like hotcakes!
... for companies such as Google and Microsoft. Once they become so wealthy that the dollars are meaningless, the next step is power, and DoubleClick offers this by being an intelligence source. Ain't no better way of being a step ahead.
Didn't Nikola Tesla study/invent devices which work in this frequency spectrum?
I know that not all of his inventions were made public and that much of his writing was confiscated upon his death, but does anyone have any leads on this?
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Too much Mercury will drive you insane.
And we already have shooting jets here - though I know people on the receiving end of those would rather live on Mercury.. but hasn't anyone woken up to the real implications here... if there's less O2 on the Sun.. does that mean we've grossly over-calculated the amount of oxygen on the Earth? Oh no!! I can't breeeeaaaaathe...
Whilst I agree with you partly, I think the reason people are aghast at these kinds of news reports is because suppressing debate, perpetuating fear and generating an 'us and them' culture prevents China from advancing to become a liberal society (liberal as in beer.. or something).
Oppression doesn't have to be the price of surviving with limited resources. Part of the reason China remains poor and in many respects a 3rd world nation is precisely because it has a stupid system of government. It is an oligarchy, it remains a totalitarian state. I'm not saying China has to be a 'Democracy' like, for example, Canada, but anywhere in the world you find the absence of a meritocracy, you have this problem. The US is no shining example anymore of promotion on the basis of merit, either.
On the other hand, anyone who wants to point the finger at China had better sweep in front of their own door first. Everyone's liberties are being eroded at this time, and we all must fight the fight on our own turf.
Staircase of no return. The adventure of a lifetime!
$5 per ride* (conditions apply).Simply sign on the dotted line and enter.
EULA / CONDITIONS OF ENTRY:
We will not be held responsible for coincidental loss or damage due to black holes, worms or falls from heights. Darkness is expected during parts of the journey. By signing you agree to hand over all assets, including life insurance payments but excluding all debts to the vendors. A discount of $1 per ride applies is you bring a rich friend. Etc..etc..
..in Ubuntu I can install applications with it, in Windows I just can uninstall them. I think I find Ubuntu's solution much more useful then.. and that doesn't even take into account that removing programmes in Windows doesn't completely remove them, which can be SO annoying!
I think a very telling example of what's happening to Vista and how it rates on the coalface can be seen at the BBC website on the Vista related 'talkback'. If you read the 'most recommended' posts, they are invariably strongly anti-Vista, pro-Mac and pro-Ubuntu/Suse Linux. If Vista is such a popular OS that is selling like hotcakes, as alleged by MS, then how come everybody hates it (not just on Slashdot). Everywhere I go at work people are bagging it and looking to buy PC's with XP and talking about how to dual-boot with Linux. Others are just giving up and buying Mac's (but that road, I believe, will eventually also lead to Linux adoption).
If I were a Microsoft shareholder, reading such reports on BBC and other relatively unbiased websites would make me very nervous.
I'm always looking for a good reason to open a bottle of beer, and thanks to Slashdot, I can open two bottles of beer today! Hip Hip Hooray!
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Ok, I need sleep.I wonder if people will think it's OK to be spied on by just about anyone, now that it's legal.
I guess by the time the technology exists to travel that far in space, we'll have humourless holographic images of ourselves acting as the straightman of some man-cat-hybrid making jokes to the sexy female voice of the on-board computer, giving soothing but meaningless status announcements as we make our way along the unimaginably boring journey to the Red Dwarf, only to find it got bulldozed by Vogons several years before arrival.
Moral desensitization leads to legal deregulation. With enough exposure and promotion, the public will accept the legalization of just about anything (as history has shown). It is in the interests of large businesses to protect their market and to discover new markets by having the upper hand in intelligence.
The problem has become that legitimate and morally acceptable markets are generally well serviced and difficult to break into. Companies are therefore very tempted to create new markets, or break into markets which hitherto have been illegal (usually because they are viewed as immoral or socially destructive), such as porn, prostitution, addictive substances, and now privacy invasion.
As the only way to create these kinds of markets is to change legislation, these companies are very active in infiltrating and influencing government. The US government is particularly prone to this kind of corruption.
All of this is obvious. But the techniques used are subtle. They will try to sell the idea to make it appear to be in the public interest. Who knows, maybe we can expect to see a report of a missing child found because of spyware, or some shit like that.
Well i won't buy one until the Super version comes out (STRIPS). Now that's a name that has appeal!
Brown holes?
I must admit I did read "Amazon Sues Sexaholic" first time round. But what if we turned the tables around..
Sexaholics Sue Amazon
That would be one classy action suit!
Of course this is a popular article because it's more evidence of how Microsoft's 'professional' products are so amateurish, but you're right, you can't tell thousands of people not to open an attachment.
The root of the problem doesn't lie in Word documents, or Word for Windows. The problem lies in Windows, period. The operating system is practically incapable of separating important and sensitive data from junk-mail and untrusted documents from the outside. In such a place as the State Department, it's scandalous.
Whilst hypothetically, Linux is also vulnerable (eg: through some flaw in Open Office), a properly configured system could protect itself without needing to rely on the end user to manually screen every bit of junk they come across. Sure there would potentially have been some corruption of data, maybe some low level leakage, but really, this all points to a hopelessly overcomplicated and poorly designed OS. Naughty Bill!
.. to which I say.. Bollocks!
Now we're talking! Nothing like a hot blooded, saucy and universally accepted (even though many won't, on religious grounds) product that sells like hotcakes!
... for companies such as Google and Microsoft. Once they become so wealthy that the dollars are meaningless, the next step is power, and DoubleClick offers this by being an intelligence source. Ain't no better way of being a step ahead.
On those planets if you say to someone "shove it where the sun don't shine!", you will simply be met with looks of bewilderment.
Didn't Nikola Tesla study/invent devices which work in this frequency spectrum?
I know that not all of his inventions were made public and that much of his writing was confiscated upon his death, but does anyone have any leads on this?