I'm not an expert, but the news reports seem to indicate that this new facility (at a military base) doesn't have the capacity to produce a useful quantity of enriched fuel for a power plant, but could potentially produce enough for 1-2 bombs per year.
Combine that with the fact that Iran flares enough natural gas daily to more than meet its internal energy generation requirements, pardon me for being a bit skeptical about their motives.
Iran has plentiful natural resources but does not have the capacity to refine it and must import gas. Any type of war and they could easily be cut off of that gas.
This facility hasn't been a secret to intelligence agenices for years. They are making this a big deal now only to justify tough sanctions and possible action against Iran.
Sanctions are essentially an act of war. Clinton's sanctions on Iraq during the 1990's killed over 500,000 children, and many elderly. Albright went on 60 minutes and said that half a million childrens death was worth it.
Iran is surrounded by countries with a nuclear capability. Israel, Russia, Pakistan, India all have nukes and a few of those countries aren't too friendly towards Iran. There was similar fear of Pakistan getting nuclear weapons, but after they did we started to subsidize its dictators instead of wanting action against them.
So even if Iran is trying to make nuclear weapons they are doing so for defensive purposes. No matter what Ahmanutjobs rhetoric is he has no power to act without the ruling mullah's of the country. The mullah's are essentially the rich of the country who have no intention of giving up their wealth and power by doing something stupid.
Google probably already did and used it for internal use only and are now just making it publicly available. If Google came out right away and did this, even in the limited way they are, it could easily dissuade people from using the service.
The good admins will definitely leave when the company goes bankrupt after so many bad decisions. Admins leaving voluntarily will of course vary depending on the current job market/economic conditions.
The proof is common sense. If you make someones job terrible enough then they'll leave given the chance.
Just what we need; regulations from Congress to solve problems that don't exist yet.
I say yet because if history is any indicator, these regulations will cause the problems, which Congress will then solve by adding more regulations and set up a new Department to create even more regulations in the Federal Register.
No matter how benign these regulations seem they set the precedent for more regulations which will serve large corporations at the behest of our freedoms and their competition. This is how our government works in practice. The only way to ensure a free and open internet is to demand it from the corporations directly, which has so far worked.
There is no intended non-lethal purpose, because it is non non-lethal.
Yes, non-lethal, except for the 100's of times it has killed people. Tasers are nothing but a torture device used like a cattle prod when people don't "comply" with police orders.
They were originally intended to be used in cases where a gun would have been used. These devices would never be used against people in the manner they now are in a truly free society.
Plato said that there is no true measure of justice, but it is important for a government to give the appearance of justice to society. This is a textbook example of that in action.
I agree. This tool is completely redundant. The only people who would want to keep their data private on Facebook are the ones who didn't put their information on it in the first place.
Yes, it's just influenza...that kills healthy kids, teenagers, and young adults.
[citation needed]
Young people may be catching the H1N1 virus more so than older people, but it hasn't been killing or hospitalizaing them in high numbers. From the news reports I've seen H1N1 has been hospitalizing people with chronic illnesses such as asthma, diabetes and other serious lung ailments. It also seems to hospitalize blacks and hispanics more so than white people, which tend to have those illnesses more so.
You'd never get a "fair" system where the biggest banks/corporations/trusts aren't exempt. This would simply streamline the process for these corporations to get around tax laws. Not only that, but any tax is going to be passed onto the consumer.
What we should really have is to get rid of the need for so much tax money to conduct the business of government.
People need to stop falling for politicians who bribe them with their own money.
This shouldn't be surprising though. And you are right, the Dreamcast booting ordinary CDs was a far bigger deal. It is probably the major reason it failed as a console since it allowed very easy piracy.
With the exception of Nintendo, consoles are sold at a loss. If you are using it for non-gaming purposes, then you are causing Sony to lose money. So people buying PS3 to make cheap clusters are a detriment. This is simply a business decision that makes sense. They were hoping that Slashdot types would be interested in this and then also buy games. The problem is the type of person who is inclined to put Linux on a PS3 tend to be the type who doesn't buy any games. So why support it?
I don't believe they are enemies of free software. They are just friends with making a profit. That's just capitalism.
While they are capitalist, they subscribe to the same Harvard business model just like everyone else which only looks at next quarter's earnings. This is what has killed pure science R&D that many companies used to invest in, such as Bell Labs.
Encouraging the "slashdot crowd" to purchase PS3 just to install Linux on a console which is sold at a loss was a mistake.
They could have tried selling a completely open system at a break-even price which many people in the "slashdot crowd" may have still bought. Most regular users wouldn't shell out a few hundred dollars most to simply install Linux or take advantage of the cheap cell processor.
Why does the "government" have to have an inefficient, non-competitive monopoly on armed force?
Looking at the countries where the government doesn't have an effective monopoly on armed force, I really prefer the monopoly in that case. At least as long as it is democratically controlled.
So 51% of the population can put the other 49% into camps?
The 2nd amendment was supposed to ensure that the government didn't have a monopoly on armed force.
"Gulf War Syndrome, or GWS, is the term which has been applied to the multi-symptom rheumatic disorder experienced by many veterans of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf war. A similar disorder appeared in 1990-1991-era personnel who were never deployed to the Persian Gulf theater of operations and also in other military personnel, including participants in the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program, or AVIP, which was inaugurated in 1997. No data has ever suggested that the disorder experienced by the deployed 1990-1991 soldiers is different from the disorder experienced by the other groups of patients, but the other cases have not been considered to be cases of GWS.
Squalene was found by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in five lots of the AVIP anthrax vaccine. The discovery of serum anti-squalene antibodies and the development of a test to detect these antibodies has made it possible to see that links appear to exist between the contaminated AVIP vaccine lots, the illness experienced by post-1997 vaccine recipients, the illness experienced by non-deployed 1990-1991-era patients, and the illness in deployed 1990-1991-era patients that has been referred to as GWS."
I'd rather them screw up the game of baseball than everyone else's lives. Unfortunately they opted for doing both.
Neither branch of government has respected the Constitution in its original intent. If people want to keep their freedoms and liberties they'll have to do it themselves.
The most effective thing they give users to protect from malware is a hammer to hit the person in the head each time they install or click on something they don't trust.
Slashdot Mirror
He's from Zimbabwe you insensitive clod!
If you buy one of these suckers, you'd best make sure your girlfriend really enjoys dusting. Oh, wait a minute...this is Slashdot.
I'd also point out that, in addition to slashdot, this is also the 21st century.
I'd also point out, in addition to this being the 21st century, water is wet.
I'm not an expert, but the news reports seem to indicate that this new facility (at a military base) doesn't have the capacity to produce a useful quantity of enriched fuel for a power plant, but could potentially produce enough for 1-2 bombs per year.
Combine that with the fact that Iran flares enough natural gas daily to more than meet its internal energy generation requirements, pardon me for being a bit skeptical about their motives.
Iran has plentiful natural resources but does not have the capacity to refine it and must import gas. Any type of war and they could easily be cut off of that gas.
This facility hasn't been a secret to intelligence agenices for years. They are making this a big deal now only to justify tough sanctions and possible action against Iran.
Sanctions are essentially an act of war. Clinton's sanctions on Iraq during the 1990's killed over 500,000 children, and many elderly. Albright went on 60 minutes and said that half a million childrens death was worth it.
Iran is surrounded by countries with a nuclear capability. Israel, Russia, Pakistan, India all have nukes and a few of those countries aren't too friendly towards Iran. There was similar fear of Pakistan getting nuclear weapons, but after they did we started to subsidize its dictators instead of wanting action against them.
So even if Iran is trying to make nuclear weapons they are doing so for defensive purposes. No matter what Ahmanutjobs rhetoric is he has no power to act without the ruling mullah's of the country. The mullah's are essentially the rich of the country who have no intention of giving up their wealth and power by doing something stupid.
This is a classic case of FUD.
Google probably already did and used it for internal use only and are now just making it publicly available. If Google came out right away and did this, even in the limited way they are, it could easily dissuade people from using the service.
Total Information Awareness
The good admins will definitely leave when the company goes bankrupt after so many bad decisions. Admins leaving voluntarily will of course vary depending on the current job market/economic conditions.
The proof is common sense. If you make someones job terrible enough then they'll leave given the chance.
Just what we need; regulations from Congress to solve problems that don't exist yet.
I say yet because if history is any indicator, these regulations will cause the problems, which Congress will then solve by adding more regulations and set up a new Department to create even more regulations in the Federal Register.
No matter how benign these regulations seem they set the precedent for more regulations which will serve large corporations at the behest of our freedoms and their competition. This is how our government works in practice. The only way to ensure a free and open internet is to demand it from the corporations directly, which has so far worked.
There is no intended non-lethal purpose, because it is non non-lethal.
Yes, non-lethal, except for the 100's of times it has killed people. Tasers are nothing but a torture device used like a cattle prod when people don't "comply" with police orders.
They were originally intended to be used in cases where a gun would have been used. These devices would never be used against people in the manner they now are in a truly free society.
Plato said that there is no true measure of justice, but it is important for a government to give the appearance of justice to society. This is a textbook example of that in action.
John Carmack will make you his bitch!
I agree. This tool is completely redundant. The only people who would want to keep their data private on Facebook are the ones who didn't put their information on it in the first place.
Yes, it's just influenza...that kills healthy kids, teenagers, and young adults.
[citation needed]
Young people may be catching the H1N1 virus more so than older people, but it hasn't been killing or hospitalizaing them in high numbers. From the news reports I've seen H1N1 has been hospitalizing people with chronic illnesses such as asthma, diabetes and other serious lung ailments. It also seems to hospitalize blacks and hispanics more so than white people, which tend to have those illnesses more so.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/31/AR2009083100393.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125139557410564177.html
You'd never get a "fair" system where the biggest banks/corporations/trusts aren't exempt. This would simply streamline the process for these corporations to get around tax laws. Not only that, but any tax is going to be passed onto the consumer.
What we should really have is to get rid of the need for so much tax money to conduct the business of government.
People need to stop falling for politicians who bribe them with their own money.
This shouldn't be surprising though. And you are right, the Dreamcast booting ordinary CDs was a far bigger deal. It is probably the major reason it failed as a console since it allowed very easy piracy.
With the exception of Nintendo, consoles are sold at a loss. If you are using it for non-gaming purposes, then you are causing Sony to lose money. So people buying PS3 to make cheap clusters are a detriment. This is simply a business decision that makes sense. They were hoping that Slashdot types would be interested in this and then also buy games. The problem is the type of person who is inclined to put Linux on a PS3 tend to be the type who doesn't buy any games. So why support it?
I don't believe they are enemies of free software. They are just friends with making a profit. That's just capitalism.
While they are capitalist, they subscribe to the same Harvard business model just like everyone else which only looks at next quarter's earnings. This is what has killed pure science R&D that many companies used to invest in, such as Bell Labs.
Encouraging the "slashdot crowd" to purchase PS3 just to install Linux on a console which is sold at a loss was a mistake.
They could have tried selling a completely open system at a break-even price which many people in the "slashdot crowd" may have still bought. Most regular users wouldn't shell out a few hundred dollars most to simply install Linux or take advantage of the cheap cell processor.
Looking at the countries where the government doesn't have an effective monopoly on armed force, I really prefer the monopoly in that case. At least as long as it is democratically controlled.
So 51% of the population can put the other 49% into camps?
The 2nd amendment was supposed to ensure that the government didn't have a monopoly on armed force.
I wonder if this may be the cause of "Gulf War Syndrome" we heard a lot about a few years back...
How would a shock to the head cause auto-immune diseases, which is what Gulf War Syndrome is?
http://www.autoimmune.com/GWSGen.html
"Gulf War Syndrome, or GWS, is the term which has been applied to the multi-symptom rheumatic disorder experienced by many veterans of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf war. A similar disorder appeared in 1990-1991-era personnel who were never deployed to the Persian Gulf theater of operations and also in other military personnel, including participants in the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program, or AVIP, which was inaugurated in 1997. No data has ever suggested that the disorder experienced by the deployed 1990-1991 soldiers is different from the disorder experienced by the other groups of patients, but the other cases have not been considered to be cases of GWS.
Squalene was found by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in five lots of the AVIP anthrax vaccine. The discovery of serum anti-squalene antibodies and the development of a test to detect these antibodies has made it possible to see that links appear to exist between the contaminated AVIP vaccine lots, the illness experienced by post-1997 vaccine recipients, the illness experienced by non-deployed 1990-1991-era patients, and the illness in deployed 1990-1991-era patients that has been referred to as GWS."
You must work for UNESCO and think its great to teach 5 year olds Sex ed.
Or maybe Congress could respect the 10th amendment. I know that's a lot to ask.
Are they really "wasted"? Couldn't they be used for compost, animal feed, seeds, etc?
Home to the worlds largest watermelon!
Yes, they were two nations whom we actually declared war against because one of them attacked us.
Have you ever heard of Vietnam, North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Argentina, Guatemala, Paraguay, etc....?
The United States should take the side of the oppressed there, not shake hands with CastroLite.
Because the United States has such a great track record of installing democracy and non-oppressive leaders in foreign nations....
Why can't we leave others alone and worry about problems in our own country?
Because you are not really Anonymous Coward, but an imposter!
I'd rather them screw up the game of baseball than everyone else's lives. Unfortunately they opted for doing both.
Neither branch of government has respected the Constitution in its original intent. If people want to keep their freedoms and liberties they'll have to do it themselves.
The most effective thing they give users to protect from malware is a hammer to hit the person in the head each time they install or click on something they don't trust.