I expected the passengers would still have to be sedated or possibly restrained. It would be too unsafe to have "live" passengers on a plane. What if one of them knows some kind of deadly martial art ?
Then there are those really silly things like the "no-fly" lists. They check your name!! How many real bad guys are going to use their real names? I can just see it, "Name, please? Hmm? Oh, I'm Carlos the Jackal. Sorry, sir, could you step over here? You are on our no-fly list." Seriously, now. Are those lists even public ? You don't want to give your next child a "no fly" name by accident... That could seriously put a dent in his career prospects.
We are now only beginning to discover environmental feedback mechanisms that likely mean the scientists have UNDERESTIMATED the rate and impact of global warming, not overestimated it. That's the kind of stuff I hear from biologist friends who study the adaptation of species to the changing conditions too. They don't seem confident that anything can be done about it at this point.
I wouldn't like to test whether the methane deposits deep in the ocean will get released once our temperature reaches a tipping point. Once that happens, we are royally screwed. See the Permian Extinction for the results of the last time that happened. It'll make for great news reports though !
So "Sun is getting warmer"? I bet you will now tell us that the reason why its getting warmer on Earth is because all that sunlight gets stuck in the atosphere? Because there is less reaching the surface than 30+ years ago. Which in itself is a problem because as we clean the air of man made particle pollutants, we are again allowing more and more through, thus ending the "darkening". Which also means that the magnitude of the warming problem might have been largely underestimated (the particles in the atmosphere do not trap heat but tend to create clouds with smaller water droplets that have a higher albedo and reflect more sunlight).
I too think that machines with longer battery life (that is more than the 4 hours or so we typically get with default batteries) would be a much more useful feature.
I don't think I've ever been in a situation where I wished I could get to my files without booting a machine... Either it was dead or I just waited the couple minutes required for it to boot (or the few seconds for it to wake up).
Either way while it's a kind of a neat hack in an abstract kind of way, I see it as a solution looking for a problem.
But more likely they'd just revert to some older non infringing technology, resulting in inferior drives for any country which enforces the patent. Woohooo, I hope I still have that box of blank punch cards. I'm going to make a killing on eBay !
Not really. If those systems hadn't existed, some other medium that would have been used or adapted. The inertia of a good idea is difficult to overcome. Quite, absolutely everybody and their dog was playing with packet switched networks at the time. Had it not been the current Internet it would have been some other similar system. It was an idea who's time had come.
Crypto and now Quantum Crypto--theve voting machine folks just never get. Too wrapped in the forest of their own cleverness to see the trees. All these assertions of provable voting miss the entire point of transparency. Voters need to be able to see how it all works. Ah but you can't look at it. That's the point of quantum crypto.
But how does it work ? It's quantum. Can I look ? Not it would break it.
With the electoral college it doesn't matter how many extra votes you get out in a strong red/blue state it still counts the same. What matters is whether you can carry the moderate states. Thus there is less incentive to take extreme positions motivating turn out in the states that strongly support you and more to take the sorts of positions that will win in the moderate states. Sure there are still partisans of both stripes in every state but a republican in ohio isn't the same thing as a republican in Wyoming. Your logic seems to imply that if there wasn't an electoral college in place, all the people in a given state would still vote the same way. Presumably that wouldn't be the case. Most states would be moderate with a wide ventilation of votes across the spectrum. (disclaimer, not from the US. And I never really got that electoral state thing either.)
You never actually had to do that to install software on Mandrake / Mandriva, though some people got the idea that they did. Ever since the very early releases Mandriva has had a dependency resolving package manager, urpmi, and a proper set of online repositories. In my experience urpmi has always worked very well. The only (very minor) gripes I had with Mandrake the numerous times I used it were the configuration tools that were less than stellar at times (although as expected, they got better with each release) and the fact that they often shipped brittle apps in order to be on the bleeding edge (which is a choice after all).
But I've never had any dependency issues. urpmi always worked just fine. OTOH if you just use RPM, I guess YMMV.
Nowadays I tend to use Kubuntu (desktop) and Debian (servers) but I might switch to something else one of these days. They're all pretty much the same anyway.
Especially here on Slashdot, anyone damning this kid for the circumstantial evidence needs to think back to their own teens (or last night, as the case warrants). How many of us made small bombs just for fun? How many of us, if the police raided our houses today, wouldn't have all this and more, all purely innocuous? Note the use of "potentially". This after the fact that I quoted his visiting Pakistan on top of his having chemicals in amounts that were of little use outside of dustbin orbiting experiments.
So while I'll gladly agree to having made my own explosives in my youth, it wasn't in that volume (although my homemade missiles were actually fired over a schoolyard to the building beyond it, something that would probably land me in front of a firing squad or something nowadays) (I hang my head in shame... this was *outside* of that school's hours though, I wasn't quite that stupid, and, uh, they didn't work all that well, really. And I hadn't visited Pakistan or whatever the current terrorist training ground was at the time before ground... I did read Phrack and other assorted crap through...). I've (mostly, now that I'm 40) grown beyond experimenting with silly stuff like this (well, mostly), but I can quite relate with the urge to do so. Poking at stuff is natural and part of growing up (although poking at stuff following the recipes in The Anarchist Cookbook is a good way to avoid paying taxes, hint hint).
So to get back to the matter at hand, yes, we all did some rather stupid things when we grew up (or at least a lot of us did), however most of us didn't go to what is currently considered as one of the main radical Muslim countries before doing so. Which is what prompted my "potentially more incriminating" comment.
Had he been just collecting old 50's clocks to gather enough enough radioactive material for a dirty bomb, it would just had been another silly teenager prank. In this case it just *might* be something else from a *very* stupid teenager. Hopefully the authorities will catch the "very stupid" bit and act accordingly (although unfortunately they probably won't).
And that is all I have to say on the matter for now.;)
35.4 The user shall bend over and cough. The gmail representative may at his discretion explore further is he feels the user is hiding something. The gmail representative shall be wearing gloves at all times.
From the Gmail FAQ : Q: What are Gmail's offline functionalities ? A: You can view the title of the 50 last emails you had in your inbox at the time you disconnected (but then who goes offline nowadays anyway?).;)
Searching email in a real client always takes years where as in Gmail it keeps everything, ever, and takes a fraction of a second to search it.
Have you tried Outlook 2007 yet? If you're able to type your seach term, start a stop watch and stop it again after your results have appeared you were probably typing onehanded or have three hands. (Or to make it simple: It's wicked fast.) A lot of people seem to consider that Outlook has finally gotten to be usable (and if at the same time the MS clients have finally gotten rid of the dreaded winmail.dat files, a lot of us would be really happy). However they are still bound to a single platform which means some of us just can't run them even if we wanted to. I'm actually of the opinion that MS could greatly benefit by porting their office software to other platforms. After all MS Office is the real cashcow, Windows is just there so that people can run Office. If they did it properly (they once did it on the Mac after all), lots of people could buy it on Linux. I switched to StarOffice and now OpenOffice ages ago so I wouldn't but a lot of my clients would have wet dreams if that happened.
Disclaimer : I run Linux, not because I'm a rabid anti-MS maniac but because it fits my needs. I usually have a Windows (bought at MS) partition that runs the games I buy every now and then. I bought an iBook some time ago and used it for a bit over a year but recently replaced it with a Samsung laptop running Ubuntu (OS X didn't work for me). I guess I'm just set in my ways after 15 years of almost 100% Unix (well, not really Unix, mostly Linux and BSD and a bit of SunOS and Irix).
Also the possesion of materials useful for terrorism has been a crimial offence in the U.K. since long before the advent of 9/11 due to the existance of the US funded terrorist organisation the IRA. This kind of silly law is problematic because of it's wide reach (someone above gave the example of detergent and gas that can be used for firebombs and that you'll find in lots of suburban houses). OTOH it might be that we have the same kind of law here (France) thanks to the ETA (Basques, active in France and Spain) and various north African terrorist groups that blow stuff (and people) up every now and then.
Am I the only one who felt the LOTR movies were not especially good and that Jackson's eccentric style may not have been the best fit for the book? When I think how incredibly bad it could have been, I'm really glad Jackson delivered a decent adaptation. It may not be not insanely great, but it's fair, and given the complexity of the task that's already quite something IMO.
Isn't there at least 1/2 a page in the Silmarillion telling all that's happening during all that time ?
I suppose some kind of anthropological documentary on hole digging in the Shire and Barad-Dur building in Mordor could have some kind of thing going for it... If they get a good actor to read the commentary... They could sell it to National Geographic or something.
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I expected the passengers would still have to be sedated or possibly restrained. It would be too unsafe to have "live" passengers on a plane. What if one of them knows some kind of deadly martial art ?
They don't seem confident that anything can be done about it at this point.
Which also means that the magnitude of the warming problem might have been largely underestimated (the particles in the atmosphere do not trap heat but tend to create clouds with smaller water droplets that have a higher albedo and reflect more sunlight).
I too think that machines with longer battery life (that is more than the 4 hours or so we typically get with default batteries) would be a much more useful feature.
I don't think I've ever been in a situation where I wished I could get to my files without booting a machine... Either it was dead or I just waited the couple minutes required for it to boot (or the few seconds for it to wake up).
Either way while it's a kind of a neat hack in an abstract kind of way, I see it as a solution looking for a problem.
But how does it work ?
It's quantum.
Can I look ?
Not it would break it.
Presumably that wouldn't be the case. Most states would be moderate with a wide ventilation of votes across the spectrum.
(disclaimer, not from the US. And I never really got that electoral state thing either.)
But I've never had any dependency issues. urpmi always worked just fine. OTOH if you just use RPM, I guess YMMV.
Nowadays I tend to use Kubuntu (desktop) and Debian (servers) but I might switch to something else one of these days. They're all pretty much the same anyway.
Wait, are you saying that time is really like a series of tubes now ?
Let's just have every TLA be a TLD and be done with it already.
I don't think they were actually expecting people to buy them...
the circumstantial evidence needs to think back to their own
teens (or last night, as the case warrants). How many of us made
small bombs just for fun? How many of us, if the police raided our
houses today, wouldn't have all this and more, all purely
innocuous? Note the use of "potentially". This after the fact that I quoted his visiting Pakistan on top of his having chemicals in amounts that were of little use outside of dustbin orbiting experiments.
So while I'll gladly agree to having made my own explosives in my youth, it wasn't in that volume (although my homemade missiles were actually fired over a schoolyard to the building beyond it, something that would probably land me in front of a firing squad or something nowadays)
(I hang my head in shame... this was *outside* of that school's hours though, I wasn't quite that stupid, and, uh, they didn't work all that well, really. And I hadn't visited Pakistan or whatever the current terrorist training ground was at the time before ground... I did read Phrack and other assorted crap through...). I've (mostly, now that I'm 40) grown beyond experimenting with silly stuff like this (well, mostly), but I can quite relate with the urge to do so. Poking at stuff is natural and part of growing up (although poking at stuff following the recipes in The Anarchist Cookbook is a good way to avoid paying taxes, hint hint).
So to get back to the matter at hand, yes, we all did some rather stupid things when we grew up (or at least a lot of us did), however most of us didn't go to what is currently considered as one of the main radical Muslim countries before doing so. Which is what prompted my "potentially more incriminating" comment.
Had he been just collecting old 50's clocks to gather enough enough radioactive material for a dirty bomb, it would just had been another silly teenager prank. In this case it just *might* be something else from a *very* stupid teenager. Hopefully the authorities will catch the "very stupid" bit and act accordingly (although unfortunately they probably won't).
And that is all I have to say on the matter for now.
In that case it's interesting that they did so ages ago. It would show forethought not often associated with governments.
I think it's
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The user shall bend over and cough. The gmail representative may at his discretion explore further is he feels the user is hiding something. The gmail representative shall be wearing gloves at all times.
From the Gmail FAQ :
Q: What are Gmail's offline functionalities ?
A: You can view the title of the 50 last emails you had in your inbox at the time you disconnected (but then who goes offline nowadays anyway?).
Have you tried Outlook 2007 yet? If you're able to type your seach term, start a stop watch and stop it again after your results have appeared you were probably typing onehanded or have three hands. (Or to make it simple: It's wicked fast.) A lot of people seem to consider that Outlook has finally gotten to be usable (and if at the same time the MS clients have finally gotten rid of the dreaded winmail.dat files, a lot of us would be really happy). However they are still bound to a single platform which means some of us just can't run them even if we wanted to.
I'm actually of the opinion that MS could greatly benefit by porting their office software to other platforms. After all MS Office is the real cashcow, Windows is just there so that people can run Office. If they did it properly (they once did it on the Mac after all), lots of people could buy it on Linux.
I switched to StarOffice and now OpenOffice ages ago so I wouldn't but a lot of my clients would have wet dreams if that happened.
Disclaimer : I run Linux, not because I'm a rabid anti-MS maniac but because it fits my needs. I usually have a Windows (bought at MS) partition that runs the games I buy every now and then. I bought an iBook some time ago and used it for a bit over a year but recently replaced it with a Samsung laptop running Ubuntu (OS X didn't work for me). I guess I'm just set in my ways after 15 years of almost 100% Unix (well, not really Unix, mostly Linux and BSD and a bit of SunOS and Irix).
Isn't there at least 1/2 a page in the Silmarillion telling all that's happening during all that time ?
I suppose some kind of anthropological documentary on hole digging in the Shire and Barad-Dur building in Mordor could have some kind of thing going for it... If they get a good actor to read the commentary... They could sell it to National Geographic or something.