No dis against organized religion, but I've noticed most churches also leave their AC running 24/7 even though they're really only open for business on Sundays.
You don't get 20 years for missing a court appointment. Yes, he choked his girlfriend, but that is a separate charge that he'll face. The 20 years is for the cocaine offense.
The problem with trucks *is* the last mile of delivery, where you have city streets, intersections, congestion, pedestrians, etc
Why the fuck are they crowding the interstate highways then? Panel trucks should be the last mile of distribution. Semi trucks shouldn't exist except for small hops between towns that aren't on a railway. Sams Club would do well to re-locate adjacent to train tracks now that gas is so high.
If there are only light cars around, no one get's hit by a 2.5 ton doctor's wife with her Porsche Cayenne.
As a 911 owner, I have to say that the day Porsche released the Cayenne, I was saddened. It is the polar opposite of what Porsche represents. Dark times. It's like in the eighties when Porsche released those front-engine models to imitate the japanese sports cars.
With gas in excess of $4.00 a gallon, fewer 3000 lb cars will be out on the roads over time. This trend will reduce your exposure to collision with a 3000 lb vehicle. Your purchasing decision helps effect this trend.
For starters, I'm absolutely NO fan of our country's zeal to prosecute drug users. Our prisons are bloated with people who are mostly there because they chose illicit narcotics to self-medicate psychiatric illnesses.
As for beat-cops, their careers progress based on their metrics. Every arrest they make resulting in conviction boosts their stats and they get closer to promotion. Drug crimes are the low-hanging fruit. Possession is difficult evidence to refute in court. And a bunch of states have mandatory sentencing laws focused on putting people in prison for possessing small quantities of narcotics.
In this environment, a car search can easily escalate into a possession / trafficking charge, and the defendant is likely to roll on other people to avoid hard time, which will result in further arrests and convictions for the cops & detectives involved with VERY little legwork. Compare that to a breaking & entering case where the culprit stole just barely enough loot to make it a felony. Lots of legwork and the judge is likely going to let the guy walk with probation because the jails are filled with all the drug convictions. Since it was wholly conceived and executed by the perpetrator, there's not even much chance the guy will roll on accomplices, etc.
I don't use drugs, and I wish our country would lay off those who do. It kills me that my taxes are going to pay for the 20-year incarceration of this guy who got busted with seven grams of cocaine in Hays County. That's the equivalent to the weight of seven paperclips. Meanwhile, spouse abusers and burglars get probation...
I've recently checked out the online Google apps offerings and found them to have some great potential as a replacement for Office. I only used the spreadsheet application, but it worked pretty well under Mac OS X & Firefox. It's also handy that it saves your documents in an online repository where I can access them from any other computer.
Dreamhost is $9.95 per domain renewal per year. They also offer unlimited domain hosting with even their bottom tier accounts.
Following the link above or in my sig doesn't give me any commission if you sign up, and I'll tell you that they seem to be an honest company trying to provide amazing service. I'll admit they sometimes have service problems, but they are always quick to get things back online.
I agree. This news story doesn't even try to explain why the American military would need such a capability. Manned flight at that speed isn't of any value. How frequently do we need to transport humans from New York to LA in half an hour? What circumstances justify the expense? Where are the 'conservatives' clamouring for a justification of spending $750 million to develop this capability that we don't even need? Oh, wait. It's part of the military budget. Of course it's justified.
...an interesting and important difference between American and Commonwealth approaches...
New Zealand indefinitely jails an American for violating a court order. America indefinitely jails foreigners without even filing charges against them. Oh, and tortures them. And sometimes files unknown numbers of them away in secret overseas torture prisons without any accountability.
Using the link in the post, the FCC website tells me "CSR-7947-Z" isn't open for comments. DOes anyone know how to submit comments successfully on this proceeding?
What's trolling about this....what is factually wrong with my previous post?
Your comment is the typical type of crap my grandmother spews where she selects a few details from news stories, then relates them incorrectly to support her theories that non-whites & immigrants are getting things too good while she suffers.
Yesterday's supreme court decision affirmed that the legal process applied to 'enemy combatant' prisoners of the US should be the same as the process applied to US citizens. They're entitled to be charged with a crime or be released in a timely fashion. They can't just be locked up indefinitely due to suspicion.
If you can't read the articles about the supreme court decision and properly interpret its significance, then you live as another example of our failing educational system.
I wish I had the iPhone's "Visual Voicemail", since then I could selectively listen to the important message and delete all the, "Hi. its me. call me back" messages that are redundant with the missed call log.
That is the killer app on the iPhone. It's the single reason I bought the thing. It has lived up to my expectations, too.
It could be possible that the right type of fabric could reduce air friction. Although water and air turbulence is different, scientists have found that dolphin skin is faster underwater than smooth steel-hulled craft.
Weight reduction is more valuable to fuel efficiency than reducing wind resistance. Both are important, but the biggest hit on fuel economy is generating momentum from a stop. Reducing weight reduces the energy required to put a car in motion. A BMW is going to spend more fuel going 0-30 than wind drag at 60+.
Then there's also the advantage this design would have for active aerodynamics. With a fabric skin, the body could dynamically reshape itself to create downforce only when needed, etc.
Seth
please provide definition of Xen
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Running Xen
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In order to increase the relevance of this book review to the slashdot readership, it would be helpful to include in the summary a definition of what Xen (or the book's technological focus) is. I skimmed the book review and still couldn't find a definition of Xen- I wanted to know if it was a free, open source virtual machine emulator. It is. I am not dissing this review. Just trying to provide feedback to this reviewer so the next review can be written to draw more people into reading and learning about the subject of the book.
This mosquito / salmon example is flawed. While salmon don't spawn in the ocean, mosquitos don't spawn in rivers, which is where salmon spawn.
A better connection is that the loss of salmon would mean that bears wouldn't be able to feed on salmon. Without bears, all the other animals they feed on would flourish. A lot of these are herd animals that can overpopulate and then over-stress their own food supplies.
Yeah, this slashdot headline is misinformation. Nobody should be celebrating an increase in the 'biosphere' while biodiversity continues to decline.
Ok, who were the governors that gave previous keynote speeches at E3?
You shouldn't be surprised that people on Slashdot would question Perry's credentials for speaking at a video game industry expo. Like President Bush, Perry can't figure out a way to properly archive his emails for longer than a week. They just don't have the server space, he claims. And this guy grasps technology well enough that he should be treated as an inspired speaker at a video game convention?
Clearly, his administration could easily sort out how to archive all staff email. They're just claiming technical ignorance while it's convenient for them to obfuscate their communications. When it comes to Perry ramping up a run for the White House, oh, he's a technical genius!
A friend of mine who is an editor on the 'reality' TV show, 'The Deadliest Catch,' told me it's actually a documentary on the search for the Russian sub that sank in 2003 while it was being towed to the scrapyard. Most of the work he has to do is replace the unmanned search subs with CGI crab pots in every shot.
The producers are financing the search for the nuclear sub by selling it to the Discovery Channel as a fishing show. Once they find the submarine, then they're going to remove all the CGI and do a little more editing and re-sell the same footage back to the Discovery Channel as a submarine salvage show.
Still no word on what the producers are planning to do with the nuclear kit they're hunting for.
Check my sig for details on Dreamhost's quotas. For less than $8.00 a month, your account gets way more than 2gb of storage. I think my account has something like 315gb of storage, 2000gb of bandwidth, and I'm hosting 8 different domains with the same account.
What keeps you from renting out your own copies for $15 or $10 a week?
It's not cost-effective for this guy to distribute his video for lower prices or rent it for a lower price. His main job is not running a rental store. Chasing people down, charging credit cards, et. al. is just too big of a burden for the amount of volume he's going to do with a single title.
If the military wanted to apply botnet-like force on the internet, it could do so at the physical layer with exponentially more powerful effect.
If the USA were to fight a foe dependent on computers & networking (unlikely, but for the sake of this example, let's pretend), the Rangers could drop a team of Delta operators at a physical switch somewhere near the foe. If it's an entire country, the physical attack would be on a switch in a neighboring country friendly to the US.
If the telecom operator of this network is friendly to the US government, control of the switch may be yielded to the military. If not, physical force is used to insert a box at the switch that asserts control on packets travelling through the switch.
Once this control is achieved, a botnet is puny compared to what can be done at a significant switch. All packets coming from all users can be re-routed to achieve a DoSS on a given target server, etc.
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No dis against organized religion, but I've noticed most churches also leave their AC running 24/7 even though they're really only open for business on Sundays.
Seth
Let me guess, MBGMorden doesn't work in the White House IT department. Oh, and he's probably never done a consulting gig for Texas Governor Rick Perry, who claims email must be destroyed every seven days.
Seth
You don't get 20 years for missing a court appointment. Yes, he choked his girlfriend, but that is a separate charge that he'll face. The 20 years is for the cocaine offense.
Seth
The problem with trucks *is* the last mile of delivery, where you have city streets, intersections, congestion, pedestrians, etc
Why the fuck are they crowding the interstate highways then? Panel trucks should be the last mile of distribution. Semi trucks shouldn't exist except for small hops between towns that aren't on a railway. Sams Club would do well to re-locate adjacent to train tracks now that gas is so high.
Seth
If there are only light cars around, no one get's hit by a 2.5 ton doctor's wife with her Porsche Cayenne.
As a 911 owner, I have to say that the day Porsche released the Cayenne, I was saddened. It is the polar opposite of what Porsche represents. Dark times. It's like in the eighties when Porsche released those front-engine models to imitate the japanese sports cars.
Seth
With gas in excess of $4.00 a gallon, fewer 3000 lb cars will be out on the roads over time. This trend will reduce your exposure to collision with a 3000 lb vehicle. Your purchasing decision helps effect this trend.
Seth
For starters, I'm absolutely NO fan of our country's zeal to prosecute drug users. Our prisons are bloated with people who are mostly there because they chose illicit narcotics to self-medicate psychiatric illnesses.
As for beat-cops, their careers progress based on their metrics. Every arrest they make resulting in conviction boosts their stats and they get closer to promotion. Drug crimes are the low-hanging fruit. Possession is difficult evidence to refute in court. And a bunch of states have mandatory sentencing laws focused on putting people in prison for possessing small quantities of narcotics.
In this environment, a car search can easily escalate into a possession / trafficking charge, and the defendant is likely to roll on other people to avoid hard time, which will result in further arrests and convictions for the cops & detectives involved with VERY little legwork. Compare that to a breaking & entering case where the culprit stole just barely enough loot to make it a felony. Lots of legwork and the judge is likely going to let the guy walk with probation because the jails are filled with all the drug convictions. Since it was wholly conceived and executed by the perpetrator, there's not even much chance the guy will roll on accomplices, etc.
I don't use drugs, and I wish our country would lay off those who do. It kills me that my taxes are going to pay for the 20-year incarceration of this guy who got busted with seven grams of cocaine in Hays County. That's the equivalent to the weight of seven paperclips. Meanwhile, spouse abusers and burglars get probation...
Seth
I've recently checked out the online Google apps offerings and found them to have some great potential as a replacement for Office. I only used the spreadsheet application, but it worked pretty well under Mac OS X & Firefox. It's also handy that it saves your documents in an online repository where I can access them from any other computer.
Seth
Dreamhost is $9.95 per domain renewal per year. They also offer unlimited domain hosting with even their bottom tier accounts.
Following the link above or in my sig doesn't give me any commission if you sign up, and I'll tell you that they seem to be an honest company trying to provide amazing service. I'll admit they sometimes have service problems, but they are always quick to get things back online.
Seth
I agree. This news story doesn't even try to explain why the American military would need such a capability. Manned flight at that speed isn't of any value. How frequently do we need to transport humans from New York to LA in half an hour? What circumstances justify the expense? Where are the 'conservatives' clamouring for a justification of spending $750 million to develop this capability that we don't even need? Oh, wait. It's part of the military budget. Of course it's justified.
Seth
New Zealand indefinitely jails an American for violating a court order. America indefinitely jails foreigners without even filing charges against them. Oh, and tortures them. And sometimes files unknown numbers of them away in secret overseas torture prisons without any accountability.
Seth
Using the link in the post, the FCC website tells me "CSR-7947-Z" isn't open for comments. DOes anyone know how to submit comments successfully on this proceeding?
Seth
You might want to ask Vince Foster what happens when a Clinton is unhappy. Could there be any unhappy Clintons floating about right now?
Seth
What's trolling about this....what is factually wrong with my previous post?
Your comment is the typical type of crap my grandmother spews where she selects a few details from news stories, then relates them incorrectly to support her theories that non-whites & immigrants are getting things too good while she suffers.
Yesterday's supreme court decision affirmed that the legal process applied to 'enemy combatant' prisoners of the US should be the same as the process applied to US citizens. They're entitled to be charged with a crime or be released in a timely fashion. They can't just be locked up indefinitely due to suspicion.
If you can't read the articles about the supreme court decision and properly interpret its significance, then you live as another example of our failing educational system.
Seth
I wish I had the iPhone's "Visual Voicemail", since then I could selectively listen to the important message and delete all the, "Hi. its me. call me back" messages that are redundant with the missed call log.
That is the killer app on the iPhone. It's the single reason I bought the thing. It has lived up to my expectations, too.
Seth
It could be possible that the right type of fabric could reduce air friction. Although water and air turbulence is different, scientists have found that dolphin skin is faster underwater than smooth steel-hulled craft.
Weight reduction is more valuable to fuel efficiency than reducing wind resistance. Both are important, but the biggest hit on fuel economy is generating momentum from a stop. Reducing weight reduces the energy required to put a car in motion. A BMW is going to spend more fuel going 0-30 than wind drag at 60+.
Then there's also the advantage this design would have for active aerodynamics. With a fabric skin, the body could dynamically reshape itself to create downforce only when needed, etc.
Seth
In order to increase the relevance of this book review to the slashdot readership, it would be helpful to include in the summary a definition of what Xen (or the book's technological focus) is. I skimmed the book review and still couldn't find a definition of Xen- I wanted to know if it was a free, open source virtual machine emulator. It is. I am not dissing this review. Just trying to provide feedback to this reviewer so the next review can be written to draw more people into reading and learning about the subject of the book.
Seth
I think that's available for third parties to create.
Seth
This mosquito / salmon example is flawed. While salmon don't spawn in the ocean, mosquitos don't spawn in rivers, which is where salmon spawn.
A better connection is that the loss of salmon would mean that bears wouldn't be able to feed on salmon. Without bears, all the other animals they feed on would flourish. A lot of these are herd animals that can overpopulate and then over-stress their own food supplies.
Yeah, this slashdot headline is misinformation. Nobody should be celebrating an increase in the 'biosphere' while biodiversity continues to decline.
Seth
Some dipshits who can't see that is nothing new,
Ok, who were the governors that gave previous keynote speeches at E3?
You shouldn't be surprised that people on Slashdot would question Perry's credentials for speaking at a video game industry expo. Like President Bush, Perry can't figure out a way to properly archive his emails for longer than a week. They just don't have the server space, he claims. And this guy grasps technology well enough that he should be treated as an inspired speaker at a video game convention?
Clearly, his administration could easily sort out how to archive all staff email. They're just claiming technical ignorance while it's convenient for them to obfuscate their communications. When it comes to Perry ramping up a run for the White House, oh, he's a technical genius!
Seth
A friend of mine who is an editor on the 'reality' TV show, 'The Deadliest Catch,' told me it's actually a documentary on the search for the Russian sub that sank in 2003 while it was being towed to the scrapyard. Most of the work he has to do is replace the unmanned search subs with CGI crab pots in every shot.
The producers are financing the search for the nuclear sub by selling it to the Discovery Channel as a fishing show. Once they find the submarine, then they're going to remove all the CGI and do a little more editing and re-sell the same footage back to the Discovery Channel as a submarine salvage show.
Still no word on what the producers are planning to do with the nuclear kit they're hunting for.
Seth
Check my sig for details on Dreamhost's quotas. For less than $8.00 a month, your account gets way more than 2gb of storage. I think my account has something like 315gb of storage, 2000gb of bandwidth, and I'm hosting 8 different domains with the same account.
Seth
Do you guys have a description of the migration steps hidden away in a journal somewhere?
Appreciatively,
Seth
What keeps you from renting out your own copies for $15 or $10 a week?
It's not cost-effective for this guy to distribute his video for lower prices or rent it for a lower price. His main job is not running a rental store. Chasing people down, charging credit cards, et. al. is just too big of a burden for the amount of volume he's going to do with a single title.
Seth
If the military wanted to apply botnet-like force on the internet, it could do so at the physical layer with exponentially more powerful effect.
If the USA were to fight a foe dependent on computers & networking (unlikely, but for the sake of this example, let's pretend), the Rangers could drop a team of Delta operators at a physical switch somewhere near the foe. If it's an entire country, the physical attack would be on a switch in a neighboring country friendly to the US.
If the telecom operator of this network is friendly to the US government, control of the switch may be yielded to the military. If not, physical force is used to insert a box at the switch that asserts control on packets travelling through the switch.
Once this control is achieved, a botnet is puny compared to what can be done at a significant switch. All packets coming from all users can be re-routed to achieve a DoSS on a given target server, etc.
Seth