The plant was designed to withstand an 8.2 magnitude quake, which is over 15 times weaker than a 9.0. I do not know how much energy of the quake was dissipated hitting Fukushima, but I can guarantee you it wasn't 94%. And that's to say nothing of the tsunami.
No way, you'd end up with a total lack of intelligent advisers. Tech advisers are only worthwhile if they have experience. If they have experience (and are good enough to advise White House policy) odds are they are employed at quite a salary. Few people would give up a cushy hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars a year for a thankless role that is likely to be heavily criticized in 6-18 months. You need people in the industry to provide advice; the only other option is to hire a fool and do the opposite of what s/he says.
The two who called the teacher a rapist and a pedophile were on the honor roll. There was no mention of honor roll for the one who made the bipolar claim. I think that child has a really good case to be reinstated, as that looks like some major discrimination.
Absolutely. Since these resources are available to or able to be used by everyone, then use the widest tax base possible - raise taxes for everyone. If you can't pay for the poison control in your state, then your state needs to raise more taxes; state legislatures shouldn't be abusing growing industries just because they're terrified to say "higher taxes" instead of "wireless surcharge." It's either that or actually manage the state budget more responsibly.
A few days ago, Fox News published an article which was thoroughly torn to shreds for being misleading and just plain wrong. That image is from the Fox article, and is an artists rendition of a scene from the game. I presume it was created so as to avoid showing an actual scene from the game.
Quite the contrary! Creation and Intelligent Design would, in New Mexico, arguably fall under the umbrella of "other scientific topics," which means no teacher could be reprimanded for teaching the serious scientific weaknesses in those "theories." Sounds like they'll open the door for the real teachers to talk freely about how absurd arguments against evolution are.
Different media, different issues. You can use something like CC-BY-NC-ND to really limit their options/give you many options for legal recourse but honestly, if you have a problem with people using your works for things you don't approve of and can't control, then CC is probably not for you - that's what the normal, exclusive copyright is for.
The GPL - now THERE'S a bad license for photography.
News Corp is one of the largest media companies around and, love it or hate it, the Fox News Channel has been wildly successful. It has more viewers than MSNBC and CNN combined. Slashdot is but a small microcosm of the world and when it comes to American media, Fox and News Corp are the most desired by consumers. You and I don't have to agree ideologically with News Corp, but this is a numbers game making this a huge win for Apple.
Check out the concept of inflation. Basic gist is that a fraction of a moment after the big bang (10^-35 or so) the universe expanded enormously, by around 10^25 on each axis (thus, 10^75 in volume) or so. It's still debated as a hypothesis, but is largely "accepted."
Well, that would be the "news for nerds" part of it.
In reality, though, the internet shutoff is a key part of the ongoing struggle. Call it a catalyst, a symbol of the regime, whatever - the point is that internet-based communications were pivotal in jump-starting starting this whole thing (back to Tunisia), and serve as a stark sign for whom the international community should rally alongside (hint: it's not the one turning off the media). There's more to the revolution than twitter, but it's more of a revolution when communication happens freely.
No need. Our congress voted immunity to the telecoms who violated the law and our privacy, so of course they'll do the same for an agency actually part of the government. Using laws to sanction violations of the law is perverse but hey, you gotta protect your own! These FOIAs are from 2008 or so, so the real test is to file now and see if anything has changed since Obama took over the executive.
turn off your wireless network when you know you won't use it
That's like suggesting you not to take your cell-phone with you if you don't think you'll need it. Hell, it's like suggesting unplugging your land-line (haha, land-line) if you aren't expecting a call since a telemarketer might ring.
The whole point of these services is that they are available. I should be able to read a book and get an email even if I'm not intending on reading one, and I should be able to get a phone call even if I'm reading email and not trying to call anyone. I should be able to get push notifications about my iOS scrabble games when I'm gabbing away on my non-smart phone.
It doesn't stand a chance. All it needs is for one person to compare a sponsor of this bill to Mubarak and it should be dead in the water. You can't bring something like this up right after all this tumult.
Seems like this is the moment the HAM radio folks always shine. I don't know what kind of following they've got in Egypt but I imagine it'd be pretty useful. That and texting.
A catapult is a catch-all for a siege weapon that tosses something without explosives, making a trebuchet a type of catapult. It is a catapult that was used in medieval times making it... a medieval catapult!
The absolute first thing I noticed was the prominence of the feedback link. Slashdot was unique in being one of the only major sites without an easy-to-find link to give feedback on the site. More than anything, that was very well needed. Thank you.
"studiously avoid clicking "Like" or checking into any place..."
That's really quite easy. I'm doing it right now, in fact. I don't like the trend but this is silly FUD - doing nothing protects me, I have to make an effort to be used.
Maybe not as nerd (I hear you live with one), but looking at the Best Picture nominees:
“Black Swan” “The Fighter” “Inception” “The Kids Are All Right ” “The King’s Speech” “127 Hours” “The Social Network” “Toy Story 3 “True Grit” “Winter’s Bone”
A moving story about the British Monarchy, a dark-art psychological thriller, the only movie ever to try to portray a gay family as normal, an animated children's film, a dude who cuts his arm off... and that's only half of them. That's plenty of variety - far better than last year, of which half relied in part on something as pedestrian a topic as guns.
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Surely you meant "/me ducksauce?"
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The plant was designed to withstand an 8.2 magnitude quake, which is over 15 times weaker than a 9.0. I do not know how much energy of the quake was dissipated hitting Fukushima, but I can guarantee you it wasn't 94%. And that's to say nothing of the tsunami.
No way, you'd end up with a total lack of intelligent advisers. Tech advisers are only worthwhile if they have experience. If they have experience (and are good enough to advise White House policy) odds are they are employed at quite a salary. Few people would give up a cushy hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars a year for a thankless role that is likely to be heavily criticized in 6-18 months. You need people in the industry to provide advice; the only other option is to hire a fool and do the opposite of what s/he says.
The two who called the teacher a rapist and a pedophile were on the honor roll. There was no mention of honor roll for the one who made the bipolar claim. I think that child has a really good case to be reinstated, as that looks like some major discrimination.
So you use a wider tax base to pay for them.
Absolutely. Since these resources are available to or able to be used by everyone, then use the widest tax base possible - raise taxes for everyone. If you can't pay for the poison control in your state, then your state needs to raise more taxes; state legislatures shouldn't be abusing growing industries just because they're terrified to say "higher taxes" instead of "wireless surcharge." It's either that or actually manage the state budget more responsibly.
A few days ago, Fox News published an article which was thoroughly torn to shreds for being misleading and just plain wrong. That image is from the Fox article, and is an artists rendition of a scene from the game. I presume it was created so as to avoid showing an actual scene from the game.
Quite the contrary! Creation and Intelligent Design would, in New Mexico, arguably fall under the umbrella of "other scientific topics," which means no teacher could be reprimanded for teaching the serious scientific weaknesses in those "theories." Sounds like they'll open the door for the real teachers to talk freely about how absurd arguments against evolution are.
Different media, different issues. You can use something like CC-BY-NC-ND to really limit their options/give you many options for legal recourse but honestly, if you have a problem with people using your works for things you don't approve of and can't control, then CC is probably not for you - that's what the normal, exclusive copyright is for.
The GPL - now THERE'S a bad license for photography.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
Nobody pays millions of dollars for 30 seconds of ad time during a Torvalds speech.
News Corp is one of the largest media companies around and, love it or hate it, the Fox News Channel has been wildly successful. It has more viewers than MSNBC and CNN combined. Slashdot is but a small microcosm of the world and when it comes to American media, Fox and News Corp are the most desired by consumers. You and I don't have to agree ideologically with News Corp, but this is a numbers game making this a huge win for Apple.
Sorry, the formatting option for comments are poorly named. Clickable link:
Inflation
Check out the concept of inflation. Basic gist is that a fraction of a moment after the big bang (10^-35 or so) the universe expanded enormously, by around 10^25 on each axis (thus, 10^75 in volume) or so. It's still debated as a hypothesis, but is largely "accepted."
I think we can all agree that, in this enlightened day and age, using a router from 1995 would qualify as cruel and unusual punishment.
Well, that would be the "news for nerds" part of it.
In reality, though, the internet shutoff is a key part of the ongoing struggle. Call it a catalyst, a symbol of the regime, whatever - the point is that internet-based communications were pivotal in jump-starting starting this whole thing (back to Tunisia), and serve as a stark sign for whom the international community should rally alongside (hint: it's not the one turning off the media). There's more to the revolution than twitter, but it's more of a revolution when communication happens freely.
No need. Our congress voted immunity to the telecoms who violated the law and our privacy, so of course they'll do the same for an agency actually part of the government. Using laws to sanction violations of the law is perverse but hey, you gotta protect your own! These FOIAs are from 2008 or so, so the real test is to file now and see if anything has changed since Obama took over the executive.
turn off your wireless network when you know you won't use it
That's like suggesting you not to take your cell-phone with you if you don't think you'll need it. Hell, it's like suggesting unplugging your land-line (haha, land-line) if you aren't expecting a call since a telemarketer might ring.
The whole point of these services is that they are available. I should be able to read a book and get an email even if I'm not intending on reading one, and I should be able to get a phone call even if I'm reading email and not trying to call anyone. I should be able to get push notifications about my iOS scrabble games when I'm gabbing away on my non-smart phone.
It doesn't stand a chance. All it needs is for one person to compare a sponsor of this bill to Mubarak and it should be dead in the water. You can't bring something like this up right after all this tumult.
Better with a semi-colon or a comma.
Seems like this is the moment the HAM radio folks always shine. I don't know what kind of following they've got in Egypt but I imagine it'd be pretty useful. That and texting.
A catapult is a catch-all for a siege weapon that tosses something without explosives, making a trebuchet a type of catapult. It is a catapult that was used in medieval times making it... a medieval catapult!
The absolute first thing I noticed was the prominence of the feedback link. Slashdot was unique in being one of the only major sites without an easy-to-find link to give feedback on the site. More than anything, that was very well needed. Thank you.
"studiously avoid clicking "Like" or checking into any place..."
That's really quite easy. I'm doing it right now, in fact. I don't like the trend but this is silly FUD - doing nothing protects me, I have to make an effort to be used.
Maybe not as nerd (I hear you live with one), but looking at the Best Picture nominees:
“Black Swan”
“The Fighter”
“Inception”
“The Kids Are All Right ”
“The King’s Speech”
“127 Hours”
“The Social Network”
“Toy Story 3
“True Grit”
“Winter’s Bone”
A moving story about the British Monarchy, a dark-art psychological thriller, the only movie ever to try to portray a gay family as normal, an animated children's film, a dude who cuts his arm off... and that's only half of them. That's plenty of variety - far better than last year, of which half relied in part on something as pedestrian a topic as guns.
Indeed. We DO curse a lot and have a general distaste for being in public.