Strictly speaking there were several kids doing it, he wasn't there when the kid blew himself up (well, tore his leg open when the bomb went off, still killed him tho). They regularly built and detonated these bombs.
My point isn't that there shouldn't be punishment, but the simple fact is that doing stuff like that isn't just the sort of thing 'evil' people do. Normal folk and genius's to be do it too.
They do, he broke them. Possibly they over-reacted, and he'll have a case for compensation, but what he was doing sounds like a business.
Also, if his house had caught fire in a more serious way, there would have been a large number of evaporating/burning chemicals about the place, of the level you would expect in an industrial setting, not a residential area. It doesn't matter whether many were toxic or not, they shouldn't have been there in such quantities to start with.
Him and his friends used to make Pipe Bombs! Yup, real actual bombs. Till one of his friends was killed by one.
Any kid doing that today would be jailed and screwed for life. Feynman got to win a Nobel Prize, and, um, develop the Atom Bomb (but we'll ignore that one..).
I'm not saying he should have been doing such dangerous stuff as a kid, but the point is, smart kids will do complicated but dumb things just because its fun.
DirectX is graphics, input, sound and peripherals interaction.
Opengl can only handle the graphics portion of a game, everything else needs other products. The unified nature of DirectX makes it superior in many ways.
The only bad thing about is that in its pure form its Windows and Xbox only, if we don't count Wine.
In my undergraduate university they had contacts with US companies looking for interns. Go talk to your careers office.
Don't expect high pay, you are a risk, and they'll want to minimise it, and expect to work more then you've ever worked before. That's what you need to do to shine anywhere though.
There are several advantages to launching from the moon.
Earth's Gravity well is pretty big. A spacecraft of any size capable of carrying a decently equipped mission, or even just some of the stuff needed, would be quite large. Getting it into space from the Surface of the Earth in one go would be prohibitively hard.
Launching it into low earth orbit a bit at a time sounds good, but then the assembled spacecraft still has to achieve 10.9km/sec to escape Earth's Gravity.
From the Moon escape velocity is just 2.4km/sec, so you can assemble the spacecraft either in orbit of the Moon, or on its surface, having had a much easier time sending smaller bits to the Moon, then launch from there. This means you can use either less fuel or have a much larger spacecraft.
I think it was for the same sort of reason that Bush announced the plans to go to Mars when China said they were doing manned Moon missions, even though the US has ignored that kind of thing for decades.
Aside from anything else, a Moon base would be the best place to launch a Mars bound rocket from.
Ooh! How dare you take the reasoned intelligent approach! Don't you know where you are?
Also, I agree. My friends bitch about my buying iPod, because its 'eeeevil Apple'. But they work well, I like the build quality, and I have never seen any compelling reason to buy any competing products.
it makes me personally very happy that you love your children so much you'd probably be willing to cause a global thermonuclear holocaust and kill off the entire rest of the planet just so your oh so wonderful spawn could live.
Well, not *global*...
Attempts to enforce less having of childs don't have a good success rate thus far.
Possibly asking people to accept a long term subdermal contraceptive in return for cash/land/cattle (yes, for some that's a real winner), might work, you never know, just saying they have to have it almost certainly won't.
Since we have yet to get that widely accepted in the western world, I have a doubt it would be acceptable elsewhere.
Remember that for a lot of cultures, particularly in poorer countries, kids are your retirement policy, no kids == no-one to look after you when you get old. I have a great deal of doubt that someone who thinks that could be disabused of it easily.
I agree though, too many children are being born into countries that can barely feed their current population. I have no clear idea how to stop this.
Being a parent I find myself sympathising with the parents who know nothing of the wider reasons for the current famine, and who are solely concerned with feeding their child.
Fewer images from news coverage of famines have effected me more then those of parents burying kids who died of starvation.
Believe me, if your kids life is on the line, you give not a fuck about the morrow, just so long as that child is alive to see it.
When we dump free food on a third world country, we ruin their farmers because they can't compete with free food.
Nice sentiment, but, you know, the 'third world' is a big place, and surprise surprise, if you don't live near one of these food producers, and there's a famine, you're dead unless someone gives you food.
None of the Charities are saying that providing food is a long term solution, its just that its hard to talk long term to people whose kids will be dead by the end of the week if you don't hand over some rice now.
While I don't wish to distract from what is, in many respects, a premier example of the genus 'angry rant', I feel I should point out that no-one in Italy (or anywhere else that I know of) is actually blocking bittorrent.
They are blocking a website which serves bittorrent files. There's rather a lot of difference. Also, lets get real, most of thepiratebays content links users to content which is being provided contrary to the laws of their countries.
Is this wrong? Well, the debate goes on, but we get nowhere by pretending that everything's lovely with downloading 'unauthorised' content, and get with the real problem, that copyright itself is very broken.
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Strictly speaking there were several kids doing it, he wasn't there when the kid blew himself up (well, tore his leg open when the bomb went off, still killed him tho). They regularly built and detonated these bombs.
My point isn't that there shouldn't be punishment, but the simple fact is that doing stuff like that isn't just the sort of thing 'evil' people do. Normal folk and genius's to be do it too.
You can't go by that.
He was joking.
I think no-one got your joke...
zoning laws didn't exist back then did they.
They do, he broke them. Possibly they over-reacted, and he'll have a case for compensation, but what he was doing sounds like a business.
Also, if his house had caught fire in a more serious way, there would have been a large number of evaporating/burning chemicals about the place, of the level you would expect in an industrial setting, not a residential area. It doesn't matter whether many were toxic or not, they shouldn't have been there in such quantities to start with.
Him and his friends used to make Pipe Bombs!
Yup, real actual bombs. Till one of his friends was killed by one.
Any kid doing that today would be jailed and screwed for life. Feynman got to win a Nobel Prize, and, um, develop the Atom Bomb (but we'll ignore that one..).
I'm not saying he should have been doing such dangerous stuff as a kid, but the point is, smart kids will do complicated but dumb things just because its fun.
Not according to the bbc, they say the opening show cost that much. 20 billion in real money
They paid 40 billion for that ceremony. I can't see this improving their opinion of Microsoft much.
DirectX is graphics, input, sound and peripherals interaction.
Opengl can only handle the graphics portion of a game, everything else needs other products. The unified nature of DirectX makes it superior in many ways.
The only bad thing about is that in its pure form its Windows and Xbox only, if we don't count Wine.
In my undergraduate university they had contacts with US companies looking for interns. Go talk to your careers office.
Don't expect high pay, you are a risk, and they'll want to minimise it, and expect to work more then you've ever worked before. That's what you need to do to shine anywhere though.
Those contacts were direct from his work contacts list, he was trying to pull a fast one and didn't get away with it.
Its likely more to do with worrying for his job.
That said, anyone who uses their real name as a slashdot nick is a bit short on brains to start with.
There are several advantages to launching from the moon.
Earth's Gravity well is pretty big. A spacecraft of any size capable of carrying a decently equipped mission, or even just some of the stuff needed, would be quite large. Getting it into space from the Surface of the Earth in one go would be prohibitively hard.
Launching it into low earth orbit a bit at a time sounds good, but then the assembled spacecraft still has to achieve 10.9km/sec to escape Earth's Gravity.
From the Moon escape velocity is just 2.4km/sec, so you can assemble the spacecraft either in orbit of the Moon, or on its surface, having had a much easier time sending smaller bits to the Moon, then launch from there. This means you can use either less fuel or have a much larger spacecraft.
I think it was for the same sort of reason that Bush announced the plans to go to Mars when China said they were doing manned Moon missions, even though the US has ignored that kind of thing for decades.
Aside from anything else, a Moon base would be the best place to launch a Mars bound rocket from.
That wins the award 'Epic Fail of the Week'.
And a cookie.
Some US General wanted to see if the word 'IMPRESSIVE' would be emblazoned across the sky when they hit it.
iPods playing lossy formats sound like AM radio.
You've never actually owned an iPod, have you...
iTunes has DRM, and to use an iPod, you generally need iTunes
I use Media Monkey, and none of the content on my iPod has DRM.
Ooh! How dare you take the reasoned intelligent approach! Don't you know where you are?
Also, I agree. My friends bitch about my buying iPod, because its 'eeeevil Apple'. But they work well, I like the build quality, and I have never seen any compelling reason to buy any competing products.
it makes me personally very happy that you love your children so much you'd probably be willing to cause a global thermonuclear holocaust and kill off the entire rest of the planet just so your oh so wonderful spawn could live.
Well, not *global*...
Attempts to enforce less having of childs don't have a good success rate thus far.
Possibly asking people to accept a long term subdermal contraceptive in return for cash/land/cattle (yes, for some that's a real winner), might work, you never know, just saying they have to have it almost certainly won't.
Since we have yet to get that widely accepted in the western world, I have a doubt it would be acceptable elsewhere.
Remember that for a lot of cultures, particularly in poorer countries, kids are your retirement policy, no kids == no-one to look after you when you get old. I have a great deal of doubt that someone who thinks that could be disabused of it easily.
I agree though, too many children are being born into countries that can barely feed their current population. I have no clear idea how to stop this.
Unlikely, the secret/disguised deep sea missions were cold war era events.
These days, countries would want to boast about what they could do when going that deep.
In those cases where there was a reason to keep it secret, the mission wouldn't be announced in the first place.
That's a tad nazi-ish.
Actually no, that's exactly nazi-ish.
Care to tell me how you'd deal with the epidemic of obesity in the west?
Render down 1 in 10? Start apportioning food based on a persons worth?
Do tell.
Being a parent I find myself sympathising with the parents who know nothing of the wider reasons for the current famine, and who are solely concerned with feeding their child.
Fewer images from news coverage of famines have effected me more then those of parents burying kids who died of starvation.
Believe me, if your kids life is on the line, you give not a fuck about the morrow, just so long as that child is alive to see it.
When we dump free food on a third world country, we ruin their farmers because they can't compete with free food.
Nice sentiment, but, you know, the 'third world' is a big place, and surprise surprise, if you don't live near one of these food producers, and there's a famine, you're dead unless someone gives you food.
None of the Charities are saying that providing food is a long term solution, its just that its hard to talk long term to people whose kids will be dead by the end of the week if you don't hand over some rice now.
While I don't wish to distract from what is, in many respects, a premier example of the genus 'angry rant', I feel I should point out that no-one in Italy (or anywhere else that I know of) is actually blocking bittorrent.
They are blocking a website which serves bittorrent files. There's rather a lot of difference.
Also, lets get real, most of thepiratebays content links users to content which is being provided contrary to the laws of their countries.
Is this wrong? Well, the debate goes on, but we get nowhere by pretending that everything's lovely with downloading 'unauthorised' content, and get with the real problem, that copyright itself is very broken.
Of what relevance is US law to Italy?
I don't much like any online game except for quake 1, and that's still going strong.
I get what you mean though.