Well, look, prior to getting my kit off, I tell potential sex partners that I have a huge willy.
My point is that not everything you hear is true and it's just as easy to be told a lie via print.
They were reading material from a US government website. These are the same idiot agencies who attacked Iraq to "get rid of Weapons of Mass Destruction". Clearly if anyone is less able to produce proper intelligence and material - it's these gaffs.
It's like reading an article on how to improve your country's economy written by George Bush.
No offense to any American's reading btw - it's the agencies I have no respect for.
one of the highest per capita income levels of Central Europe Hey! I have seen Euro-trip! They might be the wealthiest of the Baltic States, but I bet you could still buy a car with the change in your pocket!
30 million The difference is that Russia didn't count losses in the same way that the anyone else did in that time. To Mother Russia, it was a number. To just about every other country it meant the life of a soldier.
I wonder when the "Usual suspects" in terms of global terrorism and splinter governments realize that this sort of warfare is much cheaper to run than what they are doing, and can cause just as much if not more harm to the target country.
It's about time NASA did some of this good old fashioned PR stuff. This sort of thing - just letting people get caught up in the awe of it all - is so much better than any other PR that they could possibly do.
A company that showed me something that they did, that let me get swept away by the sheer audacity of it? That let me be instantly teleported to some other planet in our solar system through amazing photographs? That let me stand on the surface of another planet - even if only in my mind?
Yeah, that's the sort of company that I can
Open my checkbook for.
Petition my local congressman/senator/governing body for.
Happily teach my kids about.
Generally go out of my way for.
In the above, I meant to say I wonder what the terrorist world - not muslim world. What would the people posting videos like this say if the tables were turned and the opposite was done.
should never forbid speech of any kind (with the reasonable restriction on things Your statement sums up the entire crux of this debate. What is okay for one person/race/group may not be the same for people/races/groups.
I wonder what the muslim world would say if the US posted a video or two of some captured arab getting his head hacked off while the US soldiers around what was happening oozed with anti arab sentiment.
What I see as sort of funny in a not overly funny way is this:
Some wanker (no other term for em) posts a video where he and his mates kill or terrorize some hapless bystander in a bad bad way and says they are doing it in the name of their religion.
A US senator complains about them - likely after someone in his office has spoken to their manager, who spoke to their team leader who went to a boss who brought it up in a meeting with the senator.
Income of wanker making video: $10 a day?
Cost to post: under $50
Income of people who looked and discussed material before requesting to remove it:
Senator's lowly underling: $50,000?
Underlings Manager: $60-70,000?
Manager's Team Leader: $90-130,000
Boss: $150-200,000
Senator: over $500,000
Cost to remove: thousands to tens of thousands.
What a funny world we live in no? I would be willing to bet that if the senator put the same amount of cash into a relief effort, or a crisis fund, the amount of goodwill gained would be far far higher than the amount of "badwill" lost by removing the videos.
I mean really, is it that hard to understand that if people are angry, find out why they are angry and help them become less angry. Taking away the fruits of their anger won't curb it in the slightest.
all you want to do is seize the opportunity to make it look like censorship Actually, cutting off certain channels from the television, and redirecting certain sites to point to other ones is sort of censorship. If it's not, it is actually something more sinister - ala George Orwell. It is one or the other.
Having said that, I don't think I would be overly interested in find porn sites when my neighbors house was a ruined pile of crap, and I don't totally disagree with what they have done (some small part of me thinks it's not the worst thing they could have done) but don't be fooled into thinking it's not censorship or worse.
To me this feels like she bought a car with power windows and AC then went back to the place that sold her the vehicle and forced them to take out the parts. No, it's like buying a car but being told what brand of window tinting you have to buy from a window tinter - as the factory doesn't offer it's own window tinting - and not being able to say that you don't want the tinting from "DodgeyCo Window Tinting".
This whole argument has nothing to do with IF the supplier offers systems without the product. The whole argument here is that as a user you can choose not to agree with the EULA and therefore are not buying the software.
What the court has said was that it was not fair to charge you $200 for the software but only refund you $25 if you didn't choose to accept it.
And doesn't matter where you are from or how you buy your software/systems/pc - charging you $200 for something and refunding you $25 for it in an unused state is simply not fair.
First, the philosophical--if there's life on Mars we're no longer alone. It's an age old question that will finally have an answer. Life on Mars won't be intelligent life, but our estimate of the probability that there's other intelligent life out there somewhere will greatly increase. Statistically we are not alone. Given that there are billions of stars in our galaxy, and given that there are billions of galaxies and lastly given that as our ability to find planets around grows - and we ARE finding planets where we expect, and more importantly in places that we don't expect, the chances that another lifeform isn't out there, and hasn't evolved to intelligent life is staggeringly small.
Next, Mars has similarities to Earth. If it once supported life but no longer does what changed? Could that same change possibly happen to us? The main chance is that Mars lost its magnetic field. As the core of Mars cooled and solidified, it no longer generated convection currents, which no longer generated a electrical current - which then no longer generated an electromagnetic field. What's that mean? It means that the sun was then able to gradually blow away the atmosphere of the planet that was no longer shielded by a lovely magnetic shield like we have.
Finally, scientific curiosity. It's just darned interesting to know these things for the sake of knowing them. Yes, isn't it?
What's Martian life like? Is it going to kill every human who sets foot on the planet? Might it yield valuable insights into how life evolved here? The more mainstream views on the subject are that it is likely that there are micro-organisms that are currently living in the earth of mars underneath the surface. The soil content contains some moisture level, and given where we have found life on earth, and how robust it generally is, life on Mars in the subsoil seems very plausible.
I guarantee, if we find life on Mars there will be people who will disagree with you about who owns it. After all, manifest destiny was a great idea unless you were a Native American. Sadly, until there is a cultural revolution in the way the majority of people think about this (or start to actually think about this) then it is very very unlikely that there will be anything done by any politician towards acting in a more ethical way to a global approach to our earth.
Read the article before you say it's not Slashy!
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Look, while I am happy to argue when a crappy story is posted here, but isn't a story about the earthquake in China, that's old news (sorta kinda internet time dilation sort of thing), this story is about the fact that the initial articles ABOUT this came via the likes of Twitter rather than Foxnews.
Geez guys, put an extra loop of tape around the glasses where they got broken, chill out a little, and enjoy Slashdot for what it is! (That includes the articles)
Having read the article, I can't help but think that it doesn't really read like an article of "Oh, this happened, and then this happened" especially considering that it is about hard driver recovery.
Short of "sending in a zip lock satchel" and "using methodology" what exactly did this article cover in regards to recovering hard drive information? Not a lot. Sorry to be a bit of a drag here, but considering that the company was mentioned more than once, with links and so forth, it just made the whole thing read like a glorified infomercial with the added bonus of being surrounded by advertising.:(
Lets not be too negative. At least it's turning in the right direction. They might not really be walking down that path yet as we all hope they do, but getting them to look to the right direction is something better than nothing.
And hopes that this happens. Personally, this is 'Cool shit' (tm) and I hope that this does eventualy.
Perhaps they could shave off some of that 3 Million slated for NASA MMO and slosh it towards this. Lets face it, a 3 Million dollar game would look like a uni science project, but it might get put to some sort of use here at least.
Living without a gun in the house increases your chances of being utterly defenseless by 100%. Having a gun in the house gives someone breaking into your home access to a firearm 100% of the time.
It's been so long since these guys used common sense in looking at budgets and what they could do with them, it's a damned fine refreshing change.
If only this "lets make the best with what we have while someone else tries to get us more" approach would filter through to more government bodies/groups.
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Well, look, prior to getting my kit off, I tell potential sex partners that I have a huge willy. My point is that not everything you hear is true and it's just as easy to be told a lie via print.
I'll take "Another IT Clueless guy who wants to influence the IT cauldron" please Stan!
They were reading material from a US government website. These are the same idiot agencies who attacked Iraq to "get rid of Weapons of Mass Destruction". Clearly if anyone is less able to produce proper intelligence and material - it's these gaffs.
It's like reading an article on how to improve your country's economy written by George Bush.
No offense to any American's reading btw - it's the agencies I have no respect for.
Its humor, not flamebait.
To make more bandwidth for their customers to download movies off their site.
*collective duuuuuuuhhhhh*
Test if your ISP is throttling - That link should help some of it at least.
I wonder when the "Usual suspects" in terms of global terrorism and splinter governments realize that this sort of warfare is much cheaper to run than what they are doing, and can cause just as much if not more harm to the target country.
Lets hope it's later rather than sooner.
It's about time NASA did some of this good old fashioned PR stuff. This sort of thing - just letting people get caught up in the awe of it all - is so much better than any other PR that they could possibly do.
A company that showed me something that they did, that let me get swept away by the sheer audacity of it? That let me be instantly teleported to some other planet in our solar system through amazing photographs? That let me stand on the surface of another planet - even if only in my mind?
Yeah, that's the sort of company that I can
Open my checkbook for.
Petition my local congressman/senator/governing body for.
Happily teach my kids about.
Generally go out of my way for.
Tin Foil Hats which will clearly help these Apple people.
In the above, I meant to say I wonder what the terrorist world - not muslim world. What would the people posting videos like this say if the tables were turned and the opposite was done.
I wonder what the muslim world would say if the US posted a video or two of some captured arab getting his head hacked off while the US soldiers around what was happening oozed with anti arab sentiment.
What I see as sort of funny in a not overly funny way is this:
Some wanker (no other term for em) posts a video where he and his mates kill or terrorize some hapless bystander in a bad bad way and says they are doing it in the name of their religion.
A US senator complains about them - likely after someone in his office has spoken to their manager, who spoke to their team leader who went to a boss who brought it up in a meeting with the senator.
Income of wanker making video: $10 a day?
Cost to post: under $50
Income of people who looked and discussed material before requesting to remove it:
Senator's lowly underling: $50,000?
Underlings Manager: $60-70,000?
Manager's Team Leader: $90-130,000
Boss: $150-200,000
Senator: over $500,000
Cost to remove: thousands to tens of thousands.
What a funny world we live in no? I would be willing to bet that if the senator put the same amount of cash into a relief effort, or a crisis fund, the amount of goodwill gained would be far far higher than the amount of "badwill" lost by removing the videos.
I mean really, is it that hard to understand that if people are angry, find out why they are angry and help them become less angry. Taking away the fruits of their anger won't curb it in the slightest.
Duck season!
Yahoo season!
Duck Season!
Yahoo Season!
Yahoo Season Fire!
*face foot of soot*
Having said that, I don't think I would be overly interested in find porn sites when my neighbors house was a ruined pile of crap, and I don't totally disagree with what they have done (some small part of me thinks it's not the worst thing they could have done) but don't be fooled into thinking it's not censorship or worse.
This whole argument has nothing to do with IF the supplier offers systems without the product. The whole argument here is that as a user you can choose not to agree with the EULA and therefore are not buying the software.
What the court has said was that it was not fair to charge you $200 for the software but only refund you $25 if you didn't choose to accept it.
And doesn't matter where you are from or how you buy your software/systems/pc - charging you $200 for something and refunding you $25 for it in an unused state is simply not fair.
Next, Mars has similarities to Earth. If it once supported life but no longer does what changed? Could that same change possibly happen to us? The main chance is that Mars lost its magnetic field. As the core of Mars cooled and solidified, it no longer generated convection currents, which no longer generated a electrical current - which then no longer generated an electromagnetic field. What's that mean? It means that the sun was then able to gradually blow away the atmosphere of the planet that was no longer shielded by a lovely magnetic shield like we have.
Finally, scientific curiosity. It's just darned interesting to know these things for the sake of knowing them. Yes, isn't it?
What's Martian life like? Is it going to kill every human who sets foot on the planet? Might it yield valuable insights into how life evolved here? The more mainstream views on the subject are that it is likely that there are micro-organisms that are currently living in the earth of mars underneath the surface. The soil content contains some moisture level, and given where we have found life on earth, and how robust it generally is, life on Mars in the subsoil seems very plausible.
I guarantee, if we find life on Mars there will be people who will disagree with you about who owns it. After all, manifest destiny was a great idea unless you were a Native American. Sadly, until there is a cultural revolution in the way the majority of people think about this (or start to actually think about this) then it is very very unlikely that there will be anything done by any politician towards acting in a more ethical way to a global approach to our earth.
Look, while I am happy to argue when a crappy story is posted here, but isn't a story about the earthquake in China, that's old news (sorta kinda internet time dilation sort of thing), this story is about the fact that the initial articles ABOUT this came via the likes of Twitter rather than Foxnews.
Geez guys, put an extra loop of tape around the glasses where they got broken, chill out a little, and enjoy Slashdot for what it is! (That includes the articles)
Having read the article, I can't help but think that it doesn't really read like an article of "Oh, this happened, and then this happened" especially considering that it is about hard driver recovery.
:(
Short of "sending in a zip lock satchel" and "using methodology" what exactly did this article cover in regards to recovering hard drive information? Not a lot. Sorry to be a bit of a drag here, but considering that the company was mentioned more than once, with links and so forth, it just made the whole thing read like a glorified infomercial with the added bonus of being surrounded by advertising.
Lets not be too negative. At least it's turning in the right direction. They might not really be walking down that path yet as we all hope they do, but getting them to look to the right direction is something better than nothing.
And hopes that this happens. Personally, this is 'Cool shit' (tm) and I hope that this does eventualy.
Perhaps they could shave off some of that 3 Million slated for NASA MMO and slosh it towards this. Lets face it, a 3 Million dollar game would look like a uni science project, but it might get put to some sort of use here at least.
Bungee Jumping on Wikipedia.org
It's been so long since these guys used common sense in looking at budgets and what they could do with them, it's a damned fine refreshing change.
If only this "lets make the best with what we have while someone else tries to get us more" approach would filter through to more government bodies/groups.