Oh and we work at the DNS level with DNS NXDOMAIN anwsers.
That means that these figures I gave in the parent post DO NOT include mistyped URLs going to a registered domain (ie www.gooogle.com which is a domain that does exist) and all the errors caught by msn.com under Internet Explorer and google.com under Firefox.
Also, we only care about HTTP traffic.
That explains maybe the difference between our numbers and the 10% to 20% the studies found...
That doesn't give google the right to infringe the law.
If Google wants to sell ads in France, it has to comply with French law.
You are not happy with that? But this doesn't affect you if you are not living in France, you know. Get over it.
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Seattle Times carried this story which may be of interest to those addicted to checking Slashdot for new stories every minute.
Ok, we all know that this one is going to generate at least 500 replies so let me do the job for you. I'm ready and I've made all the calculations. Of course, I didn't RTFA.
a) Cost of one space elevator: $10 Billions
b) Cost of a beowulf cluster of it: an order of magnitude higher (if you build it in Soviet Russia)
c) Cost of the war on Iraq: $147 Billions
d) Man, I have a problem in trying to calculate the amount of money spent by the US governement for each WMD found in Iraq. I get a freaking "DIVISION BY ZERO". Must be some kind of Micro$oft bug. Please someone try it on FreeBSD before it dies.
e) Amount of money spent for each Iraqi casualty (estimates of Iraqis casualties during the war range from 1 citizen to 200 Millions citizens so let's take 48571 as a good estimate): $3,026,497.29, that's the paper value of 3.14159265 Library of Congress at normal pressure and temperature conditions.
f) ???
g) PROFIT!!!
h) FP?
i) Getting a Funny +5 or being ridiculous and modded down to hell on Slashdot: priceless.
My country was fighting, winning and losing wars long before yourcontinent waseven discovered. For once in your life, please open a fucking historybook.
I spent a year and a half in your country, have you ever been in mine?
What happened to the USA? Please someone explain to me, what the fuckhappenedto your country?
Man, like hundreds of thousand of French citizens I was in the fuckingstreetswith a large panel saying "WE LOVE YOU AMERICANS" on September, 11th2001. Mycountry sent its best firemens to help yours trying to save lives out of the WTC ruins.
Your country saved mine during the second world war and many of us went in Normandie to put some flowers on your soldiers' tombs thinking of the great sacrifice that it was for you and your country. If you think that we canforget that then you don't know anything about us.
But then, everything changed, just like that. What went wrong?
In 2001, Rumsfeld, Condi Rice and even Bush repeated, on the TV, that Iraq and Saddam were not a threat and suddenly, in 2002, Saddam became the worstevilin the world? Give me a break.
France's position was that we should have given more time of the UNinspectorsto check for Saddam's "weapons of mass destruction". Your country decided not too. Today, we know that you were wrong. It happens and, please, get over it.
Then Bush came and said that Iraq needed this invasion and that iraqis would welcome Americans. Please, do it again, open a fucking history book printed outside of Israel to understand why this is just fucking ridiculously stupid. If you think that you can support Israel on one side and then invade an arab country and be welcomed, let me tell you that you are fucking nuts.
So France "surrenders" and is "afraid of war"? Hum, maybe it's because France has a 13-centuries long history and has been devastated many times,including twice in just the last century? You never have suffered like we didafter the 2 world wars, you *cannot* understand. I'm not surprised that Germany had the same point of view on the Iraq conflict, they suffered much more than wedid. Actually, even in the countries of "the coalition", most people were against the war.
War is fucking bad, it should always be avoided at all costs. If you don't understand that war is never necessary, unless if for self-defense when someone attacks you, then I would say that your country should get an history before trying to tamper with world affairs.
This "pre emptive war" thing is the biggest amount of crap I have ever seen. Right now, some corporations are making huge amounts of money out of this crap and if you think that they care about your children dying in Iraq, let me tell you that you are plain wrong, it's all about dividend and return on investment.
Oh, and yes, diplomacy WAS possible with Saddam. Did you look at his face in February 2003, when the war was imminent? He gave you all he had! All the missiles he had, everything. He was ready to accept next to anything.
Just because some people abused the "oil for food" program and didn'tfollowthe UN sanctions doesn't mean that Saddam wasn't ready to comply. These sanctions have never been really enforced, sometimes you just need toput some weight in the balance.
This war was, is and will always be unacceptable. The vast majority of the world tells you that since the beginning and still you elected the man that lied.
Oh, and about the "freedom fries" act (that one proved that these peoplein the Congress are not actual adults), I would say I feel very happythat my country is associated to the word Freedom because yes, that'swhat we stand for.
it changed the rate of Earth's rotation. In a Reuters article, a NASA geophysicist theorizes that the quake compacted the Earth enough to speed up the planet's rotation by 3 microseconds
What will be the impact of this on geostationnary satellites? On the measuring of time? On the GPS?
Take a look there, you'll see that that makes sense. They have a nice chart showing the correlation between oil prices rising and the dollar falling. Interesting.
Also the dollar is still the worlds reserve currency.
This is changing too, and this is very bad for the US too. 2 weeks ago China said that they were now getting Euros along with Dollars as their reserve currencies.
Russia and North Korea did that too. If this trend amplifies, be ready for a huge inflation in the US.
... except that this is very risky because OPEC countries are losing purchase power with the falling of the dollar.
Don't forget that they do 60 to 70% of their business outside of the dollar zone and that a dollar losing 1% also means that they lose 1% of their purchase power on 60 to 70% of their imports.
That's one of the reasons why they let the oil prices go up this year (to compensate for the loss) and that's another reason for them to look into the switching to the petro-euro instead of the petro-dollar. That would be catastrophic for the US.
A couple of them survived a landing attempt without a parachute: - Chissov from russia (1942) fell from 6705 meters (20000 feets) on snow, he was wounded but survived. - Nicolas Stephen Alkemade (1944) survived a fall from 5490 meters (16500 feets). He landed on a tree and a pile of snow and survived.
I only have a document in French though: Click here.
Actually we need this system because we need to build a great army for Europ.
We discovered during the Iraq "big mess" that even if we are against the US there are not a lot a things we can do to prevent the US from doing what it wants. A great army will help us acheiving just that.
Some people said that the Iraq war almost killed Europ with countries like Poland, Spain and UK not agreeing with the others. This is in fact very wrong since in these countries the people were massively against the war. For this decision, the Spain governement has been overthrown during the last elections and most think that the UK government will pay in the near future too.
So we have pretty much the same vision, next year we are going to vote for a new constitution and then we'll need an army. Galileo is one step in this process.
Of course it will also have a huge impact on our economics. This will create jobs but will also allow us to sell a new kind of services, mostly in the transportation market which is about to grow enormously with the e-commerce getting bigger and bigger.
I believe the US made a mistake in not improving greatly the GPS during the 20 years of operation. Positionning is about to become a huge market and Europ has a clear advance thanks to Galileo where the US could have been so far ahead already...
You can work 80 hours in a week, but I agree that you would find that 80 hours of work done in one week will be much less effective than 80 hours of week done in 2 weeks.
This is very true. In all areas.
For example, in France we work 35 hours a week, have 6 weeks of paid vacation a year and still we are the most productive people in the world.
Work is not a matter of time, it's a matter of efficacity.
The Kyoto Treaty is not dead, actually most countries will ratify it and follow it. Even if we don't succeed this will boost research on new energies.
The rest of the world doesn't need the US, especially now since its government is becoming more and more arrogant and stupid.
Keep your "save the economic growth" crap and continue printing dollars as fast as you can and burn fat oil from the middle east. Keep your coal power plants because they suck, poison you and look like 1800's technology.
This way your country will finally die. A lot of people around the world are waiting just for that.
The 350 tons of explosives didn't disappeared under the UN's nose but under the US's nose. They disappeared in April 2003. Check it now.
You are too stupid to admit that there are simply no WMDs in Irak despite that even GWB himself and his administration admitted this fact. I believe you are definitely lost.
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Of course, otherwise NASA would do the research itself.
It's only a 'press release' so I'm not convinced...
But if it's not vaporware, this would be a huge breakthrough in many fields.
Maybe you just think about cell phones or laptops or even electric cars, but when I read this I see a huge advance for renewable energy production.
That's one huge problem for solar cells since they need to store energy for use during the night. The same can be said about the wind farms.
Actually that's the big advantage of the dams, they can store water and produce energy only when needed.
I have been waiting for such an announcement for years. But I remain skeptical, as the news doesn't come from a reliable source.
Does anyone have a better link?
Oh and we work at the DNS level with DNS NXDOMAIN anwsers.
That means that these figures I gave in the parent post DO NOT include mistyped URLs going to a registered domain (ie www.gooogle.com which is a domain that does exist) and all the errors caught by msn.com under Internet Explorer and google.com under Firefox.
Also, we only care about HTTP traffic.
That explains maybe the difference between our numbers and the 10% to 20% the studies found...
I work for a company that exploits mistyped URLs.
From our business, we found that a dial up user does an average of 4 bad requests a month and a broadband user an average of 10.
it's a private company, not a public utility
That doesn't give google the right to infringe the law.
If Google wants to sell ads in France, it has to comply with French law.
You are not happy with that? But this doesn't affect you if you are not living in France, you know. Get over it.
Seattle Times carried this story which may be of interest to those addicted
to checking Slashdot for new stories every minute.
Ok, we all know that this one is going to generate at least 500 replies so let
me do the job for you. I'm ready and I've made all the calculations. Of
course, I didn't RTFA.
a) Cost of one space elevator: $10 Billions
b) Cost of a beowulf cluster of it: an order of magnitude higher (if you build
it in Soviet Russia)
c) Cost of the war on Iraq: $147 Billions
d) Man, I have a problem in trying to calculate the amount of money spent by
the US governement for each WMD found in Iraq. I get a freaking "DIVISION BY
ZERO". Must be some kind of Micro$oft bug. Please someone try it on FreeBSD
before it dies.
e) Amount of money spent for each Iraqi casualty (estimates of Iraqis
casualties during the war range from 1 citizen to 200 Millions citizens so
let's take 48571 as a good estimate): $3,026,497.29, that's the paper value of
3.14159265 Library of Congress at normal pressure and temperature conditions.
f) ???
g) PROFIT!!!
h) FP?
i) Getting a Funny +5 or being ridiculous and modded down to hell on Slashdot:
priceless.
I'm tired of this anti-french crap.
My country was fighting, winning and losing wars long before yourcontinent waseven discovered. For once in your life, please open a fucking historybook.
I spent a year and a half in your country, have you ever been in mine?
What happened to the USA? Please someone explain to me, what the fuckhappenedto your country?
Man, like hundreds of thousand of French citizens I was in the fuckingstreetswith a large panel saying "WE LOVE YOU AMERICANS" on September, 11th2001. Mycountry sent its best firemens to help yours trying to save lives out of the WTC ruins.
Your country saved mine during the second world war and many of us went in Normandie to put some flowers on your soldiers' tombs thinking of the great sacrifice that it was for you and your country. If you think that we canforget that then you don't know anything about us.
But then, everything changed, just like that. What went wrong?
In 2001, Rumsfeld, Condi Rice and even Bush repeated, on the TV, that Iraq and Saddam were not a threat and suddenly, in 2002, Saddam became the worstevilin the world? Give me a break.
France's position was that we should have given more time of the UNinspectorsto check for Saddam's "weapons of mass destruction". Your country decided not too. Today, we know that you were wrong. It happens and, please, get over it.
Then Bush came and said that Iraq needed this invasion and that iraqis would welcome Americans. Please, do it again, open a fucking history book printed outside of Israel to understand why this is just fucking ridiculously stupid. If you think that you can support Israel on one side and then invade an arab country and be welcomed, let me tell you that you are fucking nuts.
So France "surrenders" and is "afraid of war"? Hum, maybe it's because France has a 13-centuries long history and has been devastated many times,including twice in just the last century? You never have suffered like we didafter the 2 world wars, you *cannot* understand. I'm not surprised that Germany had the same point of view on the Iraq conflict, they suffered much more than wedid. Actually, even in the countries of "the coalition", most people were against the war.
War is fucking bad, it should always be avoided at all costs. If you don't understand that war is never necessary, unless if for self-defense when someone attacks you, then I would say that your country should get an history before trying to tamper with world affairs.
This "pre emptive war" thing is the biggest amount of crap I have ever seen. Right now, some corporations are making huge amounts of money out of this crap and if you think that they care about your children dying in Iraq, let me tell you that you are plain wrong, it's all about dividend and return on investment.
Oh, and yes, diplomacy WAS possible with Saddam. Did you look at his face in February 2003, when the war was imminent? He gave you all he had! All the missiles he had, everything. He was ready to accept next to anything.
Just because some people abused the "oil for food" program and didn'tfollowthe UN sanctions doesn't mean that Saddam wasn't ready to comply. These sanctions have never been really enforced, sometimes you just need toput some weight in the balance.
This war was, is and will always be unacceptable. The vast majority of the world tells you that since the beginning and still you elected the man that lied.
Oh, and about the "freedom fries" act (that one proved that these peoplein the Congress are not actual adults), I would say I feel very happythat my country is associated to the word Freedom because yes, that'swhat we stand for.
it changed the rate of Earth's rotation. In a Reuters article, a NASA geophysicist theorizes that the quake compacted the Earth enough to speed up the planet's rotation by 3 microseconds
What will be the impact of this on geostationnary satellites?
On the measuring of time?
On the GPS?
Including the prices for raw materials, which are increasing right now. This month, gold reached its highest price in 16 years.
Well, I said it was ONE of the reasons.
Take a look there, you'll see that that makes sense. They have a nice chart showing the correlation between oil prices rising and the dollar falling. Interesting.
Also the dollar is still the worlds reserve currency.
This is changing too, and this is very bad for the US too. 2 weeks ago China said that they were now getting Euros along with Dollars as their reserve currencies.
Russia and North Korea did that too. If this trend amplifies, be ready for a huge inflation in the US.
... except that this is very risky because OPEC countries are losing purchase power with the falling of the dollar.
Don't forget that they do 60 to 70% of their business outside of the dollar zone and that a dollar losing 1% also means that they lose 1% of their purchase power on 60 to 70% of their imports.
That's one of the reasons why they let the oil prices go up this year (to compensate for the loss) and that's another reason for them to look into the switching to the petro-euro instead of the petro-dollar. That would be catastrophic for the US.
Read my sig to get further details.
And then we are back with the "Mine is bigger than yours" speech.
Thousands of people died. You should be ashamed to just write down things like this.
What about sending some money to this people to help them recover from this tragedy?
France, for instance, you can get a T1 line for values near 50$/month, similar thing in Sweden.
Actually, in France you get 8 Mbps down and 800 Kbps up DSL for 14,90 Euros (20 bucks a month).
Check it there.
Thanks wikipedia.
Link:
Click here
A couple of them survived a landing attempt without a parachute:
- Chissov from russia (1942) fell from 6705 meters (20000 feets) on snow, he was wounded but survived.
- Nicolas Stephen Alkemade (1944) survived a fall from 5490 meters (16500 feets). He landed on a tree and a pile of snow and survived.
I only have a document in French though:
Click here.
Yes, you can, and as a French I would like to thank you and your country for this.
I hope it'll last.
Thank you Poland!
One of the biggest ISP in Europe is using ip addresses that matches 82.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 so I think you are stopping email from Europe too.
But maybe you don't want it either.
I didn't say that there was a link, I just said that Galileo is one step in the direction of the building of an army.
We didn't have to wait for Iraq to understand that we needed this army...
Actually, it's very hard to get a visa these days.
I'm french and I worked in the US for a year and a half. I had a VERY hard time to get my visa and I heard it's getting even worse.
But no big deal though because the "Brain drain" seems to be reversing since the mid-90s. Looks like scientists now prefer going to India and China...
Actually we need this system because we need to build a great army for Europ.
We discovered during the Iraq "big mess" that even if we are against the US there are not a lot a things we can do to prevent the US from doing what it wants. A great army will help us acheiving just that.
Some people said that the Iraq war almost killed Europ with countries like Poland, Spain and UK not agreeing with the others. This is in fact very wrong since in these countries the people were massively against the war. For this decision, the Spain governement has been overthrown during the last elections and most think that the UK government will pay in the near future too.
So we have pretty much the same vision, next year we are going to vote for a new constitution and then we'll need an army. Galileo is one step in this process.
Of course it will also have a huge impact on our economics. This will create jobs but will also allow us to sell a new kind of services, mostly in the transportation market which is about to grow enormously with the e-commerce getting bigger and bigger.
I believe the US made a mistake in not improving greatly the GPS during the 20 years of operation. Positionning is about to become a huge market and Europ has a clear advance thanks to Galileo where the US could have been so far ahead already...
[sarcasm]
Yes, of course, they cheated. Otherwise the US would have arrived first.
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You can work 80 hours in a week, but I agree that you would find that 80 hours of work done in one week will be much less effective than 80 hours of week done in 2 weeks.
This is very true. In all areas.
For example, in France we work 35 hours a week, have 6 weeks of paid vacation a year and still we are the most productive people in the world.
Work is not a matter of time, it's a matter of efficacity.
The Kyoto Treaty is not dead, actually most countries will ratify it and follow it. Even if we don't succeed this will boost research on new energies.
The rest of the world doesn't need the US, especially now since its government is becoming more and more arrogant and stupid.
Keep your "save the economic growth" crap and continue printing dollars as fast as you can and burn fat oil from the middle east. Keep your coal power plants because they suck, poison you and look like 1800's technology.
This way your country will finally die. A lot of people around the world are waiting just for that.
I went to the website you link to and I saw no proof for terrorism link to Irak. Lie.
Human rights violation ? Ok, the US violates the human rights too with the Guantanamo camp. W should invade the US too.
The 350 tons of explosives didn't disappeared under the UN's nose but under the US's nose. They disappeared in April 2003. Check it now.
You are too stupid to admit that there are simply no WMDs in Irak despite that even GWB himself and his administration admitted this fact. I believe you are definitely lost.