hmm, don't know, the sum seems incredible low. TFA talks about 2 square miles of contaminated soil, NASA will pay the $96M, Airforce aditionally $50M.
one area in Germany (5.5 ha size or 0.02 square miles) was decontaminated between 1999 and 2001 (formerly used by a dye manufacturer) - for the amount of €33M.
either the US is much more effective in soil decon or I don't have all needed infos about this project...
Picard's Star Trek post-dated Douglas Adams' take on the replicating tea machine, which was a sadly far more likely outcome than the Star Trek ideal.
hey, we're talking about the 24th century here. maybe Picard prefers his Earl Grey as almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:)
A far more interesting exploration of replicating technology within the home was in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Although aspects of the exploration within that book went somewhat esoteric it did at least give a hard sci-fi contemplation of the impact of the technology, instead of using it as the background to space opera.
/. and literature, a strange but fitting combination... another nice novel about the possibilities of a self-made/replication-tech society is Doctorow's Makers.
if you are honestly interested in claiming your copyrights this is the best (and arguable only) way to enforce the license. when you are "only" trying to get this known in the community you could describe the issue at the mailing list of gpl violations.
I don't know, one of the commenters at piratebay wrote "Wow, what a worthless bunch of crap...pictures, purchase orders, resumes, rosters, inventories. *Yawn*."
probably boring for the sensationalistic bay-crowd but not "nothing" in the sense of "unimportant".
A large group of people voted for the first submission, while a different large group of people voted for the second submission.
I for one voted for both as interesting. imo 'interesting' is value-free - and both POVs regarding the same paper are thrilling (as a substitute for interesting...) - I don't understand the/. modders attitude to misuse 'interesting' as 'I agree'.
cool toy, and the rationale "The number one reason we did this was because we were told it wouldn’t be possible” is THE reason why we as mankind are still innovative (okay, "because I can" is similar important)
"I know I already shit on the floor, but I'm wearing a diaper now so it's all good!"
where is badanalogyguy?
so you're saying that one mistake (data loss; floor shitting) will render every countermeasure (encryption; diapering) invalid? nah, I don't think so. The insurance company handled the data loss quite competent - they disclosed it early (afaik) and implemented a regime that will make future data losses much harder.
I looked for the desktop PC prices, too - nothing within the 20 or so pages except the executive summery. but I didn't checked all of the references, most likely the source for the claim.
the summary mentions the £3.5k, but with a slightly different context than TFS.
Given the cuts that they are having to make in response to the fiscal deficit it is ridiculous that some departments spend an average of £3,500 on a desktop PC.
is this with or without software? add a Citrix licence, SAP access, some security token with a user licence, MS Office, AD user access licence,... and it is at least thinkable that one workstation is expensive as hell.
the homepage is funny, if you click on the big fat "Stay Smart Online" logo on the upper left you get a message box with the content "You are now leaving the Stay Smart Online Alert Service website." sure, technically correct (stay smart alert service is different to stay smart), but nonetheless irritating...
I thought the problem was a failure of ios to check the certificate chain? It is a mitm attack but one with a (for the attacked user) valid SSL connection. The patch fixes the incorrect certificate handling and will throw an exception.
yesterday we read about Akamai, apparently origin of 15-30% of the web traffic. Google's service seems to be similar to Akamai's offering, but free of cost.
Tomorrow Akamai, the day after tomorrow the world?
according to the International Energy Outlook the world energy consumption in 2007 was 495 quadrillion British thermal units. If I calculated correctly one year of [Steve] Jobs is worth 16.56 trillion Watt years.
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just? IANAtoxicologist but this sounds - uhm - unhealthy
hmm, don't know, the sum seems incredible low. TFA talks about 2 square miles of contaminated soil, NASA will pay the $96M, Airforce aditionally $50M.
one area in Germany (5.5 ha size or 0.02 square miles) was decontaminated between 1999 and 2001 (formerly used by a dye manufacturer) - for the amount of €33M.
either the US is much more effective in soil decon or I don't have all needed infos about this project...
15-87,5% profit. without risk.
they made an economical decision how to invest the 1.6M - and it is a very lucrative investion.
Picard's Star Trek post-dated Douglas Adams' take on the replicating tea machine, which was a sadly far more likely outcome than the Star Trek ideal.
hey, we're talking about the 24th century here. maybe Picard prefers his Earl Grey as almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea :)
A far more interesting exploration of replicating technology within the home was in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Although aspects of the exploration within that book went somewhat esoteric it did at least give a hard sci-fi contemplation of the impact of the technology, instead of using it as the background to space opera.
/. and literature, a strange but fitting combination... another nice novel about the possibilities of a self-made/replication-tech society is Doctorow's Makers.
Get one.
if you are honestly interested in claiming your copyrights this is the best (and arguable only) way to enforce the license. when you are "only" trying to get this known in the community you could describe the issue at the mailing list of gpl violations.
not only Cyber but they use in the Excel sheets Comic Sans as default font.
They are so professional!
I don't know, one of the commenters at piratebay wrote "Wow, what a worthless bunch of crap...pictures, purchase orders, resumes, rosters, inventories. *Yawn*."
probably boring for the sensationalistic bay-crowd but not "nothing" in the sense of "unimportant".
A large group of people voted for the first submission, while a different large group of people voted for the second submission.
I for one voted for both as interesting. imo 'interesting' is value-free - and both POVs regarding the same paper are thrilling (as a substitute for interesting...) - I don't understand the /. modders attitude to misuse 'interesting' as 'I agree'.
Those clever Spaniards have already mastered solar power without the sun.
ftfy, the German mentioned in the blog was the language of the Swiss news report about an article in the Spanish paper El Mundo.
If you are unhappy about all the nations mentioned just read this
oops, thanks for the correction. Typical German that we use 'regime' for describing both a terror ~ and a medical treatment ~ :)
Any doubts this PC wasn't going to happen should now disappear as this alpha board is expected to be almost the same as the final production unit.
these are good news, but only an announcement, there are many reasons a mass production can still fail.
RMS will sue himself?
I don't like these guys any more than I like the government and don't trust them any further than I could throw them.
you have a point here. But you can throw those 2 guys much farther than the ~ 5M people of the executive branch of the US government...
3, 2, ....
cool toy, and the rationale "The number one reason we did this was because we were told it wouldn’t be possible” is THE reason why we as mankind are still innovative (okay, "because I can" is similar important)
"I know I already shit on the floor, but I'm wearing a diaper now so it's all good!"
where is badanalogyguy?
so you're saying that one mistake (data loss; floor shitting) will render every countermeasure (encryption; diapering) invalid? nah, I don't think so. The insurance company handled the data loss quite competent - they disclosed it early (afaik) and implemented a regime that will make future data losses much harder.
a HP 500B microtower is around 200EUR without VAT. not the fastest machine but usable for office stuff.
I looked for the desktop PC prices, too - nothing within the 20 or so pages except the executive summery. but I didn't checked all of the references, most likely the source for the claim.
the summary mentions the £3.5k, but with a slightly different context than TFS.
Given the cuts that they are having to make in response to the fiscal deficit it is ridiculous that some departments spend an average of £3,500 on a desktop PC.
is this with or without software? add a Citrix licence, SAP access, some security token with a user licence, MS Office, AD user access licence, ... and it is at least thinkable that one workstation is expensive as hell.
new hardware with pre-installed malware is rare but not unheard of. a short search shows external drives, photo frames and laptops.
the homepage is funny, if you click on the big fat "Stay Smart Online" logo on the upper left you get a message box with the content "You are now leaving the Stay Smart Online Alert Service website." sure, technically correct (stay smart alert service is different to stay smart), but nonetheless irritating...
and the advisories list only Apple updates :)
I thought the problem was a failure of ios to check the certificate chain? It is a mitm attack but one with a (for the attacked user) valid SSL connection. The patch fixes the incorrect certificate handling and will throw an exception.
Bored of the Rings, I thought this parody is well-known enough so even the misleading "Hobbits" instead of "Boggies" is sufficient. I was wrong.
but maybe he is aware that Hobbits are the filthy guys (at least in BOTR)?
yesterday we read about Akamai, apparently origin of 15-30% of the web traffic. Google's service seems to be similar to Akamai's offering, but free of cost.
Tomorrow Akamai, the day after tomorrow the world?
according to the International Energy Outlook the world energy consumption in 2007 was 495 quadrillion British thermal units. If I calculated correctly one year of [Steve] Jobs is worth 16.56 trillion Watt years.