Am I the only one out there who's psyched that they used an approach plate as one of the demo PDFs? That's exactly the kind of usage I'm anticipating these being perfect for
Funny, I do the same thing; swapping back and forth whenever I feel like it, and I've never noticed a difference either way. It's certainly not as hard to learn as writing with either hand.
Am I the only one amazed that being in your seat, with all of your safety harnesses fastened, and your suit/helmet on and sealed, isn't absolutely required during re-entry? Having your seat belts fastened during takeoff/landing is legally required in a junky Cessna 152, much less the multi-billion dollar space shuttle
My father forwarded this on to me and I think it's a perfect appraisal of the situation. The goal isn't necessarily to kill anyone but rather just to keep everyone riled up and unable to focus on what's important.
I'm only basing this on the summary text, but you're telling me that we can get 30 years of space program for about the same price as 3 years of war in the mid-east?
I'm not suggesting you can tell exactly what's going on; however if I, as a peer to this topsite ISP, feel like analyzing the traffic flowing through me to them, it isn't to hard to pick out an IP that's providing a steady flow of 1gig files to steady list of 10 other IPs. Wouldn't that look suspicious to you?
I'd imagine there are probably about 10 - 15 major peering points for traffic exchange in the global internet (more, less, you tell me?) It would be very simple for law enforcement to do a quick top 100 users graph from those points, a little bit of correlation, weed out the obviously ok sites (CERN, etc) and voila! Your users exchanging gigs of data on a steady basis and out like sore thumbs. Then the Feds drop by for a closer look...
Has everyone forgotten that what appears to be a point to point connection in fact travels over many public routers, each of which are subject to whatever level of scrutiny it's owner feels like applying? They might not be able to tell exactly what you're exchanging, but based on timing and size, can make a decent guess.
I'd love a way to choose an existing profile in a separate directory. I've had my Mozilla profile under "My documents" for some time now and the hassle of moving profile information around is the one thing that's keeping me from using Firefox and Thunderbird on my home machine.
Did anyone notice that both site's text describing OGG is identical? Including (possible) spelling errors? (eg. "If you're a Windows user, download Winamp 5, which copes with Ogg")
Microsoft is at least partially right on this one. While any given distribution of Linux may be free, any process based on Linux will have costs associated with it.
However, given that you've got to spend money (and/or time) one way or the other, do the benefits of a Linux based (open) process outweigh those of a Microsoft based (closed) one? Everyone has their own answer to this. For me, it's worth the up-front investment of my time to put my data into a format that is not exclusively controlled by an outside interest. YMMV.
I keep thinking of this sort of thing in terms of Language. Language is a medium, a means to an end. No one charges me to speak English, no one entity controls it, and I'm free to modify it however I see fit and distribute those changes to my peers; yet somehow I seem to make a living using it because I'm not selling my talking/writing directly but rather what I accomplish with it.
I know that using infrasound as a weapon was mentioned in Robert Heinlein's "The Sixth Column" which was first published in 1949. Any earlier examples out there?
I can attest to the fact that high end Cisco content engines are using the Linux kernel. I don't recall which version (we've since unplugged and returned them) but it sure surprised me when I saw the boot log.
Why not have an auto version checking feature? That way you're always in the know about the latest version and not forced to take any action you don't feel like taking.
"You have version x.xx, the latest version is y.yy; we recommend that you consider an upgrade" "Go to blah.blah.com/blah to download"
I find it interesting that BeFS is mentioned so prominently by each of the developers as a goal for an FS to aspire to, yet the OS itself has basically died even though it was given away for free. What does this tell us?
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It appears that recent versions of NoScript block this by default with ABE (http://noscript.net/abe/index.html)
Let's hear it for NoScript!
Am I the only one out there who's psyched that they used an approach plate as one of the demo PDFs? That's exactly the kind of usage I'm anticipating these being perfect for
Funny, I do the same thing; swapping back and forth whenever I feel like it, and I've never noticed a difference either way. It's certainly not as hard to learn as writing with either hand.
But _I_ was going to call it mousebidextrous
Am I the only one amazed that being in your seat, with all of your safety harnesses fastened, and your suit/helmet on and sealed, isn't absolutely required during re-entry? Having your seat belts fastened during takeoff/landing is legally required in a junky Cessna 152, much less the multi-billion dollar space shuttle
My father forwarded this on to me and I think it's a perfect appraisal of the situation. The goal isn't necessarily to kill anyone but rather just to keep everyone riled up and unable to focus on what's important.
http://www.wondermark.com/d/220.html
I'm only basing this on the summary text, but you're telling me that we can get 30 years of space program for about the same price as 3 years of war in the mid-east?
Sounds like a good deal to me.
Make a cell phone that's as cool and easy to use as the ipod.
Doesn't Yoda actually say "There is another Skywalker?" Sounds like it'd been planned at least before Empire.
"Look how quickly it stops, hovers, sideways, sideways, straight down," Norris tells Simon.
This sounds just like the Terri Schiavo case, except set in space!
I'm not suggesting you can tell exactly what's going on; however if I, as a peer to this topsite ISP, feel like analyzing the traffic flowing through me to them, it isn't to hard to pick out an IP that's providing a steady flow of 1gig files to steady list of 10 other IPs. Wouldn't that look suspicious to you?
I'd imagine there are probably about 10 - 15 major peering points for traffic exchange in the global internet (more, less, you tell me?) It would be very simple for law enforcement to do a quick top 100 users graph from those points, a little bit of correlation, weed out the obviously ok sites (CERN, etc) and voila! Your users exchanging gigs of data on a steady basis and out like sore thumbs. Then the Feds drop by for a closer look...
Has everyone forgotten that what appears to be a point to point connection in fact travels over many public routers, each of which are subject to whatever level of scrutiny it's owner feels like applying? They might not be able to tell exactly what you're exchanging, but based on timing and size, can make a decent guess.
I'd love a way to choose an existing profile in a separate directory. I've had my Mozilla profile under "My documents" for some time now and the hassle of moving profile information around is the one thing that's keeping me from using Firefox and Thunderbird on my home machine.
Did anyone notice that both site's text describing OGG is identical? Including (possible) spelling errors? (eg. "If you're a Windows user, download Winamp 5, which copes with Ogg")
Weird.
Wait, so is GIF gunk or junk? Years of debate have yet to settle the issue...
Microsoft is at least partially right on this one. While any given distribution of Linux may be free, any process based on Linux will have costs associated with it.
However, given that you've got to spend money (and/or time) one way or the other, do the benefits of a Linux based (open) process outweigh those of a Microsoft based (closed) one? Everyone has their own answer to this. For me, it's worth the up-front investment of my time to put my data into a format that is not exclusively controlled by an outside interest. YMMV.
I keep thinking of this sort of thing in terms of Language. Language is a medium, a means to an end. No one charges me to speak English, no one entity controls it, and I'm free to modify it however I see fit and distribute those changes to my peers; yet somehow I seem to make a living using it because I'm not selling my talking/writing directly but rather what I accomplish with it.
Could you make the same argument for software?
As a person named Jess, I have to say this is the best Slashdot story I've seen in years!
Although I am a bit disturbed to find out that Ernest Friedman-Hill is in fact my creator. Mom's got some explaining to do!
I know that using infrasound as a weapon was mentioned in Robert Heinlein's "The Sixth Column" which was first published in 1949. Any earlier examples out there?
I can attest to the fact that high end Cisco content engines are using the Linux kernel. I don't recall which version (we've since unplugged and returned them) but it sure surprised me when I saw the boot log.
Sounds a wee bit kinky to me
Why not have an auto version checking feature? That way you're always in the know about the latest version and not forced to take any action you don't feel like taking.
"You have version x.xx, the latest version is y.yy; we recommend that you consider an upgrade"
"Go to blah.blah.com/blah to download"
I find it interesting that BeFS is mentioned so prominently by each of the developers as a goal for an FS to aspire to, yet the OS itself has basically died even though it was given away for free. What does this tell us?