If you are spending several billions on making terrorists logistics harder, you had better come up with something better than requiring a few extra shoulder fired missiles. Thats is simply not sufficient bang for the bucks (so to speak).
So, theres is one part of government that tries to do the right thing, amazing.
Isn't it rather obvious that any safety measure should be subjected to some kind of cost benefit analysis? Remembering that not all costs are measured in dollars, passenger discomfort is also a cost. If the fools behind banning taking liquids onboard airplanes had tried such an analysis, the ban might never have happened.
So, what you are saying is that a 40 billion investment will protect airplanes from those terrorist to stupid to read a newspaper and figure out that they should bring TWO missiles?
A related problem sites that have their logs available for anyone to see. If they log the referer, your "secret" site will show up as a link, which Google will follow.
Me. Even assuming that someone is mailing around mailbombs or whatever, the chance of anything nasty happening to me as a result of opening an anonymous package is so close to zero that it can be ignored.
The situation is different if you have reason to believe that you specifically is targeted.
Not on this side (the right one) of the atalntic it's not. There is definitely not anyone in Denmark thats going to propose contracting out enforcement of anything, and I doubt any other EU member would do any such thing.
Of course from May you have to buy 25 EU member presidents
Which will be extremely difficult since there is nowhere near 25 presidents to buy (Denmark, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden and several others does not have presidents).
Oh, and what on earth do you want to buy the german president for, he doesn't have any power anyway.
I Herning (Denmark) of all places, someone has been smart enough to set up signs saying that the "green wave" is at 60 km/h, right besides the signs saying that the speed limit is 70 km/h. It works absolutely wonderfully.
Naturally, there are always someone speeding up to 80 or so and stopping at all the lights.
Denmark is 25 mandatory. Until last year it was 30, but saturdays were counted (a leftover from the days when a workweek was 6 days). Most people do actually get 30 days now.
Note that mandatory cuts both ways. Companies must provide 25 days of paid vacation, and workers must take them. The last is to ensure that you cannot be pressurised into not taking your vacation.
Prehistoric cave paintings are generally believed to have been done to ensure success in the hunt. So making cave paintings was not a waste of time (from the artists perspective). It may not have worked, but it was part of an attempt at collecting food.
It would be nice if Integer and String weren't final.
No it wouldn't. There is a very very good reason for those classes continuing to be final. If they were not final, it would be possible to create a mutable subclass of String, causing everyone to need to do defensive copies of all Strings which is given to constructors, or otherwise kept in an object.
Adding electronics to drives to gain more space is not a particular good idea in this day and age. You are not going to get 1000 bytes out of a 100 byte read very often, probably only if you are reading text. As you note Video and Graphics are usually stored in formats that are already compressed, so storing them on a drive with hardware compression wont win you much. And as the article says, text doesn't take up any noticable amount of space anyway. So even if you mostly care about your source code etc, you probably doesn't have anywhere near a GB, which is 1% of a modern drive.
Furthermore, compression and decompression takes time, so it would lower the performance of the drive somewhat (no idea how much, but some).
Wasn't Stacker those guys who made a piece of hardware to place between your drive and the IDE controller, to do the compression?
One reason could be that the information is urgent, and that if you haven't read before tommorow I should give you a call.
Another reason could be that I knew that you were using an exchange server, and that therefore there is a substantial risk that the mail did not get to you.
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If you are spending several billions on making terrorists logistics harder, you had better come up with something better than requiring a few extra shoulder fired missiles. Thats is simply not sufficient bang for the bucks (so to speak).
So, theres is one part of government that tries to do the right thing, amazing.
Isn't it rather obvious that any safety measure should be subjected to some kind of cost benefit analysis? Remembering that not all costs are measured in dollars, passenger discomfort is also a cost. If the fools behind banning taking liquids onboard airplanes had tried such an analysis, the ban might never have happened.
So, what you are saying is that a 40 billion investment will protect airplanes from those terrorist to stupid to read a newspaper and figure out that they should bring TWO missiles?
Sounds like a really smart investment.
Lower than mine apparently :-( I was around when user account where introduced, but didn't see the point in getting one. Therefore the rather high ID.
But Sealand is NOT an island in any reasonable sense of the word.
The SMS'es were send to every single mobile number in Telmores assigned block of mobile phone numbers. That cannot possibly count as accidental.
I'm assuming you are talking about a "danish". We don't normally use cream cheese, but other sorts of cream or jelly.
And its calles: Wienerbrød, which literally translates as Vienese (sp?) bread, Vienna (Wien in austrian) being the capital of Austria.
A related problem sites that have their logs available for anyone to see. If they log the referer, your "secret" site will show up as a link, which Google will follow.
Me. Even assuming that someone is mailing around mailbombs or whatever, the chance of anything nasty happening to me as a result of opening an anonymous package is so close to zero that it can be ignored.
The situation is different if you have reason to believe that you specifically is targeted.
Mhuuuuhahahahahaha
(Yes, I'm danish)
But that doesn't work anymore either. It says that the account for modasylum.com has been suspended.
Not on this side (the right one) of the atalntic it's not. There is definitely not anyone in Denmark thats going to propose contracting out enforcement of anything, and I doubt any other EU member would do any such thing.
Once you get to the asteroid, there is plenty of reaction mass available. Just throw off some of the asteroid itself, at high speed.
Of course from May you have to buy 25 EU member presidents
Which will be extremely difficult since there is nowhere near 25 presidents to buy (Denmark, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden and several others does not have presidents).
Oh, and what on earth do you want to buy the german president for, he doesn't have any power anyway.
Mussolini is long dead, might you be thinking of someone else, Milosevich maybe.
It is rather tempting to make snide remarks about history books around here, but I shall try to refrain.
50 hz power is very common on the right side of the atlantic ocean.
I Herning (Denmark) of all places, someone has been smart enough to set up signs saying that the "green wave" is at 60 km/h, right besides the signs saying that the speed limit is 70 km/h. It works absolutely wonderfully.
Naturally, there are always someone speeding up to 80 or so and stopping at all the lights.
Denmark is 25 mandatory. Until last year it was 30, but saturdays were counted (a leftover from the days when a workweek was 6 days). Most people do actually get 30 days now.
Note that mandatory cuts both ways. Companies must provide 25 days of paid vacation, and workers must take them. The last is to ensure that you cannot be pressurised into not taking your vacation.
Have you started kicking yourself yet, after all you did say the forbidden word.
The IP address you get can be linked to your ISP, which no doubt has a log showing who had which IP address when, so you are not truly anonymous.
There is such a thing as a triple band GSM phone (900/1800/1900), mine as an example (a Motorola whatever).
Prehistoric cave paintings are generally believed to have been done to ensure success in the hunt. So making cave paintings was not a waste of time (from the artists perspective). It may not have worked, but it was part of an attempt at collecting food.
It would be nice if Integer and String weren't final.
No it wouldn't. There is a very very good reason for those classes continuing to be final. If they were not final, it would be possible to create a mutable subclass of String, causing everyone to need to do defensive copies of all Strings which is given to constructors, or otherwise kept in an object.
Adding electronics to drives to gain more space is not a particular good idea in this day and age. You are not going to get 1000 bytes out of a 100 byte read very often, probably only if you are reading text. As you note Video and Graphics are usually stored in formats that are already compressed, so storing them on a drive with hardware compression wont win you much. And as the article says, text doesn't take up any noticable amount of space anyway. So even if you mostly care about your source code etc, you probably doesn't have anywhere near a GB, which is 1% of a modern drive.
Furthermore, compression and decompression takes time, so it would lower the performance of the drive somewhat (no idea how much, but some).
Wasn't Stacker those guys who made a piece of hardware to place between your drive and the IDE controller, to do the compression?
One reason could be that the information is urgent, and that if you haven't read before tommorow I should give you a call.
Another reason could be that I knew that you were using an exchange server, and that therefore there is a substantial risk that the mail did not get to you.