*sigh* If they think that running a dual-boot machine is a sign of someone engaging in illegal activities because you can allegedly "hide your activity", then I can imagine what they'd think if you booted from a Live CD, which doesn't write ANYTHING to the hard disk at all. That's what I'm saying.
If you're talking about periodicals or school textbooks then e-book readers make sense to me, but if you're purchasing a piece of literature that you're going to keep beyond next week, then I think e-books are more trouble than they're worth, especially if someone can arbitrarily decide that you shouldn't be allowed access to something you've already paid for, regardless of whether the person mentioned "should have made backup copies". I'd feel less strongly about this if there was no DRM involved, but as is, I say "no way".
I guess University researchers can be as desperate for attention as anybody else can be. They're right on the bleeding edge of misrepresenting what this thing does. It's not really "flying", it's not really a "robot", either. I think this is more suitable for YouTube than Slashdot or any other (pseudo)news-source.
Fuck you, sir. If the U.S. hadn't developed and used the bomb, Germany would have in short order, and do you REALLY THINK that they would have stopped at dropping just two of them? Hell no, they would have bombed all their enemies back into the stone age. It sucked to have had to use them in the first place, but at the VERY LEAST WW2 would have gone on for YEARS longer otherwise.
One, can you live without email? I know I could. Two, if email was a new idea, how would you build it from the ground up, to prevent this sort of abuse?
Beyond Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only valid use for nuclear weapons has been as a threat. Actually using them at all is incredibly irresponsible and stupid. Dismantle them and find some peaceful, constructive use for the fissionable and otherwise radioactive materials. That being said, we need to keep a few of them around, intact, ready to use, because humans are still stupid and violent animals, therefore we NEED the deterrent of the threat of their use to keep the more violent and irrational ones in check.
Like that's going to stop anybody on/. with an excess of both disposable income and body fat from looking at getting one. And by the way mister smartass, they sureashelldo still make manual push mowers, they're far from obsolete. You should go buy one tomorrow, and work on losing that lard-ass of yours.
Hear, hear. The same crowd that this appeals to needs things to get them OFF the couch and moving around NOT more things they can sit on their backsides and just WATCH. Better yet, get rid of their power mowers completely and get them a push mower instead, they're great exercise.
I've searched and searched for dimmable CFLs, but what I discovered is that they've all been taken off the market because there have been some serious reliability issues above and beyond the problems that CFLs already have.
I would tend to agree with this, simply because so many bogus "search engines" get whole blocks of common misspellings for popular sites just to try to generate traffic/revenue on people's typos, thus the smart thing to do is use Google. Aside from the fact that everybody uses Google anyway, that is.
What I'm seeing here is all the disadvantages and dangers of riding a motorcycle, but without any of the speed and maneuverability. I'll pass, thank you. Someone out there was making electric motorcycles, I'd sooner go for that than something like this.
If you outlaw nukes, only outlaw countries will have nukes.
Yes, I know I'm paraphrasing pro-gun rhetoric here, but I believe it applies. The only way that International Law works, is if all the countries involved agree to abide by said laws -- which we all know doesn't work often enough. One day, assuming the human race actually lives long enough to see it, we MAY evolve enough, physioligically and mentally, that our needs for things like solving problems with aggression will become obsolete; THEN things like nuclear weapons will have a chance to go the way of the dinosaurs. Until that day comes this technology will (unfortunately) have to exist. You can't put the genie back in the bottle once you've let it out, after all; knowing something is possible is half the battle towards MAKING it possible, even if we effectively buried the knowledge of how to create nuclear fission, physicists would work backwards and rediscover how to make it happen anyway. I applaud Obama's sentiments on the subject, as I applaud the realism of his thoughts when he says "not in my lifetime".
Yet another so-called technology article almost utterly devoid of any real content. Doesn't tell you anything about the alleged technology other than showing you a static picture of what may as well be tinfoil. If someone finds a real article about this development could they please post it? Thanks.
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It's not you. The page's author used Microsoft FrontPage to create it, so naturally it doesn't render correctly unless you're using IE.
*sigh*
If they think that running a dual-boot machine is a sign of someone engaging in illegal activities because you can allegedly "hide your activity", then I can imagine what they'd think if you booted from a Live CD, which doesn't write ANYTHING to the hard disk at all. That's what I'm saying.
If you're talking about periodicals or school textbooks then e-book readers make sense to me, but if you're purchasing a piece of literature that you're going to keep beyond next week, then I think e-books are more trouble than they're worth, especially if someone can arbitrarily decide that you shouldn't be allowed access to something you've already paid for, regardless of whether the person mentioned "should have made backup copies". I'd feel less strongly about this if there was no DRM involved, but as is, I say "no way".
I swear I've seen this posted here in the last 12 months.
Space ethernet + conficker = Skynet???!?
If they think dual-booting is "hiding illegal activity" I wonder what they'd think of booting from a Fedora Core Live CD?
I want my vote back, damnit. :-/
Let's put aside the question of whether or not this is actually safe, and discuss how efficient this form of power transmission is? Anyone? Bueller?
I guess University researchers can be as desperate for attention as anybody else can be. They're right on the bleeding edge of misrepresenting what this thing does. It's not really "flying", it's not really a "robot", either. I think this is more suitable for YouTube than Slashdot or any other (pseudo)news-source.
Fuck you, sir. If the U.S. hadn't developed and used the bomb, Germany would have in short order, and do you REALLY THINK that they would have stopped at dropping just two of them? Hell no, they would have bombed all their enemies back into the stone age. It sucked to have had to use them in the first place, but at the VERY LEAST WW2 would have gone on for YEARS longer otherwise.
One, can you live without email? I know I could.
Two, if email was a new idea, how would you build it from the ground up, to prevent this sort of abuse?
Beyond Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only valid use for nuclear weapons has been as a threat. Actually using them at all is incredibly irresponsible and stupid. Dismantle them and find some peaceful, constructive use for the fissionable and otherwise radioactive materials. That being said, we need to keep a few of them around, intact, ready to use, because humans are still stupid and violent animals, therefore we NEED the deterrent of the threat of their use to keep the more violent and irrational ones in check.
This is an industrial mower.
Like that's going to stop anybody on /. with an excess of both disposable income and body fat from looking at getting one. And by the way mister smartass, they sure as hell do still make manual push mowers, they're far from obsolete. You should go buy one tomorrow, and work on losing that lard-ass of yours.
Hear, hear. The same crowd that this appeals to needs things to get them OFF the couch and moving around NOT more things they can sit on their backsides and just WATCH. Better yet, get rid of their power mowers completely and get them a push mower instead, they're great exercise.
Your girlfriend wants steak.
I've searched and searched for dimmable CFLs, but what I discovered is that they've all been taken off the market because there have been some serious reliability issues above and beyond the problems that CFLs already have.
I would tend to agree with this, simply because so many bogus "search engines" get whole blocks of common misspellings for popular sites just to try to generate traffic/revenue on people's typos, thus the smart thing to do is use Google. Aside from the fact that everybody uses Google anyway, that is.
What I'm seeing here is all the disadvantages and dangers of riding a motorcycle, but without any of the speed and maneuverability. I'll pass, thank you. Someone out there was making electric motorcycles, I'd sooner go for that than something like this.
Wow, never expected that! If only there was a use for a launch vehicle that doesn't make it to orbit..
Then we use solar power on the sunny side to turn the windmills into fans.
But, but, but.. then the Earth will start to spin again, and we'll be back where we started! I'm confused now!
Yes, I know I'm paraphrasing pro-gun rhetoric here, but I believe it applies. The only way that International Law works, is if all the countries involved agree to abide by said laws -- which we all know doesn't work often enough. One day, assuming the human race actually lives long enough to see it, we MAY evolve enough, physioligically and mentally, that our needs for things like solving problems with aggression will become obsolete; THEN things like nuclear weapons will have a chance to go the way of the dinosaurs. Until that day comes this technology will (unfortunately) have to exist. You can't put the genie back in the bottle once you've let it out, after all; knowing something is possible is half the battle towards MAKING it possible, even if we effectively buried the knowledge of how to create nuclear fission, physicists would work backwards and rediscover how to make it happen anyway. I applaud Obama's sentiments on the subject, as I applaud the realism of his thoughts when he says "not in my lifetime".
They'd likely moor them to the seabed the way they do with offshore oil-drilling platforms.
No, we'll end up with longer days because they'll slow down spin-rate of the Earth.
Yet another so-called technology article almost utterly devoid of any real content. Doesn't tell you anything about the alleged technology other than showing you a static picture of what may as well be tinfoil. If someone finds a real article about this development could they please post it? Thanks.
but if there is one thing that public and quasi public spaces don't need, it is cheaper, more concealable, and more common speakers.
Blade Runner, here we come!