At some point, someone will have to determine what's costlier: a little extra money up front to recruit knowledgeable and capable people to safeguard the company's and customers' valuable information... or a public relations disaster such as Sony is experiencing.
"The developers, a team at Michigan State University, hope to have this engine on the market in the next two/three years."
Seen too many of these stories. If this happens within three years, I will eat my hat.
I have a friend that ordered a dirt cheap 4 gig MP3 player from some outfit in Hong Kong. He got it, and plugged it in, and it dutifully reported it had 4 gig of free space. As he started loading it up, it kept locking everything up after about 2 gig. Turns out, it only had 2 gig of memory, but was doctored to report it had 4 when queried.
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It was called the Cuban missile crisis.
The second monitor is extremely useful for keeping a browser open for reading Slashdot while I 'work.'
Wow, did that statement ever paint a picture. You sure have a way with words...LOL
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Medical malpractice insurance companies?
A few ounces of high explosive, a detonator circuit, a fragmentable body, and a kamikaze run would probably take care of things nicely.
Easily found with a bug detector?
At some point, someone will have to determine what's costlier: a little extra money up front to recruit knowledgeable and capable people to safeguard the company's and customers' valuable information ... or a public relations disaster such as Sony is experiencing.
Funny you would use a vacuum tube in ... a nearly perfect vacuum....
if you look at the document in TFA you will see that this is filed as a class action suit.
The design will look *exactly* like the ISS....
Charge a few bucks to cover costs.
That way, we might get to see a few NFL games this fall. (and not one that looks like that dorky Fox NFL robot)
Don't be a moron. That's like saying the Model T was a piece of shit.
So it's the government?
Probably this: http://slashdot.org/story/11/04/09/2315208/Groklaw-Declares-Victory-No-More-Articles
"The developers, a team at Michigan State University, hope to have this engine on the market in the next two/three years." Seen too many of these stories. If this happens within three years, I will eat my hat.
I have a friend that ordered a dirt cheap 4 gig MP3 player from some outfit in Hong Kong. He got it, and plugged it in, and it dutifully reported it had 4 gig of free space. As he started loading it up, it kept locking everything up after about 2 gig. Turns out, it only had 2 gig of memory, but was doctored to report it had 4 when queried.
OK, so freeze it and ship it to Antarctica. Because we all know there's no such thing as global warming...
Because apparently, we're devolving into a nation of idiots.
I was pretty good at it when I was a kid.
I think he's referring to the abundance of helium-3 in the lunar regolith, which could be used for nuclear fusion.
Amen.
No, but incorrect airspeed data might.
Of course you're right. My bad.