Since 9/11, the Bush administration has run into far more delays and outright refusal to grant warrants from the FISA court,
Wrong! A few requests had to be modified, but very, very few were refused.
From the WikiPedia article : Through the end of 2004, 18,761 warrants were granted, while just five were rejected (many sources say four). Fewer than 200 requests had to be modified before being accepted, almost all of them in 2003 and 2004. The four known rejected requests were all from 2003, and all four were partially granted after being resubmitted for reconsideration by the government.
I was as skeptical as you until I read this in TFA: (Berzin's company) GreenFuel has already garnered $11 million in venture capital funding and is conducting a field trial at a 1,000 megawatt power plant owned by a major southwestern power company. Next year, GreenFuel expects two to seven more such demo projects scaling up to a full pro- duction system by 2009.
If private VC money is going into it, there are decent odds that it'll work. If it was taxpayer money, OTOH, I'd be very skeptical...
You, sir, are a moron. The stock went down because of deliberate fraud on the part of the executives. What part of "FRAUD" don't you understand? If the executives aren't punished for this, you might as well kiss the entire stock market goodbye.
However, the morality of drinking really isn't that difficult to discern: It's not immoral to drink except where it would harm another person.
So says you. I'll play devil's advocate here, but in Islam drinking is verboten.
At what stage does "morality" move from being an individual decision to a collective decision? The Hindus consider it immoral to eat beef; you don't. The Sikhs consider it immoral to smoke; you may not. The Buddhists may consider it immoral to eat any animal; maybe you don't.
The fact that we can sit and argue about the definition of "morality" shows that there's a lot left to figure out here. In the meantime, I'm sure there are many Chinese who would respectfully suggest that the rest of the world just back off. The Chinese people aren't dumb, you know. They can figure out ways to get their information through other channels.
When it caught up with them, McAfee's stock price crashed, wiping out a billion dollars of shareholder capitalization.
If I cause damage worth X dollars, you can bet your ass that I will be forced to repay the amount. And yet these guys get away with paying a nickel per dollar? Shouldn't they be forced to compensate the shareholders for their losses? Take it out of the paychecks of all of the top executives! Throw some in jail! At the very least, take back the money these executives made due to the artificially high price.
The only difference here is that India doesn't have a lobby as strong as Israel's. By US law, a satellite company cannot show high-res images of Israel.
Later Constantine added Rho to create the Labarum (chi-rho) symbol which looks like an X and P superimposed.
So you're saying XP is related to the Church? Interesting.....
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Insightful my ass!
Google: How does this benefit our end users?
If you think Google is about benefitting users and not making money, you're naive. Google is a public company now. Their sole responsibility is to their shareholders and not their "users".
And how many ads in each?
Yahoo has 1 ad at the top. Period. GMail has ads all along the side. So if you're counting numbers, GMail loses.
And more importantly: Google digs through your email to serve you ads. Don't you people find this just a little bit creepy? And these ads benefit the users.. how? Are they there to make money for GMail, or to somehow magically improve the content of your email message?
This is bullshit. Do you mean to say they'll keep the car running 24x7 ? Do you know how much gas that will consume? And at today's gas prices, the cost of that gas will exceed the monthly payment on the car by an order of magnitude, to say the least.
Two pinup calendars of geeks have been released this year.... So if being a geek has really become cool, why.... women are still a minority in computer and engineering fields?
Maybe because such stupid calendars? When was the last time you saw Linus, Ingo, and Stallman on a pinup calendar? Sure, you will kid about their (esp. Stallman) appearance. But that is my point!! Nobody cares about these male ubergeeks' appearance; why should we care about the female geeks' ?
I, for one, would like to see more sites dedicated to the many female geeks in our community who quietly toil away. The best way to promote geekdom among women is to highlight the women geeks' accomplishments, and not their vital stats. (If there are such sites out there, please post some links).
To expand a little. This comment is from the guy who works on their XML formats, Brian Jones.
In typical brainwashed-Microsoftie-who-couldn't-think-his-way -out-of-asandwich-bag fashion, he parrots The Company line and acts as if they're doing us all a favor.
Why now? Why "finally"? Microsoft has been taking full advantage of open standards from day #1 (be it TCP/IP or DNS or HTTP or HTML or... ). Why not give something back to the community by adopting open standards earlier? Why not support the OpenDoc format also?
Just look at the blogs this guy reads. None of them are outside Microsoft. Figures.
It's funny how Google releases a new version of a toolbar and Slashdot covers it immediately; but Yahoo releases a new API with lots of good stuff and nary a peep at Slashdot Central...
The new API looks awesome. Rasmus has a demo page which shows how you can mash data from different sources onto a very slick map.
I don't understand the big deal here. Nobody runs a single strand of fiber; if you're going to be laying fiber in the streets, you put 100s (if not 1000s) of strands in there, "just in case". How is 1Tbps over 1 fiber any better than 1Tbps over 100 strands @ 10Gbps/strand (as is easily achievable today)?
The revelations are a serious blow to MIT, which prides itself on its reputation as a scientific powerhouse.
Huh? It is a "blow" to their reputation iff they knew about the misconduct and did nothing about it. In this case it is clear that they took swift action. I would give kudos to MIT for reacting swiftly. Recall the conduct of other organizations like NYT in such instances.
Quote: Microsoft has stated that they will support the OpenDocument format in MS Office if there is customer demand:
What do you expect them to say? "We will support the OpenDocument format when we bloody well feel like it, and when we think it'll make us tons of money" ?
There are just too many variables here that must be taken into account before you can write it off as myth (and, unfortunately, the ever popular quest on American TV to sensationalize stuff does not lend itself to accurate scientific pursuits).
As others have mentioned, we don't know what the Roman boats were exactly made of. Was it pine? Balsa? And the tar/pitch used to seal them is very flammable.
The time of day is important; the amount of solar energy hitting the mirrors is highest at noon.
They could have lit the sails, which is good enough when you're trying to set fire to a wooden boat.
Modern boats have paint and all sorts of other goodness on them, which is reflective.
This boat that they tried this experiment on was 80 years old. What does years of sitting in water do to the wood, in terms of flammability? We don't know. How old were the ships that Archimedes set on fire? We don't know.
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I disagree. Only the Congress can declare war: WikiPedia. The War Powers Act places limits on what the Prez can/cannot do.
I'm not disputing the state we're in; I'm just saying that there is a legal process by which the nation can be drawn into a war.
Wrong! A few requests had to be modified, but very, very few were refused.
From the WikiPedia article : Through the end of 2004, 18,761 warrants were granted, while just five were rejected (many sources say four). Fewer than 200 requests had to be modified before being accepted, almost all of them in 2003 and 2004. The four known rejected requests were all from 2003, and all four were partially granted after being resubmitted for reconsideration by the government.
FTFA: nearly 5,000 times the size of a full moon
So naturally it is 5000*0.5 = 2500 degrees, silly!
(Berzin's company) GreenFuel has already garnered $11 million in venture capital funding and is conducting a field trial at a 1,000 megawatt power plant owned by a major southwestern power company. Next year, GreenFuel expects two to seven more such demo projects scaling up to a full pro- duction system by 2009.
If private VC money is going into it, there are decent odds that it'll work. If it was taxpayer money, OTOH, I'd be very skeptical...
You, sir, are a moron. The stock went down because of deliberate fraud on the part of the executives. What part of "FRAUD" don't you understand? If the executives aren't punished for this, you might as well kiss the entire stock market goodbye.
So says you. I'll play devil's advocate here, but in Islam drinking is verboten.
At what stage does "morality" move from being an individual decision to a collective decision? The Hindus consider it immoral to eat beef; you don't. The Sikhs consider it immoral to smoke; you may not. The Buddhists may consider it immoral to eat any animal; maybe you don't.
The fact that we can sit and argue about the definition of "morality" shows that there's a lot left to figure out here. In the meantime, I'm sure there are many Chinese who would respectfully suggest that the rest of the world just back off. The Chinese people aren't dumb, you know. They can figure out ways to get their information through other channels.
If I cause damage worth X dollars, you can bet your ass that I will be forced to repay the amount. And yet these guys get away with paying a nickel per dollar? Shouldn't they be forced to compensate the shareholders for their losses? Take it out of the paychecks of all of the top executives! Throw some in jail! At the very least, take back the money these executives made due to the artificially high price.
The only difference here is that India doesn't have a lobby as strong as Israel's. By US law, a satellite company cannot show high-res images of Israel.
So you're saying XP is related to the Church? Interesting.....
Google: How does this benefit our end users?
If you think Google is about benefitting users and not making money, you're naive. Google is a public company now. Their sole responsibility is to their shareholders and not their "users".
And how many ads in each?
Yahoo has 1 ad at the top. Period. GMail has ads all along the side. So if you're counting numbers, GMail loses.
And more importantly: Google digs through your email to serve you ads. Don't you people find this just a little bit creepy? And these ads benefit the users.. how? Are they there to make money for GMail, or to somehow magically improve the content of your email message?
This is bullshit. Do you mean to say they'll keep the car running 24x7 ? Do you know how much gas that will consume? And at today's gas prices, the cost of that gas will exceed the monthly payment on the car by an order of magnitude, to say the least.
But more importantly: can someone expound a little on what "stateless Linux" is?
Don't click on the link above; it doesn't give any more information than what's in the submission. Go to the source and get more information there.
Maybe because such stupid calendars? When was the last time you saw Linus, Ingo, and Stallman on a pinup calendar? Sure, you will kid about their (esp. Stallman) appearance. But that is my point!! Nobody cares about these male ubergeeks' appearance; why should we care about the female geeks' ?
I, for one, would like to see more sites dedicated to the many female geeks in our community who quietly toil away. The best way to promote geekdom among women is to highlight the women geeks' accomplishments, and not their vital stats. (If there are such sites out there, please post some links).
In typical brainwashed-Microsoftie-who-couldn't-think-his-way -out-of-asandwich-bag fashion, he parrots The Company line and acts as if they're doing us all a favor.
Why now? Why "finally"? Microsoft has been taking full advantage of open standards from day #1 (be it TCP/IP or DNS or HTTP or HTML or ... ). Why not give something back to the community by adopting open standards earlier? Why not support the OpenDoc format also?
Just look at the blogs this guy reads. None of them are outside Microsoft. Figures.
It would appear that this (GBase) is a direct competitor to Craigslist. Does this mean the end of CL? I hope not.
It's funny how Google releases a new version of a toolbar and Slashdot covers it immediately; but Yahoo releases a new API with lots of good stuff and nary a peep at Slashdot Central...
The new API looks awesome. Rasmus has a demo page which shows how you can mash data from different sources onto a very slick map.
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I don't understand the big deal here. Nobody runs a single strand of fiber; if you're going to be laying fiber in the streets, you put 100s (if not 1000s) of strands in there, "just in case". How is 1Tbps over 1 fiber any better than 1Tbps over 100 strands @ 10Gbps/strand (as is easily achievable today)?
Huh? It is a "blow" to their reputation iff they knew about the misconduct and did nothing about it. In this case it is clear that they took swift action. I would give kudos to MIT for reacting swiftly. Recall the conduct of other organizations like NYT in such instances.
What do you expect them to say? "We will support the OpenDocument format when we bloody well feel like it, and when we think it'll make us tons of money" ?
As others have mentioned, we don't know what the Roman boats were exactly made of. Was it pine? Balsa? And the tar/pitch used to seal them is very flammable.
The time of day is important; the amount of solar energy hitting the mirrors is highest at noon.
They could have lit the sails, which is good enough when you're trying to set fire to a wooden boat.
Modern boats have paint and all sorts of other goodness on them, which is reflective.
This boat that they tried this experiment on was 80 years old. What does years of sitting in water do to the wood, in terms of flammability? We don't know. How old were the ships that Archimedes set on fire? We don't know.
(I'm sorry...)
I must have overslept, for just yesterday I thought it was October 21 and there were still 10 more weeks left in 2005!
100 kilobots is still a lot of power....