Ummm... That's Slashcode's long-link prevention, which helps to make sure that the page doesn't get stretched by people who would otherwise make the site unreadable.
Yeah, I'd prefer the reactor myself on the basis of radioactivity, not to mention the lack of soot, or the various other things (cadmium, sulfur, NOx, etc) that come with the carbon.
Besides, now around some reactors, you get iodine tablets to help prevent uptake of radioactive elements into the thyroid in case of a major catastrophe. Cool to show your friends!
This is somewhat more recent, being from 2002. While it doesn't have the estimates from the high and low numbers that point to the numbers doubling by 2050 and reaching their plateau in the next few years, respectively, it does still settle on the 9-billion-by-2050 level. There was also a report last year, in the later part of spring, that said as much; I remember showing it to my geography professor so she could update some of her numbers which were almost ten years out of date.
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Actually, the growth rates have dramatically declined in the last 20 years, so much so that the likely world population in 2050 is expected to be around 9 billion people, reaching a plateau of about 10 billion people in the late 21st century before beginning a decline.
Add me to the list of people that would. The trucks/trains are tracked actively by GPS, and even if someone did get away with one of the containment structures, I think they could be found before they could get into the core of the containment structure, which was *chipped* by an anti-tank missile.
Politics are the prime reason that proper levels of food don't get produced. If a government wishes to maintain control over its people by keeping them too weak and dependent to overturn the government (either via ballot or gun), it controls the food distribution, and if much of the food comes from outside of the country and is delivered to the government for distribution, then they have a much easier time of it.
They can also go the other way and damage the ability to produce local food, as was done in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe kicked many of the white farm owners off of their land, turning them over to local blacks who had little or no idea of how to run a farm (including many prime farms that ended up in the hands of relatives and cronies), under the guise of a fair "redistribution" of the land. He has since demanded that the white farmers (many of whom lost virtually everything) assist in the transition, but many of them have basically flipped him the bird and moved to Britain to live with families of their own. Zimbabwe was a food exporter only a few years ago; now millions depend on food handouts because the farmlands lie poorly maintained (if they're used at all), and many are afraid of voting against Mugabe (ignoring the probably rigged elections) for fear of him punishing their regions.
Somalia had no "regimes." It had warlords. For a time, Somalia literally had no government, and there simply weren't enough troops -- or international resolve to put those troops in danger -- to do anything more than distribute food at central locations. If you've ever seen the opening scene to Black Hawk Down, you've seen what was a common occurence. So long as UN soldiers weren't fired upon, they largely were not able to prevent such events.
Microsoft publishes a lot of files in PDF format. Checking out what I have reveals that at least the Threats and Countermeasures Guide and the Windows Server 2003 Security Guides are printed in PDF. They perhaps could have used MDI, but loading up Acrobat Reader is probably a more automatic step for most admins that need access to documentation.
Right. With their 7.4% of the company, they control the entire direction of the company.
Maybe Comcast simply wanted to branch out into more fields, like movie-making and distribution? Getting a piece of the action that the stations themselves pay for the rights to air a given movie or show would be rather nice for the bottom line.
Or maybe... just maybe... the head of Comcast (whose name eludes me right now and who reportedly runs things pretty much on his own) wants to turn Disney back to what it was. Some people -- even CEOs -- do have fond memories of what Disney was at one time.
Oh, wait... This is Slashdot. Let me adjust my words for the benefit of the community.
COMCAST IS IN IT TO RULE THE WORLD! THE HEAD OF COMCAST HAS A COLD LUMP OF LEAD FOR A HEART AND IS INTERESTED ONLY IN THE BOTTOM LINE! HE IS EVIL AND MUST BE STOPPED!!!
From a skimming of the syllabus for the ruling, the Court sees city and county governments as subdivisions of the state, and the state is therefore regulating itself in restricting these activities.
Title 47, 253(a), states, "No State or local statute or regulation, or other State or local legal requirement, may prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the ability of any entity to provide any interstate or intrastate telecommunications service."
The Court sees the state as the regulator regulating itself. It sees the position taken by the defendants as denying the ability of the state to regulate itself. It also refers to historical points on language, specifically that when Congress intends that a group should include both public and private entities, it will almost always include the words "public and private" in the text of the law. A lack of these words has generally connoted reference only to private entities, and it is on this basis that the majority came to their conclusion. Congress is free to clarify this point by adding in a few words to 253.
(Note that there is a concurring opinion by two justices, and one dissenting opinion. I have not read over those yet.)
I have a small piece (well, several small pieces now) of monolithic (slab) aerogel about 20mm thick that I got as a sample from a manufacturer. When I took it from the case, I marveled at its texture (feels dusty without being so) and the translucence, knowing of the various thermal properties. Within about 30 seconds, though, it had broken in two even though I was handling it with the utmost care. It broke again when the case fell from a shelf about five feet up onto *carpet*.
Man, do I feel like Algernon now. I *know* that I once knew this stuff back and forth, and it all looks familiar and makes some semblance of sense, but I can't put specific meaning to much of it.:: cries::
Maybe I'll add in a chem review class in next semester's schedule.
It is, in a way, but for some, the feeling of sitting back with a newspaper or a magazine is hard to beat. For example, I like having the stories spread out on newspaper-sized pages, and this concept could allow one to grab all of the newspaper from a single download and take it to work, reading it on the train, for example -- and avoiding the disposal of all of that paper (one of the main reasons I discontinued my weekday subscription).
Initial ore processing (extraction and pulverizing) is about the cheapest part of the process, though the fact that it's already done does make it easier. Electricity for refining aluminum is also much easier to get from solar energy.
Incidentally, I did go looking for information on what is in the regolith. I'm aware of the other elements, but aluminum and titanium will be preferred structural materials for low density and high strength (especially in the case of titanium).
I have 310GB of drive space in my system, and of that probably 60GB or so makes up stuff I want to save long-term. Enough changes that monthly differentials won't fit on a standard DVD+/-R but will fit on a DL disc.
If I had a server, I would use tape, but that's not something I'm interested in getting for my personal workstation.
They're supposedly using DVD+R for the DL discs, which have, as I understand, caused some occasional problems for playback on some DVD players and drives. Personally, I don't care much, since I'm in it for the volume for backups, and an even bigger plus is that Sony's drive will be a +/-. I'd chip in a few extra bucks for that.
I dunno... I think that if a permanent manned base on the moon and a fairly comprehensive exploratory trip to Mars could be made for $500B, that might not be too bad a deal. The mineral rights for the moon alone could be worth quite a lot. Titanium and aluminum are found in vast quantities in some areas in the form of ores that, while not the preferred source on earth, are still quite usable. An abundance of electrical energy without any worries about what tailings might harm or kill may make for a very attractive investment.
The biggest question is how you get them safely back to earth, or how the manufacturing facilities are set up on the moon.
Even if he does (or has) clean(ed) up his act, that doesn't change the record, which may be why he's so upset. An attorney who is disciplined by the court for, say, misrepresenting a client once will never have that removed, even if the entire rest of his record is perfect. Anyone looking up his history will be able to find that action taken against him. It's one of the deterrents to doing bad things, especially now with the Internet so widely usable for accessing such records (as this article shows).
It depends on the state law. That's very clearly defined in California, but in other states it's not so clear-cut.
In California, so long as you don't use company time, equipment, or premises to create a work, and that work is not substantially relevant to work you do for the company, they have no claims whatsoever on your work, and that right cannot be waived.
44. Defamation is effected by either of the following:
(a) Libel.
(b) Slander.
45. Libel is a false and unprivileged publication by writing, printing, picture, effigy, or other fixed representation to the eye, which exposes any person to hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obloquy, or which causes him to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure him in his occupation.
45a. A libel which is defamatory of the plaintiff without the necessity of explanatory matter, such as an inducement, innuendo or other extrinsic fact, is said to be a libel on its face. Defamatory language not libelous on its face is not actionable unless the plaintiff alleges and proves that he has suffered special damage as a proximate result thereof. Special damage is defined in Section 48a of this code.
[snip]
48a (b) "Special damages" are all damages which plaintiff alleges and proves that he has suffered in respect to his property, business, trade, profession or occupation, including such amounts of money as the plaintiff alleges and proves he has expended as a result of the alleged libel, and no other[.]
There's some other information in that section which requires more ability to read legalese than I possess, but it does not seem that he has much of a case, because the presentation of this information is in the context of a privileged communication, which is defined in Section 47 (and is too long to reproduce here) but basically protects that published under legal requirements or as part of official records or proceedings, which this is. Google is no more at fault here than would be the clerk recorder of his county for presenting the information to someone asking about him.
A lot more than equally many. AOL has 24 million users, and MSN eight million. That's 32 million combined... out of 200 million online in the US alone. This means that 84% do not user either service. That makes it closer to five times as many.
All this paranoia about Microsoft forcing some kind of a switch is stupid, considering that while Judge Kollar-Kotelly did gut the case against Microsoft, she's still short on patience with the Redmondians, and anything that looks like users are being coerced, let alone forced, to their own ISP isn't likely to fly very far in her courtroom, and that ignores the market forces in play. Microsoft hasn't been able to conquer the webserver market yet, and doesn't look likely to in the next few years, either.
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Average annual radioactivity release from a 1000MWe nuclear reactor in the early 1990s: 4.8 person-rem/year
Average annual radioactivity release from a 1000MWe coal-fired plant in the early 1990s: 490 person-rem/year
Source
Yeah, I'd prefer the reactor myself on the basis of radioactivity, not to mention the lack of soot, or the various other things (cadmium, sulfur, NOx, etc) that come with the carbon.
Besides, now around some reactors, you get iodine tablets to help prevent uptake of radioactive elements into the thyroid in case of a major catastrophe. Cool to show your friends!
This is somewhat more recent, being from 2002. While it doesn't have the estimates from the high and low numbers that point to the numbers doubling by 2050 and reaching their plateau in the next few years, respectively, it does still settle on the 9-billion-by-2050 level. There was also a report last year, in the later part of spring, that said as much; I remember showing it to my geography professor so she could update some of her numbers which were almost ten years out of date.
Actually, the growth rates have dramatically declined in the last 20 years, so much so that the likely world population in 2050 is expected to be around 9 billion people, reaching a plateau of about 10 billion people in the late 21st century before beginning a decline.
Add me to the list of people that would. The trucks/trains are tracked actively by GPS, and even if someone did get away with one of the containment structures, I think they could be found before they could get into the core of the containment structure, which was *chipped* by an anti-tank missile.
Politics are the prime reason that proper levels of food don't get produced. If a government wishes to maintain control over its people by keeping them too weak and dependent to overturn the government (either via ballot or gun), it controls the food distribution, and if much of the food comes from outside of the country and is delivered to the government for distribution, then they have a much easier time of it.
They can also go the other way and damage the ability to produce local food, as was done in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe kicked many of the white farm owners off of their land, turning them over to local blacks who had little or no idea of how to run a farm (including many prime farms that ended up in the hands of relatives and cronies), under the guise of a fair "redistribution" of the land. He has since demanded that the white farmers (many of whom lost virtually everything) assist in the transition, but many of them have basically flipped him the bird and moved to Britain to live with families of their own. Zimbabwe was a food exporter only a few years ago; now millions depend on food handouts because the farmlands lie poorly maintained (if they're used at all), and many are afraid of voting against Mugabe (ignoring the probably rigged elections) for fear of him punishing their regions.
Somalia had no "regimes." It had warlords. For a time, Somalia literally had no government, and there simply weren't enough troops -- or international resolve to put those troops in danger -- to do anything more than distribute food at central locations. If you've ever seen the opening scene to Black Hawk Down, you've seen what was a common occurence. So long as UN soldiers weren't fired upon, they largely were not able to prevent such events.
Shouldn't your title be "but it has already will have been proven"?
Microsoft publishes a lot of files in PDF format. Checking out what I have reveals that at least the Threats and Countermeasures Guide and the Windows Server 2003 Security Guides are printed in PDF. They perhaps could have used MDI, but loading up Acrobat Reader is probably a more automatic step for most admins that need access to documentation.
Right. With their 7.4% of the company, they control the entire direction of the company.
Maybe Comcast simply wanted to branch out into more fields, like movie-making and distribution? Getting a piece of the action that the stations themselves pay for the rights to air a given movie or show would be rather nice for the bottom line.
Or maybe... just maybe... the head of Comcast (whose name eludes me right now and who reportedly runs things pretty much on his own) wants to turn Disney back to what it was. Some people -- even CEOs -- do have fond memories of what Disney was at one time.
Oh, wait... This is Slashdot. Let me adjust my words for the benefit of the community.
COMCAST IS IN IT TO RULE THE WORLD! THE HEAD OF COMCAST HAS A COLD LUMP OF LEAD FOR A HEART AND IS INTERESTED ONLY IN THE BOTTOM LINE! HE IS EVIL AND MUST BE STOPPED!!!
From a skimming of the syllabus for the ruling, the Court sees city and county governments as subdivisions of the state, and the state is therefore regulating itself in restricting these activities.
Title 47, 253(a), states, "No State or local statute or regulation, or other State or local legal requirement, may prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the ability of any entity to provide any interstate or intrastate telecommunications service."
The Court sees the state as the regulator regulating itself. It sees the position taken by the defendants as denying the ability of the state to regulate itself. It also refers to historical points on language, specifically that when Congress intends that a group should include both public and private entities, it will almost always include the words "public and private" in the text of the law. A lack of these words has generally connoted reference only to private entities, and it is on this basis that the majority came to their conclusion. Congress is free to clarify this point by adding in a few words to 253.
(Note that there is a concurring opinion by two justices, and one dissenting opinion. I have not read over those yet.)
And is brittle as all hell.
I have a small piece (well, several small pieces now) of monolithic (slab) aerogel about 20mm thick that I got as a sample from a manufacturer. When I took it from the case, I marveled at its texture (feels dusty without being so) and the translucence, knowing of the various thermal properties. Within about 30 seconds, though, it had broken in two even though I was handling it with the utmost care. It broke again when the case fell from a shelf about five feet up onto *carpet*.
Gotta be careful with the stuff.
Man, do I feel like Algernon now. I *know* that I once knew this stuff back and forth, and it all looks familiar and makes some semblance of sense, but I can't put specific meaning to much of it. :: cries ::
Maybe I'll add in a chem review class in next semester's schedule.
It is, in a way, but for some, the feeling of sitting back with a newspaper or a magazine is hard to beat. For example, I like having the stories spread out on newspaper-sized pages, and this concept could allow one to grab all of the newspaper from a single download and take it to work, reading it on the train, for example -- and avoiding the disposal of all of that paper (one of the main reasons I discontinued my weekday subscription).
Initial ore processing (extraction and pulverizing) is about the cheapest part of the process, though the fact that it's already done does make it easier. Electricity for refining aluminum is also much easier to get from solar energy.
Incidentally, I did go looking for information on what is in the regolith. I'm aware of the other elements, but aluminum and titanium will be preferred structural materials for low density and high strength (especially in the case of titanium).
I have 310GB of drive space in my system, and of that probably 60GB or so makes up stuff I want to save long-term. Enough changes that monthly differentials won't fit on a standard DVD+/-R but will fit on a DL disc.
If I had a server, I would use tape, but that's not something I'm interested in getting for my personal workstation.
They're supposedly using DVD+R for the DL discs, which have, as I understand, caused some occasional problems for playback on some DVD players and drives. Personally, I don't care much, since I'm in it for the volume for backups, and an even bigger plus is that Sony's drive will be a +/-. I'd chip in a few extra bucks for that.
Learn to spell. The appropriate line should have been:
FRIST POST!!!!!
It takes a long time for the customer service rep to walk down the hall from India to Texas to see why it hasn't shipped.
I dunno... I think that if a permanent manned base on the moon and a fairly comprehensive exploratory trip to Mars could be made for $500B, that might not be too bad a deal. The mineral rights for the moon alone could be worth quite a lot. Titanium and aluminum are found in vast quantities in some areas in the form of ores that, while not the preferred source on earth, are still quite usable. An abundance of electrical energy without any worries about what tailings might harm or kill may make for a very attractive investment.
The biggest question is how you get them safely back to earth, or how the manufacturing facilities are set up on the moon.
Even if he does (or has) clean(ed) up his act, that doesn't change the record, which may be why he's so upset. An attorney who is disciplined by the court for, say, misrepresenting a client once will never have that removed, even if the entire rest of his record is perfect. Anyone looking up his history will be able to find that action taken against him. It's one of the deterrents to doing bad things, especially now with the Internet so widely usable for accessing such records (as this article shows).
It depends on the state law. That's very clearly defined in California, but in other states it's not so clear-cut.
In California, so long as you don't use company time, equipment, or premises to create a work, and that work is not substantially relevant to work you do for the company, they have no claims whatsoever on your work, and that right cannot be waived.
California Civil Code covers libel thusly:
44. Defamation is effected by either of the following:
(a) Libel.
(b) Slander.
45. Libel is a false and unprivileged publication by writing, printing, picture, effigy, or other fixed representation to the eye, which exposes any person to hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obloquy, or which causes him to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure him in his occupation.
45a. A libel which is defamatory of the plaintiff without the necessity of explanatory matter, such as an inducement, innuendo or other extrinsic fact, is said to be a libel on its face. Defamatory language not libelous on its face is not actionable unless the plaintiff alleges and proves that he has suffered special damage as a proximate result thereof. Special damage is defined in Section 48a of this code.
[snip]
48a (b) "Special damages" are all damages which plaintiff alleges and proves that he has suffered in respect to his property, business, trade, profession or occupation, including such amounts of money as the plaintiff alleges and proves he has expended as a result of the alleged libel, and no other[.]
There's some other information in that section which requires more ability to read legalese than I possess, but it does not seem that he has much of a case, because the presentation of this information is in the context of a privileged communication, which is defined in Section 47 (and is too long to reproduce here) but basically protects that published under legal requirements or as part of official records or proceedings, which this is. Google is no more at fault here than would be the clerk recorder of his county for presenting the information to someone asking about him.
...and the vast majority of those on AIM. Even with that, still not even close to a majority, since MANY of the AIM screen names are foreign users.
A lot more than equally many. AOL has 24 million users, and MSN eight million. That's 32 million combined... out of 200 million online in the US alone. This means that 84% do not user either service. That makes it closer to five times as many.
All this paranoia about Microsoft forcing some kind of a switch is stupid, considering that while Judge Kollar-Kotelly did gut the case against Microsoft, she's still short on patience with the Redmondians, and anything that looks like users are being coerced, let alone forced, to their own ISP isn't likely to fly very far in her courtroom, and that ignores the market forces in play. Microsoft hasn't been able to conquer the webserver market yet, and doesn't look likely to in the next few years, either.