That is my question. I had to downgrade to the 3.5 line after the 3.6.7 update the other day. I tried the latest 3.6.8 as well, and it too crashes the moment it hits a page with flash. 3.5 works just fine.
You used the total surface area of the earth. Land area is only 148,940,000Km^2. So, the correct calculation is 0,0217 Km^2/habitant, which is only 4,01 "football fields" (according to your calculation for football field size, as I simply did the ratios). And you need to remember that unfortunately the calculation isn't just for our lifetime, but our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents..., and our children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren. We already inherited an earth that is pretty messed up compared to just 700 years ago in terms of man created trash and pollution. Just look at the floating plastic "island" in the Pacific for more proof of that.
I don't believe making vulnerabilities public before giving the publisher a chance to fix the problem is in the best interest of computer users.
I would actually debate that with you. Knowing full well that exploits will be promptly publicly published (no pun intended), will force the large software makers to spend a little more time/effort keeping these kinds of exploits from being in their code to begin with. In many cases, a simple vetting process would detect many of these issues at the design stage. The more the computer users suffer the consequences of buggy code being released, the larger their up-roar against the maker of the software demanding more secure software to begin with and let the market forces dictate that code that is less vulnerable be a much higher demand on the market. Because let us face it, if people simply keep on paying for products, there is no incentive for the software company to spend time and money on keeping vulnerabilities out of their products.
I mean, sure, the bottled water will have the same signatures, but what is to say you didn't drink your own bottled water wherever you went? Or things like bottle sodas, and drinks. The best you might be able to do is say that they had drink which used water from XYZ location. It is a far stretch to say that they were in XYZ when they drank it. Heck, there are stores around me which sell bottled water from around the world, and I know I have even tried a few, but I never left my home town, yet it according to this "evidence" I have been to Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Ukraine, Ireland, and Poland...
Who would drop $15 on a CD just to see if it was god or not?
Don't know. I mean I am sure there is someone out there who might think a round plastic disk with a silver coating with tiny circular pattern holes and "valleys" cut in the silver layer might think it is a god. But, I know I don't.
I mean, really. You can setup a redundant/distributed from bare-metal to running in about 6 hours (including full disk scans). Add a cron job to do a dump every night and even just write that to DVD. Creating a database shouldn't be that big a deal. Even designing a web based front-end to search the records and input new ones wouldn't take more than a couple weeks to hash out and implement. Will it be the flashiest thing, no, but it will work and be better than pen-paper. Now, importing all those paper records, that will be the hard part....
Yes, but even though music can and is described as math, we don't patent music, we copyright it. If there should be any protections on software, copyright should be the only protection mechanism, not patents.
It depends on how the court rules. If indeed it does uphold the fact that math can't be patented and concludes that ultimately, all software is math, then all software patents go poof. This might not help for any hardware based patents (and I am sure there are a few in this case), but a lot of the ammo disappears.
The American taxpayers are also footing the bill on the cost of court times, judges, juries, building maintance costs (electric, water, oil/gas, telecommunications, etc., etc.). As much as I hate to say it, the system needs to change some, like for civil cases involving corporations, if the corporation is the party instigating the civil suite, they are required to pay the court fees in a case unless they win. This has a two fold effect, firstly, reducing the taxpayer burden on the local taxpayers, and decrees the number of cases taken to court due to the added risk involved with stupid cases being brought about.
I don't understand your position in this. How does increasing competition and breaking of the duo-opoly that is high speed internet in the US cause prices to increase? For someone sitting on the high horse and stating things like "the poor are stupid", is implying that they are not poor, and thus not stupid, yet doesn't even grasp the most basic business and economic realities of a open and free market boggles the mind. What a complete contradiction of conviction. The CURRENT high speed internet market in the US is MAYBE the choice of cable broadband from the only cable company allowed to operate in your area, or DSL from the only phone provider with the closest DSLAM to your house. And since that isn't real competition, there is no real reason for innovation other than to save costs but keep the prices the same (thus higher profit). A free open market where any startup can start offering service forces the service side of the operations to compete and offer better customer experiences. Look at how low the costs are in Japan and Korea for high speed internet access. Look at how much faster their high speed is compared to what high speed is in the US. They both have an open market for high speed internet. They don't have anything much different in terms of the actual technology which drives it, since we have access to those same things here in the US, it is just that there is nothing driving the US companies to install those new technologies, because there is no competitor who is installing them and going leap frog them for having the best network. Yeah it sucks if you just want your company to make higher profits, but don't say it will cause prices to go up because someone else will say they can make plenty of profits at the current prices because obviously, the current companies were doing just fine with those margins.
I think you hit the nail on the head. We need to have a real paradigm shift in man-made chemicals in the environment in general (maybe not even just man-made). The current case of study only after things start going wrong has potentially catastrophic consequences, especially for things which might not be even detectable for years after the exposure occurred. We need to take an approach more like how the drug industry is regulated on ANY material in the food chain or close human contact/interaction. Everything should default to hazardous until proven safe, not the other way around like it currently is.
Unfortunately, for your suggestion to work, the oil would need to pass thru the filter, not the water. Just putting it in line with a hose would do is pump water out of the hose and leave the oil on the other side of the hose (to eventually clog the works and create a huge back-pressure on the pump) since only the water passes thru the filter. What this can do is let you fill a huge tank full of oil/water mix and then pump out the water, leaving you with mostly oil in the tank. You could also create skimmers of this to skim the oil off the water much like you skim debris in a pool. The oil would be in the skimmers and you would need to dump it into a collection tank. Depending on how strong the material is (i.e. how much weight it can hold), you could create massive skimmers and use it like a fish net, but instead of fish, you get oil. However, you would also get whatever else is in there, like any organism which might happen to get trapped in the "net".
But that is not the case for many roads. Around me, the roads are set to standards that have been obsolete for 60+ years. Sure, 45MPH made sense on the road when it was a 1 lane both way road with a line down the middle and had farm vehicles crossing/merging from the fields on either side. However, those fields are now gone, the road is 3 lanes each way and separated by a concrete barrier and limited access. At the least, it should be 55 now, or even 65, but that won't happen.
And the same people who came up with "nuke it" are the same ones who created an inferno that has been burning for 30 years in the desert wastelands on the Asian shelfs. The sea floor in the area which this oil well is located is already extremely delicate, to the point that oil is already seeping from it in thousands if not millions of locations. Simply "nuking it" could cause those other locations to fracture open and instead of having one location with oil gushing out of the sea bed, we could have hundreds of locations, and those wouldn't have a pipe in them which we could eventually seal with concrete or plug with a massive valve. The oil field under the sea in that location is one of the largest in the world, and is also under extreme pressure from the weight of the ocean above it and the natural gases dissolved in the oil contained there. If the pressures involved from the oil well under were found in a well on the land, the "gusher" escaping from it would be almost a mile high. The last measured standing pipe pressure was 6k psi and rapidly rising before the drilling rig exploded:
No, they are lines of dead and/or stuck pixels. If you notice, they are all either red, green, blue, or black lines. What this means is that the control lines, or power feeds for those lines of pixels are bad/malformed.
You have no clue... A mach 6 fighter/bomber would very much be useful in the armament. At that speed it can outrun most missiles used to shoot it down. Very few weapons platforms can track and engage an aircraft flying faster than mach 4 at the moment, let alone something flying mach 6. There are only a handful of missiles (surface-to-air or air-to-air) which can even travel mach 6 or faster, which means you can only attach from a forward vector and once it passes your position or is flying away from you, your missiles will not be able to catch the plane. This assumes that your radar system can even detect a plane that fast and can instruct the missile how to intercept the target.
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That is my question. I had to downgrade to the 3.5 line after the 3.6.7 update the other day. I tried the latest 3.6.8 as well, and it too crashes the moment it hits a page with flash. 3.5 works just fine.
You used the total surface area of the earth. Land area is only 148,940,000Km^2. So, the correct calculation is 0,0217 Km^2/habitant, which is only 4,01 "football fields" (according to your calculation for football field size, as I simply did the ratios). And you need to remember that unfortunately the calculation isn't just for our lifetime, but our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents..., and our children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren. We already inherited an earth that is pretty messed up compared to just 700 years ago in terms of man created trash and pollution. Just look at the floating plastic "island" in the Pacific for more proof of that.
.... I mean, seriously, nothing can go wrong with just having these bacteria in the cooler parts of the body...
I don't believe making vulnerabilities public before giving the publisher a chance to fix the problem is in the best interest of computer users.
I would actually debate that with you. Knowing full well that exploits will be promptly publicly published (no pun intended), will force the large software makers to spend a little more time/effort keeping these kinds of exploits from being in their code to begin with. In many cases, a simple vetting process would detect many of these issues at the design stage. The more the computer users suffer the consequences of buggy code being released, the larger their up-roar against the maker of the software demanding more secure software to begin with and let the market forces dictate that code that is less vulnerable be a much higher demand on the market. Because let us face it, if people simply keep on paying for products, there is no incentive for the software company to spend time and money on keeping vulnerabilities out of their products.
I mean, sure, the bottled water will have the same signatures, but what is to say you didn't drink your own bottled water wherever you went? Or things like bottle sodas, and drinks. The best you might be able to do is say that they had drink which used water from XYZ location. It is a far stretch to say that they were in XYZ when they drank it. Heck, there are stores around me which sell bottled water from around the world, and I know I have even tried a few, but I never left my home town, yet it according to this "evidence" I have been to Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Ukraine, Ireland, and Poland...
Who would drop $15 on a CD just to see if it was god or not?
Don't know. I mean I am sure there is someone out there who might think a round plastic disk with a silver coating with tiny circular pattern holes and "valleys" cut in the silver layer might think it is a god. But, I know I don't.
I mean, really. You can setup a redundant/distributed from bare-metal to running in about 6 hours (including full disk scans). Add a cron job to do a dump every night and even just write that to DVD. Creating a database shouldn't be that big a deal. Even designing a web based front-end to search the records and input new ones wouldn't take more than a couple weeks to hash out and implement. Will it be the flashiest thing, no, but it will work and be better than pen-paper. Now, importing all those paper records, that will be the hard part....
Yes, but even though music can and is described as math, we don't patent music, we copyright it. If there should be any protections on software, copyright should be the only protection mechanism, not patents.
It depends on how the court rules. If indeed it does uphold the fact that math can't be patented and concludes that ultimately, all software is math, then all software patents go poof. This might not help for any hardware based patents (and I am sure there are a few in this case), but a lot of the ammo disappears.
Felt on the 3rd floor (not sure about lower floors, needed the extra swaying of the building to feel anything).
The American taxpayers are also footing the bill on the cost of court times, judges, juries, building maintance costs (electric, water, oil/gas, telecommunications, etc., etc.). As much as I hate to say it, the system needs to change some, like for civil cases involving corporations, if the corporation is the party instigating the civil suite, they are required to pay the court fees in a case unless they win. This has a two fold effect, firstly, reducing the taxpayer burden on the local taxpayers, and decrees the number of cases taken to court due to the added risk involved with stupid cases being brought about.
I don't understand your position in this. How does increasing competition and breaking of the duo-opoly that is high speed internet in the US cause prices to increase? For someone sitting on the high horse and stating things like "the poor are stupid", is implying that they are not poor, and thus not stupid, yet doesn't even grasp the most basic business and economic realities of a open and free market boggles the mind. What a complete contradiction of conviction. The CURRENT high speed internet market in the US is MAYBE the choice of cable broadband from the only cable company allowed to operate in your area, or DSL from the only phone provider with the closest DSLAM to your house. And since that isn't real competition, there is no real reason for innovation other than to save costs but keep the prices the same (thus higher profit). A free open market where any startup can start offering service forces the service side of the operations to compete and offer better customer experiences. Look at how low the costs are in Japan and Korea for high speed internet access. Look at how much faster their high speed is compared to what high speed is in the US. They both have an open market for high speed internet. They don't have anything much different in terms of the actual technology which drives it, since we have access to those same things here in the US, it is just that there is nothing driving the US companies to install those new technologies, because there is no competitor who is installing them and going leap frog them for having the best network. Yeah it sucks if you just want your company to make higher profits, but don't say it will cause prices to go up because someone else will say they can make plenty of profits at the current prices because obviously, the current companies were doing just fine with those margins.
This means things like common carrier rules and such will start to play.
I was wondering that myself....
I think you hit the nail on the head. We need to have a real paradigm shift in man-made chemicals in the environment in general (maybe not even just man-made). The current case of study only after things start going wrong has potentially catastrophic consequences, especially for things which might not be even detectable for years after the exposure occurred. We need to take an approach more like how the drug industry is regulated on ANY material in the food chain or close human contact/interaction. Everything should default to hazardous until proven safe, not the other way around like it currently is.
Unfortunately, for your suggestion to work, the oil would need to pass thru the filter, not the water. Just putting it in line with a hose would do is pump water out of the hose and leave the oil on the other side of the hose (to eventually clog the works and create a huge back-pressure on the pump) since only the water passes thru the filter. What this can do is let you fill a huge tank full of oil/water mix and then pump out the water, leaving you with mostly oil in the tank. You could also create skimmers of this to skim the oil off the water much like you skim debris in a pool. The oil would be in the skimmers and you would need to dump it into a collection tank. Depending on how strong the material is (i.e. how much weight it can hold), you could create massive skimmers and use it like a fish net, but instead of fish, you get oil. However, you would also get whatever else is in there, like any organism which might happen to get trapped in the "net".
But that is not the case for many roads. Around me, the roads are set to standards that have been obsolete for 60+ years. Sure, 45MPH made sense on the road when it was a 1 lane both way road with a line down the middle and had farm vehicles crossing/merging from the fields on either side. However, those fields are now gone, the road is 3 lanes each way and separated by a concrete barrier and limited access. At the least, it should be 55 now, or even 65, but that won't happen.
Probably not....
And the same people who came up with "nuke it" are the same ones who created an inferno that has been burning for 30 years in the desert wastelands on the Asian shelfs. The sea floor in the area which this oil well is located is already extremely delicate, to the point that oil is already seeping from it in thousands if not millions of locations. Simply "nuking it" could cause those other locations to fracture open and instead of having one location with oil gushing out of the sea bed, we could have hundreds of locations, and those wouldn't have a pipe in them which we could eventually seal with concrete or plug with a massive valve. The oil field under the sea in that location is one of the largest in the world, and is also under extreme pressure from the weight of the ocean above it and the natural gases dissolved in the oil contained there. If the pressures involved from the oil well under were found in a well on the land, the "gusher" escaping from it would be almost a mile high. The last measured standing pipe pressure was 6k psi and rapidly rising before the drilling rig exploded:
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Are they supposed to be there?
No, they are lines of dead and/or stuck pixels. If you notice, they are all either red, green, blue, or black lines. What this means is that the control lines, or power feeds for those lines of pixels are bad/malformed.
If they can fix the stuck pixels, it would be a sweet screen!
I mean, that must be some THICK hair! Does it grow thicker as it grows longer?
Sounds like the excuse to fire someone whom they could replace with someone a lot cheaper/less benefits due to years of service....
You have no clue... A mach 6 fighter/bomber would very much be useful in the armament. At that speed it can outrun most missiles used to shoot it down. Very few weapons platforms can track and engage an aircraft flying faster than mach 4 at the moment, let alone something flying mach 6. There are only a handful of missiles (surface-to-air or air-to-air) which can even travel mach 6 or faster, which means you can only attach from a forward vector and once it passes your position or is flying away from you, your missiles will not be able to catch the plane. This assumes that your radar system can even detect a plane that fast and can instruct the missile how to intercept the target.