Well, a joke or a troll, I can't quite work it out. If the latter, is anyone going to bite and point out that the EM interference problems only apply to older airliners?
I think that wowbagger does have a point about the FAA currently disallowing such things on all airliners despite it being safe on modern ones though.
I'm more interested in which country's laws apply to your online activities, anyway (besides France's, which as we all know apply to the entire world and possibly several others:).
Nor I. I think that people need to start specifying OSes as well as browsers to avoid confusion here. I certainly can't view it using any browser under linux, and I've tried Opera 5 final (identifying as everything), Mozilla 0.9, Netscape 4.76, Amaya and (as if I need to mention it) links.
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I think I remember reading somewhere that the rotating nacelles on the Voyager were supposed to be part of a new technology to limit that damage, making it one of the first ships allowed to randomly break the warp 6 restriction since it was imposed.
Let me get this straight: I'm replying to an author's response to a reader's review of that author's analysis of a filmmaker's interpretation of another author's creative statement about the human condition?
Yeah; forget the film. That alone speaks volumes about the human condition...
... is whether CmdrTaco was thinking that it should have been (64/32)=2 times as much "data" (which I can only assume to mean addressable space) or whether he knew that they were out by somewhat more than a factor of 2, and that it's really (2^64)/(2^32) = 2^32 ~ 4000000000 times as much.
Following on from the hugely successful Guess when Mir will splash thread, why don't we have a competition to guess when the new, improved $70,000-per-year CERT mailing list will finally inform subscribers about the SMBRelay exploit just mentioned in an article on theregister posted a couple of hours ago? (Someone may even submit it to slashdot and have it accepted yet; the fact that WinNT lanman is insecure isn't really "news" for nerds any more but you never know).
Same rules could apply... include an ISO format string (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) in the body of your post, times in EST and a Slashdot T-Shirt goes to the winner.
We might have to invent a rule such as "The official time will be taken as the time on the header added by the first mailserver the message goes through" to avoid CERT getting wind of it and setting their system clocks back a year, and winning, but I'm sure the powers that be could agree on a fair system.:)
A funnier competition would be "how many passwords are cracked as a result of SMBRelay before CERT gets around to posting it" of course, but I can imagine that would be somewhat more difficult to judge:) Either way, if word about the competion gets around, we'll have made our point.
As I understand it, legally, you're right. If you're in a public place like a school or a beach then you can't accuse anyone of invading your privacy. That's why newspapers are able to print photos of our favourite celebrities topless on holiday -- they can't be sued by someone who was in an allegedly "public place" at the time.
In reality though, I think it's still considered rather impolite to eavesdrop on people, even if they aren't in the comfort of their own house. I'd certainly disagree with any claim that, if I had a hushed conversation with someone on an apparently deserted street, I wouldn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. And even though it legally isn't, I think that most people would agree that the candid photos in magazines are an invasion of the superstars' privacy (the stars themselves seem to think so -- and say so at every opportunity they get).
I think it would be regrettable if I could no longer feel I was able to have a conversation anywhere except my own home without my words being picked up by some hidden microphone somewhere.
So far I've gotten all my Karma from telling people they are wrong...:)
S'OK, it's called discussion. There are enough people round here who just arrive, tell everyone what their views are and leave without reading a word of what anyone else thinks:)
What students really need are hidden cameras in the schools...
By that same theory, all we really need are hidden cameras everywhere and a load of people monitoring them 24/7 to catch any illegal acts at all. And then we can move on to setting the Thought Police on to anyone who looks as if they're thinking of committing a crime. And we can put posters up everywhere of an imaginary figurehead called Big Brother to remind everyone that he's "watching them" all the time.
I'm not saying there aren't good, legitimate uses for (not-hidden) cameras in certain places. In fact, there is probably scope for even more to make, say town and city centres safer still, but the more you start hiding cameras left, right and centre indoors and out, the more you infringe on people's basic human right to privacy, and the more you turn into a Police State.
Perhaps those slashdotters advocating cameras would consider how much they'd enjoy the electronic alternative of having the RIAA be able to secretly spy on their hard disk contents thus making sure nobody breaks the law by having illegal mp3s of music they don't own.
OK, so she used them a lot to keep in touch with the Nebuchadnezzar, but you never saw Trinity actually escape The Matrix through a mobile did you?
No, you need a payphone to wire a hard line in to... if they all suddenly get taken away I'm going to get a lot more suspicious of the world than I was before I was that movie...
Heavy water: it's just like water, just heavier. You drink it - your body treats it just like water (no chemical differnce) but you just weigh more.
Of course there's a difference, you've got an extra neutron in there, how could there not be? Atoms with identical numbers of outer electrons tend to have similar chemical properties, yes. That's no big deal.
I agree with the other replies to this; it's one of the problems that comes from not allowing slashdotters to moderate and post in the same discussion: all the people who know lots about the subject and post genuinely interesting comments are normally ignored by moderators that virtually by definition know nothing about the subject they're moderating.
Is anyone seriously confused by the notion that it's different times in different parts of the world? Except perhaps Gene Ray, of course.
Please, nobody tell him that you can do the same thing with any prism that has a regular polygon as its cross-section and axis aligned with the earth's to "prove" there are more than 24 hours in a day.
Then again I doubt that Nature's Harmonic Time Regular Heptagonal Prism would get many followers, though Nature's Giant Toblerone Bar might attract some attention...
Yes! And less than an hour later there's Timothy posting a story about how banner ads are going to get bigger and uglier and nastier and we don't want them, do we?
All we need now is the 50,000-word JonKatz editorial on why we should have banner ads and they'll have the whole of slashdot in the palm of their hand for paying subscriptions:)
One who writes that "there are idealists galore that... like to wax poetically about how everything should be free as in beer" and a link to stallman.org. Nooooooooo, not free as in beer you fool.
And I've been reading the above "I wouldn't pay for slashdot" comments. Well, you do anyway by having the banners, but would you pay a reasonable price for a generic OSDN pass, that let you enjoy slashdot, slashcode, sourceforge, freshmeat, thinkgeek and other Good Things without banners?
The banner-run sites could still run alongside, but it would be nice for those of us that wanted to pay and feel a greater "part" of slashdot to be able to do so without making a donation that gets forgotton or clicking on the banner ads and buying something you don't want.
You could also have things like different posting scores if you wanted... +2 for paid user acct, +1 for paid AC or unpaid user, 0 for unpaid AC.
Slashdot Mirror
http://slashdot.org/faq/editorial.shtml#ed850
Well, a joke or a troll, I can't quite work it out. If the latter, is anyone going to bite and point out that the EM interference problems only apply to older airliners?
I think that wowbagger does have a point about the FAA currently disallowing such things on all airliners despite it being safe on modern ones though.
I'm more interested in which country's laws apply to your online activities, anyway (besides France's, which as we all know apply to the entire world and possibly several others :).
if you're buying 1U machines, you're either doing it for the size...
No shit ;-)
A common reason to go for a 1U is that they're cheaper to collocate.
Dave
Nor I. I think that people need to start specifying OSes as well as browsers to avoid confusion here. I certainly can't view it using any browser under linux, and I've tried Opera 5 final (identifying as everything), Mozilla 0.9, Netscape 4.76, Amaya and (as if I need to mention it) links.
I think I remember reading somewhere that the rotating nacelles on the Voyager were supposed to be part of a new technology to limit that damage, making it one of the first ships allowed to randomly break the warp 6 restriction since it was imposed.
Yeah; forget the film. That alone speaks volumes about the human condition...
Dave
It's democracy after all...
Dave
Dave
Heh :)
Actually, I think I used it over 4 hours earlier, and as we know, the right people always win in prior art cases :)
I didn't come up with it though. It was relayed from the shocked channel of OxIRC.
Dave
Dave
Does this mean anyone filtering packets using a Firewall could be prosecuted on charges of cruelty to animals? Dave
Same rules could apply... include an ISO format string (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) in the body of your post, times in EST and a Slashdot T-Shirt goes to the winner.
We might have to invent a rule such as "The official time will be taken as the time on the header added by the first mailserver the message goes through" to avoid CERT getting wind of it and setting their system clocks back a year, and winning, but I'm sure the powers that be could agree on a fair system. :)
A funnier competition would be "how many passwords are cracked as a result of SMBRelay before CERT gets around to posting it" of course, but I can imagine that would be somewhat more difficult to judge :) Either way, if word about the competion gets around, we'll have made our point.
Dave
In reality though, I think it's still considered rather impolite to eavesdrop on people, even if they aren't in the comfort of their own house. I'd certainly disagree with any claim that, if I had a hushed conversation with someone on an apparently deserted street, I wouldn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. And even though it legally isn't, I think that most people would agree that the candid photos in magazines are an invasion of the superstars' privacy (the stars themselves seem to think so -- and say so at every opportunity they get).
I think it would be regrettable if I could no longer feel I was able to have a conversation anywhere except my own home without my words being picked up by some hidden microphone somewhere.
So far I've gotten all my Karma from telling people they are wrong... :)
S'OK, it's called discussion. There are enough people round here who just arrive, tell everyone what their views are and leave without reading a word of what anyone else thinks :)
Dave
By that same theory, all we really need are hidden cameras everywhere and a load of people monitoring them 24/7 to catch any illegal acts at all. And then we can move on to setting the Thought Police on to anyone who looks as if they're thinking of committing a crime. And we can put posters up everywhere of an imaginary figurehead called Big Brother to remind everyone that he's "watching them" all the time.
I'm not saying there aren't good, legitimate uses for (not-hidden) cameras in certain places. In fact, there is probably scope for even more to make, say town and city centres safer still, but the more you start hiding cameras left, right and centre indoors and out, the more you infringe on people's basic human right to privacy, and the more you turn into a Police State.
Perhaps those slashdotters advocating cameras would consider how much they'd enjoy the electronic alternative of having the RIAA be able to secretly spy on their hard disk contents thus making sure nobody breaks the law by having illegal mp3s of music they don't own.
Two sides to every coin unfortunately. :(
Dave
No, you need a payphone to wire a hard line in to... if they all suddenly get taken away I'm going to get a lot more suspicious of the world than I was before I was that movie...
http://dave.magd.ox.ac.uk/katz.gif
Of course, I can't prove it's not the goatse.cx picture called katz.gif... (but it isn't :-)
Oh, now you have to come and spoil my day by mentioning f***als. :)
And it's bad enough having it a 200kb GIF without some format that allows sound. :)
Anyway, you could have asked me on IRC... we are chatting there after all :-P
For the permamently afraid, it's not a goatsex / anything else revolting link, just a bit of a laugh :)
Dave
Of course there's a difference, you've got an extra neutron in there, how could there not be? Atoms with identical numbers of outer electrons tend to have similar chemical properties, yes. That's no big deal.
I agree with the other replies to this; it's one of the problems that comes from not allowing slashdotters to moderate and post in the same discussion: all the people who know lots about the subject and post genuinely interesting comments are normally ignored by moderators that virtually by definition know nothing about the subject they're moderating.
Dave
Please, nobody tell him that you can do the same thing with any prism that has a regular polygon as its cross-section and axis aligned with the earth's to "prove" there are more than 24 hours in a day.
Then again I doubt that Nature's Harmonic Time Regular Heptagonal Prism would get many followers, though Nature's Giant Toblerone Bar might attract some attention...
Dave
All we need now is the 50,000-word JonKatz editorial on why we should have banner ads and they'll have the whole of slashdot in the palm of their hand for paying subscriptions :)
Dave
You got it, "?" is exactly "what" :)
And I've been reading the above "I wouldn't pay for slashdot" comments. Well, you do anyway by having the banners, but would you pay a reasonable price for a generic OSDN pass, that let you enjoy slashdot, slashcode, sourceforge, freshmeat, thinkgeek and other Good Things without banners?
The banner-run sites could still run alongside, but it would be nice for those of us that wanted to pay and feel a greater "part" of slashdot to be able to do so without making a donation that gets forgotton or clicking on the banner ads and buying something you don't want.
You could also have things like different posting scores if you wanted... +2 for paid user acct, +1 for paid AC or unpaid user, 0 for unpaid AC.
Dave
"Cool case"
Dave