"US" as in U.S. Constitution is all ypou need to know about its extent. Once you leave the 12-mile limit, it's another world out there, and don't count on any US Constitution to protect you. Perhaps you'd have more luck with the UN?
We (the world) didn't finish it the first time as the UN did not authorize throwing out Saddam, just cleaning his troops out of Kuwait. The UN authorized sanctions and containment (no-fly zones etc.) which Saddam continually violated forcing the UN to authorize force by the coalation. Cross your fingers, but it seems to be working so far.
Iraq violated UN (Worlwide) "laws" and sanctions numerous times in case you missed that. Generations to come will be exceedingly grateful to the "coalition of caring".
How did this suddenly become a massacre? I suggest checking the dictionary (below). "Just for the fun of it". Let's get real. This was no fun for anyone involved and a serious blunder (particularly by the driver and others in Italian command) in a war zone.
The innattentive driver failed to heed warnings and continued driving ~ 50 mph (faster than the 11 cars preceding it that stopped successfully) despite a bright warning light, a green lazer and warning shots. It's another case to show just how innatentive drivers are when chatting on cell phones. Also, no warning was given by the Italians to any U.S. authorities which could have made this a sucessful escape.
massacre P Pronunciation Key (ms-kr) n. The act or an instance of killing a large number of humans indiscriminately and cruelly.
Challenger was definitely preventable, just ask McDonald who was in charge at the Cape, BUT was over-ruled. He has agonized over this for years as he had to carry the Fax down the hall (which he disagreed with) to go ahead with the launch. Also, NASA lacked an administrator then (like now) who could call the shots. Jim Beggs wouldn't have allowed Challenger to be launched, but the DoJ was tying him up with trivial GD legal matters he was later cleared of. But he had to step aside to defend himself from the creww of DoJ attorneys. To some degree you can blame the Challenger disaster on the overly agressive and politically motivated Department of Justice attorneys. William Graham, Beggs temporary fill in, was not an experienced engineer (he was CS), and lacked both the clout and understanding to stop the launch.
Regarding Columbia, it is now clear we should have launched a rescue mission, which (according to O'Keefe) was definitely possible, as Atlantis was at the cape nearing it's launch. The fatal flaw was that taking damage photographs and launching a rescue mission were not pert chart options at Mission Control. In addition, the Crater analysis code (spreadsheet) and supporting Powerpoint slides were seriously flawed, giving the wrong impresssion to those who tried to interpret them. To some degree, Powerpoint was a culprit in Columbia as the Columbia Accident Investigation Report pointed out and why NASA employees were encouraged to take Tufte's course and read his books.
Recent CS research often focuses on traditional CPUs, MPI CPU clusters, etc..as new Intel CPUs drawi 140+ watts (and heroic cooling efforts and SOI.
Meanwhile FPGAs have displaced DSPs, FFTs and are overtaking CPUs for embedded applications. There are even rumblesof FPGAs seriously impacting the HPC market. Times are a changin so I'm not surprised to see traditional CPU-based CS research being downsized in response to this paradigm shift. Perhaps we need to take VIVA seriously just as Cray, SGI, Starbridge Systems, SRC, Nallatech and others are doing.
The NASA James Webb Space Telescope" is "on the way". I've heard the images it can obtain will make the Hubble images look like junk. Let's move on to the future rather than dwell on the past!
Remote support on Mac Mini is already here via bluetooth. How do I know, we use our Sony Erikkson 68i to control and select songs from playlists my son copied to his new Mac Mini (see earlier post)
Remote for Mac Mini is HERE AND NOW. Our 1st Mac Mini arrived with bluetooth, and shortly after it was out of the box, my son was controlling it from his Cell Phone (Sony Erikkson 68i) to select iTunes songs from a playlist he copied to the Mac Mini to play off hid stereo system. It even works downstairs.
Next he's connecting the DVI to his TV. Skeptics are often proven wrong and seem to have little faith in man's ingenuity to come up with novel solutions. THINK DIFFERENT!
(By the way, my son has never taken a computer course - nowadays, he claims, you can find most of what you need to knoww about computers and electronics on the Web)
Amen, we just bought two 512MB Mac Minis for home. By the way if you're an educator or student Mac Mini are $479 and even $469 for Government employees for home use. Also, don't forget to order the FREE EPSON C86 Color printer that comes with the Mini Macs. I forgot it and Apple was kind enough to add on two the color printers at no extra cost. It's best to specify on your original order, however.
Sounds like you may not be aware of the flexibility and variety of options in the Mac Mail filter. I run a variety of Unix, Windows and Macs, and it;'s clearly the best and easiest to use and the most effective. I used to get 400-500 junk mails/day and now through the combination of ISP filtering and use of Mac Junk Mail blocking it's down to 5 or so. And yes, if you're worried about bills or whatever being blocked, that's also taken care of in the "learning mode" which moves the alleged junk mail to a Junk file where you can examine it to see if you agree it's working perfectly. Once you're convincced, you can go to advanced mode. I wouldn't put down Mac User's as many of us know far more about Windows (and run windows machines and clusters) than many supposed Windows users that are oonly windows users, since until now, that's all they could afford. The whole world chnged Tuesday and the move is on --- to Mac from Windows according to the online Apple Store where I justr bought 2 Mac Minis for wife and son.
New York Times Weekly computer expert said the same thing (Macs are immune from viruses) in an in-depth expose not long after Panther was released citing the 4 windows holes that will remain a problem for M/$ til Longhorn emerges years from now. The title was something like "It's not about the numbers". The fact is NO virus can infect a MAC with out a user being informed, asked if he/she wants to install this new program, and if so to enter the System Password. This is the way OSX is shipped by default so as you can see Macs cannot install a virus even on Joe Sixpack's Mac unless he knowingfully enters the system password. This is the way things should be on Windows also, but alas til Longhorn arrives in several years, nusiance patches and service packs are the name of the game for Windows users to patch holes in a dike that cannot be totally patched until Windows is redone from the ground up.
What you claim to understand is a common misconception. On Macs, NOTHING can be installed unbeknownst to the Mac OS/X user without the user explicity being informed and asked (in a pop-up menu) if he/she ewishes to install new software, in which case the user must enter the system password. You would have to be utterly stupid to install something you are unaware of. Nothing can be installed behind your back without entering the system password. requestion the system password. Thus, even if you click on an attachement, websitre or whatever on OS-X nothing bad will EVER happen on a Mac without the user intervening and explicity entering the system Password, no matter how many millions of virus writters try. Unfortunately, this is not the case with Windows. I read that someone posted a $25,0000 prize if someone could creat an OS-X virus but unfortunately in over a year there are none for the reason I sted above. The only way to get a virus on a moern Mac is to install Windows (VirtualPC) with the netwok open on a Mac in which case the 4 glaring Windows holes are open for virus wrtters. I try to avoid this as then you need to mess with Windows patches for viruses, which as you know quickly can drive one away from Windows PCs.
The combination of ISP (Cox.net spam detecetor) and Mac Junk facility leaves Mac users with virually NO SPAM. Also, turning on "Block Popups" in the Mac Safari Browser make annoying Popups and Spam a thing of the past.
Saying Mac Users are smarter than Volvo/Mercedes Users is like saying Mercedes/Volvo Drivers are smarter than, say KIA/Ford Drivers. If you have $ you're likely to pay extra for top quality integrated hardware and software (including Unix). Besides, who wants to hassle with viruses, worms and other Microsoft gocthas.
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As I recall only 1 Italian died (the rest were mostly German tourists).
Read the report again, and again. Conspiracy theories?
Gimee a break!
You're smoking what?
"US" as in U.S. Constitution is all ypou need to know about
its extent. Once you leave the 12-mile limit, it's another
world out there, and don't count on any US Constitution to
protect you. Perhaps you'd have more luck with the UN?
We (the world) didn't finish it the first time as the UN did not authorize throwing out Saddam, just cleaning his troops out of Kuwait. The UN authorized sanctions and containment (no-fly
zones etc.) which Saddam continually violated forcing the UN
to authorize force by the coalation. Cross your fingers, but it seems to be working so far.
Iraq violated UN (Worlwide) "laws" and sanctions numerous
times in case you missed that. Generations to come will be
exceedingly grateful to the "coalition of caring".
How did this suddenly become a massacre? I suggest checking
the dictionary (below). "Just for the fun of it". Let's get real.
This was no fun for anyone involved and a serious blunder
(particularly by the driver and others in Italian command) in a war zone.
The innattentive driver failed to heed warnings and
continued driving ~ 50 mph (faster than the 11 cars
preceding it that stopped successfully) despite a bright warning
light, a green lazer and warning shots. It's another case
to show just how innatentive drivers are when chatting on cell phones. Also, no warning was given by the Italians to any U.S. authorities which could have made this a sucessful escape.
massacre P Pronunciation Key (ms-kr)
n.
The act or an instance of killing a large number of humans indiscriminately and cruelly.
See Rover FPGAs and RSC.
Future NASA space computers may not look like what most expect.
The FPGAs on Spirit and Opportunity seem to be overlooked. NASA's new Reconfigurable Scalable Computer (RSC) Project for space applications is exploring using FPGAs (instead of CPUs) which offer increased performance and radiation tolerance at a fraction of the power consumption.
Challenger was definitely preventable, just ask McDonald who was in charge at the Cape, BUT was over-ruled. He has agonized over this for years as he had to carry the Fax down the hall (which he disagreed with) to go ahead with the launch. Also, NASA lacked an administrator then (like now) who could call the shots. Jim Beggs wouldn't have allowed Challenger to be launched, but the DoJ was tying him up with trivial GD legal matters he was later cleared of. But he had to step aside to defend himself from the creww of DoJ attorneys. To some degree you can blame the Challenger disaster on the overly agressive and politically motivated Department of Justice attorneys. William Graham, Beggs temporary fill in, was not an experienced engineer (he was CS), and lacked both the clout and understanding to stop the launch.
Regarding Columbia, it is now clear we should have launched a rescue mission, which (according to O'Keefe) was definitely possible, as Atlantis was at the cape nearing it's launch. The fatal flaw was that taking damage photographs and launching a rescue mission were not pert chart options at Mission Control. In addition, the Crater analysis code (spreadsheet) and supporting Powerpoint slides were seriously flawed, giving the wrong impresssion to those who tried to interpret them. To some degree, Powerpoint was a culprit in Columbia as the Columbia Accident Investigation Report pointed out and why NASA employees were encouraged to take Tufte's course and read his books.
Meanwhile FPGAs have displaced DSPs, FFTs and are overtaking CPUs for embedded applications. There are even rumblesof FPGAs seriously impacting the HPC market. Times are a changin so I'm not surprised to see traditional CPU-based CS research being downsized in response to this paradigm shift. Perhaps we need to take VIVA seriously just as Cray, SGI, Starbridge Systems, SRC, Nallatech and others are doing.
Try the James Webb telescope
The NASA James Webb Space Telescope" is "on the way". I've heard the
images it can obtain will make the Hubble images look like
junk. Let's move on to the future rather than dwell on the past!
Remote support on Mac Mini is already here via bluetooth. How do I know, we use our Sony Erikkson 68i to control and select songs from playlists my son copied to his new Mac Mini (see earlier post)
Remote for Mac Mini is HERE AND NOW. Our 1st Mac Mini arrived with bluetooth, and shortly after it was out of the box, my son was controlling it from his Cell Phone (Sony Erikkson 68i) to select iTunes songs from a playlist he copied to the Mac Mini to play off hid stereo system. It even works downstairs.
Next he's connecting the DVI to his TV. Skeptics are often proven wrong and seem to have little faith in man's ingenuity to come up with novel solutions. THINK DIFFERENT!
(By the way, my son has never taken a computer course - nowadays, he claims, you can find most of what you need to knoww about computers and electronics on the Web)
"Behind the scenes" reasons why Airlines go Boeing or Airbus, is explained here.
Amen, we just bought two 512MB Mac Minis for home. By the way if you're an educator or student Mac Mini are $479 and even $469 for Government employees for home use. Also, don't forget to order the FREE EPSON C86 Color printer that comes with the Mini Macs. I forgot it and Apple was kind enough to add on two the color printers at no extra cost. It's best to specify on your original order, however.
Sounds like you may not be aware of the flexibility and variety of options in the Mac Mail filter. I run a variety of Unix, Windows and Macs, and it;'s clearly the best and easiest to use and the most effective. I used to get 400-500 junk mails/day and now through the combination of ISP filtering and use of Mac Junk Mail blocking it's down to 5 or so. And yes, if you're worried about bills or whatever being blocked, that's also taken care of in the "learning mode" which moves the alleged junk mail to a Junk file where you can examine it to see if you agree it's working perfectly. Once you're convincced, you can go to advanced mode. I wouldn't put down Mac User's as many of us know far more about Windows (and run windows machines and clusters) than many supposed Windows users that are oonly windows users, since until now, that's all they could afford. The whole world chnged Tuesday and the move is on --- to Mac from Windows according to the online Apple Store where I justr bought 2 Mac Minis for wife and son.
New York Times Weekly computer expert said the same thing (Macs are immune from viruses) in an in-depth expose not long after Panther was released citing the 4 windows holes that will remain a problem for M/$ til Longhorn emerges years from now. The title was something like "It's not about the numbers". The fact is NO virus can infect a MAC with out a user being informed, asked if he/she wants to install this new program, and if so to enter the System Password. This is the way OSX is shipped by default so as you can see Macs cannot install a virus even on Joe Sixpack's Mac unless he knowingfully enters the system password. This is the way things should be on Windows also, but alas til Longhorn arrives in several years, nusiance patches and service packs are the name of the game for Windows users to patch holes in a dike that cannot be totally patched until Windows is redone from the ground up.
What you claim to understand is a common misconception. On Macs, NOTHING can be installed unbeknownst to the Mac OS/X user without the user explicity being informed and asked (in a pop-up menu) if he/she ewishes to install new software, in which case the user must enter the system password. You would have to be utterly stupid to install something you are unaware of. Nothing can be installed behind your back without entering the system password. requestion the system password. Thus, even if you click on an attachement, websitre or whatever on OS-X nothing bad will EVER happen on a Mac without the user intervening and explicity entering the system Password, no matter how many millions of virus writters try. Unfortunately,
this is not the case with Windows. I read that someone posted a $25,0000 prize if someone could creat an OS-X virus but unfortunately in over a year there are none for the reason I sted above. The only way to get a virus on a moern Mac is to install
Windows (VirtualPC) with the netwok open on a Mac in which case the 4 glaring Windows holes are open for virus wrtters. I try to avoid this as then you need to mess with Windows patches for viruses, which as you know quickly can drive one away from Windows PCs.
Are you unaware of the Mac Mail Junk facility?
The combination of ISP (Cox.net spam detecetor) and Mac Junk
facility leaves Mac users with virually NO SPAM. Also, turning
on "Block Popups" in the Mac Safari Browser make annoying Popups and Spam a thing of the past.
that is: Mac Users smarter than PC/Microsoft Users.
Saying Mac Users are smarter than Volvo/Mercedes Users is like
saying Mercedes/Volvo Drivers are smarter than, say KIA/Ford Drivers. If you have $ you're likely to pay extra for top quality integrated hardware and software (including Unix). Besides, who wants to hassle with viruses, worms and other Microsoft gocthas.
Now, you tell me if that connection is "close and convoluted":
Here's background (including flight manifest) that clarifies "Flight of Fantacy" errors of "bitchslapped" & Moore.
Hitchens discloses many of the Movie's errors quite effectively.