I believe you are mistaken on this point. International law and the current US ROE most certainly allow one to fire on a retreating enemy target until they law down their arms and equipment and surrender.
How do you lay down your weapons if you don't have any?
How do you surrender to a gunship that circles around, probably laying low and trying to go undetected?
I think it's pretty obvious at this point that the video came from an inside source. Same source must have passed over the decryption key as well, unless the video was leaked already decrypted.
From TFA: In 2007, a study by those researchers, William Seltzer of Fordham University and Margo Anderson of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, proved that the Census Bureau gave the Secret Service the names and addresses of all persons of Japanese ancestry in the Washington, D.C., area during World War II. The bureau responded by insisting that this was ancient history. While the disclosure may have been dated, the bureau's deceit lasted for more than 60 years and undermines its credibility. And we do not know how many other census confidentiality violations have yet to surface.
This just in. Webpal (http://dfcd.net/projects/webpal/webpal.html among other sites) was a 1998-vintage ARM-based set-top box that could run Linux, output on the local TV, get input from a wireless keyboard and/or remote, and connect through a network to a remote computer. Throw in VNC, and you could have "remote desktop" on the TV.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
It is the oxygen. A little known but very effective trick to get rid of hangover, which was taught to me by a scuba instructor. When hung over, breathe pure oxygen for a couple minutes. Makes the hangover go away instantly.
It is totally doable, even as a DYI project, at a cost below $100 (including the cost of the tablet). All you need is a digitizer to stick on top or better yet below the LCD, a microcontroller to grab the digitizer output and a SD card slot for saving the page as bitmap. There are large digitizers available in the sub-$50 range (individual retail price, likely a lot cheaper in bulk), a MSP430 microcontroller is a few bucks (or you can get free samples from TI), a PCB you can do yourself with an inkjet printer and a few materials from Radio Shack etc.
I plan on getting right on it as soon as these are available for sale again.
What about my 80-year-old grandma? She needs a phone that just works. She doesn't need to have to look at the modem thingie and see if every light that should be on is on, and every light that should be blinking is blinking before she can make a phone call. Not to mention that with a 80-year old, that call may have been to 911.
Also, how can one get VOIP without paying for all the extras (Internet? My grandma doesn't know how to use that or even has a computer) and priced at the same level as regular landlines?
I don't see this flying. Not unless they make drastic changes to the infrastructure.
You may also wake up in the future just to find out that revolution has swept away all laws that made self-inheritance possible. So now you're broke, don't speak the language or understand society, and the only work you're apt for is the okral mines on Neptune. So you have to either slave away there to earn your existence or face the molecular disintegrator.
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I was talking mostly of the E4 "concept art" that was hosted at one point on FD's web site, showcasing a scantily clad female running around the corridors of a spaceship. Kinda like Jolene Blalock did a number of years later.
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Cool, I played for so many years and didn't know this. Of course, the catch is that you also become a fugitive, and the sun you're orbiting around is going nova... (yeah, I just had to try it)
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That's not a bug, that's a feature!
I used this "feature" countless times to get a new pilot started, you know, get enough credits to buy decent equipment instead of getting blown out of the sky on the first trip. Good ole times.
I concur on Vega Strike. Been following its development for years, it's actively developed and maintained, with an active base of players/beta-testers, and of course it's open source so if you want you can fork it and customize any way you want. And of course it has been very playable for years. Only wish it were more widely known.
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Yeah, I've been hearing this for at least 10 years... How about the "preview" stuff on F.D.'s website a few years ago, that was then hastily taken down and never spoken of again?
I guess now that D.N.F. is out of the picture, Elite 4 is the next best candidate for the vaporware award.
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Have you tried to roll out some OSS apps on Windows?
You know, just yesterday I was looking at what was needed to compile OpenJDK on Windows.
I got a massive headache about 1h into it. :)
I believe you are mistaken on this point. International law and the current US ROE most certainly allow one to fire on a retreating enemy target until they law down their arms and equipment and surrender.
How do you lay down your weapons if you don't have any?
How do you surrender to a gunship that circles around, probably laying low and trying to go undetected?
I think it's pretty obvious at this point that the video came from an inside source. Same source must have passed over the decryption key as well, unless the video was leaked already decrypted.
You can't be serious. Do you have any idea just how expensive it is to train an Apache pilot or gunner?
No I don't. I imagine it's pretty expensive though. And it failed completely for this particular crew. Utterly and miserably failed.
From TFA:
In 2007, a study by those researchers, William Seltzer of Fordham University and Margo Anderson of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, proved that the Census Bureau gave the Secret Service the names and addresses of all persons of Japanese ancestry in the Washington, D.C., area during World War II. The bureau responded by insisting that this was ancient history. While the disclosure may have been dated, the bureau's deceit lasted for more than 60 years and undermines its credibility. And we do not know how many other census confidentiality violations have yet to surface.
Has anyone patented yet any computing devices that are blue?
If not, I got dibs!
Not even that - anyome with a $27 gadget can seriously disrupt GPS-based traffic.
Actinides (and especially uranium isotopes) are NOT products of nuclear fission.
"...actinides -- highly radioactive uranium isotopes that are the waste products of nuclear fission inside a reactor"
Really?
Whoo boy.
I wasn't aware nuclear physics had been rewritten to that extent.
This just in. Webpal (http://dfcd.net/projects/webpal/webpal.html among other sites) was a 1998-vintage ARM-based set-top box that could run Linux, output on the local TV, get input from a wireless keyboard and/or remote, and connect through a network to a remote computer. Throw in VNC, and you could have "remote desktop" on the TV.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
It is the oxygen. A little known but very effective trick to get rid of hangover, which was taught to me by a scuba instructor. When hung over, breathe pure oxygen for a couple minutes. Makes the hangover go away instantly.
So use a ramscoop to collect all the hydrogen that's in the way and use it for fuel. Sheesh.
In the meantime, amateurs build fusion devices in their basements and achieve real measurable D-D fusion:
http://www.fusor.net/
... their spirit is broken?
It is totally doable, even as a DYI project, at a cost below $100 (including the cost of the tablet). All you need is a digitizer to stick on top or better yet below the LCD, a microcontroller to grab the digitizer output and a SD card slot for saving the page as bitmap. There are large digitizers available in the sub-$50 range (individual retail price, likely a lot cheaper in bulk), a MSP430 microcontroller is a few bucks (or you can get free samples from TI), a PCB you can do yourself with an inkjet printer and a few materials from Radio Shack etc.
I plan on getting right on it as soon as these are available for sale again.
Well, look at the bright side. At least your kind is rare and doesn't reproduce. The world will be spared of any little ACs you may have spawned.
No she doesn't have or want cable. Together with many other people.
What about my 80-year-old grandma? She needs a phone that just works. She doesn't need to have to look at the modem thingie and see if every light that should be on is on, and every light that should be blinking is blinking before she can make a phone call. Not to mention that with a 80-year old, that call may have been to 911.
Also, how can one get VOIP without paying for all the extras (Internet? My grandma doesn't know how to use that or even has a computer) and priced at the same level as regular landlines?
I don't see this flying. Not unless they make drastic changes to the infrastructure.
You may also wake up in the future just to find out that revolution has swept away all laws that made self-inheritance possible. So now you're broke, don't speak the language or understand society, and the only work you're apt for is the okral mines on Neptune. So you have to either slave away there to earn your existence or face the molecular disintegrator.
One more to go till we get Elerium-115.
I was talking mostly of the E4 "concept art" that was hosted at one point on FD's web site, showcasing a scantily clad female running around the corridors of a spaceship. Kinda like Jolene Blalock did a number of years later.
Cool, I played for so many years and didn't know this. Of course, the catch is that you also become a fugitive, and the sun you're orbiting around is going nova... (yeah, I just had to try it)
That's not a bug, that's a feature!
I used this "feature" countless times to get a new pilot started, you know, get enough credits to buy decent equipment instead of getting blown out of the sky on the first trip. Good ole times.
I concur on Vega Strike. Been following its development for years, it's actively developed and maintained, with an active base of players/beta-testers, and of course it's open source so if you want you can fork it and customize any way you want. And of course it has been very playable for years. Only wish it were more widely known.
Yeah, I've been hearing this for at least 10 years... How about the "preview" stuff on F.D.'s website a few years ago, that was then hastily taken down and never spoken of again?
I guess now that D.N.F. is out of the picture, Elite 4 is the next best candidate for the vaporware award.