No... We need to get our bio-diesel industry going full bore, convert all vehicles to use it, and get to where we import 0% oil from anywhere.
And in the process allocate more arable land and fresh water for non-human consumption. You may not have noticed but fresh water is already starting to become a scarce commodity in the US.
To leave China, you need an exit visa. This is also in contravention of UN declaration of human rights. Would you expect a trade embargo against the Chinese too?
Its even worse in Saudi Arabia.. according to the great and powerful wikepedia Exit Visas are required by foreign workers in Saudi Arabia and Qatar
.. Hence at the end of a foreign worker's employment period, the worker must secure clearance from his/her employer stating that the worker has satisfactorily fulfilled the terms of his/her employment contract or that the worker's services are no longer needed..
The firm that created this should be shamed (or hacked) out of existence.
The trouble is that the Saudi government is an ally. And if you RTFA you'll see that it is an automated SMS generated when someone attempts to (legally) cross the border. Most likely a simple SMS gateway linked to a passport reader and a DB full of the phone numbers of male relatives - all which could be bought retail.
Those are electronic devices with some embedded communication device. Do you need more fun that that?
Umm.. no.. its more like:
Border guard: Hey you there.. who's your owner? Woman:.. Um.. Sheik Ali Baba Sheik Sheik the Third Border guard: (Phones Sheik Ali Baba Sheik Sheik the Third) Sheik Ali Baba Sheik Sheik the Third: (answering phone) Yo.. the Sheik man here! Border guard: Yo Man! I gots one of your possessions here. Seem's like she was trying to slip one past you. Sheik Ali Baba Sheik Sheik the Third: Damn.. that's the third time this week. I'm gonna have to do something about this. Border guard: Yeah I know whats you mean. ...
This is the best of all of those solutions. Think about it.. it doesn't take any resources at all to implement, and in a generation or so Saudi Arabia will have totally cured itself of all those pesky upstart women!
Reading the comments, it seems I'm the only one here who thinks this is awesome.
I think that the difference is that other people are taking the line of thought that something more awesome than a weapons system like Iron Dome is not needing it in the first place, and that the increase of hostilities in the middle could have scary consequences.
There was a huge problem with the Patriot system early on where the tracking computers lost so much accuracy even after only running continuously for 8 hours that the system would fail to intercept threats. The short term solution was to reboot the system at regular intervals.
There are a couple of videos on the Fractal Antennas website Fractal Antenna: Whats New. Looks like they have something for microwaves. But when they start talking about how this could be scaled up from microwaves to visible light I start to get a bit skeptical.
Scott Forstall denied that he and Steven Sinofsky are forming a secret club with the aim of ".. getting back at all those people who just don't know any better and need to told how things should be done...".
It's rumored that the first meeting will be held in a tree-house in the back yard of Scott's mothers' house, and that "no girls or software company executives will be allowed", and pizza and soft drinks may be delivered.
Why ding Apple for products they tried and failed with, when the format iPod Nano has changed on the last 3 or 4 versions. Tall and thin => Different tall and thin => square => tall and thin again. I don't think that Apple knows where it is going with this one.
But I bet your customers *will* assume that it's your day job which will generate a lot of emotion when the system goes down at 9AM and your response is..
Well sorry, I have to be at work now, I'll get on it after 5
It seems you are already setting yourself up to be just as terrible as your current DSL provider.
Think of the emails we've been seeing that employers have sent to their workers.
I was in an Office Max yesterday and I caught a glimpse of an email/web page (not sure what) on one of their work computers that looked suspiciously like the company suggesting to the workers how the local ballot should be marked. It was full screen with large pictures of the candidates with green check marks against at least some names.
Seems anti-antithetical for MS to host anything involving Linux... what's the catch?
Well as per this article Microsoft is offering Linux on its Azure platform, so its quite reasonable for a major vendor of Linux services to want to be part of a Linux conference (and I had to stop myself from laughing out loud when I wrote that)
I saw that there were multiple levels of dimness. But if I want to look out a dimmed window I'd wear sunglasses!
However my conspiracy theory was more aimed at the cabin crew forcing the shades down prior to the impending doom of the aircraft in order to reduce panic.
Have some consideration if 90% of the rest of the passengers are asleep, even if it is daytime outside.
This boils down to "why my needs and desires trump your needs and desires". So who are you to pass judgement in your favour as opposed to your window seat neighbour?
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Not really, it's just not conveniently located at all the right places.
But give me 10 nuclear power plants and I can make all the fresh water you want.
Which will be not conveniently located in all the right places.
- kill them all
This is the best of all of those solutions. Think about it .. it doesn't take any resources at all to implement
Uhh, tell the Nazis that "kill them all" didn't take any resources....
Hey .. If I can strangle girl babies single handed so can Saudi's!
No... We need to get our bio-diesel industry going full bore, convert all vehicles to use it, and get to where we import 0% oil from anywhere.
And in the process allocate more arable land and fresh water for non-human consumption. You may not have noticed but fresh water is already starting to become a scarce commodity in the US.
To leave China, you need an exit visa. This is also in contravention of UN declaration of human rights. Would you expect a trade embargo against the Chinese too?
Its even worse in Saudi Arabia .. according to the great and powerful wikepedia Exit Visas are required by foreign workers in Saudi Arabia and Qatar
The firm that created this should be shamed (or hacked) out of existence.
The trouble is that the Saudi government is an ally. And if you RTFA you'll see that it is an automated SMS generated when someone attempts to (legally) cross the border. Most likely a simple SMS gateway linked to a passport reader and a DB full of the phone numbers of male relatives - all which could be bought retail.
Those are electronic devices with some embedded communication device.
Do you need more fun that that?
Umm .. no .. its more like:
Border guard: Hey you there .. who's your owner? .. Um .. Sheik Ali Baba Sheik Sheik the Third .. the Sheik man here! .. that's the third time this week. I'm gonna have to do something about this.
...
Woman:
Border guard: (Phones Sheik Ali Baba Sheik Sheik the Third)
Sheik Ali Baba Sheik Sheik the Third: (answering phone) Yo
Border guard: Yo Man! I gots one of your possessions here. Seem's like she was trying to slip one past you.
Sheik Ali Baba Sheik Sheik the Third: Damn
Border guard: Yeah I know whats you mean.
- kill them all
This is the best of all of those solutions. Think about it .. it doesn't take any resources at all to implement, and in a generation or so Saudi Arabia will have totally cured itself of all those pesky upstart women!
In related news, big number mathematicians are considering whether to dispute the .google TLD.
Which help sort out the stupid mathematicians from the ones that know what a googol is.
Reading the comments, it seems I'm the only one here who thinks this is awesome.
I think that the difference is that other people are taking the line of thought that something more awesome than a weapons system like Iron Dome is not needing it in the first place, and that the increase of hostilities in the middle could have scary consequences.
There was a huge problem with the Patriot system early on where the tracking computers lost so much accuracy even after only running continuously for 8 hours that the system would fail to intercept threats. The short term solution was to reboot the system at regular intervals.
GAO Report: Patriot Missile Defense (Official report)
Patriot Missile Software Problem
Round off errors and the Patriot missile
Q. Why is employing graduate like having sex with a virgin?
A. Because neither one knows how badly you are screwing them.
There are a couple of videos on the Fractal Antennas website Fractal Antenna: Whats New. Looks like they have something for microwaves. But when they start talking about how this could be scaled up from microwaves to visible light I start to get a bit skeptical.
The Memory Game
That classic game of remembering is back in this awesome new iPhone app!
Apple: Please remove 'memory' from the title of your game or we will remove your game for you!
I prefer The Mammary Game
Scott Forstall denied that he and Steven Sinofsky are forming a secret club with the aim of ".. getting back at all those people who just don't know any better and need to told how things should be done...".
It's rumored that the first meeting will be held in a tree-house in the back yard of Scott's mothers' house, and that "no girls or software company executives will be allowed", and pizza and soft drinks may be delivered.
Why ding Apple for products they tried and failed with, when the format iPod Nano has changed on the last 3 or 4 versions. Tall and thin => Different tall and thin => square => tall and thin again. I don't think that Apple knows where it is going with this one.
Its way too early for me .. I'm humour impaired in the morning.
Steve Wozniak ... has expressed an interest in becoming an Australian citizen
Yeah but he ha$ certain advantage$.
What should you do? Leave the country and become an Australian citizen in protest!
You do know that you just can't waltz up to Oz and say "I want in" and expect to settle there?
Visas, Immigration and Refugees
You said
Assuming this will not be my day job
But I bet your customers *will* assume that it's your day job which will generate a lot of emotion when the system goes down at 9AM and your response is ..
Well sorry, I have to be at work now, I'll get on it after 5
It seems you are already setting yourself up to be just as terrible as your current DSL provider.
as to what the best business strategy should be between two 3rd party companies?
.. use that as a Slashdot poll.
You might as well ask what I think your neighbor should give their kids for Christmas. Go ahead
Obviously we have not yet reached the bottom of the Slashdot story barrel.
Think of the emails we've been seeing that employers have sent to their workers.
I was in an Office Max yesterday and I caught a glimpse of an email/web page (not sure what) on one of their work computers that looked suspiciously like the company suggesting to the workers how the local ballot should be marked. It was full screen with large pictures of the candidates with green check marks against at least some names.
And from another article from this year Microsoft cracks top 20 list of Linux contributors. So again its reasonable for MS to be at the conference.
Mitt Romney sponsors Obama's campaign victory.
Seems anti-antithetical for MS to host anything involving Linux... what's the catch?
Well as per this article Microsoft is offering Linux on its Azure platform, so its quite reasonable for a major vendor of Linux services to want to be part of a Linux conference (and I had to stop myself from laughing out loud when I wrote that)
Slashdot discussion about Samba 4's Beta release Samba 4 Enters Beta
I saw that there were multiple levels of dimness. But if I want to look out a dimmed window I'd wear sunglasses!
However my conspiracy theory was more aimed at the cabin crew forcing the shades down prior to the impending doom of the aircraft in order to reduce panic.
Have some consideration if 90% of the rest of the passengers are asleep, even if it is daytime outside.
This boils down to "why my needs and desires trump your needs and desires". So who are you to pass judgement in your favour as opposed to your window seat neighbour?