Wrong... they do have cruise missiles. And it does not matter if they are supplied by the US or ACME. The go/no go on launching a missile is their decision and the missile will go where told (well assuming it works... which is a seperate can of worms).
A missile doesn't need to be nuclear to make it a serious threat... a single cruise missile targetted by a terrorist organisation or rogue state at, say, the Pope's Easter address and one nice little atrocity done and dusted.
Also, while one of the aims of this is for cruise missile detection I suspect it has alot more abilities - and if you can spot a cruise missile you can easily use it to spot (for example) drug runner speedboats, light aircraft flying below ground based radar, vehicle movements etc.
Errr... it depends on the OS as well as the CPU; alot of Windows users are still on 32bit XP/Vista... not sure about the linux community as I've not seen any info recently on the proportion of 32bit/64bit installs.
Half the time they do only last 30 minutes. After 30 mins lag used to get so bad and still does on occasions most of the fleets say sod this for a game of soliders and logoff ski.
Some data storage disposal regulations, e.g defence data above a certain classification, mandates physical destruction of the media. However I doubt this guys equipment would meet that requirement as it usually means some form of extreme heating and very small pieces.
For multiple VMs memory is the main need and DDR3 memory is still a premium (not as high as it was but still slightly above) over DD2 memory so an AMD2+ motherboard and an Phenom II 940X would do a lovely job:)
Agree; the alliance I'm in hardly uses any Tech 3 strategic cruisers but we have downed a number of them... and they seem to be as easy to take down as anyother ship if you have your wits about you.
What has America got to do with this story? Several pointers as to why this is a UK story (and no, despite appearances to the contrary we're not part of the US yet):
1. Its a story from the Times - a major UK broadsheet newspaper. 2. He obtained the iPod at Argos which I believe is not present in the US. 3. He's from Liverpool - which, last time I looked, is in England in the context of this article. 4. Trading Standards Institute is the UK consumer protection board.
Soon you'll need to come up with a new expression. The phrase nuts is owned respectively by God Inc. when used in relation to a plant or part of a mammal and by the estate of General McAuliffe when used as an expression of anger or frustration.
Think the music industries has shot both feet off along time back (anti-sharing rants and malicious prosecution, crap music) one hand (over priced crap music) and has now persuaded someone to shoot the remaining hand off.
You've got to wonder at the mentality of people in charge... are they deliberately screwing up so they get a nice big fat pay off in return for buggering off into the distance?
Shops like Spiller's in Cardiff are a dying breed of independent specialist music retailers and this move will just hasten their demise followed by the demise of the big record labels (we can but hope).
Why on earth geeks continue to view Apple as a Good Company boggles my mind.
Wny on earth **some** geeks would be more accurate.
I'm a geek I'd guess by most definitions and while I own and like my ipod touch I do not think Apple, Google, Microsoft et al are good 'companies' in the sense you mean. All companies, if they wish to remain in buisness, have just one goal: make the most money they can out of each individual customer.
At the time I posted I was going off the following (in this instance the inquisitor but most articles had the same view):- "The censorship was first reported on Reddit, where users confirmed with AT&T that the site had indeed been censored, and was not being blocked due to a technical issue. 4chan owner Moot later confirmed the news, saying that the/r9k/ was also blocked and that AT&T users should "call or write [to] customer support and [AT&T] corporate immediately.""
If, as it now appears, the block was for technical reasons then that is indeed a different kettle of fish... and would not affect (AFAIK) their common carrier status.
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If, as appears to be the case, AT&T are actively censoring a site won't this in effect remove their common carrier status so leaving them open to being liable to be prosecuted for any questionable material of any nature which is carried on their network (either to an end user on their network, from a server on their network or traffic routed over their network to/from non-AT&T network end points)...
I had a vague feeling I recalled C++0x being moved to 2010 and renamed... now reading your post I'm more convinced this is, indeed, old news. Not that/. ever posts old news:roll:.
I'll second that one... excellent game and I love the tech tree in it... AI can occasionally be a bit dumb (keeps trying to use VTOL on my nice airdefences and ground against my ground defences;) )
With facebook I'd guess the bottleneck ain't at the hardware level... php while good for alot of website work I'm not convinced is the best solution for the volume of traffic and size of pages that facebook delivers.
Once they sort their software architecture out they can then look at the hardware; starting with the disk storage systems and network fabric, the cpu is the least of their worries until they solve all the other bottlenecks in the line before the CPU gets invovled. No matter how fast a CPU is it can only operate as fast as it can get data and instructions shoveled into it.
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Correct... they don't have nuclear weapons.
Wrong... they do have cruise missiles. And it does not matter if they are supplied by the US or ACME. The go/no go on launching a missile is their decision and the missile will go where told (well assuming it works... which is a seperate can of worms).
A missile doesn't need to be nuclear to make it a serious threat... a single cruise missile targetted by a terrorist organisation or rogue state at, say, the Pope's Easter address and one nice little atrocity done and dusted.
Also, while one of the aims of this is for cruise missile detection I suspect it has alot more abilities - and if you can spot a cruise missile you can easily use it to spot (for example) drug runner speedboats, light aircraft flying below ground based radar, vehicle movements etc.
Errr... it depends on the OS as well as the CPU; alot of Windows users are still on 32bit XP/Vista... not sure about the linux community as I've not seen any info recently on the proportion of 32bit/64bit installs.
Half the time they do only last 30 minutes. After 30 mins lag used to get so bad and still does on occasions most of the fleets say sod this for a game of soliders and logoff ski.
Which is another can of worms.
Just where do I get a nano shark to mount one of these ere lasers on?
Did you forget this is /. and so reading (or atleast comprehension of the article) is not a requirement before posting... :p
Some data storage disposal regulations, e.g defence data above a certain classification, mandates physical destruction of the media. However I doubt this guys equipment would meet that requirement as it usually means some form of extreme heating and very small pieces.
For multiple VMs memory is the main need and DDR3 memory is still a premium (not as high as it was but still slightly above) over DD2 memory so an AMD2+ motherboard and an Phenom II 940X would do a lovely job :)
What? How many Walmart customers do you know who do a full security audit (both physical and IT infrastructure) before shopping there?
We're talking about b2c as customers here not b2b... so most Joe Public customer's are not going to do security audits before shopping somewhere.
Agree; the alliance I'm in hardly uses any Tech 3 strategic cruisers but we have downed a number of them... and they seem to be as easy to take down as anyother ship if you have your wits about you.
Not to mention a trip of 200 miles in a car which can do 55mpg of just gas will use less gas than the volt.
Not all journeys are short distance town commutes, some people use cars for longer trips as well ;)
Err... X-Rays are 3x10^16 to 3x10^19 so terahertz radiation is lower relative to x-rays.
What has America got to do with this story? Several pointers as to why this is a UK story (and no, despite appearances to the contrary we're not part of the US yet):
1. Its a story from the Times - a major UK broadsheet newspaper.
2. He obtained the iPod at Argos which I believe is not present in the US.
3. He's from Liverpool - which, last time I looked, is in England in the context of this article.
4. Trading Standards Institute is the UK consumer protection board.
What customer centric aura? Apple have been pulling stunts like this for a long time now...
The only reason I have an iPod touch is, at the time I got it, nothing else really fitted the bill for what I wanted.
Soon you'll need to come up with a new expression. The phrase nuts is owned respectively by God Inc. when used in relation to a plant or part of a mammal and by the estate of General McAuliffe when used as an expression of anger or frustration.
Not.
Think the music industries has shot both feet off along time back (anti-sharing rants and malicious prosecution, crap music) one hand (over priced crap music) and has now persuaded someone to shoot the remaining hand off.
You've got to wonder at the mentality of people in charge... are they deliberately screwing up so they get a nice big fat pay off in return for buggering off into the distance?
Shops like Spiller's in Cardiff are a dying breed of independent specialist music retailers and this move will just hasten their demise followed by the demise of the big record labels (we can but hope).
Wny on earth **some** geeks would be more accurate.
I'm a geek I'd guess by most definitions and while I own and like my ipod touch I do not think Apple, Google, Microsoft et al are good 'companies' in the sense you mean. All companies, if they wish to remain in buisness, have just one goal: make the most money they can out of each individual customer.
At the time I posted I was going off the following (in this instance the inquisitor but most articles had the same view):- /r9k/ was also blocked and that AT&T users should "call or write [to] customer support and [AT&T] corporate immediately.""
"The censorship was first reported on Reddit, where users confirmed with AT&T that the site had indeed been censored, and was not being blocked due to a technical issue. 4chan owner Moot later confirmed the news, saying that the
If, as it now appears, the block was for technical reasons then that is indeed a different kettle of fish... and would not affect (AFAIK) their common carrier status.
If, as appears to be the case, AT&T are actively censoring a site won't this in effect remove their common carrier status so leaving them open to being liable to be prosecuted for any questionable material of any nature which is carried on their network (either to an end user on their network, from a server on their network or traffic routed over their network to/from non-AT&T network end points)...
500 years on an evolutionary timescale for slowly evolving speices like trees is bugger all time at all. Come back in a few thousand years please.
I had a vague feeling I recalled C++0x being moved to 2010 and renamed... now reading your post I'm more convinced this is, indeed, old news. Not that /. ever posts old news :roll:.
What are you smoking?
WTF? Care to explain that to people affected by Three mile Island, Selafield/Windscale, Chernoybl?
Nuclear fission will never be a clean source of engery are there is always going to be radioactive waste produced.
I'll second that one... excellent game and I love the tech tree in it... AI can occasionally be a bit dumb (keeps trying to use VTOL on my nice airdefences and ground against my ground defences ;) )
Only going to make life safer if you can crank the power up to several hundred MW and blow the annoying cars up before they reach you...
Fine so long as all companies and countries are punished equally for 'censoring' the internet
So any company involved in Australia, China, Britain, Germany and god knows how many more should all be banned equally...
Oh and ban the US companies that would be involved in the 'drop the internet' red button idea reported in stories yesterday.
In fact, I know, lets ban everything.
With facebook I'd guess the bottleneck ain't at the hardware level... php while good for alot of website work I'm not convinced is the best solution for the volume of traffic and size of pages that facebook delivers.
Once they sort their software architecture out they can then look at the hardware; starting with the disk storage systems and network fabric, the cpu is the least of their worries until they solve all the other bottlenecks in the line before the CPU gets invovled. No matter how fast a CPU is it can only operate as fast as it can get data and instructions shoveled into it.