Go spend some time in Europe. My experience in Germany and Austria has been that that the government produces regulations that assume you can make your own decisions and be responsible for your own actions. If you screw up, you pay the price. Slip on a puddle and hit your head at the water park? Your fault - everyone knows water parks have slippery spots. Be more careful next time. A lawsuit is out of the question.
It is your fault. Of course you break your arm while doing it, you get free medical treatment - we all cock-up occasionally.
In the U.S. you'd be left with a 5 figure bill. Of course people will have to sue, otherwise they're selling their house.
If an employer was loading guns at random, and paying you to point them at people and pull the trigger, could you just walk away? Or would you feel a responsibility to stop them?
That is what happened in this case. The TSA is NOT making sure everyone who goes onto a plane is not a terrorist, resulting in plane-guns that are randomly loaded, or not, with terrorists.
You want to just walk away and ignore the situation entirely.
Don't give me such tosh, you might as well say that it's the job of someone working for Mcdonalds to sabotage the big macs. You've got a hell of a lot higher chance of dying from a big mac, or driving to get the big mac, than you have of being on a plane with a "terrorist".
Try wikipedia on npr funding. Seems that "pretty much government funded" is 11.3%. So no.
I think ANY amount of govt., funding...is govt. funding.
In which case...it should be judged that way. Take away make it 100% un-govt. funded, and I'll be cool with them acting more like a private news agency.
So pretty much any bank, auto maker and airline? Not to mention those companies that receive, and even rely, on government contracts.
The rest of the world uses celsius, which is just as arbitrary. The US is the third most populous and by far the wealthiest and most powerful country in history. Maybe the rest of the world should switch to Fahrenheit.
The EU has a higher population and higher GDP, and aside from some retirees in the UK uses Celsius exclusively.
Wait, what? Why would anyone wear clothes at their own home? It's much nicer to be naked. And no, that you have a significant other to care about isn't a valid answer. None of my hot girlfriends have ever had problems with me being nude around them, and I'm a quite fat guy too.
I'm in my dressing gown on the sofa right now because it's cold.
So there "might" be CP on the Megaupload servers. OK, hard to disprove an allegation like that, especially because some of the material on the servers is likely to be encrypted. But there "might" also be CP on one or more of NASA's servers, or on LoC or CIA servers. Also hard to disprove. And there is an even greater likelihood that CP exists on servers belonging to the FBI or TSA.
Clearly, all servers connected to the internet should be impounded, until they can be proven free of CP.
There's no "might" about it, there's child porn in the "/dev/random" file on my laptop.
If it was my kid my wife would go over and kick the crap out of her. Then when we were taken to trial we would present all of the information and count on a jury of our peers to let us go.
I agree. But what is the alternative? England, which is where this is happening, has an effective two party system.
England doesn't have a national government. Local government tends to vary between the 3 major parties and often have coalitions and independent councillors.
The national UK government is currently a coalition. Sadly the powers that be in the media and government don't like this, and certainly don't want it to become commonplace as in the EU. They collaborated to fight the only chance of this generation seeing electoral reform.
Some might, relatively speaking, but probably the majority just vote for the same party forever.
This actually makes the small minority of swing voters think they're empowered (95% of the votes in the UK are meaningless, it's only marginal votes in marginal constituencies that count). And they are, they get to choose between Labour and Conservative.
A popular uprising is a route around this. This requires the populace to be angrier and less apathetic than they are now, though, and while we had some nasty riots recently, they were nowhere near the numbers required to actually pull off a regime change.
Those riots were generally people nicking TVs and trainers. Had they ransacked chequers and burnt parliament to the ground, or even just attacked a council office, or a job centre, I'd have been more sympathetic.
There was a lot of anger about bankers recently too, so occupy London camped outside of St Paul's, then enforced the view they were work-shy homeless hippies and fell off the the news radar before, quite rightly, being removed as the pointless eyesore it was.
This theatre just serves to piss off anyone buying tickets within 3 days of travel when existing controls such as immigration, checkin and boarding serve to validate one's passport electronically 3 times before boarding a flight.
I bought a ticket to the U.S. 11 hours before flying a few weeks ago, landed in Washington the day before Cameron came over. No problems whatsoever with the 72 hour advanced notice.
I'm British - the German invasion of Britain was effectively cancelled three months prior to the US entering the war. If you were prone to fucking off, I'd *still* be speaking English right now.
Thats something some Americans forget when they try that argument - Britain had already successfully defended herself, and was also fighting extended campaigns in North Africa and the Middle East by the middle of 1940.
Britain did win the Battle of Britain in 1940, well before the U.S. proper was in the war, but we owe a debt to the 7 U.S. pilots that fought alongside 2,360 others, especially the 1 that lost his life.
Im not sure the tide of war would have been different if those 7 men didn't fly, but we shouldn't ignore their contribution.
After British air superiority was confirmed, there wasn't any serious threat to the UK. Had America not entered the war, it's likely a stalemate would have ensured, before an uneasy non-aggression pact before the UK was starved out.
They can introduce all the warrantless tapping statutes they like but there's no obligation or wish on my part to hand over my decryption keys. When there's information I do not want to fall into the hands of my enemy I am NOT about to just giftwrap it for them.
They can suck the bark off my fat veiny purple-headed fuckstick.
You are compelled to hand over your keys by the RIP act. Or you could take the prison time (13 months I believe)
You do realize it wouldn't make too fucking much sense to run a power plant that produces less electricity than it requires to run?
He didn't ask about electricity in vs electricity out. He asked about energy in vs electricity out, and of course the answer is no, you get less out than you put in.
Exactly... I show up to the table with $100 dollars and leave with $600 (sometimes more) all the time.
And sometimes less. On average you walk away with $90.
This guy managed to get the odds down (through casino discounts) so he'd be quids in regardless. IF you get a "only pay 90% of your debt", you put $100 on red, $100 on black, and there's a 98% chance you'll walk away with $220 -- a 10% profit.
From TFA: In a statement sent to legislators, eight members of the National Academy of Science said that, in practice, the bill will likely [...] harm the state's national reputation[...]
The scientists got it wrong as well - thanks to blogging, like the publication here on Slashdot, the bill harms the state's INTERnational reputation...;-)
Actually I'd say it helps. Until reading this, I (as a foreigner) assumed that the Thicker States of America had already banned evolution from being mentioned in the classroom, and this allowed teachers to say something along the lines of "Here's a scientific theory based around the evidence that presents itself. A bit like gravity. No doubt, like gravity, it will be modified at some point in the future, but there's a great deal of evidence to prove it's mostly right. On the other hand here's another theory, with no evidence for, and plenty of evidence against, that prides itself that you have to accept it on faith alone."
I really have no clue whether 230ms is a realistic number.
I currently get a 431ms Japan <> UK ping on a pretty mediocre Japanese ADSL line in the country side. So, yes, that's realistic.
I imagine the route goes via the highly-congested south-east asia area, or possibly even via the U.S.
London to Tokyo is about 6,000 miles via Sibera. Via undersea cables through the red sea it's nearer 12,000 miles. Via the states it's also about 12,000 miles.
I haven't got any private lines to Tokyo, but my line to Singapore runs about 220ms IIRC.
It's funny. But idiot's like the GP don't understand that speculators like me make money up and down in the market. I don't care one way or the other, I can make money in either direction.
For every cent you make, someone else loses it. You're like the sad people in vegas that spend their lives camped on the slots, the only difference is you gamble with other peoples money.
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My comment is based on experience, not supposition.
Fortunately for you, you have the code, you have the ability to fix the problem yourself (or pay someone to do it)
You can't do that with XP.
Horse$#!t.
Go spend some time in Europe. My experience in Germany and Austria has been that that the government produces regulations that assume you can make your own decisions and be responsible for your own actions. If you screw up, you pay the price. Slip on a puddle and hit your head at the water park? Your fault - everyone knows water parks have slippery spots. Be more careful next time. A lawsuit is out of the question.
It is your fault. Of course you break your arm while doing it, you get free medical treatment - we all cock-up occasionally.
In the U.S. you'd be left with a 5 figure bill. Of course people will have to sue, otherwise they're selling their house.
If an employer was loading guns at random, and paying you to point them at people and pull the trigger, could you just walk away? Or would you feel a responsibility to stop them?
That is what happened in this case. The TSA is NOT making sure everyone who goes onto a plane is not a terrorist, resulting in plane-guns that are randomly loaded, or not, with terrorists.
You want to just walk away and ignore the situation entirely.
Don't give me such tosh, you might as well say that it's the job of someone working for Mcdonalds to sabotage the big macs. You've got a hell of a lot higher chance of dying from a big mac, or driving to get the big mac, than you have of being on a plane with a "terrorist".
The people. That is why the US has the second amendment.
Used it recently?
(Aside from shooting innocent people, stealing cash from shops, shooting Dick Cheney, and hunting)
I think ANY amount of govt., funding...is govt. funding.
In which case...it should be judged that way. Take away make it 100% un-govt. funded, and I'll be cool with them acting more like a private news agency.
So pretty much any bank, auto maker and airline? Not to mention those companies that receive, and even rely, on government contracts.
I'm sure there is and I can prove it...
Once I find the correct one-time pad you encrypted it with.
The back up copy is encrypted, also in /dev/random. The key for that backup is, you guessed it, in /dev/random
It's an amazing file system, the only problem is that the index is a pain to find. (The index is also in /dev/random too)
But if you burn hydrogen, it creates dihydrogen monoxide, a known greenhouse gas!
This is terrible!
It's worse than that, this poisonous substance is the 3rd leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide.
The rest of the world uses celsius, which is just as arbitrary. The US is the third most populous and by far the wealthiest and most powerful country in history. Maybe the rest of the world should switch to Fahrenheit.
The EU has a higher population and higher GDP, and aside from some retirees in the UK uses Celsius exclusively.
from the keep-the-pjs-on dept.
Wait, what? Why would anyone wear clothes at their own home? It's much nicer to be naked. And no, that you have a significant other to care about isn't a valid answer. None of my hot girlfriends have ever had problems with me being nude around them, and I'm a quite fat guy too.
I'm in my dressing gown on the sofa right now because it's cold.
So there "might" be CP on the Megaupload servers. OK, hard to disprove an allegation like that, especially because some of the material on the servers is likely to be encrypted. But there "might" also be CP on one or more of NASA's servers, or on LoC or CIA servers. Also hard to disprove. And there is an even greater likelihood that CP exists on servers belonging to the FBI or TSA.
Clearly, all servers connected to the internet should be impounded, until they can be proven free of CP.
There's no "might" about it, there's child porn in the "/dev/random" file on my laptop.
If it was my kid my wife would go over and kick the crap out of her. Then when we were taken to trial we would present all of the information and count on a jury of our peers to let us go.
+1 funny
You'd think database experts would know how to keep their site up, wouldn't you?
Sorry that's unfair. The site is still up but I can make and eat a sandwich between pageloads.
What kind of sandwich? I'm hungry but I'm out of bread :(
If that is the standard you measure to, then certainly many American companies are 'state controlled companies' too?
ex-politicians being in high positions is... pretty bloody common.
No, the state is a subsidiary of many American companies
I agree. But what is the alternative? England, which is where this is happening, has an effective two party system.
England doesn't have a national government. Local government tends to vary between the 3 major parties and often have coalitions and independent councillors.
The national UK government is currently a coalition. Sadly the powers that be in the media and government don't like this, and certainly don't want it to become commonplace as in the EU. They collaborated to fight the only chance of this generation seeing electoral reform.
Some might, relatively speaking, but probably the majority just vote for the same party forever.
This actually makes the small minority of swing voters think they're empowered (95% of the votes in the UK are meaningless, it's only marginal votes in marginal constituencies that count). And they are, they get to choose between Labour and Conservative.
A popular uprising is a route around this. This requires the populace to be angrier and less apathetic than they are now, though, and while we had some nasty riots recently, they were nowhere near the numbers required to actually pull off a regime change.
Those riots were generally people nicking TVs and trainers. Had they ransacked chequers and burnt parliament to the ground, or even just attacked a council office, or a job centre, I'd have been more sympathetic.
There was a lot of anger about bankers recently too, so occupy London camped outside of St Paul's, then enforced the view they were work-shy homeless hippies and fell off the the news radar before, quite rightly, being removed as the pointless eyesore it was.
This theatre just serves to piss off anyone buying tickets within 3 days of travel when existing controls such as immigration, checkin and boarding serve to validate one's passport electronically 3 times before boarding a flight.
I bought a ticket to the U.S. 11 hours before flying a few weeks ago, landed in Washington the day before Cameron came over. No problems whatsoever with the 72 hour advanced notice.
If I remember correctly, until recently there were NO transatlantic liners left. All went to places like the carribean.
There was a proposal by one outfit to start service, but who knows where that got.
Queen Mary 2 plys the Southampton-New York route several times a year, but your best bet is a freighter.
I'm British - the German invasion of Britain was effectively cancelled three months prior to the US entering the war. If you were prone to fucking off, I'd *still* be speaking English right now.
Thats something some Americans forget when they try that argument - Britain had already successfully defended herself, and was also fighting extended campaigns in North Africa and the Middle East by the middle of 1940.
Britain did win the Battle of Britain in 1940, well before the U.S. proper was in the war, but we owe a debt to the 7 U.S. pilots that fought alongside 2,360 others, especially the 1 that lost his life.
Im not sure the tide of war would have been different if those 7 men didn't fly, but we shouldn't ignore their contribution.
After British air superiority was confirmed, there wasn't any serious threat to the UK. Had America not entered the war, it's likely a stalemate would have ensured, before an uneasy non-aggression pact before the UK was starved out.
They can introduce all the warrantless tapping statutes they like but there's no obligation or wish on my part to hand over my decryption keys. When there's information I do not want to fall into the hands of my enemy I am NOT about to just giftwrap it for them.
They can suck the bark off my fat veiny purple-headed fuckstick.
You are compelled to hand over your keys by the RIP act. Or you could take the prison time (13 months I believe)
ATSC has standardized the resolutions for televisions. 1080p means 1920x1080, period.
Yes, HD has fixed a lot of problems, not least active screen size and pixel ratio.
I was shopping around a few months ago. ALL laptops have that resolution
ALL doesn't mean what you think it does.
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t420s
> Display type
> 14.0 HD+ (1600 x 900) LED Backlit Antiglare Display, Mobile Broadband Ready
My current t410s is 1440x900
You do realize it wouldn't make too fucking much sense to run a power plant that produces less electricity than it requires to run?
He didn't ask about electricity in vs electricity out. He asked about energy in vs electricity out, and of course the answer is no, you get less out than you put in.
Exactly... I show up to the table with $100 dollars and leave with $600 (sometimes more) all the time.
And sometimes less. On average you walk away with $90.
This guy managed to get the odds down (through casino discounts) so he'd be quids in regardless. IF you get a "only pay 90% of your debt", you put $100 on red, $100 on black, and there's a 98% chance you'll walk away with $220 -- a 10% profit.
From TFA:
In a statement sent to legislators, eight members of the National Academy of Science said that, in practice, the bill will likely [...] harm the state's national reputation[...]
The scientists got it wrong as well - thanks to blogging, like the publication here on Slashdot, the bill harms the state's INTERnational reputation... ;-)
Actually I'd say it helps. Until reading this, I (as a foreigner) assumed that the Thicker States of America had already banned evolution from being mentioned in the classroom, and this allowed teachers to say something along the lines of "Here's a scientific theory based around the evidence that presents itself. A bit like gravity. No doubt, like gravity, it will be modified at some point in the future, but there's a great deal of evidence to prove it's mostly right. On the other hand here's another theory, with no evidence for, and plenty of evidence against, that prides itself that you have to accept it on faith alone."
I really have no clue whether 230ms is a realistic number.
I currently get a 431ms Japan <> UK ping on a pretty mediocre Japanese ADSL line in the country side.
So, yes, that's realistic.
I imagine the route goes via the highly-congested south-east asia area, or possibly even via the U.S.
London to Tokyo is about 6,000 miles via Sibera. Via undersea cables through the red sea it's nearer 12,000 miles. Via the states it's also about 12,000 miles.
I haven't got any private lines to Tokyo, but my line to Singapore runs about 220ms IIRC.
It's funny. But idiot's like the GP don't understand that speculators like me make money up and down in the market. I don't care one way or the other, I can make money in either direction.
For every cent you make, someone else loses it. You're like the sad people in vegas that spend their lives camped on the slots, the only difference is you gamble with other peoples money.