FYI to everyone, Gaza is an advanced densely populated urban area which includes slums and wealthy areas. You can get most any computing need met at any tech/computer store at very competitive prices, a USB keyboard is available anywhere at walking distance.
Yup, if you know where to go. The lack of keyboard added an hour to my trip, which had been curtailed to 1 day due to changing entry requirements (was meant to get 3 days). As you know, 1 day means about 4 hours on site if you're coming in from Israel, it was a *very* rushed visit.
The roads are paved, we have cars, there are normal malls just like in Isreal or Europe, and wireless phone/3g service is universal except maybe in some underground dead areas.
The signal's better than 3g in Jerusalem, which refuses to let me make any calls this week.
I have a DVD writer for my laptop, but my laptop as a whole benefits a lot more from the extra battery.
I do keep the writer, and a couple of blank dvds and cds with my in my bag though, along with * an external hard drive * empower + ac adapter, with anything-to-anything plug adapter * 5 port netgear switch * a few cables * gaffer tape * leatherman * cable ties
And after a particularly problematic experience in Gaza, I've added a tiny USB keyboard to the list. Trouble is, the bags getting a little heavy, and the CD drive is the only thing I don't use on a regular basis.
To be honest, as long as these scanners aren't misused (which these regulations are supposed to prevent), I'm all for them. If there's one thing I hate about flying, it's going through security. Queuing up, taking your shoes off, emptying your pockets, rushing through only to be searched anyway, it's fucking awful and if these scanners mean I'm more able to just walk straight through, I'm all for it.
Until the hysteria of the last 10 years, you didn't take your shoes off anyway.
You still need to take your shoes off for the radiation booths (at least they did at BWI last month, I opted out), you still need to empty your pockets.
My last flight to America (from LHR), I actually took a leatherman wave through in my hand luggage. Had a 3 1/2" locking blade. While they strip old grannies, they let forgetful muppets like me through with something that could actually kill a couple of people in the right (wrong) hands. It still couldn't hijack a plane with it though.
Er, it does cheap flights. All airlines are shit, flying is an almost entirely horrible experience anyway, and paying twice as much to get a free plate of crap food and an unwatchable film makes little difference at least on short flights.
Sometimes it's cheap, sometimes not. I have no problem with flying, although I admit I don't fly short-haul a lot, only about 10 flights this year, however I'd much rather spend the extra few quid to have a comfortable flight.
That means, amongst other things 1) Flying from my local airport 2) Flying at a decent time 3) Having somewhere comfortable to wait for the plane (especially when there are delays) 4) Having cancelled flights lead to decent treatment (Hotel, rerouting, etc) 5) The ability to be disorganised (not have to print out boarding passes etc)
I suppose it depends what you value. If saving £20 on a 2 hour flight is that important, by all means, fly on the scratchcard express, just don't complain about the (literal) wankers you're travelling with.
Now not only do I have to worry about being seated next to a crying baby, but also if I'll get seated next to a jerk-off. Sounds like a great idea. (rolls eyes)
Why would you fly ryanair?
I spend a fair bit of time in the air, about 24 hours a month, and I'd never consider flying on that bus.
I have a rather unique situation. I've got an old Dell laptop that can only read DVD's. It can't read CD's. I can't say for certain this is the reason, but it was around the time I put in an Amerie CD (one of the "sony rootkit" CD's) that my Combo Drive started losing the ability to handle compact disc. I tried to fix the problem by installing a firmware upgrade and don't know for sure if the problem was the cd, a bad firmware upgrade, or something else. But I am one of the few people on the planet who occasionally want to install software and can't because it's only available on CD. For instance, the Windows CD that came with the computer in the first place.
For that reason, I went from dual booting to only running Linux on that computer, just because I can install Linux from a DVD and don't have Windows XP on DVD.
It places a clearly defined limit on the size of the installation media. That, in turn, places a limit upon how much has to be downloaded. And bandwidth is still at a premium for servers and end users.
For a tiny minority of end users that try a new distro each week, perhaps. If I installed my servers from a CD or DVD it would have been a single download once, then install on dozens of machines since.
As it happens I always install from the network, as half the servers and desktops I install onto don't have a CD or DVD drive. A local cache of the base install files (say a gig or including the gui, about 300mb for the server) on a VM on a laptop does wonders, and all security patches are installed by default. I've done this in places with bandwidth down to 256kbit, and it's still faster than installing a whole distro from a CD. Hell last week in the West Bank I installed with no internet at all -- ISP was being DOSed (apparently).
To me, a cdrom drive is something that comes standard on enterprise servers and blade servers
What a waste of space. I install Ubuntu, both servers and guis, all the time. I boot from a 2.88MB floppy disk that's delivered by DHCP/PXE from a VM on my laptop. The VM also runs a local cache (apt-cacher), so installs are fast, and dont need much upstream bandwidth (only security updates since I last installed somewhere -- very useful in warzones with limited bandwidth).
with different words can be a great help if you can't remember name of package. Like say you were looking for plotting package or library "apt-cache search plot" would bring up nice list.
Half the programs that are missing come up with something like:
The program 'fd' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install fdclone
What do you do when someone asks you to give them a real, written requirements list before they start, as they would get if this was a real work situation?
Not in my company. Requirements change on a very frequent basis and are never specced out up front.
This is like Microsoft requiring applications to work as non-Administrator users for the Designed For... certification, or a Linux distribution rejecting suid root apps from the default repository.
And that's great, and this is a good thing.
However, Apple has a history (with the iphone) of not allowing a user-added repository. I have my own debian repository for internal software, it's a matter of adding a line to sources.list.
Good thing the 300 million minutes of Angry Birds daily playing time around the world aren't being wasted or anything.
Ah, of course. The summary wouldn't be complete without a snide dig at the mainstream. Cause geeks would never waste time playing a game after all.
I, and a lot of people I see, tend to play Angry birds when I get a minute or two of unproductive time. Standing in a squashed train, waiting for an elevator, etc.
Not enough time to read a book, not enough space to break out a laptop to do some work.
People that are into their computer games will happily spend entire weekends playing the latest game (Battlefield 3?). Years ago I spent weeks playing Civ 1/2/3, and I know people that poured their heat and sole into games like Championship Manager.
Games that you play for hours at a time are "wasted time". Of those 300 million minutes of Angry Birds, I'd wager most stints are for less than 5 minutes, and done standing up -- time that's normally "wasted" doing something else.
Have you shopped for an airline ticket recently? I don't think price can be nailed down very easily either...
I fly a lot, due to a last minute change of plan (thanks to Hamas), I had to change my flight from TLV with only a few hours notice. The only flight left was in Economy. It was 5 1/2 hours of hell.
You wouldn't catch me at the back of the plane except as a distress purchase.
For example, look at the advances Google has capitalized on for autonomous driving. I can easily envision the jobs of taxi driver, chauffeur, airline pilot and bus driver going away in a reasonable amounts of time. And just look at the skill gamut there. Commercial airline pilot is a bit more up the ladder than taxi driver. But with GPS and other advances, combined with the realization that the bulk of reported incidents are the result of human error, I can see even that job disappearing in a couple decades.
Our regards to captain dunsel.
I think it's time for a TOS marathon, took a few seconds to twig
How about if it fell on some holy site that the 3 major religions are fighting over, and obliterated it completely, leaving nothing to fight over except a big smoking hole in the ground? "An act of God
Allah | FSM".
Nice idea, but I'll have to pass on that as I'm in Jerusalem at the moment, hotel's a stone's throw from the Western Wall/Dome of rock/Church of the sepulchre.
If it can hold off until Tuesday I'll watch from a safe distance:)
You also neglect the added hardship of managing the extra bits. Keeping with the analogy, imagine a 25 digit phone number - it's 'easy to see' that we might need one some day, if intergalactic telephony takes off and we merge our phone system with the phone systems of a few alien species. Should we have done this back in the 60s when direct-dial came around, because it'll be a hassle to change when it's a problem?
No hassle, the direct dial phone system is infinitely flexible.
From the UK I can dial my local takeaway with "654433" I can dial my a takeway on the other side of the UK with "01768 654433" I can dial a takeaway in Libya by dialing "00 218 21 654 433"
If we take an unused country code (say 990) for I can dial a takeaway on Mars, in the country of "New UK", by dialing "00 990 40 44 1768 654433" I can dial a takeaway in Andromeda by dialing "00 990 9 939 483 343 342 459 1768 654433"
00 (international access code) 990 (interplanetary access code) 40 (code for mars) 44 (code for New UK) 1768 (code for New Carlisle, in New UK, on Mars) 654433 (number for takeaway)
Or 00 990 (interplanetary) 9 (code for intergalactic) 939 (code for andromeda) 483 343 342 (code for a specific star system in andromeda) 459 1768 654433 (code for the country, town and phone in that system)
"I want to get some hot girl-on-girl anal action with a 12" dildo, followed by a some nice anime of many-tentacled beasts using and abusing young virgins"
That might be actually illegal, the way current UK law is worded.
Ditto this for Orange mobile internet (on my Desire). The guy I phoned up to turn the block off was cheeky as well, convo went as follows:
Indian guy: "So you wish to turn off Orange Security?"
Me: "Yes"
Indian Guy: "You don't like security?"
Me: "No...I don't..."
The correct answer is to say "I want to get some hot girl-on-girl anal action with a 12" dildo, followed by a some nice anime of many-tentacled beasts using and abusing young virgins"
Dont they have undersea fiber connections to the country, and DSL and stuff? Or even dialup?
Why would half the country use only Satellite as thier Internet connection?
99.999999% of Candians live within 100 miles of the U.S. Border, in towns and cities, with cable and dsl.
There are 6,784 people living north of about 52N. Even some of these people may have cable and satellite in their towns, but the towns rely on satellites for their uplinks.
You could do this with normal neutrinos - they's travel through the planet, not around it. However your receiver will be a bit on the large side. If they had FTL neutrinos they could do far better: they could receive the signal before they send it!
No, it couldn't. Even after the last neutrino story, I still haven't seen anything to support this claim.
Imagine a person situated at an equidistant point between London and Hong Kong, somewhere in orbit, 300 ms @ c away from both places. Imagine an instantaneous FTL transmitter. Imagine all 3 people have synchronised clocks based on UTC.
Times in ms after
Traditional At 0ms Message sent from London At 88ms message received in HKG At 89ms reply sent back to London At 177ms reply received from HKG At 300ms message seen sent by observer At 388ms message seen received in HKG by observer At 389ms reply seen sent by observer At 477ms reply seen received in LON by observer
HKG knows it's 88ms from London, and can therefore determine the exact time it was sent according to UTC. Likewise, London knows hongkok responded in 1ms, as they know the round trip time.
Lets now assume communication is 88 times faster than the speed of light.
At 0ms, Message sent from London At 1ms, Message received in HKG At 2ms, reply sent from HKG At 3ms, message received in London At 3.4ms message seen sent from London by observer At 4.4ms message seen received by hkg At 5.5ms reply seen sent from hkg At 6.5ms reply seen received by london.
now lets say all points also have traditional light speed connections. At 88ms the message is seen to be sent from London by someone sitting in HKG, but as that message started at 0ms UTC, and it's now 88ms UTC, it can't be changed.
Now I'm sure someone will come along and say special relativity changes all that, that there's no absolute time, and a ship moving in a different inertial frame will be able to receive the message and post it back to London before 0ms UTC. I'm sure this is right, but I have never found an explanation.
My server in New York and my server in Singapore are running their clocks within a millisecond of each other. I'm confident of this, as when I check from a server that's equidistant between the two, they report their time correctly, however, if you were to observe the time, you'd think the opposite one was slow. At least until you pinged it, worked out the difference in time, and realised that they're running at the same time.
is here. Not the best camera in the world (I think he said iPhone) but it clearly captures the break-up and large pieces burning.
As of now, YouTube is significantly ahead of NASA and Air Force intelligence (it has a much larger workforce).
And much less reliable workforce. First to news does not mean it's right, which is why we still need a professional news media, not a bunch of yahoos with cameras.
I know this has been discussed before, but it really begs the question of how to preserve digital data for long periods of time. Stone tablets last for thousands of years; paper for hundreds (or more, if in climate-controlled storage). What have we got for (large amounts of) digital data?
Don't think you have any idea what "begging the question" means other than improperly using it as verbal filling material.
The English language is constantly changing. People use "begs the question" when they mean "this point causes me to raise the question". This is a changing, organic language. If you don't like it, learn French.
If you want to gripe about something, get people to stop using the phrase "could care less". If you could care less, then it's quite important. if you "couldn't care less", it's the least important thing in the world
I *could* care less about Italy's downgrade. I *couldn't* care less about $CELEBRITY's new haircut.
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FYI to everyone, Gaza is an advanced densely populated urban area which includes slums and wealthy areas. You can get most any computing need met at any tech/computer store at very competitive prices, a USB keyboard is available anywhere at walking distance.
Yup, if you know where to go. The lack of keyboard added an hour to my trip, which had been curtailed to 1 day due to changing entry requirements (was meant to get 3 days). As you know, 1 day means about 4 hours on site if you're coming in from Israel, it was a *very* rushed visit.
The roads are paved, we have cars, there are normal malls just like in Isreal or Europe, and wireless phone/3g service is universal except maybe in some underground dead areas.
The signal's better than 3g in Jerusalem, which refuses to let me make any calls this week.
I have a DVD writer for my laptop, but my laptop as a whole benefits a lot more from the extra battery.
I do keep the writer, and a couple of blank dvds and cds with my in my bag though, along with
* an external hard drive
* empower + ac adapter, with anything-to-anything plug adapter
* 5 port netgear switch
* a few cables
* gaffer tape
* leatherman
* cable ties
And after a particularly problematic experience in Gaza, I've added a tiny USB keyboard to the list. Trouble is, the bags getting a little heavy, and the CD drive is the only thing I don't use on a regular basis.
To be honest, as long as these scanners aren't misused (which these regulations are supposed to prevent), I'm all for them. If there's one thing I hate about flying, it's going through security. Queuing up, taking your shoes off, emptying your pockets, rushing through only to be searched anyway, it's fucking awful and if these scanners mean I'm more able to just walk straight through, I'm all for it.
Until the hysteria of the last 10 years, you didn't take your shoes off anyway.
You still need to take your shoes off for the radiation booths (at least they did at BWI last month, I opted out), you still need to empty your pockets.
My last flight to America (from LHR), I actually took a leatherman wave through in my hand luggage. Had a 3 1/2" locking blade. While they strip old grannies, they let forgetful muppets like me through with something that could actually kill a couple of people in the right (wrong) hands. It still couldn't hijack a plane with it though.
Er, it does cheap flights. All airlines are shit, flying is an almost entirely horrible experience anyway, and paying twice as much to get a free plate of crap food and an unwatchable film makes little difference at least on short flights.
Sometimes it's cheap, sometimes not. I have no problem with flying, although I admit I don't fly short-haul a lot, only about 10 flights this year, however I'd much rather spend the extra few quid to have a comfortable flight.
That means, amongst other things
1) Flying from my local airport
2) Flying at a decent time
3) Having somewhere comfortable to wait for the plane (especially when there are delays)
4) Having cancelled flights lead to decent treatment (Hotel, rerouting, etc)
5) The ability to be disorganised (not have to print out boarding passes etc)
I suppose it depends what you value. If saving £20 on a 2 hour flight is that important, by all means, fly on the scratchcard express, just don't complain about the (literal) wankers you're travelling with.
Now not only do I have to worry about being seated next to a crying baby, but also if I'll get seated next to a jerk-off. Sounds like a great idea. (rolls eyes)
Why would you fly ryanair?
I spend a fair bit of time in the air, about 24 hours a month, and I'd never consider flying on that bus.
I have a rather unique situation. I've got an old Dell laptop that can only read DVD's. It can't read CD's. I can't say for certain this is the reason, but it was around the time I put in an Amerie CD (one of the "sony rootkit" CD's) that my Combo Drive started losing the ability to handle compact disc. I tried to fix the problem by installing a firmware upgrade and don't know for sure if the problem was the cd, a bad firmware upgrade, or something else. But I am one of the few people on the planet who occasionally want to install software and can't because it's only available on CD. For instance, the Windows CD that came with the computer in the first place.
For that reason, I went from dual booting to only running Linux on that computer, just because I can install Linux from a DVD and don't have Windows XP on DVD.
Or you could buy a USB dvd/cdrom drive?
It places a clearly defined limit on the size of the installation media. That, in turn, places a limit upon how much has to be downloaded. And bandwidth is still at a premium for servers and end users.
For a tiny minority of end users that try a new distro each week, perhaps. If I installed my servers from a CD or DVD it would have been a single download once, then install on dozens of machines since.
As it happens I always install from the network, as half the servers and desktops I install onto don't have a CD or DVD drive. A local cache of the base install files (say a gig or including the gui, about 300mb for the server) on a VM on a laptop does wonders, and all security patches are installed by default. I've done this in places with bandwidth down to 256kbit, and it's still faster than installing a whole distro from a CD. Hell last week in the West Bank I installed with no internet at all -- ISP was being DOSed (apparently).
To me, a cdrom drive is something that comes standard on enterprise servers and blade servers
What a waste of space. I install Ubuntu, both servers and guis, all the time. I boot from a 2.88MB floppy disk that's delivered by DHCP/PXE from a VM on my laptop. The VM also runs a local cache (apt-cacher), so installs are fast, and dont need much upstream bandwidth (only security updates since I last installed somewhere -- very useful in warzones with limited bandwidth).
you know, a few tries of
apt-cache search <description word>
with different words can be a great help if you can't remember name of package. Like say you were looking for plotting package or library "apt-cache search plot" would bring up nice list.
Half the programs that are missing come up with something like:
The program 'fd' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install fdclone
When you run it anyway.
What do you do when someone asks you to give them a real, written requirements list before they start, as they would get if this was a real work situation?
Not in my company. Requirements change on a very frequent basis and are never specced out up front.
This is like Microsoft requiring applications to work as non-Administrator users for the Designed For... certification, or a Linux distribution rejecting suid root apps from the default repository.
And that's great, and this is a good thing.
However, Apple has a history (with the iphone) of not allowing a user-added repository. I have my own debian repository for internal software, it's a matter of adding a line to sources.list.
How can you do that in OSX?
China's certainly moving at a brisk pace.
NASA:
First manned flight: 1962
First orbital rendevouz: 1965
First orbital docking: 1966
Last manned flight 2011
Good thing the 300 million minutes of Angry Birds daily playing time around the world aren't being wasted or anything.
Ah, of course. The summary wouldn't be complete without a snide dig at the mainstream. Cause geeks would never waste time playing a game after all.
I, and a lot of people I see, tend to play Angry birds when I get a minute or two of unproductive time. Standing in a squashed train, waiting for an elevator, etc.
Not enough time to read a book, not enough space to break out a laptop to do some work.
People that are into their computer games will happily spend entire weekends playing the latest game (Battlefield 3?). Years ago I spent weeks playing Civ 1/2/3, and I know people that poured their heat and sole into games like Championship Manager.
Games that you play for hours at a time are "wasted time". Of those 300 million minutes of Angry Birds, I'd wager most stints are for less than 5 minutes, and done standing up -- time that's normally "wasted" doing something else.
Have you shopped for an airline ticket recently? I don't think price can be nailed down very easily either...
I fly a lot, due to a last minute change of plan (thanks to Hamas), I had to change my flight from TLV with only a few hours notice. The only flight left was in Economy. It was 5 1/2 hours of hell.
You wouldn't catch me at the back of the plane except as a distress purchase.
For example, look at the advances Google has capitalized on for autonomous driving. I can easily envision the jobs of taxi driver, chauffeur, airline pilot and bus driver going away in a reasonable amounts of time. And just look at the skill gamut there. Commercial airline pilot is a bit more up the ladder than taxi driver. But with GPS and other advances, combined with the realization that the bulk of reported incidents are the result of human error, I can see even that job disappearing in a couple decades.
Our regards to captain dunsel.
I think it's time for a TOS marathon, took a few seconds to twig
How about if it fell on some holy site that the 3 major religions are fighting over, and obliterated it completely, leaving nothing to fight over except a big smoking hole in the ground? "An act of God
Allah | FSM".
Nice idea, but I'll have to pass on that as I'm in Jerusalem at the moment, hotel's a stone's throw from the Western Wall/Dome of rock/Church of the sepulchre.
If it can hold off until Tuesday I'll watch from a safe distance :)
You also neglect the added hardship of managing the extra bits. Keeping with the analogy, imagine a 25 digit phone number - it's 'easy to see' that we might need one some day, if intergalactic telephony takes off and we merge our phone system with the phone systems of a few alien species. Should we have done this back in the 60s when direct-dial came around, because it'll be a hassle to change when it's a problem?
No hassle, the direct dial phone system is infinitely flexible.
From the UK
I can dial my local takeaway with "654433"
I can dial my a takeway on the other side of the UK with "01768 654433"
I can dial a takeaway in Libya by dialing "00 218 21 654 433"
If we take an unused country code (say 990) for
I can dial a takeaway on Mars, in the country of "New UK", by dialing "00 990 40 44 1768 654433"
I can dial a takeaway in Andromeda by dialing "00 990 9 939 483 343 342 459 1768 654433"
00 (international access code)
990 (interplanetary access code)
40 (code for mars)
44 (code for New UK)
1768 (code for New Carlisle, in New UK, on Mars)
654433 (number for takeaway)
Or
00 990 (interplanetary)
9 (code for intergalactic)
939 (code for andromeda)
483 343 342 (code for a specific star system in andromeda)
459 1768 654433 (code for the country, town and phone in that system)
"I want to get some hot girl-on-girl anal action with a 12" dildo, followed by a some nice anime of many-tentacled beasts using and abusing young virgins"
That might be actually illegal, the way current UK law is worded.
It's illegal to want it?
Ditto this for Orange mobile internet (on my Desire). The guy I phoned up to turn the block off was cheeky as well, convo went as follows:
Indian guy: "So you wish to turn off Orange Security?"
Me: "Yes"
Indian Guy: "You don't like security?"
Me: "No...I don't..."
The correct answer is to say
"I want to get some hot girl-on-girl anal action with a 12" dildo, followed by a some nice anime of many-tentacled beasts using and abusing young virgins"
Dont they have undersea fiber connections to the country, and DSL and stuff?
Or even dialup?
Why would half the country use only Satellite as thier Internet connection?
99.999999% of Candians live within 100 miles of the U.S. Border, in towns and cities, with cable and dsl.
There are 6,784 people living north of about 52N. Even some of these people may have cable and satellite in their towns, but the towns rely on satellites for their uplinks.
Well-played Subby!
Are Stephen King and Alan Thicke still OK?
I won't believe it until netcraft confirms it
Anyone else find the summary wording "found dead", a little disrespectful, or is it just me being over sensitive?
Have Netcraft confirmed it yet?
You're obviously new here, or never read below +2.
It's a perfect send off for anyone that's been a part of the slashdot world since . No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
You could do this with normal neutrinos - they's travel through the planet, not around it. However your receiver will be a bit on the large side. If they had FTL neutrinos they could do far better: they could receive the signal before they send it!
No, it couldn't. Even after the last neutrino story, I still haven't seen anything to support this claim.
Imagine a person situated at an equidistant point between London and Hong Kong, somewhere in orbit, 300 ms @ c away from both places. Imagine an instantaneous FTL transmitter. Imagine all 3 people have synchronised clocks based on UTC.
Times in ms after
Traditional
At 0ms Message sent from London
At 88ms message received in HKG
At 89ms reply sent back to London
At 177ms reply received from HKG
At 300ms message seen sent by observer
At 388ms message seen received in HKG by observer
At 389ms reply seen sent by observer
At 477ms reply seen received in LON by observer
HKG knows it's 88ms from London, and can therefore determine the exact time it was sent according to UTC. Likewise, London knows hongkok responded in 1ms, as they know the round trip time.
Lets now assume communication is 88 times faster than the speed of light.
At 0ms, Message sent from London
At 1ms, Message received in HKG
At 2ms, reply sent from HKG
At 3ms, message received in London
At 3.4ms message seen sent from London by observer
At 4.4ms message seen received by hkg
At 5.5ms reply seen sent from hkg
At 6.5ms reply seen received by london.
now lets say all points also have traditional light speed connections. At 88ms the message is seen to be sent from London by someone sitting in HKG, but as that message started at 0ms UTC, and it's now 88ms UTC, it can't be changed.
Now I'm sure someone will come along and say special relativity changes all that, that there's no absolute time, and a ship moving in a different inertial frame will be able to receive the message and post it back to London before 0ms UTC. I'm sure this is right, but I have never found an explanation.
My server in New York and my server in Singapore are running their clocks within a millisecond of each other. I'm confident of this, as when I check from a server that's equidistant between the two, they report their time correctly, however, if you were to observe the time, you'd think the opposite one was slow. At least until you pinged it, worked out the difference in time, and realised that they're running at the same time.
is here. Not the best camera in the world (I think he said iPhone) but it clearly captures the break-up and large pieces burning.
As of now, YouTube is significantly ahead of NASA and Air Force intelligence (it has a much larger workforce).
And much less reliable workforce. First to news does not mean it's right, which is why we still need a professional news media, not a bunch of yahoos with cameras.
I know this has been discussed before, but it really begs the question of how to preserve digital data for long periods of time. Stone tablets last for thousands of years; paper for hundreds (or more, if in climate-controlled storage). What have we got for (large amounts of) digital data?
Don't think you have any idea what "begging the question" means other than improperly using it as verbal filling material.
The English language is constantly changing. People use "begs the question" when they mean "this point causes me to raise the question". This is a changing, organic language. If you don't like it, learn French.
If you want to gripe about something, get people to stop using the phrase "could care less". If you could care less, then it's quite important. if you "couldn't care less", it's the least important thing in the world
I *could* care less about Italy's downgrade. I *couldn't* care less about $CELEBRITY's new haircut.