...and long after most Americans have forgotten why we went to war in the first place. I remember a few years ago, when everyone said we had to attack the Iraqis because they were terrorists. We had to attack the Afghanis because of terrorism, and of course we had to forget that most 9/11 hijackers were Saudis. Most people seem to have lost track those reasons at this point, and you would think that fighting Iraqis and Afghanis was just a fact of life.
He was not only exonerated, but received an official apology.
An apology with at least 6 zeros in it en-route to EFF might be worth something. Who authorised the strike against the "armed and dangerous crinimal"? Take it out of their 401k.
Actually, they say his driver was able to to decelerate the vehicle by ~15mph in an unspecified but small time after the 50 mph measurement, WITHOUT CAUSING THE VEHICLE'S BRAKE LIGHTS TO COME ON.
So his brake lights were broken too? That's another fine.
So, you're going to destroy me, but I'll be fine on the other side?
I might be crazy but this sounds like the best sale pitch for a future teleporter.
I can just hear Scotty now: "Don't worry Dr. McCoy, we're only destroying you on this end!"
That would have quelled his fears.
Who said about transportation of concious living matter?
This is about transportation of information at a high speed. Which can't happen (information can't move faster than light otherwise physicist brains explode)
I daresay you might get away with dialup if you use NoScript, block images, flash etc. But I wonder how many useable websites will be left if you do that?
Again, this argument is devoid of the cost factor. The faster you move in a fluid, the energy required goes up to the fourth power, meaning lots of money for fuel. Is it worth paying $1500 for each hour of reduced transit time? I think it's relatively safe to say that your ticket was about $1500, would you pay $10,000 to $15,000 for tickets to that flight?
People were paying that premium (and more) for concorde to save a few hours, but the increasing maintenance cost of the planes, coupled with the temporary downturn and American paranoia meant it wasn't worthwhile. It used about 5 times the fuel of a 747, so a $1500 ticket (which has fuel being $1k of the price) would increase to $6500. Gulfstreams have a similar fuel efficiency per person that Concorde had.
If I have a system that's offline until a specific part or person with the skill can get there, it might be costing me $100k an hour. An extra $10k to save 7 hours is easily worth it. Just because you and I don't need to get to the other side of the world in as short a time as possible doesn't mean there's not a market.
Flexible return London->Singapore in First on BA is £7790. Some people value (or need) comfort and flexibility over that's (to them) a trivial amount of money.
Try flying in Europe. Checkin can easily take between 90 minutes and 2 hours. Immigration/bagage reclaim up to 45 minutes when all goes well. And the flight typically lasts an hour or two.
I fly regularly from heathrow T5, on average it takes 15 minutes from getting out of the taxi to getting into the lounge. Baggage reclaim at Heathrow took 30 minutes on that day, although I often travel with just hand luggage. When Iris is open, I've done plane to taxi in 7 minutes before.
But how much was your ticket? Doubling the speed should probably triple the fuel consumption. Would the same number of passengers be on that flight if tickets were 3x the cost?
I was on a plane where people had paid £8k for a round trip. As it was a work trip I have no idea what the cost was, I believe about $2800 return as it was a flexible ticket.
22,000 people died in the tsunami. TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND. So why isn't the tsunami getting more press? Answer: your elites can't score political points from a tsunami.
People understand tsunamis. They can see it, it's terrible, but then it's over, and has been for a month. They weren't killed. Nuclear is invisible and poorly understood, and that leads to fear. Fear of the effects, but fear of the unknown.
The bigger story, which is under-reported, is the displaced people, and the shattered lives. Also, the hope and relief we should have as there haven't 220,000 deaths from disease and starvation after the tsunami.
Not that the BBC's reporting is any good these days. I stopped reading it after they echoed the Israeli military's line on the boat raid last year. Hell, they were pretty much printing word for word the press release given by Knesset.
Just when I'm watching DS9 this comes up. AWESOME! This doesn't actually prove that there WERE actual aliens, only confirms of the original report which could just as well be bogus.
I HOPE IT IS NOT. I want me an Asgard friend* and one of those computers that lets me build what I want!
* Everyone knows that Slashdotters have no friends.
Why is this on Slashdot? How is it even "news for nerds"?
This is just general political news. There's really nothing technical about it. It has nothing to do with science. It has nothing to do with computing. It has nothing to do with science fiction. It has nothing to do with anything related to Slashdot.
If I wanted to read crap like this, I could go to CNN's web site.
It's not even unusual or major news. It's not a presidential victory, it's not a terrorist attack . It's not even a rightwing nut shooting a congresscritter.
All the files I've ever created, along with all the files anyone else has created, along with all the files of finite length that nobody has ever created, are waiting right there for you in/dev/random.
Yeah, but I can never find the one I'm looking for, so it's not a very good system.
I can't wait another 50,000 years... I need my TPS report now.
Ahh, I'm creating an index/dev/random, when it's finished it'll be blindingly fast
Because Microsoft is a huge company and they have processes that prevent random links from being removed from important pages accidentally. At least, I assume they would. Certainly you aren't suggesting that some developer fatfingered ^C (or whatever) and committed it straight to the production environment, are you?
The entire web presence of the BBC was off-line last night due to a cockup.
Microsoft have a lot of cash reserves. If they spend it on buying companies like nokia, then yes, windows mobile will have a large part of the market on "I just want to make a call" phones.
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Except Europe. Attempt no landing there.
Ahh, that explains why I spent 2 hours circling over Heathrow this morning
...and long after most Americans have forgotten why we went to war in the first place. I remember a few years ago, when everyone said we had to attack the Iraqis because they were terrorists. We had to attack the Afghanis because of terrorism, and of course we had to forget that most 9/11 hijackers were Saudis. Most people seem to have lost track those reasons at this point, and you would think that fighting Iraqis and Afghanis was just a fact of life.
We've always been at war with East Asia
He was not only exonerated, but received an official apology.
An apology with at least 6 zeros in it en-route to EFF might be worth something. Who authorised the strike against the "armed and dangerous crinimal"? Take it out of their 401k.
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The idea of the content industry is, that once internet blocks are legal, they can be used to shoot down sites like PirateBay.
CU, Martin
Wouldn't TPB be inside the firewall?
My point is that if I were a pornographer, none of these would be secure enough to stop me.
Isn't a pornographer someone that looks at porn? i.e. 80% of the population?
Actually, they say his driver was able to to decelerate the vehicle by ~15mph in an unspecified but small time after the 50 mph measurement, WITHOUT CAUSING THE VEHICLE'S BRAKE LIGHTS TO COME ON.
So his brake lights were broken too? That's another fine.
It's a Gadget. XP doesn't have that feature.
Windows 9x and IE4 had the active desktop, which had "channels", and activex "gadgets".
So, you're going to destroy me, but I'll be fine on the other side?
I might be crazy but this sounds like the best sale pitch for a future teleporter.
I can just hear Scotty now: "Don't worry Dr. McCoy, we're only destroying you on this end!"
That would have quelled his fears.
Who said about transportation of concious living matter?
This is about transportation of information at a high speed. Which can't happen (information can't move faster than light otherwise physicist brains explode)
That's probably why, at well over 60, I still have all the teeth that I had at 18.
After 26 years of drinking cola I can say the same thing. I keep mine in the attic.
I daresay you might get away with dialup if you use NoScript, block images, flash etc. But I wonder how many useable websites will be left if you do that?
http://m.website.com/
Again, this argument is devoid of the cost factor. The faster you move in a fluid, the energy required goes up to the fourth power, meaning lots of money for fuel. Is it worth paying $1500 for each hour of reduced transit time? I think it's relatively safe to say that your ticket was about $1500, would you pay $10,000 to $15,000 for tickets to that flight?
People were paying that premium (and more) for concorde to save a few hours, but the increasing maintenance cost of the planes, coupled with the temporary downturn and American paranoia meant it wasn't worthwhile. It used about 5 times the fuel of a 747, so a $1500 ticket (which has fuel being $1k of the price) would increase to $6500. Gulfstreams have a similar fuel efficiency per person that Concorde had.
If I have a system that's offline until a specific part or person with the skill can get there, it might be costing me $100k an hour. An extra $10k to save 7 hours is easily worth it. Just because you and I don't need to get to the other side of the world in as short a time as possible doesn't mean there's not a market.
8K GBP is $13080! Were they INSANE?
Flexible return London->Singapore in First on BA is £7790. Some people value (or need) comfort and flexibility over that's (to them) a trivial amount of money.
Try flying in Europe. Checkin can easily take between 90 minutes and 2 hours. Immigration/bagage reclaim up to 45 minutes when all goes well. And the flight typically lasts an hour or two.
I fly regularly from heathrow T5, on average it takes 15 minutes from getting out of the taxi to getting into the lounge. Baggage reclaim at Heathrow took 30 minutes on that day, although I often travel with just hand luggage. When Iris is open, I've done plane to taxi in 7 minutes before.
But how much was your ticket? Doubling the speed should probably triple the fuel consumption. Would the same number of passengers be on that flight if tickets were 3x the cost?
I was on a plane where people had paid £8k for a round trip. As it was a work trip I have no idea what the cost was, I believe about $2800 return as it was a flexible ticket.
With the pat-downs and all the hassle at both ends of a flight, why would we need a Mach 2+ vehicle in the middle?
Check in takes an hour from arriving at the airport. My last flight was 14 hours. Immigration and baggage reclaim was another 30 minutes
That's 15h30. Double the aircraft speed and it saves 7 hours.
22,000 people died in the tsunami. TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND. So why isn't the tsunami getting more press? Answer: your elites can't score political points from a tsunami.
People understand tsunamis. They can see it, it's terrible, but then it's over, and has been for a month. They weren't killed. Nuclear is invisible and poorly understood, and that leads to fear. Fear of the effects, but fear of the unknown.
The bigger story, which is under-reported, is the displaced people, and the shattered lives. Also, the hope and relief we should have as there haven't 220,000 deaths from disease and starvation after the tsunami.
But people aren't dying, and are unlikely to die
Not that the BBC's reporting is any good these days. I stopped reading it after they echoed the Israeli military's line on the boat raid last year. Hell, they were pretty much printing word for word the press release given by Knesset.
Doesn't sound like the reporting you'd get from Jeremy Bowen
Just when I'm watching DS9 this comes up. AWESOME! This doesn't actually prove that there WERE actual aliens, only confirms of the original report which could just as well be bogus.
I HOPE IT IS NOT. I want me an Asgard friend* and one of those computers that lets me build what I want!
* Everyone knows that Slashdotters have no friends.
Ferengi == DS9
Asgard == SG1
Why is this on Slashdot? How is it even "news for nerds"?
This is just general political news. There's really nothing technical about it. It has nothing to do with science. It has nothing to do with computing. It has nothing to do with science fiction. It has nothing to do with anything related to Slashdot.
If I wanted to read crap like this, I could go to CNN's web site.
It's not even unusual or major news. It's not a presidential victory, it's not a terrorist attack . It's not even a rightwing nut shooting a congresscritter.
More CPAN less CSPAN
Yeah, but I can never find the one I'm looking for, so it's not a very good system.
I can't wait another 50,000 years ... I need my TPS report now.
Ahh, I'm creating an index /dev/random, when it's finished it'll be blindingly fast
findstr isn't a powershell command, it's just a console .exe program that comes with windows.
And grep isn't a bash command, it's just a binary that comes with unix (in many flavours, god how I hate solaris)
Explain to me one thing: how did Louis Armstrong play golf on the moon where there's NO AIR?
That's easy, the tricky bit was playing his trumpet
Because Microsoft is a huge company and they have processes that prevent random links from being removed from important pages accidentally. At least, I assume they would. Certainly you aren't suggesting that some developer fatfingered ^C (or whatever) and committed it straight to the production environment, are you?
The entire web presence of the BBC was off-line last night due to a cockup.
Microsoft have a lot of cash reserves. If they spend it on buying companies like nokia, then yes, windows mobile will have a large part of the market on "I just want to make a call" phones.
They'd have been better off buying RIM
I thought it said "Facebook bangs 20,000 kids a day", which is probably criminal.
Unless you're an Italian PM