Electricity generation is not a natural monopoly. Electricity distribution is the monopoly because each consumer only wants one set of wires to attach to their house. In Massachusetts the two are separate and I can choose who to but my electricity from.
The billion dollar cost of a chip fab line is already a pretty good barrier to entry. DRAM mfgs. have to spend an enormous amount up front and make it back within the few years that the fab is leading edge.
As long as you have never uttered any terroristic threats such as "I wish Obama wasn't our President" or "I hate Bush" then you have nothing to worry about.
Their error, as stated in the linked abstract, is less than 0.3%. So, if you believe they're doing statistics correctly, yes, the signal is greater than the noise. More importantly, even, say 1.0 - 0.3 = 0.7% is HUGE: the common estimate of matter-antimatter asymmetry at the big bang was merely a billion-and-one to a billion. (linky: http://livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromcern/antimatter/academy/AM-travel02c.html). And that extra one in a billion is all the matter we have today.
That ratio means that the energy of the big bang was much less (100 / 1,000,000,000) than what it was previously estimated to result in the matter we see today. Kind of a large difference.
I'm poring over the United States Constitution, as Amended, and I can't find where it grants a right to anonymity, either from the Federal government, or from other citizens. Can any confused hippies^W^W Constitutional scholars help me out here?
How about "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." So where in the Constitution does it give the government the power to invade my privacy?
So the one count they're charged with is for invading a corporate computer. And the thousands of individual citizens' PCs they compromised are ignored. Somehow, I'm not surprised.
Umm. Because the home PC's could be anywhere on Earth and they don't have resources to them track down, contact the owners, get them to file complaints and pursue 22,000 individual minor hacking claims?
why 40 years of intensive searching for extraterrestrial intelligence have yielded nothing: no radio signals, no credible spacecraft sightings, no close encounters of any kind
Self-replicating planet-destroying machine army released in a war 3 billion years ago are exterminating any sign of intelligent life as soon as they see the first radio waves. The closest were 41 light years from us.
What kind of conversation could you have, EVEN if you already spoke the same language?
I know you will be surprised to hear from me, as we have never met. I have recently come into possession of 25 billion galactic zorns which belonged to the late Supreme Ruler Zardoz...
MediaWiki meets the requirements because it has login, tracks changes, keeps history, and supports auxiliary notes. It also has the advantage over Word docs that all documents can be cross-linked, categorized and instantly available to anyone with a browser. We've been moving our process documents onto a wiki but I'm not sure how that will fly with the new PM. We'll see.
massive civilian casualties are not acceptable in any war situation today. For the vast majority of human history you went to war against a people, not an army. The specifics of who was fair game varied with the era, sometimes women and children were killed, sometimes they were kidnapped, and rarely they were left pretty much alone. Prior to the advent of the nation state and professional soldiers (~1500 in the west) there was no such thing as a civilian man.
To be fair, you went to war against the upper class of a land. You didn't kill the peasants because they are part of the winnings and didn't take part in the fighting. Who else is going to work your new fields for you? Now we have cities occupied by a middle class who are fairly useless during the war and after it. Killing them has neutral value.
Slashdot Mirror
Electricity generation is not a natural monopoly. Electricity distribution is the monopoly because each consumer only wants one set of wires to attach to their house. In Massachusetts the two are separate and I can choose who to but my electricity from.
The billion dollar cost of a chip fab line is already a pretty good barrier to entry. DRAM mfgs. have to spend an enormous amount up front and make it back within the few years that the fab is leading edge.
I'm pretty sure they no longer have public beheadings.
Well Micron made even more since they benefited but didn't have to pay the fine. Kind of an interesting cross of chicken and prisoners dilemma.
However, they are not getting any more party invitations.
They've already been removed from the menu?
That's practically an admission of guilt right there!
As long as you have never uttered any terroristic threats such as "I wish Obama wasn't our President" or "I hate Bush" then you have nothing to worry about.
Their error, as stated in the linked abstract, is less than 0.3%. So, if you believe they're doing statistics correctly, yes, the signal is greater than the noise. More importantly, even, say 1.0 - 0.3 = 0.7% is HUGE: the common estimate of matter-antimatter asymmetry at the big bang was merely a billion-and-one to a billion. (linky: http://livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromcern/antimatter/academy/AM-travel02c.html). And that extra one in a billion is all the matter we have today.
That ratio means that the energy of the big bang was much less (100 / 1,000,000,000) than what it was previously estimated to result in the matter we see today. Kind of a large difference.
I'll get to reading that after I finish the 2000 articles on Pokemon.
It is wrong
http://painintheenglish.com/?p=4156
That's ok, they don't need you to get out of the car to tase you. Refusing to testify against yourself is enough.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/223578_taser10.html
I'm poring over the United States Constitution, as Amended, and I can't find where it grants a right to anonymity, either from the Federal government, or from other citizens. Can any confused hippies^W^W Constitutional scholars help me out here?
How about "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." So where in the Constitution does it give the government the power to invade my privacy?
So the one count they're charged with is for invading a corporate computer. And the thousands of individual citizens' PCs they compromised are ignored. Somehow, I'm not surprised.
Umm. Because the home PC's could be anywhere on Earth and they don't have resources to them track down, contact the owners, get them to file complaints and pursue 22,000 individual minor hacking claims?
You misunderstood. He used the botnet to attack one ISP, the PCs could be anywhere.
It's Abby someone. Abby Normal.
Did you by any chance mean NASA?
why 40 years of intensive searching for extraterrestrial intelligence have yielded nothing: no radio signals, no credible spacecraft sightings, no close encounters of any kind
Self-replicating planet-destroying machine army released in a war 3 billion years ago are exterminating any sign of intelligent life as soon as they see the first radio waves. The closest were 41 light years from us.
What kind of conversation could you have, EVEN if you already spoke the same language?
I know you will be surprised to hear from me, as we have never met. I have recently come into possession of 25 billion galactic zorns which belonged to the late Supreme Ruler Zardoz ...
Here is the actual e-mail they sent out, which unfortunately, I received:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ForgotPassword!default.jspa?username=_________
The Apache Infrastructure Team
Since their servers were hacked, how do you know this was from really Apache? Did you click ona link in an email?
It is alcohol related. Maybe a shot of tequila might have kept you awake!
Then when you crash into someone, try to explain why in the pictures you have your face covered and you aren't looking at the road.
MediaWiki meets the requirements because it has login, tracks changes, keeps history, and supports auxiliary notes. It also has the advantage over Word docs that all documents can be cross-linked, categorized and instantly available to anyone with a browser. We've been moving our process documents onto a wiki but I'm not sure how that will fly with the new PM. We'll see.
At 20 miles you're pretty much in a vacuum.
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/air-altitude-pressure-d_462.html
Lose it while trying to pick it up with the included iTweezer?
massive civilian casualties are not acceptable in any war situation today. For the vast majority of human history you went to war against a people, not an army. The specifics of who was fair game varied with the era, sometimes women and children were killed, sometimes they were kidnapped, and rarely they were left pretty much alone. Prior to the advent of the nation state and professional soldiers (~1500 in the west) there was no such thing as a civilian man.
To be fair, you went to war against the upper class of a land. You didn't kill the peasants because they are part of the winnings and didn't take part in the fighting. Who else is going to work your new fields for you? Now we have cities occupied by a middle class who are fairly useless during the war and after it. Killing them has neutral value.
Problem 1 - the burning fuel is hotter than the melting point of the engines.
Problem 2 - the engines have to run at sea level and in a vacuum.
Problem 3 - flying through atmosphere at 2000 MPH
Problem 4 - getting down
Get back to me after you think you have those solved cheaply and safely.