The power grid outages generally aren't control failures, the cascades result from attempts to share power over enormous regions (which requires keeping the whole grid in phase, which means that failures tend to cascade).
Losing a little efficiency to high voltage DC interconnects would add quite a bit of resiliency (the efficiency is mostly lost in the AC-DC-AC conversion, not in the DC line).
My only recent experience with Apple (a second generation ipod shuffle) was that the hardware was incredibly cheap (I don't mean the price, it was a gift, I mean it was a piece of shit that shorted out after 3 hours).
I think enough people have referrers turned off that embedding the info in the url probably leads to better info (I often copy just the destination out of urls, not particularly liking schemes that reward postering).
That's a terrible one, a mobile phone sitting on a desk isn't really any different than a landline (except it might be more expensive, but probably not if it is a second line on a parent's account).
Many people would be happy to see anti-trust law applied in any case where they thought that a company was acting in a way that benefited the company more than the customers of the company.
It is much more likely that the submitter is affiliated with the facebook game (and thought that 'slashdot' was a convenient label to apply to people coming from...slashdot), or that the submitter signed up for the slashdot refcode in order to get whatever points may (or may not) be involved.
Every once in a while, usually when something makes it into my inbox, I contact the ISP hosting a fraud site (and perhaps the registrar for the domain) with the hope that they shut the site down (why would they want their business associated with fraud?).
Are you suggesting that they should not bother having an AUP because it might cause them to censor someone?
It would be a kludge and fraught with difficulties, but you could probably make a bookmarklet (or greasemonkey script) that resized the flash for you. Google says that some already exist, though for specific sites and such:
I didn't shit on anything. See, yesterday, I overheard two morons in the local library discussing all the governments lies (they never thought to question each others credibility), and one of the fun things they were discussing was how 'all that money' has gone into cancer research and nothing has come of it, and that there were conspiracies to 'make sure people didn't eat foods that made them better' so that 'some people could make money on it' and you happened to touch that nerve (you didn't say anything stupid, you just conveyed indifference...which is the sort of things those morons will take as agreeing with their idiocy).
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Read this page:
http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=162743
The Google dashboard shows data actively generated by users, not things like server logs and cookies.
You can turn on the old comment system (well, the pre-javascript one, I don't remember if it is the same as what there was in 1997).
The power grid outages generally aren't control failures, the cascades result from attempts to share power over enormous regions (which requires keeping the whole grid in phase, which means that failures tend to cascade).
Losing a little efficiency to high voltage DC interconnects would add quite a bit of resiliency (the efficiency is mostly lost in the AC-DC-AC conversion, not in the DC line).
You're the second person who has apparently made the mistake of thinking that I am one of the people I was talking about in my comment.
And flash pretty much depends on javascript (Well, last time I checked, actionscript was pretty much an implementation of Ecmascript).
Sure, why not (well, unless it is more expensive than the occasional failure).
My only recent experience with Apple (a second generation ipod shuffle) was that the hardware was incredibly cheap (I don't mean the price, it was a gift, I mean it was a piece of shit that shorted out after 3 hours).
You may have made the mistake of ascribing the notions that I described to me.
I think enough people have referrers turned off that embedding the info in the url probably leads to better info (I often copy just the destination out of urls, not particularly liking schemes that reward postering).
That's a terrible one, a mobile phone sitting on a desk isn't really any different than a landline (except it might be more expensive, but probably not if it is a second line on a parent's account).
He meant to direct you at the remake, where Scott Evil directs Marky Mark through a city by hacking the streetlights:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Italian_Job_(2003_film)
Really, it sounds like they do more dynamic management than the lights themselves are capable of.
It's really too bad that all those people died.
Many people would be happy to see anti-trust law applied in any case where they thought that a company was acting in a way that benefited the company more than the customers of the company.
It is much more likely that the submitter is affiliated with the facebook game (and thought that 'slashdot' was a convenient label to apply to people coming from...slashdot), or that the submitter signed up for the slashdot refcode in order to get whatever points may (or may not) be involved.
That's terrible! They will quickly become dehydrated and lose flavor.
Well, it is an achievement, much in the same way that not eating a bucket of KFC everyday is an achievement
Yeah, I missed the parody (probably because enough people mean it when they talk about slippery slopes (what isn't in a society of compromises?)).
Oh, I get it, I just latch onto that optimism when I am doing the reporting, my expectations as to the efficacy are a little more pessimistic.
My bunches of bananas only come with 1 or 2 stickers, so a banana a day turns into about 0.8 cm cubed per month.
I usually take the stickers off when I get home from the store.
Every once in a while, usually when something makes it into my inbox, I contact the ISP hosting a fraud site (and perhaps the registrar for the domain) with the hope that they shut the site down (why would they want their business associated with fraud?).
Are you suggesting that they should not bother having an AUP because it might cause them to censor someone?
You're the one not wearing any pants.
It would be a kludge and fraught with difficulties, but you could probably make a bookmarklet (or greasemonkey script) that resized the flash for you. Google says that some already exist, though for specific sites and such:
http://www.google.com/search?q=greasemonkey+flash+resizer
(apparently, there are flash objects that do not scale, messing around with javascript won't fix those)
I didn't shit on anything. See, yesterday, I overheard two morons in the local library discussing all the governments lies (they never thought to question each others credibility), and one of the fun things they were discussing was how 'all that money' has gone into cancer research and nothing has come of it, and that there were conspiracies to 'make sure people didn't eat foods that made them better' so that 'some people could make money on it' and you happened to touch that nerve (you didn't say anything stupid, you just conveyed indifference...which is the sort of things those morons will take as agreeing with their idiocy).
Probably not, the stores have managed to adapt to boxes that are the same across the nation.