Like you, I grew up on sci-fi. I'd love it if we could safely mine asteroids, but this proposal is not worth the risk. Most of the sci-fi I grew up with seemed to assume that humanity was sane enough to establish a world government before venturing to the planets and stars. You want to let a single country, acting on its own, do it? Hell, I wouldn't trust the Chinese not to "accidentally" drop the thing on top of the US, for a start. And in case you ask, no, I wouldn't trust the US not to "accidentally" drop one on Peking either.
This is several orders of magnitude more risk than skinning knees. Do not want.
I love it when wingnuts try to tell us we should have voted for the octogenarian and rent-a-nitwit. The fact is the we didn't vote for the better of the two; most of us voted for the least worse. True, Obama hasn't lived up to what he promised, let alone what we hoped he'd do, but we're still better off.
Agreed. Even as it becomes less customisable (so as not to frighten the less-experienced, apparently), Gnome gets ever more bloated as time goes by. Methinks the Gnome developers have totally lost the plot.
I can't get to ubuntuforums (nor a couple of other Ubuntu sites, although ubuntu.com is ok) from Comcast, but I can get to it quite happily from my phone via 3G and AT&T. It's not a DNS problem (IP address is the same), but one works and the other doesn't. Traceroutes have absolutley no IP addresses in common. It's been this way for a few weeks now. I finally got around to complaining to Comcast a couple of days ago, answered the first ("have you turned your modem on?") reply with a traceroute, and got the same message back. I give up. The moral? Never attribute to malice something that can be explained by sheer incompetence.
Alright, you got me there. What *did* happen (more correctly, what do *you* think happened) in Australia when guns were banned?
I've been out of Australia for a long time, but I was there when the ban you're referring to took place (and the event that triggered it). As far as I know, guns as such were not banned. Automatic (and, probably, semi-automatic) weapons were banned, yes. Other guns (rifles, shotguns, pistols etc) were not, as far as I know. Perhaps someone in Australia can confirm this?
The bottom line is this: Automatic weapons have no other use than to kill people. If you think you need an AK-47 to defend yourself from marauding kangaroos, then you're sicker than I thought.
As I recall, it was an indirect jump when the first byte of the operand was at the top of a (256-byte) page (i.e. at address xxFF). The second byte of the operand (the high byte of the target address) should have been taken from the first byte of the next page (xy00), but, due to the bug, it was taken from the first byte of the same page (xx00).
A later CMOS version of the 6502 (the 65C02) fixed this bug.
Besides, I still download entire albums and listen to the tracks consecutively all the time.
That's possible, now that most sane players allow you to sort in track order (and even default to it!). A lot of the original mp3 (etc) players would sort tracks in alphabetical order, which made absolutely no sense from a listener point of view.
Let me get this straight. They want to create a private entity to run ICANN?
Reminds me of the wonderful job Verisign does running the.com and.net domains. Anyone remember when they decided to direct all failed DNS lookups to their own page? I seem to recall that it was ICANN who managed to stop that little project.
I don't believe that ICANN, or the Internet for that matter, should be controlled by any entity which has a pecuniary interest in doing so. That way lies corruption and decisions in favour of commercial interests, not of the community as a whole.
Trouble with that idea is that it'll only detect objects in almost exactly the same orbit as the ISS. And if they are in the same orbit, their velocities will be almost identical (Kepler's third law, correct?), and so the object will probably never catch the ISS (and if it did, their relative velocities would be quite low).
From the differences in velocity mentioned in the space.com article, I'd guess that the debris is moving in a much more elliptical orbit than the ISS is. Makes it lots harder to detect.
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I thought if one is using 10secs (I'm unsure if there is a real number or duration) of any video, song, or literature it is not 'reproducing' or distributing IP or copyright, but Fair Use, and therefore not against a civil or criminal law.
Individually, maybe not (IANAL, so I don't know). However, if you're producing several minutes (don't know how long the video is; haven't RTFA) composed of many different IP or copyright materials, is that still fair use?
I'm not saying that it is or it isn't; I'm just asking.
First, let me say where I'm coming from. I've been using Linux for over twelve years; I have two full-time Linux servers at home, and a desktop and a laptop that both dual-boot Linux and Vista. I have an XP box and a Linux box at work, where I'm a Linux/Windows sysadmin and programmer, and I do most of my serious stuff there on the Linux box. At home, I stay in Linux most of the time, and I just boot into Vista when I want to run iTunes, or a game, or something else that only runs on Windows.
That said, I actually like Vista. As I see it, its main problem is that is needs a fairly hefty machine to run it. If you're trying to run it with less than 1G of memory, or a not-very-fast processor, forget it. It certainly works for me.
And I don't mind UAC at all. When it comes up, it's usually trying to tell me that I'm about to do something that may have serious consequences, and that I need to think about what I want Vista to do before I press OK. It just takes a moment, really.
So why is everybody complaining about it? Have I missed something?
All judges get elected or put into their positions through some political process be it vocal or non-vocal. Ascension to such a job still will pass through other human beings with opinions of their own. It's an undeniable fact of life.
The correct question you should be asking is this. "How and by whom should judges be put into power?
I agree. The point really is, I suppose, that once a judge is appointed, he/she doesn't have to worry about being re-appointed. Doesn't have to worry what the average dimwit thinks about an issue, for fear of not being re-elected.
The law is the law, and shouldn't be controlled by current community opinions.
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its, not it's. Sorry about that.
And -- don't tell us -- get off your lawn?
Like you, I grew up on sci-fi. I'd love it if we could safely mine asteroids, but this proposal is not worth the risk. Most of the sci-fi I grew up with seemed to assume that humanity was sane enough to establish a world government before venturing to the planets and stars. You want to let a single country, acting on its own, do it? Hell, I wouldn't trust the Chinese not to "accidentally" drop the thing on top of the US, for a start. And in case you ask, no, I wouldn't trust the US not to "accidentally" drop one on Peking either.
This is several orders of magnitude more risk than skinning knees. Do not want.
I love it when wingnuts try to tell us we should have voted for the octogenarian and rent-a-nitwit. The fact is the we didn't vote for the better of the two; most of us voted for the least worse. True, Obama hasn't lived up to what he promised, let alone what we hoped he'd do, but we're still better off.
Maybe she actually IS the sharpest tool in that drawer.
Sigh. Where are mod points when you need them?
Agreed. Even as it becomes less customisable (so as not to frighten the less-experienced, apparently), Gnome gets ever more bloated as time goes by.
Methinks the Gnome developers have totally lost the plot.
I can't get to ubuntuforums (nor a couple of other Ubuntu sites, although ubuntu.com is ok) from Comcast, but I can get to it quite happily from my phone via 3G and AT&T. It's not a DNS problem (IP address is the same), but one works and the other doesn't. Traceroutes have absolutley no IP addresses in common.
It's been this way for a few weeks now. I finally got around to complaining to Comcast a couple of days ago, answered the first ("have you turned your modem on?") reply with a traceroute, and got the same message back. I give up.
The moral? Never attribute to malice something that can be explained by sheer incompetence.
Can we have an equivalent to Godwin's Law so that, as soon as someone says "end of story", they automatically lose the argument?
Doesn't sound likely to me. Anonymous have done many things, but stealing user information hasn't been one of them until now.
I wonder if Sony did it themselves with the intention of pinning it on Anonymous?
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Yep. Dead right.
The subheading on that link seems particularly appropriate:
> Please leave your sense of logic at the door, thanks!
Sigh.
Alright, you got me there. What *did* happen (more correctly, what do *you* think happened) in Australia when guns were banned?
I've been out of Australia for a long time, but I was there when the ban you're referring to took place (and the event that triggered it). As far as I know, guns as such were not banned. Automatic (and, probably, semi-automatic) weapons were banned, yes. Other guns (rifles, shotguns, pistols etc) were not, as far as I know. Perhaps someone in Australia can confirm this?
The bottom line is this: Automatic weapons have no other use than to kill people. If you think you need an AK-47 to defend yourself from marauding kangaroos, then you're sicker than I thought.
(I remember seeing one game that used this to confuse would-be crackers).
As I recall, it was an indirect jump when the first byte of the operand was at the top of a (256-byte) page (i.e. at address xxFF). The second byte of the operand (the high byte of the target address) should have been taken from the first byte of the next page (xy00), but, due to the bug, it was taken from the first byte of the same page (xx00).
A later CMOS version of the 6502 (the 65C02) fixed this bug.
That's possible, now that most sane players allow you to sort in track order (and even default to it!). A lot of the original mp3 (etc) players would sort tracks in alphabetical order, which made absolutely no sense from a listener point of view.
or a disproportionate number of bad drivers buy Toyotas
I'll go with that. Every day I get stuck behind more fucking Camrys than is good for my blood pressure.
Perhaps if evolution had given us wheels instead of legs, we'd be using ramps instead of stairs now.
And even more worrisome, human progress would have taken a great leap (!) forward when somebody invented the leg, way back in the Stone Age.
crappy Disney films
Tautology alert!
Let me get this straight. They want to create a private entity to run ICANN?
Reminds me of the wonderful job Verisign does running the .com and .net domains. Anyone remember when they decided to direct all failed DNS lookups to their own page? I seem to recall that it was ICANN who managed to stop that little project.
I don't believe that ICANN, or the Internet for that matter, should be controlled by any entity which has a pecuniary interest in doing so. That way lies corruption and decisions in favour of commercial interests, not of the community as a whole.
Trouble with that idea is that it'll only detect objects in almost exactly the same orbit as the ISS. And if they are in the same orbit, their velocities will be almost identical (Kepler's third law, correct?), and so the object will probably never catch the ISS (and if it did, their relative velocities would be quite low).
From the differences in velocity mentioned in the space.com article, I'd guess that the debris is moving in a much more elliptical orbit than the ISS is. Makes it lots harder to detect.
I thought if one is using 10secs (I'm unsure if there is a real number or duration) of any video, song, or literature it is not 'reproducing' or distributing IP or copyright, but Fair Use, and therefore not against a civil or criminal law.
Individually, maybe not (IANAL, so I don't know). However, if you're producing several minutes (don't know how long the video is; haven't RTFA) composed of many different IP or copyright materials, is that still fair use?
I'm not saying that it is or it isn't; I'm just asking.
First, let me say where I'm coming from. I've been using Linux for over twelve years; I have two full-time Linux servers at home, and a desktop and a laptop that both dual-boot Linux and Vista. I have an XP box and a Linux box at work, where I'm a Linux/Windows sysadmin and programmer, and I do most of my serious stuff there on the Linux box. At home, I stay in Linux most of the time, and I just boot into Vista when I want to run iTunes, or a game, or something else that only runs on Windows.
That said, I actually like Vista. As I see it, its main problem is that is needs a fairly hefty machine to run it. If you're trying to run it with less than 1G of memory, or a not-very-fast processor, forget it. It certainly works for me.
And I don't mind UAC at all. When it comes up, it's usually trying to tell me that I'm about to do something that may have serious consequences, and that I need to think about what I want Vista to do before I press OK. It just takes a moment, really.
So why is everybody complaining about it? Have I missed something?
Whoever added it probably did so because it was the only possible male name he didn't have.
Ahhhhh ... completeness achieved.
All judges get elected or put into their positions through some political process be it vocal or non-vocal. Ascension to such a job still will pass through other human beings with opinions of their own. It's an undeniable fact of life.
The correct question you should be asking is this. "How and by whom should judges be put into power?
I agree. The point really is, I suppose, that once a judge is appointed, he/she doesn't have to worry about being re-appointed. Doesn't have to worry what the average dimwit thinks about an issue, for fear of not being re-elected.
The law is the law, and shouldn't be controlled by current community opinions.
You'd be surprised how honest people can be when their job doesn't rely on what the average dimwit thinks.
... which is an excellent argument against electing judges.
A: When you have engine trouble at 35,000 feet, you start emptying your bank account
... not to mention your bowels.