I think you missed my point, which was two fold. First, you shouldn't ignore problems in the rest of the world just because you have your own problems. That argument is simply illogical (although highly attractive). And second, sometimes you need to act, regardless of whether you even think you should, in order to prevent things from getting worse. Example from WWII (which I brought up): if people had acted to stop Hitler before things got really bad, WWII might have been prevented. Of course, the country that did so probably would have been vilified as "messing in other peoples affairs." Why do you think people didn't stop Hitler? Because it was seen as an internal problem. By no means am I saying the US is a shining example to the world: just that people should stop, think, and reflect on history before they jump to conclusions.
Straighten up your own act before whining about the rest of the world.
People still complain about the last time the US tried that. World War II, I think it was. Didn't last very long (although, who knows what would have happened if the Japanese had left well enough alone.)
Also, given that it's a Model M, I'm guessing you can also note the not-a-sound you are hearing right now from the deafness of using that keyboard for that long.
Lithium AAs can have a shelf life of a decade or more.
Or to carry sensitive data often accessed and modified which you don't want on the Internet at all, or to carry the private key for data that is on the Internet. In either case, encryption would be useful. I can think of a few cases where encryption on a USB drive makes sense. Not a lot, true. And in almost any case, invisible encryption would be more useful, so they wouldn't have seen it anyways.
Why? Anyone who made a public tweet with the expectancy of being able to retain some control over it is, well, a moron... oh wait nevermind. You're probably right.
Sodium != salt, which is probably what you are thinking of (seems to be the trend in the comments around yours). Sodium is a metal, not a salt (NaCl is common table salt, which melts closer to 1000C or something).
A soliton was my first thought on reading the summary. Such waves are possible in the ocean (they have been observed in canals before.) No mention in TFA that that was the case here though
Well, this was supposed to be an angry rant about government forming yet another stupid and unnecessary organization, probably designed to crack down on copyright all in the name of "protect the children". Then I read the draft (or, rather skimmed a large part of it), and it actually seems focused an preventing wide-scale attacks on infrastructure and creation of more secure Internet protocols. Seems... alright, although this is, of course, just a draft. Also, it'll never live up to it's promises, but hey, I suppose trying to secure the nation against computer-based attack is laudable.
It's probably still stupid and redundant, but at least it seems redundant in the right direction, anyways.
The potential difference between the top and bottom could potentially be used to power the elevator in the first place. It wouldn't be a problem for the carriage because of physics. You know how birds aren't electrocuted when they stand on high-voltage power lines? The carriage won't have a potential difference across it, so I don't think it will be a problem. So long as the tether has someplace to discharged continuously I don't see it being a major problem.
Also, nothing (probably) would stop you from just attaching the tether to a location in the middle of the ocean. A few hundred/ thousand extra feet won't make a difference. Politics might be an issue, but probably not much more than any major project. An accident, of course, would be an issue. Safety measures would have to be installed.
I was under the impression (read on slashdot, so YMMGV) that Adblocking on opera was sub-par (still requested the ad, and just hid it, etc... rather than blocking it completely)?
Nope, Opera doesn't download blocked content, I just checked using Dragonfly (the built in developer tool). Blocked content only shows up as downloaded once you go to the visual click-to-block option, to allow you to see exactly what is and isn't blocked. Otherwise, in normal browsing, it doesn't download it.
Can't speak about Noscript, as I've never used it, but there does seem to be a similar extension in Opera. PasswordMaker has an Opera Widget (which is slightly less convenient than an extension), but there is another proper extension (Password Hasher) that seems to work the exact same way. I just use LastPass, though.
Hmm, I use Adblock in Opera and youtube worked just fine last night. Also have Ghostery and PeerBlock with blocking of advertiser IPs, so somehow I doubt that is the problem. Which list you use might change that, though.
Yes, program your genes to build cages around cells. What could go wrong with that?
Well, except for the fact that the majority of cells in the human body aren't, technically, human at all. There are more bacterial cells than human ones. So, snarky comments aside, that would be extremely dangerous. You might be able to select only dangerous cells, but I very much doubt it. Not genetically, anyways. Anti-bacterial agents need to be targeted specifically, or you can do more harm than good.
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I think you missed my point, which was two fold. First, you shouldn't ignore problems in the rest of the world just because you have your own problems. That argument is simply illogical (although highly attractive). And second, sometimes you need to act, regardless of whether you even think you should, in order to prevent things from getting worse. Example from WWII (which I brought up): if people had acted to stop Hitler before things got really bad, WWII might have been prevented. Of course, the country that did so probably would have been vilified as "messing in other peoples affairs." Why do you think people didn't stop Hitler? Because it was seen as an internal problem. By no means am I saying the US is a shining example to the world: just that people should stop, think, and reflect on history before they jump to conclusions.
Straighten up your own act before whining about the rest of the world.
People still complain about the last time the US tried that. World War II, I think it was. Didn't last very long (although, who knows what would have happened if the Japanese had left well enough alone.)
"If it could be worse, then the current situation is objectively good..."
Not what he said. What he said was it could be actually *bad*, but that it wasn't, at least not for the moment.
I would add that it could also be *better*.
Note the lack of not-a-wire coming out of it.
Also, given that it's a Model M, I'm guessing you can also note the not-a-sound you are hearing right now from the deafness of using that keyboard for that long.
Lithium AAs can have a shelf life of a decade or more.
Only if it it has Lucas' DNA on it, so I can clone him and then kill him without getting into (too much) trouble.
Or to carry sensitive data often accessed and modified which you don't want on the Internet at all, or to carry the private key for data that is on the Internet. In either case, encryption would be useful. I can think of a few cases where encryption on a USB drive makes sense. Not a lot, true. And in almost any case, invisible encryption would be more useful, so they wouldn't have seen it anyways.
That would be a sine his understanding was not in phase with the article.
Why? Anyone who made a public tweet with the expectancy of being able to retain some control over it is, well, a moron... oh wait nevermind. You're probably right.
Anonymous Coward had a Twitter account? Huh, never knew that.
Of course. So? It's still a good thing for humanity.
Now where would be the fun in that?
Well, we haven't seen any reports about a new Firefox version yet, so it can't be that slow...
Sea level (or thereabouts). Earth core would be much higher. Sodium the metal, BTW, not the salt.
Sodium != salt, which is probably what you are thinking of (seems to be the trend in the comments around yours). Sodium is a metal, not a salt (NaCl is common table salt, which melts closer to 1000C or something).
A soliton was my first thought on reading the summary. Such waves are possible in the ocean (they have been observed in canals before.) No mention in TFA that that was the case here though
Well, this was supposed to be an angry rant about government forming yet another stupid and unnecessary organization, probably designed to crack down on copyright all in the name of "protect the children". Then I read the draft (or, rather skimmed a large part of it), and it actually seems focused an preventing wide-scale attacks on infrastructure and creation of more secure Internet protocols. Seems... alright, although this is, of course, just a draft. Also, it'll never live up to it's promises, but hey, I suppose trying to secure the nation against computer-based attack is laudable.
It's probably still stupid and redundant, but at least it seems redundant in the right direction, anyways.
The potential difference between the top and bottom could potentially be used to power the elevator in the first place. It wouldn't be a problem for the carriage because of physics. You know how birds aren't electrocuted when they stand on high-voltage power lines? The carriage won't have a potential difference across it, so I don't think it will be a problem. So long as the tether has someplace to discharged continuously I don't see it being a major problem.
Also, nothing (probably) would stop you from just attaching the tether to a location in the middle of the ocean. A few hundred/ thousand extra feet won't make a difference. Politics might be an issue, but probably not much more than any major project. An accident, of course, would be an issue. Safety measures would have to be installed.
My ass-fibers are graphene, you insensitive clod!
don't share stuff on Facebook.
No real comment, I just thought this deserves repeating.
I can probably guess it: 772-257-4501
Yep, the Japanese get... that, and the Russians get woolly mammoth coats! Win-win!
Well, Apple officially named their tablet device an iPad, and the oft used name for the iPod touch is the "iTouch."
And, of course, there is the everpresent Nintendo Wii. Dingleberry is hardly alone in the odd, somewhat disturbing names in the tech world.
I was under the impression (read on slashdot, so YMMGV) that Adblocking on opera was sub-par (still requested the ad, and just hid it, etc... rather than blocking it completely)?
Nope, Opera doesn't download blocked content, I just checked using Dragonfly (the built in developer tool). Blocked content only shows up as downloaded once you go to the visual click-to-block option, to allow you to see exactly what is and isn't blocked. Otherwise, in normal browsing, it doesn't download it.
Can't speak about Noscript, as I've never used it, but there does seem to be a similar extension in Opera. PasswordMaker has an Opera Widget (which is slightly less convenient than an extension), but there is another proper extension (Password Hasher) that seems to work the exact same way. I just use LastPass, though.
Hmm, I use Adblock in Opera and youtube worked just fine last night. Also have Ghostery and PeerBlock with blocking of advertiser IPs, so somehow I doubt that is the problem. Which list you use might change that, though.
Yes, program your genes to build cages around cells. What could go wrong with that?
Well, except for the fact that the majority of cells in the human body aren't, technically, human at all. There are more bacterial cells than human ones. So, snarky comments aside, that would be extremely dangerous. You might be able to select only dangerous cells, but I very much doubt it. Not genetically, anyways. Anti-bacterial agents need to be targeted specifically, or you can do more harm than good.