Europe is not a country. It is a continent, and Russia is part of it.
Not enough to ever have a chance of entering the European Union though, and as ESA is largely a collaboration of EU contries, I also think there should be a distinction here.
The ESA doesn't have Russia as one of its members, and it's the primary European space agency (actually; that's what it's short for -- European Space Agency) in common speech.
As long as the rockets don't fail (and I haven't heard much of that happening during 2006), it tend to mean they get more research projects in the air.
Also, the Russians of course know that minimizing the rocket launches necessary is essential for their space program.
They aren't stupid, many actually being rocket scientists!:-)
If the industrial revolution meant anything at all to the CO2 levels, yes, we had?
Seriously, if we had an event of this size a mere thirty years ago, it obviously isn't the one-of-a-kind end-of-the-world-in-twenty-years event the media is portraying it to be. What is the frequency of such events?
I'm not sure about the frequency, but if it happened now, and also just 30 years ago, and besides this were quite rare, it could be an indication of an accelerating global warming at the poles. So I agree it would for at least this reason be interesting to know how frequently these things happened in the past, preferrably before the industrial revolution at least. It could be helpful for us to judge how responsible we might be, although two ice shelf breaks is admittedly not too much to go on to draw conclusions.
Yes, I think this is really about users getting "owned" through third party software weaknesses and Gmail could honestly ignore them and still not be very evil in my opinion, but they're probably trying to save their accounts due to the publicity this story earned.
Will it ever be possible to do away with desktop solutions like Outlook and Thunderbird?
Well, I have, at home at least...
I use Gmail, and sure, there was a problem, but as the story said, it should have been solved by now.
One may ask why one would be willing to trust Gmail in not crashing or deleting your mail, but on the other hand, having this happened for the first known time, after all these years since the service went only, with all their hundreds of thousands of registered users, it's obvious that Google has less problems than I have had with crashing hard drives and maintaining backups.:-) So, at least for me, and comparing with Google's server redundancy and backup procedures, I'm saving myself from a hell of a lot of work and it clearly feels like a storage safety upgrade for me. I'm betting the same holds true for the vast majority of users, since it's still not common to work with data redundancy and your data in geographically different locations with well-designed backup procedures, like Google has.
One might wonder what happens in the future with Gmail though, but at the same time, it's not like I'm stupid enough to not copy mail contents to have it stored elsewhere if it's important, like account details. I also don't route anything work-related through Gmail.
First, what's "not safe for work" varies from place to place.
I agree, if one really want a standard like this, I think existing content tagging standards are better off, as they tag by what the web site *contains* (explicit nudity, etc), and then you can configure your web browsers by that. Hmm, you can tell that so few are using IE here because there's integrated support for at least the prominent ICRA standard in that browser.:-) (and an extension for Firefox users)
Agreed; just block sites by ICRA; at least IE and Firefox supports it (with an extension). Sure, it's on page basis, but usually it's about pages being NSFW. You shouldn't exactly allow a page to render if a picture on it is NSFW anyway. I think the author simply didn't think of these schemes and is trying to unecessarily invent something new here, even worse by hacking the HTML standard.
Talk about totally missing out on the already existing adult content rating standards.
Instead of inventing something redundant here, just have browsers installed at work block access to pages rated as "breast exposure", or whatever. There is already a standard with very fine-grained control of exactly what a web page contains, if it's "visible sexual touching", language, or whatever, and the administration can then decide on exactly what they wish to allow. You can even tell that it's "nudity, but in a medical context" if you intend to loosen up the regulations in special cases.
ICRA is supported by Internet Explorer and while strangely enough Firefox don't seem to have built-in support for these schemes to aid for website classification, there should be extensions like ViQ for Firefox to add this support, although I haven't tested it.
Of course, few sites today use this system well, but that's still being vastly better off than inventing some new inflexible "nsfw" HTML attribute, and modifying the HTML standard. Wow...
Why full disk encryption and not just the home directory?? Maybe things are so mixed up on Windows that you need full disk,
Windows? Home directories? Just kidding:) The directory specified by %USERPROFILE% is indeed the user's home directory, and in Vista, users are even more enforced to put stuff there, since there'll be UAC prompts if you place things elsewhere, then affecting the local system rather than just your own user. However, it's long been such an assumption that "everyone" on Windows is running admin rights, and apps are so sloppily coded that both applications and games tend to assume they can place their crap just about anywhere. MS has tried to move away from this behavior with their "Designed for Windows XP" logo program, but I guess that didn't help very much either.:-) Devs just didn't care for "Designed for XP" stickers enough.
I find their idea innovative too, and perhaps helpful especially to those not used to making well-formed queries. Besides, it can be a matter of convenience too. Sending away a question there for someone else to find something you believe might be annoying, and doing something else in another application meanwhile. Having said that, I also found Something Awful's coverage of the site funny too.:-)
I think he meant that instead of asking questions, you can find your answers to many things on Wikipedia, without restorting to asking someone questions.
But yes, if the parent meant it as using it as a Q&A site, then you're of course correct.
Not sure if we can directly detect water signatures, but scientists can at least estimate the range from their stars, the type of star, and basic atmospheric composition. I guess these could be enough to make an educated guess of their temperature at least.
Here's the news of the first atmospheric measurement by Hubble in 2001, and then keep in mind it's not even specially equipped for these things like these "next gen missions": http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/ 2001/38
Oh oh, I knew there was at least one more -- ESA's Darwin project. It's possible NASA's TPF and ESA's Darwin project will end up as a collaboration though, given the similarities in goals. I wouldn't be against that; better put your money bags together to make something awesome than do separate half-assed jobs.;-)
And even if they were still defined as planets, I wouldn't be too interested in having them wasting efforts in finding those as they'll probably have trouble holding an atmosphere to harbor life anyway. And it's terrestrial planets I'm personally most interested in here. Actually, this kind of space science is what I find most interesting at the moment, given what we can do.
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A hilarious response would be if the Russian government would now confirm that Allofmp3 operated within the country's laws.
Feel free to start backing up your HD DVD's whenever you feel the need
Not only do we skip RTFA quite often, the article submitters seem to as well.
What he says in that quote is simply not possible; you still need the keys, and that hack doesn't cover that problem.
We may have something for that too in the future, but this is not the hack for piracy-at-will.
No, that's from my refrigerator. :-/
Taiwan, now Chinese?
Somehow I think this is some sort of wicked scientist in-joke to test DNA manipulation.
- How far along are we in our transgenic studies now?
- Well, we can make the flourescent green pig!
Now I'm really confused, when I saw the story about a pig, I thought it was about Paris Hilton...
Europe is not a country. It is a continent, and Russia is part of it.
Not enough to ever have a chance of entering the European Union though, and as ESA is largely a collaboration of EU contries, I also think there should be a distinction here.
The ESA doesn't have Russia as one of its members, and it's the primary European space agency (actually; that's what it's short for -- European Space Agency) in common speech.
The space race is since long over.
USA and Russia are nowadays fairly often collaborating in space and both have played major roles in getting much of the tech at ISS up and running.
Perhaps not always, but usually.
:-)
As long as the rockets don't fail (and I haven't heard much of that happening during 2006), it tend to mean they get more research projects in the air.
Also, the Russians of course know that minimizing the rocket launches necessary is essential for their space program.
They aren't stupid, many actually being rocket scientists!
Both of these are nutcases so they don't count, regardless their fame. :-p
Seriously, that a global warming is going on is easy to get evidence of, the hard part is what and who's causing the bulk of it.
We had global warming 30 years ago?
If the industrial revolution meant anything at all to the CO2 levels, yes, we had?
Seriously, if we had an event of this size a mere thirty years ago, it obviously isn't the one-of-a-kind end-of-the-world-in-twenty-years event the media is portraying it to be. What is the frequency of such events?
I'm not sure about the frequency, but if it happened now, and also just 30 years ago, and besides this were quite rare, it could be an indication of an accelerating global warming at the poles. So I agree it would for at least this reason be interesting to know how frequently these things happened in the past, preferrably before the industrial revolution at least. It could be helpful for us to judge how responsible we might be, although two ice shelf breaks is admittedly not too much to go on to draw conclusions.
Volkswagens?? I knew it, Hitler (and Godwin be damned!) is still alive, lurking on Slashdot as AC, plotting for strange new nefarious plans!
Yes, I think this is really about users getting "owned" through third party software weaknesses and Gmail could honestly ignore them and still not be very evil in my opinion, but they're probably trying to save their accounts due to the publicity this story earned.
Will it ever be possible to do away with desktop solutions like Outlook and Thunderbird?
:-) So, at least for me, and comparing with Google's server redundancy and backup procedures, I'm saving myself from a hell of a lot of work and it clearly feels like a storage safety upgrade for me. I'm betting the same holds true for the vast majority of users, since it's still not common to work with data redundancy and your data in geographically different locations with well-designed backup procedures, like Google has.
Well, I have, at home at least...
I use Gmail, and sure, there was a problem, but as the story said, it should have been solved by now.
One may ask why one would be willing to trust Gmail in not crashing or deleting your mail, but on the other hand, having this happened for the first known time, after all these years since the service went only, with all their hundreds of thousands of registered users, it's obvious that Google has less problems than I have had with crashing hard drives and maintaining backups.
One might wonder what happens in the future with Gmail though, but at the same time, it's not like I'm stupid enough to not copy mail contents to have it stored elsewhere if it's important, like account details. I also don't route anything work-related through Gmail.
First, what's "not safe for work" varies from place to place.
:-) (and an extension for Firefox users)
I agree, if one really want a standard like this, I think existing content tagging standards are better off, as they tag by what the web site *contains* (explicit nudity, etc), and then you can configure your web browsers by that. Hmm, you can tell that so few are using IE here because there's integrated support for at least the prominent ICRA standard in that browser.
They probably won't, because many already support functional standards like ICRA tagging.
Here's for example the tags of the adult site Abby Winters:
Agreed; just block sites by ICRA; at least IE and Firefox supports it (with an extension). Sure, it's on page basis, but usually it's about pages being NSFW. You shouldn't exactly allow a page to render if a picture on it is NSFW anyway. I think the author simply didn't think of these schemes and is trying to unecessarily invent something new here, even worse by hacking the HTML standard.
Talk about totally missing out on the already existing adult content rating standards.
Instead of inventing something redundant here, just have browsers installed at work block access to pages rated as "breast exposure", or whatever. There is already a standard with very fine-grained control of exactly what a web page contains, if it's "visible sexual touching", language, or whatever, and the administration can then decide on exactly what they wish to allow. You can even tell that it's "nudity, but in a medical context" if you intend to loosen up the regulations in special cases.
http://www.icra.org/label/generator/
ICRA is supported by Internet Explorer and while strangely enough Firefox don't seem to have built-in support for these schemes to aid for website classification, there should be extensions like ViQ for Firefox to add this support, although I haven't tested it.
Of course, few sites today use this system well, but that's still being vastly better off than inventing some new inflexible "nsfw" HTML attribute, and modifying the HTML standard. Wow...
Why full disk encryption and not just the home directory?? Maybe things are so mixed up on Windows that you need full disk,
:) The directory specified by %USERPROFILE% is indeed the user's home directory, and in Vista, users are even more enforced to put stuff there, since there'll be UAC prompts if you place things elsewhere, then affecting the local system rather than just your own user. However, it's long been such an assumption that "everyone" on Windows is running admin rights, and apps are so sloppily coded that both applications and games tend to assume they can place their crap just about anywhere. MS has tried to move away from this behavior with their "Designed for Windows XP" logo program, but I guess that didn't help very much either. :-) Devs just didn't care for "Designed for XP" stickers enough.
Windows? Home directories? Just kidding
even more so when you consider that Flash sites in practise often violate user-interface guidelines and are a nightmare for users.
It's impossible to build a website that don't violate UI guidelines at least if you're aiming for cross-platform compatibility.
I find their idea innovative too, and perhaps helpful especially to those not used to making well-formed queries. Besides, it can be a matter of convenience too. Sending away a question there for someone else to find something you believe might be annoying, and doing something else in another application meanwhile. Having said that, I also found Something Awful's coverage of the site funny too. :-)
I think he meant that instead of asking questions, you can find your answers to many things on Wikipedia, without restorting to asking someone questions.
But yes, if the parent meant it as using it as a Q&A site, then you're of course correct.
Not sure if we can directly detect water signatures, but scientists can at least estimate the range from their stars, the type of star, and basic atmospheric composition. I guess these could be enough to make an educated guess of their temperature at least.
/ 2001/38
Here's the news of the first atmospheric measurement by Hubble in 2001, and then keep in mind it's not even specially equipped for these things like these "next gen missions": http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases
I think you'd get funnier replies if you'd use a real-looking address from fakenamegenerator.com. :-)
Like...
Sean R. Jones
224 Riverside Drive
Blairsville, GA 30512
Oh oh, I knew there was at least one more -- ESA's Darwin project. It's possible NASA's TPF and ESA's Darwin project will end up as a collaboration though, given the similarities in goals. I wouldn't be against that; better put your money bags together to make something awesome than do separate half-assed jobs. ;-)
Duh ;)
And even if they were still defined as planets, I wouldn't be too interested in having them wasting efforts in finding those as they'll probably have trouble holding an atmosphere to harbor life anyway. And it's terrestrial planets I'm personally most interested in here. Actually, this kind of space science is what I find most interesting at the moment, given what we can do.