I run noscript. And I don't want to visit their website after every update. I have no need to. It just pisses me off.
from http://noscript.net/faq#qa2_5 If you're a power user and you feel you don't need such heads up, you can disable this feature by opening about:config (just like it was a normal web address) and toggling off the noscript.firstRunRedirection preference.
This could be very useful for backup/recovery or testing purposes, eliminating the need for a live CD. However, the intended purpose seems to be a completely different one: "With a fast boot-up speed of only 5 seconds, the ASUS Express Gate offers an optional Linux OS boot-up that allows you to enjoy instant access to commonly used functions like accessing the Internet, VoIP, and Web emailing without entering the OS."
Who would want to boot into a crippled Linux where you cannot mount external drives just to browse the internet or make Skype calls?
At least it can be updated, so ASUS might provide more functional versions in the future. However, from TFA: "To update Express Gate [the embedded linux] though you will need to be running Windows on the hard drive in order to run the ASUS utility."
How exactly does one mistakenly mount nuclear weapons on a plain? Is it like the stack on the left is the fake ones, and the one on the right the real nukes? I was hoping that nuclear weapons are somewhat more securely stored.
Considering the logistical and safety related problems when transporting those weapons on the ground, could it be that they intentionally moved the weapons and now that the news got wind of the story call it a mistake?
Of course, this would be a bit annoying if you find you have to switch it on for torrentspy and then switch it off when you want to surf in general (without the inherant lag).
It's interesting to watch the audience in those two videos.
Except for the two guys talking, everybody else seems to be sleeping, or hynnotized. I presume the people sitting there are either involved, or reporters, or otherwise interested in the matter, but they don't seem to react at all.
But then again, almost everybody who would ever want an mp3 player has one by now. Putting it that way, it's probably more difficult to enter an already saturated market.
The whole thing reminds me of the XBox: MS didn't sell many units at first, and we were laughing at them. But now, the XBox360 is already outselling the Wee and the Playstation3 (although not the PS2).
if so, maybe the government today should require every 18-year-old to serve two years in the military and let them keep their gun after their service. You kill three birds with one bullet: everyone in time will have the proper training for using their gun (which should reduce accidents), be armed for self-defense (which should reduce crime) and the whole stupid 2nd Amendment will be gone. Just an idea.
That's exactly how the Swiss army works. Every 20-year old serves one year and then keeps his rifle at home, including ammunition. Every year, each one has to go to the shooting stand and fire a couple of bullets. At around 40, when they are finally discharched, one can choose to keep the gun or return it. There is no such thing as a 2nd ammendment.
Since Switzerland has no standing army, the idea here is that, in case of a mobilization, the soldiers are already armed. Whether this still makes sense or not is an ongoing debate.
Holy cow. That site is so ghetto I'd be afraid to give them my credit card number. Guess there isn't enough money in nuclear e-commerce to gussy the site up a bit.
Have a look at the main site, especially the animated nerd.gif with the tile "Looking for Some URANIUM? Click Here". I seriously hope this whole site is a joke, I wouldn't want to have such guys produce & sell radioactive material.
True, but irrelevant. The queue's lookup/insertion time should be negligible compared to the time required to connect to the sites, download, and parse the content.
Before your queue will get big enough for lookup/insertion time to become an issue, you'll first have to worry about bigger harddisks and more bandwith.
They dont have any shuttles sitting where they can have some CS guys sitting in it over the new years event to see what happens?
consider that they don't even have to have a guy sitting in over the new years...it shouldn't be too hard to set the date to Dec 30 on a normal Monday morning and watch the transition the next day.
...70% of the world's population has a variant of a gene regulating brain size, with this variant being most common in people of European descent (where Neanderthal man lived alongside ancient humans)
So that's why Europeans are so much smarter than we in the United States...doh!
t's just a foregone conclusion, for some reason, that the US should truck around their groceries less, but that China or India should be able to increase their use of less-regulated, very dirty internal combustion widgets at a fantastic rate.
Anyway, it was decided to backup the filesystem before attempting to recover the files. Absolutely everything broke when trying to do this, as Linux doesn't handle petabyte (or even terabyte) files properly. There are subtle problems with all of the utilities (find, ls, cp, cpio, and tar, to name just a few). While this isn't surprising, when you're trying to make a backup, it presents a serious problem.
In the end, I actually had to modify GNU tar to handle these problems. This was particularly amusing, as tar handn't been modified in years. But it was the only way out of the situation in a timely fashion.
Dude, next time use 'dd' to backup a broken filesystem you might want to restore 1:1.
Why should Spain pay for part of the clean-up? It was our mess. We should be cleaning it up. Either the military goes in and fixes it, or we taxpayers foot it.
From TFA: The governments have yet to agree on who would pay for a clean up, according to a U.S. embassy spokesman in Spain. ...
Since 1966, the United States has helped pay for Palomares residents to be checked for signs of radiation poisoning.
Well, at least they are still talking about it. Even though I generally disagree with US foreign policy, in this case, it seems that there's not (yet) much to complain about.
Spoken like a true Korean? Just as long as they won't be attacking me, I don't care what they do. Do you know that most South Koreans think of only one Korea? "Our country" refers to the whole peninsula, not just the south. The daily weather report on TV, for example, includes both countries, not only South Korea. It seems you have no idea what you're taking about.
Hoping that the U.S. will not bomb North Korea doesn't mean I do not care. You know, there are better means to end this conflict than military ones.
So actually, you're the one that cares about no one but yourself, cares not about what is right and what is wrong, but what is best for you and you alone. I hope you're the next person abducted and taken to the 'workers paradise'. Perhaps you'll find yourself in a concentration camp soon enough. Thanks.
US either better bomb this guy back to the Stone Age, or else be prepared to have nukes floating all around the world.
Speaken like a true American. Wage wars, but plz not at home. Why care about collatoral damage, as long as it is so far away?
I happen to work in Seoul right now, and I'm actually more afraid of Bush & his friends than North Korea. NK will not attack the South unprovoked because even their nutcase of a dictator knows that such an act will certainly end his reign. However, if you provoke him and lead him to believe he's about to be invaded/bombed/..., he might actually be tempted to send a couple of missiles down to Seoul, just to prove that NK is dangerous.
I hope that the U.S. and Japan won't push it too far.
Don't underestimate the importance of the restroom experience. How about this: ... -a penile/scrotal 'cupholder' (hate when 'it' touches the cold porcelain) ... -negative-pressure air exhaust for the toiletbowl (why do I have to smell it?) ...
That's ridiculous. They put a satellite up in orbit to broadcast this information to the whole globe. What do they have to lose by letting people use it? It's not like somebody could break their service just by listening to it.
You're right, it can't be broken. Maybe they don't want to get sued during the test phase by some guy who drove his car in a trench because he was feeding his navigator with the Galileo signal.
I disagree. It's not so much the equipment and training, but the content and length of the discussion.
If you exchange only military-style, short informational messages by cell phone the impact on your driving would probably not that big. However, listening to your friend complaining about his boss for like 30 minutes is going to be a problem. Not only will you encounter some situations that require undiverted attention to the situation on the road, but simple 'X, where are you now? Over' - 'I'm in Y. Over' conversations do not require as much attention.
I've never needed to miss a day off work yet, and I'm still vigorously healthy! But that's not because of any shirker reason like holidays, but because I eat correctly for the human body I have, which is to eat vegetarian.
Don't think what's right for you is right for everybody.
I know you'll shake your head at it like everybody does, but the typical vegetarian gets no cancer, never gets influenza (yes your flu last year could be avoided if you dumped meat) and will never have the depression, bowel disease, heart problems and overweight that inflict meat eaters!
My mom's cousin has been a vegetarian since childhood. She died two years ago of breast cancer.
On the other hand, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko who had to be carried to a hospital was there for about a year. Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov even stayed for 439 days. I can't recall the name of the Russian guy returning to earth quite recently, but afair also he has been up there much longer than 6 months.
Could it be that the effect is getting worse with time?
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I run noscript. And I don't want to visit their website after every update. I have no need to. It just pisses me off.
from http://noscript.net/faq#qa2_5
If you're a power user and you feel you don't need such heads up, you can disable this feature by opening about:config (just like it was a normal web address) and toggling off the noscript.firstRunRedirection preference.
No, that's not correct. Samsung is shipping hybrid hard drives for over half a year now (see, for example, http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/07/samsungs-hybrid-hard-drive-hhd-released-to-oems/).
Recently, they even blamed Microsoft for the poor performance of hybrid hard disks on Windows Vista (in German, http://www.heise.de/newsticker/result.xhtml?url=/newsticker/meldung/97021&words=Samsung%20Hybrid&T=samsung%20hybrid)
This could be very useful for backup/recovery or testing purposes, eliminating the need for a live CD. However, the intended purpose seems to be a completely different one: "With a fast boot-up speed of only 5 seconds, the ASUS Express Gate offers an optional Linux OS boot-up that allows you to enjoy instant access to commonly used functions like accessing the Internet, VoIP, and Web emailing without entering the OS."
Who would want to boot into a crippled Linux where you cannot mount external drives just to browse the internet or make Skype calls?
At least it can be updated, so ASUS might provide more functional versions in the future. However,
from TFA: "To update Express Gate [the embedded linux] though you will need to be running Windows on the hard drive in order to run the ASUS utility."
Now, that's just great...
I know, I know...it's called a "plane". My bad, should have hit that preview button.
How exactly does one mistakenly mount nuclear weapons on a plain? Is it like the stack on the left is the fake ones, and the one on the right the real nukes? I was hoping that nuclear weapons are somewhat more securely stored.
Considering the logistical and safety related problems when transporting those weapons on the ground, could it be that they intentionally moved the weapons and now that the news got wind of the story call it a mistake?
Of course, this would be a bit annoying if you find you have to switch it on for torrentspy and then switch it off when you want to surf in general (without the inherant lag).
4 64/). It automatically connects directly/via proxies depending on the URL.
Apparently, you have never heard of FoxyProxy (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2
PenIsland.net is what you were thinking of.
The banner on PenIsland.net
suggests that they are very well aware of their ambiguous domain name
It's interesting to watch the audience in those two videos.
Except for the two guys talking, everybody else seems to be sleeping, or hynnotized. I presume the people sitting there are either involved, or reporters, or otherwise interested in the matter, but they don't seem to react at all.
No wonder most people don't give a f***.
But then again, almost everybody who would ever want an mp3 player has one by now. Putting it that way, it's probably more difficult to enter an already saturated market.
The whole thing reminds me of the XBox: MS didn't sell many units at first, and we were laughing at them. But now, the XBox360 is already outselling the Wee and the Playstation3 (although not the PS2).
That's exactly how the Swiss army works. Every 20-year old serves one year and then keeps his rifle at home, including ammunition. Every year, each one has to go to the shooting stand and fire a couple of bullets. At around 40, when they are finally discharched, one can choose to keep the gun or return it. There is no such thing as a 2nd ammendment.
Since Switzerland has no standing army, the idea here is that, in case of a mobilization, the soldiers are already armed. Whether this still makes sense or not is an ongoing debate.
Have a look at the main site, especially the animated nerd.gif with the tile "Looking for Some URANIUM? Click Here". I seriously hope this whole site is a joke, I wouldn't want to have such guys produce & sell radioactive material.
True, but irrelevant. The queue's lookup/insertion time should be negligible compared to the time required to connect to the sites, download, and parse the content.
Before your queue will get big enough for lookup/insertion time to become an issue, you'll first have to worry about bigger harddisks and more bandwith.
consider that they don't even have to have a guy sitting in over the new years...it shouldn't be too hard to set the date to Dec 30 on a normal Monday morning and watch the transition the next day.
So that's why Europeans are so much smarter than we in the United States...doh!
Well, as long as the US consume more energy than China and India together (not to speak of per capita energy consumption) this makes perfect sense to me.
it's German, "Jews, get out [of our country]"
Dude, next time use 'dd' to backup a broken filesystem you might want to restore 1:1.
From TFA: The governments have yet to agree on who would pay for a clean up, according to a U.S. embassy spokesman in Spain.
Since 1966, the United States has helped pay for Palomares residents to be checked for signs of radiation poisoning.
Well, at least they are still talking about it. Even though I generally disagree with US foreign policy, in this case, it seems that there's not (yet) much to complain about.
Spoken like a true Korean? Just as long as they won't be attacking me, I don't care what they do.
Do you know that most South Koreans think of only one Korea? "Our country" refers to the whole peninsula, not just the south. The daily weather report on TV, for example, includes both countries, not only South Korea. It seems you have no idea what you're taking about.
Hoping that the U.S. will not bomb North Korea doesn't mean I do not care. You know, there are better means to end this conflict than military ones.
So actually, you're the one that cares about no one but yourself, cares not about what is right and what is wrong, but what is best for you and you alone. I hope you're the next person abducted and taken to the 'workers paradise'. Perhaps you'll find yourself in a concentration camp soon enough.
Thanks.
US either better bomb this guy back to the Stone Age, or else be prepared to have nukes floating all around the world.
Speaken like a true American. Wage wars, but plz not at home. Why care about collatoral damage, as long as it is so far away?
I happen to work in Seoul right now, and I'm actually more afraid of Bush & his friends than North Korea. NK will not attack the South unprovoked because even their nutcase of a dictator knows that such an act will certainly end his reign. However, if you provoke him and lead him to believe he's about to be invaded/bombed/..., he might actually be tempted to send a couple of missiles down to Seoul, just to prove that NK is dangerous.
I hope that the U.S. and Japan won't push it too far.
Don't underestimate the importance of the restroom experience. How about this:
...
...
...
-a penile/scrotal 'cupholder' (hate when 'it' touches the cold porcelain)
-negative-pressure air exhaust for the toiletbowl (why do I have to smell it?)
Conclusion: 'it' smells
That's ridiculous. They put a satellite up in orbit to broadcast this information to the whole globe. What do they have to lose by letting people use it? It's not like somebody could break their service just by listening to it.
You're right, it can't be broken. Maybe they don't want to get sued during the test phase by some guy who drove his car in a trench because he was feeding his navigator with the Galileo signal.
I disagree. It's not so much the equipment and training, but the content and length of the discussion.
If you exchange only military-style, short informational messages by cell phone the impact on your driving would probably not that big. However, listening to your friend complaining about his boss for like 30 minutes is going to be a problem. Not only will you encounter some situations that require undiverted attention to the situation on the road, but simple 'X, where are you now? Over' - 'I'm in Y. Over' conversations do not require as much attention.
I've never needed to miss a day off work yet, and I'm still vigorously healthy! But that's not because of any shirker reason like holidays, but because I eat correctly for the human body I have, which is to eat vegetarian.
Don't think what's right for you is right for everybody.
I know you'll shake your head at it like everybody does, but the typical vegetarian gets no cancer, never gets influenza (yes your flu last year could be avoided if you dumped meat) and will never have the depression, bowel disease, heart problems and overweight that inflict meat eaters!
My mom's cousin has been a vegetarian since childhood. She died two years ago of breast cancer.
He was up there for "only" 6 months.
On the other hand, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko who had to be carried to a hospital was there for about a year. Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov even stayed for 439 days. I can't recall the name of the Russian guy returning to earth quite recently, but afair also he has been up there much longer than 6 months.
Could it be that the effect is getting worse with time?