The practice of SWATting needs to stop immediately. SWAT raids are very tense for all parties involved and they can go wrong in a hurry. One of these days an innocent person is going to end up dead because of this practice. The prosecutors need to go after this guy, get him the maximum sentence for all of his many crimes, and broadcast his prison rapes so that no one ever thinks of doing something like this again.
What makes you think that being raped in prison makes you a better person who will not behave like an anti-social idiot anymore? Or that seeing this happen makes others better?
This kind of response really is as part of the problem as what this guy was doing. The US is turning more and more into a failed state it seems.
This is all a punk move, what this idiot needs is about 3 years of labour camp, so that he'd at least repay some of the damage and 10 minutes of flogging on monthly basis, so that what could not be peacefully inserted into his brain would be painfully inserted into his back.
Well, the Internet is better and do you know why? Because it's not a product but build on open standards like HTTP.
The question is not what product is a replacement for Google Reader, but how we can manage to not rely on products anymore but on a standard for what it does. And then have hundreds of servers and clients implementing that standard to chose from and have them compete for greatness. Like, you know, on the Internet.
God, what have we come to. First we let Google soak up all the market for such services, then we look at Google either throwing their products away or cutting off support for standards (like ActiveSync or CalDAV) and what do we do? We look for OTHER proprietary products to be herded into a corral by. A smaller one, granted. And then another smaller one. And then the butcher comes.
Have fun in there, it's surely nice and warm and there is comfort in numbers, right? RIGHT?
I've turned around and now go for the plains instead.
The problem is that at 7" with a comfortable font size and sane margins you can't have more than one column of text, which is a severe limitation for all kinds of things layout-wise.
You may not care, but everyone who has done any publishing knows very well that one column isn't going places. It makes boring, one-dimensional, linear reading, which is good for some things and totally not enough for others. Magazines and newspapers require a bit more breathing room and not just a linear chain of paragraphs.
And I say this as someone who doesn't even own an iPad.
I mean, if you buy a "subsidized" phone and agree on a contract for two years or so, with monthly payments you have to pay if you use their network or not, what do they gain by not allowing you to unlock it and use it with another carrier (and pay for this also)? You're still paying them anyway.
This is economically stupid though. Office is about half of MS in terms of profit. Damaging their Office business just to support selling Surface (which seem to not sell that good anyway) would be totally silly. And for Windows the writing is on the wall anyway. They won't ever get back into those good old 95% of the market times.
MS should have come with MS Office for Android and iOS long ago. THIS market still is solidly in their hands.
Not likely. DA14 is a few hours away and moving very fast... which means that it's still very far away.
If the basic orbit is similar, this is not only possible but probable. Could well be that DA14 is just the largest part of something that has broken up much earlier and there are smaller pieces that have spread apart in all directions quite a bit now.
The problem is not in the decision making process, but in the fact finding process. THIS is the part computers and software are still very, very poor at.
It's just totally follows logically to think through what you could get if you would exploit just everything that people allow to leak online if you don't have to even LOOK as if you're caring for privacy or anything.
Seriously, it would be strange if something like that wouldn't exist. And of course as always YOU just need to be more cunning than THEM.
It wouldn't hurt anyway. Seriously though. They had better either do something remarkable or have some great features. For example, I'd pay good money for a phone with a physical scrolling wheel. Ditto for sound. Or an On/Off switch that didn't make you wait for the computer to contemplate its navel would be worth something too. Sometimes you can't beat physical controls. Nobody has yet done scrolling right and you always end up clicking something you wish you hadn't.
Yeah I've seen the papers on it. However, I think it would have been useful for two reasons. First, we could have experimented with on orbit construction techniques (it's not like half the crap the shuttle did was economically worthwhile anyway) and they could had saved up a bunch of conveniently available tanks for future use once we either figured out how to cheaply convert them into habitats, for reuse as fuel storage (LH2 would boil off, but there's always use for LOX), or just as aluminum feedstock for some sort of processing equipment to make girders or something needed for other projects.
Those tanks wouldn't stay in orbit for very long. You'd need to boost them fairly often. Which means fuel, engines, power, orientation engines -- you'd basically need to make full spacecrafts out of them first. Also the foam insulation breaks up rapidly in the space environment and becomes nice swarms of fast moving debris which would add to all the other stuff threatening spacecrafts already. The tanks are also thin and have no protection against being damaged so that they are a fine source of even more debris.
In short: It's just a bad idea. A tank is not a space station or even a useful resource of raw materials to keep.
Depends on what you mean with "editing" video. If this means cutting and putting pieces together: This is very easy on the hardware. Especially if you have a fast HD/flash.
If you mean actually editing the content of the frames, not so much. But cutting videos into pieces and putting them together again and putting something in between etc. this is dirt-cheap in terms of hardware requirements. Surely most halfway decent smartphones or tablets are totally capable of that (having your flash in form of SD cards certainly doesn't help here though, writing things there is extremely slow).
Now, there is one advantage to space mining : no one has legal claims that can be enforced on any of those celestial bodies.
Actually, there is another advantage to space mining: It is IN SPACE. Value of a kg of aluminum on Earth's surface: $3. Value of a kg of aluminum in NEO: $10000.
Only if you can find a customer for that. And it may be that the customer doesn't want to buy raw aluminum, but fuel tanks and pressure vessels. OUTFITTED and tested fuel tanks and pressure vessels. These may be worth $10000/kg, but good luck producing them for this kind of money there. You'll need much more than raw metal and 3D printers for that, you'll need an actual aerospace factory in space.
Besides: There isn't much aluminum to be found on asteroids.
Isn't this just like saying "Shooting someone in the face is the best way to win an argument"? Or like saying "People can be violent assholes, so being the most violent asshole is the pinnacle of civilisation"?
The point is that space is hard. Really hard. And destroying is much cheaper than building. So to even to begin going there and spending money you have to agree to agree and to stick to regulations and contracts even if nobody can enforce them (or only in a way that is very final and destroys everything you went there to begin with). I know that this is really hard to do, very much like not just hitting or killing someone who doesn't stop to have his own interests. But this is the only way to get things done without spending ourselves into the stone age and in real life we do it this way most of the time anyway.
For a really long time now in human civilization violence has been the exception, not the rule. And a great lot of things that are happening every day is NOT backed by the threat of violence but by mutual agreement that coming to terms is a really cheap, easy and enjoyable way to get enough of what you want that you can be happy with it even if you're not getting everything. It's just a habit, very much like violence or threatening with violence can become a habit. An expensive habit, usually.
I think that us becoming a space-fairing civilisation will be just a phantasy as long as we don't kick that habit. Call me a pacifist freak if you want (I surely am). Come to terms and STICK TO THEM even if your opponent is a weakling who can't do shit to you.
A right that is not in some way backed up by physical force simply doesn't exist: You can whine all you want about your 'right' to property, but it won't do you one bit of good if there isn't ultimately the threat of violence to back it up.
Yes, this is the way of the Chimpanzee.
Of course there is another way: Just agree on terms and regulations and stick to them by choice. This is the civilized way. Putting 'rights' and 'regulations' and 'contracts' into quotes and calling insisting in sticking to them 'whining' is just... uncivilized. I'm very, very sure that we will either go to space in a civilized way or not at all. Just because, as you very well know, destroying is so much cheaper than building, especially in space. The threat of violence in space will just ensure that nobody will go to begin with.
(Basically I believe that this is the case even here on the ground and most of everyday living is based on accepting that. If you're not just living in phantasy and movies you should have realized this by now.)
Whoever goes there and brings the most guns owns it.
I think if it's going to happen this way it won't happen at all. Everything you're doing there is extremely expensive anyway and having to defend it is going to make it so much more expensive that nobody will bother with it to begin with.
Either we will find better and more civilized ways to manage that or we will just sit here on this rock forever. And we will deserve it then, in my opinion.
"Chrome for iOS has some pretty major technical restrictions imposed by the App Store, such as the requirement to use the built-in UIWebView for rendering, no V8, and a single-process model," explained Google engineer Mike Pinkerton
Ironically Chrome on my iPhone still works better than Chrome on my Nexus 7, where it is buggy as hell (just try to edit HTML text areas with it).
Just make it a law that nuclear waste may not pass state borders and has to be processed and dumped in the same state where it was produced (and have someone there pay for it).
It competes with ultrabooks. Unfortunately, it doesn't compare all that favourably to ultrabooks either (about the same price, same weight, smaller screen, no keyboard included), and stealing sales from Wintel ultrabooks doesn't really help Microsoft or Intel.
Yeah, it's a tablet that actually is a laptop that you can't use on your lap and is delivered without a keyboard anyway. Basically it's just an expensive PC that tries hard to look like a tablet. Because tablets are hot right now. So MS thinks that selling a bad tablet that also is a bad ultrabook must sell like hot cakes, because everybody badly wants the "full PC experience" everywhere.
Some people will love that thing, most won't care at all.
I think what MS will never understand is the simple fact that most people just hate PCs.
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There's a good detailed article at Ars about that which is a better read than what /. offers (as so often, sadly)
The practice of SWATting needs to stop immediately. SWAT raids are very tense for all parties involved and they can go wrong in a hurry. One of these days an innocent person is going to end up dead because of this practice. The prosecutors need to go after this guy, get him the maximum sentence for all of his many crimes, and broadcast his prison rapes so that no one ever thinks of doing something like this again.
What makes you think that being raped in prison makes you a better person who will not behave like an anti-social idiot anymore? Or that seeing this happen makes others better?
This kind of response really is as part of the problem as what this guy was doing. The US is turning more and more into a failed state it seems.
This is all a punk move, what this idiot needs is about 3 years of labour camp, so that he'd at least repay some of the damage and 10 minutes of flogging on monthly basis, so that what could not be peacefully inserted into his brain would be painfully inserted into his back.
What he actually needs is an education and a job.
Well, the Internet is better and do you know why? Because it's not a product but build on open standards like HTTP.
The question is not what product is a replacement for Google Reader, but how we can manage to not rely on products anymore but on a standard for what it does. And then have hundreds of servers and clients implementing that standard to chose from and have them compete for greatness. Like, you know, on the Internet.
God, what have we come to. First we let Google soak up all the market for such services, then we look at Google either throwing their products away or cutting off support for standards (like ActiveSync or CalDAV) and what do we do? We look for OTHER proprietary products to be herded into a corral by. A smaller one, granted. And then another smaller one. And then the butcher comes.
Have fun in there, it's surely nice and warm and there is comfort in numbers, right? RIGHT?
I've turned around and now go for the plains instead.
This mission was fixed years ago, there was no Raspberry Pi back then.
The problem is that at 7" with a comfortable font size and sane margins you can't have more than one column of text, which is a severe limitation for all kinds of things layout-wise.
You may not care, but everyone who has done any publishing knows very well that one column isn't going places. It makes boring, one-dimensional, linear reading, which is good for some things and totally not enough for others. Magazines and newspapers require a bit more breathing room and not just a linear chain of paragraphs.
And I say this as someone who doesn't even own an iPad.
I mean, if you buy a "subsidized" phone and agree on a contract for two years or so, with monthly payments you have to pay if you use their network or not, what do they gain by not allowing you to unlock it and use it with another carrier (and pay for this also)? You're still paying them anyway.
This is economically stupid though. Office is about half of MS in terms of profit. Damaging their Office business just to support selling Surface (which seem to not sell that good anyway) would be totally silly. And for Windows the writing is on the wall anyway. They won't ever get back into those good old 95% of the market times.
MS should have come with MS Office for Android and iOS long ago. THIS market still is solidly in their hands.
Not likely. DA14 is a few hours away and moving very fast... which means that it's still very far away.
If the basic orbit is similar, this is not only possible but probable. Could well be that DA14 is just the largest part of something that has broken up much earlier and there are smaller pieces that have spread apart in all directions quite a bit now.
The problem is not in the decision making process, but in the fact finding process. THIS is the part computers and software are still very, very poor at.
It's just totally follows logically to think through what you could get if you would exploit just everything that people allow to leak online if you don't have to even LOOK as if you're caring for privacy or anything.
Seriously, it would be strange if something like that wouldn't exist. And of course as always YOU just need to be more cunning than THEM.
It wouldn't hurt anyway. Seriously though. They had better either do something remarkable or have some great features. For example, I'd pay good money for a phone with a physical scrolling wheel. Ditto for sound. Or an On/Off switch that didn't make you wait for the computer to contemplate its navel would be worth something too. Sometimes you can't beat physical controls. Nobody has yet done scrolling right and you always end up clicking something you wish you hadn't.
What? No.
Yeah I've seen the papers on it. However, I think it would have been useful for two reasons. First, we could have experimented with on orbit construction techniques (it's not like half the crap the shuttle did was economically worthwhile anyway) and they could had saved up a bunch of conveniently available tanks for future use once we either figured out how to cheaply convert them into habitats, for reuse as fuel storage (LH2 would boil off, but there's always use for LOX), or just as aluminum feedstock for some sort of processing equipment to make girders or something needed for other projects.
Those tanks wouldn't stay in orbit for very long. You'd need to boost them fairly often. Which means fuel, engines, power, orientation engines -- you'd basically need to make full spacecrafts out of them first. Also the foam insulation breaks up rapidly in the space environment and becomes nice swarms of fast moving debris which would add to all the other stuff threatening spacecrafts already. The tanks are also thin and have no protection against being damaged so that they are a fine source of even more debris.
In short: It's just a bad idea. A tank is not a space station or even a useful resource of raw materials to keep.
Depends on what you mean with "editing" video. If this means cutting and putting pieces together: This is very easy on the hardware. Especially if you have a fast HD/flash.
If you mean actually editing the content of the frames, not so much. But cutting videos into pieces and putting them together again and putting something in between etc. this is dirt-cheap in terms of hardware requirements. Surely most halfway decent smartphones or tablets are totally capable of that (having your flash in form of SD cards certainly doesn't help here though, writing things there is extremely slow).
Now, there is one advantage to space mining : no one has legal claims that can be enforced on any of those celestial bodies.
Actually, there is another advantage to space mining: It is IN SPACE.
Value of a kg of aluminum on Earth's surface: $3.
Value of a kg of aluminum in NEO: $10000.
Only if you can find a customer for that. And it may be that the customer doesn't want to buy raw aluminum, but fuel tanks and pressure vessels. OUTFITTED and tested fuel tanks and pressure vessels. These may be worth $10000/kg, but good luck producing them for this kind of money there. You'll need much more than raw metal and 3D printers for that, you'll need an actual aerospace factory in space.
Besides: There isn't much aluminum to be found on asteroids.
We've owned it since we stuck our flag in it. If you don't think that's legally binding, talk to Christopher Columbus about it.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Columbus_Taking_Possession.jpg
Hmm, I think the Soviet Union first got their insignia on the moon with Luna 2 in 1959.
What now?
Isn't this just like saying "Shooting someone in the face is the best way to win an argument"? Or like saying "People can be violent assholes, so being the most violent asshole is the pinnacle of civilisation"?
The point is that space is hard. Really hard. And destroying is much cheaper than building. So to even to begin going there and spending money you have to agree to agree and to stick to regulations and contracts even if nobody can enforce them (or only in a way that is very final and destroys everything you went there to begin with). I know that this is really hard to do, very much like not just hitting or killing someone who doesn't stop to have his own interests. But this is the only way to get things done without spending ourselves into the stone age and in real life we do it this way most of the time anyway.
For a really long time now in human civilization violence has been the exception, not the rule. And a great lot of things that are happening every day is NOT backed by the threat of violence but by mutual agreement that coming to terms is a really cheap, easy and enjoyable way to get enough of what you want that you can be happy with it even if you're not getting everything. It's just a habit, very much like violence or threatening with violence can become a habit. An expensive habit, usually.
I think that us becoming a space-fairing civilisation will be just a phantasy as long as we don't kick that habit. Call me a pacifist freak if you want (I surely am). Come to terms and STICK TO THEM even if your opponent is a weakling who can't do shit to you.
A right that is not in some way backed up by physical force simply doesn't exist: You can whine all you want about your 'right' to property, but it won't do you one bit of good if there isn't ultimately the threat of violence to back it up.
Yes, this is the way of the Chimpanzee.
Of course there is another way: Just agree on terms and regulations and stick to them by choice. This is the civilized way. Putting 'rights' and 'regulations' and 'contracts' into quotes and calling insisting in sticking to them 'whining' is just... uncivilized. I'm very, very sure that we will either go to space in a civilized way or not at all. Just because, as you very well know, destroying is so much cheaper than building, especially in space. The threat of violence in space will just ensure that nobody will go to begin with.
(Basically I believe that this is the case even here on the ground and most of everyday living is based on accepting that. If you're not just living in phantasy and movies you should have realized this by now.)
In short: "Pacta sunt servanda."
Whoever goes there and brings the most guns owns it.
I think if it's going to happen this way it won't happen at all. Everything you're doing there is extremely expensive anyway and having to defend it is going to make it so much more expensive that nobody will bother with it to begin with.
Either we will find better and more civilized ways to manage that or we will just sit here on this rock forever. And we will deserve it then, in my opinion.
Exactly.
As other posters have pointed out these things are almost always planned. A guy in China stabbed twenty some people the very same day.
Not a single one of these twenty people died, though.
From a few posts down:
"Chrome for iOS has some pretty major technical restrictions imposed by the App Store, such as the requirement to use the built-in UIWebView for rendering, no V8, and a single-process model," explained Google engineer Mike Pinkerton
Ironically Chrome on my iPhone still works better than Chrome on my Nexus 7, where it is buggy as hell (just try to edit HTML text areas with it).
Just make it a law that nuclear waste may not pass state borders and has to be processed and dumped in the same state where it was produced (and have someone there pay for it).
Yeah, and people desperately WANT Tablet PCs, this is the reason Tablet PCs were such a hit since about 2000. Wait...
It competes with ultrabooks. Unfortunately, it doesn't compare all that favourably to ultrabooks either (about the same price, same weight, smaller screen, no keyboard included), and stealing sales from Wintel ultrabooks doesn't really help Microsoft or Intel.
Yeah, it's a tablet that actually is a laptop that you can't use on your lap and is delivered without a keyboard anyway. Basically it's just an expensive PC that tries hard to look like a tablet. Because tablets are hot right now. So MS thinks that selling a bad tablet that also is a bad ultrabook must sell like hot cakes, because everybody badly wants the "full PC experience" everywhere.
Some people will love that thing, most won't care at all.
I think what MS will never understand is the simple fact that most people just hate PCs.