"All true, but it doesn't make it less scary. Children will be used to design weapons." So what you are saying is that that the post that I replied too was in fact completely invalid and while everything I stated was in fact the truth it just doesn't matter.
"Children will be used to design weapons." No they will not. This is a DARPA program. The "kids" will not be tasked with designing weapons. They will not be given projects like "Build a robot that can shoot 10 people but not hit friendlies". Get real this will be a basic science project kind of program. They will be given project like, create a robot that can travel through sand, gravel, and mud. You are the one living in fantasyland not I. You are so blinded you dismiss pure manipulation when you see it because you happen to believe in the goal. Look at your own reply. You said that I was 100% correct and factual but that didn't matter and throw you some vague emotional attack at me. Really, have critical thinking skills completely disappeared?
"Conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into the national armed forces or using them to participate actively in hostilities" is a war crime."
They are not conscripted into the armed forces so that is not valid. They are not enlisted into the armed services so that isn't valid. They are not participating actively in hostilities. I also didn't see any ages in the link so they may even be targeting this program more to high school so the under 15 years of age might not come into it. In other words you are complete wrong and proven so by the reference that you have provided. This is no different than teaching children math, science, first aid, or frankly even PE. A groundless inflammatory reply to a groundless inflammatory story. The new Slashdot marches on. Next on Slashdot how Romney and the Mormons are part of the Illuminate and how right wing elements in the government are holding president Obama's children hostage to keep him from making real changes!
That is just it we do kind of know. Chemistry is the same everywhere. Take your idea about liquid hydrogen and liquid methane for example. Anyplace that is cold enough for those to exist are probably too cold for life. Life need energy and anyplace that cold will be by definition be energy poor. Venus is probably too hot. Again it comes down to chemistry. They type of reactions that are needed for what we call life just will not work at heat because molecules like proteins well just fall apart on in this case too much energy. Please notice I said "probably" life can be surprising but the idea that anything like a scorpion would live on Venus is way out their at the far edge of highly improbable. A shadow and the human minds great talent at finding patterns when when their is none to find is just way more likely.
I find it more interesting that an astronomer is making the claim than say a biologist. It does seem very unlikely that a complex life from like a scorpion would live on Venus. If they do then it will be huge but the odds are really high that it is just an error.
If you happen to value Slashdot's political posts and agenda then good for you. Great but Slashdot as I have said DOES give me the option to turn off Politics on my homepage. Do you not agree that this story is 99% politics and very little technology? What I do not like is when people try to diminish my choice and by saying things like "You should be responsible and be politically involved". I do not want to see slashdot's political stories on my front page, Slashdot allows me to decide what I want to see on my front page, and in this case and many others I feel that the editors have shown a lack of respect when it comes to those choices.
Ahhh you are nuts. 10 years ago you have Netscape and IE and they both had very different implementations of HTML/javascript and 10 years ago was when you saw this evil on many websites. "This site best viewed in IE..."
sigh... No you are wrong. First of all I do engage in politics just not on Slashdot. Frankly Slashdot has no journalistic standards when it comes to politics. I would suggest NPR, CNN, NyTimes and Washington Post if you want to get good political news. When it comes to tech the discussions on slashdot are very good. The discussion on politics on slashdot are as bad as the comments on tech stories on CNN. And second of all. No not everything has to do with politics. Today on slashdot way too many stores do have at least a little politics in them but a new chip being announced the Rasberry Pi going into production "except for the bit about taxes and why they couldn't build it in the UK". and the QI screen are not about politics. And If you say I just "cherry picked" my examples.. Well you make the all inclusive which takes but a single counter example to invalidate.
AND FREAK SLASHDOT GAVE ME THE OPTION OF PICKING NOT TO SEE POLITICS ON MY SLASHDOT FRONTPAGE! THEY SHOULD BLODDY WELL RESPECT THAT!
Dude I have been hand coding HTML since you pretty much had no other option. However when working one a simple page it is sometimes nice to just throw it into a WYSIWYG editor and do the layout or simple form. I have never used dreamweaver myself but I know of people that do and find it a useful tool. Again I tend to use HTML-Toolkit or Notepad++ because I often need to tweak code by hand. The fact that I have never had the time to sit down and learn dreamweaver does not make it a bad tool.
In other words it could have been. An honest mistake. Of course what really bugs me about all of this is that when people talke about the 3 strikes law I hear people say time and time again... IP addresses are not identity. IP addresses can be spoofed as can mac addresses.
No you said "Big Block" loving americans. Big block has a very specific meaning. In the GM, Chrysler, and Ford have all had in the past divided V8 into two classes. The small block and the big block. For instance the small block Chevy started at 260 ci "283" was the famous early small block or about 4.6 liters. The Big block motor started at 409 and for the Mark IV 396. Both grew over time and eventually over lapped but Bigblock has a very specific meaning in US car engines and the 3.7 isn't it.
Second the F-150 isn't a car it is a truck. The best selling car in the US I think is the Toyota Camry. Which I think starts with a 2.5 liter engine. Simple facts are that in the US fuel is cheap compared to Europe distances are larger.I live in the state of Florida and the distance from the two most distant points in Florida is greater than most countries in Europe. And yes I hear that you take trains every where but when I was in the UK I saw a lot of cars in London and why then do the chunnel trains carry autos? As to low compression ratios well not that low the new LS7 in the corvette has an almost 11 to 1. Also the size of the engine does not always directly reflect mileage. Take the US Corvette vs a 911. They are about equal in performance depending on the model you pick but the Corvette with it's massive engine actually gets better mileage than the 911 while being just about as fast and just about as nimble.
And if you take a look at some of the small US made cars you will now find small 2.0 liter or less motors with direct injection getting 40+ miles per US gallon. Or about 48 miles to imperial gallon on 3 dollar a gallon low octane fuel. Now if you like at miles per money spend a Chevy Sonic or Ford Focus in the US gets really great miles per wealth spent. The new F150 truck gets 17/23 so if you are looking at the miles per wealth it probably isn't that bad compared to the high cost of fuel in the EU. BTW I am from the US and live here and I own... A hatch back with a 2.5 liter i4 motor.
Really? I use HTML toolkit for raw HTML editing but notepad++ is also good but he is not asking for that. He wants a dreamweaver replacement. I would like one as well. Sometimes fast beats hand codeing everything. And you always have an option to put it in your editor and edit it.
Not exactly. The best point of the torque curve is at the RPM at WOT!. It also requires the highest octane rating because that will be the point of maximum pressure. So E85 would be at it's best their just as Gasoline would be. It just would produce more torque and more HP at that point for a given displacement.
And that isn't politics? As I said if you want to read that fine but this is a politics story and was mis placed by Slashdot as a technology story. What is really silly is that the morality of "killing at a distance" is an argument that is as old at time. It is no different now than when they discussed the use of Submarines, bombers and Zeppelins in 1914-1918 or bombers, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles in 1939-1945. Same as it ever was.
Please I have the politics section not on my frontpage for a reason. Hey if you really want to read slashdot's political stories that is fine but does anyone here really believe that this belongs under "technology" and not Politics? Really?
But it has a higher octane rating. If you didn't have to have the "flex fuel" option then you could get better milage out of E85. Cars could run higher compression ratios and more spark advance. You could get very close or higher mileage out of E85 than Gasoline then... Oh and no breaking or bending of the laws of thermodynamics required. With the current compromise flex fuel set up you are correct.
yea it has a very Eurocentric feel too it. Since the British empire broke up and still is. The US must break up as well. The rest of it was so much ehhh.
You feel threatened by some people so you hate all that fall in that grouping... So how is that different than hating all people with a certain color skin because someone with that color skin beat you up once? Wow you attack people because you feel threatened by them for some nebulas reason. So hating all atheists because several governments that proclaimed atheism killed millions of people and at least one still is makes sense as well? Your bigotry is showing.
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"All true, but it doesn't make it less scary. Children will be used to design weapons."
So what you are saying is that that the post that I replied too was in fact completely invalid and while everything I stated was in fact the truth it just doesn't matter.
"Children will be used to design weapons."
No they will not. This is a DARPA program. The "kids" will not be tasked with designing weapons. They will not be given projects like "Build a robot that can shoot 10 people but not hit friendlies". Get real this will be a basic science project kind of program. They will be given project like, create a robot that can travel through sand, gravel, and mud.
You are the one living in fantasyland not I. You are so blinded you dismiss pure manipulation when you see it because you happen to believe in the goal.
Look at your own reply. You said that I was 100% correct and factual but that didn't matter and throw you some vague emotional attack at me.
Really, have critical thinking skills completely disappeared?
"Conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into the national armed forces or using them to participate actively in hostilities" is a war crime."
They are not conscripted into the armed forces so that is not valid.
They are not enlisted into the armed services so that isn't valid.
They are not participating actively in hostilities.
I also didn't see any ages in the link so they may even be targeting this program more to high school so the under 15 years of age might not come into it.
In other words you are complete wrong and proven so by the reference that you have provided. This is no different than teaching children math, science, first aid, or frankly even PE.
A groundless inflammatory reply to a groundless inflammatory story. The new Slashdot marches on.
Next on Slashdot how Romney and the Mormons are part of the Illuminate and how right wing elements in the government are holding president Obama's children hostage to keep him from making real changes!
"It's because we don't have a mechanism to punish or ban people who vote up stories like this."
You mean like the editors?
That is just it we do kind of know.
Chemistry is the same everywhere. Take your idea about liquid hydrogen and liquid methane for example. Anyplace that is cold enough for those to exist are probably too cold for life. Life need energy and anyplace that cold will be by definition be energy poor.
Venus is probably too hot. Again it comes down to chemistry. They type of reactions that are needed for what we call life just will not work at heat because molecules like proteins well just fall apart on in this case too much energy.
Please notice I said "probably" life can be surprising but the idea that anything like a scorpion would live on Venus is way out their at the far edge of highly improbable. A shadow and the human minds great talent at finding patterns when when their is none to find is just way more likely.
I find it more interesting that an astronomer is making the claim than say a biologist.
It does seem very unlikely that a complex life from like a scorpion would live on Venus. If they do then it will be huge but the odds are really high that it is just an error.
Trucks not cars. The last big block cars I think was around 1980 or so for the Tran Am 455
If you happen to value Slashdot's political posts and agenda then good for you. Great but Slashdot as I have said DOES give me the option to turn off Politics on my homepage. Do you not agree that this story is 99% politics and very little technology?
What I do not like is when people try to diminish my choice and by saying things like "You should be responsible and be politically involved".
I do not want to see slashdot's political stories on my front page, Slashdot allows me to decide what I want to see on my front page, and in this case and many others I feel that the editors have shown a lack of respect when it comes to those choices.
Okay how about Kompozer and Bluefish
http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html
and http://kompozer.net/
Ahhh you are nuts.
10 years ago you have Netscape and IE and they both had very different implementations of HTML/javascript and 10 years ago was when you saw this evil on many websites.
"This site best viewed in IE..."
I agree with but since no one seemed to have any answers for this person...
I have not used these but they seem to be options a Dreamweaver replacement.
NVU http://net2.com/nvu/
Quanta Plus http://freecode.com/projects/quantaplus
Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Blue Griffon http://bluegriffon.org/
Hope this helps the original poster.
Oh and if you just want free as in beer.
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express
I have used any of them but out of this is you will probably find something that will fill the bill.
sigh... No you are wrong.
First of all I do engage in politics just not on Slashdot. Frankly Slashdot has no journalistic standards when it comes to politics. I would suggest NPR, CNN, NyTimes and Washington Post if you want to get good political news.
When it comes to tech the discussions on slashdot are very good. The discussion on politics on slashdot are as bad as the comments on tech stories on CNN.
And second of all.
No not everything has to do with politics.
Today on slashdot way too many stores do have at least a little politics in them but a new chip being announced the Rasberry Pi going into production "except for the bit about taxes and why they couldn't build it in the UK". and the QI screen are not about politics.
And If you say I just "cherry picked" my examples.. Well you make the all inclusive which takes but a single counter example to invalidate.
AND FREAK SLASHDOT GAVE ME THE OPTION OF PICKING NOT TO SEE POLITICS ON MY SLASHDOT FRONTPAGE! THEY SHOULD BLODDY WELL RESPECT THAT!
Dude I have been hand coding HTML since you pretty much had no other option.
However when working one a simple page it is sometimes nice to just throw it into a WYSIWYG editor and do the layout or simple form. I have never used dreamweaver myself but I know of people that do and find it a useful tool. Again I tend to use HTML-Toolkit or Notepad++ because I often need to tweak code by hand. The fact that I have never had the time to sit down and learn dreamweaver does not make it a bad tool.
In other words it could have been.
An honest mistake.
Of course what really bugs me about all of this is that when people talke about the 3 strikes law I hear people say time and time again... IP addresses are not identity.
IP addresses can be spoofed as can mac addresses.
No you said "Big Block" loving americans.
Big block has a very specific meaning. In the GM, Chrysler, and Ford have all had in the past divided V8 into two classes.
The small block and the big block.
For instance the small block Chevy started at 260 ci "283" was the famous early small block or about 4.6 liters. The Big block motor started at 409 and for the Mark IV 396.
Both grew over time and eventually over lapped but Bigblock has a very specific meaning in US car engines and the 3.7 isn't it.
Second the F-150 isn't a car it is a truck. The best selling car in the US I think is the Toyota Camry. Which I think starts with a 2.5 liter engine. Simple facts are that in the US fuel is cheap compared to Europe distances are larger.I live in the state of Florida and the distance from the two most distant points in Florida is greater than most countries in Europe. And yes I hear that you take trains every where but when I was in the UK I saw a lot of cars in London and why then do the chunnel trains carry autos?
As to low compression ratios well not that low the new LS7 in the corvette has an almost 11 to 1.
Also the size of the engine does not always directly reflect mileage. Take the US Corvette vs a 911. They are about equal in performance depending on the model you pick but the Corvette with it's massive engine actually gets better mileage than the 911 while being just about as fast and just about as nimble.
And if you take a look at some of the small US made cars you will now find small 2.0 liter or less motors with direct injection getting 40+ miles per US gallon. Or about 48 miles to imperial gallon on 3 dollar a gallon low octane fuel. Now if you like at miles per money spend a Chevy Sonic or Ford Focus in the US gets really great miles per wealth spent. The new F150 truck gets 17/23 so if you are looking at the miles per wealth it probably isn't that bad compared to the high cost of fuel in the EU.
BTW I am from the US and live here and I own... A hatch back with a 2.5 liter i4 motor.
Really?
I use HTML toolkit for raw HTML editing but notepad++ is also good but he is not asking for that.
He wants a dreamweaver replacement. I would like one as well. Sometimes fast beats hand codeing everything. And you always have an option to put it in your editor and edit it.
Not exactly. The best point of the torque curve is at the RPM at WOT!.
It also requires the highest octane rating because that will be the point of maximum pressure.
So E85 would be at it's best their just as Gasoline would be. It just would produce more torque and more HP at that point for a given displacement.
Dude 1970 is calling you. Really big blocks have not been used in cars for about two decades in the US.
exactly. No need for a high pressure or cryo tank, Just a flex fuel setup with a high CR.
And that isn't politics?
As I said if you want to read that fine but this is a politics story and was mis placed by Slashdot as a technology story.
What is really silly is that the morality of "killing at a distance" is an argument that is as old at time. It is no different now than when they discussed the use of Submarines, bombers and Zeppelins in 1914-1918 or bombers, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles in 1939-1945.
Same as it ever was.
Please I have the politics section not on my frontpage for a reason. Hey if you really want to read slashdot's political stories that is fine but does anyone here really believe that this belongs under "technology" and not Politics?
Really?
It is 1979 all over again. Same will happen with Wind farms and solar as well...
But it has a higher octane rating.
If you didn't have to have the "flex fuel" option then you could get better milage out of E85. Cars could run higher compression ratios and more spark advance. You could get very close or higher mileage out of E85 than Gasoline then... Oh and no breaking or bending of the laws of thermodynamics required. With the current compromise flex fuel set up you are correct.
yea it has a very Eurocentric feel too it. Since the British empire broke up and still is. The US must break up as well.
The rest of it was so much ehhh.
You feel threatened by some people so you hate all that fall in that grouping... So how is that different than hating all people with a certain color skin because someone with that color skin beat you up once?
Wow you attack people because you feel threatened by them for some nebulas reason. So hating all atheists because several governments that proclaimed atheism killed millions of people and at least one still is makes sense as well?
Your bigotry is showing.
Hitler and Nazis in general where Pagan.