Surely the primary focus of "Exterrestrial Mining" would be to produce raw materials needed for space exploration and colonization, not just to bring it back to Earth in lieu of terrestrial sources?
we used to DREAM of using ed! In my day, we would have to pull the hard disk out of computer and arrange the bits by hand. Then Dad would come home, beat us with a stick, send us to bed without supper.
But if you try to tell that to these kids today... they won't believe you.
True fact. Loss of power in one engine should not cause a plane to crash in every case. However, having the engine separate from the airframe is a different situation from simple loss of power. It is reasonable to assume that there would be serious problems resulting from this kind of event: loss of blanace, structural damage to wing, fire in addition to loss of thrust.
Having an engine shut down is a pretty serious problem. Having one explode during takeoff is certainly much more serious and inevitably catastrophic.
yeah, but from what I understand, they are flying continuous CAP over Manhattan now anyway. Not sure that means that they were alerted somehow to some situation with the AA flight.
to reply to my own post, CNN has a different report now:
CNN confirmed the plane was American Airlines Flight 587 from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The plane was an Airbus A-300. American Airlines did not immediately release the number of passengers on the flight.
Because M$ wants to get a $$ differential between server and workstation versions of their OS. They deliberately cripple the workstation version so that it won't work very well in a server role.
>If WinXP cannot
I'm sure it can, once M$ releases the server version. I'm guessing that the major differences between the 'professional' and server versions like SMP support and the like are a matter of compile-time configuration when the binaries are make.
>obviously Linux must be superior
well, I'm not going to argue that conclusion, but for different reasons.;-)
You forgot to throw in some meaningless punctuation characters like "::" or a wierd misplaced accent or prefix with odd lower-case letters (e or i seem to be preferred).
I live in Illinois and I've been pretty unhappy about Ryan in general and his stance on favoring the Microsoft settlement in particular.
I've been calling his office since news of the deal broke to express my dissatisfaction with the terms and to ask him to oppose it. I've gotten nowhere by phone, I've sent a letter, but there is also a link on his website to send 'email'.
http://www.ag.state.il.us/abouttheoffice/ag_emai l. htm
I didn't think the point here was to deliver a punishment (regardless of how richly they obviously deserve one), or even damages to the companies they've hurt or put out of business.
I thought what's being sought is a remedy to fix this going forward.
I'm not an expert on anti-trust law, but I don't think that AT&T or Microsoft get hacked up as a sort of corporate death penalty. The aim should be to counteract the skewed market where a monopoly exists and has been abused, no?
Replying to my own post, sorry - but I've seen additional info about this now.
Eight security agents, including the supervisor, were suspended. I heard on the radio this morning that two were actually fired, although I can't find that online anywhere. Security is farmed out by United to Argenbright Security Inc.
"Effective today, any individual who has a suspicious item confiscated by security personnel... will automatically have their carry-on bags searched as well by Argenbright personnel," Bill Barbour, president of the company, said in a statement.
Gurung was re-arrested yesterday (Monday) when he returned to claim his checked bag. His bag had gone on without him to Nebraska and back and the FBI charged him with a felony (two *additional* long-blade knives were found in his checked bag).
The two knives previously taken by security were pocket knives he had in his parka as he wen through the metal detector. Apparently they didn't search his carry-on at all because the knives, stungun and can of pepper spray/teargas were not 'detected' by the x-ray.
The felony charges against him carry a max 10 years and $250,000.
>how exactly does this reflect badly on the overall security level
Well, first off if they only found 2 of 9 knives, I'd say they were at best sloppy. If you are security and you discover two knives in a person's carry-on, why would you just take those away and let them walk on into the terminal? Wouldn't you probably expect a more thorough search and interrogation of this individual after such a discovery?
>you also seem to be implying that it wasn't mere coincidence
Have you seen this guy's picture? The words 'racial profiling' come to mind. My 'yeah right' wasn't meant to imply that security somehow caught up with this guy. I've seen these 'random' carry-on checks. It is strange how random chance never seems to fall on caucasian males over the age of 27.
My point is that the security staff I've encountered at O'Hare on an almost weekly basis often resemble welfare-to-work types who usually don't speak anything I'd call English and who appear to make little more than minimum wage.
By contrast, Sea-Tac, my usual destination, seems to have a much more professional security staff in place.
"Yes sir, Mr. Convention Director sir. We at fly-by-night security consulting and TV/VCR repair, Inc. have a fool-proof plan to provide heightened security measures for COMDEX!"
"Oh, good. Load off my mind."
"Don't you want to hear what it is?"
"Not really, no."
"Oh, well... I see. In that case, can you just sign right here?"
>Today at O'hare a man got through the checkpoint with 9 knives, a can of tear gas, and a stun gun.
That is so not true!
... he only got 7 knives through at the checkpoint. The crack security staff confiscated 2 from him. The other 7 and the stun gun and mace were discovered during a random (yeah, right) carry-on check.
Even better is the guy's claim that he accidentally left them in his bag and didn't mean to try to get them on the plane. Wouldn't the discovery of the first two jog your memory about the other 7?
I live near Chicago and get to experience the airport (United) security at O'Hare on a regular basis. I have no confidence at all that those people have the first clue what they are doing.
>There's so many interesting userspace Open Source projects we could be hearing about
almost afraid to ask, but...
have you tried submitting something? It's not like there is a finite limit to the number of articles that can be posted each day and an article on a new kernel version means there is one less article that can be posted on something else, no?
Kernel releases are news. Not earth-shattering news, but events that generate interest around here (for the most part, YMMV obviously).
>why not focus on the new and clever ones
Someone has to write something up and post it somewhere that can be slashdotted. It's not like/. developes its own content in the form of essays, editorials or the like. Think you need to go somewhere like linux journal for stuff more like that.
You know, that makes sense of how the "trailer" was placed right before the movie.
Usually, you get the all the previews, then they run "lets all go to the snack bar" or whatever kind of ads they have that aren't trailers and then the movie starts.
Yesterday when I saw Monsters, the StarWars teaser was played apart from the other previews, *after* the concession stand pitch, where the movie would normally have started.
I thought "Birds" was one of the best Pixar shorts and it made up for the stupid SW trailer (my kids were giggling well into the movie credits).
>What you need is to get some folks on the Supreme Court.
SC Justices aren't elected though, are they?
I'm pretty sure they are nominated by the pres and confirmed by congress, no? I remember Clarence Thomas being nominated by Bush sr. and the drawn-out confirmation hearings in 1991. (Anita Hill?)
Are any of the justices due to retire during Bush's current term? Who are the front-runner candidates for a Bush SC nomination?
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What!? They're made of meat !? What do you mean 'made of meat'?
That's what I'm telling you, they are made entirely of meat.
Well, that explains the prime with only 3 million digits, doesn't it?
Yep, what should we do?
Just forget about them, then. Delete the recording of their transmission and the survey findings. Pretend it never happened.
Good answer.
>So how exactly would these resources be returned to earth?
You don't. You use these raw materials in space exploration and colonization.
Surely the primary focus of "Exterrestrial Mining" would be to produce raw materials needed for space exploration and colonization, not just to bring it back to Earth in lieu of terrestrial sources?
we used to DREAM of using ed! In my day, we would have to pull the hard disk out of computer and arrange the bits by hand. Then Dad would come home, beat us with a stick, send us to bed without supper.
But if you try to tell that to these kids today... they won't believe you.
True fact. Loss of power in one engine should not cause a plane to crash in every case. However, having the engine separate from the airframe is a different situation from simple loss of power. It is reasonable to assume that there would be serious problems resulting from this kind of event: loss of blanace, structural damage to wing, fire in addition to loss of thrust.
Having an engine shut down is a pretty serious problem. Having one explode during takeoff is certainly much more serious and inevitably catastrophic.
yeah, but from what I understand, they are flying continuous CAP over Manhattan now anyway. Not sure that means that they were alerted somehow to some situation with the AA flight.
to reply to my own post, CNN has a different report now:
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CNN confirmed the plane was American Airlines Flight 587 from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The plane was an Airbus A-300. American Airlines did not immediately release the number of passengers on the flight.
http://robots.cnn.com/2001/US/11/12/newyork.cra
Yeah, from the sketchy reports so far, it doesn't look much like a terrorist hijacking.
This plane was apparently inbound to JFK, 5 miles out. Previous hijackings were departing west coast-bound jets.
ABC radio is saying this was an Airbus, not a Boeing.
As usual, this soon afterwards it is a lot of rumor, speculation and semi-reliable live news broadcast reports.
>Why does the server need a different OS
;-)
Because M$ wants to get a $$ differential between server and workstation versions of their OS. They deliberately cripple the workstation version so that it won't work very well in a server role.
>If WinXP cannot
I'm sure it can, once M$ releases the server version. I'm guessing that the major differences between the 'professional' and server versions like SMP support and the like are a matter of compile-time configuration when the binaries are make.
>obviously Linux must be superior
well, I'm not going to argue that conclusion, but for different reasons.
How insightful. I think I've heard that about 100 times on TV and radio this week. Howard Stern even said it several times. Bleah.
>Bill's aim in life...
>Hillary's strategy...
Are you sure we're talking about the right Bill and Hillary in the context of a 'wad'?
>"The SubtleNuance Statue Of Plutocracy"...
You forgot to throw in some meaningless punctuation characters like "::" or a wierd misplaced accent or prefix with odd lower-case letters (e or i seem to be preferred).
>Illinois: Jim Ryan, 217-782-1090
i l. htm
I live in Illinois and I've been pretty unhappy about Ryan in general and his stance on favoring the Microsoft settlement in particular.
I've been calling his office since news of the deal broke to express my dissatisfaction with the terms and to ask him to oppose it. I've gotten nowhere by phone, I've sent a letter, but there is also a link on his website to send 'email'.
http://www.ag.state.il.us/abouttheoffice/ag_ema
>Microsoft should get much more severe punishment
I didn't think the point here was to deliver a punishment (regardless of how richly they obviously deserve one), or even damages to the companies they've hurt or put out of business.
I thought what's being sought is a remedy to fix this going forward.
I'm not an expert on anti-trust law, but I don't think that AT&T or Microsoft get hacked up as a sort of corporate death penalty. The aim should be to counteract the skewed market where a monopoly exists and has been abused, no?
Replying to my own post, sorry - but I've seen additional info about this now.
... will automatically have their carry-on bags searched as well by Argenbright personnel," Bill Barbour, president of the company, said in a statement.
Eight security agents, including the supervisor, were suspended. I heard on the radio this morning that two were actually fired, although I can't find that online anywhere. Security is farmed out by United to Argenbright Security Inc.
"Effective today, any individual who has a suspicious item confiscated by security personnel
Gurung was re-arrested yesterday (Monday) when he returned to claim his checked bag. His bag had gone on without him to Nebraska and back and the FBI charged him with a felony (two *additional* long-blade knives were found in his checked bag).
The two knives previously taken by security were pocket knives he had in his parka as he wen through the metal detector. Apparently they didn't search his carry-on at all because the knives, stungun and can of pepper spray/teargas were not 'detected' by the x-ray.
The felony charges against him carry a max 10 years and $250,000.
How much would you be willing to shell out so you can say you run linux on your PDA?
>how exactly does this reflect badly on the overall security level
Well, first off if they only found 2 of 9 knives, I'd say they were at best sloppy. If you are security and you discover two knives in a person's carry-on, why would you just take those away and let them walk on into the terminal? Wouldn't you probably expect a more thorough search and interrogation of this individual after such a discovery?
>you also seem to be implying that it wasn't mere coincidence
Have you seen this guy's picture? The words 'racial profiling' come to mind. My 'yeah right' wasn't meant to imply that security somehow caught up with this guy. I've seen these 'random' carry-on checks. It is strange how random chance never seems to fall on caucasian males over the age of 27.
My point is that the security staff I've encountered at O'Hare on an almost weekly basis often resemble welfare-to-work types who usually don't speak anything I'd call English and who appear to make little more than minimum wage.
By contrast, Sea-Tac, my usual destination, seems to have a much more professional security staff in place.
"Yes sir, Mr. Convention Director sir. We at fly-by-night security consulting and TV/VCR repair, Inc. have a fool-proof plan to provide heightened security measures for COMDEX!"
"Oh, good. Load off my mind."
"Don't you want to hear what it is?"
"Not really, no."
"Oh, well... I see. In that case, can you just sign right here?"
>Today at O'hare a man got through the checkpoint with 9 knives, a can of tear gas, and a stun gun.
That is so not true!
... he only got 7 knives through at the checkpoint. The crack security staff confiscated 2 from him. The other 7 and the stun gun and mace were discovered during a random (yeah, right) carry-on check.
Even better is the guy's claim that he accidentally left them in his bag and didn't mean to try to get them on the plane. Wouldn't the discovery of the first two jog your memory about the other 7?
I live near Chicago and get to experience the airport (United) security at O'Hare on a regular basis. I have no confidence at all that those people have the first clue what they are doing.
make-kpkg --revision=customSlashdot.1.0 kernel-image
>There's so many interesting userspace Open Source projects we could be hearing about
/. developes its own content in the form of essays, editorials or the like. Think you need to go somewhere like linux journal for stuff more like that.
almost afraid to ask, but...
have you tried submitting something? It's not like there is a finite limit to the number of articles that can be posted each day and an article on a new kernel version means there is one less article that can be posted on something else, no?
Kernel releases are news. Not earth-shattering news, but events that generate interest around here (for the most part, YMMV obviously).
>why not focus on the new and clever ones
Someone has to write something up and post it somewhere that can be slashdotted. It's not like
You know, that makes sense of how the "trailer" was placed right before the movie.
Usually, you get the all the previews, then they run "lets all go to the snack bar" or whatever kind of ads they have that aren't trailers and then the movie starts.
Yesterday when I saw Monsters, the StarWars teaser was played apart from the other previews, *after* the concession stand pitch, where the movie would normally have started.
I thought "Birds" was one of the best Pixar shorts and it made up for the stupid SW trailer (my kids were giggling well into the movie credits).
>Actually, your URL has a space too many
/.
so does yours, courtesy of
>after the court case is over and RIAA et. al. have won
;-)
The recording industry is also joining this lawsuit now!!?? Those bastards!
You'd think they'd be satisfied with having run Napster into the ground, but nooooo! Now they have to jump on the DeCSS bandwagon as well, eh?
>What you need is to get some folks on the Supreme Court.
SC Justices aren't elected though, are they?
I'm pretty sure they are nominated by the pres and confirmed by congress, no? I remember Clarence Thomas being nominated by Bush sr. and the drawn-out confirmation hearings in 1991. (Anita Hill?)
Are any of the justices due to retire during Bush's current term? Who are the front-runner candidates for a Bush SC nomination?