This is very limited thinking. Basing the definition of planet only on our own solar system leaves lots of things to be desired. E.g., maybe other planetary systems have more planets out of the elliptical plane, if they even have one, and might have even more irregular orbits than that of Pluto.
It helps to actually understand the science involved before commenting or moderating. (I know, it's heresy on Slashdot to suggest that actual science should be valued.)
There's a *reason* why all the planets (except for Pluto) lie in virtually the same plane which we call the elliptic - it's not just random chance. The elliptic marks the spin equator of the gas cloud the system formed from. Therefore in order to have a system without a coherent elliptic - you first have to present a theory of how a gas cloud can remain stable with multiple spin equators. As far as we currently know, all such clouds will eventually settle on a single spin axis. Barring some (extraordinarily unlikeley!) deep unknown in Newton's Laws and basic hydrodynamics - I can't see any cloud without a single spin axis as being stable enough to form planets, assuming it could exist in the first place.
That's pretty standard in finacial reports - which is why I laughed my ___ off at reading the gamespot article. A gaming website understands stock and financial matters about as much as a five year old does about nuclear physics.
So are you going to lower their monthly payments for taxes, mortgages, car loans, insurance, health care, telecommunications, food, gas, and other things one needs to live?
No, the real problem is that most Americans cannot discern between wants and needs. Payments for many of those can easily be reduced once you gain the ability to so discern.
Thieves like these people need to be sent to a country where the crime of theft is a loss of extreminities. I for one am tired of working 9-5, 5 days a week, only to find that some jask*ss wants to spend 35 seconds throwing a rock through my car window to steal all they can and destroy everything they cannot.
awww - pissed off because someone can steal or deface your bling?
I know schools here in the US who can't even put a computer on the desk of any of the kids; many share 5 crummy machines between two (or more) classes. There are many places here that could use these things; I don't understand why there is no interest in marketing them right here.
Because a large number of folks still labor under the impression that they have inherited the "white mans burden". It's the same reason yuppies adopt Korean babies rather than American ones, and churches of all stripes send doctors (and preachers) to Africa and Central America and not to Appalachia.
My faith in NASA has deminished over the years. I'm only 25, but I can't recall any mission in the last 10 years (well a really public one any way) that didn't have some kind of hiccup.
Welcome to the real world. I'm 45, I've spent 35 of those years following the space program closely - and I can't think of any missions, manned or no, without some form of hiccup. NASA isn't perfect, never has been, never will be - they are merely closer to that state than virtually anyone else.
ou know what's funny is how much of a joke these simplistic little devices are going to make the ISS look like an over funded joke. That said, with out the ISS's prior existance, we probably wouldn't have enough data about how space effects humans to even be doing this. The one thing I would fear, staying in a giant "bubble" like this... One micrometeorite and pop...
With regard to the editorial remark the republicans and the democrats are two sides of the same coin. It makes no sense to differentiate between the two anymore.
It never did.
I'd suggest you study some American political history, as your statement above is utterly incorrect.
I doubt there will ever be a cheap/easy/affordable way to do this with chemical reaction rockets. If there was it would have been thunked up by now, doncha think?
It already has been thought of - infact it's been known since the 60's. But there is no economical incentive to implement it - because their aren't enough payloads to make it work. (And of course, without a launcher, there's no reason to create payloads that will use it.)
This cruel chicken-and-egg dilemma is what is holding us back.
Is a zipped tent, or a locked convertable with the top down, any practical limitation? Of course not, but neither is a window to a man with a rock. But legally it's the intent that mattered in that case.
As you say; the key difference is intent. Zipped tents, locked convertibles, and private gatherings are - by intent, demarcations of privacy. A website, openly advertised and made openly available cannot, by any definition, be considered private.
In the parent case, I have a mixed mind on the decision. I understand the reasoning, but I also understand that "freedom of association" protects the right of a group to exclude unwanted persons (primarily police) just as much as it means that a group can get together for peaceful purposes.
They key difference is *how* and *where* you associate IMO. If you rent a church basement and only pass the word to your closest friends and business associates - then that is a private gathering. If you do the same, but post flyers about town - it's not. Once you cross the line from private to public - that changes everything.
'My intention was never to disrupt security. The fact that I logged on and there were no passwords means that there was no security,' McKinnon said, outside the hearing at London's Bow Street Magistrates Court.
Who faces 5 years and $250k in fines.
The key difference here is simple; the website in question under Snow was advertised and made available to the general public - the networks in question in McKinnon were not.
Tell that to Richard Dinon, the Florida man charged with a felony after using an open wireless access point.
Richard Dinon was the plaintiff - Benjamin Smith was the individual charged.
At any rate - this is a different issue entirely - he (Smith) was charged in Florida, under Florida law. The SCA is Federal law. Even so, Smith was not assessing the plaintiff's data - but using his private property. (Theft of services or tresspassing.) Niether of these applies to Snow as the website in question was advertised and offered to the public as being available to the public. (Dinon's wireless connection was not - a significant difference.)
It seems more and more like we have a double standard when it comes to "computer trespass" laws. People can be threatened with prosecution for downloading files which a company mistakenly posts on a public webserver, yet when it comes to a citizen and their own personal site they have no mechanism to keep people out.
Yes - they do. If you read the TFA, the Court's rejection of Snow's suit is based on the fact that he took no effective measures to keep people out. It did not say in any form or fashion that you could not erect such effective barriers as you desire - only that 'self screening' (having a user click the 'I agree' button) does not constitute an effective barrier. This makes sense on the face of it, because there is no screening or locking mechanisms - the forums in question are freely available to any random member of the public, hence they are (legally) not effectively different from the front page of Slashdot.
actually most of the industry doesn't believe you can make a satellite this small useful.
And there's nothing in this batch of birds to change that belief.
Also, almost every CubeSat runs on batteries that have never been space qualified or flow before. Most of the components are not "space qualified" because they don't want to radiation harden them. CubeSats are set to prove you don't need all that extra crap.
That would be an interesting proof - given that it runs against decades of experience covering hundreds (thousands?) of birds and millions (billions?) of operating hours.
Just design them well, design them to recover from events, and build them at a fraction of the cost of the specialty stuff.
Anyone can build science fair level stuff for a fraction of the cost of the real thing - and that's all these CubeSats are when compared to the 'specialty stuff'.
This original poster scares me. He wants arguments against VB, but doesn't explain the scope of his project, nor does he say what language he wishes to replace VB with.
Even *more* importantly - he never tells us why he wants arguments against VB. (He hints at 'large projects', but frankly 'large' is in the eye of the beholder in many cases.)
Most likely, he doesn't have much experience in the working world and would just prefer to use a language he's already used to from school.
Or he believes automagically that anything "___" BASIC is automatically inferior. Or he's a free software advocate who believes 'free uber alles'. Or... Many reasons, all of the scary in an assistant.
MAYBE the reason Fight Club is so copied... is that the themes in the book / movie really hit home for a lot of people. Sitting back in your chair laughing at the idiots may be fun for the armchair warriors at large, but not everyone has really been tested and that was one of the core themes FC - how do you know what you've got if you never put it to the test?
A pair of silver Dolphins and four SSBN patrols under the North Atlantic. I know *I've* got it. These sad little wannabees, don't. No matter how many nights they spend a fight club.
"we as a society have gotten more violent in recent decades."
False. The number of blacks and latinos has increased, resulting in more crime/violence. Europe is seeing the same thing due to an increased arab/muslim population. Society (ie, civilized people) has not gotten more violent.
There's three words that describe you exactly: Ignorant bigoted asshole.
"An assumption unsupported by anything other than anecdotal evidence. Once doesn't have to be 'PC' to compare the number of school shootings in the 70's to the number in the 90's to see that something has changed radically in society."
Perhaps you fail to take into consideration the massive increase in pressure put on students in recent years? Students are now feeling compelled to take college level courses in high school, participate in athletics, extracurricular activities are nearly jammed down their throats, and in addition they still have to keep their grades up, work a job, keep healthy relationships, all that has always been expected, and much more.
Ok, now explain away the other symptoms of increased violence - like eight year old shooting other eight year olds on a regular basis. Or road rage. Etc... Etc... (Or consider the fact that most of the shootings to date have been by the disaffected - not by the preppie set that experience most of this pressure.)
We are no longer in a good 'ole days society where you simply take the same classes as everyone else, pass, graduate in a class of 150, and go to college and off to a great life.
Anecdotally speaking, bullshit. Except for class size, I know plenty of folks who are doing, or have done, just that. The only difference between the "good 'ole days" and now is the number of idiots who confuse having "lots of the latest and expensive stuff" with "a great life".
Where is the outlet for these kids if not video games?
Sports, hobbies, etc... etc...
It is the parents responsibility to teach them morals, not the government, certainly not Hollywood, and no, it isn't video games fault either.
Ah yes, the same old chestnut - it's always the parents fault. Even when the kids are exposed to pressures by the larger changes in sociey.
"And the plain fact is that over the last forty-fifty odd years, such interpersonal and societal violence has increased - sharply."
I'd like to see a source for this.
Try reading your daily newspaper.
Maybe the reporting of such violence, or the coverage of such violence has increased, or the total number of incidents has increased due to near exponential rise in population.
Ah. The old head-in-the-sand approach - we can't possibly be getting more violent.
That said, there are five films where I strongly believe that the original is worth owning (if you plan on owning any version at all, that is):
IMO; the original (theatrical) release of Das Boot is far superior to the Director's Cut - some of the added footage could be usefully employed in a decent cut, but the pacing (in the DC) was badly handled making it overall a worse film. (Note: I refer here to the subtitled version (Das Boot), not the shoddy dubbed version (The Boat).)
From TFA: Men involved in fight clubs often carry bottled-up violent impulses learned in childhood from video games, cartoons and movies, said Michael Messner, a University of Southern California sociology and gender studies professor.
Is this fact, or just poor reporting?
Poor reporting treats it as a fact. There was violence before TV and Games and Movies.
There were farm boys who grew up in peaceful farms that never heard a shot fired in anger or had a punch thrown whom grew up to be Soldiers.
So what? The topic under discussion is interpersonal violence - not service in the Armed Forces. And the plain fact is that over the last forty-fifty odd years, such interpersonal and societal violence has increased - sharply.
The reporter (or more likely editor) is a PC fool whom doesn't realize the simple basic truth. Violent Video games save us from wayyyyyy more random acts of violence then they do encourage them.
An assumption unsupported by anything other than anecdotal evidence. Once doesn't have to be 'PC' to compare the number of school shootings in the 70's to the number in the 90's to see that something has changed radically in society.
I guess too many of these folks are naive and really believe everything is sunshine and lollypops and don't understand the dark sides we all have. The side that comes out when we get cut off in traffic, the side that wants to slap everyone with a stupid answer. The part of us deep down that wants to be a Viking and Rape, Pillage and Burn.
There are also many fools who won't look at an equal truth - we as a society have gotten more violent in recent decades. The controls of manners and self restraint that once held such things in check are slipping. It's unlikely that video games bear the whole burden - but it's a reasonable that either as a cause or a symptom, they are likely to be involved.
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There's a *reason* why all the planets (except for Pluto) lie in virtually the same plane which we call the elliptic - it's not just random chance. The elliptic marks the spin equator of the gas cloud the system formed from. Therefore in order to have a system without a coherent elliptic - you first have to present a theory of how a gas cloud can remain stable with multiple spin equators. As far as we currently know, all such clouds will eventually settle on a single spin axis. Barring some (extraordinarily unlikeley!) deep unknown in Newton's Laws and basic hydrodynamics - I can't see any cloud without a single spin axis as being stable enough to form planets, assuming it could exist in the first place.
I suggest a priority re-evaluation.
It's subtle and particularly vile form of racism.
This cruel chicken-and-egg dilemma is what is holding us back.
At any rate - this is a different issue entirely - he (Smith) was charged in Florida, under Florida law. The SCA is Federal law. Even so, Smith was not assessing the plaintiff's data - but using his private property. (Theft of services or tresspassing.) Niether of these applies to Snow as the website in question was advertised and offered to the public as being available to the public. (Dinon's wireless connection was not - a significant difference.)
The only sensible reply I recieved, thank you.