Why would they want to build solar array in space? They could just use ground solar arrays, wind mills, tital power genrators. They can then generate hydrogen the good old fashion way of sticking few iron poles into the water, and cranking up the juice.
(1) Yes, the sun is much stronger up there. Atmosphere really prevents a bad sunburn, among other things.
(2) There are no clouds in the orbit. No bad weather, always direct sunlight. So much better.
(3) If you are high enough, you only have a few hours of night a year. (see article)
Also satelites can't be over the same spot of the earth all the time
Yes they can. Geostationary orbit is what it's called. If that wouldn't be the case, you would have to constantly realign you TV satellite dish.
Good point, but this is Germany, remember? "Crayon" is not used here, the word is "Buntstifte" (btw, very original, the french word "crayon" means crayon and is, AFAIK, older than the company. CMIIW).
And SuSE did not need to defend itself against Crayon, as it wasn't Crayon but every German IT-guy's favorite enemy Günther Freiherr von Gravenreuth who sued them.
The point about submarine warfare is to be as silent as you can be. Under water, you standard old radar doesn't work, visibility is close to zero. The only thing that works well is the sonar. Now, actively pinging your sonar (the pings you tend to hear in sub movies) is something you generally want to avoid, as it announces your position to all listening sonars in a large area. And because, in order for you to hear the echo of another ship, your signal has to travel back and forth, while other ships only have to get your signal, the diameter of the sphere where you are heard is about 4 timnes larger than that of the sphere where you hear the reflections. -> Don't Ping.
So everybody is sitting down there, listening and waiting for sounds from other subs. There are two kinds of noises emitted by a sub: It's screw noises and the water rushing past the hull. The rushing has a second bad effect: If it is loud (you're going fast), your own sonar can't hear anything beside that rushing. For other sub's, your screw is relatively good to hear. So two things: Build a hull that is very silent (makes as few turbulemces as possible, i.e. very good aquadynamical shape) and a similar screw which rotates as slow as possible while giving a strong output.
So stealth is all about being silent yourself. The only ones actively pinging are surface ships (they have nothing to loose, they are loud and sonarically blind because of the waves splashing against the hull) and helicopters searching for subs. Against that, you go with a sound-absorbing coating of the hill.
Shaping the hull so that it reflects sonar pings into different directions than where they came from (stealthy hull design) would drastically reduce its aquadynamical qualities. So you might be invisible to surface ships, but to the bigger threat, enemy subs, you are now providing a perfect targeting beacon if you move through the seas. Plus, because you are louder, enemy sounds degarde your own sonar readings, turning you very visible and blind at once. Not ideal. The only way to counter this is move very slowly, which is not good (sometimes you just need to get outta here fast _and_ silently, i.e. there's a helicopter around, it hasn't spotted you yet. If you are to slow, it'll spot you, if you are too loud, an enemy sub will spot you. Be fast and silent).
Last case in point: As stated, a stealthy hull has a worse aquadynamical performance. That not only means it's louder, it also adds drag, making it slower. But if somebody fires a torpedo at you, you can only turn and run. Torpedo's (excpet for the ones tested by the Kursk, as I've heard) are faster than submarines, but not that much faster. You can't really outrun it, but you can run away so fast that it'll run out of fuel before it catches you. Those knots of speed you loose with a stealthy hull are perhaps those that would have saved you.
Well, at least in Germany, there are two kinds of unsolicited snailmail you find in your postal mail: (1) Ones send by German Mail, and (2) others just shoved into any mailbox the distributers can find. To counter number (1), there is a so-called Robinson-List you can submit your address to, and that is honored by the senders (because sending mail costs money, and people who don't read it anyway are not worth the cost). Against number (2), just put a sticker with "No ads, please" on your mailbox. 99% of those distributers stop putting their stuff in it.
What I'm missing is a "No ads, please" sticker for the email account.
Often there are also "remove me" lines. It has came to my attention that they did not remove me though that it subscribed me to even more spamlists!
It is common practise to include "remove-me" lines. If somebody clicks on it, the spammer knows that that email address is valid and in active use, and can sell it to his peers as a "confirmed" address, which is worth much more than the automatically harvested ones (which may be wrong or not in use any more, or dedicated spam accounts).
Well,
(a) How to get that lighter-than-marsian-atmosphere gas into the balloon? If you want to produce it (probably only hydrogen is feasible, see b) on-site, you first have to get the necessary infrastructure up there. Carrying gas is very expensive, because you either need a huge container or a high-pressure one (heavy).
(b) The marsian atmosphere is much thinner than the earth's, thus every m of atmosphere is much lighter than here on earth. Because like real ships, airships have to be as light as the amount of atmosphere they displace, you would need huge balloons filled with very thin gas, and you're not carrying any payload yet. Weather balloons are feasible, but an airship additonally has to carry around engines. And the robots and cargo holds for the samples are much heavier than weather sensors.
"Ask Asians in America if they want to move to China. You'll get a resounding "no". Ask Asians living in China if they want to live in the U.S. I suspect the answer will be different."
I don't know about U.S., but I've lived in a flat with Chinese studying here. They came here to study and planned to go back to China after that, and, from all I've heard from them, quite liked it over there. Granted: They're from Shanghai, a city which is currently implementing the Chinese-Western society, so it may not be representative of other cities, or (especially) the poor mainland regions. They also admitted that while Shaghai is quite typical of the large and booming Chinese coast cities, the mainland is another world altogether. It depends on who you talk to, I guess (as always).
"I think if people are exposed both to cultures that grant or restrict human rights, they will choose overwhelmingly to live in the culture that promotes individual freedom"
I think so, too. Point taken.
"But it's still a better feeling to be the only kid on the block with a gun. It's nice to not worry. I'd rather see no one have nukes than see everyone have them."
Take into account that this feeling is one that was reserved for Amricans. Europe, during the cold war, knew it would be the place where the Big Clash(tm) would happen, should it happen. So I, as an European, can sympathize with China striving to have a gun, too. To paraphrase you: If there is a kid on the block with a gun, and you are not that kid, it will be better for you if you get a gun, too. In an ideal world, nobody would have a gun. But human history doesn't point in that direction.
"This being said, the same argument won't hold up for all countries. If Iraq had ICBMs, I don't doubt for a second they would use them."
True. And this is what really scares me. Think about the fact that the Cold War never turned into a hot one because both parties knew they could only loose. The nukes were just too powerful. I think we can trust China that *if* another cold war should break out (Which is definitly a possibilty, although I don't think it will happen. Think in terms of money here, too.), they would be sensible enough not to do Stupid Things. However, with other states, you cannot be sure about this. And these are the ones we should be concerned about, not China.
Point granted: Just as the European Union, China is no longer willing to accept the U.S. as the world's single most important power.
Question: Despite that, the USA and the EU seem to get along quite well. The EU and Russia get along well. Do you _need_ a different big bad enemy in the world? Or is China scaring because it works so very different from Western culture?
I don't think China wants to actually attack the U.S. Much too dangerous, too much common econmic interests, and much more of those ahead. Globalisation really makes wars between industrial states akin to economic suicide. Why does it scare you that China is developing a military potential which can match the USA? The idea is to lower America's single biggest influence in the world, not to bomb it into oblivion. And the EU is working on that too, by the way, they just don't shout it out loud.
(Side note: Human Rights have been proven to be a Good Thing for Western cultures. What makes us so sure they work for cultures which are not in any way comparable to ours?)
Point 1) Before you talk about human rights, think about the fact that the U.S. is the country with the most death sentences. And frankly, when it comes to U.S. companys investing in China... This human rights thing is a fig leaf if you ask me.
Point 2) Europe *has* a space program, called ESA (European Space Agency, d'uh). Together with the U.S., they have people up in the ISS (and a good part of ISS has been transported up there by ESA's Ariane). However, they have an eye on economics, and such a program is very expensive. I think the rationale is: "We want to be able to get people up in space, they want to be able to get people up in space, this is expensive, we are on good terms... Let's do it together." Oh, and about communism: It's not that much of red flag in Europe: Don't forget, Communism is a nice vision. The Soviet Union or China don't have anything to do with Communism (Read Marx' and Engels' book if you don't belive me). They are/were dictatorships.
Side note: I'm not a communist, but I still think that labelling China as a communist state is unfair for commnuism.
Greets,
Anno.
Re:Question about Steven's comments in Dr Dobbs...
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Having looked at MSFC (yuck!), GTK and Qt, I find that Qt is the toolkit that makes UI programming the easiest. And frankly, I don't quit get what you mean with your new/delete idiom breakage. It all works the very same way as in standard C++, except for two things:
1. Include the QOBJECT macro in every class you want to use Qt in
2. You don't have to bother deleting Qt Objects. It's done by Qt.
Sounds like my probloems when I used onjprelink to compile kde and qt. Much faster app and kde starts, but unfortunately a little unstable. W/the SuSE RPMS that don't use onjprelink, KDE 2.2.1 is a bit slower (though still faster than any other 2.x) and rock-stable.
I was wondering: are LCD screens safe from this kind of tapping?
AFAIK (CMIIW - correct me if I'm wrong) they are. "Tapping" CRTs is possible because of the high level of radiation they cause wehn displaying a picture - a cathode beam is directed across the inner surface of the screen, causing a material to light up, the stronger the beam, the brighter. The three basic colors RGB are realized by using differntly-colored materials that the beam touches with different intensity - mix them, and you get the color.
LCD, on the other hand, work differently: They have a backlight, and electrically activated liquid crystals (hence the name, d'uh!) that filter that light partly, let it through completely or not at all. By using differtly-colored filters, you again achieve color. However, the electric currents which is needed to toggle those LCs is comparativly low. So you might (and it might not be possible at all) be able to "tap" a LCD this way, but you have to be very close to it to be able to register the currents. If you _are_ that close, you can as well just read what's on the screen.
the real trouble (in Germany) is, if I got the stories right, _not_ the fact that companies don't want to hire people. People don't want to get their hands dirty. Why? Consider you get about 500 DM cash on hand a month, housing support (up to paying your entire appartment w/heating and all the works), reduced telephone rates, reduced prices for a lot of stuff you buy, "Kleidergeld" (money to by clothes) every two months. For what? Being registered as unemployed in Germany (it actually is much higher for some time after you loose your old job). Plus, do some "unofficial" work here and there, if you do it well, add another 1000,- a month. As I said, no taxes. If you are married, and/or have children, of course you get more.
Now do the math: How much would I have to earn pre-tax to sustain the same level of quality of life? Well, you'll easily come to figures around 2500-3000 DM, if it's enough. That means you're working full time and you, after all is deducted, don't have a penny more in your pocket than if you wouldn't work at all. Thank you.
BTW: Im paying taxes here. Not nice. 50% goes off to the state.
First of all, Adobe has a legal representation in Germany, so they can do this in Euro. Secondly, 2500 Euros is currently about 2000 Dollars, which is quite a large sum for a single person. You still got a point, though. It's not much when you're talking about companies the size of Adobe. So
(1) Your suspicion may be right, and it's fake.
(2) They are trying to set an example here, scaring the OSS community away from using names that sound like Adobe's products. KPhotoShop, anyone?
Of course, I hope (1) is the correct choice.
Re:Why SMS is so popular ...
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Another point is etiquette (at least, that's how my friends and I use it at University): If you phone somebody on his cellphone (They're called "handys" in Germany), sometimes, it's just not convenient or even disturbing if the phone rings. So you rather send an SMS, which is ast enough (most arrive within 5 mins or so), and leaves the reciupient the choie whether and when to respond. Most of the time an SMS goes back, sometimes this text traffic initiates a call.
It is a fact that the U.S. navy had moved the last modern ship out of Pearl Harbor the day before. On the day of the attack, there were only old ships in port. The theory goes that the U.S. govt knew of the attack in advance. The US population was reluctant to enter the war, and Pearl Harbor was taken into account in order to be able to sell the war to the US public.
Source: GEO magazine (don't remember the issue, sorry, but they had a special on Pearl Harbor)
Well, for starters, macromedia wasn't down for me, so no cookie here.
I dont't think it is possible to remove a web site from the 'net like this w/out anyone noticing. Why?
1) Not everyone uses the same provider. Not all providers use RBL. So, there's always someone who can see the page (although I have to admit this is a pretty weak point)
2) There are other web pages. As long as open forums such as/. exist (no, not trying to shove my head into anybody's a**, it's just an example) and these communities react sufficiently sensitive to censorship, the maintainer will be able to post there. And he will get an reaction.
From an egoistic point of view, sue them. It looks as if the law's on your side, so you'll probably succeed. Also, they seem to figure that they have enough money to pay everybody half the check [and still have some left, of course]. So, if you sue them, and enough other webmaster take their bait, you'll get more than half of your money. On the other hand, if everybody sues them, you'll still get at least half the money, since they have it.
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Sure Dargo got his son back but then the brat goes and pokes Dargo's girl friend.
Hey! No spoilers please! Over here in Germany, Drago got his son back just yesterday. ;-)
Anno
Why would they want to build solar array in space? They could just use ground solar arrays, wind mills, tital power genrators. They can then generate hydrogen the good old fashion way of sticking few iron poles into the water, and cranking up the juice.
(1) Yes, the sun is much stronger up there. Atmosphere really prevents a bad sunburn, among other things. (2) There are no clouds in the orbit. No bad weather, always direct sunlight. So much better. (3) If you are high enough, you only have a few hours of night a year. (see article)
Also satelites can't be over the same spot of the earth all the time
Yes they can. Geostationary orbit is what it's called. If that wouldn't be the case, you would have to constantly realign you TV satellite dish.
Good point, but this is Germany, remember? "Crayon" is not used here, the word is "Buntstifte" (btw, very original, the french word "crayon" means crayon and is, AFAIK, older than the company. CMIIW).
And SuSE did not need to defend itself against Crayon, as it wasn't Crayon but every German IT-guy's favorite enemy Günther Freiherr von Gravenreuth who sued them.
Greets,
Anno.
The point about submarine warfare is to be as silent as you can be. Under water, you standard old radar doesn't work, visibility is close to zero. The only thing that works well is the sonar. Now, actively pinging your sonar (the pings you tend to hear in sub movies) is something you generally want to avoid, as it announces your position to all listening sonars in a large area. And because, in order for you to hear the echo of another ship, your signal has to travel back and forth, while other ships only have to get your signal, the diameter of the sphere where you are heard is about 4 timnes larger than that of the sphere where you hear the reflections. -> Don't Ping.
So everybody is sitting down there, listening and waiting for sounds from other subs. There are two kinds of noises emitted by a sub: It's screw noises and the water rushing past the hull. The rushing has a second bad effect: If it is loud (you're going fast), your own sonar can't hear anything beside that rushing. For other sub's, your screw is relatively good to hear. So two things: Build a hull that is very silent (makes as few turbulemces as possible, i.e. very good aquadynamical shape) and a similar screw which rotates as slow as possible while giving a strong output.
So stealth is all about being silent yourself. The only ones actively pinging are surface ships (they have nothing to loose, they are loud and sonarically blind because of the waves splashing against the hull) and helicopters searching for subs. Against that, you go with a sound-absorbing coating of the hill.
Shaping the hull so that it reflects sonar pings into different directions than where they came from (stealthy hull design) would drastically reduce its aquadynamical qualities. So you might be invisible to surface ships, but to the bigger threat, enemy subs, you are now providing a perfect targeting beacon if you move through the seas. Plus, because you are louder, enemy sounds degarde your own sonar readings, turning you very visible and blind at once. Not ideal. The only way to counter this is move very slowly, which is not good (sometimes you just need to get outta here fast _and_ silently, i.e. there's a helicopter around, it hasn't spotted you yet. If you are to slow, it'll spot you, if you are too loud, an enemy sub will spot you. Be fast and silent).
Last case in point: As stated, a stealthy hull has a worse aquadynamical performance. That not only means it's louder, it also adds drag, making it slower. But if somebody fires a torpedo at you, you can only turn and run. Torpedo's (excpet for the ones tested by the Kursk, as I've heard) are faster than submarines, but not that much faster. You can't really outrun it, but you can run away so fast that it'll run out of fuel before it catches you. Those knots of speed you loose with a stealthy hull are perhaps those that would have saved you.
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Well, at least in Germany, there are two kinds of unsolicited snailmail you find in your postal mail: (1) Ones send by German Mail, and (2) others just shoved into any mailbox the distributers can find. To counter number (1), there is a so-called Robinson-List you can submit your address to, and that is honored by the senders (because sending mail costs money, and people who don't read it anyway are not worth the cost). Against number (2), just put a sticker with "No ads, please" on your mailbox. 99% of those distributers stop putting their stuff in it.
What I'm missing is a "No ads, please" sticker for the email account.
Anno.
Often there are also "remove me" lines. It has came to my attention that they did not remove me though that it subscribed me to even more spamlists!
It is common practise to include "remove-me" lines. If somebody clicks on it, the spammer knows that that email address is valid and in active use, and can sell it to his peers as a "confirmed" address, which is worth much more than the automatically harvested ones (which may be wrong or not in use any more, or dedicated spam accounts).
Well,
(a) How to get that lighter-than-marsian-atmosphere gas into the balloon? If you want to produce it (probably only hydrogen is feasible, see b) on-site, you first have to get the necessary infrastructure up there. Carrying gas is very expensive, because you either need a huge container or a high-pressure one (heavy).
(b) The marsian atmosphere is much thinner than the earth's, thus every m of atmosphere is much lighter than here on earth. Because like real ships, airships have to be as light as the amount of atmosphere they displace, you would need huge balloons filled with very thin gas, and you're not carrying any payload yet. Weather balloons are feasible, but an airship additonally has to carry around engines. And the robots and cargo holds for the samples are much heavier than weather sensors.
-Anno
Warning, warning: You may not log on this webpage because you don't agree that all if your personal information is stored centrally.
[And because I live in Germany, they actually have to ask me prior to doing this. Opt-in is mandatory. Well, by law, anyway...]
To continue this:
"Ask Asians in America if they want to move to China. You'll get a resounding "no". Ask Asians living in China if they want to live in the U.S. I suspect the answer will be different."
I don't know about U.S., but I've lived in a flat with Chinese studying here. They came here to study and planned to go back to China after that, and, from all I've heard from them, quite liked it over there. Granted: They're from Shanghai, a city which is currently implementing the Chinese-Western society, so it may not be representative of other cities, or (especially) the poor mainland regions. They also admitted that while Shaghai is quite typical of the large and booming Chinese coast cities, the mainland is another world altogether. It depends on who you talk to, I guess (as always).
"I think if people are exposed both to cultures that grant or restrict human rights, they will choose overwhelmingly to live in the culture that promotes individual freedom"
I think so, too. Point taken.
"But it's still a better feeling to be the only kid on the block with a gun. It's nice to not worry. I'd rather see no one have nukes than see everyone have them."
Take into account that this feeling is one that was reserved for Amricans. Europe, during the cold war, knew it would be the place where the Big Clash(tm) would happen, should it happen. So I, as an European, can sympathize with China striving to have a gun, too. To paraphrase you: If there is a kid on the block with a gun, and you are not that kid, it will be better for you if you get a gun, too. In an ideal world, nobody would have a gun. But human history doesn't point in that direction.
"This being said, the same argument won't hold up for all countries. If Iraq had ICBMs, I don't doubt for a second they would use them."
Anno.True. And this is what really scares me. Think about the fact that the Cold War never turned into a hot one because both parties knew they could only loose. The nukes were just too powerful. I think we can trust China that *if* another cold war should break out (Which is definitly a possibilty, although I don't think it will happen. Think in terms of money here, too.), they would be sensible enough not to do Stupid Things. However, with other states, you cannot be sure about this. And these are the ones we should be concerned about, not China.
Point granted: Just as the European Union, China is no longer willing to accept the U.S. as the world's single most important power.
Question: Despite that, the USA and the EU seem to get along quite well. The EU and Russia get along well. Do you _need_ a different big bad enemy in the world? Or is China scaring because it works so very different from Western culture?
I don't think China wants to actually attack the U.S. Much too dangerous, too much common econmic interests, and much more of those ahead. Globalisation really makes wars between industrial states akin to economic suicide. Why does it scare you that China is developing a military potential which can match the USA? The idea is to lower America's single biggest influence in the world, not to bomb it into oblivion. And the EU is working on that too, by the way, they just don't shout it out loud.
(Side note: Human Rights have been proven to be a Good Thing for Western cultures. What makes us so sure they work for cultures which are not in any way comparable to ours?)
Greets,
Anno.
Point 1) Before you talk about human rights, think about the fact that the U.S. is the country with the most death sentences. And frankly, when it comes to U.S. companys investing in China... This human rights thing is a fig leaf if you ask me.
Point 2) Europe *has* a space program, called ESA (European Space Agency, d'uh). Together with the U.S., they have people up in the ISS (and a good part of ISS has been transported up there by ESA's Ariane). However, they have an eye on economics, and such a program is very expensive. I think the rationale is: "We want to be able to get people up in space, they want to be able to get people up in space, this is expensive, we are on good terms... Let's do it together." Oh, and about communism: It's not that much of red flag in Europe: Don't forget, Communism is a nice vision. The Soviet Union or China don't have anything to do with Communism (Read Marx' and Engels' book if you don't belive me). They are/were dictatorships.
Side note: I'm not a communist, but I still think that labelling China as a communist state is unfair for commnuism.
Greets,
Anno.
Having looked at MSFC (yuck!), GTK and Qt, I find that Qt is the toolkit that makes UI programming the easiest. And frankly, I don't quit get what you mean with your new/delete idiom breakage. It all works the very same way as in standard C++, except for two things:
1. Include the QOBJECT macro in every class you want to use Qt in
2. You don't have to bother deleting Qt Objects. It's done by Qt.
I think it's great. How is this bad?
Anno.
Sounds like my probloems when I used onjprelink to compile kde and qt. Much faster app and kde starts, but unfortunately a little unstable. W/the SuSE RPMS that don't use onjprelink, KDE 2.2.1 is a bit slower (though still faster than any other 2.x) and rock-stable.
Greets,
Anno.
all said, more is not known
for the german speaking ./ers, good coverage on heute online
..early at 19:15 local time. By now (20:15), the police has allowed access to the buildings again.
I was wondering: are LCD screens safe from this kind of tapping?
AFAIK (CMIIW - correct me if I'm wrong) they are. "Tapping" CRTs is possible because of the high level of radiation they cause wehn displaying a picture - a cathode beam is directed across the inner surface of the screen, causing a material to light up, the stronger the beam, the brighter. The three basic colors RGB are realized by using differntly-colored materials that the beam touches with different intensity - mix them, and you get the color.
LCD, on the other hand, work differently: They have a backlight, and electrically activated liquid crystals (hence the name, d'uh!) that filter that light partly, let it through completely or not at all. By using differtly-colored filters, you again achieve color. However, the electric currents which is needed to toggle those LCs is comparativly low. So you might (and it might not be possible at all) be able to "tap" a LCD this way, but you have to be very close to it to be able to register the currents. If you _are_ that close, you can as well just read what's on the screen.
Greets
Anno.Well,
the real trouble (in Germany) is, if I got the stories right, _not_ the fact that companies don't want to hire people. People don't want to get their hands dirty. Why? Consider you get about 500 DM cash on hand a month, housing support (up to paying your entire appartment w/heating and all the works), reduced telephone rates, reduced prices for a lot of stuff you buy, "Kleidergeld" (money to by clothes) every two months. For what? Being registered as unemployed in Germany (it actually is much higher for some time after you loose your old job). Plus, do some "unofficial" work here and there, if you do it well, add another 1000,- a month. As I said, no taxes. If you are married, and/or have children, of course you get more.
Now do the math: How much would I have to earn pre-tax to sustain the same level of quality of life? Well, you'll easily come to figures around 2500-3000 DM, if it's enough. That means you're working full time and you, after all is deducted, don't have a penny more in your pocket than if you wouldn't work at all. Thank you.
BTW: Im paying taxes here. Not nice. 50% goes off to the state.
Anno.
It's worse (less free) than Qt.
*Sigh* Qt has been GPLed for about a year or so. It's not less free than, say, GTK. But I guess some people just don't want to hear it.
Anno.First of all, Adobe has a legal representation in Germany, so they can do this in Euro. Secondly, 2500 Euros is currently about 2000 Dollars, which is quite a large sum for a single person. You still got a point, though. It's not much when you're talking about companies the size of Adobe. So (1) Your suspicion may be right, and it's fake. (2) They are trying to set an example here, scaring the OSS community away from using names that sound like Adobe's products. KPhotoShop, anyone? Of course, I hope (1) is the correct choice.
Another point is etiquette (at least, that's how my friends and I use it at University): If you phone somebody on his cellphone (They're called "handys" in Germany), sometimes, it's just not convenient or even disturbing if the phone rings. So you rather send an SMS, which is ast enough (most arrive within 5 mins or so), and leaves the reciupient the choie whether and when to respond. Most of the time an SMS goes back, sometimes this text traffic initiates a call.
It is a fact that the U.S. navy had moved the last modern ship out of Pearl Harbor the day before. On the day of the attack, there were only old ships in port. The theory goes that the U.S. govt knew of the attack in advance. The US population was reluctant to enter the war, and Pearl Harbor was taken into account in order to be able to sell the war to the US public.
Source: GEO magazine (don't remember the issue, sorry, but they had a special on Pearl Harbor)
Anno.
Well, for starters, macromedia wasn't down for me, so no cookie here.
/. exist (no, not trying to shove my head into anybody's a**, it's just an example) and these communities react sufficiently sensitive to censorship, the maintainer will be able to post there. And he will get an reaction.
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I dont't think it is possible to remove a web site from the 'net like this w/out anyone noticing. Why?
1) Not everyone uses the same provider. Not all providers use RBL. So, there's always someone who can see the page (although I have to admit this is a pretty weak point)
2) There are other web pages. As long as open forums such as
Just my
anno.
Because standard PC HW is cheaper than rackmount stuff, so if you have the space, that's more power for less.
From an egoistic point of view, sue them. It looks as if the law's on your side, so you'll probably succeed. Also, they seem to figure that they have enough money to pay everybody half the check [and still have some left, of course]. So, if you sue them, and enough other webmaster take their bait, you'll get more than half of your money. On the other hand, if everybody sues them, you'll still get at least half the money, since they have it.