A couple of years ago there was an article in Scientific American that reviewed all of the known technologies (including magnetic, electrostatic, and thick materials) to shield astronauts from space radiation on interplanetary missions. They found that none of them would work in the foreseeable future. Their rather depressing conclusion was that the best bet would be to develop drugs that work to repair radiation damage.
IIRC, they said that a astronauts on a quick Mars mission would probably survive, but they would face significant damage to their health from the radiation dose.
The man clearly is not a staunch supporter of the second amendment..
From which we can conclude that:
January 21 might be the last time you can exercise your second amendment rights..
Even though Obama will have no power to write laws and it would be political suicide even for a Democratic congress to actually pass such laws in this gun-crazed country.
I'm out and it doesn't get served to me HOT, I send it back. I asked for a HOT drink, not a luke-warm drink.
I just don't get why people say they want a drink boiling HOT. There's no point in drinking it until it drops below 140F anyway, otherwise you'll scald your tongue. What point is there having to wait 10 minutes before you can drink it? That certainly makes normal coffee temperatures hot enough; there's no reason to serve it at near boiling.
What makes matters worse for McDonald's is the fact that they put their overly hot coffee (yes, they still serve it too hot for any practical purpose) into an insulated foam cup with a lid. There's little opportunity for it to cool either by conduction or evaporation, and left on its own it won't cool to a reasonable temperature within half an hour. Trying to blow it cool through the tiny hole they put in the lid won't work. The only way to drink it is to take the lid completely off (carefully, because they fill it to the brim) and blow on it for 5 minutes. That doesn't work at all in a car, and it wastes time if you eat in the restaurant.
You expect hot coffee to be well, hot. It's supposed to be freshly boiled water.
No it's not. The water going over the grounds in the machine should be a good amount less than boiling, or else the flavor will suffer. The temperature typically drops further once it hits the carafe. I measured my drip machine as soon as the cycle finished, and the temperature was 160F. That's the temperature people expect, not the > 190F that McDonald's was serving.
If somebody handed you a pot of water that had just been pulled off of a full rolling boil, you'd be instinctively much more careful with it than you would if they handed you a random "cup of coffee". That's because you realize that the water in the pot could give you severe burns, but a typical cup of coffee won't. However, McDonald's was putting something like the former in a package that looked like the latter, even after being notified multiple times about prior incidents with their scalding coffee.
Because it practically requires bladed weapons to open.
That's the wrong tool for the job. Use a small pair of tin snips, and there's very little chance that you'll injure yourself. (Making packages that require tin snips to open is still stupid, though.)
MD5 should have been scrapped years ago. There is absolutely no excuse for using it anymore.
Well, I still use it as a replacement for cksum to make checksum files for DVDs and the like (which is not a security critical task). It runs marginally faster than cksum (and much faster than sha1sum) on my machine, and the 'md5sum -c' option lets me conveniently verify whole directory trees.
Your clock radio comes with the following government message:
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules....
(2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
It is not our place to question why we are not to reject interference, or what dangers might ensue if were to attempt such a thing. Rather, is our duty under the law to accept interference. So do your part, listen carefully to the buzzing radio, and just be proud to be doing your part as a citizen of this great land.
Here's where I got this idea: Under Windows XP, go into explorer and click on the My Documents "Place" (or open My Documents from the start menu).
Now click the "Up" button. You end up on the fake "Desktop" root, and you can't go up from there. The Up button is now disabled. Try turning on the treeview on the left. You are now presented with a fake tree rooted at "Desktop" that has nothing to do with reality, and which is filled with a random disorganized mishmash of directories, devices, network shares, etc.
Making all music-related apps open up a "My Music" directory by default is fine. (Although assuming that everybody keeps all their music-related files under one directory and never mixes them with other kinds of files is IMO oversimplistic.) Letting the user change the default directories and create their own symlink shortcuts would be an additional requirement.
The problem, which has been popularized by Microsoft's Windows Explorer and gets worse with every new OS they create, is making the default directories *look* like roots, even though they aren't. You can't navigate upwards from the "My Foo" folders in the GUI, and therefore you usually have no earthly idea where the files actually reside in relation to everything else. Thus, when you want to do something with a music file from an app that doesn't usually deal with music, you might not be able find it in that app's GUI. (Unless, for example, all the apps in Windows are changed to use the same obscure wishy-washy APIs that Windows Explorer uses to kludge up fake roots. But I think that approach is just making the problem worse instead of fixing it.)
If someone sends a file to me over Empathy, and I want to open it in Amarok, then I shouldn't have to work with two completely different mental models of content storage.
And you wouldn't have to, if every app would just show the frigging directory tree as it exists, instead of trying to fool the user with a random bunch of stupid fake roots in every GUI.
Automatic AK-47s and machine guns heavily controlled and licensed to an insignificant number of people, most of whom would likely be on the side of the government anyway.
The most important Iraqi weapons were remote control booby trap bombs and suicide bombers. If you can get a license to buy those in the US, I'd like to know where.
There's no reason for anyone to live on Mars. The only reason to visit Mars is because it's there. They need to plant a flag, take some pictures and then bug out, just like the moon, Mount Everest or the Mariana Trench.
Supporting a settlement on Mars would take continual resupply missions from earth costing hundreds of millions each. (There is no way that they locally could manufacturer all of the nutrition needs, drugs, advanced equipment spare parts, etc. they would need to maintain a colony.) This money would be better spent on other space missions, and the population on earth would quickly get bored of supporting a bunch of people sitting around twiddling their thumbs in an airless desert. It would undoubtedly be cheaper just to pay for one return trip for a Mars expedition.
What's more, life there would just suck. They would have to live below ground like rats in holes to try to shield themselves from deadly cosmic rays, occasionally darting into the sunlight before their max radiation doses were exceeded. They would never see a body of water, a natural plant, a cloud, or breath non-artificial air again. At any time whole groups of them could be killed by a single mistake with the life support systems. (Not to mention one of their team flipping out and intentionally pulling the plug.) Their resupply missions could get threatened by political turmoil on earth. It would be like a life sentence in prison, but much more lonely and powerless.
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Human readable disk space:
Same thing, but without having to do annoying KiB to MiB to GiB conversions in your head:
df --si
du --si
If we don't care who runs other countries, then why do we keep invading them?
Corporations are people, too.
A couple of years ago there was an article in Scientific American that reviewed all of the known technologies (including magnetic, electrostatic, and thick materials) to shield astronauts from space radiation on interplanetary missions. They found that none of them would work in the foreseeable future. Their rather depressing conclusion was that the best bet would be to develop drugs that work to repair radiation damage.
IIRC, they said that a astronauts on a quick Mars mission would probably survive, but they would face significant damage to their health from the radiation dose.
The man clearly is not a staunch supporter of the second amendment..
From which we can conclude that:
January 21 might be the last time you can exercise your second amendment rights..
Even though Obama will have no power to write laws and it would be political suicide even for a Democratic congress to actually pass such laws in this gun-crazed country.
if Obama wins, January 21 might be the last time you can exercise your second amendment rights..
The fact that people are out there making statements like this with a straight face just goes to prove my point.
No, he called him one for wanting to increase taxes on people who do pay taxes and then write checks to people who don't.
Isn't this "Marxist" type of negative tax one of the basic principles of the state governed by McCain's running mate?
The internet would be so annoying if he lost.
The Internet would still be much less annoying than the resurgent right-wing militias are going to be if he wins.
Alright, Einstein. Why don't you go chug down a "cold" 80C mug of tea. That'll shut you up.
This is what is called a free market.
And this must be what is called "satire".
I'm out and it doesn't get served to me HOT, I send it back. I asked for a HOT drink, not a luke-warm drink.
I just don't get why people say they want a drink boiling HOT. There's no point in drinking it until it drops below 140F anyway, otherwise you'll scald your tongue. What point is there having to wait 10 minutes before you can drink it? That certainly makes normal coffee temperatures hot enough; there's no reason to serve it at near boiling.
What makes matters worse for McDonald's is the fact that they put their overly hot coffee (yes, they still serve it too hot for any practical purpose) into an insulated foam cup with a lid. There's little opportunity for it to cool either by conduction or evaporation, and left on its own it won't cool to a reasonable temperature within half an hour. Trying to blow it cool through the tiny hole they put in the lid won't work. The only way to drink it is to take the lid completely off (carefully, because they fill it to the brim) and blow on it for 5 minutes. That doesn't work at all in a car, and it wastes time if you eat in the restaurant.
You expect hot coffee to be well, hot. It's supposed to be freshly boiled water.
No it's not. The water going over the grounds in the machine should be a good amount less than boiling, or else the flavor will suffer. The temperature typically drops further once it hits the carafe. I measured my drip machine as soon as the cycle finished, and the temperature was 160F. That's the temperature people expect, not the > 190F that McDonald's was serving.
If somebody handed you a pot of water that had just been pulled off of a full rolling boil, you'd be instinctively much more careful with it than you would if they handed you a random "cup of coffee". That's because you realize that the water in the pot could give you severe burns, but a typical cup of coffee won't. However, McDonald's was putting something like the former in a package that looked like the latter, even after being notified multiple times about prior incidents with their scalding coffee.
Well, most everyone who doesn't have a lame-assed assortment of tools has something along those lines.
Because it practically requires bladed weapons to open.
That's the wrong tool for the job. Use a small pair of tin snips, and there's very little chance that you'll injure yourself. (Making packages that require tin snips to open is still stupid, though.)
MD5 should have been scrapped years ago. There is absolutely no excuse for using it anymore.
Well, I still use it as a replacement for cksum to make checksum files for DVDs and the like (which is not a security critical task). It runs marginally faster than cksum (and much faster than sha1sum) on my machine, and the 'md5sum -c' option lets me conveniently verify whole directory trees.
Your clock radio comes with the following government message:
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules....
(2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
It is not our place to question why we are not to reject interference, or what dangers might ensue if were to attempt such a thing. Rather, is our duty under the law to accept interference. So do your part, listen carefully to the buzzing radio, and just be proud to be doing your part as a citizen of this great land.
Here's where I got this idea: Under Windows XP, go into explorer and click on the My Documents "Place" (or open My Documents from the start menu).
Now click the "Up" button. You end up on the fake "Desktop" root, and you can't go up from there. The Up button is now disabled. Try turning on the treeview on the left. You are now presented with a fake tree rooted at "Desktop" that has nothing to do with reality, and which is filled with a random disorganized mishmash of directories, devices, network shares, etc.
Making all music-related apps open up a "My Music" directory by default is fine. (Although assuming that everybody keeps all their music-related files under one directory and never mixes them with other kinds of files is IMO oversimplistic.) Letting the user change the default directories and create their own symlink shortcuts would be an additional requirement.
The problem, which has been popularized by Microsoft's Windows Explorer and gets worse with every new OS they create, is making the default directories *look* like roots, even though they aren't. You can't navigate upwards from the "My Foo" folders in the GUI, and therefore you usually have no earthly idea where the files actually reside in relation to everything else. Thus, when you want to do something with a music file from an app that doesn't usually deal with music, you might not be able find it in that app's GUI. (Unless, for example, all the apps in Windows are changed to use the same obscure wishy-washy APIs that Windows Explorer uses to kludge up fake roots. But I think that approach is just making the problem worse instead of fixing it.)
If someone sends a file to me over Empathy, and I want to open it in Amarok, then I shouldn't have to work with two completely different mental models of content storage.
And you wouldn't have to, if every app would just show the frigging directory tree as it exists, instead of trying to fool the user with a random bunch of stupid fake roots in every GUI.
Automatic AK-47s and machine guns heavily controlled and licensed to an insignificant number of people, most of whom would likely be on the side of the government anyway.
The most important Iraqi weapons were remote control booby trap bombs and suicide bombers. If you can get a license to buy those in the US, I'd like to know where.
None of those factions relied on the puny weapons that US citizens are allowed to legally bear.
My ask slashdot question is this: what do you think would be the best possible system to replace DTS with?
A system just like the current DTS, but with a monetary fine for whiners.
Come on, how hard is it to set a damned clock? Just do it.
... and their "making available" theory. They could soon be raking in $Trillions in statutory damages from the public.
I suppose, by your logic, that Debian should ship with ssh turned off as well
I don't know about Debian, but most distros I've used lately haven't had the sshd service enabled (and sometimes not even installed) by default.
There's no reason for anyone to live on Mars. The only reason to visit Mars is because it's there. They need to plant a flag, take some pictures and then bug out, just like the moon, Mount Everest or the Mariana Trench.
Supporting a settlement on Mars would take continual resupply missions from earth costing hundreds of millions each. (There is no way that they locally could manufacturer all of the nutrition needs, drugs, advanced equipment spare parts, etc. they would need to maintain a colony.) This money would be better spent on other space missions, and the population on earth would quickly get bored of supporting a bunch of people sitting around twiddling their thumbs in an airless desert. It would undoubtedly be cheaper just to pay for one return trip for a Mars expedition.
What's more, life there would just suck. They would have to live below ground like rats in holes to try to shield themselves from deadly cosmic rays, occasionally darting into the sunlight before their max radiation doses were exceeded. They would never see a body of water, a natural plant, a cloud, or breath non-artificial air again. At any time whole groups of them could be killed by a single mistake with the life support systems. (Not to mention one of their team flipping out and intentionally pulling the plug.) Their resupply missions could get threatened by political turmoil on earth. It would be like a life sentence in prison, but much more lonely and powerless.