The HDI combines measures of life expectancy, educational attainment and income. No freedom but it can be interesting to compare freedom and development. __
In which nation would you prefer to have spent time in before WWII? Americans enjoyed a higher standard of living, higher per capita income, and more freedom than most Europeans did,
Does it include racial minorities? And what about the Depression and the Prohibition? __
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Can you imagine the riots of geeks if the first 50K slashdot accounts were erased by some punkass cracker?
Don't use 'em. I never knew a real-life computer crime cop or investigator who paid any attention to deciphering encryption. I regard this as a 99% theoretical form of "security." Using big number-crunching high-tech to protect the brief transmission of Internet email gives people a false sense of security. If you get in trouble, it won't be because you were tapped and cracked by the NSA. It'll be because somebody you trusted ratted on you (or because you bragged). Trust me on this. If you're really worried about your privacy, stop using credit cards and shred your trash.
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los Estados Unidos de América, cuyo lenguaje oficial es el inglés
Really? Does it appear in the US Constitution?
And isn't Linux and Perl Slashdot-official? Should we limit ourselves to discut these?
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todos podemos hablar con Miguel de Icaza en su propio lenguaje.
You mean object-oriented C?
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You could also inform that the proper Spanish phrase is "muy bien".
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I can search for text, but when I arrive to a results page, I see the story of the t-shirt but I don't find the pictures. Are they there?
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Ximian -> naimiX -> Name Ex / X
It is a metareference to the fact that they had to change the name.
Or I read too much Internet.
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Imagine a machine with a miniaturized, balanced eco-system on board,
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They would be low powered machines[...]
Like The Matrix?
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The main reason being that in two years time we will have more computing power than we know what to do with.
640 K should be enough for anyone.
The market for computers is probably 5 or 6 in the whole world.
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Konrad Zuse worked in Nazi Germany. That could mean something.
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Do you suppose that Turing would have wanted to have his rotting corpse displayed?
Alan Turing naked and petrified?
No, thanks.
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Isn't hiring a 14-years-old child labor?
:)
Everbody who is against child labor, please boycott cracking NASSCOM sites. We don't want to encourage this behaviour.
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I didn't know since i removed polls from my profile.
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According to the Human Development Index for 1999, the best countries are Canada, Norway, United States, Japan and Belgium.
The HDI combines measures of life expectancy, educational attainment and income. No freedom but it can be interesting to compare freedom and development.
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If you're a woman (I know, only about 5% of Slashdot)
Where did you get the numbers? I didn't know
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In which nation would you prefer to have spent time in before WWII? Americans enjoyed a higher standard of living, higher per capita income, and more freedom than most Europeans did,
Does it include racial minorities? And what about the Depression and the Prohibition?
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who *wouldn't* want to ride a train to Siberia?
:-)
Russian dissidents? Crimean Tatars?
And what with global warming and all, maybe Siberia ain't such a bad spot to visit after all.
If you are black and wear always sunglasses, the ultraviolet radiation from the Northern ozone hole (20 years from now) won't do so much harm.
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O'Reilly used to publish a quarterly X windows journal (was it The X Journal?
Boss, I want a susbcription for "X Journal". I like the graphics.
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I heard about a project for a tunnel Taiwan - mainland China. Would it be more difficult (technically / politically / economically)?
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wouldn't it be fun to ultimately travel from Tierra del Fuego to Johannesburg by train?"/em
Are there railways accross / under the Suez channel? Would the political climate Israel - Egypt allow it?
It would be funnier that the ultimate obstacle to this ride would be a manmade one.
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Can you imagine the riots of geeks if the first 50K slashdot accounts were erased by some punkass cracker?
Make it the first 89000 accounts, jinkster.
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Isaac Asimov had some essay proposing a decimal time system for the space mankind. It all revolved around the day, because of our internal rythms.
And then there is the ten-hour clock in Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
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Oneday for Monday, Twoday for Tuesday, and so on. Flansburg suggested Sunday be Godsday
Shouldn't it be Zeroday? And what about a countdown? Monday should be Minus-Sixday, Tuesday Minus-Fiveday, and so on.
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With that sort of mindset, you will never profit if Microsoft comes with a good idea, say maybe .NET.
No, "Microsoft cannot come with good ideas" is not a very convincing reply in this thread.
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No Eco-spheres?
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And Waldherr has blocklists and a modified version that looks better in Windows and can do the 1x1 pixel substitution.
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