"Obama is violating U.S. Law regarding these images."
That's right, because the President of the USA never, ever, delegates stuff to other people. Every single decision in the entire Federal Branch is personally signed off by him, and him alone.
Yes , the buck eventually stops with him, but I'll be willing to bet 10 bucks here and now that there are at least three layers of management between him and the person who actually made that decision.
But as has been mentioned, checkpoints are 'technically outside US soil', so you could be attacked by pirates whilst at a checkpoint and have no redress. Which seems to be pretty much what is actually happening.
I have Austar, a satellite pay-tv service here in Australia. They have a channel called, "Discovery Turbo Max". I'm waiting for them to tack an "Extreme!" in there somewhere.
I must be getting too old for their target demographic or something, all the "awesome" "extreme" "to the max, woo!" etc that they sprinkle liberally throughout all the Discovery Channel shows really grates on me. They had a show on the other week about those giant crystals in a cave in south America somewhere. It's hot in the cave, some 50 degrees C. Fair enough, it's bloody hot and you can keel over pretty damn quick from heat stroke. But literally 90% of the show was about how EXTREMELY hot it was, how they only had MINUTES before they DIED IN THERE, and how they were SECONDS AWAY FROM DEATH whilst taking core samples, how their CORE BODY TEMPERATURE was RISING RAPIDLY towards the FATAL ZONE and then how they got out JUST IN TIME BEFORE THEY DIED.
But I suppose if they cut out all the hyperbole, they'd have to fill the show with boring old facts, and who wants that?
er, a.com.au address, perhaps..org.au/.net.au rules and regs are a bit looser.
If they'd used the.org.au address, (cough and their correct contact details cough) they'd probably would have gotten away with it, what with being an organisation against the policies of Stephen C.
Considering that the US and Soviet Union tested thousands of devices with much high yields with minimal environmental impact
There, fixed that for you.
Minimal global environmental impact perhaps, but certainly not local. Maralinga/Bikini Atoll/Bits of Nevada (and no doubt chunks of the former USSR) are all still uncomfortably hot. And seeing as just about any environmental release of anything even suggested to be slightly radioactive results in the Green equivalent of "release the hounds!", I don't see any orion-type systems being available any time soon.
That would be an interesting premise, considering that Optus was the first "new" carrier allowed to operate in Australia after the privatisation of Telecom.
Their catchphrase/tagline, by the way, is "Yes". Guess that doesn't apply to Android apps.
then technically speaking the extra energy put into manufacturing more complex LEDs and CFLs makes them more energy inefficient than long life incandescent light fixtures as you are making use of the heat
Which is completely irrelevant when you use the "more than 100%" energy-efficient means of heating your home, such as a heat pump.
Here's the thing - I don't usually go trolling, but I couldn't resist slipping in a little one into my post, just to see if anyone would bite.
Yes, I am quite aware of what CERN (and principally, Tim Berners-Lee) did for us here on slashdot. Having experienced the internet pre-HTTP, I'm very glad that they let their creation loose upon the world.
Well..... *one* of their creations, anyway. The jury's still out on the LHC.
(and your post is modded 'informative' !? It's a sad day for slashdot)
Try it up near the rear-vision mirror, or wherever there is that 'stenciled dot pattern' on the glass. That's usually where the reflective coating is absent.
At least, thats the case with my Peugeot - its owners manual specifically states to put RFID toll tags, etc in those positions.
And I happen to like these new reflective windscreens. I live in the middle of Australia, and the amount of heat in the dash and steering wheel of a car out in the sun for a couple of hours is phenonmenal. The TiO-coated windscreens cut down on that heat by a large amount.
or even hydrogen at 142MJ/kg and you start to get some idea of why people are excited about "the hydrogen economy".
Call me when there's a cheap way to store 30kg of hydrogen at STP in a form that can easily be used and stored onboard in a vehicle for at least 4 weeks without losses.
Further to the impulse specs, I'm reasonably sure that maximum recommended limits for noise here is 85dB for 8 hours before it is likely that some sort of long term hearing damage will occur.
Each 3dB increase halves the exposure time. Just for fun, let's work some numbers.
It also ignores the fact that ABS is intended to preserve vehicle control under panic braking conditions, not to reduce stopping distance.
Not only that, but multi-channel ABS can keep things under control much better than a human driver - unless he's got four brake pedals (and four feet). For example, braking heavily at speed in a typical 2-wheels on dirt/2 wheels on tarmac collision avoidance situation without ABS will usually result in the vehicle spinning off the other side of the road.
Add in the relatively trivial software patch for ESP and you've got a car that's quite capable of saving your life on that *one day* that you exceeded your capabilites.
How can REMOVING software from an image require testing?
You've never heard of dependencies? I'd be willing to wager that in a typical Dell install there is at least one third-party app that needs some component of Office.
Precisely. Text-speak has a stunted vocabulary, simply because it was designed to be easily input and had to work around a 160 character limit. There's nothing wrong with that, there's a clear need for it in that particular context.
The problem is that once it escapes from the mobile environment it bears a nasty resemblance to Newspeak - extremely limited sentence structure, very few adjectives or adverbs. Once you lose the ability to describe something adequately, you're screwed. You can't easily pass your idea or experience on to someone else - worse, you can't even adequately describe it to yourself. Recall that one of the goals of the government in 1984 was to shift the language in a direction that made it impossible for people to think rebellious thoughts.
But I'm sure there won't be any problem with dealing with a bunch of frustrated people who lack the language skills to be able to share their point of view adequately. I'm sure riots and wars were started for completely different reasons.
Desktop environments and panning.
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Does KDE/Gnome do a panning widget yet? Spent months trying to get panning working on my 800x400 eeePC, wrote a little hacked up util to watch the mouse and pan screen as necessary, eventually gave up with that kludge and went back to XP which does panning out of the box.
Fucking xorg - all they responded with after they dropped 'native' support for panning in xrandr is that it's a problem for the DE to deal with. DE's don't seem to care too much as all they're doing is working on 3D eye-candy. Forget basic functionality like a virtual panning screen, that's in the too-hard basket.
There's a psycho-accoustical effect with loud music - the brain has trouble determining pitch and will simply fill in with the 'correct' pitch as needed.
As long as it's *loud* you can sing off-key as much as you like and your fans will scream for more. But the guy outside the club will be wincing as you miss every note and thinking, "who are these losers?"
So cook away people and just think about the noble sacrifice you make to promote other peoples profit margins.
Ah yes, the Evil Corporation. Don't forget that I get something in return as well from using these things - normally a lot of added convenience or usefulness.
It's very convenient to have quick food, instant network/telecoms access, a cold beer after work and the smooth refreshing taste of a good cigarette (well, personally I'll pass on the last one). Whether its worth the risks involved with each one is a decision that only the individual can make.
"Steve navigates normal daily chores with the help of a âwi-fi detectorâ(TM) which spots areas he should avoid."
Which should probably include his wi-fi detector as it very likely is a superhet design which has a local oscillator in it that runs pretty close to 2.4GHz.
The emissions from the LO are pretty low..... but still, perhaps he should ditch it.
It would probably make his life a lot better if he didn't know where the wifi hotspots were anyway. Ignorance is bliss and all that.
4. Bring up an initial warning page saying, "Your browser is unsupported, please use XXX/YYY/ZZZ instead. Tick this box if you want to continue anyway", then set a cookie that doesn't show the message again for 3 weeks.
This lets people use your site knowing that it might look a little weird/broken - and who knows, the next update to their browser might render your crappy html as you intended.
000 is the emergency number in Australia, and it's quite easy to dial it in a pocket.
There's been more than one occasion where I've checked the phone and it has "000" and "SEND" under the very large, central softkey. I always thought keylocks were there to, you know, lock the keys. Don't give me that crap about, "OMG ITS AN EMERGENCY YOU WONT HAVE TIME TO UNLOCK A PHONE" , just lock the damn keys like I told you to.
That's right - exactly 127.543112 kilometres/litre. Will those who can't get that last millimetre per litre be able to get their money back?
Remember kids - significant digits are important, even if it just means you don't have to type those last 6 digits. In the case of 300 miles per gallon, there might just be one significant digit there, in which case 100km/l is just fine.
(begin rant)
It reminds me of annoying Reuters articles where they simply put (km) after some large mileage figure (and vice-versa), instead of bothering with any significant digits. For example - "the 7000-mile (km) journey across the ocean was long and arduous." There's a lot of difference between 7000 miles and 7000 km. Assuming the 7000 mile figure is the original value, is the margin of error that big in the story that you can get away with a 3000km-plus error? If that's the case, why even bother putting the (km) in? Most readers, if they wanted to convert units, would end up with a wild-assed guess that's probably closer.
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"Obama is violating U.S. Law regarding these images."
That's right, because the President of the USA never, ever, delegates stuff to other people. Every single decision in the entire Federal Branch is personally signed off by him, and him alone.
Yes , the buck eventually stops with him, but I'll be willing to bet 10 bucks here and now that there are at least three layers of management between him and the person who actually made that decision.
Balloons? I use my 300MW pocket laser to pop satellites, burn my name on the moon and hold entire nations to ransom for one million dollars.
*pinky to mouth*
Just go back to the original definition of quarantine, that's long enough.
But as has been mentioned, checkpoints are 'technically outside US soil', so you could be attacked by pirates whilst at a checkpoint and have no redress. Which seems to be pretty much what is actually happening.
meat has roughly 15% of the calories e.g. potatoes have
Hmmm. Looking at those figures, I would suggest that it's the tedious kilocalories = Calories issue raising its ugly head again.
Eg. other tables of meat kilocalories suggest it's on par with your potatoes.
I have Austar, a satellite pay-tv service here in Australia. They have a channel called, "Discovery Turbo Max". I'm waiting for them to tack an "Extreme!" in there somewhere.
I must be getting too old for their target demographic or something, all the "awesome" "extreme" "to the max, woo!" etc that they sprinkle liberally throughout all the Discovery Channel shows really grates on me. They had a show on the other week about those giant crystals in a cave in south America somewhere. It's hot in the cave, some 50 degrees C. Fair enough, it's bloody hot and you can keel over pretty damn quick from heat stroke. But literally 90% of the show was about how EXTREMELY hot it was, how they only had MINUTES before they DIED IN THERE, and how they were SECONDS AWAY FROM DEATH whilst taking core samples, how their CORE BODY TEMPERATURE was RISING RAPIDLY towards the FATAL ZONE and then how they got out JUST IN TIME BEFORE THEY DIED.
But I suppose if they cut out all the hyperbole, they'd have to fill the show with boring old facts, and who wants that?
That's the rules for owning a .au address.
er, a .com.au address, perhaps. .org.au/.net.au rules and regs are a bit looser.
If they'd used the .org.au address, (cough and their correct contact details cough) they'd probably would have gotten away with it, what with being an organisation against the policies of Stephen C.
Considering that the US and Soviet Union tested thousands of devices with much high yields with minimal environmental impact
There, fixed that for you.
Minimal global environmental impact perhaps, but certainly not local. Maralinga/Bikini Atoll/Bits of Nevada (and no doubt chunks of the former USSR) are all still uncomfortably hot.
And seeing as just about any environmental release of anything even suggested to be slightly radioactive results in the Green equivalent of "release the hounds!", I don't see any orion-type systems being available any time soon.
born of its original monopoly status.
That would be an interesting premise, considering that Optus was the first "new" carrier allowed to operate in Australia after the privatisation of Telecom.
Their catchphrase/tagline, by the way, is "Yes". Guess that doesn't apply to Android apps.
then technically speaking the extra energy put into manufacturing more complex LEDs and CFLs makes them more energy inefficient than long life incandescent light fixtures as you are making use of the heat
Which is completely irrelevant when you use the "more than 100%" energy-efficient means of heating your home, such as a heat pump.
Here's the thing - I don't usually go trolling, but I couldn't resist slipping in a little one into my post, just to see if anyone would bite.
Yes, I am quite aware of what CERN (and principally, Tim Berners-Lee) did for us here on slashdot. Having experienced the internet pre-HTTP, I'm very glad that they let their creation loose upon the world.
Well..... *one* of their creations, anyway. The jury's still out on the LHC.
(and your post is modded 'informative' !? It's a sad day for slashdot)
http://hcc.web.cern.ch/hcc/cryo_main/cryo_main.php?region=Sector81
Pretty wild to think that a rise up to 8 kelvin is a "serious overtemp event".
(And fancy CERN having all their engineering data online like that, open to everyone..... anyone'd think they invented the internet or something.)
Try it up near the rear-vision mirror, or wherever there is that 'stenciled dot pattern' on the glass. That's usually where the reflective coating is absent.
At least, thats the case with my Peugeot - its owners manual specifically states to put RFID toll tags, etc in those positions.
And I happen to like these new reflective windscreens. I live in the middle of Australia, and the amount of heat in the dash and steering wheel of a car out in the sun for a couple of hours is phenonmenal. The TiO-coated windscreens cut down on that heat by a large amount.
or even hydrogen at 142MJ/kg and you start to get some idea of why people are excited about "the hydrogen economy".
Call me when there's a cheap way to store 30kg of hydrogen at STP in a form that can easily be used and stored onboard in a vehicle for at least 4 weeks without losses.
Further to the impulse specs, I'm reasonably sure that maximum recommended limits for noise here is 85dB for 8 hours before it is likely that some sort of long term hearing damage will occur.
Each 3dB increase halves the exposure time. Just for fun, let's work some numbers.
88dB = 4 hours
91dB = 2 hours
94dB = 1 hour
97dB = 30 minutes
100dB = 15 minutes
103dB = 7.5 minutes
106dB = 195 seconds
109dB = 97.5 seconds
112dB = 48.75 seconds
115dB = 24 seconds
118dB = 12 seconds
121dB = 6 seconds
124dB = 3 seconds
127dB = 1.5 seconds
130dB = 0.75 seconds
Do I need to follow this through any further?
Unfortunately any mention of 'sugar beets' causes me to immediately think of the catchy tune 'beet-beet-sugar-beet-beet-sugar-beet-sugar-beet-beet' and I thus I am unable to provide any useful posts on this story.
It has to be at least 25 years since I've heard it - damn you Sesame Street, you broke my brain.
It also ignores the fact that ABS is intended to preserve vehicle control under panic braking conditions, not to reduce stopping distance.
Not only that, but multi-channel ABS can keep things under control much better than a human driver - unless he's got four brake pedals (and four feet). For example, braking heavily at speed in a typical 2-wheels on dirt/2 wheels on tarmac collision avoidance situation without ABS will usually result in the vehicle spinning off the other side of the road.
Add in the relatively trivial software patch for ESP and you've got a car that's quite capable of saving your life on that *one day* that you exceeded your capabilites.
How can REMOVING software from an image require testing?
You've never heard of dependencies? I'd be willing to wager that in a typical Dell install there is at least one third-party app that needs some component of Office.
Words are tools for thought
Precisely. Text-speak has a stunted vocabulary, simply because it was designed to be easily input and had to work around a 160 character limit. There's nothing wrong with that, there's a clear need for it in that particular context.
The problem is that once it escapes from the mobile environment it bears a nasty resemblance to Newspeak - extremely limited sentence structure, very few adjectives or adverbs. Once you lose the ability to describe something adequately, you're screwed. You can't easily pass your idea or experience on to someone else - worse, you can't even adequately describe it to yourself. Recall that one of the goals of the government in 1984 was to shift the language in a direction that made it impossible for people to think rebellious thoughts.
But I'm sure there won't be any problem with dealing with a bunch of frustrated people who lack the language skills to be able to share their point of view adequately. I'm sure riots and wars were started for completely different reasons.
Does KDE/Gnome do a panning widget yet? Spent months trying to get panning working on my 800x400 eeePC, wrote a little hacked up util to watch the mouse and pan screen as necessary, eventually gave up with that kludge and went back to XP which does panning out of the box.
Fucking xorg - all they responded with after they dropped 'native' support for panning in xrandr is that it's a problem for the DE to deal with. DE's don't seem to care too much as all they're doing is working on 3D eye-candy. Forget basic functionality like a virtual panning screen, that's in the too-hard basket.
There's a psycho-accoustical effect with loud music - the brain has trouble determining pitch and will simply fill in with the 'correct' pitch as needed.
As long as it's *loud* you can sing off-key as much as you like and your fans will scream for more. But the guy outside the club will be wincing as you miss every note and thinking, "who are these losers?"
So cook away people and just think about the noble sacrifice you make to promote other peoples profit margins.
Ah yes, the Evil Corporation. Don't forget that I get something in return as well from using these things - normally a lot of added convenience or usefulness.
It's very convenient to have quick food, instant network/telecoms access, a cold beer after work and the smooth refreshing taste of a good cigarette (well, personally I'll pass on the last one). Whether its worth the risks involved with each one is a decision that only the individual can make.
"Steve navigates normal daily chores with the help of a âwi-fi detectorâ(TM) which spots areas he should avoid."
Which should probably include his wi-fi detector as it very likely is a superhet design which has a local oscillator in it that runs pretty close to 2.4GHz.
The emissions from the LO are pretty low..... but still, perhaps he should ditch it.
It would probably make his life a lot better if he didn't know where the wifi hotspots were anyway. Ignorance is bliss and all that.
4. Bring up an initial warning page saying, "Your browser is unsupported, please use XXX/YYY/ZZZ instead. Tick this box if you want to continue anyway", then set a cookie that doesn't show the message again for 3 weeks.
This lets people use your site knowing that it might look a little weird/broken - and who knows, the next update to their browser might render your crappy html as you intended.
000 is the emergency number in Australia, and it's quite easy to dial it in a pocket.
There's been more than one occasion where I've checked the phone and it has "000" and "SEND" under the very large, central softkey. I always thought keylocks were there to, you know, lock the keys. Don't give me that crap about, "OMG ITS AN EMERGENCY YOU WONT HAVE TIME TO UNLOCK A PHONE" , just lock the damn keys like I told you to.
That's right - exactly 127.543112 kilometres/litre. Will those who can't get that last millimetre per litre be able to get their money back?
Remember kids - significant digits are important, even if it just means you don't have to type those last 6 digits. In the case of 300 miles per gallon, there might just be one significant digit there, in which case 100km/l is just fine.
(begin rant)
It reminds me of annoying Reuters articles where they simply put (km) after some large mileage figure (and vice-versa), instead of bothering with any significant digits. For example - "the 7000-mile (km) journey across the ocean was long and arduous." There's a lot of difference between 7000 miles and 7000 km. Assuming the 7000 mile figure is the original value, is the margin of error that big in the story that you can get away with a 3000km-plus error? If that's the case, why even bother putting the (km) in? Most readers, if they wanted to convert units, would end up with a wild-assed guess that's probably closer.
(end rant)