I don't see McCain's age as an issue, considering HIS MOTHER is still alive and quite coherent for her age.
Also, if Cheney is still alive after all these years, you've got to think that the government has some sort of top-secret reanimation technology that keeps people alive indefinitely.
If you can do this with radiation, why not also include other types of detectors. What about cocaine detectors, linked to your neighborhood police department swat team, ready to swoosh in at the slightest hint of malfeasance? Or alcohol vapor detectors that pick up drunk people moving at 55mph? And keep the criminals from tampering with the phones by making it a crime too. Foolproof!
It may sound crazy, but the cops would LOVE to have this type of technology available to them. And it will only take a couple more terrorist attacks before we give it to them.
This makes perfect sense though. Business want a paper trail that they can go back on if problems arise later. You may now say "no license is required...it's public domain". But what if 5 years from now, you decide to sue them for copyright infringement? How do they defend themselves without the paper trail? From a legal perspective, it's an order of magnitude easier to go back to the license and show that you're not infringing than to try to prove that your software used to be in the public domain 5 years ago.
Another problem with open source software is that patent liability is placed on the user of the software, not the creator. The SCO/IBM lawsuit shows that. License a piece of Microsoft software, and the patent trolls go after Microsoft. Use a piece of open source software created by Ted in his garage, and the patent trolls go after you.
IBM is VERY strict with open source now. Nobody is allowed to use open source or public domain code in their projects unless it's gone through a very rigorous screening method to make sure there isn't any copyrighted code in there. And they provide a 'whitelist' of software that has been prescreened and is allowed to be used by developers. This list is rather small though. It requires alot of effort to remain safe from a legal perspective, and I doubt that few companies outside of IBM have the resources or expertise to do it.
I'd prefer to get rid of 'cents' altogether, and replace it with tenths of dollars. So you get rid of coins of value.01/.05/.25, and you're left with coins of value.1/.5/1 Since $1 coins are now approximately the size of quarters, I'd also resize the 50c piece to approximately match the current size of a nickel, so that the coin sizes are such that.1<.5<1.
That's not entirely true either. Fresh water is slightly less dense than salt water. So when the ice cap melts, the oceans will become fresher and less dense. Since the overall mass of the water+ice does not change, the sea level will rise slightly.
Couldn't Google (and/or a coalition of web content companies in favor of network neutrality) simply use the same tactics against the ISPs? For instance, Google could say that it deserves a fee from an ISP to guarantee access to any of its users of the Google website. If the ISP doesn't agree to pay, then all requests originating from that ISPs network will not be accepted. However, Google would be willing to offer free access to any users on ISPs with neutral networks.;-)
Oh yea....a 'really cool geek' that's part of a community whose sole purpose is to destroy the content of slashdot because they don't agree that the editors of slashdot should have the power to moderate posts as they see fit. These 'geeks' need to get a life. Slashdot is a fricken website for Christs sake! The whole squabble about the 'censored' post is just laughable. If the editors of slashdot were really conspiring so that no one finds out their 'secret', why wouldn't they just remove the censored post altogether? My guess is that these anti-slash folks are people who thought they had insightful comments, but nobody else thought so, so this is their way of getting back at the slashdot community. Cindi (if that is your name and this post isn't flamebait from some loser) good luck with John. <sarcasm>I'm sure that he's nothing like the out-of-touch losers that you mentioned that you already dated.</sarcasm> btw...I realize the irony of taking time out of my life to complain about people who waste their time on stupid vi/emacs, linux/windows, slashdot/anti-slashdot battles, so don't bother pointing that out to me.
Microsoft software developers were so good that they fix all the bugs in all of their code in only two months! The way I see it, modularizing Windows should only take them a couple of days.
I've read articles on this technology before. The media can be erased by applying heat to the platters. The indentations simply 'melt' away. However, I don't know how simple it is to selectively erase individual bits...
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I don't see McCain's age as an issue, considering HIS MOTHER is still alive and quite coherent for her age.
Also, if Cheney is still alive after all these years, you've got to think that the government has some sort of top-secret reanimation technology that keeps people alive indefinitely.
Quiet you fools! Wait to point this out until AFTER the legislation passes! :-)
64 megajoules is enough for anybody.
If you can do this with radiation, why not also include other types of detectors. What about cocaine detectors, linked to your neighborhood police department swat team, ready to swoosh in at the slightest hint of malfeasance? Or alcohol vapor detectors that pick up drunk people moving at 55mph? And keep the criminals from tampering with the phones by making it a crime too. Foolproof!
It may sound crazy, but the cops would LOVE to have this type of technology available to them. And it will only take a couple more terrorist attacks before we give it to them.
Oh wonderful. Now when I'm overseas, the terrorists can identify me as an American in a crowd from 20 feet away.
Agreed. Think how many votes you could by with $1,000,000!
This makes perfect sense though. Business want a paper trail that they can go back on if problems arise later. You may now say "no license is required...it's public domain". But what if 5 years from now, you decide to sue them for copyright infringement? How do they defend themselves without the paper trail? From a legal perspective, it's an order of magnitude easier to go back to the license and show that you're not infringing than to try to prove that your software used to be in the public domain 5 years ago.
Another problem with open source software is that patent liability is placed on the user of the software, not the creator. The SCO/IBM lawsuit shows that. License a piece of Microsoft software, and the patent trolls go after Microsoft. Use a piece of open source software created by Ted in his garage, and the patent trolls go after you.
IBM is VERY strict with open source now. Nobody is allowed to use open source or public domain code in their projects unless it's gone through a very rigorous screening method to make sure there isn't any copyrighted code in there. And they provide a 'whitelist' of software that has been prescreened and is allowed to be used by developers. This list is rather small though. It requires alot of effort to remain safe from a legal perspective, and I doubt that few companies outside of IBM have the resources or expertise to do it.
Why make the lowest monetary unit as 5 cents?
.01/.05/.25, and you're left with coins of value .1/.5/1 .1<.5<1.
I'd prefer to get rid of 'cents' altogether, and replace it with tenths of dollars.
So you get rid of coins of value
Since $1 coins are now approximately the size of quarters, I'd also resize the 50c piece to approximately match the current size of a nickel, so that the coin sizes are such that
That's not entirely true either. Fresh water is slightly less dense than salt water. So when the ice cap melts, the oceans will become fresher and less dense. Since the overall mass of the water+ice does not change, the sea level will rise slightly.
Couldn't Google (and/or a coalition of web content companies in favor of network neutrality) simply use the same tactics against the ISPs? For instance, Google could say that it deserves a fee from an ISP to guarantee access to any of its users of the Google website. If the ISP doesn't agree to pay, then all requests originating from that ISPs network will not be accepted. However, Google would be willing to offer free access to any users on ISPs with neutral networks. ;-)
I don't understand why they couldn't just push the reset button....isn't that what the robotic arm is for? oh wait...
Oh yea....a 'really cool geek' that's part of a community whose sole purpose is to destroy the content of slashdot because they don't agree that the editors of slashdot should have the power to moderate posts as they see fit. These 'geeks' need to get a life. Slashdot is a fricken website for Christs sake! The whole squabble about the 'censored' post is just laughable. If the editors of slashdot were really conspiring so that no one finds out their 'secret', why wouldn't they just remove the censored post altogether? My guess is that these anti-slash folks are people who thought they had insightful comments, but nobody else thought so, so this is their way of getting back at the slashdot community.
Cindi (if that is your name and this post isn't flamebait from some loser) good luck with John. <sarcasm>I'm sure that he's nothing like the out-of-touch losers that you mentioned that you already dated.</sarcasm>
btw...I realize the irony of taking time out of my life to complain about people who waste their time on stupid vi/emacs, linux/windows, slashdot/anti-slashdot battles, so don't bother pointing that out to me.
Microsoft software developers were so good that they fix all the bugs in all of their code in only two months! The way I see it, modularizing Windows should only take them a couple of days.
I don't understand the hub-bub... So the guy was a cricket, big deal. I eat crickets for breakfast.
I've read articles on this technology before. The media can be erased by applying heat to the platters. The indentations simply 'melt' away. However, I don't know how simple it is to selectively erase individual bits...