Jeez, what an obvious fake. This is yet another one of those pie-in-the-sky flying car type projects. Some guy just has an idea and he's trolling for investors with more money than brains. No idea why Slashdot helps these types.
Sure, technology helps. But what you really need is to find some way to inspire men to kill. As present experience shows us, as long as you have that ideology that inspires men to plant a bomb in a market packed with people, that's all that matters. Dynamite is a 19th century invention. As is throwing bombs into crowds.
Nope! Doesn't work. I'm slowly learning metric (living in a metric country) and previous experience hasn't helped out at all. Now, I don't know my current weight in pounds, and I'm slowly slowly learning Celsius. I still don't know to bring a jacket or not when they say 16 degrees or whatever, and all that C/F exposure I had my entire life didn't stick at all. The only thing it did was annoy me when I see some dumb journalist say "XX miles (XX km)" as if anyone cared.
Volts and amps were perfectly good measurements, before they were STOLEN by the ITU and labeled "metric". Likewise the second, which existed long long before the French got a hard-on for all things base 10.
Hey, wait - seconds are base 60? What kind of bizarrity is this? I demand the ITU create a new, proper measurement of time, with proper decimalization! 24 hours in a day? Good Lord man, you must be joking. And a calendar system so broken that it has leap years EVERY FOUR YEARS? Sounds like the ITU took the coward's way out, and simply adopted an old imperial system, gave it a coat of paint, and called it "metric". A system that uses base 60, base 24, base 7, and can't even decide between base 30 and 31, not to mention the "month" is based on something so profoundly un-metric as the PHASE OF THE MOON?
Well, based in China as I am, I can think of another reason the RBN stayed here for a few days and then quit. The internet connection to the outside world is horribly slow! I regularly get modem speeds when using US-based sites such as slashdot. If file transfers go above 10k/s then I'm ecstatic. I can't imagine that spammers would be happy with slow connections. I had a Nordic businessman ask me for some consulting recently. I talked to him, and he said that the internet was too slow between there and Denmark, and could I fix it? I just rolled my eyes and told him to talk to either Hu Jintao or the Ministry of Propaganda and Information...
Well, I'd be careful doing that nowadays. Depending on the circumstances, you could be perpetrating a racist incident. Don't oppress others with your idea of what the human body should smell like. Perfumes and deodorant are unnatural and poisonous.
No, he's pretty much hit the nail on the head. The Chinese engineers I've worked with are helpless. They have this culture where it's expected that you can refuse to work unless the bosses have provided you with a step-by-step plan. Unless they're copying something, of course - then they're fast as lightning (because someone has provided them with a model). It sounds like a stereotype but it's absolutely true.
Believe it - read the linked article! It's not a right wing parody of an environmentalist, it's a real environmentalist who really believes what he's saying.
Of course they're nicely warm - not all of us rate a pepper by how freaking mouth-scorching they are. There are a few people out there whose culinary life does not include trying to get the hottest possible meal. I even met a fellow once who didn't know what a Scoville unit was! Can you believe the rank ignorance?
Dude. Seriously. Just because I buy commie posters for 50 cents apiece and sell them for $20 doesn't indicate any political views. A dictatorship has...wait for it...a dictator. Who is dictator of China? It certainly isn't Hu Jintao. His power is severely circumscribed by the Party apparatus. Also, wipe the spittle off the corners of your mouth.
WTF are you talking about? Just because I live in China doesn't make me Chinese. I think someone is projecting his anxieties on the world at large, because I don't get what the hell you're talking about. China is not a dictatorship. Hu Jintao's word does not travel very far at all outside Beijing. Please try to be more informed and less spittle-flecked next time.
Where was the jingoism? The Russians designed a "triple redundant" system with a single point of failure. In addition, it failed because it got wet and moldy. When the failure happened, the Russians pointed the finger everywhere but themselves.
I see you have never dealt with Russians. The ones in their space program are especially tetchy about taking ANY blame whatsoever. Their equipment is always perfect, and the foreign equipment MUST be the problem. You know, how when there's a problem, you kind of step back for a second and analyze the entire situation? That's what NASA does. The Russians merely blame the first thing they can think of. Then, when that's disproven, they have a lot of other proposed explanations, none of which involve the failure of Russian equipment. It's even worse when there is a semi-plausible event like the new solar panel.
Look, the Russians as people are all right. But their management in the space program is obsessed with face. They feel that admitting any faults demeans the Russian nation and the Russian people. You can laugh but that's how it is.
It's not really political will...I'd chalk it up to simple racism. The Japanese don't like anything that's not made in Japan and 100% Japanese. They'll go out of their way to scratch this itch.
honestly, if Japan hasn't been a model ally and worthy of our best technology, then I don't what the fuck that would look like.
Have you been reading the news lately? The Japanese have been leaking information like a sieve to the Chinese. They're pretty thoroughly penetrated. Giving the F-22 to the Japanese would be the same as uploading all of the plans to Beijing. I'm not a fan of the USA sharing its latest, greatest tech with anyone. England, maybe.
Who said the site in my profile was the site I was talking about? The posters website is hosted in the USA, because that's where the customers are. The site I was talking about is for people in China, hence the hosting in China. Otherwise, there's no reason to host here, service is awful, expensive, and very very slow if you're outside the Great Firewall.
No, this isn't new. I had it happen on my website while it was hosted in China. At the bottom of every page, there was an IFRAME pointing to an external site, automatically inserted just above the tag. I didn't find out about it because I used Opera, and of course I didn't get infected. I found out because my users were complaining that my front page set off their virus alarms. Silly me, I told them that my whole site was static HTML straight from Dreamweaver, and that there was no dynamic content that could be exploited. I assumed that my webserver was hacked (the Chinese ISP used IIS, of course) and told everyone there was nothing I could do. The problem "resolved itself" and then returned a few times.
I've since moved to a Hong Kong server running BSD/Apache. Much cheaper, I get an actual control panel, and I'm not subject to the ridiculous requirements of the ICP permit. You know what you have to go through to get one of those for a business? Insane! And don't even mention that you're a foreigner, they go apeshit.
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Jeez, what an obvious fake. This is yet another one of those pie-in-the-sky flying car type projects. Some guy just has an idea and he's trolling for investors with more money than brains. No idea why Slashdot helps these types.
Sure, technology helps. But what you really need is to find some way to inspire men to kill. As present experience shows us, as long as you have that ideology that inspires men to plant a bomb in a market packed with people, that's all that matters. Dynamite is a 19th century invention. As is throwing bombs into crowds.
Look at your first sentence, and then the last. Rambling, is it not?
Nope! Doesn't work. I'm slowly learning metric (living in a metric country) and previous experience hasn't helped out at all. Now, I don't know my current weight in pounds, and I'm slowly slowly learning Celsius. I still don't know to bring a jacket or not when they say 16 degrees or whatever, and all that C/F exposure I had my entire life didn't stick at all. The only thing it did was annoy me when I see some dumb journalist say "XX miles (XX km)" as if anyone cared.
Hey, wait - seconds are base 60? What kind of bizarrity is this? I demand the ITU create a new, proper measurement of time, with proper decimalization! 24 hours in a day? Good Lord man, you must be joking. And a calendar system so broken that it has leap years EVERY FOUR YEARS? Sounds like the ITU took the coward's way out, and simply adopted an old imperial system, gave it a coat of paint, and called it "metric". A system that uses base 60, base 24, base 7, and can't even decide between base 30 and 31, not to mention the "month" is based on something so profoundly un-metric as the PHASE OF THE MOON?
You are legally required to aggressively defend your IPR, otherwise you lose it. Hate the game, not the playa.
Yeah...100k/s to sites inside China. I'm talking about overseas.
Well, based in China as I am, I can think of another reason the RBN stayed here for a few days and then quit. The internet connection to the outside world is horribly slow! I regularly get modem speeds when using US-based sites such as slashdot. If file transfers go above 10k/s then I'm ecstatic. I can't imagine that spammers would be happy with slow connections. I had a Nordic businessman ask me for some consulting recently. I talked to him, and he said that the internet was too slow between there and Denmark, and could I fix it? I just rolled my eyes and told him to talk to either Hu Jintao or the Ministry of Propaganda and Information...
Managers who do that are morons. You're not exactly proving your point here...
Q: Why is starting a message in the "Subject" line irritating?
Well, I'd be careful doing that nowadays. Depending on the circumstances, you could be perpetrating a racist incident. Don't oppress others with your idea of what the human body should smell like. Perfumes and deodorant are unnatural and poisonous.
No, he's pretty much hit the nail on the head. The Chinese engineers I've worked with are helpless. They have this culture where it's expected that you can refuse to work unless the bosses have provided you with a step-by-step plan. Unless they're copying something, of course - then they're fast as lightning (because someone has provided them with a model). It sounds like a stereotype but it's absolutely true.
I find your ideas intriguing, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Believe it - read the linked article! It's not a right wing parody of an environmentalist, it's a real environmentalist who really believes what he's saying.
Of course they're nicely warm - not all of us rate a pepper by how freaking mouth-scorching they are. There are a few people out there whose culinary life does not include trying to get the hottest possible meal. I even met a fellow once who didn't know what a Scoville unit was! Can you believe the rank ignorance?
Dude. Seriously. Just because I buy commie posters for 50 cents apiece and sell them for $20 doesn't indicate any political views. A dictatorship has...wait for it...a dictator. Who is dictator of China? It certainly isn't Hu Jintao. His power is severely circumscribed by the Party apparatus. Also, wipe the spittle off the corners of your mouth.
WTF are you talking about? Just because I live in China doesn't make me Chinese. I think someone is projecting his anxieties on the world at large, because I don't get what the hell you're talking about. China is not a dictatorship. Hu Jintao's word does not travel very far at all outside Beijing. Please try to be more informed and less spittle-flecked next time.
Bonus points for mentioning the "root causes" of terrorism. Hint: it's called Islam.
Conveniently ignoring the fact that the Russians designed a triple-redundant system with a single point of failure. How on Earth is that jingoistic?
Where was the jingoism? The Russians designed a "triple redundant" system with a single point of failure. In addition, it failed because it got wet and moldy. When the failure happened, the Russians pointed the finger everywhere but themselves.
Look, the Russians as people are all right. But their management in the space program is obsessed with face. They feel that admitting any faults demeans the Russian nation and the Russian people. You can laugh but that's how it is.
It's not really political will...I'd chalk it up to simple racism. The Japanese don't like anything that's not made in Japan and 100% Japanese. They'll go out of their way to scratch this itch.
Have you been reading the news lately? The Japanese have been leaking information like a sieve to the Chinese. They're pretty thoroughly penetrated. Giving the F-22 to the Japanese would be the same as uploading all of the plans to Beijing. I'm not a fan of the USA sharing its latest, greatest tech with anyone. England, maybe.
Who said the site in my profile was the site I was talking about? The posters website is hosted in the USA, because that's where the customers are. The site I was talking about is for people in China, hence the hosting in China. Otherwise, there's no reason to host here, service is awful, expensive, and very very slow if you're outside the Great Firewall.
I've since moved to a Hong Kong server running BSD/Apache. Much cheaper, I get an actual control panel, and I'm not subject to the ridiculous requirements of the ICP permit. You know what you have to go through to get one of those for a business? Insane! And don't even mention that you're a foreigner, they go apeshit.