"Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth."
Einstein was wrong about this one, if it is in fact an authentic Einstein quote. Can someone please verify for me? The Catholic and Protestant Churches supported both Nazism and Fascism.
On the Protestant side:
European Protestantism bore the fierce impress of Martin Luther, whose 1543 tract On the Jews and Their Lies was a principal inspiration for Mein Kampf. In addition to his anti-Semitism, Luther was also a fervent authoritarian. Against the Robbing and Murdering Peasants, his vituperative commentary on a contemporary rebellion, contributed to the deaths of perhaps 100,000 Christians and helped to lay the groundwork for an increasingly severe Germo-Christian autocracy.
On the Catholic:
The Lateran Treaty of 1929 was when the Catholic Church threw its full formal support behind Mussolini. Of course, there had been longstanding informal support long before this, but this is the formal document that the Church cannot deny! It is a impossibility to win power in heavily Christian countries like Italy and Germany were in the 1920's without the active support of the church.
I've also recently bought a hybrid bicycle. Why should I pay $100 a week for a gym membership just to get my cardio up? Riding a bike gets me to work, gets me fit, gets my heart rate up and is good for the environmnet. Good for my wallet, good for my health!
While this company's idea is interesting, it is still two years away from even being approved for commercial use. There are at least two competitors with easier, simpler to use technology:
The problem, so many shipping containers just pilling up unused in the Western world, and forcing the creation of countless new containers in Asia, is certainly worth solving. But so many companies have tried and failed before. For my money, the Indian or Dutch version seems that more likely to win out. India has far lower steel costs, and is at the centre of shipping between Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia.
There was a lot of doomsaying as to how the GPL V 3 would never be adopted, most unexpectedly by Linus, and also by the normal suspects in spreading FUD. It is good to see that the FSF and Stallman have finally addressed patent issues and prevented tivoization. As a major project like Samba has adopted this, many other projects will probably also follow suit. It becomes harder and harder to stay GPL v 2 if the entire body of software is V3. Linus may have stated that the kernel won't have V3, but increasingly that will lead to the kernel being unable to incorporate the latest patches from others.
[quote]Myth 2. But the actual policy document makes no such claim and displays no such intent to "deny" access. The Russian anxiety, echoed on the editorial pages and in news stories around the world, is apparently based on some over-wrought page 1 stories in US newspapers, written by people too careless to actually read the original US document and subsequent official US government clarifications, or too eager to misinterpret it in the most alarmingly stark terms.[/quote]
The actual document clearly states, direct from the Presidents office that the USA will:
he United States considers space capabilities -- including the ground and space segments and supporting links -- vital to its national interests. Consistent with this policy, the United States will: preserve its rights, capabilities, and freedom of action in space; dissuade or deter others from either impeding those rights or developing capabilities intended to do so; take those actions necessary to protect its space capabilities; respond to interference; and , if necessary, adversaries the use of space capabilities hostile to U.S. national interests;
[i]The US has used its veto 13 times[/i]
I hate to correct a corrector, but the US has used a security council vote 81 times.
US
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/data/vetotab. htm
This is part of the reason the US cannot be trusted with control of something as important as DNS. The US government, if it so chose, can mess up the internet fairly well and break up connectivity. This is too much power to trust a foreign government with. In particular, the US is far worse than any other government in invading privacy(Carnivore), conducting mass electronic surveillance(Echelon) and enforcing ridiculous software laws(DMCA). Every day additional information is unearthed about new violations of privacy by the same government that created the Clipper chip and attempted to imprison people for decoding DVD's. No government, including North Korea, China or any other alleged combination is so completely untrustworthy.
We already trust the UN to run our old fashioned phone lines. There is no compelling reason the internet should be any different, and the entire point would be to setup an organisation that no nation can unilaterally dominate. So for you American citizens, it wouldn't be so goddamn easy to get your physical address just by the US passing laws criminalizing what you are doing, but would require them to bribe/intimidate all the other countries. The people who would benefit most would be ordinary US citizens, and the ones who would lose the most would be the governments.
I really disagree that supression of religions is something that the Chinese government does wrong. You only need to look at at America with its far greater level of violence to see that religion can bring a society to its knees. Or Zimbabwe, with its great religious tolerance record. Religious tolerance is an inadequate measure of freedom in a society. Iran is also a society with great religious freedom, where Muslims can practice their faith without limit. Is that a society that should be emulated?
Religious freedom is the worst idea that has ever existed.
The article doesn't do a very good job, including in the multimedia section, of conveying the sheer scale of this project.
It also contains some rather dubious facts. Aryan invasion? It also leaves some rather large gaps in history. It would be like describing Italy as Roman Empire, Enlightenment, and Mussolini. Understanding India is of far greater importance today than it was. Peculiar digressions on Hitler or HIV are offtopic and should be modded so.
Essentially the story has very little on the real impact of the road from those who matter: The Road users, the builders and those who are going to maintain it. Is this project cost effective? You can't answer that by reading the article. You also cannot get any idea of what the economic impact of this prodigious project would be. That's what matters..not some peculiar issues about Nazi's or disease.
I would challenge the truth of this statement. Women are innately inferior to men in any measurable quantity. Political correctness should not be allowed to stand in the way of hard reality. Just as the Japanese average the highest IQ for nations, so too do men average a higher IQ than women. And the results are obvious in both cases.
Intelligence: Men average a higher IQ and SAT score, and they have a brain that is 100 grams bigger.
SAT scores by Gender
Female 1000
Male 1042
ALL TEST-TAKERS 1020
Taken from http://www.fairtest.org/univ/2001SAT%20Scores.html
http://www.ulm.edu/~palmer/Box5_runawaysex.htm In fact, after adjusting for differences in body size, males have about 100 grams more grey matter than females, a difference of about 8 per cent.
Given that men have a larger brain, and better average IQ tests, if a field employs meritocratic selection process i.e selecting only the best, more males should come out on top. There is every reason to expect this, and no reason based in science, as opposed to political dogma, to expect otherwise.
Oh I see. The Mozilla developers are supposed to learn lessons on openness from BSD? What kind of troll are you?
Did you miss the OpenBSD forking because the rest of the previous BSD team..Net? Open? could not get along with Theo De Raadt. These are the same BSD's that pride themselves on its elitist policy of only accepting patches from the core group.
http://www.netbsd.org/People/core.html
I humbly submit that no one needs to learn anything from the BSD process. Next time, don't make such clueless statements. On Slashdot, people who know the history of Unix are a dime a dozen.
In fact, if you knew anything about the BSD approach, you would realize that the Firefox group seems to be approaching the exact same level of arrogance. I only hope we don't end up with three pointless forks..Open Firefox anyone? The pointless infighting and forking of BSD was the reason they were hasbeens instead of competition to Linux.
I have seen a lot of responces throwing FUD without any factual basis so far on this topic. For some reason, the gun topic seems to bring out the paranoid fringe in Slashdot.
I will adddress the very basic topics, which anyone who had bothered to use Google would have found the answers to. If I seem angry and disappointed, it is because of the uniformly low quality of thought displayed so far on this topic. Emotion rather than logic has been debated so far on a topic so clearly "News for Nerds".
The gun is *more* technically reliable than other conventional guns. It has *fewer* moving parts, which are the critical failure point, due to its all electronic nature. The following responce is from the Metal Storm Website.
Reliability - how reliable can an electronic weapon be?
Mechanical weapons, because of the movement, wear and operating stresses on the operating metal components, are expected to experience mechanical failure of some sort, such as jamming, after a calculated average number of firings. This is termed the 'mean rounds between failure'.
Metal Storm weapons have no mechanical components, and therefore certainly none which can jam. Accordingly, we expect more than an order of magnitude improvement of reliability in such weapons.
All of these questions and more are answered in the Metal Storm FAQ.
http://www.metalstorm.com/04_faq_technology.html
But what happens if the battery goes flat? No matter how well maintained a weapon might be, it must be expected that there will nonetheless be a time when the battery will fail.
For this reason, the VLe military handgun is being developed to include a slide device, which can be operated to generate and store electrically energy to enable the weapon to operate even if a battery is not installed.
The Metal Storm handgun, at least the military/police version, is a tremendous improvement on a standard handgun. Especially given the extremely high rates of fire. As this handgun is primarily being marketed as a military tool for the Australian/American armies, yes I do think the technology is vastly better than current handguns. So the FUD claiming that the police were not actually going to use the weapon because they "knew better" is exposed for what it is.
It is more reliable, has a greater rate of fire, and better accuracy. It also prevents unauthorized use of the weapon against the wielder, and considering that this is the very first test of the weapon recognition system, a 90% success rate *IS* outstanding. While not acceptable for day to day use yet, the accuracy rate can only improve.
A recognition system does not need to be 100%. And contrary to what the stated remarks claim about the system being based on a "handgrip", the Metal Storm website makes it claim that a ring system will be used instead. The authorised user will employ a ring equipped with a transponder.
Again, all available from their website, and it seems to contradict this press release almost totally. Is the gun marketed at the military or civlians? From everything I've heard about this company before, it had an exclusively military focus.
It's good to see the spirit of exploration is not dead. I am slightly puzzled by the story though. Why, if Australians are training the Chinese expeditioners, are they doing it in Fremantle?
That really doesn't seem a close match for the climatic conditions in the Antarctica. It may be far too easy compared to the high altitudes they are facing.
It would also be interesting to learn what challenges are involved in building those automated weather recording stations. How *do* they keep it running unattended for 20 years with batteries?
This is an excellent example of the Web applications that Microsoft feared. Even though it is crude, and it has one killer limitation:
* Fonts are not scaled based on display resolution and available pixels; manual CSS editing is required
And a massively annoying one:
* Only one author can be listed in the metadata
I'm not quite sure why the second limitation exists. But already this program does all of the important functions I need Powerpoint for, and it has one big advantage over powerpoint.. the html version looks far prettier on the web than powerpoint does.
I was highly intrigued to learn about Opera's powerpoint alternative and previous attempts in this direction. This may be the first web app that I use all the time.
No matter how the facts are carefully selected and edited, the more popular product has far less bugs. And IIS vulnerabilities are examples of why Windows is so unsecure as well. Many IIS vulnerabitlies are shared, for example:
Microsoft vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Outlook, Outlook Express and Internet Information Server (IIS) 2002-11-20
http://secunia.com/advisories/7567/
And this is a highly critical advisory as well. Because of Microsoft integration of applications with the fundamentals of Windows, the operating system can be easily compromised by a vulnerabilitiy in any microsoft application.
This program will eventually lose marketshare, and this has happened before. Remember WordPerfect? And the biggest flaw with Microsoft Office series of applications is that they are buggy and bloated. They also increase vulnerability to virus infections.
The biggest and best reason that Microsoft Office is doomed is of course the price. Office XP Professional, purchased new, costs $579. StarOffice 6 is $75.95. Prices are in US dollars. I am most definately not seeing $500 worth of greater functionality from MS Office over StarOffice.
I note that the claim: [quote=johnnyb] Stalin killed by the tens of millions, Hitler killed about 6 million. I don't think that the death toll from the entire history of religious persecution matches that done by atheism in this century alone.[/quote]
Japan and Nazi Germnay killed considerably more people than Stalin. Japan too was led by a God Emperor, so you cannot absolve religion of killing fewer people just this century. Just taking the death toll from 1939-45, God killed far more people than all the atheist regimes combined in half a century.
Hitler's toll of 5-6 million Jews was the Jews alone. Contrary to Jewish propoganda, propagated by Leftist apologists, far more people of other races were killed by Hitler than Jews! The Ukrainians were at least one set of victims that are curiously ignored.
http://www.infoukes.com/history/ww2/page-19.html
Jews Killed Davies, Europe A History (1998): 5,571,300 (puts the minimum at 4,871,000 and the maximum at 6,271,500.) Nuremberg indictment: 5,700,000 (accepted by Britannica) Soviet
Prisoners of War killed: * Harper Collins Atlas of the Second World War: 3,000,000 We are up to 9 million dead already for Hitler and the death toll hasn't even started.
Roma (Gypsies): * Ian Hancock, "Responses to the Romani Holocaust" in Is the Holocaust Unique? (A. Rosenbaum, ed.) cites these:
Pauwels and Bergier: 750,000 o Financial Times (London): 500-750,000 in death camps and another million shot outside. 10 million now.
Homosexuals: * Rummel: 220,000 10.22 million. # Euthanasia of Handicapped: * Hugh G. Gallagher: 275,000, citing Breggin (in Century of Genocide, Samuel Totten, ed., (1997)) 10.475
Air Raids * Richard Overy, Russia's War (1997): "an estimated 500,000 Soviet citizens died from German bomb attacks." * Belgrade * London * Stalingrad
11 million now.
Victims of Wehrmacht: * Acc2 historical exhibit curated by Hannes Heer: The common soldiers of the Wehrmacht murdered 1.5M Jews, 3.3M POWs + 5-7M non-Jewish civilians (17 May 1995 Agence France Presse; 22 Feb. 1997 AP)
Other political prisoners: * Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century (1998): over one million died in concentration camps, not counting those deliberately targeted for extermination.
Hitler comes in for 24-25 million dead already. This death toll *excludes* the amount of dead from WW2, which can be laid at Hitler's doorstep. The amount of dead people from World War 2 amounts to approximately 35 million.
This gives a total of 59 million. This safely blows away Stalin's lead as a mass murderer. But it is good to remember on what basis Hitler made his decisions.
"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith. . . we need believing people." (From Hitler's speech, April 26, 1933, during negotiations which led to the Nazi-Vatican Concordat of 1933.) You reap what you sow.
Christianity is the moral foundation upoun which the Third Reich built its actions.
I note that the claim:
[quote=johnnyb]
Stalin killed by the tens of millions, Hitler killed about 6 million. I don't think that the death toll from the entire history of religious persecution matches that done by atheism in this century alone.[/quote]
First of all, both Japan and Nazi Germnay killed considerably more people than Stalin. Japan too was led by a God Emperor, so you cannot absolve religion of killing fewer people just this century.
Hitler's toll of 5-6 million Jews was the Jews alone. Contrary to Jewish propoganda, propagated by Leftist apologists, far more people of other races were killed by Hitler than Jews!
The Ukrainians were at least one set of victims that are curiously ignored.
http://www.infoukes.com/history/ww2/page-19.html
Jews Killed
Davies, Europe A History (1998): 5,571,300 (puts the minimum at 4,871,000 and the maximum at 6,271,500.)
Nuremberg indictment: 5,700,000 (accepted by Britannica)
Soviet Prisoners of War killed:
* Harper Collins Atlas of the Second World War: 3,000,000
We are up to 9 million dead already for Hitler and the death toll hasn't even started.
Roma (Gypsies):
* Ian Hancock, "Responses to the Romani Holocaust" in Is the Holocaust Unique? (A. Rosenbaum, ed.) cites these:
o US Holocaust Memorial Museum: 250,000
o "several published estimates": >1,000,000
o Pauwels and Bergier: 750,000
o Financial Times (London): 500-750,000 in death camps and another million shot outside.
10 million now.
# Homosexuals:
* Rummel: 220,000
10.22 million.
# Euthanasia of Handicapped:
* Hugh G. Gallagher: 275,000, citing Breggin (in Century of Genocide, Samuel Totten, ed., (1997))
10.475
Air Raids
* Richard Overy, Russia's War (1997): "an estimated 500,000 Soviet citizens died from German bomb attacks."
* Belgrade
* London
* Stalingrad
11 million now.
Victims of Wehrmacht:
* Acc2 historical exhibit curated by Hannes Heer: The common soldiers of the Wehrmacht murdered 1.5M Jews, 3.3M POWs + 5-7M non-Jewish civilians (17 May 1995 Agence France Presse; 22 Feb. 1997 AP)
Other political prisoners:
* Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century (1998): over one million died in concentration camps, not counting those deliberately targeted for extermination.
Hitler comes in for 24-25 million dead already. This death toll *excludes* the amount of dead from WW2, which can be laid at Hitler's doorstep. The amount of dead people from World War 2 amounts to
approximately 35 million.
This gives a total of 59 million. This safely blows away Stalin's lead as a mass murderer. But it is good to remember on what basis Hitler made his decisions .
"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith. . . we need believing people." (From Hitler's speech, April 26, 1933, during negotiations which led to the Nazi-Vatican Concordat of 1933.)
You reap what you sow. Christianity is the cause of rape, torture, murder and all other evil.
* Defensive shields (no, Mark Shields doesn't count)
It's quite clear that you're new here. This was covered by Slashdot, and considering that Slashdot replicates stories, there is no real excuse for ignorance.
I think Slashdot should do a comprehensive roundup of the best phones and other multifunctional devices going. Is it really worth it to buy a multi functional device when a seperate mobile and digital camera are better ?
And it's easy enough to use a laptop to send your images to another person. What exactly is the advantage to having a camera phone unless it is for 3G video calls?
I am glad to see that people living through telescopes will always be immature little boys living in a fantasy world.
Has it ever occured to you that astronomy is vital to human life? These boys playing with their toys have done far more to advance human knowledge. I for one find much practical value in knowing the state of the actual universe, instead of the fantasy universe you live in.
Take, for example, the advances in sensor technology made as a result of astronomy. Thanks to the new CCD's and optics invented, advances in medical and other fields are possible. Lives have been saved due to these "immature boys". What have you done that was remotely equivalent in impact?
http://www.lbl.gov/supernova/supernova-spinoffs. ht ml http://www.ihateglasses.com/html/vision_wavema p.ht ml
Thanks to adaptive optics, many people have gained superb vision, being liberated from glasses and contact lenses. Have you improved anyone's sight?
I am personally very grateful to these "boys" who happen to live in the real universe and are discovering its secrets.
This robot has a strictly limited domain to master. It doesn't need to perform every task that a human is capable of. What it needs to do, and do superbly, is assembling structures in space over and over again.
This type of repetitive task is something which machines will excel at and no human can come close. There is also no conceivable reason that these machines can't be monitored and overriden if there is a potential of an enormous mistake.
This would be the same as existing procedures using automated machinery. It would also be possible to train those robots in construction techniques on Earth and then send them up into Space.
There are a lot of problems with creating robots ready for assembling complex structures in space, but the issue you mentioned isn't one of them.
I thought I knew which processors were important in the embedded world. What exactly is Coldfire, and why does it matter compare to ARM and Motorola's offerings?
I realise that Yet Another Embedded Processor that can run all of linux is a good thing. I just don't see why that is important, since the difference between embedded and desktop processors has been diminishing sharply.
I guess previous history should be thrown out? You are quite wrong in this case. There is a great deal of relevance of the behaviour of other nuclear powers as to what these two will do. Neither so far has shown any deviation from the pattern of the other nuclear powers.
And to be blunt: India is a far safer nation than the USA. Let's evaluate the most likely risk to occur, rather than the most unlikely. After all, the USA is the world's biggest and most likely target for nuclear, chemical and biological attack according to US politicians.
The maximum speed for a maglev train is considered to be around 580 kph due to limits in electrical facilities for the train, the engineers said.
We haven't seen nothing yet. It seems the more juice, the higher the speed. I for one hope to see mass production of Maglev trains. They will be vastly superior to planes at less cost.
I can't help thinking that maglev train development will help achieve cheap spaceflight as well. Imagine a spaceplane taking off from a maglev hitting 1000+ kph.
It's convinced me 2.6 is a *lot* better than 2.4. I'm not really surprised at the results. FreeBSD has never seemed faster than Linux, while Open has seemed noticeably slower.
Does anyone know why Open underperformed so dramatically? Can the OpenBSD development team comment on this benchmark ?
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"Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth."
Einstein was wrong about this one, if it is in fact an authentic Einstein quote. Can someone please verify for me?
The Catholic and Protestant Churches supported both Nazism and Fascism.
On the Protestant side:
European Protestantism bore the fierce impress of Martin Luther, whose 1543 tract On the Jews and Their Lies was a principal inspiration for Mein Kampf. In addition to his anti-Semitism, Luther was also a fervent authoritarian. Against the Robbing and Murdering Peasants, his vituperative commentary on a contemporary rebellion, contributed to the deaths of perhaps 100,000 Christians and helped to lay the groundwork for an increasingly severe Germo-Christian autocracy.
On the Catholic:
The Lateran Treaty of 1929 was when the Catholic Church threw its full formal support behind Mussolini. Of course, there had been longstanding informal support long before this, but this is the formal document that the Church cannot deny! It is a impossibility to win power in heavily Christian countries like Italy and Germany were in the 1920's without the active support of the church.
I've also recently bought a hybrid bicycle. Why should I pay $100 a week for a gym membership just to get my cardio up? Riding a bike gets me to work, gets me fit, gets my heart rate up and is good for the environmnet. Good for my wallet, good for my health!
While this company's idea is interesting, it is still two years away from even being approved for commercial use. There are at least two competitors with easier, simpler to use technology:
Indian Shipping Company
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV-R5jlf6bQ&feature=related
Dutch variant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHlTrOVv9gs&feature=related
The problem, so many shipping containers just pilling up unused in the Western world, and forcing the creation of countless new containers in Asia, is certainly worth solving. But so many companies have tried and failed before. For my money, the Indian or Dutch version seems that more likely to win out. India has far lower steel costs, and is at the centre of shipping between Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia.
There was a lot of doomsaying as to how the GPL V 3 would never be adopted, most unexpectedly by Linus, and also by the normal suspects in spreading FUD. It is good to see that
the FSF and Stallman have finally addressed patent issues and prevented tivoization. As a major project like Samba has adopted this, many other projects will probably also follow suit. It becomes harder and harder to stay GPL v 2 if the entire body of software is V3. Linus may have stated that the kernel won't have V3, but increasingly that will lead to the kernel being unable to incorporate the latest patches from others.
[quote]Myth 2.
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But the actual policy document makes no such claim and displays no such intent to "deny" access. The Russian anxiety, echoed on the editorial pages and in news stories around the world, is apparently based on some over-wrought page 1 stories in US newspapers, written by people too careless to actually read the original US document and subsequent official US government clarifications, or too eager to misinterpret it in the most alarmingly stark terms.[/quote]
The actual document clearly states, direct from the Presidents office that the USA will:
he United States considers space capabilities -- including the ground and space
segments and supporting links -- vital to its national interests. Consistent with this
policy, the United States will: preserve its rights, capabilities, and freedom of action in
space; dissuade or deter others from either impeding those rights or developing
capabilities intended to do so; take those actions necessary to protect its space
capabilities; respond to interference; and , if necessary, adversaries the use of space
capabilities hostile to U.S. national interests;
www.ostp.gov/html/US%20National%20Space%20Policy.
Sounds awfully like those "overwrought" page one comments are correct.
[i]The US has used its veto 13 times[/i] I hate to correct a corrector, but the US has used a security council vote 81 times. US http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/data/vetotab. htm
This is part of the reason the US cannot be trusted with control of something as important as DNS. The US government, if it so chose, can mess up the internet fairly well and break up connectivity. This is too much power to trust a foreign government with. In particular, the US is far worse than any other government in invading privacy(Carnivore), conducting mass electronic surveillance(Echelon) and enforcing ridiculous software laws(DMCA). Every day additional information is unearthed about new violations of privacy by the same government that created the Clipper chip and attempted to imprison people for decoding DVD's. No government, including North Korea, China or any other alleged combination is so completely untrustworthy.
We already trust the UN to run our old fashioned phone lines. There is no compelling reason the internet should be any different, and the entire point would be to setup an organisation that no nation can unilaterally dominate. So for you American citizens, it wouldn't be so goddamn easy to get your physical address just by the US passing laws criminalizing what you are doing, but would require them to bribe/intimidate all the other countries. The people who would benefit most would be ordinary US citizens, and the ones who would lose the most would be the governments.
I really disagree that supression of religions is something that the Chinese government does wrong. You only need to look at at America with its far greater level of violence to see that religion can bring a society to its knees. Or Zimbabwe, with its great religious tolerance record. Religious tolerance is an inadequate measure of freedom in a society. Iran is also a society with great religious freedom, where Muslims can practice their faith without limit. Is that a society that should be emulated?
Religious freedom is the worst idea that has ever existed.
The article doesn't do a very good job, including in the multimedia section, of conveying the sheer scale of this project.
..not some peculiar issues about Nazi's or disease.
It also contains some rather dubious facts. Aryan invasion? It also leaves some rather large gaps in history. It would be like describing Italy as Roman Empire, Enlightenment, and Mussolini. Understanding India is of far greater importance today than it was. Peculiar digressions on Hitler or HIV are offtopic and should be modded so.
Essentially the story has very little on the real impact of the road from those who matter: The Road users, the builders and those who are going to maintain it. Is this project cost effective? You can't answer that by reading the article. You also cannot get any idea of what the economic impact of this prodigious project would be. That's what matters
I would challenge the truth of this statement. Women are innately inferior to men in any measurable quantity. Political correctness should not be allowed to stand in the way of hard reality. Just as the Japanese average the highest IQ for nations, so too do men average a higher IQ than women. And the results are obvious in both cases.
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Intelligence: Men average a higher IQ and SAT score, and they have a brain that is 100 grams bigger.
SAT scores by Gender
Female 1000
Male 1042
ALL TEST-TAKERS 1020
Taken from http://www.fairtest.org/univ/2001SAT%20Scores.htm
http://www.ulm.edu/~palmer/Box5_runawaysex.htm
In fact, after adjusting for differences in body size, males have about 100 grams more grey matter than females, a difference of about 8 per cent.
Given that men have a larger brain, and better average IQ tests, if a field employs meritocratic selection process i.e selecting only the best, more males should come out on top. There is every reason to expect this, and no reason based in science, as opposed to political dogma, to expect otherwise.
Oh I see. The Mozilla developers are supposed to learn lessons on openness from BSD? What kind of troll are you?
..Net? Open? could not get along with Theo De Raadt. These are the same BSD's that pride themselves on its elitist policy of only accepting patches from the core group.
Did you miss the OpenBSD forking because the rest of the previous BSD team
http://www.netbsd.org/People/core.html
I humbly submit that no one needs to learn anything from the BSD process. Next time, don't make such clueless statements. On Slashdot, people who know the history of Unix are a dime a dozen.
In fact, if you knew anything about the BSD approach, you would realize that the Firefox group seems to be approaching the exact same level of arrogance. I only hope we don't end up with three pointless forks..Open Firefox anyone? The pointless infighting and forking of BSD was the reason they were hasbeens instead of competition to Linux.
I have seen a lot of responces throwing FUD without any factual basis so far on this topic. For some reason, the gun topic seems to bring out the paranoid fringe in Slashdot.
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I will adddress the very basic topics, which anyone who had bothered to use Google would have found the answers to. If I seem angry and disappointed, it is because of the uniformly low quality of thought displayed so far on this topic. Emotion rather than logic has been debated so far on a topic so clearly "News for Nerds".
The gun is *more* technically reliable than other conventional guns. It has *fewer* moving parts, which are the critical failure point, due to its all electronic nature. The following responce is from the Metal Storm Website.
Reliability - how reliable can an electronic weapon be?
Mechanical weapons, because of the movement, wear and operating stresses on the operating metal components, are expected to experience mechanical failure of some sort, such as jamming, after a calculated average number of firings. This is termed the 'mean rounds between failure'.
Metal Storm weapons have no mechanical components, and therefore certainly none which can jam. Accordingly, we expect more than an order of magnitude improvement of reliability in such weapons.
All of these questions and more are answered in the Metal Storm FAQ.
http://www.metalstorm.com/04_faq_technology.htm
But what happens if the battery goes flat?
No matter how well maintained a weapon might be, it must be expected that there will nonetheless be a time when the battery will fail.
For this reason, the VLe military handgun is being developed to include a slide device, which can be operated to generate and store electrically energy to enable the weapon to operate even if a battery is not installed.
The Metal Storm handgun, at least the military/police version, is a tremendous improvement on a standard handgun. Especially given the extremely high rates of fire. As this handgun is primarily being marketed as a military tool for the Australian/American armies, yes I do think the technology is vastly better than current handguns. So the FUD claiming that the police were not actually going to use the weapon because they "knew better" is exposed for what it is.
It is more reliable, has a greater rate of fire, and better accuracy. It also prevents unauthorized use of the weapon against the wielder, and considering that this is the very first test of the weapon recognition system, a 90% success rate *IS* outstanding. While not acceptable for day to day use yet, the accuracy rate can only improve.
A recognition system does not need to be 100%. And contrary to what the stated remarks claim about the system being based on a "handgrip", the Metal Storm website makes it claim that a ring system will be used instead. The authorised user will employ a ring equipped with a transponder.
http://www.metalstorm.com/12_odwyervle/prototyp
Again, all available from their website, and it seems to contradict this press release almost totally. Is the gun marketed at the military or civlians? From everything I've heard about this company before, it had an exclusively military focus.
It's good to see the spirit of exploration is not dead. I am slightly puzzled by the story though. Why, if Australians are training the Chinese expeditioners, are they doing it in Fremantle?
That really doesn't seem a close match for the climatic conditions in the Antarctica. It may be far too easy compared to the high altitudes they are facing.
It would also be interesting to learn what challenges are involved in building those automated weather recording stations. How *do* they keep it running unattended for 20 years with batteries?
This is an excellent example of the Web applications that Microsoft feared. Even though it is crude, and it has one killer limitation:
.. the html version looks far prettier on the web than powerpoint does.
* Fonts are not scaled based on display resolution and available pixels; manual CSS editing is required
And a massively annoying one:
* Only one author can be listed in the metadata
I'm not quite sure why the second limitation exists. But already this program does all of the important functions I need Powerpoint for, and it has one big advantage over powerpoint
I was highly intrigued to learn about Opera's powerpoint alternative and previous attempts in this direction. This may be the first web app that I use all the time.
An analysis of the numbers of the two latest versions shows quite clearly who wins:
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Apache 2.0.52 Latest version
http://secunia.com/search/?search=Apache+2.0.52
3 vulnerabilities, 0 viruses.
Internet Information Services 6.0 (IIS)
http://secunia.com/search/?search=IIS+6&w=0
30 vulnerabilites, 744 viruses.
No matter how the facts are carefully selected and edited, the more popular product has far less bugs. And IIS vulnerabilities are examples of why Windows is so unsecure as well. Many IIS vulnerabitlies are shared, for example:
Microsoft vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Outlook, Outlook Express and Internet Information Server (IIS) 2002-11-20
http://secunia.com/advisories/7567/
And this is a highly critical advisory as well. Because of Microsoft integration of applications with the fundamentals of Windows, the operating system can be easily compromised by a vulnerabilitiy in any microsoft application.
This program will eventually lose marketshare, and this has happened before. Remember WordPerfect? And the biggest flaw with Microsoft Office series of applications is that they are buggy and bloated. They also increase vulnerability to virus infections.
The biggest and best reason that Microsoft Office is doomed is of course the price. Office XP Professional, purchased new, costs $579. StarOffice 6 is $75.95. Prices are in US dollars. I am most definately not seeing $500 worth of greater functionality from MS Office over StarOffice.
I note that the claim: [quote=johnnyb] Stalin killed by the tens of millions, Hitler killed about 6 million. I don't think that the death toll from the entire history of religious persecution matches that done by atheism in this century alone.[/quote]
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Japan and Nazi Germnay killed considerably more people than Stalin. Japan too was led by a God Emperor, so you cannot absolve religion of killing fewer people just this century. Just taking the death toll from 1939-45, God killed far more people than all the atheist regimes combined in half a century.
Hitler's toll of 5-6 million Jews was the Jews alone. Contrary to Jewish propoganda, propagated by Leftist apologists, far more people of other races were killed by Hitler than Jews! The Ukrainians were at least one set of victims that are curiously ignored.
http://www.infoukes.com/history/ww2/page-19.htm
Jews Killed Davies, Europe A History (1998): 5,571,300 (puts the minimum at 4,871,000 and the maximum at 6,271,500.) Nuremberg indictment: 5,700,000 (accepted by Britannica) Soviet
Prisoners of War killed: * Harper Collins Atlas of the Second World War: 3,000,000 We are up to 9 million dead already for Hitler and the death toll hasn't even started.
Roma (Gypsies): * Ian Hancock, "Responses to the Romani Holocaust" in Is the Holocaust Unique? (A. Rosenbaum, ed.) cites these:
Pauwels and Bergier: 750,000 o Financial Times (London): 500-750,000 in death camps and another million shot outside. 10 million now.
Homosexuals: * Rummel: 220,000 10.22 million. # Euthanasia of Handicapped: * Hugh G. Gallagher: 275,000, citing Breggin (in Century of Genocide, Samuel Totten, ed., (1997)) 10.475
Air Raids * Richard Overy, Russia's War (1997): "an estimated 500,000 Soviet citizens died from German bomb attacks." * Belgrade * London * Stalingrad
11 million now.
Victims of Wehrmacht: * Acc2 historical exhibit curated by Hannes Heer: The common soldiers of the Wehrmacht murdered 1.5M Jews, 3.3M POWs + 5-7M non-Jewish civilians (17 May 1995 Agence France Presse; 22 Feb. 1997 AP)
Other political prisoners: * Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century (1998): over one million died in concentration camps, not counting those deliberately targeted for extermination.
Hitler comes in for 24-25 million dead already. This death toll *excludes* the amount of dead from WW2, which can be laid at Hitler's doorstep. The amount of dead people from World War 2 amounts to approximately 35 million.
This gives a total of 59 million. This safely blows away Stalin's lead as a mass murderer. But it is good to remember on what basis Hitler made his decisions
"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith. . . we need believing people." (From Hitler's speech, April 26, 1933, during negotiations which led to the Nazi-Vatican Concordat of 1933.) You reap what you sow.
Christianity is the moral foundation upoun which the Third Reich built its actions.
I note that the claim: [quote=johnnyb] Stalin killed by the tens of millions, Hitler killed about 6 million. I don't think that the death toll from the entire history of religious persecution matches that done by atheism in this century alone.[/quote] First of all, both Japan and Nazi Germnay killed considerably more people than Stalin. Japan too was led by a God Emperor, so you cannot absolve religion of killing fewer people just this century. Hitler's toll of 5-6 million Jews was the Jews alone. Contrary to Jewish propoganda, propagated by Leftist apologists, far more people of other races were killed by Hitler than Jews! The Ukrainians were at least one set of victims that are curiously ignored. http://www.infoukes.com/history/ww2/page-19.html Jews Killed Davies, Europe A History (1998): 5,571,300 (puts the minimum at 4,871,000 and the maximum at 6,271,500.) Nuremberg indictment: 5,700,000 (accepted by Britannica) Soviet Prisoners of War killed: * Harper Collins Atlas of the Second World War: 3,000,000 We are up to 9 million dead already for Hitler and the death toll hasn't even started. Roma (Gypsies): * Ian Hancock, "Responses to the Romani Holocaust" in Is the Holocaust Unique? (A. Rosenbaum, ed.) cites these: o US Holocaust Memorial Museum: 250,000 o "several published estimates": >1,000,000 o Pauwels and Bergier: 750,000 o Financial Times (London): 500-750,000 in death camps and another million shot outside. 10 million now. # Homosexuals: * Rummel: 220,000 10.22 million. # Euthanasia of Handicapped: * Hugh G. Gallagher: 275,000, citing Breggin (in Century of Genocide, Samuel Totten, ed., (1997)) 10.475 Air Raids * Richard Overy, Russia's War (1997): "an estimated 500,000 Soviet citizens died from German bomb attacks." * Belgrade * London * Stalingrad 11 million now. Victims of Wehrmacht: * Acc2 historical exhibit curated by Hannes Heer: The common soldiers of the Wehrmacht murdered 1.5M Jews, 3.3M POWs + 5-7M non-Jewish civilians (17 May 1995 Agence France Presse; 22 Feb. 1997 AP) Other political prisoners: * Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century (1998): over one million died in concentration camps, not counting those deliberately targeted for extermination. Hitler comes in for 24-25 million dead already. This death toll *excludes* the amount of dead from WW2, which can be laid at Hitler's doorstep. The amount of dead people from World War 2 amounts to approximately 35 million. This gives a total of 59 million. This safely blows away Stalin's lead as a mass murderer. But it is good to remember on what basis Hitler made his decisions . "Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith. . . we need believing people." (From Hitler's speech, April 26, 1933, during negotiations which led to the Nazi-Vatican Concordat of 1933.) You reap what you sow. Christianity is the cause of rape, torture, murder and all other evil.
* Defensive shields (no, Mark Shields doesn't count)
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It's quite clear that you're new here. This was covered by Slashdot, and considering that Slashdot replicates stories, there is no real excuse for ignorance.
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technol
* Andorian Brandy
* Warp drive
Yeah, they're working on it.
* subspace communicators
* reliable space probes
We already have reliable space probes. Voyager not good enough?
* orbiting dry docks
* artificial gravity
Set a hub spinning. Artificial gravity is only as difficult as you make it.
* cheap fusion power
http://www.iter.org/
In progress.
* antimatter containment
http://www.firstscience.com/site/articles/antim
We have that too.
* Theme music that plays when something bad is about to happen
I suppose you could write software to do this easily.
* (People that play 3-D chess)
http://www.3dchessfederation.com/index.htm
* Deflector shields that work on uncharged objects
I don't know if this is possible.
* Glasses (or contacts) that automatically fog up when looking at a beautiful foreign woman that you're destined to seduce and abandon
Yours don't? ; )
I think Slashdot should do a comprehensive roundup of the best phones and other multifunctional devices going. Is it really worth it to buy a multi functional device when a seperate mobile and digital camera are better ?
And it's easy enough to use a laptop to send your images to another person. What exactly is the advantage to having a camera phone unless it is for 3G video calls?
I am glad to see that people living through telescopes will always be immature little boys living in a fantasy world.
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Has it ever occured to you that astronomy is vital to human life? These boys playing with their toys have done far more to advance human knowledge. I for one find much practical value in knowing the state of the actual universe, instead of the fantasy universe you live in.
Take, for example, the advances in sensor technology made as a result of astronomy. Thanks to the new CCD's and optics invented, advances in medical and other fields are possible. Lives have been saved due to these "immature boys". What have you done that was remotely equivalent in impact?
http://www.lbl.gov/supernova/supernova-spinoffs
http://www.ihateglasses.com/html/vision_wavem
Thanks to adaptive optics, many people have gained superb vision, being liberated from glasses and contact lenses. Have you improved anyone's sight?
I am personally very grateful to these "boys" who happen to live in the real universe and are discovering its secrets.
This robot has a strictly limited domain to master. It doesn't need to perform every task that a human is capable of. What it needs to do, and do superbly, is assembling structures in space over and over again.
This type of repetitive task is something which machines will excel at and no human can come close. There is also no conceivable reason that these machines can't be monitored and overriden if there is a potential of an enormous mistake.
This would be the same as existing procedures using automated machinery. It would also be possible to train those robots in construction techniques on Earth and then send them up into Space.
There are a lot of problems with creating robots ready for assembling complex structures in space, but the issue you mentioned isn't one of them.
I thought I knew which processors were important in the embedded world. What exactly is Coldfire, and why does it matter compare to ARM and Motorola's offerings?
I realise that Yet Another Embedded Processor that can run all of linux is a good thing. I just don't see why that is important, since the difference between embedded and desktop processors has been diminishing sharply.
I guess previous history should be thrown out? You are quite wrong in this case. There is a great deal of relevance of the behaviour of other nuclear powers as to what these two will do. Neither so far has shown any deviation from the pattern of the other nuclear powers.
And to be blunt: India is a far safer nation than the USA. Let's evaluate the most likely risk to occur, rather than the most unlikely. After all, the USA is the world's biggest and most likely target for nuclear, chemical and biological attack according to US politicians.
The maximum speed for a maglev train is considered to be around 580 kph due to limits in electrical facilities for the train, the engineers said.
We haven't seen nothing yet. It seems the more juice, the higher the speed. I for one hope to see mass production of Maglev trains. They will be vastly superior to planes at less cost.
I can't help thinking that maglev train development will help achieve cheap spaceflight as well. Imagine a spaceplane taking off from a maglev hitting 1000+ kph.
It's convinced me 2.6 is a *lot* better than 2.4. I'm not really surprised at the results. FreeBSD has never seemed faster than Linux, while Open has seemed noticeably slower.
Does anyone know why Open underperformed so dramatically? Can the OpenBSD development team comment on this benchmark ?