The Earthscraper concept begins with a glass roof replacing the opaque stone surface of the Zocalo preserving the open space and civic uses of the Zocalo,
I dare you to walk across the "transparent" roof to the center, where you can look down 65+ floors. Great place to have a monster truck rally!
Doesn't matter. The news media will still publish their stories about how a single molecule of plutonium is sufficient to kill 30,000 people. Facts aren't important here. Publishing lurid tales of mass destruction is what they consider important.
There's only 20 years of fossil fuel left in the ground. At least, that's what we were told in the '70s, the 80's, and the 90's. With oil usage increasing as much as it has been lately, mostly because of China, I'd guess that we're now down to 20 years left.
A lot of disks have "bad sector" replacement. When a sector starts to be unreadable, it replaces that sector with a spare one set aside for that purpose. Does the software wipe out these revectored sectors, or can someone read those old sectors after software overwrite?
It depends on the security threat on how serious you need to be about wiping data off drives. Sometimes just 'rm'ing files is enough. Sometimes dropping them in a volcano isn't enough.
I wonder if things have changed because people have changed their minds, or if the/. crowd has gone through a transition.
If you post anything against global warming on slashdot, your karma will suffer serious damage. You can go from an excellent to a terrible in one post. The same type of thing happens to scientists. You support the wrong side of this religious argument, you will lose your job.
They used to argue about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. I thing those arguments were much more scientific than the current global warming ones are.
In other words: The US should switch to Socialism, because I want other peoples money without having to work for it. If someone earns more than I am, they are obviously theives and I should get all their money.
Also, I thought the aircraft companies had their own designers. I didn't know you had to work for the government to do that job.
It's interesting that the Democrats always cut teachers and firemen first, and never threaten their interns jobs or all the "senator xxx memorial xxx museum" grants.
I never knew that the 4040 had a cache at all. Nice to know there were off-processer versions available. What is it's manuf/part number? How well does the 4040 pipelining work? And how many pipelines in its superscalar mode? How much faster is it on average than if it didn't have them?
Old English had the letter thorn. This letter looks a little like a "Y", although it was pronounced as "th". It was sorta brought back, with added extra letters to "look old", and used by stores like "Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe".
vowels, spaces, and punctuation used to be left out of the printed word. They weren't part of the writing system. See old hebrew, egyption, etc. texts for examples. maybe we are just returning back to those times. Whtwldbwrngbttht?
Since y2k, i18n reqires Eropeans to drop that extra "u" that they keep stfing in English words like labor and color. Some of them have been droping al "u"s, and double consonants (just to show those Americans a thing or two), which leads to fny looking sentences. Maybe this is where al these problems started?
Under early versions of Windows, a program could access all users data, and the OS files. Many packages took advantage of this, so now many programs require administer rights just to operate. Thus many people run at this protection level. Having this access opens up the OS to bad behavior from everything the user runs. Windows started with a bad security policy, and they are stuck with the results.
If you want to limit files to specific programs, then you are going to need to add another layer of security that the users will be required to work with, which means they will do everything in their power to disable it. People just want to get their work done, they don't want to do the job of an IT Security person.
You should have said, "Linux is more secure than Windows, and we generally don't worry to much about viruses and other trash." Left at that, your statement would have been good.
A better way of saying this is: Linux fixes the problems in the OS, Microsoft adds yet another filter to it's virus scanners.
Apparently, this one thinks it's part of Canada. It's probably because of the weird food they all eat, and the funny way they talk. Like, fur shure, gag me with a spoon!
Cancer risk, or terrorism... I mean, what's the harm in increasing - hypothetically, of course; they haven't proven it yet - a person's cancer risk when compared with the risk that, by not scanning everything and everyone, a terrorist will get on the plane and, absolutely, positively, undeniably cause that plane to crash into the building that causes the most deaths and financial damage?
Let's be reasonable, people.../snark
Just look at the success rate of the TSA capturing terrorists (0), and the likelihood of cancer caused by the radiation (not 0), then decide if the risk is worth it.
And how effective are these things anyway? Will it detect plastic or ceramic knives? Can things be hidden by wrapping them in a stealth case (stealth plane technology)? A lot of the captured terrorists were science/engineering students, so they should be somewhat imaginative.
I was listening to someone on the radio who had an idea about improving elecctric cars that I liked. Start up a Indy-500 type of race for them. The teams individually decide on the cars design: large heavy battery for fewer pit stops, smaller lighter battery with more pit stops. The only problem is that the people watching the races will hear a "fweep" as the cars pass by, instead of a "VROOOOM!".
Which PETA are we talking about? Why should People Eating Tasty Animals be upset about a virtual tanuka suit?
How many virtual tanukas are killed each year because of this game? Is the species in danget of being wiped out? Maybe we should put virtual tanukas on the endangered species list.
Slashdot Mirror
The Earthscraper concept begins with a glass roof replacing the opaque stone surface of the Zocalo preserving the open space and civic uses of the Zocalo,
I dare you to walk across the "transparent" roof to the center, where you can look down 65+ floors. Great place to have a monster truck rally!
Doesn't matter. The news media will still publish their stories about how a single molecule of plutonium is sufficient to kill 30,000 people. Facts aren't important here. Publishing lurid tales of mass destruction is what they consider important.
Radon
Kills sea bugs... dead
Sea kittens, you senseless clod!
There's only 20 years of fossil fuel left in the ground. At least, that's what we were told in the '70s, the 80's, and the 90's. With oil usage increasing as much as it has been lately, mostly because of China, I'd guess that we're now down to 20 years left.
A lot of disks have "bad sector" replacement. When a sector starts to be unreadable, it replaces that sector with a spare one set aside for that purpose. Does the software wipe out these revectored sectors, or can someone read those old sectors after software overwrite?
It depends on the security threat on how serious you need to be about wiping data off drives. Sometimes just 'rm'ing files is enough. Sometimes dropping them in a volcano isn't enough.
I wonder if things have changed because people have changed their minds, or if the /. crowd has gone through a transition.
If you post anything against global warming on slashdot, your karma will suffer serious damage. You can go from an excellent to a terrible in one post. The same type of thing happens to scientists. You support the wrong side of this religious argument, you will lose your job.
They used to argue about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. I thing those arguments were much more scientific than the current global warming ones are.
In other words: The US should switch to Socialism, because I want other peoples money without having to work for it. If someone earns more than I am, they are obviously theives and I should get all their money.
Also, I thought the aircraft companies had their own designers. I didn't know you had to work for the government to do that job.
It's interesting that the Democrats always cut teachers and firemen first, and never threaten their interns jobs or all the "senator xxx memorial xxx museum" grants.
I never knew that the 4040 had a cache at all. Nice to know there were off-processer versions available. What is it's manuf/part number?
How well does the 4040 pipelining work? And how many pipelines in its superscalar mode? How much faster is it on average than if it didn't have them?
This topic confuses me. Can someone post a car analogy?
Is it a robotic shark? Otherwise the laser just won't work.
Sometimes old things are brought back, wrongly.
Old English had the letter thorn. This letter looks a little like a "Y", although it was pronounced as "th". It was sorta brought back, with added extra letters to "look old", and used by stores like "Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe".
vowels, spaces, and punctuation used to be left out of the printed word. They weren't part of the writing system. See old hebrew, egyption, etc. texts for examples. maybe we are just returning back to those times. Whtwldbwrngbttht?
Since y2k, i18n reqires Eropeans to drop that extra "u" that they keep stfing in English words like labor and color. Some of them have been droping al "u"s, and double consonants (just to show those Americans a thing or two), which leads to fny looking sentences. Maybe this is where al these problems started?
I used to have a tiny application that was a leet translator. Could translate into or out of leet with three varying degrees of complexity.
Does that make you more or less pathetic than the actual leet posters?
Under early versions of Windows, a program could access all users data, and the OS files. Many packages took advantage of this, so now many programs require administer rights just to operate. Thus many people run at this protection level. Having this access opens up the OS to bad behavior from everything the user runs. Windows started with a bad security policy, and they are stuck with the results.
If you want to limit files to specific programs, then you are going to need to add another layer of security that the users will be required to work with, which means they will do everything in their power to disable it. People just want to get their work done, they don't want to do the job of an IT Security person.
You should have said, "Linux is more secure than Windows, and we generally don't worry to much about viruses and other trash." Left at that, your statement would have been good.
A better way of saying this is: Linux fixes the problems in the OS, Microsoft adds yet another filter to it's virus scanners.
Apparently, this one thinks it's part of Canada. It's probably because of the weird food they all eat, and the funny way they talk. Like, fur shure, gag me with a spoon!
There are novels based on Babbage machines being mainstream, and how different the would would have been.
The Difference Engine
But, can it be used to make a flying car?
We needed a car analogy at this point, and this is all I could come up with...
Cancer risk, or terrorism... I mean, what's the harm in increasing - hypothetically, of course; they haven't proven it yet - a person's cancer risk when compared with the risk that, by not scanning everything and everyone, a terrorist will get on the plane and, absolutely, positively, undeniably cause that plane to crash into the building that causes the most deaths and financial damage?
Let's be reasonable, people... /snark
Just look at the success rate of the TSA capturing terrorists (0), and the likelihood of cancer caused by the radiation (not 0), then decide if the risk is worth it.
And how effective are these things anyway? Will it detect plastic or ceramic knives? Can things be hidden by wrapping them in a stealth case (stealth plane technology)? A lot of the captured terrorists were science/engineering students, so they should be somewhat imaginative.
I was listening to someone on the radio who had an idea about improving elecctric cars that I liked. Start up a Indy-500 type of race for them. The teams individually decide on the cars design: large heavy battery for fewer pit stops, smaller lighter battery with more pit stops. The only problem is that the people watching the races will hear a "fweep" as the cars pass by, instead of a "VROOOOM!".
Democrats are already a reality. They're just expensive and inefficient.
Which PETA are we talking about? Why should People Eating Tasty Animals be upset about a virtual tanuka suit?
How many virtual tanukas are killed each year because of this game? Is the species in danget of being wiped out? Maybe we should put virtual tanukas on the endangered species list.
You can, but you have to operate it in Russian.
For the do-it-yourself-er, you can always use this this.