Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.
The UK really stands out as the most pro-surveillance country in the world. There are also plans to monitory the movement of every car and to keep this information available in databases for at least two years. I can only hope this is not exported to the rest of the EU. Here is a short article about it.
For some reason I keep expecting that sinister music from the Twilight Zone to start playing.
This is from Wikipedia:
"The Bluetooth specification was first developed by Ericsson, and was later formalized by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). "
That is probably and optimistic figure, at least a according to Joseph Stiglitz:
The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.
This is from an article in the British newspaper The Guardian about a month ago.
now takes over 3 minutes to open one of my work inboxes (10,000+ messages).
Strange. Are you using IMAP or POP? I've never notice anything more than a second or more delay, and I have much more than 10000 emails. But I'm using POP so that might explain it if you are using IMAP.
Not only will who and when you called be registered but also your geographical location, when using a mobile phone. And SMS traffic will also be registered.
The latests news concerning the data retention proposal is that the Council approached the group leaders of the two party organizations, EPP and PSE and made a compromise. In all important aspects the accepted compromise is just what proponents of data retention want. One nasty aspect of this compromise is that Alexander Alvararo, a German liberal and formal representative of the European Parliament in this question, wasn't allowed to participate in the meeting. His comment; " they ripped us off". Also the compromise promptly gets rid off the amendments to limit the damage to human rights and privacy, that the LIBRE comity had been working on. What this means is that the it looks like the advocates of data retention will get 468 votes of 732.
Oh, and data retention can be used against any crime on the European arrest warrant. This includes racism, corruption, file sharing, piracy, etc...
Interestingly I just heard about the MapServer Project yesterday. The person talking about it was very enthusiastic. More info can be found here. A snippet:
MapServer is an OpenSource development environment for constructing spatially enabled Internet-web applications. The software builds upon other popular OpenSource or freeware systems including Shapelib, FreeType, Proj.4, GDAL/OGR. MapServer will run where most commercial systems won't or can't, on Linux/Apache platforms. MapServer is known to compile on most versions of UNIX/Linux, Microsoft Windows and even MacOS.
Assuming your furnace can always maintain the comfortable 20C indoor temperature, and not increase the temperature unnecessarily, you are correct. Of course during the summer, when the furnace is turned off, this reasoning doesn't apply.
No dependency system? Whatever do you mean? When writing Ant files you configure dependencies between Ant targets. A target in turn has a number of tasks that do the actual work. The if or unless attributes in a target can be used to decide whether to execute the tasks within a target or not. So if you sometimes don't wish to execute a javac, zip or copy task you should place that task in a target with either the if or unless attribute.
Basically Maven is an extra layer on top of Ant. Or another way of putting it is that Maven is way to program Ant in an XML based language called Jelly. Maven has the concept of repositories and versions, so that you can say that a particular jar file requires specific versions of other jar files in the repository. If you find yourself writing a lot of similar Ant code, Maven is definitely worth a look. It takes a little while to get into, but once you do it is fairly straight forward.
And South Korea is by far the world leader with about 80% of the population having broadband access. Honk Kong and Taiwan are also doing well at about 50%.
There's been quite a bit of confusion among critics, especially about the final 20 minutes, which aren't Spielberg being sentimental (his main addition was the cruel, brutal Flesh Fair), but are exactly what I wrote for Stanley and exactly what Stanley wanted. -- Ian Watson
Human Rights Watch has this to say concerning the rights of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay and other places:
The rights and protections granted to POWs are enumerated in detail in the Third Geneva Convention. "Nonprivileged" or "unlawful" combatants are protected under the Fourth Geneva Convention, customary international law and, where applicable, Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions. Although the United States is not a party to Protocol I, the U.S. government accepts many of its provisions as part of customary international law; especially relevant is article 75 on "fundamental guarantees," which sets out basic standards of humane treatment and due process that is required for all persons affected by the conflict, regardless of their status.
Unatil the 16-hour claim is independently verified, we should assume the real-world battery life is significantly below that.
I have seen an independent comparison for an HP120, or possibly it was a HP140, that shows that the claimed battery life of 16 hours could be achieved, but only for constant bit rate low quality MP3s. Other formats were much more power hungry. So 16 hours is possibly true, just not the whole story. Sorry I don't have URL for the comparison any more.
But was there ever much Science in SF? I think it was Brian Aldiss who commented that SF is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
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It will be interesting to see if Intel follows AMD and copies the new instructions.
Bribe:
1 : money or favor given or promised in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust
2 : something that serves to induce or influence
Where I live (Sweden) the recommended maximum amount for a gift, if you want to avoid the risk of being charged with bribery, is about 60 dollars.
Absolutely. The ARM processor family has 75% of the market for embedded 32-bit processors.
Here are some new pictures of AMD's 65nm quad core processors.
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.
For some reason I keep expecting that sinister music from the Twilight Zone to start playing.
With automatic face recognition software that won't be necessary.
Oh, and Automatic Number Plate Reading (ANPR) can be used for monitoring the speed of vehicles and is then called SPECS.
Not really.
This is from Wikipedia: "The Bluetooth specification was first developed by Ericsson, and was later formalized by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). "
That is probably and optimistic figure, at least a according to Joseph Stiglitz:
The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.
This is from an article in the British newspaper The Guardian about a month ago.
There is also a financial break-even. And that comes a bit later than the energy break-even point.
Strange. Are you using IMAP or POP? I've never notice anything more than a second or more delay, and I have much more than 10000 emails. But I'm using POP so that might explain it if you are using IMAP.
Yeah, it's not like I have a mobile phone so that people can call me. Obviously I only use my mobile to call others. ;-)
The latests news concerning the data retention proposal is that the Council approached the group leaders of the two party organizations, EPP and PSE and made a compromise. In all important aspects the accepted compromise is just what proponents of data retention want. One nasty aspect of this compromise is that Alexander Alvararo, a German liberal and formal representative of the European Parliament in this question, wasn't allowed to participate in the meeting. His comment; " they ripped us off". Also the compromise promptly gets rid off the amendments to limit the damage to human rights and privacy, that the LIBRE comity had been working on. What this means is that the it looks like the advocates of data retention will get 468 votes of 732.
Oh, and data retention can be used against any crime on the European arrest warrant. This includes racism, corruption, file sharing, piracy, etc...
Probably a clever move by AutoDesk though. This way they may be able to keep some control of a market that MapServer might have taken a large part of.
MapServer is an OpenSource development environment for constructing spatially enabled Internet-web applications. The software builds upon other popular OpenSource or freeware systems including Shapelib, FreeType, Proj.4, GDAL/OGR. MapServer will run where most commercial systems won't or can't, on Linux/Apache platforms. MapServer is known to compile on most versions of UNIX/Linux, Microsoft Windows and even MacOS.
Assuming your furnace can always maintain the comfortable 20C indoor temperature, and not increase the temperature unnecessarily, you are correct. Of course during the summer, when the furnace is turned off, this reasoning doesn't apply.
And here I was thinking Ajax were two characters in Homer's Iliad. :-)
You are right that people in general don't care. But this is slashdot, the site with news for nerds, and I suspect that many slashdot readers do care.
No dependency system? Whatever do you mean? When writing Ant files you configure dependencies between Ant targets. A target in turn has a number of tasks that do the actual work. The if or unless attributes in a target can be used to decide whether to execute the tasks within a target or not. So if you sometimes don't wish to execute a javac, zip or copy task you should place that task in a target with either the if or unless attribute.
Basically Maven is an extra layer on top of Ant. Or another way of putting it is that Maven is way to program Ant in an XML based language called Jelly. Maven has the concept of repositories and versions, so that you can say that a particular jar file requires specific versions of other jar files in the repository. If you find yourself writing a lot of similar Ant code, Maven is definitely worth a look. It takes a little while to get into, but once you do it is fairly straight forward.
Actually it now called Java 2 version 5.0 and sometimes version 1.5.0 See http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/versi on-5.0.html for the official word. Not that this makes it any less confusing.
And South Korea is by far the world leader with about 80% of the population having broadband access. Honk Kong and Taiwan are also doing well at about 50%.
Except that the ending to AI was Kubrik's.
There's been quite a bit of confusion among critics, especially about the final 20 minutes, which aren't Spielberg being sentimental (his main addition was the cruel, brutal Flesh Fair), but are exactly what I wrote for Stanley and exactly what Stanley wanted.
-- Ian Watson
The rights and protections granted to POWs are enumerated in detail in the Third Geneva Convention. "Nonprivileged" or "unlawful" combatants are protected under the Fourth Geneva Convention, customary international law and, where applicable, Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions. Although the United States is not a party to Protocol I, the U.S. government accepts many of its provisions as part of customary international law; especially relevant is article 75 on "fundamental guarantees," which sets out basic standards of humane treatment and due process that is required for all persons affected by the conflict, regardless of their status.
Read the whole article: Background Paper on Geneva Conventions and Persons Held by U.S. Forces
I have seen an independent comparison for an HP120, or possibly it was a HP140, that shows that the claimed battery life of 16 hours could be achieved, but only for constant bit rate low quality MP3s. Other formats were much more power hungry. So 16 hours is possibly true, just not the whole story. Sorry I don't have URL for the comparison any more.
But was there ever much Science in SF? I think it was Brian Aldiss who commented that SF is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.