RT is one of the most disgusting news outlets I've ever seen, kinda tabloid with golden print. It is amazing how much money Putin is dumping on it. Putin must realize that no amount of propaganda can fix reputation damage after a certain point. He must quit and stop wasting taxpayers money of his very poor country.
And if you want unbiased news just use diff on several news sources.
I think that a bunch of alternatives to bitcoin will eventually emerge so if government regulates one virtual currency there are going to be other safe havens.
I am more concerned about Netflix loosing streaming titles than the price hike. Out of about 50 titles in my instant queue only 5 or 6 are available for streaming and the number is in fact decreasing. If Netflix looses more streaming titles then I will probably switch to DVD-only plan or go to DirecTV/Blockbuster.
No jet pack means not getting home if you inadvertently push yourself away from the space station and into space. That's a long goodbye that doesn't bear thinking about.
Not true. In that case you can simply maneuver space station toward the lost astronaut. This can be a problem if there are no astronauts on board. But now there are 9 people up there.
I remember reading in Ukrainian press that there is a large number of people who returned to live in the Chernobyl zone ("The Zone" in local parlance, contaminated area around the Chernobyl reactor). These are mostly elderly people who lived there before the accident and were not happy with a new place where government moved them. One old woman was asked how she succeeds to survive on the contaminated food, contaminated water and contaminated milk from her cow. Her answer made me choke, she said: "I do not believe in radiation".
There are lots of products for which manufacturers do not claim any Linux compatibility. However, such products are often perfectly usable with Linux either because there is a community support or a product is built to some standard. For example, I have not seen a USB key claiming compatibility with Linux but 99.99% of them work fine.
I wonder if somebody tried this scanner with Linux? Also this scanner can use microSD card to extend its memory. It may store the files on the card in some usable format.
This idea can be a potential danger to Linux users. Yes, Linux is much less susceptible to malware than Windows. However, Windows will be always defended by Microsoft but there is no body to protect Linux users. Any minor public doubt in Linux safety for ISPs has a chance to result in a major action to ban access from Linux boxes.
It seems as if they do not store map coordinates with enough precision. Or may be the map data was screwed up somewhere during the conversion process from the original sources to the Microsoft Map. This happens sometimes in GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software but, honestly, this is a very stupid mistake. I've been in GIS business all my life and the last time I've seen anything like this was before 1995.
I remember the days when Linux was a small esoteric system and most people simply did not know about its existence. Others who knew did not treat it seriously. For the first time I had installed Linux some time around 1993. People were laughing at me and asking why I am wasting my time on it. The reason I did it is that I was looking for a way out from MS crap and from overly expensive Unices from Sun, HP, etc. I wanted to have something that is Unix and that is always with me and I can use it on cheap hardware. It was pretty clear then that all non-MS OSes will be dead soon. Linux for me was a sort refuge from Microsoft repression and I hoped that it will remain an esoteric system for foreseeable future.
This is very regrettable that Linux has got so much attention these days especially from Microsoft. We know perfectly that Microsoft was able to muscle out any other competitor (IBM, Lotus, Borland, Netscape, DR DOS just to name few). Linux is unusual in that sense that it does not rely on the usual commercial cycle of investment-production-sales. But this does not mean that it is not prone to Microsoft tactics. Microsoft did not always use only economic means against its competitors. It was able to fend off antitrust lawsuit without much trouble. Sometimes the tactics was to hire competitors' execs or similar variation. It means that MS has something except for FUD to fight Linux with and there is no doubt that it will do, and it will win.
Using IP laws against Linux is indefensible tactics simply because Linux community is not able to afford to hire enough lawers to defend itself. Probably the only viable solution is to take Linux development and use out of the US and Europe. And this is where globalization plays a bad role: if IP laws are used then they are enforceable pretty much everywhere. Probably China is the most promising country because it has a rather independent policy and its government does invest into Linux.
There is much trouble ahead fro Linux, it had become a victim of its own popularity.
The same had been done also in St.Petersburg (2nd largest city in Russia). it was not a terrorist attack but rather Bush visit there last May. Security of the summit had been cited as a reason to turn off encryption.
Russian laws require judge approval to eavesdrop on a communication. It is not known if such approvals had been granted in all these three cases.
I do not want discourage you but I would suggest that you excercise caution making the decision to undergo a surgery. This site is specifically devoted to the failures of LASIK. Also it has a collection of images of what a person can see if surgery fails one way or another. My own approach is that we are too dependent on our eyes for our everyday life to take such a risk.
And they are right! The use of a DVD player on an international flight would represent a copyright infringement because you are out of any zone that you are allowed to whatch you DVD. When you are flying from Chicago to London are in Europe or in the U.S.?
This is too late, anyway: On this page http://www.mcc.rsa.ru/smtv.htm you may have been watching Zvezda launch live using Real Player format. Regrettably this/. story has appeared after the module was put in orbit.
> I think it's in an amusement park somewhere at the moment. There was something like that in Gorky Park (now called 'Neskushnyi sad') in Moscow. But actually that was not Buran itself but its full-scale mockup originally used to test spaceship aerodynamics.
Actually the name for Russian Shuttle is "Buran" that means "Snow storm". "Energiya" (just Russian for 'energy') is a rocket booster intended to carry Buran into orbit. Energiya was capable of placing 100 metric ton payload into near-earth orbit. There were two launches of Energiya sometime around 1988. Buran has flown once in an automatic mode (without a crew on board and with fully automatic landing). In early 90s the program was discontinued because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and radical changes in Russian military doctrine. There is still a deteriorating gigantic launch pad for Energiya rockets at Baikonur in Kazakhstan. Three Burans were built and are kept somewhere in Russia now. There is a web site about this project http://www.buran.ru/ with some pretty pictures (all in Russian).
This document describes the early considerations for a Spatial Location Server and issues that will need to be addressed when an IP Device that has determined its location (TBD in another document effort) requests, or is requested, to provide that information to a Spatial Location Server (SLS). Just think of spatial location capabilities embedded into all Internet devices. Of course, the main purpose of the specification is to provide locational information for 911 services and similar. However with this capability it will become possible to do marketing at the granularity of 1 SQUARE FEET of the Earth surface (several years from now). Actually authors mention possibilities of the misuse of the protocol.
I can believe that there can be something like that in Windows but I doubt that it was possible to hide just anything in DOS. DOS is too small and too simple. Also it was reverse engineered sooooo many times. BTW, does anybody know if there are any pieces of DOS code which purpose is unknown or unclear?
Actually Zhirinovsky is very strongly loosing popularity. In the first Russian elections (~1992) he has got smth like 30% of all the votes and was a leading party in the parliamnet. Than his share was steadily slipping to the condition this year when there were big doubts that he will get 5% of votes that is a threshold to get in to parliament. Hi is a falling star. Surely he is a scary personality and, BTW, a former KGB agent. I hope that some time he will disappear from the Russian political scene.
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I think the guy forgot to switch off "safe search". Clitoris works for me.
I would prefer a third hand, with one more hand you can do much more than with just two additional fingers.
Does it support completion of git commands like bash does with some bash_completion functions?
RT is one of the most disgusting news outlets I've ever seen, kinda tabloid with golden print. It is amazing how much money Putin is dumping on it. Putin must realize that no amount of propaganda can fix reputation damage after a certain point. He must quit and stop wasting taxpayers money of his very poor country.
And if you want unbiased news just use diff on several news sources.
I think that a bunch of alternatives to bitcoin will eventually emerge so if government regulates one virtual currency there are going to be other safe havens.
I am more concerned about Netflix loosing streaming titles than the price hike. Out of about 50 titles in my instant queue only 5 or 6 are available for streaming and the number is in fact decreasing. If Netflix looses more streaming titles then I will probably switch to DVD-only plan or go to DirecTV/Blockbuster.
Does anybody know what UnXis is? Is it a real company or facade for something? Googling does not reveal much.
http://rutube.ru/tracks/2264709.html?page=index_top_d&v=895630c2b1f248fafd957862a037d663
There is a bunch of concepts for how to use the transparent displays. Most of all I like this: http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/eye-freezing-futur e-imac-concept/ May be it will become true some time soon....
I remember reading in Ukrainian press that there is a large number of people who returned to live in the Chernobyl zone ("The Zone" in local parlance, contaminated area around the Chernobyl reactor). These are mostly elderly people who lived there before the accident and were not happy with a new place where government moved them. One old woman was asked how she succeeds to survive on the contaminated food, contaminated water and contaminated milk from her cow. Her answer made me choke, she said: "I do not believe in radiation".
There are lots of products for which manufacturers do not claim any Linux compatibility. However, such products are often perfectly usable with Linux either because there is a community support or a product is built to some standard. For example, I have not seen a USB key claiming compatibility with Linux but 99.99% of them work fine.
I wonder if somebody tried this scanner with Linux? Also this scanner can use microSD card to extend its memory. It may store the files on the card in some usable format.
Does anybody know if it works with Linux or Mac? Manufacturer's web site has only Windows as a supported system.
This idea can be a potential danger to Linux users. Yes, Linux is much less susceptible to malware than Windows. However, Windows will be always defended by Microsoft but there is no body to protect Linux users. Any minor public doubt in Linux safety for ISPs has a chance to result in a major action to ban access from Linux boxes.
It seems as if they do not store map coordinates with enough precision. Or may be the map data was screwed up somewhere during the conversion process from the original sources to the Microsoft Map. This happens sometimes in GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software but, honestly, this is a very stupid mistake. I've been in GIS business all my life and the last time I've seen anything like this was before 1995.
I remember the days when Linux was a small esoteric system and most people simply did not know about its existence. Others who knew did not treat it seriously. For the first time I had installed Linux some time around 1993. People were laughing at me and asking why I am wasting my time on it. The reason I did it is that I was looking for a way out from MS crap and from overly expensive Unices from Sun, HP, etc. I wanted to have something that is Unix and that is always with me and I can use it on cheap hardware. It was pretty clear then that all non-MS OSes will be dead soon. Linux for me was a sort refuge from Microsoft repression and I hoped that it will remain an esoteric system for foreseeable future.
This is very regrettable that Linux has got so much attention these days especially from Microsoft. We know perfectly that Microsoft was able to muscle out any other competitor (IBM, Lotus, Borland, Netscape, DR DOS just to name few). Linux is unusual in that sense that it does not rely on the usual commercial cycle of investment-production-sales. But this does not mean that it is not prone to Microsoft tactics. Microsoft did not always use only economic means against its competitors. It was able to fend off antitrust lawsuit without much trouble. Sometimes the tactics was to hire competitors' execs or similar variation. It means that MS has something except for FUD to fight Linux with and there is no doubt that it will do, and it will win.
Using IP laws against Linux is indefensible tactics simply because Linux community is not able to afford to hire enough lawers to defend itself. Probably the only viable solution is to take Linux development and use out of the US and Europe. And this is where globalization plays a bad role: if IP laws are used then they are enforceable pretty much everywhere. Probably China is the most promising country because it has a rather independent policy and its government does invest into Linux.
There is much trouble ahead fro Linux, it had become a victim of its own popularity.
The same had been done also in St.Petersburg (2nd largest city in Russia). it was not a terrorist attack but rather Bush visit there last May. Security of the summit had been cited as a reason to turn off encryption.
Russian laws require judge approval to eavesdrop on a communication. It is not known if such approvals had been granted in all these three cases.
I do not want discourage you but I would suggest that you excercise caution making the decision to undergo a surgery. This site is specifically devoted to the failures of LASIK. Also it has a collection of images of what a person can see if surgery fails one way or another. My own approach is that we are too dependent on our eyes for our everyday life to take such a risk.
> What they really want to ban is DVD players!
And they are right! The use of a DVD player on an international flight would represent a copyright infringement because you are out of any zone that you are allowed to whatch you DVD. When you are flying from Chicago to London are in Europe or in the U.S.?
This is too late, anyway: On this page http://www.mcc.rsa.ru/smtv.htm you may have been watching Zvezda launch live using Real Player format. Regrettably this /. story has appeared after the module was put in orbit.
> I think it's in an amusement park somewhere at the moment. There was something like that in Gorky Park (now called 'Neskushnyi sad') in Moscow. But actually that was not Buran itself but its full-scale mockup originally used to test spaceship aerodynamics.
Actually the name for Russian Shuttle is "Buran" that means "Snow storm". "Energiya" (just Russian for 'energy') is a rocket booster intended to carry Buran into orbit. Energiya was capable of placing 100 metric ton payload into near-earth orbit. There were two launches of Energiya sometime around 1988. Buran has flown once in an automatic mode (without a crew on board and with fully automatic landing). In early 90s the program was discontinued because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and radical changes in Russian military doctrine. There is still a deteriorating gigantic launch pad for Energiya rockets at Baikonur in Kazakhstan. Three Burans were built and are kept somewhere in Russia now. There is a web site about this project http://www.buran.ru/ with some pretty pictures (all in Russian).
And here is what IETF is discussing now: http://www. ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-polk-slp-loc-auth-s erver-00.txt. It is a draft of RFC to deal with the geographic location of an IP device. The asbtract is here:
This document describes the early considerations for a Spatial Location Server and issues that will need to be addressed when an IP Device that has determined its location (TBD in another document effort) requests, or is requested, to provide that information to a Spatial Location Server (SLS). Just think of spatial location capabilities embedded into all Internet devices. Of course, the main purpose of the specification is to provide locational information for 911 services and similar. However with this capability it will become possible to do marketing at the granularity of 1 SQUARE FEET of the Earth surface (several years from now). Actually authors mention possibilities of the misuse of the protocol.I can believe that there can be something like that in Windows but I doubt that it was possible to hide just anything in DOS. DOS is too small and too simple. Also it was reverse engineered sooooo many times. BTW, does anybody know if there are any pieces of DOS code which purpose is unknown or unclear?
Actually Zhirinovsky is very strongly loosing popularity. In the first Russian elections (~1992) he has got smth like 30% of all the votes and was a leading party in the parliamnet. Than his share was steadily slipping to the condition this year when there were big doubts that he will get 5% of votes that is a threshold to get in to parliament. Hi is a falling star. Surely he is a scary personality and, BTW, a former KGB agent. I hope that some time he will disappear from the Russian political scene.