Problem is, the IAEA doesnt support the stance that Iran has enriched uranium to weapons grade levels -
Signed by a senior director at the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vilmos Cserveny, the letter raises objections over the committee's report released on 23 August.
It says the report was wrong to say that Iran had enriched uranium to weapons-grade level when the IAEA had only found small quantities of enrichment at far lower levels.
The problem is that under those agreements, Iran would have been buying from the countries that still overtly oppose the regime - essentially they would be handing a massive bargaining chip to its enemies for use in the future. I can understand why Iran wants its own infrastructure.
You think the majority of worms and viruses that crack Microsoft Windows systems today are after the data contained in said system? You giv the answer yourself, its a readymade zombie network saleable to the highest bidder.
Those views did not create open source, they created GNU and the FSF. I was freely exchanging sourcecode with friends and fellow developers long before I had ever heard of either of those two organisations.
The OLPC should say what? Their website ( http://laptop.org/ ) doesnt actually tout Open Source all that much so I dont see how you get the impression they are piggy-tailing on any percieved value - its a means to an end, and that end is to put a cheap laptop into as many childrens hands as possible.
RMS and Theo are trying to use this project as a soapbox to further their own political views, and that disgusts me.
Actually all the NPT does is recognise the holders of nuclear weapons as such, it makes no allowances for them - under the agreement those countries should work toward disarmament.
In my experience, Maxtor drives are as reliable if not more reliable than other makes, and I wouldnt buy anything else (especially given the 4 or 5 year warranties that maxtor drives seem to have).
The USAF retired SR-71 operations on January 21st 1990, were returned to active status in 1995, started flying again in 1997 and were again permanently retired in 1998. If the Aurora exists, its likely that the SR-71 reactivation in the 1990s was due to a grounding of the Aurora fleet for some reason. If it exists that is.
Of the several thousand Ebooks I own, roughly 5% are DRM protected but all are in PDB format and none are in any of the formats Sonys reader supports - that gives me sufficient permission to whine. They simply arent catering to the mass market.
No, IE does not run in kernel mode in any way shape or form, its a common misconception. khtml is a lot more like mshtml.dll than people would like to admit.
The current price in the UK is about 88.9p per litre. With 3.78 litres per US gallon, thats 336p per US gallon. In dollars thats $6.30 right now. And our petrol prices have recently come down from the 99p per litre mark.
Since moving to OSX two years ago, Ive found that its trivially easy to bring the GUI to a crawl, in most cases far worse than WindowsXP. And yet I still recommend OSX, I just dont worship it.
22:58 +christel: Ok, first off, this is not a hoax
22:59 +christel Rob was riding his bike on tuesday when he was hit by a car,
he has spent the last few days at the neuro trauma ICU at a
local hospital
22:59 +christel: where he has been in a coma
22:59 +christel: the news reached us this morning that Rob passed away early
today
23:00 +christel: and we ask that you all respect their privacy at this
difficult time
23:01 +christel: Robs funeral is most likely to be monday afternoon, although
we have yet to get confirmation as Debs is waiting to hear
from the MEs office that it can go ahead as planned
23:01 +christel: and for those local, wishing to show their respects at his
funeral, we ask that you email staff@freenode.net and we will try direct you as we can
23:02 +christel: We will take some questions now and try answer them in
channel, it would be appreciated if those with questions
message beu, and we will answer on channel
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Remember, there are only so many blocks you can put in between an idiot and his money before he gets pissed off and takes it else where.
Personally, Im all for banks charging phishing victims for the losses - many dont cover fraud resulting from the customer failing to take appropriate measures to protect their card details, how is failing to protect their login details any different?
According to the Forbes article, sharing is an 'opt in' option for publishers on the Zune music store - by inference, if the publisher hasnt opted in, their music wont be sharable, and since such a preference cannot be stored for music originating outside the store, it will probably also not be sharable.
Its quite amusing the number of comments in this thread that seem to assume that Microsoft would make a kindergarten mistake along the lines of allowing wholesale possible copyright infringement through a product specifically designed to share copyrighted material from an industry that has demonstrated itself to be litigous.
I think this has been blown out of all proportion by those looking for another MS bash.
If I 'emulate' enough features in the code, I can do away with both packages AND still get a performance boost. Probably. However, the whole point of having a seperate package do it is so I dont have to work more than needed.
So what precisely is different about these two scenarios
'smuggling bombs in component parts onbord aircraft, assembling the bombs in the toilet, and detonating bombs'
and 'smuggling bombs in component parts onbord aircraft, assembling the bombs in the toilet, and detonating bombs'
What does one being a trial run have to do with being different?
The Register is known for inflammatory articles where they take the worst case scenario, and none of the official statements have ever mentioned constructing the explosive onboard the aircraft, just the bombs themselves. Its trash papers and news outlets like The Register and The Sun that have read into that and assumed that meant the explosives as well. Indeed, read the following:
"According to US officials, the plan was to take liquid explosives on up to 10 planes with detonators hidden in electronic devices." - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4780815.stm
"We believe that the terrorists' aim was to smuggle explosives on to aeroplanes in hand luggage and to detonate these in flight. We also believe that the intended targets were flights from the United Kingdom to the United States of America." - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4778575.stm
1. That flight was only a trial run, the bomber was head of a group that was planning to carry out the same attack on 11 other flights a couple of months later. On those attacks, the bomb would have been larger and would almost certainly have caused the loss of the aircraft. US intelligence estimated a deathtoll of about 4,000. From the Wiki article - "On Flight 434, Yousef used one tenth of the explosive power he planned to use on eleven U.S. airliners in January of 1995."
2. The Register article was dealing specifically with the 'ludicrousness' of the UK plot because binary explosives are essentially a literary invention for the use assumed, and the OP used the article to throw doubt on the plots validity. My point was that the explosive in the plot was never going to be a binary explosive, or something that had to be brewed on the aircraft, but rather was already in a state ready to be used. The package would be constructed onboard, just as on the Philipines flight, and the bomb would be detonated.
The Register article is insanely and factually wrong. It was never announced that the bombers would smuggle the constituent parts of the EXPLOSIVE onboard to assemble, just the BOMB. The explosive would have been smuggled onboard readymade and the bomb would have been assembled in the toilet. Its not that unlikely, and infact its been done before - Philippine Airlines Flight 434.
Also, a search of some woods local to the property of some of those arrested unearthed bomb making equipment hidden in buried suitcases.
This plot wasnt as farfetched as some would have you believe. Its one thing to cry wolf about terrorism, its another to cry wolf about antiterrorism all the time.
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The problem is that under those agreements, Iran would have been buying from the countries that still overtly oppose the regime - essentially they would be handing a massive bargaining chip to its enemies for use in the future. I can understand why Iran wants its own infrastructure.
You think the majority of worms and viruses that crack Microsoft Windows systems today are after the data contained in said system? You giv the answer yourself, its a readymade zombie network saleable to the highest bidder.
Those views did not create open source, they created GNU and the FSF. I was freely exchanging sourcecode with friends and fellow developers long before I had ever heard of either of those two organisations.
The OLPC should say what? Their website ( http://laptop.org/ ) doesnt actually tout Open Source all that much so I dont see how you get the impression they are piggy-tailing on any percieved value - its a means to an end, and that end is to put a cheap laptop into as many childrens hands as possible.
RMS and Theo are trying to use this project as a soapbox to further their own political views, and that disgusts me.
...doesnt make it law. The OLPC projects goal is to put a laptop into every childs hands, not to create a political statement about free software.
Nuclear events have a very specific siesmic pattern.
Actually all the NPT does is recognise the holders of nuclear weapons as such, it makes no allowances for them - under the agreement those countries should work toward disarmament.
In my experience, Maxtor drives are as reliable if not more reliable than other makes, and I wouldnt buy anything else (especially given the 4 or 5 year warranties that maxtor drives seem to have).
The USAF retired SR-71 operations on January 21st 1990, were returned to active status in 1995, started flying again in 1997 and were again permanently retired in 1998. If the Aurora exists, its likely that the SR-71 reactivation in the 1990s was due to a grounding of the Aurora fleet for some reason. If it exists that is.
Of the several thousand Ebooks I own, roughly 5% are DRM protected but all are in PDB format and none are in any of the formats Sonys reader supports - that gives me sufficient permission to whine. They simply arent catering to the mass market.
No, IE does not run in kernel mode in any way shape or form, its a common misconception. khtml is a lot more like mshtml.dll than people would like to admit.
Palmdoc, PDB, lit, ereader. You know, the most common ones....
SCO got a fixed upper limit agreed on their costs with the legal firm representing them, they dont have an 'unknown' bill as such.
The poles have been ice free many times in geological history. Why does it instantly become 'our fault' just because its happening now?
The current price in the UK is about 88.9p per litre. With 3.78 litres per US gallon, thats 336p per US gallon. In dollars thats $6.30 right now. And our petrol prices have recently come down from the 99p per litre mark.
The US has it easy on petrol prices.
Since moving to OSX two years ago, Ive found that its trivially easy to bring the GUI to a crawl, in most cases far worse than WindowsXP. And yet I still recommend OSX, I just dont worship it.
Remember, there are only so many blocks you can put in between an idiot and his money before he gets pissed off and takes it else where.
Personally, Im all for banks charging phishing victims for the losses - many dont cover fraud resulting from the customer failing to take appropriate measures to protect their card details, how is failing to protect their login details any different?
According to the Forbes article, sharing is an 'opt in' option for publishers on the Zune music store - by inference, if the publisher hasnt opted in, their music wont be sharable, and since such a preference cannot be stored for music originating outside the store, it will probably also not be sharable.
Its quite amusing the number of comments in this thread that seem to assume that Microsoft would make a kindergarten mistake along the lines of allowing wholesale possible copyright infringement through a product specifically designed to share copyrighted material from an industry that has demonstrated itself to be litigous.
I think this has been blown out of all proportion by those looking for another MS bash.
If I 'emulate' enough features in the code, I can do away with both packages AND still get a performance boost. Probably. However, the whole point of having a seperate package do it is so I dont have to work more than needed.
Sounds like the "Broken Window" fallacy dressed up for the technology age.
- 'smuggling bombs in component parts onbord aircraft, assembling the bombs in the toilet, and detonating bombs'
- and 'smuggling bombs in component parts onbord aircraft, assembling the bombs in the toilet, and detonating bombs'
What does one being a trial run have to do with being different?1. That flight was only a trial run, the bomber was head of a group that was planning to carry out the same attack on 11 other flights a couple of months later. On those attacks, the bomb would have been larger and would almost certainly have caused the loss of the aircraft. US intelligence estimated a deathtoll of about 4,000. From the Wiki article - "On Flight 434, Yousef used one tenth of the explosive power he planned to use on eleven U.S. airliners in January of 1995."
2. The Register article was dealing specifically with the 'ludicrousness' of the UK plot because binary explosives are essentially a literary invention for the use assumed, and the OP used the article to throw doubt on the plots validity. My point was that the explosive in the plot was never going to be a binary explosive, or something that had to be brewed on the aircraft, but rather was already in a state ready to be used. The package would be constructed onboard, just as on the Philipines flight, and the bomb would be detonated.
The Register article is insanely and factually wrong. It was never announced that the bombers would smuggle the constituent parts of the EXPLOSIVE onboard to assemble, just the BOMB. The explosive would have been smuggled onboard readymade and the bomb would have been assembled in the toilet. Its not that unlikely, and infact its been done before - Philippine Airlines Flight 434.
Also, a search of some woods local to the property of some of those arrested unearthed bomb making equipment hidden in buried suitcases.
This plot wasnt as farfetched as some would have you believe. Its one thing to cry wolf about terrorism, its another to cry wolf about antiterrorism all the time.