Can someone explain to me how Wi-Fi is going to be a safe bet to use throughout the flight?
It's a question of certification for the purpose, not whether it's necessarily actually a threat to the aircraft systems or not - it's that in this case the appropriate efforts have been taken to see that use of these particular electronics specifically do not cause problems and that the process is now certified for use in flight.
I told my wife yesterday that if we were to take the plunge - prolly next year - we'd be shortly upgrading our DirectTV subscription to HD programming.
I've been waiting for a plasma screen that has native 1920x1080 resolution. It's about time I'd think.
I don't think government employees can accept "contributions" from companies -- granted, that's just for "over the table" contributions.
What's funny is that the Trade Commissioner listed after Mozelle on this page is named "Orson Swindle."
Orson Swindle spent six years being tortured by the North Vietnamese in a Hanoi prison. He came back from that without breaking and with his honor intact - I suspect he's a little beyond being bribed than the average whining slashdotter could even understand.
Statistics, by definition a measure (however poorly) of the past, provenothing of the future - they can only be (carefully) used to suggest various potentials.
Every new packaging format makes up their own packaging standards, and requires completely seperate repositories and users working on it. Come on now, how hard do we have to make this?
It must be morbidly entertaining to run something like Ad-aware on some machines after a couple years of accumulated crud.
It was great fun seeing how much crap was on my sister's machine after only one year of use with completely ignoring my admonitions to never use IE or OE and to never install anything but let me do it. She let her virus scanner expire and "only" had 19 separate viruses and well over a hundred spyware items installed. Quite remarkable it still booted at all when I think about it.
Of course, it was twice as fun to get to type "format c:" on it...
I can't decide what's funnier - the people who don't realize it's an april fools thing, or the people who just barely realize it, to the point where they feel the need to point it out to others.
I think it's the people who feel a need to comment on Slashdot on such a thing... oh wait...
I find it highly unlikely that moving something 1 nanometer will be usful for delivering drugs.
The movement of a desired molecule a single nanometer may be all that is required to break that single molecule free of the bonding forces keeping it within a delivery package, thus allowing it to flow at an extremely precisely-controlled rate into the bloodstream or a specific cell. Nanomachines that can move individual molecules short distances will also be able to operate at very high frequencies - the result being the tight control of a desired chemical reaction.
if the goal is to "legitimize" p2p so that artists get paid, how would you do it?
That is not the goal - your statement assumes that people should not have the freedom to use a tool without the oversight of a nanny government because that tool can also be used for illegal purposes.
The goal of the MPAA appears to be to "delegitimize" p2p applications because it can also be used to bypass payment schemes of copyrighted material - and any legal use, or users, can just be damned.
Looking just past the next year, you might see that Kerry's drive to keep jobs in the states and fight inflation by fighting deficit spending will probably do more to help the country
Egads... not in the slightest! There are plenty of jobs in the states - people just don't want to do a lot of them - else there wouldn't be a bunch of illegals coming to the US to work. Ohhhh... those jobs are beneath everyone you associate with? Such "menial" labor is how *I* paid for my college... but now everyone seems to want the taxpayer to pay for their higher education (50% of the cost of a college education in California is paid for by the taxpayers there) - and after the "free" education these people want the taxpaper to "protect" their cushy job?
It seems that giving bread and circuses still works.
Bush doesn't fund - Congress does that - and you can answer whether it will get funded or not by surmising whether social programs or science will get funded, asking which one will buy more votes, and which party believes in one over the other.
Sure you can get away with being a nerd/geek for a long time, but in the end a balanced life is the most sustainable. The hard part is, it's hard to actually have a balanced life. If you don't have a significant other, then that part is missing. If you don't have friends who like to do what you like to do, then that part is missing.
It doesn't work that way for some kids (or adults). They are not missing out on the particular social items you mention in the slightest - because they have no interest in them. Such people have to be taught social skills - and it's not that they need social skills to be happy from their own perspective - it's that other people will tolerate them better if they can exhibit what most of us consider normal politeness.
Asperger Syndrome kids have great difficulty recognizing the visual cues in a face for example - they don't know that they are missing out on anything at all - and they don't understand but can experience as much frustration as any other human at people that shamelessly make fun of them (well.... if they notice). Such people are very sensitive to being crowded, or loud or sudden noises, or in the case of my son, the high-pitched whine of an ultrasonic cleaner (such kids tend to have excellent hearing it seems). Think of all the little things that kind of irritate you a little - people interrupting you when concentrating, strong smells, sirens, etc. You're likely able to just tolerate them without thinking about it - people with Asp. Syn. don't have that trivial self control - they have to make a concious effort to not be overwhelmed by such "little things".
To their advantage most of them also tend to be really smart and/or have superb memory.
Anyway, these kids can't just ask themselves why they don't have certain social lives - they are unable to recognize that they don't.
In many states, before a malpractice lawsuit is filed the plaintiff must have a statement from another doctor that the lawsuit has merit.
For every doctor that will say a lawsuit is valid there are ten that will say it isn't - but as you say it only takes one that will say it is. Add twelve people not smart enough to get out of jury duty and you have yet another millionaire malpractice attorney in the making...
Perhaps this would hurt spammers the only place that counts - in the pocketbook. When a message is confirmed as spam then have a filter extract all the urls from the message and place them in a file. Have an hourly cron job visit that list of urls and download using wget everything at that url and all of it's subfolders - and delete the files after downloading - and bypass the proxy if you have one - these are all wget options. Have the hourly cron job keep only the last 10,000 or so urls so that there is some semblance of only downloading current spam urls.
This process, if followed by millions of spam haters (perhaps we could have a public spam url website that would let people fetch a hundred urls at a time to work on that we could upload our own spam urls to), would apply the slashdot-effect to all the spammers. Bandwidth costs money for them - it's the only way to make 'em stop.
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I forget.
It's a question of certification for the purpose, not whether it's necessarily actually a threat to the aircraft systems or not - it's that in this case the appropriate efforts have been taken to see that use of these particular electronics specifically do not cause problems and that the process is now certified for use in flight.
What do you mean? An African or European Alcatel 8100 series router?
I've been waiting for a plasma screen that has native 1920x1080 resolution. It's about time I'd think.
So does it follow that "Involuntary Draconion Legislated Mother-May-I Approach to Life, Under Threat of Imprisonment" is the Democratic mantra?
What's funny is that the Trade Commissioner listed after Mozelle on this page is named "Orson Swindle."
Orson Swindle spent six years being tortured by the North Vietnamese in a Hanoi prison. He came back from that without breaking and with his honor intact - I suspect he's a little beyond being bribed than the average whining slashdotter could even understand.
Great, ahhhhh, analysis ...
Why bother ... he was talking with Valenti.
Statistics, by definition a measure (however poorly) of the past, prove nothing of the future - they can only be (carefully) used to suggest various potentials.
The copyright on Mickey Mouse would finally expire.
Copyright for Mickey Mouse is an ever advancing target ...
Well, it's kinda handy when you don't want any, ah, wires.
... until the UN runs the internet!
Instantaneously? Now that's a trick I'd like to see.
Hard enough that it works.
It was great fun seeing how much crap was on my sister's machine after only one year of use with completely ignoring my admonitions to never use IE or OE and to never install anything but let me do it. She let her virus scanner expire and "only" had 19 separate viruses and well over a hundred spyware items installed. Quite remarkable it still booted at all when I think about it.
Of course, it was twice as fun to get to type "format c:" on it ...
I think it's the people who feel a need to comment on Slashdot on such a thing ... oh wait ...
The movement of a desired molecule a single nanometer may be all that is required to break that single molecule free of the bonding forces keeping it within a delivery package, thus allowing it to flow at an extremely precisely-controlled rate into the bloodstream or a specific cell. Nanomachines that can move individual molecules short distances will also be able to operate at very high frequencies - the result being the tight control of a desired chemical reaction.
One of them is awarded a red shirt.
That is not the goal - your statement assumes that people should not have the freedom to use a tool without the oversight of a nanny government because that tool can also be used for illegal purposes.
The goal of the MPAA appears to be to "delegitimize" p2p applications because it can also be used to bypass payment schemes of copyrighted material - and any legal use, or users, can just be damned.
Egads ... not in the slightest! There are plenty of jobs in the states - people just don't want to do a lot of them - else there wouldn't be a bunch of illegals coming to the US to work. Ohhhh ... those jobs are beneath everyone you associate with? Such "menial" labor is how *I* paid for my college ... but now everyone seems to want the taxpayer to pay for their higher education (50% of the cost of a college education in California is paid for by the taxpayers there) - and after the "free" education these people want the taxpaper to "protect" their cushy job?
It seems that giving bread and circuses still works.
Bush doesn't fund - Congress does that - and you can answer whether it will get funded or not by surmising whether social programs or science will get funded, asking which one will buy more votes, and which party believes in one over the other.
It doesn't work that way for some kids (or adults). They are not missing out on the particular social items you mention in the slightest - because they have no interest in them. Such people have to be taught social skills - and it's not that they need social skills to be happy from their own perspective - it's that other people will tolerate them better if they can exhibit what most of us consider normal politeness.
Asperger Syndrome kids have great difficulty recognizing the visual cues in a face for example - they don't know that they are missing out on anything at all - and they don't understand but can experience as much frustration as any other human at people that shamelessly make fun of them (well .... if they notice). Such people are very sensitive to being crowded, or loud or sudden noises, or in the case of my son, the high-pitched whine of an ultrasonic cleaner (such kids tend to have excellent hearing it seems). Think of all the little things that kind of irritate you a little - people interrupting you when concentrating, strong smells, sirens, etc. You're likely able to just tolerate them without thinking about it - people with Asp. Syn. don't have that trivial self control - they have to make a concious effort to not be overwhelmed by such "little things".
To their advantage most of them also tend to be really smart and/or have superb memory.
Anyway, these kids can't just ask themselves why they don't have certain social lives - they are unable to recognize that they don't.
For every doctor that will say a lawsuit is valid there are ten that will say it isn't - but as you say it only takes one that will say it is. Add twelve people not smart enough to get out of jury duty and you have yet another millionaire malpractice attorney in the making ...
Perhaps this would hurt spammers the only place that counts - in the pocketbook. When a message is confirmed as spam then have a filter extract all the urls from the message and place them in a file. Have an hourly cron job visit that list of urls and download using wget everything at that url and all of it's subfolders - and delete the files after downloading - and bypass the proxy if you have one - these are all wget options. Have the hourly cron job keep only the last 10,000 or so urls so that there is some semblance of only downloading current spam urls.
This process, if followed by millions of spam haters (perhaps we could have a public spam url website that would let people fetch a hundred urls at a time to work on that we could upload our own spam urls to), would apply the slashdot-effect to all the spammers. Bandwidth costs money for them - it's the only way to make 'em stop.