Its not realistic to imagine terrorists smuggling an atomic bomb anywhere. These things are big and 'noisy' in terms of radiation. While one might imagine that a very rich organisation - say, al Qaeda - could actually smuggle one into USA, why would they?
Um... when you look at the effect that knocking down two buildings had, what effect do you think it would have if half of lower manhattan was vaporised? And the whole New York metropolitan area left uninhabitable for years to come?
And remember, with an explosion this big it doesn't even have to make it past security or customs or anything. They could just let it go as far as it will and detonate it the second it is detected.
9/11 would look like a mere bruised thumb if Al Quaida managed to detonate a nuke anywhere near a big city. No matter how many planes they can hijack you can bet a nuke would be the ultimate victory. The psychological effect alone would shut down the whole nation.
The same article talked about "a huge blast" and "forest fire". Last time I checked, trees didn't explode when they caught fire. I don't know what happened, but someone eating a shitload of beans and letting out a big giant fart is more likely than a forest fire, given the reported explosion.
How much conventional explosive would be required? By definition, you need N thousand tons of TNT to make an N kiloton explosion. Given that a standard shipping container contains about 30 tons, thats 33 containers worth of explosives for a 1 kiloton explosion. Expensive, but no doubt feasible for a crazy dictator looking for attention.
If you left the UK for the USA, then there is always NPR... I don't know what Radio 4 is like, but what you say sounds a lot like NPR programming. Go to www.npr.org and find your local NPR stations!
that is true, but besides the point. I was talking about the parent sneering about how they wouldn't be selling it at a loss because more sales would mean more loss
I wouldn't write a 20 page paper with a pen, but its great for taking notes during meetings/class, jotting down ideas or something. Especially given that its often handy to add a little figure or make arrows.
I haven't used a tablet PC, but it seems too large and clunky to be useful to me. PDA screen are too small, especially given that you need to write 2-3 times larger on the PDA screen for it to be readable than you would on paper.
In my opinion, the real killer "ePaper" will be something thats large enough, thin, light and FLEXIBLE... in the literal sense. like a piece of paper. I don't think we have the technology to do anything like it yet
hey are selling it at a loss to increase sales, as someone suggested, then wouldn't their losses increase due to additional sales?
Economy of scale. Say making 100 units costs $300/unit but making 1000 of them costs $200/unit. If you sell them for $350 you're too expensive to be competitive. At $250 your sales pick up enough that you start to see a tidy profit.
What fruity business consultant would come up with that idea? Don't be so quick to be that smug. Computer geeks aren't the only people in the world with a brain.
How does openly posting their comments on the web constitute stabbing in the back? Its out there for anyone to see, and refute if they are so inclined. You, for instance could have put together a refutation rather than namecalling
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Thats true. Somehow everything sweet young things say make so much more sense than when someone else does... at the time at least:)
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You do have a point there.
In India (where I grew up) a 100 rupee note is equivalent to a $20 bill here, in terms of the frequency of use not exchange value. i.e. you could expect to hand over a Rs.100 note and get change back from a bagful of groceries the way you would with a $20 here.
So most ATMs I saw would return at least Rs. 500 in 100s and the rest in 500s. Pretty smart and convenent. I don't know if any of the ATMs here do that because I rarely withdraw more than $40 or $60:)
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If $50 or $100 is all you've got then you head over to an ATM and get some twenties. You can find those easily in the industralized world, right? No reason for the guy behind the register in the convenience store to have to assume the added risk of having hundreds of dollars in the till. You're not the only one for which it can be an issue of safety, you know?
DMCA takedown notices have the force of law. You don't get a hearing before you have to take down a website.
It only has the full force of the law in that if you're an ISP and you take down the offending material then you can't sue or be prosecuted for it. If you're willing to see them in court, you don't *have* to take anything down.
Now, if you are an ISP whose users are actually posting infringing content then you have an incentive to take it down (although many have been guilty of taking stuff down without investigating) because you could end up stuck in an expensive legal battle.
Like you mentioned, in this case, the judge will throw it out in 2 minutes. Probably sanction the lawyers for filing a frivolous lawsuit too.
This is definitely a surprising case of the guilty until proven innocent world that the DMCA provides
Its is neither surprising nor does it have anything to do with "guilty until proven innocent". It is at best stupidity.
I can send a letter to Cowboyneal stating that I own a copyright on the color green and he should change the color of the slashdot logo. That doesn't mean cowboyneal is guilty of anything. Lawyers have always sent nastygrams around long before the DMCA.
The only thing new here is that they're sending out threatening letters without even bothering to have a human being take a quick glance at it. Well not new, it has been discussed here a long time ago.
The whole interview was arrogant. He is worse than Michael Flatley I can understand his loyality to his product, but give us some reasons. Convience, rather than belittle us The slashdot community is NOT gullible
Whats Michael Flatley got to do with it? Last time I checked he was busy tap dancing, not really trying to convince anyone of software products or belittle and community of geeks. I have got to say, you're worse than Luchiano Pavarotti
Read the PC magazine article. Its not that they're not offering a feature (which would imply that they have to do extra work to provide that feature). They're disabling existing features which have been developed and provided by the cellphone manufacturer to make you use their network more.
It is outrageous, any weasely but not particularly surprising. Underhanded tactics seem to be the mainstay of most US businesses these days.
I believe the default behavior in windows these days is single click to activate icons, and hover to select without activating. I'm not 100% sure though... been a while since I used anything buy Linux or Solaris.
I think button 1 does something, button 2 does something else is a lot more intuitive than button one does something if you press it for a short time and something else if you press it for a long time, and yet another thing if you move the mouse while you;re pressing it for a long time
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Its not realistic to imagine terrorists smuggling an atomic bomb anywhere. These things are big and 'noisy' in terms of radiation. While one might imagine that a very rich organisation - say, al Qaeda - could actually smuggle one into USA, why would they?
Um... when you look at the effect that knocking down two buildings had, what effect do you think it would have if half of lower manhattan was vaporised? And the whole New York metropolitan area left uninhabitable for years to come?
And remember, with an explosion this big it doesn't even have to make it past security or customs or anything. They could just let it go as far as it will and detonate it the second it is detected.
9/11 would look like a mere bruised thumb if Al Quaida managed to detonate a nuke anywhere near a big city. No matter how many planes they can hijack you can bet a nuke would be the ultimate victory. The psychological effect alone would shut down the whole nation.
Who said anything about nuclear? MY post was only 2 lines long yet you couldn't be bothered to read it properly before you start ranting.
The same article talked about "a huge blast" and "forest fire". Last time I checked, trees didn't explode when they caught fire. I don't know what happened, but someone eating a shitload of beans and letting out a big giant fart is more likely than a forest fire, given the reported explosion.
How much conventional explosive would be required?
By definition, you need N thousand tons of TNT to make an N kiloton explosion. Given that a standard shipping container contains about 30 tons, thats 33 containers worth of explosives for a 1 kiloton explosion. Expensive, but no doubt feasible for a crazy dictator looking for attention.
If you left the UK for the USA, then there is always NPR... I don't know what Radio 4 is like, but what you say sounds a lot like NPR programming. Go to www.npr.org and find your local NPR stations!
that is true, but besides the point. I was talking about the parent sneering about how they wouldn't be selling it at a loss because more sales would mean more loss
I wouldn't write a 20 page paper with a pen, but its great for taking notes during meetings/class, jotting down ideas or something. Especially given that its often handy to add a little figure or make arrows.
I haven't used a tablet PC, but it seems too large and clunky to be useful to me. PDA screen are too small, especially given that you need to write 2-3 times larger on the PDA screen for it to be readable than you would on paper.
In my opinion, the real killer "ePaper" will be something thats large enough, thin, light and FLEXIBLE... in the literal sense. like a piece of paper. I don't think we have the technology to do anything like it yet
hey are selling it at a loss to increase sales, as someone suggested, then wouldn't their losses increase due to additional sales?
Economy of scale. Say making 100 units costs $300/unit but making 1000 of them costs $200/unit. If you sell them for $350 you're too expensive to be competitive. At $250 your sales pick up enough that you start to see a tidy profit.
What fruity business consultant would come up with that idea?
Don't be so quick to be that smug. Computer geeks aren't the only people in the world with a brain.
Microsoft giveth and microsoft taketh away :)
What part of 709 hour video recording capacity is so hard to understand?
Why put murderers behind bars? Holding them accountable is hardly going to bring the victim back to life!
How does openly posting their comments on the web constitute stabbing in the back? Its out there for anyone to see, and refute if they are so inclined. You, for instance could have put together a refutation rather than namecalling
Thats true. Somehow everything sweet young things say make so much more sense than when someone else does... at the time at least :)
You do have a point there.
:)
In India (where I grew up) a 100 rupee note is equivalent to a $20 bill here, in terms of the frequency of use not exchange value. i.e. you could expect to hand over a Rs.100 note and get change back from a bagful of groceries the way you would with a $20 here.
So most ATMs I saw would return at least Rs. 500 in 100s and the rest in 500s. Pretty smart and convenent. I don't know if any of the ATMs here do that because I rarely withdraw more than $40 or $60
If $50 or $100 is all you've got then you head over to an ATM and get some twenties. You can find those easily in the industralized world, right? No reason for the guy behind the register in the convenience store to have to assume the added risk of having hundreds of dollars in the till. You're not the only one for which it can be an issue of safety, you know?
What about countries like India, Pakistan and potentially, Israel which have nukes but are not "nuclear powers" because the NPT says so?
DMCA takedown notices have the force of law. You don't get a hearing before you have to take down a website.
It only has the full force of the law in that if you're an ISP and you take down the offending material then you can't sue or be prosecuted for it. If you're willing to see them in court, you don't *have* to take anything down.
Now, if you are an ISP whose users are actually posting infringing content then you have an incentive to take it down (although many have been guilty of taking stuff down without investigating) because you could end up stuck in an expensive legal battle.
Like you mentioned, in this case, the judge will throw it out in 2 minutes. Probably sanction the lawyers for filing a frivolous lawsuit too.
"guilty until proven innocent" doesn't apply to anything. At least not according to how the constitution of the US is written.
This is definitely a surprising case of the guilty until proven innocent world that the DMCA provides
Its is neither surprising nor does it have anything to do with "guilty until proven innocent". It is at best stupidity.
I can send a letter to Cowboyneal stating that I own a copyright on the color green and he should change the color of the slashdot logo. That doesn't mean cowboyneal is guilty of anything. Lawyers have always sent nastygrams around long before the DMCA.
The only thing new here is that they're sending out threatening letters without even bothering to have a human being take a quick glance at it. Well not new, it has been discussed here a long time ago.
The whole interview was arrogant. He is worse than Michael Flatley I can understand his loyality to his product, but give us some reasons. Convience, rather than belittle us The slashdot community is NOT gullible
Whats Michael Flatley got to do with it? Last time I checked he was busy tap dancing, not really trying to convince anyone of software products or belittle and community of geeks. I have got to say, you're worse than Luchiano Pavarotti
Might I suggest that the "answers" in the story title be changed to "responds"? He certainly has not answered any of the questions.
Perhaps even responds is too generous. How about "talks in PRspeak on subjects vaguely connected with the questions"?
Read the PC magazine article. Its not that they're not offering a feature (which would imply that they have to do extra work to provide that feature). They're disabling existing features which have been developed and provided by the cellphone manufacturer to make you use their network more.
It is outrageous, any weasely but not particularly surprising. Underhanded tactics seem to be the mainstay of most US businesses these days.
I have heard rumors of Optimum Online being 10mbit
I'll confirm that. The fastest sustained speed I've seen is 1.6 MB/sec, which I don't get too often, but I routinely get speeds in the 1 MB/sec range
I live on Long Island in NY
I believe the default behavior in windows these days is single click to activate icons, and hover to select without activating. I'm not 100% sure though... been a while since I used anything buy Linux or Solaris.
I think button 1 does something, button 2 does something else is a lot more intuitive than button one does something if you press it for a short time and something else if you press it for a long time, and yet another thing if you move the mouse while you;re pressing it for a long time