If the government already monitored everything, they wouldn't have had to ask for that information.
If they want to use it as evidence in court, they do. I feel sure that the NSA at least does monitor everything nominally for "national security" issues.
This storyline sucks because it has no moral ambiguity in it.
Because it's clearly immoral of Iran not to want all its email to flow through servers and networks controlled by American companies? Yes, how repressive of them.
Not "neologisms", Variety has been using this style for decades. I don't know if anyone actually talks like that in real life, but it's certainly the dialect of the trade press.
Who wants to place bets that we'll see a Lord of the Rings "reboot" within 10 years?
Peter Jackson is doing a 2-part "The Hobbit" now. And there is loads of material in the Silmarillion and other stories published after JRR's death. There are plenty of stories left without having to recycle.
Taxed? Inspected? Let's talk about fines. And since many of these Chinese companies don't care, let's fine China. If that country won't take responsibility for the poisons they export to us, why are we dealing with them?
"China" does not make toys for "America". An American company specifies exactly what they want, and pays a Chinese company to make it and send it to them. How it it the Chinese government's responsibilty to test these goods that are not intended for sale in China?
The retailers and importers are responsible, morally and legally I would think.
there is a minimum distance apart that 1-gravity-or-so planets would have to be separated
I read somewhere that part of the 'verse terraforming process was to compress the planet(oid)s or use some "gravity booster" gadget to give them a 1g surface gravity. So most of the "planets" we see are actually very small (ignoring that they would have very close horizons).
After all, they don't have zero-G on the ships and space stations, they obviously DO have some gravity generation technology, which is probably related to the space drive they use, as that's also obviously not pure rocket -- maybe they need that to get to orbit.
Perhaps because stargate has a properly defined universe while firefly's universe was a mess. Cowboys in space, all the planets orbiting the same star etc etc.
Both are fairly unlikely, but "the 'verse" was conceived as a planetary system where lots of small planets and moons had been terraformed. And one big plus: no magical FTL, transporters, gates, or such needed to get from planet to planet.
As for SG, I liked the movie, and watched a few episodes of series 1. I can't say if it was consistent, but it was pretty magical, and tedious. Obviously YMMV.
London had 300 knife incidents on the Underground in a week.
If you have a concealed carry permit, you are allowed to carry a gun on MARTA in Atlanta.
We have had no gun issues and no knife issues.
I'm pretty sure you pulled those "statistics" out of your ass, or from an NRA newsletter, same thing.
Here's an article: Tube crime plummets with knife scanners at stations:
"knife-enabled offences on the London transport network had fallen from a mid-2006 peak of about 70 a month to about 20 today."
"300 per week" is 1200 a month. So you're exaggerating by a factor of 60.
And as for the "no issues" of MARTA, Wikipedia mentions:"high-profile crimes on or near MARTA have created the impression with some that MARTA is unsafe and lacks a strong police presence, even though it has its own police department.[76] From 2005 to 2008, two homicides and one rape were reported on MARTA property. The most common crime reported was larceny. The most common area for crime was MARTA's rail service, followed by MARTA's parking lots. For fiscal year 2008, MARTA had a crime rate of 2.61 per 1000 riders (0.261%)."
So you're misinformed about that too.
But don't worry about facts, you know you're right.
Because if you live in Word and type 90+ words per minute most thin clients can't keep up.
And I remember speed demon touch typists using Unix terminals back in 1980. No lag. How much eye candy does the latest version of Word need?
An 8086 PC-XT at 3.77 MHz could "keep up" with any typing. Now with literally a thousand times the speed and RAM, performance is no better, thanks to bloat.
I did turn off scripting for that site, of course. And I already block most ads (porn site ads can be rather icky, and possibly hostile). I couldn't see what was launching the PDF, may have been in an ad, or the site code itself. But as I said, it just launched and crashed, so no panic.
I was browsing a soft porn site and suddenlty Acrobat launched, then crashed. So it looks like someone really is trying to use this. Since I use Acrobat 4, I think I'm safe from this. (I need a full version of Acrobat for DTP, and version 4 does the job, and quite quickly. If I need to open a later version file I use FoxIt.)
music is also a distraction; you should be thinking about the problems and coding rather than focusing on the deep beats of the music
When I'm working I don't listen to great music, or stuff that really excites me. Not country or folk or rap with ineresting lyrics either. Usually soft rock or pop. If it's really bland Musak style that will irritate me. I just want something I can switch my attention to or away whenever I want.
It sounds like it could help treat muscular dystrophy.
Hopefully. But all this bullshit about turning off one gene to make anyone super strong -- just think for a moment: Why would we have evolved a gene to make us weaker? There must be a serious downside to this "super strength" gene. I'm pretty sure there will be a live fast/die young trade off.
The main risk discussed is still from being "exposed to secondhand smoke". That's from a lit cigarette if I'm not mistaken, not the residue. And the report says the nicotine and other residues were DETECTABLE in dust. Of course it was. Not a word about how dangerous that is. It probably is a risk to infants who put everything in their mouth.
Look, I hate cigarettes too, I don't smoke, and my mother died of lung cancer. Nevertheless, I don't think this is a real risk, especially if you simply wear surgical gloves and a dust mask, which you might want to do in any case as PCs accumulate dust and gunk whether cigarette related or otherwise.
I'm sure, but the question was are they a health hazard to work on?
Cleaning a refrigrator can be disgusting.
I think not more dangerous than a "normal" PC. There are toxic chemicals all over PCs. For instance, I'd take care with a leaky capacitor or battery, but wouldn't call it a Hazmat situation and bin the PC.
Not saying that I'd want to work on one, but just leave it at "disgusting".
But the reefer madness and junk science used by the tobacco prohibitionists has convinced people of the lies that second hand smoke is worse than plutonium.
Second hand smoke is certainly a health hazard.
But the computers in question aren't emitting smoke (if they were, I don't really think they're fixable), they have a gunky residue.
Computers are made of all kinds of toxic substances. Just don't lick them, and wear surgical gloves, and you should be okay.
"They"? This is the Chinese Authors Society. They're the ones who get screwed when Chinese publishers pirate their books, as happens to every popular book, CD, or movie in China.
So you're snarking at victims and saying that it's okay for foreigners to screw them too.
Because I'm sure Chrome OS is going to be *much* easier to install and maintain than Linux.
Chrome IS Linux. But yes, as it will come preinstalled, and no doubt update itself, that will be trivial for the user. It's not unique in this though, except it will be subsidised by Google in return for getting your eyeballs on their ads and letying Goggle analyse all your data.
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If they want to use it as evidence in court, they do. I feel sure that the NSA at least does monitor everything nominally for "national security" issues.
Because it's clearly immoral of Iran not to want all its email to flow through servers and networks controlled by American companies? Yes, how repressive of them.
Not "neologisms", Variety has been using this style for decades. I don't know if anyone actually talks like that in real life, but it's certainly the dialect of the trade press.
Peter Jackson is doing a 2-part "The Hobbit" now. And there is loads of material in the Silmarillion and other stories published after JRR's death. There are plenty of stories left without having to recycle.
Put that down to a Slashdot editor's lame attempt to segue from another article.
"China" does not make toys for "America". An American company specifies exactly what they want, and pays a Chinese company to make it and send it to them. How it it the Chinese government's responsibilty to test these goods that are not intended for sale in China?
The retailers and importers are responsible, morally and legally I would think.
I read somewhere that part of the 'verse terraforming process was to compress the planet(oid)s or use some "gravity booster" gadget to give them a 1g surface gravity. So most of the "planets" we see are actually very small (ignoring that they would have very close horizons).
After all, they don't have zero-G on the ships and space stations, they obviously DO have some gravity generation technology, which is probably related to the space drive they use, as that's also obviously not pure rocket -- maybe they need that to get to orbit.
Both are fairly unlikely, but "the 'verse" was conceived as a planetary system where lots of small planets and moons had been terraformed. And one big plus: no magical FTL, transporters, gates, or such needed to get from planet to planet.
As for SG, I liked the movie, and watched a few episodes of series 1. I can't say if it was consistent, but it was pretty magical, and tedious. Obviously YMMV.
He was referring to the big flashing "1980" that introduced the show and the year it was set.
I'm pretty sure you pulled those "statistics" out of your ass, or from an NRA newsletter, same thing.
Here's an article: Tube crime plummets with knife scanners at stations: "knife-enabled offences on the London transport network had fallen from a mid-2006 peak of about 70 a month to about 20 today." "300 per week" is 1200 a month. So you're exaggerating by a factor of 60.
And as for the "no issues" of MARTA, Wikipedia mentions :"high-profile crimes on or near MARTA have created the impression with some that MARTA is unsafe and lacks a strong police presence, even though it has its own police department.[76] From 2005 to 2008, two homicides and one rape were reported on MARTA property. The most common crime reported was larceny. The most common area for crime was MARTA's rail service, followed by MARTA's parking lots. For fiscal year 2008, MARTA had a crime rate of 2.61 per 1000 riders (0.261%)."
So you're misinformed about that too. But don't worry about facts, you know you're right.
Gun nuts... gah.
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And I remember speed demon touch typists using Unix terminals back in 1980. No lag. How much eye candy does the latest version of Word need?
An 8086 PC-XT at 3.77 MHz could "keep up" with any typing. Now with literally a thousand times the speed and RAM, performance is no better, thanks to bloat.
"The Mayflower was shaped like a ball with a cone on one side - top-shaped. The point of the cone was her jet ..."
Farmer in the Sky
I did turn off scripting for that site, of course. And I already block most ads (porn site ads can be rather icky, and possibly hostile). I couldn't see what was launching the PDF, may have been in an ad, or the site code itself. But as I said, it just launched and crashed, so no panic.
I was browsing a soft porn site and suddenlty Acrobat launched, then crashed. So it looks like someone really is trying to use this. Since I use Acrobat 4, I think I'm safe from this. (I need a full version of Acrobat for DTP, and version 4 does the job, and quite quickly. If I need to open a later version file I use FoxIt.)
When I'm working I don't listen to great music, or stuff that really excites me. Not country or folk or rap with ineresting lyrics either. Usually soft rock or pop. If it's really bland Musak style that will irritate me. I just want something I can switch my attention to or away whenever I want.
Hopefully. But all this bullshit about turning off one gene to make anyone super strong -- just think for a moment: Why would we have evolved a gene to make us weaker? There must be a serious downside to this "super strength" gene. I'm pretty sure there will be a live fast/die young trade off.
Look, I hate cigarettes too, I don't smoke, and my mother died of lung cancer. Nevertheless, I don't think this is a real risk, especially if you simply wear surgical gloves and a dust mask, which you might want to do in any case as PCs accumulate dust and gunk whether cigarette related or otherwise.
With the current legislation and health and safety guidelines - yes.
You're talking about legislation. I'm talking about reality.
I'm sure, but the question was are they a health hazard to work on?
Cleaning a refrigrator can be disgusting.
I think not more dangerous than a "normal" PC. There are toxic chemicals all over PCs. For instance, I'd take care with a leaky capacitor or battery, but wouldn't call it a Hazmat situation and bin the PC.
Not saying that I'd want to work on one, but just leave it at "disgusting".
For a few dollars a month you can get a proxy IP service in another country and download as much as you like.
Second hand smoke is certainly a health hazard.
But the computers in question aren't emitting smoke (if they were, I don't really think they're fixable), they have a gunky residue.
Computers are made of all kinds of toxic substances. Just don't lick them, and wear surgical gloves, and you should be okay.
"They"? This is the Chinese Authors Society. They're the ones who get screwed when Chinese publishers pirate their books, as happens to every popular book, CD, or movie in China.
So you're snarking at victims and saying that it's okay for foreigners to screw them too.
Chrome IS Linux. But yes, as it will come preinstalled, and no doubt update itself, that will be trivial for the user. It's not unique in this though, except it will be subsidised by Google in return for getting your eyeballs on their ads and letying Goggle analyse all your data.
You wrote "shit eating" when you should have written "shit-eating".
IMPOSTER! A real grammar nazi would know that the period goes BEFORE the quotation mark.
If you're an American grammar Nazi. If you're a Commonwealth grammar Nazi it's correct. Look up "logical" vs "aesthetic" quoting styles.