First off, the Aussies aren't ranked 88th, they're 42nd.
Quite a bit of difference between the two.
Secondly, there aren't any wooden spoons here. (That would be American Samoa at 205th.) Every team in the World Cup is good, or else they wouldn't be here. Yes, there not all at the level of Brazil, but every team here can play.
Just because it's quantum doesn't mean it's proof against being intercepted. Sorry about the
Google cache, but I don't have access to the original at the moment.
The accepted wisdom driving the recent surge in quantum-encryption schemes posits that physical laws cannot be violated, and thus the quantum properties of photons offer an absolute level of security to optical networks. But Richard Kuhn, a computer security expert at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, Md.), has published a method for defeating several quantum-encryption schemes, although Kuhn's method will not work with the BB84 protocol used in commercial systems.
It's the implementation of an encryption system that's the key to the real-world security of the system. As of right now, we haven't had enough time to "play" with quantum encryption to know just how well they can be implemented to resist attacks.
The term you want is
privateer. Privateers had letters of marque which legitimized their attacks as being sponsored by a government. (Except for the Spanish, who had a habit of refusing to honor letters of marque and just hanged them as common pirates.) Buccaneers, on the other hand, were pirates who started out in the barbecue business.
No, seriously. Buccaneers were originally hunters who sold cooked meat, grilled over an open fire, to passing ships. Eventually, an enterprising band of buccaneers realized that the passing ships were poorly armed and captured the ship--much more profitable than selling barbecue.
My take on things. For some information that the US classifies, the US knows an opponent could use it against them because the US has used the same information from an opponent against that oppenent.
As somebody had as their sig: Just because it's a joke doesn't mean it's not a troll. It's one of the risks of posting humor here. It's no big deal; I can't remember the last time I had mod points, so it doesn't matter one way or the other how I'm modded.
And speaking of sheep jokes, true story. I was in England a number of years ago to install some computer equipment. One weekend, a bunch of us were doing the tourist bit driving out into the country when we came across a flock of sheep grazing by the side of the road. Since there wasn't a fence, the guy driving slowed down as we passed them. One of the guys started teasing him about being afraid of the sheep. Without missing a beat, the driver shot back, "It'll be dark on the way back, so I'm picking a cute one now."
(almost certainly ignorant of America's use as a prison by the British)
Lame and tired, perhaps, but not made in ignorance of the Crown pushing convicts onto the colonies; in spite of laws designed to stop or slow down the transporting being passed by Virginia and Maryland. Yes, we did cover this in school. It's a trade-off: Americans get to make jokes about Prisoners of Mother England and the Austrailians get to drink good beer.
Not quite the American colonies, but if you're a swashbuckler fan you should watch Captain Blood with Errol Flynn as a convict sold to a plantation owner in Jamaica.
Err, the only problem with your argument is we don't know that fossil fuels are in fact from decomposed organisms. It's the leading theory for the source oil, true, and were I to be placing a bet on what the leading scientific theory was in another hundred years, I'd put my money on it. That, however, does not make it a fact.
With that being said, even if oil is produced from a non-biological source, it's still going to run out. We're sucking out the oil over decades that takes millenia to build up, no matter what the source. Even if it is refreshed by natural processes, it won't come back fast enough for it to help out our current civilization.
cubicles are the most retarded invention known to the business world
Yes, I'm sure everyone would prefer an office over a cubicle. However, this is what
life without cubicles would look like. Cheaper than installing cubicles, taking up less floorspace per person, and no privacy.
The revelations are a serious blow to MIT, which prides itself on its reputation as a scientific powerhouse.
Revealing a case of fraud strengthens their reputation. If they had let the case die in the darkness after dismissing him--that would lessen their reputation. But admitting that fraud has happened and that the school will not stand for it--that can only gain respect.
I'm sorry, but after the administration's poor reaction time to Katrina hitting New Orleans, you can't convince me that FEMA would be able to suppress hordes of brain-eating zombies spilling through the streets of Pittsburgh before they had the chance to spread all over the western part of the state. Only the numerous potholes on the PA Turnpike will slow them down enough to protect Philidelphia from a swarm of filthy, decaying, evil creatures. (Zombies, not FEMA management.)
But this is why the metaphor works. You do dip the brush in paint...only the paint isn't that wet stuff that you get out of cans or tubes, but rather everything in the world. You like the shade of blue on someone's shirt? With this brush, the shirt is now a can of paint in exactly the color you want; one dip and you're got that color without any hassle. No searching for the right tube of paint, no mixing in a bit of white to lighten or black to darken; just what you want.
In a major breakthrough, U.S. Customs agents intercepted a cache of 250 cell phones that were to be shipped to the al Qaeda network, said John Babb, U.S. Customs director.
It's gotten off the ground as well; estimates have the number of proficient speakers ranging from 100,000 to 1,600,000 people. (Not unsurprisingly, people who like Esperanto tend to go for the 1.6 million while those who hate Esperanto go for the 100 thousand.)
The real problem with it for this context is that it's mostly based on slavic and romance languages--it doesn't sound very Asian.
Which meant bringing home a teletype and accoustic modem and setting it up in the basement. Giant rolls of yellow paper and the constant ka-thunk, ka-thunk, ka-thunk, ka-thunk as it printed. Occasionally, we would be allowed to play exciting games like horse racing...where you picked a horse and it would give you the race announcements.
Well, the thing about the average Chinese tourist is they can already read most of the signs at a survival level because a huge chunk of the Japanese writing system was stolen from China.
(It's sort of like an American going to England. It's close enough to figure out most things, but you'll still trip over others.)
After being self-isolated for over a thousand years
Less than 250 years, actually. And there was still contact being made, particularly trade with the Portuguese and Chinese.
then before forced to trade at gun point of the US navy
One right.
humiliated into signing the unequal trade treaties
While the treaties were unequal (yet better than the ones that other countries in the region would get), the Japanese government actually liked them at the time. Particularly those parts limiting their interaction with those nasty gaijin.
internally usurped by the youth who felt humiliated
Humiliated by the Tokugawa Shogunate, not the Americans. The Satsuma and Choshu had been suffering long before Perry showed up.
forced into WW2 by this youth
Started hostilities, you mean, by invading Manchuria in 1931 and China in 1937. (I'd throw in their invasion of Korea, but since it happened in 1910, that's even too early for a snide WW1 remark.)
Slashdot Mirror
I would start reading them. Instead, I keep going back to the BBC.
First off, the Aussies aren't ranked 88th, they're 42nd. Quite a bit of difference between the two.
Secondly, there aren't any wooden spoons here. (That would be American Samoa at 205th.) Every team in the World Cup is good, or else they wouldn't be here. Yes, there not all at the level of Brazil, but every team here can play.
[My prediction: Argentina.]
No, lakh means 100,000. Rs is an abbreviation for rupee, which is the currency. Right now, there's around 45 Rs to a dollar.
The term you want is privateer. Privateers had letters of marque which legitimized their attacks as being sponsored by a government. (Except for the Spanish, who had a habit of refusing to honor letters of marque and just hanged them as common pirates.) Buccaneers, on the other hand, were pirates who started out in the barbecue business.
No, seriously. Buccaneers were originally hunters who sold cooked meat, grilled over an open fire, to passing ships. Eventually, an enterprising band of buccaneers realized that the passing ships were poorly armed and captured the ship--much more profitable than selling barbecue.
To quote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeroineWikipedia: "Heroine", the feminine form of "hero", should not be confused with heroin, the drug.
It's important to keep the distinction straight: You shoot heroin into the tip of your penis; but shoot the tip of your penis into a heroine.
My take on things. For some information that the US classifies, the US knows an opponent could use it against them because the US has used the same information from an opponent against that oppenent.
As somebody had as their sig: Just because it's a joke doesn't mean it's not a troll. It's one of the risks of posting humor here. It's no big deal; I can't remember the last time I had mod points, so it doesn't matter one way or the other how I'm modded.
And speaking of sheep jokes, true story. I was in England a number of years ago to install some computer equipment. One weekend, a bunch of us were doing the tourist bit driving out into the country when we came across a flock of sheep grazing by the side of the road. Since there wasn't a fence, the guy driving slowed down as we passed them. One of the guys started teasing him about being afraid of the sheep. Without missing a beat, the driver shot back, "It'll be dark on the way back, so I'm picking a cute one now."
(almost certainly ignorant of America's use as a prison by the British)
Lame and tired, perhaps, but not made in ignorance of the Crown pushing convicts onto the colonies; in spite of laws designed to stop or slow down the transporting being passed by Virginia and Maryland. Yes, we did cover this in school. It's a trade-off: Americans get to make jokes about Prisoners of Mother England and the Austrailians get to drink good beer.
Not quite the American colonies, but if you're a swashbuckler fan you should watch Captain Blood with Errol Flynn as a convict sold to a plantation owner in Jamaica.
Well, if you're Australian, then we already know you're a criminal...
Err, the only problem with your argument is we don't know that fossil fuels are in fact from decomposed organisms. It's the leading theory for the source oil, true, and were I to be placing a bet on what the leading scientific theory was in another hundred years, I'd put my money on it. That, however, does not make it a fact.
With that being said, even if oil is produced from a non-biological source, it's still going to run out. We're sucking out the oil over decades that takes millenia to build up, no matter what the source. Even if it is refreshed by natural processes, it won't come back fast enough for it to help out our current civilization.
cubicles are the most retarded invention known to the business world
Yes, I'm sure everyone would prefer an office over a cubicle. However, this is what life without cubicles would look like. Cheaper than installing cubicles, taking up less floorspace per person, and no privacy.So this will catch terrorists in much the same way that polygraphs caught Aldrich Ames, right?
The revelations are a serious blow to MIT, which prides itself on its reputation as a scientific powerhouse.
Revealing a case of fraud strengthens their reputation. If they had let the case die in the darkness after dismissing him--that would lessen their reputation. But admitting that fraud has happened and that the school will not stand for it--that can only gain respect.
I'm sorry, but after the administration's poor reaction time to Katrina hitting New Orleans, you can't convince me that FEMA would be able to suppress hordes of brain-eating zombies spilling through the streets of Pittsburgh before they had the chance to spread all over the western part of the state. Only the numerous potholes on the PA Turnpike will slow them down enough to protect Philidelphia from a swarm of filthy, decaying, evil creatures. (Zombies, not FEMA management.)
or dip it in real paint.
But this is why the metaphor works. You do dip the brush in paint...only the paint isn't that wet stuff that you get out of cans or tubes, but rather everything in the world. You like the shade of blue on someone's shirt? With this brush, the shirt is now a can of paint in exactly the color you want; one dip and you're got that color without any hassle. No searching for the right tube of paint, no mixing in a bit of white to lighten or black to darken; just what you want.
Somebody in Microsoft just wants to have more pictures of OS girls in cute outfits.
Thirty seconds on Google shows the media has reported on how Al Queda communicates before. (Feel free to be picky about 'headlines' if you want.)
http://www.cellular.co.za/news_2002/091602-us_cusTry in the 80s. As in 1887.
It's gotten off the ground as well; estimates have the number of proficient speakers ranging from 100,000 to 1,600,000 people. (Not unsurprisingly, people who like Esperanto tend to go for the 1.6 million while those who hate Esperanto go for the 100 thousand.)
The real problem with it for this context is that it's mostly based on slavic and romance languages--it doesn't sound very Asian.
Shoutcast has a wide variety of formats available; however, since it's live netcasting, you can't carry it with you. C'est la vie.
It points in the right direction, towards the strongest magnetic field in the area. That just happens to not be magnetic north.
Which meant bringing home a teletype and accoustic modem and setting it up in the basement. Giant rolls of yellow paper and the constant ka-thunk, ka-thunk, ka-thunk, ka-thunk as it printed. Occasionally, we would be allowed to play exciting games like horse racing...where you picked a horse and it would give you the race announcements.
Ah, timesharing on an old GE computer.
Well, the thing about the average Chinese tourist is they can already read most of the signs at a survival level because a huge chunk of the Japanese writing system was stolen from China. (It's sort of like an American going to England. It's close enough to figure out most things, but you'll still trip over others.)
After being self-isolated for over a thousand years
Less than 250 years, actually. And there was still contact being made, particularly trade with the Portuguese and Chinese.
then before forced to trade at gun point of the US navy
One right.
humiliated into signing the unequal trade treaties
While the treaties were unequal (yet better than the ones that other countries in the region would get), the Japanese government actually liked them at the time. Particularly those parts limiting their interaction with those nasty gaijin.internally usurped by the youth who felt humiliated
Humiliated by the Tokugawa Shogunate, not the Americans. The Satsuma and Choshu had been suffering long before Perry showed up.
forced into WW2 by this youth
Started hostilities, you mean, by invading Manchuria in 1931 and China in 1937. (I'd throw in their invasion of Korea, but since it happened in 1910, that's even too early for a snide WW1 remark.)
declared the bad guys, nuked, occupied
More correct information.
and run by a puppet government
Come on. The LDP isn't that bad...
Conservative version: I think the Ivory Coast is the country in question.
Liberal version: I think the Ivory Coast is the country in question.