What is so dumb about this is that these people don't even know the vi command to erase the last word - ^W. It makes you look stupid. Like those people who create tables (in Word usually) with spaces because they don't know tabs.
Read again. It doesn't say that there's any sort of communication involved, what they're saying is that RFID tags use the principle of electromagnetic induction.
You realize that to produce enough vegetable oil to replace even the current diesel consumption, you'd need several times the area of the US covered with nothing but sunflowers/rapeseed/whatever? And that if vegetable oil catches on as fuel, it will compete with food production? Farmers would switch from producing meat, milk and vegetables to producing oil, and basic food would become much more expensive.
Uh, Putin will be out of office in 2008 anyway. He's only allowed to serve two terms.
What's interesting is that nobody ever heard of Politkovskaya or Litvinenko before they died. Litvinenko wrote a book claiming that both 9/11 and the bombings in Russia had been orchestrated by the FSB. Nobody took him seriously and if it hadn't been for the fact that he has been poisoned with an obscure radioactive element, nobody here would have ever heard of him. Also, the fact that his death was rather drawn out has contributed immensely to the media frenzy. As someone who doesn't know too much about how secret services operate, I can't help but think, couldn't they just have made it look like a heart attack? A car accident?
If you ask the simple question, who stands to gain from all this, it's definitely not Putin. He was already incredibly embarassed by the Politkovskaya murder - which interestingly coincided with his visit to Europe, and he was greeted with shouts of "Murderer, Murderer!" everywhere he went.
"The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim."
after reading your comment, my sarcasm meter caught fire and exploded, inflicting considerable damage on my person and the interior of my office. You will be hearing from my lawyer soon.
Well guess what, both Ubuntu and Fedora "installed just fine", too. Only I had no sound, I couldn't use the full screen resolution (maximum was 1024x768 while the actual screen is 1280x800), and I had no DRI support in X. Updating ALSA fixed the sound, updating the kernel and X fixed the DRI. I still have to use a hack for the resolution (915resolution) but at least it works.
I think this is a case of either trolling, or stupidity.
Forget it. Laptops tend to use the more recent stuff, and as Linux is always a couple of months behind driver-wise, you'll probably never find a recently released laptop that works with Linux right away. I bought my Dell over a month ago and only now with the latest kernel/ALSA/X.org it's usable under Linux.
Considering the weight of this thing, you might as well strap a portable generator to your back as well. The roar of the laptop's fans will probably drown out the engine noise, too.
How do you throttle "BitTorrent downloads"? I'm pretty sure they just throttle the default ports (6881-6889). But seeing as you can choose any random port, that can easily be circumvented. Most BitTorrent clients have an option to randomly choose a new port on every startup. Some trackers also even block clients that use the default ports.
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You mean like Sony buying LiteOn Optical drives, putting their logo on them and changing the firmware to report 'Sony' instead of 'LiteOn'?
Or like virtually every notebook manufacturer (including Apple), assembling their notebooks out of Chinese OEM parts?
Do you know why Chinese 'piracy' is so rampant? Because all the products are made in China anyway. One factory produces the 'brand' product during the day and the 'pirate' product after-hours. Of course they're completely identical.
I mean think about it, if you were a Chinese company manufacturing electronics, and you see how the stuff you design and produce is sold for ten times the price that brand X pays you in the West, you'd start to wonder a bit too.
If the products were designed and produced in the 'West', this would be much more difficult. But the corporations don't care. They still make a huge profit by sticking their brand name on Chinese stuff and selling it for a huge markup.
Venus is completely covered in clouds, so a telescope or spectrometer won't tell you jack about the surface conditions. The fact is that until the Venera probes, most scientists thought that Venus could support human life.
The thing is, before the Russians sent their probes there, scientists thought that Venus was just like Earth, only a bit more warm and humid, and that there were huge rainforests covering the planet's surface. That's why the Soviets thought that Venus would be the most worthwhile target - everyone thought it was habitable.
Only when their first probe was crushed/cooked on descent, they realized that conditions there weren't that friendly after all.
A simpler solution would be to use DVD-RAM discs. They are specced to last at least 30 years by design. They're sectored like hard drives and they employ sector remapping in hardware and other error correction features.
You have to keep in mind that CDs and DVDs were designed to hold audio and video. Some data loss was deemed acceptable. The technology was adapted for use in computers and more error correction features have been added, but essentially they're still a hackjob.
I've been using a bunch of DVD-RAMs since I got my NEC ND-4550 burner, and they work absolutely great. Too bad the cartridge version didn't catch on. You still have to handle the discs carefully if you want your data to be safe.
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What is so dumb about this is that these people don't even know the vi command to erase the last word - ^W. It makes you look stupid. Like those people who create tables (in Word usually) with spaces because they don't know tabs.
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Read again. It doesn't say that there's any sort of communication involved, what they're saying is that RFID tags use the principle of electromagnetic induction.
That picture is awesome. Reminds me of Elite II. I just hope they didn't forget to buy atmospheric shielding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(missile)
You realize that to produce enough vegetable oil to replace even the current diesel consumption, you'd need several times the area of the US covered with nothing but sunflowers/rapeseed/whatever? And that if vegetable oil catches on as fuel, it will compete with food production? Farmers would switch from producing meat, milk and vegetables to producing oil, and basic food would become much more expensive.
What's interesting is that nobody ever heard of Politkovskaya or Litvinenko before they died. Litvinenko wrote a book claiming that both 9/11 and the bombings in Russia had been orchestrated by the FSB. Nobody took him seriously and if it hadn't been for the fact that he has been poisoned with an obscure radioactive element, nobody here would have ever heard of him. Also, the fact that his death was rather drawn out has contributed immensely to the media frenzy. As someone who doesn't know too much about how secret services operate, I can't help but think, couldn't they just have made it look like a heart attack? A car accident?
If you ask the simple question, who stands to gain from all this, it's definitely not Putin. He was already incredibly embarassed by the Politkovskaya murder - which interestingly coincided with his visit to Europe, and he was greeted with shouts of "Murderer, Murderer!" everywhere he went.
"The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim."
Just pull it out and the pain will go away after a while ...
I'd rather have private hackers do it than the government.
Dear Sir,
after reading your comment, my sarcasm meter caught fire and exploded, inflicting considerable damage on my person and the interior of my office. You will be hearing from my lawyer soon.
Yours truly,
Rolo Tomasi
Dick Grayson, age twelve.
I'm the goddamn Batman!
Age twelve.
I think this is a case of either trolling, or stupidity.
In your case, both, apparently.
Forget it. Laptops tend to use the more recent stuff, and as Linux is always a couple of months behind driver-wise, you'll probably never find a recently released laptop that works with Linux right away. I bought my Dell over a month ago and only now with the latest kernel/ALSA/X.org it's usable under Linux.
Considering the weight of this thing, you might as well strap a portable generator to your back as well. The roar of the laptop's fans will probably drown out the engine noise, too.
No, for the target group of these laptops this type of screen is just fine. They were specifically designed to be used in dark basements.
First off, this is not off topic, as Yellowbeard is a film about pirates.
And now the good news: the DVD is going to be out in June.
How do you throttle "BitTorrent downloads"? I'm pretty sure they just throttle the default ports (6881-6889). But seeing as you can choose any random port, that can easily be circumvented. Most BitTorrent clients have an option to randomly choose a new port on every startup. Some trackers also even block clients that use the default ports.
You mean like Sony buying LiteOn Optical drives, putting their logo on them and changing the firmware to report 'Sony' instead of 'LiteOn'?
Or like virtually every notebook manufacturer (including Apple), assembling their notebooks out of Chinese OEM parts?
Do you know why Chinese 'piracy' is so rampant? Because all the products are made in China anyway. One factory produces the 'brand' product during the day and the 'pirate' product after-hours. Of course they're completely identical.
I mean think about it, if you were a Chinese company manufacturing electronics, and you see how the stuff you design and produce is sold for ten times the price that brand X pays you in the West, you'd start to wonder a bit too.
If the products were designed and produced in the 'West', this would be much more difficult. But the corporations don't care. They still make a huge profit by sticking their brand name on Chinese stuff and selling it for a huge markup.
No, ties are useful. You can strangle someone with his tie.
Venus is completely covered in clouds, so a telescope or spectrometer won't tell you jack about the surface conditions. The fact is that until the Venera probes, most scientists thought that Venus could support human life.
Only when their first probe was crushed/cooked on descent, they realized that conditions there weren't that friendly after all.
Mod parent down. The DMCA doesn't enter into this, as there is no encryption or copy protection involved.
You have to keep in mind that CDs and DVDs were designed to hold audio and video. Some data loss was deemed acceptable. The technology was adapted for use in computers and more error correction features have been added, but essentially they're still a hackjob.
I've been using a bunch of DVD-RAMs since I got my NEC ND-4550 burner, and they work absolutely great. Too bad the cartridge version didn't catch on. You still have to handle the discs carefully if you want your data to be safe.