Most sources seem to be reporting mach 5, but that msnbc article is rather funny. The caption by the picture says mach 6 and then the article itself says mach 5.
The point is that mach 22 isn't a set speed. It depends on your altitude (or more specifically, the speed at which sound travels through your surroundings). If you're in orbit you could say that you're traveling the equivalent of mach 22 at an altitude of x feet, but you wouldn't actually be traveling mach 22. You can't express velocity in space using a mach number.
I've noticed the facebook thing lately as well. More and commercials on TV have a facebook logo plastered on them and, like you said, some even go so far as to say "Visit our page on facebook" rather than "Visit www.ourcompany.com".
Since I am in EU, it also means US can't just randomly get data that doesn't belong to them, ie. for people from other countries. Frankly, EU and European countries take privacy a lot more seriously, for historical reasons too.
I'm pretty sure that the NSA doesn't much care about the European Privacy Seal.
European Privacy Seal
On July 14th 2008 Ixquick received the first European Privacy Seal from European Data Protection Supervisor Mr. Peter Hustinx. The Seal officially confirms the privacy promises we make to our users. It makes Ixquick the first and only EU-approved search engine. Both EU Commissioner Viviane Reding and Dr.Thilo Weichert, German Privacy Commissioner complemented Ixquick on its privacy achievements.
You can find the press release here.
Since I am in EU, it also means US can't just randomly get data that doesn't belong to them, ie. for people from other countries. Frankly, EU and European countries take privacy a lot more seriously, for historical reasons too.
I'm pretty sure the NSA doesn't care about the European Privacy Seal.
It should be mentioned that the stable libration points for geostationary satellites are earth-relative (105 deg west, 75 deg east) and are not the same as the Sun-Earth lagrange points (such as those occupied by SOHO and other observation satellites).
Forgive my ignorance in these highly technical matters, but when exactly did we start sending up Small Or Home Office satellites?
Don't be silly. He's referring to the satellite dedicated to observing (looking for terrorists) parts of New York, centered over SoHo.
Gods, remember the damn digicams that had full floppy disk drives on them? I used to work with someone that swore up and down that was the "easiest" way to get pictures off a camera and onto a computer. Apparently she had never heard of media readers....
They were useful in their day.
We used to have those cameras where I work. The floppies were definitely the easiest way to go. As I would find in the following years after they upgraded to newer cameras, media readers and USB cables were rare and easily came up missing in a shared workspace where many departments use the same camera from time to time, yet every computer had a floppy drive. It's really frustrating to take pictures and then have no way to get them off of the camera.
I wish they would have made a 5 1/4" version though.;)
There was a writeup on this stuff in this (last?) month's Popular Science. They posted a video of a wrecking ball hitting brick walls with and without it on their website.
I've been checking Best Buy's site now and then for a while now to see if they've fixed the description on a dishwasher that comes with a carrying case and neck strap. So far they haven't.
It wouldn't really be the same thing. Amongst other features, Keepass has something called auto-type. It allows you to hit a key combination and then it will automatically fill in the user name and password. This makes it not only safe but also very easy to use.
Step 1: Attacker gains access to your shut-down computer and boots it from a separate volume. The attacker writes a hacked bootloader onto your system, then shuts it down.
The machine is already off. It's more like while you're away from home, even though your door is closed and secured using your very expensive lock, someone installs a camera that isn't easily detected and as the next time you unlock your door it takes a picture of the key that someone else can then use to unlock the door later.
The benefit isn't just for the people taking advantage of the rebate. Auto sales are down around 40% from their normal levels and for many people that translates to a cut of about that same percentage in the number of hours worked. These sales bring a much needed boost to the millions of people working in the auto industry.
I couldn't agree with you more. I've had problems with CPU and memory hogging issues numerous times over the years. If it happened to me more frequently or if firefox weren't so customizable I would have ditched the browser a long time ago.
Finally, there is some incentive for me to publish my music in the EU. I had held out before but now that I know my works will be protected for 70 years it's worth my while to innovate.
Is this like Microsoft asserting control over what programmers may code for Windows?
Not even slightly. Such a requirement for an OS would impact every piece of software that a user runs. WoW is just a single application. The two aren't even close and even the mere suggestion comes off like an anti-MS rant (or perhaps rather an attempt at transferring an anti-MS sentiment towards Blizzard.)
By default I put my snail mail in envelopes (keep my correspondence private), by default I put on clothes (keep my privates... private), and by default I expect the police are not searching my house or tapping my phone (4th Amendment privacy).
That's not really a good analogy. It's not like your browser broadcasts its history. It's just there by default to anyone using your computer.
Take your wife (or husband) for example. Just as she, by default, at your computer and logged in, has access to your history, she also has access to what snail mail you get and, with luck, those privates you mentioned.
They rarely if ever disclose that the personal data stored on the license -- the customer's name, address, license number, perhaps even height, weight, and eye color...
Do all the licenses out there really have that information? I know that in Michigan, by law, the magnetic strips can only contain the license number, birthdate, and expiration date.
In this case, you could always just pirate it instead of buying. Still gives them mindshare, but no profits. Seem to me that's the only way you'd ever accomplish a Sony boycott.
The other option is that if you're going to buy something, buy it used. Technically it adds a slight value to things if they're more re-sellable, but none of your money will go directly back to them.
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Most sources seem to be reporting mach 5, but that msnbc article is rather funny. The caption by the picture says mach 6 and then the article itself says mach 5.
The point is that mach 22 isn't a set speed. It depends on your altitude (or more specifically, the speed at which sound travels through your surroundings). If you're in orbit you could say that you're traveling the equivalent of mach 22 at an altitude of x feet, but you wouldn't actually be traveling mach 22. You can't express velocity in space using a mach number.
I've noticed the facebook thing lately as well. More and commercials on TV have a facebook logo plastered on them and, like you said, some even go so far as to say "Visit our page on facebook" rather than "Visit www.ourcompany.com".
Since I am in EU, it also means US can't just randomly get data that doesn't belong to them, ie. for people from other countries. Frankly, EU and European countries take privacy a lot more seriously, for historical reasons too.
I'm pretty sure that the NSA doesn't much care about the European Privacy Seal.
From the FAQ:
European Privacy Seal On July 14th 2008 Ixquick received the first European Privacy Seal from European Data Protection Supervisor Mr. Peter Hustinx. The Seal officially confirms the privacy promises we make to our users. It makes Ixquick the first and only EU-approved search engine. Both EU Commissioner Viviane Reding and Dr.Thilo Weichert, German Privacy Commissioner complemented Ixquick on its privacy achievements. You can find the press release here.
Since I am in EU, it also means US can't just randomly get data that doesn't belong to them, ie. for people from other countries. Frankly, EU and European countries take privacy a lot more seriously, for historical reasons too.
I'm pretty sure the NSA doesn't care about the European Privacy Seal.
Forgive my ignorance in these highly technical matters, but when exactly did we start sending up Small Or Home Office satellites?
Don't be silly. He's referring to the satellite dedicated to observing (looking for terrorists) parts of New York, centered over SoHo.
They must be like Chia pets.
I've never known anyone to actually buy one, yet year after year they keep selling them so SOMEONE must be buying them.
Gods, remember the damn digicams that had full floppy disk drives on them? I used to work with someone that swore up and down that was the "easiest" way to get pictures off a camera and onto a computer. Apparently she had never heard of media readers....
They were useful in their day.
;)
We used to have those cameras where I work. The floppies were definitely the easiest way to go. As I would find in the following years after they upgraded to newer cameras, media readers and USB cables were rare and easily came up missing in a shared workspace where many departments use the same camera from time to time, yet every computer had a floppy drive. It's really frustrating to take pictures and then have no way to get them off of the camera.
I wish they would have made a 5 1/4" version though.
Are there any linux utilities that are comparable in depth to process explorer?
They had to install double backups for systems in DS9 after the Federation took over as well.
There was a writeup on this stuff in this (last?) month's Popular Science. They posted a video of a wrecking ball hitting brick walls with and without it on their website.
http://www.popsci.com/bown/2009/video/video-bombproof-wallpaper-vs-wrecking-ball
I've been checking Best Buy's site now and then for a while now to see if they've fixed the description on a dishwasher that comes with a carrying case and neck strap. So far they haven't.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Whirlpool+-+24%22+Tall+Tub+Built-In+Dishwasher+-+Black/8928084.p?skuId=8928084&id=1214611181887
It wouldn't really be the same thing. Amongst other features, Keepass has something called auto-type. It allows you to hit a key combination and then it will automatically fill in the user name and password. This makes it not only safe but also very easy to use.
From TFA -
Step 1: Attacker gains access to your shut-down computer and boots it from a separate volume. The attacker writes a hacked bootloader onto your system, then shuts it down.
The machine is already off. It's more like while you're away from home, even though your door is closed and secured using your very expensive lock, someone installs a camera that isn't easily detected and as the next time you unlock your door it takes a picture of the key that someone else can then use to unlock the door later.
Nextel / Sprint has been charging for a paper bill for a while now (a year or two at least). T-Mobile must cater to a different crowd.
A standard OS will make it much easier to implement the three laws of robotics.
The benefit isn't just for the people taking advantage of the rebate. Auto sales are down around 40% from their normal levels and for many people that translates to a cut of about that same percentage in the number of hours worked. These sales bring a much needed boost to the millions of people working in the auto industry.
That's not so bad. From the way the headline read, my first though was that they would actually do product placement within the story.
So instead of King Arthur drinking a a glass of wine he'd be drinking a can of Coke.
Why do TV shows, such as 30 Rock, The Simpsons, Heroes and Everyone Loves Raymond, persist in so ferevently stereotyping comic book fans and stores?
Well, the Simpsons feverently persists in stereotyping everything.... that's kind of what they do.
I couldn't agree with you more. I've had problems with CPU and memory hogging issues numerous times over the years. If it happened to me more frequently or if firefox weren't so customizable I would have ditched the browser a long time ago.
Finally, there is some incentive for me to publish my music in the EU. I had held out before but now that I know my works will be protected for 70 years it's worth my while to innovate.
Is this like Microsoft asserting control over what programmers may code for Windows?
Not even slightly. Such a requirement for an OS would impact every piece of software that a user runs. WoW is just a single application. The two aren't even close and even the mere suggestion comes off like an anti-MS rant (or perhaps rather an attempt at transferring an anti-MS sentiment towards Blizzard.)
By default I put my snail mail in envelopes (keep my correspondence private), by default I put on clothes (keep my privates... private), and by default I expect the police are not searching my house or tapping my phone (4th Amendment privacy).
That's not really a good analogy. It's not like your browser broadcasts its history. It's just there by default to anyone using your computer. Take your wife (or husband) for example. Just as she, by default, at your computer and logged in, has access to your history, she also has access to what snail mail you get and, with luck, those privates you mentioned.
They rarely if ever disclose that the personal data stored on the license -- the customer's name, address, license number, perhaps even height, weight, and eye color...
Do all the licenses out there really have that information? I know that in Michigan, by law, the magnetic strips can only contain the license number, birthdate, and expiration date.
In this case, you could always just pirate it instead of buying. Still gives them mindshare, but no profits. Seem to me that's the only way you'd ever accomplish a Sony boycott.
The other option is that if you're going to buy something, buy it used. Technically it adds a slight value to things if they're more re-sellable, but none of your money will go directly back to them.