The answer is simple - 2007 turned out to be the coolest year for 30 years. It is also the case that there has been no global warming since 1998. In fact, since 1998, there has been steady cooling.
[citation needed]
(though this NASA graph seems to contradict you: it shows the last data point (2007 or 2008?) as the lowest since 2000, not 1977. It also shows a steep climb from 2000 to 2005 or so, contradicting your "steady cooling", and wide variation in the past -- for example, the temperature fell around 1990, but then climbed steeply afterwards. So I'm disinclined to believe that a few years' worth of temperature decreases mean that the problem is solved. Graph linked from http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ -- the top google hit for "global temperature data")
Don't be absurd. A much superioru solution is obvious to all!
First, we pass a law requiring everyone to purchase (if necessary) a phone equipped with bluetooth, GPS, and accelerometers. As a side benefit, this will boost the economy in these troubled days!
Second, we also require everyone to leave their bluetooth enabled and open. Any security worries will be dealt with by making it illegal to send malware or viruses to people's phones.
Now, the solution is clear: when taking a phone, the phone uses the GPS to determine where it is, and the accelerometer to determine where it is pointing. It then broadcasts using bluetooth to all phones in range telling them this information. The phones use their own GPS to figure out if they are targets of the photo. They can then alert the user using the alertion method of his or her choice (beeping, vibrating, etc.).
As an extra bonus, the phones could include software to automatically negotiate intellectual property rights over the images contained in the photo. The possibilities are endless!
TFA says "100 million transactions per month". But they have no idea how long the malware was in place. It could have been a week; that's 25 million transactions. It could have been six months. Hell, the TJX breach happened over the course of several years (although they weren't stealing data continuously). It sound like it'll definitely be big, and it could be the biggest ever (TJX clocks in at around 45 million transactions stolen), but we don't have any idea how big.
The magnetic stripe doesn't have anything to do with card-not-present transactions. CNP basically means internet: you type in your name, card number, expiry date, possibly security code. It's not clear whether they got the security code, but I guess they did, otherwise the company would be touting that as another up-side.
The magnetic stripe has its own security code, which is not printed on the card. This means that you can't make counterfeit cards given only knowledge of the number/expiry/name and the magstripe standards. However, according to TFA, "The data stolen includes the digital information encoded onto the magnetic stripe" so there's nothing stopping them running off counterfeit cards and hitting the shops.
(well, chip-and-pin style smartcards would stop them, but I don't think you have those in the US?)
This happened to a processing company called CardSystems a few years ago. After that, it came out that "CardSystems had been keeping data that it was contractually obligated to delete" (quoting wikipedia) and it lead to VISA and MasterCard firing the company.
The reason people download tv shows in New Zealand is because kiwis are reading blogs and watching fansites - they say, "Man, I want to watch that show so bad," but the networks and distributors respond, "you can watch that show in six months...maybe."
I was pretty disappointed with that comic. It reminded me a bit of when I went to see Bill Bailey last year, and he spent part of his act making fun of George Bush. C'mon, you guys are supposed to be really smart, you don't have to go for the lowest hanging fruit in the barrell (to mix a metaphore).
Well, the problem with assembly is that it neglects the theoretical side. I don't think I'd want to put a ten year old through an assembly course without giving them a thorough grounding in automata theory at the same time.
Have them sit down and write a primality tester in 8086 assembler, and then build a turing machine to do the same task. That'll learn 'em!
I was gonna say "yes, we're both on the prime material", but then it occurred to me to ponder this. Perhaps black holes are actually part of the negative energy plane? Any physicists out there know?
The first great eagles probably were. The eagles in LotR were described as descendents of Sorontar, who probably was Maia. What are the offspring of two Maiar? What about the offspring of one Maia (in eagle shape) and a normal (but large) eagle? I don't think there are definitive answers to those questions..
The Tolkien wiki has lots of stuff to read (including quotes from The History of Middle Earth) if you're interested:-)
From the page I linked to comes this quote from _The History of Middle Earth X_:
(4). What of talking beasts and birds with reasoning and speech? These have been rather lightly adopted from less 'serious' mythologies, but play a part which cannot now be excised. They are certainly 'exceptions' and not much used, but sufficiently to show they are a recognized feature of the world. All other creatures accept them as natural if not common.
(emphasis added)
This suggests that Tolkien put the talking beasts in before he'd sorted out all the mythology, the origin of species, etc. (note that talking beasts feature particularly in _The Hobbit_, a childrens tale)
Tolkien continues:
In summary: I think it must be assumed that 'talking' is not necessarily the sign of the possession of a 'rational soul' or fe"a. The Orcs were beasts of humanized shape (to mock Men and Elves) deliberately perverted / converted into a more close resemblance to Men. Their 'talking' was really reeling off 'records' set in them by Melkor. Even their rebellious critical words - he knew about them. Melkor taught them speech and as they bred they inherited this; and they had just as much independence as have, say, dogs or horses of their human masters. This talking was largely echoic (cf. parrots). In The Lord of the Rings Sauron is said to have devised a language for them.
The same sort of thing may be said of Húan and the Eagles: they were taught language by the Valar, and raised to a higher level - but they still had no fe"ar.
This is, as I said before, not his only idea about the origin of orcs.
Tolkien was unclear on the nature of orcs. The problem is that Melkor could not simply create them, the way Aule did the dwarves, because Aule needed Illuvatar to intercede and give the dwarves life, and he was hardly likele to do that with Melkor. Tolkien appears to have advanced several possibilities:
Firstly, presented in _The Silmarilion_, is the idea that orcs are corruptions of elves. Melkor captured elves (and, later, men), twisted and wrecked them, and ended up with orcs. Possibly there may have been corrupted maia amongst them too, as leaders and spies.
Secondly, that orcs were not "thinking peoples", like elves/men/dwarves; rather they were intelligent beasts in man-shape, of the same theological status as wargs, the talking ravens in _The Hobbit_, as (perhaps) the great eagles, etc.
Thirdly, a variant on the preceding: orcs are beasts, but infused with the dispersed power of Melkor, giving them the ability for independent action. The spirit of Melkor is one of hate, thus orcs will fight amongst themselves, rebel (especially against Sauron or Saruman, neither of whom is Melkor).
There were very few man-elf unions in Tolkien (Luthien and Beren, Earendil and Elwing, Tuor and Idril; I think that's the lot). Basically, as I recall, Illuvatar had to make a special exception, and the offspring had to decide which kindred they belonged to. Thus, Elros and Elrond were both half-elven, but while Elrond chose to live with the elves (and thus survives in _Lord of the Rings_), his brother Elros choose to be a man, and die (though he lived very long).
It's not clear whether hobbits are truly a different species from Men. Tolkien wrote: "It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered." It seems clear that the powers (Valar, Melkor) did not create them, thus the only real possibility is that either Illuvatar created them as a short species of Man, or they evolved over the years. But there were probably not enough years, so I guess the former.
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Papyrus. Lasts forever.
Clay pots are pretty good too.
Also, if you use Fallout Mod Manager to launch the game, you don't need the DVD in the drive :-)
So, what does KDE look like on Windows?
Does it replace explorer.exe? Does it manage windows? Or is it just a library that lets you run KDE applications on top of explorer?
[citation needed]
(though this NASA graph seems to contradict you: it shows the last data point (2007 or 2008?) as the lowest since 2000, not 1977. It also shows a steep climb from 2000 to 2005 or so, contradicting your "steady cooling", and wide variation in the past -- for example, the temperature fell around 1990, but then climbed steeply afterwards. So I'm disinclined to believe that a few years' worth of temperature decreases mean that the problem is solved. Graph linked from http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ -- the top google hit for "global temperature data")
Don't be absurd. A much superioru solution is obvious to all!
First, we pass a law requiring everyone to purchase (if necessary) a phone equipped with bluetooth, GPS, and accelerometers. As a side benefit, this will boost the economy in these troubled days!
Second, we also require everyone to leave their bluetooth enabled and open. Any security worries will be dealt with by making it illegal to send malware or viruses to people's phones.
Now, the solution is clear: when taking a phone, the phone uses the GPS to determine where it is, and the accelerometer to determine where it is pointing. It then broadcasts using bluetooth to all phones in range telling them this information. The phones use their own GPS to figure out if they are targets of the photo. They can then alert the user using the alertion method of his or her choice (beeping, vibrating, etc.).
As an extra bonus, the phones could include software to automatically negotiate intellectual property rights over the images contained in the photo. The possibilities are endless!
When I set up a Windows XP computer, I use TweakUI to disable autorun for all drives and all media types.
I hope that is sufficient...
Why are we assuming 100 million transactions?
TFA says "100 million transactions per month". But they have no idea how long the malware was in place. It could have been a week; that's 25 million transactions. It could have been six months. Hell, the TJX breach happened over the course of several years (although they weren't stealing data continuously). It sound like it'll definitely be big, and it could be the biggest ever (TJX clocks in at around 45 million transactions stolen), but we don't have any idea how big.
I'm not sure what you mean ...
The magnetic stripe doesn't have anything to do with card-not-present transactions. CNP basically means internet: you type in your name, card number, expiry date, possibly security code. It's not clear whether they got the security code, but I guess they did, otherwise the company would be touting that as another up-side.
The magnetic stripe has its own security code, which is not printed on the card. This means that you can't make counterfeit cards given only knowledge of the number/expiry/name and the magstripe standards. However, according to TFA, "The data stolen includes the digital information encoded onto the magnetic stripe" so there's nothing stopping them running off counterfeit cards and hitting the shops.
(well, chip-and-pin style smartcards would stop them, but I don't think you have those in the US?)
This happened to a processing company called CardSystems a few years ago. After that, it came out that "CardSystems had been keeping data that it was contractually obligated to delete" (quoting wikipedia) and it lead to VISA and MasterCard firing the company.
So what is different here?
According to my dictionary, it's "impossibleness".
HTH. HAND!
The reason people download tv shows in New Zealand is because kiwis are reading blogs and watching fansites - they say, "Man, I want to watch that show so bad," but the networks and distributors respond, "you can watch that show in six months...maybe."
Boot the Windows box using a Ubuntu live CD and run the test again.
The Mediterranean is in the middle of the world. Any route that doesn't go through it is longer, and thus costs more. HTH!
I was pretty disappointed with that comic. It reminded me a bit of when I went to see Bill Bailey last year, and he spent part of his act making fun of George Bush. C'mon, you guys are supposed to be really smart, you don't have to go for the lowest hanging fruit in the barrell (to mix a metaphore).
http://www.blackle.com/about/
Yeah, I dream of that all the time. Drilling deep ... a moment on the threshold ... then suddenly, a mighty eruption.
...
...excuse me for a moment.
Amongst the other things that never change: attributing fictional quotes to famous people.
Well, the problem with assembly is that it neglects the theoretical side. I don't think I'd want to put a ten year old through an assembly course without giving them a thorough grounding in automata theory at the same time.
Have them sit down and write a primality tester in 8086 assembler, and then build a turing machine to do the same task. That'll learn 'em!
I was gonna say "yes, we're both on the prime material", but then it occurred to me to ponder this. Perhaps black holes are actually part of the negative energy plane? Any physicists out there know?
The first great eagles probably were. The eagles in LotR were described as descendents of Sorontar, who probably was Maia. What are the offspring of two Maiar? What about the offspring of one Maia (in eagle shape) and a normal (but large) eagle? I don't think there are definitive answers to those questions..
The Tolkien wiki has lots of stuff to read (including quotes from The History of Middle Earth) if you're interested :-)
Nah, for that you need a tiny dynamo underneath each button...
From the page I linked to comes this quote from _The History of Middle Earth X_:
(emphasis added)
This suggests that Tolkien put the talking beasts in before he'd sorted out all the mythology, the origin of species, etc. (note that talking beasts feature particularly in _The Hobbit_, a childrens tale)
Tolkien continues:
This is, as I said before, not his only idea about the origin of orcs.
Tolkien was unclear on the nature of orcs. The problem is that Melkor could not simply create them, the way Aule did the dwarves, because Aule needed Illuvatar to intercede and give the dwarves life, and he was hardly likele to do that with Melkor. Tolkien appears to have advanced several possibilities:
Firstly, presented in _The Silmarilion_, is the idea that orcs are corruptions of elves. Melkor captured elves (and, later, men), twisted and wrecked them, and ended up with orcs. Possibly there may have been corrupted maia amongst them too, as leaders and spies.
Secondly, that orcs were not "thinking peoples", like elves/men/dwarves; rather they were intelligent beasts in man-shape, of the same theological status as wargs, the talking ravens in _The Hobbit_, as (perhaps) the great eagles, etc.
Thirdly, a variant on the preceding: orcs are beasts, but infused with the dispersed power of Melkor, giving them the ability for independent action. The spirit of Melkor is one of hate, thus orcs will fight amongst themselves, rebel (especially against Sauron or Saruman, neither of whom is Melkor).
Ref: http://www.thetolkienwiki.org/wiki.cgi?The__Origin__of__Orcs
There were very few man-elf unions in Tolkien (Luthien and Beren, Earendil and Elwing, Tuor and Idril; I think that's the lot). Basically, as I recall, Illuvatar had to make a special exception, and the offspring had to decide which kindred they belonged to. Thus, Elros and Elrond were both half-elven, but while Elrond chose to live with the elves (and thus survives in _Lord of the Rings_), his brother Elros choose to be a man, and die (though he lived very long).
It's not clear whether hobbits are truly a different species from Men. Tolkien wrote: "It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered." It seems clear that the powers (Valar, Melkor) did not create them, thus the only real possibility is that either Illuvatar created them as a short species of Man, or they evolved over the years. But there were probably not enough years, so I guess the former.
Actually, emacs has a good editor built-in. Access it using M-x viper-mode.
HTH!