Off-topic, really, but the original headline to this story (as seen by subscribers) was "MPAA to Begin Suing Movie Downloaders". That looked like a dupe from Wednesday's story, Movie Industry to sue File Sharers. I'm sure I wasn't the only subscriber to submit a "Dupe!" warning, and the headline got changed.
Y'all who enjoy lambasting the editors over dupe articles, chew on this for a while, alright?
For something as easy as cocoa, marajuana, or poppies, source-level interdiction just isn't going to work. Source-level interdiction raises the street price...
So that's why Hershey bars cost $3 a piece when you buy them from schoolkids' "fundraisers"...
Without question the green party and it's movement are the largest impediment to nuclear energy out there. It's a power trip really, one that has no scientific weight. Now the good news is that some of the greens are starting to realize that their opposition to nuclear power had everything to do with politics and nothing to do with science, and are starting to renew the calls to look at nuclear power.
The Nuclear alternative wass a hot point of contention when it came up in a county Green Party meeting I attended. I don't think it's fair to call it a "power trip", though... I think it has more to do with long-term historical mismanagement of nuclear resources (think: atomic soldiers). Plus, we Greens don't trust the big corporations to do the "right thing".
That's why you see statements like this one, where nuclear and fossil fuel subsidies are lumped together as something to be eliminated in favor of "clean, renewable sources" and conservation.
Personally, I'm torn on the issue. I believe the science, but distrust Westinghouse and the other corporations whose only responsibility, as shareholder-owned entities, is to the bottom line.
While I sympathize with the cries of "Off with their heads", I don't think jail time is really appropriate in this case. I think we need to save our prisons for people who have done something Really Bad, not something Really Annoying.
The whole idea of "lock 'em up and throw away the key" has been beaten into our heads by politicians playing on our fears. So we automatically suggest spammers go to jail with other terrible offenders, like the guy who got caught with a baggie of wacky weed at a Grateful Dead cover band's show.
Make the punishment fit the crime. Big financial penalty, to make up for the bandwidth they wasted. I'd like to see direct reimbursement of the victims, but if you really sent the guy $39.95 for a stupid get-rich-quick scheme, maybe you're better off with the life lesson instead of the cash.
Or kill two birds with one stone(r). Punish the "criminal" potheads and the spammers at the same time. Send nonviolent drug-related parolees to the spammers' house on a regular (but unpredictable) schedule to hit them up for money for weed.
Ugh, your site gives me a headache. I'm sorry, I really wanted to read the article, but the ugly font, white text on black, and dark blue links on top of black that highlight with puke flourescent green... I just couldnt handle it after about 30 seconds:(
I would have checked out your site by way of comparison, but I'm afraid to click on http://www.poo.com/ at work.
(Of course, I'm now inviting an ad hominem attack on my own site, but I doubt I'll hear anything I don't already know.)
we're exposing something to the collective consciousness of the only intelligence (we know of) in the universe. We've got our shovel stuck in untilled earth, about to turn over the soil for the first time in history, but there is a whole world sitting there on the blade of the shovel.
"Untilled earth?" Shouldn't that be "untilled Titanium?"
No, that would be way too hard to dig. And redundant... I mean, how often do you see tilled titanium?
As the editor of Sky & Telescope magazine during 1978-79...
I can't believe this has been modded up.
Exhibit 1: Slashdot user name "schoolsucks" and is proud of his new PS2, yet claims to have been an editor for a major scientific publication 25 years ago.
Exhibit 2: Does this look like the work of an editor for a major publication?
A new unit of measure: "through the 36 cables, each as big around as a horse and 30 feet long" Are we talking Shetland, Clydesdale, or Percheron?
I have horses on my land, so measuring diameter in terms of horse-circumference actually seems pretty cool. But then, I have Appaloosas... by contrast, a Throughbred is deep in the front but narrow in the back, and would be better suited to measuring conical volume.
Of course, they used more traditional measurements as well:
Power is measured in house-minutes: Strangely, the power used in each trial is only enough to provide electricity to about 100 houses for two minutes.
I think one "spool of thread" is about equivalient to 1.5 milliHorses: Yet particles imploded in the accelerator's tiny targets -- about the size of a spool of thread
And of course, the standard measurement of distance, the LA/NY: -- reach velocities that would fly a plane from Los Angeles to New York in a second.
Amazing research, though when they talk about reaching fusion temperatures, it looks to me like they're talking about modeling the fusion reaction of a Hydrogen Bomb, not creating a safe, clean power source. To wit:
Z's advance in power is expected to make a major contribution to the Department of Energy's (DOE) science-based approach to stockpile stewardship, which must use giant computing and laboratory experiments to provide the basis to sustain the nation's nuclear stockpile without above- or below-ground tests.
There were two milestones in temperature: the first for weapons physics configurations was 100 eV (1.2 million degrees). The achieved value was 140 eV (1.6 million degrees). The second temperature milestone in a configuration suitable for target compression experiments was 150 eV (1.7 million degrees). Sandia has achieved 140 eV (1.6 million degrees).
X-1 will provide laboratory data on the physics of nuclear weapons implosions and their effects. The data are necessary to validate the increasingly sophisticated computational models of weapon performance, without underground testing.
He points out that Sandia's teraflops computer, capable of a trillion operations a second, and the other advanced computers being developed for DOE's science-based stockpile stewardship program "will be needed to reach our goals. We will succeed with creating high-yield fusion when we can fully harness the power of both our teraflops and terawatts."
It's still debatable whether the "stewardship" of nuclear weapons is really a Good Thing. It means that you're keeping the frickin' things around and functional, instead of simply dismantling them. Do we really need a stockpile of Weapons of Mass Destruction? That said, this research looks to be amazingly cool, and I'd hope it would lead to "consumer" fusion in the same way that nuclear bomb research led to nuclear fission reactors.
Interesting that the scientists are still being allowed to talk about their research... unlike their counterparts doing antimatter research.
[NASA's] Horttor never got an explanation of why Alenia Spazio's telemetry system was built with a timing system that couldn't accommodate the Doppler shift in Huygens's telemetry. "It is a design feature of another application in Earth orbit, and they just reused it," he told Spectrum, adding, "I don't know why anyone would ever want to build it that way." (An Alenia Spazio spokeswoman said that none of the company's officials were available to comment because of a company-wide summer vacation period.)
Anyone think that the "company-wide summer vacation" may extend a little longer than originally expected?
"Hey, Tony! Glad to hear you ready for work. But why don't you go ahead and stay in Verona another month or two? Check out this web site while you're there. Ciao!"
I think you need some history lessons. Discrimination on account of intelligence is just a wrong and illegal as discriminating on account of race, creed, or color.
I'm not going to lambast your point as strongly as the previous response, but I'd like to point out that you may have missed the grandparent's point. Here's part of that post, for reference:
We should be trying to a higher percentage of more informed voters to the polls, not high numbers who would only care about a lottery. To do this, I propose all voters should pass a political literacy quiz.
And a sample question: Name one of the following: your governor, congressman or one senator.
He's not suggesting discrimination on intelligence per se... he's talking about excluding the willfully ignorant from selecting our country's leaders based on something they saw written on the bathroom wall, or someplace similar (such as the Rush Limbaugh show).
It's possible to have a well-informed opinion, even if you're dumb as a post. Motivating the willfully ignorant to vote en masse, however, doesn't sound like a good thing.
But "literacy test" does have a highly negative connotation. Perhaps the grandparent didn't know about how such tests were used in the segregated south to keep blacks away from the polls (while their dumb-as-a-post-but-white neighbors were grandfathered in).
If there was ever a time for Slashcode to conveniently fail and give a score of 6. If I still had mod points from last week, I'd have given another one to this one, just for good measure.
Actually, what *would* help is if some mods put +1, Insighful on it. That gives the guy Karma, *and* registers this as possibly the Funniest. Post. Ever.
Re:Every political story on Slashdot has a Dem. sl
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The Nader Factor
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· Score: 1
Moi: We told Nader to take a hike at the Green Party convention. Toi: You told him to take a hike because he was too god at what he does.
I was going to correct your typo, but it turns out you're right. The guy thinks he's God, and we already have one of those in the White House (or at least one who thinks God speaks through him).
One thing to keep in mind is that the interest on that debt doesn't just disappear. It goes to the banks that loan the money to the country.
Don't think of it as building debt... think of it as a bailout for Citibank, Bank of America, and all those poor, suffering megabanks who would have lost their taxpayer-funded handouts if the Clinton-era trend had continued.
Not to mention the whole "starve the beast" strategy -- make debt service so expensive that those silly social programs will simply die from lack of funds.
The parent poster's graph link shows pretty conclusively who's really behind the national debt, doesn't it?
that they made a CONFERENCE bike instead of a COMMITTEE bike. The committee bike would never have gone anywhere, except, maybe in a circle or spun in place.
I think they're coming out with the "Committee Bike" next. Where the "Conference Bike" has six sets of pedals and one steering wheel, the "Committee Bike" will have six steering wheels. It will still have six sets of pedals, but three will be geared forward and three will be geared in reverse. The seventh seat (or, the "Figurehead" seat) will have a steering wheel *and* pedals, but they will not be connected to anything.
You make some good points -- my own cause (more trees, less Bush) isn't helped by name-calling.
Just one clarification: Tolerance - [...] Appointing a record number of minorities to key cabinet positions is not tolerance.
One of the things that made Bush a reasonably good governor here in Texas is that he was more truly color-blind than your typical "I have black friends" Democrat. He carried that virtue into the Presidency as well, which gave me hope that even with Gore's contested defeat, the country would still have a chance.
Unfortunately, Bush proved that women and minorites can be just as dumb as white guys. That hubris knows no color. That Condoleesa Rice is just as qualified as any white male to make bad decisions. That Colin Powell can be duped into lying to the UN just as well as any white Secretary of State. And Hispanics can be just as radically right-wing as Anglos.
I hope that part of Bush's legacy is a true integration of the upper echelons of government. I just hope that his legacy can start being tallied next January 21.
You should NOT delete the cache manually. The proper way to do it is through IE or using the DeleteUrlCacheEntry function.
Hmm. So here's my choice:
Opera: File, Delete Private Information, select exactly what I want deleted, click "OK".
MSIE: Tools, Internet Options, Delete Files, check 'Delete all offline content', wonder what that means, hit "OK" and hope for the best.
Sure, both apps are closed-source. Both have some history of bugs and security gaps. But my gut tells me that Opera is by far the l3ss3r 3vil.
Re:Every political story on Slashdot has a Dem. sl
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The Nader Factor
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· Score: 3, Interesting
"Could it be that in this way Nader is beholden to corporate interests? For shame, Ralph" What proof do they have for this?! It's just a smear campaign by the Democrats.
It's just the Democrats learning from Karl Rove: attack your opponent's strength, not his weakness. Nader's whole raison d'etre is that he's not "beholden" -- so accuse him of it, and defuse his strength.
On the other hand...
Don't vote for the "better" of two evils, vote Nader in 2004! Evil is still evil and there's very little difference between the two major parties.
I say, don't vote for the "better-known" of the less-evils. If you're going to vote on the left side of the aisle, vote for the Green Party candidate -- David Cobb. We told Nader to take a hike at the Green Party convention.
Personally, I'm hoping that on November 3, we're looking at the map and smiling at the votes that Badnarik "stole" from Bush. If third parties on the left *and* the right are changing the outcome, maybe people will see that it's time the Big Two got put out to pasture.
With default security on Windows XP, each user's cache is accessible to the other users. As are everyone's Outlook data files. This is not great security, but that is not Google's responsibility.
Indeed. Yet another reason I use Opera. With IE, I've never been able to figure out exactly where the cache is, much less how to kill it without trashing the OS. Not that I've tried very hard, because it's so much easier to take care of it in Opera:
* "File" * "Delete Private Information" * check all the boxes * hit OK
Extremely handy when you're at work and you click on a link that didn't go where you meant for it to. Closing the browser is one thing... knowing that goatse guy isn't hiding in some system file somewhere is real peace of mind.
Yes, sucess requires failures, but not of this kind!! Imagine if in the early days of cars they had spent millions of dollars researching and designing the latest carburator, then installed it BACKWARD.
The carburator wouldn't work, it would be removed and replaced, and nobody would think anything untoward had happened.
The problem here is that there's no way to test something like this on, say, a half-dozen demo models before it goes out the door. Every single thing has to work right the first time, without ever going through a full test of all systems. The Mars lander, for example -- we'd have known that the legs bounce hard if we'd landed one before, but guess what? We only got one chance!
Considering this unique design parameter -- make it work without the ability to do a full-scale test -- I think NASA's done a heckuva job.
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Off-topic, really, but the original headline to this story (as seen by subscribers) was "MPAA to Begin Suing Movie Downloaders". That looked like a dupe from Wednesday's story, Movie Industry to sue File Sharers. I'm sure I wasn't the only subscriber to submit a "Dupe!" warning, and the headline got changed.
Y'all who enjoy lambasting the editors over dupe articles, chew on this for a while, alright?
For something as easy as cocoa, marajuana, or poppies, source-level interdiction just isn't going to work. Source-level interdiction raises the street price...
So that's why Hershey bars cost $3 a piece when you buy them from schoolkids' "fundraisers"...
Without question the green party and it's movement are the largest impediment to nuclear energy out there. It's a power trip really, one that has no scientific weight. Now the good news is that some of the greens are starting to realize that their opposition to nuclear power had everything to do with politics and nothing to do with science, and are starting to renew the calls to look at nuclear power.
The Nuclear alternative wass a hot point of contention when it came up in a county Green Party meeting I attended. I don't think it's fair to call it a "power trip", though... I think it has more to do with long-term historical mismanagement of nuclear resources (think: atomic soldiers). Plus, we Greens don't trust the big corporations to do the "right thing".
That's why you see statements like this one, where nuclear and fossil fuel subsidies are lumped together as something to be eliminated in favor of "clean, renewable sources" and conservation.
Personally, I'm torn on the issue. I believe the science, but distrust Westinghouse and the other corporations whose only responsibility, as shareholder-owned entities, is to the bottom line.
While I sympathize with the cries of "Off with their heads", I don't think jail time is really appropriate in this case. I think we need to save our prisons for people who have done something Really Bad, not something Really Annoying.
The whole idea of "lock 'em up and throw away the key" has been beaten into our heads by politicians playing on our fears. So we automatically suggest spammers go to jail with other terrible offenders, like the guy who got caught with a baggie of wacky weed at a Grateful Dead cover band's show.
Make the punishment fit the crime. Big financial penalty, to make up for the bandwidth they wasted. I'd like to see direct reimbursement of the victims, but if you really sent the guy $39.95 for a stupid get-rich-quick scheme, maybe you're better off with the life lesson instead of the cash.
Or kill two birds with one stone(r). Punish the "criminal" potheads and the spammers at the same time. Send nonviolent drug-related parolees to the spammers' house on a regular (but unpredictable) schedule to hit them up for money for weed.
Ugh, your site gives me a headache. I'm sorry, I really wanted to read the article, but the ugly font, white text on black, and dark blue links on top of black that highlight with puke flourescent green... I just couldnt handle it after about 30 seconds :(
I would have checked out your site by way of comparison, but I'm afraid to click on http://www.poo.com/ at work.
(Of course, I'm now inviting an ad hominem attack on my own site, but I doubt I'll hear anything I don't already know.)
we're exposing something to the collective consciousness of the only intelligence (we know of) in the universe. We've got our shovel stuck in untilled earth, about to turn over the soil for the first time in history, but there is a whole world sitting there on the blade of the shovel.
"Untilled earth?" Shouldn't that be "untilled Titanium?"
No, that would be way too hard to dig. And redundant... I mean, how often do you see tilled titanium?
(/me ducks, again)
"OMGWTFBBQ THE SEKKRIT SERVICE CAME TO MY HOUSE OMG ;)"
I was hoping someone in the discussion would help me out, as I am over 35 and therefore AOLspeak-impaired. WTF is OMGWTFBBQ?
I've tried to break it down:
OMG = Oh my God!
WTF = What the F***?
BBQ = Barbeque ?!
Is BBQ a reference to Bush's Texas roots? Or was she just hungry?
Does this mean that Netcraft confirms, *GWB's campaign is dead?
(karma to burn, baby!)
32MB DDR RAM? WTF? DDR won't work on that board, I'm sure!
Yeah, I've always heard that DDR works much better on one of these.
(/me ducks)
As the editor of Sky & Telescope magazine during 1978-79...
I can't believe this has been modded up.
Exhibit 1: Slashdot user name "schoolsucks" and is proud of his new PS2, yet claims to have been an editor for a major scientific publication 25 years ago.
Exhibit 2: Does this look like the work of an editor for a major publication?
Exhibit 3: -1, Troll
OTOH, I almost thought it was cool enough to put him on my Friends list, so he had me going for a while, too...
A new unit of measure:
"through the 36 cables, each as big around as a horse and 30 feet long"
Are we talking Shetland, Clydesdale, or Percheron?
I have horses on my land, so measuring diameter in terms of horse-circumference actually seems pretty cool. But then, I have Appaloosas... by contrast, a Throughbred is deep in the front but narrow in the back, and would be better suited to measuring conical volume.
Of course, they used more traditional measurements as well:
Power is measured in house-minutes: Strangely, the power used in each trial is only enough to provide electricity to about 100 houses for two minutes.
I think one "spool of thread" is about equivalient to 1.5 milliHorses: Yet particles imploded in the accelerator's tiny targets -- about the size of a spool of thread
And of course, the standard measurement of distance, the LA/NY: -- reach velocities that would fly a plane from Los Angeles to New York in a second.
Amazing research, though when they talk about reaching fusion temperatures, it looks to me like they're talking about modeling the fusion reaction of a Hydrogen Bomb, not creating a safe, clean power source. To wit:
Z's advance in power is expected to make a major contribution to the Department of Energy's (DOE) science-based approach to stockpile stewardship, which must use giant computing and laboratory experiments to provide the basis to sustain the nation's nuclear stockpile without above- or below-ground tests.
There were two milestones in temperature: the first for weapons physics configurations was 100 eV (1.2 million degrees). The achieved value was 140 eV (1.6 million degrees). The second temperature milestone in a configuration suitable for target compression experiments was 150 eV (1.7 million degrees). Sandia has achieved 140 eV (1.6 million degrees).
X-1 will provide laboratory data on the physics of nuclear weapons implosions and their effects. The data are necessary to validate the increasingly sophisticated computational models of weapon performance, without underground testing.
He points out that Sandia's teraflops computer, capable of a trillion operations a second, and the other advanced computers being developed for DOE's science-based stockpile stewardship program "will be needed to reach our goals. We will succeed with creating high-yield fusion when we can fully harness the power of both our teraflops and terawatts."
It's still debatable whether the "stewardship" of nuclear weapons is really a Good Thing. It means that you're keeping the frickin' things around and functional, instead of simply dismantling them. Do we really need a stockpile of Weapons of Mass Destruction? That said, this research looks to be amazingly cool, and I'd hope it would lead to "consumer" fusion in the same way that nuclear bomb research led to nuclear fission reactors.
Interesting that the scientists are still being allowed to talk about their research... unlike their counterparts doing antimatter research.
[NASA's] Horttor never got an explanation of why Alenia Spazio's telemetry system was built with a timing system that couldn't accommodate the Doppler shift in Huygens's telemetry. "It is a design feature of another application in Earth orbit, and they just reused it," he told Spectrum, adding, "I don't know why anyone would ever want to build it that way." (An Alenia Spazio spokeswoman said that none of the company's officials were available to comment because of a company-wide summer vacation period.)
Anyone think that the "company-wide summer vacation" may extend a little longer than originally expected?
"Hey, Tony! Glad to hear you ready for work. But why don't you go ahead and stay in Verona another month or two? Check out this web site while you're there. Ciao!"
I think you need some history lessons. Discrimination on account of intelligence is just a wrong and illegal as discriminating on account of race, creed, or color.
I'm not going to lambast your point as strongly as the previous response, but I'd like to point out that you may have missed the grandparent's point. Here's part of that post, for reference:
We should be trying to a higher percentage of more informed voters to the polls, not high numbers who would only care about a lottery. To do this, I propose all voters should pass a political literacy quiz.
And a sample question: Name one of the following: your governor, congressman or one senator.
He's not suggesting discrimination on intelligence per se... he's talking about excluding the willfully ignorant from selecting our country's leaders based on something they saw written on the bathroom wall, or someplace similar (such as the Rush Limbaugh show).
It's possible to have a well-informed opinion, even if you're dumb as a post. Motivating the willfully ignorant to vote en masse, however, doesn't sound like a good thing.
But "literacy test" does have a highly negative connotation. Perhaps the grandparent didn't know about how such tests were used in the segregated south to keep blacks away from the polls (while their dumb-as-a-post-but-white neighbors were grandfathered in).
Nanotechnology is positioning itself as the answer ten years from now, you just can't see it.
Not without a microscope, at least.
[rimshot] Thanks, I'm here all week, enjoy the buffet!
If there was ever a time for Slashcode to conveniently fail and give a score of 6. If I still had mod points from last week, I'd have given another one to this one, just for good measure.
Actually, what *would* help is if some mods put +1, Insighful on it. That gives the guy Karma, *and* registers this as possibly the Funniest. Post. Ever.
Moi: We told Nader to take a hike at the Green Party convention.
Toi: You told him to take a hike because he was too god at what he does.
I was going to correct your typo, but it turns out you're right. The guy thinks he's God, and we already have one of those in the White House (or at least one who thinks God speaks through him).
One thing to keep in mind is that the interest on that debt doesn't just disappear. It goes to the banks that loan the money to the country.
Don't think of it as building debt... think of it as a bailout for Citibank, Bank of America, and all those poor, suffering megabanks who would have lost their taxpayer-funded handouts if the Clinton-era trend had continued.
Not to mention the whole "starve the beast" strategy -- make debt service so expensive that those silly social programs will simply die from lack of funds.
The parent poster's graph link shows pretty conclusively who's really behind the national debt, doesn't it?
that they made a CONFERENCE bike instead of a COMMITTEE bike. The committee bike would never have gone anywhere, except, maybe in a circle or spun in place.
I think they're coming out with the "Committee Bike" next. Where the "Conference Bike" has six sets of pedals and one steering wheel, the "Committee Bike" will have six steering wheels. It will still have six sets of pedals, but three will be geared forward and three will be geared in reverse. The seventh seat (or, the "Figurehead" seat) will have a steering wheel *and* pedals, but they will not be connected to anything.
You make some good points -- my own cause (more trees, less Bush) isn't helped by name-calling.
Just one clarification:
Tolerance - [...] Appointing a record number of minorities to key cabinet positions is not tolerance.
One of the things that made Bush a reasonably good governor here in Texas is that he was more truly color-blind than your typical "I have black friends" Democrat. He carried that virtue into the Presidency as well, which gave me hope that even with Gore's contested defeat, the country would still have a chance.
Unfortunately, Bush proved that women and minorites can be just as dumb as white guys. That hubris knows no color. That Condoleesa Rice is just as qualified as any white male to make bad decisions. That Colin Powell can be duped into lying to the UN just as well as any white Secretary of State. And Hispanics can be just as radically right-wing as Anglos.
I hope that part of Bush's legacy is a true integration of the upper echelons of government. I just hope that his legacy can start being tallied next January 21.
You should NOT delete the cache manually. The proper way to do it is through IE or using the DeleteUrlCacheEntry function.
Hmm. So here's my choice:
Opera: File, Delete Private Information, select exactly what I want deleted, click "OK".
MSIE: Tools, Internet Options, Delete Files, check 'Delete all offline content', wonder what that means, hit "OK" and hope for the best.
Sure, both apps are closed-source. Both have some history of bugs and security gaps. But my gut tells me that Opera is by far the l3ss3r 3vil.
"Could it be that in this way Nader is beholden to corporate interests? For shame, Ralph"
What proof do they have for this?! It's just a smear campaign by the Democrats.
It's just the Democrats learning from Karl Rove: attack your opponent's strength, not his weakness. Nader's whole raison d'etre is that he's not "beholden" -- so accuse him of it, and defuse his strength.
On the other hand...
Don't vote for the "better" of two evils, vote Nader in 2004! Evil is still evil and there's very little difference between the two major parties.
I say, don't vote for the "better-known" of the less-evils. If you're going to vote on the left side of the aisle, vote for the Green Party candidate -- David Cobb. We told Nader to take a hike at the Green Party convention.
Personally, I'm hoping that on November 3, we're looking at the map and smiling at the votes that Badnarik "stole" from Bush. If third parties on the left *and* the right are changing the outcome, maybe people will see that it's time the Big Two got put out to pasture.
With default security on Windows XP, each user's cache is accessible to the other users. As are everyone's Outlook data files. This is not great security, but that is not Google's responsibility.
Indeed. Yet another reason I use Opera. With IE, I've never been able to figure out exactly where the cache is, much less how to kill it without trashing the OS. Not that I've tried very hard, because it's so much easier to take care of it in Opera:
* "File"
* "Delete Private Information"
* check all the boxes
* hit OK
Extremely handy when you're at work and you click on a link that didn't go where you meant for it to. Closing the browser is one thing... knowing that goatse guy isn't hiding in some system file somewhere is real peace of mind.
Yes, sucess requires failures, but not of this kind!! Imagine if in the early days of cars they had spent millions of dollars researching and designing the latest carburator, then installed it BACKWARD.
The carburator wouldn't work, it would be removed and replaced, and nobody would think anything untoward had happened.
The problem here is that there's no way to test something like this on, say, a half-dozen demo models before it goes out the door. Every single thing has to work right the first time, without ever going through a full test of all systems. The Mars lander, for example -- we'd have known that the legs bounce hard if we'd landed one before, but guess what? We only got one chance!
Considering this unique design parameter -- make it work without the ability to do a full-scale test -- I think NASA's done a heckuva job.
I'm sorry sir, but you must now relinquish your Slashdot UID and turn in your geek card. Someone will escort you to the exit.
Dibs on the guy's 5-digit UID!