The best reason for keeping the shuttle around now is to support the ISS.
Maybe. But the real reason the shuttle is still around is that it's horribly expensive. NASA, Boeing, and Lockheed are not stupid. After almost 30 years, they've managed to put space shuttle jobs in practically every congressional district. You think they care if any science gets done? The shuttle budget is about $4 billion a year.
I can't imagine what you're thinking, that the average public citizen understands mechanics or structural design problems better, if at all?
What am I thinking? I'm thinking that a lot of "average public citizens" have plenty of knowledge when it comes to physics and engineering. Case in point: Slashdot readers.
I'm thinking that the space shuttle is built and run using my money, and I have every reason to wonder why it split into a billion pieces and burned up seven people.
And I'm thinking I'd rather not wait for a few NASA engineers to figure it out for themselves, then pat me on the head and tell me it's all fixed and not to worry my pretty little head.
why would a forger bother with trying to forge one of the newer looking bills? The old $20's are still accepted everywhere
Take an old $20 or $100 bill anywhere in Russia and try to spend it. Good luck. In parts of the world where forgery is rampant, the "new" bills are all people will accept. I imagine this will be true of the new monopoly money, as well.
this is just another example of our tax dollars being wasted in a futile attempt to stop a crime which, I believe, is not very rampant. This money could be better spent keeping the govenment out of debt and keeping inflation down
Oh Lord, here we go. Contrary to what Rush Limbaugh might be telling you, redesigning the currency is not causing the record $300 billion dollar Bush Deficit. You can chalk that up to a lack of fiscal discipline on the part of Republicans.
And counterfeiting isn't rampant here in the States. In some parts of the world 20 and 30 percent of US bills are counterfeit. The government would rather sell real US currency than have someone sell knockoffs. Much of the best counterfeit currency is printed in places like Libya and Iran, where US law enforcement is non-existant. Supposedly, North Korea is getting into the business as well.
Some systems integrators have been known to sell slower, less expensive processors that are remarked with higher clock speeds in order to make an extra profit. Ethically, this is questionable..
Can't we even say something is wrong anymore? I know we live in an age of moral relativism, but can't lying and stealing just be wrong?
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In that case, shouldn't the US government be discouraging countries from passing tougher copyright laws?
FreeBSD provides a support contract? No? Then you're not really comparing apples to apples, are you?
If you don't want any support from RedHat, just get a copy of RedHat and install it on as many machines as you'd like. Heck, if you're really cheap, copy it from someone instead of buying it.
..nuclear bombs get much of their force from fusing a small amount of hydrogen isotope
A small nitpick: the D-T reaction in a multi-stage weapon produces almost no useful energy. Its purpose is to increase neutron flux and allow over 90% of the plutonium to fission (as opposed to about 3% for the Nagasaki bomb).
A new version of SMTP could require updating all E-Mail related software (client and server) and that's not a small chore.
Actually, a lot of clients (Eudora and the like) could be left alone. For the most part, these are configured to relay mail through a local SMTP server, rather than resolving MX records and delivering mail directly.
Because these clients should already be configured as relay-approved by their local SMTP server, the server could silently give them a pass on whatever new, anti-spam checks are in SMTP 2. Foreign servers would have to jump through whatever hoops the IETF comes up with. A foreign server is any server which you wouldn't be willing to relay for.
...my partition table and boot sector, I doubt they add up to 30 sectors.
Nice for you. Unfortunately, some of the GRUB stage_1.5's are pushing 25 sectors, and who knows what file-systems are coming down the road? Microsoft is talking about its next "filesystem" being one big database; do you want GRUB to be able to load Windows 2004?
The point is that the boot track is there for boot code, not Intuit's scribbleware. Hey, I just coined a word.
Why do people keep buying this stuff when they're just going to complain about it?
I suspect it's because the outside of the box didn't say WARNING, OUR DRM MAY MAKE YOUR COMPUTER UNBOOTABLE.
Seriously, your argument seems to be, "You bought it, you must like it. So shut up!!". Capitalism works a lot better if consumers tell each other when a company rips them off. Intuit may not have taken a big hit to the bottom line this year, but wait till the '03 tax season. My dad has sworn off Turbo Tax, and he's been buying it for many years. And not because I told him to -- because he read about it in the Wall Street Journal and thinks they're a sneaky, underhanded company.
Even Intuit's damage control shows how out of touch they are. They say the memory-resident program is not a problem since it only takes up a megabyte. Whew, I know my fears are allayed.
Google does NOT mean to search for something online. Check your closest paper dictionary.
Language evolves. New words get coined; old words take on new meanings. My closest paper dictionary doesn't have an entry for login -- should I stop using that word?
The fact that 'Word Spy' has noted that it is now in common use to mean search is irrelavent.
Far from being irrelevant, it cuts to the heart of the matter. Because once a word enters the vernacular, it can no longer be claimed as a trademark.
BIOS virus protection only works for software which is using BIOS hard-drive access -- basically, DOS. Modern operating systems (Windows, *nix, etc) only use bios routines to load a kernel with 32-bit drivers.
Better yet. Why not just pay the Russians to do it? At $10 million a head, they're a bargain. You could take 100 people to the ISS and back for the cost of one Space Shuttle disaster I MEAN launch.
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Everyone makes the point that 802.11 is too power-hungry for PAN applications.
But if you only want to link to something 1 or 2 meters away, 802.11 could transmit at power levels comparable to BlueTooth.
I'm thinking that the space shuttle is built and run using my money, and I have every reason to wonder why it split into a billion pieces and burned up seven people.
And I'm thinking I'd rather not wait for a few NASA engineers to figure it out for themselves, then pat me on the head and tell me it's all fixed and not to worry my pretty little head.
A Cessna? How much does that weigh in Volkswagon Beetles?
Well, at least the prince still has a nice toilet brush.
And counterfeiting isn't rampant here in the States. In some parts of the world 20 and 30 percent of US bills are counterfeit. The government would rather sell real US currency than have someone sell knockoffs. Much of the best counterfeit currency is printed in places like Libya and Iran, where US law enforcement is non-existant. Supposedly, North Korea is getting into the business as well.
WTF, why was the parent moderated as flamebait??
Slate's Webhead reviews it here.
In that case, shouldn't the US government be discouraging countries from passing tougher copyright laws?
Wouldn't that end up sending US jobs overseas?
If you don't want any support from RedHat, just get a copy of RedHat and install it on as many machines as you'd like. Heck, if you're really cheap, copy it from someone instead of buying it.
Because these clients should already be configured as relay-approved by their local SMTP server, the server could silently give them a pass on whatever new, anti-spam checks are in SMTP 2. Foreign servers would have to jump through whatever hoops the IETF comes up with. A foreign server is any server which you wouldn't be willing to relay for.
...shit like this happenned every day.
The point is that the boot track is there for boot code, not Intuit's scribbleware. Hey, I just coined a word.
I suspect it's because the outside of the box didn't say WARNING, OUR DRM MAY MAKE YOUR COMPUTER UNBOOTABLE.Seriously, your argument seems to be, "You bought it, you must like it. So shut up!!". Capitalism works a lot better if consumers tell each other when a company rips them off. Intuit may not have taken a big hit to the bottom line this year, but wait till the '03 tax season. My dad has sworn off Turbo Tax, and he's been buying it for many years. And not because I told him to -- because he read about it in the Wall Street Journal and thinks they're a sneaky, underhanded company.
Even Intuit's damage control shows how out of touch they are. They say the memory-resident program is not a problem since it only takes up a megabyte. Whew, I know my fears are allayed.
BIOS virus protection only works for software which is using BIOS hard-drive access -- basically, DOS. Modern operating systems (Windows, *nix, etc) only use bios routines to load a kernel with 32-bit drivers.
Better yet. Why not just pay the Russians to do it? At $10 million a head, they're a bargain. You could take 100 people to the ISS and back for the cost of one Space Shuttle disaster I MEAN launch.
..but i would not like if anyone were running a program on my server that was intended for web hosting
But if you gave them access to a CGI directory, that's already happening.
Can't we all just speak English and get along?