I come from former communist state, we had one cosmonaut in space getting a hitchhike along the Russians. I knew that whatever I would do I have no chance to go to space. Watching shuttle flying was like watching scifi movie. In comparison to russian rockets it looked incredibly cool and modern, almost futuristic.
You Americans have no idea how lucky you are with working space program.
And yet they immediately believe Coyne over Haught, even though Coyne's story makes no sense and is not supported by any evidence.
If you have two children, one that always says truth and gives reasonable explanations and the other which always lies and states things without any backing up who would you believe more?
English really is a simple language. Below you have some questions in Polish. Try to translate them into English:
1. Mialem samochod. (I had a car - subject is male) 2. Mialam samochod. (I had a car - subject is female) 3. Mialo samochod. (I had a car - subject is not a male or female, it can be a child or a thing)
You can't do it in any simple way.
PS. I had to replace some characters because Slashdot doesn't support Unicode.
I'm amazed no one has come out with a smartphone using a separate battery or some firmware that lets you do "whatever the manufacturer allows" down to 50% and then voice telephone only for the bottom 50% of battery capacity. I'm sure there is a expensive patent preventing it.
WP7 does that. I am not sure if you can set the power treshold.
Also every believer is an atheist. If you are christian than from the muslim point of view you are atheist (because you don't believe in HIS god). In fact you are atheist in point of view of every other religion than yours.
If we survive the next century, maybe we'll have developed technology that will bring that cost down;[...]
Progress it's not something which developes by itself. You have to actively develop cheap rockets to make them cheap. You can't just sit and wait for cheap rockets.
If you campare money spent on all US wars (after WW2) to money spent on NASA you will have to agree it's much better to invest all the money into space race than into arms race.
Downloading always was and still is legal. It's uploading which is not. And if you use torrents to download you distribute what you just downloaded. That's the real problem of using torrent. You can't sue people who downloaded from cyberlocker (which is why TPB goes for this model now), you can only sue uploader.
As I understand this artist used bittorrent to download so he can be sued.
Cell phones can be located even if they have no builtin GPS. You are always connected to at least one cell tower. It's enough to find your location within 100m. Not as good as GPS but probably good enough for cops to say you were in a vicinity of crimescene.
There are also specific decompiler for programming languages. They can produce pretty readable code. I used one for Java and got nice compilable source code. You are losing all variable/procedure names of course which can be a problem for more complicated code.
I am in fact an atheist but it doesn't matter. You seem to forget christianism is not the only religion on Earth. To you having two wifes is immoral, to muslim it's perfectly OK. The best part is: there is no way to tell which morality is better. There are some people that think eating their enemies is morally acceptable and you have no right to force your morality upon them.
You seem to behave like religious fundamentalist. You think "there is no god but Allah". It's just your Allah is called slightly differently.
Which doesn't really help if you have got beaten in the first place. Also they weren't really THAT successful:
After four months of hearings, twenty-one of the travellers were successful in their case and were awarded £24,000 in damages. The judge refused to award them their legal costs, thereby significantly reducing the amount received.
Their barrister, Lord Gifford QC (Anthony Maurice Gifford, 6th Baron Gifford), stated "It left a very sour taste in the mouth."
Morality is relative. What is moral to you can be immoral to others. Morality depends on culture and society. There is no single and universal morality.
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Speaking about police beating hippies: UK has a long history of it. Look for Battle of the Beanfield (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beanfield).
I come from former communist state, we had one cosmonaut in space getting a hitchhike along the Russians. I knew that whatever I would do I have no chance to go to space. Watching shuttle flying was like watching scifi movie. In comparison to russian rockets it looked incredibly cool and modern, almost futuristic.
You Americans have no idea how lucky you are with working space program.
Bah, it's simple. "Occupy your router" movement!
Joking aside, I predict raising of darknet and freenet.
There's no reason not to.
There is one:
We could not process your order. The sale of MP3 Downloads is currently available only to US customers located in the United States.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Why? They keep those pesky Aibos from running out.
And yet they immediately believe Coyne over Haught, even though Coyne's story makes no sense and is not supported by any evidence.
If you have two children, one that always says truth and gives reasonable explanations and the other which always lies and states things without any backing up who would you believe more?
You can't trust theologists, they make things up.
English really is a simple language. Below you have some questions in Polish. Try to translate them into English:
1. Mialem samochod. (I had a car - subject is male)
2. Mialam samochod. (I had a car - subject is female)
3. Mialo samochod. (I had a car - subject is not a male or female, it can be a child or a thing)
You can't do it in any simple way.
PS. I had to replace some characters because Slashdot doesn't support Unicode.
It's actually very good idea. You may send a package to your wife in automatic car instead of driving there.
Since sunlight is such a problem can't you just send it at night?
I'm amazed no one has come out with a smartphone using a separate battery or some firmware that lets you do "whatever the manufacturer allows" down to 50% and then voice telephone only for the bottom 50% of battery capacity. I'm sure there is a expensive patent preventing it.
WP7 does that. I am not sure if you can set the power treshold.
Also every believer is an atheist. If you are christian than from the muslim point of view you are atheist (because you don't believe in HIS god). In fact you are atheist in point of view of every other religion than yours.
Real atheist just make it one step farther.
Hope this works for non-UK IPs;
It doesn't. At least not for Poland. I hate regionalization of content.
Fasist dictatorship created with USA help. Please read http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/51/217.html and other sources commenting CIA involvement.
If we survive the next century, maybe we'll have developed technology that will bring that cost down;[...]
Progress it's not something which developes by itself. You have to actively develop cheap rockets to make them cheap. You can't just sit and wait for cheap rockets.
If you campare money spent on all US wars (after WW2) to money spent on NASA you will have to agree it's much better to invest all the money into space race than into arms race.
Downloading always was and still is legal. It's uploading which is not. And if you use torrents to download you distribute what you just downloaded. That's the real problem of using torrent. You can't sue people who downloaded from cyberlocker (which is why TPB goes for this model now), you can only sue uploader.
As I understand this artist used bittorrent to download so he can be sued.
Kids these days. I remember 33kbps was fast (compared to 19kbps).
[...] just have a look at a random phone vendor's page and see which ones look just like the iPhone... and blow me down [...]
I would but unfortunately this page is blocked in my country and all I can see is this message:
I really can't understand this obsession with blocking. They can't possible get enough traffic from outside of UK to justify it.
That's a possible solution. The large drawback is you can't receive unexpected calls.
Cell phones can be located even if they have no builtin GPS. You are always connected to at least one cell tower. It's enough to find your location within 100m. Not as good as GPS but probably good enough for cops to say you were in a vicinity of crimescene.
Sorry, I'm not native English speaker and sometimes I miss jokes or sarcasm.
And to answer your second question: No, there is no such thing as a disassembler. Once the code is converted to binary, it's gone, baby, gone.
You are wrong. http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro/
There are also specific decompiler for programming languages. They can produce pretty readable code. I used one for Java and got nice compilable source code. You are losing all variable/procedure names of course which can be a problem for more complicated code.
...made from wood and AnAL...
You've really got my attention here.
I am in fact an atheist but it doesn't matter. You seem to forget christianism is not the only religion on Earth. To you having two wifes is immoral, to muslim it's perfectly OK. The best part is: there is no way to tell which morality is better. There are some people that think eating their enemies is morally acceptable and you have no right to force your morality upon them.
You seem to behave like religious fundamentalist. You think "there is no god but Allah". It's just your Allah is called slightly differently.
Which doesn't really help if you have got beaten in the first place. Also they weren't really THAT successful:
Morality is relative. What is moral to you can be immoral to others. Morality depends on culture and society. There is no single and universal morality.