They had a neat article in Scientific American a year or so ago about how soon they'll have FPGAs in your PC that can be reprogrammed almost instantly, and it'll be able to "task switch" every 10 or 20 milliseconds. While you're thinking about your move while playing chess against the FPGA, the seti@home hardware will kick in.:)
Also, where I live, if you're collecting unemployment, and you don't list *all* of your qualifications on your resume, you can get in trouble with the unemployment commission. Your state laws may vary, though.
Ukraine, other nations were part of the USSR for almost a century. Why do they get to be independant and Chechnya doesn't? It doesn't matter if Tibet was a lousy place; losing their language, religion and cultural identity isn't right. And how exactly did the US mess around with Afghanistan before modern weapons existed?
And when push comes to shove, the only way the US will use nukes in the Middle East is if they use them against the US first. Anyone in the DoD who says otherwise is just the 21st century equivalent of Curtis LeMay, just a wild dog kept tight on a leash used to scare people.
Like the kid at MIT that worked with a team and was rumored to have over a million in cash stashed away? I guess three bonehead gamblers would make up for that, if they were all named William Bennett.
Saying something is a good idea because it'll encourage Indian citizens to take up careers in science and engineering isn't going to make you popular on slashdot:)
There was an article in Omni written by G. Gordon Liddy a looong time ago (late '80s) where he listed a lot of things a group of determined individuals could do to really screw things up.
He mentioned transformers, but I think just hitting enough insulators on main HV lines would cause problems (they'd run out of spares quickly, and they're easy to destroy with rifle fire).
There's only one big natural gas line going up to the NE. Take it out in the middle of winter. There's a railroad bridge somewhere around the Potomac (sic?) where pretty much all rail traffic going up and down the east coast has to cross.
I'll have to go dig out the magazine and reread it. Hold on, there's someone knocking at the
Seeing as how I used to know a guy who consistently won 20-30 K a year (he was a "sharp"), and only stopped when he got married and his wife made his stop, not all of them are idiots.
One of the reasons that people OD is because it's illegal and not regulated. If you had to buy your liquor from a criminal, you'd have a good chance of going blind from drinking wood alcohol.
Make it legal, regulate and tax the hell out of, and the number of people who OD will go down.
Of course, that's not even mentioning the 400,000 people a year that die from tobacco and the 50,000 a year that die from alcohol. Drug users don't even come close.
Just legalizing pot and selling joints with filters would reduce most of the health risk associated with pot.
One word: Charity. Maybe if half my income didn't go to the government, I'd give more to charity.
As far as being disabled in a car crash, I have disability insurance. It's not that expensive. It's a hell of a lot cheaper than paying Social Security. I also have uninsured driver insurance for my car, and I live in a state where it's illegal to drive without insurance. If I had a wife and kids, I've have term life insurance too. To not be protected like that is incompetent parenting.
Of course, why the hell should anyone bother to get insurance. It's free to just suck on the public teat if something bad happens.
The DoD already has Keyhole satellites, which are pretty much the same thing (but probably with filters, etc., I'd bet that pointing the Hubble at the sunlit Earth would fry something out).
That's one reason the Hubble was screwed up at first; the military had equipment to test the mirrors but weren't going to let a civilian agency use them.
So the first bombing of the WTC was because, uh, Bush was a part owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team? I get it now. They got lost on the way to Arlington.
The leaders of the tyrannies that harbor terrorists hate and loathe Al-Jazeera. The US Army was more than willing to embed Al-Jazeera journalists, but Kuwait wouldn't even let them in the country. Just think how those leaders will like a (hopefully) free and democratic Iraq.
The people over there blame the US for their crappy lives, when really it's their own leaders' fault. If it can be demonstrated that an Arab country can actually be a decent place to live, maybe the idiots will decide to fix their own damn countries.
There's some disturbing articles about how medical people won't try as hard to save you if you are signed up as an organ donor, and will start tearing you down for parts before you're actually dead.
It was enough to make me tear up my donor card that I've had in my wallet since I was a teenager.
You may want to look up the difference between a Security Council resolution and a General Assembly resolution.
UN member nations are *obligated* to make sure Security Council resolutions are enforced. They are *not allowed* to enforce General Assembly resolutions.
Guess which type of resolutions applied to Iraq? And guess which type apply to Israel?
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I remember reading about a guy who did that and put the output to three big screen TVs . . .
Man, that would have been great with Alien TC.
Adventure. On a line printer. On a stolen Nebraska State Dept of Agriculture (Agnet) account at the University of Nebraska.
:)
I still have the 2 inch thick stack of printouts, complete with the occasional "who are you?" from an Agnet admin
As long as it's not LPGA strip poker :)
They had a neat article in Scientific American a year or so ago about how soon they'll have FPGAs in your PC that can be reprogrammed almost instantly, and it'll be able to "task switch" every 10 or 20 milliseconds. While you're thinking about your move while playing chess against the FPGA, the seti@home hardware will kick in. :)
They've recently come up with computers that recognize faces well; they correlate how well the face matches a set of "eigenfaces".
your shiny metal ass.
Also, where I live, if you're collecting unemployment, and you don't list *all* of your qualifications on your resume, you can get in trouble with the unemployment commission. Your state laws may vary, though.
Ukraine, other nations were part of the USSR for almost a century. Why do they get to be independant and Chechnya doesn't? It doesn't matter if Tibet was a lousy place; losing their language, religion and cultural identity isn't right. And how exactly did the US mess around with Afghanistan before modern weapons existed?
And when push comes to shove, the only way the US will use nukes in the Middle East is if they use them against the US first. Anyone in the DoD who says otherwise is just the 21st century equivalent of Curtis LeMay, just a wild dog kept tight on a leash used to scare people.
You'd probably find the book "Millenial Project" by Marshall Savage interesting, especially the Aquarius ocean colony part.
Like the kid at MIT that worked with a team and was rumored to have over a million in cash stashed away? I guess three bonehead gamblers would make up for that, if they were all named William Bennett.
You forgot detecting any Linux or other OS partitions and reformatting them to NTFS.
You forgot 3) Microsoft not selling bug-ridden crap.
Saying something is a good idea because it'll encourage Indian citizens to take up careers in science and engineering isn't going to make you popular on slashdot :)
60 years ago, the northern part of Korea was where all the industry and big cities were. The southern part was all peasant dirt farmers.
Yeah, North Korea is communist, so they don't have power. You hit the nail right on the head. It's true, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
There was an article in Omni written by G. Gordon Liddy a looong time ago (late '80s) where he listed a lot of things a group of determined individuals could do to really screw things up.
He mentioned transformers, but I think just hitting enough insulators on main HV lines would cause problems (they'd run out of spares quickly, and they're easy to destroy with rifle fire).
There's only one big natural gas line going up to the NE. Take it out in the middle of winter. There's a railroad bridge somewhere around the Potomac (sic?) where pretty much all rail traffic going up and down the east coast has to cross.
I'll have to go dig out the magazine and reread it. Hold on, there's someone knocking at the
Seeing as how I used to know a guy who consistently won 20-30 K a year (he was a "sharp"), and only stopped when he got married and his wife made his stop, not all of them are idiots.
One of the reasons that people OD is because it's illegal and not regulated. If you had to buy your liquor from a criminal, you'd have a good chance of going blind from drinking wood alcohol.
Make it legal, regulate and tax the hell out of, and the number of people who OD will go down.
Of course, that's not even mentioning the 400,000 people a year that die from tobacco and the 50,000 a year that die from alcohol. Drug users don't even come close.
Just legalizing pot and selling joints with filters would reduce most of the health risk associated with pot.
One word: Charity. Maybe if half my income didn't go to the government, I'd give more to charity.
As far as being disabled in a car crash, I have disability insurance. It's not that expensive. It's a hell of a lot cheaper than paying Social Security. I also have uninsured driver insurance for my car, and I live in a state where it's illegal to drive without insurance. If I had a wife and kids, I've have term life insurance too. To not be protected like that is incompetent parenting.
Of course, why the hell should anyone bother to get insurance. It's free to just suck on the public teat if something bad happens.
Don't forget the prison guard lobbies; they're one of the main forces pushing for tougher drug laws and longer sentences.
The DoD already has Keyhole satellites, which are pretty much the same thing (but probably with filters, etc., I'd bet that pointing the Hubble at the sunlit Earth would fry something out).
That's one reason the Hubble was screwed up at first; the military had equipment to test the mirrors but weren't going to let a civilian agency use them.
So the first bombing of the WTC was because, uh, Bush was a part owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team? I get it now. They got lost on the way to Arlington.
The leaders of the tyrannies that harbor terrorists hate and loathe Al-Jazeera. The US Army was more than willing to embed Al-Jazeera journalists, but Kuwait wouldn't even let them in the country. Just think how those leaders will like a (hopefully) free and democratic Iraq.
The people over there blame the US for their crappy lives, when really it's their own leaders' fault. If it can be demonstrated that an Arab country can actually be a decent place to live, maybe the idiots will decide to fix their own damn countries.
There's some disturbing articles about how medical people won't try as hard to save you if you are signed up as an organ donor, and will start tearing you down for parts before you're actually dead.
It was enough to make me tear up my donor card that I've had in my wallet since I was a teenager.
You may want to look up the difference between a Security Council resolution and a General Assembly resolution.
UN member nations are *obligated* to make sure Security Council resolutions are enforced. They are *not allowed* to enforce General Assembly resolutions.
Guess which type of resolutions applied to Iraq? And guess which type apply to Israel?
Plenty of money goes to the Palestinians, for all the good it does. The Saudis are rolling in money and they're the worst of the lot.