That's the same old argument that has been variously applied to Linux, BSD, and Macs. At least in the Linux world, it doesn't hold water, since the code is subject to so many more eyes. And in the case of an exploitable bug, a patch is usually available within a few hours, not weeks, as on a "patch Tuesday" system.
Additionally, Linux (via distributions) updates all of the software on a system from one location. Windows is getting there (Windows Update), but still has a way to go (Flash, Reader, and Java updates). As a result, Linux application bugs get fixed just as fast as kernel bugs. In the Windows world, even if your Windows install is up to date, your version of Office, Internet Explorer, or TurboTax might still have a critical bug.
Balloons work off of the differential between the inside air pressure and the outside air pressure. If the outside air pressure is low, then even if you manage to generate a vacuum inside the balloon, the differential is still small and therefore so is the lift.
There are two real problems - lack of air and lack of oxygen. No oxygen means that it has to use rockets or electrically spun propellers, since jet engines burn gas and O2. A thin atmosphere means that propellers won't have much grab and even worse, the wings won't generate much lift. This thing is going to be a one-shot deal as there's no way to currently build a drone that can stay aloft indefinitely on Mars.
-Yes, it's a private network. My lab on campus is funded by the NSF and the state, but that doesn't mean that you have any right to come in off the street and use my desk. Similarly, most public libraries require you to register (ie, get a library card) before you can use their networks and even then they tend to block a lot of services (including p2p).
-The fourth amendment has typically only been applied to your own personal property (ie, your house, your car). I'm unaware of any 4th amendment legal precedent that the government is not allowed to monitor the traffic on its own network. Again, the 4th amendment works on the idea of the expectation of privacy and I don't think you can have that when you're using a state-funded Internet connection on a state-funded campus.
There's no 4th amendment problem here. You're a guest on a private network and the network administrator believes that you are committing a crime, so they report you to the police. There's no problem with that.
The problem is that Valdosta is taking the proper steps to verify that the behavior is actually illegal and they are going to end up wasting police time as a result.
But, if you're on a private network, you shouldn't have any real expectation of privacy, besides what state law may give you.
Yeah, I use my network connection in my lab to seed a few dozen different Linux distributions, uploading 10's of GB/day. If I was at Valdosta State, I'm sure I'd be one of the first to be contacted.
...that you can use whatever software you like. If you were happy with the last Sun release of OpenOffice, then download and use that instead. It should be fine for a couple of years* and by then it should be clear which OSS office software is appropriate for you.
*It's not uncommon for Microsoft to go several years between releases of MS Office, so two years with Sun's last OpenOffice release isn't unreasonable.
Amen. If you ever eat just the meat off of a burger, you'll get what the unity is saying. It's bland, has a horrible texture and is overall unappetizing. Add some lettuce, tomato, pickles, and onions, and you've got a delicious meal.
Except that trying to line up a photo on a B&W screen with a 1 fps refresh rate on a rocking-and-pitching boat is easy. Actually, what you needed was an optical viewfinder.
While I disagree with a lot of what the TSA does on a privacy and civil rights level, I have to admit that they are in the best position to prevent the next 9/11 style attack. I think the fact that terrorists have tried attacking incoming flights (shoe bomber, underwear bomber, cargo bomber) shows that the will to attack us is still there and that the terrorists no longer believe that an attack originating from US soil is logistically possible.
You hit the nail on the head there. There is a tremendous opportunity for corporations to increase customer service, increase productivity, and increase good will towards the company just by rural sourcing. It is an excellent idea to bring jobs to the American communities who are most in need.
Lexmark, GE, and Cricket Wireless are all on my shit-list for having crappy India-based customer service. When I have a problem with your product, I do not want to call overseas to get it fixed.
Just to elaborate, if this rabbit mates, it's children will not be radioactive nor will they receive radioactive materials. The problem is only with this generation.
Despite the common belief and what bad scifi would tell you, rabbits (and other things) don't become radioactive when exposed to radiation.
In this case, the rabbit likely consumed radioactive materials, meaning that it is contaminated with radioactive materials. The rabbit itself though, is not radioactive.
The radioactivity is not contagious and the fear is not that someone will pet the radioactive rabbit and become radioactive themself. The problem would be if a hunter caught the rabbit and ate it. Then he/she would ingest both the rabbit and the radioactive materials, putting him/her at higher risk for certain diseases (most notably cancer). However, he/she would not be radioactive either.
HDMI can carry 8 channels of audio and considering that's the direction everyone is heading, I doubt you'll see your fiber optic connection.
But more to the point, most of Netflix's selection is only in stereo. If you're serious about quality, you should be renting Blu-rays and not streaming.
I know some politicians will use a study like this to argue that single payer health care is a bad idea, but when you consider that this study looked at older citizens, who tend (in America) to be on Medicare (our single payer health care), it seems to suggest that that program isn't so bad after all.
Of course, you have climate, pollution, diet, genetics, and a dozen different factors that you can't control for when you compare Americans and Brits. So studies like this one are probably pretty useless.
It would be interesting if you could take a group of senior citizens and split them up three ways: no insurance, single payer (Medicare), and traditional health insurance. Then see who lives longest.
Theoretically, it shouldn't matter what party is in power. Each representative should vote in a manner that is consistent with the best interests of their constituents. Right? Right?
As someone who doesn't really see in 3D anyway, the 3D effect has zero appeal to me. Even Avatar, which I thought was a great movie, didn't have any additional "depth" as far as I could tell.
I don't think that the intent is to make you watch a video ad. I think what they want to do is make you get past a video captcha to prove you're not a bot. Then, the website owner can be assured that his content is being viewed only by humans and not stolen by bots.
Something like this would be useful for TicketMaster and Orbitz. They could better protect their valuable content.
It's been a big issue for me. Go to a directory with a couple of large files (say a dvd rip) and do a "cat * > newfile". Watch your system come to a crawl.
That's exactly why I stopped using swap a couple of years ago. On my main machine I have 3 GB and I feel that if I reach the limit on that, then whatever program is running is probably a lost cause anyway. The next malloc/new causes the program to crash, saving the system.
As a physicist, let me say that neutrino detection, while interesting and challenging, should definitely take a back seat to some of the poverty and sanitation issues facing India. If this was research that offered immediate benefits to the country (like a new medicine), then I could understand it. But as much as I would love to see more neutrino detectors built, I can't justify it being done with money that could be put to such a better use.
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That's the same old argument that has been variously applied to Linux, BSD, and Macs. At least in the Linux world, it doesn't hold water, since the code is subject to so many more eyes. And in the case of an exploitable bug, a patch is usually available within a few hours, not weeks, as on a "patch Tuesday" system.
Additionally, Linux (via distributions) updates all of the software on a system from one location. Windows is getting there (Windows Update), but still has a way to go (Flash, Reader, and Java updates). As a result, Linux application bugs get fixed just as fast as kernel bugs. In the Windows world, even if your Windows install is up to date, your version of Office, Internet Explorer, or TurboTax might still have a critical bug.
Balloons work off of the differential between the inside air pressure and the outside air pressure. If the outside air pressure is low, then even if you manage to generate a vacuum inside the balloon, the differential is still small and therefore so is the lift.
There are two real problems - lack of air and lack of oxygen. No oxygen means that it has to use rockets or electrically spun propellers, since jet engines burn gas and O2. A thin atmosphere means that propellers won't have much grab and even worse, the wings won't generate much lift. This thing is going to be a one-shot deal as there's no way to currently build a drone that can stay aloft indefinitely on Mars.
Wow, I got modded "flamebait". Amazing.
To answer the replies I've gotten so far:
-Yes, it's a private network. My lab on campus is funded by the NSF and the state, but that doesn't mean that you have any right to come in off the street and use my desk. Similarly, most public libraries require you to register (ie, get a library card) before you can use their networks and even then they tend to block a lot of services (including p2p).
-The fourth amendment has typically only been applied to your own personal property (ie, your house, your car). I'm unaware of any 4th amendment legal precedent that the government is not allowed to monitor the traffic on its own network. Again, the 4th amendment works on the idea of the expectation of privacy and I don't think you can have that when you're using a state-funded Internet connection on a state-funded campus.
There's no 4th amendment problem here. You're a guest on a private network and the network administrator believes that you are committing a crime, so they report you to the police. There's no problem with that.
The problem is that Valdosta is taking the proper steps to verify that the behavior is actually illegal and they are going to end up wasting police time as a result.
But, if you're on a private network, you shouldn't have any real expectation of privacy, besides what state law may give you.
Yeah, I use my network connection in my lab to seed a few dozen different Linux distributions, uploading 10's of GB/day. If I was at Valdosta State, I'm sure I'd be one of the first to be contacted.
Yes, and the Romans killed Jesus Christ. Therefore, LibreOffice is the Devil's office suite.
...that you can use whatever software you like. If you were happy with the last Sun release of OpenOffice, then download and use that instead. It should be fine for a couple of years* and by then it should be clear which OSS office software is appropriate for you.
*It's not uncommon for Microsoft to go several years between releases of MS Office, so two years with Sun's last OpenOffice release isn't unreasonable.
Amen. If you ever eat just the meat off of a burger, you'll get what the unity is saying. It's bland, has a horrible texture and is overall unappetizing. Add some lettuce, tomato, pickles, and onions, and you've got a delicious meal.
Except that trying to line up a photo on a B&W screen with a 1 fps refresh rate on a rocking-and-pitching boat is easy. Actually, what you needed was an optical viewfinder.
While I disagree with a lot of what the TSA does on a privacy and civil rights level, I have to admit that they are in the best position to prevent the next 9/11 style attack. I think the fact that terrorists have tried attacking incoming flights (shoe bomber, underwear bomber, cargo bomber) shows that the will to attack us is still there and that the terrorists no longer believe that an attack originating from US soil is logistically possible.
You hit the nail on the head there. There is a tremendous opportunity for corporations to increase customer service, increase productivity, and increase good will towards the company just by rural sourcing. It is an excellent idea to bring jobs to the American communities who are most in need.
Lexmark, GE, and Cricket Wireless are all on my shit-list for having crappy India-based customer service. When I have a problem with your product, I do not want to call overseas to get it fixed.
Just to elaborate, if this rabbit mates, it's children will not be radioactive nor will they receive radioactive materials. The problem is only with this generation.
Despite the common belief and what bad scifi would tell you, rabbits (and other things) don't become radioactive when exposed to radiation.
In this case, the rabbit likely consumed radioactive materials, meaning that it is contaminated with radioactive materials. The rabbit itself though, is not radioactive.
The radioactivity is not contagious and the fear is not that someone will pet the radioactive rabbit and become radioactive themself. The problem would be if a hunter caught the rabbit and ate it. Then he/she would ingest both the rabbit and the radioactive materials, putting him/her at higher risk for certain diseases (most notably cancer). However, he/she would not be radioactive either.
Please don't feed the trolls. Thank you.
HDMI can carry 8 channels of audio and considering that's the direction everyone is heading, I doubt you'll see your fiber optic connection.
But more to the point, most of Netflix's selection is only in stereo. If you're serious about quality, you should be renting Blu-rays and not streaming.
I know some politicians will use a study like this to argue that single payer health care is a bad idea, but when you consider that this study looked at older citizens, who tend (in America) to be on Medicare (our single payer health care), it seems to suggest that that program isn't so bad after all.
Of course, you have climate, pollution, diet, genetics, and a dozen different factors that you can't control for when you compare Americans and Brits. So studies like this one are probably pretty useless.
It would be interesting if you could take a group of senior citizens and split them up three ways: no insurance, single payer (Medicare), and traditional health insurance. Then see who lives longest.
Theoretically, it shouldn't matter what party is in power. Each representative should vote in a manner that is consistent with the best interests of their constituents. Right? Right?
As someone who doesn't really see in 3D anyway, the 3D effect has zero appeal to me. Even Avatar, which I thought was a great movie, didn't have any additional "depth" as far as I could tell.
I don't think that the intent is to make you watch a video ad. I think what they want to do is make you get past a video captcha to prove you're not a bot. Then, the website owner can be assured that his content is being viewed only by humans and not stolen by bots.
Something like this would be useful for TicketMaster and Orbitz. They could better protect their valuable content.
Wow... 9 seasons of Smallville in a row? And you're still cognizant?
My brain hurts after just one episode. (However, like an addict, I keep going back for more.)
If you had owned a Dell laptop instead of a MacBook Pro, the thieves wouldn't have even bothered to steal it. =)
It's been a big issue for me. Go to a directory with a couple of large files (say a dvd rip) and do a "cat * > newfile". Watch your system come to a crawl.
That's exactly why I stopped using swap a couple of years ago. On my main machine I have 3 GB and I feel that if I reach the limit on that, then whatever program is running is probably a lost cause anyway. The next malloc/new causes the program to crash, saving the system.
As a physicist, let me say that neutrino detection, while interesting and challenging, should definitely take a back seat to some of the poverty and sanitation issues facing India. If this was research that offered immediate benefits to the country (like a new medicine), then I could understand it. But as much as I would love to see more neutrino detectors built, I can't justify it being done with money that could be put to such a better use.