Given the deep contempt that Facebook demonstrates toward even the idea of personal privacy, I don't think I would want to trust them with my credit cards.
When I was an "avid tinkerer" (in my case, backyard mechanic), $200 took some scrimping but it was a good price for good tools. It compares pretty favorably with the price of a good-quality torque wrench, and very favorably with that of an air compressor and set of air tools, even cheap ones.
I think the tone of the OP is awfully slick, e.g. "the UK company that reinvented the vacuum cleaner". Two beers say the anonymous submitter is a Dyson marketing consultant.
To say "Nationwide, that cost would amount to about $300 million per year," is disingenuous at best. The price is already being paid in the long-term destructive consequences of not recycling toxic electronic waste. Something like this fee (assuming it works) doesn't add cost, it makes the cost more visible and more constructive.
In a joint press conference at the conclusion of this week's trade summit, representatives of the US, England, and Japan expressed little hope that Australia will recover from its current economic collapse any time soon. As many viewers are aware, huge and unexplained increases in the numbers of migraine headaches, epileptic seizures, and strokes have devastated that country's economy since early last year.
When asked about an alleged connection to Australia's universal fluorescent lighting mandate—a possibility that industry spokesmen have vehemently denied—all four governments responded, "No comment."
Although Australia's Prime Minister and Treasurer were both present at summit meetings, neither could be reached for comment following the press conference, as both men have once again been hospitalized with undisclosed ailments.
In general, no amount of water can extinguish a Class D (flammable metal) fire. When I was in the Navy, there was training on what kind of extinguishing agents would work on each class of fire. The "agent" for Class D? Push the burning material overboard; there's nothing else you can do. I gather the damage control specialists had some other, very limited, options, but basically a metal fire is hopeless.
I never heard how this applies on ships with aluminum-magnesium hulls.
My best understanding--IANAChemist--is that a metal combustion reaction yields high enough energy, and yields it fast enough, to dissociate water molecules. The resulting gases then participate in the fire. Probably most of us saw a demonstration in chemistry class of magnesium burning under water: Mg + 2(H2O) -> Mg(OH)2 + H2.
[You get a similar problem putting water on a coal fire. In large enough quantities rapidly applied, water will extinguish coal. Applying the water as fog or spray, however, generates coal gas, a highly explosive mix of O2 and H2. Bad.]
Perhaps, however, sufficiently gi-normous quantities of water might slow a metal fire, or the rate of the fire's spreading, enough to make time for other measures (see "overboard", above). On the other hand, with the alkali metals, water makes things *way* worse. In that same chemistry class, I got to see my teacher's first-and-last-ever sodium and water demonstration. She decided to stick to films after that.
I was a Sprint customer two separate times for a total of three years. I thought the design of their network services was incompetent: as an example, they never did provide two-way SMS, you had to use a very slow WAP page to send messages. Stability of calls was consistently inconsistent. The brand of phones that treated me best (Nokia) they carried the fewest models of, and most of the others had poor design and quality. They were constantly doing backflips trying to sell useless flashy techno-gewgaws, and ignoring the idea of improving basic services. The only company that was worse, in my experience, was AT&T.
Nextel, on the other hand . . . Best I can tell, Nextel's service has it all over everybody, bar none. They offer network features no-one else can even come close to, and I don't just mean the walkie-talkie thing. Their services and features are actually interesting, useful, and well documented! Almost everyone I know who uses Nextel just loves them. The only shortcoming I've ever even heard of is modest geographical coverage, which, sadly, was the show-stopper for me.
So now Nextel's merging with Sprint. What a disaster for Nextel. Both the differences in their technology and the fact this is a merger not a buyout will prevent Nextel from fixing Sprint, unlike Cingular with AT&T Wireless. (The latter really stank; trust me on this.) Sprint's grasping incompetence will suffuse Nextel like red dye bleeding through the laundry, and where we had a big clumsy company and a smaller, really good one, there'll just be one really big, rather poor one. What a shame.
Weeeell...
If the alien lived in a universe more gravitically interesting than our own, his pi might have a different value from ours. Wouldn't that make things a bitch.
I'm sick nigh unto death of multi-function fantabutronic phones that'll do everything under sun but wipe my ass or make a decent phone call.
I do not need a camera, voice memos, video games, downloadable polyphonic symphonic psychedelic ringtones, an MP3 player; barely functional text messaging, even more barely functional email, or a "web browser" that makes driving to the New York Public Library and looking up what I need to know seem efficient (I live in Virginia); Bluetooth, Compact Flash, color high-resolution display requiring exponents to describe, inaudible speaker phone, or a multi-billion dollar ad campaign that causes seizures in small children and house pets to tell me how this new phone is going to Change My Life Forever! (TM)
I do need good signal handling and audio; a phone book designed for people who actually a) read, and b) make phone calls; maybe a vibrating ringer available at every ring volume, not just the top and bottom; and a user interface that doesn't remind me of the very first freshman programming project of the year. For fancy occasions, an alarm clock can be nice.
A provider network that wasn't engineered by beauty-school dropouts would be nice, too, but that's another issue.
I believe I remember from high school biology that scabs from a vaccination would yield cowpox virus, not smallpox. If that's so, then surely this has to be some combination of hoax, urban myth, and/or publicity grab.
Contactless credit cards, and RFID implants. Hmmm. Who else is reminded of a mark on the forehead, or the right hand, without which no man might buy or sell any thing?
Slashdot Mirror
Raise your hand if you fell for it this time.
Given the deep contempt that Facebook demonstrates toward even the idea of personal privacy, I don't think I would want to trust them with my credit cards.
They're actually setting up to track us all everywhere we go in our flying cars.
When I was an "avid tinkerer" (in my case, backyard mechanic), $200 took some scrimping but it was a good price for good tools. It compares pretty favorably with the price of a good-quality torque wrench, and very favorably with that of an air compressor and set of air tools, even cheap ones.
The answer is none. None more bad.
if it's in clinical trials? Maybe it won't pan out, but it is a physical product.
or something. TFAs are about security failures at large companies, not (as the title implies) companies voluntarily originating malicious e-mail.
I think the tone of the OP is awfully slick, e.g. "the UK company that reinvented the vacuum cleaner". Two beers say the anonymous submitter is a Dyson marketing consultant.
Damian Conway made it up to describe certain unintended side effects of (mis)using $_ in Perl.
Here's a hint: in Latin a sagittarius is a kind of archer, and a pedes viator is a traveler on foot.
This might help.
To say "Nationwide, that cost would amount to about $300 million per year," is disingenuous at best. The price is already being paid in the long-term destructive consequences of not recycling toxic electronic waste. Something like this fee (assuming it works) doesn't add cost, it makes the cost more visible and more constructive.
- www.dellideastorm.com is slashdotted
- The floundering server is running Apache on Fedora
It's a setup!on how long until the first low-grav brothel gets set up.
- to disconnect any equipment that interferes with the PSTN.
- to have your dog killed if it is rabid.
- to clean up a toxic chemical spill on your property.
- to take the medication that keeps you from spreading tuberculosis.
- to either fix any interference caused by your ham radio, or stop using the thing.
So, just how complicated is the solution to botnets and similar public network security issues?No, no, no, no, no! Rule number 1 is: Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!
I never heard how this applies on ships with aluminum-magnesium hulls.
My best understanding--IANAChemist--is that a metal combustion reaction yields high enough energy, and yields it fast enough, to dissociate water molecules. The resulting gases then participate in the fire. Probably most of us saw a demonstration in chemistry class of magnesium burning under water: Mg + 2(H2O) -> Mg(OH)2 + H2.
[You get a similar problem putting water on a coal fire. In large enough quantities rapidly applied, water will extinguish coal. Applying the water as fog or spray, however, generates coal gas, a highly explosive mix of O2 and H2. Bad.]
Perhaps, however, sufficiently gi-normous quantities of water might slow a metal fire, or the rate of the fire's spreading, enough to make time for other measures (see "overboard", above). On the other hand, with the alkali metals, water makes things *way* worse. In that same chemistry class, I got to see my teacher's first-and-last-ever sodium and water demonstration. She decided to stick to films after that.
Oh, well. People tell me I'm just slow.
Nextel, on the other hand . . . Best I can tell, Nextel's service has it all over everybody, bar none. They offer network features no-one else can even come close to, and I don't just mean the walkie-talkie thing. Their services and features are actually interesting, useful, and well documented! Almost everyone I know who uses Nextel just loves them. The only shortcoming I've ever even heard of is modest geographical coverage, which, sadly, was the show-stopper for me. So now Nextel's merging with Sprint. What a disaster for Nextel. Both the differences in their technology and the fact this is a merger not a buyout will prevent Nextel from fixing Sprint, unlike Cingular with AT&T Wireless. (The latter really stank; trust me on this.) Sprint's grasping incompetence will suffuse Nextel like red dye bleeding through the laundry, and where we had a big clumsy company and a smaller, really good one, there'll just be one really big, rather poor one. What a shame.
Weeeell ...
If the alien lived in a universe more gravitically interesting than our own, his pi might have a different value from ours. Wouldn't that make things a bitch.
I do not need a camera, voice memos, video games, downloadable polyphonic symphonic psychedelic ringtones, an MP3 player; barely functional text messaging, even more barely functional email, or a "web browser" that makes driving to the New York Public Library and looking up what I need to know seem efficient (I live in Virginia); Bluetooth, Compact Flash, color high-resolution display requiring exponents to describe, inaudible speaker phone, or a multi-billion dollar ad campaign that causes seizures in small children and house pets to tell me how this new phone is going to Change My Life Forever! (TM)
I do need good signal handling and audio; a phone book designed for people who actually a) read, and b) make phone calls; maybe a vibrating ringer available at every ring volume, not just the top and bottom; and a user interface that doesn't remind me of the very first freshman programming project of the year. For fancy occasions, an alarm clock can be nice.
A provider network that wasn't engineered by beauty-school dropouts would be nice, too, but that's another issue.
-Edgar
I believe I remember from high school biology that scabs from a vaccination would yield cowpox virus, not smallpox. If that's so, then surely this has to be some combination of hoax, urban myth, and/or publicity grab.
Contactless credit cards, and RFID implants. Hmmm. Who else is reminded of a mark on the forehead, or the right hand, without which no man might buy or sell any thing?