I believe that previously there was not enough evidence that the voicemail hacking took place. New evidence came to light which is what has spurred these court cases to take place.
Except his work wasn't suppressed for reasons of national security. He made the discovery within and for an intelligence organisation. He didn't get screwed at all, he seems perfectly happy to have done his part for his country. Making discoveries like this to be kept secret was his job.
It's known as a Veblen good when just having the most expensive regardless of quality or improvement over cheaper goods as it shows you have the money to buy it and that is what people want to show off.
"In the UK, the Charity Commission for England and Wales ruled in 1999 that Scientology was not a religion and refused to register the Church as a charity"
Except the UK doesn't recognise Scientology as a religion
Where do you see drug testing is carried out by rival teams?
During the off-season teams test their own cyclists and will somtimes dismiss cyclists based on this. Tom Boonen was caught by testing within his team.
Tour De France testing is centrally regulated, so if you hit the cycling big time then you need to hide it from doctors associated with no teams.
I can't help but feel like after this long, no sane person would still be proclaiming innocence if it wasn't true at all.
Of course if you think that only people who have protested this long were innocent then surely it makes sense for a guilty person to keep denying until the ends of the earth.
In the end it's hard to tell using this sort of metric if someone is guilty or not. Sometimes liars will deny it until they're blue in the face, and sometimes innocent people will give up early when they feel there is no chance of people believing them.
The point is there are no strings, therefore no string bending. If you watch the video though you can see the the right hand uses a touch sensitive screen to control pitch etc. so you can simulate a bending effect. It's not a guitar, just an electronic instrument inspired and shaped by a guitar
Except something like Vista isn't comparable directly to Linux as it's like Linux + KDE + a bunch of other things. I'm not surprised no-one knows how all those things link together, it's a much larger scale codebase with a much wider set of design goals than Linux.
I'm much to lazy to do the math. Let's round up - 4k errors per year has to be a vanishingly small percentage for a system that is up 24/7/365, or 5 nines. The fact that these DIMMs were "stressed" makes me wonder about the validity of the test. Heat stress, among other things, will multiply errors far beyond what you will see in normal service.
Except it depends on how the modules were originally tested. The study is saying that they break more than previously thought, rather than they break a lot. If they were originally tested in a stressed system similar to Googles and Google is finding that they have far more errors than they should then their study is still valid.
FTFA - "Naturally these rules are that you never say anything bad or negative about the company"
Sounds like you can have a beer in the pub and discuss good new products, just not bad ones.
We are not here by random chance, look at the numbers and see the REAL ODDS calculated by REAL SCIENTISTS and you will see that it is impossible. Open your eyes and let the truth set you free.
Care to post these odds and the credentials of the scientists involved in these calculations?
The proponents of tallow-based fuel admit that raising livestock in order to burn their corpses for energy would be a very carbon-intensive way of making biofuel. Rearing cattle or pigs involves the emission of lots of greenhouse gases. But that's not the idea: rather, the thinking goes, people will raise livestock anyway in order to eat it. Thus it makes sense to use the waste products for energy.
The point is you're not raising cattle or pigs in order to make the oil you're using an otherwise wasted by-product. Take for instance an old dairy cow that has lived past their efficient milking years or fat byproducts stripped for otherwise useless butchers waste. Also I would imagine turning sick animals into usable oil would be a better alternative to just burning them.
Usually these sort of "and then they came to earth..." plotlines are cost-cutting measures (so they can shoot in "regular" locations instead of on elaborate sets).
Not sure this really matters. Red Dwarf has always been low budget, and the later series (7+8 and to a lesser extent 6) where more money was thrown at it also corresponded with a huge dip in funniness. Generally speaking the same few rooms are used on the ship or often just Starbug. Growing up in the UK you get used to low budget comedies and high budget stuff just doesn't have quite the right feel; Red Dwarf always used to be perfect, incredibly low budget and relying just on script and actors to make it enjoyable.
My favourite Red Dwarf episode ever was Marooned and that's just Lister and Rimmer in a single part of Starbug for the whole episode (with a Thunderbirds style crash at the beginning).
Wish I had mod points to mod this up.
While taking photos of yourself nude and sending them around where they could eventually end up anywhere (internet, whole schools phones etc.) is not the smartest thing to do they're just following the most basic and driving of human instincts.
Kids at this age probably don't think too forward into the future about consequences that lie ahead, but that's no need to say that exploring their sexuality in such a way was wrong. Education about the future consequences of making such pictures public or texting them is probably the right strategy.
If children aren't allowed to experience the world, then as adults they will walk blindly into it and wither.
When I first went to University (UK) the people who got into the worst scrapes (drinking too much to the point of being taken home by strangers and not remembering, having unprotected sex whilst drunk and not remembering) were usually from single-sex catholic schools who had been kept on a tight leash. Their first experience of the adult world was from the perpspective of someone who'd been sheltered from it.
Sorry, I didn't mean to jibe. I know what you're saying and I agree, althought I think the quote is more about making huge risks for huge gains (but also potential losses).
Sometimes it just feels like Godwins Law somtimes on slashdot though, except like this:
As a Slashdot thread grows longer, the probability of a comparison to the benefits of open source approaches one.
In fact I name it Aneurysm's law:)
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I like your point, but i'm not entirely sure that contributing to open source software is the same death-defying act of derring-do as jumping out of a plane with a few thin pieces of lycra stretched between my arms whilst skirting the edges of vertical rock faces.
I'm sure if someone like Andrew Morton offered to take over in Linus's absence then he would be accepted. He has the credibility, he has the authority (he's the current 2.6 kernel maintainer), and i'm sure many people would accept such a new benevolent leader for life.
Sure, some consumers want to buy the sanitized version anyway. But I think most consumers will buy from Wal-Mart because they want to save money or because they don't care. I would claim that many of those consumers would buy the "unsanitized" version at the same price if they had the choice.
Your argument is gone in a second there. People buy there because it is convenient and they can save money. People who genuinely cared would buy their CD at a different store at a higher price, or perhaps research where they could buy the adult advisory version nearly as cheap.
Walmart does things like this simply because the consumers choose to act this way. They can make more money from stocking the one version. Walmart is not hurting the consumers, the consumers are hurting themselves by not exercising their right to choice by actually buying elsewhere. Sadly I think the main problem is that the majority of America cares more whether Walmart stocks CDs with swearing in than they do about Walmart selling lethal firearms.
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If you can find it I thoroughly recommend the German film "The Lives of Others"
With a nick like that I'm sure a lot of stuff goes on your todo list
I believe that previously there was not enough evidence that the voicemail hacking took place. New evidence came to light which is what has spurred these court cases to take place.
It's an alternate reality story. WWII went on longer in this reality.
It's an alternate reality. WWII went on longer in this reality.
Except his work wasn't suppressed for reasons of national security. He made the discovery within and for an intelligence organisation. He didn't get screwed at all, he seems perfectly happy to have done his part for his country. Making discoveries like this to be kept secret was his job.
It's known as a Veblen good when just having the most expensive regardless of quality or improvement over cheaper goods as it shows you have the money to buy it and that is what people want to show off.
"In the UK, the Charity Commission for England and Wales ruled in 1999 that Scientology was not a religion and refused to register the Church as a charity" Except the UK doesn't recognise Scientology as a religion
Where do you see drug testing is carried out by rival teams? During the off-season teams test their own cyclists and will somtimes dismiss cyclists based on this. Tom Boonen was caught by testing within his team. Tour De France testing is centrally regulated, so if you hit the cycling big time then you need to hide it from doctors associated with no teams.
I can't help but feel like after this long, no sane person would still be proclaiming innocence if it wasn't true at all.
Of course if you think that only people who have protested this long were innocent then surely it makes sense for a guilty person to keep denying until the ends of the earth. In the end it's hard to tell using this sort of metric if someone is guilty or not. Sometimes liars will deny it until they're blue in the face, and sometimes innocent people will give up early when they feel there is no chance of people believing them.
The point is there are no strings, therefore no string bending. If you watch the video though you can see the the right hand uses a touch sensitive screen to control pitch etc. so you can simulate a bending effect. It's not a guitar, just an electronic instrument inspired and shaped by a guitar
Except something like Vista isn't comparable directly to Linux as it's like Linux + KDE + a bunch of other things. I'm not surprised no-one knows how all those things link together, it's a much larger scale codebase with a much wider set of design goals than Linux.
I'm much to lazy to do the math. Let's round up - 4k errors per year has to be a vanishingly small percentage for a system that is up 24/7/365, or 5 nines. The fact that these DIMMs were "stressed" makes me wonder about the validity of the test. Heat stress, among other things, will multiply errors far beyond what you will see in normal service.
Except it depends on how the modules were originally tested. The study is saying that they break more than previously thought, rather than they break a lot. If they were originally tested in a stressed system similar to Googles and Google is finding that they have far more errors than they should then their study is still valid.
FTFA - "Naturally these rules are that you never say anything bad or negative about the company" Sounds like you can have a beer in the pub and discuss good new products, just not bad ones.
We are not here by random chance, look at the numbers and see the REAL ODDS calculated by REAL SCIENTISTS and you will see that it is impossible. Open your eyes and let the truth set you free.
Care to post these odds and the credentials of the scientists involved in these calculations?
The proponents of tallow-based fuel admit that raising livestock in order to burn their corpses for energy would be a very carbon-intensive way of making biofuel. Rearing cattle or pigs involves the emission of lots of greenhouse gases. But that's not the idea: rather, the thinking goes, people will raise livestock anyway in order to eat it. Thus it makes sense to use the waste products for energy.
The point is you're not raising cattle or pigs in order to make the oil you're using an otherwise wasted by-product. Take for instance an old dairy cow that has lived past their efficient milking years or fat byproducts stripped for otherwise useless butchers waste. Also I would imagine turning sick animals into usable oil would be a better alternative to just burning them.
Usually these sort of "and then they came to earth..." plotlines are cost-cutting measures (so they can shoot in "regular" locations instead of on elaborate sets).
Not sure this really matters. Red Dwarf has always been low budget, and the later series (7+8 and to a lesser extent 6) where more money was thrown at it also corresponded with a huge dip in funniness. Generally speaking the same few rooms are used on the ship or often just Starbug. Growing up in the UK you get used to low budget comedies and high budget stuff just doesn't have quite the right feel; Red Dwarf always used to be perfect, incredibly low budget and relying just on script and actors to make it enjoyable. My favourite Red Dwarf episode ever was Marooned and that's just Lister and Rimmer in a single part of Starbug for the whole episode (with a Thunderbirds style crash at the beginning).
If children aren't allowed to experience the world, then as adults they will walk blindly into it and wither.
When I first went to University (UK) the people who got into the worst scrapes (drinking too much to the point of being taken home by strangers and not remembering, having unprotected sex whilst drunk and not remembering) were usually from single-sex catholic schools who had been kept on a tight leash. Their first experience of the adult world was from the perpspective of someone who'd been sheltered from it.
It is of course possible that the file system is riddled with places where the evil bit has been secretly turned on.
Nice to see you have to post homophobic comments under an AC account. Get out of here
Sorry, I didn't mean to jibe. I know what you're saying and I agree, althought I think the quote is more about making huge risks for huge gains (but also potential losses). Sometimes it just feels like Godwins Law somtimes on slashdot though, except like this: As a Slashdot thread grows longer, the probability of a comparison to the benefits of open source approaches one. In fact I name it Aneurysm's law :)
There was a British guy who held the World Record for longest horizontal skydive I believe using one of these suits. Landing was still by parachute though I believe. http://www.bpa.org.uk/skydive/pages/people/adriannichols.htm and http://adriannicholas.com
I like your point, but i'm not entirely sure that contributing to open source software is the same death-defying act of derring-do as jumping out of a plane with a few thin pieces of lycra stretched between my arms whilst skirting the edges of vertical rock faces.
I'm sure if someone like Andrew Morton offered to take over in Linus's absence then he would be accepted. He has the credibility, he has the authority (he's the current 2.6 kernel maintainer), and i'm sure many people would accept such a new benevolent leader for life.
Your argument is gone in a second there. People buy there because it is convenient and they can save money. People who genuinely cared would buy their CD at a different store at a higher price, or perhaps research where they could buy the adult advisory version nearly as cheap.
Walmart does things like this simply because the consumers choose to act this way. They can make more money from stocking the one version. Walmart is not hurting the consumers, the consumers are hurting themselves by not exercising their right to choice by actually buying elsewhere. Sadly I think the main problem is that the majority of America cares more whether Walmart stocks CDs with swearing in than they do about Walmart selling lethal firearms.