to figure out that it is generally a bad idea to build below sealevel (or other mass of water, like a river).
I'm just waiting for the levees around our dutch friends here in Europe to take a beating and be considered insufficient.
In my opinion, clear out all areas around New Orleans that are below sealevel and rebuild on higher ground. The problems are bound to happen again. Could be tomorrow (except that no further significant damage will occur if it's tomorrow), next year or next century.
Well this opinion will probably cause my karma to go down the sink B->...
Palm OS is OK for small solutions, but unfortunately the development has accelerated away from it. Today it's better to use Linux or Windows CE (or whatever M$ calls it today).
are always a problem, because if one person detects a flaw, it is always possible that other more malicious persons also know about that flaw. If a flaw is detected any counter-measure against the flaw should also be publicized.
Reasonable notification time shouldn't be more than 30 days - if a company has a longer lag than that to fix a security flaw/problem, then their business model is flawed.
Anyway, it seems to be a good idea, I hope that the coders take help from the HTML Validator and the CSS validator!
Both tools are very useful to track down bugs in web page construction. Even if the warnings sometimes seems to be ridicolous or stupid they actually serve a purpose. Current/. is working OK in most browsers, and I hope that the new one also will be as good.
Otherwise - I think that/. is a wonderful forum, even though it sometimes seems to be a bit limited. It's a tough balance between being able to maintain freshness and being able to feed information in a reasonable volume. There are branches of/. today like the politics, hardware and IT, but some posts may actually fit on a branch even though it isn't displayed on the main page. Same goes fr the polls, why not a politics poll on the politics server?
Does not DVD region coding conflict with Freedom of Speech. At least in the EU there is actually also a statement saying the following:
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
The interesting part is This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive, which I think is one important statement. The use of region coding actually inhibits (although lamely nowadays) citizens from accessing any information they want.
Anyway, this means that any modifications that I do are means to manage my right to access information regardless of my location, heritage, religion or whatever. If I have paid for the information or not is a different issue.
You also have to understand what's written on the container to be able to access the rules. In case nobody noticed - not everyone can understand English.
And even if you understand English, not all licenses are easy to understand.
Another way around this is to skip printers needing ink. They are usually messy animals anyway. I think I'll stick with my laser printer...
This was back in the '80s when the first Mac came out. It wasn't even available in 220V by then so the demo guys had to drag along a transformer that gave it the 115V it wanted. Surprise surprise... Somebody forgot to use the transformer once - alas one very dead Mac.
I would rather see underwear that is prone to limit the growth of fungus. Socks, pants and (for our female military, bras.)
Athlete's foot is one of the more common problems while infections may occur as a result of untreated injuries. (untreated fungal infections may also lead to bacterial infections if not properly treated.)
You actually don't want to get rid of all bacteria, since some bacteria are actually good for you and helps keeping the bad bacteria out.
Another issue is that there is a risk of getting multi-resistent bacteria that is harder to treat if you expose bacteria to antibiotics for a prolonged time. This is one reason why you shouldn't treat virus infections with antibiotics - it has no effect on the virus.
It is more a slight change in how the mass is distributed throughout the galaxy. At least they haven't come to the conclusion that we live in a Seyfert Galaxy... Yet...
It shouldn't be that hard for the manufacturers to be able to install more cache memory, like 64MB or even 128MB. The 8MB disks has been around for about two years now. NCQ has been around for a while too...
The most interesting thing on that page was a link to a hard disk encryption software in an ad.
Compare it with the Seagate Cheetah wich offers 96MB/s sustained data transfer rate while the sustained transfer rate is undocumented on the Diamond Max. Same goes for the average seek time that is
OK, now I'm comparing two completely different divisions of disks with completely different pricing. My point is that the/. article is a little overrated.
but it seems to be time for a new generation of shuttles using modern light-weight materials. It could acutally be useful to have two different shuttles, one light-weight for small transports and personnel and one heavy-weight for the big things.
As I see it, the part that has the most impact on the environment and as well is the most critical part today are the solid fuel boosters.
One feature that could be used for the light shuttle is to have a launch vehicle that carries and accelerates the shuttle to a speed and altitude where the rockets can work best. By using ordinary jet engines for the first step you wouldn't need to carry the oxygen for the first stage, which is a major weight contribution.
This will of course require several different design issues to be solved, but since Burt Rutan has done this (on a sub-orbital scale) it isn't impossible.
If the carrier would be able to go supersonic before the release of the shuttle it would be even better, but then there are a lot of issues to take into account like interfering shock waves occuring at separation. A lot of fun for those guys that like extreme calculations!:->
seems to be more of a way to try to scare users than to actually do something real. It seems to have as many holes as a colander now.
"Eat your vegetables now Bill or the big bad wolf will come to eat you!":-)
On the other hand, if the solution was too strict it would only cause too much badwill for denying legitimate users from downloading software. It seems like it is scanning for known leaked corporate keywords and nothing else.
So maybe it is time for an update to the licensing model of Windows instead? The cost of maintaining a multitude of versions (XP Home, Media Center, Professional etc.) can actually be a problem too.
is the art of efficient programming. Today we are running multi-core with gigahertz but the same task takes still about the same time to perform as when we were running the 3MHz Z80-processor with 32k RAM in the beginning of the 80's.
What we need today is not another version of Windows needing even more computer resources, what we need today is a safer computer environment.
Doesn't surprise me... A lot of adventurous vikings went east, while the more sensible ones stayed home. Only the extremophiles went west over the atlantic.
The name Russia is based on the name Rus, which were the name the locals gave the vikings when they went in from the west. (I may be slightly wrong here). In finland, Sweden is called Routsi, which also gives you a clue...
Todays swedes are the the descendants of the less adventurous vikings mixed with some other european blood. (French, Dutch and German through history, all depending on the times gone by). Today there are additions from several other countries as well.
Well, that's one spammer down, maybe more will follow... >:->, or maybe Anticimex may be able to help?
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Flygande Bäckasiner söka hvila på mjuka tuwor xqz 0123456789. (String used to test the swedish character set in some systems)
surfing the web is one way to be up to day with the world. It is important to recognize that the brain actually needs to have a few relaxing moments every day, and the reading of news is one way to actually let the brain relax some pathways so that you can come back to your actual task a little sharper.
It all comes down to the type of work you do, and the human brain and body isn't made for monotonous work, it needs variation or you will go nuts or get problems with overstressed elbows or whatever.
So go get the cup of coffee , tea with a piece of good chocolate now! (I prefer the Ecuador 70%, which has a faint touch of orange to it's taste.)
I was offered 100Mbps fdx two years ago, but I turned it down since my equipment was only able to handle 10Mbps and the pricing was considerably higher for the 100Mbps.
Another item to consider is also the fact that it is often the other end or the network that is the limit.
The challenge is now not to achieve more comfort, but to find means to sustain that comfort.
Issues about how to obtain cheap clean energy should be the prime target now. We are far too dependent on oil right now, and there is no single simple replacement for oil.
Nuclear Fission is relatively clean at the power plants, but unfortunately it isn't that clean during the refining process and afterwards.
Nuclear Fusion is said to lay decades in the future and is very complex. Right now there are two tracks in fusion, hot fusion toying around with plasma and cold fusion in bottles. (some may argue that cold fusion never happens, but there is a difference between fusing single atoms and doing it on a level that really generates power.)
Another part where energy may be obtained is to catch by-products from many industries. One source of replacement to diesel fuel is black liquor from the paper industry, another is by growing the right crop and yet another is animal fat processed to become usable.
Well, my idea is that if you can figure out some way or another how to reduce power consumption you may be contributing to innovation.
In the mean time, consider that in Europe you pay about the same price for petrol to your car, but per liter instead of per gallon. Bicycling is sometimes an option!
is not really in sight. OK, some content may be limited, but the web is more than newsflashes.
The adblock and popup-blockers are a response to annoying ads. If the advertisers keeps their ads less intrusive people may ignore them, but not to the level that they actively will block them.
Some ads are as annoying as a TV-commercial running 24x7 at maximum volume, while others are like a post-it on your door. If the advertisers can't learn to be reasonable, then they must run the risk of counter-measures.
Some countries has already been using national ID:s for decades... The catch is the system behind the ID:s and the management of such systems.
Considering that the M$ environment is under constant pressure from various threats I would like to call the selection of that environment risky, and almost stupid. By selecting other environments you would be running the risk of being more dependent on a few persons with that particular competence. On the other hand the number of persons competent enough to cause trouble will also decrease significantly.
If I was involved I would have selected OpenVMS , now owned by HP as operating system for the servers running either MySQL or Oracle as a database and developing the software in Ada or (horrendous thought) Pascal or maybe Java.
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OpenVMS - The OS with longer uptimes than Microsoft support policies
is wrapped up now. What's left are some loose threads and untold stories. What about young Yoda, the origins of Jedi knights and some mop-up after the fallen empire.
Not that it may be another set of movies unless something really revolutionary happens in that universe like the evil brother of Yoda appears or something, which would prove that the Emperor wasn't the real evil power, but someone hiding in the shadows.
The parts that are left can probably build into some TV features. A stormtrooper's life as a soldier, rebel scouts and much more.
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I'm just waiting for the levees around our dutch friends here in Europe to take a beating and be considered insufficient.
In my opinion, clear out all areas around New Orleans that are below sealevel and rebuild on higher ground. The problems are bound to happen again. Could be tomorrow (except that no further significant damage will occur if it's tomorrow), next year or next century.
Well this opinion will probably cause my karma to go down the sink B->...
Palm OS is OK for small solutions, but unfortunately the development has accelerated away from it. Today it's better to use Linux or Windows CE (or whatever M$ calls it today).
Reasonable notification time shouldn't be more than 30 days - if a company has a longer lag than that to fix a security flaw/problem, then their business model is flawed.
Anyway, it seems to be a good idea, I hope that the coders take help from the HTML Validator and the CSS validator!
Both tools are very useful to track down bugs in web page construction. Even if the warnings sometimes seems to be ridicolous or stupid they actually serve a purpose. Current /. is working OK in most browsers, and I hope that the new one also will be as good.
Otherwise - I think that /. is a wonderful forum, even though it sometimes seems to be a bit limited. It's a tough balance between being able to maintain freshness and being able to feed information in a reasonable volume. There are branches of /. today like the politics, hardware and IT, but some posts may actually fit on a branch even though it isn't displayed on the main page. Same goes fr the polls, why not a politics poll on the politics server?
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
The interesting part is This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive , which I think is one important statement. The use of region coding actually inhibits (although lamely nowadays) citizens from accessing any information they want.
Anyway, this means that any modifications that I do are means to manage my right to access information regardless of my location, heritage, religion or whatever. If I have paid for the information or not is a different issue.
And even if you understand English, not all licenses are easy to understand.
Another way around this is to skip printers needing ink. They are usually messy animals anyway. I think I'll stick with my laser printer...
This was back in the '80s when the first Mac came out. It wasn't even available in 220V by then so the demo guys had to drag along a transformer that gave it the 115V it wanted. Surprise surprise... Somebody forgot to use the transformer once - alas one very dead Mac.
Athlete's foot is one of the more common problems while infections may occur as a result of untreated injuries. (untreated fungal infections may also lead to bacterial infections if not properly treated.)
You actually don't want to get rid of all bacteria, since some bacteria are actually good for you and helps keeping the bad bacteria out.
Another issue is that there is a risk of getting multi-resistent bacteria that is harder to treat if you expose bacteria to antibiotics for a prolonged time. This is one reason why you shouldn't treat virus infections with antibiotics - it has no effect on the virus.
Another extreme are the Radio Galaxies.
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If I live inside a black hole - will I be able to see light then?
The most interesting thing on that page was a link to a hard disk encryption software in an ad.
Compare it with the Seagate Cheetah wich offers 96MB/s sustained data transfer rate while the sustained transfer rate is undocumented on the Diamond Max. Same goes for the average seek time that is OK, now I'm comparing two completely different divisions of disks with completely different pricing. My point is that the /. article is a little overrated.
The uspto site was down when I tried. Seems like the patent office got slashdotted!
I wouldn't be surprised if there are issues of prior art that makes the patent invalid.
As I see it, the part that has the most impact on the environment and as well is the most critical part today are the solid fuel boosters.
One feature that could be used for the light shuttle is to have a launch vehicle that carries and accelerates the shuttle to a speed and altitude where the rockets can work best. By using ordinary jet engines for the first step you wouldn't need to carry the oxygen for the first stage, which is a major weight contribution.
This will of course require several different design issues to be solved, but since Burt Rutan has done this (on a sub-orbital scale) it isn't impossible.
If the carrier would be able to go supersonic before the release of the shuttle it would be even better, but then there are a lot of issues to take into account like interfering shock waves occuring at separation. A lot of fun for those guys that like extreme calculations! :->
"Eat your vegetables now Bill or the big bad wolf will come to eat you!" :-)
On the other hand, if the solution was too strict it would only cause too much badwill for denying legitimate users from downloading software. It seems like it is scanning for known leaked corporate keywords and nothing else.
So maybe it is time for an update to the licensing model of Windows instead? The cost of maintaining a multitude of versions (XP Home, Media Center, Professional etc.) can actually be a problem too.
the daylight savings time. The one hour change atumn and spring is causing more problems than keeping a fixed schedule all the time.
Relate the percentage of SCO Unix systems with the percentage of successful hacks on those systems.
You can actually prove just about anything with statistics.
What we need today is not another version of Windows needing even more computer resources, what we need today is a safer computer environment.
That depends on how cool glasses you get when watching the film!
The name Russia is based on the name Rus, which were the name the locals gave the vikings when they went in from the west. (I may be slightly wrong here). In finland, Sweden is called Routsi, which also gives you a clue...
Todays swedes are the the descendants of the less adventurous vikings mixed with some other european blood. (French, Dutch and German through history, all depending on the times gone by). Today there are additions from several other countries as well.
Well, that's one spammer down, maybe more will follow... >:->, or maybe Anticimex may be able to help?
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Flygande Bäckasiner söka hvila på mjuka tuwor xqz 0123456789. (String used to test the swedish character set in some systems)
It all comes down to the type of work you do, and the human brain and body isn't made for monotonous work, it needs variation or you will go nuts or get problems with overstressed elbows or whatever.
So go get the cup of coffee , tea with a piece of good chocolate now! (I prefer the Ecuador 70%, which has a faint touch of orange to it's taste.)
Another item to consider is also the fact that it is often the other end or the network that is the limit.
Correction here: Right to Arm Bears (Severely off-topic, but whatever... :-) )
The challenge is now not to achieve more comfort, but to find means to sustain that comfort. Issues about how to obtain cheap clean energy should be the prime target now. We are far too dependent on oil right now, and there is no single simple replacement for oil. Nuclear Fission is relatively clean at the power plants, but unfortunately it isn't that clean during the refining process and afterwards. Nuclear Fusion is said to lay decades in the future and is very complex. Right now there are two tracks in fusion, hot fusion toying around with plasma and cold fusion in bottles. (some may argue that cold fusion never happens, but there is a difference between fusing single atoms and doing it on a level that really generates power.) Another part where energy may be obtained is to catch by-products from many industries. One source of replacement to diesel fuel is black liquor from the paper industry, another is by growing the right crop and yet another is animal fat processed to become usable. Well, my idea is that if you can figure out some way or another how to reduce power consumption you may be contributing to innovation. In the mean time, consider that in Europe you pay about the same price for petrol to your car, but per liter instead of per gallon. Bicycling is sometimes an option!
The adblock and popup-blockers are a response to annoying ads. If the advertisers keeps their ads less intrusive people may ignore them, but not to the level that they actively will block them.
Some ads are as annoying as a TV-commercial running 24x7 at maximum volume, while others are like a post-it on your door. If the advertisers can't learn to be reasonable, then they must run the risk of counter-measures.
Considering that the M$ environment is under constant pressure from various threats I would like to call the selection of that environment risky, and almost stupid. By selecting other environments you would be running the risk of being more dependent on a few persons with that particular competence. On the other hand the number of persons competent enough to cause trouble will also decrease significantly.
If I was involved I would have selected OpenVMS , now owned by HP as operating system for the servers running either MySQL or Oracle as a database and developing the software in Ada or (horrendous thought) Pascal or maybe Java.
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OpenVMS - The OS with longer uptimes than Microsoft support policies
Not that it may be another set of movies unless something really revolutionary happens in that universe like the evil brother of Yoda appears or something, which would prove that the Emperor wasn't the real evil power, but someone hiding in the shadows.
The parts that are left can probably build into some TV features. A stormtrooper's life as a soldier, rebel scouts and much more.
Go pet a Wookie!