BBC, as a publicly funded institution, much like PBS, obviously views broadcast completely different than a for-profit station.
besides being obvious, this is very nice, and a credit to the BBC for showing that sometimes publicly run things do get it right.
**this is not an endorsement for state sponsored programs or wholesale socialism, because most of the time it sucks... but BBC seems to be doing it right, for a change.
switching to map view reveals streat names. performing a google search with the parameters "Observatory Lane Washington DC" results in a hit for the US Naval Observatory home page.
It seems they even have directions to their location on their site, as well as several maps more detailed than googles, therefore I'm confused about why it is obscured in the satellite imagery more than what it is.
I gotta side with the previous 2 posters on this. It's just unlikely a "Dirty Bomb" during world war 2 would've mattered.
I think it goes more to say that even the Nazi's wouldn't have thought about using this tactic, as WW2 was not one of psychological warfare on a populace, but total miltaristic warfare.
Domination, defense, and blitzkrieg style warfare does not go hand in hand with guerilla style annoyance tactics.
charred earth tactics not withstanding, but the fact "Dirty bombs" (i even hate saying that media created word) weren't deployed during the charred earth campaign is a prime example of how no one really knew about radioactivity's effects in WW2.. If it had been possible or known, there's a good chance that radioactive bombs could've been used on the front lines in europe during the German retreat.
actually, all consoles are sold at a loss.. everyone makes the money on the software.
Microsoft made no money from selling a single xbox.. Maybe later in the production run after component costs fall, but certainly not in the first year.
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actually, building codes wouldn't be applicable here. I'm sure they are only violating some kind of local nuisance ordiance..
Google is going about it completely differently than Microsoft is/has.
They are doing it the right way.
Google is not sponsoring teams of lawyers or announcing its support for any particular legislation, lawmaker, or government.
What they are doing is keeping a good corporate ethos, making sure that that ethos pervades everything they do and implementing that in their hiring practices and how they treat employees.
None of their actions DIRECTLY affect any sort of legislation... This is the ideal, because they affect social change without ever having to look like the bad guy.
it's genius, really.
I hope you do see the difference between these two corporations and how they are each attempting to affect social change in their own way, and which one is going about it much better.
There are organizations of like minded individuals to support such causes, which are not corporations. for instance...
EFF, AARP, NRA, etc.
these are priviate non profit organizations that band together to give their members a voice.
corporations are NOT the appropriate heavy to move social issues. IMO, Microsoft, or any large company, can do two things to advance whatever agenda they have socially:
-)Employ a corporate ethos in HR and employment practices that encourages the social impact they want to have
-)donate heavily to NON PROFIT organizations that support the type of social impact they want to have.
I agree completely. Corporations should not be involved in LEGISLATING social issues. Corporations CAN be involved so far as their HR, and employee relation practices allow them to be..
for instance, a corporation can help enact social change through supporting open employment practices (hiring gay folks), providing healthcare to gay families, or whatever other social issues a company may want to support themselves.
This is a much more effective way, because they can control it. A corporation getting involved in the legislation of social issues is bizarre, and personally I comment Microsoft for the bold statement that they've made.
They're actually having their lawyers back off of something. Most of the time, reactionary neophytes would be stunned by such a thing, but most slashdot readers will still find a way to villify Microsoft regardless of what they do.
I'm not sure I understand how a corporations support, or lack there of, for social political issues is relevant..
I suppose this is analogous to Henry Ford's philosophy for why he paid his workers well, in some respects, but Henry Ford didn't throw his weight behind legislation and bills for workers, did he?
i think seperation of corporation from government is more important than the seperation of church and state in some respects. Who cares what bills or legislation they do or don't support. I think a company's best influence on society can be made through their own internal HR and resource practices..
this is a bad arguement i've been fighting for a while.
the DSL marketers can call cable "shared" bandwidth technically, because it fundamentally is. the only thing that limits how much a cable modem can pull from the area node is limited only by the firmware of the cable modem.
if the node were to be overtaxed by users, it would indeed slow down.
but the connection to a DSL suffers the same fate, just in a more traditional sense. DSL networks have ALOT more than 45x 1mbps lines per "DS3/T3" upstream connection. Think about it for a moment, this has been the way it always has been. The provider has way less bandwidth available at all times than what the customers could possibly demand. This has been the only way to cost effectively resell bandwidth and access.. It's been that way since modems, remember modem pools? you would often have a 10:1 ratio of customers per modem, and that was GOOD.
same with DSL, same with cable, its all the same really. If a DSL network is overloaded, it suffers the same fate as an overloaded cable network.
i've always wanted to learn other languages, like swedish or german. I've tried traditional methods, but I think you underestimate how difficult it is to get access to consistent sources of the places you've suggested.
English media and reading is so much more prevelant than languages like Swedish and German. If you are learning english, it's so so much easier to access that language than other languages.
mod up, i was thinking exactly the same thing. after reading the article, i get the feeling this guy is not really a network tech. they probably did install some filters or started not accepting spam.
but, not to take away from any of your statements at all, there is a gigantic underground coal fire in china that emits enough CO2 in one year to equal and surpass all exhaust from all cars in the US.
and that's just the coal fire burning coal, not counting all of the industrial development in china. it's no wonder things must be insane over there.
but, not to take away from any of your statements at all, there is a gigantic underground coal fire in china that emits enough CO2 in one year to equal and surpass all exhaust from all cars in the US.
and that's just the coal fire burning coal, not counting all of the industrial development in china. it's no wonder things must be insane over there.
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Eugenics was only a single generation (or perhaps 2 generations) of testing. breeding favorable traits (or any trait) requires many many generations.
to see this, just look at dog breeds.
the same could easily be done with humans, certainly.
i would've liked to see the entire approach as well, did they not take pictures of it? that would've been awesome.
BBC, as a publicly funded institution, much like PBS, obviously views broadcast completely different than a for-profit station.
besides being obvious, this is very nice, and a credit to the BBC for showing that sometimes publicly run things do get it right.
**this is not an endorsement for state sponsored programs or wholesale socialism, because most of the time it sucks... but BBC seems to be doing it right, for a change.
Teoma is better than google or yahoo, so i think the point is moot.
http://www.teoma.com/
not that interesting or difficult to figure out.
switching to map view reveals streat names. performing a google search with the parameters "Observatory Lane Washington DC" results in a hit for the US Naval Observatory home page.
http://www.usno.navy.mil/
It seems they even have directions to their location on their site, as well as several maps more detailed than googles, therefore I'm confused about why it is obscured in the satellite imagery more than what it is.
I gotta side with the previous 2 posters on this. It's just unlikely a "Dirty Bomb" during world war 2 would've mattered.
I think it goes more to say that even the Nazi's wouldn't have thought about using this tactic, as WW2 was not one of psychological warfare on a populace, but total miltaristic warfare.
Domination, defense, and blitzkrieg style warfare does not go hand in hand with guerilla style annoyance tactics.
charred earth tactics not withstanding, but the fact "Dirty bombs" (i even hate saying that media created word) weren't deployed during the charred earth campaign is a prime example of how no one really knew about radioactivity's effects in WW2.. If it had been possible or known, there's a good chance that radioactive bombs could've been used on the front lines in europe during the German retreat.
But it wasn't.
actually, all consoles are sold at a loss.. everyone makes the money on the software.
Microsoft made no money from selling a single xbox.. Maybe later in the production run after component costs fall, but certainly not in the first year.
actually, building codes wouldn't be applicable here. I'm sure they are only violating some kind of local nuisance ordiance..
i believe it is shortsighted to place the full extent of blame on the single man who is president.
i dont think things would change, in respect to IP law, if someone else were president.
Google is going about it completely differently than Microsoft is/has.
They are doing it the right way.
Google is not sponsoring teams of lawyers or announcing its support for any particular legislation, lawmaker, or government.
What they are doing is keeping a good corporate ethos, making sure that that ethos pervades everything they do and implementing that in their hiring practices and how they treat employees.
None of their actions DIRECTLY affect any sort of legislation... This is the ideal, because they affect social change without ever having to look like the bad guy.
it's genius, really.
I hope you do see the difference between these two corporations and how they are each attempting to affect social change in their own way, and which one is going about it much better.
No, corporations ought not to be involved.
There are organizations of like minded individuals to support such causes, which are not corporations. for instance...
EFF, AARP, NRA, etc.
these are priviate non profit organizations that band together to give their members a voice.
corporations are NOT the appropriate heavy to move social issues. IMO, Microsoft, or any large company, can do two things to advance whatever agenda they have socially:
-)Employ a corporate ethos in HR and employment practices that encourages the social impact they want to have
-)donate heavily to NON PROFIT organizations that support the type of social impact they want to have.
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I agree completely. Corporations should not be involved in LEGISLATING social issues. Corporations CAN be involved so far as their HR, and employee relation practices allow them to be..
for instance, a corporation can help enact social change through supporting open employment practices (hiring gay folks), providing healthcare to gay families, or whatever other social issues a company may want to support themselves.
This is a much more effective way, because they can control it. A corporation getting involved in the legislation of social issues is bizarre, and personally I comment Microsoft for the bold statement that they've made.
They're actually having their lawyers back off of something. Most of the time, reactionary neophytes would be stunned by such a thing, but most slashdot readers will still find a way to villify Microsoft regardless of what they do.
I'm not sure I understand how a corporations support, or lack there of, for social political issues is relevant..
I suppose this is analogous to Henry Ford's philosophy for why he paid his workers well, in some respects, but Henry Ford didn't throw his weight behind legislation and bills for workers, did he?
i think seperation of corporation from government is more important than the seperation of church and state in some respects. Who cares what bills or legislation they do or don't support. I think a company's best influence on society can be made through their own internal HR and resource practices..
i don't know, seems a bit silly to me.
So here's a picture but this article also says it's 102" not 82"
who knows what it really is. Sweet though.
this is a bad arguement i've been fighting for a while.
the DSL marketers can call cable "shared" bandwidth technically, because it fundamentally is. the only thing that limits how much a cable modem can pull from the area node is limited only by the firmware of the cable modem.
if the node were to be overtaxed by users, it would indeed slow down.
but the connection to a DSL suffers the same fate, just in a more traditional sense. DSL networks have ALOT more than 45x 1mbps lines per "DS3/T3" upstream connection. Think about it for a moment, this has been the way it always has been. The provider has way less bandwidth available at all times than what the customers could possibly demand. This has been the only way to cost effectively resell bandwidth and access.. It's been that way since modems, remember modem pools? you would often have a 10:1 ratio of customers per modem, and that was GOOD.
same with DSL, same with cable, its all the same really. If a DSL network is overloaded, it suffers the same fate as an overloaded cable network.
apparantly he doesn't fear the big bad wolf.
Sounds like the perfect archive of "stuff" you might expect to see in the smithsonian? /shrug
the default password on linksys wireless routers is "admin" im sure it will work still :)
i've always wanted to learn other languages, like swedish or german. I've tried traditional methods, but I think you underestimate how difficult it is to get access to consistent sources of the places you've suggested.
English media and reading is so much more prevelant than languages like Swedish and German. If you are learning english, it's so so much easier to access that language than other languages.
mod up, i was thinking exactly the same thing. after reading the article, i get the feeling this guy is not really a network tech. they probably did install some filters or started not accepting spam.
i don't think it's intended to be indestructable -- just more resillient..
this link works
mod this down please, meant to reply to another post, my bad!
you are exactly right
_ coalfire.html
but, not to take away from any of your statements at all, there is a gigantic underground coal fire in china that emits enough CO2 in one year to equal and surpass all exhaust from all cars in the US.
and that's just the coal fire burning coal, not counting all of the industrial development in china. it's no wonder things must be insane over there.
here's the first site i could find with info, there are better:
http://www.itc.nl/personal/coalfire/problem/china
i had to repost, my first post was to the wrong place.. woops.
you are exactly right
_ coalfire.html
but, not to take away from any of your statements at all, there is a gigantic underground coal fire in china that emits enough CO2 in one year to equal and surpass all exhaust from all cars in the US.
and that's just the coal fire burning coal, not counting all of the industrial development in china. it's no wonder things must be insane over there.
here's the first site i could find with info, there are better:
http://www.itc.nl/personal/coalfire/problem/china