Because outside air contains all sorts of things that you don't want in your data center: humidity, contamination (dust, pollen), etc. While you could get rid of dust with filters (that would need frequent replacing), there's no simple answer for humidity.
I'm left to wonder how an innocent device can distinguish between another innocent device 3cm away and a malicious device 1m away with a correspondingly more powerful signal.
Oh, that's easy: all malicious devices will be required to set the 'evil' bit in all data transfer headers.
You know what is confusing me about these aliens? Why do they always contact governments when they come to Earth so they can cover it up?
Nah, you're missing the bigger picture. Why is it that whenever aliens come to Earth, they always land in a remote location in the United States, and never in any other region in the world - particularly countries where the local government wouldn't be quite as capable of covering it up?
There were people there before that. You're just not interested in them because they weren't Jewish.
I'm not interested in them because they don't exist anymore.
I'm talking about people who are actually alive now, and were forcibly removed from their land, or who fled after witnessing violent fundamentalists butcher their families.
Citation needed.
HA! The only reason I'd come would be to fight alongside the Palestinians. I'd consider making a documentary on the Apartheid Wall, or the bulldozing of Palestinians homes, etc. But to be completely frank, I'm not at all interested in living amongst Zionists - even for a short time.
I don't really care what you call the wall, it has probably saved thousands of lives since its construction. Bulldozing of homes has largely stopped. Your comment about "living amongst Zionists" sounds pretty damn racist to me, btw.
History states that Israel is a state based on genocide, starting with Al Nakba.
Genocide? Citation needed.
I could very well say that Palestinians treated Jews well, until the Jews murdered millions of them in horrific atrocities and drove them from their lands.
When did the Palestinians "treat Jews well"? When did the Jews murder millions of anybody, and what horrific atrocities do you speak of? Out of whose ass are you pulling all these facts?
Everyone knows the type of fundamentalist living in Israel now has no intention of living peacefully amongst anyone else. And also, where do you get off calling these nations racist? They all have rich multicultural societies ( something Israel will never ever have ). There are Muslims, Christians, Hindus and atheists living in Iraq ( one of the richest and most tolerant societies for 2,000 years ). Iran is a far more tolerant nation than Israel.
Actually I've easily found plenty of accounts of persecutions of the Bahai and of Christians in Iran and in Iraq by a simple Google search. On the other hand, Israel has Muslims, Christians, Atheists, Bahai, Druze, all with full freedom of worship. The Bahai have their world center here. The Mormons have a university here. There are many churches and monasteries, and of course many mosques. The mosques are allowed to run their megaphones at high volumes, such that they are audible for miles - a right I doubt they have in any non-Muslim country. Where do you get your facts?
You're getting it backwards. I think the persecution came as a result of your racist, fundamentalist outlook. Refusal to integrate with the society in which you live will provoke that kind of thing.
Bullshit. With the exception of Nazi Germany, the Jews were persecuted throughout history for not accepting the host country's religion. In the case of Nazi Germany, every Jew was killed, regardless of level of integration with society. What "racist, fundamentalist outlook" are you talking about? Have you ever actually met a Jew and found him to be a racist?
My aunt was in love with a Jew, and made substantial donations to Israel for many years, but in the end they refused to accept her into their religion, and refused to let her marry.
Donating to Israel will not help you become a Jew. You have to reject your current religion, accept Judaism and agree to practice its laws. I obviously don't know the details of your aunt's story, but apparently there was some requirement she did not (or was unwilling to) meet.
Look. I think each and every one of the things you say are horribly, painfully false. I am not going to reply further because (A) there is really nothing I can say that will possibly change your mind, and (B) there's no one else listening to this discussion at this point. See you next time Israel's name crops up on Slashdot.
Oh, come on. You should have said something more along the lines of, "I disagree completely with whatever the first post says". Remember, Insightful is better for your karma than Funny!
I have no problem with Jews who want to live peacefully with Palestinians remaining in Palestine, but the key point is that Palestinians have the 1st claim.
People practicing the Jewish religion, speaking and praying in Hebrew, and identifying as Jews have been living in the Land of Israel, either as the ruling majority or a small minority, for well over 3,000 years. I think we win on the 1st claim issue.
Israel is a state based on murder, hate, fear and fundamentalism
You know nothing about Israel. Come visit sometime.
I'm Australian, and I recognize that I live on stolen land. I fight alongside Aboriginal activists to reclaim their land and control of their resources.
I fought alongside Palestinians, to reclaim their land and control their resources. Until they started blowing up buses full of people just like me. I wonder on whose side you'd be if the Aboriginals started doing the same.
You see, I was born here, and that gives me quite a powerful claim to be a valid resident.
I can't see what this means. My parents and I were all born here. My mother's side goes back seven generations in Jerusalem. Conversely, many of the Palestinians who departed Israel in 1948 immigrated to it and were not born here. Their descendants were also not born here, so by your logic have no right of return. There are millions of Israeli Jews who were expelled from the Arab countries in which they were born, but they have precisely zero right to return.
In the case of Israel, there are still many Palestinians who were alive in '47 and are being prevented from the land that they were born on. This is a serious crime, and one that's at the heart of your racist nation.
When the racist nations of Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Poland, Germany, Austria and the Czech republic would declare that any Jew who fled or was expelled can return and gain full citizenship - then we can talk. Despite the fact that my grandmother fled Germany, we have no right to return. Germany is no less racist than Israel, but I don't hear of anyone contesting its right to exist. My point is that it's a rough world out there, and Israel doesn't need to be the golden angel of truth and justice.
Only when you accept Palestinians in their own land will you have peace.
Very funny.
And of course, accepting Palestinians in their own land basically means the destruction of Israel, as it's specifically founded on the basis of racist exclusion.
That's interesting. For 2,000 years of exile, wherever they went, the Jews could live with extremely limited rights at best, or persecuted, expelled, and/or systematically murdered at worst. Now that we finally have our own state, we are the ones being branded as the racists.
Your comment is also untrue, because (1) any Arab who did not flee in 1948 is now a citizen of this "racist" state. (2) Any human on Earth, regardless of race and sex, can convert to Judaism, immigrate to Israel and enjoy full citizen's rights; Judaism is not a race.
I understand, therefore, that by "stop stealing their land" you mean "end the existence of Israel". I have no further argument with you regarding my country, because you do not believe in its right to exist. Fair enough. What about yours? I assume you live in the US - on the land of what native tribe is your home located, and who gave you the right to steal it from them?
Stop stealing their land.
Stop killing them.
Stop blocking their access to to energy and trade.
Stop building Apartheid walls around them. Well, you are reversing cause and effect. For example:
Mar 17, 1954 - Terrorists ambushed a bus traveling from Eilat to Tel Aviv, and opened fire at short range when the bus reached the area of Maale Akrabim in the northern Negev. In the initial ambush, the terrorists killed the driver and wounded most of the passengers. The terrorists then boarded the bus, and shot each passenger, one by one. Eleven passengers were murdered. Survivors recounted how the murderers spat on the bodies and abused them. The terrorists could clearly be traced back to the Jordanian border, some 20 km from the site of the terrorist attack.
This is just one of dozens of examples, all of which occurred before Israel was doing any of the activities you allege it is doing.
Source: here.
So the multitudes of victims of these suicide bombings - who have either lost their limbs, lost ones, or their own lives - were not innocent people. If they were innocent, why did they deserve this punishment?
If you have any better idea for a response to a suicide bombing, I'd like to hear it.
How about collective punishment by cutting off water and power supplies to entire populations? When your country becomes entangled in a situation in which it is supplying power and water to a hostile territory that uses your power and water to manufacture rockets that kill your brethren - you may speak.
Don't be moronic. Israel is THE definition of an apartheid state. Are Palestinians allowed to vote? No. Then who exactly voted for Muhammad Abbas? Who voted for the Hamas in Gaza? I'm sure those were the Jews. Yes, those sneaky, evil Jews...
Are they allowed to travel? No ( sure, then can wait for days to go through 'checkpoints', but in effect, no, they can't travel ). If the Palestinians didn't use their right to travel to transport weapons, munitions and explosives, I can promise you the checkpoints would gradually disappear. Unfortunately each time a checkpoint is removed, yet another suicide belt or other weapon is discovered, proving the need for these checkpoints.
Are Palestinian refugees allowed to return home? No. There are probably tens, maybe hundreds, of instances in history where a war created refugees which were never allowed home. Why should this conflict be special? You started the war, you lost the war, fucking deal with the consequences and stop whining.
Are Palestinians treated as equals? Most certainly not. They have their own government, which is supposed to treat them as equals. When the Palestinian government decides it wants to coexist peacefully with Israel, Palestinians will be able to visit Israel or work in it. I'm not sure what else exactly you want. Do you want Palestinians to be able to vote for two Parliaments or what?
Arab & Muslim citizens of Israel can vote, run for office, say anything they want, print anything they want, follow any religion they choose, work in any profession they choose, serve on the supreme court, and sue the government (and sometimes win). Doesn't sound like apartheid to me.
The problem is that all of that is a lie. I don't know why you Zionists bother spreading this BS Sorry, all true. Arab citizens of Israel get all the perks of being an Israeli citizen - the right to vote, free world-class health services, generous welfare, etc - all without obligations such as having to serve in the Army. Arabs in Israel are arguably better off than anywhere else in the world, with the possible exception of countries rich in oil, yet they never cease to complain about their condition.
anyone actually interested in the conflict already knows the horrors that you are inflicting upon the Palestinians. The only thing you're doing is further entrenching anti-semitic views, by inflaming anger against you. I think there is only one side here that is inflicting anything that could be called "horrors". Exploding buses, pizza parlors and discotheques filled with children are "horrors". Blowing up a Passover Seder meal in a hotel is a "horror". Checkpoints, closures and targeted killings of armed terrorist leaders are not my idea of a cup of tea, but they are not "horrors".
How about NOT bulldozing their homes in the first place? Is that too much to ask? Actually, yes, it is. Israel bulldozes homes of suicide bombers (basically the only way to punish a dead man, and discourage imitators - put his family out into the street) and homes built without permits within the jurisdiction of Israeli Law (in Israel proper, not in the Palestinian Authority's territories). This does not discriminate between Arabs and Jews, no one can build a home without a construction permit.
Not bulldozing such homes would mean the end of the Rule of Law in this country.
Dotan, You will find Israel, along with other "erased" countries such as France, Germany and the United States, all hidden under the "Industrial Countries" category. You will also notice that these other countries have a brief "at a glance" page not significantly different from Israel's.
Do you really think Israel's children are in a situation where they require the assistance of UNICEF?
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The perpetrator of this monstrosity must be caught and brought to justice!
Because outside air contains all sorts of things that you don't want in your data center: humidity, contamination (dust, pollen), etc. While you could get rid of dust with filters (that would need frequent replacing), there's no simple answer for humidity.
Start test:
\n\t\r\n\t\t \t\t\n \n \t\n\r\n
End of test.
nuff said.
Don't know about you, I tend to prefer cats to rats.
I'm left to wonder how an innocent device can distinguish between another innocent device 3cm away and a malicious device 1m away with a correspondingly more powerful signal.
Oh, that's easy: all malicious devices will be required to set the 'evil' bit in all data transfer headers.
Also interesting is that people at MS apparently nicknamed it 'Porn Mode'.
No, no, no.
"Now you can shop for that special gift with confidence knowing your family won't accidentally find out."
This mode is not intended for porn. Please move along.
Far more than you can possibly imagine, my son.
Actually I followed the link hoping for something from Seinfeld...
Publish your email address right here on Slashdot. Within a few days I guarantee your spam levels will be right back to normal!
You know what is confusing me about these aliens? Why do they always contact governments when they come to Earth so they can cover it up?
Nah, you're missing the bigger picture. Why is it that whenever aliens come to Earth, they always land in a remote location in the United States, and never in any other region in the world - particularly countries where the local government wouldn't be quite as capable of covering it up?
This knowledge made future rides on that particular coaster a hell of a lot more scary.
Well, isn't that the point?
There were people there before that. You're just not interested in them because they weren't Jewish.
I'm not interested in them because they don't exist anymore.
I'm talking about people who are actually alive now, and were forcibly removed from their land, or who fled after witnessing violent fundamentalists butcher their families.
Citation needed.
HA! The only reason I'd come would be to fight alongside the Palestinians. I'd consider making a documentary on the Apartheid Wall, or the bulldozing of Palestinians homes, etc. But to be completely frank, I'm not at all interested in living amongst Zionists - even for a short time.
I don't really care what you call the wall, it has probably saved thousands of lives since its construction. Bulldozing of homes has largely stopped. Your comment about "living amongst Zionists" sounds pretty damn racist to me, btw.
History states that Israel is a state based on genocide, starting with Al Nakba.
Genocide? Citation needed.
I could very well say that Palestinians treated Jews well, until the Jews murdered millions of them in horrific atrocities and drove them from their lands.
When did the Palestinians "treat Jews well"? When did the Jews murder millions of anybody, and what horrific atrocities do you speak of? Out of whose ass are you pulling all these facts?
Everyone knows the type of fundamentalist living in Israel now has no intention of living peacefully amongst anyone else. And also, where do you get off calling these nations racist? They all have rich multicultural societies ( something Israel will never ever have ). There are Muslims, Christians, Hindus and atheists living in Iraq ( one of the richest and most tolerant societies for 2,000 years ). Iran is a far more tolerant nation than Israel.
Actually I've easily found plenty of accounts of persecutions of the Bahai and of Christians in Iran and in Iraq by a simple Google search. On the other hand, Israel has Muslims, Christians, Atheists, Bahai, Druze, all with full freedom of worship. The Bahai have their world center here. The Mormons have a university here. There are many churches and monasteries, and of course many mosques. The mosques are allowed to run their megaphones at high volumes, such that they are audible for miles - a right I doubt they have in any non-Muslim country. Where do you get your facts?
You're getting it backwards. I think the persecution came as a result of your racist, fundamentalist outlook. Refusal to integrate with the society in which you live will provoke that kind of thing.
Bullshit. With the exception of Nazi Germany, the Jews were persecuted throughout history for not accepting the host country's religion. In the case of Nazi Germany, every Jew was killed, regardless of level of integration with society. What "racist, fundamentalist outlook" are you talking about? Have you ever actually met a Jew and found him to be a racist?
My aunt was in love with a Jew, and made substantial donations to Israel for many years, but in the end they refused to accept her into their religion, and refused to let her marry.
Donating to Israel will not help you become a Jew. You have to reject your current religion, accept Judaism and agree to practice its laws. I obviously don't know the details of your aunt's story, but apparently there was some requirement she did not (or was unwilling to) meet.
Look. I think each and every one of the things you say are horribly, painfully false. I am not going to reply further because (A) there is really nothing I can say that will possibly change your mind, and (B) there's no one else listening to this discussion at this point. See you next time Israel's name crops up on Slashdot.
Oh, come on. You should have said something more along the lines of, "I disagree completely with whatever the first post says". Remember, Insightful is better for your karma than Funny!
I have no problem with Jews who want to live peacefully with Palestinians remaining in Palestine, but the key point is that Palestinians have the 1st claim.
People practicing the Jewish religion, speaking and praying in Hebrew, and identifying as Jews have been living in the Land of Israel, either as the ruling majority or a small minority, for well over 3,000 years. I think we win on the 1st claim issue.
Israel is a state based on murder, hate, fear and fundamentalism
You know nothing about Israel. Come visit sometime.
I'm Australian, and I recognize that I live on stolen land. I fight alongside Aboriginal activists to reclaim their land and control of their resources.
I fought alongside Palestinians, to reclaim their land and control their resources. Until they started blowing up buses full of people just like me. I wonder on whose side you'd be if the Aboriginals started doing the same.
You see, I was born here, and that gives me quite a powerful claim to be a valid resident.
I can't see what this means. My parents and I were all born here. My mother's side goes back seven generations in Jerusalem. Conversely, many of the Palestinians who departed Israel in 1948 immigrated to it and were not born here. Their descendants were also not born here, so by your logic have no right of return. There are millions of Israeli Jews who were expelled from the Arab countries in which they were born, but they have precisely zero right to return.
In the case of Israel, there are still many Palestinians who were alive in '47 and are being prevented from the land that they were born on. This is a serious crime, and one that's at the heart of your racist nation.
When the racist nations of Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Poland, Germany, Austria and the Czech republic would declare that any Jew who fled or was expelled can return and gain full citizenship - then we can talk. Despite the fact that my grandmother fled Germany, we have no right to return. Germany is no less racist than Israel, but I don't hear of anyone contesting its right to exist. My point is that it's a rough world out there, and Israel doesn't need to be the golden angel of truth and justice.
Only when you accept Palestinians in their own land will you have peace.
Very funny.
And of course, accepting Palestinians in their own land basically means the destruction of Israel, as it's specifically founded on the basis of racist exclusion.
That's interesting. For 2,000 years of exile, wherever they went, the Jews could live with extremely limited rights at best, or persecuted, expelled, and/or systematically murdered at worst. Now that we finally have our own state, we are the ones being branded as the racists.
Your comment is also untrue, because (1) any Arab who did not flee in 1948 is now a citizen of this "racist" state. (2) Any human on Earth, regardless of race and sex, can convert to Judaism, immigrate to Israel and enjoy full citizen's rights; Judaism is not a race.
I understand, therefore, that by "stop stealing their land" you mean "end the existence of Israel". I have no further argument with you regarding my country, because you do not believe in its right to exist. Fair enough. What about yours? I assume you live in the US - on the land of what native tribe is your home located, and who gave you the right to steal it from them?
Mar 17, 1954 - Terrorists ambushed a bus traveling from Eilat to Tel Aviv, and opened fire at short range when the bus reached the area of Maale Akrabim in the northern Negev. In the initial ambush, the terrorists killed the driver and wounded most of the passengers. The terrorists then boarded the bus, and shot each passenger, one by one. Eleven passengers were murdered. Survivors recounted how the murderers spat on the bodies and abused them. The terrorists could clearly be traced back to the Jordanian border, some 20 km from the site of the terrorist attack.
This is just one of dozens of examples, all of which occurred before Israel was doing any of the activities you allege it is doing.
Source: here.
So the multitudes of victims of these suicide bombings - who have either lost their limbs, lost ones, or their own lives - were not innocent people. If they were innocent, why did they deserve this punishment?
If you have any better idea for a response to a suicide bombing, I'd like to hear it.
Not bulldozing such homes would mean the end of the Rule of Law in this country.
Dotan, You will find Israel, along with other "erased" countries such as France, Germany and the United States, all hidden under the "Industrial Countries" category. You will also notice that these other countries have a brief "at a glance" page not significantly different from Israel's.
Do you really think Israel's children are in a situation where they require the assistance of UNICEF?
I thought he worked for Intel and was the person behind Mohr's Law. Has he changed his interests recently?
My Westinghouse laptop tends to disagree. (Although admittedly it may have been the only model ever made.)