There is a difference between the military man and the politicians who command the military. The military man has a greater sense of duty whilst the politicians tend to be power-hungry. No evidence to offer, but it seems to be the way of things.
Score:5, Insightful? I see no form of insight.. just people trying to burn through mod points.
1) The welfare of all humanity is not my responsibility. I am responsible for myself and that's it. I am not the one who insisted on living at the waters edge in a region prone to earthquakes and tsunamis. One must take into account and be prepared for the worst that Mother Nature can throw at you. If you live in Oklahoma, you have a storm shelter. If you live in Florida, you should be prepared to board up yuor windows when the next hurricane comes rolling through. If yuo live near a volcano, have a place to hide in case of eruption.
It's like the Boy Scout motto: Be prepared. Simple and to the point.
If they had been even a little bit prepared, the death toll would not be so high. I should not and am not repsonsible for their lack of safety measures.
Yeah.. what the parent poster said. You sound like a college freshman living in the dorms who's trying to beat the network admins so you can call some Russian chick you met through HOTorNOT.
..then you need to be doing only business related tasks. That is unless you have an understanding with your employer. Period. Kaput. Nothing else to see here.. yadi yadi yada.
The mission he spoke of was that of defeating the Iraqi army.. not rebuilding Iraq into a democratic nation. Thus, the mission was actually accomplished. Get your head out of your ass.
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I didn't have that problem. I was able to read it just fine. As for your eyes hurting.. adjust the refresh rate on your CRT!
Like every other guy on the planet I eagerly awaited tehir 18th birthday. Why? I don't know. Perhaps they'd appear in Playboy or something. But now that the time has come and gone, I'm quite disappointed in the two of them
Thin as rails, strungout and still making shit for movies. What a disappointment. And to think.. they had more potential as sex symbols than any other pair of girls.. perhaps ever!
BTW, I'm a scant 22 years old. I'm allowed to lust after 18 year olds. You 40-somethings need to knock that shit off!
The sun is named Sol. A "sol" is what we calls days except a sol is longer. Mars doesn't rotate as quickly as Earth thus making the days longer. Apparently the guys at JPL felt funny about making the "day" longer than the traditional 24 hours we experience here on Earth. They even began sleeping according to Martian sols.
Is copyright infringement a felony offense? I thought it was more of a civil issue and resulted in fines and such? And what is the justification the US government is using to justify doing the **AA's bidding? Let the **AAs findthese guys, then sue them. Take 'em to court for damages. I don't get it. Seriously..
Doubtful.. Simple physics.. HUGE FUCKIN' ASTEROID against tiny American Space Shuttle. You would need to get the Shuttle going pretty damn fast to cause any noticable difference. But I guess if the asteroid were small enough.. Alright. I like it for a backup plan.
Ya' know.. I was prepared to make an intelligent comment on how bailing out major industries (not companies) was a good thing, but after some thinking, I've realized that I was in error.
I was going to talk about the airline industry and how it's a good thing that the feds bailed out American Airlines and whoever else. But then I realized that should AA and Delta have collapsed, some smaller company would have picked up the slack and gone on to become the big boy on the block. It may not have occured immediately, but it would have happened. Sure.. you put some number of AA dn Delta employees out of work, but shit happens. They would simply need to get themselves a new skillset.
No no.. As I stated, I trust the data coming out of NASA (JPL?) and think that asteroids are a danger that needs to be dealt with. All I'm saying is that this asteroid isn't really moving much relatively. It;s still going in a rather straight (err.. elliptical) path. Why is some rocket scientist needing to revise his numbers over and over? I would think that we could be somewhat accurate right off the bat. I mean, this adjustment has been an entire order of magnitude. Just saying that the thought crossed my mind.. didn't stay long.
Though you are correct, I don't think an asteroid of this size would obliterate the moon. As such, life on Earth would remain largely unaffected I should think. If we were lucky and it hit the bright side of the moon, we may no longer have the so-called "Man in the Moon", but that would be a small price to pay to see such a terrific impact on a body so close to Earth.
but it does raise the issue of needing more money put into research and defense in case an asteriod is found
Does anyone get the idea that someone could possibly be playing with the numbers to get funding for someone's pet project? I put a certain level of trust in NASA and I don't think the current data is necessarily inaccurate, but the thought did cross my mind. What do Slashdotters think?
One of the funniest things I have seen on the internet is a video clip of some working stiff beating the snot out of his computer. You can see it at www.cs.unlv.edu/~acm/badday.mpg. Absolutely hilarious!
Let's see.. the odds of an asteroid hitting earth: 1/1,000,000,000,000 or soemthng like that. the odds of korea, china, et al attacking america with ICBMs (despite their current inability to reach US shores): a lot higher than that! You gotta put your money where you're likely to get the greatest return.
Who is to be liable for accidents involving or created by this "train" system?
It will take more than ad-hoc networking to implement.. you need a plethora of sensors..
What if you get a BMW M5 and a Chevy Metro in the same train and the BMW decides to accelerate? Does he know of the Metro and only accelerates as quickly as the Metro?
Emergency braking.. vehicles have different stopping distances. How do you compensate for emergency braking conditions?
Rogue drivers.. What if some crazy nut decides to slam himself into the two lead cars? How does this system compensate?
There are numerous things to consider with a system like this. Yes, networked vehicles is a step on the right path, but I think it will b a while before this happens.
I think many of the posters here are over-estimating what the capabilities of this network will be.. at least initially. The idea is for vehicles and on-board navigation systems to be better aids to drivers.. not for drivers to talkchat/IM back and forth. I envision something like a cop rolling up on the scene of an accident, firing up his computer and broadcastign that an accident has occured. This message gets shot bak up the road in both directions informing cars of the accident. That's it. It's then left up to the nav system to decide which route one should take. Of course the vehicles will be estimating the congestion and stuff, but that's all minor details. Yes.. there is a the possibility of script kiddies and hackers doing devious things, but that's the nature of the beast. Those implementing this network need to be careful to implement things in a secure manner.. firstly that means using something stronger than WEP (if they fuckin; use WEP, I'll kick some ass!).
If I had mod points, I'd mod you +1: Insighful. Seriously.. It wasn't communism that brought the Soviet Union down; it was the corrupt leadership and no avenue for the Soviet populace to combat the corruption.
Now, I'm no communism fan-boy.. just a realist who understands things from an objective point of view.
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There is a difference between the military man and the politicians who command the military. The military man has a greater sense of duty whilst the politicians tend to be power-hungry. No evidence to offer, but it seems to be the way of things.
Score:5, Insightful? I see no form of insight.. just people trying to burn through mod points.
1) The welfare of all humanity is not my responsibility. I am responsible for myself and that's it. I am not the one who insisted on living at the waters edge in a region prone to earthquakes and tsunamis. One must take into account and be prepared for the worst that Mother Nature can throw at you. If you live in Oklahoma, you have a storm shelter. If you live in Florida, you should be prepared to board up yuor windows when the next hurricane comes rolling through. If yuo live near a volcano, have a place to hide in case of eruption.
It's like the Boy Scout motto: Be prepared. Simple and to the point.
If they had been even a little bit prepared, the death toll would not be so high. I should not and am not repsonsible for their lack of safety measures.
Yeah.. what the parent poster said. You sound like a college freshman living in the dorms who's trying to beat the network admins so you can call some Russian chick you met through HOTorNOT.
..then you need to be doing only business related tasks. That is unless you have an understanding with your employer. Period. Kaput. Nothing else to see here.. yadi yadi yada.
The mission he spoke of was that of defeating the Iraqi army.. not rebuilding Iraq into a democratic nation. Thus, the mission was actually accomplished. Get your head out of your ass.
I didn't have that problem. I was able to read it just fine. As for your eyes hurting.. adjust the refresh rate on your CRT!
Seriously.. how'd you manage that?!
Like every other guy on the planet I eagerly awaited tehir 18th birthday. Why? I don't know. Perhaps they'd appear in Playboy or something. But now that the time has come and gone, I'm quite disappointed in the two of them
Thin as rails, strungout and still making shit for movies. What a disappointment. And to think.. they had more potential as sex symbols than any other pair of girls.. perhaps ever!
BTW, I'm a scant 22 years old. I'm allowed to lust after 18 year olds. You 40-somethings need to knock that shit off!
From the second linked website: You will fly from the top-secret Zhukovsky Air Base, located just an hour from Moscow.
It isn't top secret if everyone knows where the damn thing is!
Unless of course it nails you while you are in bed. Then it *WAS* quite obviously your day to get out of bed.
Yeah.. it's true. Actually, there was an article posted here the other day about it. Perhaps yesterday or the day before.
The sun is named Sol. A "sol" is what we calls days except a sol is longer. Mars doesn't rotate as quickly as Earth thus making the days longer. Apparently the guys at JPL felt funny about making the "day" longer than the traditional 24 hours we experience here on Earth. They even began sleeping according to Martian sols.
Is copyright infringement a felony offense? I thought it was more of a civil issue and resulted in fines and such? And what is the justification the US government is using to justify doing the **AA's bidding? Let the **AAs findthese guys, then sue them. Take 'em to court for damages. I don't get it. Seriously..
Doubtful.. Simple physics.. HUGE FUCKIN' ASTEROID against tiny American Space Shuttle. You would need to get the Shuttle going pretty damn fast to cause any noticable difference. But I guess if the asteroid were small enough.. Alright. I like it for a backup plan.
Ya' know.. I was prepared to make an intelligent comment on how bailing out major industries (not companies) was a good thing, but after some thinking, I've realized that I was in error.
I was going to talk about the airline industry and how it's a good thing that the feds bailed out American Airlines and whoever else. But then I realized that should AA and Delta have collapsed, some smaller company would have picked up the slack and gone on to become the big boy on the block. It may not have occured immediately, but it would have happened. Sure.. you put some number of AA dn Delta employees out of work, but shit happens. They would simply need to get themselves a new skillset.
No no.. As I stated, I trust the data coming out of NASA (JPL?) and think that asteroids are a danger that needs to be dealt with. All I'm saying is that this asteroid isn't really moving much relatively. It;s still going in a rather straight (err.. elliptical) path. Why is some rocket scientist needing to revise his numbers over and over? I would think that we could be somewhat accurate right off the bat. I mean, this adjustment has been an entire order of magnitude. Just saying that the thought crossed my mind.. didn't stay long.
Though you are correct, I don't think an asteroid of this size would obliterate the moon. As such, life on Earth would remain largely unaffected I should think. If we were lucky and it hit the bright side of the moon, we may no longer have the so-called "Man in the Moon", but that would be a small price to pay to see such a terrific impact on a body so close to Earth.
but it does raise the issue of needing more money put into research and defense in case an asteriod is found
Does anyone get the idea that someone could possibly be playing with the numbers to get funding for someone's pet project? I put a certain level of trust in NASA and I don't think the current data is necessarily inaccurate, but the thought did cross my mind. What do Slashdotters think?
One of the funniest things I have seen on the internet is a video clip of some working stiff beating the snot out of his computer. You can see it at www.cs.unlv.edu/~acm/badday.mpg. Absolutely hilarious!
Let's see.. the odds of an asteroid hitting earth: 1/1,000,000,000,000 or soemthng like that. the odds of korea, china, et al attacking america with ICBMs (despite their current inability to reach US shores): a lot higher than that! You gotta put your money where you're likely to get the greatest return.
There are numerous things to consider with a system like this. Yes, networked vehicles is a step on the right path, but I think it will b a while before this happens.
I think many of the posters here are over-estimating what the capabilities of this network will be.. at least initially. The idea is for vehicles and on-board navigation systems to be better aids to drivers.. not for drivers to talkchat/IM back and forth. I envision something like a cop rolling up on the scene of an accident, firing up his computer and broadcastign that an accident has occured. This message gets shot bak up the road in both directions informing cars of the accident. That's it. It's then left up to the nav system to decide which route one should take. Of course the vehicles will be estimating the congestion and stuff, but that's all minor details. Yes.. there is a the possibility of script kiddies and hackers doing devious things, but that's the nature of the beast. Those implementing this network need to be careful to implement things in a secure manner.. firstly that means using something stronger than WEP (if they fuckin; use WEP, I'll kick some ass!).
If I had mod points, I'd mod you +1: Insighful. Seriously.. It wasn't communism that brought the Soviet Union down; it was the corrupt leadership and no avenue for the Soviet populace to combat the corruption.
Now, I'm no communism fan-boy.. just a realist who understands things from an objective point of view.
Impressive what passes for cute. I'd give her a 5/6 out of 10.. max.
Technically, it doesn't use a keypress. The JS quietly loops in the background on a timeout.