The primary motivation for creating a webpage is to make it available to the world. If someone goes through the process of writing text, formatting and uploading it, he surely wants others to read their text and have some benefit of those efforts. If I made a page that was slashdotted, I would be pleasantly surprised to have created something interesting for a lot of people, sorry for those who can't read the page anymore and embarassed to not have taken proper measures against a server overload or bandwidth bills. Pages are put up to be read, so you can't complain if someone does. DDOS attacks are more and more common, so you've got to protect yourself against them anyway. So you better debug that old PHP-mySQL-script while you still can...
Has been catering some niche markets for many decades. Model engines designed to be quiet are sometimes powered by compressed air. Locomotives in industrial complexes used to be powered by compressed steam made with waste heat from one of the factories. Advantages: relative efficient if waste heat is used, high power applications possible. Disadvantages: energy storage density is low, model engines run out of fuel after minutes, these locomotives couldn't take more than a few dozen kilometres, but they never need to travell farther inside the industrial complex.
2. Electric motors are able to power cars to much any speed you like them to. Compare the Toyota Prius hybrid with your values, the Prius switched in EV mode does at least 35mph. There are conversion kits available to give your Prius a plug-in feature, so you can recharge it overnight. Perfectly viable for many households, may be a bit expensive, reliability unsure though Toyota gives 8 years warranty on all hybrid-parts.
3. Hydrogen conversion. Expensive only if you produce H2 from conventional fuels. Very cheap if you use solar power generation somewhere in the desert to split sea water, compared to running electrical cables everywhere from the desert.
3 cylinders aren't a novel idea. They're just 120 degrees apart on the crankshaft, no problem. A rotary has no cylinders of equivalent of this and I seriously doubt they'll risk the novelty value of their RX-8 with that kind of engine.
Useless trivia: former Eastern Germany produced a car called the "Wartburg", which had only 3 cylinder, 2-stroke engines from the very beginning. As with all cars from Eastern Germany, they were flimsy, unreliable and underpowered. But IIRC, the 3-cylinder models were much much more unreliable than all other Eastern German cars, which had 2-cylinder 2-stroke engine (the famous plastic car "Trabant") or imported russian 4-cyl 4-strokes. After the wall came down and western cars poured in, the 3-cylinders vanished first. In 1993, 3 years after, you'd be hard pressed to find any of them still in use. The Russian 4-strokes came second, after 5 years they were all gone, probably exported back to Russia. Amazingly, the 2-stroke 2-cylinders are still around, albeit a bit rare now. In short: as a former Eastern German citizen, I deeply distrust anything with only 3 cylinders. They will work, maybe in 2-stroke fashion - the Japanese are well renowned for good working models of this type - but I doubt they're anything as durable as regular 4-cylinders.
You dare making the car dealers unemployed, don't you?
There's no chance in hell this would happen. There's something hardwired, copy protected inside. A challenge-response system you can't easily defeat with a playback-attack. Nooo, the dealers will want to sell you more, not less. The stick wears out fast or the memory on it becomes too small, have a new one!
It's not about mechanical or other devices, it's about WEAR and TEAR after heavy use. The Prius keyfob almost never leaves your pocket, the car unlocks if you're near and locks if you walk away, fine.
The Mazda on the other NEEDS that USB stick plugged in to run. And then you have all sorts of people in the world who simply need to unlock/start/stop/lock their car a dozen times per day. Which means after a typical working year around 2500 plug-ins and pull-outs. If those USB devices, plug and socket, aren't built a hundred times stronger than your garden variety USB port and stick, the car key will never survive more than 2 years. No matter how clumsy you are (and most people are clumsy at least one or two days per year), the socket will wear out, the connection leads will lose contact or static electricity kills something inside. Remember the little shocks you sometimes get when touching a car? Static electricity. Some cars deliver more static electricity than others I suppose, but mine zaps me all the time. Not to mention isolating shoe soles on synthetic carpeting. Zapp. You watched Office Space? Good.
Morale of the story: things that are sensitive to static electricity and not hard wearing shouldn't be used as everyday access tokens for important things like cars and house doors. Make all the electronics inside a wireless keyfob and everything's fine. No wear on the connectors, no point of contact for static electricity. Everything else is bust and is in danger outside the dry home or office environment.
I'd recommend a fully automatic 20-gauge, a flamethrower, genetically modified cats (eh we deal with them later on) or two M249 SAWs akimbo. No need to aim then...
Since Australia already has a huge problem with billions of unwanted rodents, rabbits, rats and mice in particular, I don't know what the advent of zombie creatures will bring them now. Oh yes, they will never leave the lab. That's what they want us to believe.
Not to be fearful again, but ahem, do we really need mammals that can only be killed by headshots? Don't these guys ever learn from zombie movies? Think of the CHILDREN!!! I guess it's time to zip over to S-Mart and grab a shotgun, because I KNOW some mouse will sooner or later BITE one of the scientists and then all hell breaks loose.
Anyone seen Bruce Campbell lately? We might need him.
This doesn't matter much, because to get somewhere indoords, you presumably travel through the outdoors.;)
So if you walk from A to B, "they" will know your path from leaving the door on A until entering the door on B. Not hard to figure out where you are if "they" don't get a signal while you're indoors somewhere.
Noticed how the conspirationalist "they" becomes more and more fitting to the matter at hand? Imagine I'd left off the apostrophes and just wrote they and everyone reading would know what I mean. How long until that time? As a citizen of the former communist East Germany, I tell you: "they" was commonplace there. "They" is just what people from inside the country call what outsiders would name "the regime". And as the actions of various US branches of authority converge, it certainly will be called "the regime" from the outside not too far from now.
I don't know about you or the other/.ers, but I certainly distrust Microsoft for everything they do. It's not misantropy or pessimism, but experience from the past. Whatever MS did or announced to do, everything they ever made, produced or started was primarily to support their own interests, corner the competition or gain an advantage somehow. Although this is the usual and expected behavior of a for-profit organization, Microsoft certainly proved time and again having nearly no moral obligations to themselves.
So it's not cynism, but a thing we should've learned in the past: Microsoft will hold nothing back and leave no sleazy trick untried. Just like I won't instantly believe a notorious liar when he's saying "I'll be true now", I won't instanly believe Microsoft when they're saying "We're the good guys now".
Microsoft haven't been "good" in a philantrophic sense for a very long time now and it takes a lot more than a donation of any amount to convince me otherwise.
Who told you the purpose of sex isn't pleasure with procreation as a side effect? Who are you to determine what's more important? You're really serious about sending people to Betty Ford if they have sex without the intention to reproduce? What's next, send me to Gitmo for wasting time lying in the park and enjoying the sunrays, solely for pleasure of course?
Hmm, you'd recommend a tablet? I always fancied to buy one, but never found a chance to test them out before. Mouse is terrible for drawing, agreed. I don't know about websurfing with a tablet, but maybe I should test them when I get around to...
Hmm, I would play the heretic and say *yes*, it is comparable, in one way or another.
The similarity is this: once you got to know this invention, is it near-impossible to go back without feeling serious hindrance. Not impossible to go back at all, so it's not that life-changing like losing e.g. X-Rays and fridges, but a real PITA to do.
Mobile phones, electrical lighting, cars and multi-button mouses share this property: if you got to know them, it's very disappointing to give them up later.
A mouse may seem like a minor nuisance, but I feel it endlessly annoying nonetheless. As a computer guy, it's my most important tool at work and I would never let my 3-button mouse with a scrollwheel go until you pry it from my cold dead hands. And I've been requesting a 5-button mouse for quite some time now and once I get it, I'll defend it more than some red stapler, I swear.
In short, the maximum credible disaster in my pc-experience would be having to use a one-button mouse to surf with IE5 or lower. It's about as rewarding as wanking with boxing gloves and full body armor on. I don't want to use my keyboard for casual browsing and pressing multiple keys when working with a graphic suite, let alone playing some games.
It may be a design element for Macs, but I seriously doubt it actually improves UI design. Hiding stuff in context menus is possible and screen estate is still valuable unless we all have that 30'' tft. And while all "shifting" could be done with the keyboard, I prefer having the most used pointing "actions" directly accessible on the pointing device. And speaking as an avid gamer, it's a bliss to have all weapon-related stuff on the mouse hand while the movement/posture/communications is done with the keyboard hand.
In short: the fingers on my mouse hand can do so much more than just pushing a plastic shell shell around and pressing one button. Would be a shame to intentionally leave 4 of 5 mousehand fingers unused. I have 5 fingers on every hand, so I might as well use them all.
I do not agree with separation of morality and character building from state. The state needs to foster good character in its citizens.
You sure you do? What if said state happened to have a totally different type of morality than you? What if "good" character as seen by the state requires fighting other countries?
I seriously try to avoid be Nazi/Commie-argument, but with a statement like this, you pretty much asked for it. But myself, I prefer my children not to have their character and morality built by any kind of Mullah or Führer, so go figure...
Are you sure you remember the founding principles of your country? With freedom the highest goal in itself and such?
First: this is no troll and accusations lead to nowhere.
Second: my right to extend my arm ends long before your face. But unless you happen to reside in my bedroom, I can do whatever sex I like to have. Including splooging and get splooged by 50 persons per hour.
Third: porn is for adults.
Fourth: the protection of children is a high goal, but not higher than freedom. Deal with it.
Fifth: anyone who likes to be splooged shall be. As often as he or she prefers. If they find enough partners, that is.
Sixth: if you try to cut down on violence on screen, don't start at Max Hardcore (compare with 3.) but at everything portraying violence in movies for the youth.
Sex is sharing and having, ummm, an orgasm. Or a dozen. A physical activity leading to intense pleasure all throughout the body. Love usually leads to sex and usually people prefer having sex within a love affair.
You read the word "usually"? See what I mean? Because the majority prefers it that way, nothing else. And it's absolutely none of our business what other people prefer. As long as there are no children or unwilling participants involved or animals tortured, anything goes. Your "think of the children!"-argument doesn't change a thing, because porn is not available to them if all parents carry out their responsibility and porn outlets, be it shops or the internet, don't let minors in.
Everything beyond is considered forced education for adults, which is an authoritarian goal at best.
If you don't derive pleasure from participating a gang bang, don't participate. But don't keep others from doing it if they want. If they seek attention and find 30 sex partners willing to give them, no one can object.
If you or your woman don't enjoy *giving* a blow job, don't give or demand them. Others can make up their own mind, they're old enough.
And whatever sex is for you, it doesn't need to be for everyone. Imagine a world, where porn is illegal and sex can only be portrayed in a long-term, monogamous relationship context. Would that change something? Wouldn't it impose just different overhyped expectations on people? Wouldn't it make people unhappy in a different way? And above all, wouldn't make any fictional story or film make people unhappy with their current down-to-earth kind of life?
If we can allow for example sci-fi movies, while we don't have a functioning Warp Drive prototype, I think it's safe to allow depictions of insatiable women while the majority of them is not. Or will you barr girls from viewing Arnold-style movies where they could get a terribly wrong image of men?:)
Sincere and tender porn is available, but either no one buys it or the majority prefers harder images. Or harder sex, but don't talks about it? Who knows...
If everyone involved consents and enjoys that gangbang, it seems okay to me. Who are you to prevent free men and women of legal age from having sex with each other in any number and constellation they like? Does being of "normal" values qualify? Or is having read and/or believing in an ancient BOOK needed?
Although they *might* be immoral, it's none of the state's business. Morals and values, as long as no other persons freedom is harmed, are a personal matter for each and every adult. Churches may demand a special behavior, can compel its members to certain restrictions - but not on everyone. Every man and woman is free to accept the restrictions of their religion or to don't have a religion at all.
And we as a rather advanced society have finally separated church and state, thank God. We don't mandate morality, just non-freedom-hurting behavior. Two consenting adults doing horribly awful acts of sexuality to each other may be disgusting, but it's not anyones responsibility to "teach them morals". Government is not parenthood and the church can't call the police or the lynchmob. I hope it stays that way.
But I can't imagine it's possible to have a critical mass of radiactive material assembled, observing the beginning fission and live long enough to tell someone about it. I seriously doubt they accidentally had some sort of fission moderator present, heavy water or graphite and whatnot, to slow this reaction. So my guess would be, once they had a critical mass they should have had not more time than 10^-6 seconds to observe anything before getting vaporized by the explosion.
At least it's something you can measure. A quick timedemo will show precisely what has been achieved, if anything. Two screenshots and a pixeldiff and you're even more into a kind of science. Kinky and maybe useless, but still scientific. No need for golden eyes when you can compare pixels.
Use a digital connection to your sound system. When connecting a computer to an amplifier, digital is best. There's too much line noise coming from all HF circuits into the analog signal.
But you were joking, right?
Anyway, I recommend digital cabling. A dedicated DVD player still sounds better, but a digital signal will still make a huge difference. Optical may be the best as it separates the amp electrically from the computer.
Every biometric has a digital representation, otherwise it couldn't be processed. Of course...
What happens, when Charlie intercepts biometric communication between Alice and Bob, copies the signal and starts a replay attack later?
No security system is perfect and I am absolutely sure biometrics will be counterfeit and copied within less than 5 months after being introduced nationwide. People will grab the signal from the camera going to the reader, install their own cameras right beside or on top of the legit ones. They will intercept traffic at some other point, who knows. What matters is: at some point, identity thieves can and will acquire biometrics from someone else. And then the shit hits the fan, to say it bluntly. Lost or compromised passwords, -ports, ID-cards, keys and whatever can be disabled and re-issued to the legitimate persons. Biometrics cannot. When payment would at some point rely on iris pattern data, someone copies them, however complicated it may be and then goes on a shopping spree. How on earth would you imagine to stop this?
The question is WHEN this is gonna happen, not IF, once we use biometrics exclusively. Remember the underage student from Norway if you think some code can be really safe...
What if trolls account for 2 percent of every online community. When Slashdot brings the story, suddenly 2 percent of some million users troll LA Times. I think it's just a problem with the mass of/. that made the problem, not the readership itself. If you unload a million users on a site at once, the influx of trolls will wash those unprepared down the drain...
Slashdot Mirror
The primary motivation for creating a webpage is to make it available to the world. If someone goes through the process of writing text, formatting and uploading it, he surely wants others to read their text and have some benefit of those efforts. If I made a page that was slashdotted, I would be pleasantly surprised to have created something interesting for a lot of people, sorry for those who can't read the page anymore and embarassed to not have taken proper measures against a server overload or bandwidth bills. Pages are put up to be read, so you can't complain if someone does. DDOS attacks are more and more common, so you've got to protect yourself against them anyway. So you better debug that old PHP-mySQL-script while you still can...
1. Compressed air
Has been catering some niche markets for many decades. Model engines designed to be quiet are sometimes powered by compressed air. Locomotives in industrial complexes used to be powered by compressed steam made with waste heat from one of the factories. Advantages: relative efficient if waste heat is used, high power applications possible. Disadvantages: energy storage density is low, model engines run out of fuel after minutes, these locomotives couldn't take more than a few dozen kilometres, but they never need to travell farther inside the industrial complex.
2. Electric motors are able to power cars to much any speed you like them to. Compare the Toyota Prius hybrid with your values, the Prius switched in EV mode does at least 35mph. There are conversion kits available to give your Prius a plug-in feature, so you can recharge it overnight. Perfectly viable for many households, may be a bit expensive, reliability unsure though Toyota gives 8 years warranty on all hybrid-parts.
3. Hydrogen conversion. Expensive only if you produce H2 from conventional fuels. Very cheap if you use solar power generation somewhere in the desert to split sea water, compared to running electrical cables everywhere from the desert.
4. DNF
5. Same as 3.
Can you say "Freudian slip"? :) I know you can.
3 cylinders aren't a novel idea. They're just 120 degrees apart on the crankshaft, no problem. A rotary has no cylinders of equivalent of this and I seriously doubt they'll risk the novelty value of their RX-8 with that kind of engine.
Useless trivia: former Eastern Germany produced a car called the "Wartburg", which had only 3 cylinder, 2-stroke engines from the very beginning. As with all cars from Eastern Germany, they were flimsy, unreliable and underpowered. But IIRC, the 3-cylinder models were much much more unreliable than all other Eastern German cars, which had 2-cylinder 2-stroke engine (the famous plastic car "Trabant") or imported russian 4-cyl 4-strokes. After the wall came down and western cars poured in, the 3-cylinders vanished first. In 1993, 3 years after, you'd be hard pressed to find any of them still in use. The Russian 4-strokes came second, after 5 years they were all gone, probably exported back to Russia. Amazingly, the 2-stroke 2-cylinders are still around, albeit a bit rare now. In short: as a former Eastern German citizen, I deeply distrust anything with only 3 cylinders. They will work, maybe in 2-stroke fashion - the Japanese are well renowned for good working models of this type - but I doubt they're anything as durable as regular 4-cylinders.
You dare making the car dealers unemployed, don't you?
There's no chance in hell this would happen. There's something hardwired, copy protected inside. A challenge-response system you can't easily defeat with a playback-attack. Nooo, the dealers will want to sell you more, not less. The stick wears out fast or the memory on it becomes too small, have a new one!
It's not about mechanical or other devices, it's about WEAR and TEAR after heavy use. The Prius keyfob almost never leaves your pocket, the car unlocks if you're near and locks if you walk away, fine.
The Mazda on the other NEEDS that USB stick plugged in to run. And then you have all sorts of people in the world who simply need to unlock/start/stop/lock their car a dozen times per day. Which means after a typical working year around 2500 plug-ins and pull-outs. If those USB devices, plug and socket, aren't built a hundred times stronger than your garden variety USB port and stick, the car key will never survive more than 2 years. No matter how clumsy you are (and most people are clumsy at least one or two days per year), the socket will wear out, the connection leads will lose contact or static electricity kills something inside. Remember the little shocks you sometimes get when touching a car? Static electricity. Some cars deliver more static electricity than others I suppose, but mine zaps me all the time. Not to mention isolating shoe soles on synthetic carpeting. Zapp. You watched Office Space? Good.
Morale of the story: things that are sensitive to static electricity and not hard wearing shouldn't be used as everyday access tokens for important things like cars and house doors. Make all the electronics inside a wireless keyfob and everything's fine. No wear on the connectors, no point of contact for static electricity. Everything else is bust and is in danger outside the dry home or office environment.
I am John Rambo, you insensitive clod!
I'd recommend a fully automatic 20-gauge, a flamethrower, genetically modified cats (eh we deal with them later on) or two M249 SAWs akimbo. No need to aim then...
Since Australia already has a huge problem with billions of unwanted rodents, rabbits, rats and mice in particular, I don't know what the advent of zombie creatures will bring them now. Oh yes, they will never leave the lab. That's what they want us to believe.
Not to be fearful again, but ahem, do we really need mammals that can only be killed by headshots? Don't these guys ever learn from zombie movies? Think of the CHILDREN!!! I guess it's time to zip over to S-Mart and grab a shotgun, because I KNOW some mouse will sooner or later BITE one of the scientists and then all hell breaks loose.
Anyone seen Bruce Campbell lately? We might need him.
This doesn't matter much, because to get somewhere indoords, you presumably travel through the outdoors. ;)
So if you walk from A to B, "they" will know your path from leaving the door on A until entering the door on B. Not hard to figure out where you are if "they" don't get a signal while you're indoors somewhere.
Noticed how the conspirationalist "they" becomes more and more fitting to the matter at hand? Imagine I'd left off the apostrophes and just wrote they and everyone reading would know what I mean. How long until that time? As a citizen of the former communist East Germany, I tell you: "they" was commonplace there. "They" is just what people from inside the country call what outsiders would name "the regime". And as the actions of various US branches of authority converge, it certainly will be called "the regime" from the outside not too far from now.
I don't know about you or the other /.ers, but I certainly distrust Microsoft for everything they do. It's not misantropy or pessimism, but experience from the past. Whatever MS did or announced to do, everything they ever made, produced or started was primarily to support their own interests, corner the competition or gain an advantage somehow. Although this is the usual and expected behavior of a for-profit organization, Microsoft certainly proved time and again having nearly no moral obligations to themselves.
So it's not cynism, but a thing we should've learned in the past: Microsoft will hold nothing back and leave no sleazy trick untried. Just like I won't instantly believe a notorious liar when he's saying "I'll be true now", I won't instanly believe Microsoft when they're saying "We're the good guys now".
Microsoft haven't been "good" in a philantrophic sense for a very long time now and it takes a lot more than a donation of any amount to convince me otherwise.
Who told you the purpose of sex isn't pleasure with procreation as a side effect? Who are you to determine what's more important? You're really serious about sending people to Betty Ford if they have sex without the intention to reproduce? What's next, send me to Gitmo for wasting time lying in the park and enjoying the sunrays, solely for pleasure of course?
Are you sure you didn't abuse some religion?
Hmm, you'd recommend a tablet? I always fancied to buy one, but never found a chance to test them out before. Mouse is terrible for drawing, agreed. I don't know about websurfing with a tablet, but maybe I should test them when I get around to...
Hmm, I would play the heretic and say *yes*, it is comparable, in one way or another.
The similarity is this: once you got to know this invention, is it near-impossible to go back without feeling serious hindrance. Not impossible to go back at all, so it's not that life-changing like losing e.g. X-Rays and fridges, but a real PITA to do.
Mobile phones, electrical lighting, cars and multi-button mouses share this property: if you got to know them, it's very disappointing to give them up later.
A mouse may seem like a minor nuisance, but I feel it endlessly annoying nonetheless. As a computer guy, it's my most important tool at work and I would never let my 3-button mouse with a scrollwheel go until you pry it from my cold dead hands. And I've been requesting a 5-button mouse for quite some time now and once I get it, I'll defend it more than some red stapler, I swear.
In short, the maximum credible disaster in my pc-experience would be having to use a one-button mouse to surf with IE5 or lower. It's about as rewarding as wanking with boxing gloves and full body armor on. I don't want to use my keyboard for casual browsing and pressing multiple keys when working with a graphic suite, let alone playing some games.
It may be a design element for Macs, but I seriously doubt it actually improves UI design. Hiding stuff in context menus is possible and screen estate is still valuable unless we all have that 30'' tft. And while all "shifting" could be done with the keyboard, I prefer having the most used pointing "actions" directly accessible on the pointing device. And speaking as an avid gamer, it's a bliss to have all weapon-related stuff on the mouse hand while the movement/posture/communications is done with the keyboard hand.
In short: the fingers on my mouse hand can do so much more than just pushing a plastic shell shell around and pressing one button. Would be a shame to intentionally leave 4 of 5 mousehand fingers unused. I have 5 fingers on every hand, so I might as well use them all.
You sure you do? What if said state happened to have a totally different type of morality than you? What if "good" character as seen by the state requires fighting other countries?
I seriously try to avoid be Nazi/Commie-argument, but with a statement like this, you pretty much asked for it. But myself, I prefer my children not to have their character and morality built by any kind of Mullah or Führer, so go figure...
Are you sure you remember the founding principles of your country? With freedom the highest goal in itself and such?
First: this is no troll and accusations lead to nowhere.
Second: my right to extend my arm ends long before your face. But unless you happen to reside in my bedroom, I can do whatever sex I like to have. Including splooging and get splooged by 50 persons per hour.
Third: porn is for adults.
Fourth: the protection of children is a high goal, but not higher than freedom. Deal with it.
Fifth: anyone who likes to be splooged shall be. As often as he or she prefers. If they find enough partners, that is.
Sixth: if you try to cut down on violence on screen, don't start at Max Hardcore (compare with 3.) but at everything portraying violence in movies for the youth.
Sex is sharing and having, ummm, an orgasm. Or a dozen. A physical activity leading to intense pleasure all throughout the body. Love usually leads to sex and usually people prefer having sex within a love affair.
:)
You read the word "usually"? See what I mean? Because the majority prefers it that way, nothing else. And it's absolutely none of our business what other people prefer. As long as there are no children or unwilling participants involved or animals tortured, anything goes. Your "think of the children!"-argument doesn't change a thing, because porn is not available to them if all parents carry out their responsibility and porn outlets, be it shops or the internet, don't let minors in.
Everything beyond is considered forced education for adults, which is an authoritarian goal at best.
If you don't derive pleasure from participating a gang bang, don't participate. But don't keep others from doing it if they want. If they seek attention and find 30 sex partners willing to give them, no one can object.
If you or your woman don't enjoy *giving* a blow job, don't give or demand them. Others can make up their own mind, they're old enough.
And whatever sex is for you, it doesn't need to be for everyone. Imagine a world, where porn is illegal and sex can only be portrayed in a long-term, monogamous relationship context. Would that change something? Wouldn't it impose just different overhyped expectations on people? Wouldn't it make people unhappy in a different way? And above all, wouldn't make any fictional story or film make people unhappy with their current down-to-earth kind of life?
If we can allow for example sci-fi movies, while we don't have a functioning Warp Drive prototype, I think it's safe to allow depictions of insatiable women while the majority of them is not. Or will you barr girls from viewing Arnold-style movies where they could get a terribly wrong image of men?
Sincere and tender porn is available, but either no one buys it or the majority prefers harder images. Or harder sex, but don't talks about it? Who knows...
If everyone involved consents and enjoys that gangbang, it seems okay to me. Who are you to prevent free men and women of legal age from having sex with each other in any number and constellation they like? Does being of "normal" values qualify? Or is having read and/or believing in an ancient BOOK needed?
Although they *might* be immoral, it's none of the state's business. Morals and values, as long as no other persons freedom is harmed, are a personal matter for each and every adult. Churches may demand a special behavior, can compel its members to certain restrictions - but not on everyone. Every man and woman is free to accept the restrictions of their religion or to don't have a religion at all.
And we as a rather advanced society have finally separated church and state, thank God. We don't mandate morality, just non-freedom-hurting behavior. Two consenting adults doing horribly awful acts of sexuality to each other may be disgusting, but it's not anyones responsibility to "teach them morals". Government is not parenthood and the church can't call the police or the lynchmob. I hope it stays that way.
But I can't imagine it's possible to have a critical mass of radiactive material assembled, observing the beginning fission and live long enough to tell someone about it. I seriously doubt they accidentally had some sort of fission moderator present, heavy water or graphite and whatnot, to slow this reaction. So my guess would be, once they had a critical mass they should have had not more time than 10^-6 seconds to observe anything before getting vaporized by the explosion.
At least it's something you can measure. A quick timedemo will show precisely what has been achieved, if anything. Two screenshots and a pixeldiff and you're even more into a kind of science. Kinky and maybe useless, but still scientific. No need for golden eyes when you can compare pixels.
Adding my own 2 cents here:
Use a digital connection to your sound system. When connecting a computer to an amplifier, digital is best. There's too much line noise coming from all HF circuits into the analog signal.
But you were joking, right?
Anyway, I recommend digital cabling. A dedicated DVD player still sounds better, but a digital signal will still make a huge difference. Optical may be the best as it separates the amp electrically from the computer.
To clear my less-than-perfect post a bit:
Stolen passwords or cards can be retired, while compromised biometric data will haunt you forever.
Every biometric has a digital representation, otherwise it couldn't be processed. Of course...
What happens, when Charlie intercepts biometric communication between Alice and Bob, copies the signal and starts a replay attack later?
No security system is perfect and I am absolutely sure biometrics will be counterfeit and copied within less than 5 months after being introduced nationwide. People will grab the signal from the camera going to the reader, install their own cameras right beside or on top of the legit ones. They will intercept traffic at some other point, who knows. What matters is: at some point, identity thieves can and will acquire biometrics from someone else. And then the shit hits the fan, to say it bluntly. Lost or compromised passwords, -ports, ID-cards, keys and whatever can be disabled and re-issued to the legitimate persons. Biometrics cannot. When payment would at some point rely on iris pattern data, someone copies them, however complicated it may be and then goes on a shopping spree. How on earth would you imagine to stop this?
The question is WHEN this is gonna happen, not IF, once we use biometrics exclusively. Remember the underage student from Norway if you think some code can be really safe...
What if trolls account for 2 percent of every online community. When Slashdot brings the story, suddenly 2 percent of some million users troll LA Times. I think it's just a problem with the mass of /. that made the problem, not the readership itself. If you unload a million users on a site at once, the influx of trolls will wash those unprepared down the drain...