Nice piccys. Seems a shame they set all those nukes off for no good purpose I say. Bring on the peaceful uses I say- sign me up for a new project Orion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion
I believe they did this already in the '50s by detonating nuclear warheads in space.
You see, I read this and I thought: "No way. We never set any nukes off in space. That'd be crazy".
10 minutes with our friend google.
We're crazy. From wikipedia - "On July 9, 1962, Thor missile 195 launched a Mk4 re-entry vehicle containing a W49 thermonuclear warhead to an altitude of 248 miles (400 km). The warhead detonated with a yield of 1.45 Mt. This was the Starfish-Prime event of nuclear test operation Dominic-Fishbowl". Ionosphere's ~80 to ~400 kilometres up by the way. Reading around about this test seemed to indicate that our madness did achieve a pretty badass light show (your patriotic tax dollars at work)- couldn't find a photo though. This wasn't the only high altitude test by any stretch of the imagination either. Another fun fact: In total the USA has carried out 1,030 nuke tests with 1,125 seperate devices.
It's things like this that make me marvel at the fact that we've made it this far without wiping ourselves off the face of the planet.
I saw this product a few days ago and it was immediately obvious that it was total, undiluted bullshit. How the hell does this make it to the front page? What's next? Homeopathy?
I run tech support for my own IT company. As well as the countless spyware riddled machines I come across I also encounter many which are knackered for no good reason. While I admit that now, with XP, Microsoft has a far superior operating system to previous iterations it is far from stable.
Well, that solves it, I'll just move to france! Seriously I think the point is that this is an amazing service as far as the UK market go's. It may well be shite in comparison to other countries (as an endless stream of people are commenting).
Machines running on this serial key crash on an occasional basis? That makes them more reliable than some legitimate installs! In addition, why would MS do this? Surely just breaking it outright, with an appropriate message, if you have a dodgy key would be better?
As many people have pointed out buying network infrastructure != becoming a voice over IP operator. I see nothing in the article to persuade me otherwise.Come on guys. We find out that google's buying lots of fiber and this is the best wild speculation we can come up with? (by 'we' I mean the Times...)
How about a dedicated google ISP? They already have a cache of damn near everything. Sign me up!
Remember the days when HP would work on new products and make money selling them? Not work out ever more new and devious ways to milk inkjet users of every last penny they have.
If people can't be bothered to learn how to maintain their machines properly they should get the hell off our 'net. It will stop their trojaned and spyware filled PCs fucking it up for the rest of us.
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I would imagine that over 50 years that any trend due to solar output drop would be masked by increasing agricultural efficiency .
Hell yes. This is exactly the reason I began my career as a physicist. I had a great, slightly crazy, high school teacher who also had her "special" experiments. She owned a Wimshurst machine which kicked out giant HV sparks.
Ok. Radiation of microwave wavelengths is non-ionising. Power levels are too low for heating of tissue to be a problem.
What's the proposed mechanism for all this damage?
Ok, so there isn't one, must be a hell of a statistical anomaly showing up for people to be speculating this wildly.
Oh no, my mistake.
Anyone want to buy some magic beans? They protect you from harmful radiation. I don't have any proof as such but it would appear that quite a few people who have beans don't have cancer
In the car with my mate after many hours of wipeout (the original PS1 one I forget it's real full name). Driving through Birmingham (UK) in the middle of the night when the chemical brothers track from the game came on the stereo. My mate was doing 90mph through narrow tunnels like it was the most natural thing in the world...
Nope. I walk more or less everywhere and whenever I've been playing too much GTA I always size up sports cars at traffic lights as if I'm going to carjack them.
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Nice piccys. Seems a shame they set all those nukes off for no good purpose I say. Bring on the peaceful uses I say- sign me up for a new project Orion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion
You see, I read this and I thought: "No way. We never set any nukes off in space. That'd be crazy".
10 minutes with our friend google.
We're crazy. From wikipedia - "On July 9, 1962, Thor missile 195 launched a Mk4 re-entry vehicle containing a W49 thermonuclear warhead to an altitude of 248 miles (400 km). The warhead detonated with a yield of 1.45 Mt. This was the Starfish-Prime event of nuclear test operation Dominic-Fishbowl". Ionosphere's ~80 to ~400 kilometres up by the way. Reading around about this test seemed to indicate that our madness did achieve a pretty badass light show (your patriotic tax dollars at work)- couldn't find a photo though. This wasn't the only high altitude test by any stretch of the imagination either. Another fun fact: In total the USA has carried out 1,030 nuke tests with 1,125 seperate devices.
It's things like this that make me marvel at the fact that we've made it this far without wiping ourselves off the face of the planet.
I think the fact that this is modded +5 funny says it all.
You have to pay money to Microsoft before they'll screw up your PC. They also always get off with a fine.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/
I have degrees in both physics and material science. I am 99.99% certain that there is no way this sticker is doing anything.
I saw this product a few days ago and it was immediately obvious that it was total, undiluted bullshit. How the hell does this make it to the front page? What's next? Homeopathy?
The problem is with the policy. Not enough money has been made available to NASA to actually do much.
I run tech support for my own IT company. As well as the countless spyware riddled machines I come across I also encounter many which are knackered for no good reason. While I admit that now, with XP, Microsoft has a far superior operating system to previous iterations it is far from stable.
Well, that solves it, I'll just move to france! Seriously I think the point is that this is an amazing service as far as the UK market go's. It may well be shite in comparison to other countries (as an endless stream of people are commenting).
Yup. I have 2MB from freedom2surf at 20:1 contention which costs me £70(!) per month. No cap. Sadly the 8MB isn't available in my area yet.
Machines running on this serial key crash on an occasional basis? That makes them more reliable than some legitimate installs! In addition, why would MS do this? Surely just breaking it outright, with an appropriate message, if you have a dodgy key would be better?
Of course, I do run my own business so you may have some more problems.....
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZn xteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9c25lYWtl cnN8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=21;fm=1
Two seven ltr V8 petrol engines. Those soviets sure knew how to make an off- roader.
How about a dedicated google ISP? They already have a cache of damn near everything. Sign me up!
Remember the days when HP would work on new products and make money selling them? Not work out ever more new and devious ways to milk inkjet users of every last penny they have.
1) Create interesting bootable linux distribution
2) Get posted on front page of /.
If people can't be bothered to learn how to maintain their machines properly they should get the hell off our 'net. It will stop their trojaned and spyware filled PCs fucking it up for the rest of us.
I would imagine that over 50 years that any trend due to solar output drop would be masked by increasing agricultural efficiency .
It was badass.
So that's what the version without product activation is really called. Here was me thinking it was "Corporate edition"
What's the proposed mechanism for all this damage?
Ok, so there isn't one, must be a hell of a statistical anomaly showing up for people to be speculating this wildly.Oh no, my mistake.
Anyone want to buy some magic beans? They protect you from harmful radiation. I don't have any proof as such but it would appear that quite a few people who have beans don't have cancer
In the car with my mate after many hours of wipeout (the original PS1 one I forget it's real full name). Driving through Birmingham (UK) in the middle of the night when the chemical brothers track from the game came on the stereo. My mate was doing 90mph through narrow tunnels like it was the most natural thing in the world...
Nope. I walk more or less everywhere and whenever I've been playing too much GTA I always size up sports cars at traffic lights as if I'm going to carjack them.