It's 2008, why aren't most websites just using https by default? You can't host web sites for multiple domains on one IP address with SSL. At least not without warnings popping up, and then you might as well not bother.
Perhaps you should learn to read:
[..]abandoned word processors[..], or smug that I've been happily using LaTeX ever since. The grand parent gave up on word processors and switched to LaTeX. If he thought that LaTeX was a word processor, he wouldn't be able to use LaTeX and at the same time not use a word processor.
But how much did they spend on this 'extremely lightweight Kapton tube hanging in Kevlar fiber', that looks like it could be replaced with fishline? The instrument was built and paid for by the University of Aarhus in Denmark. Also, I would imagine that the cost of sending things to Mars is rather high, so it could easily be worth it to spend a little more on materials to save on fuel.
The difference is that the government spent thousands of dollars on something that you or I could build for less than 1....... The instrument was built and paid for by the University of Aarhus in Denmark.
For most consumers, capacity is king, not speed. For most consumers, price is king. Not price per gigabyte, just price. The only thing most consumers might need more than 32GB for is video -- and flash is almost as cheap as hard disks in the 32GB 2 1/2" segment.
For nearly all of us, this isn't news until SSD is competitive at the consumer disc drive level. Come on, Slashdot is a nerd site! When did nerds have to wait for technology to become mainstream?
"Linux is Anti-Capitalism." No, Linux has absolutely no restrictions on the development of non-free software Copyright on software is Anti-Capitalism. Handing out monopolies is a feudalistic practice which is really out of place in the 21st century.
Doesn't anyone feel a bit uncomfortable about the German State deciding which religions are dangerous cults? Germany is one of the few places where I'd expect a correct decision to be made.
Wave that dictionary page in front of the judge and "I Rest My Case". All of those three descriptives apply specifically and directly to Scientology. I don't know much about British law, but I do know that there exists at least one country where truth isn't necessarily a defense.
My only other concern is the amount of land that these wind farms gobble up. This is only a problem in residential areas. Farmland can still be farmed. In the case of California, perhaps a deal with Nevada could work out.
Echo cancellation only affects incoming echoes, not outgoing. Not that I have done much with video conferences, but this is wrong. Good speakerphones/conference phones do echo cancellation outbound too.
Under Windows, there is no sure way of detecting malware once it's already installed, as it takes steps to hide itself. The same is true for Linux, sadly. Disclaimer: I'm a Linux fanboy.
I'm betting they just provide an int hook that a generic IDE driver can use until a protect mode driver gets loaded. It's much worse than that. AHCI-controllers can emulate regular IDE controllers in hardware. Not some BIOS-INT-thing, but actual emulation. Most computers I have seen with AHCI-controllers run them in IDE-emulation-mode.
Drugs covered by patents are very much needed to save lives, though it'd be a strawman argument here. Drug research is generally taxpayer-funded. It's generally "only" the later stages with clinical trials and figuring out how to mass produce and such that is done by corporations protected by patents. While those stages are valuable, it is not impossible to believe that there are more efficient ways of funding them, perhaps ways which are less likely to allow dangerous or ineffective drugs to slip through.
It's a mechanism that needs to be tweaked and maintained, but it's absolutely essential to the first world staying the first world. That is possibly true. Is keeping everyone else down a worthy goal, though?
Plants need sunlight. The solar collectors need sunlight. Only one can productively intercept the sunlight. The animals probably won't like the lack of plants. You are assuming that the ground beneath the mirrors or solar cells or whichever is dark. It isn't. It's shaded for sure, but many plants like shade. Trees in rain forests are way better at shading the sun than solar collectors are, but plants still survive at the lower levels.
This sequestration process may not be the best way of proceeding, but if you believe the climate wingnuts, they're saying we're already probably eff'ed with the amount of C02 in the atmosphere now. The sequestration processes so far rely on high concentrations of CO2 being available. Some of them propose burning coal in a pure-oxygen atmosphere, so CO2 concentration ends up at close to 100%. Sequestration from atmospheric air isn't being considered so far, and the current research doesn't really do anything to solve that problem.
We'd really be screwed if there were effectively unlimited supplies of coal that could be profitably mined at today's prices. Global Warming would then be truly impossible to prevent. Impossible is a strong word. You apparently don't have much faith in humanity. Anyway, the bad news is that supplies of coal are very, very large, as long as you're willing to go for lower-grade coal.
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They are not enterprise drives. EMC is talking about enterprise drives.
They keep sending out press releases, but when do they plan on making product available?
I need four of 64GB or more. Price not important, but they must perform well and be reasonably reliable. SAS preferred.
If you pumped calcium down at the same time, eventually you will form calcium carbonate. Where would you get the calcium from?