Beaten to the punch! But at least we know that if it made it into 2.7, SCO would find a way to dike it out through lawsuits. You know, because SCO owns the copyright on any innovation in Linux.
I actually wasn't/that/ surprised that Estonia has such an internet-savvy political system. Estonia was one of the first countries to break away from the USSR (along with Latvia and Lithuania) as a result of the "Singing Revolution."
What about B.F. Skinner's pigeonbombs? Had the war gone on just a year longer, we'd have had pigeons guiding homing bombs right into Japanese destroyers or Hitler's bunker in Berlin.
I guess space weapons are the only way for the righteous American People can defeat the evil Soviet Union, because the Soviet Union, and all those thermonuclear-tipped ICBMs that the Soviet Union currently owns and aims right at the White House, is evil, and is obviously going to nuke us and invade us at any moment.
Why should we try to protect ourselves from the asymmetrical threat that terrorism and armed insurgency present to the people of the US and our allies, when we can try to destroy the vast spectre of the Soviet Union for twice the price?
The problem is that many businesses see OSS advocates as "Dirty Pinko Commies" who just want to make everything free while they smoke their drugs and have promiscuous sexual relations. These "communists" don't believe in personal property, and aren't apt to be consumers in a capitalist society. Therefore, capitalists can abuse them and steal from them, and they can't do anything but whine and complain to Comrade Khrushchev.
I realize that sounds silly, considering the fall of the Berlin Wall and Gorbachev's early retirement, but the whole "gotta fight the commies" mentality really hasn't died in the US. There's still that vast chimera of Global Communism, and for some, the best way to fight it is to steal from the communists and make money selling things.
Once we can disabuse these klepto-capitalists of their skewed ideas of OSS advocates, and prove to them that we actually have the money and initiative to litigate the pants off of them, they'll shut up and stop stealing from us.
Personally, I'm apt to blame the whole thing on Spiro Agnew. But that's just me.
Uhh, I think the more appropriate statement would be, "The U.S. Officials who support the DMCA can suck my balls." Most of the people in the U.S. who know about the DMCA (and give two tugs of a dead dog's genitalia) don't like the legislation any more than you.
Oh Emm Eff Gee, you're right! They/did/ get their shadows wrong!/That/ must be why they wanted to withhold the screenshots. I mean, what if the press leaked evidence that Microsoft's perspective and lighting didn't match up? If we can't trust the rules of ray-traced illumination and vanishing points, what/can/ we trust?
It's not working based on the movement of the vocal chords, it's working based on the electrical impulses sent from the brain to muscles in the throat and mouth. I'm sure that the tension of the vocal chords could be measured, but the chords themselves don't have to be moving.
Vocal chords themselves are not resonators, they simply excite motion in the air. The throat, mouth, nasal passages and sinuses are the resonators, sort of like the body of a guitar resonates with the sound excited by a string being plucked.
I appreciate mathematicians almost more than I appreciate math itself; only they would be able to develop the idea, first, of a quantity so large as to be boundless, and then hit on the idea that there are small infinities (like the sum of all real numbers between zero and one) and large infinities (like the sum of all real numbers.)
For some reason, I was the only person in my math class who thought that was even remotely kickass. Hmm.
I've been part of the die-hard Hubble fan club since it launched, and when I heard that NASA was going to end the project by, in layman's terms, "not giving a s--t anymore," I was very pissed off.
But a friend of mine (and a robotics engineer) made a good point: Hubble sure kicks ass, but we've got bigger and better technology now. Maybe we can spend all the "Hubble Rescue" money on something even more impressive, which would yield even better imagery than our good ol' HST.
Sure, I'll be very sad when (not if, apparently) NASA de-orbits the instrument, but as long as we can get something better up there beforehand, we're not going to be losing all that much, except the memories. (Well, that, and all the shared time astronomers could be logging on the HST in the future.)
Though it would be kind of cool to bring the HST back to Earth in a shuttle hold, and analyze the surfaces and instruments. Then we could put the sucker in the Air and Space museum, which would be totally awsome.
Actually, you could insert a small written message into a hole in a carrot, then freeze the carrot and insert it into an un-frozen potato. Then you drop the potato into a potato gun and fire it at a car. As long as the carrot is frozen enough, it may very well pass through the metal sides of a car, creating an APDSFCMR, or "Armour-piercing discarding-sabot frozen carrot message round."
"NSA to oversee communication between government agencies"
The original reading gives the impression that the NSA is going to be watching all internet traffic, rather than limiting their scope to traffic going between governmental offices and departments.
There's nothing about this that would seem to have a limiting effect on the rights of the general public, only the rights of those sending information from, say, their desk at the State Department to someone else's desk in the DIA.
I can paint my motorcycle helmet with this stuff, and totally protect my brain against Illuminati mind-control beams coming from geosynchonous orbit over my house.
Unless, of course, they work at higher frequencies than 5 GHz, which isn't beyond the capabilites of the all-powerful leader of the Illuminati, a man we know as "Associate Deputy Secretary of Transportation Jeffrey Shane."
Capcom: What happen?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the launch.
Operator: We get signal.
Capcom: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on
Capcom: Its you!!
Cassini: How are you gentlemen!!
Cassini: All your moon are belong to us!!
Cassini: You are on the way to Saturn.
Capcom: What you say!!
Cassini: You have no chance to abort make your time.
Cassini: Ha ha ha ha!!
Capcom: Take off every 'Huygens'!!
Capcom: You know what you doing.
Capcom: Move 'Huygens'
Capcom: for great data.
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Beaten to the punch! But at least we know that if it made it into 2.7, SCO would find a way to dike it out through lawsuits. You know, because SCO owns the copyright on any innovation in Linux.
I actually wasn't /that/ surprised that Estonia has such an internet-savvy political system. Estonia was one of the first countries to break away from the USSR (along with Latvia and Lithuania) as a result of the "Singing Revolution."
What about B.F. Skinner's pigeonbombs? Had the war gone on just a year longer, we'd have had pigeons guiding homing bombs right into Japanese destroyers or Hitler's bunker in Berlin.
Arr Oh Eff Ell.
I guess space weapons are the only way for the righteous American People can defeat the evil Soviet Union, because the Soviet Union, and all those thermonuclear-tipped ICBMs that the Soviet Union currently owns and aims right at the White House, is evil, and is obviously going to nuke us and invade us at any moment.
Why should we try to protect ourselves from the asymmetrical threat that terrorism and armed insurgency present to the people of the US and our allies, when we can try to destroy the vast spectre of the Soviet Union for twice the price?
I realize that sounds silly, considering the fall of the Berlin Wall and Gorbachev's early retirement, but the whole "gotta fight the commies" mentality really hasn't died in the US. There's still that vast chimera of Global Communism, and for some, the best way to fight it is to steal from the communists and make money selling things.
Once we can disabuse these klepto-capitalists of their skewed ideas of OSS advocates, and prove to them that we actually have the money and initiative to litigate the pants off of them, they'll shut up and stop stealing from us.
Personally, I'm apt to blame the whole thing on Spiro Agnew. But that's just me.
Uhh, I think the more appropriate statement would be, "The U.S. Officials who support the DMCA can suck my balls." Most of the people in the U.S. who know about the DMCA (and give two tugs of a dead dog's genitalia) don't like the legislation any more than you.
Heaven forbid you'd want to look up the prices of ***merbund rentals for prom, or look up the history of the ***berland Gap!
Oh Emm Eff Gee, you're right! They /did/ get their shadows wrong! /That/ must be why they wanted to withhold the screenshots. I mean, what if the press leaked evidence that Microsoft's perspective and lighting didn't match up? If we can't trust the rules of ray-traced illumination and vanishing points, what /can/ we trust?
I would pay /bad/ money to see that. The /good/ money I'd save for some hot Darth-on-Darth action.
Vocal chords themselves are not resonators, they simply excite motion in the air. The throat, mouth, nasal passages and sinuses are the resonators, sort of like the body of a guitar resonates with the sound excited by a string being plucked.
I like the term my cultural geography professor used for the political situation in Russia: Kleptocracy.
For some reason, I was the only person in my math class who thought that was even remotely kickass. Hmm.
That, my friend, is subtle humour.
Only magic? Not more magic?
Oh great, not more Nibiru crap. There's only so much Nibiru I can handle before I feel the need to request antipsychotics.
Here's a name for the new star: Echidna. I don't know why.
But a friend of mine (and a robotics engineer) made a good point: Hubble sure kicks ass, but we've got bigger and better technology now. Maybe we can spend all the "Hubble Rescue" money on something even more impressive, which would yield even better imagery than our good ol' HST.
Sure, I'll be very sad when (not if, apparently) NASA de-orbits the instrument, but as long as we can get something better up there beforehand, we're not going to be losing all that much, except the memories. (Well, that, and all the shared time astronomers could be logging on the HST in the future.)
Though it would be kind of cool to bring the HST back to Earth in a shuttle hold, and analyze the surfaces and instruments. Then we could put the sucker in the Air and Space museum, which would be totally awsome.
Actually, you could insert a small written message into a hole in a carrot, then freeze the carrot and insert it into an un-frozen potato. Then you drop the potato into a potato gun and fire it at a car. As long as the carrot is frozen enough, it may very well pass through the metal sides of a car, creating an APDSFCMR, or "Armour-piercing discarding-sabot frozen carrot message round."
The original reading gives the impression that the NSA is going to be watching all internet traffic, rather than limiting their scope to traffic going between governmental offices and departments.
There's nothing about this that would seem to have a limiting effect on the rights of the general public, only the rights of those sending information from, say, their desk at the State Department to someone else's desk in the DIA.
...welcome our sexy new stripper, R. Syndee Olivaw.
Well, as long as we have overlords, they might as well be shotgun-packing, AK-47-toting fly-eating deathbots that also kick our ass in soccer.
So can I call John Deere if I want to download a demo of the new version of Traktor DJ?
Unless, of course, they work at higher frequencies than 5 GHz, which isn't beyond the capabilites of the all-powerful leader of the Illuminati, a man we know as "Associate Deputy Secretary of Transportation Jeffrey Shane."
Capcom: What happen?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the launch.
Operator: We get signal.
Capcom: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on
Capcom: Its you!!
Cassini: How are you gentlemen!!
Cassini: All your moon are belong to us!!
Cassini: You are on the way to Saturn.
Capcom: What you say!!
Cassini: You have no chance to abort make your time.
Cassini: Ha ha ha ha!!
Capcom: Take off every 'Huygens'!!
Capcom: You know what you doing.
Capcom: Move 'Huygens'
Capcom: for great data.