I don't think all 250,000 vehicles are on the bridge at once. Considering a cubic metre of water weighs a tonne, any aqueduct with a water channel 1 metre wide, 1 metre deep and longer than 100 metres is carrying at least 100 tonnes at any moment, constantly. And your last comment is derisable, considering a dead slave is worth nothing so at the least they must be fed.
Why mention the software at all ? It's obvious that the press will leap onto it as the cause, however wrongly. They could have said "it was made available for sharing" instead they go for P2P software, like sharing the root of C is advisable even without P2P. And as for your last quip, I'm not aware of a very public battle between briefcases and the media industry. If there were, then ill advised mentions of briefcases should be avoided too. Stick to the facts, staffer took confidential stuff home,put it on their computer and gave access to the world. Whether it was knowingly or otherwise is irrelevant, as is the method of access. Maybe he had an anon ftp server running on that machine too.
The technical error is that they forgot the words "incorrectly configured" before P2P software. If you omit those 2 words, it tars any P2P software ever, with the brush of dangerous. Not to mention that the documents shouldn't have been on a private computer. Would they be concerned that the documents had been contaminated by filth if there had been donkey porn on there too ? Should the main target in a libel case be MS Word 2003 ?
The space stations are in low earth orbit. So they are protected by the earths magnetic field from lethal cosmic radiation. Without that protection, the human immune system has to battle on too many fronts while being actively weakened by the radiation.
You are looking at the problem from entirely the wrong perspective. The point is not to discover where they are for travelling purposes, but if they are there at all. Do you think it is of no consequence whether the earth is unique in the universe ? Until astronomy proved that other planets existed and that they revolved around the sun, most people thought the sun went around the earth. Should we just have accepted that view ? Would satellites even exist providing TV communications etc if we didn't understand gravity and orbits ? Maybe you can just sit back and accept the existence of life as a given, but to understand more about it we must try to establish why it exists and where else it may be found. So far we have 1 example, and statistically that is insignificant given the size of the universe. The telescope wasn't seen as very useful when it was first invented, in fact it was sold as a benefit to land based traders, because they could see ships heading for port and thereby set their prices accordingly. A far cry from hubble, and yet under your world view it was a waste of time. What is true on a macroscopic scale is sometimes relevant on a microscopic scale. Energy distribution, radiation, particle physics, anti-matter, fusion, gravity, magnetism, the list is endless. It's all part of nature, and we are part of nature so ignoring the wider picture would be stupid.
As for your doctor, if you choose to ignore him, then more fool you. But you can't complain later that you didn't know. We are seeking knowledge, you are choosing to ignore it. Are you religious ?
You don't know what bronze is do you ? I know what you're trying to say but making stupid comments doesn't help. There was an obvious benefit to using bronze over say copper or tin individually - that is it is harder. It is hard to see an obvious benefit to finding exoplanets. That doesn't mean there isn't one, but you have to dig a bit deeper for the reason. And contrary to popular belief it isn't to have somewhere to go. The more we know about the universe, and in particular other planets, the more we can know about the earth, which I'm sure you'll agree is relevant. A sample size of one does not a good model make.
I recently re-watched an excellent 3 part program called The Trap, which was about how the western governments decided it wasn't in their interests to try and change society for the better, but instead to allow the "market" to supply what people wanted and just stick to enforcement. Deregulation of the banks was one of the prime examples.
So is it any wonder that the government is now following the path laid out by the corporations, and making laws based upon what the corps. need rather than what is best for the people. Copyright extension, sure how long do you want ? 3 strikes laws, sure no problem. Invasive ID schemes, sure, I bet you can make a nice profit there - be sure to pass some my way.
The people are the product. That has been said before but when the govt. treats us like a product to be sold to the highest bidder, they have no place in power. People vote and elect politicians to represent us, not to do their best for the interests of the corporations. There is a name for a system that does that, and it's called Fascism. It is telling that since deregulation of the financial markets the gap between rich and poor has only got wider. Before then the gap was slowly closing. You can't buy a better future because you don't control it. Freedom is about having choice, not about having the latest gadget. I don't care if there are 1000 different cell phones on the market, you don't actually have a choice about how they interact. You are dependent on the cell providers who can pretty much do what they want. It is an illusion of choice. The public is being gradually sold off to private concerns, all for the price of a few shiny baubles. Education suffers because it threatens the corporations. It becomes acceptable to tell lies to the public in the interests of control. And most so called educated people see no problem with that. Maybe it threatens their sense of superiority.
Who pays Imperial College ? He was not unpaid, he didn't do this stuff in his spare time as a favour. He was appointed to the position because he is an expert, and the govt. pays organisations to perform studies. Just because it doesn't say HM Treasury on his wage slip doesn't mean he wasn't being paid from funds allocated by the govt. And none of this has anything to do with the article we are supposed to be discussing.
You can get a laptop free with a cell phone contract. You can get up to 8 Mbps adsl for around £6 per month. Hardly upper middle class territory. Considering most chavs have sky tv it's not a stretch.
You are full of shit. Every post you make confirms it further. You will die on the road, I just hope that you don't take out anybody else at the same time.
You are a prize dickhead. If for no other reason than you think swerving is a suitable reaction to anything. And most cars since the 40s have turn signals right there on the steering column, you don't have to take your hand off the wheel to use them.
Are you completely stupid ? Do you drive your truck on different roads than those you drive your car on ? One size fits all is the only way different vehicles and drivers can co-exist. Jesus. Why is everybody a fucking expert when it comes to driving ? From what I see everyday on the roads, very few drivers have even the slightest clue about what they're doing.
That's why there are so many US drivers in formula 1 then. Oops, not even 1. How about the world rally championship ? Nope, not 1. In fact can you name one US driver in any car racing sport that doesn't involve driving around in circles ?
As for your last comment, the circuit absolutely defines how good the driver is. If you crash all the time you aren't much good. All nascar is, is a straight forward power and speed dash. The only reason there are any corners at all is so that people can watch it in a confined space. The tracks are banked FFS, so the corners aren't even proper corners.
Excuses, excuses. At the moment the US has poor rural broadband development. But the cities have no excuse whatsoever. There is no reason why the developed areas can't be brought up to a decent speed and then do the rural areas later. Here's a scale map of Japan and the East coast of the USA. If Japan can get 100Mbps connectivity over most of that largely mountainous terrain, what's the excuse for New York, or Washington DC ? Procrastination, that's what.
So the biggest recession for decades has nothing at all to do with it ? Considering that the locals have been gaining readers, I suspect that more people are looking for jobs close to home, and thinking FTW.
I fail to see how a virus could cause cancer because the whole point of a virus is to reproduce. To do this it infects a cell, reproduces inside the cell until the cell dies and basically explodes, scattering the virus back into the wild where it infects more cells. Cancer does not suffer from cell death or explosion, in fact it is pretty much the opposite. If cells were exploding then the immune system would notice something going on, which in the case of cancer, it doesn't. So how does the virus spread if it's stuck inside a steadily growing cell ?
Salyut, the word is Salyut. Yes I know about the translation, but I bet you never call Mir, peace or world. Hell you could have said the fireworks 5,6 and 7 but you didn't so why not use the name they gave it ? Or do you go to the River of January for the carnival ?
I got several copies the first time they offered them. None of them would boot. I informed them of this and they asked me to do all the bug reporting crap, but never sent me any more copies, so I gave up. I download all my ISOs these days, and Ubuntu isn't among them.
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I don't think all 250,000 vehicles are on the bridge at once. Considering a cubic metre of water weighs a tonne, any aqueduct with a water channel 1 metre wide, 1 metre deep and longer than 100 metres is carrying at least 100 tonnes at any moment, constantly. And your last comment is derisable, considering a dead slave is worth nothing so at the least they must be fed.
Why mention the software at all ? It's obvious that the press will leap onto it as the cause, however wrongly. They could have said "it was made available for sharing" instead they go for P2P software, like sharing the root of C is advisable even without P2P. And as for your last quip, I'm not aware of a very public battle between briefcases and the media industry. If there were, then ill advised mentions of briefcases should be avoided too. Stick to the facts, staffer took confidential stuff home ,put it on their computer and gave access to the world. Whether it was knowingly or otherwise is irrelevant, as is the method of access. Maybe he had an anon ftp server running on that machine too.
You must be american. Sharing is usually at least 2 way.
The technical error is that they forgot the words "incorrectly configured" before P2P software. If you omit those 2 words, it tars any P2P software ever, with the brush of dangerous. Not to mention that the documents shouldn't have been on a private computer. Would they be concerned that the documents had been contaminated by filth if there had been donkey porn on there too ? Should the main target in a libel case be MS Word 2003 ?
The space stations are in low earth orbit. So they are protected by the earths magnetic field from lethal cosmic radiation. Without that protection, the human immune system has to battle on too many fronts while being actively weakened by the radiation.
You are looking at the problem from entirely the wrong perspective. The point is not to discover where they are for travelling purposes, but if they are there at all. Do you think it is of no consequence whether the earth is unique in the universe ? Until astronomy proved that other planets existed and that they revolved around the sun, most people thought the sun went around the earth. Should we just have accepted that view ? Would satellites even exist providing TV communications etc if we didn't understand gravity and orbits ?
Maybe you can just sit back and accept the existence of life as a given, but to understand more about it we must try to establish why it exists and where else it may be found. So far we have 1 example, and statistically that is insignificant given the size of the universe. The telescope wasn't seen as very useful when it was first invented, in fact it was sold as a benefit to land based traders, because they could see ships heading for port and thereby set their prices accordingly. A far cry from hubble, and yet under your world view it was a waste of time. What is true on a macroscopic scale is sometimes relevant on a microscopic scale. Energy distribution, radiation, particle physics, anti-matter, fusion, gravity, magnetism, the list is endless. It's all part of nature, and we are part of nature so ignoring the wider picture would be stupid.
As for your doctor, if you choose to ignore him, then more fool you. But you can't complain later that you didn't know. We are seeking knowledge, you are choosing to ignore it. Are you religious ?
You don't know what bronze is do you ? I know what you're trying to say but making stupid comments doesn't help. There was an obvious benefit to using bronze over say copper or tin individually - that is it is harder. It is hard to see an obvious benefit to finding exoplanets. That doesn't mean there isn't one, but you have to dig a bit deeper for the reason. And contrary to popular belief it isn't to have somewhere to go. The more we know about the universe, and in particular other planets, the more we can know about the earth, which I'm sure you'll agree is relevant. A sample size of one does not a good model make.
I recently re-watched an excellent 3 part program called The Trap, which was about how the western governments decided it wasn't in their interests to try and change society for the better, but instead to allow the "market" to supply what people wanted and just stick to enforcement. Deregulation of the banks was one of the prime examples.
So is it any wonder that the government is now following the path laid out by the corporations, and making laws based upon what the corps. need rather than what is best for the people. Copyright extension, sure how long do you want ? 3 strikes laws, sure no problem. Invasive ID schemes, sure, I bet you can make a nice profit there - be sure to pass some my way.
The people are the product. That has been said before but when the govt. treats us like a product to be sold to the highest bidder, they have no place in power. People vote and elect politicians to represent us, not to do their best for the interests of the corporations. There is a name for a system that does that, and it's called Fascism. It is telling that since deregulation of the financial markets the gap between rich and poor has only got wider. Before then the gap was slowly closing. You can't buy a better future because you don't control it. Freedom is about having choice, not about having the latest gadget. I don't care if there are 1000 different cell phones on the market, you don't actually have a choice about how they interact. You are dependent on the cell providers who can pretty much do what they want. It is an illusion of choice. The public is being gradually sold off to private concerns, all for the price of a few shiny baubles. Education suffers because it threatens the corporations. It becomes acceptable to tell lies to the public in the interests of control. And most so called educated people see no problem with that. Maybe it threatens their sense of superiority.
Who pays Imperial College ? He was not unpaid, he didn't do this stuff in his spare time as a favour. He was appointed to the position because he is an expert, and the govt. pays organisations to perform studies. Just because it doesn't say HM Treasury on his wage slip doesn't mean he wasn't being paid from funds allocated by the govt. And none of this has anything to do with the article we are supposed to be discussing.
You can get a laptop free with a cell phone contract. You can get up to 8 Mbps adsl for around £6 per month. Hardly upper middle class territory. Considering most chavs have sky tv it's not a stretch.
gps != satnav
What like in the url bar ? Maybe the answer is to actually pay attention to the world around you.
You are full of shit. Every post you make confirms it further. You will die on the road, I just hope that you don't take out anybody else at the same time.
You are a prize dickhead. If for no other reason than you think swerving is a suitable reaction to anything. And most cars since the 40s have turn signals right there on the steering column, you don't have to take your hand off the wheel to use them.
Are you completely stupid ? Do you drive your truck on different roads than those you drive your car on ? One size fits all is the only way different vehicles and drivers can co-exist. Jesus. Why is everybody a fucking expert when it comes to driving ? From what I see everyday on the roads, very few drivers have even the slightest clue about what they're doing.
That's why there are so many US drivers in formula 1 then. Oops, not even 1. How about the world rally championship ? Nope, not 1. In fact can you name one US driver in any car racing sport that doesn't involve driving around in circles ?
As for your last comment, the circuit absolutely defines how good the driver is. If you crash all the time you aren't much good. All nascar is, is a straight forward power and speed dash. The only reason there are any corners at all is so that people can watch it in a confined space. The tracks are banked FFS, so the corners aren't even proper corners.
idiot. I was halfway up K2 and needed a quick fix of youtube, but there was no net available AT ALL. Sickening.
Excuses, excuses. At the moment the US has poor rural broadband development. But the cities have no excuse whatsoever. There is no reason why the developed areas can't be brought up to a decent speed and then do the rural areas later.
Here's a scale map of Japan and the East coast of the USA. If Japan can get 100Mbps connectivity over most of that largely mountainous terrain, what's the excuse for New York, or Washington DC ? Procrastination, that's what.
What, like banking ?
So the biggest recession for decades has nothing at all to do with it ? Considering that the locals have been gaining readers, I suspect that more people are looking for jobs close to home, and thinking FTW.
I fail to see how a virus could cause cancer because the whole point of a virus is to reproduce. To do this it infects a cell, reproduces inside the cell until the cell dies and basically explodes, scattering the virus back into the wild where it infects more cells. Cancer does not suffer from cell death or explosion, in fact it is pretty much the opposite. If cells were exploding then the immune system would notice something going on, which in the case of cancer, it doesn't. So how does the virus spread if it's stuck inside a steadily growing cell ?
That statement sums up the whole "cloud" debate for me.
yes I know it was referring to the start-ups offering services on top of the amazon services. But my point stands.
Salyut, the word is Salyut.
Yes I know about the translation, but I bet you never call Mir, peace or world. Hell you could have said the fireworks 5,6 and 7 but you didn't so why not use the name they gave it ? Or do you go to the River of January for the carnival ?
I got several copies the first time they offered them. None of them would boot. I informed them of this and they asked me to do all the bug reporting crap, but never sent me any more copies, so I gave up. I download all my ISOs these days, and Ubuntu isn't among them.
Your pupal years ? Are you an insect ?