If any other bunch of zealots, domestic or foreign, created enough chaos to shut down significant amounts of the US Federal Government, they'd be labelled as terrorists, hunted down and shot.
Why not the Members of the House that have done the same?
I agree 100%. The comments are more important than the articles to which they are attached; there is more often useful information in a couple of the comments than the summary or linked article.
I still use the "old mode" to skip the noise, and this is even worse. WTF, FLASH!? If this is the new slashdot, I'm outta here.
Anyone else remember the picures of the Russian women standing in front of the tanks during the Soviet collapse? The soldiers were generally willing to kill, and die, to protect the Soviet Union from US, but NOT from their mothers and grandmothers.
These robots will have no qualms about massacring children and women (even the non-revolutionaries) if so ordered to protect the 1%. Plus, a fat lot of good your.308 hunting rifle will do against an armor-plated killing machine.
I would really like to replace my Westinghouse 37W1, since the backlight is separating, but there's nothing I can find like it. It does not have a tuner, since I have no use for one, but it has a more-then-complete set of discrete inputs (2 HDMI, 2 component, S-Video, Composite, and SVGA), so my receiver can switch between my sources and the monitor just handles the output. It's like speakers (converts electricity into sound), but for images.
I wonder if it's possible to have a stable "high inclination" orbit so that the satellite moves north-south during its orbit to have the orbit clear of the Earth's shadow while "behind" the Earth? It should take no more than 6700 km at 42000 km above Earth's center, which is not THAT many degrees of inclination (10?). That way the satellite would always be in full sun, although it would increase the apparent thickness of the atmosphere at most angles.
Really needs a superconducting skyhook if we had a true geosynchronous (apparently stationary WRT a ground station) orbit.
Still not terribly "green", since we'd be adding many megawatts of power to the input side of Earth's power budget.
The only orbits that have no period when the sun is blocked by Earth's shadow ("night") are polar (remember the pictures of sunrise over the Earth shot from space by various astro/cosmonauts?). No single ground station could receive the power.
Also, there would be considerable photon pressure pushing the satellite(s) away from the Sun and, hence, Earth, plus gravitational drag attempting to pull the orbits around he Earth. Not a big deal for a short-term recon satellite, but these would be intended to there for years. Any of the rocket scientists out there know if the polar orbits are even vaguely stable, or will the satellite need boatloads of fuel to stay where it's needed. Of course, the beam of Earthbound power is a thruster, too, raising the orbit.
Put the collector at the Eath-Sol L1 and you've got to have REALLY good beam control to keep from raising the temperature of the entire Earth.
Sounds more like weapon than a power source to me.
Far too many vendors are only willing to provide chip documentation under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), which prevents a knowlege-, as opposed to empirical-based Linux driver. This allows them to kludge around chip deficiencies in a Windows driver without the user being aware of any issues. Even Intel has started making it harder to get the real manuals for their CPUs and bridges (they used to ALL be published on Intel's FTP and HTTP sites). Frequently, in System-on-Chip (SoC) implementations, even the CHIP vendors don't know anything; they just pass along whatever quick and dirty proof of concept the designers of some feature of the chip provided and call it a "working driver", while it is nothing that would pass even a cursory QA process.
The first Linux code I wrote was a "quirk" handler for a parallel ATA PCI chip that came up programmed to the same default I/O addresses as the South Bridge's internal ports, and a BIOS that didn't properly perform PCI enumeration on it, since it already had PCI addresses.
All "creative" works (music scores, music lyrics, movies, TV episodes, static images, on whatever mix of photograph and drawn manually or with mechanical or electronic assist,...) are all subject ot copyright. Printed circuit digrams and the 3D printer files are also subject to copyright. Even, IIRC, works thats might be illegal in some jurisdiction or other can still have copyright protection.
The statement "Defeating or simply slowing down aging is the most useful thing that can be done for all the people on the planet." is nonsense, if we do not first deal with the issues of , oh, for example, sex slavery (wouldn't it be GREAT to be forced to live 150 years as a sex slave?). How 'bout getting more people to a healthy 70, free of autoimmune diseases and cancer, well nourished, with a decent roof over their heads, and decent care for injury and illness? Could we, somehow, free the millions (if not billions) of women trapped in archaic, abusive societies?
We don't have enough decent-paying employment on the planet to support the population we have now, and you're going to double the number of years someone has to support themselves? Where do we find those jobs?
Maria Konovalenko has a serious case of aerobic encephalitis.
You could care less if the back end that has your credit card numbers or medical info' has less-effective security, either because of the built-in Windows back doors or the MS-certified script followers called admins operating the site?
I've cancelled credit cards because they could not convince me that they even understood the question regarding the boundary between the web access for those that want it and the actual database of account information.
Like a lot of men, I was mutilated as an infant (and I'm not even a member a the tribe of primitives who perform this mutilation for religious reasons).
What happend to MY tissue?
If you don't think it is mutilation, can I assume you also don't mind a teenage girl being drugged and having her clitoris removed?
After all, why are there ribbed condoms? To put back some of the stimulation our sex partners would have had.
The study in Africa that circumcision may reduce HIV transmission (how 'bout a condom, or two, instead?) is NOT a blanket medical justification for the mutilation of so many millions of children.
I suggested to TWC that they allow CBS to charge whatever they want to subscribed users, adding only a $0.10/month handling fee for collecting the money. If CBS think they deserve a premium rate, treat them like one.
Personally, I haven't watched "broadcast" television for years (decades?) unless the parent company of the cable channel that handles F1 (was Fox, now NBC) moves a few races to the broadcast channel.
I got the same message as the submission on Virgin (Sprint). Where the hell is "Boulevard, CA"? California is a big state; more than a day's drive NS for most people.
If I'm driving, the alert is on the big orange-text signs every couple of miles, and I'm NOT supposed to be taking text messages while driving.
If I'm home, in bed (or, in my case, watching a movie), how much good does it do to wake/text me?
As to "what more do I (you) need?": tell me if it's a custody dispute or a "stranger" kidnapping. In the former case, I don't care, while in the latter, I do. The custodial parent isn't always the more fit, they might just have better lawyers, 'specially abusive, wealthy fathers/husbands.
I've been tested to have a natural 3AM - 11AM (standard time) sleep cycle. I've done quite a bit of camping, for week+ periods, and it never changed that cycle. I'd still be up 'til well past midnight and totally ass-dragging 'til lunch. Saw a LOT of stars in the woods, desert, shore, though.
I doubt that they had real biological (genetic alleles) in that test, or true larks, for that matter.
Wasn`t it Prince William who flew decoy missions (get the Exocet to lock onto your helicopter, then jink at the last moment) to try to protect the fleet?
Seems to me, if any of the "explanations" for our involvement in Afghanistan were true (rather than that GW was a nutcase and Obama a coward), we'd have as much justification for dropping a missile on this judge as we do on the Taliban.
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"I have just as much authority as the Pope, but fewer people believe it."
George Carlin
If any other bunch of zealots, domestic or foreign, created enough chaos to shut down significant amounts of the US Federal Government, they'd be labelled as terrorists, hunted down and shot.
Why not the Members of the House that have done the same?
I agree 100%. The comments are more important than the articles to which they are attached; there is more often useful information in a couple of the comments than the summary or linked article.
I still use the "old mode" to skip the noise, and this is even worse. WTF, FLASH!? If this is the new slashdot, I'm outta here.
My 6850 also "just works", CCC and all, in Debian 7 (amd64).
Haven't checked the supported cards list, lately, to see what newer card works.
http://www.jir.com/
Anyone else remember the picures of the Russian women standing in front of the tanks during the Soviet collapse? The soldiers were generally willing to kill, and die, to protect the Soviet Union from US, but NOT from their mothers and grandmothers.
These robots will have no qualms about massacring children and women (even the non-revolutionaries) if so ordered to protect the 1%. Plus, a fat lot of good your .308 hunting rifle will do against an armor-plated killing machine.
I would really like to replace my Westinghouse 37W1, since the backlight is separating, but there's nothing I can find like it. It does not have a tuner, since I have no use for one, but it has a more-then-complete set of discrete inputs (2 HDMI, 2 component, S-Video, Composite, and SVGA), so my receiver can switch between my sources and the monitor just handles the output. It's like speakers (converts electricity into sound), but for images.
I wonder if it's possible to have a stable "high inclination" orbit so that the satellite moves north-south during its orbit to have the orbit clear of the Earth's shadow while "behind" the Earth? It should take no more than 6700 km at 42000 km above Earth's center, which is not THAT many degrees of inclination (10?). That way the satellite would always be in full sun, although it would increase the apparent thickness of the atmosphere at most angles.
Really needs a superconducting skyhook if we had a true geosynchronous (apparently stationary WRT a ground station) orbit.
Still not terribly "green", since we'd be adding many megawatts of power to the input side of Earth's power budget.
Hardly; still isn't known to be using an anonymizer.
The only orbits that have no period when the sun is blocked by Earth's shadow ("night") are polar (remember the pictures of sunrise over the Earth shot from space by various astro/cosmonauts?). No single ground station could receive the power.
Also, there would be considerable photon pressure pushing the satellite(s) away from the Sun and, hence, Earth, plus gravitational drag attempting to pull the orbits around he Earth. Not a big deal for a short-term recon satellite, but these would be intended to there for years. Any of the rocket scientists out there know if the polar orbits are even vaguely stable, or will the satellite need boatloads of fuel to stay where it's needed. Of course, the beam of Earthbound power is a thruster, too, raising the orbit.
Put the collector at the Eath-Sol L1 and you've got to have REALLY good beam control to keep from raising the temperature of the entire Earth.
Sounds more like weapon than a power source to me.
You cannot share the real functionality of the chip registers by documenting them in a working Linux (GPLv2) driver.
Far too many vendors are only willing to provide chip documentation under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), which prevents a knowlege-, as opposed to empirical-based Linux driver. This allows them to kludge around chip deficiencies in a Windows driver without the user being aware of any issues. Even Intel has started making it harder to get the real manuals for their CPUs and bridges (they used to ALL be published on Intel's FTP and HTTP sites). Frequently, in System-on-Chip (SoC) implementations, even the CHIP vendors don't know anything; they just pass along whatever quick and dirty proof of concept the designers of some feature of the chip provided and call it a "working driver", while it is nothing that would pass even a cursory QA process.
The first Linux code I wrote was a "quirk" handler for a parallel ATA PCI chip that came up programmed to the same default I/O addresses as the South Bridge's internal ports, and a BIOS that didn't properly perform PCI enumeration on it, since it already had PCI addresses.
IANAL, but, very wrong.
All "creative" works (music scores, music lyrics, movies, TV episodes, static images, on whatever mix of photograph and drawn manually or with mechanical or electronic assist, ...) are all subject ot copyright. Printed circuit digrams and the 3D printer files are also subject to copyright. Even, IIRC, works thats might be illegal in some jurisdiction or other can still have copyright protection.
Arthur C. Clarke already warned us the deep-ocean dwellers might not take kindly to dumping heat into their environment.
The statement "Defeating or simply slowing down aging is the most useful thing that can be done for all the people on the planet." is nonsense, if we do not first deal with the issues of , oh, for example, sex slavery (wouldn't it be GREAT to be forced to live 150 years as a sex slave?). How 'bout getting more people to a healthy 70, free of autoimmune diseases and cancer, well nourished, with a decent roof over their heads, and decent care for injury and illness? Could we, somehow, free the millions (if not billions) of women trapped in archaic, abusive societies?
We don't have enough decent-paying employment on the planet to support the population we have now, and you're going to double the number of years someone has to support themselves? Where do we find those jobs?
Maria Konovalenko has a serious case of aerobic encephalitis.
The originally-linked Yahoo finance page is expired, but here's the /. discussion from 2006:
http://slashdot.org/story/06/03/23/008229/godaddycom-dumps-linux-for-microsoft
You could care less if the back end that has your credit card numbers or medical info' has less-effective security, either because of the built-in Windows back doors or the MS-certified script followers called admins operating the site?
I've cancelled credit cards because they could not convince me that they even understood the question regarding the boundary between the web access for those that want it and the actual database of account information.
Like a lot of men, I was mutilated as an infant (and I'm not even a member a the tribe of primitives who perform this mutilation for religious reasons).
What happend to MY tissue?
If you don't think it is mutilation, can I assume you also don't mind a teenage girl being drugged and having her clitoris removed?
After all, why are there ribbed condoms? To put back some of the stimulation our sex partners would have had.
The study in Africa that circumcision may reduce HIV transmission (how 'bout a condom, or two, instead?) is NOT a blanket medical justification for the mutilation of so many millions of children.
I suggested to TWC that they allow CBS to charge whatever they want to subscribed users, adding only a $0.10/month handling fee for collecting the money. If CBS think they deserve a premium rate, treat them like one.
Personally, I haven't watched "broadcast" television for years (decades?) unless the parent company of the cable channel that handles F1 (was Fox, now NBC) moves a few races to the broadcast channel.
Sure, but they usually can't afford the better lawyer, although there is some courtroom bias in their favor.
Look at the overall numbers, and there are more abusive fathers (and boyfriends of mothers) than mothers.
There WAS NO USEFUL geographic info'.
I got the same message as the submission on Virgin (Sprint). Where the hell is "Boulevard, CA"? California is a big state; more than a day's drive NS for most people.
If I'm driving, the alert is on the big orange-text signs every couple of miles, and I'm NOT supposed to be taking text messages while driving.
If I'm home, in bed (or, in my case, watching a movie), how much good does it do to wake/text me?
As to "what more do I (you) need?": tell me if it's a custody dispute or a "stranger" kidnapping. In the former case, I don't care, while in the latter, I do. The custodial parent isn't always the more fit, they might just have better lawyers, 'specially abusive, wealthy fathers/husbands.
I've been tested to have a natural 3AM - 11AM (standard time) sleep cycle. I've done quite a bit of camping, for week+ periods, and it never changed that cycle. I'd still be up 'til well past midnight and totally ass-dragging 'til lunch. Saw a LOT of stars in the woods, desert, shore, though.
I doubt that they had real biological (genetic alleles) in that test, or true larks, for that matter.
Wasn`t it Prince William who flew decoy missions (get the Exocet to lock onto your helicopter, then jink at the last moment) to try to protect the fleet?
They FUND Al Qaeda.
Remember, it was Saudis and Yemenis that carried out the 9/11 hijackings/crashes, not Afghanistanis.
Seems to me, if any of the "explanations" for our involvement in Afghanistan were true (rather than that GW was a nutcase and Obama a coward), we'd have as much justification for dropping a missile on this judge as we do on the Taliban.