If you obtain a large enough mass of it, and compress it enough, its own gravity will hold it together! As an added bonus, the extreme forces will cause it to fuse and release light!:-)
I guess it depends on how you read the article. I read it to imply that the oil came directly from the well itself, as though the well was leaking. The NPR report sounded like it was trying to assure people that there is no need to panic, the well is still closed. Perhaps I saw this article with that same slant.
About 15 minutes ago NPR reported that robots were sent down there and they found no leaking. The next best guess is that the oil is coming from the shipwreck of the drilling rig, which is one of the theories mentioned in the article.
I am intrigued that RSA forwards their emails to a free virus scanning service. I should going to start my own service. Any company with highly sensitive information is welcome to send it all to me. Don't worry though: we have a posted privacy policy somewhere on our web site.
Ooh, even better idea! How about sending all your passwords to my free service too, and I'll let you know if any of them are insecure!
They did not say there was no fall. They said the fall did not literally happen because of a talking serpent, a magical apple, and only 2 humans. Heck, most Atheists think humans need redemption.
We're also doing a pretty good job overall of resisting the "everybody watch your neighbor" bullshit
Good point - it kinda was going that way after 9/11. The "Terrorist alert" stuff and the electronic roadway signs telling us to report suspicious activity kinda scare me. Hmmm... the guy in the car next to me is wearing some funny shoes... And I think you might be right about America's tolerance. I don't know. It might depend a lot on where you are. Perhaps Arabic-looking people know where not to go?
Sometimes I think about what it is to be a patriot: is a patriot someone who loves their country and follows it to the end? Or someone who considers it their duty to stand up to their government? I think you helped me form my new definition. A patriot is someone who loves their country enough to try and fix it.
Yeah...nice try with the Orwell hyperbole, but until we're voluntarily installing always-on public webcams in our homes and sending our parents to reeducation camps underneath the Department of Justice building I think we're a little short.
I know what you mean, but think about what they have instead. With the Orwell version, someone had to constantly monitor those screens and listen-in on people. Today, a computer program can scan conversations everywhere automatically because those conversations are already transcribed into text. There could be a program scanning Slashdot right now looking for keywords. In some ways, a telescreen is more acceptable because then someone had to decide they had a reason to monitor someone, then assign someone the full-time 24-hour-a-day job of doing it.
And yes, I read the book. Four times
That's a good example. Somewhere, somehow, a computer can now figure that out. But to determine that via a telescreen would require someone to spend years reviewing tapes, tracking your every move.
Where does Google draw the line? Do they allow "vanity" pages like is common for bands, non-profit organizations, and small businesses? What about celebrities who don't use their own name. Ex: Can Miley Cyrus create a "Hannah Montana" page? How about "Hulk Hogan" or various rappers?
I guess they have never sent postal mail either. That amazes me, but you are right the inbox concept is the same way. Most people leave all their email in their inbox. Can you imagine if someone kept every single piece of mail they ever received in the inbox on their desk?
Then, the owner of the plant would patent the process and refuse to license the technology to anyone, thereby creating a monopoly and keeping the price high. When the patent runs out, the new CEO would lobby to make it illegal for anyone else to produce power using this technology. Or make it a legal requirement that some special valve must be used in the process, and patent that valve. etc, etc.
1) It isn't interpreted. 2) There are lots of successful interpreted languages. One of them is running on your computer, displaying this post right now.
Not true. Office 2010 is written in C++ and does not use WPF. In fact, the ribbon control introduced a few years ago is a free download from their web site, and you can only use it from C++. Office 2010 does not use WPF
The i-programmer.info site has been trolling several articles about the end of.NET. Wake me when they have something other than speculation.
with the systems guys building Windows preferring to stick with C++ the outcome was inevitable.
.NET is not a systems language. It never will be. Neither is Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, or HTML5. This does not mean those languages are mistakes or that they are going away.
.NET has always been a second class Windows citizen unable to make direct use of the Windows APIs — especially the latest.
Actually, the opposite is true. Microsoft has been adding new functionality to Windows that is only available to.NET, not to C++ code. WPF is the biggest example of this. They are actually deprecating Windows APIs with each new release of the OS.
The author does not seem to realize that that Microsoft is working on a C# 5.0, and that much of Microsoft's new development is in.NET: Office, Visual Studio, and Sharepoint. All of this trolling stemmed from one demo where they showed some mobile HTML5 apps, and someone just leapt to the conclusion that.NET was dying.
The question is this: how can colleges continue to profit while rejecting those people unlike yourself? The difficulty is that you got a lot more out of the degree, but you have the same title they do. A prospective employer needs an easy way to tell you apart from the crowd.
If Hatta meant the attorneys general who prosecuted the case, then that makes sense to me. This might be a case of malicious prosecution, since they knowingly pursued the case with no real evidence and no real crime. Perhaps to teach them a lesson? But if he meant the judge, the judge did nothing wrong. I assume we are all in agreement and made different assumptions about what is meant by the people who "tried" these men.
Last weekend I went to a local art festival and they had a giant picnic table that you could climb on. Perhaps 20 feet high? You needed a ladder to get up on it. It was installed on a grass median and had no fence. As I was on top with my 2 year old, an 8-year old kid ran by me, jumped off, and vanished over the side as he went down. For a moment I thought the kid was crazy! But shortly thereafter, 2 more boys joined in, only they flipped off of the top. It was quite impressive.
It turns out that they were 3 brothers with their dad. The father was a martial arts instructor and he was coaching his middle boy to use his ankles to cushion his landing, and telling his youngest how to roll if he falls too hard. They weren't crazy - they just saw this stuff growing up and learned to do it safely. The dad told the youngest one that he was only allowed to flip off if he could do one from a standing position. It isn't that they had no rules, they just weren't overly afraid. They had a coach, and they knew their own limitations and followed instructions.
Amazing what a trusting, confident parent can teach an 8-year old kid. I want to know what they are like in 15 years.
Hatta didn't say anything was wrong with the trial. Just like you said, "the arrest is where the problem was" so the next step is to sue the police department for the arrest, and hopefully get compensation for the jail time and legal fees. An acquittal doesn't stop the police from abusing their power the very next time this happens. And the judge should inform the police that they cannot refuse to allow the filming at all, should they choose to do so next time.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has a very good track record of dealing with these kinds of issues. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) may also be able to help.
Netflix could increase their price 5-fold and it would still be cheaper than cable television with more content and higher quality. Now, if Netflix could become a broadband provider and totally eliminate the ISP, *then* they would be a powerhouse. It might be a good idea for them to do anyway, since their business model relies on their biggest competitors providing the delivery mechanism for their service.
Slashdot Mirror
If you obtain a large enough mass of it, and compress it enough, its own gravity will hold it together! As an added bonus, the extreme forces will cause it to fuse and release light! :-)
I guess it depends on how you read the article. I read it to imply that the oil came directly from the well itself, as though the well was leaking. The NPR report sounded like it was trying to assure people that there is no need to panic, the well is still closed. Perhaps I saw this article with that same slant.
About 15 minutes ago NPR reported that robots were sent down there and they found no leaking. The next best guess is that the oil is coming from the shipwreck of the drilling rig, which is one of the theories mentioned in the article.
I am intrigued that RSA forwards their emails to a free virus scanning service. I should going to start my own service. Any company with highly sensitive information is welcome to send it all to me. Don't worry though: we have a posted privacy policy somewhere on our web site.
Ooh, even better idea! How about sending all your passwords to my free service too, and I'll let you know if any of them are insecure!
Ironically, the Slashdot ad in the upper-left of my screen is for a document shredding company.
"SHREDX: THE WRONG SHREDDING SERVICE CAN BE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN YOU KNOW"
If there was no fall...
They did not say there was no fall. They said the fall did not literally happen because of a talking serpent, a magical apple, and only 2 humans. Heck, most Atheists think humans need redemption.
We're also doing a pretty good job overall of resisting the "everybody watch your neighbor" bullshit
Good point - it kinda was going that way after 9/11. The "Terrorist alert" stuff and the electronic roadway signs telling us to report suspicious activity kinda scare me. Hmmm... the guy in the car next to me is wearing some funny shoes... And I think you might be right about America's tolerance. I don't know. It might depend a lot on where you are. Perhaps Arabic-looking people know where not to go?
Sometimes I think about what it is to be a patriot: is a patriot someone who loves their country and follows it to the end? Or someone who considers it their duty to stand up to their government? I think you helped me form my new definition. A patriot is someone who loves their country enough to try and fix it.
Yeah...nice try with the Orwell hyperbole, but until we're voluntarily installing always-on public webcams in our homes and sending our parents to reeducation camps underneath the Department of Justice building I think we're a little short.
I know what you mean, but think about what they have instead. With the Orwell version, someone had to constantly monitor those screens and listen-in on people. Today, a computer program can scan conversations everywhere automatically because those conversations are already transcribed into text. There could be a program scanning Slashdot right now looking for keywords. In some ways, a telescreen is more acceptable because then someone had to decide they had a reason to monitor someone, then assign someone the full-time 24-hour-a-day job of doing it.
And yes, I read the book. Four times
That's a good example. Somewhere, somehow, a computer can now figure that out. But to determine that via a telescreen would require someone to spend years reviewing tapes, tracking your every move.
Where does Google draw the line? Do they allow "vanity" pages like is common for bands, non-profit organizations, and small businesses? What about celebrities who don't use their own name. Ex: Can Miley Cyrus create a "Hannah Montana" page? How about "Hulk Hogan" or various rappers?
I guess they have never sent postal mail either. That amazes me, but you are right the inbox concept is the same way. Most people leave all their email in their inbox. Can you imagine if someone kept every single piece of mail they ever received in the inbox on their desk?
Then, the owner of the plant would patent the process and refuse to license the technology to anyone, thereby creating a monopoly and keeping the price high. When the patent runs out, the new CEO would lobby to make it illegal for anyone else to produce power using this technology. Or make it a legal requirement that some special valve must be used in the process, and patent that valve. etc, etc.
Sorry, I might be jaded.
.Net libraries are mear wrappers around COM and Win32 counterparts.
Not as much as you might think. Some examples are System.Xml which is not a wrapper of MSXML, the Managed portions of System.Security.Cryptography, and WPF, which is written in entirely managed code. Also note that GDI+ was written in C++ and cannot be called from C code.
1) It isn't interpreted.
2) There are lots of successful interpreted languages. One of them is running on your computer, displaying this post right now.
How is that possible? Windows XP SP2 came with .NET 2.0. Vista includes 3.0, and Windows 7 includes 3.5.
Not true. Office 2010 is written in C++ and does not use WPF. In fact, the ribbon control introduced a few years ago is a free download from their web site, and you can only use it from C++.
Office 2010 does not use WPF
The i-programmer.info site has been trolling several articles about the end of .NET. Wake me when they have something other than speculation.
with the systems guys building Windows preferring to stick with C++ the outcome was inevitable.
.NET is not a systems language. It never will be. Neither is Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, or HTML5. This does not mean those languages are mistakes or that they are going away.
.NET has always been a second class Windows citizen unable to make direct use of the Windows APIs — especially the latest.
Actually, the opposite is true. Microsoft has been adding new functionality to Windows that is only available to .NET, not to C++ code. WPF is the biggest example of this. They are actually deprecating Windows APIs with each new release of the OS.
The author does not seem to realize that that Microsoft is working on a C# 5.0, and that much of Microsoft's new development is in .NET: Office, Visual Studio, and Sharepoint. All of this trolling stemmed from one demo where they showed some mobile HTML5 apps, and someone just leapt to the conclusion that .NET was dying.
The question is this: how can colleges continue to profit while rejecting those people unlike yourself? The difficulty is that you got a lot more out of the degree, but you have the same title they do. A prospective employer needs an easy way to tell you apart from the crowd.
I see, I think this is a misunderstanding.
If Hatta meant the attorneys general who prosecuted the case, then that makes sense to me. This might be a case of malicious prosecution, since they knowingly pursued the case with no real evidence and no real crime. Perhaps to teach them a lesson? But if he meant the judge, the judge did nothing wrong. I assume we are all in agreement and made different assumptions about what is meant by the people who "tried" these men.
Sorry about that.
Last weekend I went to a local art festival and they had a giant picnic table that you could climb on. Perhaps 20 feet high? You needed a ladder to get up on it. It was installed on a grass median and had no fence. As I was on top with my 2 year old, an 8-year old kid ran by me, jumped off, and vanished over the side as he went down. For a moment I thought the kid was crazy! But shortly thereafter, 2 more boys joined in, only they flipped off of the top. It was quite impressive.
It turns out that they were 3 brothers with their dad. The father was a martial arts instructor and he was coaching his middle boy to use his ankles to cushion his landing, and telling his youngest how to roll if he falls too hard. They weren't crazy - they just saw this stuff growing up and learned to do it safely. The dad told the youngest one that he was only allowed to flip off if he could do one from a standing position. It isn't that they had no rules, they just weren't overly afraid. They had a coach, and they knew their own limitations and followed instructions.
Amazing what a trusting, confident parent can teach an 8-year old kid. I want to know what they are like in 15 years.
No, the GP was exaggerating to make a point. If you pay for an x-ray it might be hundreds of dollars, but not a thousand.
Hatta didn't say anything was wrong with the trial. Just like you said, "the arrest is where the problem was" so the next step is to sue the police department for the arrest, and hopefully get compensation for the jail time and legal fees. An acquittal doesn't stop the police from abusing their power the very next time this happens. And the judge should inform the police that they cannot refuse to allow the filming at all, should they choose to do so next time.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has a very good track record of dealing with these kinds of issues. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) may also be able to help.
You can do this with any software. Scammers have been selling virus-loaded copies of Microsoft Office since the days of dial-up.
Well stated. Note that if you only need a DVD every 3 months then you could just buy the DVD. $8/month x 3 months = $24.
I am 90% streaming at this point, but my son wanted to watch Shrek and it isn't available via streaming. :-(
Netflix could increase their price 5-fold and it would still be cheaper than cable television with more content and higher quality. Now, if Netflix could become a broadband provider and totally eliminate the ISP, *then* they would be a powerhouse. It might be a good idea for them to do anyway, since their business model relies on their biggest competitors providing the delivery mechanism for their service.