How did this post get modded as "Insightful?" It's loaded with misinformation and displays a keen lack of insight. A troll, perhaps?
There should be No digital TV conversion ever... Total techno-blasphemy for me to say this in SlashdotLand, but it is never-the-less true.
It is nevertheless your opinion.
The 21st-century, which we are on the verge of entering
Been asleep for a while? We passed the verge nearly a decade ago.
Analog TV works. It reaches everyone. It is the only mass medium that reaches everyone.
Ever heard of radio?
Eventually the Digital TV conversion, like the space program, will be abandoned and forgotten.
Funny, I thought NASA was still in business. For starters, they've launched dozens of satellites and probes in the last few years, are scheduled to embark on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in the next few months, and they perform a considerable amount of research related to studying our own planet.
Respect free speech that includes opinions that differ from yours.
No problem, as long as it is informed and honest. Keep trying.
Or, how the leap was made from spy satellite to keyholes are falling......
Or, the spokesman had to speak from anonymity due to security?
Or how the writer segued from discussing spy satellites to NASA missions without drawing any distinctions between them?
FTFA:
Jeffrey Richelson, a senior fellow with the National Security Archive, said the spacecraft likely is a photo reconnaissance satellite. Such eyes in the sky are used to gather visual information from space about adversarial governments and terror groups, including construction at suspected nuclear sites or militant training camps. The satellites also can be used to survey damage from hurricanes, fires and other natural disasters.
The largest uncontrolled re-entry by a NASA spacecraft was Skylab, the 78-ton abandoned space station that fell from orbit in 1979. Its debris dropped harmlessly into the Indian Ocean and across a remote section of western Australia.
The connotation is that NASA is involved with this spy satellite, which is simply false.
So he sent one mail and it was intercepted? Damn, this puts the "insecurity" of email communication in an entire new light.
There is no indication in TFA that the email was "intercepted" by anyone. The sender distributed an email containing classified info to multiple recipients over the public Internet and someone (probably one of the recipients) reported the violation. Of course, a copy of the message might very well be sitting on a non-gov't server somewhere. Maybe the sender actually encrypted the message, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Gamers do not become physically addicted to their games of choice, so it makes no sense to lump their behavior with that of alcoholics or heroin addicts. Mental addiction? Possibly -- seems similar to gambling. Obsession? Sure. Physical dependency? Nope.
projected market share gain came mainly at the expense of Firefox and others, rather than IE Makes sense since Windows users who are sophisticated enough to try non-IE browsers (or even to know that other browsers exist), are likely to be Firefox users if/when they switch away from IE. Chances are good that the average Windows user is not going to even consider Safari, owing to the fact that they've never even heard of it.
2. Maybe they will offer more complete set of LandSat with different timestamps?
That's my hope. Whenever I've looked for Landsat data in the past at the GLCF (Global Land Cover Facility), the holdings were old, with poor temporal coverage in general. A single image from 10 years back is not what users of the data typically need.
The Landsat 2K data record ended with 2000, probably without any Landsat 7 data at all (L7 was launched 04/15/1999). Although the press release doesn't say so explicitly, it is highly likely that the new program will involve the release of more recent imagery, including data collected by L7.
Wonder whether this move is a case of siding with the 500-lb gorilla (Apple), or if it is aimed at remaining competitive with that gorilla in what Amazon and other retailers perceive as the inevitable death of DRM in music. Either way, customers win.
Even those who deliberately clicked on the link could have easily read the text as, "Get it inspected here!" Not an excuse, but certainly understandable. How many/. article postings contain at least one sincere reply of the form, "Am I the only one who read that as...?"
Among the surprising conclusions: participants noted a growing similarity in methods between open source and proprietary software development. They predicted some kind of convergence, where the best of both approaches gets adopted in each camp.
Why is it surprising that developers (open or closed source) have adopted the useful parts of each others' development models? They don't exist in vacuums...
Essentially, the argument is that turning over truthful information to the government is free speech
So what happens when Verizon divulges information that turns out to be false or misleading? Are they liable when the government uses this information to destroy innocent people's lives?
It's because students (you kids can laugh all you want) view teachers as role models - thus if a kid gets on the net, goes 'Hey, miss so-and-so is a drunk!' it changes the perception in their mind slightly that 'drinking is a bad thing'. Hence the promoting-underage-drinking.
Sounds like the teachers aren't doing a good job of teaching critical or independent thought if those high school kids are so susceptible to the power of suggestion from those in authority. When I was that age, my initial reaction to the views/actions of authority types was not to emulate them, but to disagree with them. Maybe I was just lucky to have a better education system in my community.
but even so the 'mud hut' effect still happened. The amount of dirt that got inside EVERYTHING was frankly astounding. I'll never forget the day I spent removing bat droppings from all the mice. Man, did I read that wrong the first time. I thought the poster was some kind of neat freak who tried to clean bat droppings off of the furry-four-legged type of mice.
Homer: "Oh, yeah, what are you gonna do? Release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark, they shoot bees at you?"
Neither article nor summary explain what Trendalyzer actually does. The animated mapping of stats at http://tools.google.com/gapminder is a little more illustrative.
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How did this post get modded as "Insightful?" It's loaded with misinformation and displays a keen lack of insight. A troll, perhaps?
It is nevertheless your opinion.
Been asleep for a while? We passed the verge nearly a decade ago.
Ever heard of radio?
Funny, I thought NASA was still in business. For starters, they've launched dozens of satellites and probes in the last few years, are scheduled to embark on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in the next few months, and they perform a considerable amount of research related to studying our own planet.
No problem, as long as it is informed and honest. Keep trying.
Or how the writer segued from discussing spy satellites to NASA missions without drawing any distinctions between them?
FTFA:
The connotation is that NASA is involved with this spy satellite, which is simply false.
Actually, no connection here. HSPD-12 was created in August 2004. The Astrodiapers incident took place in February 2007.
Of course they'd publish their findings in the journal my colleagues and I refer to as "PENIS." Five-foot phallic birds with giant beaks...
Gamers do not become physically addicted to their games of choice, so it makes no sense to lump their behavior with that of alcoholics or heroin addicts. Mental addiction? Possibly -- seems similar to gambling. Obsession? Sure. Physical dependency? Nope.
Yes, the images of the bottom of the Pacific are supposed to be fantastic.
The Landsat 2K data record ended with 2000, probably without any Landsat 7 data at all (L7 was launched 04/15/1999). Although the press release doesn't say so explicitly, it is highly likely that the new program will involve the release of more recent imagery, including data collected by L7.
...to ficks mye badd speling. Cant seam two finde "outtage" (orr "expirey") inn mye dikshunairy...
Wonder whether this move is a case of siding with the 500-lb gorilla (Apple), or if it is aimed at remaining competitive with that gorilla in what Amazon and other retailers perceive as the inevitable death of DRM in music. Either way, customers win.
Even those who deliberately clicked on the link could have easily read the text as, "Get it inspected here!" Not an excuse, but certainly understandable. How many /. article postings contain at least one sincere reply of the form, "Am I the only one who read that as...?"
I agree completely -- there is no technology called web 2.0, just mindless drones repeating it.
Homer: "Oh, yeah, what are you gonna do? Release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark, they shoot bees at you?"
This is how you won't catch me downloading.
I'm pretty sure you would have other things to worry about if you were in the sun.
Rejection is what keeps 'em in business.
NASA confirms that Rosie Ruiz has stowed away on a Soyuz supply ship scheduled to dock with the ISS just before the end of the marathon.
Neither article nor summary explain what Trendalyzer actually does. The animated mapping of stats at http://tools.google.com/gapminder is a little more illustrative.