Space above the actual screen is a good idea - if I were to hit my old-fashioned Nokia 3410 (once, not four times) like that, I'd be out a fascia that I could replace at a market for less that £5 (the fascia on those phones is just a replaceable bit of coloured or patterned plastic, included for the sake of fashion rather than ruggedisation, containing a transparent plastic screen cover which is about 5mm above the screen).
He just smashes the screen against the corner of the fish tank that he just failed to drown it in. Not being covered in rubber like the rest of the phone, it breaks like any normal screen. You could probably apply the same pressure by accidentally dropping it on a jagged rock.
This is Slashdot. News for Nerds. You should already know that you're made of chemicals.
Stop with the "vaccines are the best things in the world and you are part of the 'axis of evil' if you think otherwise" BS.
I did not say that, it doesn't look like I said that, and I don't believe you actually think I said that.
Many think that vaccines contribute to autism, I think vinyl floors could be worse. But in rare situation, maybe vaccines are a contributing factor, maybe they are not. Show me truly impartial research.
I think kittens are the sole cause of autism. I don't know why, but I do. No matter how much research you collect to the contrary, I will consider it all to be insufficiently impartial for me, despite having no research that backs up my own opinions.
And sorry for the doublepost, but the amounts of mercury are minute - about the same as is present in a tin of tuna. Oh help, should we listen to the unscientific claims about consumption of fish making children into geniuses, or the ones about mercury giving them autism?
Anecdotes, made more common by the fact that autism almost always gets diagnosed at about the age kids get vaccinated, (even in unvaccinated kids - perhaps the absence of vaccines causes autism too, hmm?). Large studies do not show such patterns.
If that were the case then natural selection would have taken its course long ago and we'd all be autistic. But it's an amusing question to philosophize nonetheless.
More seriously, what if high-functioning autism was a somewhat beneficial trait for a few individuals, provided not everybody in a community was like that, and natural selection has formed the balance we see now? After all, science and technology has been advanced significantly by people who now seem autistic more than once.
Tried to print directly from your phone directly to some dumb printer?
Tried to print directly from your laptop to someone else's dumb printer? Windows printer drivers are pretty horrible. At well over a gigabyte (!) of disk space required for some HP drivers (including all the non-optional utilities), it'd need a lot of storage (for a phone) to make you want to do that without thinking carefully...
People who think they an detect WiFi and so on generally cannot identify it in double-blind tests, and get betting simply by being somewhere they think is probably fairly free from technology.
And in any case, cities are already full of mobile phones using pretty similar frequencies.
Even if the dust is unlikely to affect people, it'd still be pretty scary to be sitting right next to somebody eating them, or near a bored little kid who's throwing them around, if you were one of those people who could die if it touches them.
I had a look on Google Earth, and couldn't see anything out of the ordinary at that spot, either from a flat photo or from elevation (and it's in a nice high-resolution bit, presumably because it's only 15km from the nearest populated place - not far in Australia).
24*3'10.06" S 132*42'36.98" E in DMS, for anyone else trying to see it. (* in place of degree sign because slashdot hates us).
The capital required to construct a nuclear power plant is nothing next to its decommissioning costs, and there is not an unlimited supply of nuclear fuel.
This isn't like "having a lock to keep honest people honest". It's like putting a lock on your bike which isn't actually attached to anything and hoping nobody looks too closely to keep honest people honest.
People who work for INTERPOL don't become citizens of INTERPOL or something, you know. They all still have passports from their respective home countries.
However, the parking tickets outside the UN are a rather famous sort of ongoing joke between the ambassadors and the NYPD.
Heh. The US embassy in London and the city have a long running dispute as to whether the congestion charge is a tax or a toll. If it isn't at tax, they owe a good sum by now...
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Laws have become horribly, horribly complex. I'm not sure any of us can do that for anything we do.
Space above the actual screen is a good idea - if I were to hit my old-fashioned Nokia 3410 (once, not four times) like that, I'd be out a fascia that I could replace at a market for less that £5 (the fascia on those phones is just a replaceable bit of coloured or patterned plastic, included for the sake of fashion rather than ruggedisation, containing a transparent plastic screen cover which is about 5mm above the screen).
Again: about the same amount of mercury as a tin of tuna fish.
He just smashes the screen against the corner of the fish tank that he just failed to drown it in. Not being covered in rubber like the rest of the phone, it breaks like any normal screen. You could probably apply the same pressure by accidentally dropping it on a jagged rock.
This is Slashdot. News for Nerds. You should already know that you're made of chemicals.
I did not say that, it doesn't look like I said that, and I don't believe you actually think I said that.
I think kittens are the sole cause of autism. I don't know why, but I do. No matter how much research you collect to the contrary, I will consider it all to be insufficiently impartial for me, despite having no research that backs up my own opinions.
And sorry for the doublepost, but the amounts of mercury are minute - about the same as is present in a tin of tuna. Oh help, should we listen to the unscientific claims about consumption of fish making children into geniuses, or the ones about mercury giving them autism?
Anecdotes, made more common by the fact that autism almost always gets diagnosed at about the age kids get vaccinated, (even in unvaccinated kids - perhaps the absence of vaccines causes autism too, hmm?). Large studies do not show such patterns.
More seriously, what if high-functioning autism was a somewhat beneficial trait for a few individuals, provided not everybody in a community was like that, and natural selection has formed the balance we see now? After all, science and technology has been advanced significantly by people who now seem autistic more than once.
Not all Linux distros package only open-source software.
An iPhone-like vetting process would be "we'll reject it if we don't like the look of it". How about "Linux-distro style vetting process"?
Tried to print directly from your laptop to someone else's dumb printer? Windows printer drivers are pretty horrible. At well over a gigabyte (!) of disk space required for some HP drivers (including all the non-optional utilities), it'd need a lot of storage (for a phone) to make you want to do that without thinking carefully...
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People who think they an detect WiFi and so on generally cannot identify it in double-blind tests, and get betting simply by being somewhere they think is probably fairly free from technology.
And in any case, cities are already full of mobile phones using pretty similar frequencies.
Even if the dust is unlikely to affect people, it'd still be pretty scary to be sitting right next to somebody eating them, or near a bored little kid who's throwing them around, if you were one of those people who could die if it touches them.
See also: Ubuntu Cola.
I had a look on Google Earth, and couldn't see anything out of the ordinary at that spot, either from a flat photo or from elevation (and it's in a nice high-resolution bit, presumably because it's only 15km from the nearest populated place - not far in Australia).
24*3'10.06" S 132*42'36.98" E in DMS, for anyone else trying to see it. (* in place of degree sign because slashdot hates us).
Perhaps not if you consider the extraordinary age of some Australian aborigine cultures.
You keep using that word...
The capital required to construct a nuclear power plant is nothing next to its decommissioning costs, and there is not an unlimited supply of nuclear fuel.
Title says it all. We've seen this before, folks.
This isn't like "having a lock to keep honest people honest". It's like putting a lock on your bike which isn't actually attached to anything and hoping nobody looks too closely to keep honest people honest.
People who work for INTERPOL don't become citizens of INTERPOL or something, you know. They all still have passports from their respective home countries.
"Complaints" as in "please prosecute this individual or we'll hold your state responsible for his actions".
Approximately everybody else, which is how it works at the moment anyway. The USA provides less than 1% of peacekeeping personal.
Heh. The US embassy in London and the city have a long running dispute as to whether the congestion charge is a tax or a toll. If it isn't at tax, they owe a good sum by now...