Could someone please explain to me, why Americans, Canadians, Brits and Australians are so afraid of a national ID card?
Because of what it could be used for. What ever happened to all those Jews who used to live on the continent anyway? I know that a lot of them moved to America, Canada, Britain and Australia but they don't seem to have that many relatives back home these days.
This is just frustration from the cops. Back when most conversations were face to face they could write it off and say we don't know what was said. Now that people converse on line though a gadzillion channels the police have to do more actual work and this cheezes the off.
We learned how to prevent runaway trains back in the 1800s, and a terrorist-controlled train is no different.
The funny thing is it happened here in Melbourne a couple of years ago. A driver parked a train at a surburban station and went to the toilet. He came back to find the train gone. Apparently he forgot to set the brakes. The surburban station is at a slightly higher altitude than the city centre so the train rolled about 20km without power and destroyed itself when it hit buffers at the station it would normally have terminated at.
Controllers could have diverted the train into a side track but decided to let it go to the main station because (I think) they couldn't warn people at the side track locations, while conditions in the main city station were well under control.
They got state permission to start the project, but it was the getting land access rights from every small-town city mayor that killed the project. They would only grant permission if the trains would stop at a station in their city. For every city, this would involve an extra ten minute delay added onto the journey, which would defeat the purpose of being faster than air travel.
Thats crazy. Highways and railways here in Australia are all on state land. The state Governments have the power to aquire land in strategic locations. I am just sorry we don't have the vision to do large scale projects like this.
You don't need maglev speeds to comete with air travel over distances of 1000km or so because of the delays associated with airports, etc.
Between the ages of about three and five my son got into the habit of preferring incorrect versions of some words. For example "spigot" instead of "biscuit" and "hostable" instead of "hospital".
In both cases he seemed to think his version rolled of the tongue better and should be used.
If I have a point it is that the child is to some extent making the language up as they go. As with other parts of their development they test boundaries all the time. If the language they learn is deficient in some way they will not hesitate to improve it.
When my son was a couple of months old he started to use the word "poo" when we were changing his nappy. Of course, he heard that word a lot in that context. This article doesn't surprise me at all.
Eventually he abandoned that behaviour and later replaced it with a more sophisticated model. Presumably he had then collected enough data to get a better idea of how our language worked.
Does this mean they are going to come out with bigger coins? I mean, if you ever held a penny, the government has your fingerprints, thats why they keep them in circulation... End communication
I consider usability research pure BS. It's frankly impossible to objectively determine rules for what people find easier, when personal preferences vary so widely.
Let me guess: you designed the flight deck for the A380, right?
The Neocons aren't Republicans by any definition of the term. They are a group of ultra-right extremists who have hijacked the Republican Party as a suitable vehicle to advance their cause.
The Republican Party is only of value to them because the USA has an entrenched two party system. Preferential voting would open the field for a new right wing party.
Anything which broadens the horizons of our students beyond the windows IDE they get told to use is a good thing.
I employ some interns in my team and I would not be averse to allowing them time to work on SOC projects during working hours, as long as there was some demonstrated benefit to us down the track. And with free software there usually is.
they'll be asking road users to give way to trucks
I can't remember who told me this but apparently they were in Egypt and asked the hotel people where they could go to rent a car and look around for a bit in the evening and they were told no way to you do that because big trucks drive around at night and nobody makes them use lights.
Closer to home (for me) I was in Tasmania, which is the most redneck state in Australia. They have signs on logging roads saying that this is a public road but if you get hit by a logging truck then the onus is on you.
Apparently the white hair on polar bears acts like optic fibre. It collects light over a larger surface than the bare skin of the animal and channels it to the body to keep it warm.
Waiting list for Asuss EEE PC? At least one month.
I bought mine a couple of days ago from a discount electronics place. There was a bit of a rush before christmas but that happens with a lot of new products.
Because cell phones already contain global positioning locators
I think they mean that some phones can find their position relative to a network they are connected to. I doubt the same devices can tell your location in the middle of the pacific.
Buy a fibreglass pond shell from the hardware store. Then dig a hole with the appropriate dimensions and drop the pond into the hole. Then fill it with water.
Plug it into a USB port?
I am sure there is a way to do that, but I did buy a mains powered water pump with an integrated filter. It helps to keep the muck out of the water and oxygen in.
What shape is the box?
Same shape as the pond, only slightly bigger;)
Can you take it back if you keep the receipt?
Yes.
It is probably worth noting that I live in a dry part of the world where water poured into a freshly dug hole in the ground will quickly soak in. So an artificial barrier is required.
There are lots of ways to reconfigure GNU su, as others have pointed out. I just think it is weird that RMS thinks it is okay to leave a security hole in a tool because somebody once pissed him off by changing a root password and not passing it on.
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Because of what it could be used for. What ever happened to all those Jews who used to live on the continent anyway? I know that a lot of them moved to America, Canada, Britain and Australia but they don't seem to have that many relatives back home these days.
This is just frustration from the cops. Back when most conversations were face to face they could write it off and say we don't know what was said. Now that people converse on line though a gadzillion channels the police have to do more actual work and this cheezes the off.
The funny thing is it happened here in Melbourne a couple of years ago. A driver parked a train at a surburban station and went to the toilet. He came back to find the train gone. Apparently he forgot to set the brakes. The surburban station is at a slightly higher altitude than the city centre so the train rolled about 20km without power and destroyed itself when it hit buffers at the station it would normally have terminated at.
Controllers could have diverted the train into a side track but decided to let it go to the main station because (I think) they couldn't warn people at the side track locations, while conditions in the main city station were well under control.
Thats crazy. Highways and railways here in Australia are all on state land. The state Governments have the power to aquire land in strategic locations. I am just sorry we don't have the vision to do large scale projects like this.
You don't need maglev speeds to comete with air travel over distances of 1000km or so because of the delays associated with airports, etc.
Between the ages of about three and five my son got into the habit of preferring incorrect versions of some words. For example "spigot" instead of "biscuit" and "hostable" instead of "hospital".
In both cases he seemed to think his version rolled of the tongue better and should be used.
If I have a point it is that the child is to some extent making the language up as they go. As with other parts of their development they test boundaries all the time. If the language they learn is deficient in some way they will not hesitate to improve it.
When my son was a couple of months old he started to use the word "poo" when we were changing his nappy. Of course, he heard that word a lot in that context. This article doesn't surprise me at all.
Eventually he abandoned that behaviour and later replaced it with a more sophisticated model. Presumably he had then collected enough data to get a better idea of how our language worked.
Make trouble and they put you in a heated cell. The unheated cells are the good ones.
Gotta compete with those Canadian spy coins.
If the USA had preferential voting it would be possible to do that, and expect your candidate to win.
Let me guess: you designed the flight deck for the A380, right?
The Republican Party is only of value to them because the USA has an entrenched two party system. Preferential voting would open the field for a new right wing party.
You mean a static myspace page along the lines of My mum and dads place any night of the week? That won't take long to write.
I think we should institute the Aboriginal custom of walkabout. Dump the little shit somewhere hot and dry and see if he makes it back.
Anything which broadens the horizons of our students beyond the windows IDE they get told to use is a good thing. I employ some interns in my team and I would not be averse to allowing them time to work on SOC projects during working hours, as long as there was some demonstrated benefit to us down the track. And with free software there usually is.
Is it like having a nintendo DS with two screens?
I can't remember who told me this but apparently they were in Egypt and asked the hotel people where they could go to rent a car and look around for a bit in the evening and they were told no way to you do that because big trucks drive around at night and nobody makes them use lights.
Closer to home (for me) I was in Tasmania, which is the most redneck state in Australia. They have signs on logging roads saying that this is a public road but if you get hit by a logging truck then the onus is on you.
Its almost as if both names were made up in the same meeting.
I know somebody who worked on a taxi dispatch system which entirely used QNX. Call centre workstations, servers, the lot.
You can have GNU+Linux and you can have GNU+HURD. Apart from GNU they have nothing in common.
Though since HURD is really GNU it is wrong to talk about GNU/HURD. I am just pointing to that for illustration.
I am sure Mr Ballmer paid for that seat. Fair and square.
IBM didn't develop lotus notes. They just bought it. I don't think they deserve all of the blame.
My fear is that they will turn Linux into OS/2, and we all know what happens next....
Apparently the white hair on polar bears acts like optic fibre. It collects light over a larger surface than the bare skin of the animal and channels it to the body to keep it warm.
I bought mine a couple of days ago from a discount electronics place. There was a bit of a rush before christmas but that happens with a lot of new products.
I think they mean that some phones can find their position relative to a network they are connected to. I doubt the same devices can tell your location in the middle of the pacific.
Buy a fibreglass pond shell from the hardware store. Then dig a hole with the appropriate dimensions and drop the pond into the hole. Then fill it with water.
Plug it into a USB port?I am sure there is a way to do that, but I did buy a mains powered water pump with an integrated filter. It helps to keep the muck out of the water and oxygen in.
What shape is the box?Same shape as the pond, only slightly bigger ;)
Can you take it back if you keep the receipt?Yes.
It is probably worth noting that I live in a dry part of the world where water poured into a freshly dug hole in the ground will quickly soak in. So an artificial barrier is required.
There are lots of ways to reconfigure GNU su, as others have pointed out. I just think it is weird that RMS thinks it is okay to leave a security hole in a tool because somebody once pissed him off by changing a root password and not passing it on.