What a bunch of nonsense.
A county is threatening us with nuclear weapons, and our salvation rests in the fact that their citizenry isn't "happy" with their government? How the hell is that going to save American lives? You may be willing to stake your children's life on that, but I'm not.
We just have to take that risk if we really believe in freedom
No, we don't. Since when are "freedom" and "defending yourself" mutually exclusive terms? The most important figures in our country's history have been willing to fight and die for what they believed in, not the least of which was the notion of being free.
Having bombs on standby does not really help anyone, it just increases the chance of everyone killing each other.
Actually, quite the opposite, it dramatically decreases the chances that bombs will be used.
There's conflicting information about whether the Pakistani's have PALS. According to a recent article in the New York Times, the Pakistani's do not have it:
In the end, despite past federal aid to France and Russia on delicate points of nuclear security, the administration decided that it could not share the system with the Pakistanis because of legal restrictions.
And furthermore:
In addition, the Pakistanis were suspicious that any American-made technology in their warheads could include a secret "kill switch," enabling the Americans to turn off their weapons.
Likewise with Clinton:
While many nuclear experts in the federal government favored offering the PALS system because they considered Pakistan's arsenal among the world's most vulnerable to terrorist groups, some administration officials feared that sharing the technology would teach Pakistan too much about American weaponry. The same concern kept the Clinton administration from sharing the technology with China in the early 1990s.
Call me cynical, but I question what they define as "objective" and "an authority". As I near the end of my senior year, I can't help but think back over the last four years and think of all the professors who tried drilling into us the notion that Wikipedia was the worst source of information on the 'net, and while their arguments may hold some facticity, I don't believe it's any less objective than some of the traditional sources of information. Not when you have:
Say what you want, but I'm quite skeptical of their ability to accurately forecast this stuff...haven't there been sensationalist reports like this for the last 40 years? All of which were disproven when more accurate methods of forecasting came around?
Doesn't Google already use Content Based Image Retrieval anyways for their image search? If so, why would they need to attach a bunch of metadata to each image?
It seems to me as if this facility has outlived it's usefulness anyways. It's not so much a "secret" facility that few people know about, rather it's security comes basically from the fact that it's in a mountain. If some country wanted to attack us, all it would take would be to rain a couple nukes down on that mountain and it's out of commission. I'd like to see the work that this facility handles be moved to a top-secret location, it's simply too important to be common knowledge anymore. In actuality, it's probably one of the top 10 targets in a first-strike against the US -- and I think slapping it into some office building at an airbase is strategically irresponsible.
The algorithm is a problem-solving computational procedure and is the building block for all search engines like those operated by Google and Yahoo.
No it's not. Otherwise they would've implemented it already. How can something be a building block if the thing they're referring to isn't built on it?
Orion finds pages where the content is about a topic strongly related to the key word.
Duh. Welcome to Google in the 1990's.
The results to the query are displayed immediately in the form of expanded text extracts, giving the searcher the relevant information without having to go to the website - although there is still that option.
What was stopping Google from creating something like this before? Is it just me or is this being hyped just a bit?
...won praise from Microsoft founder Bill Gates last year.
That it's, enough said. Hope you got a receipt for that Google.
You're right. If the battery on your Dell laptop dies on the 366th day after you bought it, Dell's standard response is to just flip ya the bird and walk away...
Cudos to Apple for rectifying their mistakes..
I sure as hell know which company my $2500 is going to next time around...
Why do people even buy first generation products anymore? Why not just wait until the 2nd or 3rd generation when these problems are weeded out? This is commonplace among products nowadays (Apple not excluded)...
as everyone knows the real successor was mp3 and digital distribution with things like napster ipod and msn music
Oh shit. He said iPod. 20 bucks says there two guys in black suits staring at him when he turns around from that computer screen. Somebody didn't get the memo from Bill G that says "we don't speak of such evils."
Microsoft doesn't care who they're upsetting. It's the companies who have websites who are forced to comply with how IE renders pages, or they won't get any visitors.
Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't care about Slashdotters and their ideological reasoning.
It's a sad (but true) reality that when you own 90% of any market...people have to play by your rules...
Yeah, I got mine to work..but it look a lot of tweaking. I believe that I ended up using tables and defining align= values for each element individually
Slashdot Mirror
And furthermore: Likewise with Clinton:
Takes one to know one. Symantec's software has all the qualities you'd ever want in a well crafted piece of malware.
I hope those webcams catch me flipping Bill G the middle finger.
IceSword120_en.zip -- Somewhat faster download for IceSword (at least until it gets Slashdotted)
- Dan Rather's debacle with the Word documents
- 920 Reuters images being pulled because they're suspected of being altered
- the Jayson Blair situation over the course of many years
The point is, adults in this nation think these traditional institutions are objective, so why are we faulting the youth for their assumptions?one more another
Who can even make heads or tails of all this global warming stuff?
We get reports like this, within a day of getting reports like cows cause more greenhouse gases than cars, planes, and all other forms of transportation put together
Say what you want, but I'm quite skeptical of their ability to accurately forecast this stuff...haven't there been sensationalist reports like this for the last 40 years? All of which were disproven when more accurate methods of forecasting came around?
Doesn't Google already use Content Based Image Retrieval anyways for their image search? If so, why would they need to attach a bunch of metadata to each image?
It seems to me as if this facility has outlived it's usefulness anyways. It's not so much a "secret" facility that few people know about, rather it's security comes basically from the fact that it's in a mountain. If some country wanted to attack us, all it would take would be to rain a couple nukes down on that mountain and it's out of commission. I'd like to see the work that this facility handles be moved to a top-secret location, it's simply too important to be common knowledge anymore. In actuality, it's probably one of the top 10 targets in a first-strike against the US -- and I think slapping it into some office building at an airbase is strategically irresponsible.
Good, at least then we'll have a chance to escape.
The algorithm is a problem-solving computational procedure and is the building block for all search engines like those operated by Google and Yahoo.
...won praise from Microsoft founder Bill Gates last year.
No it's not. Otherwise they would've implemented it already. How can something be a building block if the thing they're referring to isn't built on it?
Orion finds pages where the content is about a topic strongly related to the key word.
Duh. Welcome to Google in the 1990's.
The results to the query are displayed immediately in the form of expanded text extracts, giving the searcher the relevant information without having to go to the website - although there is still that option.
What was stopping Google from creating something like this before? Is it just me or is this being hyped just a bit?
That it's, enough said. Hope you got a receipt for that Google.
ThePirateBay is noticeably absent from that list.
You're right. If the battery on your Dell laptop dies on the 366th day after you bought it, Dell's standard response is to just flip ya the bird and walk away... Cudos to Apple for rectifying their mistakes.. I sure as hell know which company my $2500 is going to next time around...
Why do people even buy first generation products anymore? Why not just wait until the 2nd or 3rd generation when these problems are weeded out? This is commonplace among products nowadays (Apple not excluded)...
Its been a few years since I used FC...but have they fixed the runaround that they put you through just to play MP3's?
Why is IQ judged only on the basis of science & technical application?
Is science the only field worth measuring an IQ on?
For those who haven't seen them yet, Office 12 Screenshots: http://pdc.xbetas.com/?page=o12preview1
as everyone knows the real successor was mp3 and digital distribution with things like napster ipod and msn music
Oh shit. He said iPod. 20 bucks says there two guys in black suits staring at him when he turns around from that computer screen. Somebody didn't get the memo from Bill G that says "we don't speak of such evils."
Microsoft doesn't care who they're upsetting. It's the companies who have websites who are forced to comply with how IE renders pages, or they won't get any visitors.
Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't care about Slashdotters and their ideological reasoning.
It's a sad (but true) reality that when you own 90% of any market...people have to play by your rules...
Yeah, I got mine to work..but it look a lot of tweaking. I believe that I ended up using tables and defining align= values for each element individually
Standards-compliant code works on all modern browsers hah! why hasn't this been modded +5 yet??
If by "modern browser" you mean "a browser that hasn't been within 50 feet of a microsoft programmer", then yeah...standards compliant code will work.
The most important rule for any web developer: seperate design from content
If you do this, then any adjustments needed to make another browser functional should be minimal, and shouldn't affect your application.
....becuase we're talking about people who wear clogs getting more internet sex than US!