If several witnesses will testify that these are the exact pictures and movies they previously watched on profiles belonging to the suspects, the chain of evidence is not broken, since the real evidence here would be the testimony, not the media files themselves. Even if witnesses would testify that they watched pictures and movies that were deleted afterwards, it still counts as a witness testimony. The case against the suspects just grows stronger because there is a copy that is validated by the witnesses available to be played in court.
There's your exact problem with the Empirical system. If you expect to be dividing, you take powers of two, but if you expect to be multiplying, you take twelve as a base. That's not consistent to work with. It gets worse once you are starting to talk about fractions that weren't relevant when the Empirical system was devised. How much is 3.19383"?? Does that divide into some kind of 1/32768th part, or did it turn metric all of a sudden? Where's the consistency in that?
You may say it's arbitrary and that's the only problem, but there are more problems with the Empirical system than just being arbitrary in the base factor. The consistency once you do more than one simple operator is usually completely gone and you need icky constants to make calculations feasible without a programmable calculator. Try calculating the mass of liquid in a container 3 7/8th inch by 4,382 inch by 8 15/16th inches. The mass, not the amount of water, so not fluid ounces, but Lbs. Which country's definition of Lb is up to you, since there doesn't seem to be an agreement how much that should weigh either. Now, tell me again, the metric system is just as arbitrary as the Empirical system and has no advantages you say???
The dictatorship you are describing is mostly in place already. Sure, it's not a single person but a group of people that are ruling it. Right wing religious? Compared to world politics, both democrats and republicans fit that bill. majority of gun owners backing it up? Sure, both parties get a large group of gun owners supporting them. You may think that the political differences between democrats and republicans are big, but 95% or more are trivial and marginal. You have no (significant amount of) liberals or socialists in your government. Even though a large amount of your population is Hispanic or otherwise not conforming to the white right wing Christian demography, they don't have any significant representation in your government.
"The devils biggest trick is convincing you he does not exist." You are already in your dictatorship, it's just hidden well enough for you to believe it's a democracy. Do a nation wide one-man-one-vote style election for parliament every for years and see what comes out of that. You may see a very big political change within 20 years.
Unless the outsourcing company is EDS. They were so greedy getting contracts, they often didn't bother doing proper research and got themselves in contracts where no documentation existed and as a result of that, they couldn't reduce or split up the team they took over. The team didn't really bother documenting anything and HP couldn't get anything changed, because there was no clear definition of the service in the contract. The end result is that all the capable people in the team left because they couldn't do their job any more under the new regime and the customer is left with a dead IT system and nobody around that can fix it. This has happened on numerous occasions and it is one of the reasons why HP/EDS are in such dire straits at the moment. HP decides to solve their financial problem by firing a lot of of their staff and reducing payments, bonuses and such. Guess what the last few capable people in HP do....
This appears to apply to all tablets sold with windows 8 in some specific version? I can't tell which one any more, since they once again made their version naming utterly confusing. Anyway, all tablets that are supposed to be sold with this version of windows, only have the microsoft key on it and no provision to put your own key on it. So unless you get MicroSoft to sign your boot loader, you're not going to be running anything else than their software on it.
Modern cars don't lock wheels, they have ABS. Then again, poor people don't drive modern cars and not a lot of people learn to drive their car properly, world wide.
Maybe people on SlashDot will finally learn that scientific notation and the metric system make it easier to not make stupid mistakes while communicating measurements. Really, "136.4 degrees" ? Come on, put some scale with that, n00b.
Disclaimer: I worked on a sat program for a met office.
Weather forecasts are usually made by combining many sources of data from literally thousands of instruments. Ground sensors, weather balloons, satellites and such all contribute. If the current weather forecasting models depend on a certain type of information from certain satellites, it will take years to re-calibrate them to data from other satellites that are constructed differently. It may be that some types of data from CriS under certain circumstances are more accurate, but that doesn't mean that it will be compatible or adaptable to the current software being used to make the forecasts.
The second problem is that there is only one CriS that orbits the planet in 14 parts, only coming back to a location about once a day. The NOAA satellites are geostationary and there are two. Together, they can do 24/7 covering of the USA. For weather forecasts, especially for short term hurricane directions that matter for evacuation alerts and such, you can't have just once in 24 hour coverage, you want 15 minute updates.
CriS is certainly a nice instrument, but it's totally inadequate to replace the geostationary satellites NOAA has, since it's function and trajectory are totally not suitable for what the NOAA birds are for.
They statistically have factored out all other known causes and then compared to a "natural" percentage of both marijuana by itself, and at psychosis by itself. It turns out that there still is a statistical association between the two. Since there indeed is no clear causation, they say "suggests that there is a bi directioal association". I may not be a native English speaker, but even I can see rather clearly that they aren't saying that one causes the other. They have merely statistically proven that there is a common factor
Now, if I had to guess, I'd say that getting high up to a certain rate would stop the mind raging on of those that have psychosis. However, smoking too much would cause anyones mind to start going places that would be a cause for psychosis in itself. In medical terms: "self medicating" THC tends to give unwanted side effects if you get the dosage or timing wrong. The proper dosage varies from individual to individual and can differ depending on the circumstances and time and can sometimes be zero. That doesn't make it any different from any other psycho-active substance, whether it being administered through medical care or by personal experimentation.
People that are either high or in a psychosis usually aren't the best judge of what's good for them, so resorting to more THC, since it's "what makes them feel better". is usually the option they choose. That would be a likely explanation for these results, but again, it's just a guess; no scientific research was done to come to this conclusion.
Ethanol in gasoline fuel breaks specific parts in your car.
Fuel lines and parts of the fuel circuit that contain rubber. Unless special formulated rubber is used that is ethanol proof, the rubber will deteriorate.
Fuel pumps and injectors. Some of these are still manufactured from materials that are not adapted to ethanol.
Carburetors. Older cars that are not using injection systems, may have parts inside the carburetors that dissolve in the ethanol. Most common carburetors will have replacement parts available that are resistant to ethanol, so retrofits can often be done.
This is mostly a cost issue and for only $100 more or so a new vehicles components can be resistant to ethanol in such a way that you could easily run E85 without problems for the life of the vehicle. Any modern car that is not capable of doing so, is made so on purpose. Even your 69 mustang can be made to run just fine on ethanol, providing you retrofit the carbs with some new floats and seals and replace the fuel pump and fuel lines with something modern too. Corn Ethanol may not be cost effective or "green" in the USA, but in large parts of the world, ethanol is the cheapest and most environment friendly fuel option. Don't hate on Ethanol just because the way it's being done in the USA isn't right. It has it's place and merits, if you do it right.
If you run an ISP and use dynamic address allocation, chances are that a low percentage of your users is infected and they appear to be coming from your entire address pool. This will mean that in practice, your entire AS will be blacklisted permanently.
The way it often is solved, is that the abuse department for the ISP sets up a "custom" communications protocol with the blacklist operators. In that protocol, it's usually described how the blacklister deals with IPs (only block individuals, block for $lease_period) and that the ISP will get abuse mail for each of those offending IPs. In return, the ISP will have to take measures to pull the offending machine/customer offline in a very short timeframe, usually well within 24 hrs after the abuse mail has been sent. Often ISPs will have some sort of mechanism that will re-route the customers sending spam into a walled garden environment, in which they can only send mail via the outgoing mail servers of the ISP and not browse the web, apart from web sites of the ISP themselves and anti-virus and update websites and such.
This is by no means a perfect solution, since you are automatically tossing customers in a non net-neutrality setup because some third party triggered your abuse system. However, when configured and tweaked correctly, you get less than 3% false positives and your customers generally appreciate what you do. If you deal openly and swiftly with the false positives, even those tend to agree with your policy, but you have to make sure that you help them quickly and take the blame.
If you have a setup like this working in your environment, getting a "custom" deal with the blacklist admins usually isn't that hard, but you have to take the initiative and prove to them that you do anything reasonably within your power to take care of spammers and zombies, before they will cut you some slack.
You must mean RAM chips and even those are often on-chip on these SoC systems. The main thing here is price point and since Intel is the only manufacturer and uses a very expensive fab at 32nm, their system is far more expensive to buy than a "generic" 40nm fab Arm chip. You are right that the Intel is, under the hood, just as RISC as the Arm chip is. The point seems to be that with using a more expensive smaller fab, Intel can sort-of offset the extra power required for the on-the-fly translation of x86 instructions to the "native" instructions for the RISC cores in their system.
Even though that may be the case, indications that a lot of power was used by the Tegra SoC that has a reputation of being a power hungry beast that's at least one generation older as current state-of-the-art offerings in the last generation of smartphones and tablets. I welcome having x86 stuff available that is easy on batteries, since that would benefit the life cycle of "classic" laptops in the future. However, winning from Arm on the smartphone and tablet market, I don't see that happening any time soon. The other way around, Arm getting into desktop and server market, yes, that is very feasible. They are already getting into the gaming market as well, with several Android based consoles starting to appear in the last few months. Exiting developments and good for competition and prices.
Ego isn't the deadliest thing in the driving equation by far. Even though a lot of drivers think of themselves as "god on wheels" that doesn't mean that is what kills the most people. Some good contestants are:
1) cheapskating. Cars can be much safer if we were willing to pay a lot more for them, but we never buy the safest car we can afford. This results in manufacturers not making cars as safe as possible, but only complying to minimal requirements and matching the other makers in safety tests. Saab went bankrupt making safe cars, Volvo got sold to the Chinese and SUVs and trucks that have bad safety records get sold by the millions.
2) Bad habits, like texting, phone calls or doing make-up while driving, drinking or drugging up before driving. We all know that those things are a fatal distraction but we still do them. Narcissism or ego isn't a factor here, it's plain bad statistics capabilities of the people doing things like this.
3) Economics. If we would only let the best drivers get their license, there'd be a whole lot less accidents, but the economy would fail because nobody would be able to get to work and such. The reality is that we let anyone that's not a complete death-on-wheels get a license to control a motorized vehicle. If we didn't, the economy as we know and created it will not be able to function. Take the top 20% of drivers and let them keep their license. You'd have much less accidents, even relative to the number of drivers, you'd not have traffic jams, less smog, cheap fuel, everything bad about driving cars would probably be solved.Unfortunately, there also would be no economy left, so it can't be done.
When is the correct term, because it will happen, soon more likely than later. Practice has proven that all genetically modified species we have created for human consumption, have moved into the wild and started breeding there. No exceptions. What happens to the wild population, what happens to the species that prey upon salmon, what happens to the rest of the eco system? If those things aren't thoroughly researched, I'd say don't approve (yet). Lets have wildlife conservationists pick a renown research facility and let them do a counter study to the study chosen for and paid by the company applying for the admission. The the company pay for that as well. Only accept results that are in both studies, to get any bias or disagreement amongst scientists out of this. Then see what to do.
But it will have one bajillion cells, so you'd have plenty of backup cells to replace those. They'll be just like worm drives, but with a few erase cycles in them, like CD-RW.
Yo dawg, I hear you like settings, so I put some settings in your settings, so you can set your settings while you set your settings.
This is a highly confusing, very inconsistent desktop environment like program. Items that deal with setting the user interface are all over the place, items that deal with power settings are all over the place, and so on. There are desk top icons/indicators for apparently random things, but for others there isn't one. I'm not comparing E17 to other Unix/Linux/Xwindows alternatives, but looking at this as it's own entity. It will take a ton of tweaking and rearranging menus to get an average user comfortable with it, if at all.
Making things configurable is great, but please make it consistent, because people are going to be looking all over to find things. I'm not an apple fan boy, but one of the things they sort of did right, is consistency, grouping and logical placement in the user interface. For E18, please focus on consistency and usability in the user interface and not new features, it has plenty.
So what if people seem to want to message me and are willing to pay for it. At least Apple lets me keep a small percentage of the money they make on giving someone a copy of a song I have for sale on iTunes. Facebook wants 100% of the profits for themselves? I don't see this business model work if they aren't paying most of the money to the people receiving the messages.
You can basically beat a person to death with any phone if you are capable to do it with an N920. You won't have to worry about the phone working afterwards. In case you weren't informed, the phone became a murder weapon and it will be confiscated regardless of it's functionality. I would suggest you use a less expensive piece of electronics to bludgeon someone senseless, it's less of a financial loss that way.
Considering the fact that the bible has for quite a long period been the combination of the local gossip rag, readers digest, encyclopedia and all other things we tend to read, store in libraries, on our hard drives, e-readers and what not, it did actually "contain useful information that would increase our knowledge of the world/universe" back in those days. Some of it is rather outdated by modern scientific discoveries, culture and such. Some of it is plain gossip, hate speech, pornography and such. Other is dietary and medical advice. Some of it is political propaganda. It may not fit the whole of our modern universe, but it more or less covered that very thing back in the days when the book was actively copied and spread as the only (hand) written collection of knowledge and stories for an entire civilization.
"Transcribed word for word" is what the book claims it is. There are many fantasy novels that also claim to be the literal diary or words of a (fictitious) person. Robinson Crusoe comes to mind, as an example. There is no original manuscript written in verified samples of Muhammad's hand writing to directly link the contents of the book to at least his writing, be it original or a copy of previous work by someone else.
The statement that "it was later compiled and the script standardized" implies redacting by the person/people doing that very work. It may very well be that 95% of it is actually rather literal transcript of what Muhammad dictated, but we don't know which parts may, or may not be and more important, which parts have been left out. He may very well have dictated other texts that should have been part of the Q'ran in his mind, that never made it into the "final transcript".
This may sound rather heretic to any modern Muslim, but take one look at how newspapers, magazines, and books are made. Ask anyone that has been interviewed by a reporter or that dictated stories for their (auto)biography to a (ghost)writer. You can tell a story one way, but it gets published totally different, usually. That is a well known fact and it happens while people are still alive. Stories about them and what they said after they died, usually tend to be way more moral and way less literal, unless there's a funny anecdote or some "hand picked quotes" that can be used to prove a point. Things that other people write down, tend to be their interpretation of what you say, especially if you can't verify that they wrote it down correctly. If those things also get redacted, they tend to be the interpretation of what the redaction wants to get out into the world of the interpretation of someone that may or may not have written down what you have said, but probably not what you have meant to get across.
Before someone gets angry and declares a Fatwa on me (what would Jesus do?), this is my personal opinion and interpretation. I wasn't there when Muhammad dictated the Q'ran or when it was redacted after his death. It may just happen to be the full, true and literal words he wanted to be in there. I just happen to think it's not very likely that it is. Regardless of that, you should judge the book on it's contents, not on who allegedly wrote it. For the last few thousand years, that seemed to have worked just fine for Islam, so why bother with someone that questions it's author, but not it's contents?
No, I did not read the Q'ran, so no, I'm not judging it's contents. I don't think that would be fair, although it would fit the SlashDot tradition just fine.;)
TV preachers and preachers in many churches, many religions, state the bible to be "the word of god". Since those people tend to be the official delegates of their respective religion, I'd say quite a lot of religions actually *do* advertise "the sacred book" (is bible a taboo word??) as the literal word of God.
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If several witnesses will testify that these are the exact pictures and movies they previously watched on profiles belonging to the suspects, the chain of evidence is not broken, since the real evidence here would be the testimony, not the media files themselves. Even if witnesses would testify that they watched pictures and movies that were deleted afterwards, it still counts as a witness testimony. The case against the suspects just grows stronger because there is a copy that is validated by the witnesses available to be played in court.
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Because MicroSoft will have none of this, obviously.
There's your exact problem with the Empirical system. If you expect to be dividing, you take powers of two, but if you expect to be multiplying, you take twelve as a base. That's not consistent to work with. It gets worse once you are starting to talk about fractions that weren't relevant when the Empirical system was devised. How much is 3.19383"?? Does that divide into some kind of 1/32768th part, or did it turn metric all of a sudden? Where's the consistency in that?
You may say it's arbitrary and that's the only problem, but there are more problems with the Empirical system than just being arbitrary in the base factor. The consistency once you do more than one simple operator is usually completely gone and you need icky constants to make calculations feasible without a programmable calculator. Try calculating the mass of liquid in a container 3 7/8th inch by 4,382 inch by 8 15/16th inches. The mass, not the amount of water, so not fluid ounces, but Lbs. Which country's definition of Lb is up to you, since there doesn't seem to be an agreement how much that should weigh either. Now, tell me again, the metric system is just as arbitrary as the Empirical system and has no advantages you say???
... welcome our big brained guppy overlords... DUH
The dictatorship you are describing is mostly in place already. Sure, it's not a single person but a group of people that are ruling it. Right wing religious? Compared to world politics, both democrats and republicans fit that bill. majority of gun owners backing it up? Sure, both parties get a large group of gun owners supporting them. You may think that the political differences between democrats and republicans are big, but 95% or more are trivial and marginal. You have no (significant amount of) liberals or socialists in your government. Even though a large amount of your population is Hispanic or otherwise not conforming to the white right wing Christian demography, they don't have any significant representation in your government.
"The devils biggest trick is convincing you he does not exist." You are already in your dictatorship, it's just hidden well enough for you to believe it's a democracy. Do a nation wide one-man-one-vote style election for parliament every for years and see what comes out of that. You may see a very big political change within 20 years.
Unless the outsourcing company is EDS. They were so greedy getting contracts, they often didn't bother doing proper research and got themselves in contracts where no documentation existed and as a result of that, they couldn't reduce or split up the team they took over. The team didn't really bother documenting anything and HP couldn't get anything changed, because there was no clear definition of the service in the contract. The end result is that all the capable people in the team left because they couldn't do their job any more under the new regime and the customer is left with a dead IT system and nobody around that can fix it. This has happened on numerous occasions and it is one of the reasons why HP/EDS are in such dire straits at the moment. HP decides to solve their financial problem by firing a lot of of their staff and reducing payments, bonuses and such. Guess what the last few capable people in HP do....
This appears to apply to all tablets sold with windows 8 in some specific version? I can't tell which one any more, since they once again made their version naming utterly confusing. Anyway, all tablets that are supposed to be sold with this version of windows, only have the microsoft key on it and no provision to put your own key on it. So unless you get MicroSoft to sign your boot loader, you're not going to be running anything else than their software on it.
Modern cars don't lock wheels, they have ABS. Then again, poor people don't drive modern cars and not a lot of people learn to drive their car properly, world wide.
Maybe people on SlashDot will finally learn that scientific notation and the metric system make it easier to not make stupid mistakes while communicating measurements. Really, "136.4 degrees" ? Come on, put some scale with that, n00b.
Disclaimer: I worked on a sat program for a met office.
Weather forecasts are usually made by combining many sources of data from literally thousands of instruments. Ground sensors, weather balloons, satellites and such all contribute. If the current weather forecasting models depend on a certain type of information from certain satellites, it will take years to re-calibrate them to data from other satellites that are constructed differently. It may be that some types of data from CriS under certain circumstances are more accurate, but that doesn't mean that it will be compatible or adaptable to the current software being used to make the forecasts.
The second problem is that there is only one CriS that orbits the planet in 14 parts, only coming back to a location about once a day. The NOAA satellites are geostationary and there are two. Together, they can do 24/7 covering of the USA. For weather forecasts, especially for short term hurricane directions that matter for evacuation alerts and such, you can't have just once in 24 hour coverage, you want 15 minute updates.
CriS is certainly a nice instrument, but it's totally inadequate to replace the geostationary satellites NOAA has, since it's function and trajectory are totally not suitable for what the NOAA birds are for.
They statistically have factored out all other known causes and then compared to a "natural" percentage of both marijuana by itself, and at psychosis by itself. It turns out that there still is a statistical association between the two. Since there indeed is no clear causation, they say "suggests that there is a bi directioal association". I may not be a native English speaker, but even I can see rather clearly that they aren't saying that one causes the other. They have merely statistically proven that there is a common factor
Now, if I had to guess, I'd say that getting high up to a certain rate would stop the mind raging on of those that have psychosis. However, smoking too much would cause anyones mind to start going places that would be a cause for psychosis in itself. In medical terms: "self medicating" THC tends to give unwanted side effects if you get the dosage or timing wrong. The proper dosage varies from individual to individual and can differ depending on the circumstances and time and can sometimes be zero. That doesn't make it any different from any other psycho-active substance, whether it being administered through medical care or by personal experimentation.
People that are either high or in a psychosis usually aren't the best judge of what's good for them, so resorting to more THC, since it's "what makes them feel better". is usually the option they choose. That would be a likely explanation for these results, but again, it's just a guess; no scientific research was done to come to this conclusion.
Ethanol in gasoline fuel breaks specific parts in your car.
Fuel lines and parts of the fuel circuit that contain rubber. Unless special formulated rubber is used that is ethanol proof, the rubber will deteriorate.
Fuel pumps and injectors. Some of these are still manufactured from materials that are not adapted to ethanol.
Carburetors. Older cars that are not using injection systems, may have parts inside the carburetors that dissolve in the ethanol. Most common carburetors will have replacement parts available that are resistant to ethanol, so retrofits can often be done.
This is mostly a cost issue and for only $100 more or so a new vehicles components can be resistant to ethanol in such a way that you could easily run E85 without problems for the life of the vehicle. Any modern car that is not capable of doing so, is made so on purpose. Even your 69 mustang can be made to run just fine on ethanol, providing you retrofit the carbs with some new floats and seals and replace the fuel pump and fuel lines with something modern too. Corn Ethanol may not be cost effective or "green" in the USA, but in large parts of the world, ethanol is the cheapest and most environment friendly fuel option. Don't hate on Ethanol just because the way it's being done in the USA isn't right. It has it's place and merits, if you do it right.
If you run an ISP and use dynamic address allocation, chances are that a low percentage of your users is infected and they appear to be coming from your entire address pool. This will mean that in practice, your entire AS will be blacklisted permanently.
The way it often is solved, is that the abuse department for the ISP sets up a "custom" communications protocol with the blacklist operators. In that protocol, it's usually described how the blacklister deals with IPs (only block individuals, block for $lease_period) and that the ISP will get abuse mail for each of those offending IPs. In return, the ISP will have to take measures to pull the offending machine/customer offline in a very short timeframe, usually well within 24 hrs after the abuse mail has been sent. Often ISPs will have some sort of mechanism that will re-route the customers sending spam into a walled garden environment, in which they can only send mail via the outgoing mail servers of the ISP and not browse the web, apart from web sites of the ISP themselves and anti-virus and update websites and such.
This is by no means a perfect solution, since you are automatically tossing customers in a non net-neutrality setup because some third party triggered your abuse system. However, when configured and tweaked correctly, you get less than 3% false positives and your customers generally appreciate what you do. If you deal openly and swiftly with the false positives, even those tend to agree with your policy, but you have to make sure that you help them quickly and take the blame.
If you have a setup like this working in your environment, getting a "custom" deal with the blacklist admins usually isn't that hard, but you have to take the initiative and prove to them that you do anything reasonably within your power to take care of spammers and zombies, before they will cut you some slack.
You must mean RAM chips and even those are often on-chip on these SoC systems. The main thing here is price point and since Intel is the only manufacturer and uses a very expensive fab at 32nm, their system is far more expensive to buy than a "generic" 40nm fab Arm chip. You are right that the Intel is, under the hood, just as RISC as the Arm chip is. The point seems to be that with using a more expensive smaller fab, Intel can sort-of offset the extra power required for the on-the-fly translation of x86 instructions to the "native" instructions for the RISC cores in their system.
Even though that may be the case, indications that a lot of power was used by the Tegra SoC that has a reputation of being a power hungry beast that's at least one generation older as current state-of-the-art offerings in the last generation of smartphones and tablets. I welcome having x86 stuff available that is easy on batteries, since that would benefit the life cycle of "classic" laptops in the future. However, winning from Arm on the smartphone and tablet market, I don't see that happening any time soon. The other way around, Arm getting into desktop and server market, yes, that is very feasible. They are already getting into the gaming market as well, with several Android based consoles starting to appear in the last few months. Exiting developments and good for competition and prices.
Ego isn't the deadliest thing in the driving equation by far. Even though a lot of drivers think of themselves as "god on wheels" that doesn't mean that is what kills the most people. Some good contestants are:
1) cheapskating. Cars can be much safer if we were willing to pay a lot more for them, but we never buy the safest car we can afford. This results in manufacturers not making cars as safe as possible, but only complying to minimal requirements and matching the other makers in safety tests. Saab went bankrupt making safe cars, Volvo got sold to the Chinese and SUVs and trucks that have bad safety records get sold by the millions.
2) Bad habits, like texting, phone calls or doing make-up while driving, drinking or drugging up before driving. We all know that those things are a fatal distraction but we still do them. Narcissism or ego isn't a factor here, it's plain bad statistics capabilities of the people doing things like this.
3) Economics. If we would only let the best drivers get their license, there'd be a whole lot less accidents, but the economy would fail because nobody would be able to get to work and such. The reality is that we let anyone that's not a complete death-on-wheels get a license to control a motorized vehicle. If we didn't, the economy as we know and created it will not be able to function. Take the top 20% of drivers and let them keep their license. You'd have much less accidents, even relative to the number of drivers, you'd not have traffic jams, less smog, cheap fuel, everything bad about driving cars would probably be solved.Unfortunately, there also would be no economy left, so it can't be done.
When is the correct term, because it will happen, soon more likely than later. Practice has proven that all genetically modified species we have created for human consumption, have moved into the wild and started breeding there. No exceptions. What happens to the wild population, what happens to the species that prey upon salmon, what happens to the rest of the eco system? If those things aren't thoroughly researched, I'd say don't approve (yet). Lets have wildlife conservationists pick a renown research facility and let them do a counter study to the study chosen for and paid by the company applying for the admission. The the company pay for that as well. Only accept results that are in both studies, to get any bias or disagreement amongst scientists out of this. Then see what to do.
But it will have one bajillion cells, so you'd have plenty of backup cells to replace those. They'll be just like worm drives, but with a few erase cycles in them, like CD-RW.
It's Christmas and we have nerd rage on the intertubes. At least it's less boring than reading facebook updates or twitter feeds....
Yo dawg, I hear you like settings, so I put some settings in your settings, so you can set your settings while you set your settings.
This is a highly confusing, very inconsistent desktop environment like program. Items that deal with setting the user interface are all over the place, items that deal with power settings are all over the place, and so on. There are desk top icons/indicators for apparently random things, but for others there isn't one. I'm not comparing E17 to other Unix/Linux/Xwindows alternatives, but looking at this as it's own entity. It will take a ton of tweaking and rearranging menus to get an average user comfortable with it, if at all.
Making things configurable is great, but please make it consistent, because people are going to be looking all over to find things. I'm not an apple fan boy, but one of the things they sort of did right, is consistency, grouping and logical placement in the user interface. For E18, please focus on consistency and usability in the user interface and not new features, it has plenty.
So what if people seem to want to message me and are willing to pay for it. At least Apple lets me keep a small percentage of the money they make on giving someone a copy of a song I have for sale on iTunes. Facebook wants 100% of the profits for themselves? I don't see this business model work if they aren't paying most of the money to the people receiving the messages.
You can basically beat a person to death with any phone if you are capable to do it with an N920. You won't have to worry about the phone working afterwards. In case you weren't informed, the phone became a murder weapon and it will be confiscated regardless of it's functionality. I would suggest you use a less expensive piece of electronics to bludgeon someone senseless, it's less of a financial loss that way.
Considering the fact that the bible has for quite a long period been the combination of the local gossip rag, readers digest, encyclopedia and all other things we tend to read, store in libraries, on our hard drives, e-readers and what not, it did actually "contain useful information that would increase our knowledge of the world/universe" back in those days. Some of it is rather outdated by modern scientific discoveries, culture and such. Some of it is plain gossip, hate speech, pornography and such. Other is dietary and medical advice. Some of it is political propaganda. It may not fit the whole of our modern universe, but it more or less covered that very thing back in the days when the book was actively copied and spread as the only (hand) written collection of knowledge and stories for an entire civilization.
"Transcribed word for word" is what the book claims it is. There are many fantasy novels that also claim to be the literal diary or words of a (fictitious) person. Robinson Crusoe comes to mind, as an example. There is no original manuscript written in verified samples of Muhammad's hand writing to directly link the contents of the book to at least his writing, be it original or a copy of previous work by someone else.
The statement that "it was later compiled and the script standardized" implies redacting by the person/people doing that very work. It may very well be that 95% of it is actually rather literal transcript of what Muhammad dictated, but we don't know which parts may, or may not be and more important, which parts have been left out. He may very well have dictated other texts that should have been part of the Q'ran in his mind, that never made it into the "final transcript".
This may sound rather heretic to any modern Muslim, but take one look at how newspapers, magazines, and books are made. Ask anyone that has been interviewed by a reporter or that dictated stories for their (auto)biography to a (ghost)writer. You can tell a story one way, but it gets published totally different, usually. That is a well known fact and it happens while people are still alive. Stories about them and what they said after they died, usually tend to be way more moral and way less literal, unless there's a funny anecdote or some "hand picked quotes" that can be used to prove a point. Things that other people write down, tend to be their interpretation of what you say, especially if you can't verify that they wrote it down correctly. If those things also get redacted, they tend to be the interpretation of what the redaction wants to get out into the world of the interpretation of someone that may or may not have written down what you have said, but probably not what you have meant to get across.
Before someone gets angry and declares a Fatwa on me (what would Jesus do?), this is my personal opinion and interpretation. I wasn't there when Muhammad dictated the Q'ran or when it was redacted after his death. It may just happen to be the full, true and literal words he wanted to be in there. I just happen to think it's not very likely that it is. Regardless of that, you should judge the book on it's contents, not on who allegedly wrote it. For the last few thousand years, that seemed to have worked just fine for Islam, so why bother with someone that questions it's author, but not it's contents?
No, I did not read the Q'ran, so no, I'm not judging it's contents. I don't think that would be fair, although it would fit the SlashDot tradition just fine. ;)
TV preachers and preachers in many churches, many religions, state the bible to be "the word of god". Since those people tend to be the official delegates of their respective religion, I'd say quite a lot of religions actually *do* advertise "the sacred book" (is bible a taboo word??) as the literal word of God.