I hate to tell you this, but BP has more incentive than anyone to actually fix the problem, since they are going to be paying for the damages for the next 20 years.
Yeah, the cryogenic device is really small and light, but the 200 pounds of batteries you have to carry around to power the Peltier chips are sort of a drag...
A simulation of an analog universe. The properties of the universe we experience are just WEIRD... energy, space, and even time are inherently quantized? Spooky action at a distance? The universe expanded at a rate several magnitudes greater than the speed of light shortly after the big bang? The microwave background radiation has the same average energy in all directions? The universal constants aren't constant over time? Light isn't a wave and isn't a particle? All these strange phenomena make more sense in the context of a computer simulation of a universe than they do in the context of a real, analog universe.
Actually, your phone is only 1 of the walkie talkies; the cellular network provider provides 2; and the person you're talking to provides one. Meaning you can't get true secure communication in a many-to-many configuration; the network between the 2 cellular nodes is still inherently insecure.
That would be even more evidence that what we interpret as "the real world" is really just a simulation. FTL or even communication is no problem at all for a simulation.
Making "copyleft" music available hurts their business model of charging customers through the nose for music, then passing a few cents of the profits onto the actual artists. Once artists figure out they can make MORE money without these middlemen, then what happens?
Also extremely heavy due to the liquid nitrogen cooling requirement, and point-to-point use only. Makes it more of a big walkie talkie than a cell phone.
Bill Gates, scourge of slashdotters everywhere, has donated billions towards fighting malaria. I don't think there is much more we could do to help -- if the Gates Foundation's $60 billion can't solve the problem, then nothing can.
I'd think you were being paranoid, but the Supreme Court today gutted the "honest services" law: "All nine justices agreed that public officials and corporate executives cannot be convicted of defrauding the public unless they enriched themselves by taking a bribe or a kickback. Secret deals or conflicts of interest are not a crime unless they involve a direct payoff." So, as long as they are committing fraud to enrich the company, which then is more profitable and pays them more money, and not taking the money directly themselves, it's ok?!? WTF?!? Sounds like all that matters is the interests of the shareholders, and the customers are irrelevant.
Hiding the delete option for FB accounts and implementing it in such a fucking retarded way, forcing the account holders to search out and delete every comment, photo, tag, and other info they put in instead of just having a delete button? Utter bullshit. You've obviously never tried to terminate an AOL account. Most ex-AOLers decided it was easier to just cancel their credit card.
That reminds of the message all computers at Intel used to boot up with: "Unauthorized use of this computer is strictly prohibited". Always seemed a bit circular to me, kinda like saying "Unauthorized use is strictly unauthorized!"
Barred for 20 years? Reviewed after 10 years? Twitter is a fad that will be passé by 2012... what the hell makes them think Twitter will still exist as a viable company in 20 years?!?
Good point. Why does google safe search have a setting that "blocks web pages containing explicit sexual content from appearing in search results" when what I want is a setting that blocks web pages that don't contain explicit sexual content from appearing in search results!
In the words of the immortal childcare expert Bender, "Have you ever tried simply turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?"
The sooner your child learns to accept "no" for an answer without whining about it, the better off they are going to be in life. In marriage, we learn to expect "no" for an answer!
As long as you understand that McDonald's, Chuck E. Cheese, et. al are playgrounds subsidized by food sales, I don't see why anyone should have a problem with it. Just don't delude yourself that their primary aim is to provide nutrition. Sounds like some parents are incapable of saying "no" to their kids, so they want the government to do if for them!
McDonald's is the stranger in the playground handing out candy to children. Somebody obviously misunderstands the intentions of the stranger handing out candy. Hint: He's not trying to make the kids fat!
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Ok... any non-fictional suggestions? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
I hate to tell you this, but BP has more incentive than anyone to actually fix the problem, since they are going to be paying for the damages for the next 20 years.
But... to do that, you'd have to be using /. and his momma at the same time... you perv!
I thought pouring oil on troubled waters was supposed to calm them!
Yeah, the cryogenic device is really small and light, but the 200 pounds of batteries you have to carry around to power the Peltier chips are sort of a drag...
A simulation of an analog universe. The properties of the universe we experience are just WEIRD... energy, space, and even time are inherently quantized? Spooky action at a distance? The universe expanded at a rate several magnitudes greater than the speed of light shortly after the big bang? The microwave background radiation has the same average energy in all directions? The universal constants aren't constant over time? Light isn't a wave and isn't a particle? All these strange phenomena make more sense in the context of a computer simulation of a universe than they do in the context of a real, analog universe.
Actually, your phone is only 1 of the walkie talkies; the cellular network provider provides 2; and the person you're talking to provides one. Meaning you can't get true secure communication in a many-to-many configuration; the network between the 2 cellular nodes is still inherently insecure.
That would be even more evidence that what we interpret as "the real world" is really just a simulation. FTL or even communication is no problem at all for a simulation.
Making "copyleft" music available hurts their business model of charging customers through the nose for music, then passing a few cents of the profits onto the actual artists. Once artists figure out they can make MORE money without these middlemen, then what happens?
But... what if the cat breeds???
Also extremely heavy due to the liquid nitrogen cooling requirement, and point-to-point use only. Makes it more of a big walkie talkie than a cell phone.
Spooky action at a distance still seems fundamentally wrong to me. At what speed does information propagate between the entangled particles?
Either that or cheap, easily manufactured mosquito nets, which have no environmental impact...
"Practice on a hot dog first!" -- Family Guy
Suddenly, it's not such a good time to be a mouse anymore!
Bill Gates, scourge of slashdotters everywhere, has donated billions towards fighting malaria. I don't think there is much more we could do to help -- if the Gates Foundation's $60 billion can't solve the problem, then nothing can.
I'd think you were being paranoid, but the Supreme Court today gutted the "honest services" law: "All nine justices agreed that public officials and corporate executives cannot be convicted of defrauding the public unless they enriched themselves by taking a bribe or a kickback. Secret deals or conflicts of interest are not a crime unless they involve a direct payoff." So, as long as they are committing fraud to enrich the company, which then is more profitable and pays them more money, and not taking the money directly themselves, it's ok?!? WTF?!? Sounds like all that matters is the interests of the shareholders, and the customers are irrelevant.
Hiding the delete option for FB accounts and implementing it in such a fucking retarded way, forcing the account holders to search out and delete every comment, photo, tag, and other info they put in instead of just having a delete button? Utter bullshit. You've obviously never tried to terminate an AOL account. Most ex-AOLers decided it was easier to just cancel their credit card.
That reminds of the message all computers at Intel used to boot up with: "Unauthorized use of this computer is strictly prohibited". Always seemed a bit circular to me, kinda like saying "Unauthorized use is strictly unauthorized!"
Barred for 20 years? Reviewed after 10 years? Twitter is a fad that will be passé by 2012... what the hell makes them think Twitter will still exist as a viable company in 20 years?!?
Good point. Why does google safe search have a setting that "blocks web pages containing explicit sexual content from appearing in search results" when what I want is a setting that blocks web pages that don't contain explicit sexual content from appearing in search results!
It's a great time to be a rat! Lawyers and politicians the world over rejoice!
In the words of the immortal childcare expert Bender, "Have you ever tried simply turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?"
The sooner your child learns to accept "no" for an answer without whining about it, the better off they are going to be in life. In marriage, we learn to expect "no" for an answer!
As long as you understand that McDonald's, Chuck E. Cheese, et. al are playgrounds subsidized by food sales, I don't see why anyone should have a problem with it. Just don't delude yourself that their primary aim is to provide nutrition. Sounds like some parents are incapable of saying "no" to their kids, so they want the government to do if for them!
McDonald's is the stranger in the playground handing out candy to children. Somebody obviously misunderstands the intentions of the stranger handing out candy. Hint: He's not trying to make the kids fat!