What the funding should go towards is creating weapons that do effectively just as much damage without the radiation fallout.
Killing millions of people without leaving that nasty residual radiation is not really a very useful technology. Even with no radiation, the area affected is going to be pretty much uninhabitable for several years anyway just from the stench of all the dead bodies! If you've got to wear a bio-hazard protective gear to protect you from diseases inherent in rotting corpses, you might as well wear a radiation suit. And take lots of anti-nausea medication; you won't want to vomit inside your protective gear.
Not being able to make more warheads is a BAD thing?!? If you can kill everyone on Earth 20 times over, increasing your capacity to kill them to 25 times over is really not a very good return on investment. Unless Fogbank has a limited shelf life, we really don't need to make more.
What the DoD really needs to do to sell upgrades to the nuclear arsenal is introduce a "New, greener, environmentally friendly nuke! Made with 100% recyclable materials! No dangerous, volatile chemicals used in the manufacturing process!" Then we could add it to the stimulus bill as a new, green technology. The Sierra Clubbers would love it!
Please turn in you slashdot membership id. We're not about rational, objective analysis of the facts here; were about enforcing people's existing beliefs! In fact, slashdot's new motto is "Slashdot: Like CPAC, but for nerds!"
The biggest takeaway I get from this report is that you can never be certain physical media isn't counterfeit, so the only way to make certain you aren't financing criminals is to get all your music and video via P2P. But then, I'm only about the 100th person on here to say that. The MPAA fails to distinguish between unauthorized distribution of free copies and sales of counterfeit media in it's propaganda, referring to both by the inaccurate pejorative "piracy". Even if the study is valid, the MPAA's use of it to back up their misleading claims is highly suspect.
Video on Demand beats the hell out of video only when the network schedules it. I don't even pay for cable anymore... why should I when everything I want to watch is available for free over the 'net at my convenience, with fewer commercials?
Actually, they probably stole the idea of being their own opening act from Hot Rize, who for 30 years changed costumes and instruments and came out as "Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers", parodying themselves as a Country and Western Band.
Yes, I did originally learn FORTRAN by punching in programs on Hollerith cards, thank you very much! Now I feel really, really old...
We had an assignment to write a program which checked 4 conditions and acted accordingly, something that should take about 20 cards. One smart-ass punched up an 800 card program (many cards exact duplicates), then discovered they wouldn't all fit in the card hopper at once! Program probably wouldn't have all fit in the 4K of magnetic core on the GA-1830 anyway. I wonder what that guy is doing now...
Even if the "woman" you hired off of craigslist.com turned out to have a penis, suing craigslist.com still isn't going to help you get your money back!
Craigslist is 'the single largest source of prostitution in the nation'
No, whores are the single largest source of prostitution! craigslist.com list is just their most popular advertising medium.
Did people stop smoking cigarettes when they stop advertising? Take away online venues for finding customers, and whores will go back to propositioning Johns on the street. Personally, I'd rather they just advertise online, where only the people that are looking for sex-for-hire have to deal with them.
True story: I was in Manhattan on business, walking down the street in broad daylight, when this woman in a business suit approached me and asked "Do you have the time?" I of course immediately looked at my watch, whereupon she remarked "That's not what I meant!" Call me a nerd, but no, I can't tell an office worker from a prostitute... at least not until they ask for money.
Exactly what better use are you suggesting for "a world-spanning network with submarine cables, microwave links, fiber-optic everything, satellite dishes, protocols out the wazoo, billions of lines of code and huge multinational telecommunications and consulting companies to service and support it, employing tens of millions in highly skilled work"... running Microsoft Live?
Emulating a $500 PC Server on a $500,000 mainframe... yeah, that sounds real cost-effective! If you run this simultaneously in 1000 virtual machines, do you need 1000 Windows licenses? How many people do you know that have spent years staring at their mainframe, muttering "What a nice piece of iron! If only we could run Windows on it!"... that haven't yet been committed to a mental institution? I really don't think the potential market for this justifies the development costs, guys.
I normally use Firefox, but there are still a lot of web sites out there with JavaScript that only works properly under IE, so I keep IE handy to access those sites. I don't uninstall Safari just 'cause I use Firefox on my Mac, why should I uninstall IE just 'cause I use Firefox on my PC?
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After all, what could possibly go wrong?"
To heck with that wimpy drop test... what we really want to know is Will it blend?
I do the same thing to my daughter all the time... now you're telling me that I can be replaced by a robot?!?
"Women! Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard and tell the neighbors they're on vacation! Oh wait..." -- Hans Reiser
Killing millions of people without leaving that nasty residual radiation is not really a very useful technology. Even with no radiation, the area affected is going to be pretty much uninhabitable for several years anyway just from the stench of all the dead bodies! If you've got to wear a bio-hazard protective gear to protect you from diseases inherent in rotting corpses, you might as well wear a radiation suit. And take lots of anti-nausea medication; you won't want to vomit inside your protective gear.
What the DoD really needs to do to sell upgrades to the nuclear arsenal is introduce a "New, greener, environmentally friendly nuke! Made with 100% recyclable materials! No dangerous, volatile chemicals used in the manufacturing process!" Then we could add it to the stimulus bill as a new, green technology. The Sierra Clubbers would love it!
This includes the Elliot 803
I think you mean the Elliott 803 You're welcome.
Last time I grabbed some Swedish racks, all I got for my trouble was slapped silly...
The terrorists that attacked Mumbai used boats.
The biggest takeaway I get from this report is that you can never be certain physical media isn't counterfeit, so the only way to make certain you aren't financing criminals is to get all your music and video via P2P. But then, I'm only about the 100th person on here to say that. The MPAA fails to distinguish between unauthorized distribution of free copies and sales of counterfeit media in it's propaganda, referring to both by the inaccurate pejorative "piracy". Even if the study is valid, the MPAA's use of it to back up their misleading claims is highly suspect.
Video on Demand beats the hell out of video only when the network schedules it. I don't even pay for cable anymore... why should I when everything I want to watch is available for free over the 'net at my convenience, with fewer commercials?
In 1897 Indiana passed a Bill setting the value of Pi to 3. Now that's seriously outside their jurisdiction!
Actually, they probably stole the idea of being their own opening act from Hot Rize, who for 30 years changed costumes and instruments and came out as "Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers", parodying themselves as a Country and Western Band.
Colbert and his show is one big satire on the right-wing and the pompous right-wind media.
Is this a typo, a Freudian slip, or intentional satire? Because if it is the latter, then it is brilliant!
I can see you're obviously not a Joss Whedon fan...
We had an assignment to write a program which checked 4 conditions and acted accordingly, something that should take about 20 cards. One smart-ass punched up an 800 card program (many cards exact duplicates), then discovered they wouldn't all fit in the card hopper at once! Program probably wouldn't have all fit in the 4K of magnetic core on the GA-1830 anyway. I wonder what that guy is doing now...
Even if the "woman" you hired off of craigslist.com turned out to have a penis, suing craigslist.com still isn't going to help you get your money back!
What the world really wants to know is: could they slam dunk?
Craigslist is 'the single largest source of prostitution in the nation'
No, whores are the single largest source of prostitution! craigslist.com list is just their most popular advertising medium. Did people stop smoking cigarettes when they stop advertising? Take away online venues for finding customers, and whores will go back to propositioning Johns on the street. Personally, I'd rather they just advertise online, where only the people that are looking for sex-for-hire have to deal with them.
True story: I was in Manhattan on business, walking down the street in broad daylight, when this woman in a business suit approached me and asked "Do you have the time?" I of course immediately looked at my watch, whereupon she remarked "That's not what I meant!" Call me a nerd, but no, I can't tell an office worker from a prostitute... at least not until they ask for money.
The responses to the parent constitute conclusive proof that slashdot needs to add a -1: Whoosh! moderation!
Exactly what better use are you suggesting for "a world-spanning network with submarine cables, microwave links, fiber-optic everything, satellite dishes, protocols out the wazoo, billions of lines of code and huge multinational telecommunications and consulting companies to service and support it, employing tens of millions in highly skilled work"... running Microsoft Live?
Emulating a $500 PC Server on a $500,000 mainframe... yeah, that sounds real cost-effective! If you run this simultaneously in 1000 virtual machines, do you need 1000 Windows licenses? How many people do you know that have spent years staring at their mainframe, muttering "What a nice piece of iron! If only we could run Windows on it!"... that haven't yet been committed to a mental institution? I really don't think the potential market for this justifies the development costs, guys.
For sending anniversary greeting to your ex! Accompanied, of course, by the obligatory dead flowers!
I normally use Firefox, but there are still a lot of web sites out there with JavaScript that only works properly under IE, so I keep IE handy to access those sites. I don't uninstall Safari just 'cause I use Firefox on my Mac, why should I uninstall IE just 'cause I use Firefox on my PC?
And if you can't be a good interview, at least try to do a good interview!