While Mar's [sic]atmosphere stretches further into space than Earth's, its just not substantial enough to allow auroras.
I was under the impression that auroras were the result of charged particles in the solar wind being deflected by the magnetosphere, and was not dependent on atmosphere at all.
While Mars does receive much less solar radiation than Earth, its magnetic field is nearly as strong, so auroras should have respectable strength.
At one point, researcher Matt Conover was talking about a fairly obscure type of problem called a "heap overflow." When he asked the crowd, made up mostly of vice presidents, whether they knew about this type of issue, 18 of 20 hands went up.
"I doubt that there is another large company on this planet that has that level of technical competency in management roles," Moore said.
Anyone can say that they have knowledge of a particular issue...how many of these vice-presidents actually went on to demonstrate that knowledge? I'm guessing zero.
"The security faults we are seeing could end up bringing an end to the era of personal computing," Kaminsky said. "The ability to customize our computers is under attack from those who are customizing it against our will."
Funny...the Fedora install on my laptop seems fairly customizable and fairly secure all at once...
If my life ever becomes so sad that I not only perch myself on my keyboard all day long...
Looks like you're there, sporto. Sucks to be you.
but actually PAY to subscribe to an online forum
Oh yeah...without that $5.00, I'll never make the house payment! Woe is me!
so I can be the first karma-whoring poster to every article
Well, my posts may be on-topic and thoughtful (translation for you: karma-whoring), but they beat the hell out of your GNAA bullshit, don't they?
Yes. Yes, they do.
I hope my friends
I've got news for you, sport. Those people that you play UT against aren't your friends...they're bots. Haven't you ever wondered why they don't talk to you? (No...I imagine you wouldn't have wondered...that's pretty standard for your life.)
(if I have any left at this miserable stage of existance [sic])
I hope your friends pool their allowance and buy you a dictionary, you sad little man.
will have the courtesy to put a bullet in my brain.
Oh wow...that's uncanny...it's like I'm actually on the elementary-school playground again.
You have been annoying the slashdot crowd with your shameless karma-whoring and inane comments for far too long.
Ahh...the anguished mewling cries of AC trolls...it's like music to my ears. I was having a bad day until I read this post, but now I'm gonna be giddy for the rest of the evening, knowing I got under your skin yet again. ^_^ (By the way...this post is neither 'shameless karma whoring' (as I am certain to be modded down as 'flamebait'), or 'inane comments' (as it would be difficult in the extreme to imagine comments more inane than the drivel you fertilize this board with on a regular basis). Kinda blows a hole in your premise, doesn't it?
Please place a plastic bag over your head, secure around the neck and sit back in your daddy's armchair.
Honestly...as a sex-deprived, pimply faced, scrawny teenager languishing in your mommy's basement and playing ultra-violent video games with the sound turned low (lest it disturb Mommy...she's a mean drunk, isn't she?), you can surely come up with a more imaginative way for me to off myself, couldn't you? Watch out...you're starting to get boring...
Thank you,
No no...thank you.
The other 800K slashdotters
Let me get this straight...800,000 other slashdotters are fed up with my 'shameless karma-whoring' and 'inane comments', but the only one I hear from is you? Somehow, I doubt that theory...I find it infinitely easier to postulate that your realization that your life hit its high point when you were potty-trained (feels good not to have to wear your diaper to school, doesn't it!), and it's all downhill from now on, compels you to lash out at your betters. Don't worry...I won't hold it against you...you're only acting out...you can't help yourself.
In conclusion, please log off before you hurt yourself. While you're at it, format your hard drive, smash your computer with an axe, and eat the broken shards until you pass out from blood loss.
(See??? Something like that! Now that's an imaginative way to off yourself! That's not boring....why can't you be more like TMM???)
That would sort of fill in the last major whole [sic] in their lineup.
Errant homonyms aside, this seems to make a lot of sense...after all, Apple is just a spreadsheet shy of an office suite...although between M$ Office and Open Office, I find myself wondering why they're even bothering...
Also, wasn't there an Apple spreadsheet program previously...called 'grid' or something? I seem to recall something along those lines...perhaps 'Numbers' isn't a spreadsheet after all. The assumption that 'Numbers' is in fact a spreadsheet is only speculation, after all.
Microsoft has always been about the assimilation of the technology of other companies...that in itself is no surprise. But between their music subscription service, their new image editing program, and now this, they've fired warning shots across the bows of three different types of applications, all in the space of a week and a half.
Is this just a momentary flurry, or can we expect this escalation to continue?
Back when I was in college, I recorded about 30 minutes of the M.U.L.E. theme from my Commodore 64...we would play the tape in the car when driving around.
And I hate to quarrel, but plants don't suck up oxygen.
Actually, the GP is correct. While the photosynthetic pathway does produce a surplus of O2, when the plant metabolizes that stored food for energy, it uses O2 in that process, just like animals. The surplus of O2 we enjoy at the present time is only here because of the biomass of green plants present on this planet...if all those plants were to be eaten or burned, the O2 levels would go right back to zero (or nearly so).
Actually, sir or madam, it is you that are the moron, along with all the other responses to my original post bleating about how I shouldn't dislike the French.
Go back and reread my original post carefully, genius. See the smiley face at the end? I put that in there specifically so brain-dead idiots like yourself could connect the dots and see that I intended the post as a joke.
Now this post...this is flamebait. Notice how there's no smiley at the end of this one? That's because I'm serious when I express my fervent hope that a freak microwave accident sterilizes you so we don't have to put up with any more of your deficient genes in the gene pool.
Sending any materials that we manage to mine from the moon back to the earth is madness. Besides their basic value, any materials that are up there have significant additional value just by virtue of them being up there...that is, not languishing at the bottom of an unreasonably deep gravity well.
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While Mar's [sic]atmosphere stretches further into space than Earth's, its just not substantial enough to allow auroras.
I was under the impression that auroras were the result of charged particles in the solar wind being deflected by the magnetosphere, and was not dependent on atmosphere at all.
While Mars does receive much less solar radiation than Earth, its magnetic field is nearly as strong, so auroras should have respectable strength.
Of course they're different...the Martians are causing them to strobe out the message 'Keep your junk off our planet'.
Too bad no one on Earth understands Martian Morse code...
^_^
Posting for the sake of posting are we?
Sounds more like what you've been doing lately, AC. Following me around, trying to get in your pathetic little digs every chance you get.
Honestly, you must spend more time on my User Info page than I do.
While what you say is certainly true, I'm not sure I buy that as a complete explanation.
Consider Apache vs. IIS...IIS is in the minority there, but which is more secure?
Real engineers fix problems, they don't get emotional.
Spot on. A`real engineer would have welcomed the learning opportunity, not wasted time getting all moody.
At one point, researcher Matt Conover was talking about a fairly obscure type of problem called a "heap overflow." When he asked the crowd, made up mostly of vice presidents, whether they knew about this type of issue, 18 of 20 hands went up.
"I doubt that there is another large company on this planet that has that level of technical competency in management roles," Moore said.
Anyone can say that they have knowledge of a particular issue...how many of these vice-presidents actually went on to demonstrate that knowledge? I'm guessing zero.
From TFA:
Funny...the Fedora install on my laptop seems fairly customizable and fairly secure all at once...
Can't...resist...trollbaiting!
If my life ever becomes so sad that I not only perch myself on my keyboard all day long...
Looks like you're there, sporto. Sucks to be you.
but actually PAY to subscribe to an online forum
Oh yeah...without that $5.00, I'll never make the house payment! Woe is me!
so I can be the first karma-whoring poster to every article
Well, my posts may be on-topic and thoughtful (translation for you: karma-whoring), but they beat the hell out of your GNAA bullshit, don't they?
I hope my friends
I've got news for you, sport. Those people that you play UT against aren't your friends...they're bots. Haven't you ever wondered why they don't talk to you? (No...I imagine you wouldn't have wondered...that's pretty standard for your life.)
(if I have any left at this miserable stage of existance [sic])
I hope your friends pool their allowance and buy you a dictionary, you sad little man.
will have the courtesy to put a bullet in my brain.
Can I be your friend?
Log off before you hurt yourself...further.
Dear TripMasterbating Monkey,
Oh wow...that's uncanny...it's like I'm actually on the elementary-school playground again.
You have been annoying the slashdot crowd with your shameless karma-whoring and inane comments for far too long.
Ahh...the anguished mewling cries of AC trolls...it's like music to my ears. I was having a bad day until I read this post, but now I'm gonna be giddy for the rest of the evening, knowing I got under your skin yet again. ^_^
(By the way...this post is neither 'shameless karma whoring' (as I am certain to be modded down as 'flamebait'), or 'inane comments' (as it would be difficult in the extreme to imagine comments more inane than the drivel you fertilize this board with on a regular basis).
Kinda blows a hole in your premise, doesn't it?
Please place a plastic bag over your head, secure around the neck and sit back in your daddy's armchair.
Honestly...as a sex-deprived, pimply faced, scrawny teenager languishing in your mommy's basement and playing ultra-violent video games with the sound turned low (lest it disturb Mommy...she's a mean drunk, isn't she?), you can surely come up with a more imaginative way for me to off myself, couldn't you? Watch out...you're starting to get boring...
Thank you,
No no...thank you.
The other 800K slashdotters
Let me get this straight...800,000 other slashdotters are fed up with my 'shameless karma-whoring' and 'inane comments', but the only one I hear from is you? Somehow, I doubt that theory...I find it infinitely easier to postulate that your realization that your life hit its high point when you were potty-trained (feels good not to have to wear your diaper to school, doesn't it!), and it's all downhill from now on, compels you to lash out at your betters.
Don't worry...I won't hold it against you...you're only acting out...you can't help yourself.
In conclusion, please log off before you hurt yourself. While you're at it, format your hard drive, smash your computer with an axe, and eat the broken shards until you pass out from blood loss.
(See??? Something like that! Now that's an imaginative way to off yourself! That's not boring....why can't you be more like TMM???)
(^_^)
Maybe Apple feels like half the company it could be without a spreadsheet app.
Spreadsheet envy?
^_^
Watch your mouth, you...we won't have such unholesome talk here.
^_^
From TFS:
Errant homonyms aside, this seems to make a lot of sense...after all, Apple is just a spreadsheet shy of an office suite...although between M$ Office and Open Office, I find myself wondering why they're even bothering...
Also, wasn't there an Apple spreadsheet program previously...called 'grid' or something? I seem to recall something along those lines...perhaps 'Numbers' isn't a spreadsheet after all. The assumption that 'Numbers' is in fact a spreadsheet is only speculation, after all.
...You will be assimilated.
Microsoft has always been about the assimilation of the technology of other companies...that in itself is no surprise. But between their music subscription service, their new image editing program, and now this, they've fired warning shots across the bows of three different types of applications, all in the space of a week and a half.
Is this just a momentary flurry, or can we expect this escalation to continue?
Back when I was in college, I recorded about 30 minutes of the M.U.L.E. theme from my Commodore 64...we would play the tape in the car when driving around.
I was such a geek...
In that case, they'll probably quit on their own after reading my previous post.
Problem solved...that'll be $175 (American).
^_^
I don't see gripes over Linux distros coming with Konqueror (which is a godawful P.O.S.)...
Hey...he's right! Konqueror does suck ass! I've always hated it...why should I have to put up with it???
I'm gonna demand a refund right now!
Oh, wait...
Please refer to this post for your response, as I cannot be bothered to type it all over again.
Got the IP addys of your tormentors?
Post them here!
I'm sure some of us could persuade these kids that port scanning is bad for your health...
^_^
The lobster usually doesn't kidnap your girlfriend and try to kill you with huge scimitars...usually...
^_^
And I hate to quarrel, but plants don't suck up oxygen.
Actually, the GP is correct. While the photosynthetic pathway does produce a surplus of O2, when the plant metabolizes that stored food for energy, it uses O2 in that process, just like animals. The surplus of O2 we enjoy at the present time is only here because of the biomass of green plants present on this planet...if all those plants were to be eaten or burned, the O2 levels would go right back to zero (or nearly so).
Actually, sir or madam, it is you that are the moron, along with all the other responses to my original post bleating about how I shouldn't dislike the French.
Go back and reread my original post carefully, genius. See the smiley face at the end? I put that in there specifically so brain-dead idiots like yourself could connect the dots and see that I intended the post as a joke.
Now this post...this is flamebait. Notice how there's no smiley at the end of this one? That's because I'm serious when I express my fervent hope that a freak microwave accident sterilizes you so we don't have to put up with any more of your deficient genes in the gene pool.
Indian food, for example, has a truly huge variation of veggie-only dishes...
That may be true, but perhaps curry isn't the best choice of food for groups of people in a sealed environment...
^_^
I used to want to go into space...but if I have to eat that damned Frenchy food while I'm up there, forget it.
(Note: This post may seem like flamebait, but I really do hate the French, so I feel I'm justified.)
^_^
Yes, but then China countered by claiming ownership of time.
^_^
Sending any materials that we manage to mine from the moon back to the earth is madness. Besides their basic value, any materials that are up there have significant additional value just by virtue of them being up there...that is, not languishing at the bottom of an unreasonably deep gravity well.