Beta means "it may change without warning". With traditional apps you have a choice to upgrade or not, but not with web applications. As long as there is active development then it is essentially a beta. Maybe they should have used a different term, but I think it is useful to have a warning that there may be frequent and substantial changes.
Its lucky that I keep the facts in mind and am not influenced by this.
I thought that Palin wanted to ban the books claiming that Obama wasn't a muslim. Or was it muslims wanted to ban books saying that Palin supported Obama?
I just don't see why they can't get on - expecially since Obama fathered Palin's daughter's baby. Didn't he?
Having seen my wife go from an avid "smokers rights" campaigner to an avid anti-smoker when she gave up I can believe this.
Sometimes I hear her complain loudly about things that she used to do and even told people she had the right to... like smoking in a bus-shelter (covered but technically outside so its legal).
It is really refreshing when someone doesn't fall for this. I was once looking for a cheap car to use about town - maybe 20,miles a week. One guy said "its reliable but not very comfortable, noisy and the fuel economy is mediocre. Oh the radio is stuck on Galaxy FM.".
Because of the couple of short trips a week it would do these disadvantages were not overly important so I brought from him rather than the many people who tried to convince me that the car they were selling for £500 was the most brilliant vehicle ever.
My wife comes from Houston and now lives in the UK. She refuses to visit Houston from May to September. Sometime we will have to go in summer just so I can see if its as bad as she says.
How many people have become unemployed and then taken a job at 2/3 of the salary? How many people would like to be employed but not registered as unemployed (e.g. wife/husband still has job)?
How many people put up with crap they'd normally resign over, because of the state of the jobs market. In my experience when unemployment is over 4 or 5% this affects 10 to 15% of the employed too.
This is what they did when it was ruled that they were subject to FSA rules in the UK. from the link:
A third of all adults in the UK - around 15 million people - now have a PayPal account. That is an account primarily used to buy and sell online.
Customers are currently protected by the Financial Services Authority which regulates PayPal and also have the right to complain to the Financial Ombudsman.
Now the PayPal headquarters is moving to Luxembourg it will no longer be regulated by the FSA.
As the have no branches and only a virtual presence they can be run anywhere.
Where would US operations be run from. Bermuda? Guantanamo? Somewhere beyond the reach of the regulatory organisations anyway.
Of course, bombs would be a consideration too. For the first time in history it would become economically feasible to use kinetic penetrators launched from orbit. No explosives, no guidance systems, no airplanes required - just pick a country, zoom in on your target, push a button, and send a 500kg chunk of metal sailing towards your target at 20,000 km/h.
I wonder what technology level a country would need to prove that it wasn't just an unlucky meteorite strike on the research lab/president's car or whatever.
I worked for a very small company that had a server-rack in a cupboard without ventilation. In winter we'd open the door to keep the office warm. In summer we'd keep it closed to stop making the office to warm - there was no air conditioning. The temperature must have varied from 16 degrees C, maybe lower at night to 35 degrees C and the server never had any problems.
I also worked with someone who worked night shift as an operator in a large company that did have an air-conditioned computer room. During the day the machine room was treated with reverence, carefully dusted with special cloths, etc.. He told me that at night when they got bored they'd play cricket down the central corridor with a tennis ball and a hard back book. The computer cabinets regularly got hit with the ball and once or twice had people run into them. On one occasion a disk unit started giving "media error warnings" but apart from that no ill effects again.
There are some people who receive most of their email from strangers, ans this would not work for them.
If you receive most of your email from people you know then this helps, as their emails can go directly as authenticated into the inbox. You would receive emails from new addresses in an unknown box, where once only for each address you would have to decide whether it was spam or not.
Id does not cure spam 100% but for most people it improves things.
In all recent proposals the counterweight is beyond the geostationary orbit so the cable is under tension.
Provided the tether stays stationary the only fuel needed is to move the object. Think of this, does your house need fuel to absorb the downward force when you go upstairs? The only fuel comes from your muscles. Similarly a powered elevator car will be able to climb the space elevator.
Absolutely. Without https you could be subject to a man in the middle attack. This is at least as big a hole as a DNS spoofing/cache poisoning.
They would have been a lot better of going https with extended validation certificates and widely publishing the fact that with a modern browser you should see a green address bar, that would have ensured that dns spoofing and man in the middle attacks would be detected.
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Yes, the voter is stupid. That's why whenever there is a bombing I chuckle. Stupid bastard cancers deserve to be blown up.
When have you last heard a report say "first the terrorists released all the slashdot posters"?
It's not just the fact they can't keep our data secure
I can see the headlines now. "Unencrypted CD containing names, addresses and nationality of all immigrants falls into BNP hands."
Maybe flight simulator
Beta means "it may change without warning". With traditional apps you have a choice to upgrade or not, but not with web applications. As long as there is active development then it is essentially a beta. Maybe they should have used a different term, but I think it is useful to have a warning that there may be frequent and substantial changes.
Ah, what would you expect from those infidels who published the cartoons though!
Don't forget the glottal stop. QUR'AN.
Its lucky that I keep the facts in mind and am not influenced by this.
I thought that Palin wanted to ban the books claiming that Obama wasn't a muslim. Or was it muslims wanted to ban books saying that Palin supported Obama?
I just don't see why they can't get on - expecially since Obama fathered Palin's daughter's baby. Didn't he?
Having seen my wife go from an avid "smokers rights" campaigner to an avid anti-smoker when she gave up I can believe this.
... like smoking in a bus-shelter (covered but technically outside so its legal).
Sometimes I hear her complain loudly about things that she used to do and even told people she had the right to
It is really refreshing when someone doesn't fall for this. I was once looking for a cheap car to use about town - maybe 20 ,miles a week. One guy said "its reliable but not very comfortable, noisy and the fuel economy is mediocre. Oh the radio is stuck on Galaxy FM.".
Because of the couple of short trips a week it would do these disadvantages were not overly important so I brought from him rather than the many people who tried to convince me that the car they were selling for £500 was the most brilliant vehicle ever.
That it is "Rap" with a silent "C".
All you need are two equations.
Having marked normally the teacher says
politically_correct_score = real_score / 2 + 50;
Or receiving a score the brighter kids can apply
real_score = 2 * (politically_correct_score -50);
This way mediocre Mike can congratulate himself on 55% while brilliant Beryl knows that she has to work harder having scored 75%.
My wife comes from Houston and now lives in the UK. She refuses to visit Houston from May to September. Sometime we will have to go in summer just so I can see if its as bad as she says.
True, but most people only go and register as unemployed if they will get some benefit.
Are you skilled enough to get a visa?
How many people have become unemployed and then taken a job at 2/3 of the salary? How many people would like to be employed but not registered as unemployed (e.g. wife/husband still has job)?
How many people put up with crap they'd normally resign over, because of the state of the jobs market. In my experience when unemployment is over 4 or 5% this affects 10 to 15% of the employed too.
They missed this one from their screen-shots.
This is what they did when it was ruled that they were subject to FSA rules in the UK. from the link:
A third of all adults in the UK - around 15 million people - now have a PayPal account. That is an account primarily used to buy and sell online. Customers are currently protected by the Financial Services Authority which regulates PayPal and also have the right to complain to the Financial Ombudsman. Now the PayPal headquarters is moving to Luxembourg it will no longer be regulated by the FSA.
As the have no branches and only a virtual presence they can be run anywhere. Where would US operations be run from. Bermuda? Guantanamo? Somewhere beyond the reach of the regulatory organisations anyway.
Of course, bombs would be a consideration too. For the first time in history it would become economically feasible to use kinetic penetrators launched from orbit. No explosives, no guidance systems, no airplanes required - just pick a country, zoom in on your target, push a button, and send a 500kg chunk of metal sailing towards your target at 20,000 km/h.
I wonder what technology level a country would need to prove that it wasn't just an unlucky meteorite strike on the research lab/president's car or whatever.
I worked for a very small company that had a server-rack in a cupboard without ventilation. In winter we'd open the door to keep the office warm. In summer we'd keep it closed to stop making the office to warm - there was no air conditioning. The temperature must have varied from 16 degrees C, maybe lower at night to 35 degrees C and the server never had any problems.
I also worked with someone who worked night shift as an operator in a large company that did have an air-conditioned computer room. During the day the machine room was treated with reverence, carefully dusted with special cloths, etc.. He told me that at night when they got bored they'd play cricket down the central corridor with a tennis ball and a hard back book. The computer cabinets regularly got hit with the ball and once or twice had people run into them. On one occasion a disk unit started giving "media error warnings" but apart from that no ill effects again.
I think to eliminate spam you'd have to nuke the entire world.
There are some people who receive most of their email from strangers, ans this would not work for them.
If you receive most of your email from people you know then this helps, as their emails can go directly as authenticated into the inbox. You would receive emails from new addresses in an unknown box, where once only for each address you would have to decide whether it was spam or not.
Id does not cure spam 100% but for most people it improves things.
just convince them that you can drop bombs off the elevator onto Arab countries and they'd pay for it in an instant.
There are a couple of things you are not seeing:
In all recent proposals the counterweight is beyond the geostationary orbit so the cable is under tension.
Provided the tether stays stationary the only fuel needed is to move the object. Think of this, does your house need fuel to absorb the downward force when you go upstairs? The only fuel comes from your muscles. Similarly a powered elevator car will be able to climb the space elevator.
Exercise for the reader: work out how you're going to power the climber.
CowboyNeal as a counterweight?
Absolutely. Without https you could be subject to a man in the middle attack. This is at least as big a hole as a DNS spoofing/cache poisoning.
They would have been a lot better of going https with extended validation certificates and widely publishing the fact that with a modern browser you should see a green address bar, that would have ensured that dns spoofing and man in the middle attacks would be detected.