ION is...
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's first student-developed satellite
The first satellite completely developed in the state of Illinois...as far as we know
A fully independent spacecraft
A double CubeSat (smaller than a shoebox at 4" x 4" x 8")
Launching from Baikonur, Kazakhstan using the Russian DNEPR-1 launch vehicle, a converted ICBM
There's no way I could think of a funny "chips own you" joke out of communist China. In this case, somebody else owned the chips and some guy in communist China didn't. Thanks, I'll be here all week!
Well if you think about it, theres potential for a joke involving equality, like, in china, all technology is equal. Maybe this guy was some sort of communism advocate that just wanted everyone to be equal!
Now to the stock market. The all ordinaries are up 15 cents, NASDAQ is running smoothly up 10 cents and the incredibly illegal bit torrent file sharing ring has mysteriously and suddenly dissappeared from the market.
In other news the US government has been superceded by the RIAA in a grant of 'emergency powers'. Among the proposed changes is a rename of the US to the 'United Empire' and the purging of all online music stores. CDs have also reportedly tufwappled in cost.
They believe movie fans will prefer to pay a reasonable price for a legal downloaded movie rather than risk illegally swapping a computer file that could contain viruses or be a poor quality copy of a film.
Whoever came up with this notion must be rather insane. I don't really know anyone who knows or cares about the legal reprercussions of illegally downloading. Heck, getting caught illegally downloading would be analogous to winning the lotto. Only, some sort of crazy illegal anti-lottery where winning earns you a permanent deportation to soviet russia.
If companies like Warner want to win the heart of consumers, they should be concentrating on things like ease-of-use and easy payment. Pretty sure my grandma would have trouble figuring out how to download a BT client, finding a site to download.torrent files, installing and opening the client and finally downloading the file. Conversely, i don't have a credit card, nor do i live in America, and so downloading an mp3 is even easier than organising a direct deposit transaction online over ebay. It would be far easier for me to download a hypothetical BT movie than use one of the upcoming movie-pay-download services. It shouldn't be that hard. If the movie industry can bridge gaps like these so that they are easier for the consumer, then maybe they can win into the hearts of the average joe and the 17 year old without a credit card. I think it would be rather challenging for movie companies to win over the upcoming computer-generation from their downloading, but there is a significant niche market (example: my computer illiterate parents) that they could potentially buy into.
Users can prevent people seeing their profiles. Users can prevent people from being 'their friend'. If a parent is that concerned about their child's wellbeing from 'sexual predators', then why not just ask that they make their profile only viewable to their friends? Anyone who is stupid enough to disclose their address and phone number to a complete stranger is a dork.
We have bathrooms that clean themselves, robots that clean our floor for us.
In the future, slashdotters will have autonomous beings that will clean everything else.
Of course, these are already available to the general public. I believe they are called 'girlfriends'.
I always percieved this problem being worse for girls that hit puberty first. They go after older guys,and with the physiology that they have, and the sleaziness of some of the teenagers nowdays, they can often get them. I've seen this happen a lot personally (still being a teenager) where skanky girls my age hang out and go out with 18+ year olds. They get involved with drugs/substances that should probably be limited to the older age groups, start sleeping around with 18 year olds, going out late, avoiding school, ruining their life blablabla. Im suprised this study didn't accomodate this. Or they chose the wrong area. Or i didnt RTFA 'nuff.
But this idea is not consistent with the intelligent designer! (joking, im not trying to start another creationism debate). You know, this first thing i thought of when i read this theory was stargate. You should apply to be a writer:p
Evidently there would be some sort of evidence or past legacy of this civilisation. A gigantic, worldwide flood is not going to destroy an exploration vessel (made of a strong material at least.. a civilisation able to genetically engineer their own crazy creatures would at least posses such materials) at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. Sure, thousands of years may erode it, but there would at least still be some evidence per se, no? I think evidence conceding with the ice ages has been accumulating recently, perhaps a shift in the whatever ocean current also caused some sort of global ice age wiping out the dinosaurs? Or we could stick with the tried and tested meteor(ite?) theory that meteor x caused crater y and explosion z, cataclysmically wiping out life as.. we knew it.
Does anyone else feel the need to google every word they may have potentially spelt wrong to make sure they dont get criticized:P?
they find some way of protecting this new proverbial garden of eden. It would be really upsetting if evil poachers got into the area and started killing everything. And lets hope the government dosen't do anything stupid and allows the area to be studied. Alternativly, we can be like brazil and bulldoze millions of hectares of forestland, destroying potential new drugs and wiping out never before seen genetic traits for a bit of wood and farmland. But arguably the aesthetic value and opportunity to study these strange new creature based overlords would be far more invaluable. Turn it into untouchable national park!
Im not sure if this has been clarified yet, but most of the criminals sent to Australia were a result of englands crap penal system and various economic problems. A majority got sentanced ridiculous jail terms for petty crimes like stealing (bread for example) as they were too poor / couldn't find jobs and required it simply to keep alive.
This is also clearly the most retarded article i have read all week, and subsequently makes me want to stab myself in the leg.
Slashdot Mirror
install one of these babies in the hatch
just think about it, a party every 108 minutes!
11. The RIAA supercedes the US government in a grant of 'emergency powers' and becomes the new world government.
There's no way I could think of a funny "chips own you" joke out of communist China. In this case, somebody else owned the chips and some guy in communist China didn't. Thanks, I'll be here all week!
Well if you think about it, theres potential for a joke involving equality, like, in china, all technology is equal. Maybe this guy was some sort of communism advocate that just wanted everyone to be equal!
Now to the stock market. The all ordinaries are up 15 cents, NASDAQ is running smoothly up 10 cents and the incredibly illegal bit torrent file sharing ring has mysteriously and suddenly dissappeared from the market.
In other news the US government has been superceded by the RIAA in a grant of 'emergency powers'. Among the proposed changes is a rename of the US to the 'United Empire' and the purging of all online music stores. CDs have also reportedly tufwappled in cost.
Whoever came up with this notion must be rather insane. I don't really know anyone who knows or cares about the legal reprercussions of illegally downloading. Heck, getting caught illegally downloading would be analogous to winning the lotto. Only, some sort of crazy illegal anti-lottery where winning earns you a permanent deportation to soviet russia. .torrent files, installing and opening the client and finally downloading the file. Conversely, i don't have a credit card, nor do i live in America, and so downloading an mp3 is even easier than organising a direct deposit transaction online over ebay. It would be far easier for me to download a hypothetical BT movie than use one of the upcoming movie-pay-download services. It shouldn't be that hard. If the movie industry can bridge gaps like these so that they are easier for the consumer, then maybe they can win into the hearts of the average joe and the 17 year old without a credit card. I think it would be rather challenging for movie companies to win over the upcoming computer-generation from their downloading, but there is a significant niche market (example: my computer illiterate parents) that they could potentially buy into.
If companies like Warner want to win the heart of consumers, they should be concentrating on things like ease-of-use and easy payment. Pretty sure my grandma would have trouble figuring out how to download a BT client, finding a site to download
Blah bla blah the world revolves around me and it should therefore conform to my every wish.
the third world needs more of this...
Users can prevent people seeing their profiles. Users can prevent people from being 'their friend'. If a parent is that concerned about their child's wellbeing from 'sexual predators', then why not just ask that they make their profile only viewable to their friends? Anyone who is stupid enough to disclose their address and phone number to a complete stranger is a dork.
Mind you, it confuses me... "Thou shalt not kill... Now go over that hill there and kill everyone you find"
Hallowed are the Orii?
Actually, i believe all the others were 'persuaded' by the brain parasites.
We have bathrooms that clean themselves, robots that clean our floor for us.
In the future, slashdotters will have autonomous beings that will clean everything else.
Of course, these are already available to the general public. I believe they are called 'girlfriends'.
damn, forgot to use br, *e-embarrased*
1) Travel to remote, unexplored area via barge 2) Find rare species of animal, kill, cut off distinct physiological feature 3) ??? 4) Profit!
I always percieved this problem being worse for girls that hit puberty first. They go after older guys,and with the physiology that they have, and the sleaziness of some of the teenagers nowdays, they can often get them. I've seen this happen a lot personally (still being a teenager) where skanky girls my age hang out and go out with 18+ year olds. They get involved with drugs/substances that should probably be limited to the older age groups, start sleeping around with 18 year olds, going out late, avoiding school, ruining their life blablabla. Im suprised this study didn't accomodate this. Or they chose the wrong area. Or i didnt RTFA 'nuff.
But this idea is not consistent with the intelligent designer! (joking, im not trying to start another creationism debate). You know, this first thing i thought of when i read this theory was stargate. You should apply to be a writer :p
.. we knew it.
:P?
Evidently there would be some sort of evidence or past legacy of this civilisation. A gigantic, worldwide flood is not going to destroy an exploration vessel (made of a strong material at least.. a civilisation able to genetically engineer their own crazy creatures would at least posses such materials) at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. Sure, thousands of years may erode it, but there would at least still be some evidence per se, no? I think evidence conceding with the ice ages has been accumulating recently, perhaps a shift in the whatever ocean current also caused some sort of global ice age wiping out the dinosaurs? Or we could stick with the tried and tested meteor(ite?) theory that meteor x caused crater y and explosion z, cataclysmically wiping out life as
Does anyone else feel the need to google every word they may have potentially spelt wrong to make sure they dont get criticized
they find some way of protecting this new proverbial garden of eden. It would be really upsetting if evil poachers got into the area and started killing everything. And lets hope the government dosen't do anything stupid and allows the area to be studied. Alternativly, we can be like brazil and bulldoze millions of hectares of forestland, destroying potential new drugs and wiping out never before seen genetic traits for a bit of wood and farmland. But arguably the aesthetic value and opportunity to study these strange new creature based overlords would be far more invaluable. Turn it into untouchable national park!
*creates cute little tinfoil hat for mobile phone*
Forget timecubes, its all about the cubed watermelons
You can't forget the poor online interfaces and the disconnecting team mates and .. the tiberium poisoning
The Stock Exchange brings down computer viruses! oh wait..
I for one welcome our new RAM-wielding opressive and tyrannical gecko overlords.
they may as well do it now. You know, with vista at the gates and all.
We should organise a 'slashdot the RIAA' day.
What are they gonna do, sue us?
Im not sure if this has been clarified yet, but most of the criminals sent to Australia were a result of englands crap penal system and various economic problems. A majority got sentanced ridiculous jail terms for petty crimes like stealing (bread for example) as they were too poor / couldn't find jobs and required it simply to keep alive.
This is also clearly the most retarded article i have read all week, and subsequently makes me want to stab myself in the leg.