They say it was during an exercise, how did they know that wasn't part of it?
Quite likely, one of the acoustic operators did detect it, but someone pointed out the exercise sub was elsewhere or not due on station for a few hours and told to ignore it.......
It will all come out in the inquiry. When I say come out.. in the sense that it will be put in Dick Cheney's man size safe and we'll see it in about 90 years.
No doubt the sub commander will be either commended with the nations highest honor.... or shot.
i I get the feeling that with more than twice the pages and a nice name attatched to it College Opportunity and Affordability Act this will get a similar reception. "Oh well it has a nice name - and it s far too long to bother reading and understanding... i
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Do they put the proposed bills online for constituents to read and comment on? Heck, a system with a kind of 'dig' where important clauses can be 'thumbs up'd' to the top so they get the attention they deserve would be great.
[sarcasm] As long as industry draft the bills, and the people in power sign off on them, and you continue to elect people that do not read the legislation that they are voting on... this must be the system that you want. [/sarcasm]
If I personally, cannot tell that my access to something is being restricted, without the help of extra software, then I fail to see why I should care.
First they started blocking Bit-torrent... but I did not use bit torrent so said nothing... yada yada yada...
Its all great running around banging the drum and asking users to 'join the war on non-neutrality' but it's all for nothing if you cannot DETECT non-neutrality in the first place.
I recall some discussion a while ago here on/. where someone was writing an application to detect non-neutrality... but it went quiet very quickly. Now the way I see it is that the list contains people that have the skills, or know the people who could write an application that could aid in the DETECTION of unfair practices from the ISP's.
The application could be used by the volunteers, and test the various protocols to various hosts (Skype, Google, youtube, TPB) and between the users themselves with various traffic (p2p, ping, tcp/ip, udp etc...) and see if any 'delay' occurs specific to one type of traffic. If it contained an automated reporting tool (OMG Tinfoil hat!!), then the aggregators could see trends across the various providers and not rely solely on one or two users. Of course you're entering a war of cat and mouse....
Before we can go accusing ISP's on non-neutrality, we need the tools to detect unfair play in the first place... anyone know of any?
Step 2 involves someone from MS, even Ballmer himself, taking the first plane to wave a big check from Microsoft in your face. Step 4 is that someone signing the check.
Don't forget that the check is undersigned by the bundled "30 day free trial" crap-ware vendors, and the Studios.
I'd love to see Nigeria take all the disks they're sent, not use them but offer them on e-bay For sale: Windows Vista - Nigeria Edition buy now $20
a free copy of Windows is worth more than a free copy of Mandriva. If MS came by later and offered free, or heavily discounted copies of Windows, I could see how Nigeria would accept it.
I see the exact opposite actually happening. Microsoft will most likely have to come up with a cut-down OS for this device, which means some development/testing. This will lead to it taking longer than first expected.
The people using Mandriva will be offered the 'free upgrade', which turns out to break a whole bunch of functionality that they previously had. (sound familiar?)
People will keep using the OS that they've been using that actually worked and allowed them to do what they wanted with the device.
If Microsoft breaks all these peoples computers, they'll probably be really pissed off with the American company and they won't be phoning the help line but rioting and destroying stuff.
So my questions for Ballmer.... "are you trying to make people hate America? Why do you hate our freedom?"
" eBay and the CIA discussed the law's potential effects on Skype (owned by eBay), which was quickly resolved after the CIA informed e-bay they already have access to the Skype private encryption 'backdoor', noting the whole reason for the 'supernodes' thing and why they're all CIA assets. "
I've read a few reports which summarized the USA's 'war on terrorism (and associated funding of terrorists)' has curbed IRA funding which has lowered their support - which had influence in this disarmament. Again, this is post 9/11.
Osborn sought to tally every recorded atrocity in the area that would eventually become the continental United States, from first contact (1511) to the closing of the frontier (1890), and determined that 9,156 people died from atrocities perpetrated by Native Americans, and 7,193 people died from those perpetrated by Europeans. Osborn defines an atrocity as the murder, torture, or mutilation of civilians, the wounded, and prisoners.
I don't exactly know how this is handled or tolerated at such low temperatures, but I'm willing to bet that between the latent heat expelled from the engine and the fine dispersement (atomization - to use a common, but incorrect term) that the resulting water doesn't pose any problem.
Question - Does air composition change with altitude in the
Troposphere?
Is oxygen concentration different at an altitude of e.g. 10000m than at
sea level?
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The composition of the atmosphere remain relatively constant up to the ozone
layer at an altitude of around 60,000 feet (though that number does vary
somewhat).
So, it appears the composition of air is relatively similar at high altitude, just there is LESS of it... i.e the air is too thin to support most life.... Of course you can compress it so it becomes breathable, which is essentially what a commercial aircraft does to keep the passengers alive.
Fine, he's a math geek. An ubergeek even. $10 says he hasn't, and never will, get laid
The dude has $25K to spend on a very attractive hookers. I'm sure he's doing the math to figure out whether he's better off blowing it all on one, or getting 2,500 ten-dollar hookers.
I'd use the two bars shown to adjust the angle of the shaft to lean it forward or backward.
I'm sure you know that to lean it forward or aft you actually need to apply the force (well, technically a torque,) at 90 Degrees to where you want the rotor to 'precess' or tilt. This is because the spinning mass of the rotor makes it subject to gyroscopic precession.
So your control rods essentially need to be at the sides.
Another factor you'll need to consider is that as the aircraft gains velocity the retreating blade requires more pitch to maintain the same amount of lift as the forward traveling rotor blade - so you stay level. Hence the swashplate.
EXACTLY. I find this part of the Article at odds with what seems reasonable:
But U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper in Los Angeles dismissed Bunnell's lawsuit Aug. 21 on the grounds that Anderson's intrusion did not violate the federal wiretapping statute. Attorney Rothken says he did not sue under the federal computer-hacking law, because it doesn't allow for vicarious liability.
Seems as long as you do this and hire someone anonymous, its perfectly OK. It's not wiretapping and you can't be done for the hacking bit cos you didn't do it!
Can I install this on a free partition on my Windows XP box?
Yes
How big does this parition need to be?
- 4 to 8GB
Do I get a choice of OS when I turn the power switch on?
- yes
Will it run on my P3 450, 512mb ram, geforce 2 64mb? Will it run faster than the install of XP I currently have on it?
- yes it will be faster than XP (It runs just fine on my pIII laptop (compaq armada 110s)with similar specs, but try* the 'Xubuntu' also and see which you like.)
*You should just stick the disk in, and it will boot in 'live' mode (make sure your system is set to boot from the CD drive before the HDD). Ubuntu will boot and you can try it out. It will be slow as your running in only RAM. When you click the 'install' icon it will ask you some questions about which partition you want it to install to.. so look at those options and see if they suit. You can actually go quite a way into the installation without Ubuntu having made ANY changes. It will of course eventually ask you to confirm you want to make and write those changes (that is when changes will be made). You can bang out (CTRL-ALT-DEL) up until then and it has not done anything to your machine.
You should note that it will be very slow in live mode, as it's running only in RAM and not writing to the disk. It will also want to format its partition in a file system called ext3. you're probably used to seeing NTFS.. but don't worry, you'll be ok.
Added tip: because *anything* can happen, you might want to back up your important data before hand anyway. This is something you should be doing anyway. Burn your docs and files to CD, or put them on your iPod (if you have one).
Oh, and you'll want to burn the downloaded CD image with nero or active iso burner. (if you get stuck there are plenty of instructions out there on the Ubuntu website)
In the end, the Ubuntu guys aren't into wrecking peoples systems and they've worked long and hard to be friendly to new users.
back up on to *what*!? my home dir is about 60 gigs! maybe i'll rename it to be safe, then it won't have any excuse to wipe it. i can copy all the files later and chown them
If you have 60GB of data that you're not backing up... you have bigger problems than worrying if the upgrade will overwrite it.
....I have my doubts as to how newbie friendly Ubuntu truly is.
Applications->System->Upgrade Manager
Click on upgrade distribution.
Done.
No. It'll pop up with an automatic "distro upgrade" notice from time to time. All the user has to do is click and then type in their password.
Nope. The update-manager app can do it, and can be launched from menus. Further, if you have it looking for updates automatically it will tell you that you have something by showing up in the system tray, and offer you to click a button to upgrade to the new release if you care to.
That being said, being able to click a button somewhere to upgrade your operating system isn't much of a requirement for user-friendliness. If someone is very clumsy with computers, there's no harm in staying with 7.04. I've seen the Ubuntu community gladly help people running versions 2.5 years old. If it ain't broke, no need to fix it.
No you don't. I did the last update through 'Synaptic Package Manager', it's basically a GUI for apt-get. Most 'hardcore' Linux people will ignore a GUI if there is a perfectly good command line for it. So when you ask how to do something you get a quick command and not how to find the GUI. On that note I welcome the graphical editor for xorg.conf with this version of Ubuntu
I get the feeling you were trying to Troll... Do you see the error of your ways now?
Trust me. Ubuntu is very noob friendly. I had to install windows on a machine the other night and I had forgotten just how long it takes and what a pain in the butt it is to install all those extra drivers from CD. Ubuntu is up and running in about 5 minutes. Easy. You should give it a go. You know you want to....
I have digital cable and getting that working is a big thing for me.
If you're only using the unecrypted digital cable, the HD-5000 might suit your needs. Its supported by the Kernel (i.e no drivers / compiling), but will only receive unencrypted QAM from your cable provider.
If you're using Digital Cable with encrypted content (i.e a premium package), you'll obviously need to retain your cable box (and receive the video into your mythtv with a PVR-150 or similar), and can control your cable box by various means - IR Blaster, Firewire, Serial cable etc.. Search the mythtv forums to see which is easiest and best.
The MCE remote works well under LIRC, and is easy to setup.
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It will all come out in the inquiry. When I say come out.. in the sense that it will be put in Dick Cheney's man size safe and we'll see it in about 90 years.
No doubt the sub commander will be either commended with the nations highest honor.... or shot.
[sarcasm] As long as industry draft the bills, and the people in power sign off on them, and you continue to elect people that do not read the legislation that they are voting on... this must be the system that you want. [/sarcasm]
First they started blocking Bit-torrent... but I did not use bit torrent so said nothing... yada yada yada...
Its all great running around banging the drum and asking users to 'join the war on non-neutrality' but it's all for nothing if you cannot DETECT non-neutrality in the first place.
/. where someone was writing an application to detect non-neutrality... but it went quiet very quickly. Now the way I see it is that the list contains people that have the skills, or know the people who could write an application that could aid in the DETECTION of unfair practices from the ISP's.
I recall some discussion a while ago here on
The application could be used by the volunteers, and test the various protocols to various hosts (Skype, Google, youtube, TPB) and between the users themselves with various traffic (p2p, ping, tcp/ip, udp etc...) and see if any 'delay' occurs specific to one type of traffic. If it contained an automated reporting tool (OMG Tinfoil hat!!), then the aggregators could see trends across the various providers and not rely solely on one or two users. Of course you're entering a war of cat and mouse....
Before we can go accusing ISP's on non-neutrality, we need the tools to detect unfair play in the first place... anyone know of any?
right?
I'd love to see Nigeria take all the disks they're sent, not use them but offer them on e-bay For sale: Windows Vista - Nigeria Edition buy now $20
The people using Mandriva will be offered the 'free upgrade', which turns out to break a whole bunch of functionality that they previously had. (sound familiar?)
People will keep using the OS that they've been using that actually worked and allowed them to do what they wanted with the device.
If Microsoft breaks all these peoples computers, they'll probably be really pissed off with the American company and they won't be phoning the help line but rioting and destroying stuff.
So my questions for Ballmer.... "are you trying to make people hate America? Why do you hate our freedom?"
*thinks to self: now where is my shiney hat?*
see this and this.
I've read a few reports which summarized the USA's 'war on terrorism (and associated funding of terrorists)' has curbed IRA funding which has lowered their support - which had influence in this disarmament. Again, this is post 9/11.
Osborn sought to tally every recorded atrocity in the area that would eventually become the continental United States, from first contact (1511) to the closing of the frontier (1890), and determined that 9,156 people died from atrocities perpetrated by Native Americans, and 7,193 people died from those perpetrated by Europeans. Osborn defines an atrocity as the murder, torture, or mutilation of civilians, the wounded, and prisoners.
I guess these don't pose a problem unless they appear in the background of the medieval era film your watching.
Yes the 'blowing it' pun was intended...
Tell me about it. This guy is 20. I was lucky if I could put two lego bricks together back then.
Another factor you'll need to consider is that as the aircraft gains velocity the retreating blade requires more pitch to maintain the same amount of lift as the forward traveling rotor blade - so you stay level. Hence the swashplate.
What a great legal system!
- 4 to 8GB
- yes
- yes it will be faster than XP (It runs just fine on my pIII laptop (compaq armada 110s)with similar specs, but try* the 'Xubuntu' also and see which you like.)
Exactly what ThiefMaster (992038) said in the post above.
*You should just stick the disk in, and it will boot in 'live' mode (make sure your system is set to boot from the CD drive before the HDD). Ubuntu will boot and you can try it out. It will be slow as your running in only RAM. When you click the 'install' icon it will ask you some questions about which partition you want it to install to.. so look at those options and see if they suit. You can actually go quite a way into the installation without Ubuntu having made ANY changes. It will of course eventually ask you to confirm you want to make and write those changes (that is when changes will be made). You can bang out (CTRL-ALT-DEL) up until then and it has not done anything to your machine.
You should note that it will be very slow in live mode, as it's running only in RAM and not writing to the disk. It will also want to format its partition in a file system called ext3. you're probably used to seeing NTFS.. but don't worry, you'll be ok.
Added tip: because *anything* can happen, you might want to back up your important data before hand anyway. This is something you should be doing anyway. Burn your docs and files to CD, or put them on your iPod (if you have one).
Oh, and you'll want to burn the downloaded CD image with nero or active iso burner. (if you get stuck there are plenty of instructions out there on the Ubuntu website)
In the end, the Ubuntu guys aren't into wrecking peoples systems and they've worked long and hard to be friendly to new users.
Do as the reply above mentions and buy an external drive caddy for less than $25, and a 120GB drive for less than $50
Total cost = less than $1 per GB.
Oh and encrypt your backup and store it in your drawer at work.
Trust me. Ubuntu is very noob friendly. I had to install windows on a machine the other night and I had forgotten just how long it takes and what a pain in the butt it is to install all those extra drivers from CD. Ubuntu is up and running in about 5 minutes. Easy. You should give it a go. You know you want to....
If you're using Digital Cable with encrypted content (i.e a premium package), you'll obviously need to retain your cable box (and receive the video into your mythtv with a PVR-150 or similar), and can control your cable box by various means - IR Blaster, Firewire, Serial cable etc.. Search the mythtv forums to see which is easiest and best.
The MCE remote works well under LIRC, and is easy to setup.
You don't need to track your wife...
she's at my place.