I'm not putting my data in your computing cloud, and I'm sick of all these kids on my lawn.
Seriously, cloud computing can be great but like anything else pick a solid provider, not some po-dunk little company that offers service %50 cheaper than the next guy. Go with a Google, not a billy-and-jims-cloud.biz
>Who knows? Not you or I. So let's lay off the fire and brimstone, what do you say?
Lay off? He murdered a woman! There is NO excuse for murdering someone... ever.. He didn't kill her, he MURDERED her! Soldiers on the battlefield kill, people who work on death row kill, doctors who administer euthanasia kill... Hans MURDERED her. The evil and selfishness of a person who would murder another, just to make their own life a little bit easier, can never be justified.
Sometimes, things really are black and white, right and wrong, evil and good.
Probably because Yellowcake uranium has absolutely no utility for anything other than being refined into either reactor fuel or bombs.. Nobody collects 550 TONS of yellowcake just because its sounds like it would go good with a glass of milk.
While there was reports that the Yellowcake 'lie' was inaccurate, the most recent evidence from about 1-2 years ago actually proved that Iraq really was trying to buy more. Bush got the intel from the British, then claims were made it was false and people called Bush a liar, then more evidence came out and prove that the British were right all along.
Whether Saddam wanted to buy more is irrelevant anyway... It only takes about 37 tonnes of yellowcake to make a single bomb, which means he already had enough Uranium to make 15 Nuclear weapons, so if Saddam was trying to buy more that just means that in his mind, 15 Nuclear weapons was not enough for whatever he had planned. Kinda scary.
This opinion creates a situation that is quite silly. Anywhere the U.S. has a military base, the right to trial and evidence applies to anyone we accuse of being 'bad'. Therefore, if a bunch of 'bad' guys attack a military base in Afganistan, we must arrest the bad guys and put them on trial. WTF!
Thats right, this ruling can extend to ANYWHERE the U.S. has a military base, not just Gitmo, and the implications are completely insane. The courts now "claim" the ability to dictate how the military operates on foreign soil. Idiocy.
Tech issues.. aren't stock options and salary are big Tech issues. Obama wants to double capital gains taxes from stock, which is a HUGE issue, but its never mentioned because of the 'obama is awesome' Jedi hand-waving going on.
Obama also wants to raise business taxes, which will send more IT jobs and companies to other countries... Why isn't that considered a Tech issue?
However, if you schedule to sell 1000x shares of stock in 1 year under 10b5-1, then giving the seller the ability to cancel the sale amounts to nullify the entire point of the plan.
Consider this. I have inside knowledge of next years events, and I have 10,000 shares and I file a 10b5-1 saying I will sell all 10,000 shares during the next year. When the next year arrives, I "DO" have insider knowledge and I cancel the sale of all my shares. Then I file another 10b5-1 for the next year and say I will sell all 10,000 again. The next year I have insider knowledge that the company is in trouble so I sell all the stock. In effect, I have skirted the purpose of 10b5-1 plans, but still sold my stock based on insider knowledge.
The point is, I can still legally (thought no ethically) sell on insider knowledge.
Patents are only for the common good by promoting Science and useful Arts. The common good comes only when the patent expires and everyone can use it. To ensure the willingness of people to invest time and money in creating new inventions our forefathers gave the inventors something they found abhorrent, a monopoly. As a balance, the monopoly was time-limited to provide for the common good, but also give incentive to inventors.
That said, if the Government won't fix the patent system then they should suffer with it like the rest of us. No f*cking way should my tax dollars be used to subsidize the banks!
Google owned 5% of Bidu at the IPO. They sold their interest in Bidu almost 18 months ago.
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The whole point of SETI is that they are listening for INTELLIGENT life, not any life. How would you detect an amoeba 1000 light years away? If its intelligent, no matter how advanced beyond us, they almost certainly use electromagnetic transmissions for something, even if its not communication. The 'signal' we might detect might be radiated from any number of types of devices that an advanced race may have. The whole point is radio emissions ARE detectable over long distance, whereas life in general is not.
Just because another intelligent race is 1,000,000 years more advanced than us, doesn't mean they stop using the fundamental properties of the universe, like electromagnetic radiation.
How long ago did Humans discover fire? When do you expect us to stop using it because we are "too advanced" ??
Sure enough to know that a Judge and jury listened to all the evidence and returned a guilty verdict. Sure enough to know that she felt 'escaped convict' offer a better chance to her than an overturned conviction through the appeals court...
But since you read an article summary, I am sure you understand the facts better than the jury that convicted her.
>Why isn't it called murder when the president slaughters people?
Because most rational and intelligent people understand the difference between killing and murder. Sorry you don't have the intellectual capacity to fit into the rational and intelligent category.
If I terminate your life while you are attempting to shoot children on a playground, that is killing in defense of others. If I terminate your life because you are suffering horribly from terminal cancer, that is killing for mercy. If I terminate your life after buying a big life insurance policy on you, that is murder.
>It's quite silly to claim that you can't run a business without Windows. The fact is, you can.
Any business running Linux on both their desktop and servers would be a joke... Take Google for instance, if they would have just used Windows they might have actually been a big and successful company.:P
In 1994-1997 I ran an ISP in Anchorage Alaska. ATU (Alaska Telephone Utility) provided local telephone loop service. Whenever I needed to add new phone lines, ATU was on the spot and had the lines run within a week or two. Everything was booming with my business until the city council decided to let ATU provide dial-up service. Within a few months I was suddenly unable to get new phone lines for my ISP. ATU claimed I had too many lines already. Clearly anti-competitive, but even when myself and a few other local ISPs complained to the City council they refused to help.
Private sector isn't great, but its much easier to compete with a business than to compete with the Government.
Already exists, its called Iridium. I was an engineer at Iridium when we launched all our satellites. Originally slated for 77 (hence Iridium) but later dropped to 72 satellites, organized in 11 orbital paths with 10 satellites in each orbit (9 active, 1 spare).
I also was the very first person to establish a PPP connection over an Iridium satellite, at a phenomenal 4.2kbps speed. The problem was that it cost 6 billion dollars to deploy, but by the time we had it up and running cellular phones had pretty much covered all the habitable regions of the planet, so the only people willing to pay were sailors and oil exploration companies.
Iridium eventually went into bankruptcy but its still running today.. If you like the idea of a fleet of LEO satellites for internet access, go for it. As for me, it was a phenomenal idea that came a decade too late.
>I guess I can just say I'm glad I'm not in the business of calculating ratings for >web pages. It seems like a difficult thing to measure, particularly in this day >of tabs and self-refreshing web pages, etc.
Actually, it seems quite easy... Just pull some arbitrary metric out of your ass and slap the name "Nielson Ratings" on it. Hey, its "Nielson Ratings" so it must be accurate.
I think the best metric might be 'multiple metrics'. Provide categories such as page views, unique page views, time on page, # of porn pics on page, etc. Then people that use these metrics can select the metric that best represents the metrics that they feel are relevant.
...more monopolistic practices coming out of Redmond... when you can't beat 'em, leverage your monopoly in Operating Systems & business desktops by promising companies lower prices for products and training if they do what the masters demand.
Democrats have control again, lets see if they have the nuts to take a stand and stop this crap once and for all!
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Its only a war when BOTH sides are fighting... that is clearly not the case here.
More like cyber-genocide.
I'm not putting my data in your computing cloud, and I'm sick of all these kids on my lawn.
Seriously, cloud computing can be great but like anything else pick a solid provider, not some po-dunk little company that offers service %50 cheaper than the next guy. Go with a Google, not a billy-and-jims-cloud.biz
>Who knows? Not you or I. So let's lay off the fire and brimstone, what do you say?
Lay off? He murdered a woman! There is NO excuse for murdering someone... ever.. He didn't kill her, he MURDERED her! Soldiers on the battlefield kill, people who work on death row kill, doctors who administer euthanasia kill... Hans MURDERED her. The evil and selfishness of a person who would murder another, just to make their own life a little bit easier, can never be justified.
Sometimes, things really are black and white, right and wrong, evil and good.
Probably because Yellowcake uranium has absolutely no utility for anything other than being refined into either reactor fuel or bombs.. Nobody collects 550 TONS of yellowcake just because its sounds like it would go good with a glass of milk.
While there was reports that the Yellowcake 'lie' was inaccurate, the most recent evidence from about 1-2 years ago actually proved that Iraq really was trying to buy more. Bush got the intel from the British, then claims were made it was false and people called Bush a liar, then more evidence came out and prove that the British were right all along.
Whether Saddam wanted to buy more is irrelevant anyway... It only takes about 37 tonnes of yellowcake to make a single bomb, which means he already had enough Uranium to make 15 Nuclear weapons, so if Saddam was trying to buy more that just means that in his mind, 15 Nuclear weapons was not enough for whatever he had planned. Kinda scary.
I see GLAST and assume is was a new Google product...
:)
Anything beginning with a "G" in front says Google to me these days...
This opinion creates a situation that is quite silly. Anywhere the U.S. has a military base, the right to trial and evidence applies to anyone we accuse of being 'bad'. Therefore, if a bunch of 'bad' guys attack a military base in Afganistan, we must arrest the bad guys and put them on trial. WTF!
Thats right, this ruling can extend to ANYWHERE the U.S. has a military base, not just Gitmo, and the implications are completely insane. The courts now "claim" the ability to dictate how the military operates on foreign soil. Idiocy.
Tech issues.. aren't stock options and salary are big Tech issues. Obama wants to double capital gains taxes from stock, which is a HUGE issue, but its never mentioned because of the 'obama is awesome' Jedi hand-waving going on.
Obama also wants to raise business taxes, which will send more IT jobs and companies to other countries... Why isn't that considered a Tech issue?
Bugatti Veyron?
However, if you schedule to sell 1000x shares of stock in 1 year under 10b5-1, then giving the seller the ability to cancel the sale amounts to nullify the entire point of the plan.
Consider this. I have inside knowledge of next years events, and I have 10,000 shares and I file a 10b5-1 saying I will sell all 10,000 shares during the next year. When the next year arrives, I "DO" have insider knowledge and I cancel the sale of all my shares. Then I file another 10b5-1 for the next year and say I will sell all 10,000 again. The next year I have insider knowledge that the company is in trouble so I sell all the stock. In effect, I have skirted the purpose of 10b5-1 plans, but still sold my stock based on insider knowledge.
The point is, I can still legally (thought no ethically) sell on insider knowledge.
Riiiiight...
Patents are only for the common good by promoting Science and useful Arts. The common good comes only when the patent expires and everyone can use it. To ensure the willingness of people to invest time and money in creating new inventions our forefathers gave the inventors something they found abhorrent, a monopoly. As a balance, the monopoly was time-limited to provide for the common good, but also give incentive to inventors.
That said, if the Government won't fix the patent system then they should suffer with it like the rest of us. No f*cking way should my tax dollars be used to subsidize the banks!
d20 throws a +5 Funny at the GenCon... wow..
"Just send them weapons" and modded as "5 insightful"! Hahah Brilliant.
There was no charge to register a domain back then. I think it remained free until about 1994 or so.
Google owned 5% of Bidu at the IPO. They sold their interest in Bidu almost 18 months ago.
The whole point of SETI is that they are listening for INTELLIGENT life, not any life. How would you detect an amoeba 1000 light years away? If its intelligent, no matter how advanced beyond us, they almost certainly use electromagnetic transmissions for something, even if its not communication. The 'signal' we might detect might be radiated from any number of types of devices that an advanced race may have. The whole point is radio emissions ARE detectable over long distance, whereas life in general is not.
Just because another intelligent race is 1,000,000 years more advanced than us, doesn't mean they stop using the fundamental properties of the universe, like electromagnetic radiation.
How long ago did Humans discover fire? When do you expect us to stop using it because we are "too advanced" ??
>So how sure are you that she's really guilty?
Sure enough to know that a Judge and jury listened to all the evidence and returned a guilty verdict. Sure enough to know that she felt 'escaped convict' offer a better chance to her than an overturned conviction through the appeals court...
But since you read an article summary, I am sure you understand the facts better than the jury that convicted her.
>Why isn't it called murder when the president slaughters people?
Because most rational and intelligent people understand the difference between killing and murder. Sorry you don't have the intellectual capacity to fit into the rational and intelligent category.
If I terminate your life while you are attempting to shoot children on a playground, that is killing in defense of others.
If I terminate your life because you are suffering horribly from terminal cancer, that is killing for mercy.
If I terminate your life after buying a big life insurance policy on you, that is murder.
People from United States are bi-lingual, we have to speak both Metric and Imperial for measurements. :/
>It's quite silly to claim that you can't run a business without Windows. The fact is, you can.
:P
Any business running Linux on both their desktop and servers would be a joke... Take Google for instance, if they would have just used Windows they might have actually been a big and successful company.
Municipalities running an ISP is a very BAD idea.
In 1994-1997 I ran an ISP in Anchorage Alaska. ATU (Alaska Telephone Utility) provided local telephone loop service. Whenever I needed to add new phone lines, ATU was on the spot and had the lines run within a week or two. Everything was booming with my business until the city council decided to let ATU provide dial-up service. Within a few months I was suddenly unable to get new phone lines for my ISP. ATU claimed I had too many lines already. Clearly anti-competitive, but even when myself and a few other local ISPs complained to the City council they refused to help.
Private sector isn't great, but its much easier to compete with a business than to compete with the Government.
Already exists, its called Iridium. I was an engineer at Iridium when we launched all our satellites. Originally slated for 77 (hence Iridium) but later dropped to 72 satellites, organized in 11 orbital paths with 10 satellites in each orbit (9 active, 1 spare).
I also was the very first person to establish a PPP connection over an Iridium satellite, at a phenomenal 4.2kbps speed. The problem was that it cost 6 billion dollars to deploy, but by the time we had it up and running cellular phones had pretty much covered all the habitable regions of the planet, so the only people willing to pay were sailors and oil exploration companies.
Iridium eventually went into bankruptcy but its still running today.. If you like the idea of a fleet of LEO satellites for internet access, go for it. As for me, it was a phenomenal idea that came a decade too late.
>I guess I can just say I'm glad I'm not in the business of calculating ratings for
>web pages. It seems like a difficult thing to measure, particularly in this day
>of tabs and self-refreshing web pages, etc.
Actually, it seems quite easy... Just pull some arbitrary metric out of your ass and slap the name "Nielson Ratings" on it. Hey, its "Nielson Ratings" so it must be accurate.
I think the best metric might be 'multiple metrics'. Provide categories such as page views, unique page views, time on page, # of porn pics on page, etc. Then people that use these metrics can select the metric that best represents the metrics that they feel are relevant.
...more monopolistic practices coming out of Redmond... when you can't beat 'em, leverage your monopoly in Operating Systems & business desktops by promising companies lower prices for products and training if they do what the masters demand.
Democrats have control again, lets see if they have the nuts to take a stand and stop this crap once and for all!