The CSM is the last place that anyone should be heading for news.
Yes, let's toss out the teachings of Roger Bacon, advocate of the scientific method, and his fellow Franciscan monk, William of Occam. The astronomers Kepler, Galileo, and Coppernicus would have to go; mathematicians John Napier, Blaise Pascal, Rene Descartes, and Leonhard Euler too. If they go, then physicists like Faraday, Marconi, Babbage, Volta, Maxwell, Joule, Hertz, Kelvin, and Planck will have to as well. Ditto folks like Gregor Mendel, Louis Pasteur, and George Washington Carver, Freeman Dyson, Kurt Godel, and Donald Knuth,
Gee. The world would be a poorer place if we ignored the scientific contributions of these people just because you have a problem with their religious beliefs.
... any server that sends out email could be required to have a DNS record identifying it as an established SMTP server, and all POP3/IMAP servers only trust them instead of just accepting emails from any IP address that probably belongs to grandma's compromised PC.
So, I couldn't run my own private server unless I registered it?
You can order a truck load of off the shelf cards and have them at your bunker tomorrow.
And then what? Put them into a motherboard with 10,000 PCI slots? And even if they did that, GPUs are optimized for graphics. Codebreaking uses entirely different mathematics than frame rendering. No, the NSA would be using custom APUs, not off the shelf graphics cards.
The NSA will probably next be cornering the market on high GPU count graphics cards.
I would think the NSA could afford to get proper task specific processing units instead of kludging together something on banks of repurposed NVIDIA hardware.
Now what would happen if a stream of methane developed which was ignited by, say, a lightening strike, there would be a rapidly growing forward feedback loop which would release more methane and generate more heat, and more methane, etc.
Possible, but unlikely. Surface fires, especially something short lived like a gas burnoff, would not have a great effect on subsurface temperatures.
How much oxygen would this methane use up
Two oxygen molecules for each methane molecule assuming complete and pure combustion.
and how much heat would be dumped into the atmosphere?
About 891 kJ/mol.
Would this be shrugged off by the earth
Yes.
or would it spell a species killing catastrophe?
I'm fairly sure some of the local species would be done for, but would it be an extinction level event? Doubt it.
The author would have to be a complete idiot if he thought that Kirk/Uhura was the first scripted kiss on television. It was far from even being the first scripted kiss of the Star Trek series, or even of that season.
Think of those poor animals, born and raised for a single goal, thier entire family history shaped and guided for one purpose, millions of dollars poured into making them the best they can be - imagine those poor animals being suddenly stripped of that purpose... No thanks. I'll stick to my bacon cheeseburgers, thank you very much. I owe them that much.
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blew the tyranny .
Ah! The ruthless dictator that is the beater.
Ah! I always refuse the positron emission tomography. I am not a PET person.
Exactly! Why kill one enemy when a wounded soldier takes two or three people off the field ?
If you're going to all the trouble to look up an appropriate xkcd, at least copy and paste the URL into your comment. Sheesh!
http://xkcd.com/927/
After positive patient finding, send patient to cat scan.
What's the cat going to do?
The CSM is the last place that anyone should be heading for news.
Yes, let's toss out the teachings of Roger Bacon, advocate of the scientific method, and his fellow Franciscan monk, William of Occam. The astronomers Kepler, Galileo, and Coppernicus would have to go; mathematicians John Napier, Blaise Pascal, Rene Descartes, and Leonhard Euler too. If they go, then physicists like Faraday, Marconi, Babbage, Volta, Maxwell, Joule, Hertz, Kelvin, and Planck will have to as well. Ditto folks like Gregor Mendel, Louis Pasteur, and George Washington Carver, Freeman Dyson, Kurt Godel, and Donald Knuth,
Gee. The world would be a poorer place if we ignored the scientific contributions of these people just because you have a problem with their religious beliefs.
... any server that sends out email could be required to have a DNS record identifying it as an established SMTP server, and all POP3/IMAP servers only trust them instead of just accepting emails from any IP address that probably belongs to grandma's compromised PC.
So, I couldn't run my own private server unless I registered it?
They care about lead time.
You can order a truck load of off the shelf cards and have them at your bunker tomorrow.
And then what? Put them into a motherboard with 10,000 PCI slots? And even if they did that, GPUs are optimized for graphics. Codebreaking uses entirely different mathematics than frame rendering. No, the NSA would be using custom APUs, not off the shelf graphics cards.
The NSA will probably next be cornering the market on high GPU count graphics cards.
I would think the NSA could afford to get proper task specific processing units instead of kludging together something on banks of repurposed NVIDIA hardware.
You could also ask if we realy want competent person run the president office.
Judging from the past half dozen presidents or more, I'd say the answer is no.
Wait! Every major OS can read and write to Universal Disk Format? My head is reeling.
96kb/s is plenty for the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre.
Now what would happen if a stream of methane developed which was ignited by, say, a lightening strike, there would be a rapidly growing forward feedback loop which would release more methane and generate more heat, and more methane, etc.
Possible, but unlikely. Surface fires, especially something short lived like a gas burnoff, would not have a great effect on subsurface temperatures.
How much oxygen would this methane use up
Two oxygen molecules for each methane molecule assuming complete and pure combustion.
and how much heat would be dumped into the atmosphere?
About 891 kJ/mol.
Would this be shrugged off by the earth
Yes.
or would it spell a species killing catastrophe?
I'm fairly sure some of the local species would be done for, but would it be an extinction level event? Doubt it.
The Earth *IS* the center of the universe, just like everywhere else is.
Hang on! It says reducing their sysadmins by 90%. Surely that means instituting a high fiber, low carb diet, and an exercise regimen.
Alexander needs to go, yesterday. He's more inept than Ballmer.
Hang on a second. Do we *really* want a competent person running the NSA?
Five stars!
I put blinds on the window to keep the sunlight out.
I always wanted to be like Al when I grew up. Spoiler alert: I failed miserably.
The beard didn't fill in, did it?
i sniggered
That's okay. As long as you clean it up before the room-mate arrives.
Look at what happened to Google.
As far as I can tell they became a multinational corporation with a net worth of over $200billion.
Sometimes (most times?) it is better to be at the mercy of the odds than in situations where people are in control.
The author would have to be a complete idiot if he thought that Kirk/Uhura was the first scripted kiss on television. It was far from even being the first scripted kiss of the Star Trek series, or even of that season.
No. It is the lack of cap that forces works into the public domain. Without the cap, Disney blockbusters will never see the light of public domain.
Think of those poor animals, born and raised for a single goal, thier entire family history shaped and guided for one purpose, millions of dollars poured into making them the best they can be - imagine those poor animals being suddenly stripped of that purpose... No thanks. I'll stick to my bacon cheeseburgers, thank you very much. I owe them that much.