That assumes that nobody else would have figured out the same thing and used it. For that matter, who says nobody else did figure it out and use it. Are there no unsolved cases of things going missing from hotel rooms since these locks first started getting used until now?
I don't mean this to stick up for the Republican party at all but does anybody really believe that the Democratic party would welcome this report any more than the Republicans? Would a Democrat who wrote this report still have a job afterwards? I doubt it. Both sides are in bed with corporations and especially the media ones.
Only if something manages to survive Mars' surface environment. That seems very unlikely. Now if you buried the bodies deep enough and did so very quickly... maybe... I doubt they would do that though, not unless it is determined that there is no native life first. Or.. native life is found and it turns out to be just the same microbes we have here already anyway (possible given meteor transport)
-- It's in one category with global genocide
Now you are assuming that not only do body microbes survive in the Martian environment (reasonable since freezing, desiccating low pressure environments with lot's of UV exactly mimics what microbes inside our guts see every day right?) but also that microbes adapted to our bodies' environment will actually out-compete native microbes which are adapted to the martian environment even in the martian environment
Yes, we do see non-native species out-competing native ones here on Earth but they are only crossing continents. Normally when this happens the new environment is quite similar to the old one with the exception of a lack in well adapted predators. This is hardly the same as taking a microbe adapted to the human body and putting it on Mars which is almost the exact opposite of the human body (warm, wet and well shielded from pretty much everything vs cold dry and without most of the protection from space which we enjoy at the Earth's surface)
-- we could never ever tell if there actually was life on mars
anything found on Mars that isn't found on Earth is probably Martian. Any fossil from before human presence is definitely Martian.
If I were in a position to travel to a place this was likely to happen and with important secrets (business or other) I wouldn't just not leave a laptop lying around... I'd leave a laptop with fake information. It would have bad designs, bad formulas, bad business strategies whatever fit my position. It would all be designed to fail on purpose. Remember all the bad capacitors?
Why just keep your competitors out of your stuff when you can do so much more? It serves them right if they are trying to steal from you in the first place!
Most people I think believe their information is too mundane to worry about. They don't care if the FBI, Police or whoever read it.
The problem is even mundane information unrelated to a crime can be used to convict you. This is true even if you are not actually guilty of the crime! It's the same reason you shouldn't talk to the police (let your lawyer do it for you). http://goo.gl/B12W
Why would that be? The GPL would only cover the processor's design. So, unless you are removing the die from the case and grafting on additional logic gates to add some new proprietary function to the CPU you are fine. Running proprietary code on the processor is just using the processor. Saying your code has to be GPL would be like saying every document you write in a GPL'd office suite has to be GPL. It doesn't make any sense!
So Isreal doesn't want Palestine to have a real state (which would probably be a Hamas government) b/c it would be an enemy? That's understandable. But... in it's current weak state the 'Palestinian government' (Hamas) can't really control it's people even when they do have a cease-fire. At least not for very long. At strong enemy state would at least be somebody to negotiate with.
Did the wars get easier for the US and allies after the old Iraqi and Afghan governments fell? No, fighting an insurgency sucks! What are you going to do to end it, make a treaty with every individual?
Well... 'sky daddy promise' or not it was theirs before the Romans took it so they do have that claim to make. Granted, centuries of the Jews living elsewhere certainly gives the people who lived there for generations a rightful claim as well. WWII made the point that the Jews needed a home of their own pretty clear and where better than where they came from originally? There is certainly room for both but it's about time for the Palestinians to have their state AND both sides to just leave one another alone. Sadly, neither seems likely to do so any time soon.
Because 'The' Iron Dome is actually several trucks parked in several locations and Hamas probably doesn't even know where all those locations are. Not to mention, a missile coming at it, head on, would probably be one of the easiest to shoot down.
Instead of telling them that they need a support contract to get help speak presumptively like they already do have support. We would be happy to help you with that, we just need to verify your support contract and then we can get started. Oh.. you don't have your account #? No problem then, I am sure the person who installed the product does, if not we just need to talk to them and verify their info so we can look it up! Can that person come to the phone? No? You will talk to them and get back with me? Ok, that will be fine...
Now, that person can tell the user no, I didn't purchase any support, I just downloaded the free version... Now the user is either selling your support contract to the IT guy or just ordering them to buy it depending on their position rather than berating you.
Worst case you at least end up talking to the person who did the clicking past all your messages rather than the irate user who never really knew what they did or didn't pay for.
2800 years doesn't sound like a very long time for this lake to have had it's ice cap. 2800 years ago is still well within the range of human history! It's nothing to geology! So.. how was the lake uncapped 2800 years ago? I know that Antarctica was in a warmer, higher latitude before it moved to the polar region but 2800 years of continental drift should be what, between 100 and 1000 feet? Was there a warming trend back then even bigger than the one today? I wouldn't think there would be all that much evolution even during that short a time so if so the species we know survived it. That revelation sounds like a global warming denier field day! I'm not trying to hand them any arguments, I'm only trying to ask the question. What happened ~2800 years ago?
Until we actually observe it alien life is in an unfortunate state of both existing and not existing. Showing it is possible for it to exist gives us a reason to look for it which gives us a chance to observe it so it can finally exist for real. Hopefully nobody observes us before we get there or if they do then hopefully they find us actually existing otherwise we will not exist and so we can't actually go observe alien life and it will be stuck both existing and not existing forever. Then again, it may be that whenever we get a chance to observe alien life the universe will split into two universes, one with it existing and one with it not existing. Likewise when the aliens observe us two universes will result however we will only exist in one of them. Ideally we will observe aliens and they will observe us at the same time causing a loop where universes will keep splitting off because where we exist there are two universes but we cannot observe the aliens in the one where we do not exist but we can in the one where we do and they can observe us where they exist but not in the other. Thus.. with infinite universes continually splitting we will all exist in one form or another forever, when we die in a universe it is ok because we still exist in others. One thing thing this post does prove for certain... at least.. if you have chose to read this far and I do exist and Slashdot does exist and so this post does exist is that bullshit exists.
Stargate? Kind of but no. There were ruins but Atlantis had been moved long ago and nobody lived there and nobody thought the world outside the ice was destroyed.
Sometimes things actually run better under Wine than under Windows. I haven't really been a gamer for a while but I used to see that with WoW. Remember, it's not an emulator like emulating a game console CPU, it's just an API running on it's native hardware.
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Ubuntu removed itself from my list of recommended distros a long time ago!
That assumes that nobody else would have figured out the same thing and used it. For that matter, who says nobody else did figure it out and use it. Are there no unsolved cases of things going missing from hotel rooms since these locks first started getting used until now?
I don't mean this to stick up for the Republican party at all but does anybody really believe that the Democratic party would welcome this report any more than the Republicans? Would a Democrat who wrote this report still have a job afterwards? I doubt it. Both sides are in bed with corporations and especially the media ones.
It will be completely forgotten by the next election.
-- That would contaminate the soil forever
Only if something manages to survive Mars' surface environment. That seems very unlikely. Now if you buried the bodies deep enough and did so very quickly... maybe... I doubt they would do that though, not unless it is determined that there is no native life first. Or.. native life is found and it turns out to be just the same microbes we have here already anyway (possible given meteor transport)
-- It's in one category with global genocide
Now you are assuming that not only do body microbes survive in the Martian environment (reasonable since freezing, desiccating low pressure environments with lot's of UV exactly mimics what microbes inside our guts see every day right?) but also that microbes adapted to our bodies' environment will actually out-compete native microbes which are adapted to the martian environment even in the martian environment
Yes, we do see non-native species out-competing native ones here on Earth but they are only crossing continents. Normally when this happens the new environment is quite similar to the old one with the exception of a lack in well adapted predators. This is hardly the same as taking a microbe adapted to the human body and putting it on Mars which is almost the exact opposite of the human body (warm, wet and well shielded from pretty much everything vs cold dry and without most of the protection from space which we enjoy at the Earth's surface)
-- we could never ever tell if there actually was life on mars
anything found on Mars that isn't found on Earth is probably Martian. Any fossil from before human presence is definitely Martian.
If I were in a position to travel to a place this was likely to happen and with important secrets (business or other) I wouldn't just not leave a laptop lying around... I'd leave a laptop with fake information. It would have bad designs, bad formulas, bad business strategies whatever fit my position. It would all be designed to fail on purpose. Remember all the bad capacitors?
Why just keep your competitors out of your stuff when you can do so much more? It serves them right if they are trying to steal from you in the first place!
Most people I think believe their information is too mundane to worry about. They don't care if the FBI, Police or whoever read it.
The problem is even mundane information unrelated to a crime can be used to convict you. This is true even if you are not actually guilty of the crime! It's the same reason you shouldn't talk to the police (let your lawyer do it for you). http://goo.gl/B12W
Why would that be? The GPL would only cover the processor's design. So, unless you are removing the die from the case and grafting on additional logic gates to add some new proprietary function to the CPU you are fine. Running proprietary code on the processor is just using the processor. Saying your code has to be GPL would be like saying every document you write in a GPL'd office suite has to be GPL. It doesn't make any sense!
He must be because surely the GNU/Linux community will not jump on the chance to port to this thing...
Automating a trigger mechanism? You would go through all of that? How about some string and a few pulleys to go around a corner somewhere?
I've heard of those Antarctic maps but not from a reputable source. Have you?
Papercuts!
Didn't the article say something about these things printing in paper? I'm not sure how that works... pulp and glue?
Is that a good material for a gun? Of course not! But it might be a great material for sand casting. How about aluminum parts?
And here researchers have been focusing on 3d-printing from moon rock. I guess Mars was better suited for it afterall!
So Isreal doesn't want Palestine to have a real state (which would probably be a Hamas government) b/c it would be an enemy? That's understandable. But... in it's current weak state the 'Palestinian government' (Hamas) can't really control it's people even when they do have a cease-fire. At least not for very long. At strong enemy state would at least be somebody to negotiate with.
Did the wars get easier for the US and allies after the old Iraqi and Afghan governments fell? No, fighting an insurgency sucks! What are you going to do to end it, make a treaty with every individual?
Well... 'sky daddy promise' or not it was theirs before the Romans took it so they do have that claim to make. Granted, centuries of the Jews living elsewhere certainly gives the people who lived there for generations a rightful claim as well. WWII made the point that the Jews needed a home of their own pretty clear and where better than where they came from originally? There is certainly room for both but it's about time for the Palestinians to have their state AND both sides to just leave one another alone. Sadly, neither seems likely to do so any time soon.
Because 'The' Iron Dome is actually several trucks parked in several locations and Hamas probably doesn't even know where all those locations are. Not to mention, a missile coming at it, head on, would probably be one of the easiest to shoot down.
Instead of telling them that they need a support contract to get help speak presumptively like they already do have support. We would be happy to help you with that, we just need to verify your support contract and then we can get started. Oh.. you don't have your account #? No problem then, I am sure the person who installed the product does, if not we just need to talk to them and verify their info so we can look it up! Can that person come to the phone? No? You will talk to them and get back with me? Ok, that will be fine...
Now, that person can tell the user no, I didn't purchase any support, I just downloaded the free version... Now the user is either selling your support contract to the IT guy or just ordering them to buy it depending on their position rather than berating you.
Worst case you at least end up talking to the person who did the clicking past all your messages rather than the irate user who never really knew what they did or didn't pay for.
2800 years doesn't sound like a very long time for this lake to have had it's ice cap. 2800 years ago is still well within the range of human history! It's nothing to geology! So.. how was the lake uncapped 2800 years ago? I know that Antarctica was in a warmer, higher latitude before it moved to the polar region but 2800 years of continental drift should be what, between 100 and 1000 feet? Was there a warming trend back then even bigger than the one today? I wouldn't think there would be all that much evolution even during that short a time so if so the species we know survived it. That revelation sounds like a global warming denier field day! I'm not trying to hand them any arguments, I'm only trying to ask the question. What happened ~2800 years ago?
Until we actually observe it alien life is in an unfortunate state of both existing and not existing. Showing it is possible for it to exist gives us a reason to look for it which gives us a chance to observe it so it can finally exist for real. Hopefully nobody observes us before we get there or if they do then hopefully they find us actually existing otherwise we will not exist and so we can't actually go observe alien life and it will be stuck both existing and not existing forever. Then again, it may be that whenever we get a chance to observe alien life the universe will split into two universes, one with it existing and one with it not existing. Likewise when the aliens observe us two universes will result however we will only exist in one of them. Ideally we will observe aliens and they will observe us at the same time causing a loop where universes will keep splitting off because where we exist there are two universes but we cannot observe the aliens in the one where we do not exist but we can in the one where we do and they can observe us where they exist but not in the other. Thus.. with infinite universes continually splitting we will all exist in one form or another forever, when we die in a universe it is ok because we still exist in others. One thing thing this post does prove for certain... at least.. if you have chose to read this far and I do exist and Slashdot does exist and so this post does exist is that bullshit exists.
Stargate? Kind of but no. There were ruins but Atlantis had been moved long ago and nobody lived there and nobody thought the world outside the ice was destroyed.
Sometimes things actually run better under Wine than under Windows. I haven't really been a gamer for a while but I used to see that with WoW. Remember, it's not an emulator like emulating a game console CPU, it's just an API running on it's native hardware.
what does that have to do with game development?
Pisses them off? That would be more like Christmas for the security organizations. No doubt it would bring on a whole new Patriot Act.
You know... those phones are re-usable. You don't NEED to get a different one for every call!