Not sure about the glide angle of a 747 (1:10 - 1:15?), but it doesn't go down fast (it isn't slow, but not fast either). In fact, the have been a handful of incidents where a large passenger plane lost all engine power and was able to glide to a (safe) landing place. Even a field is possible, except your going to end up with one heck of a bill. The real issue compared to a Cessna is the amount of fuel a passenger plane carries and the odds of it causing a deadly fire.
Some of us actually like driving. Robotic cars sounds nice, but what does that say about humans? We're evolved, just not evolved enough to drive a car? No one should be allowed to drive by hand, because some are incapable of doing so safely? Because some of us are obsessed by statistics? Perhaps it is me, but what is this obsession of improving the... deaths per year at all and any costs?
That is not entirely correct. They can request a wiretap of JAP-client with a warrant... which is not much different from your normal Internet connection and phone.
The internal batteries (for the clock and such) in those devices are not going to like it, especially not if they are turned off like that for prolonged periods of time.
As for the digital cable box, I'm wondering how much energy is wasted that way.
You get rid of those networks, and you will reduce the number of machines entering the botnet swarms.
Have to disagree here. They'll just use new attack vectors. I venture into some of the shadier place's once in a while and it seizes to amaze me how creative some are in finding new scams and ways to infect people. If you get rid of p2p-networks, people will move to other means to get their music, videos and software. Cyber scum will follow in their footsteps.
They are going after non-profit P2P's. You mean like Shareaza, Kaza, Limewire? Who cares? All that stuff is absolute malware riddled crap.
I think Kazaa is long dead and neither Shareaza or Limewire contain malware. Most p2p apps don't, it's just a handful that gave all of them a bad name. The p2p networks themselves is something else, but any reasonably sane person can use them without catching malware. The people who download exe's when searching for an mp3 are the problem.
While outlawing them is problematic for preserving freedom, it would ultimately protect people
That is the principle a police state is based on. And it doesn't protect anybody. How am I protected for instance? And who said I needed protection?
The reason I block ads is not so much that I don't follow them (I don't, though I occasionally turn on adwords), but there are just too many sites with invasive and aggressive advertising. The ones that put content around the advertising so to speak.
A while back I needed to install some applications on a friends PC and I found myself looking for the damn download-button. The ads where everywhere and I actually had to scroll down down to find it.
And that was a completely legit site. Go down your average torrent-site and you're bombarded with AFF and pr0n-sites. It is fun the first time, but it gets tiring after a while.
I use AdMuncher and NoScript. The only times I see ads is when I fix computers or visits friends. I don't mind a few ads, but the amount of ads on some pages is borderline insane.
They want to tax people on a per-road and time basis, to combat high way traffic jams in peak hours. Odometers won't work for that, plus, they can be tampered with. With a GPS-signal, you can crosscheck it with license plate registration camera's (they use them for speed checks). Difficult to fool the system, plus, they're going to put insane fines/jail time on tampering.
Or, of course, they can simply tax the gasoline which essentially does the same thing, or maybe they already do that:).
They already do that. In fact, I think we have the third highest gasoline prices in the world (diesel is cheaper). And that is next to the annual road tax and a special car tax on top of the sales tax.
Big Brother can already track you through with cell-phone triangulation.
I'm wondering more when Google will add all the cars to the roads. Where I live (Netherlands), they're planning to equip all cars with GPS-units so they can tax drivers by the mile (kilometer).
But why is POP3, IMAP and SMTP setup so convoluted in all clients?
Most likely because the people who program the clients don't see the issue and thus think it is a waste of their time to make it easier. Aside from that, everyone need to agree on some sort of standard mode of operation for this, making it even worse.
But if they wanted, they could make it real easy. Take the domain of the email-address, do an MX-lookup, do some SRV-lookups and your email-clients knows everything it needs. Provided your email-provider uses DNS-SRV records, otherwise, the email-client needs to make some educated guesses.
There are not so many real uses for them today. They are promising, but not really curing the diseases.
There are a lot of places in Asia where they think otherwise and where you can get Stem Cell treatments with Umbilical Cord cells. Not cheap though (though not expensive compared to Western health care).
AFAIK, results are mixed; sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. But to say there is no real use is saying too much. Forgot the name, but there is a few years old tv-documentary about all this.
I agree that it wasn't the smartest thing to do, but they probably had their reason.
OTOH, do version numbers still mean anything? WINE has reached 1.0, but is it really a 1.0 release? Windows 6.1 will be called 7. I'm quite used to see version-numbers being (ab)used as a marketing tool or just changed for whatever arbitrary reason.
But KDE4 was an alpha release. 4.1 was a beta release.
The KDE dev-team clearly communicated to the world that 4.0 and the next few releases would not be a full alternative to the 3.5-series. They specifically reminded people that 4.0 would be a release for early adopters and developers, with tons of features missing, limited configuration/customization options and stability bugs. So yes, KDE4 was alpha, but everyone knew that.
Personally, I decided to wait until at least 4.3 to check it out. Why on earth, the rest of the world decided to jump on 4.0/4.1 and cry out in anger that the kde-dev team was right... No clue.
If they're wrong then it's the end of the economic crisis, unemployment, conflict in the Middle East and world hunger.
Sorry, but that is a somewhat naive train-of-thought. Technology is unlikely to end any of those, as none of them are technical problems to start with. Technology can help, but it can't solve them alone. And project like the LHC do nothing on the short term.
Checks SMART, can perform all SMART test (e.g. offline), gives loads of information on the drives internals and it can scan the disk surface using the disk-controller chip only (e.g no data transfer over the cable). The latter is really useful to test the surface and speed of a USB-HD.
TNO is not a company, but a non-profit organization. Biased is a big word and known for their biased research is completely overblown. They did a study into UMTS-radiation and concluded there were measurable effects on people, which was a rather unpopular things to state.
We had a tendency to slaughter men, women and children to secure our overseas "possessions". You should have been taught that during history classes, I'm pretty sure it is (or was) mentioned in Dutch history books about that period.
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Not sure about the glide angle of a 747 (1:10 - 1:15?), but it doesn't go down fast (it isn't slow, but not fast either). In fact, the have been a handful of incidents where a large passenger plane lost all engine power and was able to glide to a (safe) landing place. Even a field is possible, except your going to end up with one heck of a bill. The real issue compared to a Cessna is the amount of fuel a passenger plane carries and the odds of it causing a deadly fire.
Some of us actually like driving. Robotic cars sounds nice, but what does that say about humans? We're evolved, just not evolved enough to drive a car? No one should be allowed to drive by hand, because some are incapable of doing so safely? Because some of us are obsessed by statistics? Perhaps it is me, but what is this obsession of improving the ... deaths per year at all and any costs?
Could someone please educate people on what version numbers mean?
There is not one meaning to version numbers. Never was, never will be.
Define "Long" and who was waiting for something that is still ".5" beta?
It is not in "beta", it is production quality. The fact that it is 0.5 indicates that it is not complete and perfect yet.
Oh, it is just another CODEC library.
It is not "just another", it is the most important and most used open-source codec library
That is not entirely correct. They can request a wiretap of JAP-client with a warrant... which is not much different from your normal Internet connection and phone.
Given the daily growth of the net, no.
Sorry to ruin the joke, but on a serious note: With 1 Terabit/sec and 30 seconds, you might be able to download a millionth of the Internet.
...until 2 years after the initial release.
Shouldn't that be two Service packs?
The internal batteries (for the clock and such) in those devices are not going to like it, especially not if they are turned off like that for prolonged periods of time.
As for the digital cable box, I'm wondering how much energy is wasted that way.
You get rid of those networks, and you will reduce the number of machines entering the botnet swarms.
Have to disagree here. They'll just use new attack vectors. I venture into some of the shadier place's once in a while and it seizes to amaze me how creative some are in finding new scams and ways to infect people. If you get rid of p2p-networks, people will move to other means to get their music, videos and software. Cyber scum will follow in their footsteps.
They are going after non-profit P2P's. You mean like Shareaza, Kaza, Limewire? Who cares? All that stuff is absolute malware riddled crap.
I think Kazaa is long dead and neither Shareaza or Limewire contain malware. Most p2p apps don't, it's just a handful that gave all of them a bad name. The p2p networks themselves is something else, but any reasonably sane person can use them without catching malware. The people who download exe's when searching for an mp3 are the problem.
While outlawing them is problematic for preserving freedom, it would ultimately protect people
That is the principle a police state is based on. And it doesn't protect anybody. How am I protected for instance? And who said I needed protection?
The reason I block ads is not so much that I don't follow them (I don't, though I occasionally turn on adwords), but there are just too many sites with invasive and aggressive advertising. The ones that put content around the advertising so to speak.
A while back I needed to install some applications on a friends PC and I found myself looking for the damn download-button. The ads where everywhere and I actually had to scroll down down to find it.
And that was a completely legit site. Go down your average torrent-site and you're bombarded with AFF and pr0n-sites. It is fun the first time, but it gets tiring after a while.
I use AdMuncher and NoScript. The only times I see ads is when I fix computers or visits friends. I don't mind a few ads, but the amount of ads on some pages is borderline insane.
Why in the world would they need a GPS?
They want to tax people on a per-road and time basis, to combat high way traffic jams in peak hours. Odometers won't work for that, plus, they can be tampered with. With a GPS-signal, you can crosscheck it with license plate registration camera's (they use them for speed checks). Difficult to fool the system, plus, they're going to put insane fines/jail time on tampering.
Or, of course, they can simply tax the gasoline which essentially does the same thing, or maybe they already do that :).
They already do that. In fact, I think we have the third highest gasoline prices in the world (diesel is cheaper). And that is next to the annual road tax and a special car tax on top of the sales tax.
Big Brother can already track you through with cell-phone triangulation.
I'm wondering more when Google will add all the cars to the roads. Where I live (Netherlands), they're planning to equip all cars with GPS-units so they can tax drivers by the mile (kilometer).
Then it is a win-win situation for everyone. The music and movie get their money and your get ten times the "value".
But why is POP3, IMAP and SMTP setup so convoluted in all clients?
Most likely because the people who program the clients don't see the issue and thus think it is a waste of their time to make it easier. Aside from that, everyone need to agree on some sort of standard mode of operation for this, making it even worse.
But if they wanted, they could make it real easy. Take the domain of the email-address, do an MX-lookup, do some SRV-lookups and your email-clients knows everything it needs. Provided your email-provider uses DNS-SRV records, otherwise, the email-client needs to make some educated guesses.
There are not so many real uses for them today. They are promising, but not really curing the diseases.
There are a lot of places in Asia where they think otherwise and where you can get Stem Cell treatments with Umbilical Cord cells. Not cheap though (though not expensive compared to Western health care).
AFAIK, results are mixed; sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. But to say there is no real use is saying too much. Forgot the name, but there is a few years old tv-documentary about all this.
I agree that it wasn't the smartest thing to do, but they probably had their reason.
OTOH, do version numbers still mean anything? WINE has reached 1.0, but is it really a 1.0 release? Windows 6.1 will be called 7. I'm quite used to see version-numbers being (ab)used as a marketing tool or just changed for whatever arbitrary reason.
But KDE4 was an alpha release. 4.1 was a beta release.
The KDE dev-team clearly communicated to the world that 4.0 and the next few releases would not be a full alternative to the 3.5-series. They specifically reminded people that 4.0 would be a release for early adopters and developers, with tons of features missing, limited configuration/customization options and stability bugs. So yes, KDE4 was alpha, but everyone knew that.
Personally, I decided to wait until at least 4.3 to check it out. Why on earth, the rest of the world decided to jump on 4.0/4.1 and cry out in anger that the kde-dev team was right... No clue.
If they're wrong then it's the end of the economic crisis, unemployment, conflict in the Middle East and world hunger.
Sorry, but that is a somewhat naive train-of-thought. Technology is unlikely to end any of those, as none of them are technical problems to start with. Technology can help, but it can't solve them alone. And project like the LHC do nothing on the short term.
Checks SMART, can perform all SMART test (e.g. offline), gives loads of information on the drives internals and it can scan the disk surface using the disk-controller chip only (e.g no data transfer over the cable). The latter is really useful to test the surface and speed of a USB-HD.
the company that did the study
TNO is not a company, but a non-profit organization. Biased is a big word and known for their biased research is completely overblown. They did a study into UMTS-radiation and concluded there were measurable effects on people, which was a rather unpopular things to state.
I'm not sure what you are referring at
We had a tendency to slaughter men, women and children to secure our overseas "possessions". You should have been taught that during history classes, I'm pretty sure it is (or was) mentioned in Dutch history books about that period.
Solder a tiny RAM chip onto the main board to store the keys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module