I recently switched from OpenOffice to LibreOffice on Debian. LibreOffice is mostly better, and the SVG import is a killer feature for me.
However, the one really bad thing about LibreOffice is that "Help" is essentially non-functional. It opens up a LibreOffice help web site that is incomplete and difficult to search. OO's built-in "Help" feature was much better. I don't know why LibreOffice took it out (licensing restrictions, perhaps?)
Seriously, where does Israel think this aggression doctrine will end? Maybe the government needs to swap out of 'King David hotel' mode and build some bridges?
Tell that to the Palestinians. The worst period of terrorism in Israel occurred from 2001-2003 when the peace process seemed to be taking hold and Israel relaxed restrictions on the Palestinians. Look at the numbers.
When Israel cracked down and built the security wall, attacks dropped dramatically. Again and again, we see that strong Israeli attacks are invariable successful and reducing terrorist attacks.
GIven that history, if you were charged with Israeli security, which policy would you pick? It's time for other people in the region to demonstrate that friendly Israeli gestures will be rewarded, because up until now, they have not been.
India is absolutely civilized. It's a democracy (imperfect, maybe). It respects religious freedom (again, maybe imperfectly, but it's a hell of a lot better than Iran.) And most importantly, India doesn't waste its resources trying to promote fundamentalism around the world or funding terrorist groups to the tune of $1B/year.
But the USA/Israel did it: so that somehow makes it OK ?
Yes, correct. Israel and the USA are both democracies, and neither has expressed interest in exterminating another member state of the UN. Iran is a fundamentalist theocracy that regularly expresses hatred towards Israel and the US and the wish (sometimes intention) to destroy them.
The difference is that the US can be trusted with nuclear weapons. It's had them since 1945 and keeps careful control over them with strict procedures in place to prevent their misuse. Iran cannot be trusted with such weapons and must be prevented from obtaining them.
Israel is just the first and most convenient target of Islamofascists. What they really hate is freedom and the Western way of life.
But realistically, anything that prevents or delays Iran from getting nuclear weapons is a good thing. And if it can be done without the loss of life or even any physical property damage, so much the better.
I really don't know who is responsible for Stuxnet, but historians will probably look back on it as an important victory in the struggle to prevent medieval religious nutcase thugs from obtaining nuclear weapons.
In the meantime it's good to truly protect freedom of speech
This is not a free speech issue. The issue is whether or not teachers should teach to the curriculum.
But let the determination of how appropriate a teachers words are come from parents, not from a bureaucracy above.
Total nonsense. Parents are not experts in education. We have boards of educators who design curricula, and it's not up to Bible-thumping parents to meddle with the science curriculum. Allowing parents to set the curriculum in this way would lead to utter chaos and total mediocrity.
As long as the teacher doesn't lie/make things up, teaching the kids to question everything and see both sides of an issue will only do them good.
Yes, let's teach them "both sides" of the gravity issue. While conventional "scientists" may have ideas about gravity, Intelligent Flotation teaches that it doesn't always work, especially for believers. As a demonstration, we should have students leap from third-floor windows to see both sides of the gravity issue.
There are not "two sides" to evolution. The theory of evolution is a scientific theory with ample evidence, testable predictions and a great track-record. Intelligent design is a religious fantasy that maybe could be taught in a course on myths and legends, but certainly not in science class.
Our system allows for this. You can optionally choose to quarantine (rather than outright reject) mail from a mismatched domain. You can also manually add a list of senders and domains that can use the address. We also keep a full audit-trail of events for each locked address so you can track what's going on.
A gene for religiosity? Come one! That's ridiculous.
What we are seeing is simply cultural evolution. A philosophy that says "have lots of kids and instill in them this belief system on the pain of eternal punishment" is simply (unfortunately) quite likely to propagate itself.
I'm not a physicist, but I dimly recall that elements with a lower atomic number than iron release energy via fusion while elements with a higher atomic number release energy via fission. Since nickel's atomic number is 28 (iron's is 26) and copper's is 29, surely you have to add energy to convert nickel to copper?
Aha! According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_capture, "Nuclei of masses greater than 56 cannot be formed by thermonuclear reactions (i.e. by nuclear fusion),". Copper has an atomic weight of over 63.5, so this is snake-oil.
Thanks; that was a good explanation. I think it really is an age/generation gap.
I keep up with my friends via email or IRC (I *do* get IRC because you can have relatively meaningful conversations over IRC, or you can use it Twitter-like just to splat up up interesting URL.)
When I have idle time, I don't like to be communicating, checking Twitter, checking IRC, etc. I like to just do nothing. I seldom get a chance to do that, so zoning out for a bit and disconnecting is very refreshing.
Maybe I'm too old (hey... get off my lawn! Sorry...) but I just don't get the appeal of Twitter. Billions of tweets per day of which maybe 7 aren't banal. Never mind the business model, I just don't get anything about Twitter.
If two nations can't trust each other, then how on earth do you expect them to be at peace with each other?
This is a solved problem. You set up systems of checks and balances that don't require the nations to trust one another. They can verify what the other one is doing. In fact, if the only way nations could be at peace was for them to trust one another, there'd be war all around.
I think Wikileaks may have gone too far with the latest set of leaks. I don't believe they're all in the public interest and some of them will definitely hurt relations between the US and other countries for no good reason.
And I agree with others that this does seem a tad personal (Assange vs. the US). Are there no other countries with juicy leakable tidbits?
It's very easy to get up to speed with Tcl/Tk. I know it has a bad reputation, is seen as old and stodgy and is derided as being ugly.
In reality, Tcl/Tk is implemented with beautiful, clean code. It has excellent geometry management (the packer, gridder and placer are second-to-none for making windows that adapt to changing geometry gracefully.) Its Canvas object is well-implemented and simple to use --- it was the inspiration for the GNOME canvas widget, AFAIK.
What she did was stupid and disgusting, but I bet a lot of the Facebook crowd who are lambasting her take a break to download music without paying for it...:)
Mass is just energy in another guise, so if we could come up with a reliable energy standard (eg, the quantum of energy released when an electron jumps from state A to state B in a given atom), we could define a kilogram in terms of (many) quanta of energy.
I don't know how useful that is practically, though.
They claim a 6 minute charge time for 100kWh. So the charging power is 1 megawatt (1 megawatt * 6 minutes = 100kWh). If we assume a charging voltage of 220V (double the usual North American line voltage), the charging current is about 4500 amps. You'd need rather thick cables.
But wait... the real charge time is 4 hours, charging power 25kW and charging current 113A. That's doable providing you have at least 120A service to your house.
Also, going 375 miles (=600km) on 100kWh sounds suspicious. Let's say you do that at an average of 60km/h. That means you drive for 10h so the motor's power is 10kW or about 14 horsepower. Can such an underpowered car be realistic?
Slashdot Mirror
Our stats show China at #8. The top 10 for us are:
The last three are all 1.3% because of rounding, but the order really is China - Vietnam - Poland.
As the only country to ever actually use nuclear weapons, the USA has proven itself to be untrustworthy beyond any doubt.
I think you may have omitted just a wee bit of context there.
I recently switched from OpenOffice to LibreOffice on Debian. LibreOffice is mostly better, and the SVG import is a killer feature for me.
However, the one really bad thing about LibreOffice is that "Help" is essentially non-functional. It opens up a LibreOffice help web site that is incomplete and difficult to search. OO's built-in "Help" feature was much better. I don't know why LibreOffice took it out (licensing restrictions, perhaps?)
Seriously, where does Israel think this aggression doctrine will end? Maybe the government needs to swap out of 'King David hotel' mode and build some bridges?
Tell that to the Palestinians. The worst period of terrorism in Israel occurred from 2001-2003 when the peace process seemed to be taking hold and Israel relaxed restrictions on the Palestinians. Look at the numbers.
When Israel cracked down and built the security wall, attacks dropped dramatically. Again and again, we see that strong Israeli attacks are invariable successful and reducing terrorist attacks.
GIven that history, if you were charged with Israeli security, which policy would you pick? It's time for other people in the region to demonstrate that friendly Israeli gestures will be rewarded, because up until now, they have not been.
India is absolutely civilized. It's a democracy (imperfect, maybe). It respects religious freedom (again, maybe imperfectly, but it's a hell of a lot better than Iran.) And most importantly, India doesn't waste its resources trying to promote fundamentalism around the world or funding terrorist groups to the tune of $1B/year.
But the USA/Israel did it: so that somehow makes it OK ?
Yes, correct. Israel and the USA are both democracies, and neither has expressed interest in exterminating another member state of the UN. Iran is a fundamentalist theocracy that regularly expresses hatred towards Israel and the US and the wish (sometimes intention) to destroy them.
The difference is that the US can be trusted with nuclear weapons. It's had them since 1945 and keeps careful control over them with strict procedures in place to prevent their misuse. Iran cannot be trusted with such weapons and must be prevented from obtaining them.
Israel is just the first and most convenient target of Islamofascists. What they really hate is freedom and the Western way of life.
But realistically, anything that prevents or delays Iran from getting nuclear weapons is a good thing. And if it can be done without the loss of life or even any physical property damage, so much the better.
I really don't know who is responsible for Stuxnet, but historians will probably look back on it as an important victory in the struggle to prevent medieval religious nutcase thugs from obtaining nuclear weapons.
In the meantime it's good to truly protect freedom of speech
This is not a free speech issue. The issue is whether or not teachers should teach to the curriculum.
But let the determination of how appropriate a teachers words are come from parents, not from a bureaucracy above.
Total nonsense. Parents are not experts in education. We have boards of educators who design curricula, and it's not up to Bible-thumping parents to meddle with the science curriculum. Allowing parents to set the curriculum in this way would lead to utter chaos and total mediocrity.
As long as the teacher doesn't lie/make things up, teaching the kids to question everything and see both sides of an issue will only do them good.
Yes, let's teach them "both sides" of the gravity issue. While conventional "scientists" may have ideas about gravity, Intelligent Flotation teaches that it doesn't always work, especially for believers. As a demonstration, we should have students leap from third-floor windows to see both sides of the gravity issue.
There are not "two sides" to evolution. The theory of evolution is a scientific theory with ample evidence, testable predictions and a great track-record. Intelligent design is a religious fantasy that maybe could be taught in a course on myths and legends, but certainly not in science class.
Our system allows for this. You can optionally choose to quarantine (rather than outright reject) mail from a mismatched domain. You can also manually add a list of senders and domains that can use the address. We also keep a full audit-trail of events for each locked address so you can track what's going on.
(Blatant plug) Our product has had this for years, only we do it properly. Our feature is called "Locked Addresses" and it works like this:
So not only can you give out your locked address, but it can't be sold or given away.
A gene for religiosity? Come one! That's ridiculous.
What we are seeing is simply cultural evolution. A philosophy that says "have lots of kids and instill in them this belief system on the pain of eternal punishment" is simply (unfortunately) quite likely to propagate itself.
I'm not a physicist, but I dimly recall that elements with a lower atomic number than iron release energy via fusion while elements with a higher atomic number release energy via fission. Since nickel's atomic number is 28 (iron's is 26) and copper's is 29, surely you have to add energy to convert nickel to copper?
Aha! According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_capture, "Nuclei of masses greater than 56 cannot be formed by thermonuclear reactions (i.e. by nuclear fusion),". Copper has an atomic weight of over 63.5, so this is snake-oil.
Thanks; that was a good explanation. I think it really is an age/generation gap.
I keep up with my friends via email or IRC (I *do* get IRC because you can have relatively meaningful conversations over IRC, or you can use it Twitter-like just to splat up up interesting URL.)
When I have idle time, I don't like to be communicating, checking Twitter, checking IRC, etc. I like to just do nothing. I seldom get a chance to do that, so zoning out for a bit and disconnecting is very refreshing.
Maybe I'm too old (hey... get off my lawn! Sorry...) but I just don't get the appeal of Twitter. Billions of tweets per day of which maybe 7 aren't banal. Never mind the business model, I just don't get anything about Twitter.
Bet you never thought you'd read that in response to a security announcement. :)
If two nations can't trust each other, then how on earth do you expect them to be at peace with each other?
This is a solved problem. You set up systems of checks and balances that don't require the nations to trust one another. They can verify what the other one is doing. In fact, if the only way nations could be at peace was for them to trust one another, there'd be war all around.
I think Wikileaks may have gone too far with the latest set of leaks. I don't believe they're all in the public interest and some of them will definitely hurt relations between the US and other countries for no good reason.
And I agree with others that this does seem a tad personal (Assange vs. the US). Are there no other countries with juicy leakable tidbits?
It's very easy to get up to speed with Tcl/Tk. I know it has a bad reputation, is seen as old and stodgy and is derided as being ugly.
In reality, Tcl/Tk is implemented with beautiful, clean code. It has excellent geometry management (the packer, gridder and placer are second-to-none for making windows that adapt to changing geometry gracefully.) Its Canvas object is well-implemented and simple to use --- it was the inspiration for the GNOME canvas widget, AFAIK.
Then the TSA will be swamped with job applications from fetishists who like funhouse-distorted body images...
"Will you look at the size of her feet!!"
+1. So walk, bike or catch the bus. You're doing your health a favour, helping the environment, and depriving terrorist-sponsoring states of revenue.
Every time we fill up our gas tanks, we're helping to fund medieval theocracies.
What she did was stupid and disgusting, but I bet a lot of the Facebook crowd who are lambasting her take a break to download music without paying for it... :)
Another epic fail. When will academics learn that e-voting simply makes fraud easier and less detectable, no matter how good the math is?
When will academics learn that a voting system the average voter can't understand is a system the average voter can't trust?
Mass is just energy in another guise, so if we could come up with a reliable energy standard (eg, the quantum of energy released when an electron jumps from state A to state B in a given atom), we could define a kilogram in terms of (many) quanta of energy.
I don't know how useful that is practically, though.
They claim a 6 minute charge time for 100kWh. So the charging power is 1 megawatt (1 megawatt * 6 minutes = 100kWh). If we assume a charging voltage of 220V (double the usual North American line voltage), the charging current is about 4500 amps. You'd need rather thick cables.
But wait... the real charge time is 4 hours, charging power 25kW and charging current 113A. That's doable providing you have at least 120A service to your house.
Also, going 375 miles (=600km) on 100kWh sounds suspicious. Let's say you do that at an average of 60km/h. That means you drive for 10h so the motor's power is 10kW or about 14 horsepower. Can such an underpowered car be realistic?