Comment Re:are you new here? (Score 1) 948
This matches my observations as well.
This matches my observations as well.
According to the article the remaining 2% is owned by the state.
Here is another article from last year that's more in depth: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants
According to wikipedia the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum was a 6 degree rise over 20,000 years. That's a lot of time to adapt. Compare that to the rate of change happening now. See the difference?
I use Gnome shell with multiple monitors at work and home. Is the workspace switching tripping you up? By default it only switches workspaces on your primary monitor.
This works great at work where I'm using a laptop as my second screen - put email on that screen and use the external monitor for everything else. At home its not so great since I have two 24" widescreen monitors. You can change this behaviour by editing a gconf key.
Slashdot readers...they also tend to be generally libertarian in their politics...
In my experience this isn't true. It's just that the "libertarian" types are loudmouths that feel the need to insert their ideology into *every* discussion. You'll generally see many more people calling them on their BS in reply.
The economy will never be "post-scacity", as there's only so much shoreline property. There will always be desireable stuff that is scarce, and there will always be stuff that is desireable it's scarce - even if it's just the concert T-shirt that shows you listened to that band before it was cool.
I think you and the parent are using different definitions of "post-scarcity". I think you're using the definition from economics whereas the parent poster is using the definition I've seen used more in political theory. In politics the term usually means that we are no longer working just to provide our basic necessities (ie. food, shelter, clothing). Under that definition, most people in developed countries are already living in post-scarcity.
Relax dude. No one is saying we should implement this now with current technology. The point was to see if it was possible. From the article:
“Of course, our current technology takes massive amounts of high-tech equipment to communicate a message using neutrinos, so this isn’t practical now,” said Kevin McFarland, a University of Rochester physics professor who was involved in the experiment. “But the first step toward someday using neutrinos for communication in a practical application is a demonstration using today’s technology.”
The point of writing your MP is to let them know that you oppose/support what they are doing. If they get flooded with letters they might reconsider their stance on the issue. The repsonse you get is irrelevent.
Maybe you should read that page again. I don't think it means what you think it means...
Maybe you want windows clones, but I don't. I like the recent changes in desktop environments. I have no problem with the GIMP UI. If you want windows, just run windows!
I agree with you, but I would like to point out that (as far as I understand the GPL) there is no requirement in it to "contribute back your changes". You just have to provide the source code if you redistribute it.
So obviously fake! I mean, if it were real we'd be able to see the crash site of the Transformer space ship! Yet another NASA cover-up...
Heh, heh, yeah. Here, try wikipedia's "simple" version: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP.
Canadians are passive and will allow this to roll through largely uncontested...
Canadians have already fought off 2 or 3 attempts at passing crappy copyright legislation so maybe they aren't so "passive". C-11 is just the latest incarnation. The problem this time around is that the current government has a marjority in parliment so they can pretty much do whatever they want. Although you may be right about the CRTC, it has nothing to do with this...
After a number of decimal places, nobody gives a damn.
