Almost right.
Privately funded research (very common in engineering) may withhold the data, which can ever be industrial secret.
As I see, public funded research is public, so the data is also public.
But there are gray areas...
I'm very far from china, but if you look at an office here after lunch, it won't be very different.
Most people here take a nap after lunch. Really, this photo means nothing without a context. Not that china has nearly decent work conditions, but this kind of article is only political FUD.
A vote can be wasted by voting in someone you actually like in some scenarios. Maybe you fail to see them because of the two-parties problem.
This seems to be one such scenario. If you have parties A, B, C and D and you like D the most, C is reasonable and A and B are crap but lead the election by a small margin over C, you may waste your vote by voting on D, since a vote on C may give them a lead over A or B.
Just adding, tested it on windows, firefox and adobe reader plugin.
If opened by the plugin, nothing is done. I need to save the file and open it from the file system.
No, I haven't. Notice you just say that to interfere with a digital circuit it must be ionizing radiation. Than you said that this radiation had to get through shielding.
In order for it to interfere with a digital circuit, it first has to be radiation of the "ionizing" category, and then it has to get through whatever shielding the electronics are in. (I presume they are in some kind of can; no shielding at all would be plain stupid.)
Really?
Good to know. Now we can ditch that pesky EMI/RFI tests, since they're non-ionizing radiation and no problem will arise. Good to know...
I don't know in your locality, but here you can charge back to the water company if you have an invisible leakage. Therefore, they have all the needed incentive to warn you as soon as possible that the consumption is abnormal.
I don't know in England, but here I had a friend that had just the car stolen. Called the police immediately and got the response that he would need first to fill in an application for the message to be passed to the cops. Obviously it was too late at that point. (it was in a region that the police knew, and he didn't, that there was a steep ramp up in this crime for a couple weeks)
Too much people dicking around with the system and making false calls led to this absurd and ridiculous situation. If you lose some emergencies because of some assholes, the remedy is not to insure no one gets the response on time.
(\rant)
I'm pretty sure the money doesn't go to the farmers in china...
This leads me to ask who wrote the descriptions of the various browsers.
It's something that is trivial to find out on your own. Here is the ballot page. If you click on "Tell me more" buttons, you'll see that all links lead to web pages hosted on a domain owned the company behind the browser (mozilla.com, apple.com, opera.com, google.com etc).
Sorry if that didn't provide any substance to yet another "evil MS" conspiracy theory...
I read it not as "yet another "evil MS" conspiracy theory", but as "yet another bashing on poor marketing from other companies than microsoft. (Granted apple has superb marketing as well, but that's not a target market).
How can math be unrigorous? Either something adds up, or it doesnt, or both.
Or neither.
I don't think it would save him any time, since he mentioned posting on slashdot.
For me it's as simple as survival. As long as humanity is confined to a single planet, we're vulnerable to being wiped out by a planetary scale disaster. Move some of us to a self-sufficient base on Mars, and even if Earth turns back into molten slag, humanity will continue to exist.
Out of curiosity, why is the survival of the human race so important?
I mean, I really want to know... what is the foundation of the idea that the human race must survive at all costs? Why should we not accept that if the earth gets hit by a quasar pulse, our time is up and that's all she wrote? Are we that important to the galaxy or the universe that the survival of the human race is of such paramount importance? Seems like a bit of hubris to me.
I'm not trolling, I'm genuinely curious about the philosophical underpinnings of your common mentality. I'm not saying I disagree with it, I haven't completely thought it out... so I'd like to read why it's a given that we need to ensure the survival of human life.
It doesn't matter if we're that important to the universe. It really matters that we're that important to ourselves.
Surely not a weapon.
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