Do you really have an expectation of privacy over the license plate hanging on your car bumper?
Aren't license plates like the opposite of private?
How about very specific knowledge of where you're going and when? Because, that's what we're really talking about here.
Impressive. I think this is the first time I've heard anyone threaten to storm an embassy. I haven't even seen the Chinese do this. Note to everyone: this is what happens if you threaten to thoroughly upend the balance of power, expose secrets everywhere, and generally fuck with people in power. If you do this, you better make sure you have an equally strong power backing you. Otherwise, you will spend the rest of your life in jail, regardless of whether you actually broke any laws.
On the upside, props to Assange. I don't think he saw this coming, but I do think that what he did was a service to the world.
While storming the embassy would be an immediate defeat for Assange, I can't help but think it would prove a massive victory for Wikileaks in the battle over public opinion.
But seriously, in this era of re-discovering and correctly honouring scientists for their hard-work and genius (like Alan Turing is now rightly getting, for example) why is Tesla still languishing?
At the risk of sounding somewhat sweeping in my exemplary generalization:
Tesla is lauded in good measure wheresoever geeks may chance upon others of their kind.
Is this not enough to warm the rotting cockles of Mr. T's decaying corporeal matter?
But they have to build his death ray
I'd prefer cloning him, and then having the clone build it. As long as we're building a B-movie death ray, we might as well have a B-movie story to go along with it.
After we're done with him, we can have the clone battle an Edison robot, and my life will be complete.
Well, that depends, who is giving more to Obama's campaign, AT&T or Verizon. Whichever does so, he will pass a tax on those who do not buy their service in his next term, right after he passes the tax for not buying a car from GM.
Your thoughts sound very reasonable and well-put-together.
Is your name Levi Strauss? Because, you must be a jean-yus!
Is it worth upgrading from Win7 for a standard desktop or standard laptop? For most users, probably not. Windows 8 is designed for hybrid tablets, Kinect-style PC-interfacing, unusual monitor configurations, etc. It's for "non-standard" computing, generally. If benchmarking were updated to capture "usability" in many different computing environments, this is where Win8 would awkwardly hobble before falling over and obstructing the path while shouting and pissing itself ahead of its predecessor.
FTFY
The types of people who can afford to fly on a hypersonic jet don't wait 2-3 hours with the cattle to get through security or catch a cab.
Exactly right!
Those people are too busy watching the hypnotic pattern their vital organs make as they thoroughly paint the passenger capsule while twined loosely in Versace linen.
It doesn't matter anyway, they won't let you through security with the warhead you'd need to make that kind of speed worthwhile.
Actually, they will. They'll just poke and prod it a bit uncomfortably before letting you through.
If you don't want to invest in new hardware, you could use DAR or KDAR (KDE front-end for DAR).
With KDAR, what you want is the slicing settings.
There's an option to pause between slices, which gives you time to mount a new disk.
Ever been to a flea market, and you see a guy selling piles of DVDs he burned on his computer?
In this case, that guy was a major enterprise software vendor and he was charging Fortune 500 companies millions for the privilege. Possibly the stupidest copyright infringement cases of all time. WTF were they thinking?
But in the end, you are correct, and slashdot will still defend this.
I won't defend an asshat for trying to build a business off copyright infringement, but I sure as hell won't equivocate copyright infringement with stealing either.
I've had laptops stolen from me, and I've had people copy my homework without my permission. I'd never mistake these two things as similar.
Here are some other alternatives:
HiggledyPiggledy 2.0
Hunt and Poke: Home Edition
Explosive Nostril Overlayer
Thumbgasm
The average person of today is not made of the right stuff to run empires. The assertion is laughable. For the most part, those that are destined for the path of empire, are not raised in the artificial and limited "positive" and "negative" worldview framework, but the continuum of reality. Which includes every form of positive, negative, and mixture thereof.
Rather, it is the "slave" class that is raised to be afraid of the full range of human emotion and communication. Of course this leads to pervasive dishonesty and corruption which is why we end up with huge failures like Fukushima. It gets very hard to cut the crap and get to authentic facts and make quality decisions using facts. Most of the world is like this -- long on crap and short on facts -- including the individuals, the corporations, and the governments. Nothing of quality can be built on a foundation of dishonesty.
But you can go back to running your empire. Even if it is only in your favorite online game.
I guess you're not a Star Wars fan.
But what's the alternative when you're running an empire? Faith in your friends?
I don't think so.
You won't find any frozen dino remains in Antarctica, at the time of the dinosaurs' extinction it still had a tropical climate, and only iced over after the opening of the drake passage 23 million years ago.
Not entirely true about the climate. Certainly, the continent iced over entirely long after the dinosaurs, but there is evidence for sub-freezing temperatures circa 65 million years ago.
See the wiki on south polar dinosaurs.
As for it being likely you'd ever find a frozen dinosaur, the answer to that is, of course, "no."
The likelihood of finding a dinosaur or specimen with intact dinosaur DNA in ice, however, is ridiculously low. Nevertheless, if I were a billionaire intent on blowing money, I could think of worse ways to spend it than a dinosaur hunting expedition to Antarctica.
The life of reconstructible DNA is so short that the likelihood of finding intact Dinosaur DNA frozen in ice or in amber is nil. Now, that doesn't rule out fragments, like those found in the second Jurassic Park Book. (Incidentally, that fragment, when examined closely, contains insertions that spell out the name of the scientist who provided Michael Crichton with the data.)
What's your point? I think almost everyone agrees you'd never find and recover a complete DNA genome from any species extinct for over one million years (let alone 65 million years).
The long-shot is finding enough DNA in a sample to recover useful information from it. When I said "intact DNA," I didn't mean an entire genome, I meant any DNA information which might lead to further developments given advanced technology. It's all rather unlikely, but still far more probable than recovering an intact genome.
What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee.
