sure, if you don't equate commercial transport license to "Taxi medallion more costly than the car itself".

Which is fairly common.

and really, the places where it's like that is where the taxis are lobbying for banning uber. it would be rather easy to check out available uber taxis and check if they have license or not and smack them with the appropriate fines if not. but if you want to protect your roaming or taxi pole mafia, then you need to ban the whole concept.

you should create a gui launcher for it that used some common calendar widget

Marijuana. Is there anything it CAN'T do?

I don't think you have to worry too much about having to tell that your restaurants burgers might contain Gulf War because probably they don't.

however, if you're using uranium as a spice, sure, having it labeled would be nice.

I'm pretty sure they throttle even if you use it from the device itself... it's been in the fine prints of everything.

it's not really news that unlimited in USA means "yo this is limited more than some small countrys 3g was in 2004".

if there was any control of the advertising then they shouldn't be calling it unlimited hsdpa or whatever unless you could actually max out the advertised connection speed for at least a day. now you'll hit the limits in mere hours or even under a hour.. which is silly.

so what? I mean, if the program consisted of anything else than just begging a ride for one person to ISS from Russia/USA/EU then the leader calling it quits would have not had any affect at all.

but if the program consisted just of training her and her using 25 million dollars for a ticket to the ISS then sure, if she calls it quits then the program is at end - and she already went to the ISS so the program was a smashing success.

doing a rocket of their own would need a fair bit more of cash and an actual space program.

Now, the entire South Korean space program it seems consisted of just paying Russia 20 mil to deliver a bio engineer into ISS and back - and she's been in business school for the past 4 years it seems. ...but, why would you even call that a space program? just to piss on north korea?

..and where does apple gets it's chips?

"but we totally found backdoors on it. the fridge firmware totally has the 'door' string xxx times"

this is the first I hear of the option being available.

point being, back in the p5 days, you would hear the switch possibility pretty late.. and I'm fairly sure the local pc magazines didn't cover the replacement possibility either, not even in the articles discussing the problem and showing how to find out if you had the fault or not.

furthermore, the tradition has been that the taxpayer pays for the delays.. ..or is it somehow not so with everything from b2 to jsf?

frankly all the profiles look a bit spiced up.

like, that they have some special property to them, like being xmen or something and can "see" stuff mere non-mutants can't.

Exactly. If a workplace has "must wear tie" rule, then I assume they have a whole bunch of other stupid rules.

..and to be clear as cellphone pics from one meter it would need to be 10 000 times the resolution.. so?

better headline.. "be able to tell possibly what kind of a car you're driving and what hardware some random 3rd world country has in their military base".

that's just because you're stupid.

that's what his clients want to see so that's what's on the site ;)).

My BS detector went off when I saw that graph, so I had to actually read the paper... and now I understand the graph and it's not at all what it seems to be.

See that giant circle for silver? That doesn't mean "a massive amount of silver", or even "a massive amount of environmental impact from silver". These circles are sized proportionally to how much more of a resource is needed than in the current generation mix, if all power came from that source. Since almost no silver is used in the current generation mix, anything that actually uses silver - even if a rather small amount - will dramatically inflate its circle.

In all of the study's graphs, the amount of silver used is so small that the bars don't even register one pixel tall, so you can't really estimate how much they're talking about. The only graph where you see any height at all, Fig 8, is the graph relative to total world production - but even in their highest scenario it's less than 0.5% of world production. And the study itself notes, "Silver in PV cells might be replaced by other metals". Silver has only a 6% better conductivity than copper, it's not a big difference. And if you're willing to use slightly thicker or more frequent connects, you can use cheap and hyper-abundant aluminum. Either way, the amount of metal involved is practically irrelevant, the interconnects we're talking about here are practically microscopic.