And is that a _perceived_ attack or an _intended_ attack, and how do you tell ? Physical attacks are identified by their effects or the effects they would have had if successful (e.g. shooting at someone and missing). Speech attacks are defined... how ?

Is accurate factual speech an "attack" or does it have to be lies ? Is reading from religious holy books an attack, or would it rather be hate speech on religious grounds to criticise someone preaching from their holy book ? Could you be arrested for quoting from the bible or the koran, or would those who accuse you be arrested for attacking you, with an accusation of hate speech, verbally on the basis of your religion ? Or both ? Or neither ?

Turns out the most usual definition is that someone feels attacks, or offended. As a believer in free speech I find it terribly offensive when others suggest that speech should be curtailed merely to ensure that others do not take offence, even if none was intended. I do not try to ban such speech, but I do point out that it is offensive to me, usually only to be told not to be so silly, that no offence was intended and I shouldn't be so easily offended.

More worrying is what the hell kind of rodent they have created where you need a 95m needle to inject into the brain...

Really ? You should tell AIIM, LIbrary of Congress, etc. - they've all been doing it wrong for years with PDF/A.

+2

Hundreds of people who do this for a living (they're called records managers), and have done for many years, have worked long and hard to come up with a standard format for exactly this. Doesn't do everything, but what does, but it does ensure that it will still do it in 50yrs if not longer.

Caveat 1: OP doesn't mention editing, if he needs it editable then don't convert, or store original and PDF rendition for preservation

Caveat 2: There is a trade off between doc size (OP mention compression) and digital preservation - PDF/A mandates embedding of fonts, which ensures readability in 50yrs at the expense of larger documents. If the OP doesn't need things to be readable beyond 10yrs (say) then PDF/A may be overkill. On the other hand, storage is cheap and getting cheaper, it is managing it that is expensive.

PDF/A is the ISO standard format for document archiving, as well as printing.

Apart from the interferometer readings...

Correct but also wrong.

The Alcubierre warp drive is mathematically possible but practically somewhat difficult due to requiring planetary sized amounts of energy and/or stuff like negative mass.

The EmDrive is a bunch of microwaves in a tin can that for some reason we don't understand produces thrust without propellant.

The connection is that laser interferometer measurements of the EmDrive in operation apparently show space time distortion consistent with an Alcubierre warp drive. If confirmed, that would indeed be a WTF moment. We can all stop looking for negative mass or dilithium crystals because all you need for a warp field is a microwave in a specially shaped tin can. It would also neatly explain why no one has ever built and marketed a conical microwave oven, because you'd have to nail it down.

Bingo.

If this was only spotted recently in "lab testing" (and why was it being tested now, and not before flight... what prompted the testing...) then it was known / not documented that overflow of this counter would cause shutdown. Some future revision could easily be to increase the precision, at the expense of range, or persist the counter across reboots, and that might not be considered a problem because the system was thought to handle the counter overflowing because no one documented that it didn't.

That is why I think the AD is there - to ensure this issue is known when this software is messed with in future.

Yet when they happen on Windoze it's because the OS is insecure...

Real story is that Linux is the target for the payload, possibly in addition to Windows or instead of.
Linux has parity, at least, with Windows in the commodity web server space and as a result:
a) it is a target just like Windows
b) there are now clueless Linux admins just like Windows admins
c) Linux turns out to be vulnerable in the same way.as Windows (see above)
d) ...and people will blame the OS

Welcome to mainstream...

Bingo - they are no more job offers than the 30 emails I get every week from allegedly beautiful young Russian women who have "seen me online" and would really like to meet me and want me to look at their pictures (in the attached .zip file or the included .ru link).

If efficiency is emissions per passenger mile, then it is the right thing to compare - it tells you the relative emissions for moving the same number of people between the same points by different means of transport.

If you want to just compare emissions, then you'll find that can make a much bigger difference by not going at all than by changing how you go - and indeed plenty of greens will argue that we should just travel less. This tends to miss the point that most people travel for a reason rather than just for the hell of it.

Actually they are about the same - given an average car and average loading - but if your car is more eco than average or you carry more people it _will_ be a lot greener than bus.

You can get complete data for calculating carbon footprint from here: http://www.ukconversionfactors... - choose all scopes and "business travel land" and "passenger vehicles" to get bus and car relative data. There are links to the methodology papers on that site as well - explains what data backs the figures e.g. https://www.gov.uk/government/...

Average local bus (not london) by these figures is 0.11 and average car is 0.18 - but the bus is per passenger per km, and the car is per vehicle. Take an average car occupancy of 1.6 - see e.g. https://www.gov.uk/government/... - and the car is near enough the same as the bus per passenger km.

Now, if you have a more eco car than average or carry more than 1.6 persons on average then your figure may vary. I have a 7 seater which is 170 g/km, to which (according to the methodology links) I should add 15% for the mfrs cheating the tests (actually it gets closer to spec than that) so say a round 200. That car is mostly used to carry at least 5 people, and almost always more than 1, so take a conservative load average of 3 and you have 66g/km or 0.066 vs 0.11 for a bus. That's a lot less. Many new small cars will be less than a bus even with single occupancy.

Thought the fuss about "glassholes" was bad - we ain't seen nothing yet. Combine stuff like this with ability to record - possibly for assistance with memory problems - and replay through the eyes, or send elsewhere.

Might be interesting to see what the US cops do, probably forcibly confiscate and destroy people's eyes for looking at them funny...

I would add the low-end Lumias to that as well - seem to be rock solid and good for the price. We bought a 520 for one kid on the basis that it was about the cheapest available smartphone (and he had to have a smartphone...), on the strength of good experience with that have since bought a 630 too. Having mapping and navigation apps that work without data connection is a big plus.

I still say that classic Blackberrys are as good as you get for stability, starting to worry that mine is showing its age because I've had to reboot twice in 6months... but I have no idea what to replace it with - all I need is good email/contacts/calendar management, maps and maybe navigation, news/weather, bit of social networking, bit of web browsing, and I hate touchscreen keyboards (so that's another blackberry then?)