Comment Re:Short black with one (Score 1) 192
I cant find an exact figure but I know the cost to send it up on a SpaceX Falcon Rocket is a fair bit less than $10k per KG.
I cant find an exact figure but I know the cost to send it up on a SpaceX Falcon Rocket is a fair bit less than $10k per KG.
The astronaut going into space is an Italian. One would assume he would have advised the relavent space agencies on how to select the best coffee to send up there.
Why don't the US just take the RD-180, tear it to bits, reverse engineer it and build a direct clone locally?
If the US government seized Euros or Yen or Pesos or whatever, they would just convert them to USD through foreign exchange. Why aren't they simply converting these Bitcoins through a Bitcoin exchange into USD and getting their money that way?
Being fat is (for 99% of people anyway) a lifestyle choice rather than a genuine disability or medical condition.
If you choose to eat Big Macs and Original Recipe and M&Ms and Popcorn and Coke and other high fat/high sugar foods in quantities that are too big and if you choose not to get the exercise required to work off those calories and you get fat as a result, its your fault.
If you choose to buy your kids junk food instead of feeding them healthy food, its your fault that they are fat. If you choose to allow your kids to sit around in front of a screen all day instead of getting exercise, its your fault they are fat.
Is there an x86 part that is 100% open with no NDAs required?
Or at least I remember having is "Engineer's Notebook" with all the cool stuff about a whole pile of different ICs (back when I was interested in electronics). I even came up with a few ideas (that never went anywhere) like building a set of "traffic lights" for a really really busy staircase at school using various logic gates and chips and stuff (this was in the days when "adding a microprocessor to a circuit" meant using a 4MHz Z80, some sort of programmable ROM chip and a super-expensive and hard-to-use programmer to program the chip)
It seems to me that this CPU would be the perfect choice for a MAME setup being that MAME is one of the few things out there these days that is genuinely CPU bound.
No, the Australians bought into (and bought) the F-35 under previous governments. The announcement from Abbot was that they were going to buy MORE F-35s.
Plenty of countries are drinking the US (and Lockheed Martin) cool-aid and buying into the F-35 without even considering any possible alternatives. Australia has just ordered a bunch more (at a time when we supposedly have a "budget crisis" and when the chances of Australia actually needing to fly those F-35s in an actual conflict seem to be quite low given the current threat landscape)
5) The device works great but if the bad guys get the info, it will tell the bad guys how to tell if they are being monitored/tracked/etc by it (so they can make sure they dont do anything incriminating in a way that it would be captured with these devices)
The answer is simple, just introduce a small (0.001% maybe) tax on every financial transaction carried out on the things being traded in these HFT markets (be they stocks, bonds, commodities whatever). Everyone (whether they hold the stocks for 5 seconds or 50 years) pays the tax when they sell (the 0.001% comes out of the total sale price, not any capital gains).
Shuts down the HFT engine and the money flowing around it (which then means the owners of that money have to find something different and hopefully more useful to do with it) but with the tax rate being so low, it has little impact on anyone buying these assets to hold them longer term.
I can think of times when I have been using my card to buy stuff and when I have had no phone service (e.g. been down in the basement of a store or somewhere where my phone cant get a signal or been out in the middle of nowhere at a roadhouse/service station/whatever and buying food etc), how does the AT&T system handle that?
Or what about if your phone is turned off for some reason? (e.g. you are flying on an airplane that takes credit cards for payment for in-flight purchases or you are in a hospital and need to turn off the phone but you are using your card)
With an election due later in the year, this guy is presumably up for re-election. Is there anyone here who can comment on how hard it would be to vote him out? Anyone know who his opponent is and what their position on net neutrality is?
The other possibility is that the last active developer no longer wanted to work on the project and rather than leave a release with unknown security issues, they decided to shutter the project.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.