Presumably once we figure out one, then we'll figure out the other, eh?

If you please, what language is this in before I clear and spend the resources to obtain it?

Nor would we want them to, lest they start trying to come up with ways to predict who will and will not perform criminal (or, dar I say, terr'ist) acts and detain them prior to
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Confirmed! I was at the same Tinfoil Hat of America meeting with the OP!

Let's hope that the tech developed to mine or explore this area is remembered for when we need to send probes or other such to similar condition on other worlds.

I stick to my assertions that we should not be spending so much money on trying to explore other worlds before we have thoroughly discovered and explored our own. This is just another reason why - unclaimed resources and opportunities to test remote vehicles/probes in alternate world (or at least more alternate than what most regions offer) conditions.

I imagine that being able to measure one of the basic elements of reality, time, in a more precise manner is a great boon. Wouldn't this be akin to finding out how to measure much smaller spaces? Great!

I agree.

Also, I don't think New England was considered when they were looking at names. I'm sure there's a bit of confusion in conversation among Mac enthusiasts.

It's cheaper!

And besides, the red Chinese invented the computer 3,000 years ago.

In the UK to establish copyright you used to be able to send yourself a stamp addressed envelope containing the relevant work. So long as it remained unopened the postmark served as both a mark of authenticity and also as a timestamp.

I foed him (it) quite a time ago when I noticed that most of its posts consist of verbatim quotes lifted from elsewhere in the discussion and all of them are posted at exactly 30 minutes past the hour – which is why I suspect it's not a human.

Last spring I offered to set up a system for some friend's children to play with (I had a old 600 Mhz AMD laying around). It was going to be pretty basic: web browsing, games, open office. They politely declined due to the fact neither of them are that computer literate and that they didn't want the kids on there unsupervised. Which I totally respect - they are good parents.

Now that I have a little one of my own (month old on the 10th) I would most likely lock down the net except for sites like Treehouse, plus do the pile of educational games available. For learning the keyboard and GUI and the like, I would like to think it's more basic concepts then anything. There's a start menu, a web browser, information bar, etc. For the child I would impose upon him that he can't break anything that can't be fixed and should explore. I would also take the OLPC's 'Sugar' GUI for a test run, or something designed for netbooks.

You can bury any medium and a way to play it aswell, lets say, a cd and a disk man, as for music goes, or maybe magnetic tape and bet that some company will still have ways to read it, since its useful for backups. Depending on your budget there is a bunch of stuff you could bury to play the media you bury, or go for a top tech of nowodays wich should be partially old 10 years in the future,,,

Spot on.

I don't use ubuntu, but for me, my Arch setup with awesomewm lasts almost 1.5 times as long as windows. YMMV.

I think it's more likely that compiz which comes with ubuntu is the culprit here.

I'll admit that I don't follow UK politics very closely. But I thought that draconian censorship was more of a Tory thing.

-Peter