Big Brother can already track you through with cell-phone triangulation.
I'm wondering more when Google will add all the cars to the roads. Where I live (Netherlands), they're planning to equip all cars with GPS-units so they can tax drivers by the mile (kilometer).
Then it is a win-win situation for everyone. The music and movie get their money and your get ten times the "value".
But why is POP3, IMAP and SMTP setup so convoluted in all clients?
Most likely because the people who program the clients don't see the issue and thus think it is a waste of their time to make it easier. Aside from that, everyone need to agree on some sort of standard mode of operation for this, making it even worse.
But if they wanted, they could make it real easy. Take the domain of the email-address, do an MX-lookup, do some SRV-lookups and your email-clients knows everything it needs. Provided your email-provider uses DNS-SRV records, otherwise, the email-client needs to make some educated guesses.
There are not so many real uses for them today. They are promising, but not really curing the diseases.
There are a lot of places in Asia where they think otherwise and where you can get Stem Cell treatments with Umbilical Cord cells. Not cheap though (though not expensive compared to Western health care).
AFAIK, results are mixed; sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. But to say there is no real use is saying too much. Forgot the name, but there is a few years old tv-documentary about all this.
I agree that it wasn't the smartest thing to do, but they probably had their reason.
OTOH, do version numbers still mean anything? WINE has reached 1.0, but is it really a 1.0 release? Windows 6.1 will be called 7. I'm quite used to see version-numbers being (ab)used as a marketing tool or just changed for whatever arbitrary reason.
But KDE4 was an alpha release. 4.1 was a beta release.
The KDE dev-team clearly communicated to the world that 4.0 and the next few releases would not be a full alternative to the 3.5-series. They specifically reminded people that 4.0 would be a release for early adopters and developers, with tons of features missing, limited configuration/customization options and stability bugs. So yes, KDE4 was alpha, but everyone knew that.
Personally, I decided to wait until at least 4.3 to check it out. Why on earth, the rest of the world decided to jump on 4.0/4.1 and cry out in anger that the kde-dev team was right... No clue.
If they're wrong then it's the end of the economic crisis, unemployment, conflict in the Middle East and world hunger.
Sorry, but that is a somewhat naive train-of-thought. Technology is unlikely to end any of those, as none of them are technical problems to start with. Technology can help, but it can't solve them alone. And project like the LHC do nothing on the short term.
Checks SMART, can perform all SMART test (e.g. offline), gives loads of information on the drives internals and it can scan the disk surface using the disk-controller chip only (e.g no data transfer over the cable). The latter is really useful to test the surface and speed of a USB-HD.
the company that did the study
TNO is not a company, but a non-profit organization. Biased is a big word and known for their biased research is completely overblown. They did a study into UMTS-radiation and concluded there were measurable effects on people, which was a rather unpopular things to state.
I'm not sure what you are referring at
We had a tendency to slaughter men, women and children to secure our overseas "possessions". You should have been taught that during history classes, I'm pretty sure it is (or was) mentioned in Dutch history books about that period.
Solder a tiny RAM chip onto the main board to store the keys
.. some forms of Tea is also high in Antioxidants.
Green Tea and White Tea, but I think the term bio-active components is more in place. Concentrations are dependent on the quality of tea as well and how it is prepared. Same goes for coffee.
It is also the alcohol. Low to Moderate amounts of alcohol can have healthy effects as well; http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/10/1974569.htm. As long as you're not alcohol intolerant of course.
Agreed. The Dutch voted against the constitution the first time (which was a surprise to the government, especially since they invested million in a semi-propaganda campaign) and weren't given a vote for the revised treaty because the government feared a rejection again.
Democracy 2.0. Give people a vote if you think they'll agree with you, take the vote away when you fear disagreement.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. -- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays", 1928
