Comment Re: Charges Only if You're A Citizen (Score 1) 84
At that point we do it via thunderdome.... two men enter one man leaves, and is a Congresscritter for 2 years.
At that point we do it via thunderdome.... two men enter one man leaves, and is a Congresscritter for 2 years.
and you know that they are doing quiet assassinations as well.
Your fault for Voting Republican/Democrat.
Honestly, Being in Congress should be by lottery and forced servitude. You cant get elected, it's a lottery and compulsory.. Dave Fox of 3124 Main Street, Chester,OH... YOU are the new congressional representative of your district for the next 2 years. An armed caravan will be there momentarily to pick you up.
It is the only way to keep it honest. Because voting for rich assholes is turning out to be a complete failure.
Windows backup *will* backup to drives larger than 3TBs - as long as they use the 512e advanced formatting where it logically uses 512 bytes allocation units but physically 4096 bytes units. The solution is to use the GPT (GUID Partition Table) format. This will work for Vista and up.
My god, it's so simple! Why would anyone ever use Linux, which is all hard and stuff?
Maybe people who are treated worse than other people on account of the color of their skin are more likely to end up in depressed neighborhoods. This doesn't have to be a racist thing.
How easily people forget that AWS is Amazon's excess server capacity.
Is this common knowledge? I've never heard this before. Do you have a source?
Vogels also noted that Amazon eats its own dog food. As of Nov. 10, 2010, all of the web traffic for Amazon.com is being served by Amazon Web Services, he said.[1]
[1] Miller, Rich. Amazon Cloud Now Stores 339 Billion Objects. Data Center Knowledge, June 22nd, 2011.
You might also like: to try using google before asking questions thus easily answered on slashdot.
Since you and Netflix sold yours and everyone else rights and freedom away for a few convenient shitty movies, we will now have to deal with the introduction of hardware locked "trusted computing" phones, and software that requires it. I will certainly never purchase another Android device ever again.
This was bound to happen eventually. It's not just Netflix, it's also Amazon, which has consistently refused to bring AIS to anything but a handful of Google TV devices. And it will be coming to Apple devices sooner or later. Enjoy your Ubuntu phone, I guess.
I can run Netflix on Windows XP in a VM on Linux. But I can't run Netflix on Windows XP in a VM on Windows XP. This tells me two things. One, the DRM actually kicked in there somehow. Two, it doesn't kick in reliably enough to be worth one tenth of one shit. If you can capture the video output from vmware, and you can, then you can capture netflix streams without anything exotic.
OTOH I haven't tried this experiment using a guest OS which supports vsync on Silverlight video, i.e. Vista or later
Not to be too cold about it, but isn't that what statistical significance requires?
I still prefer it to the "ready, fire, aim!" approach to policy.
The latter is how we got a bunch of shitty nuclear plants all over the planet. I'm not saying they're all crap, I'm just saying that a lot of them are.
No one has died as a result of the radiation from Fukushima to date
O RLY? Hey, this might not be Fukushima-related. But I had to dig to find that story, because of all the claims that people are linking to saying "no one has died because of Fukushima radiation" as if you could prove a negative. You can't, so you should just stop trying. We can't prove that an unexplained cancer is from Fukushima either, which is what you nuclear playboys depend upon. You can't track a particular cancer back to a particular carcinogen. Hundreds or thousands have to die before you will admit statistical significance.
The amount of actual damage from Fukushima is pretty small.
Still leaking. Enjoy your radioactive seafood. Unfortunately, all the world's oceans are connected, so we all pay the price for Japan's failure. Even more unfortunately, there's shitloads of plants just like that one... here in the USA
As for the cost to clean up Fukushima? Can we PLEASE stop blaming nuclear power for what is in reality a case of corporate and government malfeasance please?
You're confused. No one is "blaming" "nuclear power". Nuclear power is just a technology. People are blaming humans for being too irresponsible to handle it. Individual humans might be sufficiently responsible, but the system is not designed so as to place them in control. It is only designed to self-perpetuate and to make some rich people richer. Given these facts, using nuclear power is irresponsible. If you have a proposal for a system which will cause nuclear power to only be used responsibly, I'm interested in hearing it.
It was SUPPOSED to have been shut down years ago, it wasn't, it was SUPPOSED to have been well maintained, it wasn't,
People left warnings as to where tsunamis had surged in the past and hoped they would be heeded, they weren't; the plant could have been built with elevated generators but they're ugly so it wasn't. The plant could have been sited somewhere else, but it wasn't.
It wasn't because humans are what they are and as long as they are then using nuclear power is irresponsible, because humans are irresponsible.
If you want us to get off fossil fuels there is really only ONE choice and that is nuclear,
Poppycock.
none of the renewables are capable of even scaling up to what we are using now,
It doesn't make any sense to have all this shit on this mudball at all. We have sufficient space and robotics technology to begin to move heavy manufacturing into space where it won't bother anyone and refuse is easy to dispose of. But because the entrenched powers are profiting from raping the biosphere, nothing is changing. Again, because of human nature — there's a lot more of us than there are of them, but we're fighting amongst ourselves instead of uniting to kick out the pricks.
Actually, them doing nothing is probably better, otherwise they will screw things up even more.
False dichotomy. There's a third option: Undoing things. They can be invaliding prior acts, which is what we really need. We don't need to "fix" the U SAP AT RIOT act, we need to eliminate it. Examples abound.
At least one such NSA employee will be reading this, and their conscience will twinge, just for a second.
No, no it won't. Cognitive dissonance will prevent it. They have convinced themselves that they are good people on no basis whatsoever, and in order to protect that belief they will convince themselves that there is no way to achieve their goal but to ride roughshod over the constitution. Then they'll tell themselves that it's OK to violate the constitution as long as you're doing it to protect the constitution. Unfortunately, holding such a clearly contradictory belief is a kind of insanity.
And it's been around for well over 60 years. I can point at homes built in the 1950's that have this.
You dont see it today because Contractors are pretty dim bulbs and are building to maximize profit and not to build a good building.
Real Programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. FORTRAN is for wimp engineers who wear white socks.