Bah!
But gosh, doesn't using a sphere introduce the need for Pi, and a consequent inaccuracy due to rounding errors?
Why not use a diamond shape? That's how the atoms want to arrange the selves anyway.
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But even a foreign policy expert would struggle to verify the claims here and the whole exercise might just as easily be the work of an enterprising chancer.
I have now. I was taken by the paragraph above in light of the fact no further revelations seem to have transpired.
You are aware the private e-mail server, while unwise, was not against the rules that were in play when it was set up and for most of its life? Sending classified stuff to it was, though the nefarious swath of compromised secrets don't appear to be there in the sort of abundance that was eagerly anticipated by some.
Storm in a teacup judgment still in place. If there was any meat on those bones we'd have seen it trumpeted far and wide by now.
I'm so tired of this storm in a teacup.
So far I've seen no evidence that anything at all was sourced from this server as opposed to being sailed on a raft from various other government machines. And if there were so much as a hint of that, it would have been page one at the New York Post, not to mention the flag behind which the committee "investigating" the matter would rally in a storm of self-agrandizing publicity righteous indignation.
It seems, contrary to popular wisdom on the matter, in this case security by (extreme) obscurity worked to prevent any leaks.
Also: "white hat botnet"? Wait, what?
You know, when Dell and HP and Compaq and IBM and Apple were announcing their push to make LCD screens more easily readable at wide angles I remember saying that it was a mistake.
I must ask Alannis Morriset if this "spend bajillions on wide screen research, then fit an aftermarket screen field of view filter" is ironic or not.
Naw, what's needed is an overvolt shutoff in between the plugable and the computer. You could probably source everything you need from Sparkfun if you live in a land o' no Maplins.
I'd like to congratulate the inventor of this idiotic device (which in all likelihood was lifted from an old flashgun) for adding yet another "worthwhile" item to the list of computer-age spinoffs.
Yep, shareholder value once again front and center in this vapid cheerleading exercise.
Or did I miss the bit where Ms Whitman detailed (as far as she could without breaking confidentiality or compromising cutting-edge IP in progress) the exciting new game-changing technologies that HP will be revealing to the world soon?
I had a new boss ask me how long it would take to finish up a side project he'd assigned to me. I told him four days. He shot back "what if I said you only had three?"
I replied that it would still take four days, that I wasn't Scotty and didn't inflate my estimates and that the four days would be me working through lunches and into the early hours on my own time as a personal favor.
He never tried that TV Time-limit crap on me again.
I don't think the argument is that people of sexual N are looking to be accepted as anyone else as much as such people are fed up with being singled out for special attention.
Congrats on further dehumanizing the whole debate with your faux-math notation by the way. Heart on sleeve, much?
Well, I live in New York and have been issued with a chipped credit card or two. Here's the actual truth, Stevie-side.
The chip is not protected by a PIN.
The card is not "tapped", it is inserted in the bottom of the reader and a lengthy wait then ensues before the authorization acknowledgement is requested. Sometimes, quite often in fact, the chip reader does not work and the card must be swiped anyway. So it is lucky that the mag stripe is still very much in evidence, innit?
At gas stations, the card is inserted into a reader. which reads the mag stripe, not the chip. I know this because the frequent customer card I use to make the cheap as water gas even cheaper has no chip, just a mag stripe, and in each case the insert and "remove quickly" instructions are the same, and if not followed properly the transaction will fail.
The legislation making fraud the vendor's issue is not yet in place and has been modified since it was proposed much in line with the system in the UK. This, I understand, at the vendors' request, on infrastructure cost grounds.
The Dabbs Scenario is coming, but as my grandma used to say, so is Christmas, and at this rate it'll be here first. (This had more poignancy in January, I admit).
I find the "fixed points in time" plot device to be as lame as the "space-time damage" explanation for why the Enterprise didn't go everywhere at warp 9.4.
Wouldn't it have been better to have the doctor admit he's from "the future" and risks elimnating himself from the picture if he gets too "timey-wimey".
I get outraged too. Most recently over a copy of the official BBC Goon Show episode involving the intercontinental ballistic NAFFI.
What happened to Prime Minister Seagoon's greeting to his butler G. Thynne, which used to go: "Ah Grippipe! Dearest friend, sincerest critic and author of Ten Years As A Russian Spy At Number 10"?
I know because they rebroadcast the episode in the 70s and I taped it. On the new "remaster" the language offensive to our new Russian friends was strangely absent.
It made the following joke in which Seagoon had his photo taken by Thynne while posed holding the NAFFI plans up in front of his face a bit pointless.
Here's an idea: just don't put the collar on the doll.
When we gave my daughter the Inuit sled set (Canadian market exclusive I think) we removed the flensing knives because at five she didn't need to deal with Just in Time seal butchering, especially as the (Playmobil) seal was a favorite toy.
As someone who once ran a forum and put up light-hearted themed polls as a Friday distraction I can say with some certainty that the more options you offer the less worth the mechanism has, and that no matter how many you offer there will be a sizable and vocal claque who will whine that they can't express their response within the narrow confines provided to them.
But if I had to use any of these stupid buttons I'd rather use The Register's. Kudos.
But, because they are peaceful beings, with none of the 'attributes' of us Humans, they won't really care and will carry on bathing in their vast seas of crude oil.
Peaceful? Aye, if you don't count their habit of decanting people's brains into metal cylinders for purposes yet unknown.
Beware the Fungi from Yuggoth.
Only one?
I had both front lower wishbone mounts tear away from the chassis on separate cornering occasions.
I had the driver side trunion sieze solid so in order to turn I had to pull hard enough on the wheel to deform the suspension.
I had the coupling on the metering unit shatter at 70 mph on the M1 as I was leaving Newport Pagnel services.
I had the roof tear wawy from the rear anchor at 110mph just west of Havant and give me and the two ladies inside a damn good thrashing (it was still attached at the windscreen).
I had the throttle linkage disconnect as I pulled into heavy works traffic in Ayelsbury. On that model the throttle failed by opening to "maximum wellie".
I had the fuel pump overheat to the point that the petrol started vaporizing in the part with the cogs in it.
I had a wheel bearing fail so spectaculaly the mechanic actually tore the studs through the flange when the puller exceeded 90 tons force.
I did manage to fix the grounding problem that made the engine stall if you switched on too much stuff at once. (Which is the real reason TR6 owners flash their headlights at each other - a smug demonstration of mad electrician skillz).
All that and more and I'd have kept the car if I could. Broke my heart to have to sell it.
Yep, happened to me on Kenpass Highway in Coventry some years ago. Cop in outside lane doing 40. Me on inside lane doing 40. He brakes and stops me for "overtaking on the left".
Why did he feel moved to do this? A) it was 3 am and in 1983 driving the deserted streets at that hour was " suspicious". 2) he was paired with the sourest-faced WPC I've ever personally encountered. Something had put her back up that night and she was not in a forgiving mood.
I had my vengeance. I told him I wasn't carrying my paperwork (it was in the boot) so he had to write a dsk appearace ticket for me. I let him fill it out and when he said "Broad Street okay for you?" I said " No. Kingston-upon-Thames".
I was working a contract there and would be there from 8 am the next day for a week. He had to get on the radio and wake someone up so they could find a cop-shop for him to write in the ticket. I like to think everyone involved gave him hell for a bullshirt stop.
Why was I out at that time? I drove a TR6 and felt like a run with no other drivers clogging up the view.
Fucking Air Malaysia flight MH350 and its pings.
The word "ping" was used every two minutes on the news shows for weeks, each time with a Stephen Fry mini explanation inserted so everyone could keep up.
I vote the next idiot that gives a piece of tech jargon to the lumpen press has his/her thumbs hammered flat.
Typical Lewis Page denialist claptrap that flies in the face of established sciewait, what?
This is the truest thing on the interwebs. I know, for I am 250 lbs of stud-muffinery withan extensive portfolio of techniques to bring a woman as close to seeing god as she can get while still breathing (heavily).
Don't tell Mrs Stevie I wrote this. She says that the last time she saw a bod like mine sans culottes it was hanging from the Empire State building swatting aeoplanes.