Maybe your power supply fried the hard disks. (Happened to me once, with a brand new power supply and a brand new hard disk). So it's indeed very wise of you to keep your HDD disconnected. If you want to be sure if the drives are dead or not, ask a friend to connect them to their PC.
You don't know who you save. Suppose you knew that the 1 guy is your friend and he has a good job, a wife and children, and the other 5 people are people you've never seen. What would you do then?
Not really, because Leto II could follow the consequences of his decisions into infinity. For example, I don't give money to cherity organisations, even though I know that they use the money to save people. I cannot decide what good it would do to save someone I don't know. He may turn out the savior of mankind. Or he may turn out to be a terrible dictator. It's out of my hands, but Leto II... he knew :)
I know, jQuery is useful and it's not that bad, but imho it still looks and behaves like a hack. Imho it would've been better if they changed javascript so that writing a simple loop wouldn't be as bloated... var list = document.getElementsByName('myname'); for (var i = 0; i alert(list[i].id); } It's nicer to write it like this: for each (element in document.getElementsByNa
Well... I think that he shaped the path as much as he was shaped by the path. That makes him personally accountable for his actions. One the other hand he's the only one who could save the human race, and that makes it a meaningless discussion. There's simply no choice in the matter and if there's no choice, then good/evil lose their meaning.
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I know. I wasn't entirely serious either. Just a little bit. It would be very ironic if Europeans were wiped out because of some virus, similar to how a deadly European cocktail of smallpox, measles, typhus, influenza, dyphteria killed so many American Indians in the past.
[quote who="RedDwarf999" reply="7" id="3436846"]I say you write that compact code when you are launching a satellite to the outer reaches of the solar system and every byte counts.[/quote] I'm not sure, but I think that's not the case for modern satellites and space probes.
I think it's the other way around. When the world gets warmer, tropical diseases will spread to the north. And since the north people have not built resistance to such diseases, they'll be in big trouble. For example when there are humid rain forests growing in the Netherlands, with large populations of big apes, and we run into them while building a highway through the forest, then we are also at risk of catching the ebola virus. And if that virus is carried to
I don't like languages like Regular Expressions. They're compact, true, but they're not readable. Programming is all about taking a big serving of spaghetti, and divide it up in easily edible portions. Then comes along Regular Expressions - and your portions are mixed into spaghetti again. Of course I like spaghetti, but I don't like Regular Expressions. E-mail validation made... easy? \b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@(?:[A-Z0-9-]
http://www.livescience.com/42838-european-hunter-gatherer-genome-sequenced.html From DNA from a 7,000 year old tooth, people discovered that only 7,000 years ago, there lived a dark man with blue eyes. From this we can conclude that having a white skin is a fairly recent phenomenon. And it's all caused by cereal!
Do not read your emails on an open network if you're that paranoid about evesdroppers. Wait till you get home and use a LAN cable. If you have no choice and you have to use an open connection, then use certificates to encrypt the emails that you send to others (and let them encrypt their emails to you). I've never done that, so I'm afraid I cannot help you any further with this. As far as I know, a VPN is only used to communicate between 2 computers. As s
On https websites you should be fine, those connections are encrypted. If you connect to a home network, make sure the network uses encryption (you'll have to enter the encryption key to access the network).
I would think soap doesn't work in freezing temperatures. On the bright side, global warming of the Arctic water will make it easier for those polar bears to keep their fur clean and shiny.
Indeed. I've accepted the idea that my country will be under the sea in a few centuries from now. I think it's inevitable because the rest of the world doesn't care about it. Countries like China, USA, India are not going to reduce their carbon emissions to save a few cheese-eaters that aren't even born yet. Even the Dutch government doesn't care. As far as extinction is concerned: the population explosion that's ultimately respons
I think they exaggerate. It won't be the end of the world. It will just be a different world and people will still be around, nobody needs to die. I think the real catastrophy will start at around 10 degrees of warming, but there's not enough carbon in the ground that we can burn to get to that point. So I'm not going to worry about it anymore, it's not my problem and humanity will still be around.
People are notoriously hard to kill... they have a thick skin, a thick skull, they move in unpredicable ways, they can eat the worst kinds of food and actually enjoy it, about half of the population wears protective eye-wear 24/7, and lots of people have hands that can destroy anything they touch.
(edited) A new battery can last for a very long time and provide the power of 8 lead-acid batteries. A lead-acid battery lasts only a few years. I want a new one even if it turns out they are toxic. As long as they're packaged well and don't leak.
Ok getting sidetracked again, excuse me. In the 60s, the UK and France still had a status as colonial powers. Nowadays, what are those countries really... economically they're a mess. Their colonies are tiny, just a few specks in the ocean. Their populations are meaningless compared to many other countries in the world. On almost all fronts they're being surpassed by the developing world. They only have their status as nuclear power to brag about. Imho it's th
Nice site. I think this one is also funny in the context of this topic: http://xkcd.com/688/ [quote who="Werewindlefr" reply="1963" id="3435922"]But electricity isn't exactly good at fueling transportation[/quote] Not yet, but there are some promising developments: http://www.popularmechan
Ok, fine. Imho the best thing for the Ukraine is NOT to join the EU, but to go for something like a free trade agreement with the EU. In that way they don't piss off their big neighboor and they don't upset the Russian minority in their country. It's been only 25 years since the end of the cold war and things are still tense. They can wait another 25 years and see how things develop. The EU isn't that old yet either. Imho it
Ok, sure, but you should realize that the EU is much more than just an economic block, it goes far beyond economics. The original thought about the EU wasn't economics: it was about preventing wars within Europe. Former enemies would work together, instead of fighting each other. It's not simply a free-trade agreement that we're talking about here.
You think it's coincidence that all nuclear (super)powers have veto rights in the UN ? USA, Russia, China, France, the UK all have sizeable arsenals and ICBMs to deliver their weapons anywhere on the planet. They all have fusion bombs which are powerful enough to destroy a city of several millions of people with a single blow.
Sometimes I wish... I wish... that computers were equipped with a big fat red self-destruct button. With a dark angry voice counting down to zero... oh the fun of seeing your piece of &(%@ blow up in a big explosion. But I have only ever seen a tiny whisp of smoke when I ran an old computer of mine without a cooler. The CPU was fried instantly. Dumb machines... humans are turned on all the time and they never needed a cooler. Although humans do nee
Starkers, you're forgetting that Russia has a huge nuclear arsenal, enough to destroy everyone on the planet. It also has a very large military industry. It supplies lots of energy to Europe (and the Ukraine). Those things give Russia a very large bargaining chip.
