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Comment · 12 years ago
Thank you so much! It fixed the problem 100%

I didn't know about the streaming problem with Flash on Linux. That would explain some past problems I've had with other websites.

Comment · 12 years ago
Is it just me, or does it keep buffering for anyone else?
Comment · 12 years ago
Maybe security UAVs could be an answer?

If an unknown drone appears over a nuclear power plant, the plant could launch a UAV to follow it about until it goes home, watch who picks it up after it lands, and then just send in the police.

Comment · 12 years ago
http://www.yourworldoftext.com/ has been doing something similar for about the last five years.
Comment · 12 years ago
Hong Kong and Singapore have very high inequality.
Comment · 12 years ago
If you cycle through areas with a lot of traffic, could the water end up contaminated with vehicle exhaust?
Comment · 12 years ago
What crashed?

The mother plane part, or the spacecraft part?

Comment · 12 years ago
This seems similar to what Google did to receive massive fines a few years back.
Comment · 12 years ago
Escape wasn't impossible, many people did escape from Auschwitz.
Comment · 12 years ago
Does anybody have a link to the legislation they're talking about?
Comment · 12 years ago
Enough to counter the disappearance of the 85% of export income Saudi Arabia gets from oil?

Enough to counter the fact that Russia gets 52% of its federal revenue from oil and gas?

I find it hard to believe that making desalination a little cheaper, or transport a little less expensive will even come close to counter balancing those sort of percentages.

And even if it did, the relative importance of nations will change. Nations that were important because they had fossil fuels will become less important, and nations that were held back by lack of resources could become more powerful.

Those sorts of changes in power balances would cause a lot of turbulence.

Comment · 12 years ago
If this works, and the global demand for fossil fuels significantly reduces or disappears, imagine the impact it will have on the countries whose economies are largely dependant on exporting oil, gas or coal. A large part of the Middle East, or even countries lie Russia or Venezuela could be in for a very bad few decades.

We could be in for turbulent times, if it works.

Comment · 12 years ago
I first read nybble/nibble in a book in the late 80s when I was a kid.

I don't think I read or heard about it again for over a decade. It's never sounded silly to me, or at least no more silly than "byte", and it's at least slightly useful to explain converting hex.

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