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Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly

Well, doh, by moving their little wings up and down quickly?


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Ok, here's a sample:Vembu's StoreGrid.


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That's a well known idea, I was going to put here some samples of the distributed backup in action but only can find when Cringely talked about the very same concept.


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Is really mouse weight that important? Any pro gamer here who cares to tell us about this?


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  A Cisco dual channel T1 controller, part VWIC-2MFT-T1 is $2,000 new list price. A small reseller will pay 70% of list or about $1,400 for it in distribution, while a large reseller might only pay $1,100 or so. Below we see a tinyurl link to an Ebay auction for a new boxed unit at only $227 or 11.3% of list price. I guarantee if you contact the seller you can get six dozen of them for the same price.

http://tinyurl.com/ak9by

  This has gone on and on and on and on for the last two years, destroying the value of used Cisco gear we pull from customers and making it almost impossible to buy a used/refurbished card without running into this stuff.

  I found out about this sort of thing the hard way. I got a *fantastic* deal on six new in the box Cisco 1721 routers. It wasn't so fantastic when I had to explain to my biggest customer that half of the machines they owned couldn't be registered for service because Cisco had them listed as in service in South America. Oh, and they failed, one by one, with mysterious problems not attributeable to hardware or software ... they just acted ... different.

  Foo on all counterfeiters. They should be given counterfeit lifesaving drugs while riding in an ambulance equipped with counterfeit brake pads on their way to a hospital where they'll be cared for by a doctor who is really a drunken paramedic who thought it'd be fun to be a trauma surgeon for a day. If they live through that then they should be placed in a real live jail and periodically offered counterfeit parole papers to sign.

I was going to recommend reading Singh's book (see link) but it seems it was the course text so ...

Perhaps something a little less maths-y (or math-y if you're US-ian). She could study the use of PGP, the basics behind the cryptography, it's place in current email systems, historical export restrictions, why it's not used more, it's cipher strengths, how many nano-seconds it takes the NSA to crack it.

Ask Zimmerman to mentor it! Worth a shot?!

The Code Book: Simon Singh - http://tinyurl.com/d5zjs
Wikipedia entry on PGP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP

Bullshit.

Go here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?fa milyid=0C1B4C96-57AE-499E-B89B-215B7BB4D8E9&displa ylang=en

Or here http://tinyurl.com/7kyrc

Is really a problem of customer sentiment, or is actually the public embarassment of a third party releasing a patch quicker even without the source code of the libraries?


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As per http://tinyurl.com/b6rym 3:42 EST, 01/05/2006

Google has a market value of 89,241,681,960 USD

http://tinyurl.com/d4fnc

Are there other such things for MSN, Gaim, mIRC (and other IRC applications)?

12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
65 tons of American Pride!

Canyonero! Canyonero!

Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!

Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)

(Entire lyrics here)


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Man, is logic that is colder, it's January! What would you expect?

Come back in summer.


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Not only that, but as the kernel is under 50Mb, it can be cached using Coral Cache: 2.6.15.


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Woah, I hope they all use my "Spread Firefox" referrer button!


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You say that as if you're proud of it. That somehow your ability to describe a "simple rubber plug" in a specific way transformes the idea of the "simple rubber plug" into something valuable. You know what, it is still a "simple rubber plug".

Caterers on movie credits, patents for rubber plugs. Just serving the food and making sure your cable isn't clogged with dust before reaching the customer isn't good enough anymore?

>All true a decade ago. Today, though, you aren't going to be sued
>by someone who makes something. You're going to be sued by a patent
>holding firm whose only "product" is patent litigation. What good is
>your patent portfolio when your opponent doesn't make anything that
>could infringe on your patents? You can't horse-trade when you don't
>have anything the other guy wants (except money).

I understand your sentiment. But just about any market gets gamed. Look at the folks who milk the virtual world for "credits" and sell them for real currency in the real world!

I don't really have a problem with firms who's sole function is the holding of patents. They are NOT in the business of "patent litigation". They are in the business of buying commodities - in this case thoughts. They hold onto those commodities until someone comes along with the resources to use them, and then they charge royalties for the privelege. Nothing wrong with that.

Thoughts are becoming very valuable assets. Of course you are going to find people who want to treat them like any other futures commodity.

If someone comes up with a patentable thought, and someone wants to buy that thought with an eye towards it being in demand later in the future, what's wrong with that? Nothing, in my book.

>As far as protecting intellectual property goes, again most of the
>problem patents these days are of the "Balance your checkbook using
>exactly the same procedure used by millions of housewives for decades,
>but LETTING A COMPUTER PERFORM THE STEPS!" sort. That kind of
>"intellectual property" doesn't need or deserve protection.

I hear you. But you would not believe how absurd some things that truly are patentable seem when you first look at them. You think, "How could this possibly be new and different?" The fact is, especially in the mechanical world, most of the mechanical ways of making structures have already been done. But when you put old ideas together in new ways to achieve something new, often as not, that can be patentable. Hell, I'm on a patent for a DUST COVER ( http://tinyurl.com/8eh7l ) - a simple rubber plug for fiber optic ports. It's all in the way you word your patent.

Are there absurd patents out there? Sure. But remember, patents aren't bullet proof, either. They can be rejected, even after being approved.

Steve

This is obviously an anticipated dupe. Don't worry, your article will be on the front page in hours.

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Most French favor a step-by-step halt of the nuclear program (French), therefore EDF uses various little tricks in order to build the toy. The most funny trick is that we (the people) must help them decide without being informed because most pertinent information is kept secret. Moreover it seems that EDF will in fact decide, after the public debate, without any explanation. This is a sad joke, especially because some published information revealed potential problems (French).

I'm not against civil nuke...but the hell with lies and disinformation!

"No patents have matched your query"
tip: use http://tinyurl.com/

those of us that have windows (2000,xp,2003,vista) already know how to use the encrypting file system. if this http://www.iopus.com/guides/efs.htm quick howto does not make sense, then you cand find here http://tinyurl.com/dpy5n tons of microsoft documentation on it.

All I can se is that they are only half full. Wimps.

Very true. It's just a shame that the professor(s) couldn't find the time or inclination to investigate the story (as you say) before shooting their mouths off to the press.

No. The professors had their foots firmly in their mouths because the story as told them by the student very conviently fit into their "gov is bad" paradigm. The student played them like fish.

Twit.

If you're interested, you can find more info on the topic at this web.

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TFA links to http://lwn.net/Articles/163266/

On that page we read:

Weird factors come into play. The BlueZ project used to have a very nice list of working hardware, but that list was pulled down as a result of objections from the "Bluetooth Qualification Administrator."

On that page there are two mailto: links - mailto:bqa@bluetooth.com and mailto:member.relations@bluetooth.com

See that @bluetooth.com bit? That's called a domain. Since these bits of email are going to people @bluetooth.com it is safe to assume that they are involved with the website that appears at http://www.bluetooth.com/ - let's go there, shall we?

There is a very prominent link "about the SIG" that appears on this page. Since TFA was about "a registered member of the Bluetooth SIG" it is fairly probably that this is the SIG in question. Let's click on the 'about the SIG' link, shall we?

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is a trade association comprised of leaders in the telecommunications, computing, automotive, industrial automation and network industries that is driving the development of Bluetooth wireless technology, a low cost short-range wireless specification for connecting mobile devices and bringing them to market.
The Bluetooth SIG is a privately held trade association and is not publicly traded. The Special Interest Group, whose name was inspired by the Danish King Harald Bluetooth, known for unifying Denmark and Norway in the 10th century, was founded in September 1998. Now, in the 21st century, unification is a guiding principle of Bluetooth wireless technology, as it connects innovative products and companies to consumer aspirations.
The Bluetooth SIG has established its global headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, USA . The staff is comprised of Executive Director Michael Foley, Ph.D., Marketing Director Anders Edlundand a small staff of Marketing, Engineering, and Operations professionals. In addition to the Bluetooth SIG Staff, volunteers from member companies play key roles in running the Bluetooth SIG organization.
The Bluetooth SIG includes promoter member companies Agere, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Microsoft , Motorola, Nokia and Toshiba, and thousands of Associate and Adopter member companies.

http://tinyurl.com/e4olu

The notebook I'm really drooling over...and honestly wondering if there are going to be some huge power/heat issues with:

Sager NP9750 (@ powernotebooks.com)
-amd athlon64 x2 4800
-2 gig ram
-7800gtx (mobile of course)
-100gb 7200rpm sata drive
-dual layer dvd burner
-gigabit ethernet nic

http://tinyurl.com/afcqu

This laptop is really over the top. $3330 maxed out the way i want it...yikes.

would you like some socialized medicine maggots?

I see the major sponsor is once again, Rep. Francis James Sensenbrenner, Jr. What is with people in Wisconsin that vote for this authoritarian leaning man ?

He is also pushing legislation again, the third time to force states to sign this Driver License Agreement through HR4437 which requires states to interlink motor vehicle databases not only within the US but with Canada & Mexico.

This arrogant man needs to be fired from his job !

Mirror

NCSA Mosaic ran on Windows 3.1 (with Win32s) (and later on Windows 95), X-Window and Mac. It was the first web browser I ever used (that was in 1994).

By today's standards it's a piece-of-crap, but back then it was quite a marvel.

It was not an editor, just a web browser. It's still around for historical purposes and if you can get it to work, you'll see just how far we've come.

Anything multimedia wise was handled by "helper" applications that would launch when you clicked on the applicable hyperlink.

Nothing was embedded in a web page (at first). HTML was in it's infancy, so web pages with ordinary fonts with no color and pages with plain backgrounds were the norm (till someone figured out how to make an image file into a web page background, that is - then everyone went nuts with it).

This and this are examples of what your typical web site looked like in 1995-1996.

And who can forget the famous and long-defunct "Trojan Room Coffee Machine"?

NCSA Mosaic ran on Windows 3.1 (with Win32s) (and later on Windows 95), X-Window and Mac. It was the first web browser I ever used (that was in 1994).

By today's standards it's a piece-of-crap, but back then it was quite a marvel.

It was not an editor, just a web browser. It's still around for historical purposes and if you can get it to work, you'll see just how far we've come.

Anything multimedia wise was handled by "helper" applications that would launch when you clicked on the applicable hyperlink.

Nothing was embedded in a web page (at first). HTML was in it's infancy, so web pages with ordinary fonts with no color and pages with plain backgrounds were the norm (till someone figured out how to make an image file into a web page background, that is - then everyone went nuts with it).

This and this are examples of what your typical web site looked like in 1995-1996.

And who can forget the famous and long-defunct "Trojan Room Coffee Machine"?

Isn't this precisely the job for ping? Just write an script to warn you when the ping to some server is greater than it should be.


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Re:Well, that's a big shocker. (Score:5, Interesting)
by ortcutt (711694) on Friday December 16, @04:11PM (#14274663)

I'm calling bullshit. It's easy to respond to these outrages by saying that Republicans and Democrats are all the same. But you didn't see any violations of privacy under Clinton. And today, you've got Democrats standing up to oppose the renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act. Republicans and Democrats aren't the same, and we don't need a third party. We just need a government that gives a shit about civil rights.

Re:Well, that's a big shocker. (Score:5, Interesting)
by ortcutt (711694) on Friday December 16, @04:11PM (#14274663)

I'm calling bullshit. It's easy to respond to these outrages by saying that Republicans and Democrats are all the same. But you didn't see any violations of privacy under Clinton. And today, you've got Democrats standing up to oppose the renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act. Republicans and Democrats aren't the same, and we don't need a third party. We just need a government that gives a shit about civil rights.

Re:Well, that's a big shocker. (Score:5, Interesting)
by ortcutt (711694) on Friday December 16, @04:11PM (#14274663)

I'm calling bullshit. It's easy to respond to these outrages by saying that Republicans and Democrats are all the same. But you didn't see any violations of privacy under Clinton. And today, you've got Democrats standing up to oppose the renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act. Republicans and Democrats aren't the same, and we don't need a third party. We just need a government that gives a shit about civil rights.

I actually found this on google: Vista w/o GUI
It's even free!

It's bad science because they are trying to put modern expressions of emotion on an older piece of art from an era that is not necessarily reflective of today. We can't observe what they are trying to observe from the era that it should be observed from. Thus, their conclusions will likely be wrong - at least enough to be outside of the acceptable error rate.

The following post somewhat agrees, though the poster does not seem to agree to the same degree:

http://tinyurl.com/bwadb

Logically - if it is true even between modern cultures, it is also true between cultures of different era's. One may be able (as the above poster says) to show minimal differentiation between co-era cultures, it is likely even greater between non-co-era cultures; especially over as great a difference in time as between Da Vinci's era and our own.

Stop it with the bad science.

Science - it's only as good as what can be observed, and only as unbiased as the observer.

Sadly, there's no program that can detect how this strange article makes me feel.


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Kienbock's disease is much worse and believed to be caused by repeptitive micro-trauma (aka typing). An orthopedic doctor thought that I might have it, but I was very lucky, and it ended up just being an occult (hidden) ganglion cyst. Basically a bone in your wrist dies from lack of blood supply, and it hurts to turn doorknobs, pickup small objects, and do... well just about anything. So, use proper hand position when typing, and don't overdo it!

http://tinyurl.com/4aanx

That's why Ion created the USB turntable.

Not a service, but still nifty.

As someone who works with 3D characters everyday, I can call this "competition" what it is: a joke. 90%+ of the entries (not from TFA, which is from last year) are straight out of Poser. The only talent required is dressing the premade model with premade clothes, and then posing her.

If you want to see world class characters you should visit http://www.cgtalk.com/, or buy the book they printed recently, Exotique (you can see sample pages here:http://tinyurl.com/8c3rr). Even at the small sample page size you can easily see that the quality is much, much higher.

This reminds me of the poignant Flowers For Algernon, by Daniel Keyes. http://tinyurl.com/d8obl going one step too far in making mice more intelligent and the fragile state of the human condition.

this profile of myself but they rejected it for some reason.

Something about competition and being human or something...

D^amn it, Doesn't anybody have any bombs left? http://www.newpath4.com/millenialdawnpowerandlight secure21.htm .
Isn't there someone out there who can fly a plane?
http://tinyurl.com/7aaca .
Someone who isn't afraid of the Weather?
http://www.newpath4.com/WorldwideClimateEngineMsg. htm .

Hhmmm. Looks like the Wizard, Woody of Oz is real. For more information check my Comment under the main article > http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1798.html .

And trust the old weatherman before you trust the fresh guy out of college who is just learning the ropes eh? The "old dude" who has invented two new types of fusion -non nuclear fusion- that can power a home without combustible fuels... and no pollution by-products whatsoever. Hhmmm.

Gee, that sounds like the answer we've been waiting for.
End of global warming,
end of escalating healthcare costs from pollution asthma, pollution emphysema, pollution chronic lung diseases,
pollution made dead zones in the ocean and ozone layer,
pollution DNA damage that is now proving to be trans-generational in the womb...
weather aberrations from global warming such as hurricanes & tornadoes...
crude oil peaking out before it kills us all...
hybrid electric cars that electrocute the rescue people at an accident...

rising mental illness rates from lowered oxygen content in our atmosphere because OUR ENGINES USE IT BETTER THAN OUR LUNGS leaving the rest of us brain damaged to one degree or another from oxygen deprivation esp in our cities.

http://www.somethingawful.com/ does understand brain damage. Hhmmm. If I lessen the brain damage you all might lose 3/4 of your website traffic. Maybe you'll have to turn into real writers. Maybe you can use a reducing ray and be the brains in these new hopping bots of the Planet Mars. That would make a great story. You could call them something awful hopping bots (SAHB's). No need to send any royalties or thank-you fees; glad I could help you out in your moment of need.

Someone has finished the Manhattan Energy Project?
Saved lots of government-funded grant? >
money by not throwing rebel hordes of people at the problem? >
> http://www.newpath4.com/01manhattanproject20056789 fromnewpath410302005.htm .

For those of you in a big hurry, no time to check the referenced Comments, I'll save you the trouble. An electronic waterwheel that uses a stream of metal balls to turn a bi-directional dual generator, striking the paddle wheel fins in a continuous cycle. The remaining 40% of Mankind that doesn't have electricity is about to get a big boost.

The Millenial Dawn vaporgenerator can power a paired generator (or 2, or 3) that focuses force upward, overcoming Gravity. Our astronauts -accompanied by a select team of somethingawful writers recently laid off- can be vacationing on Earth's Moon by 2008 & Mars by 2010 once the News Media stops ignoring my new fusion engines.

You can all be sipping margueritas at a comfy Microsoft PC control station while the hordes of little hopping slavebots do the exploring, Courtesy of Internet Al (Gore) without whom I wouldn't be able

This sort of incentives-based policy is in the tradition of American values. It should be no surprise that such values are being eroded as the 'nation of immigrants' changes from pioneering independence to bureaucratic dependence. The use of a socialist bureaucracy to explore space is a fundamentally different experiment that other proven American approaches to expanding the resource base available to humanity.

In 1989 I was working on grassroots legislation to reform NASA's launch services policies. This led to the passage of P. L. 101-611, The Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990 which required NASA to procure launch services from private vendors whenever possible. This is common sense if proper boundaries between public and private functions are to be maintained. As radical as this may sound to many who see NASA as a space transportation company, it was, in fact, Presidential policy at the time and the legislation was therefore, in fact, redundant, but bureaucratic inertia demanded separate acts by the Legislative branch to reinforce the Executive's own command structure. This legislative effort started out as an attempt to passsomething along the lines of the Kelly Act of 1925 (which formed the basis for Jerry Pournelle's recommendations first put forth by his Citizen's Advisory Council for Space Policyin 1980), but compromised when it became clear that resistance from NASA, and its contractors, to citizen involvement in space policy was so intense that serious reform would be impractical. My testimony before Congress legislative follow-up to P.L. 101-611 made recommendations for a focus onincentives for commercial investment, rather than plans or "programs". An example of incentives-based legislation, applied to fusion energy policy, was recommended for passage by Bussard, R. W., one of the founders of the US fusion program in a letter confessing some of the subterfuge to which technical leaders resorted. It is still quite relevant today given the reliance on Middle Eastern oil and problems with fission energy. The point here is that incentives are more effective in general than governmental programs.

The first settlers in America experienced enormous causalities their first years they were in America. Entire colonies were lost. The original colonies included a substantial variety of fundamentally differing approaches to settling North America. America's frontier wasn't built by a centrally controlled bureaucracy -- and there is no reason to expect such a bureaucracy will take Americans to their next frontier.

Space policy is a touchstone of American values since Americans are spiritually a pioneering culture. Let's not forget who settled the frontier, how those "immigrants" differed from later immigrants, and what sort of "program" they had to settle the new frontier.

If Michael Griffin is for real about this he may just reawaken the very pioneering character of Americans. We must hope he is not just sincere but will be successful doing so.

While most of my viewpoint was already iterated by this comment, I have one more thing to add.

This is what happens when a very new technology that is highly experimental becomes widespread too fast. People who doen't have a goddamned clue how the web actually works start submitting things to sites left and right, without understanding the consequences of what they are doing. My personal guess is that this bozo did not even know what a URL redirector *was* when he signed up for this service.

Anyway, I personally stand 100% beside podkeyword.com on this, this guy is a complete tool. He may know stuff about vegan food, but he certainly does not know much about the web or technology, and he should leave the management of his podcast site up to someone who has two clues about what is going on.

What a freak. I can't believe how much media coverage this has gotten, it is really a shame because podkeyword.com provided a nice service (not unlike tinyurl.com, actually nearly identical) and now their name will be tarnished beyond repair.

It's a mystery what research this article is referring to.
We'll have to watch for a paper.

The only related paper I could find from Jirtle is

http://ajp.amjpathol.org/cgi/content/full/162/1/32 1

which just describes a method for making mice with IGF2R
knocked out only in certain tissues (total knockout is
fatal).

A big name in behavioral genetics is Plomin. A nice
overview of the heritability of g, along with preliminary
results of a DNA-pooling study pointing to IGF2R is

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/178/40/s41

The first paper I could find pointing to IGF2R goes back
to 1998

http://tinyurl.com/8yavr?__ChorneyEtAl1998

-Carl

One more reason to work on mess that the history.dat file format is!

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Somebody please mod parent funny, as is clearly a joke: to expect from the seti team to do something to speed up calcs.

I don't know with the new BOINC based client, but back in the day they were widely known for sending the same data again and again just to keep clients busy and accepting incredibly simple cheats as good results. Just do a quick google on the topics, I did, and I left the project very sad for the lost CPU hours.

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Mod Parent Down,
If you follow the sig link -> blastwave you will see "Blastwave is a software service for Solaris x86 and Solaris Sparc users". The author has significant bias toward Sun and the comment shows it. Undercut price? Compared to Dell? Does dell sell Opteron? Can you compare? Java is free? And umm, java does not work for the other platforms? OS X runs Java at almost realtime.

I am a student at Gatech and there seems to be a significant bias here toward sun. Some SUN machines are very slow (you could buy them for less than $100 on ebay), see felix.cc (list of machines from GT CS Dept: http://tinyurl.com/8l23j )

I see Sun posters everywhere in the IT rooms, even some student labs.... How about a fair comparison?

The simplest explanation is usually the best.

From here.

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