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It's funny what some people think is a "gravy train".

Oops, I meant some assholes, not people.

The coefficient of expansion has nothing to do with this. The volume of rubber does increase when heated. But that doesn't determine how the elasticity behaves.

It's a classic science fair project to stretch rubber or polyethylene and then heat it. the student's expectation is the band will stretch but it contracts with heat. Same with polyethylene and shrinky dinks in the toaster.

http://agpa.uakron.edu/p16/les...

Fuller of information?

Is it just me, or did that topic title make you cringe? So I guess my mind treats information like a fuller treats wool?

Here is an article about fullers:
Wool industry

Also, things cannot be 'fuller' than full. Things are full or they are not. And even then, it would be 'more full' not fuller.

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Sorry, you just lost your authority on the subject. The current gender split is artificial. All things being equal, it would tend toward 50/50. But all things aren't equal. The gender bias parents give to their children is well documented, here's one source. There's plenty others.

Did you carefully make sure to get rid of biases with your kids? Did you buy your sons Barbies and your daughter erector sets? Did you tend to buy your daughter pink stuff? Did you tend have your kids watch cartoons biased toward their gender? Did you buy your sons "boy" things and then notice that they tend to like "boy" things? Did you end up playing catch with your sons while your daughter helped her mother in the kitchen?

The reason men are more interested in IT is because society is messed up. That's why the preoccupation with having a 50/50 gender split exists... because there's no reason it shouldn't. You can even tell. Now-a-days, girls are given more opportunities to expand in STEM related fields, and as they do it's evident the interest is there. It's always been there, it's just been repressed due to artificial gender roles that people like you believe to inherently exist.

Another example of how it's all artificial is that many years ago, the pink/blue colors were reversed. Pink was generally given to boys.

From then until the 1940s, pink was considered appropriate for boys because being related to red it was the more masculine and decided color, while blue was considered appropriate for girls because it was the more delicate and dainty color, or related to the Virgin Mary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink#In_gender

Y'ruoe rghit, it's cpetlelmoy libelge. Fantacising!

And since I'm burning karma anyway lemme toss another sacred cow onto the grill. Enough with this continual blather about the 'disadvantaged/poor/etc.' if you nitwits aren't going to deal with the actual problem. To a very high degree of correlation, the 'poor' aren't living in poverty because of a lack of money. They lack money because they have make poor lifestyle decisions that RESULT in a lack of money. Things like failure to get an education (or worse reject the value of knowledge entirely), become a single parent, waste money on substance abuse or Xbox... but I repeat myself.

Wall Street Journal reported that generational class mobility -- how likely it is for someone born poor will die middle class -- is lower in the US than Europe, even though the rags-to-riches story is ingrained, even intrinsic, to the American Dream. Why is that? Are we to believe that Americans are lazier than their "socialist" "nanny state" European brethren? I doubt that. In fact, if one was to take the conservative talking points at face value, the European-style social safety nets would discourage economic mobility. So what gives? Well, European poor are healthier, due to easy and affordable access to health care, thus allowing them to work more. They have better access to daycare, thus enabling them to find a job, instead of being forced to stay home with children.
You repeat the canard, that the poor are all lazy that fritter away their money, ironically on luxuries (alcohol, drugs, video games, etc.), but what does the science actually reveal? says that 27% of income of the working poor is left after housing, food, and commuting expenses. The working poor income is defined as less than $8000 a year, so that's $2160 a year, so $180 a month. So where does that $180 go? Well perhaps University of Akron chart will help. $50 for child care, and the rest for "housekeeping supplies, apparel and services, and personal care products and services" And the end ? $-81.

You clearly have no interest in actually reading a study of what's going on, because "reality has a well known liberal bias."

While not directly affected by Comcast's filtering policy, I for one hope this guy wins and sets a legal precedent on which other lawsuits against ISPs/OSPs can be based. As a student currently attending The University of Akron who resides on campus, I look forward to the day when EFF or ACLU pursues action against The University of Akron for violating student's rights in the same manner that Comcast has violated the rights of their customers. Shown here are some logs highlighted to show some of the filtering that is being done to students residing on campus. Not only is The University of Akron filtering Bittorrent traffic but also HTTPS, SSH, VPN, IMAP, NTP, and as well as many others that I may have missed. This filtering is not only intrusive to students that require secure access to remote resources, but is also counter productive to new innovation. I am appalled by the actions this, and many other, public institutions have taken towards the treatment of students and their rights online. For reference, the 130.101.239.250 address shown in the logs is that of my server. It is on 24 hours a day so feel free port scan it if you like. I suspect you won't be able to determine which ports are open due to all inbound traffic being blocked by the University as well.

You missed the point. It's copyright infringement. One would generally not expect copyright infringement to be a criminal offense. Civil, sure. The guy should be in hock until the next jubilee year. But debtor's prison was eliminated a long time ago, for good reason.

Really, the state should have little interest in copyright infringement, aside from fairly adjudicating alleged cases of it. Only when state interests become subordinate to corporate interests does copyright infringement become a crime.

The beginning of the end, ironically enough, seems to have occurred in 1984.

You are the one to finally draw me out of just lurking here on /.

True, so, for the next iteration they need lots of small panels linked together (kind of like Chinese armor?) instead of one large piece. This will probably require more magnets and drive the price up ... unless some enterprising engineer decides that a bed, while technologically advanced, doesn't need to be priced like a "one of a kind" artwork.

I guess that by your argument, we should also abandon any town along the mississippi river. I do seem to recall that a large number of the northern states endured massive flooding in 2001, 1997, 1993,...

Lots of places flood. Are you saying that we shouldn't bother rebuilding any place that floods? Ok, I'll play along...we abandon any place that ever floods.

Well the next time a big earthquake hits California people will start to complain about assistance to those idiots that live on a well known seismic fault line...no more living on the Southern California coastline.

Well a few years down the line a big old F5 tornado tears through Oklahoma City and devistates everything in it's path. 500K people have no homes and someone like you starts complaining that they were stupid to live in an area known as Tornado Alley. Screw them, we shouldn't have to assist them in their time of need. You guys are on your own. We abandon any areas that commonly are hit by tornados.

Wouldn't you know it? a few more years down the line Mt. St. Helens erupts and covers hundreds of thousands of people die not only from the lava flow but also the dust cloud that comes with it. You are getting up in your years, but the people are waiting to hear your complaints. You being the man of honor that you are, start the rally to abandon all states that could be affected by another such eruption.

Then lo and behold something happens to your home town. It's another freakish natural disaster and some guy starts lobbying to abandon your home town. Where do you stand now?

I'm sorry I can't help the poster of the main article; it's out of my league.

I've seen numerous posts about how clickers are stupid. I personally couldn't wait to take a class with the clickers. Now I'm in one, and the class loves them. Of course, it's a geeky class (Data Structures and Algorithms II), but that doesn't change anything. We keep bugging the professor to get to the clicker questions, and when she does we have a field day.

While there are hiccups, the system for the most part works. Sometimes people can't get it to connect, sometimes it lags quite a bit, but in the end it works.

As for a waste of money, the clickers we use only cost $15, and the University pays the subscription fee to use them -- once we buy them and enroll in a UAkron class, we can use the clicker in any class at any school for the rest of its useful life. I think $15 is a good investment in such a useful tool.

Avoid NetMeeting like the plague. That software hasn't been updated since Windows 98, and as a result it is completely unreliable. The university is now using TANDBERG's See & Share software. It allows the presenter to share his desktop and (assuming you are using SMART boards) remote sites can draw on the presenter's screen. I highly recommend the SMART board/See & Share setup. It was easy enough for the professors and students to use, so it should be easy enough for your executives.

To control the whole setup, they had an AMX panel. The panel had a simple tabbed interface that let you turn the system on/off, adjust cameras, select inputs, change the volume, etc.

The video confrencing side is powered by some TANDBERG equipment. I'm not sure what specific box they used, but I can go look at it if you'd like. The cameras were some motorized SONY cams.

The room was set up with a dual display--one big screen TV to see the presenter/far sites and one SMART board. Overall, the system worked very well and was rather seamless. I'd recommend getting in touch with a local university and talking with them. If they have a DL setup, I'm sure they can give you some valuable insight. You can also take a look at this page about DL from the university I took my classes from (and a picture of a DL room).

You said: "So what happens when the temperature (down to -90C) goes below the sublimation temperature of CO2 (-76C, if I recall correctly)? Does it just freeze out of the air?"

Most likely. The phase diagram for CO2 shows that for our standard atmospheric pressure, CO2 freezes at -78.5 C. If the temperature is only slightly lower than -78.5 C it may take some time for a significant amount of CO2 to precipitate due to the latent heat of solidification for CO2 of -43 cal/g (smaller than the absolute value of water which is about -80 cal/g) . Additionally some CO2 may remain in the air which varies by temperature (which would be relative humidity for water). As the temperature drops the amount of CO2 that can be dissolved in air decreases. Unfortunately I couldn't find a reference for CO2 saturation vs temperature. If it is reasonably low (which it should be) at -90 C, CO2 frost will develop.

On Mars with an atmospheric pressure that varies from about 5 - 10 mbar (1 atm = 1013.25 millibars), CO2 frost can develop as seen by Viking 2 and by satellite pictures of the poles. Snowflakes won't form, since the shape of a snowflake is determined by van der Waals forces (don't occur in CO2). CO2 frost should look similar to this.

• Is there a campuswide network? yes
• Is there a wireless network? yes
• Can students access e-mail away from school? yes
• Does the school provide Web pages? yes
• Does the school offer classes online? yes, taken through WebCT.
• Can students register online? yes
• Can students do other administrative functions online? yes, in the registration system
• Are students required to own a computer? no
• Can students get discounted computers? yes
• Does the school support handheld computers? yes
• Does the school stream audio or video of any courses? not yet, but will be happening
• Is network access available in dorm rooms? yes
• Is network access available in dormitory lounges? yes, via wireless
• Is a computer ethics policy in place for the school? yes
• Do students have access to Usenet newsgroups? yes
• Does tuition include a computer? no (but I wouldn't it included. Tuition is high enough)
• Does the school provide multimedia equipment? yes
• Does the school offer courses in emerging technologies? define "emerging technologies"
• Does the school stream its campus radio or TV stations? yes

Sadly, it seems like this whole thing was extremely poorly reseached. Slashdotters have done a better job just in this thread than the professionals paid to do this research.

• Is there a campuswide network? yes
• Is there a wireless network? yes
• Can students access e-mail away from school? yes
• Does the school provide Web pages? yes
• Does the school offer classes online? yes, taken through WebCT.
• Can students register online? yes
• Can students do other administrative functions online? yes, in the registration system
• Are students required to own a computer? no
• Can students get discounted computers? yes
• Does the school support handheld computers? yes
• Does the school stream audio or video of any courses? not yet, but will be happening
• Is network access available in dorm rooms? yes
• Is network access available in dormitory lounges? yes, via wireless
• Is a computer ethics policy in place for the school? yes
• Do students have access to Usenet newsgroups? yes
• Does tuition include a computer? no (but I wouldn't it included. Tuition is high enough)
• Does the school provide multimedia equipment? yes
• Does the school offer courses in emerging technologies? define "emerging technologies"
• Does the school stream its campus radio or TV stations? yes

Sadly, it seems like this whole thing was extremely poorly reseached. Slashdotters have done a better job just in this thread than the professionals paid to do this research.

• Is there a campuswide network? yes
• Is there a wireless network? yes
• Can students access e-mail away from school? yes
• Does the school provide Web pages? yes
• Does the school offer classes online? yes, taken through WebCT.
• Can students register online? yes
• Can students do other administrative functions online? yes, in the registration system
• Are students required to own a computer? no
• Can students get discounted computers? yes
• Does the school support handheld computers? yes
• Does the school stream audio or video of any courses? not yet, but will be happening
• Is network access available in dorm rooms? yes
• Is network access available in dormitory lounges? yes, via wireless
• Is a computer ethics policy in place for the school? yes
• Do students have access to Usenet newsgroups? yes
• Does tuition include a computer? no (but I wouldn't it included. Tuition is high enough)
• Does the school provide multimedia equipment? yes
• Does the school offer courses in emerging technologies? define "emerging technologies"
• Does the school stream its campus radio or TV stations? yes

Sadly, it seems like this whole thing was extremely poorly reseached. Slashdotters have done a better job just in this thread than the professionals paid to do this research.

• Is there a campuswide network? yes
• Is there a wireless network? yes
• Can students access e-mail away from school? yes
• Does the school provide Web pages? yes
• Does the school offer classes online? yes, taken through WebCT.
• Can students register online? yes
• Can students do other administrative functions online? yes, in the registration system
• Are students required to own a computer? no
• Can students get discounted computers? yes
• Does the school support handheld computers? yes
• Does the school stream audio or video of any courses? not yet, but will be happening
• Is network access available in dorm rooms? yes
• Is network access available in dormitory lounges? yes, via wireless
• Is a computer ethics policy in place for the school? yes
• Do students have access to Usenet newsgroups? yes
• Does tuition include a computer? no (but I wouldn't it included. Tuition is high enough)
• Does the school provide multimedia equipment? yes
• Does the school offer courses in emerging technologies? define "emerging technologies"
• Does the school stream its campus radio or TV stations? yes

Sadly, it seems like this whole thing was extremely poorly reseached. Slashdotters have done a better job just in this thread than the professionals paid to do this research.

crap. here are some clickable links "You Killed Truth" appears in corner a shot of the ilovebees.com appearing at the end of the trailer player name is "Regret" Player name is "Disdain"

crap. here are some clickable links "You Killed Truth" appears in corner a shot of the ilovebees.com appearing at the end of the trailer player name is "Regret" Player name is "Disdain"

crap. here are some clickable links "You Killed Truth" appears in corner a shot of the ilovebees.com appearing at the end of the trailer player name is "Regret" Player name is "Disdain"

crap. here are some clickable links "You Killed Truth" appears in corner a shot of the ilovebees.com appearing at the end of the trailer player name is "Regret" Player name is "Disdain"

You mean like aalii, genii, medii, modii, radii, torii, congii, bacchii, denarii, dochmii, nauplii, senarii, splenii, dupondii, perradii, retiarii, sartorii, sextarii, stapedii, trapezii, octonarii, interradii, septenarii, gastrocnemii.

Above list, courtesy of Jumble and Crossword Solver.

Not saying that they're "common", but they do exi$t.

Fine, have it your way. Text from the BofC website, links from elsewhere, unless too numerous to list, so I default to Michael Moore's page, full of links from government sources and the like.

1953: U.S. overthrows Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran. U.S. installs Shah as dictator. Declassified CIA report, same uncensored report linked from a slashdot article.

1954: U.S. overthrows democratically-elected President Arbenz of Guatemala. 200,000 civilians killed. CIA documents from 1954 pertaining to Guatemala as well as book excerpt and newspaper article.

1963: U.S. backs assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem. President Johnson once called him "the Churchill of Asia" in 1961. Wikipedia and two books

1963-1975: American military kills 4 million civilians in Southeast Asia.

September 11, 1973: U.S. stages coup in Chile. Democratically elected president Salvador Allende assassinated. Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed. 5,000 Chileans murdered. Common knowledge, its in a ton of books (excerpt)and movies

1977: U.S. backs military rulers of El Salvador. 70,000 Salvadorans and four American nuns killed. (Chomsky) and full reports (another), and a piece by William Blum

1980's: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets. CIA gives them $3 billion. --Reagan invited Afghani leaders to the white house, and said they were like the US' "founding fathers."

1981: Reagan administration trains and funds "contras". 30,000 Nicaraguans die. --Orchestrated by Oliver North from the White House

1982: U.S. provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians. Sworn affadavits by members of National Security council. Photo of Tariq Aziz at White House with Reagan. More evidence.

1983: White House secretly gives Iran weapons to help them kill Iraqis. --Part of Iran-contra

1989: CI

Check out where they plan on building these things. It's the old Goodyear-Zepplin Airdock in Akron, OH (now owned by Lockheed Martin - see their article on the HAA.)

A book I have (Published by Goodyear in 1923) lists this place as 1175ft x 200ft x 325ft. It even has a picture of it super-imposed over the American side of Niagara Falls (it's 75 longer). It's also mentions that it is so big that it often form clouds on the inside.

More links are here and here

Get some Triops for that swank pad, you'll be so happy you upgraded!

The pop pushers will offer 'good deals' to universitys

Where exactly are these 'good deals'? I recently graduated from a 'pepsi university'. Our corporate shill took his kickback, but all the sugarwater prices in the vending machines were still the same as they are anywhere else. Except they only carry pepsi now...

At the University of Akron - students are required to "Connect", which is essentially a CGI script which tells the router/firewall that the MAC address/IP address/"UAnet ID" is registered and able to go online ( https://gozips.uakron.edu/zid ). The students have to do this everyday, a hassle, really -- since they router/firewall resets the auth table every morning at 3AM. To make it a less of a pain in the ass, I wrote a sloppy VB app that prompts for UAnet ID/pass and uses IE libraries and "Connects" them in the CGI script -- If a user is infected, we simply shut their network port off until they call the Help Desk, and if they're a wireless user, their Cisco LEAP login is disabled, dial-in users are blacklisted and aren't allowed to log on.

I'm still using Microsoft Internet Mail and News. It's just as not-bloated as ever!

More simply put, it was assumed for a long time that if the minimum wage were raised beyond basic subsistence levels, then the population would increase, leading to sharper competition for jobs which would depress the wage rate, until starvation occurred then the drop in population would make labour scarce and thus cause a rise in salary according to the law of supply and demand. So for the better part of two centuries, it was believed that it was not possible to raise the minimun wage more than bare subsistence - the "Iron Law of Economics".

Funny how most western countries have managed to mandate minimum wage scales over the past half century without plunging us all into economic chaos.

So what's my point. My point is that just because an economic theory is logical and consistent doesn't necessarily mean that it is correct. Your assumption, sir, appears to be that people are replaceable machines to be purchased at the minimum cost. But you are leaving out a number of factors. Morale in any team of workers is not a factor to be despised. A happy worker is normally a better and more efficient worker.

It also leaves out the moral question. An enterprise does not exist in order to make a profit. No, really, it doesn't. A company *needs* to make a profit in order to exist, but that's not its function. "A company exists in order to fulfill some market segments needs or wants." And dare I suggest that taking care of the clients - who provide you with the income - is no less important that taking care of the workers who produce whatever it is that you are producing. (All my management texts suggest that that is the more efficient paradigm.)

I suppose what girned me the most was the assumption implicit in the post that labour issues were only an economic matter. IMHO, piffle!

More simply put, it was assumed for a long time that if the minimum wage were raised beyond basic subsistence levels, then the population would increase, leading to sharper competition for jobs which would depress the wage rate, until starvation occurred then the drop in population would make labour scarce and thus cause a rise in salary according to the law of supply and demand. So for the better part of two centuries, it was believed that it was not possible to raise the minimun wage more than bare subsistence - the "Iron Law of Economics".

Funny how most western countries have managed to mandate minimum wage scales over the past half century without plunging us all into economic chaos.

So what's my point. My point is that just because an economic theory is logical and consistent doesn't necessarily mean that it is correct. Your assumption, sir, appears to be that people are replaceable machines to be purchased at the minimum cost. But you are leaving out a number of factors. Morale in any team of workers is not a factor to be despised. A happy worker is normally a better and more efficient worker.

It also leaves out the moral question. An enterprise does not exist in order to make a profit. No, really, it doesn't. A company *needs* to make a profit in order to exist, but that's not its function. "A company exists in order to fulfill some market segments needs or wants." And dare I suggest that taking care of the clients - who provide you with the income - is no less important that taking care of the workers who produce whatever it is that you are producing. (All my management texts suggest that that is the more efficient paradigm.)

I suppose what girned me the most was the assumption implicit in the post that labour issues were only an economic matter. IMHO, piffle!

this is ripped (poorly) from:
http://www.uakron.edu/noden/strats/strats9/strat91 .html

A few years back, the fascists at the Ohio Elections Commission attempted to impose a fine upon a lady named McIntyre for distributing anonymous leaflets opposing a school levy. Ohio law required political communications to identify their source. To their great credit, the Supremes reversed the fine. You can read more about it here.

At my school, in the CS department at least, the only thing they don't have are Macs. In fact last semester they purchased a whole lab of Pentium II boxes with Redhat Linux installed. At this point, that makes the Linux lab the most modern in terms of hardware in the whole dept. All the Win9x machines are aging Pentium systems. The school seems to like Linux because of its low TCO. It was significantly less expensive than a set of Sun/Compaq/SGI/IBM/etc. workstations, and the administration and support costs are much lower than for a comparably equipped MS setup.

I guess I'm not too concerned overall. Some schools will buy the party line and go the MS route, but I bet that there will be plenty that will use their heads when making computer purchasing decisions.
For anybody who cares, I attend The University of Akron in Akron, OH.

Scott Banwart
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Better to stay silent, and let people think
you're an idiot than to open your mouth and