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• shows picture of catching plane, and some more details about the process
• extended History
• Pilots account, among others.
  Quote: Catching a film capsule in midair after it was ejected from a CORONA spy satellite was like reeling in a fish, says retired Air Force Col. Tom Sumner.
  "It was easy," says Sumner, one of the commanders of a clandestine Hickam task force of C-130s and helicopters assigned to catch the items in flight.

You are also right that empathy helps - although I think that this helps us realise we should be concerned with the needs of others, as I originally suggested. I disagree however that it is a species-preservation technique. The idea that traits which help a whole species survive can be favoured by natural selection is a difficult one to maintain - see here. There are also people without the capacity for empathy - psychopaths.

I also agree that many of our perceived morals are societal constraints or biological impulses - but this does not automatically mean that they are entirely without independent merit.

I've never seen him once offer actual proof of any such conjecture

I've never seen him once offer actual proof of any such conjecture

Actually, pure greens are fairly new...this is the only reference I can find, but I recenly interacted with some people who work in a field where we were dieing for pure green LEDs for a long time, and they just recently got them.

• Smalltalk-80 is over 20 years old. We don't think the original team intended for the model to last this long (well, from discussions on the Squeak mailing list, they've said so).
• Smalltalk doesn't adequately express many design possibilities that show up often in good complex programs. Requiring classes, not allowing multiple dispatch, and not including some form of multiple inheritance is limiting for a lot of interesting cases.
• The Common Lisp and Dylan communities have created some powerful interface toolkits which Smalltalk cannot easily take advantage of.
• Cecil is statically-typed and not very dynamic. Dylan suffers from a case of too much syntax, and not enough emphasis on live environments.
• Common Lisp is not object-centered or generic enough with its functions.
• Goo uses the unfriendly Lisp syntax, and isn't quite suited to object-centered thinking.
• Self turned out to be too strange an environment for Smalltalkers, and never had a decent implementation. Strongtalk was bought up.
• Bytecode virtual machines and chunk format are old hat. It'd be worth at least trying some different run-time setup.
• The Squeak system is very powerful in terms of some experimental libraries and user interface ideas, but is based on an aging architecture and a license that is partly troublesome.

i think smalltalk++ would be a better approach than inventing a new language. Look at C++: it's backwards compatable with C, so a C coder is already a C++ coder and can slowly start making use of new C++ features.

There was a good presentation at today's blackboard lunch at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara today. The first 15 minutes or so are a great summary of why Sedna is important for our understanding of the solar system.

And for those of you who like pretty pictures...

No offense, but literary deconstruction, while popular, should not be used on historical documents to decide how many writers there were, when the changes were made, or especially what the beliefs of these multiple writers were.
As I assume you're an engineer, I am amazed that you ate up the statistical joke that is deconstructionalism simply because it helped to disprove the historical basis of the bible. There is plenty of evidence for that position already: you don't need to marginalize your intellect to get it.

My relevant links

For a beautiful image of glassy needles of silica made by a marine sponge, visit this page about Daniel E. Morse biomolecular research. This is the second one from the top of the page. But don't miss this other page about his current research projects.

For a beautiful image of glassy needles of silica made by a marine sponge, visit this page about Daniel E. Morse biomolecular research. This is the second one from the top of the page. But don't miss this other page about his current research projects.

A 1942 book by Joseph Schumpeter (excerpt here) provides some background info on this.

[Capitalism] incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. It is what capitalism consists in and what every capitalist concern has got to live in....

The idea is that capitalism and innovation are almost linked. By doing something better, handier, cheaper, you can make more money than the other companies. So there is an incentive to do something new.

Seen over a long time, the biggest threat for companies is not so much the competition in the existing market, but the landslide next year when something entirely new just chops down existing, nicely ordered, markets.

Digital photography is such a "creative destruction" development. Suddenly the demand for ordinary kodak camera rolls drops down. Not even the best product in it's category will sell really well when the entire market moves to different products. (Kodak is not just camera rolls, also photographic paper etc, but this is the general idea).

An historical analogy: the dreadnought was the first all-big-gun battleship, completed in 1906. Great Brittain and Germany (and others) were engaged in a huge shipbuilding arms race. A lot of "ordinary" battleships were being build (one year later they were called "pre-dreadnoughts"...). That one single first dreadnought, prototype of the modern battleship, made every single fleet on earth obsolete. Brittain and Germany effectively had to start from scratch, 0 vs. 0. (Or, more rather 1 vs. 0 :-) Talking about creative destruction...

Reinout

I have a C102Ti and I agree with you on everything. Trying to install linux is challenging due to the external CD-ROM (mine's USB), but there is a good article explaining the process.

The battery life is decent, but I have many times where I am wishing I could remember where I left my second battery.

I agree the screen sucks for outdoors. I use mine as a portable MP3 player in my truck, and when I go to change playlists I have to find a shadow to park in to be abe to see the screen.

The only thing about all tablets is it is a very limited use device. The slate tablets are entirely useless IMHO, and the rotating screen on mine has been used more frequently to show a friend my screen rather than to turn it in to a tablet.

Long story short, tablets are nice, but 99% of the population is better off spending the extra cost of a tablet on a better standard laptop.
I never considered a tablet useful before recieving mine (I won it. testoutchallenge.com), and I still would not buy one.

Kill the mars program and fix the Hubble. We will go more places this way.

Are you kidding? First of all, science is about a diversity of observations. Space based optical wavelength, small telescope astronomy is nice, however it provides only a tiny portion of the measurements needed to understand the universe. The observations that we are making on Mars could seal the case that life is probable to exist elsewhere in the universe, perhaps even nearby! The Hubble, currently, can do little in the way of the search for life or habitable planets. Secondly, the hubble is an ancient piece of technology. The money used to run the program is better spent on new, much more powerful types of observatories, for instance Gossamer Telescopes, next generation x-ray observatories, or the Terrestrial Planet Finder. For exploring the furthest reaches of the universe, you must use infrared telescopes like the James Webb Telescope due to the massive redshift. Also it is important to set up a method of making groundbreaking observations of gravitional waves using something like LISA is essential to furthering our understanding of general relativity and cosmology. Also planetary exploration helps us develop propulsion systems that will eventually be used to launch interstellar probes.

There's so much to explore, and we're never going to make progress by continuously dumping money into a dying technology... Hubble's service record has been amazing, especially considering its flaws, however it is time to move on, to discover new and different things that Hubble cannot see.

Eliminating planetary science in order to take more pretty pictures, IMHO, is unacceptable. I'm glad to see that NASA agrees with this.

Disclaimer: I work on the Mars Exploration Rovers mission, so I'm a little biased :)

Cheers,
Justin Wick

Stephen Wolfram chose to ignore this and many other serious discussions with adequately trained people. He has chosen not to participate in one-on-one public debates with some of the senior physicists willing to challenge his interpretation of the world. Instead he has focused his energy on advertising the book among those whose background is simply not enough to make critical scientific judgments. Make your own conclusions.

The audio, video, and slides of my review and the discussion that followed are available at the above link, and they should be accessible to anyone with a basic high school knowledge of science.

Rudolf Hess, the nazi, did not write books. Hermann Hesse wrote a number of great books, but he was far from a Nazi. In fact, he became a Swiss citizen in 1943.

"When "I saw during the post-war years how with one accord Germany was sabotaging the Republic, and that it had learned nothing from its previous mistakes, it became an easy matter for me to assume Swiss nationality, something I would not have been able to do during the war, in spit of my condemnation by the German Machtpolitik." Hesse, 1945 in a letter to Bishop Wurm of Wurttemberg.

I feel compelled to respond as this is the second time in a few months I have heard this particular slander of Hesse, the writer. The other time (which was second-hand) was expressed by a very high-ranking Cato Institute nut, to his 18-or-so son. Oh, the irony...

• • mxv MiXViews sound editor
  • snd sound editor
  • ecasound multitrack audio processing tool
  • cdrecord
  • cdparanoia
  • ecasound
  • sox
  • ecasignalview
  • mkisofs
  • aumix

  Once you get the right tools, audio is a snap on Linux. I'd never go back to Windows.

For all those interested in the NYT ID article:
There was a workshop on how to use a number of modalities (face recognition, fingerprint, voice identification...) for more reliable user authentication. The proceedings aren't online yet, however. Here's the web site: http://mmua.cs.ucsb.edu
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As the article says, the treebot is part of a "Networked Infomechanical System", a type of wireless sensor network, developed by the UCLA Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. The forest network is used to develop practical wireless sensing technology while simultaneously providing an example of its utility. The use of a mobile network node in a wireless sensor network requires some engineering of the multihop message routing protocol, since such networks are usually assumed to have stationary nodes. I don't know what they've done to address this; it could be anything from MANET-style routing (e.g., AODV, in which they accept the resulting increase in route establishment overhead), to a quasi-static approach in which the treebot reassociates to the network every time it stops.

Everyone knows those are cheap knock-offs of Sorny and Panaphonics.

It's a dodgy analogy.. but what the hell:

Like the a**hole Galileo who wanted to go his way and say that the earth went round the sun, instead of helping fix the bugs in the current theory...

Btw, have a look at: this

Potassium-argon dating is accurate from 4.3 billion years (the age of the Earth) to about 100,000 years before the present.

"An existing password field on a device display is overlaid with password wallet pop-up field which allows a wallet "master" key to unlock the wallet. An application-specific and/or user-specific password is automatically retrieved from the wallet and entered into the password field with no other user action required."

If the process ends catastrophically (e.g. sudden power failure), it will never close() the file. As you mentioned, the file is no longer referenced elsewhere in the file system. So does this orphan the data on the hard drive?


There are in-memory structures (in the kernel) that maintains a list of open files. These structures have reference counts of their own. This reference count (the open count) is separate from the on-disk reference count (the link count). I think what happens in your scenario is the link count was already zero, but the open count is 1. So the total reference count for that inode is > 0, so the file is still considered used. When you reboot the machine, the in-memory strcutres are cleared, so the open count goes to 0, so the total is now 0 and the file (the inode sepcifically) is considered "deleted".

If this isn't correct, then maybe fsck just figures it all out and corrects it on reboot.

I wasn't 100% sure on this but I became curious myself and I found the following pages that provide nice explanation of it:

Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors

This one has a nice diagram and explanation near the bottom, although it doesn't talk about link counts vs. open counts, just reference counts:
some class lecture notes

Rob de Graaf

• 2003-08-11 NSA's Statement on Cybersecurity (articles,security) (rejected)
• 2003-08-19 DNA based game playing computer (science,science) (rejected)
• 2003-09-06 Brown Dwarfs fingerprinted (radio,science) (rejected)
• 2003-09-06 Study Indicates Possible Surface Water on Mars (science,science) (rejected)
• 2003-09-07 GSM cellular phone encryption cracked (articles,security) (rejected)

It has been 14 years since two little-known electrochemists announced what sounded like the biggest physics breakthrough since Enrico Fermi produced a nuclear chain reaction on a squash court in Chicago. Using a tabletop setup, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, of the University of Utah, said they had induced deuterium nuclei to fuse inside metal electrodes, producing measurable quantities of heat. That was the opening bell for one of the craziest periods in science. Cold fusion, if real, promised to solve the world's energy problems forever. Scientists around the world dropped what they were doing to try to replicate the astounding claim. Full story

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three of the faintest and smallest objects ever detected beyond Neptune. Each lump of ice and rock is roughly the size of Philadelphia and orbits just beyond Neptune and Pluto, where they may have rested since the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago. The objects reside in a ring-shaped region called the Kuiper Belt, which houses a swarm of icy rocks that are leftover building blocks, or "planetesimals," from the solar system's creation. The results of the search were announced by a group led by Gary Bernstein of the University of Pennsylvania at a meeting of NASA's Division of Planetary Sciences in Monterey, Calif. Full article

Yeah, I can understand that. Suicide is always prevelant im moraly strict countries, especialy when they display some very fucked up fetishes.

I mean come on, if some guy is going to pleasure himself to eroticly posed cadavres with their heads chopped off and genetalia all roped up, yeah I think he is going to plant a BULLET TREE in his head.

The article mentions correlation, not cause and effect. Put that in your SSSM pipe and smoke it.

I have to wonder, what about all the studies showing that the ice cap is getting thicker?

Check out an article on Greenland and on the ice pack itself. There are others about the antarctic ice thickening too. Can't we, the /. community, perform a basic reality check before spreading chicken little stories? ( I also found it funny/sad that google is prejudiced against the idea that the pole ice is thickening. )

The name refers to Bayesian networks.

A Bayesian approach to spam filtering

A simple mathematical introduction

Keychain dates back to System 7 Pro from 10 years ago. A little ahead of its time, eh?

• 16 = a 6-degree slice of longitude
• T = a 8-degree slice of latitude
• CP = letters indicating a 100 km x 100 km square inside the slices listed above
• 12345 = "easting" in meters from the west edge of the square
• 67890 = "northing" in meters from the south edge of the square

Ah, very good. I did actually realize that there are scientists who think there is more to evolution than the modern synthesis includes. There are plenty. There are few if any who believe in a young earth.

James Valentine is apparently one of the discoverers of HOX genes. He seems to have an idea called the "Cell-Type Hypothesis" which I can't find any information about. Not a creationist.

Google could find nothing about Stanley Awamril. But Stanley Awamrik is a researcher on the early history of life on earth. Not a creationist.

Philip Signor I found less about, but judging by this book he's not a creationist.

Peter Sadler published a paper with this incomprehensible abstract. References here and here (PDF) indicate that he is (drum roll) not a creationist.

I didn't research further. Really, is this the best you can come up with?

I just cut and pasted the joke from here

I took a course like this in my undergrad entitled Science and Society. Pretty cool as it was a discussion oriented class that met once a week for 3 hours at a time, and we'd focus on a new topic each week. It was a neat class since it was an "Honors" course and had diverse students (engineering, design, arts and sciences, musical performance majors, etc). We also tried to look at each case from various perspectives, using the IPCO model where one identifies the Issues, the Parties involved, the Consequences, and the Obligations of the Parties.

I've tried to include relevant links as necessary or those that I could find. Topics we touched upon:

• Diane Archer case - Should Archer report plagiarism, and destroy a student's promising career? Was the student's mistake honest or a sign of a lack of integrity? (This link is from a UCSB course website entitled Ethics in Acadmeic and Industrial Research which also provides a lot of material.
• Brown Case - It appears I didn't save the scenario for this one and I can't find it online, but looking at my feedback for the week, it appears the case dealt with a researcher who uses his son as a subject for a study on hemophilia, and what results should he report. It also touched on publish vs. perish, as the article's been submitted and approved, but he's discovered new data that seems to be a special case or contradicts the submitted article
• Baltimore/Imanishi-Kari - A google search on those two will turn up a lot on the case. Issues raised are good research practice and who should make sure the scientific community maintains it's ethics/morals? Should the government serve a role?
• Wilson vs. Smith - Again, can't find a specific paper, but this one dealt with after Wilson published in a journal, Smith wanted the experimental data and procedure in detail to repeat the experiment and build upon it, but Wilson refused, afraid of beind "scooped" on future research. This is against the publishing policy of most tech journals, but is common practice as many researchers are fiercely protective of their work so that they can maintain funding, obtain patents, and the like. In other words, we looked at the ideals of academia (open, shared knowledge) vs. the reality.
• Genetic screening - privacy implications of testing for genetic predispositions. The particular example was whether it'd be okay for the parents to let a pharmaceutical company test their children to do research into a hereditary form of cancer. Issues examined were would finding the "trigger" for the disease in the children's DNA be fair to them? (i.e. would the be happier to be ignorant of the future?) If the trigger is found, how would insurance companies use the data? Is it fair for parents to make a decision for the children that could have such lasting implications? If they don't contribute to the study, how will science advance?
• Genetically modified food - what are the implications of this? People's health? the environment? businesses? This was a fun session, as we role played a corporation trying to get permission to use genetically modified crops in a small town. Some of us represented the corporation, another group represented the town council, and another group represented the population of the town.
• Nature vs. Nuture - We read some chapters out of Ridley's Genome and then discussed nature vs. nurture. A specific example was a court room casae where the defense's argument was that the defendant had a genetic predisposition towards violence, and therefore he wasn't responsible f

I took a course like this in my undergrad entitled Science and Society. Pretty cool as it was a discussion oriented class that met once a week for 3 hours at a time, and we'd focus on a new topic each week. It was a neat class since it was an "Honors" course and had diverse students (engineering, design, arts and sciences, musical performance majors, etc). We also tried to look at each case from various perspectives, using the IPCO model where one identifies the Issues, the Parties involved, the Consequences, and the Obligations of the Parties.

I've tried to include relevant links as necessary or those that I could find. Topics we touched upon:

• Diane Archer case - Should Archer report plagiarism, and destroy a student's promising career? Was the student's mistake honest or a sign of a lack of integrity? (This link is from a UCSB course website entitled Ethics in Acadmeic and Industrial Research which also provides a lot of material.
• Brown Case - It appears I didn't save the scenario for this one and I can't find it online, but looking at my feedback for the week, it appears the case dealt with a researcher who uses his son as a subject for a study on hemophilia, and what results should he report. It also touched on publish vs. perish, as the article's been submitted and approved, but he's discovered new data that seems to be a special case or contradicts the submitted article
• Baltimore/Imanishi-Kari - A google search on those two will turn up a lot on the case. Issues raised are good research practice and who should make sure the scientific community maintains it's ethics/morals? Should the government serve a role?
• Wilson vs. Smith - Again, can't find a specific paper, but this one dealt with after Wilson published in a journal, Smith wanted the experimental data and procedure in detail to repeat the experiment and build upon it, but Wilson refused, afraid of beind "scooped" on future research. This is against the publishing policy of most tech journals, but is common practice as many researchers are fiercely protective of their work so that they can maintain funding, obtain patents, and the like. In other words, we looked at the ideals of academia (open, shared knowledge) vs. the reality.
• Genetic screening - privacy implications of testing for genetic predispositions. The particular example was whether it'd be okay for the parents to let a pharmaceutical company test their children to do research into a hereditary form of cancer. Issues examined were would finding the "trigger" for the disease in the children's DNA be fair to them? (i.e. would the be happier to be ignorant of the future?) If the trigger is found, how would insurance companies use the data? Is it fair for parents to make a decision for the children that could have such lasting implications? If they don't contribute to the study, how will science advance?
• Genetically modified food - what are the implications of this? People's health? the environment? businesses? This was a fun session, as we role played a corporation trying to get permission to use genetically modified crops in a small town. Some of us represented the corporation, another group represented the town council, and another group represented the population of the town.
• Nature vs. Nuture - We read some chapters out of Ridley's Genome and then discussed nature vs. nurture. A specific example was a court room casae where the defense's argument was that the defendant had a genetic predisposition towards violence, and therefore he wasn't responsible f

I've tried to include relevant links as necessary or those that I could find. Topics we touched upon:

• Diane Archer case - Should Archer report plagiarism, and destroy a student's promising career? Was the student's mistake honest or a sign of a lack of integrity? (This link is from a UCSB course website entitled Ethics in Acadmeic and Industrial Research which also provides a lot of material.
• Brown Case - It appears I didn't save the scenario for this one and I can't find it online, but looking at my feedback for the week, it appears the case dealt with a researcher who uses his son as a subject for a study on hemophilia, and what results should he report. It also touched on publish vs. perish, as the article's been submitted and approved, but he's discovered new data that seems to be a special case or contradicts the submitted article
• Baltimore/Imanishi-Kari - will turn up a lot on the case. Issues raised are good research practice and who should make sure the scientific community maintains it's ethics/morals? Should the government serve a role?
• Wilson vs. Smith - Again, can't find a specific paper, but this one dealt with after Wilson published in a journal, Smith wanted the experimental data and procedure in detail to repeat the experiment and build upon it, but Wilson refused, afraid of beind "scooped" on future research. This is against the publishing policy of most tech journals, but is common practice as many researchers are fiercely protective of their work so that they can maintain funding, obtain patents, and the like. In other words, we looked at the ideals of academia (open, shared knowledge) vs. the reality.
• Genetic screening - privacy implications of testing for genetic predispositions. The particular example was whether it'd be okay for the parents to let a pharmaceutical company test their children to do research into a hereditary form of cancer. Issues examined were would finding the "trigger" for the disease in the children's DNA be fair to them? (i.e. would the be happier to be ignorant of the future?) If the trigger is found, how would insurance companies use the data? Is it fair for parents to make a decision for the children that could have such lasting implications? If they don't contribute to the study, how will science advance?
• Genetically modified food - what are the implications of this? People's health? the environment? businesses? This was a fun session, as we role played a corporation trying to get permission to use genetically modified crops in a small town. Some of us represented the corporation, another group represented the town council, and another group represented the population of the town.
• Nature vs. Nuture - We read some chapters out of Ridley's Genome and then discussed nature vs. nurture. A specific example was a court room casae where the defense's argument was that the defendant had a genetic predisposition towards violence, and therefore he wasn't responsible for his actions. (similar to an insanity plea, but stressing that genetic

I've tried to include relevant links as necessary or those that I could find. Topics we touched upon:

• Diane Archer case - Should Archer report plagiarism, and destroy a student's promising career? Was the student's mistake honest or a sign of a lack of integrity? (This link is from a UCSB course website entitled Ethics in Acadmeic and Industrial Research which also provides a lot of material.
• Brown Case - It appears I didn't save the scenario for this one and I can't find it online, but looking at my feedback for the week, it appears the case dealt with a researcher who uses his son as a subject for a study on hemophilia, and what results should he report. It also touched on publish vs. perish, as the article's been submitted and approved, but he's discovered new data that seems to be a special case or contradicts the submitted article
• Baltimore/Imanishi-Kari - will turn up a lot on the case. Issues raised are good research practice and who should make sure the scientific community maintains it's ethics/morals? Should the government serve a role?
• Wilson vs. Smith - Again, can't find a specific paper, but this one dealt with after Wilson published in a journal, Smith wanted the experimental data and procedure in detail to repeat the experiment and build upon it, but Wilson refused, afraid of beind "scooped" on future research. This is against the publishing policy of most tech journals, but is common practice as many researchers are fiercely protective of their work so that they can maintain funding, obtain patents, and the like. In other words, we looked at the ideals of academia (open, shared knowledge) vs. the reality.
• Genetic screening - privacy implications of testing for genetic predispositions. The particular example was whether it'd be okay for the parents to let a pharmaceutical company test their children to do research into a hereditary form of cancer. Issues examined were would finding the "trigger" for the disease in the children's DNA be fair to them? (i.e. would the be happier to be ignorant of the future?) If the trigger is found, how would insurance companies use the data? Is it fair for parents to make a decision for the children that could have such lasting implications? If they don't contribute to the study, how will science advance?
• Genetically modified food - what are the implications of this? People's health? the environment? businesses? This was a fun session, as we role played a corporation trying to get permission to use genetically modified crops in a small town. Some of us represented the corporation, another group represented the town council, and another group represented the population of the town.
• Nature vs. Nuture - We read some chapters out of Ridley's Genome and then discussed nature vs. nurture. A specific example was a court room casae where the defense's argument was that the defendant had a genetic predisposition towards violence, and therefore he wasn't responsible for his actions. (similar to an insanity plea, but stressing that genetic

The giant sloth is cool, as with pretty much any animal with the word 'giant' in its name, but personally I've always wanted a pet glyptodon...

I want the giant sloth back.

I can't remember what combustion gases are used in the Airbourne Laser, but the big daddy of chemical lasers is at HELSTF is very powerful (megawatt range - actual number is of course classified). It is a Deuterium-Floride (DF) laser, called MIRCL.

I have good friends that worked at HELSTF for years. They tell some pretty interesting stories. Some are funny (the local ducks liked the 'heavy water' storage pond - they floated higher), to scary (during one test firing, a moth was accidentally caught in a side-lobe of the beam - the resulting plasma ball blew a hole through a big instrumentation rack).

You are right that a solid state laser would be a better deal. There is at least one, named SSHCL, under research now for the US Army. It is a baby compared to MIRCL though. It is only a 10 kilowatt laser. Just big enough to punch holes in light armor at short distances.

The type of laser I think that has the most promise is a Free Electron Laser (FEL). It is all electric, tunable, doesn't require environmentally iffy fuels, and should be scalable up to really high powers. Back around 1989, the government was going to build a BIG ground based FEL at White Sands Missile Range near HELSTF. It would have dwarfed MIRCL in power output. It is shame. Had they built it, we would now have all sorts of interesting high-energy laser research and applications, including a possible cheaper and more reliable means of space access.

I.V.

First I just intended to be funny.

Second I never said the guy had a scientific proof. I just said he claimed it. I never said anything else about the guy, such as him being Pythagoras or somebody else, so as to make you think he had a proof.

Don't interprete my writing with your knowledge.

And for your knowledge, the flat Earth is a myth.

And finally, what is a f*ckw*t?

The main reference is... http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~jzhou/security/overflow.ht ml

In a hurry, messed up the links. Sorry for the repost.

Of course!

One promising GPL one is Locust World, which combines a bootable Linux distro with the AODV routing software, 802.11 drivers, NAT functionality, and more. The AODV libraries are open source, and you could apply this to just about any wireless medium. More info about AODV in general here.

And of course, the company I work for has a proprietary solution, but it is dependent on using our 802.11b card for the time being. That, and we aren't mass producing hardware at the moment. The tech is certainly there though! Mesh networking with 802.11 is just extending the topology of the wired internet to the wireless world.

As far as routing goes, ad hoc on-demand routing (implemented by the AODV libraries I mentioned above) is probably the best solution for building a scalable network. Wireless links are inherently unreliable, so a pure distance vector algorithm like RIP isn't the best solution, and routing updates on a large network would have a lot of overhead with many nodes.

Forgive me if I glossed over the subject, hopefully other can fill in the blanks =).

Of course!

One promising GPL one is Locust World, which combines a bootable Linux distro with the AODV routing software, 802.11 drivers, NAT functionality, and more. The AODV libraries are open source, and you could apply this to just about any wireless medium. More info about AODV in general .

And of course, the company I work for has a proprietary solution, but it is dependent on using our 802.11b card for the time being. That, and we aren't mass producing hardware at the moment. The tech is certainly there though! Mesh networking with 802.11 is just extending the topology of the wired internet to the wireless world.

As far as routing goes, ad hoc on-demand routing (implemented by the AODV libraries I mentioned above) is probably the best solution for building a scalable network. Wireless links are inherently unreliable, so a pure distance vector algorithm like RIP isn't the best solution, and routing updates on a large network would have a lot of overhead with many nodes.

Forgive me if I glossed over the subject, hopefully other can fill in the blanks =).

You can't make them stationary....
Let them float, they get blown around (world) by the jet streams. (Lots of surface area * 100 m/s winds).

There was another company looking to piggy-back on the National Weather Service's twice-daily balloon sounding probes to provide cellular service in unserved areas. The latex balloons climb to extreme altitudes, and then often hang for 24 hours or more without moving much (according to the article) before bursting. If the relay balloons float at similar altitudes, they would require little power for stationkeeping.

Tie them to ground.. The tie down cable becomes an aviation hazard.

Volume needed to lift ~10 pounds to 75,000 ft requires a balloon 30 to 40feet in diameter.

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If it wasn't beneficial to existing creative entities to draw upon shared cultural history residing in the public domain, such creative entities wouldn't do so already.

As much as I don't want to accept that Mickey Mouse should enter the public domain, I can't help but notice that The Little Mermaid has a bit more to her than shellfish and a talking crab sidekick.

In my mind, the bottom line is that every dollar Disney has ever made mining the public domain is concrete proof that there's value to having one. One could make the argument that a creation as actively maintained as Mickey Mouse should be granted a special exemption -- and I might even buy that, based on the idea that there's no sense dragging 20th century creative works into obscurity (and make no mistake, that's where they'll go!) so that one work might keep its trademarkability.

But I don't think it's possible to argue the public domain is useless. If it was, Disney Wouldn't Keep Using It.

Pop Art didn't begin with Warhol.

Yours Truly,

Dan Kaminsky
DoxPara Research
http://www.doxpara.com

The whole idea that the entire world thought that the earth was flat until Columbus came around is a total and complete fabrication.

This story was invented by Washington Irving (yes the writer of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories) to show his contempt for the priesthood and for the conservative nature of the church and European nations. And guess what? It caught on and expanded to include everyone that lived before them.

Lets all ignore the fact that every time there was an eclipse that the shadow was round or that sailors from around the world would loose site of land as they sailed or that a Greek mathematician calculated the circumference of the earth and was only 52 miles off.

Jeffrey
Burton Russell
Has a very short piece but he says it best with

"A round earth appears at least as early as the sixth century BC with Pythagoras, who was followed by Aristotle, Euclid, and Aristarchus, among others in observing that the earth was a sphere. Although there were a few dissenters--Leukippos and Demokritos for example--by the time of Eratosthenes (3 c. BC), followed by Crates(2 c. BC), Strabo (3 c. BC), and Ptolemy (first c. AD), the sphericity of the earth was accepted by all educated Greeks and Romans."

"For those of you who are using Linux on you computers, your computer may be at risk. Linux and other flavors of Unix are advanced operating systems. If you are going to run Linux you need to keep it constantly up-to-date. Vigilance is required for successful operation without putting yours and others data at risk." [Emphasis theirs]

So I suppose if a student ran Debian, subscribed to the announcements mailing list to keep abreast of security updates, and did "apt-get update/apt-get upgrade" frequently, and was able to prove the above to the ResNet people, they'd be OK.