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You're never really dead in cyberspace. As this case shows, your effect on the systems you set up before your body died are still alive, and active. You're still selling, still collecting for sales, still paying for subscriptions, etc. And your /. postings are eternal.

The solution to the problem posed is to put all of your passwords into something like keepass, and give the master password to your executor or your lawyer, or bury it in a mayonnaise jar in your back yard.

In your will, tell your executor where to find the password and where to find your keepass database. Now he/she/bot has full control of your online presence.

As for your will, it doesn't have to be complicated or expensive if your property isn't. Check your state/province/canton/galactic-sector law to see if it allows for "holographic wills", which require no witnesses or lawyers; just a pen and paper, or, in one case, a pocket knife and a fender.

>The basic model IBM PC, launched that year, had 64k expandable to 256

Nope. The first version of the IBM PC had a motherboard that came with 16k expandable to 64k. See e,g. http://computermuseum.usask.ca/articles/IBM-5150-Specifications.pdf

A revised motherboard used denser chips that allowed for 64k base, expandable to 256k. You could also get adapter boards that would take you to 512k and even 640k (which at the time was all you'd ever need according to a certain visionary of the era.)

In 1986 engineering students at the University of Saskatchewan built a vehicle which went 4724 MPG. Amazing how in 24 years we have managed to get 80% less efficient.

My older brother is the design head for the University of Saskatchewan team, the front-runners of the past competitions. Suffice to say they're really excited about it, since this competition has been delayed month by month since about a year ago! It'll be neat to see everything actually all come together.

You can watch a sweet (if cheesy) video about the team on their website.

This is wrong. The GOES satellites are geo-synchronous, meaning they remain at continuous location with respect to the Earth. This also means that they are not in polar orbits. These satellites are similar to the LANL satellites but occupy the western hemisphere. You may be thinking of the DMSP satellites.

GOES is useful at measuring the magnetic fields. It does not, however, measure the ionospheric particles such as is done with the SuperDARN coherent scatter radars or the EISCAT or PFISR incoherent scatter radars. The group at the University of Saskatchewan has also received money to build a new radar which is scheduled to be built on the NE corner of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. It will be their 5th radar.

Not sure if the rule have changed or what, but my university (University of Saskatchewan) got 5691 mpg in the Shell Fuelathon back in 1986, and 3086 mpg at the SAE Michigan Super Mileage Competition the same year.

The vehicle weighed 84 lbs and used a 70cc engine.

http://engrwww.usask.ca/affiliation/societies/sae/history.html

Much of the disagreement in Canada comes from the well-meant desire to protect the good name of engineering from the obvious (and occasionally not so obvious) cereal-box-top code monkeys denigrated in previous posts. That much is laudable. Where the fight gets interesting, and perhaps more contentious, is the desire (not universal, but significantly present) to keep software engineering accreditation as something that only schools of engineering can achieve. Software engineering is studied and taught equally in engineering and in computer science. It's the conflict between these two fields that has historically (at least in Canada, but strangely not in the rest of the world) been the site of the most litigation and vitriol. I think this does little for either side, but as a graduate from a computer science program with a degree in software engineering (University of Saskatchewan) I may be biased.

I think that both engineering and whatever software engineering will become will benefit from a more rigid structure of professionalism in software production and maintenance and I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a software engineering graduate (from either discipline) who would disagree. That said, this is less about protecting the public from people like me (I flatter myself) and more about those who call themselves software engineers with few or no qualifications. I often think of this as the fight that psychologists face when trying to deal with the large number of "psychotherapists" who purport to provide similar services -- just without the education and legal responsibilities.

I'm startled at the highly modded trolling found in this commentary -- not to the usual standards of Slashdot, but apparently this touched a nerve.

Thanks for clearing that up, eh?
I guess if the satellite's up there they might as well use it for something. And to think scientists used to "go fly a kite"!

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Awards of 100% of real damages plus statutory punitive damages of $100 per victim per incident if negligence is demonstrated would do the trick real quick, I'd imagine.

Unfortunately, your imagination does not conform to reality. Punitive measures rarely have a dramatic effect on human behaviour.

This can easily be seen in actual data. Consider the death penalty.

North Dakota has one of the lowest homocide rates in the U.S. and has not had the death penatly since the 1930's. The homocide rate in Texas is ten times higher, and yet Texas executes people on a regular basis.

The rate of executions in Texas jumped from about 5 per year in the 80's to over 20 per year in the 90's, and this four-fold increase seems correlated with a ~20% drop in the homocide rate over the next decade, but no one who is arguing from the data, rather from their imagination, would suggest that increasing punitive measures is the best way to alter human behaviour. If a five-fold increase in killing convicted murderers brings about only a 20% drop in the murder rate, and yet making Texas more like North Dakota (but warmer!) brings about a ten-fold drop in the murder rate, an objective observer might suggest that we spend our resources figuring out what it is about North Dakota (or other north-central states, or Japan, or Canada, or Switzerland) that results in fewer people killing each other.

The data suggest that neither firearms ownership nor cultural diversity (Canada is one of the most culturally diverse nations on Earth, with criminal gangs drawn from the four corners of the globe all trying to set up shop here) nor punitive penalties are the most important differentiating factor.

And when one moves from the realm of individual to corporate malfeasence and negligence, it is more than clear that companies are willing to take enormous risks in the name of short-term profits as Merck did with Vioxx.

Ergo, whatever you might want to believe, the facts are pretty clearly in favour of punitive measures being a very poor way to influence human behaviour. They are sometimes necessary, but should be the last tool of social control that we reach for, not the first.

Head to a place like the University of Saskatchewan. In terms of group-work classes, you get:

CMPT 250 -- Introduction to software development.
CMPT 332 -- Operating system concepts.
CMPT 352 -- Computer security (can do an implementation project for your group project).
CMPT 355 -- Theory and application of databases.
CMPT 370 -- Intermediate software engineering.
CMPT 371 -- Software managemeng.
CMPT 432 -- Advanced operating systems concept.
CMPT 470 -- Advanced software engineering.
CMPT 481 -- Human-Computer interaction.

The 4 years honours software engineering degree requires most of those, the 4 year honours degree requires most of those, and the 4 year degree encourages you to take them.
The software engineering honours also requires CMPT 405 -- a full year-long individual project design and implementation course.

I thought such a curriculm was standard, since places like UBC, U Toronto, Waterloo, etc, seem to have equivalent classes. Perhaps instead of pitching such things to schools which don't have interest in them, you should shop around to other institutions which have the resources to offer a wider breadth of topics. Even as a non-Canadian citizen, you only pay a tuition of $1,000 per class, or about $10,000 a year if you take the absolute maximum course load allowed in the sciences department. How much did you pay per year at your US institution?

And the MicroSoft implementation seems to be a limited sub-set. It won't even block ads.

"I see," said he, "the elephant is very like a rope." ;)

If you want to know what Kleck thinks about the efficacy of gun control, ./ers can read about it here and decide for themselves if this guy's quote is in proper context (when he mentions the 7 types of crime that are improved but leaves out the 90 that are not impacted or aggravated by gun control). The Chapeldine & Maurice paper (full abstract) isn't an empirical study at all (nor does it claim to be scholarly research of any sort), but a description of the policy position of a Quebecois bureaucracy. Not everything published in a journal is scholarly research; some things may be of interest to the audience for other reasons.

And to keep this more on-topic: Perhaps consumer-priced locks can be made more resistant to bumping by using stiffer springs on the shorter pins (if you used stiffer springs everywhere you wouldn't be able to insert the key, right?), and perhaps a throw weight that locks down an extra pin when the lock is bumped (much like the mechanism that grabs your seat belt when the high g's come). That would re-instate the requirement to have modicum of skill at least, without having to blow $100's per lock.

And moderators, please check the poster's facts before you mod informative. How long does it take to follow links and google keywords for chrissake?

The first two quotes you use both reference the Kellerman study, which has been widely debunked for numerous errors in its methodology. By other doctors no less.

http://www.building-tux.com/dsmjd/rkba/kellerman.h tm

http://teapot.usask.ca/cdn-firearms/Suter/med-lit/ benefits.html#43times

http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/rkba-43.html

As for the third quote, I could list several other causes of death that greatly outnumber gun-related deaths. You're not really making any sort of point there.

Back in 1986, my school's (University of Saskatchewan) team won it's seventh consecutive title in the Marshall competition with a record of 3086 (US)mpg.

10 years and 59 mpg later...

Back in 1986, my school's (University of Saskatchewan) team won it's seventh consecutive title in the Marshall competition with a record of 3086 (US)mpg.

10 years and 59 mpg later...

You make it sound like the otherwise upstanding residents of Los Angeles are violent to each other because of the evil influence of demonic guns. The root of the problem is LA's violent ethnic gangs, not the guns they use.

Why do you believe that it is "assine" for the non-criminals in those neighborhoods to arm themselves? Is your concern that the demonic spirits forged into the guns' steel will convince their owners to turn murderous, or (even more ridiculously) do you believe the 43 times fallacy?

It has deeper implications than "just math". I don't know how far you've gone with computer algorithms, but I attended a wonderful talk given at my University by a gentleman who has been related the logic behind that statement to other things.

It has very deep implications on what can and can't be proven or computed within the lifetime of the Universe, not "just" math axioms. It's not that math is limited, it's that information theory is complex. You imply that math is a creation like a telephone (" realize that math and even logic are human's own inventions, and are limited in what they can be applied to.") when, in fact, we are merely describing underlying features of the Universe.

Go learn about NP vs. P and other parts of algorithm theory, then talk to me.

Contrary to this statement posted by eldavojohn (898314): "I don't want a computer program diagnosing me at a hospital even if it is built on solid Bayesian probability models ..."

I encourage you to build up solid, researched, statistical models you can use to keep me in good health, using as much data as is possible from subjects will to contribute it. I recently went to a wonderful talk given by the acting head of CS at MIT at my University going over the statistical and graphical medical techniques they were developing for brain operations. I can say with complete confidence that I would greatly prefer that to some random guy and a knife working based on illustrations in a textbook that may or may not resemble what I actually look like on the inside.

Thank you.

Signed
  - Not Paranoid About Big Brother.

It figures that Saskatchewan would set the HEIGHT record.

*People uneducated about SK's geography will get the joke, since most people think SK is completely flat when it is not.

On a side note, the UofS is also on the forefront of science with regard to Synchrotrons.

It figures that Saskatchewan would set the HEIGHT record.

*People uneducated about SK's geography will get the joke, since most people think SK is completely flat when it is not.

On a side note, the UofS is also on the forefront of science with regard to Synchrotrons.

http://www.usask.ca/

Except they tend not to be as limited as the author wants.

Take a gander at the U of S 4 year BSc, 4 Years Honours Software Engineering, and Honours program.

The following courses he wants are not listed in any of these: touch typing, nutrition (although you could take it as an elective), basics of GIS (as I don't know what GIS). The software engineering option touches on pretty much everything he wants, but also does a lot more (making for a full 4-year program). The honours program is similar, except it allows you to focus more on theory of computation, which is great once you realize that practical usage stuff is just as easy to learn on your own Linux machines at home as it is in a classroom setting (if not more so!).

I know I've learned everything about systems administration by running my own website/email system for the past 7 years. I don't think there's a course that says to take Postfix, DSPAM, Procmail, Cyrus IMAPD, Linux software RAID, MySQL, and combine them all to make a nice email system. I'm taking the honours program (non-SE), though, which means I'm not going to learn his touch-typing classes and basics of nutrition :p

A science degree is about science -- not programming, even if it's in computers. I'd no sooner expect a CS degree to be perfect for programming that I'd expect a chemistry degree to be good for making a house that lasts a long time, or a physics degree making you good at making fast cars. Science is about research and investigation!

Except they tend not to be as limited as the author wants.

Take a gander at the U of S 4 year BSc, 4 Years Honours Software Engineering, and Honours program.

The following courses he wants are not listed in any of these: touch typing, nutrition (although you could take it as an elective), basics of GIS (as I don't know what GIS). The software engineering option touches on pretty much everything he wants, but also does a lot more (making for a full 4-year program). The honours program is similar, except it allows you to focus more on theory of computation, which is great once you realize that practical usage stuff is just as easy to learn on your own Linux machines at home as it is in a classroom setting (if not more so!).

I know I've learned everything about systems administration by running my own website/email system for the past 7 years. I don't think there's a course that says to take Postfix, DSPAM, Procmail, Cyrus IMAPD, Linux software RAID, MySQL, and combine them all to make a nice email system. I'm taking the honours program (non-SE), though, which means I'm not going to learn his touch-typing classes and basics of nutrition :p

A science degree is about science -- not programming, even if it's in computers. I'd no sooner expect a CS degree to be perfect for programming that I'd expect a chemistry degree to be good for making a house that lasts a long time, or a physics degree making you good at making fast cars. Science is about research and investigation!

Except they tend not to be as limited as the author wants.

Take a gander at the U of S 4 year BSc, 4 Years Honours Software Engineering, and Honours program.

The following courses he wants are not listed in any of these: touch typing, nutrition (although you could take it as an elective), basics of GIS (as I don't know what GIS). The software engineering option touches on pretty much everything he wants, but also does a lot more (making for a full 4-year program). The honours program is similar, except it allows you to focus more on theory of computation, which is great once you realize that practical usage stuff is just as easy to learn on your own Linux machines at home as it is in a classroom setting (if not more so!).

I know I've learned everything about systems administration by running my own website/email system for the past 7 years. I don't think there's a course that says to take Postfix, DSPAM, Procmail, Cyrus IMAPD, Linux software RAID, MySQL, and combine them all to make a nice email system. I'm taking the honours program (non-SE), though, which means I'm not going to learn his touch-typing classes and basics of nutrition :p

A science degree is about science -- not programming, even if it's in computers. I'd no sooner expect a CS degree to be perfect for programming that I'd expect a chemistry degree to be good for making a house that lasts a long time, or a physics degree making you good at making fast cars. Science is about research and investigation!

I'm surprised you didn't list xfig, despite listing a port and a clone (and noting they were related to it).

I often use xfig to draw simple figures for latex documents that I write... I've always found the interface quite awkward to use, though. .fig files are also a bit restricted, but conveniently they're often easy to edit by hand.

GPUsorting by Callele Neufeld & DeLathouwer at U of Saskatchewan - paper, videos & 2003 PPT.

a couple of years ago. Nvidia gave him a FX5900 (I think. It was the one that sounded like a hair drier and got pulled from the market) to do his research with. Anyways, check out his papers on the subject.

Technical schools, like the US's community college structure, are about how to do things. Like how to make a DLL. Universities, like the University of Calgary, Saskatchewan, Alberta, etc, focus in the why. As in, why you should make a DLL, and why is it possible to make a DLL.

The stated goal of a University is to never teach anything practical. Read that twice if you don't get the joke ;) In University, the focus is always on theory. Theory of data structures, algorithms, logic, digital circuits, machine design, OS algorithms and stuctures, security, etc. It's all the kind of stuff easily transferable to any language or problem, as well.

In University, assignments are handed out merely as a guideline towards what you should understand and know for the final exam (which is typically 50% or more of your final grade). At the Usask CS dept, CMPT 214 is a good example of this. In the course they introduce people to Unix OSes, Bash, C, and Perl. They don't lecture very much on Bash, C, or Perl, except to go other a little of what's different compared to other languages. Mainly they focus on why you should use a different tool for a different job, Unix theory in general, etc.

You'll find that these courses are much more interesting than applied technology courses because they get you thinking about the reasons for things; you're never handed something and said it's magic (except for a bit in first year, but you can always research it yourself). With a real CS degree, you're also much more marketable. People who can run a Unix machine are a dime a dozen compared to people who understand Unix machines to the point where they can write their own kernel modifications and so on.

Similarly, people who can't transfer anything they learn across language barriers are the majority of for-hire programmers out there. In the IT food chain, these guys get the implementation detail jobs. People with CS degrees get the design, coordination, project management, etc, positions: the good ones, the ones which pay about double per year.

Plus, you can always go into post grad studies and take our collective CS knowledge further. Don't waste your time in a technical college if any of this interests you.

If you are a student at a place like the University of Saskatchewan, you go to a students' union run centre like Browsers which consigns books.

The selling student gets most of the money from the buying student, and the USSU gets a small percentage for the upkeep of Browsers. This way, you're not wasting several hundred dollars on texts each year (if you're not keeping them, as is the case with most first- and second-year textbooks); you're just transfering a deposit along.

If you want cheap broadband, move to Saskatchewan. I get 1.5 Mb up, 300 Kb down ADSL for $25 Canadian/month, and you can get 64 kb download speed package (extra-light) for like $12/month. You just have to deal with the shatty weather.......... Older Price List for Sasktel

(sorry, no link. Too lazy.)

Too bored. Here's the link:

ORNL

Google also turned up this gem:

Canadian Agricultural Energy End-Use Data and Analysis Centre (Ethanol Page)

Enjoy!

Actually, you are not alone in novel halloween idea. Someone from GameSpy think it's cool to be suicide bomber. Also, you can buy Bin Laden masks. Even Walmart could not resist for 'Satan' Hussein masks at one time.

You could also just click on the story link, and look to the right of the story, where there is a 1:53 video in both Quicktime and RealVideo formats, and a 2:22 RealAudio clip. There's also the synchrotron website linked on the right side.

. ...Roboticist. (Or something.)

My grandfather came off the farm in the 30's on the plains of Saskatchewan to work in a blacksmith shop, which turned into a car garage that very decade.

The first 10 generations of semi-sentient robots are going to take a lot of skilled people to direct their efforts, I look forward to a never ending set of technical careers. Yes, perhaps I won't be shoeing horses all my life, but I'm not worried none the less. It's not like the need for blacksmiths is going to go away in a flick of the wrist nor present a natural opportunity for me to move on.

For now, I'm comfortable and happy. And I don't expect to have to *PPANNNICCCC* (OMG FFS HAX0RZ!! LAMER!) at any time in my life.

Props to anyone who is facing a wall at the moment, I didn't say it would be *pleasant* figuring out where else to go or what to do. But at least this isn't 700 years ago, you won't just up and starve.

...the best way to stop piracy would be to ensure that everyone got paid enough to have a little disposable income.

nah, it'd never happen. they'd have to raise the minimum wage to at least $10/hr, and maybe even, god forbid, tax the rich!

A certain roman emperor claimed "The sea I pacified, freeing it from pirates." He also claimed "The foreign nations--those which in safety I was able to forgive--I preferred to preserve rather than to kill."

http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/DeptTransls/ResGest. html

not the first time that's done :)

what could be done with a few leftover laptops: LANL and Plan 9.

what could be done with a few leftover read-projection screens and a nice opengl MPI library rendering on all them simultaneously: the GUT...

Much like comparing the gun culture of Switzerland and Israel to the anti gun culture of Japan (former two have low homicide rates, lots of guns, latter has relatively high murder rates, low guns) its the culture that makes the difference, not the guns.

A study of data from the early 90's:

Japan's annual homicide rate has been progressively decreasing for a decade and now stands at 1.2 per 100,000. It is reported that 97% of murders are solved - the highest clearance rate in the world.

Total homicide rates for the same period were 2.6 in Switzerland and 2.7 in Canada.

Norway, like Switzerland, is a small heavily-armed country. It is estimated that 35% of Norwegian homes contain firearms, but homicide rates in 1990 and 1991 were 1.2 and 1.5 per 100,000 - comparable to those in Japan, North Dakota and England.

A more interesting table (1990s) for 1st world nations has the following tidbit:

Firearn homicide for:
US = 3.72
Switzerland = 0.58
Japan = 0.02

Biodiesel is renewable, yes, but it all has to come from somewhere. How much soy, or what have you needs to be grown to make a gallon of biodiesel? Is there enough arable land to make enough fuel to run the world economy in place of petroleum?

Yes, I'm a vegetarian myself, but I tried to pick a quote from a neutral site and am not trying to impose my views upon others. Just a thought.

Finally, note that on modern drives, you can seek all the way across the disk in only about 30-50% more time than you can seek a short seek. Thus keeping your blocks close to the current cylinder but not in it has very limited value. Note that this is not the case on optical (CD/DVD) disks.

Bzzt. Wrong. Thanks for playing.

Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus product manual. This is a modern drive. Look at page 17 of the PDF, section 2.7, "Seek Time". Track to track seek is listed as sub 1ms, while average seek is 8.5ms (for read). Latency (the rotational aspect), which is separate, is an average of 4.16 (as it should be for a 7200 RPM drive). So a short seek is 8 times faster than an average seek, much less a whole-drive seek. So keeping your blocks close to the current cylinder but not in it still has high value.

Additionally, if you can keep your data in the same track, you don't have any seek time, just rotational latency. And the size of track groups has been growing as densities have been growing. So there are lots and lots of blocks in the same track that aren't within readahead range.

And fragmentation is not a bugaboo. It's a fact. When you have random allocation on a volume, it will get fragmented.

Now you misuse the term "random allocation". When talking about disk, random allocation means that you randomly choose your next block--which certainly will cause fragmentation. I think what you are looking for is random file creation. However, under FFS, if you maintain sufficient free space, it is very unlikely that real fragmentation will occur even with random file creation/deletion. Yes, you won't be able to store all of your files contiguously. But as the grandparent points out, the old FFS block allocator finds "nearly optimal" blocks. From the original paper on FFS, you don't get serious fragmentation-related performance issues until you reach 90% disk utilization (there's an '86 FFS paper I can't find an electronic copy of which does a better analysis, but even the '84 paper has the 90% figure). At 90% utilization, nearly every file system ever starts getting severe performance problems due to fragmentation.

You can go back after the fact and unfragment it, but doing so in any serious fashion when writing files actually degrades performance due to the extra effort required.

You should read about log-structured file systems sometime. Like Sprite. The base idea of a log-structured file system (LFS) is that you don't try to keep your blocks the same. You write a log of changes, and stream that out continuously to make maximum use of your available write bandwidth. This has the severe downside of causing horrific freespace fragmentation, since every change to a file means the affected blocks are reallocated, and the old blocks are now garbage. So you have continuous freespace compaction (called segment cleaning in the paper). LFSs didn't catch on because at the time, they needed a large amount of free space compared to more traditional "overwrite" file systems to maintain performance. However, recent work with log file systems shows that the changing performance characteristics of disks (much higher bandwidth but same seek/rotational delays) have tipped the balance to log structuring. Regardless, the cleaning process is precisely going back and unfragmenting your data, and is necessary for a LFS.

HFS+ does nothing to prevent fragmentation except for use super-clusters.

As pointed out by others, Apple's later implementations do defragmentation of smaller files when they are accessed.

NTFS could do this, but I believe they do not. However, NTFS on servers has an allocation block size of 8K

The problem with any technology in schools has always been trying to integrate it to support the curriculum rather than merely using it to show interested parties (accreditation boards/parents/distinguished visitors) that the school is cutting edge. Interesting research on Bayesian student models and education using inspectable Bayesian networks is being done in several locations -- this one is an excellent example. These systems allow the technology to be used in positive ways that don't necessarily need teachers with computer science degrees (except for a district sysadmin, perhaps) but take advantage of the great networking and individual attention that can be lavished on a student in a networked environement. I imagine there will be a slow balancing of the system as the pendulum swings back and forth between teachers and technology. We certainly were more teacher-centric in the 60s and 70s, but that, you must remember, was a reversal from the early 1900's where teachers were incidental to the learning of students -- much of the learning was done independently through books. Perhaps we'll reach a stage where we decide that independent learning through computers isn't the best direction to be heading and we'll start teaching with teachers again. But this time, because we will be used to the technology, we'll be able to use it more effectively.

The HWG (the HTML Writers Guild) merged with IWA (International Webmasters Association). More info at http://www.iwanet.org/ They have more than 100 chapters worldwide, offer classes online, certification, mailing lists, etc.

There's also WOW (World Organization of Webmasters)
They offer conferences, certification, etc.

Specifically for University and College web developers there's UwebD
They have a great mailing list

Pain no attention to the more than half of the non-constructive posts slamming your current profession. Unfortunately any mention of working with websites on /. seems to get you slews of comments about how you aren't a real tech and your job will be obsolete soon. At least you have a job, and probably a pretty interesting one.

# For "Device URI" use "lpd://(hostname)/lp"

Found on http://homepage.usask.ca/~dkm560/713p.html via a Google search for "linux D-Link lpd queue".

C'mon up to Canada for your education. The tuition is about half (or less) of what it is in the states, if you're gay you can get married, and we're about to decriminalize marijuana.

Better yet, you don't have to pay to see our rankings:

1 Toronto
2 Queen's
*3 McGill
*3 Western
5 UBC
6 Montreal
7 Alberta
8 Sherbrooke
9 Ottawa
10 McMaster
11 Dalhousie
12 Saskatchewan
13 Laval
14 Calgary
15 Manitoba

About three years ago, I saw a display at Canada's largest student run science and technology show at the University of Saskatchewan - College of Engineering. The Canadian Space Agency displayed a working model of a satellite that would capture the Sun's rays, and convert them to power via a massive array of solar cells. The device would then beam the electricity to Earth base stations via microwave radiation (these are just electromagnetic rays much like your microwave oven generated, not what you make think of radiation as (ie. beta, gamma, xray, etc)). The rays would have a power lower density so that animal life would not be affected. They would place a bunch of these satellites in orbit, with a good amount of redundancy. It is estimated that only three of these would be required to take on the entire world's power consumption needs, with ground stations all over the world. I actually saw a working model, where they used a 60W incandescant light bulb to power this little satellite model, which beamed the energy to a map of the world (about 3 feet away) with little LED's all over the place. It was quite interesting, and I hope their research proves fruitful, as it is a fair amount more environmentally friendly that most other power alternatives. Also to get the entire world on this, you would not have to convert say the United Kingdom to 120V RMS/60Hz from 240V RMS/50Hz, as each base station could convert the energy to whatever it deems necessary for the grid. A world-wide power grid would require major changed to a lot of the countries as there are different standards for voltage and frequency, among other things.

1. Chinese version of capitalism
2. Chinese version of human rights
3. Chinese version of coding/decoding

As for speaking Taiwanese or Mandarin, the tragedy in Taiwan began with the 228 massacre and lasted for 40 years of white terror. If any Taiwanese spoke Taiwanese in the halls of the school or on the schoolyard, the Chinese would beat him and slap him. The Chinese bystanders would not care.

In the United States of America, a child has been free to speak Spanish in the halls of the school or on the schoolyard.

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