Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Domains

Domain: utoronto.ca

Stories and comments across the archive that link to utoronto.ca.

Comments · 412

  1. Re:Agreed, with some extensions and clarifications by deblau · · Score: 2 · on Relativity Finally Meets Quantum Theory?
    There is no violation of causality. No information propagates faster than the speed of light.

    See this treatment of Bell's Theorem for a well-written counter-argument. Note that the EPR paradox attempted to prove locality by invoking causality (no "spooky action-at-a-distance", according to Einstein), but ended up leading to Bell's work.

  2. geek jokes by Transient0 · · Score: 3, Funny · on Science Askew

    self promotion(I write a comic about a scientist):

    Comic 1
    Comic 2

    I know that there's an error in the calculation in the second comic, i just haven't fixed it yet. If you spot it you win... nothing.

    oh... and here's the link to the comic's website.

  3. geek jokes by Transient0 · · Score: 3, Funny · on Science Askew

    self promotion(I write a comic about a scientist):

    Comic 1
    Comic 2

    I know that there's an error in the calculation in the second comic, i just haven't fixed it yet. If you spot it you win... nothing.

    oh... and here's the link to the comic's website.

  4. Re:I've had one for a year by CaptCanuk · · Score: 1 · on PC that acts like a TV

    I'm building my own now... It's great to see those hardware specs but what software are you running? OS and actual software? Thanks.

  5. definitely _not_ one of the first by decathexis · · Score: 1 · on What The Net is Doing to You
    Ridiculous. If this center "just opened", then it definitely is not "one of the first". Not even one of the first ten, not even one of the first hundred. Perhaps one of the first thousand...

    Here are a just a few others off top on my head (all of those have existed for several years):

    This by no means is a complete list - I am just too lazy to paste more links. Also, a number of books have been published on the subjects, e.g. The Internet in Everyday Life, The Control Revolution, etc.
  6. definitely _not_ one of the first by decathexis · · Score: 1 · on What The Net is Doing to You
    Ridiculous. If this center "just opened", then it definitely is not "one of the first". Not even one of the first ten, not even one of the first hundred. Perhaps one of the first thousand...

    Here are a just a few others off top on my head (all of those have existed for several years):

    This by no means is a complete list - I am just too lazy to paste more links. Also, a number of books have been published on the subjects, e.g. The Internet in Everyday Life, The Control Revolution, etc.
  7. Related by GigsVT · · Score: 4, Informative · on Eldred vs. Ashcroft

    This is probably the best collection of public domain poetry. Enjoy.

  8. Re:Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on US .gov WHOIS Info Restricted Over Attacker Fears
    Search for gov.zone on Google comes up with the actual zone files in only the 3rd listing:

    http://madhaus.utcs.utoronto.ca/cns/ftp/doc/InterN IC/domain/

    Plenty of places outside of US control have the .GOV zone data as of yesterday (before NSI decided to remove it today).

    While the gov.zone file in the above link may be outdated, gov.zone.gz is only 1 week old.

    I wonder how much has changed in 3 years since this Russian site last cached .GOV?
    http://provider.kht.ru/software/tacacs/SERVER/ftp/ unix/internet/bind/Internic/

    There are some really lame .GOV domains
    <snip>
    2002092100 ; serial
    <snip>
    1877US2JOBS NS NS1.XPANDCORP.COM.
    <snip>
    1877USAJOBS NS NS1.XPANDCORP.COM.
    1903TO2003 NS NS1.HQ.NASA
    <snip>
    1STGOVT NS NS-EAST.CERF.NET.
    <snip>
    21STCENTURY NS AUTH00.NS.UU.NET.
    <snip>
    4GIRLS NS CHERRY.HHS
    <snip>
    4WOMAN NS CHERRY.HHS
    <snip>
    4WOMEN NS CHERRY.HHS
    <snip>
  9. .GOV zone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on US .gov WHOIS Info Restricted Over Attacker Fears
    Search for gov.zone on Google comes up with the actual zone files in only the 3rd listing:

    http://madhaus.utcs.utoronto.ca/cns/ftp/doc/InterN IC/domain/

    Plenty of places outside of US control have the .GOV zone data as of yesterday (before NSI decided to remove it today).

    While the gov.zone file in the above link may be outdated, gov.zone.gz is only 1 week old.

    I wonder how much has changed in 3 years since this Russian site last cached .GOV?
    http://provider.kht.ru/software/tacacs/SERVER/ftp/ unix/internet/bind/Internic/
    There are some really lame .GOV domains
    <snip>
    2002092100 ; serial
    <snip>
    1877US2JOBS NS NS1.XPANDCORP.COM.
    <snip>
    1877USAJOBS&nbs p ; NS NS1.XPANDCORP.COM.
    1903TO2003 NS NS1.HQ.NASA
    <snip>
    1STGOVT NS NS-EAST.CERF.NET.
    <snip>
    21STCENTURY NS AUTH00.NS.UU.NET.
    <snip>
    4GIRLS NS CHERRY.HHS
    <snip>
    4WOMAN NS CHERRY.HHS
    <snip>
    4WOMEN NS CHERRY.HHS
    <snip>
  10. Here's some I worked on... by tsangc · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Old PowerBook + Hot Glue = Cheap Digital Picture Frame

    http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/frame10 0-index.html

    I did this with a friend using a PowerBook 100. I also have a PowerBook 520C one too...

    http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/journal -frame520running.jpg

    And here's my friend Victor's:

    http://www.chuma.org/projects/pictureframe/

    Calum

  11. Here's some I worked on... by tsangc · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Old PowerBook + Hot Glue = Cheap Digital Picture Frame

    http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/frame10 0-index.html

    I did this with a friend using a PowerBook 100. I also have a PowerBook 520C one too...

    http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/journal -frame520running.jpg

    And here's my friend Victor's:

    http://www.chuma.org/projects/pictureframe/

    Calum

  12. Been there done that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait · on Old PowerBook + Hot Glue = Cheap Digital Picture Frame

    Me and my friends already did this during spring break one year. Why no credit to us? Typical of the Slashdot Nazi's I guess... Here is the link anyway...

    Here

  13. Re:Remeber your physics... by d.valued · · Score: 4, Informative · on Vint Cerf Talks About The "Interplanetary Internet"

    Let's get past Ender's Game for a minute.

    This isn't some sci-fi, pseudo-science. This is quantum physics we're talking about here. Unless you are one of the theorists, chances are you're a parrot. I'll readily admit I don't grasp most of it, since I'm not doing it full-time and most of the QP stuff gives me migraines on a bad day.

    However, what I mentioned casually in the article (with the thirty-second explantation) is Bell's Theorem. Link provided here, here, here.

    Punch up Google, type in "Bell's Theorem", and enjoy stuff that makes your tiny little mind explode.

  14. Re:Terminal velocity by bgins · · Score: 1 · on Meteorite Hits Girl
    Whoa, there's some serious freshman math/physics confusion here! Looking at the whole thread, there are several gotchas:
    1. don't confuse distance to earth's surface and distance to earth's center
    2. don't confuse distance r between two objects and radius r of an object
    3. think carefully when talking about limits of something over something approaching zero (they are usually not finite!)
    4. don't disregard a quantity (like mass) in an equation (like that for terminal velocity) until you know all the component forces (i.e., drag)
    5. don't make statements when you don't know what you're talking about!
    6. (from someone else's comment): don't confuse gravitational force and acceleration
    a = G(me)/r^2 correct
    As r->0, this is a constant, 9.81 m/s^2 ouch!
    First, gravitational force is proportional directly to both masses and inversely to the square of the distance r between the two center of masses. This formula would approach an infnite force as r->0. However IIRC, when an object starts to fall inside a hole in the earth, then the effective mass of the earth used in the formula decreases to the instantaneous mass bounded by the sphere of earth from the object's present height. (This is derived by calculating a net gravitational force of zero for an object inside a uniform-density spherical shell of width dr.)

    Second, when we say that gravitational acceleration is constant, we mean that it is independent of the mass of the small object -- at a fixed distance from the earth's center (like near the surface) -- here we are ignoring neglegible smaller-order gravitaional variations due to, say, the earth being different from a perfect sphere, etc. The gravitational force acting any object however is of course proportional to the object's mass.

    The value g=9.8m/s^2 comes from assuming some version of the earth's mean radius as the distance. So what you probably meant is as the distance from the earth's surface goes to 0 (r->r_0), the acceleration approaches a constant limit.

    So really, the mass of the falling rock does not need to be considered, only the drag, which I'm not familiar in calculating, but that doesn't really matter, as I'd wager something small drags less than something big. In short, you're wrong.
    Here, we've got to be really careful talking about things we don't know about. We can calculate the gravitational acceleration without knowing the mass, but as it turns out, once we calculate the drag, we have a force, and so to convert the drag force to an acceleration on the object, we have to divide by the mass, thus reintroducing this quantity into the calculation. Terminal velocity results when the two acceleration terms are equal and opposite:

    drag acceleration F_drag/m = gravity g

    Finally...
    The parent poster is of course right, because the drag force F_drag is proportional to the object's velocity, with a proportionality constant depending on the surface area of the object (as well as another factor relating to how smooth or rough this surface is -- maybe sorta like a fractal dimension), and surface area is proportional to r^2 -- taking r now as the (average in some sense) radius of the object. Now, assuming that the object is roughly (macroscopically materially) homogeneous, we can assume it has a uniform density. Under this assumption, its mass is directly proportional to r^3 (for some suitable definition of 'average' radius). Under these circumstances, the drag acceleration is going to be proportional to drag force over mass, or r^2/r^3=1/r. Thus the original poster would seem to be completely right, that smaller obects will have a lower terminal velocity v:

    g = a_drag = F_drag / m ~ v*r^2/r^3 ~ v/r
    v ~ r*g

    This might be verified by looking at a discussion of the Millikan experiment IIRC [although one quick reference suggests that here one wants a viscous force F_drag = c*v*r, (not r^2!) where the constant c=6*pi*eta is given by Stoke's Law, eta is the air's (?) viscosity, and flow conditions are "laminar" -- these seem like rather idealized conditions]. Note however, that even if the drag force is sometimes proportional to r and not r^2, that still the terminal velocity will be proportional to a positive power r (r^2 instead of r^1), and will still decrease (in this case even quicker) as does r.

    Does anyone know whether drag forces are ever proportional to fractional powers of r (between 1 and 2), perhaps somehow related to a drag coefficient of fractal dimension (perhaps between 2 and 3)?? Just a wild thought...

  15. Re:C++ Out at UW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft Invests in the University of Waterloo
    The "multiple 4 month work terms" thing is a crock of shit. In 4 months at a new company there isn't enough time to fetch coffee for the real developers.


    Actual co-op programs (rather than gopher jobs like the ones you get at UW) such as the "Professional Experience Year" program at the University of Toronto are far better for turning out experienced developers. Hell I should know, I had a dozen employment offers before I graduated, beating out most UW graduates cold.

  16. my other pick by hgh · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Invests in the University of Waterloo
    Jesus, I had to pick between UW comp eng and UofT Engineering Science (to be nano option). Thankfully I chose UofT. I'd be much more fulfilled knowing that the learning I paid for isn't being influenced in such a manner as not to optimum.

    I'm really surprised that UW went for this; I realize it's a lot of money, but UW has been known for being pretty active in the Open Source community.

    It will be interesting to see how this develops, for not only UW, but other universities as well...

    Hans

  17. Re:Maybe it's just me but.... by Nutello · · Score: 1 · on Italian Police Censor "Blasphemous" Websites
    I see you persist in denying that there is a common Italian culture.
    Maybe because I know what I am talking about, namely that there doesn't happen to be one?
    Well, it has a common culture whether you realise it or not and a bit of traveling to several different countries in Europe and to different parts of the US (East coast vrs. West coast) has made that clear to me.
    And again, what would the traits of that culture be?

    For your information, I've travelled all over Europe and have been living in the US for almost three years now.
    Studying a regions laws, the way they do business and life styles of it's citizens is something that everyone who has access to a library or an uncensored internet connection can do and so ignorance is a poor excuse.
    Exactly! There's no excuse for your ignorance. You should really start looking into the issues before spouting truths which really aren't so.
    Your comments lead me to wonder how much time you actually spend studying your own politics and looking at other cultures as your responses seem knee jerk and poorly thought out, and are the sort of thing I'd expect to read in News International Tabloid.
    YOUR responses are poorly thought out here. You haven't done any substantive research, yet you draw sweeping conclusions.

    For example, you mentioned "Mafia". That's a misnomer, you should be talking of organised crime. Mafia is just one of such organisations, with roots in Sicily. There are others, like camorra and ndrangheta, which were born out of different social contexts, are structured differently and involve different issues. Your sweeping generalisations make a complex matter look trivial. And Italy's problems have been compounded throughout history by exactly that behaviour: excessive simplification and failure to fairly assess issues.

    Don't lecture me if you don't even know the differences between mafia and e.g. camorra.
    Italy has a well educate populace with good infrastructure.
    Which Italy? Southern Italy lags behind. The working force there is not as trained as in Northern Italy. That's a fact. Do some research and you'll see I'm not making up stuff. There still are kids who drop out of school when they're 10 or younger.

    Infrastructure? Ahah, you must be kidding. Let's take a look at railways: they're much "denser" in Northern Italy. The mainland railway has two tracks, while the railway in Sicily has only one track and you can imagine the consequences.

    Do you follow the news? There's no water right now in Southern Italy. Lorries are being used to bring it from the North. Do you call that a good infrastructure? It's even more depressing if you consider that it was the Romans that had mastered moving water from one place to the other.

    The sad reality is that nobody wants to do business in Southern Italy, because there's no decent infrastructure there. For decades the government has been trying to pour huge amounts of money to solve the divide. It didn't succeed probably because it wasn't a focused effort. It subsidised Fiat and the Agnelli family, mainly. And to add insult to injury, Southern Italy actually pays slightly more in taxes than the North, despite being poorer and labelled as a mass of tax evaders.

    I was born there. I know how things work there. I know how it feels to live there. You obviously don't. At least have the decency to delve deep enough into the issue, otherwise don't bother at all. Get a book or two - don't stop at newspapers, they're too superficial and too concerned with what amounts to gossip these days.
    If it can escape some of it's cultural pitfalls (white collar crime, corruption and the tolerance of it) then there is no reason it could not continue to grow has it has done in the late 90's.
    Gee, you JUST DON'T GET IT. White collar crime is not the problem or the cultural pitfall. I wish it was that trivial; Italy would be much better off. We'd root it out and live happily. Unfortunately it's not like that.

    Corruption didn't grow in the 90's. If anything, it shrank for a while. It's always been there and actually was more rampant in the 80's. During the 90's it might have gained more visibility, but we don't judge things by their mere appearance, do we?

    Anyway, as I said, that's not the problem. It's the symptom. If there's blood in your feces, you don't fix the problem by simply removing the blood from them. You find where that blood comes from and solve the matter at the root.

    Same with corruption in Italy. It's a consequence of older, deeper ingrained and more complex problems. You seem to be too obsessed with Italy's moles on its face. I'd rather be concerned about the cancer throughout its body first.
    In fact, his election was act of downright stupidity (IMHO) by the populous and was criticized by main stream press the world over.
    Eh, now you lecture me on Berlusconi. I've known about him for 20 years. He got into most Italians' life in one way or another, anyway. I bet I know much more about him than you do. You can spare me that.

    I saw him rise in the 80's thanks to his ties with Craxi. Where were you then? Where was the world's mainstream press then? Most of it happened under the sun. Why didn't they criticise back then?

    Who were the most vocal opponents? That's easy: two Italians. Comedian Roberto Benigni (of Life is beautiful fame) and, to a larger extent, iconoclast/comedian/satirist Beppe Grillo. That's sad, but true. Berlusconi's political opponents were and are largely unsubstantial. Same for the press - in Italy AND abroad.

    I'm even more disappointed than you are about his election - because it's MY country. Yet, can you explain why he was elected? What made stupid electors pick him?
    You can ignore that (and the fact that is is a legacy of a common Italian culture)
    Little clue for you: for thousands of years in Italian cultures leaders weren't even elected by the people. Only in 1912 the whole male population was given the right to vote (women got it in 1945). Before that, only the very few with some education or willing to pay a voting tax were allowed to vote (and that started in 1882 anyway).

    Can you point me to one document describing this alleged "common Italian culture" through the centuries? Just one.

    To reassure you that I am not seeing things, with a quick Google search I found a brief essay about the so-called Southern Problem (University of Toronto, Italian studies). It's a good starting point.
    but exactly how do you explain not only all the scandal's of the 90's
    I explain them with more complex historical and social problems than the wishy washy arguments you bring. I would love to make all of Italy's problems amount to just the scandals from the 90's (which is pretty much all you seem to know). Where do I sign? Even with my blood, it's no problem.
    and your government shutting down web sites on charges of "blasphemous" web sites?
    First of all, the matter seems to be more complex than what was described in the media's sensational reports. There's not just blasphemy involved, but tax evasion as well (the operation was carried by the fiscal police). The site was more or less seized, not shut down, pending further investigation. And for one site that was seized, there are hundreds of others which are still around. But reporting the whole thing that way wouldn't have been as interesting, sensational and picturesque for audiences worldwide.

    Second, in 1995 the Italian Supreme Court ruled that cursing against the Madonna and saints is not a blasphemy and thus not a crime. It is such only when against a deity (not just the Catholic God, but Buddha and all the others as well). The Church didn't like it, but that was the final ruling. Since the end of 1999, blasphemy has been depenalised as well.

    Third, as I already pointed out (and you chose to ignore) there have been blasphemous movies which were not censored in Italy. One of them is highly disturbing and graphical and was even financed in large part by a government grant! Yet, the UK has been censoring a movie because of blasphemy for 14 years now. Where's the outrage for that?

    Censorship of blasphemy in Italy is more an urban legend than anything else (I've lost the count of how many curses I heard on Italian TV in my life). The burden of proof is on you: just bring me one real example. I've brought you one of censorship in the UK.

    I'd rather have you and folks all over the world focus on the real problems, not frivolous stories like this.
  18. Photo (With Flash) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny · on A Quick Peek From the Matrix Set In Sydney

    For those that couldn't make it to the set ... here's a photo of the action.

    Action Shot

  19. Credit where credit is due by Mozai · · Score: 1 · on Drawing For The Blind

    The discovery that blind people can draw (and use techniques like obscuring and perspective) wasn't discovered here. I'd rather give credit to John M. Kennedy at the University of Toronto, a Cognitive Psychology prof who's been working with blind children for years.

    He's published at least one book, "Drawing and the Blind" (Yale Press, 1993), and there's a course at Scarbourough College on the subject: PSYCH54S. The link will take you to the course notes, which includes excerpts from his book.

  20. Re:Installation, bugs, first impressions by j3110 · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Eclipse 2.0 Released

    Just a few things you said aren't exactly true, however, I made the same mistakes myself a few months ago.

    The 54 megabyte version is the SDK comes with all the stuff to write your own eclipse plugin. The 20MB version labeled "Executable Binary" is sufficient for anyone who wants to use eclipse. After I found this and banged my head into the wall for not reading the page, I was happier with Eclipse.

    The speed is less in SWT as you would think. Swing really isn't that slow. SWT is faster than swing, but not by the leaps and bounds that Eclipse is faster than NetBeans or jEdit. The deal is Eclipse doesn't come with 30 plugins. NetBeans has more plugins (and loads everyone at startup) than any project on Earth will ever use. From FTP support to J2EE server integration. It's a tremendous pain. jEdit lets you configure the plugins that you want. I love jEdit's XML editing (about par with Emacs). Someone should write in XML editing support for Eclipse. Thats my biggest beef with Eclipse.

    I thought SWT was cool and I was going to do my current project in SWT. My mind was changed by the potential of Swing. LNF (look and feel) configuration is awesome! I wrote a little class to allow the look and feel to be configured by system properties (which I always load from a configuration file). So, by changing a few entries in a (uncannily similar to samba .. property = value) configuration file, you can make the program look and feel different. In the end, there will be a configuration program to allow the user to test all the LNF's. I envision that this small amount of effort on my part will let the user choose an interface that is a little more comfortable for them. In the very least, they will have a more asthetically pleasing resource, and that means a lot to end users. (Think about the time you spend customizing and picking themes for your Linux desktop!)

    Anyhow, in the end, I heard that the benchmarks showed that there really wasn't as big of a difference in speed as there was made out to be.

    Want to simulate SWT in Swing?
    Type this in main()
    UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAn dFeelClassName());
    but it will look like motif and not gtk under linux.

    Good links!!!
    javootoo.com links to just about every LNF.
    a screenshot on javootoo of SkinLF with aquathemepack my favorite!
    audiolaf may allow blind users to use your current app without a rewrite!
    Some conversation search for SWT to see I'm not the only crackpot that thinks SWT isn't that much faster (anymore).

    Keep in mind that it really doesn't matter if the controls are drawn by Java or the OS, they still have to be drawn and Java2 1.4 isn't stupid such that it doesn't user the available hardware acceleration routines available from the OS. Theoretically, it doesn't matter who draws them if they are both drawn the same way :).

  21. Re:Beowulf Cluster by demigod · · Score: 1 · on IMSAI Series Two
    Beowulf is killed by the warriors, not other monsters


    Not the version I read, he was killed by a Dragon.
    Those interested can check for themselves. http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/beow_ doe.html

  22. Come party with me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll · on George Lucas May Be Completely Evil

    dominik@schnitzer.at, mozparty-at-subscribe@relax.ath.cx, dominik@schnitzer.at, david_markvica@web.de, johannes_richter@gmx.net, kairo@kairo.at, rossi@chello.at, markush@world-direct.com, cbiesinger@web.de, jenskager@gmx.net, jo-at-mt@gmx.net, johann.petrak@gmx.at, dviper01@gmx.net, simon@simonschwaighofer.net, dreckskerl@glump.at, wt-lists@trexler.at, dusty@strike.wu-wien.ac.at, kasparhauserjr@hotmail.com, b.schallar@gmx.net, mutato@libero.it, phil@goli.at, diddalick@gmx.net, studio@paw8.com, croco@utanet.at, petru@paler.net, jlemmerer@node.at, bigkub@time2change.at, patrick@seher-it.at, ronald@hartwig.at, mozilla_party@webterminate.com, stefan@kleinhans.it, horst.jens@gmx.at, jjan@gibts.net, mjahn@agency.at, gpoul@gnu.org, green@eggs.ham, gerhard.hipfinger@openforce.at, mailto:moz@moz.org>, florianweinwurm@yahoo.com, christian@precht-jensen.dk, Bill_Gates@microsoft.com, Tux_the_penguin@linux.rules.microsoft.sux.open.sou rce.is.the.way.to.go.net, domi@schnitzer.at, joe_ringmaster@gmx.at, sifu@isohypse.org, dk@perm.ru, nobandwidth@bigpond.com, nobandwidth@bigpond.com, luke@strangemonkey.com, mrundataker@optushome.com.au, mcgarry@tig.com.au, chris@think.net.au, Mathias.Burbach@Bigfoot.com, acuteparanoia@optushome.com.au, syzh401@cse.unsw.edu.au, maillist@jasonlim.com, ram@digitalmethod.org, jason@sydneypubguide.net, geek@digitalone.com.au, curious@ihug.com.au, bill@maidment.com.au, kristof@staesis.org, bill@microsoft.com, belle@netset.net.au, ksosez@softhome.net, jruderman@hmc.edu, andyed@surfmind.com, down8@yahoo.com, mozparty@sigkill.com, bulbul@ucla.edu, gavin-mozparty@doughtie.com, roger@digitalfountain.com, matt@linuxschooltorrance.com, mozparty@ventura.nu, rombouts@compuserve.com, ian@freenetproject.org, tristanreid@yahoo.com, groovefx@yahoo.com, jj@lacasabonita.com, gmoudry@hotmail.com, eyezero@yahoo.com, ian@primewave.net, jlawson7@adelphia.net, el_arturo@att.net, janie@freenetproject.org, 145371217@numenor.net, infinite_8_monkey@yahoo.com, charshman@divus.org, mozparty@shadowlurker.net, john@marinapacific.com, ilanterrell@yahoo.com, aafes@psu.edu, bustamam98@yahoo.com, mozparty@myunixbox.com, yaten@sbcglobal.net, joelinux@pacificnet.net, dgc@penguino.net, poserskater69@yahoo.com, lheartb@hotmail.com, ncmother@zimage.com, daniel@likeicare.com, digital.evil@lycos.com, cjeburke@yahoo.com, jblow@hotmail.com, zachary.anthony@verizon.net, boogah@23.org, mebelost@yahoo.com, nickkricheff@netscape.net, mikemcg@ucla.edu, gogomozilla@denofslack.net, mike@mm1.com, seanmcoleman@attbi.com, jsm@bigfoot.com, hoarycripple@crippl3.net, mozparty@nslu.x.myxomop.com, mozparty@camworld.com, mozpartyNYC@isoga.net, ccarlen@netscape.com, h@rediffmail.com, lefever@rcn.com, tedjackson@accounting.org, darren@ny.com, marlon@nyc.com, plui@hyperreal.org, dzeluff@zeluff.com, joel@natividads.com, ken@bigbadapple.com, treebeard@treebeard.net, florent@nyc.com, chad@macristy.com, spud@montelshow.com, gbman_of_gvill@yahoo.com, eam-mozparty@learningpatterns.com, pkrause@primavera.com, tossoffus@yahoo.com, ryan@pantz.com, nichomof@eecs.tulane.edu, billg@microsoft.com, DevilsRejection@msn.com, petergunn@hotmail.com, bagerj@sullcrom.com, isaac@structuredsystems.net, bobk@panix.com, ngellner@hotmail.com, luke@sigterm.org, vivake@yahoo.com, jon@mediavortex.com, groovefx@yahoo.com, brendan@sighup.net, jds@panix.com, bluerose@bluerose.com, chris@allermann.net, dimkal@yahoo.com, preppyl@yahoo.com, blujoker@blujoker.net, nowell_h@hotmail.com, aragorn@cs.stanford.edu, treed@cpr.com, brt204@nyu.edu, andreas@antonopoulos.com, dj@randomwalks.com, lists@pote.com, mike@mhudack.com, reliable57@yahoo.com, jared@geek-boy.com, ondadl@mac.com, floss@myrealbox.com, xod@thestonecutters.net, mozilla@sectae.net, tywonm@screamingmedia.com, Odin_NT@hotmail.com, crooney@panix.com, bg25222@binghamton.edu, eugenem@brainlink.com, dave@downneck.net, romspace@mac.com, sdaejo@yahoo.com, masseo1@yahoo.com, jim@fearandloathing.net, mike@mjoy.us, miles@openly.com, LuciferSD@hotmail.com, nsdilwor@intertechmedia.com, chrisdowden@yahoo.com, pgs10@columbia.edu, sbrennan@ovid.com, lthomiso@rcn.com, paralox@paralox.ath.cx, Jester_458@yahoo.com, jsadove@beltion.net, stuehmke@yahoo.com, mike@realfx.com, alex@risky-roosky.com, shava@efn.org, kra10@columbia.edu, saihung@ix.netcom.com, gropo@mac.com, scottnym@yahoo.com, shaas@vibe.com, roon_toon@hotmail.com, ajaygautam@yahoo.com, jhdaly@mindspring.com, manuel@sphinx.ms, very_itchy_rash@yahoo.com, emeldrum@drew.edu, jeld@mindless.com, as867@columbia.edu, slams@penguin.rutgers.edu, wassa@columbia.edu, tony@vegan.net, zilla@bibliotrack.com, zeno_lee@hotmail.com, fosh@fishnet.cx, linux@gpl.us, jblow@hotmail.com, dkrook@hotmail.com, ivesti@yahoo.com, arek@arekwyderka.com, bljoechang@yahoo.com, brian@tribrothers.com, sparky@marklife.org, charles@softwareprototypes.com, scottkundla@hotmail.com, ccharabaruk@meldstar.com, ian@pottinger.ca, netdemonz@yahoo.com, diatribe@mailcity.com, nick@tomkinet.com, shawnlin@yahoo.com, sculley@pathcom.com, herd.killing@rogers.com, dave@renouf.com, aliyamin@hotmail.com, aswitzer@ispgn.com, netm0nkey@ispgn.com, hyakugei@hotmail.com, geduggan.mozparty@peri.csclub.uwaterloo.ca, lwhite@darkfires.ca, jorel@the-wire.com, js@tap.net, davew@tap.net, tmh@whitefang.com, vid_mozillaparty@zooid.org, anon@foolswisdom.org, morris_mk@yahoo.ca, colinmc@idirect.com, marcus.brubaker@utoronto.ca, akish@kishcom.com, nconway@klamath.dyndns.org, jason@thegeekcave.com, rampaging_simian@hotmail.com, garret@sirsonic.com, piowie@myrealbox.com, m5m5m@yahoo.com, ivan.brovko@net-sweeper.com, returnofthedorks@hotmail.com, axxackall@yahoo.com, tednye@sympatico.ca, darren.fuller@bell.ca, jbailey@nisa.net, swangeo@yahoo.ca, Hercynium@yahoo.com, cinetron@passport.ca, jotaroh@hotmail.com, aghajani@principle.com, fzv@yahoo.com, rocketmail_com@rocketmail.com, foo@bar.com, wolfe@alt.net, drew@xyzzy.dhs.org, jimmiejaz@nixhelp.net, bofh@swma.net, nilesh_mehta@email.com, mslack@rogers.com, m-cahill@rogers.com, tworkowski@sympatico.ca, george@openlight.com, irina@openlight.com, ilia@lobsanov.com, rjs@tao.ca, paul-mp@it.ca, alvarolists@aycuens.com, xan@dimensis.com, ike@lab.org, miguel@asiinfo.net, marevalo@marevalo.net, iolalla@yahoo.com, peluz0n@justice.com, weeddeveloper@yahoo.com, alfonsobugs@terra.es, sgala@apache.org, z_gringo@hotmail.com, santiz@madritel.es, murphy@litio.net, fox@mozilla.gr.jp, party@mozilla.org.uk, danj@fledgeling.com, fun@thingy.apana.org.au, moz@the-allens.net, onelists@hotmail.com, joel@fysh.org, simon.mozilla-party-if-its-in-central-london@rumbl e.net, bigboyjim@excite.com, andrew.and.friends.iff.central.london@sent.freeser ve.co.uk, itwillbecentrallondon@mozilla.org.uk, noahsark2x2@tiscali.co.uk, mmm-central-london@smileyben.com, jonathan-for-central-london@peepo.com, dave-Party-in-Central-London@dgta.co.uk, DJGMOL@netscape.net, srick@europe.yahoo-inc.com, moz-party@zpok.demon.co.uk, moz-party-central-london@trickofthelight.org, marc@brosystems.com, party@budge.net, rillian@telus.net, uphillsurfer@hotmail.com, edward@debian.org, mozilla@robertbrook.com, reagan@technomoose.com, lew@saltbeefsandwich.co.uk, osama@afghanistan.com, barking@insaneworld.org.uk, john@billabong-media.com, leith@cs.bu.edu, mozparty@noseynick.org, jonasj@jonasj.dk, bugzilla@kenneth.dk, chr_damsgaard@hotmail.com, alring@email.com, hp.grondal@get2net.dk, martin@marquentein.dk, Lovechild@foolclan.com, Kim@schulz.dk, kl@vsen.dk, mbendix@dunghill.dk, schnitzer.at@tange.dk, tommy@svindel.net, moz10@pbb.dk, dezral@despammed.com, nick@tioka.com, ask@fujang.dk, gecko@c.dk, spam@deck.dk, bugzilla@gemal.dk, b@bogdan.dk, kenneth@gnu.org, jee@email.dk, daniel@rtfm.dk, umfalvo@yahoo.com, christian@ostenfeld.dk, xor@ivwnet.com, Jason@screaminweb.com, alex@spamcop.net, dustym@riseup.net, rmcgee1@earthlink.net, dr_zeus@hotmail.com, chris.lozano@myrealbox.com, looney_binn@yahoo(dot)com, apendell@attbi.com, dantrevino@wrevolution.org, fireball1244@mac.com, tommyo@hargray.com, natas@redtailboa.net, emmett_in_dallas@yahoo.com, razzbuten@yahoo.com, igdavis@truculent-telephone.org, foobar@null.net, bob@kludgebox.com, cgrimland@yahoo.com, ghamlett@swbell.net, bgood@inceptual.com, slot0k@pogox.org, kwhudson@netin.com, jimjamjoh@softhome.net, jimmys@utdallas.edu, charlesv@mfos.org chris@focus2.com jest6r@hotmail.com steve@ncc.com, usrg@mail.utexas.edu, steve@deltos.com, alex@avengergear.com, mkoenecke@alum.haverford.edu langley@hex.net mordred@inaugust.com swapan@yahoo.com drosoph@hotmail.com, goulash1@mac.com, ean@brainfood.com, vj@vj.com lpret42@hotmail.com bugoff@hotmail.com chad@digitaltriage.net, stewart@digitaltriage.net scottvr01@yahoo.com adam@dfwuptime.com dsaint@gnumatt.org naltrexone42@yahoo.com, webmaster@bast.net, tommyo@hargray.com, ladd@kryp.to, jtaylor5@bayou.uh.edu, jgschmitz@linuxmail.org, enslaver@enslaver.com edfierro@yahoo.com, moz@photonsphere.com, rayw@fuckmicrosoft.com, rfmobile@swbell.net, kevin@unif.com trident5@bigfoot.com Erik_Osterholm@ieee.org, tmunson@houston.rr.com, alessi_brand@hotmail.com, rballa1@lsu.edu, wasted@kewlhair.com, jofficer@martinapparatus.com, idiot@mylinuxisp.com, j0sh01@ev1.net faust@wintermarket.org bouncer@hotmonkeyporn.com tk-mozparty_@perljam.net janisch@students.zcu.cz, aha@pinknet.cz kuzi@atlas.cz scat@reboot.cz, petr@dousa.cz, ruzicka@core.cz, roman@management.cz, hojan@students.zcu.cz, tille@soti.org, cas.tuyn@hetnet.nl, aeon@pandora.be, sensi_millia2000@yahoo.com, crypto@shiftat.com, jan.fabry@vsknet.be, monkeyboy@fruru.com, adulau@foo.be, johan@linux.be, karu@pobox.com, soggie@soti.org nick@tomkinet.com, why_are_you_too_lazy_to_drive_1_hour_to_toronto@yo u_lazy.com try_grammer_class_a_while@get_a_life.com john@interlynx.ca asharp@axo.cc, unionstation@ryder.ca, prade@hotmail.com, 2600@hamilton2600.ca, chris.lozano@myrealbox.com, dantrevino@wrevolution.org, jksteinhauer@netscape.net, i_love_junk_email@yahoo.com, cmiller@surfsouth.com, jan@bestbytes.de, me@phillipoertel.com, sebastian@pixelsalon.de, ccozan@andtek.com, ben@itlib.de, martin.ament@gmx.de, pulsar@highteq.net, muid@gmx.de, cedi@zooomclan.org, soapy@soapy.ch, deep_blue_ocean@gmx.ch, stamp@zooomclan.org, hans@switzerland.com, milamber@zooomclan.org, mtettea@switzerland.com, cylander@zooomclan.org, duke@zooomclan.org, pegirun@gmx.ch, pilif@pilif.ch, mlati@yahoo.com, Mozillzooom@holophrastic.com, erichiseli@yahoo.com, la_burdet@yahoo.com, rkoerber@gmx.de, dotzmasta@hotmail.com, B.Eckstein@cli.de, rtfm@linux.de, info@phosmo.de, gz@disintegrated.de, byronbay@gmx.de, stiwi@mac.com, mage@koeln.netsurf.de, mozilla@portfolio16.de, wrede@fh-aachen.de, ilikemozilla@html.de, cloud@final-fantasy.de, sfricke@sfricke.de, info@flossbau.de, no@dom.de, julian.suschlik@gmx.net, omero@m4d.sm, lapo@lapo.it, alcor78@email.it, info@fuelcat.it, mutato@libero.it, ildella@inwind.it, a.marabini@spinthehumanfactor.com, uomoman@criticalbit.com, thefl74@netscape.net, elbardo@libero.it, clem131@libero.it, t-i-e@bigfoot.com, gng74@libero.it, moz.party.20.gnes@spamgourmet.com, ema.cerqui@libero.it, ubertob@tin.it, mozparty.20.anagoor@spamgourmet.com, gianpaolo@preciso.net, ian@deepsky.com, marco@porciletto.org, planetx2100@hotmail.com, billabong@tiscalinet.it, piofree@libero.it, skunkyboy@tiscalinet.it, vincenzo@mondopiccolo.net, macmatteo@interfree.it, contreras@jce.it, hereandnow@libero.it, pza@students.cs.mu.oz.au, caedwa@students.cs.mu.oz.au, mgi@students.cs.mu.oz.au, bah@humbug.net, mfp@cs.mu.oz.au, nospamplease@indevelopment.org, peter@simplyit.screaming,net, pmj@users.sf.net, xanni@sericyb.com.au, agh@kalcium-is.com, felicityconsult@ozemail.com.au, lucas@lucaschan.com, andrewg@nopninjas.com, andym@abnormal.com, ts@meme.com.au, jasonpell@hotmail.com, syngin@gimp.org, mhammond@skippinet.com.au, szutshi@devraj.org, rmoonen@bigpond.net.au, fawad@fawad.net, ufs@softhome.net, kotrade@yahoo.com, ben@benscorp.com, stevesmith@columbus.rr.com, kkimmelosu@yahoo.com, neal.lindsay@peaofohio.com, pat@linuxcolumbus.com, chrisbaker@iname.com, hiroki2c@yahoo.com, seth@remor.com, jsohn@columbus.rr.com, ross@nanonet.net, mark@cushman.net, swinghammer.2@osu.edu, roberto.12@osu.edu, farhat@hotmail.com, pgunn@dachte.org, jwagner@gcfn.org, bp@osc.edu, joepletch@postmark.net, dsherman@iwaynet.net, glenn@uniqsys.com, bernstein.46@osu.edu, trent_reznor@nothing.com, erikniklas@bobanddoug.com, walters@gnu.org, timo@bolverk.net, annek25@aol.com, jlamb@leader.com, bart@osc.edu, jason@mcvetta.org

  23. Re:Apologies to Blake. by ParticleGirl · · Score: 2 · on Cenozoic Park: Cloning the Tasmanian Tiger

    You're awesome! Somebody mod up the parent... and if you don't know the original poem, read it. :)

  24. About Jin by CrezzyMan · · Score: 5, Informative · on LEGO Mindstorms: The Master's Technique
    Jin Sato is one truly awesome builder, let me tell you. I'm pleased to see that he's finally written an English-language Mindstorms book. Lots of his stuff has been published in Japanese.

    Back when I used to go to RTLToronto meetings, Jin always brought along some of his creations. I've seen that Aibo-looking dog up close, and it was pretty awesome: IIRC, the two RCXs communicate to each other in order to walk. His two-legged walker is interesting as well.

    More links:
    Jin Sato's Mindstorms website
    RTLToronto, a LEGO enthusiasts group for the Southern Ontario area
    A nice photo (JPEG) of Jin's table at a previous RTLToronto get-together.

  25. About Jin by CrezzyMan · · Score: 5, Informative · on LEGO Mindstorms: The Master's Technique
    Jin Sato is one truly awesome builder, let me tell you. I'm pleased to see that he's finally written an English-language Mindstorms book. Lots of his stuff has been published in Japanese.

    Back when I used to go to RTLToronto meetings, Jin always brought along some of his creations. I've seen that Aibo-looking dog up close, and it was pretty awesome: IIRC, the two RCXs communicate to each other in order to walk. His two-legged walker is interesting as well.

    More links:
    Jin Sato's Mindstorms website
    RTLToronto, a LEGO enthusiasts group for the Southern Ontario area
    A nice photo (JPEG) of Jin's table at a previous RTLToronto get-together.

  26. About Jin by CrezzyMan · · Score: 5, Informative · on LEGO Mindstorms: The Master's Technique
    Jin Sato is one truly awesome builder, let me tell you. I'm pleased to see that he's finally written an English-language Mindstorms book. Lots of his stuff has been published in Japanese.

    Back when I used to go to RTLToronto meetings, Jin always brought along some of his creations. I've seen that Aibo-looking dog up close, and it was pretty awesome: IIRC, the two RCXs communicate to each other in order to walk. His two-legged walker is interesting as well.

    More links:
    Jin Sato's Mindstorms website
    RTLToronto, a LEGO enthusiasts group for the Southern Ontario area
    A nice photo (JPEG) of Jin's table at a previous RTLToronto get-together.

  27. No one would use such a thing... by ArcticChicken · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Handhelds for the Blind?

    ...because no one could afford one.

    Well, maybe a few could, but not many.

    I was completely stunned by how expensive even a measly 40 character Braille display unit for a home computer costs. They typically start at $4,000 (USD)! That's for 40 characters in a straight line! The 80 character ones cost at least $10,000 (USD)! Can't believe it? Here's a good link to various Braille display manufacturers.

    These piezo-electric devices also have an apparently well-founded reputation for needing frequent servicing, and just in general not being durable.

    So ... $10,000 for a straight line of Braille, consisting of 80 characters. The cells are either 6 x 2 dots, or 8 x 2 dots, and are distinct units. No graphics here! It sits on a desk all day and is still prone to problems. And you want to do what?

    It's a nice idea, but unless you've got some super new technology to bring the price way down and the reliability way up, I'm not sure how well this would work.

    For the record, I really wish these things were cheaper! It occurred to me a few weeks ago that Braille would solve a lot of my vision issues. I would love to be able to sit at my computer and keep my eyes closed ... but still be working. My eyes feel like crap after staring at a computer screen for 14 hours a day. The ability to use Braille would be so great I'd make a serious attempt at learning it. I realized that graphics are such a small part of the things I use that I could easily get by with only text most of the time. But the displays are just too expensive....

  28. What? HCI research is just now getting popular! by sfrenchie · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Top Research Labs in Human-Computer Interaction?
    He says that future HCI research is in jeopardy

    I *strongly* disagree with him on this. In fact, the opposite is true. It is only in the past few years that universities and industry have realized that there is a HUGE demand for human factors or HCI specialists.

    Engineering deparments are also realizing that undergrads can benefit greatly by taking a human factors course in product/system design.

    If any one is interested in bringing human factors into their engineering education I suggest you look at Kim Vicente who is trying to make human factors a part of every engineers education.

  29. But can it float? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Huntsville Concrete Rocket

    Sure it can fly... that's just a matter of putting enough explosives under it. The real question is: can you make concrete float? These guys can.

  30. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Huntsville Concrete Rocket

    "but my mind just can not wrap itself around a big hunko concrete actually floating"

    I'm part of a concrete canoe team at the University of Toronto, and yeah, the concrete itself is boyant. We use tiny glass bubbles as an aggregate and produce a mix that actually floats. You can find out more about the national competition here and the U of T's Team here.

  31. Re:there's some truth to that by Fjord · · Score: 1 · on AOL To Finally Switch To Mozilla?

    "Just install the obfust beta, using rpm -x /nd4 /35r -DNr with the gchunk v6.0.12.099 library installed in d5 mode while running as root, and everything will be fine." -- Commandline obviously made up

    Crap. I patched my gchunk source dinited to 5 for nothing.

    Actually I laughed out loud when I read that. Way too familiar.

    As for your query, sorry. I've never been a Novell person and only a BBS user, never a sysop. This page seems to imply you already have inbound telnet access. I think I need to know more about why you don't have the access? Does your netware server only have IPX? Or is it just forwarding on to the BBS that you need?

  32. Re:Career? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Non-Traditional Career Routes?
    resulting in a degree in Engineering Science


    The school I attend, the University of Toronto, has a similar program labelled Engineering Science. It's an accelerated program meant to initiate you to grad school. In the first two years you get a bit of everything, then in third year you pick a subject of major interest. I'm currently in second year, and I am planning to choose nanoengineering as my subject of major interest. The course work is demanding, but knowing that I have the background to pursue a lot of different options after my undergrad is great.

  33. Re:Man, this is easy by icejai · · Score: 1 · on Cracking Crypto To Get Into College
    I'm about middle of my course of 400 CompScis, and it took me all of five minutes to 'crack' the code, and solve the puzzle. Any kid who's done GCSE Computation (aged 14-16) should be able to work it out in less than half an hour.

    Yeah, of course it's easy, you're in the middle of your 400-level compsci course. And you already know how to convert numbers around to other bases.
    (It'd be really sad if you didn't)
    I know people in 300-level comp sci courses who still don't know how to convert base-X numbers to base-Y numbers.
    Can you believe it?? I'm still trying to get over it!

    I think this challenge is supposed to give students with low grades (maybe they're bored with school or something) a fighting chance at studying something they love to study.

    Heh, take me for example. I got into the University of Toronto's Engineering Science program with an 83% average. The average of the 'typical' student who gets accepted into that program is usually in the mid 90's. I got into the program with such a (relatively) low average because I ranked in the top 1.2% in the University's annual nation-wide physics competition.

    So, these contests/competitions aren't supposed to pick out future comp sci phD's.... they're supposed to reward the students who show potential.
  34. Re:Man, this is easy by icejai · · Score: 1 · on Cracking Crypto To Get Into College
    I'm about middle of my course of 400 CompScis, and it took me all of five minutes to 'crack' the code, and solve the puzzle. Any kid who's done GCSE Computation (aged 14-16) should be able to work it out in less than half an hour.

    Yeah, of course it's easy, you're in the middle of your 400-level compsci course. And you already know how to convert numbers around to other bases.
    (It'd be really sad if you didn't)
    I know people in 300-level comp sci courses who still don't know how to convert base-X numbers to base-Y numbers.
    Can you believe it?? I'm still trying to get over it!

    I think this challenge is supposed to give students with low grades (maybe they're bored with school or something) a fighting chance at studying something they love to study.

    Heh, take me for example. I got into the University of Toronto's Engineering Science program with an 83% average. The average of the 'typical' student who gets accepted into that program is usually in the mid 90's. I got into the program with such a (relatively) low average because I ranked in the top 1.2% in the University's annual nation-wide physics competition.

    So, these contests/competitions aren't supposed to pick out future comp sci phD's.... they're supposed to reward the students who show potential.
  35. Re:Given enough motivation by Mr.+Slippery · · Score: 2 · on Satellite Command Security?
    It is possible to make a black hole. The ability to "unmake" one is left as a exercise for the student.

    One need only wait. They unmake themselves. (You just may have to wait a very, very, very long time...)

  36. It gets better by s20451 · · Score: 3, Interesting · on The Humble Space Telescope

    To save costs, this thing was designed and built by students at Canadian universities. At the University of Toronto, a graduate student taking AER 1520H would have directly participated in the design of MOST. I have some friends who worked on this project ...

  37. This is Gay Pron by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Philips Improves Electronic Paper

    http://www.utoronto.ca/interv/frames2/general2/doc tors/gay/gay.htm

  38. Re:I think I saw something about this last night by JoeGee · · Score: 1 · on Ground-based Telescope as Sharp as Hubble

    Actually we are both wrong -- it's three billion to five billion years in the future. :)

    Peace,

    -Joe G.

  39. Re:Where the hell does Taco live? by wrenkin · · Score: 2 · on Review: Harry Potter

    At my school we have to wear academic gowns to eat in the very Hogwartish dining hall - Oak ceiling, stained glass, gilded rails, long oaken tables, tapestries, that kinda thing - every evening. So some girls spent all friday wearing their gowns around campus all day in a show of dedication to their magical hero, raising the ire of the less formal colleges. Then at night, they just put on some fan accoutrements and ran over to the theatre.

  40. Re:Domains? One. by wrenkin · · Score: 2 · on How Many Domains Does Your School Own?

    My school (University of Toronto) owns the domain name

    toronto.edu

    however they don't like to use it. Canadian universities don't seem to like it. I guess they like to be a little nationalistic and use the .ca instead. So we end up with toronto.edu just pointing to

    utoronto.ca

    Witness also queensu.ca and mcgill.ca , although I don't think they have .edu names at all. Some people, like the math department, seem to just use the .edu when they refer to their site, but it could be that my professor is just used to that idea. The country thing is acceptable, but I've never really appreciated it's ubiquitous use in some countries... like www.shoddyelectronics.com.tw , or www.random.co.uk . It just seems to give up the whole 'international marketplace' feel that .com is supposed to have.

  41. Re:A Clarification... by renard · · Score: 1 · on Macroscopic Quantum Entanglement
    Just looking around on the web (see this Google directory), I found a description of Bell's Theorem which is quite well done.

    I can't think of any similarly superior book treatments at the moment but I'll check my bookshelves and get back to you if I find something.

    -Renard

  42. Re:Ansible by huh_ · · Score: 1 · on Macroscopic Quantum Entanglement

    This site has a pretty good explanation of quantum teleportation. It also shows why there would not be a duplicate copy of something that is teleported because it destroys the state of the original automatically.

  43. Video of RC controlled ornithopter... by jvl001 · · Score: 1 · on Real-life Ornithopter to Take Flight?

    The same group also produced a scale model ornithopter that successfully flew a few years ago.

    Feel free to slashdot the following links. 'Mr. Bill' in flight (MPEG) and a bit of background UTIAS Flight Dynamics .

  44. Video of RC controlled ornithopter... by jvl001 · · Score: 1 · on Real-life Ornithopter to Take Flight?

    The same group also produced a scale model ornithopter that successfully flew a few years ago.

    Feel free to slashdot the following links. 'Mr. Bill' in flight (MPEG) and a bit of background UTIAS Flight Dynamics .

  45. homemade solver by Pink+Daisy · · Score: 4, Interesting · on When Lego Meet Rubik

    I've some friends who built a similar machine, but with more primitive construction materials. They did it for a second year design course at the University of Toronto. Details available here.

  46. Re:So called "Great Programmer" by Tackhead · · Score: 2 · on Finally, A Solution To The DMCA
    > The Great Programmer really was probably a kid playing with Deity Basic his mom got him for christmas and now we're stuck living in his malformed world because he doesn't know proper techniques.

    Hmm, maybe that explains the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. He was using FDIVs on a Pentium to model the particle positions and momentum vectors.

    (Schrodinger's Cat is just the Excel spreadsheet that makes it show up in dollar amounts. Bell's Theorem is, uh... well, we're still trying to figure that one out. But it's pretty weird)

  47. Re:Gestapo tactics like this....Move where? by banshee2000 · · Score: 1 · on Under The Surface Of The BSA Anti-Piracy Campaign
    Somebody should put together a site of "fair-use friendly" countries with decent Internet access...maybe we should all move there.

    That won't work because at the recent G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, matters like this were discussed the crux of which follows:

    Over several months, through a rich and unprecedented mix of plenary meetings, informal consultations, meetings with stakeholders , and electronic outreach to broader audiences across the world, [read WTO] the DOT Force has examined in depth the challenge of bridging the digital divide and harnessing the power of information and communications technologies (ICT) and global networks to assure opportunity, empowerment and inclusion for all. The DOT Force [Digital Opportunity Task Force] has analyzed the underlying causes of the digital divide , the poverty-reducing and empowering potential of new technologies, and the complex mix of strategies, policies, investments, and actions required to create digital opportunities for all while addressing key development imperatives.[read multi-national corporations


    The interests that were included in these high level talks included ....
    • OECD Dubai Emerging Market Economy Forum on E-Commerce, 16-18 January 2001
    • Berlin, DSE Policy Forum on "Digital Inclusion", 23-24 January 2001
    • Davos, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, 29 January 2001
    • Cairo, IDSC/Egyptian Cabinet Conference on E-Business and Development, 12-15 February, 2001
    • Naples, Third Global Forum, March 14-17, 2001.
    Full text available: here
  48. Re:Blatant plug by s20451 · · Score: 1 · on Cross Country Solar Race

    Yes, well done Queen's. You may have your solar car, since we all know that U of T is the best school in Canada, nay, the Universe. Who names a school "Queen's", anyway?

  49. Galactic Collisions and Starburst Galaxies by RobertFisher · · Score: 5 · on Milky Way & Andromeda Collision

    Galactic collisions are actually relatively common in Nature; typical galactic separations are of order hundreds to thousands of kiloparsecs (kpc), whereas a typical galaxy is of order a few kpc in radius. Moreover, galaxies form along a highly filamentary spiderwork of structure in the early universe, and tend to flow inwards to more massive galaxies.

    This situation is to be contrasted with the fate of stars during a galactic collision. Stellar radii are about 10^8 times smaller than the typical interstellar separation, so the vast majority of stars will simply fly right by another. A few stars will probably encounter a direct encounter (particularly if the initial pass is close enough to raise subtantial tides on the stars, which would act to drain energy and angular momentum from the system), but the vast majority fly by unscathed.

    It is true, however, that gaseous clouds in the interstellar medium are much more extended that stars, and collision between clouds (particularly giant molecular clouds) will be quite spectacular. It is hypothesized that cloud collisions as well as gaseous flows (bringing tremendous influxes of mass to the galactic nuclar region) resulting from galactic collisions can account for the tremendous bursts of star formation seen in "starburst" galaxies such as NGC 1808.

    In any case, the future collision of the Milky Way with Andromeda will be quite fascinating for far future Milky Way astronomers (if any are still around). Or perhaps for astronomers in other galaxies, far, far away...

    Bob

  50. Re:Does anyone need an SUV? (game theory) by t0005 · · Score: 1 · on Technology And The Fast Food Nation
    The element of comparison in positional goods is what leads to the development of consumerism. There are many examples of positional goods that figure prominently in our society, but the most commonly noted one is status. Status is intrinsically comparative, in the same way that wanting to be above average is. And individuals often purchase goods in order to achieve status - hence the well-known phenomenon of conspicuous consumption. The problem with the quest for positional goods, according to the liberal view, is not that it is unseemly to try one-upping one's neighbours, but that when one's neighbours try to do the same, the interaction has a suboptimal, or Pareto-inefficient outcome. It is a type of prisoner's dilemma.

    According to this view, the sense of dissatisfaction associated with consumerism is a consequence of the suboptimal outcome that this interaction pattern generates. Suppose that two neighbours each want to project an image of success, and that projecting such an image becomes essential to their sense of well-being. The problem, of course, with projecting an image of success is that success is entirely relative. What were considered sure signs of prosperity and success twenty years ago are now just rudimentary components of a middle-class lifestyle. The only way to project success is to appear more successful than one's neighbours - to drive a nicer car, have a larger house, and so on. Thus comparative consumption can easily become competitive consumption. And in many circumstances, this competition becomes a race to the bottom.

    Suppose that both neighbours are working a standard week, and driving modest sedans. However, by putting in a bit of overtime, it is possible for each to buy a more expensive car, say an SUV. Suppose further that the extra status associated with being the only one to own such a vehicle is of greater value than the foregone leisure time, and that the humiliation associated with being the only one not to own such a vehicle is worse than the loss of leisure.

    Both neighbours will decide to work harder, either to get the extra status, or just to avoid the humiliation. As a result, they will wind up right back where they started - both driving the same type of car, both having the same relative status - except that now they will be working harder in order to maintain their lifestyle. Thus the outcome produced through status competition is inferior, from both of the participants' perspectives, to the situation that initially obtained. (Notice, incidentally, that the possibilities for status competition are limited by the range of consumption goods available. The appearance of exotic new consumption goods makes it possible for individuals to distinguish themselves in a new way. Thus consumers can be harmed by the introduction of new status goods, even if they voluntarily purchase them.)

    excerpt from:
    The Structure of Hip Consumerism
    by Professor Joseph Heath