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The flexibility of the building might be a key part of its earthquake protection, and it probably doesn't need fixing.

True points, though both safety and comfort can be improved with the addition of one or more tuned mass dampers.

Not even remotely related

Failure to include a correctly functioning resonance damper is still negligence.

Korea's got a dramatic history with such things. 500 people died in that one.

You people need some patience and perspective. Here's one of the previous state of the art pictures: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Vesta-HST-Color.jpg . And apart from the huge improvement already evident there's the fact that Dawn is supposed to be in orbit for a year. Expecting maximum performance at this point is misguided.

[...] should we REALLY be trying to save people from starvation who will never be able to provide for themselves?

Yes, but we should also sterilize them so they don't make the problem worse.

why encourage third world countries to continue to increase their populations when they can't feed themselves?

Ask the Pope the next time he's in town. The "no condoms" rule Catholics have has caused enough AIDS and overpopulation.

genetic superiority = https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Supremacism

Independence to Kashmir as per https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolutions_1_to_100 will stop bomb blasts in India.
A terrorist is a freedom fighter who isn't on your side.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Osmanistan

Independence to Kashmir as per https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolutions_1_to_100 will stop bomb blasts in India.
A terrorist is a freedom fighter who isn't on your side.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Osmanistan

Apparently whether they are classified as Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neanderthalensis is still debated by anthropologists. Neanderthal: Classification

I'd say, given that they were at least very similar to modern humans and there was at least some interbreeding, that it's easiest to just call them humans,

Obviously Kootol has never seen any old hacker movies like the "The Cuckoo's Egg." or the like, For that matter. what about semaphore on military ships or the telegraph from the 1800's, some stations actual had two telegraphs just for that purpose. Arpanet I think used to do the same thing also. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/ARPANET

Just because something isn't specifically protected by the Constitution doesn't mean it isn't a right.

The 9th Amendment agrees:
"The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

The original Apple logo was an elaborate drawing of Newton sitting under an apple tree

for us lazy slashdotters: click here for the logo

they even filed it at the European Patent Office. it is not perfect and we saw some exceptions but in general the rule no software patents is working and enforced.

why did they try this? it's madness...

History contradicts your assertions.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:MarginalIncomeTax.svg

Tax rates for the rich were high through the "golden age" of the 50's and 60's: in fact, in 1953, when unemployment was lowest, the tax rate on the rich was close to its highest.

Jobs are created when money is in circulation. High taxes on the rich take money out of hoarding and put it into circulation. When taxes are low, the rich hoard money: sure, there's some investment in enterprise, but there's far more speculation in commodities, real estate, currencies, metals, etc. Except for real estate, these don't create jobs: commodities do fine without speculation, and real estate only produces jobs when it's residential or commercial and new and not-bubbly, not when it's about buying up farmland in central Africa (like some major funds now do).

Tax rates haven't been as low as they are now since the beginning of the Great Depression. It's periods of low taxation that sequester money and deprive free enterprise of demand for its products (that is to say, of the supply of money). Under low rates of taxation, only the super-wealthy gain, while the economy rots away, whereas under high rates of top-bracket taxation, the entire country grows richer, including the ultra-rich, but they just get richer more slowly.

If the reason for it being spherical is to allow it to recover being rolled on the ground, why not build the shell as a gömböc, so it'll always self-right?

He is proposing planet scale CDN.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Content_delivery_network

My roommate had a similar thing happen at Virginia Tech. At the time he was attending (this may still be true), they had 1 psychiatrist for the entirety of the student population. My roommate has anxiety, but because he's at college they wouldn't prescribe a benzo for him because they feared he would abuse/sell them rather than use them treat his legitimate medical condition (you know, the anxiety that prompted him to see a shrink in the first place).

They put him on an anti-psychotic instead, he then developed Akathisia (common when anti-psychotics are prescribed to people who don't need them) and had to drop out of that semester because he wasn't able to attend class in his condition. My roommate says that over the years that he was seeing this doctor, he must've been prescribed at least a dozen medications, none of which were meant for anxiety. He was being used as a guinea pig by this doctor.

Fortunately, when he dropped out and went home he got to see a psychiatrist who didn't have their head up their ass and they immediately prescribed him a benzo for his anxiety, he is doing much better now. He still has times when he feels like the Akathisia is coming back, he says these are absolutely the most terrifying experiences he can imagine.

This was around the same time when that crazy kid shot up the Virginia Tech campus. With psychiatric care like this happening it isn't the least bit surprising.

Yeah I understand that OS X is pretty far away from BSD (though it is based on it). But their are some Linux Graphics/UIs that are compatible ever heard of this little piece of software called X Window System.

It's been done.

If you "know where to look something up" then you know it provided you've Bookmarked it.

Not necessarily. A web publisher might poorly maintain the URLs where documents can be found, or it might consider a document no longer worthy of publication. I've discovered that knowing the title and/or author of a document is sometimes more reliable than knowing a URL.

Looking for deep budget cuts? I'd love to see some numbers for TSA expenses to me and mine.

People are really clueless about where the budget goes. TSA: $8.1 billion, total budget: $3,456 billion. So if they eliminated the TSA and gave you the money back, your taxes would go down 0.2%. Here's where the money is going. and here's where it's coming from. Notice that discretionary spending, the only part conservatives talk about cutting, is just 19% of the budget. Note also that income taxes, the only part conservatives talk about cutting, are only 42% of all taxes. This is not where the real problems are.

Looking for deep budget cuts? I'd love to see some numbers for TSA expenses to me and mine.

People are really clueless about where the budget goes. TSA: $8.1 billion, total budget: $3,456 billion. So if they eliminated the TSA and gave you the money back, your taxes would go down 0.2%. Here's where the money is going. and here's where it's coming from. Notice that discretionary spending, the only part conservatives talk about cutting, is just 19% of the budget. Note also that income taxes, the only part conservatives talk about cutting, are only 42% of all taxes. This is not where the real problems are.

It even deeper than what you stated.

People have been studying these concepts for over almost 100 years.

Read some of the work done by Edward Bernays. Much of his work was used for political purposes but it was also tested and adopted by companies as well. He helped open up the world to not just buying "stuff" you needed for function, consumption, and usage with no emotional attachments. He transformed that into people wanting to choosing specific products for the prestige and influence of owning that product.

Perhaps these people need to sit down, take a look at what people are enjoying playing and why they enjoy it, and get back in touch with their market.

They are looking at the only thing that matters to them - profits. EA and the like are not into the business of innovation. They are in the business of taking old ideas, polishing them into shiny new boxes and selling them to you all over again.
And you know what? It works great for them. Why bother inventing things when you can just buy them?

Lem is great! A good starting point are The Star Diaries, a collection of short stories - they give a good overview of the range of Lem's style(s).

Is that regular avian delivery? or with QOS?

The Commonwealth has no real ability to project power. If Australia were invaded, no other Commonwealth nation has the firepower, the assets, the logistics train, or the economic ability to undertake such a huge and difficult mission. Even the United States, with its unquestioned dominance of the seas and the best logistics operations in the world, takes months to years to build up or withdraw military forces on that scale, and as current budgetary crises show, difficulty sustaining the expense. Aircraft carriers and amphibious battle groups are the only means of quickly moving in enough firepower to deter and defeat a major invasion, and aircraft carriers require a supply chain that needs protection the whole way.

Have a look at https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_in_service ... it pretty much tells the tale. If you add up the tonnage of every other operational aircraft carrier in the world (which maps well to the number of aircraft they sustain), that's still less than 25% of the US capability. And that doesn't even take into account operational expertise

Commonwealth military power consists of domestic defense (land-based air forces, conventional armies) and small expeditionary forces (special forces and sufficient logistics to supply those small special forces groups). Even Great Britain, by a huge margin the most powerful of the Commonwealth nations, has a limited ability to forward-deploy air power and ground troops, and exactly one aircraft carrier; no other Commonwealth nation has even one. Consider the Falklands war. Great Britain had a whole lot more trouble than many people seem to believe, and that was against a country with essentially a third-world army, an air force of a dozen aircraft, and a handful of French-built Exocet missiles. Great Britain's navy is in worse condition now than it was then, and Australia's heavyweight neighbors are much more militarily powerful than Argentina's.

Or to restate, just how would the Commonwealth be able to get its armies and the (literally) millions of tons of equipment and supplies needed to Australia? Quantas? UPS?

There are excellent reasons why Australia has such a hunger for FA-18s and is waiting so eagerly for F-35s. Those aircraft are all that would stand between Darwin and Jakarta if things went badly.

That, and the US navy.

The US, if it really needed to, could have half a thousand first-rate combat aircraft, ten thousand combat-ready Marines, a full armored division, and a couple hundred aircraft-deployed nuclear weapons anywhere in the world within two weeks. This, more than anything else, is the core of US military strength; not the missiles, not the AIr Force (which must operate from land bases) and not the regular land Army. The US is a naval power; indeed, it is the only naval power with a global capability.

All nationalism aside, those are the facts. Waving Australian flags and burning American flags doesn't change that. 50 years from now, who knows what things will be like, but today, that's stark reality.

You keep using this term, I do not think it means what you think it means.

Unless you're suggesting the US Government is behind wikileaks?
False flag (aka Black Flag) operations are covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities.

Can someone please explain to me why despite the fairly linear rising budget of NASA we are shutting everything down right now? Is mismanagement really that bad at NASA? Is it saddled with debt from past programs?

I don't get it. It's like I'm watching my generation drop the ball despite all the obvious reasons in my mind to establish a presence off this rock. "Oh, my parents' generation put people on the moon. Not only did my generation stop putting people and telescopes in space, we also made ground observatories illegal and have re-instituted burning people who claim the Earth is not the center of the universe. Why? Because it was more affordable in the very immediate future."

Maybe NASA is that mismanaged, but your own link includes a graph showing that NASA's budget has been in general decline since 1991: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/NASA_budget_linegraph_BH.PNG

Wondering will TSA do the same to Malia and Natasha.

I believe Gates is influenced/impressed by https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Toilets_in_Japan

as the other AC wrote this is not an ID card, see here for an actual Austrian "Personalausweis".

Want further evidence? See the Milgram experiment, where 2/3rds of people were willing to kill another person because an authority figure told them to. Not bad apples, not racists, not evil doers, not terrorists, just people--you and me and our neighbors.

You've never met my neighbors.

So are they the sociopaths willing to randomly kill people, or are you willing to randomly kill them?

Want further evidence? See the Milgram experiment, where 2/3rds of people were willing to kill another person because an authority figure told them to. Not bad apples, not racists, not evil doers, not terrorists, just people--you and me and our neighbors.

You've never met my neighbors.

So are they the sociopaths willing to randomly kill people, or are you willing to randomly kill them?

Want further evidence? See the Milgram experiment, where 2/3rds of people were willing to kill another person because an authority figure told them to. Not bad apples, not racists, not evil doers, not terrorists, just people--you and me and our neighbors.

You've never met my neighbors.

Want further evidence? See the Milgram experiment, where 2/3rds of people were willing to kill another person because an authority figure told them to. Not bad apples, not racists, not evil doers, not terrorists, just people--you and me and our neighbors.

You've never met my neighbors.

The way they all got so pulled into the experiment is just crazy. Luckily, Zimbardo's grad student girlfriend came around.

This is one of the most fascinating insights: it's not crazy but typical. These were students who tested average on psychological exams (to the extent you can measure average), and still did these atrocious acts on people just like themselves. On fellow students whose only crime was the flip of a coin. Want further evidence? See the Milgram experiment, where 2/3rds of people were willing to kill another person because an authority figure told them to. Not bad apples, not racists, not evil doers, not terrorists, just people--you and me and our neighbors.

The experiments are no longer allowed in psychiatric studies, but are allowed in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Egypt (under Mubarak, not sure about now), Romania, Israel (where torture testimony is admissible), Afghanistan, and others. Where is Zimbardo's girlfriend now? You, me, our neighbors?

The way they all got so pulled into the experiment is just crazy. Luckily, Zimbardo's grad student girlfriend came around.

This is one of the most fascinating insights: it's not crazy but typical. These were students who tested average on psychological exams (to the extent you can measure average), and still did these atrocious acts on people just like themselves. On fellow students whose only crime was the flip of a coin. Want further evidence? See the Milgram experiment, where 2/3rds of people were willing to kill another person because an authority figure told them to. Not bad apples, not racists, not evil doers, not terrorists, just people--you and me and our neighbors.

The experiments are no longer allowed in psychiatric studies, but are allowed in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Egypt (under Mubarak, not sure about now), Romania, Israel (where torture testimony is admissible), Afghanistan, and others. Where is Zimbardo's girlfriend now? You, me, our neighbors?

Thinking that nature thinks, and that if it does it cares at all about our survival, is pretty much the stupidest thing I can imagine.

IMO, reification is generally pretty stupid, and has no legitimate place outside of literature and poetry, where it's called "personification". It doesn't make sense to treat nature, society, government, or any abstraction as if it has a concrete existence and can think, plan, know, desire, or do anything on its own.

according to The German bee monitoring project: a long term study to understand periodically high winter losses of honey bee colonies the main cause are infections with Varroa destructor .

Kinda...see 24m20s (great video by Neil deGrasse Tyson)
The middle-east region had a great period for astronomy (and art, math, biology etc). Which was then followed by al-Ghazali - who brought the world Sufism.
So it was in spite of Islam that the region did so well, not because of it.

Kinda...see 24m20s (great video by Neil deGrasse Tyson)
The middle-east region had a great period for astronomy (and art, math, biology etc). Which was then followed by al-Ghazali - who brought the world Sufism.
So it was in spite of Islam that the region did so well, not because of it.

Most NICs support either intentional or "back-door" MAC address cloning. Cloud-computing resources can crack your WEP (trivial), WPA (harder/slower), and WPA2 (much harder and slower, but still doable, unless you rotate them daily).

Your comment about MAC address cloning is correct.

However, it would be nice with some citations to back up your claims about WPA2. If what you are saying is true, then I would have expected to see publications that describe such a revolutionary attack against WPA2.

First of all, a WEP attack does not require any cloud computing. The bottleneck is capturing enough traffic (802.11 frames). The attack itself can be run on any ordinary computer and will find the key quickly. With an active attack (e.g. aircrack-ng in PTW mode), WEP can be broken in 1-2 minutes. A passive attack takes far more time, and depends on the amount of traffic on the network. Since the attacker spent 2 weeks cracking the WEP encryption, I assume that he was using a passive attack. Note that the WEP attacks are exploiting protocol vulnerabilities, they do not assume anything about the passphrase.

Now, for WPA and WPA2. There are some published vulnerabilities in TKIP, which is used in WPA and (optionally) in WPA2. Exploiting these vulnerabilities lets an attacker inject traffic on the network, but only from the access point to the client. AES-CCMP, which is supported by WPA2, does not have these vulnerabilities.

Your reference to cloud computing is probably based on dictionary attacks against the passphrase used in WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK. This kind of attack can only succeed if the entropy of the passphrase is low. If you have a long enough and random enough passphrase, then this kind of attack will not work. Example: 'pwgen -s 32' will give you approximately 190 bits of entropy (pwgen -s uses [a-zA-Z0-9], which is 62 different characters, so a random passphrase of 32 characters gives log_2(62^(32)) bits of entropy). Have a look at the theoretical limits of brute-force attacks to put that into perspective.

To summarize: You are wrong, possibly suffering from False Authority Syndrome, and spreading FUD. The fact that you comment is modded +5 Insightful says quite a lot about the knowledge of slashdot moderators. The proper advice would be to tell people to use WPA2 with AES-CCMP only, and to use a long, random passphrase. 'pwgen -s 32' has more than enough entropy to prevent dictionary attacks with cloud computing.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager

Somebody's wiki link is wrong then... Since I can back it up I suspect yours is.

Given that the most of the country's power comes from coal it really doesn't matter anyway.

While I agree that it doesn't matter because they're going to burn coal anyhow, it's not true that most of the country's power comes from coal.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/US_historical_energy_consumption.PNG

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Boundary_layer

No one declares anti-semitism, but anti-zionism.
Zionism is the political movement to re-establish the Jewish State, contradicting the scriptures about staying away... (Why keep Sabbath then?).

In any case, the Zionists waged war and won the land by force, then proceed to get rid of locals, who naturally resisted the invasion in any way they could. Lots of slaughtering and struggle in the process; oh yes, the Zionists did started with terrorism when the land was controlled by the UK... Were you not told about King David Hotel bombing?

The methods the Israeli forces use are simply mass murdering people trapped and sieged in ghettos. Sounds familiar doesn't it? Yes, ethnic cleansing it is; and all sorts of air bombardment and land and even sea warfare against civilians, mostly armed with just rocks and pitiful glorified firecrackers. No NATO bombing, or no fly zones there... Thousands of innocent people die in Gaza, the UN doesn't care, even after Israel destroys UN facilities there.

Say what you like about Iran, they haven't dropped white phosphor cluster bombs against civilians, Israel has; everyone watched "Cast Lead". Israel once bombed a Nuclear power plant in Irak, but nothing of the sort has occurred to Israel from Irak. And before there were incidents like the Sabra and Shatilla massacre, guess who was involved? The current Prime Minister... Reality surpasses intentions.

Things like executions occur when you let religious extremists in power. It would be the same if you followed your traditions to the letter. Do not forget both religions have the same root, and Christianity as well. And all of them have committed atrocities in the past, and in that very same patch of land even.

The Islam scripture actually treat Jews (and Christians) with respect, and before the Zionists invaded, local Jews and Christians did live there just like they live in other countries.

You say Israel is "surrounded", No s*** Sherlock, Zionists invaded the land and waged war against all its neighbors (defeating them). Thats when a violent future for Israel was sealed; and you have fanatics killing their own leaders, when daring to reach peace after decades of bloodshed.

Zionists don't care about anything and anyone, they want their conquered land clean of Palestinians and anti-zionists and they don't care about the UN or even if the whole world declared war against them, they have the nukes ready should they ever lose.

"Anti-semitism" is Zionist propaganda against anyone who dares think different.

No one declares anti-semitism, but anti-zionism.
Zionism is the political movement to re-establish the Jewish State, contradicting the scriptures about staying away... (Why keep Sabbath then?).

In any case, the Zionists waged war and won the land by force, then proceed to get rid of locals, who naturally resisted the invasion in any way they could. Lots of slaughtering and struggle in the process; oh yes, the Zionists did started with terrorism when the land was controlled by the UK... Were you not told about King David Hotel bombing?

The methods the Israeli forces use are simply mass murdering people trapped and sieged in ghettos. Sounds familiar doesn't it? Yes, ethnic cleansing it is; and all sorts of air bombardment and land and even sea warfare against civilians, mostly armed with just rocks and pitiful glorified firecrackers. No NATO bombing, or no fly zones there... Thousands of innocent people die in Gaza, the UN doesn't care, even after Israel destroys UN facilities there.

Say what you like about Iran, they haven't dropped white phosphor cluster bombs against civilians, Israel has; everyone watched "Cast Lead". Israel once bombed a Nuclear power plant in Irak, but nothing of the sort has occurred to Israel from Irak. And before there were incidents like the Sabra and Shatilla massacre, guess who was involved? The current Prime Minister... Reality surpasses intentions.

Things like executions occur when you let religious extremists in power. It would be the same if you followed your traditions to the letter. Do not forget both religions have the same root, and Christianity as well. And all of them have committed atrocities in the past, and in that very same patch of land even.

The Islam scripture actually treat Jews (and Christians) with respect, and before the Zionists invaded, local Jews and Christians did live there just like they live in other countries.

You say Israel is "surrounded", No s*** Sherlock, Zionists invaded the land and waged war against all its neighbors (defeating them). Thats when a violent future for Israel was sealed; and you have fanatics killing their own leaders, when daring to reach peace after decades of bloodshed.

Zionists don't care about anything and anyone, they want their conquered land clean of Palestinians and anti-zionists and they don't care about the UN or even if the whole world declared war against them, they have the nukes ready should they ever lose.

"Anti-semitism" is Zionist propaganda against anyone who dares think different.