"Anomalous cosmic rays, which are cosmic rays trapped in the outer heliosphere, all but vanished, dropping to less than 1 percent of previous amounts."
and also
"galactic cosmic rays – cosmic radiation from outside of the solar system – spiked to levels not seen since Voyager's launch, with intensities as much as twice previous levels"
No, according to NASA's Voyager project page, Voyager 1 won't escape the Oort cloud (really the outer Oort cloud) for another 14,000 - 28,000 years. (Probably due to running out of power in the next 10 to 15 years.)
* Ankle weights. Since you're at a standing desk, put weights on your ankles. It added a surprising amount of extra work for my legs, moving that weight when I shifted my feet around.
* Sit on a fitness/yoga ball. I got tired standing so long, and my feet got sore. So I followed my co-workers' advice and alternated standing with sitting on a yoga ball. It takes the stress off your feet and legs for a bit, and really works your core (abs). Plus, it improved my posture (until I figured out a bizarre way to slouch while on a yoga ball.
* Electronic muscle stimulator. It's basically isometric exercises, but you don't have to think about doing them - turn on the device and it forces your muscles to flex at specific rates. I hated the feeling of being out of control, but my brother has been talking up his for years.
If your pages are not connected via links to any extern sites, then by definitionem, they are not part of the World Wide Web.
Do search engines count? Two of my sites are only linked from Google - a Google search for "link:sitename.com" yields no results, but Googling "sitename", "sitename.com" or some of the other variations returns all the pages. So they are reachable by people who know about them, and also to people who don't know the URL or IP address but know what to search for, but the site fail the "19 clicks" test unless someone has linked to a Google search that returns this site in the results. (Hasn't happened as far as I can tell.)
Replacing the comment score filter slider with "All", "Outstanding" and "Funny" buttons is a serious loss of functionality. I'm pretty happy browsing at +1 or +2 usually, please let me continue!
And how do you determine the age of some random rocky mass that you can't even image?
According to the BBC article, they simply guessed the age. The sub-brown dwarf or rogue planet seems to be travelling with a group of stars, and they've estimated the age of the stars to be 50 - 120 million years. It's a form of extra-solar profiling: That thing over there isn't a star, but it's hanging out with those other stars, so it must the same age as them. (Which is apparently OK to do for stars, but not people?)
Or perhaps you've heard the saying about 75% of people think they're above average? I'm sure there's a real study behind that, somewhere, but it strikes a chord for all of us, either way.;)
It's easy for most of us to be above average, if the people at the bottom are far from the mean. Take five students writing a test: four of them score 50/100, one falls asleep and scores 0/100. The average score is therefore 40/100, and so 80% of the students scored above average. When you were thinking up the saying, you must have meant the mean not the average?
Getting Windows 7 from a shop is surprisingly expensive
He didn't even look. NewEgg is selling it for $99. A 30 day WoW subscription is listed on the Blizzard store for $15. So your OS costs less than 7 months of playing just one of the games you listed - tell me again what's expensive?
As of this posting, the port linked in the article doesn't work on Opera 11.64 (Win 32). Luckily, Wolfenstein 3D has already been ported to a 4KB Java applet, for the 2011 Java4K competition. Go play it there instead.
The actual question is why weren't you a responsible parent and with your son?
If you'd been with your son they'd have sent him through with you and there'd have been no problem.
Because you're only allowed to go through security if you have a valid boarding pass. I worked an extra three hours that day so I could take them to the airport and see them off.
and I've never in my lunch wanted to just hit someone as badly as I did then.
Never in your lunch? Is that some weird Canadian phrase? Or are you just hungry?
Mistype a few letters and auto-correct gets to turn a serious comment into a joke. Not quite DYAC quality, but I'm sure it will happen to us all at some point.
This isn't just happening in the US anymore. My wife flew from Ottawa to London, Ontario with our two kids (2 month old daughter and 2 year old son) last July. They made my son take off his jacket, hat and teddy bear, put them through the x-ray, then wait on one side of the metal detector while my wife went through with our daughter. At that point he starting crying and trying to pull away from the big stranger forcefully restraining him from his mom. After verifying that my wife and daughter didn't set off the alarm, they waited for all the items to go through the x-ray. Only then did they sent my son through the metal detector, on his own. I got to watch the whole scenario from the dining area on the next floor up, and I've never in my lunch wanted to just hit someone as badly as I did then.
Can anyone venture a plausible reason why they couldn't have sent my son through with my wife, and then just scanned them individually in the event that the detector went off?
There may be a lot of farming in PEI, but our two main population centres have plenty of IT opportunities. My company is looking for a half dozen more senior Java developers, CGI employs twenty times more staff than we do (at various skill levels), and the local government has been advertising the island as a good near-shore location. It's pretty nice to be able to buy a house near the beach, for a reasonable price, and commute to downtown in only 15-20 minutes. And get paid almost what I would get in Ottawa.
[offtopic_shameless_plug]My company in also needs some senior developers for our PEI office, mostly for Java client/server work. Don't email me, just click the Careers link on our website.[/offtopic_shameless_plug]
On topic, I'm glad to see at least some of our justices are taking their jobs seriously. Appointed by Stephen Harper, yet curtailing government invasion into private lives. A nice breath of fresh air in a recent gale of anti-privacy legislation. (Thanks Michael Geist, for keeping us abreast of all the government's IT shenanigans!
They may be new to the supreme court, but they're hardly rookie judges! Michael Moldaver was a judge on the Supreme Court of Ontario 20 years ago, and Andromache Karakatsanis was a judge on the same court 10 years ago, after being Deputy Attorney General of Ontario.
Yes, most of the tax programs include both. There are some exceptions, where certain programs don't support some schedules (schedule = supplementary form.) e.g. StudioTax is totally free, but doesn't support schedule T1273 - the AgriStability / AgriInvest Programs. Since that's only for certain farmers, the majority of filers could use that software to prepare their taxes. As far as I know, filing in Canada is always free: either by phone, electronically, or by hardcopy snailmail.
I realize most of you will assume this question is USA related (I see the firehose story got tagged with "usa" quite quickly), but it applies to lots of other countries too. In Canada, we're supposed to use NETFILE certified software, most of which is free up to a certain income threshold. The Canada Revenue Agency has a list of all software certified for your 2012 filing (i.e.: 2011 tax year). Some of those same companies are probably certified by the IRS for filing taxes in the USA too.
I live in Toronto, a few blocks from the windmill on the lakeshore. Since the windmill went in, my home's propey value has, approximately, doubled, along with the rest of the neighborhood.. The concern is pure BS, just like the shit about windmill health issues.
I think your property value has doubled because you live a few blocks from the lakeshore in Toronto. Without the windmill, perhaps it might have increased even further in value.
PS: That windmill went in 10 years ago; home values in many other major cities without windmills (e.g.: Ottawa or Brampton) have nearly doubled in that time too.
Silly, that one was about a system at MIT that captured scatter at 2 x 10^-15 seconds resolution. This one is a system at MIT that captures at 2 x 10^-12 seconds resolution. Clearly they should be different stories on Slashdot.
Irony is, most people probably already have a G+ account, even if they never signed up for one.
A Google+ account is not the same thing as a Google account. You have to sign up for G+, it's not automatic. For example, Google Apps administrators have to specifically enable Google+ access for their users, after which the users then have to use their Apps account to sign up for G+.
I seriously wonder how they're being detected. The only thing telescopes can do is detect emission in the light spectrum.
This detection is by the Spitzer Space Telescope, which looks at the infrared spectrum - not visible light. As for how they found particles so small, the answer is that they found a lot of them. The NASA press release states:
They found the particles around a pair of stars called "XX Ophiuchi," 6,500 light-years from Earth, and detected enough to fill the equivalent in volume to 10,000 Mount Everests.... It even found them in staggering quantities [in gaseous form], the equivalent in mass to 15 Earth moons, in a nearby galaxy called the Small Magellanic Cloud....
For writing, magneto-optical drives only used the laser to heat up a bit to a point where it could be flipped. The actual magnetic drive head flipped the heated bit, not the laser. This post says they can now use the laser to flip a bit, and that's a big difference.
deliberately chose obsolete and niche GPS devices that would show the most interference... The tests also included receivers that were tested without interference filters that normally would be included in a complete device for consumers
If true, the use of units without filters may be enough to invalidate the tests. It would be similar to testing a microwave for radiation leakage, with the door removed.
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the linked stories don't mention how big a change in radiation was experienced. Are we talking 10%, or a factor of 10?
Yes they did, from TFA:
"Anomalous cosmic rays, which are cosmic rays trapped in the outer heliosphere, all but vanished, dropping to less than 1 percent of previous amounts."
and also
"galactic cosmic rays – cosmic radiation from outside of the solar system – spiked to levels not seen since Voyager's launch, with intensities as much as twice previous levels"
Its already pasted the ort cloud
No, according to NASA's Voyager project page, Voyager 1 won't escape the Oort cloud (really the outer Oort cloud) for another 14,000 - 28,000 years. (Probably due to running out of power in the next 10 to 15 years.)
The transcript is immediately below the video. Click the "Hide/Show Transcript" link.
If your pages are not connected via links to any extern sites, then by definitionem, they are not part of the World Wide Web.
Do search engines count? Two of my sites are only linked from Google - a Google search for "link:sitename.com" yields no results, but Googling "sitename", "sitename.com" or some of the other variations returns all the pages. So they are reachable by people who know about them, and also to people who don't know the URL or IP address but know what to search for, but the site fail the "19 clicks" test unless someone has linked to a Google search that returns this site in the results. (Hasn't happened as far as I can tell.)
Replacing the comment score filter slider with "All", "Outstanding" and "Funny" buttons is a serious loss of functionality. I'm pretty happy browsing at +1 or +2 usually, please let me continue!
And how do you determine the age of some random rocky mass that you can't even image?
According to the BBC article, they simply guessed the age. The sub-brown dwarf or rogue planet seems to be travelling with a group of stars, and they've estimated the age of the stars to be 50 - 120 million years. It's a form of extra-solar profiling: That thing over there isn't a star, but it's hanging out with those other stars, so it must the same age as them. (Which is apparently OK to do for stars, but not people?)
Or perhaps you've heard the saying about 75% of people think they're above average? I'm sure there's a real study behind that, somewhere, but it strikes a chord for all of us, either way. ;)
It's easy for most of us to be above average, if the people at the bottom are far from the mean. Take five students writing a test: four of them score 50/100, one falls asleep and scores 0/100. The average score is therefore 40/100, and so 80% of the students scored above average. When you were thinking up the saying, you must have meant the mean not the average?
Getting Windows 7 from a shop is surprisingly expensive
He didn't even look. NewEgg is selling it for $99. A 30 day WoW subscription is listed on the Blizzard store for $15. So your OS costs less than 7 months of playing just one of the games you listed - tell me again what's expensive?
So, hot on the heals of a Slashdot story about Australia moving to fibre so they can push VOIP, we now get a story that states that they want to:
force all Australian telcos and internet service providers to store the online data of all Australians for up to two years
Yeah, don't worry - they're not related though. Really, we just think VOIP will improve everyone's lives.
As of this posting, the port linked in the article doesn't work on Opera 11.64 (Win 32). Luckily, Wolfenstein 3D has already been ported to a 4KB Java applet, for the 2011 Java4K competition. Go play it there instead.
The actual question is why weren't you a responsible parent and with your son?
If you'd been with your son they'd have sent him through with you and there'd have been no problem.
Because you're only allowed to go through security if you have a valid boarding pass. I worked an extra three hours that day so I could take them to the airport and see them off.
and I've never in my lunch wanted to just hit someone as badly as I did then.
Never in your lunch? Is that some weird Canadian phrase? Or are you just hungry?
Mistype a few letters and auto-correct gets to turn a serious comment into a joke. Not quite DYAC quality, but I'm sure it will happen to us all at some point.
This isn't just happening in the US anymore. My wife flew from Ottawa to London, Ontario with our two kids (2 month old daughter and 2 year old son) last July. They made my son take off his jacket, hat and teddy bear, put them through the x-ray, then wait on one side of the metal detector while my wife went through with our daughter. At that point he starting crying and trying to pull away from the big stranger forcefully restraining him from his mom. After verifying that my wife and daughter didn't set off the alarm, they waited for all the items to go through the x-ray. Only then did they sent my son through the metal detector, on his own. I got to watch the whole scenario from the dining area on the next floor up, and I've never in my lunch wanted to just hit someone as badly as I did then.
Can anyone venture a plausible reason why they couldn't have sent my son through with my wife, and then just scanned them individually in the event that the detector went off?
There may be a lot of farming in PEI, but our two main population centres have plenty of IT opportunities. My company is looking for a half dozen more senior Java developers, CGI employs twenty times more staff than we do (at various skill levels), and the local government has been advertising the island as a good near-shore location. It's pretty nice to be able to buy a house near the beach, for a reasonable price, and commute to downtown in only 15-20 minutes. And get paid almost what I would get in Ottawa.
[offtopic_shameless_plug]My company in also needs some senior developers for our PEI office, mostly for Java client/server work. Don't email me, just click the Careers link on our website.[/offtopic_shameless_plug]
On topic, I'm glad to see at least some of our justices are taking their jobs seriously. Appointed by Stephen Harper, yet curtailing government invasion into private lives. A nice breath of fresh air in a recent gale of anti-privacy legislation. (Thanks Michael Geist, for keeping us abreast of all the government's IT shenanigans!
They may be new to the supreme court, but they're hardly rookie judges! Michael Moldaver was a judge on the Supreme Court of Ontario 20 years ago, and Andromache Karakatsanis was a judge on the same court 10 years ago, after being Deputy Attorney General of Ontario.
is your provincial tax preparation also free?
Yes, most of the tax programs include both. There are some exceptions, where certain programs don't support some schedules (schedule = supplementary form.) e.g. StudioTax is totally free, but doesn't support schedule T1273 - the AgriStability / AgriInvest Programs. Since that's only for certain farmers, the majority of filers could use that software to prepare their taxes. As far as I know, filing in Canada is always free: either by phone, electronically, or by hardcopy snailmail.
I realize most of you will assume this question is USA related (I see the firehose story got tagged with "usa" quite quickly), but it applies to lots of other countries too. In Canada, we're supposed to use NETFILE certified software, most of which is free up to a certain income threshold. The Canada Revenue Agency has a list of all software certified for your 2012 filing (i.e.: 2011 tax year). Some of those same companies are probably certified by the IRS for filing taxes in the USA too.
I live in Toronto, a few blocks from the windmill on the lakeshore. Since the windmill went in, my home's propey value has, approximately, doubled, along with the rest of the neighborhood.. The concern is pure BS, just like the shit about windmill health issues.
I think your property value has doubled because you live a few blocks from the lakeshore in Toronto. Without the windmill, perhaps it might have increased even further in value.
PS: That windmill went in 10 years ago; home values in many other major cities without windmills (e.g.: Ottawa or Brampton) have nearly doubled in that time too.
Silly, that one was about a system at MIT that captured scatter at 2 x 10^-15 seconds resolution. This one is a system at MIT that captures at 2 x 10^-12 seconds resolution. Clearly they should be different stories on Slashdot.
Irony is, most people probably already have a G+ account, even if they never signed up for one.
A Google+ account is not the same thing as a Google account. You have to sign up for G+, it's not automatic. For example, Google Apps administrators have to specifically enable Google+ access for their users, after which the users then have to use their Apps account to sign up for G+.
I seriously wonder how they're being detected. The only thing telescopes can do is detect emission in the light spectrum.
This detection is by the Spitzer Space Telescope, which looks at the infrared spectrum - not visible light. As for how they found particles so small, the answer is that they found a lot of them. The NASA press release states:
They found the particles around a pair of stars called "XX Ophiuchi," 6,500 light-years from Earth, and detected enough to fill the equivalent in volume to 10,000 Mount Everests. ... It even found them in staggering quantities [in gaseous form], the equivalent in mass to 15 Earth moons, in a nearby galaxy called the Small Magellanic Cloud. ...
For writing, magneto-optical drives only used the laser to heat up a bit to a point where it could be flipped. The actual magnetic drive head flipped the heated bit, not the laser. This post says they can now use the laser to flip a bit, and that's a big difference.
According to TFA, the vendors
deliberately chose obsolete and niche GPS devices that would show the most interference ... The tests also included receivers that were tested without interference filters that normally would be included in a complete device for consumers
If true, the use of units without filters may be enough to invalidate the tests. It would be similar to testing a microwave for radiation leakage, with the door removed.