Being permanently on summer time means, of course, that Greenwich will never be on Greenwich Mean Time. Something sounds a little wrong with that to me.
My current vehicle has a range of about 650 miles before I consider it time to refuel, and refilling the tank takes about two minutes. Battery technology is improving, and it might reach equivalence in eight years, but I am not optimistic.
My son (just turned 5) never really liked megabloks, duplo or any of the bigger 'block' construction toys, but loves standard Lego. He has quite a few Lego City sets, so generally vehicles, and a large bag of ebay sourced 'mixed bricks'. Nothing from any commercial tie-in theme, which he wouldn't recognize anyway. He is capable, when in the mood and not too tired, of following even quite long instruction books through, although it is a rare construction that does not then get heavily modified afterwards. If he is particularly lucky he gets to play with 'Daddy Lego'. My old technic sets, some of which are approaching 40 years old.
Do not encourage solar observing at a young age. Wait until they are old enough that you can trust them to carefully inspect the filter for damage and check it is properly in place before EVERY time they use it. Besides which, cheap filters will only let you safely see a silhouette of the sun, so are good for transits or eclipses, but that is about all. If you want to see proper solar activity you need a narrow bandwidth filter for the hydrogen alpha (other wavelengths are available) wavelength, and they are very expensive.
It is still how I test a 9V PP3 style battery. If it hurts, the battery is still new. Not a method I would encourage my five year old son in though. Yet.
Given the personality correlations between success business leaders and psychopaths, then, if there is any genetic basis for these traits, which does not seem totally unlikely, what is the likely outcome of recruiting more psychopaths than there are leadership positions to fill?
If the hack is at such a level that they have system write access (e.g.. to place taps on communications) then the defence case has a much stronger case just by asking whether the the same channel could be use to plant evidence, whether by the law enforcement agency or by a third party.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. From the article: For example, parents may not be aware that network-level blocking systems are unable to selectively filter ‘encrypted’ traffic. ‘Https’ encryption is a way to make traffic unreadable by intermediaries such as ISPs. It is widely used in online financial transactions, for example. It is also increasingly common in routine, everyday Internet use. New browsers are built to check if encryption is available, and if so, to use it. Encryption makes it impossible for an ISP to ‘check’ the web address the user is visiting. For example, recently BT was ordered by a court to block customers’ access to ‘Newzbin2’. But that does not prevent people from visiting ‘https://www.newzbin.com’.
Somebody doesn't understand the difference between an address and a protocol.
Bourbon casks? Generally not! Most 'Scotch', which has to be made in Scotland, is aged in ex-sherry casks. There are non-Scottish whisky makers (generally whisky is Scottish, whiskey is Irish) who use bourbon casks, but if they are not in Scotland then it is just whisky, not scotch. The Glenora distillery in Nova Scotia produces Glen Breton whisky using barley and yeast imported from Scotland, vats and a still from Scotland, was set up by a master distiller from Scotland, but it still isn't Scotch. It is Canada's only single malt producer and they do use Bourbon casks, because they are easier to obtain there. These give a much smoother, less peaty, flavour to the whisky. It is very good, but unfortunately, since they only have a small production run, pretty expensive and hard to obtain outside Canada.
Last time I was in the area, I popped in for a coffee (and to have a look around the satellite station site). Although this has has only just hit the news it was open back in at least early May. All the computers are Apple Macs, and the place was full of schoolkids on a trip, blasting out downloaded music.
The ORC (OptoElectronics Research Centre) is mainly based in a different building, and the web servers are likely to be elsewhere again. The part of the building that burned housed labs, cleanrooms and even a small IC fabrication plant. I did some of my PhD research there during the mid 90's, and back then there were very few offices there and most computers in that area used networked storage rather than local.
No, patents were meant to be nonobvious. (So where does the phrase 'patently obvious' come from?) They were also meant to contain enough detail that the invention/process/whatever could be duplicated by somebody 'knowledgable in the field' after the patent expires. Too many modern patents go the other way - obvious solutions to common problems and deliberately vague so that any other good ideas somebody else thinks of afterwards can be claimed as being included.
In the mid 90s I had an old hard drive containing research data that got backed up occasionally, but not often enough. There was a flexible multitrack lead, basically several copper tracks on a very thin plastic strip, which ran from the control pcb to the hard drive internals through the seal between the two halves of the outer case. When it failed, I opened up the case and found that there was a tear in this lead crossing a few of the copper tracks. Sticky tape held the lead together while silver conductive paint rejoined the tracks. It worked and lasted long enough to retrieve all the data. Fortunately, all the repairs were made in a laser research lab, which was kept very clean, so while the hard drives were exposed there has very little dust around to containimate the surfaces.
Nessus is a scanning tool which identifies insecure aspects of a system, but is generally harmless, although some tests may crash the remote system. Metasploit Framework is a toolkit which allows you to build modules which exploit those insecure aspects to deliver a payload.
A number of years ago a colleague of mine brought a packet of chocolate coated coffee beans into the office, then found that he didn't like them. Lucky me, and unlucky colleagues - I was practically bouncing off the walls that afternoon. Mind you, I think I have developed too much of a caffeine immunity since then. I recently munched my way through a whole large packet of these things in a morning, then dozed off at lunchtime.
Hardly surprisingly, very soon after Schroedinger came up with the original idea this observation was brought up by another physicist (Werner I think). Taking the experiment either way, you either replace the cat with an extremely simple lifeform (e.g. a virus), or an extremely complex lifeform (another physicist) which is certainly capable of self-observation. The latter is known as the "Werner's friend' experiment.
Was that before or after you repaired the 2000 volt circuit?
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DLink DWL-650 cards work under Linux, DWL-650+ cards do not. There used to be a message on DLink's support page saying Linux drivers would be available Q1 2003, then this became a message that Linux drivers may become available, and now even that seems to have vanished.
This is annoying, since they are good cards. I got one, not knowing the driver difference between the 650 and the 650+ and it works very well under XP,even after dropping the laptop and severely bending the wireless card! I then had to get a Linksys card that would work under Linux. The Linksys card aerial is nowhere near as good, showing a 30-40dBm drop over the DLink according to the signal strength monitor in NetStumbler. The Linksys card also seem unable to negotiate DHCP properly with the DLink access point, and I have also heard of problems with DLink cards talking to Linksys APs.
Try Spaced Penguin, and a couple of other shockwave games at http://www.bigideafun.com/penguins/arcade/spaced_p enguin/info.htm. Unfortunately shockware refuses to install properly on my work machine after it was 'refreshed'.
Also try www.electrotank.com. The crazy golf game is pretty good, and has the advantage of supporting more than one player.
CMM = Capability Maturity Model, if my memory is correct. Not surprisingly, everybody always refers to it by the initials. What is boils down to (really over simplifying it) is how well organised you are. Level 1 is totally unorganised, level 5 is you have a documented process for everything and constantly keep metrics on everything you do in order to predict future requirements and look for possible improvements. I'm in a level 2 group who are pushing to reach level 3 soon. There are not many overall level 5 companies, although there are a number who have smaller sections within the company at that level.
That wouldn't work. Looking straight through a set of rings of differing refractive index will not cause any refraction. For a flat lens like the grandparent post refers to to work, the refractive index has to vary according to how far through the material you are, not just how far from the centre. What you remember seeing is known as a Fresnel lens. If you find one, run a fingernail over it and you will feel a series of ridges. A normal convex (magnifying) lens is thin at the edges and thicker in the middle, so if you think of it lying flat on a surface the slope is greatest at the edges and it is flat in the middle. Now split it into concentric rings and remove most of the bulk within each ring. You keep the refractive effect because this occurs at the sloping surfaces, but you lose the bulk. The image quality suffers because sometimes a line of sight enters one ring and exits another. Since the bulk of the material has been removed the exit surface is now no longer quite in the right place to form a perfect image. They are still around, if you know where to look. Next time you are in a theatre, look into one of the lights. Many stage lights use a Fresnel lens at the front. Alternatively, at least in the UK, look at the back window of an old bus. There is often one there, probably a concave one, to give the driver a better view of what is behind him.
If my memory of old history books is correct then, in the UK at least, income tax was introduced as a 'temporary' measure to help pay for the cost of the Napoleonic wars.
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Being permanently on summer time means, of course, that Greenwich will never be on Greenwich Mean Time. Something sounds a little wrong with that to me.
My current vehicle has a range of about 650 miles before I consider it time to refuel, and refilling the tank takes about two minutes. Battery technology is improving, and it might reach equivalence in eight years, but I am not optimistic.
My son (just turned 5) never really liked megabloks, duplo or any of the bigger 'block' construction toys, but loves standard Lego. He has quite a few Lego City sets, so generally vehicles, and a large bag of ebay sourced 'mixed bricks'. Nothing from any commercial tie-in theme, which he wouldn't recognize anyway. He is capable, when in the mood and not too tired, of following even quite long instruction books through, although it is a rare construction that does not then get heavily modified afterwards.
If he is particularly lucky he gets to play with 'Daddy Lego'. My old technic sets, some of which are approaching 40 years old.
Do not encourage solar observing at a young age. Wait until they are old enough that you can trust them to carefully inspect the filter for damage and check it is properly in place before EVERY time they use it. Besides which, cheap filters will only let you safely see a silhouette of the sun, so are good for transits or eclipses, but that is about all. If you want to see proper solar activity you need a narrow bandwidth filter for the hydrogen alpha (other wavelengths are available) wavelength, and they are very expensive.
It is still how I test a 9V PP3 style battery. If it hurts, the battery is still new. Not a method I would encourage my five year old son in though. Yet.
Given the personality correlations between success business leaders and psychopaths, then, if there is any genetic basis for these traits, which does not seem totally unlikely, what is the likely outcome of recruiting more psychopaths than there are leadership positions to fill?
If the hack is at such a level that they have system write access (e.g.. to place taps on communications) then the defence case has a much stronger case just by asking whether the the same channel could be use to plant evidence, whether by the law enforcement agency or by a third party.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. From the article:
For example, parents may not be aware that network-level blocking systems are unable to selectively filter ‘encrypted’ traffic. ‘Https’ encryption is a way to make traffic unreadable by intermediaries such as ISPs. It is widely used in online financial transactions, for example. It is also increasingly common in routine, everyday Internet use. New browsers are built to check if encryption is available, and if so, to use it. Encryption makes it impossible for an ISP to ‘check’ the web address the user is visiting.
For example, recently BT was ordered by a court to block customers’ access to ‘Newzbin2’. But that does not prevent people from visiting ‘https://www.newzbin.com’.
Somebody doesn't understand the difference between an address and a protocol.
Oh please go and learn the difference between watts and joules.
Bourbon casks? Generally not!
Most 'Scotch', which has to be made in Scotland, is aged in ex-sherry casks. There are non-Scottish whisky makers (generally whisky is Scottish, whiskey is Irish) who use bourbon casks, but if they are not in Scotland then it is just whisky, not scotch.
The Glenora distillery in Nova Scotia produces Glen Breton whisky using barley and yeast imported from Scotland, vats and a still from Scotland, was set up by a master distiller from Scotland, but it still isn't Scotch. It is Canada's only single malt producer and they do use Bourbon casks, because they are easier to obtain there. These give a much smoother, less peaty, flavour to the whisky. It is very good, but unfortunately, since they only have a small production run, pretty expensive and hard to obtain outside Canada.
Last time I was in the area, I popped in for a coffee (and to have a look around the satellite station site). Although this has has only just hit the news it was open back in at least early May. All the computers are Apple Macs, and the place was full of schoolkids on a trip, blasting out downloaded music.
The ORC (OptoElectronics Research Centre) is mainly based in a different building, and the web servers are likely to be elsewhere again. The part of the building that burned housed labs, cleanrooms and even a small IC fabrication plant. I did some of my PhD research there during the mid 90's, and back then there were very few offices there and most computers in that area used networked storage rather than local.
No, patents were meant to be nonobvious. (So where does the phrase 'patently obvious' come from?) They were also meant to contain enough detail that the invention/process/whatever could be duplicated by somebody 'knowledgable in the field' after the patent expires.
Too many modern patents go the other way - obvious solutions to common problems and deliberately vague so that any other good ideas somebody else thinks of afterwards can be claimed as being included.
In the mid 90s I had an old hard drive containing research data that got backed up occasionally, but not often enough. There was a flexible multitrack lead, basically several copper tracks on a very thin plastic strip, which ran from the control pcb to the hard drive internals through the seal between the two halves of the outer case. When it failed, I opened up the case and found that there was a tear in this lead crossing a few of the copper tracks. Sticky tape held the lead together while silver conductive paint rejoined the tracks. It worked and lasted long enough to retrieve all the data. Fortunately, all the repairs were made in a laser research lab, which was kept very clean, so while the hard drives were exposed there has very little dust around to containimate the surfaces.
Nessus is a scanning tool which identifies insecure aspects of a system, but is generally harmless, although some tests may crash the remote system.
Metasploit Framework is a toolkit which allows you to build modules which exploit those insecure aspects to deliver a payload.
A number of years ago a colleague of mine brought a packet of chocolate coated coffee beans into the office, then found that he didn't like them. Lucky me, and unlucky colleagues - I was practically bouncing off the walls that afternoon.
Mind you, I think I have developed too much of a caffeine immunity since then. I recently munched my way through a whole large packet of these things in a morning, then dozed off at lunchtime.
For an example of this spoofing bug in action, wired put together a lovely example at http://zcat.wired.net.nz/upgrade
Hardly surprisingly, very soon after Schroedinger came up with the original idea this observation was brought up by another physicist (Werner I think). Taking the experiment either way, you either replace the cat with an extremely simple lifeform (e.g. a virus), or an extremely complex lifeform (another physicist) which is certainly capable of self-observation. The latter is known as the "Werner's friend' experiment.
Was that before or after you repaired the 2000 volt circuit?
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,even after dropping the laptop and severely bending the wireless card! I then had to get a Linksys card that would work under Linux. The Linksys card aerial is nowhere near as good, showing a 30-40dBm drop over the DLink according to the signal strength monitor in NetStumbler. The Linksys card also seem unable to negotiate DHCP properly with the DLink access point, and I have also heard of problems with DLink cards talking to Linksys APs.
DLink DWL-650 cards work under Linux, DWL-650+ cards do not. There used to be a message on DLink's support page saying Linux drivers would be available Q1 2003, then this became a message that Linux drivers may become available, and now even that seems to have vanished.
This is annoying, since they are good cards. I got one, not knowing the driver difference between the 650 and the 650+ and it works very well under XP
Try Spaced Penguin, and a couple of other shockwave games at http://www.bigideafun.com/penguins/arcade/spaced_p enguin/info.htm.
Unfortunately shockware refuses to install properly on my work machine after it was 'refreshed'.
Also try www.electrotank.com. The crazy golf game is pretty good, and has the advantage of supporting more than one player.
Name 3 other brands of Cola
Supermarket chain A own brand
Supermarket chain B own brand
Supermarket chain C own brand
And they are all too sweet and sickly, especially Pepsi.
CMM = Capability Maturity Model, if my memory is correct. Not surprisingly, everybody always refers to it by the initials. What is boils down to (really over simplifying it) is how well organised you are. Level 1 is totally unorganised, level 5 is you have a documented process for everything and constantly keep metrics on everything you do in order to predict future requirements and look for possible improvements. I'm in a level 2 group who are pushing to reach level 3 soon. There are not many overall level 5 companies, although there are a number who have smaller sections within the company at that level.
That wouldn't work. Looking straight through a set of rings of differing refractive index will not cause any refraction. For a flat lens like the grandparent post refers to to work, the refractive index has to vary according to how far through the material you are, not just how far from the centre.
What you remember seeing is known as a Fresnel lens. If you find one, run a fingernail over it and you will feel a series of ridges. A normal convex (magnifying) lens is thin at the edges and thicker in the middle, so if you think of it lying flat on a surface the slope is greatest at the edges and it is flat in the middle. Now split it into concentric rings and remove most of the bulk within each ring. You keep the refractive effect because this occurs at the sloping surfaces, but you lose the bulk. The image quality suffers because sometimes a line of sight enters one ring and exits another. Since the bulk of the material has been removed the exit surface is now no longer quite in the right place to form a perfect image.
They are still around, if you know where to look. Next time you are in a theatre, look into one of the lights. Many stage lights use a Fresnel lens at the front. Alternatively, at least in the UK, look at the back window of an old bus. There is often one there, probably a concave one, to give the driver a better view of what is behind him.
If my memory of old history books is correct then, in the UK at least, income tax was introduced as a 'temporary' measure to help pay for the cost of the Napoleonic wars.
I'm sure they must have been payed for by now.