On 9 July 1958, a giant landslide at the head of Lituya Bay in Alaska, caused by an earthquake, generated a wave with an initial amplitude of 524m (1720 ft). This is the highest wave ever recorded, and surged over the headland opposite, stripping trees and soil down to bedrock, and surged along the fjord which forms Lituya Bay, destroying a fishing boat anchored there and killing two people. Howard Ultrich and his son managed to ride the wave in their boat, and both survived.
Plus 100 points for what must have been the most amazing point break ever caught, but minus several million for bowel-liquifying terror.
Tucker included a terse case list of 25 households he had contacted. It read like a report from a Third World country.
"Near-middle-aged couple, family of six. The husband cried as he was talking to me. . . .," one summary read. "He receives a very small unemployment income and is out of fuel a lot. . . . His family has been out of food for quite some time now. Their 1-year-old child is out of milk, can't get it and [the father] has no idea when he will be able to get the next can. He has been borrowing milk from anyone he can. His moose meat supply is running out. . . . The electricity has skyrocketed and he can't pay all the bills."
From a couple in their mid-30s: "He and his girlfriend have no heating fuel. Whatever money he gets goes to getting gasoline for his snow machine to get logs. . . . Today, they had nothing for breakfast. Most of the time, they have some dry fish for lunch or cup of noodles with [crackers]."
PALIN:And, Charlie, you're in Alaska. We have that very narrow maritime border between the United States, and the 49th state, Alaska, and Russia. They are our next door neighbors.We need to have a good relationship with them. They're very, very important to us and they are our next door neighbor.
GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of the state give you?
PALIN: They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.
There's a minimalist backup site. FWIW the banner says the normal site was overwhelmed with traffic after national media coverage (which I take to be TV); somehow I think CNN would have a bigger effect than Slashdot.
Again, though, that's silica rich "treacley rivers of fire" type lava[1], not the "vaporise the upper 500m of the freaking mountain & blow it into the stratosphere" type. With the latter, the only way to win the game is not to take part.
[1] Rock stars don't shoot videos on explosive volcanos.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=256wgwz-sTw
what happens when you completely lose sight of your goal to the point you start to believe the ends justify the means.
More like, what happens when you let a Professor from the "Media Lab" (the biggest shower of vacuous tossers ever to discredit the name of MIT) try to run a business, rather than sticking to spewing bullshit in Wired magazine, where he belongs...:)
Judging by the foxy geek chick on the front page, I, uh,... wha'..? Move over, Asus Eeegirl, nerds everywhere have a new pinup. Nice move, SeedyMarketingPloyMan!
Funny you should say this. I happened to hear the Professor on the radio this lunchtime & he mentioned a company in Durham called RFMD that will allegedly be producing these things on an industrial scale. Suffice to say that rfmd.co.uk is a domain holding page, but google turns up some interesting stuff...
We won't immanentize the Eschaton until the bots themselves can distinguish bots and humans. On that day, us fleshies will rue the day Turing started musing about mathematics...
I was working for a security consultancy by then. Our switchboard lit up as all the managed firewall customers called in complaining our firewalls had broken their network. It didn't take long to notice that half their systems were firehosing udp/1434 around their internal networks like punctured liquid gas cylinders bouncing around a burning factory... I'd like to think some people realised that having a firewall and anti-virus software doesn't mean you're secure - but I'd be a mug if I did.
Crazy? Actually, that's exactly what we've done where I work. We even called the "James Bond laptops" when pitching the idea to management. They lined up to be early adopter / beta testers. All our users now run as users, rather than local admin. (There's a lot more to it than that of course; check out the Microsoft XP security and hardening guide.
I'm on KDE 4.0 (Mandriva 2009) It was a bit rough at first, whilst I stumbled around trying to find how/where stuff was, and being disappointed by a few bad judgement calls (Amarok 2.0 is *not* release quality) and bizarre design decisions (your desktop doesn't show icons for the files in ~/Desktop/ ?! whiskey tango foxtrot?!The desktop "plasmid" thingies are strong meat, too.) However I find it usable now. I use the same laptop for 8 hours a day in the office, then come home and use it all evening, too. No major issues, just some minor annoyances now. Then again, I used to be a WindowMaker disciple, so perhaps I'm just weird.
considering the value of a new laptop with 1GB ram and an aero-capable intel chipset these days, i wonder how many people would bother to get it changed once you factor in the hassle of sending off your laptop, waiting on the new one, setting it up, transfering the data etc...
Got a family? Mortgage? Job? Where's you income compared to the median? ($48,000 in 2006, if you're interested; NB that's per/household/.) It might be easy for you to toss down a few hundred bucks for a new laptop, but most of us are not in that position.
The stickers were physically slapped on the plastic by the OEMs, sure, but the right to do so was in Microsoft's gift. It was their right to give or withhold the right to apply the Vista Ready sticker to hardware of a given spec. The badges were - are - a proxy for Microsoft's direct assurance to the purchaser that their product will work on the hardware. It didn't. Microsoft screwed up. (There was an hhuge furore internally when certain senior management figures stitched up other senior management figures.
Exactly. The attacker spoofs UDP DNS queries and sends them to third-party DNS servers. They respond to the spoofed, victim's nameservers. The idea is that the attacker sends a small packet which induces a large response ('amplification') from the third party to the victim.
Incidentally when did Network Solutions change their name to "IsPrime"?
If this was an attempt to really simulate a Mars mission, there'd be no humans in it, only robots. Humans will never land on Mars. Consider that even a 1 kg sample return mission requires massive investment in engineering and technology that just doesn't exist today.
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You are more right than you thought you were.
From Wikipedia:
Plus 100 points for what must have been the most amazing point break ever caught, but minus several million for bowel-liquifying terror.
Yeah, that 'self-sufficiency' is really working out well, Ms. Rand...
I recommend reading the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, then. You'll find lots of fascinating facts in there.
This one might work? http://www.spiritualized.com/admissions/videography/out-of-sight/
There's a minimalist backup site. FWIW the banner says the normal site was overwhelmed with traffic after national media coverage (which I take to be TV); somehow I think CNN would have a bigger effect than Slashdot.
Again, though, that's silica rich "treacley rivers of fire" type lava[1], not the "vaporise the upper 500m of the freaking mountain & blow it into the stratosphere" type. With the latter, the only way to win the game is not to take part. [1] Rock stars don't shoot videos on explosive volcanos. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=256wgwz-sTw
...except the volcono! The poor thing...
looks like Ballmer's been reading MiniMicrosoft :>
More like, what happens when you let a Professor from the "Media Lab" (the biggest shower of vacuous tossers ever to discredit the name of MIT) try to run a business, rather than sticking to spewing bullshit in Wired magazine, where he belongs... :)
Judging by the foxy geek chick on the front page, I, uh,... wha'..? Move over, Asus Eeegirl, nerds everywhere have a new pinup. Nice move, SeedyMarketingPloyMan!
Funny you should say this. I happened to hear the Professor on the radio this lunchtime & he mentioned a company in Durham called RFMD that will allegedly be producing these things on an industrial scale. Suffice to say that rfmd.co.uk is a domain holding page, but google turns up some interesting stuff...
Because their project, which presumably they would like to be successful, has become a laughing stock?
Happy to help. "We're all in it together, kid!" - Harry Tuttle :)
(Those might be the same doc, I'm not sure.) Poke around here for a bit and you'll find a lot of other useful docs and tools.
Hey, that's a great idea; thanks! Make the status symbol /visible/...
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. "
-- Carl Sagan
We won't immanentize the Eschaton until the bots themselves can distinguish bots and humans. On that day, us fleshies will rue the day Turing started musing about mathematics...
I was working for a security consultancy by then. Our switchboard lit up as all the managed firewall customers called in complaining our firewalls had broken their network. It didn't take long to notice that half their systems were firehosing udp/1434 around their internal networks like punctured liquid gas cylinders bouncing around a burning factory... I'd like to think some people realised that having a firewall and anti-virus software doesn't mean you're secure - but I'd be a mug if I did.
Crazy? Actually, that's exactly what we've done where I work. We even called the "James Bond laptops" when pitching the idea to management. They lined up to be early adopter / beta testers. All our users now run as users, rather than local admin. (There's a lot more to it than that of course; check out the Microsoft XP security and hardening guide.
I'm on KDE 4.0 (Mandriva 2009) It was a bit rough at first, whilst I stumbled around trying to find how/where stuff was, and being disappointed by a few bad judgement calls (Amarok 2.0 is *not* release quality) and bizarre design decisions (your desktop doesn't show icons for the files in ~/Desktop/ ?! whiskey tango foxtrot?!The desktop "plasmid" thingies are strong meat, too.) However I find it usable now. I use the same laptop for 8 hours a day in the office, then come home and use it all evening, too. No major issues, just some minor annoyances now. Then again, I used to be a WindowMaker disciple, so perhaps I'm just weird.
Got a family? Mortgage? Job? Where's you income compared to the median? ($48,000 in 2006, if you're interested; NB that's per /household/.) It might be easy for you to toss down a few hundred bucks for a new laptop, but most of us are not in that position.
The stickers were physically slapped on the plastic by the OEMs, sure, but the right to do so was in Microsoft's gift. It was their right to give or withhold the right to apply the Vista Ready sticker to hardware of a given spec. The badges were - are - a proxy for Microsoft's direct assurance to the purchaser that their product will work on the hardware. It didn't. Microsoft screwed up. (There was an hhuge furore internally when certain senior management figures stitched up other senior management figures.
Exactly. The attacker spoofs UDP DNS queries and sends them to third-party DNS servers. They respond to the spoofed, victim's nameservers. The idea is that the attacker sends a small packet which induces a large response ('amplification') from the third party to the victim.
Incidentally when did Network Solutions change their name to "IsPrime"?
If this was an attempt to really simulate a Mars mission, there'd be no humans in it, only robots. Humans will never land on Mars. Consider that even a 1 kg sample return mission requires massive investment in engineering and technology that just doesn't exist today.