It is the only Standard Model particle not yet observed, but would help explain how otherwise massless elementary particles, still manage to construct mass in matter. In particular, the difference between the massless photon and the relatively massive W and Z bosons
I always wondered what they use to measure the mass of elementary particles (not atoms). Can anyone explain? Also, maybe photons and higgs boson do have mass, but our instruments just aren't sensitive enough (kinda what the summary is saying)?
Allow me to replace the current adminstration with a different government in this summary.
Pojut points us to a Washington Post story which details the Kremlin's admission that it routinely recycled backup tapes from 2001 to 2003, possibly destroying e-mail records from that time period. While the tapes are being analyzed to determine if any of the data can be recovered, the Kremlin also indicated that some e-mail through 2005 may not have been preserved. We discussed the beginnings of this investigation a few months ago. From the Post:
"During the period in question, the Putin administration faced some of its biggest controversies, including the Chechnya war, the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, as well as murder of former KGB officer Alexander Litvenko. Kremlin spokesman Tony "Fat Knuckles" Fratto said he has no reason to believe any e-mails were deliberately destroyed."
Number Crunchers and Oregon Trail were the first games I played. But I wouldn't call it a true gaming experience - at least not what I now I define as a gaming experience. It was about keeping top score or shooting buffaloes. Forget the storyline! Now the first game that had a long lasting impression on me was Marathon 2: Durandal. Just mentioning it gives me chills. I was in the 7th or 8th grade and I remember spending hours in my room immersing myself in the storyline and daydreaming about it. I really felt I was on a mission of discovery. Every now and then I still hear the wind (if you played it you know what I'm talking about!)
The cloud of antimatter is big and hot. When matter and antimatter come together they produce lots of Gamma rays, and that is happening. There are certain types of neutron stars or black holes that are orbiting in pairs that appear in the same pattern as the cloud or antimatter (positrons) so astronomers think it is likely that the pairs are causing the cloud. > Can you put that in lamens terms please? =)
In the standard model of cosmology, dark energy currently accounts for almost three-quarters of the total mass-energy of the universe.
The universe is about 13.7 billion years old. Light reaching us from the earliest known galaxies has been travelling, therefore, for more than 13 billion years. So one might assume that the radius of the universe is 13.7 billion light-years and that the whole shebang is double that, or 27.4 billion light-years wide.
How do they know the size of the universe? Why don't they say they know the size of the knownuniverse? I mean what if there was another 20 big bangs at least 5 trillion trillion billion light years awayin all directions?
The "evils" of the internet is more likely to stir up emotions among most of the current voting class (i'm talking out of my a$$ but I think that's logical). If techies gathered together to create a MASS voting group (is there one?) that will likely affect elections, then you bet they'd try to get on issues that stir up emotions of the *new* voting class.:-D
I'm not a scientist, but maybe you user laser on the object at a defined temperature to see what kind of metal it is? I'm pretty sure they've been doing this stuff for a while!
I wonder if the existence of matter/energy is a law of nature. If gravity pulls, if 1+1 = 2, if for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, then there must be a REASON for the existence of matter. wonder what that is.
What, no one ever heard of vacuum lines? Or maybe pressurized lines?
I'm no rocket scientist either, and I'm sure that those rocket scientists has already consider those options you've mentioned. Perhaps because it is on an airplane going over 500mph and you have all sorts of physics and temperature considerations that vaccuum/pressurized lines are just not best suited for.
Not so much a security flaw is it is incompetence. How could the developers miss this? Oh, here's the sweet part. They said the flaw was repaired on Friday. And from the article...
But after the website resumed operation yesterday afternoon, a few keystrokes sufficed to reveal some of the personal information of passport applicants, including names, addresses and numbers for references and emergency contacts
HAHA! "URL HACKING" is easy to protect against. Maybe they've gone so high tech in security they totally passed on the low tech? Something is awkward here. I will give the developer the benefit of the doubt. I'd expect a half-assed developer to know about URL hacking. I bet this had something more to do with half assed management!
I didn't RTFA, but do they say anything about fraud and privacy? What if I were to get a sample of someone's saliva and send it in, saying it came from me? I can pick it up from their tobacco chew, or seeing them spit, lots of things! So then what? Can anyone think of any measures against this? I can't think of a good one. of course, I am assuming the crap you get from the inside of your cheeks can be found in saliva!
I always wondered if it was possible to use the heat energy from active but somewhat stable volcanos. You would have a platform submerged in the lava pit and set up a system to run water through it to make steam and run the turbines. Is that feasible? What are the problems? I am guessing maybe the equipment might melt?
Sounds great! Would also be cool if they eventually come up with a decent award show, unlike the previous ones we've had. They were basically rap music ads. It was showy and flashy but had no real value to video gaming recognition. Heck, I get more thrills from the usual slashdot top 10 blah blah games list. I forgot which show it was, maybe Spike TV's video game awards, but when they had something like "hot chicks reading out game codes" i almost gagged.
Ok, let's say the car I wanted from you met with specifications and is certified. Everything was specified, down to the type of screw (let's call them XY700 screws), type of paint, color of paint... Now let's say you decided to get your screws from a different vendor because it's cheaper for you, instead of getting ones from the vendors we specified. BIG DEAL, right? OH YEAH, BIG DEAL. That's because the XY700 screws from those other vendors do not meet metal fatigue resistance our standards. So let's say one of our engine/steering components come loose during driving because the screw broke, causing the car to flip or something. And it turns out that was because the screws use were of lower grade (same metal, but manufactured with a different process). BIG DEAL ALRIGHT!!!!! Those are things engineers look out for. It may seem trivial to the laymen, but alot of money is at stake. Can't substitute sugar for corn syrup at this level.
For some of you guys who are saying "OMG it's just a little screw what are they fussing about?!", let me give you an analogy. Let's say you're gonna have a secret meeting and you and your cronies have everything planned down, to the last detail. Every little thing, even the color of their shirts that they're supposed to pick up at a certain place at a certain time. The time, the day, what to bring, everything. Now suppose your guy shows up a second late, or wears a different color shirt. He says "Aww man i couldn't get it so i just dropped by walmart right quick". What do you do at this point? Drop everything and leave? Or let the color of the shirt bother you?
What if I were to say that your buddy couldn't get his shirt on time because he was pulled over by the FBI at the last minute? This is why you made those crazy rules in the first place, so that you'll be able to catch anything out of line. That's insurance!
Does relocating two circuit boards, rerouting several internal cables and changing some mounting bracket supports mean an e-voting device must be recertified to meet state e-voting requirements?
The company also contended that the changes to the AutoMark A100 were so minor that ES&S was not required to submit them for review.
The only changes made to the devices were minor engineering modifications, according to ES&S.
Let me answer the question at the beginning of the article with a resounding YES!!!!!!!!!! YES YES YES! What if the software was written to act differently (cheat) if a bolt was in a certain place, if the color of some paint was different, or if something else was a cetain height? A company can just say "these are just minor changes that has nothing to do with the operation". You see, the contract was written to cover things like this. I am not saying the company had ill-intentions, but if they did violate the contract it's just stupid and - i guess if I can stretch it - a bit suspicious.
In capitalist America, the piggy sheep welcome their medicating velvet-gloved overlords (profit)?
There's no welcome. The piggy sheep is so numb they can't tell the difference between a glove and a pine cone. I've nothing against our capitalist system. I am just trying to point out that our culture is such that corruption is a technicality away from legality.
Well I did say US, on the other hand, didn't I? If you noticed I capitalized US. I was hoping that was obvious. I have no idea what's hard-coded in your genome =)
I grew up a bit naive, believing my country is different from others in terms of corruption, with all our checks and balances and just our culture. In other countries where corruption runs high, people just accept it as a way of life. But now I am reading all about corruption in my country and it just made me realize that our form corruption is most dangerous. Corruption hides behind all these wack laws and loopholes so alot of times we won't/can't recognize it as corruption, while other poor countries - tho they are off worse - know full well what it is.
You see, those countries' peoples will have a chance to fight because they know what it is. Depends on how bad they're willing to shed blood. THat's why their "leaders" rule with an iron hand. They're AFRAID OF THE PEOPLE. US, on the other hand - we don't even have the will to fight. We're too comfortable. Corruption THRIVES on this. Corruption doesn't have to rule with an iron hand. They know the sheep are fat and lazy.
I didn't RTFA, but if they sold 53% of all OS in OCTOBER, how can they for sure claim half the OS market? Isn't that a bit irrevelant? What if the market was already saturated with windows, and alot of people just bought 50% of OSes in October?? Again I didn't RTFA.
How about a little mini game, where your actions make up the password...like...jumping on X car and shooting a sign at X height and dragging the sweater under a sign, when the timer hits X:XX....or some crazy combination like that. You know, just like how we would unlock stuff or get extra lives by doin weird random things in Super Mario Brothers or any other kind of video game. I think this is WAAAY MORE secure if you add this on top of a text password. With what I just described above you can do things so many different ways!!
I always thought of time as an abstract concept, with no interactions in the real world. Kinda like imaginary numbers. It's useful for us to calculate with, but it doesn't exist as a travel medium or physical medium. You just move around in 3D space thats it. I can't comprehend how you can move through time! I'm most likely wrong cos I'm not a scientist or anything so maybe someone can explain it to me:D.
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Keep Nuking 'Em Forever!
If they shape this pill like the Magic School Bus I'm down for a colonoscopy anytime
From Wiki...
It is the only Standard Model particle not yet observed, but would help explain how otherwise
massless elementary particles, still manage to construct mass in matter. In particular, the difference between the massless photon and the relatively massive W and Z bosons
I always wondered what they use to measure the mass of elementary particles (not atoms). Can anyone explain? Also, maybe photons and higgs boson do have mass, but our instruments just aren't sensitive enough (kinda what the summary is saying)?
Allow me to replace the current adminstration with a different government in this summary.
Pojut points us to a Washington Post story which details the Kremlin's admission that it routinely recycled backup tapes from 2001 to 2003, possibly destroying e-mail records from that time period. While the tapes are being analyzed to determine if any of the data can be recovered, the Kremlin also indicated that some e-mail through 2005 may not have been preserved. We discussed the beginnings of this investigation a few months ago. From the Post:
"During the period in question, the Putin administration faced some of its biggest controversies, including the Chechnya war, the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, as well as murder of former KGB officer Alexander Litvenko. Kremlin spokesman Tony "Fat Knuckles" Fratto said he has no reason to believe any e-mails were deliberately destroyed."
Number Crunchers and Oregon Trail were the first games I played. But I wouldn't call it a true gaming experience - at least not what I now I define as a gaming experience. It was about keeping top score or shooting buffaloes. Forget the storyline! Now the first game that had a long lasting impression on me was Marathon 2: Durandal. Just mentioning it gives me chills. I was in the 7th or 8th grade and I remember spending hours in my room immersing myself in the storyline and daydreaming about it. I really felt I was on a mission of discovery. Every now and then I still hear the wind (if you played it you know what I'm talking about!)
The cloud of antimatter is big and hot. When matter and antimatter come together they produce lots of Gamma rays, and that is happening. There are certain types of neutron stars or black holes that are orbiting in pairs that appear in the same pattern as the cloud or antimatter (positrons) so astronomers think it is likely that the pairs are causing the cloud.
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Can you put that in lamens terms please? =)
Anyone who wanted to read them would probably have them printed anyways HAHAHA!
From wiki and then space.com...
In the standard model of cosmology, dark energy currently accounts for almost three-quarters of the total mass-energy of the universe.
The universe is about 13.7 billion years old. Light reaching us from the earliest known galaxies has been travelling, therefore, for more than 13 billion years. So one might assume that the radius of the universe is 13.7 billion light-years and that the whole shebang is double that, or 27.4 billion light-years wide.
How do they know the size of the universe? Why don't they say they know the size of the knownuniverse? I mean what if there was another 20 big bangs at least 5 trillion trillion billion light years awayin all directions?
The "evils" of the internet is more likely to stir up emotions among most of the current voting class (i'm talking out of my a$$ but I think that's logical). If techies gathered together to create a MASS voting group (is there one?) that will likely affect elections, then you bet they'd try to get on issues that stir up emotions of the *new* voting class. :-D
I'm not a scientist, but maybe you user laser on the object at a defined temperature to see what kind of metal it is? I'm pretty sure they've been doing this stuff for a while!
I wonder if the existence of matter/energy is a law of nature. If gravity pulls, if 1+1 = 2, if for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, then there must be a REASON for the existence of matter. wonder what that is.
What, no one ever heard of vacuum lines? Or maybe pressurized lines?
I'm no rocket scientist either, and I'm sure that those rocket scientists has already consider those options you've mentioned. Perhaps because it is on an airplane going over 500mph and you have all sorts of physics and temperature considerations that vaccuum/pressurized lines are just not best suited for.
Not so much a security flaw is it is incompetence. How could the developers miss this? Oh, here's the sweet part. They said the flaw was repaired on Friday. And from the article...
But after the website resumed operation yesterday afternoon, a few keystrokes sufficed to reveal some of the personal information of passport applicants, including names, addresses and numbers for references and emergency contacts
HAHA! "URL HACKING" is easy to protect against. Maybe they've gone so high tech in security they totally passed on the low tech? Something is awkward here. I will give the developer the benefit of the doubt. I'd expect a half-assed developer to know about URL hacking. I bet this had something more to do with half assed management!
I didn't RTFA, but do they say anything about fraud and privacy? What if I were to get a sample of someone's saliva and send it in, saying it came from me? I can pick it up from their tobacco chew, or seeing them spit, lots of things! So then what? Can anyone think of any measures against this? I can't think of a good one. of course, I am assuming the crap you get from the inside of your cheeks can be found in saliva!
I always wondered if it was possible to use the heat energy from active but somewhat stable volcanos. You would have a platform submerged in the lava pit and set up a system to run water through it to make steam and run the turbines. Is that feasible? What are the problems? I am guessing maybe the equipment might melt?
Sounds great! Would also be cool if they eventually come up with a decent award show, unlike the previous ones we've had. They were basically rap music ads. It was showy and flashy but had no real value to video gaming recognition. Heck, I get more thrills from the usual slashdot top 10 blah blah games list. I forgot which show it was, maybe Spike TV's video game awards, but when they had something like "hot chicks reading out game codes" i almost gagged.
Ok, let's say the car I wanted from you met with specifications and is certified. Everything was specified, down to the type of screw (let's call them XY700 screws), type of paint, color of paint... Now let's say you decided to get your screws from a different vendor because it's cheaper for you, instead of getting ones from the vendors we specified. BIG DEAL, right? OH YEAH, BIG DEAL. That's because the XY700 screws from those other vendors do not meet metal fatigue resistance our standards. So let's say one of our engine/steering components come loose during driving because the screw broke, causing the car to flip or something. And it turns out that was because the screws use were of lower grade (same metal, but manufactured with a different process). BIG DEAL ALRIGHT!!!!! Those are things engineers look out for. It may seem trivial to the laymen, but alot of money is at stake. Can't substitute sugar for corn syrup at this level.
For some of you guys who are saying "OMG it's just a little screw what are they fussing about?!", let me give you an analogy. Let's say you're gonna have a secret meeting and you and your cronies have everything planned down, to the last detail. Every little thing, even the color of their shirts that they're supposed to pick up at a certain place at a certain time. The time, the day, what to bring, everything. Now suppose your guy shows up a second late, or wears a different color shirt. He says "Aww man i couldn't get it so i just dropped by walmart right quick". What do you do at this point? Drop everything and leave? Or let the color of the shirt bother you?
What if I were to say that your buddy couldn't get his shirt on time because he was pulled over by the FBI at the last minute? This is why you made those crazy rules in the first place, so that you'll be able to catch anything out of line. That's insurance!
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Does relocating two circuit boards, rerouting several internal cables and changing some mounting bracket supports mean an e-voting device must be recertified to meet state e-voting requirements?
The company also contended that the changes to the AutoMark A100 were so minor that ES&S was not required to submit them for review.
The only changes made to the devices were minor engineering modifications, according to ES&S.
Let me answer the question at the beginning of the article with a resounding YES!!!!!!!!!! YES YES YES! What if the software was written to act differently (cheat) if a bolt was in a certain place, if the color of some paint was different, or if something else was a cetain height? A company can just say "these are just minor changes that has nothing to do with the operation". You see, the contract was written to cover things like this. I am not saying the company had ill-intentions, but if they did violate the contract it's just stupid and - i guess if I can stretch it - a bit suspicious.
Let me see if I get this straight:
In capitalist America, the piggy sheep welcome their medicating velvet-gloved overlords (profit)?
There's no welcome. The piggy sheep is so numb they can't tell the difference between a glove and a pine cone. I've nothing against our capitalist system. I am just trying to point out that our culture is such that corruption is a technicality away from legality.
Well I did say US, on the other hand, didn't I? If you noticed I capitalized US. I was hoping that was obvious. I have no idea what's hard-coded in your genome =)
I grew up a bit naive, believing my country is different from others in terms of corruption, with all our checks and balances and just our culture. In other countries where corruption runs high, people just accept it as a way of life. But now I am reading all about corruption in my country and it just made me realize that our form corruption is most dangerous. Corruption hides behind all these wack laws and loopholes so alot of times we won't/can't recognize it as corruption, while other poor countries - tho they are off worse - know full well what it is.
You see, those countries' peoples will have a chance to fight because they know what it is. Depends on how bad they're willing to shed blood. THat's why their "leaders" rule with an iron hand. They're AFRAID OF THE PEOPLE. US, on the other hand - we don't even have the will to fight. We're too comfortable. Corruption THRIVES on this. Corruption doesn't have to rule with an iron hand. They know the sheep are fat and lazy.
We've all taken the red pill.
I didn't RTFA, but if they sold 53% of all OS in OCTOBER, how can they for sure claim half the OS market? Isn't that a bit irrevelant? What if the market was already saturated with windows, and alot of people just bought 50% of OSes in October?? Again I didn't RTFA.
How about a little mini game, where your actions make up the password...like...jumping on X car and shooting a sign at X height and dragging the sweater under a sign, when the timer hits X:XX....or some crazy combination like that. You know, just like how we would unlock stuff or get extra lives by doin weird random things in Super Mario Brothers or any other kind of video game. I think this is WAAAY MORE secure if you add this on top of a text password. With what I just described above you can do things so many different ways!!
I always thought of time as an abstract concept, with no interactions in the real world. Kinda like imaginary numbers. It's useful for us to calculate with, but it doesn't exist as a travel medium or physical medium. You just move around in 3D space thats it. I can't comprehend how you can move through time! I'm most likely wrong cos I'm not a scientist or anything so maybe someone can explain it to me :D.