1.3 How many confluences are there?
There are 64,442 latitude and longitude degree intersections in the world (counting each pole as one intersection). Of these, 47,650 meet the goals of the project after removing many confluences near the poles. Of these, about 12,000 are actually on the land. As you may guess, we're not worried about running out of confluences.
"At 89 degrees latitude, one degree from the north or south pole, the line are 1.2 miles apart. This skews the sample sharply to the poles and neglects the equitorial regions...a solution to the problem is to skip confluences when the distance between them falls below 2/3 of the distance at the equator... [they] are still valid confluences, and will be posted if visited, but are not part of the official goals of the project."
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That is, the fact that the length of a month is approximately the length from one new moon to another is not just coincidence.
Don't forget that there are 12 signs in the zodiac (western). I think that this would have also have a very large affect on the reason for 12 months in a year. The sun lies in a new sign every month.
I think that this is also one reason why we have 24 hrs in one day, a new star sign rises every 2 hrs.
But hey, I probably don't know what I'm talking about:)
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The kind of honesty you get by having individuals who aren't afraid to express themselves has always been a threat to those who imagine themselves in power.
-- Emmanuel Goldstein.
I dont see that slashdot is the right place to ask
Agreed!
To quote my flatmate (hp-ux sys-admin) when I just read the article to him - "fuck!"
This really depends on how much code you have, how much data you have etc. etc. Has anyone done a keeping oracle cost vs a conversion cost? Don't forget that converting will run over time and budget (of course:)
i really know nothing about $US so I've got no idea what sort of dollar range your laptops go for (I'm from.au and we use peso now:) but how about considering a second hand intel laptop? I now it's not fancy or new, but I think an older laptop would fullfill what you need (cd-rom 800x600 pcmcia ram-upgrades) quite well.
Unless low power consumption was needed (you didn't say) i'd consider an second hand intel. if you hunt around you could probably find one in good condition too. remember that curuseo isn't blazing fast, and that you might get similar performance from an older intel chip. (not sure on that, haven't seen a lot of bench-marks)
This is probably a threat to your security, but not as big as email attachments and users running them.
If I wanted to target an attack agaist a certain company, rather than posting a disk, it would be more simple to just mass email the trojan to certain users. It's not hard to find out email address etc, so I think that this would be more effective
Or am I missing the point? Sorry If I have, rather tired:)
The Egyptians were trying to find true north but they didn't have a star marking the pole. So they used two stars, Kochab in Ursa Minor or the Little Dipper, and Mizar in Ursa Major, or the Big Dipper to find the pole.
``It (the pole) is on a line between those two stars. You measure when the two stars are basically on top of one another and if you line them up with a plumb line that will give you true north,'' Spence said.
According to astronomical data, 2,467 BC is the year in which the line that goes between the two stars passes exactly the trajectory of the pole.
Hi, my names tooth [everybody: hi tooth!], and well... I'm an/. poster and reader.
*sob* It all started about a year and a half ago (I think? Is that right for my uid?) Now I've gotten that bad that I'm reading/. at work, and/. at home. It's gotten that bad that I don't evern recognise the word "slashdot" and more, prefering the gzip "/." more.
Anyway, back in the real world. I think the best place for a/. meeting in sydney.au would be at a monthly slug meeting. I haven't been to one yet, but judging by the mailing lists, the guys and gals read/. a fair bit.
And Melbourne, aparantly we're suffering from "post olympics depresion" so we need this! haha:)
If you have ever listened to RRR in Melbourne or FBI in Sydeny (when it's on) you would see JJJ is nothing special, it just doesn't suck as much as the commercial stations.
Can you post a frequency for these two stations? I live in sydney and would love to here FBI (I'm guessing that they don't have full licences?)
I'm not saying it shouldn't exist just that it's no where near the nirvana or radio that a lot of people to think it is:-)
I can see your point, but they do a lot of counrty broadcasting which is great for people in remote areas (and why they get my loyalty (and I hate commercial advertising)). Before I moved to sydney I lived in a couple different country towns, and all you get is AM talkback, AM "great hits from the '60s '70 and '80s" and ABC clasical. If I was lucky, I could get triple j, and then none of the dials on my radios would move:)
I just got sent this in my daily mail from APC. Straight cut and paste job here. Thought that you might be interested in it.
btw, good luck on the exam!
BMG Australia puts music on Web
Fresh from its deal with Napster, record company BMG has agreed to offer
14 "promotional" songs from Australian artists for free download over the
Internet. The songs, which can only be played for 30 days after
downloading, include tracks by John Farnham, Bachelor Girl and You Am
I. The music will be available in Windows Media Format, which encodes
music files to prevent illegal copying and restrict where and when the
songs can be played.
Sorry/. is mangling my links, you'll have to copy/paste
http://newswire.com.au/apcweb/news.nsf/HTML/AllHea dlines/5EA78E5D1B822E94CA2569900004B48B
Well, I'm in Australia, and I've only heard about MP3s/napster once or twice in the mainstream media, and then only on the ABCs alternative youth network triple j. (btw, they stream real audio, so have a listen, normally pretty good IMHO) They mainly talked about the "shutdown" of napster when all that stuff was happening with the courts over there in the US a couple months ago. I haven't heard anything about Australia and our goverment/record industrys stand on the matter.
I really think they are waiting to see what happens to the RIAA before making noise. Australia seems to follow the US fairly closely when it comes to technology issues (encryption etc). I'm not sure why (probably some treaty), and I can tell you I get *very* frustrated that we aren't more proactive in these things.
I would imagine that if the shuttle were hit with any space debris and if the hull they could seal off that section and attempt to deal with the problem from there. I don't know how much room is in the russian craft, but I don't think there's much that can be sealed off.
Yeah, that's probably true, but then you've got the probabilty factor of getting hit increasing the more large your "space ship" gets. I think that it would be a fairly even trade off: get hit and have a chance of sealing it, or not get hit at all (if you did get hit though...)
Soon enough, you've got every organization, or every open source hacker, coming up with their own "little language" on top of Perl, and you've splintered the language into an unlimited number of different languages. Imagine the horror of being hired to maintain the Perl code of someone who just quit, only to find out the entire thing is written in, say, some combination of C#, Sanskrit, and Pig Latin.
I've encounterd this at my workplace at the moment. I've been made back up for a wierd interface program. It's something that I've never seen before, or nor has anyone else I know or asked. I think that they've done it this way to lock you into thier propriority dev tools (which suck). You could go into vi and type it by hand, but the thing is more verbose than COBOL, and has a wierd fetish for "(" and ")".
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Well, If you feel that you can do better, you're most welcome to try :)
Thanks for the idea for my first the bench :)
woops, thanks :)
whisker
mmmm, chicken... agggrrrr
Cool! We should soon have one marking every degree confluence :)
How about Mono-liths?
1.3 How many confluences are there?
There are 64,442 latitude and longitude degree intersections in the world (counting each pole as one intersection). Of these, 47,650 meet the goals of the project after removing many confluences near the poles. Of these, about 12,000 are actually on the land. As you may guess, we're not worried about running out of confluences.
from the faq about the resolving the poles problem
"At 89 degrees latitude, one degree from the north or south pole, the line are 1.2 miles apart. This skews the sample sharply to the poles and neglects the equitorial regions ...a solution to the problem is to skip confluences when the distance between them falls below 2/3 of the distance at the equator ... [they] are still valid confluences, and will be posted if visited, but are not part of the official goals of the project."
Don't forget that there are 12 signs in the zodiac (western). I think that this would have also have a very large affect on the reason for 12 months in a year. The sun lies in a new sign every month.
I think that this is also one reason why we have 24 hrs in one day, a new star sign rises every 2 hrs.
But hey, I probably don't know what I'm talking about :)
You're not a troll? *cough* *cough* ;-)
The kind of honesty you get by having individuals who aren't afraid to express themselves has always been a threat to those who imagine themselves in power. -- Emmanuel Goldstein.
Umm... The story is about the UK not the USA. Sorry, you were probably just spamming...
Agreed!
To quote my flatmate (hp-ux sys-admin) when I just read the article to him - "fuck!"
This really depends on how much code you have, how much data you have etc. etc. Has anyone done a keeping oracle cost vs a conversion cost? Don't forget that converting will run over time and budget (of course :)
Unless low power consumption was needed (you didn't say) i'd consider an second hand intel. if you hunt around you could probably find one in good condition too. remember that curuseo isn't blazing fast, and that you might get similar performance from an older intel chip. (not sure on that, haven't seen a lot of bench-marks)
just my $0.02 + 10% GST
Why didn't you use it to post then?
It's a unix thing: fsck - filesystem consistency check and interactive repair
Links if it was a serious question...
man page for openbsd fsck
jargon file: fsking
If I wanted to target an attack agaist a certain company, rather than posting a disk, it would be more simple to just mass email the trojan to certain users. It's not hard to find out email address etc, so I think that this would be more effective
Or am I missing the point? Sorry If I have, rather tired :)
The Egyptians were trying to find true north but they didn't have a star marking the pole. So they used two stars, Kochab in Ursa Minor or the Little Dipper, and Mizar in Ursa Major, or the Big Dipper to find the pole.
``It (the pole) is on a line between those two stars. You measure when the two stars are basically on top of one another and if you line them up with a plumb line that will give you true north,'' Spence said.
According to astronomical data, 2,467 BC is the year in which the line that goes between the two stars passes exactly the trajectory of the pole.
*sob* It all started about a year and a half ago (I think? Is that right for my uid?) Now I've gotten that bad that I'm reading /. at work, and /. at home. It's gotten that bad that I don't evern recognise the word "slashdot" and more, prefering the gzip "/." more.
Anyway, back in the real world. I think the best place for a /. meeting in sydney .au would be at a monthly slug meeting. I haven't been to one yet, but judging by the mailing lists, the guys and gals read /. a fair bit.
And Melbourne, aparantly we're suffering from "post olympics depresion" so we need this! haha :)
Can you post a frequency for these two stations? I live in sydney and would love to here FBI (I'm guessing that they don't have full licences?)
I'm not saying it shouldn't exist just that it's no where near the nirvana or radio that a lot of people to think it is :-)
I can see your point, but they do a lot of counrty broadcasting which is great for people in remote areas (and why they get my loyalty (and I hate commercial advertising)). Before I moved to sydney I lived in a couple different country towns, and all you get is AM talkback, AM "great hits from the '60s '70 and '80s" and ABC clasical. If I was lucky, I could get triple j, and then none of the dials on my radios would move :)
btw, good luck on the exam!
BMG Australia puts music on Web
Fresh from its deal with Napster, record company BMG has agreed to offer 14 "promotional" songs from Australian artists for free download over the Internet. The songs, which can only be played for 30 days after downloading, include tracks by John Farnham, Bachelor Girl and You Am I. The music will be available in Windows Media Format, which encodes music files to prevent illegal copying and restrict where and when the songs can be played.
Sorry /. is mangling my links, you'll have to copy/pastea dlines/5EA78E5D1B822E94CA2569900004B48B
http://newswire.com.au/apcweb/news.nsf/HTML/AllHe
I really think they are waiting to see what happens to the RIAA before making noise. Australia seems to follow the US fairly closely when it comes to technology issues (encryption etc). I'm not sure why (probably some treaty), and I can tell you I get *very* frustrated that we aren't more proactive in these things.
Better stop before I start ranting :)
Yeah, that's probably true, but then you've got the probabilty factor of getting hit increasing the more large your "space ship" gets. I think that it would be a fairly even trade off: get hit and have a chance of sealing it, or not get hit at all (if you did get hit though...)
I've encounterd this at my workplace at the moment. I've been made back up for a wierd interface program. It's something that I've never seen before, or nor has anyone else I know or asked. I think that they've done it this way to lock you into thier propriority dev tools (which suck). You could go into vi and type it by hand, but the thing is more verbose than COBOL, and has a wierd fetish for "(" and ")".
Talk about job security.