Its taken almost three centuries since the demonstration of flight [ by balloon ] for a person to solo the globe. Now powered flight may be soloed. Its not a trivial record.
I dont think you can read the strips without being more than a couple millimeters away.
However I heard of a of scam to read the the RFIDs in car key and car opener devices. These can be read a foot or two away (e.g. in elevator or mall). Its been shown that a modest computation can break the car entry security. So do we need foil-lined wallets, pockets, and purses?
One of Jeff's ideas was that *search* was a fundamental operation of computing. He dedicated a keyboard key called LEAP to this function to avoid the confusion of swithcing to a search mode.
In some respect Google Desktop and perhaps web serach engines themselves are the latest implementation of this concept.
Homeland Security and other state and federal enforcement agencies are ChoicePoint's biggest customers. That is mainly because governement efforts to build security databases have been dismal failures (TIPS, FBI, airlines).
So do you think the government is going to seriously repimand an essential company?
Some articles were saying 500,000. ChoicePoint says only 145,000, but who do you think is more believable. I guess we have about a 1 in 300 chance of getting a ChoicePoint letter next week.
Dozens of Martian meteorites have been found on
Earth without looking too hard. Thousands of lunar meteorites have been found on Earth. Though it may take tens of thousands of years to travel between planets, this article shows bacteria can easily survive the time. There have been thousands of opportunities over billions of years.
If life is found elsewhere in this solar system, I expect it to resemble Earth life, because interplanetary infection is so easy.
In fact, I suggest bateria probably evolved on Mars first, because of its smaller size, it stablized sooner. Then it infected earth, maybe Venus, the Jupiter atmosphere, the European oceans, and so on.
There is something like 100 times the mass of
bacteria on/in/above the earth than eucharoyte &
multicellar life combined. Bacteria have been found in the deepest rock drillhole, sandwiched in snow and ice, floating in the atmosphere. About 5-10% of human being weight may be benign bacteria.
Webvan was supposed to be the revolutionary internet based grocery delivery business. However the start-up infrastructure costs were staggering and killed the company. It was far more economical for the corner grocery store to acquire an internet delivery capability because they already had the physical infrastructure.
Ditto banks. They seem to be building them like mad, whether on street corners or inside grocery stores. Ditto side down bookstores. Amazon will never wipe out all bookstores, because some are social spaces.
I dont even know if I can write this piece, because
I think the word "English" comes from French.
But I've heard a few die-hards want to forget the French even took over England in 1066 and left all those long words here.
Reminds me a bit of the Whole Earth Catalog with a strong do-it-yourself slant. Interestingly they both come out of the same [Marin] county and the WEC was a and early promoter of bboards and PCs.
Several of the engineering majors at MIT already had bio-engineering options for several decades. The most well known was option VI-2 in Electrical Engineering, but mechanical and materials science had these too. This latest development formalizes it.
Most governement data mining ventures have failed such as two high-profile FBI projects and three iterations of an airline passenger database. Most agencies are inept in managing large software projects. So as a backup, the governement, mainly Homeland Security, has been purchasing private firm data.
To be frank, I don't see the government databases any more secure than private ones. Lowly clerks, some of those hired by affirmative action, are vulnerble to bribes as in the Colorado drivers license scandal.
Energy use dropped in the 1980s after high cost and laws made people conserve. Then these savings went away as people started buying unregulated trucks (SUVs) and 4000 square foot mini-mansions.
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There's some frame printing issue. Sigh.
He should get the Nobel Peace Prize for his huge charity contributions to the world's children. Probably not until he retires from MicroSoft.
Its taken almost three centuries since the demonstration of flight [ by balloon ] for a person to solo the globe. Now powered flight may be soloed. Its not a trivial record.
It got slashdotted very easily. I presume it was a Linux server.
I dont think you can read the strips without being more than a couple millimeters away.
However I heard of a of scam to read the the RFIDs in car key and car opener devices. These can be read a foot or two away (e.g. in elevator or mall). Its been shown that a modest computation can break the car entry security. So do we need foil-lined wallets, pockets, and purses?
We know NASA wont, whose p*ss*ng half its funds into a $100 billion dollar space station that has trouble keeping two astronauts alive.
Drat! I have to make room in my backyard among my cold fusion jacuzzi and hundred foot perpetual-motion wheel for these instant solar cells.
One of Jeff's ideas was that *search* was a fundamental operation of computing. He dedicated a keyboard key called LEAP to this function to avoid the confusion of swithcing to a search mode.
In some respect Google Desktop and perhaps web serach engines themselves are the latest implementation of this concept.
Homeland Security and other state and federal enforcement agencies are ChoicePoint's biggest customers. That is mainly because governement efforts to build security databases have been dismal failures (TIPS, FBI, airlines).
So do you think the government is going to seriously repimand an essential company?
Congress has become angry enough to change these. Ironic, in the week that they but obstacles in forming class-action suits.
Some articles were saying 500,000. ChoicePoint says only 145,000, but who do you think is more believable. I guess we have about a 1 in 300 chance of getting a ChoicePoint letter next week.
Some sites like DrudgeReport and msn.com popup an add before you go to a link. This is done in javascript. Mozilla doesnt stop these.
Dozens of Martian meteorites have been found on Earth without looking too hard. Thousands of lunar meteorites have been found on Earth. Though it may take tens of thousands of years to travel between planets, this article shows bacteria can easily survive the time. There have been thousands of opportunities over billions of years.
If life is found elsewhere in this solar system, I expect it to resemble Earth life, because interplanetary infection is so easy. In fact, I suggest bateria probably evolved on Mars first, because of its smaller size, it stablized sooner. Then it infected earth, maybe Venus, the Jupiter atmosphere, the European oceans, and so on.
There is something like 100 times the mass of bacteria on/in/above the earth than eucharoyte & multicellar life combined. Bacteria have been found in the deepest rock drillhole, sandwiched in snow and ice, floating in the atmosphere. About 5-10% of human being weight may be benign bacteria.
This is kind of heavy for in-flight DVDs.
And it probably uses up batteries quickly too.
Webvan was supposed to be the revolutionary internet based grocery delivery business. However the start-up infrastructure costs were staggering and killed the company. It was far more economical for the corner grocery store to acquire an internet delivery capability because they already had the physical infrastructure.
Ditto banks. They seem to be building them like mad, whether on street corners or inside grocery stores. Ditto side down bookstores. Amazon will never wipe out all bookstores, because some are social spaces.
I dont even know if I can write this piece, because I think the word "English" comes from French.
But I've heard a few die-hards want to forget the French even took over England in 1066 and left all those long words here.
...is looking more and more attractive.
And that salesman thought he was ripping me off.
(Nunavat is Canada's newest province on the Arctic Ocean.)
Reminds me a bit of the Whole Earth Catalog with a strong do-it-yourself slant. Interestingly they both come out of the same [Marin] county and the WEC was a and early promoter of bboards and PCs.
Several of the engineering majors at MIT already had bio-engineering options for several decades. The most well known was option VI-2 in Electrical Engineering, but mechanical and materials science had these too. This latest development formalizes it.
Implant a GPS tracking device at birth, so the individual would always be used to it. This would go along with your planetary identification number.
Please enumerate your donationas and net worth. If they dont add up to a third of your need worth, then you are a hypocritical loser.
Yes Jim, Star Trek has now joined my in the great beyond.
It died of boredom- redoing the same tired old plots for the tenth time.
Most governement data mining ventures have failed such as two high-profile FBI projects and three iterations of an airline passenger database. Most agencies are inept in managing large software projects. So as a backup, the governement, mainly Homeland Security, has been purchasing private firm data.
To be frank, I don't see the government databases any more secure than private ones. Lowly clerks, some of those hired by affirmative action, are vulnerble to bribes as in the Colorado drivers license scandal.
Energy use dropped in the 1980s after high cost and laws made people conserve. Then these savings went away as people started buying unregulated trucks (SUVs) and 4000 square foot mini-mansions.