Actually try just a 8 digit subset of it so that strangers dont see the whole thing. When aquaintances have tried this, about half of them have seen their SSN listed on some websites.
Scary!
Though I dont give out my SSN, most of my heath providers seem to have it and use it as an identifier anyways. I see it appear on my dentist records, the hordes of people involved in my recent auto accident, etc.
Law say that only organizations that collect taxes can use the number. This includes your employer, the government tax and benefit departments, including the DMV tax on cars.
SSN for driver licenses is technically not legal, nor for security clearances, private health programs, student IDs, etc.. But they all push for it.
Be careful of the quality of software. In the 80s there was a lot of hype about climate modeling based on a simple planetary weather program. The software represented the atmosphere as a single vertical profile of physical conditions. When modelers plugged in the post-nuclear dust clouds it prodicted huge temperature drops. However, more sophisticated "3D" models thta inorporated oceans and continents and wind currents found much smaller effects. These defects didnt really slow down biased scientists who kept on promoting their political agendas nonetheless.
The monolith was on Iapetus.
That moon appeared to have such a strong albedo
contrast across different hemispheres in pre-19698
telescopes that it seemed unnatural.
On a related topic, Huygens impacts Saturn 36 hours from the time of this posting. This is the most distant physical impact ever (since Galileo sailed into Jupiter's clouds). Will we find rock, ice, or a hydrocarbon ocean?
Cars are among the most computerized appliances people use. Some have up to a dozen control CPUs. Plus engineers are tlking semic-automous to completely automatic driving systems, mapping systems, entertainment systems.
I sleep 1-2 hours less when exercising.
So its time "pays for itself" plus makes me
feel better the other 17 hours.
I suspect deep breathing and increased
blood flow flushes away toxins, especially
from a tired brain.
In the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake telephone service went down but the InterNet stayed up for communication and exchange of seismic data.
This quake was two orders of magnitude smaller and only killed fifty-some people, but was plenty scary to us caught in it.
Fortunately Silicon Valley itself was in a seismic "dead spot" and its dangerous bay-fill soils did not collapse. Santa Cruz, right next to the hypocenter, experienced direct shaking damage.
And parts of San Francisco and Oakland where at distances where the seismic surface waves peaked at the resonant frequency of structures (about one Hertz) and caused more damage.
Simple DNA manipulations have been undergradate lab projects and now high school science fair projects for years.
Not that the nerdy kid next door is going to stumble onto a Frankenstein....
The reductionistic approach of science has been pretty powerful in explaining many of the mechanisms of life and mind and finding remdies for their defects (disease).
The construction of operations life from shelf chemicals would seal this argument.
A scientist, I still have to keep all possible hypothesis in my mind, include that of an unmeasured "life force", unlikely as that seems to be necessary, until shown otherwise.
My wife has been aftert me to take down that 30-foot perpetual motion wheel in my backyard. Now that we have 30% solar cells, we don't need the wheel anymore.
The potential spouse's family wont even look at you unless you got a good education or rich by 25. Although there is less emphasis on "arranged" marriage these days, marriage is still an agreed economic union of families. The husband contributes status and maybe a good economic base, and the wife pays for expensive wedding with lots of gifts to the husbands family.
Sometimes nationality cluster at a given
school because it is convenient to go where
there are others you know. Different schools
may have different nationalities.
That takes real skill. Not these incremental extrapolations of existing trends. Things like google's rise out of a tired search industry, etc.
Or like google next hit.
Readers of sci.reasearch.careers watched Dr. Fabrikant, an adjucant faculty at Concordia Canada rant and rave about slights by other faculty at the college in 1992. Then they were horrified to read in the general press he killed four of them.
From the earliest days it was hard to tell how serious people were on usenet. Without the the constraint of face-to-face interaction, it was fairly common for people to be far more emotional than in real life. With all the deception on the net, its hard for other readers to tell how serious a poster is.
Customers demand the terabytes of disk to store hundreds of hours of p0rn; they demand broadband to deliver it; they pioneered ways to pay it over the net.
Machinima and Sims sound similar: both have computers draw characters and scene in real time. Machinima is what Marshall McCluhan calls a "cold" medium: the audience is passively watching a preprogrammed script. On the other hand Sims is a "hot" medium with the audience actively involved creating the action.
I recall a panel at the 2003 SIGGRAPH questioning whether the economic tilt toward game development was "impeding" the development of other branches of computer graphics. Graphics accerlation boards aimed at game machines lacked the color resolution (48+ bits) that hollywood and sci-viz people were interested. Also they were strongly tilted toward triangle-fill rendering when there were a dozen other rendering methods of interest to other branches of graphics.
I think some of this criticism was abated as the graphics boards have been opended up to more programmer control. Also there was a session at last summer's SIGGRAPH on Hollywoods influence on gaming: the big companies are hiring artistic directors for the games and put feature-film type flourishes in the big money projects.
Besides the MLM spams, arent persistant rumors of a $150 iPod? The mini came in a pricey $250. Now there are rumors of keychain size iPod at next weeks MacWorld.
In my days, when programming exercises were in OS360 assembler, on 80-character punchcards, with one assembly instruction per punchcard, the macho guys tried to minimize the number of punchcards. Of course this lead to impossible to understand code (if assmbler isnt hard enough). And the dangerous practice of "self-modifying code", i.e. the program may write new assembler instructions in existing location of execution memory. The latter is usually prohibited by modern OS loaders that sequester executables into read-only pages.
The "WOZ" was a legendary hacker in this regard. You should see how tight some of the monitor code is in the original Apple I & II. In those days a byte of ROM memory cost a couple cents, so every instruction counted.
Our mall had a Digital Joy kiosk selling the home media center. It was someone stealthy with the MicroSoft name in small print on the brochure and no where on the kiosk. Ironically, it was near the Apple store too.
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Historical normal for the past 1.5 million years have been extensive glaciation 80% of the time, warm interludes 20% of the time.
Actually try just a 8 digit subset of it so that strangers dont see the whole thing. When aquaintances have tried this, about half of them have seen their SSN listed on some websites. Scary!
Though I dont give out my SSN, most of my heath providers seem to have it and use it as an identifier anyways. I see it appear on my dentist records, the hordes of people involved in my recent auto accident, etc.
Law say that only organizations that collect taxes can use the number. This includes your employer, the government tax and benefit departments, including the DMV tax on cars. SSN for driver licenses is technically not legal, nor for security clearances, private health programs, student IDs, etc.. But they all push for it.
Be careful of the quality of software. In the 80s there was a lot of hype about climate modeling based on a simple planetary weather program. The software represented the atmosphere as a single vertical profile of physical conditions. When modelers plugged in the post-nuclear dust clouds it prodicted huge temperature drops. However, more sophisticated "3D" models thta inorporated oceans and continents and wind currents found much smaller effects. These defects didnt really slow down biased scientists who kept on promoting their political agendas nonetheless.
The monolith was on Iapetus. That moon appeared to have such a strong albedo contrast across different hemispheres in pre-19698 telescopes that it seemed unnatural.
On a related topic, Huygens impacts Saturn 36 hours from the time of this posting. This is the most distant physical impact ever (since Galileo sailed into Jupiter's clouds). Will we find rock, ice, or a hydrocarbon ocean?
By how many we get back alive?
Cars are among the most computerized appliances people use. Some have up to a dozen control CPUs. Plus engineers are tlking semic-automous to completely automatic driving systems, mapping systems, entertainment systems.
I sleep 1-2 hours less when exercising. So its time "pays for itself" plus makes me feel better the other 17 hours. I suspect deep breathing and increased blood flow flushes away toxins, especially from a tired brain.
The annual variation in length-of-day is about two milliseconds. This is mainly due to seasonal changes in ocean currents and major storms.
In the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake telephone service went down but the InterNet stayed up for communication and exchange of seismic data. This quake was two orders of magnitude smaller and only killed fifty-some people, but was plenty scary to us caught in it.
Fortunately Silicon Valley itself was in a seismic "dead spot" and its dangerous bay-fill soils did not collapse. Santa Cruz, right next to the hypocenter, experienced direct shaking damage. And parts of San Francisco and Oakland where at distances where the seismic surface waves peaked at the resonant frequency of structures (about one Hertz) and caused more damage.
Simple DNA manipulations have been undergradate lab projects and now high school science fair projects for years. ....
Not that the nerdy kid next door is going to stumble onto a Frankenstein
The reductionistic approach of science has been pretty powerful in explaining many of the mechanisms of life and mind and finding remdies for their defects (disease). The construction of operations life from shelf chemicals would seal this argument.
A scientist, I still have to keep all possible hypothesis in my mind, include that of an unmeasured "life force", unlikely as that seems to be necessary, until shown otherwise.
My wife has been aftert me to take down that 30-foot perpetual motion wheel in my backyard. Now that we have 30% solar cells, we don't need the wheel anymore.
The potential spouse's family wont even look at you unless you got a good education or rich by 25. Although there is less emphasis on "arranged" marriage these days, marriage is still an agreed economic union of families. The husband contributes status and maybe a good economic base, and the wife pays for expensive wedding with lots of gifts to the husbands family.
Sometimes nationality cluster at a given school because it is convenient to go where there are others you know. Different schools may have different nationalities.
That takes real skill. Not these incremental extrapolations of existing trends. Things like google's rise out of a tired search industry, etc. Or like google next hit.
Readers of sci.reasearch.careers watched Dr. Fabrikant, an adjucant faculty at Concordia Canada rant and rave about slights by other faculty at the college in 1992. Then they were horrified to read in the general press he killed four of them.
From the earliest days it was hard to tell how serious people were on usenet. Without the the constraint of face-to-face interaction, it was fairly common for people to be far more emotional than in real life. With all the deception on the net, its hard for other readers to tell how serious a poster is.
Its the dot.com boom all over again here in Bangalore.
Customers demand the terabytes of disk to store hundreds of hours of p0rn; they demand broadband to deliver it; they pioneered ways to pay it over the net.
Machinima and Sims sound similar: both have computers draw characters and scene in real time. Machinima is what Marshall McCluhan calls a "cold" medium: the audience is passively watching a preprogrammed script. On the other hand Sims is a "hot" medium with the audience actively involved creating the action.
I recall a panel at the 2003 SIGGRAPH questioning whether the economic tilt toward game development was "impeding" the development of other branches of computer graphics. Graphics accerlation boards aimed at game machines lacked the color resolution (48+ bits) that hollywood and sci-viz people were interested. Also they were strongly tilted toward triangle-fill rendering when there were a dozen other rendering methods of interest to other branches of graphics.
I think some of this criticism was abated as the graphics boards have been opended up to more programmer control. Also there was a session at last summer's SIGGRAPH on Hollywoods influence on gaming: the big companies are hiring artistic directors for the games and put feature-film type flourishes in the big money projects.
Besides the MLM spams, arent persistant rumors of a $150 iPod? The mini came in a pricey $250. Now there are rumors of keychain size iPod at next weeks MacWorld.
In my days, when programming exercises were in OS360 assembler, on 80-character punchcards, with one assembly instruction per punchcard, the macho guys tried to minimize the number of punchcards. Of course this lead to impossible to understand code (if assmbler isnt hard enough). And the dangerous practice of "self-modifying code", i.e. the program may write new assembler instructions in existing location of execution memory. The latter is usually prohibited by modern OS loaders that sequester executables into read-only pages.
The "WOZ" was a legendary hacker in this regard. You should see how tight some of the monitor code is in the original Apple I & II. In those days a byte of ROM memory cost a couple cents, so every instruction counted.
Our mall had a Digital Joy kiosk selling the home media center. It was someone stealthy with the MicroSoft name in small print on the brochure and no where on the kiosk. Ironically, it was near the Apple store too.