And in case you make a lot of transactions, where TANs are not that useful, my bank (Deutsche Bank) also issues a chip card, which in combination with a chip card password and an external, sealed and certified reader with its own keypad (no keyboard logger or sniffer software) gives you access to an unlimited number of transactions.
not a single word that this book is about US law. Only US law. Nothing else. A law that is notably different from other laws the international readership of Slashdot may be working under.
While there is a real hype about bioinformatics, do not forget its sister discipline, chemoinformatics. Chemoinformatics is more concerned about handling chemical structures rather than genomes (but the boundaries are not that clear, and companies such as Accelrys 8cited in the article] are more a chemoinformatics than a bioinformatics company).
An interesting overview about CI can be found at Nature.
Still, you need dedication for this job: A Ph.D. in chemistry plus solid computer science knowledge is still the norm. But those few who qualify are really sought after.
Disclosure: I am the Director of Chemoinformatics at start-up ChemCodes (www.chemcodes.com), so I know what I am talking about.
After building a decicated organ (US$ 700000) the first notes will begin to be played on January 5th, 2003 in St. Burchardi Church in Halberstadt, Germany. The first accord (gis', h' and gis'') will continue for three years, the first additional note will be heard on Juli 5th, 2004. The whole piece will take 639 years to be finished.
The first large church organ in history was built 639 years ago in Halberstadt - this is why the piece is stretched to 639 years. The original John Cage composition (the music was not composed for this occasion) contains an instruction to play as slowly as possible, and now a dedicated team of artists and sponsors is taking this seriously.
The organ was built with redundant air compressors, UPS and diesel generator buffering, hot-swappable organ parts, and everything else required to allow uninterrupted playing for 639 years.
Have you thought about using an escrow agency to safeguard the code and to release it to the customer only in case of your company's demise or inability to fulfill support duties in a reasonable way? This kind of arrangement protects both sides, and my customers are usually satisfied with it.
It must have been a long time since Bruces chemistry lessons.
The basic principle is electrolyis of a brine solution. But this is about all which is correct in above analysis.
The post by anon coward above is basically correct. The primary solution products are sodium hydroxide and chlorine (hydrogen bubbling out), then, in an important mixing step, NaOH and Cl2 react to form sodium hypochlorite solution (not sodium chlorate, as another clueless commenter suggested). In secondary reactions, chloroxide (ClO2) and various oxygen-containing radicals (OH, etc.) are formed.
This process is related to the industrial synthesis of sodium hydroxide by electrolysis - only in that case the mixing is carefully avoided and the chlorina gas captured for use for vinyl chloride production, etc.
As far as chemistry as a science is concerned, there is nothing in these papers which was not already known a hundred years ago.
P.S. Slashdot people, please allow the tag for correct formula subscripts!
Emily Kemp, a telemarketing consultant who works out of her home, said she and her husband moved from a non-wired townhouse in another part of Broadlands to the wired Southern Walk neighborhood for space reasons...
"Telemarketing Consultant" and really good Internet connection... I have some suspicions...
As far as names are concerned, there is a bitter dispute about who has the right to propose names - historically the first discoverer had the right to name it. Element 112 is especially interesting, since the "unnamed" scientist was a member of the team claiming priority on the discovery.
> VRML is simply pitiful compared to what Chime can do
Not true! Who says you cannot do orbitals or animations in VRML? We do them! And in much better graphical quality. Normal vibrations in Chime are atrocious, both in graphical quality and the physics behind it (sawtooth function? Bah!). Example Another Example
About the energy: The difference to other explosives which bring their own oxidizer will not be dramatic.
The numbers for FAE explosives cannot be compared directly. The energy/weight ratios exclude the oxygen, which comes from the air. They can only be used where plenty of air is available. They cannot be used underground, under water, in space, or in normal bombs for small targets.
Tetrahedrane derivatives have been made. Not the unsubstituted mother compound, and not the nitrated version, as far as I know. There are many more spectacular strained compounds, like propellanes. There are a number of chemists (de Meijere et al.) who synthesize them by the dozend.
First, you do not RELEASE energy by breaking C-H or C-C bonds. These bonds are exothermic. In order to explode the compound, you must OVERCOME the C-H and CC bonding energies, by compensating with the released energy of newly formed strong C=O and N*N-bonds (N and O from the nitro groups). Explosives often use compounds where the C-C bonds are intentionally weakened by ring strain and similar effects. Cubane derivatives are a good example.
Second, it is not the amount of energy released by a molecule which counts, but the energy per liter or kilogram. And you can pack 1 molecule of cubane into less space than ~2.5 cylcopropane molecules, even if we are talking about solid derivatives (unsubstituted cyclopropane and -ene are gases!)
Third, there are other effects like the kinetics of reaction and the speed of sound in the compound which determine its usefulness as an explosive. And of course you need a gas release (CO2, N2) to be effective, because you want a rapid volume increase, not just burning heat (like with Thermite).
Slashdot Mirror
7 MW maximal thermal poer in the receiver. 7 times bigger than your tiny little French toy.
I second this. I was going to post a similar comment. I received that Wired issue several weeks ago.
It was already yesterday, before the upgrade.
Stanislaw Lem, The Futurological Congress. Right on topic.
And in case you make a lot of transactions, where TANs are not that useful, my bank (Deutsche Bank) also issues a chip card, which in combination with a chip card password and an external, sealed and certified reader with its own keypad (no keyboard logger or sniffer software) gives you access to an unlimited number of transactions.
The TAN list alone does not help you. You still need your passcode to log into the account.
And since nobody remembers the numbers on the TAN list, kidnapping somebody to extract the passcode alone does not help either.
Well, there is already a legit "Galactic File Format". ;-)
(its exact name is the "thermo galactic file format", but people tend to shorten it. It is a popular format to store chemical spectral data).
not a single word that this book is about US law. Only US law. Nothing else. A law that is notably different from other laws the international readership of Slashdot may be working under.
It is 'Sturmbannfuehrer', not 'bahn'.
'Bann' == Banner == standard (flag)
But who would think spammers can spell...
An interesting overview about CI can be found at Nature.
Still, you need dedication for this job: A Ph.D. in chemistry plus solid computer science knowledge is still the norm. But those few who qualify are really sought after.
Disclosure: I am the Director of Chemoinformatics at start-up ChemCodes (www.chemcodes.com), so I know what I am talking about.
English link:
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1525792.s
The following story is no joke.
After building a decicated organ (US$ 700000) the first notes will begin to be played on January 5th, 2003 in St. Burchardi Church in Halberstadt, Germany. The first accord (gis', h' and gis'') will continue for three years, the first additional note will be heard on Juli 5th, 2004. The whole piece will take 639 years to be finished.
The first large church organ in history was built 639 years ago in Halberstadt - this is why the piece is stretched to 639 years. The original John Cage composition (the music was not composed for this occasion) contains an instruction to play as slowly as possible, and now a dedicated team of artists and sponsors is taking this seriously.
The organ was built with redundant air compressors, UPS and diesel generator buffering, hot-swappable organ parts, and everything else required to allow uninterrupted playing for 639 years.
More info at http://www.welt.de/daten/2000/09/13/0913ku190585.
Have you thought about using an escrow agency to safeguard the code and to release it to the customer only in case of your company's demise or inability to fulfill support duties in a reasonable way? This kind of arrangement protects both sides, and my customers are usually satisfied with it.
The core routines of Deep Fritz are written in assembler.
This link is already in the original Slashdot story!
The basic principle is electrolyis of a brine solution. But this is about all which is correct in above analysis.
The post by anon coward above is basically correct. The primary solution products are sodium hydroxide and chlorine (hydrogen bubbling out), then, in an important mixing step, NaOH and Cl2 react to form sodium hypochlorite solution (not sodium chlorate, as another clueless commenter suggested). In secondary reactions, chloroxide (ClO2) and various oxygen-containing radicals (OH, etc.) are formed.
This process is related to the industrial synthesis of sodium hydroxide by electrolysis - only in that case the mixing is carefully avoided and the chlorina gas captured for use for vinyl chloride production, etc.
As far as chemistry as a science is concerned, there is nothing in these papers which was not already known a hundred years ago.
P.S. Slashdot people, please allow the tag for correct formula subscripts!
Emily Kemp, a telemarketing consultant who works out of her home, said she and her husband moved from a non-wired townhouse in another part of Broadlands to the wired Southern Walk neighborhood for space reasons...
"Telemarketing Consultant" and really good Internet connection
More info on the naming issue, and here.
If I recall correctly, all dates on documents in inter-EU commerce must adhere to the ISO standard.
Right. Bullets are faster than the speed of sound, so at the moment the monkey hears the shoot, it has already been hit.
Not true! Who says you cannot do orbitals or animations in VRML? We do them! And in much better graphical quality. Normal vibrations in Chime are atrocious, both in graphical quality and the physics behind it (sawtooth function? Bah!). Example
Another Example
About the energy: The difference to other
explosives which bring their own oxidizer
will not be dramatic.
The numbers for FAE explosives cannot be
compared directly. The energy/weight ratios
exclude the oxygen, which comes from the air.
They can only be used where plenty of air
is available. They cannot be used underground,
under water, in space, or in normal bombs
for small targets.
Tetrahedrane derivatives have been made. Not the
unsubstituted mother compound, and not
the nitrated version, as far as I know. There
are many more spectacular strained compounds,
like propellanes. There are a number of
chemists (de Meijere et al.) who synthesize them
by the dozend.
First, you do not RELEASE energy by
breaking C-H or C-C bonds. These bonds
are exothermic. In order to explode the
compound, you must OVERCOME the C-H and CC bonding
energies, by compensating with the released energy
of newly formed strong C=O and N*N-bonds (N and
O from the nitro groups). Explosives often use compounds where the C-C bonds
are intentionally weakened by ring strain and similar effects. Cubane derivatives are a good example.
Second, it is not the amount of energy released
by a molecule which counts, but the energy
per liter or kilogram. And you can pack
1 molecule of cubane into less space than
~2.5 cylcopropane molecules, even if
we are talking about solid derivatives (unsubstituted cyclopropane and -ene are gases!)
Third, there are other effects like the kinetics
of reaction and the speed of sound in
the compound which determine its usefulness
as an explosive. And of course you need a gas
release (CO2, N2) to be effective, because you want a rapid volume increase, not just burning
heat (like with Thermite).