That's incorrect. The president of Germany is elected by the Federal Convention, which is made up of all members of the German Federal Diet (Deutscher Bundestag, elected by proportional representation every four years) plus the same number of representatives elected by the states' parliaments. Therefore, half of the result is determined by indirect vote, and the other half by double indirect votes (populace votes for representatives in the state parliament, those vote for representatives in the Federal Convention, and that in turn votes for the president).
There is however, no popular vote at all for the president, the elections for the president don't coincide with any federal or state elections. Few people really care, because the president usually has a much lower profile than the chancellor..
The only thing about this story that keeps people in Cupertino awake ist the simple fact that people could use this vulnerability to reset the charge counter of the battery and try to file a warranty claim.
[...]and they must IMMEDIATELY restore it – and they face full legal responsibility of any losses you incur if they do not!
Sadly. that's not the case.
(1) No liability for taking down generally. — Subject to paragraph (2), a service provider shall not be liable to any person for any claim based on the service provider's good faith disabling of access to, or removal of, material or activity claimed to be infringing or based on facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent, regardless of whether the material or activity is ultimately determined to be infringing.
(2) Exception. — Paragraph (1) shall not apply with respect to material residing at the direction of a subscriber of the service provider on a system or network controlled or operated by or for the service provider that is removed, or to which access is disabled by the service provider, pursuant to a notice provided under subsection (c)(1)(C), unless the service provider —
(A) takes reasonable steps promptly to notify the subscriber that it has removed or disabled access to the material;
(B) upon receipt of a counter notification described in paragraph (3), promptly provides the person who provided the notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) with a copy of the counter notification, and informs that person that it will replace the removed material or cease disabling access to it in 10 business days; and
(C) replaces the removed material and ceases disabling access to it not less than 10, nor more than 14, business days following receipt of the counter notice, unless its designated agent first receives notice from the person who submitted the notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) that such person has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the subscriber from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on the service provider's system or network.
And if that doesn't help, there's certainly something in youtube's terms and conditions that they can host or not host anything they want at any time they want for any or no reason, and that it is your own fault to rely on their services. I'd expect their liability to be limited to what you pay them for hosting your content, some very low symbolic amount or just plain nothing, whichever they can get away with in the relevant jurisdiction.
There's about 1kW of photons centered around the visual spectrum hitting every square meter of the moon. It's very difficult to detect a measly laser among all that noise. In the radio spectrum, it's much easier to get a few kW of transmit power, and there's not all that much natural noise, so the signal is much easier to detect.
If you want to know how hard it is to bounce a laser off the moon, read up on the Apollo Retroreflectors, where "Even under good atmospheric viewing conditions, only one photon is received every few seconds".
There was a crash bug in linux quite some time ago (around the 2.6.18 timeframe, CVE-2006-4145) involving large files on UDF filesystems. The workaround fomr 2.6.18 on was a hard limit of the filesize on UDF filesystems of only 1GB. This limit was still around when I last tried to create a UDF DVD filesystem, but that was 1-2 years ago. Is this limit still in current kernels?
My experience from 1996 is quite the oppiosite. I bought a S3 964 based card after those were on the market for more than a year, and I had to find that XF86 was running in false-color so to say. S3 sent me the printed programming for free by international airmail essentially no questions asked.
It turned out that the problem was the way the external IBM RAMDAC was wired to the S3 chip - easily fixed with a 2 or so lines patch, Back in those days manufacturers of graphics cards dodn't just implement a reference design, but had lots of choices which components to connect in which way, which didn't really make things easier for open source developers without access to every hardware variant out there.That essentially ended with the S3 Trio/Virge and the ATI and NVida 3d cards.
At least Windows 3.11 on 386 computers was able to use its own driver for IDE or ST-506 and some SCSI controllers and therefor bypassed DOS completely, much like Windows 95 did later.
The film length for those old movies is usually not given in hours or seconds, but meters. The original 1927 release or metropolis was 4198m, the short version 3241m, and the restored version from 2001 that's usually found on DVDs was 3341m.
Since DVDs outside the US and Japan run at 25fps instead of 24fps, there's still another source of difference in running time.
The data encoded in the signal is digital, however, the location information is derived from the timing of the signal, something that changes depending on the medium (i.e. the distance within the atmosphere the signal has to travel and the precise compisition and electrical conditions therein).
I thought that ionospheric corrections were something that was part of the WAAS standard, or at least something that tended to be corrected by using WAAS. The wikipedia article lists this as part of "slow" corrections.
They aren't going to ship the photons in a Sojuz or the Shuttle (in a highly reflective box?), instead they'll probably be using a laser or similar device to send the entagled photon directly to the ISS. The ride is still bumpy with the atmosphere between the sender and receiver, but it's probably manageable, as demonstarated in this experiment, sending photons over 144km. They explicitly mention that this proves the feasibility of the ground to ISS experiment.
Where do you put the sensor? What is it reading? The hottest components of the power supply of course. Why measure anything on the outside if that must be cooler than the power supply unless it is getting heated by something else (which should have shut down itsself before getting dangerously hot).
Businesses don't need that choice, because they are allowed to downgrade from Vista to XP as they like. There's a detailed description which OS you can downgrade to which other (older, similar) OS in this PDF , and surprisingly it's only for the business versions. They actually give you a new key to install XP on any box that came with a Vista Pro OEM version if you need one. You can upgrade back to the "original" OS whenever you want. More info.
I have no idea how someone with color blindness sees them, since I only have some red/green deficiency. But why rely on a description when you can try for yourself, with numerous forms of color blindness.
Revolutions per second, i.e. Hz is the proper unit to fill in this formula ofr omega to get accelration in m/s^2. With a= r* omega^2 that just gives us more reasonable 0.03175m * (250/s)^2 = 0.03175m*62500 / s^2 = 1984.375 m / s^2
passive (powered by the magnetic field generated by an RFID reader).
Passive RFID tags are not powered by magnetic, but by electromagnetic fields, more precisely essentially the same radio frequency they use to send back their data - they use the same antenna for sending and receiving.
someone with even a basic knowledge of physics knows that the power requirement to maintain an adequate magnetic field increases exponentially with distance.
Since we determined that radio is used to power the tags, everyone with a basic understanding of physics should know that the field strength diminishes with something like x^-3 and not y^-x, which would make it a cube law matter, and not exponential. Additionally, the same directional antenna that can be used to read the tag's signal can be used to direct the radiated RF energy to the tag.
one has to remember that tags operating on the same frequency will tend to interfere with each other, reducing the chance of getting a good read.
Sorry, but that's wrong again. RFID tags only send an answer when they are specifically addressed. The inventory control tags allow for a binay search to find all tags, e.g. you start by asking if any tag have addresses <2^31. If any answer, you check < 2^30 and between 2^31 and 2^30, etc. until you know the individual addresses of all tags in your range. Only after you have the right adress you will start actually reading their data, anything before that is just to detect their presence. Whether or not passport tags even give away their presence if one doesn't provide the (printed) secret key in the request, I do not know.
Those lights are fishers. They use very bright light to attract fish or shrimp to the surface. There's a lot more of this around japan on this picture. They appear to be clustered around richer fishing grounds.
Not quite. The supposed anomaly of gravity can be measured with the spin stabilized pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft, since those practically never have to use their thrusters to adjust their attitude. The voyager spacecraft on the other hand are 3 axis stabilized with hydrazin thrusters, which they have to use every now and then to keep their radio dish pointed at earth. Their useful science comes from the data they gather about magnetic fields, charged particles etc.
Lets be honest here, you were scammed but why? What was it in the e-mail that immidialtly send you to the telephone ready to hand over your credit card number.
No, I wasn't scammed. Which part of my posting misled you into believing that I could possibly have entered my real credit card number?
You now know that you been had and that it was stupid, you are, judging from your ID, a fairly recent slashdot user but the mere fact that you are here probably means you have heard about phishing scams before especially in concern to paypal and that in general handing over your credit card number is a bad idea.
No, now I know that some people with slashdot IDs 40 times higher than mine may not yet have understood the decimal system, or confuse UIDs and CIDs. The scammers don't have my credit card number, but instead one of these. Have fun shopping online with any of these.
I've gotten that phishing mail yesterday, and called the number (1-805-214-4801) immediately. The system's recordings were chopped and barely intellegible, and I was prompted to enter "my 16 digit credit card number" (which was indeed verified to at least follow the basic rules of correctess or be rejected), and its expiry date, but nothing like a name or even the paypal account data.
Where can one complain about such fraudulent 1-8xx numbers to get them shut down? Additionally, how much does calling a 1-805 cost in the US, and is any part of the cost passed to the operator?
As always, the key to a patent is its specificity. The first patent says 1) We send you the software and a product key. 2) You register that product with that key 3) We send you a second password for that product 4) You use the second password indefinitely
This sounds just like SGI's key-o-matic. If you buy one of their "licensed" products, you get CDs and an entitlement ID. Send a properly formatted email with the entitlement ID and the system IDs (essentially the ethernet adress of the workstation) to key-o-matic@sgi.com or was that liceses@ ?) and get license passwords back (that's what the license manager software actually calls them) that are locked to those systems back by email. Keyomatic is at least 10 years old, if one is to believe this usenet post.
Adobe most certainly sold thousands of copies of Photoshop 3.0 for IRIX, since those came bundled with certain versions of SGI's entry level workstations (Indys, O2s). However, as another poster already mentioned, this was a very shoddy port, essentially just the MacOS version recompiled with a MacOS on Unix library. It looked and worked like the Mac version, was slow and unreliable and was completely out of place on a normal irix desktop. On top of all this, back in those days Photoshop wasn't "the" standard like it is today, it was just one of many image manipulation packages, and especially on Irix, there were quite a few to choose from.
I have licenses for Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere on one of my SGIs at home, as well as the now discontinued Eclipse, and Eclipse was miles ahead of Photoshop back then. I don't use any of the Adobe packages anymore, mostly because i find them totally awkward to use - significantly worse than gimp.
Unfortunately, we still lose ~50% of our electrical power in transmission.
Please stop spreading this myth, it has been repeated here on slashdot too often already. Estimates of transmission losses for the US and UK are just above 7%. The US uses up to 1.4MV as opposed to the 380 or 440kV that are common around Europe to achieve similar losses despite the larger distances they cover.
One wonders if NH might contribute some data to finally solve the Pioneer anomaly.
The Pioneer probes are spin stabilized and therefore require only minimal use of thrusters to keep their antenna pointed to earth. The Voyager probes were three axis stabilized, requiring rather frequent use of the thrusters to keep it pointing in the right direction, which made it essentially impossible to measure the Pioneer anomaly. New Horizons can operate in both modes, so it will most probably be spin stabilized during most of its trip from Jupiter to Pluto, and may therefore provide more evidence for or against the Pioneer anomaly.
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That's incorrect. The president of Germany is elected by the Federal Convention, which is made up of all members of the German Federal Diet (Deutscher Bundestag, elected by proportional representation every four years) plus the same number of representatives elected by the states' parliaments. Therefore, half of the result is determined by indirect vote, and the other half by double indirect votes (populace votes for representatives in the state parliament, those vote for representatives in the Federal Convention, and that in turn votes for the president). There is however, no popular vote at all for the president, the elections for the president don't coincide with any federal or state elections. Few people really care, because the president usually has a much lower profile than the chancellor..
The only thing about this story that keeps people in Cupertino awake ist the simple fact that people could use this vulnerability to reset the charge counter of the battery and try to file a warranty claim.
[...]and they must IMMEDIATELY restore it – and they face full legal responsibility of any losses you incur if they do not!
Sadly. that's not the case.
And if that doesn't help, there's certainly something in youtube's terms and conditions that they can host or not host anything they want at any time they want for any or no reason, and that it is your own fault to rely on their services. I'd expect their liability to be limited to what you pay them for hosting your content, some very low symbolic amount or just plain nothing, whichever they can get away with in the relevant jurisdiction.
There's about 1kW of photons centered around the visual spectrum hitting every square meter of the moon. It's very difficult to detect a measly laser among all that noise. In the radio spectrum, it's much easier to get a few kW of transmit power, and there's not all that much natural noise, so the signal is much easier to detect.
If you want to know how hard it is to bounce a laser off the moon, read up on the Apollo Retroreflectors, where "Even under good atmospheric viewing conditions, only one photon is received every few seconds".
There was a crash bug in linux quite some time ago (around the 2.6.18 timeframe, CVE-2006-4145) involving large files on UDF filesystems. The workaround fomr 2.6.18 on was a hard limit of the filesize on UDF filesystems of only 1GB. This limit was still around when I last tried to create a UDF DVD filesystem, but that was 1-2 years ago. Is this limit still in current kernels?
My experience from 1996 is quite the oppiosite. I bought a S3 964 based card after those were on the market for more than a year, and I had to find that XF86 was running in false-color so to say. S3 sent me the printed programming for free by international airmail essentially no questions asked.
It turned out that the problem was the way the external IBM RAMDAC was wired to the S3 chip - easily fixed with a 2 or so lines patch, Back in those days manufacturers of graphics cards dodn't just implement a reference design, but had lots of choices which components to connect in which way, which didn't really make things easier for open source developers without access to every hardware variant out there.That essentially ended with the S3 Trio/Virge and the ATI and NVida 3d cards.
At least Windows 3.11 on 386 computers was able to use its own driver for IDE or ST-506 and some SCSI controllers and therefor bypassed DOS completely, much like Windows 95 did later.
The film length for those old movies is usually not given in hours or seconds, but meters. The original 1927 release or metropolis was 4198m, the short version 3241m, and the restored version from 2001 that's usually found on DVDs was 3341m.
Since DVDs outside the US and Japan run at 25fps instead of 24fps, there's still another source of difference in running time.
Are you serious about the USB 1.x? What's 16GB internal storage good for if it takes all week to fill?
The data encoded in the signal is digital, however, the location information is derived from the timing of the signal, something that changes depending on the medium (i.e. the distance within the atmosphere the signal has to travel and the precise compisition and electrical conditions therein). I thought that ionospheric corrections were something that was part of the WAAS standard, or at least something that tended to be corrected by using WAAS. The wikipedia article lists this as part of "slow" corrections.
They aren't going to ship the photons in a Sojuz or the Shuttle (in a highly reflective box?), instead they'll probably be using a laser or similar device to send the entagled photon directly to the ISS. The ride is still bumpy with the atmosphere between the sender and receiver, but it's probably manageable, as demonstarated in this experiment, sending photons over 144km. They explicitly mention that this proves the feasibility of the ground to ISS experiment.
Businesses don't need that choice, because they are allowed to downgrade from Vista to XP as they like. There's a detailed description which OS you can downgrade to which other (older, similar) OS in this PDF , and surprisingly it's only for the business versions. They actually give you a new key to install XP on any box that came with a Vista Pro OEM version if you need one. You can upgrade back to the "original" OS whenever you want. More info.
I have no idea how someone with color blindness sees them, since I only have some red/green deficiency. But why rely on a description when you can try for yourself, with numerous forms of color blindness.
Revolutions per second, i.e. Hz is the proper unit to fill in this formula ofr omega to get accelration in m/s^2. With a= r* omega^2 that just gives us more reasonable 0.03175m * (250/s)^2 = 0.03175m*62500 / s^2 = 1984.375 m / s^2
That's just 202.5g. Nothing to sneer at,
Since we determined that radio is used to power the tags, everyone with a basic understanding of physics should know that the field strength diminishes with something like x^-3 and not y^-x, which would make it a cube law matter, and not exponential. Additionally, the same directional antenna that can be used to read the tag's signal can be used to direct the radiated RF energy to the tag.
Sorry, but that's wrong again. RFID tags only send an answer when they are specifically addressed. The inventory control tags allow for a binay search to find all tags, e.g. you start by asking if any tag have addresses <2^31. If any answer, you check < 2^30 and between 2^31 and 2^30, etc. until you know the individual addresses of all tags in your range. Only after you have the right adress you will start actually reading their data, anything before that is just to detect their presence. Whether or not passport tags even give away their presence if one doesn't provide the (printed) secret key in the request, I do not know.
Those lights are fishers. They use very bright light to attract fish or shrimp to the surface. There's a lot more of this around japan on this picture. They appear to be clustered around richer fishing grounds.
Not quite. The supposed anomaly of gravity can be measured with the spin stabilized pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft, since those practically never have to use their thrusters to adjust their attitude. The voyager spacecraft on the other hand are 3 axis stabilized with hydrazin thrusters, which they have to use every now and then to keep their radio dish pointed at earth. Their useful science comes from the data they gather about magnetic fields, charged particles etc.
While the headline is a bit missleading, the blurb quite clearly states that it is "Anascape Ltd, a Texas firm" sueing both Microsoft and Nintendo.
I've gotten that phishing mail yesterday, and called the number (1-805-214-4801) immediately. The system's recordings were chopped and barely intellegible, and I was prompted to enter "my 16 digit credit card number" (which was indeed verified to at least follow the basic rules of correctess or be rejected), and its expiry date, but nothing like a name or even the paypal account data.
Where can one complain about such fraudulent 1-8xx numbers to get them shut down? Additionally, how much does calling a 1-805 cost in the US, and is any part of the cost passed to the operator?
As always, the key to a patent is its specificity. The first patent says
1) We send you the software and a product key.
2) You register that product with that key
3) We send you a second password for that product
4) You use the second password indefinitely
This sounds just like SGI's key-o-matic. If you buy one of their "licensed" products, you get CDs and an entitlement ID. Send a properly formatted email with the entitlement ID and the system IDs (essentially the ethernet adress of the workstation) to key-o-matic@sgi.com or was that liceses@ ?) and get license passwords back (that's what the license manager software actually calls them) that are locked to those systems back by email. Keyomatic is at least 10 years old, if one is to believe this usenet post.
Adobe most certainly sold thousands of copies of Photoshop 3.0 for IRIX, since those came bundled with certain versions of SGI's entry level workstations (Indys, O2s). However, as another poster already mentioned, this was a very shoddy port, essentially just the MacOS version recompiled with a MacOS on Unix library. It looked and worked like the Mac version, was slow and unreliable and was completely out of place on a normal irix desktop. On top of all this, back in those days Photoshop wasn't "the" standard like it is today, it was just one of many image manipulation packages, and especially on Irix, there were quite a few to choose from.
I have licenses for Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere on one of my SGIs at home, as well as the now discontinued Eclipse, and Eclipse was miles ahead of Photoshop back then. I don't use any of the Adobe packages anymore, mostly because i find them totally awkward to use - significantly worse than gimp.
Unfortunately, we still lose ~50% of our electrical power in transmission.
Please stop spreading this myth, it has been repeated here on slashdot too often already. Estimates of transmission losses for the US and UK are just above 7%. The US uses up to 1.4MV as opposed to the 380 or 440kV that are common around Europe to achieve similar losses despite the larger distances they cover.
One wonders if NH might contribute some data to finally solve the Pioneer anomaly.
The Pioneer probes are spin stabilized and therefore require only minimal use of thrusters to keep their antenna pointed to earth. The Voyager probes were three axis stabilized, requiring rather frequent use of the thrusters to keep it pointing in the right direction, which made it essentially impossible to measure the Pioneer anomaly. New Horizons can operate in both modes, so it will most probably be spin stabilized during most of its trip from Jupiter to Pluto, and may therefore provide more evidence for or against the Pioneer anomaly.