The looser would not neccessarily have to pay the full cost. The cost awarded to the winner may be any fraction of the whole cost of the lawsuit at the discretion of the judge, but usually one would expect it to depend on e.g. the demands of the sueing party compared to the actual awards they get - this may also discourage the outrageous damages cited in some lawsuits (e.g. by RIAA or MPAA).
Infrared is still visible with color video cameras. If you have a videocamera or a webcam, point an infrared remote control at it, an you'll see the IR LEDs blink. Does anyone remember the scandal two or three years ago about the sony video camera that had some filter that let mostly infrared through (?), which was abused to look through peoples swimsuits?
It may be 'cleverly partitioned to aid cooling' but overall, having two fans sucking air out at the back (one of them just 40mm, plus a hole for one more), a large CPU fan, and possibly another one on the graphics card doesn't strike me as very clever. When will they start sticking one large 120mm fan in the back and cool everything - including the power supply, CPU and graphics card with heat pipes and ducts?
Although I have to admit that the front display is seems nice.
But even with the VLA, they are not going to get valid telemetry data from Huygens - the telemetry will be picked up by cassini, recorded and relayed to earth later - both with the same high gain antenna.
At least the cockpit electronics have been upgraded - to 32 bit computers (among others 386). I'd guess that that's just the part the pilots/astronauts interact with, the avionics is probably still the old hardware, which was not 8 bit, but something derived from IBM's S/360 line with 32 bit, but only 104k of proper core memory. If you want to know more, I suggest you read at least chapter four of Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
And how does the distinction between civil and criminal laws, and federal and state laws correlate? I'd say they don't, but maybe that's because i'm neither a lawyer nor a citizen of the us of a.
That in fact happened already with the Pentium Pro, not the PII. The PPro had the second level cache die in the same package as the CPU and was therefore difficult and expensive to manufacture, the PII is essentially the same, adding only MMX and putting the second level cache on a PCB together with the (packaged) CPU.
You will need a supportfolio account and a developer online account (both free) with the same login name and ask the support people to give you the maintenance stream access (there is no such thing as maintenance/feature stream anymore but...). 6.5.25 is the current version. Burning your own bootable CDs is easy, just search for mkefs, and inst or swmgr aren't really all that difficult.
6.5.22 is the newest version of IRIX that will run on Indigo, Indigo2, Indy, Onyx, Challenge and other of the older machines.
That may work with transparent proxies if you let DHCP configure that host as a router, but is not what I was talking about. I ment one of those - those that you can point Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Proxies/Automatic Proxy Configuration URL (or whatever it is in your browser) to. Very nice to have your Notebook's proxy settings adjusted properly between home and work if you can store them under the same URL. There is not much to support as long as you tell your users which URL to paste into which dialog.
Most probably not. Most of the spam gets directly delivered to the responsible SMTP servers for the destination email address by all the trojan infested zombies that roam the DSL-, cable and dialin pools. If they can't deliver it, they just give up, most of them won't even try another MX and just drop the mail instead. I suspect that they give some kind of feedback to their master about the success rate.
In all likelihood, the bounces you see have been accepted, probably by a backup mailserver that doesn't know the valid usernames for that domain and rejected later by the primary server.
You're using a different definition of a secure hash than everybody else. It's rather obvious that for files larger than the length of the hash (128 bit for md5), there must be quite a lot sharing the same hash, for a given file length about 2^(filelength in bits - hashlength in bits). However for a hash to be considered secure, it's only required that finding two files with the same hash must be as hard as trying (in md5's case 2^127 different files), but in md5's case you can compute those collisions much cheaper under certain circumstances.
Another condition is obviously that the message should not be reconstructable from the hash.
You're comparing just the cost of the bulb itsself and the installation, ist your electricity free?
Over here, the LED bulb (assuming the 20W instead of 100W incandescant) would save 50000*(100-20) Wh = 4000kWh at more than 10c each - that's at least $400 saved over the lifespan of a single bulb.
Netscape 4.x is much faster than ie, firefox or mozilla, except for deeply nested tables. It starts faster, loads faster, renders and scrolls faster and yes, it's a lot faster at crashing as well. It doesn't support css etc. but compared to any other so called 'modern' browser I've tried, it's lightning fast and has a tiny memory footprint.
Just because Firefox feels faster on your three point something GHz machine and Netscape 4.x didn't back in the days when you were still using a 486 or 100MHz pentium doesn't mean Netscape was slow.
An American user became so frustrated with his laptop, he shot it with a gun, before realising there was important data saved on the computer.
A man threw his computer out of the window in an attempt to destroy evidence when he found out the police were coming to seize his PC and arrest him.
One man's laptop dropped out of his bag while he was riding his moped. The computer was then run over by a lorry before he even noticed he had lost it and needed access to the data.
A financial director dropped his laptop in the bath while finishing the company accounts.
Burglars disposed of expensive stolen computer equipment by throwing it in a river after police offered a reward for its return. Three weeks later, it was recovered and the data was retrieved from the water-logged hard drives.
A business woman spilt red wine over her laptop when she was showing a business partner some information after dinner.
One company's server had been running 24 hours a day, seven days a week for years. The company had never bothered to carry out any maintenance on it, so the server had gathered so much dust and dirt over the years it malfunctioned.
In an episode of computer rage, a user threw his computer against the wall.
A jet-setting business woman spilt café latte all over her laptop while working in an airport lounge.
A new car owner left her laptop on top of her car, then drove off.
http://www.fas.org/spp/guide/usa/launch/x-43.htm has the distance covered at 500nmi. At their last launch, the powered flight by the x43 itsself lasted about 10 seconds.
Qualcomm's decoder has a SMPTE-292M output, which is also known as HD-SDI, a serial digital interface with 1.485Gbps. It supports among others 1280x720 and 1920x1080 - the latter also in 24 frame progressive, which is better for film than the 60 field interlaced format used for ATSC HD broadcasts. Additionally it's 10 bit per component, and I think ATSC has just 8, so at least color space resolution is better. Due to interlacing use in TV, the spacial resolution should be better slightly as well (i think that's the Kell-Factor).
If it doesn't do it, some other company would, and than that Xybernaut would be screwed.
Nope. If it's been published before the patent application, you can't get a patent. So instead of applying for one themselves, they could just publish their idea and prevent everyone else from getting a patent on it. Almost any kind of publication is good enough as prior art, no need for a patent.
In the past there was a kit for some Kodak cameras to connect a normal handheld GPS receiver with NEMA output to the serial port of the camera. I think they overlayed the coordiantes as text onto the picture. I doubt the newer cameras even have a serial port, but the old ones are dirt cheap now.
Here's an article on connecting a GPS to a Kodak digital SLR, and if you google a bit, you will find that most of the old digita-OS based cameras (e.g. DC290) support this.
While that would make a nice and simple explanation, I think that this paper is flawed, since it does not take into account the different density of the kuiper belt in the directions the Pioneers are headed. The kuiper belt is most concentrated around the ecliptic (the plane the planets are moving in as well), and Pioneer 10 is more or less within that plane, while Pioneer 11 is about 17 degrees above it, which should make a difference. Oh, and they got the mass of the spacecraft wrong, it's 258kg without fuel (some should be left), and they're assuming 241kg. Their speculation about dust particles is not very credible, as the pioneers would not survive many of those breaking them down at the observed rate.
First, at least he didn't start emailing parts of the user's mailspool to address book entries!
But that would be a great idea, informing friends, family, colleagues and customers that he's using parated software. For may people, that could be worse than the "rm -rf", after all, you do have backups, don't you?
How much do we know about the magnetic fields in deep space?
Enough, I'd say, to exclude it as a source of this force, since a magnetometer was one of the most obvious (at least the boom it's extending from is the longest) features of those two pioneer spacecraft. There's a pretty good description of them in the book PIONEER ODYSSEY available from.
Two three-rod trusses, 120 degrees apart, project from two sides of the equipment compartment. At their ends, nuclear electric power generators are held about 3 meters (10 feet) from the center of the spacecraft. A third boom, 120 degrees from the other two, projects from the experiment compartment and positions a magnetometer sensor about 6.6 meters (21-1/2 feet) from the center of the spacecraft. All three booms are extended after launch.
Also, Zinho is correct in pointing out that a magnetic field can accelerate a non-ferrous, non-polarized material, but it has to be a changing magnetic field, since the effect is based on currents induced into the object.by the same magnetic field.
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If that were the case, he'd better make a hat out of Mu-metal, because otherwise it won't be too efficient for shielding against magnetic fields.
The looser would not neccessarily have to pay the full cost. The cost awarded to the winner may be any fraction of the whole cost of the lawsuit at the discretion of the judge, but usually one would expect it to depend on e.g. the demands of the sueing party compared to the actual awards they get - this may also discourage the outrageous damages cited in some lawsuits (e.g. by RIAA or MPAA).
Infrared is still visible with color video cameras. If you have a videocamera or a webcam, point an infrared remote control at it, an you'll see the IR LEDs blink. Does anyone remember the scandal two or three years ago about the sony video camera that had some filter that let mostly infrared through (?), which was abused to look through peoples swimsuits?
It may be 'cleverly partitioned to aid cooling' but overall, having two fans sucking air out at the back (one of them just 40mm, plus a hole for one more), a large CPU fan, and possibly another one on the graphics card doesn't strike me as very clever. When will they start sticking one large 120mm fan in the back and cool everything - including the power supply, CPU and graphics card with heat pipes and ducts?
Although I have to admit that the front display is seems nice.
But even with the VLA, they are not going to get valid telemetry data from Huygens - the telemetry will be picked up by cassini, recorded and relayed to earth later - both with the same high gain antenna.
At least the cockpit electronics have been upgraded - to 32 bit computers (among others 386). I'd guess that that's just the part the pilots/astronauts interact with, the avionics is probably still the old hardware, which was not 8 bit, but something derived from IBM's S/360 line with 32 bit, but only 104k of proper core memory. If you want to know more, I suggest you read at least chapter four of Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
And how does the distinction between civil and criminal laws, and federal and state laws correlate? I'd say they don't, but maybe that's because i'm neither a lawyer nor a citizen of the us of a.
No, they recalibrate to a ground station.
That in fact happened already with the Pentium Pro, not the PII. The PPro had the second level cache die in the same package as the CPU and was therefore difficult and expensive to manufacture, the PII is essentially the same, adding only MMX and putting the second level cache on a PCB together with the (packaged) CPU.
You will need a supportfolio account and a developer online account (both free) with the same login name and ask the support people to give you the maintenance stream access (there is no such thing as maintenance/feature stream anymore but...). 6.5.25 is the current version. Burning your own bootable CDs is easy, just search for mkefs, and inst or swmgr aren't really all that difficult.
6.5.22 is the newest version of IRIX that will run on Indigo, Indigo2, Indy, Onyx, Challenge and other of the older machines.
[...] proxie's IP in the DHCP lease
That may work with transparent proxies if you let DHCP configure that host as a router, but is not what I was talking about. I ment one of those - those that you can point Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Proxies/Automatic Proxy Configuration URL (or whatever it is in your browser) to. Very nice to have your Notebook's proxy settings adjusted properly between home and work if you can store them under the same URL. There is not much to support as long as you tell your users which URL to paste into which dialog.
That's what proxy autoconfig files are good for. Write one, tell people to (and how to) use it and you're done.
Most probably not. Most of the spam gets directly delivered to the responsible SMTP servers for the destination email address by all the trojan infested zombies that roam the DSL-, cable and dialin pools. If they can't deliver it, they just give up, most of them won't even try another MX and just drop the mail instead. I suspect that they give some kind of feedback to their master about the success rate.
In all likelihood, the bounces you see have been accepted, probably by a backup mailserver that doesn't know the valid usernames for that domain and rejected later by the primary server.
You're using a different definition of a secure hash than everybody else. It's rather obvious that for files larger than the length of the hash (128 bit for md5), there must be quite a lot sharing the same hash, for a given file length about 2^(filelength in bits - hashlength in bits). However for a hash to be considered secure, it's only required that finding two files with the same hash must be as hard as trying (in md5's case 2^127 different files), but in md5's case you can compute those collisions much cheaper under certain circumstances.
Another condition is obviously that the message should not be reconstructable from the hash.
Al Qaeda probably already knows them: they are all zeroes.
You're comparing just the cost of the bulb itsself and the installation, ist your electricity free?
Over here, the LED bulb (assuming the 20W instead of 100W incandescant) would save 50000*(100-20) Wh = 4000kWh at more than 10c each - that's at least $400 saved over the lifespan of a single bulb.
Netscape 4.x is much faster than ie, firefox or mozilla, except for deeply nested tables. It starts faster, loads faster, renders and scrolls faster and yes, it's a lot faster at crashing as well. It doesn't support css etc. but compared to any other so called 'modern' browser I've tried, it's lightning fast and has a tiny memory footprint.
Just because Firefox feels faster on your three point something GHz machine and Netscape 4.x didn't back in the days when you were still using a 486 or 100MHz pentium doesn't mean Netscape was slow.
http://www.fas.org/spp/guide/usa/launch/x-43.htm has the distance covered at 500nmi. At their last launch, the powered flight by the x43 itsself lasted about 10 seconds.
Qualcomm's decoder has a SMPTE-292M output, which is also known as HD-SDI, a serial digital interface with 1.485Gbps. It supports among others 1280x720 and 1920x1080 - the latter also in 24 frame progressive, which is better for film than the 60 field interlaced format used for ATSC HD broadcasts. Additionally it's 10 bit per component, and I think ATSC has just 8, so at least color space resolution is better. Due to interlacing use in TV, the spacial resolution should be better slightly as well (i think that's the Kell-Factor).
If it doesn't do it, some other company would, and than that Xybernaut would be screwed.
Nope. If it's been published before the patent application, you can't get a patent. So instead of applying for one themselves, they could just publish their idea and prevent everyone else from getting a patent on it. Almost any kind of publication is good enough as prior art, no need for a patent.
In the past there was a kit for some Kodak cameras to connect a normal handheld GPS receiver with NEMA output to the serial port of the camera. I think they overlayed the coordiantes as text onto the picture. I doubt the newer cameras even have a serial port, but the old ones are dirt cheap now.
Here's an article on connecting a GPS to a Kodak digital SLR, and if you google a bit, you will find that most of the old digita-OS based cameras (e.g. DC290) support this.
While that would make a nice and simple explanation, I think that this paper is flawed, since it does not take into account the different density of the kuiper belt in the directions the Pioneers are headed. The kuiper belt is most concentrated around the ecliptic (the plane the planets are moving in as well), and Pioneer 10 is more or less within that plane, while Pioneer 11 is about 17 degrees above it, which should make a difference. Oh, and they got the mass of the spacecraft wrong, it's 258kg without fuel (some should be left), and they're assuming 241kg. Their speculation about dust particles is not very credible, as the pioneers would not survive many of those breaking them down at the observed rate.
First, at least he didn't start emailing parts of the user's mailspool to address book entries!
But that would be a great idea, informing friends, family, colleagues and customers that he's using parated software. For may people, that could be worse than the "rm -rf", after all, you do have backups, don't you?
How much do we know about the magnetic fields in deep space?
Enough, I'd say, to exclude it as a source of this force, since a magnetometer was one of the most obvious (at least the boom it's extending from is the longest) features of those two pioneer spacecraft. There's a pretty good description of them in the book PIONEER ODYSSEY available from.
Two three-rod trusses, 120 degrees apart, project from two sides of the equipment compartment. At their ends, nuclear electric power generators are held about 3 meters (10 feet) from the center of the spacecraft. A third boom, 120 degrees from the other two, projects from the experiment compartment and positions a magnetometer sensor about 6.6 meters (21-1/2 feet) from the center of the spacecraft. All three booms are extended after launch.
Also, Zinho is correct in pointing out that a magnetic field can accelerate a non-ferrous, non-polarized material, but it has to be a changing magnetic field, since the effect is based on currents induced into the object.by the same magnetic field.