No, actually KGIII is correct. It is essentially a pattern recognition problem - intensity versus wavelength, with low frequency and high frequency components.
What if Russia was doing military "exercises" next to the American border.. often by "mistake" crossing into American territory.
Bad example, AC. Russia has it's own global positioning system (deliberate absence of proper noun capitalisation) called GLONASS, and has done since 1993 (including rebuilding after the economic collapse of the early 1990s).
In fact, increasing numbers of global positioning system chipsets will receive and decode both GPS (note, proper noun ; capitalised!) and GLONASS signals.
The European Galileo system is on the brink of "Early Operational Capability" at the moment, going to "Initial Operational Capability" in 2017-18 and "Full Operational Capability" in 2019. So soon, potential jammers will need to jam three systems.
More to the point, the military part of the signal is encrypted. If the DPRK have broken that encryption, worked out the secret keys, and can spoof signals that originate from an encrypted source, then that is far bigger news than the DPRK's acquisition of hydrogen bombs.
As pointed out, directional antennas are not perfectly directional. and the laws of physics won't allow it to be perfect. But encryption is in the domain of maths - it's either possible or impossible. Currently our mathematicians believe (but haven't proved) that encryption is possible, but if the DPRK can prove that is not the case... BIG story. If the DPRK prove that the USDoD's computer scientists fucked up on their implementation of encryption on the GPS satellites... significant story, but probably fixable by a software update to the military stuff.
From the original summary:
disrupting GPS system since 7:30 pm [Thursday] and thereby interfering and hampering our military movements, which is threatening the safety of our people."
[SHRUG] If you're not training people to be able to work without GPS, then you're making GPS even more of a target. Using map and compass, or dead reckoning (inertial navigation) are technologies that are far less prone to external tampering. So make sure you can use them. Personally, after buying my first GPS unit in 2000, and losing it to the burglars in 2003, I haven't bothered to get a replacement. For a week-long trip into the outdoors, they're not worth the weight of the batteries (and neither is turning on the mobile phone - it's not as if you've got a signal after the first 8 hours walking away from a road).
Apparently (and I get this from reading the article),
I just read the paper. And the discussion in Science. I didn't waste my time reading Popular Whatever It Was, and it looks like that was a good choice.
Also the crazy thing is how he found it.......he had data from 300,000 stars printed out, on 300,000 pages,
In TFP, the only mention of data set size is that there were 4.5 million spectra taken in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (the SDSS part of the object's name, not in the least bit mysterious), but no mention of how they selected this particular star. Almost certainly, they had grounds not described in TFP, but in TF-Supporting Online Material, but I don't have access to that. However, TFA in Science does say that they examined around 32,000 spectra (and doesn't mention their methods.
I'd check the derivation of the 300,000 print outs story before repeating it. If you've got any attachment to accuracy, that is. Personally, I don't think it's either credible - that's over 1.5 tonnes and several week's wages of paper alone. Let alone the problems of actually maintaining order over these things. 32000 printouts is pretty incredible too (but I don't make that claim).
it's not just the surface that's 99% oxygen, it's the whole star that is mainly oxygen.
Again, TFP doesn't say that. Specifically, they point out the presence of around one part of silicon in 3200 of oxygen, and one part of calcium in >316000 of oxygen. They suggest that this may indicate oxygen burning (16-O + 16-O --> 28-Si + 4-He) in the progenitor star and a trace of silicon burning (28-Si + 4-He + 4-He + 4-He --> 40-Ca).
What I interpret from your comment is that reading Popular Whatjumacallit leads to erroneous understanding of the subject. Is this fair?
Woah, hang on. GIGAbit WiFi? I've not been giving a fuck about WiFi standards for over a decade (since I wired the last house, just before gigabyte ethernet came out), but I hadn't heard of gigabyte WiFi... Oh, I see. the old bit/byte bait'n'switch. So, gigaBIT wiFi translates to 125 megaBYTE... which is 2-4 times faster than the last time I looked, and that sounds about right.
I'd take it that that's 125Mbyte per access point. So if you've got 100 users (phones, tablets, station infrastructure on a VPN), that'd be about 1MB/user. Sounds reasonably scaled. Going to suck when the station is crowded, but anything would suffer under rush-hour like surges.
A white dwarf is anywhere between 1/10,000th the size of our Sun and the size of the Sun. It can also be the same temperature or five times hotter.
I'm pretty sure that's nots true. Since you're referencing the H-R diagram, I suspect you mean that it can be between 10^-5 and 10^0 of the luminosity of the Sun, but not necessarily the size (in terms of metres). Luminosity is related to the size (by a squared relationship) and the temperature (by a quartic relationship, or is it quintic?). You're OK on the temperature, which in itself gives up to a 625 (or 3125, if it's quintic) fold luminosity range.
Owwww. Not wrong... but a really, really coarse introduction to spectroscopy. There's a good reason that the basics of spectroscopy takes up a large chunk of a chapter in any decent astronomy textbook. There is a lot more to it than any one-line summary can encompass.
That decision took it from possibly a sweet job offer to possibly that restraining order.
I'm still trying to work out what grounds there might be for a restraining order. From whom against whom? Who is being harmed here? What "intellectual property" is being violated?
This is essentially a somewhat animated sculpture. So, if a restraining order were granted, then the next step would be, for an example, for the Estate of John Wayne to be sueing every kindergarten child (and their teachers and school boards, who probably have more assets to rip off) who draws a picture of "the wild west" including someone with a characteristic wide-legged stance.
... which is what I do with my @goatse.cx email address.
Yes, goatse.cx is a perfectly respectable email-hosting domain these days. They're also reportedly intending to open up for yourdomain.goatse.cx registration too. It might not be suitable if your business is in selling personalised bibles, but it'll be wonderful if your business is... well babyjesusbuttplug.goatse.cx would work pretty well, I think. Amongst people who are in on the joke.
And there is something to prevent them from implementing UNICODE support in some modules (possibly only for internal testing, if the interfaces aren't equipped for passing UNICODE through) prior to implementing it on core modules?
I was told, at college, when this new "object oriented" programming approach was being touted, that this was one of the points of that revolution. when was it... oh yes, in the early 1980s.
[1] buy el cheapo machine.
[2] fiddle BIOS to remove UEFI bullshit.
[3] pull hard drive and stick it in a bag somewhere.
[4] insert new blank hard drive
[5] install OS of choice.
[6] If Windows needed, turn machine off and swap hard drives.
It ain't rocket science.
I'm not sure which is more insanely American - that the TSA stopped her, or that she thought "gun themed shoes" might be an entertaining thing to order, buy and wear. Particularly at an airport.
Fair enough, Down Syndrome was probably a bad choice. So, let's change it to Autism, or Bipolar disorder, or acromegaly
Better choices, more spectral diseases. Like I said, I get your point.
The reality is, my nephew eats till he is full, as do I.
That's the trick. Eat until you're not full.
Get up from each meal unsatiated. Techniques such as simply choosing a smaller plate at the galley hatch can lose you a stone a trip. Eating a piece of fruit about an hour before the galley opens also helps (there's an EN_GB idiom about "don't go shopping when you're hungry" which addresses the same point).
Actually there is only one way to stop crime. That is accepting the reality of the situation, crime is the result of poor breeding choices, poor parenting skills and poor educational opportunities.
Strange. I thought that most (not quite all, but certainly more than 50%, so "most") crime was the consequence of greed more than any of the eugenicist issues that you raise.
People will only be damaged during the period of transition. After the ice caps melt there will be about as much land as there is now, just distributed differently.
You, sir, need to review and consider the hypsographic curve.If this were true (which it is not), there would be a section of that curve with a vertical slope of dA/dE (for A=area below this elevation, and E for elevation w.r.t. the Earth's centre). There isn't.
For "billions" to suffer would require less than (approximately) 28% of the next generation to suffer. Since the likely duration of the global warming consequent on current releases of carbon dioxide is on the order of 100 thousand years (3000 or so generations) it is reasonably likely that the number of people badly affected by anthropogenic global warming will exceed a billion.
(I speak as an oilfield geologist. And no, I don't care what happens to your children.)
Unless every down-syndrome kid is making it up, then you have to admit that the brain effects how you act and perceive the world. So, on the far end of the spectrum, you have DS
I get where you're coming from, but Down Syndrome isn't a good example to use. It's a binary state, not a spectrum. If you have triplication of chromosome 21, then you have Down Syndrome (a.k.a. "trisomy-21") ; if you don't have that particular chromosomal anomaly, then you don't have Down Syndrome. State of one or zero, not a spectrum.
(I'm not aware if it is possible or impossible for one to have partial duplication of a chromosome, or what it's effects would be if it were possible. It would probably matter which individual genes were duplicated, which would make for a very complex suite of syndromes.)
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It's a baboon sitting on it's haunches, facing to the left. Big cheek pouches. At each end.
No, actually KGIII is correct. It is essentially a pattern recognition problem - intensity versus wavelength, with low frequency and high frequency components.
Bad example, AC. Russia has it's own global positioning system (deliberate absence of proper noun capitalisation) called GLONASS, and has done since 1993 (including rebuilding after the economic collapse of the early 1990s).
In fact, increasing numbers of global positioning system chipsets will receive and decode both GPS (note, proper noun ; capitalised!) and GLONASS signals.
The European Galileo system is on the brink of "Early Operational Capability" at the moment, going to "Initial Operational Capability" in 2017-18 and "Full Operational Capability" in 2019. So soon, potential jammers will need to jam three systems.
As pointed out, directional antennas are not perfectly directional. and the laws of physics won't allow it to be perfect. But encryption is in the domain of maths - it's either possible or impossible. Currently our mathematicians believe (but haven't proved) that encryption is possible, but if the DPRK can prove that is not the case ... BIG story. If the DPRK prove that the USDoD's computer scientists fucked up on their implementation of encryption on the GPS satellites ... significant story, but probably fixable by a software update to the military stuff.
From the original summary:
[SHRUG] If you're not training people to be able to work without GPS, then you're making GPS even more of a target. Using map and compass, or dead reckoning (inertial navigation) are technologies that are far less prone to external tampering. So make sure you can use them. Personally, after buying my first GPS unit in 2000, and losing it to the burglars in 2003, I haven't bothered to get a replacement. For a week-long trip into the outdoors, they're not worth the weight of the batteries (and neither is turning on the mobile phone - it's not as if you've got a signal after the first 8 hours walking away from a road).
I just read the paper. And the discussion in Science. I didn't waste my time reading Popular Whatever It Was, and it looks like that was a good choice.
In TFP, the only mention of data set size is that there were 4.5 million spectra taken in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (the SDSS part of the object's name, not in the least bit mysterious), but no mention of how they selected this particular star. Almost certainly, they had grounds not described in TFP, but in TF-Supporting Online Material, but I don't have access to that. However, TFA in Science does say that they examined around 32,000 spectra (and doesn't mention their methods.
I'd check the derivation of the 300,000 print outs story before repeating it. If you've got any attachment to accuracy, that is. Personally, I don't think it's either credible - that's over 1.5 tonnes and several week's wages of paper alone. Let alone the problems of actually maintaining order over these things. 32000 printouts is pretty incredible too (but I don't make that claim).
Again, TFP doesn't say that. Specifically, they point out the presence of around one part of silicon in 3200 of oxygen, and one part of calcium in >316000 of oxygen. They suggest that this may indicate oxygen burning (16-O + 16-O --> 28-Si + 4-He) in the progenitor star and a trace of silicon burning (28-Si + 4-He + 4-He + 4-He --> 40-Ca).
What I interpret from your comment is that reading Popular Whatjumacallit leads to erroneous understanding of the subject. Is this fair?
Are you speaking EN_US or EN_GB?
Woah, hang on. GIGAbit WiFi? I've not been giving a fuck about WiFi standards for over a decade (since I wired the last house, just before gigabyte ethernet came out), but I hadn't heard of gigabyte WiFi ... Oh, I see. the old bit/byte bait'n'switch. So, gigaBIT wiFi translates to 125 megaBYTE ... which is 2-4 times faster than the last time I looked, and that sounds about right.
I'd take it that that's 125Mbyte per access point. So if you've got 100 users (phones, tablets, station infrastructure on a VPN), that'd be about 1MB/user. Sounds reasonably scaled. Going to suck when the station is crowded, but anything would suffer under rush-hour like surges.
Owwww. Not wrong ... (etc etc.)
I'm pretty sure that's nots true. Since you're referencing the H-R diagram, I suspect you mean that it can be between 10^-5 and 10^0 of the luminosity of the Sun, but not necessarily the size (in terms of metres). Luminosity is related to the size (by a squared relationship) and the temperature (by a quartic relationship, or is it quintic?). You're OK on the temperature, which in itself gives up to a 625 (or 3125, if it's quintic) fold luminosity range. Owwww. Not wrong ... but a really, really coarse introduction to spectroscopy. There's a good reason that the basics of spectroscopy takes up a large chunk of a chapter in any decent astronomy textbook. There is a lot more to it than any one-line summary can encompass.
I'm still trying to work out what grounds there might be for a restraining order. From whom against whom? Who is being harmed here? What "intellectual property" is being violated?
This is essentially a somewhat animated sculpture. So, if a restraining order were granted, then the next step would be, for an example, for the Estate of John Wayne to be sueing every kindergarten child (and their teachers and school boards, who probably have more assets to rip off) who draws a picture of "the wild west" including someone with a characteristic wide-legged stance.
[Gets popcorn] This is going to be entertaining.
Yes, goatse.cx is a perfectly respectable email-hosting domain these days. They're also reportedly intending to open up for yourdomain.goatse.cx registration too. It might not be suitable if your business is in selling personalised bibles, but it'll be wonderful if your business is ... well babyjesusbuttplug.goatse.cx would work pretty well, I think. Amongst people who are in on the joke.
I was told, at college, when this new "object oriented" programming approach was being touted, that this was one of the points of that revolution. when was it ... oh yes, in the early 1980s.
30 years in the game and I'm not in the least astonished.
That is the big question.
And that's the odd thing. Shuttleworth is presumably rich enough to not be effectively bribable, so ... WTF?
[1] buy el cheapo machine.
[2] fiddle BIOS to remove UEFI bullshit.
[3] pull hard drive and stick it in a bag somewhere.
[4] insert new blank hard drive
[5] install OS of choice.
[6] If Windows needed, turn machine off and swap hard drives.
It ain't rocket science.
Whatever the number, as long as the accidental suicide rate is lower than the proportion of the population, then the death rate is too low.
I'm not sure which is more insanely American - that the TSA stopped her, or that she thought "gun themed shoes" might be an entertaining thing to order, buy and wear. Particularly at an airport.
Better choices, more spectral diseases. Like I said, I get your point.
That's the trick. Eat until you're not full.
Get up from each meal unsatiated. Techniques such as simply choosing a smaller plate at the galley hatch can lose you a stone a trip. Eating a piece of fruit about an hour before the galley opens also helps (there's an EN_GB idiom about "don't go shopping when you're hungry" which addresses the same point).
Well done, sir. You are setting a standard for which other editors will hate you.
Strange. I thought that most (not quite all, but certainly more than 50%, so "most") crime was the consequence of greed more than any of the eugenicist issues that you raise.
Sorry, did I just piss in your philosophical pot?
You, sir, need to review and consider the hypsographic curve.If this were true (which it is not), there would be a section of that curve with a vertical slope of dA/dE (for A=area below this elevation, and E for elevation w.r.t. the Earth's centre). There isn't.
Elementary geography exam failed.
(I speak as an oilfield geologist. And no, I don't care what happens to your children.)
It's not about having an opinion. It's about expressing an opinion.
I get where you're coming from, but Down Syndrome isn't a good example to use. It's a binary state, not a spectrum. If you have triplication of chromosome 21, then you have Down Syndrome (a.k.a. "trisomy-21") ; if you don't have that particular chromosomal anomaly, then you don't have Down Syndrome. State of one or zero, not a spectrum.
(I'm not aware if it is possible or impossible for one to have partial duplication of a chromosome, or what it's effects would be if it were possible. It would probably matter which individual genes were duplicated, which would make for a very complex suite of syndromes.)
Having a friend who cut his cock off a couple of weeks ago ... that is so sore.