It was Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria that was assassinated while in Serbia by Gavrilo Princip, a member of The Black Hand.
Here is more info on the event.
If current filter technology blocks 95% of porn and 10% of legitimate sites, I'm okay with that as a start.
Well, I am not! Telling a library "Ok, 10% of all legitimate sites that is, hundreds of millions of pages, are off limits to you because our software sucks so bad. Please direct any complaints into the cylindrical filing cabinet on the floor next to your desk." is entirely unacceptable!
And that's assuming that filters work even half this well. I could flip a coin for every site and get better results than some filter programs. As I recall, there were some statistics posted on/. a little while ago.
Ok, an open source solution would be a major improvement. As it stands, TPTB with the filter programs will often block negative reviews of their products as "pornographic and violent". Tell me that's not out of sheer spite. They answer to no one and if anyone tries to question their activities, they use the DMCA on them. To put something like that on a public terminal, one that you and I and everyone else paid for, is just plain stupid.
If you can figure out a way to put anything into orbit cheaply enough that it competes with simply stashing it on a truck and driving it around, you'll make trillions, not mere billions.
So why aren't they suing comedy festivals? After all, that's the first url found by google. Pillsbury is 2nd, and the engineer's event places a lowly 3rd.
1. Uhh, we are out to cement our security. I don't see how our developing a defensive shield in any way affects your security. If we're protected and you're not, how is your situation any different from when we were both wide open to attack?
2. Huh? So a city just disappears and when no culprit is found in the first 5 minutes we'll all just shrug, say 'aww, schucks', and get on with life? I don't think so.
3. 'Never' is a very strong word to use. True, it is unlikely that any leader would test out the MAD scenario, but are you really willing to bet several million of your fellow citizens on your fortune-telling?
4. Lemme put it this way. There exist countries whose citizens have, in fairly recent history, publicly chanted 'Death to America' or something similar. Their leaders repeatedly make threats against the US (read the North Korean news service sometime). Now some of these countries are developing weapons of mass destruction that could, with the press of a button, wipe out significant portions of our population. And you tell me that we shouldn't worry? How about we send all our cops out without any protection whatsoever since the bad guys would never dare attack an officer of the law .
5. Evidently you've never spent time in our public school system.
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Look, very little good can come out of having to defend yourself from nuclear missiles. Given the choice between having radioactive material scattered around by the missile falling down and having radioactive material scattered around by a nuclear explosion... well, that's a gimme.
Either way, this is a moot question. This thing is supposed to be used as a theater defense system; shoots down SCUD's and the like. For ICBM's you need a different kind of animal.
The question is - is it "supported" or does it "work"?
Good point. You should see the guys at Bellsouth freak when we tell them we use a Linux gateway for our DSL connection at my apartment. It takes a good 5 minutes to convince them that we aren't looking for support on the computers.
Chances are, they knew that the drive wouldn't read every type of CD-R, so they declared is as unsupported to avoid a lawsuit.
Oh joy, so now colleges will change what classes the AP test gets you out of yet again. At Georgia Tech during my Junior year, I went from getting credit for a nonexistent class (the test didn't get me out of any classes, just got me some elective credits) to getting credit for a class I'd already taken, thus making it entirely useless. I have to take an additional course next semester to make up for it.
3rd worst Shaft on campus is the CS department, right after Housing and Parking/Transportation.
"Those Who Know" would be "Those Who Make Good Guesses", right?
I stand corrected. But they are sometimes very good guesses indeed.
[Europa is rather chilly]
Yeah, but look at Io. Obviously Europa doesn't have that particular level of insane tidal forces, but there's probably enough to do something. I don't have enough info on Jupiter's moons' orbits to hazard a guess, though. Just remember that tidal forces do indeed pack a lot of punch. Luna is quite far away and not very massive (compared to Jupiter), but it's still enough to relocate billions of tons of water around the world several times a day. On the Jovian moons, the change in external gravity is probably palpable, with your weight changing fractionally depending on where you stand in relation to Jupiter.
But I very much agree with you that the easiest (ha!) way to settle it would be to get someone over there. Meanwhile NASA prepares for another $10k per lb launch. Sighhh...
on a planet with 3 km of packice: How about Europa? Out in the middle of friggin nowhere, totally encased in ice, yet there is considerable thought by Those Who Know that there may be life underneath it.
I should point out the the conditions in which life first formed here were pretty disgusting themselves. The atmosphere was mostly CO2 (as Dirk Gently put it, it'd eat a hole in your carpet pretty easily), we had constant orbital bombardment by meteroids that hadn't cleared out of the solar system yet, the oceans had just recently started to form (read: the temperature had only recently dropped below 100 C), and the radiation was enough to require about 1 million spf sun block. Not fun. Those tidal pools were simply a little less god-awful than everything else.
The dead sea: Ummm, ok, you got me on that one. But I don't doubt that given enough time, some crazy creature will decide to make its home there and adapt so as to be able to do it.
So thats how a refrigerator works: What would happen to the weather here if the sun turned off? For the fridge analogy, the only thing keeping everything from freezing is the light. Close the door and after a few years everything drops to a hair above absolute zero. Scientists are itching to get some labs on the moon because they think there are ravines there that have never been exposed to sunlight and are thus extraordinarily cold.
They aren't going to be sending radio communications are they Well, you never said it had to be intelligent life. Certainly, conditions will have to be more appealing for higher life forms to develop, but the primitive ones can sometimes help with that. This atmosphere we hold so dear to our heart was first created by all those ancient prokaryotes and whatnot.
We don't know life will need water True, but it's just such a versatile compound that its hard to imagine anything developing without it. About the only way to answer that particular question is to go exploring.
Depends how occasional [earthquakes] Ok, how's this? For any kind of high order life forms to develop, tectonic activity would have to be rare enough so that the CO2 released doesn't turn the place into Venus, doesn't cloud the sky with particles so the sun never shines, and doesn't keep lava running across 90% of the surface. Pretty much anything short of that:) is acceptable.
I have no idea what your point about the air evacuating itself is
It's a really cool idea. There is indeed a nonzero probability that all the molecules of air in a room will hit each other in just the right way so that they all leave the room through an open window. Imagine a game of pool with a few quintillion balls on a table the size of Russia, all of which are sunk on the first shot. Similar idea for sponteneous nuclear shifts.
The world of quantum mechanics is governed by laws of probabilities. There is very little that is outright forbidden, some events are just so unlikely to occur that they never do.
Direct quote: The astronomers stress that this not an Earth-like object and is unlikely to host any sort of life - but if the planet has any rocky moons then they could have conditions that are more favourable.
This could well be a double-star system with the second star just some orders of magnitude too small
Possibly. A planet 84% the size of Jupiter is too small to be considered a star, but being that close to a real star would certainly make things more lively in its interior. By itself, Luna is a boring chunk of rock, but plunk it down next to us and we've practically got a double planet system.
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Right the first time, give the man a cigar!
I swear, reading a detailed history book is about the most depressing thing you can do. It's like 4000 years of "Mankind's Dumbest Home Videos".
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C'mon, someone mod this up. It was funny.
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It was Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria that was assassinated while in Serbia by Gavrilo Princip, a member of The Black Hand. Here is more info on the event.
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Let's see, there are 7.7 or so million American square km, which gives every 9-digit zip code it's own square 87 meter on each side.
Entirely too large for urban usage, but then I doubt that zip codes are given the same density in Alaska as they are in NYC.
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That seems to be a common theme. Either you really like living in Japan or you absolutely despise it. Almost nobody says "Well, it was ok."
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Well, I am not! Telling a library "Ok, 10% of all legitimate sites that is, hundreds of millions of pages, are off limits to you because our software sucks so bad. Please direct any complaints into the cylindrical filing cabinet on the floor next to your desk." is entirely unacceptable!
And that's assuming that filters work even half this well. I could flip a coin for every site and get better results than some filter programs. As I recall, there were some statistics posted on /. a little while ago.
Ok, an open source solution would be a major improvement. As it stands, TPTB with the filter programs will often block negative reviews of their products as "pornographic and violent". Tell me that's not out of sheer spite. They answer to no one and if anyone tries to question their activities, they use the DMCA on them. To put something like that on a public terminal, one that you and I and everyone else paid for, is just plain stupid.
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Gainesville is not a coastal city.
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If you can figure out a way to put anything into orbit cheaply enough that it competes with simply stashing it on a truck and driving it around, you'll make trillions, not mere billions.
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I guess they really only want you to talk about food.
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So why aren't they suing comedy festivals? After all, that's the first url found by google. Pillsbury is 2nd, and the engineer's event places a lowly 3rd.
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But it's not even close to being a Tech job. Which, in fact, is part of the problem we had a little while ago.
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I'll make a concerted effort to use it in normal conversion.
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So this isn't about censorship, it's about equipment upgrades!
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2. Huh? So a city just disappears and when no culprit is found in the first 5 minutes we'll all just shrug, say 'aww, schucks', and get on with life? I don't think so.
3. 'Never' is a very strong word to use. True, it is unlikely that any leader would test out the MAD scenario, but are you really willing to bet several million of your fellow citizens on your fortune-telling?
4. Lemme put it this way. There exist countries whose citizens have, in fairly recent history, publicly chanted 'Death to America' or something similar. Their leaders repeatedly make threats against the US (read the North Korean news service sometime). Now some of these countries are developing weapons of mass destruction that could, with the press of a button, wipe out significant portions of our population. And you tell me that we shouldn't worry? How about we send all our cops out without any protection whatsoever since the bad guys would never dare attack an officer of the law .
5. Evidently you've never spent time in our public school system.
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Either way, this is a moot question. This thing is supposed to be used as a theater defense system; shoots down SCUD's and the like. For ICBM's you need a different kind of animal.
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Good point. You should see the guys at Bellsouth freak when we tell them we use a Linux gateway for our DSL connection at my apartment. It takes a good 5 minutes to convince them that we aren't looking for support on the computers.
Chances are, they knew that the drive wouldn't read every type of CD-R, so they declared is as unsupported to avoid a lawsuit.
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3rd worst Shaft on campus is the CS department, right after Housing and Parking/Transportation.
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I'm all for the 'Viking Sendoff' approach, though. Strap on a booster and let 'er rip...
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We've been hearing similar stuff about Apple for years now. What'll be funny is if M$ does indeed start going downhill and Jobs has to bail them out.
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I stand corrected. But they are sometimes very good guesses indeed.
[Europa is rather chilly]
Yeah, but look at Io. Obviously Europa doesn't have that particular level of insane tidal forces, but there's probably enough to do something. I don't have enough info on Jupiter's moons' orbits to hazard a guess, though. Just remember that tidal forces do indeed pack a lot of punch. Luna is quite far away and not very massive (compared to Jupiter), but it's still enough to relocate billions of tons of water around the world several times a day. On the Jovian moons, the change in external gravity is probably palpable, with your weight changing fractionally depending on where you stand in relation to Jupiter.
But I very much agree with you that the easiest (ha!) way to settle it would be to get someone over there. Meanwhile NASA prepares for another $10k per lb launch. Sighhh...
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I should point out the the conditions in which life first formed here were pretty disgusting themselves. The atmosphere was mostly CO2 (as Dirk Gently put it, it'd eat a hole in your carpet pretty easily), we had constant orbital bombardment by meteroids that hadn't cleared out of the solar system yet, the oceans had just recently started to form (read: the temperature had only recently dropped below 100 C), and the radiation was enough to require about 1 million spf sun block. Not fun. Those tidal pools were simply a little less god-awful than everything else.
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So thats how a refrigerator works: What would happen to the weather here if the sun turned off? For the fridge analogy, the only thing keeping everything from freezing is the light. Close the door and after a few years everything drops to a hair above absolute zero. Scientists are itching to get some labs on the moon because they think there are ravines there that have never been exposed to sunlight and are thus extraordinarily cold.
They aren't going to be sending radio communications are they Well, you never said it had to be intelligent life. Certainly, conditions will have to be more appealing for higher life forms to develop, but the primitive ones can sometimes help with that. This atmosphere we hold so dear to our heart was first created by all those ancient prokaryotes and whatnot.
We don't know life will need water True, but it's just such a versatile compound that its hard to imagine anything developing without it. About the only way to answer that particular question is to go exploring.
Depends how occasional [earthquakes] Ok, how's this? For any kind of high order life forms to develop, tectonic activity would have to be rare enough so that the CO2 released doesn't turn the place into Venus, doesn't cloud the sky with particles so the sun never shines, and doesn't keep lava running across 90% of the surface. Pretty much anything short of that :) is acceptable.
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It's a really cool idea. There is indeed a nonzero probability that all the molecules of air in a room will hit each other in just the right way so that they all leave the room through an open window. Imagine a game of pool with a few quintillion balls on a table the size of Russia, all of which are sunk on the first shot. Similar idea for sponteneous nuclear shifts.
The world of quantum mechanics is governed by laws of probabilities. There is very little that is outright forbidden, some events are just so unlikely to occur that they never do.
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The astronomers stress that this not an Earth-like object and is unlikely to host any sort of life - but if the planet has any rocky moons then they could have conditions that are more favourable.
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Possibly. A planet 84% the size of Jupiter is too small to be considered a star, but being that close to a real star would certainly make things more lively in its interior. By itself, Luna is a boring chunk of rock, but plunk it down next to us and we've practically got a double planet system.
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