This is detente in action. When China shot and destroyed their weather satellite FY-1C, they knew the debris from it would threaten the International Space Station. The FY-1C was in an orbit which left the debris at a hazardous altitude, threatening the US/Russian station.
If the US is following the Chinese station using X37-B, this may be to observe it. On the other hand, it may be a demonstration that we could destroy their station with a precision strike, thus they should not expend any more satellites in an attempt to shotgun our station.
The symmetric circular image looks like an optical illusion. Is China using a device which projects false images into over-passing satellites?
The picture might not reflect reality on the ground. In particular, the image with what appears to be some kind of raster looks like it was taken during some kind of "interference."
Surely if Desmond Ball says it was not the Chinese military which took over control of U.S. Weather Satellites, potentially rendering them into anti-satellite weapons, then I guess we can stop worrying about it.
I don't know who this Desmond Ball person is, but... he published a paper! Wow.
Slashdot = Disinformative
As others have noted, ingesting the material is hazardous. This includes inhaling the material. Wear a face filter if dealing with anything suspicious like that.
Otherwise, consider putting on rubber gloves with the mask, and removing the gunk from the gutter to somewhere safely away from you.
On this page is offered a dosimetric badge service costing $160/year. At that level, the user return their badge each month, receiving a new badge. They are given a monthly result reading, which should be higher time resolution than needed for this application.
If the TSA employees really care, maybe 16 of them could each pitch in $10 for one badge to be worn by the person who runs the machine...
There is no such thing in the US as a Bachelor's degree without a general education. That is intentional and good. There are lesser degrees which focus on specific technology, these are mostly vocational certificates and associate's degrees (e.g., A.S.).
I like the game world. There are surprising twists that are not obvious during the demo, including mission trees opened to you based on your in-game behavior. The game is developed by a four-person team who have made this their full-time gig. Cost is $10/month, after the free demo.
If we don't cut them off, they're on a path to stealing our military secrets and shutting down our power plants. That would kill people. Opposing points of view are nice and all, but I'd like to not die at the remote commands of small men.
We built it, and among its many purposes were to further the freedoms of the United States of America.
To what ends are China using the Internet we built? Attacking the email accounts of our senior government officials? Sabotaging the power grid? Probing the network of Lockheed Martin?
How do Chinese packets get to the US, and why should they continue to reach us? It is time -- past time -- that the US cut off all Internet routing from China, and establishes treaties with China's neighbors prohibiting them from routing Chinese packets to the US.
A woman I know had success with a product marketted as "alpha 20 C" by the Sunrider company. I do not distribute their stuff, but you can find people on the internet who do.
Another idea: buy curcumin extract and piperine. Give 20mg piperine, then in 15 minutes 400mg curcumin. Give 400mg curcuming with 10mg piperine every subsequent thirty minutes. Do this every day for seven days. I have personally done this, but not for cancer.
Also, consider trying Turkey Tail mushrooms. They are currently in research trials as an 'adjunct therapy' for advanced cancers.
Finally, try famciclovir and other anti-virals you can get your hands on. Scientists are starting to discover that many cancers (e.g. prostate) are caused by a virus (e.g. XMRV).
Recently on slashdot there was a story covring a web site which allowed open source contributors (indviduals) to register their location. You could search locally or view a local map of people interested in contributing to FOSS. Each profile could list those projects to which a person had contributed, or is interested in contributing in the future.
Does anybody know the name of that site? I wonder if it might be openhatch.org, which currently seems/.-ed, but I don't see mention of a map in descriptions of that site.
The interface I remember was directed at identifying local people who want to contribute to open source, whether developers or documentation writers.
There is no limit to the functionality of Interrupt Service Routines (ISR) and the interrupt-driven "event model," as the OP put it.
Programming an ISR may be difficult, but even the topic of this post, a parallel environment running on the Arduino, will be based upon ISR routines. The user-level programs will not interact with ISRs, but the Ocaml implementation will abstract them.
Fundamentally, the hardware will continue to use interrupts to signal the availability of data from human input devices. Therefore, the fastest and most direct way to access this data is to write an assembly language ISR. The difficulty is that embedded systems programming such as this requires specialized technical knowledge on the part of the programmer.
Clearly the Ocaml solution posted will ease the burden on the coder, and that is a good thing. But the way it works is not that it no longer uses ISRs. It almost certainly implements its own ISRs and polling routines. In this way, it will be like a library. The beneficial result is that individual programmers do not have to reimplement the ISRs. But there is no benefit in, and no possibility of, eliminating the very needed ISR itself.
Personally, I question whether the MCUs selected for the Arduino are appropriate for the "cute tech" market that the Arduino-series-PCB-module (a.k.a. "shield") manufacturers seem to be going for. Possibly the availability of Ocaml will bring the platform more in line with, e.g., the BasicStamp or similar. Overall, I see an impedence mismatch between what people would like to do (make costumes) and what they get (asking their friends to write code for them).
The fundamental first step will be describing to the Ocaml environment how it is that the peripherals have been wired to the chip. Then the Ocaml environment can, presumably, service these interfaces either through ISRs or polling. We'll see what transpires in simplifying the Arduino software landscape....;)
I think the problem with derivatives markets occurs whenever derivatives are sold to buyers who have no investment in the underlying security.
It is one thing for a pig farmer to cover potential price movements with derivatives on pigs. It is another thing for a wall street banker to profit because he or she had the 'insight' to buy derivatives which pay off when credit notes extended to mortgage holders go into default -- when that banker does not hold the mortgage notes or instruments which derive positive value from them.
A reason bankers purchased Credit Default Swaps from AIG was to profit on the collapse of sketchy instruments being offered, which instruments the banks did not own.
In the recent (last month) German financial reform, it is no longer permitted for entities to purchase derivative instruments unless they have an interest in the security from which the derivative derives.
A couple of weeks ago, the NYSE fell 25% in a few minutes of cancelled trading. Experts claim they don't know what happened. The HFT systems withdrew their liquidity from the market early in this excursion.
What fraction of the market's liquidity is solely from HFT activity?
I fully agree that if we keep flying the Space Shuttle, there will be future launch accidents with fatalities. Part of what I am suggesting is that these future launch accidents would amount to fewer deaths/payload than the private companies will.
The Space Shuttle is not great technology for 2010, but the major advantage it holds is existential; the Space Shuttle exists and private spaceflight vehicles do not exist.
paying half-rate for a no-track-record was-video-game-developer who is excited to be using much more explosive to get me there...
I would pay double for the Virgin Galactic vehicle. Rutan's Scaled Composites have made a few vehicles for a few customers, and have a long record of high-quality vehicles. With SpaceShip One, they actually flew into some definition of "space" on three occasions. So the Virgin Galactic vehicle program has a few successful flights to its record.
I am not sure, but I don't think Armadillo Aerospace has actually launched any manned or unmanned vehicles anywhere near the altitude that SpaceShip One attained. Armadillo has flown a few VTOL/hover flights near the surface. I don't think they've flown vehicles above Mach 1, but I would be glad to see a correction.
In short, the Armadillo program seems a little over-hyped.
The worse consequence of all the private space program over-hyping of late is that President Obama has decided to rely on these private space companies for human space flight, starting "ASAP." We're going to lose some astronauts to hype, I fear. And we will definitely give up our "lead" in space flight.
I am in favor of private space exploration companies, but I am against over-hyping their capabilities. We are presently making a blunder by retiring the Space Shuttle while we hope that these private suppliers get somewhere quickly.
This detector would be 3,000,000 miles across when measured from one man-made component to another. The article linked to as a 'galaxy sized detector' is actually about a proposal to observe pulsars looking for the effect of gravitational waves.
When observing pulsars, I assume it is not possible to be 100% of what one is seeing, considering that pulsar observations continue to accumulate and scientists have not had the chance to see a pulsar close-up.
In comparison, using man-made scientific instruments, which are much more under the control of the investigating scientists, to perform the measurement is more trustworthy than observing pulsars. In this regard, the huge scale of the equipment (3 Million Miles) is very significant -- the instruments will be able to make a fine measurement across this distance -- and comparing it with the size of the galaxy is not really a valid comparison.
On the other hand, the snark-value of the comparison was high, and providing the link without these details only raised the snark-tasticness.
I remember the battle between Sony's higher-bandwidth Beta-Max standard and the rival standard, VHS. Sony took the position that it would not allow the publishers of adult films to sell their product on Beta tapes. In other words, all "naughty" films for home viewing were on the lower-quality VHS standard.
The VHS format used a larger, heavier tape to encode less bandwidth and therefore lower video quality.
Some of you may recall the VHS won this format battle. Many contemporary observers assigned causality to Sony's choice of censorship in the medium they controlled. Soon, we will observe the same scenario played out again: Apple's iPad with software to control content, or Google's Android on tablets and a more anarchy-oriented medium?
Oh, yeah, the cold war is, like, totally over. When was the last time the Russians flew nuclear bombers into Scotland's airspace anyway??
Oh, right, just a couple months ago.
Slashdot Mirror
This is detente in action. When China shot and destroyed their weather satellite FY-1C, they knew the debris from it would threaten the International Space Station. The FY-1C was in an orbit which left the debris at a hazardous altitude, threatening the US/Russian station.
If the US is following the Chinese station using X37-B, this may be to observe it. On the other hand, it may be a demonstration that we could destroy their station with a precision strike, thus they should not expend any more satellites in an attempt to shotgun our station.
This is an episode in our cold war with China.
Looks like evidence that ghost images are being projected into the satellites' optical path.
The symmetric circular image looks like an optical illusion. Is China using a device which projects false images into over-passing satellites?
The picture might not reflect reality on the ground. In particular, the image with what appears to be some kind of raster looks like it was taken during some kind of "interference."
Surely if Desmond Ball says it was not the Chinese military which took over control of U.S. Weather Satellites, potentially rendering them into anti-satellite weapons, then I guess we can stop worrying about it.
I don't know who this Desmond Ball person is, but... he published a paper! Wow.
Slashdot = Disinformative
As others have noted, ingesting the material is hazardous. This includes inhaling the material. Wear a face filter if dealing with anything suspicious like that. Otherwise, consider putting on rubber gloves with the mask, and removing the gunk from the gutter to somewhere safely away from you.
I would assume the dosimeters function even if worn underneath clothing. Maybe the TSA guards can learn some practical smuggling skills out of this.
I found the following link: http://www.sierradosimetry.com/pricelist.aspx
On this page is offered a dosimetric badge service costing $160/year. At that level, the user return their badge each month, receiving a new badge. They are given a monthly result reading, which should be higher time resolution than needed for this application.
If the TSA employees really care, maybe 16 of them could each pitch in $10 for one badge to be worn by the person who runs the machine...
There is no such thing in the US as a Bachelor's degree without a general education. That is intentional and good. There are lesser degrees which focus on specific technology, these are mostly vocational certificates and associate's degrees (e.g., A.S.).
http://www.vendetta-online.com/
I like the game world. There are surprising twists that are not obvious during the demo, including mission trees opened to you based on your in-game behavior. The game is developed by a four-person team who have made this their full-time gig. Cost is $10/month, after the free demo.
If we don't cut them off, they're on a path to stealing our military secrets and shutting down our power plants. That would kill people. Opposing points of view are nice and all, but I'd like to not die at the remote commands of small men.
We built it, and among its many purposes were to further the freedoms of the United States of America.
To what ends are China using the Internet we built? Attacking the email accounts of our senior government officials? Sabotaging the power grid? Probing the network of Lockheed Martin?
How do Chinese packets get to the US, and why should they continue to reach us? It is time -- past time -- that the US cut off all Internet routing from China, and establishes treaties with China's neighbors prohibiting them from routing Chinese packets to the US.
Because it holds 1/2 as many astronauts as shuttle did...
Dan Abelow filed the patent and seems to own and operate these patent troll corporations:
http://abelow.com/
A woman I know had success with a product marketted as "alpha 20 C" by the Sunrider company. I do not distribute their stuff, but you can find people on the internet who do.
Another idea: buy curcumin extract and piperine. Give 20mg piperine, then in 15 minutes 400mg curcumin. Give 400mg curcuming with 10mg piperine every subsequent thirty minutes. Do this every day for seven days. I have personally done this, but not for cancer.
Also, consider trying Turkey Tail mushrooms. They are currently in research trials as an 'adjunct therapy' for advanced cancers.
Finally, try famciclovir and other anti-virals you can get your hands on. Scientists are starting to discover that many cancers (e.g. prostate) are caused by a virus (e.g. XMRV).
Ah, yes, that would be openhatch.org that I was thinking of. Found it in the google cache.
Recently on slashdot there was a story covring a web site which allowed open source contributors (indviduals) to register their location. You could search locally or view a local map of people interested in contributing to FOSS. Each profile could list those projects to which a person had contributed, or is interested in contributing in the future.
Does anybody know the name of that site? I wonder if it might be openhatch.org, which currently seems /.-ed, but I don't see mention of a map in descriptions of that site.
The interface I remember was directed at identifying local people who want to contribute to open source, whether developers or documentation writers.
Boycott ASCAP members. Email your favorite ASCAP artist and let them know why.
There is no limit to the functionality of Interrupt Service Routines (ISR) and the interrupt-driven "event model," as the OP put it.
Programming an ISR may be difficult, but even the topic of this post, a parallel environment running on the Arduino, will be based upon ISR routines. The user-level programs will not interact with ISRs, but the Ocaml implementation will abstract them.
Fundamentally, the hardware will continue to use interrupts to signal the availability of data from human input devices. Therefore, the fastest and most direct way to access this data is to write an assembly language ISR. The difficulty is that embedded systems programming such as this requires specialized technical knowledge on the part of the programmer.
Clearly the Ocaml solution posted will ease the burden on the coder, and that is a good thing. But the way it works is not that it no longer uses ISRs. It almost certainly implements its own ISRs and polling routines. In this way, it will be like a library. The beneficial result is that individual programmers do not have to reimplement the ISRs. But there is no benefit in, and no possibility of, eliminating the very needed ISR itself.
Personally, I question whether the MCUs selected for the Arduino are appropriate for the "cute tech" market that the Arduino-series-PCB-module (a.k.a. "shield") manufacturers seem to be going for. Possibly the availability of Ocaml will bring the platform more in line with, e.g., the BasicStamp or similar. Overall, I see an impedence mismatch between what people would like to do (make costumes) and what they get (asking their friends to write code for them).
The fundamental first step will be describing to the Ocaml environment how it is that the peripherals have been wired to the chip. Then the Ocaml environment can, presumably, service these interfaces either through ISRs or polling. We'll see what transpires in simplifying the Arduino software landscape.... ;)
I think the problem with derivatives markets occurs whenever derivatives are sold to buyers who have no investment in the underlying security.
It is one thing for a pig farmer to cover potential price movements with derivatives on pigs. It is another thing for a wall street banker to profit because he or she had the 'insight' to buy derivatives which pay off when credit notes extended to mortgage holders go into default -- when that banker does not hold the mortgage notes or instruments which derive positive value from them.
A reason bankers purchased Credit Default Swaps from AIG was to profit on the collapse of sketchy instruments being offered, which instruments the banks did not own.
In the recent (last month) German financial reform, it is no longer permitted for entities to purchase derivative instruments unless they have an interest in the security from which the derivative derives.
A couple of weeks ago, the NYSE fell 25% in a few minutes of cancelled trading. Experts claim they don't know what happened. The HFT systems withdrew their liquidity from the market early in this excursion.
What fraction of the market's liquidity is solely from HFT activity?
I fully agree that if we keep flying the Space Shuttle, there will be future launch accidents with fatalities. Part of what I am suggesting is that these future launch accidents would amount to fewer deaths/payload than the private companies will.
The Space Shuttle is not great technology for 2010, but the major advantage it holds is existential; the Space Shuttle exists and private spaceflight vehicles do not exist.
paying half-rate for a no-track-record was-video-game-developer who is excited to be using much more explosive to get me there...
I would pay double for the Virgin Galactic vehicle. Rutan's Scaled Composites have made a few vehicles for a few customers, and have a long record of high-quality vehicles. With SpaceShip One, they actually flew into some definition of "space" on three occasions. So the Virgin Galactic vehicle program has a few successful flights to its record.
I am not sure, but I don't think Armadillo Aerospace has actually launched any manned or unmanned vehicles anywhere near the altitude that SpaceShip One attained. Armadillo has flown a few VTOL/hover flights near the surface. I don't think they've flown vehicles above Mach 1, but I would be glad to see a correction.
In short, the Armadillo program seems a little over-hyped.
The worse consequence of all the private space program over-hyping of late is that President Obama has decided to rely on these private space companies for human space flight, starting "ASAP." We're going to lose some astronauts to hype, I fear. And we will definitely give up our "lead" in space flight.
I am in favor of private space exploration companies, but I am against over-hyping their capabilities. We are presently making a blunder by retiring the Space Shuttle while we hope that these private suppliers get somewhere quickly.
This detector would be 3,000,000 miles across when measured from one man-made component to another. The article linked to as a 'galaxy sized detector' is actually about a proposal to observe pulsars looking for the effect of gravitational waves.
When observing pulsars, I assume it is not possible to be 100% of what one is seeing, considering that pulsar observations continue to accumulate and scientists have not had the chance to see a pulsar close-up.
In comparison, using man-made scientific instruments, which are much more under the control of the investigating scientists, to perform the measurement is more trustworthy than observing pulsars. In this regard, the huge scale of the equipment (3 Million Miles) is very significant -- the instruments will be able to make a fine measurement across this distance -- and comparing it with the size of the galaxy is not really a valid comparison.
On the other hand, the snark-value of the comparison was high, and providing the link without these details only raised the snark-tasticness.
I remember the battle between Sony's higher-bandwidth Beta-Max standard and the rival standard, VHS. Sony took the position that it would not allow the publishers of adult films to sell their product on Beta tapes. In other words, all "naughty" films for home viewing were on the lower-quality VHS standard.
The VHS format used a larger, heavier tape to encode less bandwidth and therefore lower video quality.
Some of you may recall the VHS won this format battle. Many contemporary observers assigned causality to Sony's choice of censorship in the medium they controlled. Soon, we will observe the same scenario played out again: Apple's iPad with software to control content, or Google's Android on tablets and a more anarchy-oriented medium?
Oh, yeah, the cold war is, like, totally over. When was the last time the Russians flew nuclear bombers into Scotland's airspace anyway??
Oh, right, just a couple months ago.