Yes, it was. It points out though that maybe stealing from parcels is much more common than previously thought, but the fact that this time something very valuable was used as replacement shed light on it.
1. Part of the value that the car manufacturers provide to customers is the ability to use the road. So car manufacturers should be paying for roadbuilding:) 2. Part of the value that light bulb manufacturers provide to customers is the ability to travel at night with your car, so the light bulb manufacturers should be paying for car building. 3. Part of the value that roadbuilding provides to the road users is the ability to get away from a crime scene very fast, so road builders should sponsor the local police.
No. It is for real. That's what actually happened. The couriers stole the fruit cake, and to cover it, they took one of six packages intended for a bank and relabelled it with the address sticker of the newspaper.
Did you really read the blurb in the introduction to DNS tunnel? There they mention as a prime example for usage the leeching of hotspots in an airport. So if your home connection has been cut, go to the next hotspot!
When I was programmer, we once had a programming job at a large bank. One of our main reports was running across all booked loans and calculated the futural finance stream (interest and amortization) either until the debt was paid off, or up to 40 years at current interest rates. This report was sent to the Federal Bank for control, and to the department tasked with managing the bonds to get enough capital for further loans.
This report took 200 processor hours to complete. To get it done, it was split into 18 tranches, each running 11 hours. So it was possible to complete the job during a weekend run on 18 processors, and restart it twice in case of errors.
A colleague of mine took the task to rewrite the report to speed it up. For that she hooked into each booking that changed the amount of loan or the interest rate, repayment, end-of-contract or amortization and modified it so it wrote a flag into a table.
Then she rewrote the central report to store the calculated finance stream each time it was calculated. Loans that were unchanged since the last calculation didn't have a flag set, so the report took the old calculation. This sped up the report about 150 times: Instead of 200 processor hours now it completed within 1:20 h.
It allowed to put four large RS/6000 out of service, cancelling of the service contracts, rescheduling the report to run daily instead on weekends and saving on weekend man hours. With the daily report to the bond managment department also the finance controlling unit became interested and used the report results to refine their own tools. This together easily paid the amount of programming time put into the report.
As you can see: There are programming task where just throwing more computing power at doesn't solve the problem. It hasn't even to be some high level programming job, sometimes it's a dull task (finding all points in a bookkeeping system where the booking changes the finance stream of a loan is a dull task!), but if someone gets it done, it pays off easily.
That's one of the reasons why I don't use painkillers (and no, I am not getting acupuncture either). My last dental treatment (I got a filling) went without painkillers.
Because german health insurers made a very big double blind test (314,000 probants) with three settings: 1. acupuncture, 2. something that looked like acupuncture but was in fact lots of handwaving and poking people with needles, and 3. traditional painkillers.
Acupuncture helped about 82 percent of all people where it was applied and relieved chronic pain. Traditional painkillers only helped about 25 percent. So acupuncture looks like the sure winner, right?
And now comes the big surprise: Handwaving and poking people with needles proved to be about as efficient as acupuncture: 81 percent of all people to whom it was applied reported it relieved their pain.
So it looks as if acupuncture is an effective painkiller, but not for the reasons stated. It seems that we need to know more about the actual mechanisms and effects of acupuncture.
For reference here the (german) report about the study.
At least I can tell you that the background radiation around a coal plant is higher than around a nuclear plant. Organic matter is enriched with Carbon C14, and because its heavier than the normal C12, it concentrates around coal plants with their huge carbon throughput.
I never understood the american idea of proposing anyway. Wenn my then-girlfriend rented a car and read the contract she found out that family members can drive the rental car too without extra charge. So we decided that from now I was a member of her family. That was the whole proposition. No diamonds. No rings. Nothing.
(And yes, we are married now for more than 10 years).
You mean like in the old joke about the party at the Nouveau Riche's, where the host proudly presents a bottle of wine: "I got this one for $1000!", when one of the guests replies: "Idiot! I know where you can get the same wine for $1500!"
The Bundespruefstelle für jugendgefaehrdende Medien (the german Federal Control Institution for Media Deemed Harmful to Minors) prohibited publishing its own list of indexed media in 2003. For exactly the same reasons.
Wenn Austria under Empress Maria Theresia in 1754 published its own "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" (list of forbidden books, a 40 volume work), the index grew so successful and was in so great demand, that Austria in 1777 put the Index on the Index.
It's the same with all lists of things that are forbidden. They give you ideas.
1.) They collect the U.S. bills in a big cellar and let them rot. 2.) They buy petrol or other raw materials on the world market. 3.) They buy something of value in the U.S.
For most money, they do 1.) For some money, they do 2.), but China still consumes much less petrol than the U.S. And for the rest, they do 3.), go to the U.S. and buy treasury bills to have some interest.
If you really need the plans for a nuke, get an old edition of the east german journal "Jugend+Technik" ("Youth+Technology", the editions from 1960-1965 should be fine) and start reading. Here you will find for instance the plans for Teller's hydrogenium bomb and even a discussion why the design was flawed and didn't yield the expected TNT equivalent. If you need more physical background because you plan to modify the designs, use the east german book "Struktur der Materie" (The structure of matter), expecially chapter 7 and 9.
Somehow I don't understand all the fuss about "stealing our precious nuke plans" and "buying precious uranium". Both are not the problem to obtain. It's more a matter of patience and much money than of knowledge and opportunity.
I grew up about 5 mls from the next small uranium mine (which was located in Dresden-Gittersee) and about 20 mls from a larger mine where about 18000 metric tons of uranium ore were mined (Koenigstein). I never understood why so many people from the western world seem to believe that there are big secrets and dark mysteries around nukes. It was always in plain sight for me.
And I will respond with "China is not lending money to the U.S., they just have loads of U.S. bills because U.S. citizens pay in U.S. dollar for all the stuff they get from China. And China can't do very much with those dollars, except buying petrol or U.S. treasury bonds."
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Yes, it was.
It points out though that maybe stealing from parcels is much more common than previously thought, but the fact that this time something very valuable was used as replacement shed light on it.
Hey! This screams for a car analogy ;)
1. Part of the value that the car manufacturers provide to customers is the ability to use the road. So car manufacturers should be paying for roadbuilding :)
2. Part of the value that light bulb manufacturers provide to customers is the ability to travel at night with your car, so the light bulb manufacturers should be paying for car building.
3. Part of the value that roadbuilding provides to the road users is the ability to get away from a crime scene very fast, so road builders should sponsor the local police.
Any more ideas? :)
No. It is for real. That's what actually happened. The couriers stole the fruit cake, and to cover it, they took one of six packages intended for a bank and relabelled it with the address sticker of the newspaper.
Did you really read the blurb in the introduction to DNS tunnel? There they mention as a prime example for usage the leeching of hotspots in an airport. So if your home connection has been cut, go to the next hotspot!
By using dnstunnel for instance.
me.com? As in Me Inc.? So we are bouncing from CoS to SCO?
When I was programmer, we once had a programming job at a large bank. One of our main reports was running across all booked loans and calculated the futural finance stream (interest and amortization) either until the debt was paid off, or up to 40 years at current interest rates. This report was sent to the Federal Bank for control, and to the department tasked with managing the bonds to get enough capital for further loans.
This report took 200 processor hours to complete. To get it done, it was split into 18 tranches, each running 11 hours. So it was possible to complete the job during a weekend run on 18 processors, and restart it twice in case of errors.
A colleague of mine took the task to rewrite the report to speed it up. For that she hooked into each booking that changed the amount of loan or the interest rate, repayment, end-of-contract or amortization and modified it so it wrote a flag into a table.
Then she rewrote the central report to store the calculated finance stream each time it was calculated. Loans that were unchanged since the last calculation didn't have a flag set, so the report took the old calculation. This sped up the report about 150 times: Instead of 200 processor hours now it completed within 1:20 h.
It allowed to put four large RS/6000 out of service, cancelling of the service contracts, rescheduling the report to run daily instead on weekends and saving on weekend man hours. With the daily report to the bond managment department also the finance controlling unit became interested and used the report results to refine their own tools. This together easily paid the amount of programming time put into the report.
As you can see: There are programming task where just throwing more computing power at doesn't solve the problem. It hasn't even to be some high level programming job, sometimes it's a dull task (finding all points in a bookkeeping system where the booking changes the finance stream of a loan is a dull task!), but if someone gets it done, it pays off easily.
English is in fact the most widely spoken language, and it is a second language to the largest number of people.
That's probably why my wife normally asks in spanish for the bathroom in a restaurant in the Southwest. Works better than english.
That's one of the reasons why I don't use painkillers (and no, I am not getting acupuncture either). My last dental treatment (I got a filling) went without painkillers.
Because once you've had someone stab you with dozens of needles, whatever pain you were experiencing doesn't seem so bad by comparison.
Interestingly though acupuncture is not very painful to the patient. As I said: The working mechanisms of acupuncture are not clear right now.
Because german health insurers made a very big double blind test (314,000 probants) with three settings: 1. acupuncture, 2. something that looked like acupuncture but was in fact lots of handwaving and poking people with needles, and 3. traditional painkillers.
Acupuncture helped about 82 percent of all people where it was applied and relieved chronic pain. Traditional painkillers only helped about 25 percent. So acupuncture looks like the sure winner, right?
And now comes the big surprise: Handwaving and poking people with needles proved to be about as efficient as acupuncture: 81 percent of all people to whom it was applied reported it relieved their pain.
So it looks as if acupuncture is an effective painkiller, but not for the reasons stated. It seems that we need to know more about the actual mechanisms and effects of acupuncture.
For reference here the (german) report about the study.
Sadly no one implements OOXML for now. Microsoft promises support in 2010, but not earlier.
No. .docx is NOT standard OOXML.
At least I can tell you that the background radiation around a coal plant is higher than around a nuclear plant. Organic matter is enriched with Carbon C14, and because its heavier than the normal C12, it concentrates around coal plants with their huge carbon throughput.
I never understood the american idea of proposing anyway.
Wenn my then-girlfriend rented a car and read the contract she found out that family members can drive the rental car too without extra charge. So we decided that from now I was a member of her family. That was the whole proposition. No diamonds. No rings. Nothing.
(And yes, we are married now for more than 10 years).
You mean like in the old joke about the party at the Nouveau Riche's, where the host proudly presents a bottle of wine: "I got this one for $1000!", when one of the guests replies: "Idiot! I know where you can get the same wine for $1500!"
Ah yes... a more recent example:
The Bundespruefstelle für jugendgefaehrdende Medien (the german Federal Control Institution for Media Deemed Harmful to Minors) prohibited publishing its own list of indexed media in 2003. For exactly the same reasons.
You are lacking fantasy.
Wenn Austria under Empress Maria Theresia in 1754 published its own "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" (list of forbidden books, a 40 volume work), the index grew so successful and was in so great demand, that Austria in 1777 put the Index on the Index.
It's the same with all lists of things that are forbidden. They give you ideas.
In this case it's the Antonius wall, built under Imperator Antonious Pius. (pius [lat.] = pious [eng.]).
Sorry to reply to myself:
The Olympics of 1936 were already shown in TV (the box mostly sitting in a radio store and people watching through the window ;) ).
TV was invented and presented before WWII. Look when Phil Farnsworth and Manfred von Ardenne were showing their respective designs: 1934 and 1935!
Not exactly. China has actually not many choices.
1.) They collect the U.S. bills in a big cellar and let them rot.
2.) They buy petrol or other raw materials on the world market.
3.) They buy something of value in the U.S.
For most money, they do 1.)
For some money, they do 2.), but China still consumes much less petrol than the U.S.
And for the rest, they do 3.), go to the U.S. and buy treasury bills to have some interest.
If you really need the plans for a nuke, get an old edition of the east german journal "Jugend+Technik" ("Youth+Technology", the editions from 1960-1965 should be fine) and start reading. Here you will find for instance the plans for Teller's hydrogenium bomb and even a discussion why the design was flawed and didn't yield the expected TNT equivalent. If you need more physical background because you plan to modify the designs, use the east german book "Struktur der Materie" (The structure of matter), expecially chapter 7 and 9.
Somehow I don't understand all the fuss about "stealing our precious nuke plans" and "buying precious uranium". Both are not the problem to obtain. It's more a matter of patience and much money than of knowledge and opportunity.
I grew up about 5 mls from the next small uranium mine (which was located in Dresden-Gittersee) and about 20 mls from a larger mine where about 18000 metric tons of uranium ore were mined (Koenigstein). I never understood why so many people from the western world seem to believe that there are big secrets and dark mysteries around nukes. It was always in plain sight for me.
And I will respond with "China is not lending money to the U.S., they just have loads of U.S. bills because U.S. citizens pay in U.S. dollar for all the stuff they get from China. And China can't do very much with those dollars, except buying petrol or U.S. treasury bonds."
They could give the money to a charity which helps people with the Common Cold. ;)
Meat in a sandwich[tm] is supposed to be served cold, not lukewarm.