SABLE-3 did it on August 11/07 - 117,597ft/ 35850m
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DIY Space Photography
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"SABLE-3 was launched on Saturday, August 11th, 2007, at 9:31 AM with a payload, consisting of a Nikon Coolpix P2 digital camera set to take 1 image every minute and a Byonics MicroTrak 300 APRS Tracker, that the Kaysam 1200 gram balloon carried to over 117,597 feet. The last payload camera photo from the ground was just before it was launched, at 9:31 AM, and the last photo before the balloon burst was the photo above, at 12:01 PM, exactly 2.5 hours or 150 images later." link - more info here
SCOX: death throes begin - spasms of appeals
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SCO Loses
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Phroggy asked: "When will it be technically over..."
IANAL - When ALL appeals are over.
You can bet that SCO will chase every appeal that they can afford. SCO will most likely ask for a 'stay' (don't know the legal term) until it appeals. There is a BIG gap between what SCO owes Novell and what SCO has in cash.
"Their confidence in their investigative methods is,
to say the least, unfounded, as the "expert" upon whom they will call to testify that there was a
copyright infringement, admits that (a) he has no clue as to what natural person may have
engaged in any uploads or downloads, (b) he has no clue as to what methods the investigators
used to get the materials upon which he bases his opinions, (c) he has no clue as to whether the
investigator's methods have ever been reviewed or tested by anyone, (d) his own methods are
entirely self taught and have never been reviewed or tested by anyone, and (e) there are no
standards or controls. (Exhibit F-Excerpts from deposition of Dr. Doug Jacobson, February 23,
2007)."
"BTW, I work as a contractor. I have worked continously for my current customer for over five years. My contracts are usually for three months, i.e., I am evaluated every quarter - and they haven't thrown me out yet."
iAnal (i Am not a lawyer) - I hate to break it you... but you are by all definitions an EMPLOYEE.
The reason they haven't thrown you out does not matter, but if they ever DO you can probably sue their @55es for 'wrongful dismissal'.
Jill Lawless from Associated Press reports: "The code has been cracked.
London lawyer Dan Tench and The Times newspaper on Friday both claimed to have solved the riddle of a code embedded in a judge's ruling in
The Da Vinci Code copyright lawsuit.
It reads: "Jackie Fisher who are you Dreadnought.""
"Tench, who brought the code to the world's attention last week, said the key lay within the pages of Brown's thriller.
At one point Brown's cryptographer hero Robert Langdon explains the Fibonacci sequence -- a mathematical progression that involves adding a number to the two numbers before, so that 1 is followed by 1, then 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc. That sequence, when repeated and substituted with letters from the alphabet, spells out the cryptic message."
"The message reveals a significant but now overlooked event that occurred virtually 100 years to the day of the start of the trial."
"John "Jackie" Fisher, is a 19th-century admiral credited with modernizing the British navy and developing its first modern warship, the Dreadnought."
From TFA: '(Lord Drayson's) tough talking on the project includes the fact that Britain has a 'Plan B' if the JSF deal falls through.'
Is the UK's 'Plan B' developing a naval version of the Eurofighter Typhoon, or the already operationnal naval version of the French Rafale? Is either of these V/STOL like the JSF? Will the UK have to build new carriers?
What other options does the UK have if the 'special relationship' is not special enough?
If Sony misses out on the Christmas rush perhaps they, and the rest of the E! industry, will figure out that their customers don't like to be harrassed, lied to or spied on.
!!! - Arista Records, BMG Classics, BMG Heritage, BMG International Companies, J Records, Jive Records, LaFace Records, Provident Music Group, RCA Records, RCA Victor Group, RLG - Nashville, Sony Urban Music, So So Def Records, Verity Records, Columbia Records, Epic Records, Legacy Recordings, Sony Classical, Sony Nashville, Sony Wonder, Sony Ericsson, Sony Music, Sony Pictures, Sony Electronics & PlayStation. - !!!
Sony's actions were egregious, their behaviour is arrogant and their response has been without remorse.
A six week consumer action just might have the effect of reaching into the corporate boardrooms and making those who approve such actions pause. A six week consumer action just might make pension funds and other big $$ investors smack corporate leaders upside the head and direct them to 'do no evil'. A six week consumer action just might tip the balance, for a little while anyway, away from unaccountable corporate malfeasance.
Please keep in mind that while Sony is the target of this boycott; it is the insatiable, unconscionable corporate thinking that perverts any reasonable interpretation of capitalism that needs to be reformed... My hope is that Sony can go from loser to leader.
George Radwanski resigned as Privacy Commissioner of Canada over dubious expense claims. Unfortunately, an investigation did back up the charges. I say unfortunately because Radwanski was an effective champion of our privacy rights.
All of this is to say that Peter Quinn may be a good person doing good things but, there is a line that may have been crossed... as PJ points out in her article: It is too bad that 3 time Pulitzer winner Stephen Kurkjian didn't wait until he had the full story before publishing his article.
If Sony misses out on the Christmas rush perhaps they, and the rest of the E! industry, will figure out that their customers don't like to be harrassed, lied to or spied on.
!!! - Arista Records, BMG Classics, BMG Heritage, BMG International Companies, J Records, Jive Records, LaFace Records, Provident Music Group, RCA Records, RCA Victor Group, RLG - Nashville, Sony Urban Music, So So Def Records, Verity Records, Columbia Records, Epic Records, Legacy Recordings, Sony Classical, Sony Nashville, Sony Wonder, Sony Ericsson, Sony Music, Sony Pictures, Sony Electronics & PlayStation. - !!!
Sony's actions were egregious, their behaviour is arrogant and their response has been without remorse.
A six week consumer action just might have the effect of reaching into the corporate boardrooms and making those who approve such actions pause. A six week consumer action just might make pension funds and other big $$ investors smack corporate leaders upside the head and direct them to 'do no evil'. A six week consumer action just might tip the balance, for a little while anyway, away from unaccountable corporate malfeasance.
Please keep in mind that while Sony is the target of this boycott; it is the insatiable, unconscionable corporate thinking that perverts any reasonable interpretation of capitalism that needs to be reformed... My hope is that Sony can go from loser to leader.
If Sony misses out on the Christmas rush perhaps they, and the rest of the E! industry, will figure out that their customers don't like to be harrassed.
Columbia Records, Epic Records, Legacy Recordings, Sony Classical, Sony Nashville, Sony Wonder, Sony Ericsson, Sony Music, Sony Pictures, Sony Electronics & PlayStation.
Timothy L. O'Brien, NYT - August 28, 2005, gets a 4 page rebuttal rant on behalf of the MPAA. A few quick quotes:
"The Motion Picture Association of America estimates that piracy involving bootleg DVD's deprived the film industry of more than $3 billion in sales last year. That figure does not include lost sales from pirated works peddled online, for which industry insiders say they have no reliable estimate but which they assume to be substantial."
"I always thought that piracy connotes something glamorous," Barry M. Meyer, chairman of Warner Brothers, said. "Let's call it what it is: theft. I think it's just like shoplifting."
"One of my favorite diagrams is in Marion and Thornton's _Classical_Dynamics_ book (Chapter 8, pg. 316 in my 4th edition copy). The diagram shows an approximation of the International Sun-Earth Explorer 3's orbit, and eventual rendezvous with comet Giacobini-Zinner."
"Vendors will be willing to do that because the key to their business is not the infrastructure it runs on but the service on top of the infrastructure," Sleepycat Software CEO Mike Olson said.
Olson obviously does not know how many corps out there use custom software to give themselves a competitive advantage.
"Circumventing DRM to make private copies of sound recordings would become illegal."
Is that what this means? - "It would not be legal to circumvent, without authorization, a TPM applied to a sound recording, notwithstanding the exception for private copying." Source (Government Statement on Proposals for Copyright Reform)
Slashdot Mirror
Doesn't MS have a long and (not so) glorious history of planting 'features' into their end-of-life code?
Crisis? What crisis? And they're hiring too!
"SABLE-3 was launched on Saturday, August 11th, 2007, at 9:31 AM with a payload, consisting of a Nikon Coolpix P2 digital camera set to take 1 image every minute and a Byonics MicroTrak 300 APRS Tracker, that the Kaysam 1200 gram balloon carried to over 117,597 feet. The last payload camera photo from the ground was just before it was launched, at 9:31 AM, and the last photo before the balloon burst was the photo above, at 12:01 PM, exactly 2.5 hours or 150 images later." link - more info here
Phroggy asked: "When will it be technically over..."
IANAL - When ALL appeals are over.
You can bet that SCO will chase every appeal that they can afford. SCO will most likely ask for a 'stay' (don't know the legal term) until it appeals. There is a BIG gap between what SCO owes Novell and what SCO has in cash.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=scox&hl=en
"Their confidence in their investigative methods is, to say the least, unfounded, as the "expert" upon whom they will call to testify that there was a copyright infringement, admits that (a) he has no clue as to what natural person may have engaged in any uploads or downloads, (b) he has no clue as to what methods the investigators used to get the materials upon which he bases his opinions, (c) he has no clue as to whether the investigator's methods have ever been reviewed or tested by anyone, (d) his own methods are entirely self taught and have never been reviewed or tested by anyone, and (e) there are no standards or controls. (Exhibit F-Excerpts from deposition of Dr. Doug Jacobson, February 23, 2007)."
"BTW, I work as a contractor. I have worked continously for my current customer for over five years. My contracts are usually for three months, i.e., I am evaluated every quarter - and they haven't thrown me out yet."
iAnal (i Am not a lawyer) - I hate to break it you... but you are by all definitions an EMPLOYEE.
The reason they haven't thrown you out does not matter, but if they ever DO you can probably sue their @55es for 'wrongful dismissal'.
"This is so that other librarians, when faced with a subpoena, will do the right thing." - Library Director Michele Reutty
Ah... The irrepressible idealism of youth.
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Jill Lawless from Associated Press reports: "The code has been cracked.
M .20060428.wdavincicode0428/BNStory/Entertainment/h ome
London lawyer Dan Tench and The Times newspaper on Friday both claimed to have solved the riddle of a code embedded in a judge's ruling in
The Da Vinci Code copyright lawsuit.
It reads: "Jackie Fisher who are you Dreadnought.""
"Tench, who brought the code to the world's attention last week, said the key lay within the pages of Brown's thriller.
At one point Brown's cryptographer hero Robert Langdon explains the Fibonacci sequence -- a mathematical progression that involves adding a number to the two numbers before, so that 1 is followed by 1, then 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc. That sequence, when repeated and substituted with letters from the alphabet, spells out the cryptic message."
"The message reveals a significant but now overlooked event that occurred virtually 100 years to the day of the start of the trial."
"John "Jackie" Fisher, is a 19th-century admiral credited with modernizing the British navy and developing its first modern warship, the Dreadnought."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGA
Diebold has earned itself enough of a reputation that it seems insane that anybody would approve the Diebold buy in the first place.
! G ! O !!! ! F ! U ! N ! K !!!
Why do you find it ironic?
Bush and Cheney are draft dodgers...
Their MO is to act with "great cowardice".
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Is the UK's 'Plan B' developing a naval version of the Eurofighter Typhoon, or the already operationnal naval version of the French Rafale? Is either of these V/STOL like the JSF? Will the UK have to build new carriers?
What other options does the UK have if the 'special relationship' is not special enough?
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Does "related topic" mean civil servants 'not following proper state procedures for documenting business travel' or ?
Not forever, just until January 02 /06.
If Sony misses out on the Christmas rush perhaps they, and the rest of the E! industry, will figure out that their customers don't like to be harrassed, lied to or spied on.
!!! - Arista Records, BMG Classics, BMG Heritage, BMG International Companies, J Records, Jive Records, LaFace Records, Provident Music Group, RCA Records, RCA Victor Group, RLG - Nashville, Sony Urban Music, So So Def Records, Verity Records, Columbia Records, Epic Records, Legacy Recordings, Sony Classical, Sony Nashville, Sony Wonder, Sony Ericsson, Sony Music, Sony Pictures, Sony Electronics & PlayStation. - !!!
Sony's actions were egregious, their behaviour is arrogant and their response has been without remorse.
A six week consumer action just might have the effect of reaching into the corporate boardrooms and making those who approve such actions pause. A six week consumer action just might make pension funds and other big $$ investors smack corporate leaders upside the head and direct them to 'do no evil'. A six week consumer action just might tip the balance, for a little while anyway, away from unaccountable corporate malfeasance.
Please keep in mind that while Sony is the target of this boycott; it is the insatiable, unconscionable corporate thinking that perverts any reasonable interpretation of capitalism that needs to be reformed... My hope is that Sony can go from loser to leader.
George Radwanski resigned as Privacy Commissioner of Canada over dubious expense claims. Unfortunately, an investigation did back up the charges. I say unfortunately because Radwanski was an effective champion of our privacy rights.
All of this is to say that Peter Quinn may be a good person doing good things but, there is a line that may have been crossed... as PJ points out in her article: It is too bad that 3 time Pulitzer winner Stephen Kurkjian didn't wait until he had the full story before publishing his article.
Not forever, just until January 02 /06.
If Sony misses out on the Christmas rush perhaps they, and the rest of the E! industry, will figure out that their customers don't like to be harrassed, lied to or spied on.
!!! - Arista Records, BMG Classics, BMG Heritage, BMG International Companies, J Records, Jive Records, LaFace Records, Provident Music Group, RCA Records, RCA Victor Group, RLG - Nashville, Sony Urban Music, So So Def Records, Verity Records, Columbia Records, Epic Records, Legacy Recordings, Sony Classical, Sony Nashville, Sony Wonder, Sony Ericsson, Sony Music, Sony Pictures, Sony Electronics & PlayStation. - !!!
Sony's actions were egregious, their behaviour is arrogant and their response has been without remorse.
A six week consumer action just might have the effect of reaching into the corporate boardrooms and making those who approve such actions pause. A six week consumer action just might make pension funds and other big $$ investors smack corporate leaders upside the head and direct them to 'do no evil'. A six week consumer action just might tip the balance, for a little while anyway, away from unaccountable corporate malfeasance.
Please keep in mind that while Sony is the target of this boycott; it is the insatiable, unconscionable corporate thinking that perverts any reasonable interpretation of capitalism that needs to be reformed... My hope is that Sony can go from loser to leader.
If Sony misses out on the Christmas rush perhaps they, and the rest of the E! industry, will figure out that their customers don't like to be harrassed.
Columbia Records, Epic Records, Legacy Recordings, Sony Classical, Sony Nashville, Sony Wonder, Sony Ericsson, Sony Music, Sony Pictures, Sony Electronics & PlayStation.
Perhaps... Hiawatha Bray is not a shill for proprietary software, but merely not fully informed of what the true issues really are.
"The Motion Picture Association of America estimates that piracy involving bootleg DVD's deprived the film industry of more than $3 billion in sales last year. That figure does not include lost sales from pirated works peddled online, for which industry insiders say they have no reliable estimate but which they assume to be substantial."
"I always thought that piracy connotes something glamorous," Barry M. Meyer, chairman of Warner Brothers, said. "Let's call it what it is: theft. I think it's just like shoplifting."
This is pretty impressive too:/ isee3_traj.gif
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/misc_missions
Mmm... Pretty colours... Mmm...
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Mmm... I never would have thought that MS would do that AGAIN!
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Published Monday 2nd May 2005 20:07 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/02/short_sta
The above link will take you to Orlowski's reply to PJ's Response to The Register article.
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"Vendors will be willing to do that because the key to their business is not the infrastructure it runs on but the service on top of the infrastructure," Sleepycat Software CEO Mike Olson said.
Olson obviously does not know how many corps out there use custom software to give themselves a competitive advantage.
Elections BC has said that blogs, sites etc must register if their advertising value exceeds $500. http://www.strategicthoughts.com/record2005/EBC033 005.pdf
Read more here: http://www.strategicthoughts.com/record2005/freesp eechonSTV.html
Is that what this means? - "It would not be legal to circumvent, without authorization, a TPM applied to a sound recording, notwithstanding the exception for private copying."
Source (Government Statement on Proposals for Copyright Reform)
NYU bio with small b&w pic.