No problem with the US dollar as an international standard, however, your $$$ per pound seems a little off. My guess is, you got it backwards. Roughly speaking, 1Kg = 2.2lb. So if it was $10G/lb, then it should be about $22G/Kg.
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You might want to reread the article. the FCC isn't putting a tax on internet broadcasting. Internet broadcasters will have to pay a copyright fee like any radio broadcaster for the right to play copyrighted material (songs). The FCC isn't playing a part in this at all, this is:
The Copyright Office, part of the Library of Congress, said record companies are entitled to royalties when a radio station also transmits its music programming on the Internet,
My understanding of antibiotics was that they helped to identify the unwanted virus/bacteria. I didn't think they actually killed anything , just made it easier for your immune system to identify and thus destroy it.
The fact that this information is stored on a server located in the US is the only relevant fact. It does get a bit ify since Yahoo does have an office in France, however, I think Yahoo did all that could be expected by removing the links from yahoo.fr.
A foreign country cannot force a website hosted in another country to remove content. If this was true, there would be a lot fewer sites out there. Think of all the porn sites out there, especially those that deal with child porn, beastiality, etc. In a lot of countries, this is illegal. However, since they are often hosted from sites where this is legal, there is nothing that can be done to remove this, since it is published in a country where the laws allow this type of content. Where its visible from is irrelevant.
Actually SaskTel is rapidly expanding their DSL coverage area. I believe several communities like Tisdale are supposed to be online by the end of the month. This is actually coming from one of the SaskTel Data Repair guys whose group is responsible for the telephony hardware to get this going.
Personally, while I prefer some of the benefits (static IP, faster upload speed) of cable in this area, I am on DSL. SaskTel is one of the global leaders in this area. They were one of the first to offer DSL services, not too mention that SaskTel is one of the only phone companies in the world that could support every customer making a call at the same time. Here's a huge land mass with 1 million people, yet we have fiber to every city in the province, every switch in the province is digital. With minor upgrades, that are being done, soon everyone in this province will be able to get ISDN lines, which while they are an aging technology, its pretty impressive that a rural area could get 128K/128K speeds (2 BRI channels).
Whereas while permitting the visualization in France of these objects and the eventual participation of surfers of France to such an exposition/sale...
Now admittedly this is translated from French to English, but does anyone else see any problems here? Did Yahoo permit the visualization? My first guess would be any ISP offering service in France. However, how far along this path can we go? Maybe the manufacturer of the NIC/Modem should be held responsible, or the monitor, or even the PC. How about the phone company for allowing dial up?
And how about this...
Orders Yahoo France to warn all surfers visiting Yahoo.fr, and prior to making available the usage of the link which
permits them to pursue their research on Yahoo.com
Now why is just Yahoo getting nailed here? Are thy the only site hosted in France that has a link to Yahoo.com? This gets back to the idea of if I link to a site with illegal MP3's, am I legally responsible? How many jumps do they make here? Yahoo is a pretty big site, but just linking to the front page without a warning is now illegal for yahoo.fr.
I'd be just a little bit upset about this ruling.
Okay, they're only asking that the banning be done to particular pages (images?) from France IPs. However, your TV, Newspaper analogy doesn't work.
forbid the New York Times, for instance, from publishing such material in France
But Yahoo Inc isn't publishing anything in France. Yahoo.fr removed the links, so its only being published in the US. The media in this case is irrelevant. Be it TV, Newspaper, radio, or the Internet. This is a Government trying to impose restrictions on a foreign company on the chance that one of its citizens might see something considered by some to be offensive.
If I were Yahoo Inc. I would refuse to obey. If the issue was pressed, just close up shop in France. If they don't want to lose the advertising revenue, setup something like fr.yahoo.com as opposed to yahoo.fr. Then see how far the Gov't of France can go with it.
I mean imagine that you start a business. You're selling harmless doodads. Then, a foreign country sends you a registered letter saying that you must ban all people from our country from seeing your website. Would you comply?
I know I started with an Atari, but when I was about 10, my parents bought an early TRS-80 color computer (well, you plugged it into the TV). At that point I got more interested in how things, worked. I started playing with BASIC and such, and moved up to a TRS-80 Model III, which had the old TRSDOS OS and built in monochrome monitor. The more I played with it the more interested I got, but never really in the h/w realm. Actually, I had never looked inside a computer until I was about 18 when I installed my SB16 into a 386sx.
From there, I got a job at a computer/video rental store (I know, odd combination, but made it easy to provide extended hours of support). That's where my real learning of computers began. Unfortunately its somewhat difficult to learn a lot without actually doing. How many times is a kid going to be replacing internal parts, or troubleshooting IRQ or com port confilcts? While it would be nice if the next generation at least knew the difference between a Hard Drive and a case, I'd be happy if they knew that the CD-Rom drive isn't a cup holder, and yes, you do need to plug in a phone line to the modem.
Most of this comes from doing phone support for an ISP. I have no doubt kids are much better at general usage of a computer than most adults, but we don't need a generation that knows everything about computers and nothing about anything else.
Look at us geeks. We tend to be curious about a lot of things, but we certainly don't know everything about anything. Heck, I come home everyday and flip on the TV. I don't really understand much about how a live image is broadcast without the use of film (I understand how film works). I don't understand how that image is passed down a coax line. And does that make a difference? No.
For me, the kind of curiosity that got me to be fairly knowledgeable about computers didn't set in until I was 17 or so. Sure I could write some BASIC programs, and could play solitare, but I wasn't too interested in how it worked. That or I was scared that there was too much to learn! I'm not honestly sure which. Eventually, that curiosity took over and I am where I am now. A good job, and one of the most knowledgeable people in the office about a vast number of computer related things.
We all eventually find a subject that satisfies our curiosity. There's no point pushing a kid into something, they'll probably just resent that subject out of teen-rebellion.
Okay, so I read through all the posts (rated at 1 or up anyways) and heres what I see from it.
A "WHO Certified" graphic is not a good idea. It is too easily stolen and put on non-approved sites. Certificates and other such authentication requests get more complicated than we need to.
Some of you don't like/trust WHO. That's fine, that's your right. People have linked to various web sites showing the evil that WHO has done. Regardless, WHO has been responsible for some very GOOD things, like the elimination of small pox (Okay, they do have some stored, but there has not been a person infected for I believe over 20 years). In any case, imagine the following.
WHO gets granted and begins using the.who domain. Lets say I am a strong believer in the WHO and trust their findings. As a reasonably informed user of the internet, I know that by going to www.cancer.who (or whatever disease/virus/ailment you want) I am getting accurate information from an agency I trust. Is this wrong? Lets say I distrust the WHO, I know that anything in the.who domain is something I won't necessarily believe or at least take with a grain of salt.
So maybe this will expand and other national health organizations will want their own TLD (Health Canada, AMA, etc). That's something that can be decided at a later date. Remember, the WHO is generally well respected in the world as backing up reccommendations with evidence. I won't say facts, as previous posts have mentioned, you can't say Drug X will cure Ailment Z.
Personally, I'd say don't let them have.health, but give them.who.
Yes, TLD was not meant to be flat, but how deep does it have to get before we become a little more free with TLDs. I'm in favour of this,.xxx for porn, and probably more proposals I haven't heard of.
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I originally read the story on CBC and a smaller picture can be found in their article
As a Canadian who grew up taking metric in school, they did try to teach us EVERYTHING in metric, but I still think of height, weight, and waist size in English units.
I'm slowly getting used to engine size in Litres, but don't know the conversion. I know the 318 that was in my old '74 plymouth was bigger than my 2.4L in my Olds, but not by how much. As for driving, I think of everything in Km, it just seems easier. Sure roughly 1 mile takes 1 minute to drive (at highways speeds), but when you say your going 350 miles it takes a second to convert, but 350Km is 3.5 hours. (Of course this is assuming 60mph or 100kmh... I only drive that slow when road conditions aren't great).
I'd prefer to think of my height and weight in metric, but its a hard habit to break. Heck, I just checked my drivers license (Saskatchewan) and its got me at 6'1", not 190 odd centimetres (I think). Not to mention, when was the last time you went to buy a pair of pants and asked for a waist size of 84cm... finding size 33 waist is tough enough without confusing the sales people... I know, I'm the same waist size.
I don't think the question is "If they pay you", its more complex that that. The university I went to paid graduates to teach classes. In my opinion that meant that they were paid to stand up in front of the class, give lessons (lectures), mark exams, etc. However, research, coding, developing on their own time should not be considered property of the university.
It all depends when the work was done. If it was done during the time they were being paid, then yes, it should belong to the university. However, if it was done on personal time, it shouldn't.
In my case, I did some contract work for an ISP (2nd level support). While times were slow, I rewrote some script files we used for retrieving customer information. I can't remember what the originals were in, but they could literally take 5 minutes to retrieve basic info like username, mail alias, mailbox size, etc. I rewrote them, using both shell scripts and PERL, and found my scripts would run in 5-10 seconds, a definite improvement. Now admittedly, these were nothing fancy, not much more than a few grep statements and some output modifying, but as far as I was concerned, they were property of the ISP. The time I spent writing them was paid for by them. It wasn't what they were paying me to do, but that's still the way I feel about it. Once I showed the scripts to the admins (and pointed out that I could no longer get root if they switched to my scripts) it was a pretty quick switch over.
Now I am by no means an expert in this field, having only just read the above link to Jillian's Guide to Black Holes. However, here's what I got from that page that applies to your post.
I think the radiation you are referring to is 'Hawking Radiation' or possibly gamma radiation. If its Hawking Radiation, I can only say this, virtual particles are being formed and expelled from the black hole. I won't go into detail on how they are formed, I don't understand it well enough. As for the gamma, this is how I've understood it (and it could be wrong). Imagine a ray of light coming at a tangent to a black hole. As it approaches the black hole, it bends toward it and can eventually go into orbit around it. Yes, I did just say that light can orbit a black hole. This point where light will orbit (potentially forever, but not in reality) is called the photon sphere. Now since other things (light, dust, etc) are passing through, these will eventually disturb the orbit of light. As it starts to fall in, it gains kinetic energy. With any mass, this would present itself as acceleration, however, nothing can go faster than the speed of light. So, instead of speeding up, the light gains more energy and blurs to red, infrared, X-ray, and finally gamma. As it gains this energy, it can also escape the black hole, assuming of course it hasn't crossed the event horizon.
This can also happen with particles of dust and even electrons. As they speed up, they are giving off more and more energy (they can only go so fast). This energy is expelled in the form of x-rays and gamma rays.
So, I wouldn't call a black holes really massive stars that emit mostly one kind of radiation, which unless you look for it, doesnt show up.. making the star look black
Again, I'm no expert here, but stars are usually objects that are burning hydrogen and/or helium and releasing energy in various forms of light. Black holes on the other hand, tend to be very very cold, large ones are indistinguishable from 0 degrees Kelvin (absolute zero). Now from what I've read on the subject, the biggest difference between stars and black holes is that black holes have a singularity... which is in essence, the point where density reaches infinity.
Thanks for the link vapour! I have been looking (well, hoping someone would post a link) for a nice web page that described black holes without going too much into the math. For anyone interested, that Jillian's guide is EXCELLENT. While I still don't really understand spacetime diagrams, it did explain everything else very well. And even without really understanding those diagrams, I was still able to understand the topics that relied on them (Singularities, White Holes, Blue Sheets, etc.).
I can't speak for the other one since I'm at work and they don't allow mpeg's through the firewall, but I do plan to check it out when I get hoem.
Did anyone else happen to notice that the title of the article on slashdot is: "Compaq Holds Off on Crusoe" but then scott1853 goes on to say "Compaq isn't claiming to put the processor on hold, they appear to have made their final decision not to use it" and the title of the article on ZDNet is "
Compaq cancels Transmeta plans" and on G2 is Compaq Cans Transmeta Box".
That may be true (I don't know for sure), but lets give him some creative license. He obviously wanted to find a way to make the dinosaurs breed, and he found a species of frog that can change gender in a single sex environment. I don't know of any birds that can do that... then again, before reading the book, I didn't know frogs could do that either.
BTW, Jurasic Park was an EXCELLENT read for any of you who haven't read it... in general I find Crichton to be a great writer... Sphere, JP, Airframe, A Case of Need, Rising Sun, Disclosure, and more that I can't think of off the top of my head!
Well, for computer geeks no, we can get out. But for an average home user, it can be tough to get out of some of these sites. I haven't been to these sites, but if they're spawning other browser windows, it can get difficult to leave. I know when I'm browsing newsgroups, I keep one hand hovering on Alt-F4 (on my Win box anyways) to quickly close any browser windows that pop up.
Now I'm against cybersquatting, but I don't know if I consider this to be cybersquatting. I always thought it was registering a domain that you hoped someone else would want and would be willing to pay money for.
This is a case of taking advantage of mistyped URLs. I agree it is not at all a respectable way of making money, but is it illegal? Should he be punished with fines totaling $500,000? I really don't think so.
I see your point, but unless you have a better solution, then either they start reviewing posts, or they should be shut down.
It is unfortunate that people are abusing the website, and that's what this is really about. I guess authorities could get involved if a crime has been committed, but I'm not sure that one has. If so, great, arrest the people who are posting the full names of young children and asking explicit sexual questions. They may be minors, but hopefully something more than a slap on the wrist would be a deterant to others.
However, if no law has been broken, what else can be done? I think the parents of these children should have some responsibilty as to the actions of their children, but lets face it, they aren't going to sit and watch every minute their children are on the internet.
I would hate if this or other similar websites (slashdot) could be shut down because of the abuse of users, but honestly, what else can we do?
While I'm a very big advocate of free speach, they do have a point. While I think we should have the ability to freely discuss any topic, including less popular subjects like hate crimes and the like, posting individuals full names and such in my opinion is something that shouldn't be tolerated. Now I'm not sure that anything illegal is being done (here comes the slander debate). I would be very upset if friends posted embarassing facts or half-truths about me on the web.
As far as I'm concerned the website should be making a definite attempt to remove any such posts. Now I make no real attempt to hide my identity here, but there are things that I have posted and discussed here that would not make my boss very happy (aside fromt the fact that I post during the day when I'm at work *grin*).
Now I don't have exact populations here, but http://www.headcount.com/count/datafind.htm?choice =country&choicev%5B%5D=Canada&choicev%5B %5D=The+US&submit=Submit shows that the US has 92 Million users, and Canada has 13.5 million (as of June '99). I'm not sure about the states, but I believe the population is about 250 million, which would put usage at about 37%. In Canada, the population is around 26 million, which puts us at about 52%.
Okay, so the figures are a year old, and my population of the US may be off, but I'm pretty sure Canada has the highest per capita connections to the 'net.
So, I guess Canada should be at the top, or at least higher up than the US. Sorry guys!
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True, but any decent admin will tell you that unless you absolutely have to be logged in as administrator or root, you don't. On any box I've setup (mostly linux) all mail to root will go to another user account.
On the servers at work (NT), admin NEVER checks email, and is almost never logged in. The superuser account would never run any unchecked binaries period. If I get a questionable attachment (happens pretty regularaly), I forward it to a dummy user account that has no rights. I also keep my virus scanner up to date. If you're going to run one that's 3 months (or older), then don't even bother!
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Okay, so maybe we're not a global power, but we do have some better weapons that swords and arrows!
Better yet, get a friend who works at a theatre. Mine manages a small independant theatre, but still has a standing free pass to all theatres! All I have to do is buy popcorn and drinks (which still costs an arm and a leg!).
And what hospital or other medical facility is going to hire a "part time hacker" as their support? Realistically, they're going to hire (or contract) a large firm with lots of people with lots of experience. Not some high school kid knows how to write a "hello world" program in 20 different languages.
It doesn't matter what your OS of choice is. There are companies out there who offer Linux support at a commerical, mission critical level. If I were in charge of finding support for this, I wouldn't be asking for resume's, I'd be asking for bids. 24/7 support, senior people with at least five years hard linux experience, not just installing a copy and setting up a web server.
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No problem with the US dollar as an international standard, however, your $$$ per pound seems a little off. My guess is, you got it backwards. Roughly speaking, 1Kg = 2.2lb. So if it was $10G/lb, then it should be about $22G/Kg.
The Copyright Office, part of the Library of Congress, said record companies are entitled to royalties when a radio station also transmits its music programming on the Internet,
The FCC isn't even mentioned in the article.
My understanding of antibiotics was that they helped to identify the unwanted virus/bacteria. I didn't think they actually killed anything , just made it easier for your immune system to identify and thus destroy it.
The fact that this information is stored on a server located in the US is the only relevant fact. It does get a bit ify since Yahoo does have an office in France, however, I think Yahoo did all that could be expected by removing the links from yahoo.fr.
A foreign country cannot force a website hosted in another country to remove content. If this was true, there would be a lot fewer sites out there. Think of all the porn sites out there, especially those that deal with child porn, beastiality, etc. In a lot of countries, this is illegal. However, since they are often hosted from sites where this is legal, there is nothing that can be done to remove this, since it is published in a country where the laws allow this type of content. Where its visible from is irrelevant.
Personally, while I prefer some of the benefits (static IP, faster upload speed) of cable in this area, I am on DSL. SaskTel is one of the global leaders in this area. They were one of the first to offer DSL services, not too mention that SaskTel is one of the only phone companies in the world that could support every customer making a call at the same time. Here's a huge land mass with 1 million people, yet we have fiber to every city in the province, every switch in the province is digital. With minor upgrades, that are being done, soon everyone in this province will be able to get ISDN lines, which while they are an aging technology, its pretty impressive that a rural area could get 128K/128K speeds (2 BRI channels).
Whereas while permitting the visualization in France of these objects and the eventual participation of surfers of France to such an exposition/sale...
Now admittedly this is translated from French to English, but does anyone else see any problems here? Did Yahoo permit the visualization? My first guess would be any ISP offering service in France. However, how far along this path can we go? Maybe the manufacturer of the NIC/Modem should be held responsible, or the monitor, or even the PC. How about the phone company for allowing dial up?
And how about this...
Orders Yahoo France to warn all surfers visiting Yahoo.fr, and prior to making available the usage of the link which permits them to pursue their research on Yahoo.com
Now why is just Yahoo getting nailed here? Are thy the only site hosted in France that has a link to Yahoo.com? This gets back to the idea of if I link to a site with illegal MP3's, am I legally responsible? How many jumps do they make here? Yahoo is a pretty big site, but just linking to the front page without a warning is now illegal for yahoo.fr.
I'd be just a little bit upset about this ruling.
forbid the New York Times, for instance, from publishing such material in France
But Yahoo Inc isn't publishing anything in France. Yahoo.fr removed the links, so its only being published in the US. The media in this case is irrelevant. Be it TV, Newspaper, radio, or the Internet. This is a Government trying to impose restrictions on a foreign company on the chance that one of its citizens might see something considered by some to be offensive.
If I were Yahoo Inc. I would refuse to obey. If the issue was pressed, just close up shop in France. If they don't want to lose the advertising revenue, setup something like fr.yahoo.com as opposed to yahoo.fr. Then see how far the Gov't of France can go with it.
I mean imagine that you start a business. You're selling harmless doodads. Then, a foreign country sends you a registered letter saying that you must ban all people from our country from seeing your website. Would you comply?
From there, I got a job at a computer/video rental store (I know, odd combination, but made it easy to provide extended hours of support). That's where my real learning of computers began. Unfortunately its somewhat difficult to learn a lot without actually doing. How many times is a kid going to be replacing internal parts, or troubleshooting IRQ or com port confilcts? While it would be nice if the next generation at least knew the difference between a Hard Drive and a case, I'd be happy if they knew that the CD-Rom drive isn't a cup holder, and yes, you do need to plug in a phone line to the modem.
Most of this comes from doing phone support for an ISP. I have no doubt kids are much better at general usage of a computer than most adults, but we don't need a generation that knows everything about computers and nothing about anything else.
Look at us geeks. We tend to be curious about a lot of things, but we certainly don't know everything about anything. Heck, I come home everyday and flip on the TV. I don't really understand much about how a live image is broadcast without the use of film (I understand how film works). I don't understand how that image is passed down a coax line. And does that make a difference? No.
For me, the kind of curiosity that got me to be fairly knowledgeable about computers didn't set in until I was 17 or so. Sure I could write some BASIC programs, and could play solitare, but I wasn't too interested in how it worked. That or I was scared that there was too much to learn! I'm not honestly sure which. Eventually, that curiosity took over and I am where I am now. A good job, and one of the most knowledgeable people in the office about a vast number of computer related things.
We all eventually find a subject that satisfies our curiosity. There's no point pushing a kid into something, they'll probably just resent that subject out of teen-rebellion.
Suddenly we have a new answer to the age old question: "Daddy, why is the sky blue?"
Or BSOD - Blue Sky of Death
A "WHO Certified" graphic is not a good idea. It is too easily stolen and put on non-approved sites. Certificates and other such authentication requests get more complicated than we need to.
Some of you don't like/trust WHO. That's fine, that's your right. People have linked to various web sites showing the evil that WHO has done. Regardless, WHO has been responsible for some very GOOD things, like the elimination of small pox (Okay, they do have some stored, but there has not been a person infected for I believe over 20 years). In any case, imagine the following.
WHO gets granted and begins using the .who domain. Lets say I am a strong believer in the WHO and trust their findings. As a reasonably informed user of the internet, I know that by going to www.cancer.who (or whatever disease/virus/ailment you want) I am getting accurate information from an agency I trust. Is this wrong? Lets say I distrust the WHO, I know that anything in the .who domain is something I won't necessarily believe or at least take with a grain of salt.
So maybe this will expand and other national health organizations will want their own TLD (Health Canada, AMA, etc). That's something that can be decided at a later date. Remember, the WHO is generally well respected in the world as backing up reccommendations with evidence. I won't say facts, as previous posts have mentioned, you can't say Drug X will cure Ailment Z.
Personally, I'd say don't let them have .health, but give them .who.
Yes, TLD was not meant to be flat, but how deep does it have to get before we become a little more free with TLDs. I'm in favour of this, .xxx for porn, and probably more proposals I haven't heard of.
I originally read the story on CBC and a smaller picture can be found in their article
I'm slowly getting used to engine size in Litres, but don't know the conversion. I know the 318 that was in my old '74 plymouth was bigger than my 2.4L in my Olds, but not by how much. As for driving, I think of everything in Km, it just seems easier. Sure roughly 1 mile takes 1 minute to drive (at highways speeds), but when you say your going 350 miles it takes a second to convert, but 350Km is 3.5 hours. (Of course this is assuming 60mph or 100kmh... I only drive that slow when road conditions aren't great).
I'd prefer to think of my height and weight in metric, but its a hard habit to break. Heck, I just checked my drivers license (Saskatchewan) and its got me at 6'1", not 190 odd centimetres (I think). Not to mention, when was the last time you went to buy a pair of pants and asked for a waist size of 84cm... finding size 33 waist is tough enough without confusing the sales people... I know, I'm the same waist size.
It all depends when the work was done. If it was done during the time they were being paid, then yes, it should belong to the university. However, if it was done on personal time, it shouldn't.
In my case, I did some contract work for an ISP (2nd level support). While times were slow, I rewrote some script files we used for retrieving customer information. I can't remember what the originals were in, but they could literally take 5 minutes to retrieve basic info like username, mail alias, mailbox size, etc. I rewrote them, using both shell scripts and PERL, and found my scripts would run in 5-10 seconds, a definite improvement. Now admittedly, these were nothing fancy, not much more than a few grep statements and some output modifying, but as far as I was concerned, they were property of the ISP. The time I spent writing them was paid for by them. It wasn't what they were paying me to do, but that's still the way I feel about it. Once I showed the scripts to the admins (and pointed out that I could no longer get root if they switched to my scripts) it was a pretty quick switch over.
I think the radiation you are referring to is 'Hawking Radiation' or possibly gamma radiation. If its Hawking Radiation, I can only say this, virtual particles are being formed and expelled from the black hole. I won't go into detail on how they are formed, I don't understand it well enough. As for the gamma, this is how I've understood it (and it could be wrong). Imagine a ray of light coming at a tangent to a black hole. As it approaches the black hole, it bends toward it and can eventually go into orbit around it. Yes, I did just say that light can orbit a black hole. This point where light will orbit (potentially forever, but not in reality) is called the photon sphere. Now since other things (light, dust, etc) are passing through, these will eventually disturb the orbit of light. As it starts to fall in, it gains kinetic energy. With any mass, this would present itself as acceleration, however, nothing can go faster than the speed of light. So, instead of speeding up, the light gains more energy and blurs to red, infrared, X-ray, and finally gamma. As it gains this energy, it can also escape the black hole, assuming of course it hasn't crossed the event horizon.
This can also happen with particles of dust and even electrons. As they speed up, they are giving off more and more energy (they can only go so fast). This energy is expelled in the form of x-rays and gamma rays.
So, I wouldn't call a black holes
really massive stars that emit mostly one kind of radiation, which unless you look for it, doesnt show up.. making the star look black
Again, I'm no expert here, but stars are usually objects that are burning hydrogen and/or helium and releasing energy in various forms of light. Black holes on the other hand, tend to be very very cold, large ones are indistinguishable from 0 degrees Kelvin (absolute zero). Now from what I've read on the subject, the biggest difference between stars and black holes is that black holes have a singularity... which is in essence, the point where density reaches infinity.
I can't speak for the other one since I'm at work and they don't allow mpeg's through the firewall, but I do plan to check it out when I get hoem.
Did anyone else happen to notice that the title of the article on slashdot is: "Compaq Holds Off on Crusoe" but then scott1853 goes on to say "Compaq isn't claiming to put the processor on hold, they appear to have made their final decision not to use it" and the title of the article on ZDNet is "
Compaq cancels Transmeta plans" and on G2 is Compaq Cans Transmeta Box".
BTW, Jurasic Park was an EXCELLENT read for any of you who haven't read it... in general I find Crichton to be a great writer... Sphere, JP, Airframe, A Case of Need, Rising Sun, Disclosure, and more that I can't think of off the top of my head!
Now I'm against cybersquatting, but I don't know if I consider this to be cybersquatting. I always thought it was registering a domain that you hoped someone else would want and would be willing to pay money for.
This is a case of taking advantage of mistyped URLs. I agree it is not at all a respectable way of making money, but is it illegal? Should he be punished with fines totaling $500,000? I really don't think so.
It is unfortunate that people are abusing the website, and that's what this is really about. I guess authorities could get involved if a crime has been committed, but I'm not sure that one has. If so, great, arrest the people who are posting the full names of young children and asking explicit sexual questions. They may be minors, but hopefully something more than a slap on the wrist would be a deterant to others.
However, if no law has been broken, what else can be done? I think the parents of these children should have some responsibilty as to the actions of their children, but lets face it, they aren't going to sit and watch every minute their children are on the internet.
I would hate if this or other similar websites (slashdot) could be shut down because of the abuse of users, but honestly, what else can we do?
As far as I'm concerned the website should be making a definite attempt to remove any such posts. Now I make no real attempt to hide my identity here, but there are things that I have posted and discussed here that would not make my boss very happy (aside fromt the fact that I post during the day when I'm at work *grin*).
Okay, so the figures are a year old, and my population of the US may be off, but I'm pretty sure Canada has the highest per capita connections to the 'net.
So, I guess Canada should be at the top, or at least higher up than the US. Sorry guys!
On the servers at work (NT), admin NEVER checks email, and is almost never logged in. The superuser account would never run any unchecked binaries period. If I get a questionable attachment (happens pretty regularaly), I forward it to a dummy user account that has no rights. I also keep my virus scanner up to date. If you're going to run one that's 3 months (or older), then don't even bother!
Okay, so maybe we're not a global power, but we do have some better weapons that swords and arrows!
Better yet, get a friend who works at a theatre. Mine manages a small independant theatre, but still has a standing free pass to all theatres! All I have to do is buy popcorn and drinks (which still costs an arm and a leg!).
It doesn't matter what your OS of choice is. There are companies out there who offer Linux support at a commerical, mission critical level. If I were in charge of finding support for this, I wouldn't be asking for resume's, I'd be asking for bids. 24/7 support, senior people with at least five years hard linux experience, not just installing a copy and setting up a web server.