It is? As far as I know we barely have 60 years of factual concrete weather data. From that you people wish to extrapolate the entire warming and cooling of the planet over 4 billion years and then yell and scream when the temperature goes up 2 degrees.
We actually have hundreds of thousands of years of data on global warming/cooling trends. See information on the Vostok ice cores and how they are able to correlate O-18 to O-16 ratios to come up with average temperatures.
Using this data, they can compare it to average quantities of how much carbon dioxode, methane or other potential greenhouse gases were in the air at the time based on other ice/sediment/rock/ocean cores from around the world. (Diatom fossils provide an excellent resource for tracking changes of O18/O16 ratios over time due to taking up these isotopes that are present in the water as they build their shells)
You're probably familiar with the data from Mauna Loa that shows a short term trend of rising temperates that correlates to increased CO2 output. We have this data going back to around the 1950's, and I assume this is where you might be saying we only have factual whether data for the last 60 years.
Anyway, you can combine the short term (Mauna Loa) data with long term (Vostok Ice Cores) data and see that there IS an overall warming trend over the last 400,000 years, regardless of ice ages.
Besides, we just got out of the Pleistocene roughly 10,000 years ago (and the last ice age began to end roughly 18,000 years ago or so).
What happens when an ice age ends? The planet warms. Since an ice age ended fairly recently (in geologic time), it's reasonable to assume that we're still experiencing effects from that.
Fact: Global warming IS happening. Whether you want to call it part of the planet's natural warming/cooling cycles, or a result of humans, the whole planet is still warming.
The debate is (or SHOULD BE) on how much/if any we're affecting the process.
We know CO2 and CH4 are huge greenhouse gases and we're putting A LOT of it into the atmosphere. So we should be affecting something. No one knows how much though.
Note: The IPCC seems dead set that the warming is due to greenhouse gas emissions. We simply don't have enough data to know yet.
However, cleaning up our act and polluting less is still a GOOD THING for everyone involved.
Yup, we used them in our physics classes as well (SFSU). We also have to "rent" them for the semester and it costs us $15, that we never get back.
These things take up valuable class time trying to get them to work in the first place, only work via line of sight... which you think wouldn't be a problem in a smallish classroom (if they are even working at all) and just are a huge distraction.
There are still third party solutions modeled after Apple's hockeypuck that fix exactly what you complain about. Though this doesn't have side scrolling capability.
I can't remember the source, but when the shuttle was designed, I believe it was stated that every mission there was a 1 in 52 chance of critical failure. The shuttle has actually shown itself to be much more reliable than that, in fact. I don't see what the panic is, it isn't like the astronauts don't assume some risk when they take the assignments. Let's face it, hurling a chunk of metal into space going in excess of 12,500 MPH isn't ever going to be 100% safe.
You have it backwards. The shuttle was INITITIALLY thought to be extraordinarily safe. Before the Challenger explosion, the odds were put at 1 in 100,000 of a critical failure happening. Then the Challenger accident occured. They raised it to something like 1 in 52 chance. As more shuttles launched, they lowered the estimate again to around 1 in 200. Columbia happened.
The latest estimates put the risk of failure at 1 and 100. However, the ACTUAL statistic, based on successful missions vs disasters is 1 in 57. So the bottom line is that the Shuttle has shown to be quite a bit less reliable than we originally thought.
Depending on what type of laptop you have (if it's an Apple) you can scroll with the trackpad using two fingers. It's a nice feature. All 2005 PowerBooks ship with this feature as well.
I've seen this comment posted before on Slashdot that I find amusing (though I'm not sure if there is a person this has previously been attributed to):
Someone with a PhD is a person who knows more and more and less and less, until eventually they know everything there is to know about absolutely nothing.
Not only will "power users" be the last to use Windows because they want all their hardware supported, but they are also usually specially "windows power users" they have invested a lot in learning how Windows and whatever apps they use do things, but they do not actually understand how they work so their "knowledge" is not transferable.
That is complete and utter bullshit. I'm not sure how you're able to make the claim that Windows power users only know how to do things, but don't know how it actually works. Part of the process in figuring out how to configure your computer for whatever reason, is understanding how it works.
Sure, for some hardcore gamers and such, you can read a guide on some cheesy gaming website that tells you how to opitimize for Battlefield 2 by increasing virtual memory or something. But it's part of a learning process nonetheless.
Then again, you could be saying that because a "GUI dumbs things down." I'm sorry, but I'd be willing to wager that the majority of mainstream users don't want to spend there time using various shells and hacking at text files all day.
This is actually the group who the article call "regular users", real regular users are quite happy with Linux desktops - copy their files over, export their bookmarks and import into Firefox and that's it. This has worked fine for my father, my wife and some guys who worked for me (one is now planning to install Linux at home).
That said, I'm willing to agree with you. A default Linux package ships with everything the average user needs and usually it just works.
In my experience however (and ask 10 slashdotter's about their linux experiences and you'll have 12 different opinions), once you start installing more packages and such, it starts getting harder to maintain and keep track of. This can make it quite difficult for novice users. Especially using RPMS and the so-called "dependancy hell" that can result from it.
I also do not understand what he is talking about when it comes to installing applications. There are only three pieces of software I have installed which required anything more complicated than downloading the RPM, clicking in it to start the installer, and then typing the root password and clicking OK a few times. These were: Erlang, Firefox and Thunderbird.
I have to say, by far the easiest operating system I've ever installed anything on is OS X. Just open the disc image and basically drag the file onto your desktop or wherever and boom! It (usually) works! After that, I feel that Windows is the next easiest (that might have to do with the fact that Windows programs are so ubiquitous and therefore easy to find... and you usually have all the DLLs and such from previous installs that actually shipped with them. Then again, this leads to "DLL-Hell"...) followed by Linux as being the most difficult to install things on, on average.
Talk to me when you do this in Phoenix Arizona in the middle of summer.
When the nightly LOWS don't go below 90. When the daily HIGHS don't go below 110 or 115.
Then bike or walk even the mile or two to the grocery store, and see how you feel. I'll visit you in the hospital where you'll be taken when you keel over from heatstroke. Oh wait, you'll be placing a burden on health care. Whoops.
As someone who has spent a lot of time living in the desert and doing various field work there, I feel fairly confident in saying 115 degrees isn't that bad.;) Granted, that it only if you have plenty of water (thank goodness for CamelBacks) and a nice wide brimmed hat.
That said, the real problem isn't so much the temperatures involved. It's the distances. Phoenix, as well as many other urban areas throughout the Southwest (ie, Los Angeles) are just massive sprawling areas of concrete. The public transportation systems are not that suitable in getting you to where you want to go. And even if they DO go somewhere you want, it isn't in a very timely matter.
So "driving less" in these areas is not a practical solution to these problems. It'd be easier to just buy a more fuel efficient vehicle.
I second that. I bought a second gen iPod as soon as they were released (they finally had Windows support then). I personally thought they were pretty cool looking and functional. Also, quite compact.
The previous MP3 players I've tried (the old Creative Nomad anyone?) were garbage compared to this thing. Apple simply got it right.
I have been thinking about purchasing a new mp3 player (for reasons involving lack of space and battery issues... I know, there are places to fix your battery.) and was thinking about something like iRiver makes. Unfortunately, they are ugly as sin and the navigation isn't as easy compared to the iPod.
That said, when this thing officially dies, I will probably get another iPod. They just work. (Though I do wish for gapless playback and crossfading, but that isn't that big of a deal for me).
Everyone reading this site while blocking ads is able to do so only because of people like me who do view them (and subscribers). And I free-ride at the expense of people who are willing to view pop-ups.
If I recall how all this web advertising works (correct me if I'm wrong), many of these companies pay based on click throughs.
If you're simply viewing the ads and not clicking through, you're technically "as evil" as someone who uses ad-block since the website still isn't receiving money because of you.
It's also personal preference for me. I've intentionally clicked on perhaps one advertisement on the internet in my whole lifie. Even then, I didn't buy anything as a result of it. So whether I use ad-block or not, these companies are still not receiving a dime from me. (Actually, I've clicked through quite a few text ads at K5. Those are fairly unobtrusive)
Also, Ad-Block still technically loads up the advertisements and then hides them. Thus, impressions are still being created showing that these advertisements are shown (since there are some companies out there that pay based on impressions I believe?). Again, I wouldn't have clicked on the ad if it was there anyway.
It's just an issue of convienence with me. Like television, I find commercials obnoxious, so they are either muted, I walk away or find something else to do in the meantime (which can sometimes result in me forgetting what I was watching as I do something else completely).
I guess when it comes down to it, I'm just a greedy, selfish user. But you know what, I have no problem admitting that. If/When the "free internet" does die (whatever), then I'll adapt and find something else to do I suppose.
Or is that not enough? I know they're not overly professional, but it's still not bad for something free to the public available through an internet browser.
While those are some great and informative links, they are useless for actual geologic applications. The grandparent poster isn't talking about the pretty aerial photograph (orthoimagery) you see available in programs such as World Wind and the National Map Viewer. Those simply have high resolution aerial photography for a small number of urban areas in the United States.
The grandparent post is specifically talking about extraordinarily high resolution aerial photography sets that can be put together to exam under a stereoscope, which basically allows you to exam a high resolution photograph in 3D, giving the picture depth/relief.
This is useful in various studies, such as mapping past/potential landslide areas, mapping active/inactive fault traces, and determining relative elevations of various topographic features to see if they are related (just a topographic map will not help for this, since you want to see if rock type, erosional properties, vegetation, etc are the same between multiple features if you want to correlate them). There's a multitude of reasons for this information. It serves a great purpose when time/financial constraints make it inconvienent to go out into the field, or even doing preliminary work BEFORE you go out into the field, so you know what the area is like.
These aren't available online or for free, and the USGS has extensive high resolution aerial photography for most of the United States. But you have to order it, which can be quite expensive (especially if you are a student/academic doing a research project) and the fact that your taxpayer money has already payed for this to put it into the public domain.
So california voters decide to spend 300 Million a year for 10 years on a science project.
Yes. Considering the the federal government doesn't even fund certain types of stem cell research that have the potential to be extraordinarily useful, California is doing an awesome thing by providing a place (and motivation) to carry out this research.
I don't even want to know how much a new 17,000 ft office building is going to cost in San Fransisco - but that can't be cheap (assuming you can build it after the environmental impact).
Basically "nothing." They are getting space in a new office building that was already being built (and it's already cleared the environmental impact reports, etc.). It's part of the whole Mission Bay redevelopment plan. San Francisco is just giving up some space in the building to potential future tenants.
All this and no real science being done yet.
You have to start somewhere. Californians obviously supported it and knew exactly what we were getting into. The ballot clearly stated "$3 billion dollars over the next 10 years," and despite our budget crisis, we still overwhelmingly voted in support of it.
Granted, while the "competition" to land the stem cell HQ was fairly ridiculous (as well as the free perks they are giving away... worth $17 million dollars total), the proposition passed by voters is an awesome thing and has the potential to spurn quite a lot of research that can lead to useful cures for certain diseases.
The USAF and NACA (now NASA) merged hypersonic aircraft studies into one research program.
So the blatant separation you pruport arent really all that clear, are they?
What on Earth? They merged a research program to work together! How the hell does that imply that two separate agencies suddenly became one agency?
NASA works with other agencies all the time. In this project, they are working with the NOAA and the USGS. That doesn't mean that the USGS is our space agency.
So I've been creating a list of all the major cases I've heard about in 2005. Nearly 1.3 million people have been affected so far this year. Of course now Slashdot won't let me post the information because I have "too few characters per line."
I originally posted an expanded version of this list on my blog to start keeping track of everything.
Date: 03-26-2005 Name of Organization: Northwestern University How: "Security Breach" - Hackers People Affected: 21,000 Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/ chi-050 3260274mar26,1,5138021.story?coll=chi-technology-h ed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Anyway, this is definitely getting ridiculous and out of hand. And it seems we're pretty much helpless to control it as well. When are a lot of these companies going to stop requiring valuable information like social security numbers and such?
Sent the following email to support@grants.gov, as well as my local representative. We'll see what happens:
Hello,
I'm writing to protest that the website Grants.Gov requires Microsoft Windows to apply for a federal grant, effectively placing a sort of "Microsoft Tax" on all grant applications.
Interestingly enough, there is link on the website entitled, "PureEdge Support for Macintosh" which opens up the following PDF: http://grants.gov/GrantsGov_UST_Grantee/!SSL!/WebH elp/MacSupportforPureEdge.pdf
This PDF states that you can use VirtualPC on your Macintosh to apply for a grant.
VirtualPC is also a Microsoft Program, which requires you to buy VirtualPC ($129 base price) in addition to Microsoft Windows! It's downright ridiculous, especially since Apple users are basically being charged twice to apply for a grant.
Yeah, the San Francisco Muni is only computerized while the trains are in the tunnels (and not while the trains are on the surface streets).
That said, even in the tunnels, each train still has a conductor/driver to take over in case something happens (such as someone throwing themselves in front of the train). The only thing the conductors do in the tunnel is close the doors (even the opening is controlled by computers).
Slashdot Mirror
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?id=176&vid=797
It is? As far as I know we barely have 60 years of factual concrete weather data. From that you people wish to extrapolate the entire warming and cooling of the planet over 4 billion years and then yell and scream when the temperature goes up 2 degrees.
We actually have hundreds of thousands of years of data on global warming/cooling trends. See information on the Vostok ice cores and how they are able to correlate O-18 to O-16 ratios to come up with average temperatures.
Using this data, they can compare it to average quantities of how much carbon dioxode, methane or other potential greenhouse gases were in the air at the time based on other ice/sediment/rock/ocean cores from around the world. (Diatom fossils provide an excellent resource for tracking changes of O18/O16 ratios over time due to taking up these isotopes that are present in the water as they build their shells)
You're probably familiar with the data from Mauna Loa that shows a short term trend of rising temperates that correlates to increased CO2 output. We have this data going back to around the 1950's, and I assume this is where you might be saying we only have factual whether data for the last 60 years.
Anyway, you can combine the short term (Mauna Loa) data with long term (Vostok Ice Cores) data and see that there IS an overall warming trend over the last 400,000 years, regardless of ice ages.
Besides, we just got out of the Pleistocene roughly 10,000 years ago (and the last ice age began to end roughly 18,000 years ago or so).
What happens when an ice age ends? The planet warms. Since an ice age ended fairly recently (in geologic time), it's reasonable to assume that we're still experiencing effects from that.
Fact: Global warming IS happening. Whether you want to call it part of the planet's natural warming/cooling cycles, or a result of humans, the whole planet is still warming.
The debate is (or SHOULD BE) on how much/if any we're affecting the process.
We know CO2 and CH4 are huge greenhouse gases and we're putting A LOT of it into the atmosphere. So we should be affecting something. No one knows how much though.
Note: The IPCC seems dead set that the warming is due to greenhouse gas emissions. We simply don't have enough data to know yet.
However, cleaning up our act and polluting less is still a GOOD THING for everyone involved.
2005-08-19 21:37:02 Quake 3 Source Finally Released (Games,Quake) (rejected)
Reject submissions, only to post them later...
Yes... but to make up for it, they will post the article twice!
Yup, we used them in our physics classes as well (SFSU). We also have to "rent" them for the semester and it costs us $15, that we never get back.
These things take up valuable class time trying to get them to work in the first place, only work via line of sight... which you think wouldn't be a problem in a smallish classroom (if they are even working at all) and just are a huge distraction.
In short, they suck balls.
There are still third party solutions modeled after Apple's hockeypuck that fix exactly what you complain about. Though this doesn't have side scrolling capability.
However, this one comes in bluetooth form as well.
Sure it does.
I can't remember the source, but when the shuttle was designed, I believe it was stated that every mission there was a 1 in 52 chance of critical failure. The shuttle has actually shown itself to be much more reliable than that, in fact. I don't see what the panic is, it isn't like the astronauts don't assume some risk when they take the assignments. Let's face it, hurling a chunk of metal into space going in excess of 12,500 MPH isn't ever going to be 100% safe.
You have it backwards. The shuttle was INITITIALLY thought to be extraordinarily safe. Before the Challenger explosion, the odds were put at 1 in 100,000 of a critical failure happening. Then the Challenger accident occured. They raised it to something like 1 in 52 chance. As more shuttles launched, they lowered the estimate again to around 1 in 200. Columbia happened.
The latest estimates put the risk of failure at 1 and 100. However, the ACTUAL statistic, based on successful missions vs disasters is 1 in 57. So the bottom line is that the Shuttle has shown to be quite a bit less reliable than we originally thought.
What's incredible is that Doom 3 is the first graphics engine to bring a computer to its knees by simply rendering darkness. It's amazing!
Depending on what type of laptop you have (if it's an Apple) you can scroll with the trackpad using two fingers. It's a nice feature. All 2005 PowerBooks ship with this feature as well.
I've seen this comment posted before on Slashdot that I find amusing (though I'm not sure if there is a person this has previously been attributed to):
:)
Someone with a PhD is a person who knows more and more and less and less, until eventually they know everything there is to know about absolutely nothing.
That said, I plan to get my PhD one day.
Not only will "power users" be the last to use Windows because they want all their hardware supported, but they are also usually specially "windows power users" they have invested a lot in learning how Windows and whatever apps they use do things, but they do not actually understand how they work so their "knowledge" is not transferable.
That is complete and utter bullshit. I'm not sure how you're able to make the claim that Windows power users only know how to do things, but don't know how it actually works. Part of the process in figuring out how to configure your computer for whatever reason, is understanding how it works.
Sure, for some hardcore gamers and such, you can read a guide on some cheesy gaming website that tells you how to opitimize for Battlefield 2 by increasing virtual memory or something. But it's part of a learning process nonetheless.
Then again, you could be saying that because a "GUI dumbs things down." I'm sorry, but I'd be willing to wager that the majority of mainstream users don't want to spend there time using various shells and hacking at text files all day.
This is actually the group who the article call "regular users", real regular users are quite happy with Linux desktops - copy their files over, export their bookmarks and import into Firefox and that's it. This has worked fine for my father, my wife and some guys who worked for me (one is now planning to install Linux at home).
That said, I'm willing to agree with you. A default Linux package ships with everything the average user needs and usually it just works.
In my experience however (and ask 10 slashdotter's about their linux experiences and you'll have 12 different opinions), once you start installing more packages and such, it starts getting harder to maintain and keep track of. This can make it quite difficult for novice users. Especially using RPMS and the so-called "dependancy hell" that can result from it.
I also do not understand what he is talking about when it comes to installing applications. There are only three pieces of software I have installed which required anything more complicated than downloading the RPM, clicking in it to start the installer, and then typing the root password and clicking OK a few times. These were: Erlang, Firefox and Thunderbird.
I have to say, by far the easiest operating system I've ever installed anything on is OS X. Just open the disc image and basically drag the file onto your desktop or wherever and boom! It (usually) works! After that, I feel that Windows is the next easiest (that might have to do with the fact that Windows programs are so ubiquitous and therefore easy to find... and you usually have all the DLLs and such from previous installs that actually shipped with them. Then again, this leads to "DLL-Hell"...) followed by Linux as being the most difficult to install things on, on average.
Talk to me when you do this in Phoenix Arizona in the middle of summer.
;) Granted, that it only if you have plenty of water (thank goodness for CamelBacks) and a nice wide brimmed hat.
When the nightly LOWS don't go below 90.
When the daily HIGHS don't go below 110 or 115.
Then bike or walk even the mile or two to the grocery store, and see how you feel. I'll visit you in the hospital where you'll be taken when you keel over from heatstroke. Oh wait, you'll be placing a burden on health care. Whoops.
As someone who has spent a lot of time living in the desert and doing various field work there, I feel fairly confident in saying 115 degrees isn't that bad.
That said, the real problem isn't so much the temperatures involved. It's the distances. Phoenix, as well as many other urban areas throughout the Southwest (ie, Los Angeles) are just massive sprawling areas of concrete. The public transportation systems are not that suitable in getting you to where you want to go. And even if they DO go somewhere you want, it isn't in a very timely matter.
So "driving less" in these areas is not a practical solution to these problems. It'd be easier to just buy a more fuel efficient vehicle.
I second that. I bought a second gen iPod as soon as they were released (they finally had Windows support then). I personally thought they were pretty cool looking and functional. Also, quite compact.
The previous MP3 players I've tried (the old Creative Nomad anyone?) were garbage compared to this thing. Apple simply got it right.
I have been thinking about purchasing a new mp3 player (for reasons involving lack of space and battery issues... I know, there are places to fix your battery.) and was thinking about something like iRiver makes. Unfortunately, they are ugly as sin and the navigation isn't as easy compared to the iPod.
That said, when this thing officially dies, I will probably get another iPod. They just work. (Though I do wish for gapless playback and crossfading, but that isn't that big of a deal for me).
Everyone reading this site while blocking ads is able to do so only because of people like me who do view them (and subscribers). And I free-ride at the expense of people who are willing to view pop-ups.
If I recall how all this web advertising works (correct me if I'm wrong), many of these companies pay based on click throughs.
If you're simply viewing the ads and not clicking through, you're technically "as evil" as someone who uses ad-block since the website still isn't receiving money because of you.
It's also personal preference for me. I've intentionally clicked on perhaps one advertisement on the internet in my whole lifie. Even then, I didn't buy anything as a result of it. So whether I use ad-block or not, these companies are still not receiving a dime from me. (Actually, I've clicked through quite a few text ads at K5. Those are fairly unobtrusive)
Also, Ad-Block still technically loads up the advertisements and then hides them. Thus, impressions are still being created showing that these advertisements are shown (since there are some companies out there that pay based on impressions I believe?). Again, I wouldn't have clicked on the ad if it was there anyway.
It's just an issue of convienence with me. Like television, I find commercials obnoxious, so they are either muted, I walk away or find something else to do in the meantime (which can sometimes result in me forgetting what I was watching as I do something else completely).
I guess when it comes down to it, I'm just a greedy, selfish user. But you know what, I have no problem admitting that. If/When the "free internet" does die (whatever), then I'll adapt and find something else to do I suppose.
You mean like this:
http://nmviewogc.cr.usgs.gov/viewer.htm
or maybe this:
http://nationalatlas.gov/
Or is that not enough?
I know they're not overly professional, but it's still not bad for something free to the public available through an internet browser.
While those are some great and informative links, they are useless for actual geologic applications. The grandparent poster isn't talking about the pretty aerial photograph (orthoimagery) you see available in programs such as World Wind and the National Map Viewer. Those simply have high resolution aerial photography for a small number of urban areas in the United States.
The grandparent post is specifically talking about extraordinarily high resolution aerial photography sets that can be put together to exam under a stereoscope, which basically allows you to exam a high resolution photograph in 3D, giving the picture depth/relief.
This is useful in various studies, such as mapping past/potential landslide areas, mapping active/inactive fault traces, and determining relative elevations of various topographic features to see if they are related (just a topographic map will not help for this, since you want to see if rock type, erosional properties, vegetation, etc are the same between multiple features if you want to correlate them). There's a multitude of reasons for this information. It serves a great purpose when time/financial constraints make it inconvienent to go out into the field, or even doing preliminary work BEFORE you go out into the field, so you know what the area is like.
These aren't available online or for free, and the USGS has extensive high resolution aerial photography for most of the United States. But you have to order it, which can be quite expensive (especially if you are a student/academic doing a research project) and the fact that your taxpayer money has already payed for this to put it into the public domain.
Whoops, that came across as rather terse. My apologies!
;)
Anyway, my initial point was that movie has/will make one hell of a lot of money, whether Bit Torrent exists or not.
I guess what this ultimately shows is that Bit Torrent only effects sales of sucky/unpopular movies. Hollywood should look into this phenomenon.
Give me a break. That movie has made $158 million dollars since it opened. BitTorrent had no effect on it.
Just remember to put your new 'Real ID' into the nearest microwave after you receive it. That should take care of this RFID bullshit. ;)
So california voters decide to spend 300 Million a year for 10 years on a science project.
Yes. Considering the the federal government doesn't even fund certain types of stem cell research that have the potential to be extraordinarily useful, California is doing an awesome thing by providing a place (and motivation) to carry out this research.
I don't even want to know how much a new 17,000 ft office building is going to cost in San Fransisco - but that can't be cheap (assuming you can build it after the environmental impact).
Basically "nothing." They are getting space in a new office building that was already being built (and it's already cleared the environmental impact reports, etc.). It's part of the whole Mission Bay redevelopment plan. San Francisco is just giving up some space in the building to potential future tenants.
All this and no real science being done yet.
You have to start somewhere. Californians obviously supported it and knew exactly what we were getting into. The ballot clearly stated "$3 billion dollars over the next 10 years," and despite our budget crisis, we still overwhelmingly voted in support of it.
Granted, while the "competition" to land the stem cell HQ was fairly ridiculous (as well as the free perks they are giving away... worth $17 million dollars total), the proposition passed by voters is an awesome thing and has the potential to spurn quite a lot of research that can lead to useful cures for certain diseases.
From your own link
http://www.aerospaceguide.net/dynasoar.html/
The USAF and NACA (now NASA) merged hypersonic aircraft studies into one research program.
So the blatant separation you pruport arent really all that clear, are they?
What on Earth? They merged a research program to work together! How the hell does that imply that two separate agencies suddenly became one agency?
NASA works with other agencies all the time. In this project, they are working with the NOAA and the USGS. That doesn't mean that the USGS is our space agency.
Obviously, this is related to GGG-Gmail?
So I've been creating a list of all the major cases I've heard about in 2005. Nearly 1.3 million people have been affected so far this year. Of course now Slashdot won't let me post the information because I have "too few characters per line."
r ade/
/ a/2005/04/14/financial/f064639D31.DTL
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h ed&ctrack=1&cset=true
I originally posted an expanded version of this list on my blog to start keeping track of everything.
Here is basically what it looks like:
Date: 04-18-2005
Name of Organization: Ameritrade
How: Lost backup tape with shipping agency
People Affected: 200,000
Link: http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/19/technology/amerit
Date: 04-14-2005
Name of Organization: Polo Raplh Lauren - Mastercards
How: "Security Breach" - Hackers
People Affected: 180,000
Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n
Date: 04-08-2005
Name of Organization: San Jose Medical Group
How: Stolen Laptop
People Affected: 185,000
Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news
Date: 03-29-2005
Name of Organization: UC Berkeley
How: Stolen Laptop
People Affected: 98,000
Link: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2
Date: 03-26-2005
Name of Organization: Northwestern University
How: "Security Breach" - Hackers
People Affected: 21,000
Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/
chi-050 3260274mar26,1,5138021.story?coll=chi-technology-
Anyway, this is definitely getting ridiculous and out of hand. And it seems we're pretty much helpless to control it as well. When are a lot of these companies going to stop requiring valuable information like social security numbers and such?
Sent the following email to support@grants.gov, as well as my local representative. We'll see what happens:
H elp/MacSupportforPureEdge.pdf
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Hello,
I'm writing to protest that the website Grants.Gov requires Microsoft Windows to apply for a federal grant, effectively placing a sort of "Microsoft Tax" on all grant applications.
Interestingly enough, there is link on the website entitled, "PureEdge Support for Macintosh" which opens up the following PDF: http://grants.gov/GrantsGov_UST_Grantee/!SSL!/Web
This PDF states that you can use VirtualPC on your Macintosh to apply for a grant.
VirtualPC is also a Microsoft Program, which requires you to buy VirtualPC ($129 base price) in addition to Microsoft Windows! It's downright ridiculous, especially since Apple users are basically being charged twice to apply for a grant.
VirtualPC Link: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virtualpc/v
I hope something can be done about this situation. Thank you.
Yeah, the San Francisco Muni is only computerized while the trains are in the tunnels (and not while the trains are on the surface streets).
That said, even in the tunnels, each train still has a conductor/driver to take over in case something happens (such as someone throwing themselves in front of the train). The only thing the conductors do in the tunnel is close the doors (even the opening is controlled by computers).
And I wonder what will happen if say the next couple Madden's turn out to be surprisingly good?...I wonder if people will eat their words, or not...
Probably not. You don't need an exclusive license in order to make something "surprisingly good."