The nation's largest intelligence agency by budget and in control of all U.S. spy satellites, NRO is talking openly with the U.S. Air Force Space Command about actively denying the use of space for intelligence purposes to any other nation at any time--not just adversaries, but even longtime allies, according to NRO director Peter Teets.
At the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs in early April, Teets proposed that U.S. resources from military, civilian and commercial satellites be combined to provide "persistence in total situational awareness, for the benefit of this nation's war fighters." If allies don't like the new paradigm of space dominance, said Air Force secretary James Roche, they'll just have to learn to accept it. The allies, he told the symposium, will have "no veto power."
The tunneling medium is an agar-based gel. Numerous tests were performed with other types of media such as sand, soil, and vermiculite. With all of these media the tunnels risk collapse due to the vibration of landing, and tend to be prone to fungal infection if an ant dies within the habitat, or from food molding. The gel was chosen since it is firm enough to maintain integrity during launch/landing and provides fungus suppression through inhibitors in the gel. The colored gel will also make it easier to see the ants in the video.
The ants tunnel through the gel just as they tunnel through sand. Workers bite off pieces and carry them out of the tunnel. A starter tunnel is provided to help the ants to commence tunneling once inserted into the habitat. The agar gel contains sucrose to stimulate the ants to eat it. Amino acids, vitamins and minerals are added to the gel to provide an appropriate diet for the ants. As the gel largely consists of water, the ants also receive all their water as they eat.
The gel provides disease control by suppressing fungal and mold growth -- the primary cause of death in captive colonies. As the animals tunnel through the medium and eat it, the mold inhibitor contained in the gel is released and eradicates mold and fungal spores. This also helps prevent infection in healthy ants from the decomposition of ants that have died in the habitat.
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it wille expire in April. If I don't have any control of it by then, I'll renew it with someone else that will give me some control over it
If you're thinking about moving your domain somewhere else, I would recommend you start NOW. If you wait until a few weeks before the name expires, Network Solutions will screw you around untill it expires and you'll have to re-renew with Network Solutions before you can transfer it (true story).
Regarding the AC unit... DON'T TURN IT OFF. If you turn it off, the house heats up (or cools down in winter), and it takes that much more energy to bring the air, and EVERYTHING ELSE in the house, including the walls, back down to the proper temperature.
I'm pretty sure that is wrong. I'm lazy and only found one source here. It says:
"It is a myth that it is cheaper to keep a
house cool all the time than to cool a
house that has had the air conditioner
turned off or set to a warmer setting for
part of the day. It actually takes less
energy to run an air conditioner hard for
a short time than to run it over a long
period of time."
If your webmaster doesn't regularly look at your own site and knows those links are broken, then you need a new webmaster.
Yea, maybe on your "I Love My Cat" web site.
A couple of my web sites have ~50,000 pages each. They are database driven and pages are added and deleted each week when the database is updated. Without the Referer: header, I'm unable to notify a site that a page that was there a month ago no longer exists
Throwing this out as an 'Ask Slashdot' topic makes it a hard-data example that entities pushing proprietary software, i.e. Microsoft, can point to when making the case that 'you won't have anybody to call' with Free Software.
Hmmm, as far as I know Microsoft doesn't support Win95 any more. Isn't that just the way of all old software, free or non-free?
I've seen some pretty cool stuff on Dovebid.com. They have real life auctions AND you can bid on stuff on line while the auction is going on. I thought it was pretty neat...
Patent 5981866(StampPE)
PROCESS FOR STAMPABLE PHOTOELECTRIC GENERATOR
Abstract
Manufacture of a photoelectric converter by a photolithographic or stamping process prior to coating with a photoelectrically emissive material is described. This gives an economic and simple means of mass-producing photoelectric converter cells, and in one aspect is analogous to that used for pressing optical discs.
This page is kind of interesting too, especially plans for this I/O Interface 64bit via RS232 that provides 32 inputs and 32 outputs. It uses a PIC16F84 and is interfaced to a PC through a serial port.
I have two Cirque touchpads too. They're so much nicer than a mouse and work great. The one I use all the time (here) is $70.00, but worth the price. Check it out...
I'm from MO and didn't know this law covered email as well as telemarketers. Cool! Here's a copy of Missouri's anti-spam law: http://www.spamlaws.com/state/mo.html
ZeoSynch's Technical Process:
The Pigeonhole Principle and Data Encoding
Dr. Claude Shannon's dissertation on Information Theory in 1948 and his following work on run-length encoding confidently established the understanding that compression technologies are "all" predisposed to limitation. With this foundation behind us we can conclude that the effort to accelerate the transmission of information past the permutation load capacity of the binary system, and past the naturally occurring singular-bit-variances of nature can not be accomplished through compression. Rather, this problem can only be successfully resolved through the solution of what is commonly understood within the mathematical community as the "Pigeonhole Principle."
Given a number of pigeons within a sealed room that has a single hole, and which allows only one pigeon at a time to escape the room, how many unique markers are required to individually mark all of the pigeons as each escapes, one pigeon at a time?
After some time a person will reasonably conclude that:
"One unique marker is required for each pigeon that flies through the hole, if there are one hundred pigeons in the group then the answer is one hundred markers".
In our three dimensional world we can visualize an example. If we were to take a three-dimensional cube and collapse it into a two-dimensional edge, and then again reduce it into a one-dimensional point, and believe that we are going to successfully recover either the square or cube from the single edge, we would be sorely mistaken.
This three-dimensional world limitation can however be resolved in higher dimensional space. In higher, multi-dimensional projective theory, it is possible to create string nodes that describe significant components of simultaneously identically yet different mathematical entities. Within this space it is possible and is not a theoretical impossibility to create a point that is simultaneously a square and also a cube. In our example all three substantially exist as unique entities yet are linked together. This simultaneous yet differentiated occurrence is the foundation of ZeoSync's Relational Differentiation Encoding(TM) (RDE(TM)) technology. This proprietary methodology is capable of intentionally introducing a multi-dimensional patterning so that the nodes of a target binary string simultaneously and/or substantially occupy the space of a Low Kolmogorov Complexity construct. The difference between these occurrences is so small that we will have for all intents and purposes successfully encoded lossley universal compression. The limitation to this Pigeonhole Principle circumvention is that the multi-dimensional space can never be super saturated, and that all of the pigeons can not be simultaneously present at which point our multi-dimensional circumvention of the pigeonhole problem breaks down.
I love costing spammers real money just got to
http://goto.com and do a search for "bulk email" each link you click will cost the scumbags that sell spam software or spamming services several dollars each
Slashdot Mirror
The magic number in the cache links look like they're optional also.
If you're thinking about moving your domain somewhere else, I would recommend you start NOW. If you wait until a few weeks before the name expires, Network Solutions will screw you around untill it expires and you'll have to re-renew with Network Solutions before you can transfer it (true story).
I'm pretty sure that is wrong. I'm lazy and only found one source here. It says:
A couple of my web sites have ~50,000 pages each. They are database driven and pages are added and deleted each week when the database is updated. Without the Referer: header, I'm unable to notify a site that a page that was there a month ago no longer exists
I don't think they're that expensive. Prices from one of my web site's Shanghai hotel page:(for October 15, 2002)
- Marriott Shanghai Hongqiao - $165 / night
- Crowne Plaza Hotel Shanghai - $105 / night
- Holiday Inn Downtown - $62 / night
It is still kind of expensive for a night of web surfing thoughHmmm, as far as I know Microsoft doesn't support Win95 any more. Isn't that just the way of all old software, free or non-free?
Q. What is bandwidth you are providing for your users?
A. Film88 is providing 50Mbps to 100Mbps to users depending on the demand.
Here is Missouri's no call list sign up web site.
I've seen some pretty cool stuff on Dovebid.com. They have real life auctions AND you can bid on stuff on line while the auction is going on. I thought it was pretty neat...
The answer to all of Toshiba's problems?
From http://www.borealis.com/technology/patents.shtml:
Patent 5981866(StampPE)
PROCESS FOR STAMPABLE PHOTOELECTRIC GENERATOR
Abstract
Manufacture of a photoelectric converter by a photolithographic or stamping process prior to coating with a photoelectrically emissive material is described. This gives an economic and simple means of mass-producing photoelectric converter cells, and in one aspect is analogous to that used for pressing optical discs.
This page is kind of interesting too, especially plans for this I/O Interface 64bit via RS232 that provides 32 inputs and 32 outputs. It uses a PIC16F84 and is interfaced to a PC through a serial port.
I found this on Google using the search term "computer serial port remote data plans"
AnandTech had a good sub $200 video card review that includes the GeForce4 Ti 4200 (it also covers ATI's 128MB Radeon 8500LE).
I have two Cirque touchpads too. They're so much nicer than a mouse and work great. The one I use all the time (here) is $70.00, but worth the price. Check it out...
Another ~$120 SSL certificate vendor is here.
You can usually make the top 10 spammers on this list pay between $1 and $10 by clicking their link.
Like this?
I'm from MO and didn't know this law covered email as well as telemarketers. Cool! Here's a copy of Missouri's anti-spam law: http://www.spamlaws.com/state/mo.html
There's a video on this page, and here's the story.
Given a number of pigeons within a sealed room that has a single hole, and which allows only one pigeon at a time to escape the room, how many unique markers are required to individually mark all of the pigeons as each escapes, one pigeon at a time?
After some time a person will reasonably conclude that:
"One unique marker is required for each pigeon that flies through the hole, if there are one hundred pigeons in the group then the answer is one hundred markers". In our three dimensional world we can visualize an example. If we were to take a three-dimensional cube and collapse it into a two-dimensional edge, and then again reduce it into a one-dimensional point, and believe that we are going to successfully recover either the square or cube from the single edge, we would be sorely mistaken.
This three-dimensional world limitation can however be resolved in higher dimensional space. In higher, multi-dimensional projective theory, it is possible to create string nodes that describe significant components of simultaneously identically yet different mathematical entities. Within this space it is possible and is not a theoretical impossibility to create a point that is simultaneously a square and also a cube. In our example all three substantially exist as unique entities yet are linked together. This simultaneous yet differentiated occurrence is the foundation of ZeoSync's Relational Differentiation Encoding(TM) (RDE(TM)) technology. This proprietary methodology is capable of intentionally introducing a multi-dimensional patterning so that the nodes of a target binary string simultaneously and/or substantially occupy the space of a Low Kolmogorov Complexity construct. The difference between these occurrences is so small that we will have for all intents and purposes successfully encoded lossley universal compression. The limitation to this Pigeonhole Principle circumvention is that the multi-dimensional space can never be super saturated, and that all of the pigeons can not be simultaneously present at which point our multi-dimensional circumvention of the pigeonhole problem breaks down.
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Here's the link for you lazy people.
The top few listings are more than $8 each.