Now here's the tricky part. Take a third polarizing filter and place it in between the two previous ones. Rotate it around. WOW! At some intervals you can now see through all three! With two if you rotate the second you get total blockage when the filter is at 90 and 270 degrees from the first. You get more blockage points around the 360 degrees with the in-between third one (Extra ponts: how many?)! Strange. Add another. You get even more blockage points. (How many now?) Very strange indeed. Does the experiment account for this, the real behavior of polarizing filters and not the simplistic one in the article?
The simple NoMath(TM) answer is that passing through a polarising filter rotates the polarisation of half of the photons to match the filter.
Knowing that, it becomes trivially obvious why adding a third filter in between the first two allows light through: (a) after the first filter all the photons are polarised the same way; (b) when moving through the skew filter, some are blocked, but the others are now polarised in line with the skew filter; (c) when moving through the final filter, all of the photons are no longer polarised at right angles to it (as they would have been without the skew) so some of them get through.
Seriously, this is one of the first signs of the impending apocalypse.
To all of our USAsian friends, it's time to leave the party. The music is still playing and the lights are still on, but there is most definitely noone home.
It isn't really amazing that they all give the same answer, because they all make the same assumption:
f = G.m1.m2/d^2
What if this is only a *very* good approximation for all normal purposes, and even for things as large as the solar system (in the same way that Newtonian mechanics is good enough for all earthly based stuff).
What if gravity doesn't quite work this way at galactic scales?
There was a piece in New Scientist last year making this exact point, and the researcher was able to explain most effects that are otherwise explained by dark matter, by slightly changing the theory of gravity.
Einstien did it for Newtonian Mechanics.
The real problem I see here is that the scientific method has been largely ignored. We observe the universe, we devise theorems to explain it, we test the theorems against other observations. If the test doesn't match reality, we assume that the theorem is wrong.
This doesn't occur with cosmology.
We observe the universe, we make theories, and when they don't fit, we assume there must be something wrong with the universe!
They opposed the prosecution of the Sony mod-chipper - not for piracy reasons, but for competition reasons. Playstation games are cheaper in the US, and have more range in Japan.
They oppose region coding of DVDs - and as a result almost all Australian DVD players, even from the big companies, are region free out of the box. Same reasons, bigger range, more choice.
No matter what the U.S. wants, businesses in there have no force of law here - specifically the RIAA and friends.
In the local call market here in Australia, I honestly believe that price is not the issue. We get local calls for a flat 25c. That means that a 10 hour call to your ISP costs a total of 25c.
However, the moment that you move to data, you get slugged. For a 64k ISDN channel, expect to pay $140 per month rental, plus $135 per month capped call costs. It is vastly cheaper to get an extra phone line and use multilink ppp, but somehow the phone companies here just don't get it.
The other area where Telstra fall down is service. Put simply, it is appalling. I wanted my phone service modified - move the connection point on the house and add an extra outlet. The Telstra service guy didn't turn up on the day, even though they had two months notice. Then when he finally did turn up, he disconnected my monitored alarm service because he didn't know what it was.
If I had a choice of local carrier I'd switch in an instant.
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Unless it was all password protected, most of it will still be on archive.org.
This is exactly what happened with JournalSpace, so it's hardly a new thing.
It's interesting how the same idea gets "reinvented" over and over. Opportunistic encryption using advertised DH public numbers is just such a thing.
ObsTCP is just a reinvention of SKIP.
See here via the Wayback Machine since the concept is long dead and buried.
http://web.archive.org/web/20021129230049/http://www.skip-vpn.org/
Paying nearly $3k for id 666 would be very funny...
http://meta.slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=check&uid=666
Tell them that they are too stupid to own a computer, pack it up and give it back to you.
See: http://www.snopes.com/humor/business/wordperf.htm
Now here's the tricky part. Take a third polarizing filter and place it in between the two previous ones. Rotate it around. WOW! At some intervals you can now see through all three! With two if you rotate the second you get total blockage when the filter is at 90 and 270 degrees from the first. You get more blockage points around the 360 degrees with the in-between third one (Extra ponts: how many?)! Strange. Add another. You get even more blockage points. (How many now?) Very strange indeed. Does the experiment account for this, the real behavior of polarizing filters and not the simplistic one in the article?
The simple NoMath(TM) answer is that passing through a polarising filter rotates the polarisation of half of the photons to match the filter.
Knowing that, it becomes trivially obvious why adding a third filter in between the first two allows light through:
(a) after the first filter all the photons are polarised the same way;
(b) when moving through the skew filter, some are blocked, but the others are now polarised in line with the skew filter;
(c) when moving through the final filter, all of the photons are no longer polarised at right angles to it (as they would have been without the skew) so some of them get through.
Seriously, this is one of the first signs of the impending apocalypse.
To all of our USAsian friends, it's time to leave the party. The music is still playing and the lights are still on, but there is most definitely noone home.
Once again someone who knows nothing randomly sprouds garbage.
SIP works reliably *if* and *only if* there are no NAT gateways anywhere. Honest. Unfortunately that doesn't describe the majority of the world.
Skype works anywhere. When you come up with a free solution that works as well, feel free to bag Skype. That day is still a long way off.
And it's been deleted already! I wonder why...
Which is exactly the problem that the *BSD world has too.
Sure we can run the Linux flash plugin via emulation, but I want it native damnit!
Note true.
4 020208352 6.GF31998@cat.ourshack.com
Refer to this newsgroup thread:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=200
Larry is personally in favour of adding Unicode operators.
Sure, lets add operators that can't even by !@#$% typed. Yes, you can add :is ASCII(!@#$%) but that kind of misses the point.
Not only does Larry get the colon, he gets the entire unicode set!
About half way down the article, it says:
e <img src="/files/misc/lt.gif">linux/config.h>e <img src="/files/misc/lt.gif">linux/init.h>
:-)
A generic template for a minimal 2.6 device driver would therefore be the following:
#include <img src="/files/misc/lt.gif">linux/module.h>
#includ
#includ
When did gcc get HTML support?
It isn't really amazing that they all give the same answer, because they all make the same assumption:
f = G.m1.m2/d^2
What if this is only a *very* good approximation for all normal purposes, and even for things as large as the solar system (in the same way that Newtonian mechanics is good enough for all earthly based stuff).
What if gravity doesn't quite work this way at galactic scales?
There was a piece in New Scientist last year making this exact point, and the researcher was able to explain most effects that are otherwise explained by dark matter, by slightly changing the theory of gravity.
Einstien did it for Newtonian Mechanics.
The real problem I see here is that the scientific method has been largely ignored. We observe the universe, we devise theorems to explain it, we test the theorems against other observations. If the test doesn't match reality, we assume that the theorem is wrong.
This doesn't occur with cosmology.
We observe the universe, we make theories, and when they don't fit, we assume there must be something wrong with the universe!
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is likely to take a dim view on all of this.
They opposed the prosecution of the Sony mod-chipper - not for piracy reasons, but for competition reasons. Playstation games are cheaper in the US, and have more range in Japan.
They oppose region coding of DVDs - and as a result almost all Australian DVD players, even from the big companies, are region free out of the box. Same reasons, bigger range, more choice.
No matter what the U.S. wants, businesses in there have no force of law here - specifically the RIAA and friends.
In the local call market here in Australia, I honestly believe that price is not the issue. We get local calls for a flat 25c. That means that a 10 hour call to your ISP costs a total of 25c.
However, the moment that you move to data, you get slugged. For a 64k ISDN channel, expect to pay $140 per month rental, plus $135 per month capped call costs. It is vastly cheaper to get an extra phone line and use multilink ppp, but somehow the phone companies here just don't get it.
The other area where Telstra fall down is service. Put simply, it is appalling. I wanted my phone service modified - move the connection point on the house and add an extra outlet. The Telstra service guy didn't turn up on the day, even though they had two months notice. Then when he finally did turn up, he disconnected my monitored alarm service because he didn't know what it was.
If I had a choice of local carrier I'd switch in an instant.