we'll just have to wait to see if it's constructive or destructive interference.
Wait, what?!? Congress is likely to have Constructive interference?
Considering the majority party of the House and how they appear to loathe actual science (aside any which may create a few jobs in the ol' home district around election season) I don't see anything positive coming from them. If this GOP had a president elected in 1960, not only would there never have been a Moon landing, they'd probably be pushing a Flat Earth agenda for school text books. I voted GOP for years, but do not recognize the people in that party, they sure aren't, for the most part, Republicans - they're nuts.
Perhaps NASA could just have a Space vehicle create a massive eletrical charge, polar opposite of the object it wishes to attract - like static electricity and ballon, which sticks to a wall.
About 14 years ago I had a Gyro Mouse and really loved it. Seems to me the only difference between it and Kinect is how you interpret back what the mouse is telling you. Nice mouse, particularly as I could use my thumb for clicks, which it does far better than the forefinger.
Been working Federal IT at various agencies for 20 years and the story is the same today as it was twenty years ago. You can't reach high quality/niche programmers on the Federal pay scale in the DC area. Scoff if you want, but we just had a top notch contractor successfully apply and get an offer for Federal work, only to turn down $137K plus bens. Great candidate, couldn't reach his rate. I've seen this time and time again.
That same contractor bills out near $300K per annum.
The system is skewed towards the contracting companies. Keeping Federal IT pay rates down below the industry average for our area guarantees big pay days for the contracting companies. These companies were supposed to be a panacea for the inefficient Federal worker. All that they have become is YAFE (yet another Federal entitlement).
And yes, some of the contractors have been in the same position for DECADES. Same lifetime entitlement.
Where do you get the idea that a contractor is entitled? When the project is over the contractor is out of a job. So the overall cost of the contractor isn't as much as the employee who can't be fired and who gets all sorts of benefits.
Simply have your representative amend a bill to prolong or expand the directive of your project.
Provide a paper trail that each voter verifies. You can then count by hand to loosely verify the vote in case of fraud.
I even voted "Protest E-vote" in the 2008 election
Two fold problem with cooking votes - preserve the original vote AND catch who is attempting to change it.
Some solutions don't require software, just good practices, like a written record and independent verification. My signature beside ballot number/receipt is a pretty good plan. Have the people who hand ou the receipts separate from the people who can touch the machines is another good plan. Put them together and you've got a stronger system.
They actually do a lot of great stuff there, which is not too surprising as they have many intelligent people working in Research. Just wish much more of their stuff would see daylight.
Can't say there's much of a market outside of Microsoft for a chair which will bounce.
Have the stupid voting machine keep track of the original vote, and each subsequent change. I think that would sort out who is cooking the vote as well as preserve integrity.
Er, the summary itself said "running Android 2.2" - where did 1.6 come from?
Probably the joke is: Dell was wrapping them up on the commercial market when the DoD procurement office called and said they'd like to buy 1.6 million of them. At which point the sales department head at Dell picked up his/her jaw and then called their plant in China and told them to keep making them.
I'm curious why blood tests aren't peformed regularly. You can certainly request Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) any time you like, but it is not commonly recommended on a regular basis. AFP can indicate tumors growing in the body. Very high levels of AFP can indicate advanced cancer. In the case of a co-worker who was found to have advanced cancer, on first diagnosis, why not have this marker checked every 6 months?
I've been told a normal reading is about 100-120. Values over 10,000 should be investigated. Lance Armstrong, had levels of over 100,000 when he was diagnosed, with tumors spread throughout his body.
It seems a low impact test, why is it not advised as part of a standard checkup? We'll look for chelesterol, why not Alpha-fetoprotein?
We look for cholesterol because heart disease is one of the major killers of society. Testicular cancer isn't. It is also not terribly sensitive, not very specific and it isn't clear that early treatment helps. You need various qualities of all three aspects for something to be a good screening test.
Another link by way of Lance Armstrong, the blood doping tests for athletes now are sophisticated enough to establish a Base Line for certain concentrations of hormones, red count, etc. Catching a tumor on the first blood test is probably not good, but establishing norms for an individual can help identify when something is happening, by looking for spikes or dips in readings.
I'm curious why blood tests aren't peformed regularly. You can certainly request Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) any time you like, but it is not commonly recommended on a regular basis. AFP can indicate tumors growing in the body. Very high levels of AFP can indicate advanced cancer. In the case of a co-worker who was found to have advanced cancer, on first diagnosis, why not have this marker checked every 6 months?
I've been told a normal reading is about 100-120. Values over 10,000 should be investigated. Lance Armstrong, had levels of over 100,000 when he was diagnosed, with tumors spread throughout his body.
It seems a low impact test, why is it not advised as part of a standard checkup? We'll look for chelesterol, why not Alpha-fetoprotein?
"You don't actually think they spend $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat do you?" - Independence Day, 1996
See, this is the thing. Golden Fleeces were being handed out, fingers pointed, voices of indignation were hollering at every microphone and camera they could find - it was like a scene out of Bloom County - so preposterous and yet happening.
Forward a few years and instead of buying a special model of hammer or seat meeting a particular specification, we now have contracted out an enormous amount of work - and from what I've seen, a lot of the result is garbage - it's far worse now than $600 toilet seats. The contractors who flooded Iraq were taking home tons of money, while much of the work was done by sub-standard hires - and we saw some of the results in the news, but Cheney's old company made a sickening haul and nobody seemed to do more than bat an eye at this seeming corruption - Just how was it that Halliburton was awarded a giant no-bid contract, because they were the only company seen to be prepared to handle it? Talk of inside information.. there must have been a conversation including something like this from Cheney, "Get oil, security, contruction, everything ready now, because we're going to invade Iraq in a year and if you are ready, we give you a fat no-bid contract, OK?"
Old advice, too, from someone in my past - if you want to make money, get contracts for government - education, too. You can sell rubbish which you could never get away with in the private sector markets.
Face it, we're still in the early doors of manned spaceflight, like the early decades of avaition - filled with uncertainty, peril and loss. Perhaps a few decades time will bring safe, reliable travel into space and back, but it's still got a pretty high failure rate.
The Indian government (among others) will twist arms of any and all carriers to get what they want. Even in the US the gummint will get what it wants one way or another.
Want privacy? Write your own encryption and scramble everything you share with your mates.
Planet was never a scientific term in the first place. That's why there was such a stink about Pluto.
Only because Mickey failed to paper-train him properly... oh, wait you mean Pluto The Planet, well, that was still an astounding act of skullduggery and cowardice, for a minority of the IAU to define terms. Shabby. Very shabby.
We know that gold arrived on Earth via asteroids and that dead white dwarf stars form diamond planets, so sparkly faery planets seems reasonable to me.
I hereby name the diamond planet that was announced recently on Slashdot "Tinkerbell" in honour of ackthpt's suggestion.
As theorized by Ironequatorialmount Stronginthearm in his paper "Gold gold gold gold gold... (246 pages later)... gold gold gold." And yes, that was only the title.
Come to think of it, seeing as the EU required microsoft to publish protocol specs a few years back, would they now extend this requirement to cover skype?
I certainly think they should, proprietary unpublished protocols are extremely harmful to everyone else.
Not certain, but that would mean you could go right ahead in Europe - actually, you probably could anyway as the DMCA only applies to peasant^H^H^H^H^Hople in the United States.
21 Lutetia, a 75-mile long, 47-mile wide body orbiting in the main belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.
This is a science article on a science website. Why is there only two dimensions listed for a three dimensional object, and why are those dimensions measured in miles?
It's flat... and carried on the backs of four enormous hippopotami (there were five, but one slipped and impacted into the surface of Lutetia) on the back of a giant newt.
Slashdot Mirror
we'll just have to wait to see if it's constructive or destructive interference.
Wait, what?!? Congress is likely to have Constructive interference?
Considering the majority party of the House and how they appear to loathe actual science (aside any which may create a few jobs in the ol' home district around election season) I don't see anything positive coming from them. If this GOP had a president elected in 1960, not only would there never have been a Moon landing, they'd probably be pushing a Flat Earth agenda for school text books. I voted GOP for years, but do not recognize the people in that party, they sure aren't, for the most part, Republicans - they're nuts.
Perhaps NASA could just have a Space vehicle create a massive eletrical charge, polar opposite of the object it wishes to attract - like static electricity and ballon, which sticks to a wall.
About 14 years ago I had a Gyro Mouse and really loved it. Seems to me the only difference between it and Kinect is how you interpret back what the mouse is telling you. Nice mouse, particularly as I could use my thumb for clicks, which it does far better than the forefinger.
I'm all for games where you build something. The hack-n-slash games have grown tedius by now (after decades, it had to happen.)
But from the title I expected to be digging a pit, exploring a seam, drilling for something.
Been working Federal IT at various agencies for 20 years and the story is the same today as it was twenty years ago. You can't reach high quality/niche programmers on the Federal pay scale in the DC area. Scoff if you want, but we just had a top notch contractor successfully apply and get an offer for Federal work, only to turn down $137K plus bens. Great candidate, couldn't reach his rate. I've seen this time and time again.
That same contractor bills out near $300K per annum.
The system is skewed towards the contracting companies. Keeping Federal IT pay rates down below the industry average for our area guarantees big pay days for the contracting companies. These companies were supposed to be a panacea for the inefficient Federal worker. All that they have become is YAFE (yet another Federal entitlement).
And yes, some of the contractors have been in the same position for DECADES. Same lifetime entitlement.
Where do you get the idea that a contractor is entitled? When the project is over the contractor is out of a job. So the overall cost of the contractor isn't as much as the employee who can't be fired and who gets all sorts of benefits.
Simply have your representative amend a bill to prolong or expand the directive of your project.
Any more questions?
Provide a paper trail that each voter verifies. You can then count by hand to loosely verify the vote in case of fraud.
I even voted "Protest E-vote" in the 2008 election
Two fold problem with cooking votes - preserve the original vote AND catch who is attempting to change it.
Some solutions don't require software, just good practices, like a written record and independent verification. My signature beside ballot number/receipt is a pretty good plan. Have the people who hand ou the receipts separate from the people who can touch the machines is another good plan. Put them together and you've got a stronger system.
They actually do a lot of great stuff there, which is not too surprising as they have many intelligent people working in Research. Just wish much more of their stuff would see daylight.
Can't say there's much of a market outside of Microsoft for a chair which will bounce.
Have the stupid voting machine keep track of the original vote, and each subsequent change. I think that would sort out who is cooking the vote as well as preserve integrity.
Er, the summary itself said "running Android 2.2" - where did 1.6 come from?
Probably the joke is: Dell was wrapping them up on the commercial market when the DoD procurement office called and said they'd like to buy 1.6 million of them. At which point the sales department head at Dell picked up his/her jaw and then called their plant in China and told them to keep making them.
Possibly, yes. A few filthy rich tourists could make it into low earth orbit, and a few years later, we'll run out of filthy rich tourists.
Where there are filthy rich tourists, there's a need for telephone sanitizers. ;)
Ob: Oxymoron comment
Non-secure, meaning: Do not leave sitting in your car with the records of 500,000 service personnel on it.
I'm curious why blood tests aren't peformed regularly. You can certainly request Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) any time you like, but it is not commonly recommended on a regular basis. AFP can indicate tumors growing in the body. Very high levels of AFP can indicate advanced cancer. In the case of a co-worker who was found to have advanced cancer, on first diagnosis, why not have this marker checked every 6 months?
I've been told a normal reading is about 100-120. Values over 10,000 should be investigated. Lance Armstrong, had levels of over 100,000 when he was diagnosed, with tumors spread throughout his body.
It seems a low impact test, why is it not advised as part of a standard checkup? We'll look for chelesterol, why not Alpha-fetoprotein?
Because, AFP is a crummy screening test.
We look for cholesterol because heart disease is one of the major killers of society. Testicular cancer isn't. It is also not terribly sensitive, not very specific and it isn't clear that early treatment helps. You need various qualities of all three aspects for something to be a good screening test.
Another link by way of Lance Armstrong, the blood doping tests for athletes now are sophisticated enough to establish a Base Line for certain concentrations of hormones, red count, etc. Catching a tumor on the first blood test is probably not good, but establishing norms for an individual can help identify when something is happening, by looking for spikes or dips in readings.
You can employ these sounds in your Halloween display!!!
"I just had that horrible feeling I was in 4th period English again and didn't have my book report done! Arrrggghhh!"
I'm curious why blood tests aren't peformed regularly. You can certainly request Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) any time you like, but it is not commonly recommended on a regular basis. AFP can indicate tumors growing in the body. Very high levels of AFP can indicate advanced cancer. In the case of a co-worker who was found to have advanced cancer, on first diagnosis, why not have this marker checked every 6 months?
I've been told a normal reading is about 100-120. Values over 10,000 should be investigated. Lance Armstrong, had levels of over 100,000 when he was diagnosed, with tumors spread throughout his body.
It seems a low impact test, why is it not advised as part of a standard checkup? We'll look for chelesterol, why not Alpha-fetoprotein?
It's more likely these are last decades. A few more years, and people will decide the ISS is a useless money drain, which they can no longer afford.
Yeah, but with China jumping into space, the US may again feel the need to put the first beach house on the Moon.
Even if we have to borrow the money from China to fund it!
...I fail at these jokes.
In Soviet Russia rocket launches YOU!
"You don't actually think they spend $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat do you?" - Independence Day, 1996
See, this is the thing. Golden Fleeces were being handed out, fingers pointed, voices of indignation were hollering at every microphone and camera they could find - it was like a scene out of Bloom County - so preposterous and yet happening.
Forward a few years and instead of buying a special model of hammer or seat meeting a particular specification, we now have contracted out an enormous amount of work - and from what I've seen, a lot of the result is garbage - it's far worse now than $600 toilet seats. The contractors who flooded Iraq were taking home tons of money, while much of the work was done by sub-standard hires - and we saw some of the results in the news, but Cheney's old company made a sickening haul and nobody seemed to do more than bat an eye at this seeming corruption - Just how was it that Halliburton was awarded a giant no-bid contract, because they were the only company seen to be prepared to handle it? Talk of inside information .. there must have been a conversation including something like this from Cheney, "Get oil, security, contruction, everything ready now, because we're going to invade Iraq in a year and if you are ready, we give you a fat no-bid contract, OK?"
Old advice, too, from someone in my past - if you want to make money, get contracts for government - education, too. You can sell rubbish which you could never get away with in the private sector markets.
Until further notice.
Face it, we're still in the early doors of manned spaceflight, like the early decades of avaition - filled with uncertainty, peril and loss. Perhaps a few decades time will bring safe, reliable travel into space and back, but it's still got a pretty high failure rate.
one of the only reasons it sales were still up was through enterprise phones which had insurance their communications were encrypted
They appear to have nails being hammered into their coffin at a brisk pace.
I'd say this makes them a takeover target for ... Microsoft.
The Indian government (among others) will twist arms of any and all carriers to get what they want. Even in the US the gummint will get what it wants one way or another.
Want privacy? Write your own encryption and scramble everything you share with your mates.
We still would have had Google Chrome.
Do you think Microsoft would have allowed Google to flourish?
May have allowed them to start up, but then would have bundled search engine into the OS, so Windows would have been even more bloated.
Planet was never a scientific term in the first place. That's why there was such a stink about Pluto.
Only because Mickey failed to paper-train him properly ... oh, wait you mean Pluto The Planet, well, that was still an astounding act of skullduggery and cowardice, for a minority of the IAU to define terms. Shabby. Very shabby.
We know that gold arrived on Earth via asteroids and that dead white dwarf stars form diamond planets, so sparkly faery planets seems reasonable to me.
I hereby name the diamond planet that was announced recently on Slashdot "Tinkerbell" in honour of ackthpt's suggestion.
As theorized by Ironequatorialmount Stronginthearm in his paper "Gold gold gold gold gold ... (246 pages later) ... gold gold gold." And yes, that was only the title.
Most of the world population doesn't read Slashdot.
The majority of Slashdot readers know what miles are.
Yes.
We are even familiar with Miles Statute, Miles Nautical and Miles Standish.
Come to think of it, seeing as the EU required microsoft to publish protocol specs a few years back, would they now extend this requirement to cover skype?
I certainly think they should, proprietary unpublished protocols are extremely harmful to everyone else.
Not certain, but that would mean you could go right ahead in Europe - actually, you probably could anyway as the DMCA only applies to peasant^H^H^H^H^Hople in the United States.
21 Lutetia, a 75-mile long, 47-mile wide body orbiting in the main belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.
This is a science article on a science website. Why is there only two dimensions listed for a three dimensional object, and why are those dimensions measured in miles?
It's flat ... and carried on the backs of four enormous hippopotami (there were five, but one slipped and impacted into the surface of Lutetia) on the back of a giant newt.