In the US the population is dispersed in suburbs making personal vehicles mandatory and public transportation impractical. At the Federal level we are passing laws that do nothing to reduce the number of vehicles on the road (it would hurt the economy, you see) and have stupidly mandated the production and use of bio-fuels that cost more or about as much petroleum to manufacture than they produce. Never mind the consequences to the world food supply.
At some point gas prices will rise to prohibitive levels and our economy will wither or crash IMHO.
So over the years the US has done it wrong but some of us know that and want to sound a warning both at home and abroad.
Great, a more affordable vehicle hits the roads so that more people can increase their carbon footprints and increase oil consumption. A few gas guzzlers or many more efficient vehicles. The result's the same.
My take is that the system is comprised of a light weight "suit" for the VIP, separate detectors, and a control module that analyzes the data and signals the suit.
False positives would really annoy the VIP and cause lots of consternation with the VIP's security force disrupting whatever was going on. I don't think that videos showing the VIP suddenly jerking to one side would be welcome publicity. And false negatives?
So the water is 95% "pure" - what's in the 5%? For comparison Earth's oceans are about 96.5% "pure" so the water on Mars certainly would not be drinkable without processing but that's fairly easily done, I think.
This was to have been implemented today in my organization but in three stages to minimize disruption. We must conform to FDCC dictated by DHS. I received a USB drive with some instructions and files that I can use to download and install VMWare to create a sandbox for testing. The instructions are lengthy so I've just skimmed them but it appears that a software package is installed that when run establishes the baseline security of the virtual machine. Then the software to be tested is run in the virtual machine and if the base changes it fails.
I think that DHS or some Federal Agencies have lists of software that is FDCC compliant and this should ease the burden of testing if the lists can be easily accessed. I'll probably test one of my applications this weekend.
The USDA Forest Service Research Station in California has been doing this for a few years now posting rectified images on their website for fire suppression and anyone else to view. Images are rectified and draped over maps showing temperatures in false color and can be seen with Google Earth and with Zoomify, a Flash applet. The images are converted to shape files for Forest Service use, too.
The aircraft, a Piper Navajo light twin engine aircraft, is unfortunately out of service for engine replacement.
Aircraft with engines are the brightest objects in the sky in infrared and are detected quite well with the infrared sensors carried by some larger UAVs. In fact detections is better than that by a pilot in an aircraft as the sky is dark in infrared. Perhaps gliders should have an infrared light or strobe on the vertical stabilizer and belly and larger UAVs be required to have IR sensors.
Right! A rocket engine will be required to slow it down so the new, more elliptical, orbit intersects the earth at the target coordinates. Probably a steering rocket will be required as well. I guess that it will take quite a while before the munition impacts and quite a few of the satellite pairs will need to be deployed to ensure that they will be positioned to hit a target within several hours of the decision to fire. So this weapon will be good only against stationary targets.
Reduce access to 100 sites by June 2008? That must be a typo unless work is already started. I would imagine that it would require leases on buildings, secure power, purchase and installation of electronics, and training, hiring, and relocation of people to run it. All in two months? I don't think that could be accomplished even if the sites were run by private companies who get non-competitive contracts. Oh, is that the point?
The US "forgets" to compare or even mention the debris left from our anti-satellite test around 1985 when a satellite still being used by US scientists was destroyed. We lead the way and then castigate those who follow.
So, let's see if I understand the privacy argument. One don't deserve privacy if one has something to hide and one shouldn't care about loss of privacy if one has nothing to hide. Is that right?
Therefor the Bush Administration's refusal to allow staffers to testify to congress regarding the Justice Department purge proves that they do have something to hide.
It's not a pool of purity, it's a pool of old tar that rose to the the surface. But wait, if that's tar then there must be oil. We've got to be quick to find the WMD and establish a democracy there before we are attacked.
The boulders in the image are black which suggests that they are colder than the surrounding terrain. On the other hand this is a false color image so the boulder's color could have been mapped to black for display.
Slashdoters are technical sorts so I don't think it's too pendantic to note that a meteor is a flash of light caused by a meteorite.
Comparing the widths of the meteorites is a lot less interesting than realizing that the mass ratio is about 125:1. Actually I suspect that the mass was estimated first from the size of the crater and then the diameter calculated, converted from metric to American, and the word "diameter" changed to the more easily understood "width".
I didn't mention the other two biopsies I had that week (all negative). All in all I would rather have eaten a habanero if the end result (no pun intended) would have been the same!
Well, they could use a technique similar to that of prostate biopsy, a needle into the prostate throgh the colon wall. They did that to me last week (12 samples and I counted each and every one) and I'm still uninating a little blood. ("is this uncomfortable?" Hell, yes! "This may burn a bit." Yup!)
Better than dying from a mestastsized prostate concer or enduring the other methods of controling it (possible side effects: impotance, incontenance, etc.) I was so nervous that my blood pressure was the hightest it's ever been. I have always been able to control it to some extent by relaxation techniques but that failed me it went up a few points the second time. Didn't even get a copy of the ultra sound picture: "It's a boy!".
Perhaps the Capsaicin could be administered in capsules that would not disintegrate in the stomach.
I wondered about Jennifer, the nurse, did she imagine when she took up nursing that she would spend her days stiking her finger up the rectums of perfect strangers to apply anesthetic? And what was the point of giving me privacy to change into and out of the gown? First time I've worn a maxi pad as well - and I did not go back to work.
We have 50 MB per user on a Lotus Notes system. I think that this is a US Dept. of Agriculture limit but it might be just for my agency, USDA Forest Service. A bad thing is that attachments count and virtually NO ONE compresses anything and many senders elect to keep the attachments as they reply. Often messages set to all of us are sent to us again by supervisors and administrator who don't notice how they are addressed. All of this tends to fill the mail box quickly.
I think we are allowed up to 1 mb of attachments on incoming messages (perhaps on outgoing as well) from outside the intranet and 5 mb for the rest. My experience is that it is difficult to save a message off line from Notes. When I "Save As" the formatting is always lost.
The article, a troll, was posted to Slashdot, as others are to other forums, to elicit responses that can be added to the secret data bases and correlated with the user's email, other postings, cell phone calls, etc. with the idea of fingering anyone who is disloyal (to the present regime at least). If it's determined that the person is not a security threat he or she can be picked up for questioning (intimidation) or other intimidating actions taken. Or if there might, possibly, be a threat sterner methods may be in store.
Ah, this couldn't be true, I need my morning coffee. Wait who's at the door at this hour?
My first computer was a Rockwell AIM 65 that used a 1 MHz 6502 CPU. It had 8 MB RAM (4 for the system and 4 for the user), paper tape such as used by a calculator for a printer and a one line LED readout for visual display. It came as a bare board to be used by engineers to learn how to use the CPU and I/O chips. Basic was included on a chip as well as assembly and later I purchased a FORTH chip. I had to make an interface and find a couple of tape recorders to implement the Kansas City format so that I could save programs. I also made an interface to a speaker to get sounds.
I tought myself assembly on it and wrote a program for Wampus and another board game whose name I can't reacall right now. Later I impoverished myself by ordering 32 MB of RAM for about $650. I had been programming in Fortran on a CDC 6500 and decided to take a course in data structures. The instructor was amused by my printouts on those paper tapes.
I had occasion to consult the FCC a few years ago and was told that a major function of the FCC was to ensure that the governmnet didn't take all the aavailable frequencies. There are other regulatory needs for control of frequencies and power of course but I would hope that we can stop them from expanding their control over what should be non-issues for them. Trouble is that the foxes want to control the hen house and this administration favors that view.
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In the US the population is dispersed in suburbs making personal vehicles mandatory and public transportation impractical. At the Federal level we are passing laws that do nothing to reduce the number of vehicles on the road (it would hurt the economy, you see) and have stupidly mandated the production and use of bio-fuels that cost more or about as much petroleum to manufacture than they produce. Never mind the consequences to the world food supply.
At some point gas prices will rise to prohibitive levels and our economy will wither or crash IMHO.
So over the years the US has done it wrong but some of us know that and want to sound a warning both at home and abroad.
Great, a more affordable vehicle hits the roads so that more people can increase their carbon footprints and increase oil consumption. A few gas guzzlers or many more efficient vehicles. The result's the same.
My take is that the system is comprised of a light weight "suit" for the VIP, separate detectors, and a control module that analyzes the data and signals the suit.
False positives would really annoy the VIP and cause lots of consternation with the VIP's security force disrupting whatever was going on. I don't think that videos showing the VIP suddenly jerking to one side would be welcome publicity. And false negatives?
So the water is 95% "pure" - what's in the 5%? For comparison Earth's oceans are about 96.5% "pure" so the water on Mars certainly would not be drinkable without processing but that's fairly easily done, I think.
This was to have been implemented today in my organization but in three stages to minimize disruption. We must conform to FDCC dictated by DHS. I received a USB drive with some instructions and files that I can use to download and install VMWare to create a sandbox for testing. The instructions are lengthy so I've just skimmed them but it appears that a software package is installed that when run establishes the baseline security of the virtual machine. Then the software to be tested is run in the virtual machine and if the base changes it fails.
I think that DHS or some Federal Agencies have lists of software that is FDCC compliant and this should ease the burden of testing if the lists can be easily accessed. I'll probably test one of my applications this weekend.
At any rate search on FDCC for more informaton.
The USDA Forest Service Research Station in California has been doing this for a few years now posting rectified images on their website for fire suppression and anyone else to view. Images are rectified and draped over maps showing temperatures in false color and can be seen with Google Earth and with Zoomify, a Flash applet. The images are converted to shape files for Forest Service use, too.
The aircraft, a Piper Navajo light twin engine aircraft, is unfortunately out of service for engine replacement.
Aircraft with engines are the brightest objects in the sky in infrared and are detected quite well with the infrared sensors carried by some larger UAVs. In fact detections is better than that by a pilot in an aircraft as the sky is dark in infrared. Perhaps gliders should have an infrared light or strobe on the vertical stabilizer and belly and larger UAVs be required to have IR sensors.
Right! A rocket engine will be required to slow it down so the new, more elliptical, orbit intersects the earth at the target coordinates. Probably a steering rocket will be required as well. I guess that it will take quite a while before the munition impacts and quite a few of the satellite pairs will need to be deployed to ensure that they will be positioned to hit a target within several hours of the decision to fire. So this weapon will be good only against stationary targets.
Reduce access to 100 sites by June 2008? That must be a typo unless work is already started. I would imagine that it would require leases on buildings, secure power, purchase and installation of electronics, and training, hiring, and relocation of people to run it. All in two months? I don't think that could be accomplished even if the sites were run by private companies who get non-competitive contracts. Oh, is that the point?
Not to worry, I have Time Machine backing up to an external drive.
The US "forgets" to compare or even mention the debris left from our anti-satellite test around 1985 when a satellite still being used by US scientists was destroyed. We lead the way and then castigate those who follow.
So, let's see if I understand the privacy argument. One don't deserve privacy if one has something to hide and one shouldn't care about loss of privacy if one has nothing to hide. Is that right?
Therefor the Bush Administration's refusal to allow staffers to testify to congress regarding the Justice Department purge proves that they do have something to hide.
It's not a pool of purity, it's a pool of old tar that rose to the the surface. But wait, if that's tar then there must be oil. We've got to be quick to find the WMD and establish a democracy there before we are attacked.
Good observation.
The boulders in the image are black which suggests that they are colder than the surrounding terrain. On the other hand this is a false color image so the boulder's color could have been mapped to black for display.
Slashdoters are technical sorts so I don't think it's too pendantic to note that a meteor is a flash of light caused by a meteorite.
Comparing the widths of the meteorites is a lot less interesting than realizing that the mass ratio is about 125:1. Actually I suspect that the mass was estimated first from the size of the crater and then the diameter calculated, converted from metric to American, and the word "diameter" changed to the more easily understood "width".
Oh, sorry, I thought that the Scientific Paper Detector was a fake.
I had that too, 5 days later and a skin biopsy, too, a few days earlier. Kind of an intense week.
I didn't mention the other two biopsies I had that week (all negative). All in all I would rather have eaten a habanero if the end result (no pun intended) would have been the same!
Well, they could use a technique similar to that of prostate biopsy, a needle into the prostate throgh the colon wall. They did that to me last week (12 samples and I counted each and every one) and I'm still uninating a little blood. ("is this uncomfortable?" Hell, yes! "This may burn a bit." Yup!)
Better than dying from a mestastsized prostate concer or enduring the other methods of controling it (possible side effects: impotance, incontenance, etc.) I was so nervous that my blood pressure was the hightest it's ever been. I have always been able to control it to some extent by relaxation techniques but that failed me it went up a few points the second time. Didn't even get a copy of the ultra sound picture: "It's a boy!".
Perhaps the Capsaicin could be administered in capsules that would not disintegrate in the stomach.
I wondered about Jennifer, the nurse, did she imagine when she took up nursing that she would spend her days stiking her finger up the rectums of perfect strangers to apply anesthetic? And what was the point of giving me privacy to change into and out of the gown? First time I've worn a maxi pad as well - and I did not go back to work.
Oh, BTW, my biopsy was negative.
We have 50 MB per user on a Lotus Notes system. I think that this is a US Dept. of Agriculture limit but it might be just for my agency, USDA Forest Service. A bad thing is that attachments count and virtually NO ONE compresses anything and many senders elect to keep the attachments as they reply. Often messages set to all of us are sent to us again by supervisors and administrator who don't notice how they are addressed. All of this tends to fill the mail box quickly.
I think we are allowed up to 1 mb of attachments on incoming messages (perhaps on outgoing as well) from outside the intranet and 5 mb for the rest. My experience is that it is difficult to save a message off line from Notes. When I "Save As" the formatting is always lost.
The article, a troll, was posted to Slashdot, as others are to other forums, to elicit responses that can be added to the secret data bases and correlated with the user's email, other postings, cell phone calls, etc. with the idea of fingering anyone who is disloyal (to the present regime at least). If it's determined that the person is not a security threat he or she can be picked up for questioning (intimidation) or other intimidating actions taken. Or if there might, possibly, be a threat sterner methods may be in store.
Ah, this couldn't be true, I need my morning coffee. Wait who's at the door at this hour?
Nate
My first computer was a Rockwell AIM 65 that used a 1 MHz 6502 CPU. It had 8 MB RAM (4 for the system and 4 for the user), paper tape such as used by a calculator for a printer and a one line LED readout for visual display. It came as a bare board to be used by engineers to learn how to use the CPU and I/O chips. Basic was included on a chip as well as assembly and later I purchased a FORTH chip. I had to make an interface and find a couple of tape recorders to implement the Kansas City format so that I could save programs. I also made an interface to a speaker to get sounds.
I tought myself assembly on it and wrote a program for Wampus and another board game whose name I can't reacall right now. Later I impoverished myself by ordering 32 MB of RAM for about $650. I had been programming in Fortran on a CDC 6500 and decided to take a course in data structures. The instructor was amused by my printouts on those paper tapes.
This would have been around 1979.
If you use the American temperature scale (degrees Farenheit) you get a smaller temperature drop: 15%. If you measure in Kelvins you only get 4%.
For an excercise devise a scale that will give a 50% temperature drop, it's a lot more impressive and means about as much as measured in Celsius!
I had occasion to consult the FCC a few years ago and was told that a major function of the FCC was to ensure that the governmnet didn't take all the aavailable frequencies. There are other regulatory needs for control of frequencies and power of course but I would hope that we can stop them from expanding their control over what should be non-issues for them. Trouble is that the foxes want to control the hen house and this administration favors that view.