That LN will take a while to evaporate once the container it is in cools down sufficiently. Physicists use cold traps powered by LN all the time. In fact, a friend of mine built a cyclotron that uses a 40 Amp magnet and he cools it with LN. He checks on it daily. It's pretty effective stuff.
The water pulled from the atmosphere would be mostly deionized and non cunductive. Just like those old oil based cooling systems that you actually submerged your components in and ran through a refridgerator.
Scalding hot coffee has a similar effect, and yet I pour that straight from the pot every morning - without gloves! He's not exactly going to soak his hand in the stuff, and a small amount will just evaporate off of the skin. Coffee actually is more dangerous to a certain extent....
1. If you turn it off - as MS claims they're going to allow - will the system then appear to apps, content & the network as "a Palladium PC with Palladium turned off" or as a non-Palladium PC? (Hint: it's the former.)
What difference does this make? Assuming Palladium can be turned1. If you turn it off - as MS claims they're going to allow - will the system then appear to apps, content & the network as "a Palladium PC with Palladium turned off" or as a non-Palladium PC? (Hint: it's the former.)
What difference does this make? Assuming Palladium can be turned off, and all the way off, why does it matter whether the applications see the computer as a PC with Palladium turned off, or a non-Palladium PC? Should they not be able to act on the system in the same way? off, and all the way off, why does it matter whether the applications see the computer as a PC with Palladium turned off, or a non-Palladium PC? Should they not be able to act on the system in the same way?
It's quiet simple really. You see, an application that knows that you have access to Palladium hardware, but are intentionally turning it off has the option to refuse to run until you turn it on. However, it can simply forgive and forget if you do not have access to the specified hardware. In essence, discrimination is now possible.
All you need is an electrically conductive material. It does not need to be metal, but metal works best. The strong magnetic field induces an electrical charge in the metal. Do this rapidly enough and with different sign changes often enough and presto! you'll get a ripped apart can.
Search "eddy currents" on google for more info.
Because as we all know, single server sytems are already somewhat insecure. Can you imaging the havoc that will be unleashed if you give 100,000 users the ability to serve out, say, slashdot's or cnn's web pages? This would certainly put a damper on any "trustworthy computing" that you may have hoped to have.
In response to a proposed bill that would ammend the DMCA to allow people to make personal copies of digital media:
``If this bill were to pass, it would render ineffective, worthless and useless any protection measure we would have in place to protect a $100 million movie,'' Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said of the Lofgren bill. ``You could download a million movies a day, and no penalty for it.''
Somehow I doubt that I could download a million movies a day. But I would love to see what kind of internet connection he has!
Actually, they are all rougly the same size, regardless of atomic weight. This is one of the interesting things about quantum mechanics and atomic physics. *All* atoms are between 0.5 and 2.5 Angstroms (1e-10 m)with Cesium being the largest (bigger than Uranium) and Nitrogen? being the smallest. Silicon isn't very large, however. This is partially because the electrons are so far away from a VERY tiny nucleus (remember the football field/grain of salt analogy).
Unless you are a web designer who wants to make sure that his site looks correctly when viewed with a browser that adheres to STANDARDS, or unless you are a person who believes that the web should be easy to navigate and not overwhelmed with pop-up advertisements, or unless you believe that you should have the ability to modify the code to your browser for timely fixes to security flaws. Nope, no major reasons there....
I assume that you are looking for some good creations, so I am going to share with you a good dip. One box of mac 'n cheese and one can of campbell's pork and beans mixed together make a great dip for a bag of nacho cheese doritos! Try it - you'll love it.
Linux on the desktop is both dead and alive. Linux is never going to have the market share that MS has. But, for the first time ever since I began toying with Linux back in '96, I have every one of my computers including my laptop running full time Linux setups with every piece of software that I need to be productive (OpenOffice 1.0, Evolution, Galleon/Mozilla, and some other scientific software). The user interface is now mature and elegant and is far superior to any that MS has conjured (particularly through customizability). Even my technophobic girlfriend doesn't mind using it, as long as she can boot into windows to run the occasional game that doesn't work in linux and even the Sims is working now!
When asked by a conservative congressman during a congressional inquiry what benefit Fermilab's accelerator research provided to national defense, one scientist responded that indeed Fermilab served no purpose for national defense other than to make the nation worth defending. This situation is completely analagous.
Again, I point out that the government would make everyone outlaws if they could. This gives them the power to do things that they otherwise couldn't. They watch you and if you are dangerous they can FIND something to pin you for.
I encrypt things so that nobody can have access to my ideas without my permission. It is basically the equivalent of having a disk drive put into my brain. The government cannot pry things out of my head, what makes them think that they should have the right to know what I MEAN when I put something down on paper? They have no right to know. The best they can do is convince me to cooperate.
Which distribution of Linux are you currently running? Have you tried any others? And if so, which appealed to your creative book-writing persona the most?
Gnucleus and BearShare currently use a hashing scheme to verify that one particular file is identical to another for the benefit of multisource downloads. If a user would be able to add a hash to a "block" list, these block lists could be updated frequently on the gnucleus web site and downloaded from a trusted source. All garbage files could be simply ignored.
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Correction, the cold trap is powered via LN, but the magnet is water cooled.
That LN will take a while to evaporate once the container it is in cools down sufficiently. Physicists use cold traps powered by LN all the time. In fact, a friend of mine built a cyclotron that uses a 40 Amp magnet and he cools it with LN. He checks on it daily. It's pretty effective stuff.
The water pulled from the atmosphere would be mostly deionized and non cunductive. Just like those old oil based cooling systems that you actually submerged your components in and ran through a refridgerator.
Scalding hot coffee has a similar effect, and yet I pour that straight from the pot every morning - without gloves! He's not exactly going to soak his hand in the stuff, and a small amount will just evaporate off of the skin. Coffee actually is more dangerous to a certain extent....
What difference does this make? Assuming Palladium can be turned1. If you turn it off - as MS claims they're going to allow - will the system then appear to apps, content & the network as "a Palladium PC with Palladium turned off" or as a non-Palladium PC? (Hint: it's the former.)
What difference does this make? Assuming Palladium can be turned off, and all the way off, why does it matter whether the applications see the computer as a PC with Palladium turned off, or a non-Palladium PC? Should they not be able to act on the system in the same way? off, and all the way off, why does it matter whether the applications see the computer as a PC with Palladium turned off, or a non-Palladium PC? Should they not be able to act on the system in the same way?
It's quiet simple really. You see, an application that knows that you have access to Palladium hardware, but are intentionally turning it off has the option to refuse to run until you turn it on. However, it can simply forgive and forget if you do not have access to the specified hardware. In essence, discrimination is now possible.
All you need is an electrically conductive material. It does not need to be metal, but metal works best. The strong magnetic field induces an electrical charge in the metal. Do this rapidly enough and with different sign changes often enough and presto! you'll get a ripped apart can. Search "eddy currents" on google for more info.
Because as we all know, single server sytems are already somewhat insecure. Can you imaging the havoc that will be unleashed if you give 100,000 users the ability to serve out, say, slashdot's or cnn's web pages? This would certainly put a damper on any "trustworthy computing" that you may have hoped to have.
Actually, it's to prevent Saddam from making a cameo appearance in Episode 3.
Why, is it illegal to redial the odometer on a car you own? If not, then why would it be illegal to do it for somebody else who consents?
``If this bill were to pass, it would render ineffective, worthless and useless any protection measure we would have in place to protect a $100 million movie,'' Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, said of the Lofgren bill. ``You could download a million movies a day, and no penalty for it.''
Somehow I doubt that I could download a million movies a day. But I would love to see what kind of internet connection he has!
Actually, they are all rougly the same size, regardless of atomic weight. This is one of the interesting things about quantum mechanics and atomic physics. *All* atoms are between 0.5 and 2.5 Angstroms (1e-10 m)with Cesium being the largest (bigger than Uranium) and Nitrogen? being the smallest. Silicon isn't very large, however. This is partially because the electrons are so far away from a VERY tiny nucleus (remember the football field/grain of salt analogy).
Buy a pelican case and carve out some nice foam indentations for the monitor, keyboard, etc. It's an air tight, waterproof seal with all the fixings.
What has the AA foaming at the mouth, bribing the judge with large quantities of beer?
Unless you are a web designer who wants to make sure that his site looks correctly when viewed with a browser that adheres to STANDARDS, or unless you are a person who believes that the web should be easy to navigate and not overwhelmed with pop-up advertisements, or unless you believe that you should have the ability to modify the code to your browser for timely fixes to security flaws. Nope, no major reasons there....
He's not talking about free software, he's talking about our civil rights as they pertain to us in the information age...
I assume that you are looking for some good creations, so I am going to share with you a good dip. One box of mac 'n cheese and one can of campbell's pork and beans mixed together make a great dip for a bag of nacho cheese doritos! Try it - you'll love it.
Four dits!
Two dits!
Dah!
Windows! Windows! Rah Rah Rah!
Linux on the desktop is both dead and alive. Linux is never going to have the market share that MS has. But, for the first time ever since I began toying with Linux back in '96, I have every one of my computers including my laptop running full time Linux setups with every piece of software that I need to be productive (OpenOffice 1.0, Evolution, Galleon/Mozilla, and some other scientific software). The user interface is now mature and elegant and is far superior to any that MS has conjured (particularly through customizability). Even my technophobic girlfriend doesn't mind using it, as long as she can boot into windows to run the occasional game that doesn't work in linux and even the Sims is working now!
It installs the new kernel for you first. Then you choose to boot it at your leisure. No FORCED downtime.
When asked by a conservative congressman during a congressional inquiry what benefit Fermilab's accelerator research provided to national defense, one scientist responded that indeed Fermilab served no purpose for national defense other than to make the nation worth defending. This situation is completely analagous.
Again, I point out that the government would make everyone outlaws if they could. This gives them the power to do things that they otherwise couldn't. They watch you and if you are dangerous they can FIND something to pin you for.
I encrypt things so that nobody can have access to my ideas without my permission. It is basically the equivalent of having a disk drive put into my brain. The government cannot pry things out of my head, what makes them think that they should have the right to know what I MEAN when I put something down on paper? They have no right to know. The best they can do is convince me to cooperate.
Which distribution of Linux are you currently running? Have you tried any others? And if so, which appealed to your creative book-writing persona the most?
Gnucleus and BearShare currently use a hashing scheme to verify that one particular file is identical to another for the benefit of multisource downloads. If a user would be able to add a hash to a "block" list, these block lists could be updated frequently on the gnucleus web site and downloaded from a trusted source. All garbage files could be simply ignored.
...that cygwin goes under just in time for cgwin to come out? Conspiracy or coincidence - you decide!