The creation of a NWS mission lies in an act of Congress from 1890, before the automobile, the airplane, satellite platforms, radar, computers, and the Internet - 114 years ago.
I had no idea that acts of Congress came with an expiry date. Important tip folks: Check your laws' Best Before dates frequently. And change the baking soda on a regular basis too--I think something's gone off in the civil right section.
Yes, but is it Slashdotworthy if he doesn't destroy some equipment? Not unless the kite ran Linux, provided WiFi coverage or crashed because of Windows...:)
They're even moving in to Canada. Lately buying the New Yorker Theatre in Toronto. (Maybe they got confused by the name?) A branch of the Blue Man Group will be moving in, right across from Scientology's Martian Embassy. (Sometimes that's funny.)
Or worse, that some kids had pressed all the floor buttons.
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They're having problems designing a universal robotic foot for providing on-site kinetic impacts to solve minor unanticipated problems that would otherwise result in mission failure.
Well... the previous spacesuit problem did involve dampness. "It's strangely warm," Kaleri said. A few minutes later, he radioed: "It's amazing. I have rain inside the helmet. I have water on the visor." Not that I'm suggesting this incident also involved a leak in the suit...
Sure, right after they install a pod bay on the ISS.:) Since a space pod's manipulators would be controlled by an astronaut inside, why bother bringing along the astronaut? A pod could be much simpler if it didn't need life-support and all its mass. It could even be operated by the ground, although delay might be an issue for fine manipulation.
The first three times you send it, you'll get an auto-reply saying that the spam didn't come from Hotmail. The fourth time they'll delete abuse@hotmail.com.
Comdex turning into a travelling franchise operation was one of the signs of the end times for them. No company is going to release Earth-shaking news at Comdex Holeinthewall.
Some Mod not realising that the 3 year old post was a troll like this [slashdot.org] or this [slashdot.org].
Now there's an idea! Slowly seed Slashdot with a whole bunch of X is dying posts for the top 100 companies or products (or even people). Then when one of them finally dies, point to that post as prophetic.
From all the troll posts over the years, I guess this is already prior art.
so I assume that the patent adds something to what was done at IBM.
In this case it must have been a little more than adding ".. with a computer" to the end of it.:^) I thought Dallas Semiconductor had done stuff like this with their iButton single wire gizmos, but I don't see any mention of using the body as the single wire.
Re:Give me a break, he was caught red-handed
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RTFA. He didn't buy any GM canola seeds or sign a contract.
But in the court decision, they said "Yet, in 1998, tests revealed that 95 to 98 percent of his 1,000 acres of canola crop was made up of Roundup Ready plants" which sounds like they're measuring contamination percentage and is completely incompatible with the claim that University of Manitoba found 8% tops.
I hope the court wasn't fooled by some shell game with percentages.
Side note: Humans are 95-98% chimpanzees. Can we sue?
I tried tracking back the source of that "95 to 98 percent" figure. The reference link that probably has the data is dead. It didn't really seem to match with the claim that the University of Manitoba had tested the fields and had found at most 8% contamination. (60% in the road-side ditch.)
I think I see the problem. It's possible for both statements to be true because they are measuring two different things. If very few plants are contaminated (8% max), but those that are, are 95-98% pure in Roundup-Ready genes...
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Where is the source of the 95%+ figure? In his statement, he had his fields tested by the University of Manitoba and the highest was 8%, some with none. 60% was in the ditch by the road.
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Bad analogy alert!
Imagine if the RIAA released a worm that infected scazillions of computers, then started sharing music files with all the other infected machines. Then the RIAA sued everyone for the copyright violations that their own worm caused. Of course that would never happen, ha ha...
I guess farmers should be forced to put up real firewalls around their farms.
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Ahh! I missed that. At 95-98% I was thinking that he would have had to have obtained some blackmarket Roundup, sprayed a contaminated area, then collected seed from the surviving plants to seed the whole farm.
A mis-statement huh?
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I don't know how he collected his seed for the next year. It's possible that it all came from a small contaminated area by accident.
What do Monsanto's own studies say about what happens when you mix Roundup-ready grain with unmodified crops? What? They say they haven't done any? Why are they allowed to grow this stuff then? (Yeah, I'm being sarcastic.)
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And what about the claim that they send people over in planes to drop Roundup on fields? If it destroys a 30 foot circle do they just say "Ooops!"?
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Don't look at me! I submitted a story about this two years ago.
The ditch by the road that the trucks full of seed pass by when making deliveries to other farms? (Ever drive behind one of those trucks when the covers aren't tied down right?)
Admittedly the contamination in his fields was damned high and spread wide. However, if Monsanto has done any studies of what happens in a mixed gene situation like this, they certainly aren't telling. As well, they force people to re-plant with fresh Monsanto grain each year, so no one else is likely to find out.
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For real weather junkies, they need to create a blog with an RSS feed. :)
Yes, but is it Slashdotworthy if he doesn't destroy some equipment? Not unless the kite ran Linux, provided WiFi coverage or crashed because of Windows... :)
They're even moving in to Canada. Lately buying the New Yorker Theatre in Toronto. (Maybe they got confused by the name?) A branch of the Blue Man Group will be moving in, right across from Scientology's Martian Embassy. (Sometimes that's funny.)
Or worse, that some kids had pressed all the floor buttons.
They're having problems designing a universal robotic foot for providing on-site kinetic impacts to solve minor unanticipated problems that would otherwise result in mission failure.
Well... the previous spacesuit problem did involve dampness. "It's strangely warm," Kaleri said. A few minutes later, he radioed: "It's amazing. I have rain inside the helmet. I have water on the visor." Not that I'm suggesting this incident also involved a leak in the suit...
Sure, right after they install a pod bay on the ISS. :) Since a space pod's manipulators would be controlled by an astronaut inside, why bother bringing along the astronaut? A pod could be much simpler if it didn't need life-support and all its mass. It could even be operated by the ground, although delay might be an issue for fine manipulation.
The first three times you send it, you'll get an auto-reply saying that the spam didn't come from Hotmail. The fourth time they'll delete abuse@hotmail.com.
First said by Thaarg the caveman. (Alternate translation suggests he said "It's no skin of my hairy ass either way!")
They don't have to go that far. They could hold it in CeBIT's coat-check room, and CeBIT would never notice.
Comdex turning into a travelling franchise operation was one of the signs of the end times for them. No company is going to release Earth-shaking news at Comdex Holeinthewall.
Now there's an idea! Slowly seed Slashdot with a whole bunch of X is dying posts for the top 100 companies or products (or even people). Then when one of them finally dies, point to that post as prophetic.
From all the troll posts over the years, I guess this is already prior art.
In this case it must have been a little more than adding ".. with a computer" to the end of it. :^) I thought Dallas Semiconductor had done stuff like this with their iButton single wire gizmos, but I don't see any mention of using the body as the single wire.
RTFA. He didn't buy any GM canola seeds or sign a contract.
In what way do the carefully crafted FUD campaigns by paid-what-to-Think Tanks resemble public criticism?
I hope the court wasn't fooled by some shell game with percentages.
Side note: Humans are 95-98% chimpanzees. Can we sue?
I think I see the problem. It's possible for both statements to be true because they are measuring two different things. If very few plants are contaminated (8% max), but those that are, are 95-98% pure in Roundup-Ready genes...
Where is the source of the 95%+ figure? In his statement, he had his fields tested by the University of Manitoba and the highest was 8%, some with none. 60% was in the ditch by the road.
Imagine if the RIAA released a worm that infected scazillions of computers, then started sharing music files with all the other infected machines. Then the RIAA sued everyone for the copyright violations that their own worm caused. Of course that would never happen, ha ha...
I guess farmers should be forced to put up real firewalls around their farms.
A mis-statement huh?
What do Monsanto's own studies say about what happens when you mix Roundup-ready grain with unmodified crops? What? They say they haven't done any? Why are they allowed to grow this stuff then? (Yeah, I'm being sarcastic.)
And what about the claim that they send people over in planes to drop Roundup on fields? If it destroys a 30 foot circle do they just say "Ooops!"?
Don't look at me! I submitted a story about this two years ago.
Admittedly the contamination in his fields was damned high and spread wide. However, if Monsanto has done any studies of what happens in a mixed gene situation like this, they certainly aren't telling. As well, they force people to re-plant with fresh Monsanto grain each year, so no one else is likely to find out.