I think what you're describing is a Bose-Einstein condensate, which is something entirely different.
Not really. Helium-4 is a boson. Frozen helium-4 may not be a Bose-Einstein condensate per se but it derives its properties from Bose-Einstein statistics.
Note that these tricks will not work if all you have at home is liquid helium-3, which is made of fermions.
This whole story- printers, monks, computers- reminds me of the Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke, which you should read if you haven't. If only to chuckle at the quaint predictions for computer science he made back in 1967.
Hmmm, I work at HP, and when I go to their website, all I get is: "Access to this server is forbidden from your client" Not very friendly monks, now are they?
I'm in California. The site works fine when I go there with IE, but in Mozilla, I get "No web site is configured at this address."
They are sniffing user agent strings. Your client being in Asia has nothing to do with it.
The detection of these waves could revolutionize physics! It would allow us to determine the existance of the graviton, and if we ever did that, the world as we know it would change. Because once we pin it down, we can start converting energy to it, and probably start research on a feasible "anti-graviton" of sorts. Warp Drives, here we come! (well, not likely, but a guy can hope)
What are you talking about? There is no such thing as an "anti-graviton" since the graviton is its own antiparticle, like the photon is. And how would detection of a gravitational wave help advance technology as opposed to pure science? Pure gravity research is not exactly known for its technological applications.
And it isn't obvious how we will start "converting energy" into gravitons once we've succeeded in "determining their existence". Except in a trivial sense, like when you push a rock up a hill. But you can do that now.
It appears the RIAA is busting people under color of law. If this is true then it is a big deal. This means that the people they are busting believe they are police. Even if you're not a cop, if you present yourself as one, you are considered a state actor by the courts just like a real cop and can be held civilly liable for violations of civil rights. Private citizens acting in their private interests cannot be held liable under the civil rights statutes (primarily 42 USC 1984) but state actors can.
It won't "make life fun" since it isn't going to happen. The budget will not allow it.
For the past several days the president seems to have been announcing initiatives with no expectation or even desire that they pass. This is like the temporary work visa thing that was announced yesterday, which was an attempt for the Hispanic vote and which has little hope in Congress. This space initiative is a crowd pleaser for everybody. But with the budget like it is, an expense this large has no chance in hell of passing. Unless they ditch their precious ISS, and there's virtually no chance of that happening since they have spent so much money on it already.
In other news... the International Monetary Fund released a report yesterday that said U.S. deficits are threatening the world economy. They are worried that the unprecedented massive deficits and trade imbalances may cause the dollar to undergo a "disorderly plunge". Which makes this talk of space trips seem a little surreal.
A rat done bit my sister Nell with Dubya on the moon. Her face and arms began to swell and Dubya's on the moon. I can't pay no doctor bills but Dubya's on the moon. Ten years from now I'll be paying still while Dubya's on the moon.
I think the fun of the game would be gone in GTA: Baghdad seeing as average citizens would be armed to the teeth, which would make it a bit of a slanted contest when trying to beat an extra $50 out of a passer by.
During gameplay in GTA III on the PS2, press R2, R1, Triangle, X, L2, L1, Up, and Down during gameplay. This is a cheat code that puts guns in the hands of all pedestrians in the game. Some will shoot you if you steal their car.
Whether or not these jobs are "America's God-given right" is besides the point, Carly, you miserable bitch. Of course they aren't a "God-given right". Nothing is. The real question here is whether the U.S. will act in its own self-interest, or continue to throw its labor force into a low wage bidding war with the Third World.
Here are the mirror links for the program and the data update in case telestra.org goes down again. There is nothing posted there besides this list anyway.
But the Solution to Spyware is fairly simple. Make the sender pay, like normail post. That is why I don't get hundreds of posts in my physical mailbox. (and the fact I don't participate in competitions every chance I get) Simply put, for somebody to send me email they have to perform a task. Say calculate the first five primes that end in five. For one persons computer this will be trivial. But for somebody mailing out millions of posts it becomes impossible. In fact I can increase the computation difficulty depending on what I want to filter out.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.) ( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money (x) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (x) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for ( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes (x) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money (x) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email (x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians (x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering (x) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply: (x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks (x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually (x) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you: (x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
and secondly, commercial speech (they are selling a video game) can be highly regulated.
Bzzzt, wrong. The restrictions on commercial speech do not apply to the content of the game itself. Rockstar's commercials promoting the game, however, are subject to restrictions on commercial speech. Rockstar cannot claim, for example, that the game adds two inches to your penis, or helps you learn how to successfully deal with police.
Commercial speech has not appeared in many video games so far, and it's difficult to imagine how it really could. In Crazy Taxi, passengers get in the cab and always want to be taken to places like KFC (beautifully rendered, logo and all). If a game comes out where you have to go to KFC and gorge on buckets of greasy chicken to keep your health points from going to zero, then the game makers (along with KFC) might conceivably be playing with the possibility of commercial restrictions. But movies have been getting away with product placement payola for a while now, so I wouldn't bet on it.
Acetone is naturally produced in the body when acetoacetate spontaneously decarboxylates to form it (instead of being enzymatically reduced by NADH to beta-hydroxybutyrate). When people go on that Atkins diet, the ketogenesis overflow pathway is very active and you can smell acetone on their breath. Plus it is present in dietary sources. So the body can handle its presence and you can ingest a tablespoon of acetone with no ill effect. But the OP wasn't talking about acetone. It was talking about nicotine, and claiming it is legitimately found in the body. It is not.
Whether or not it's called a "poison", if you're going to claim that nicotine is produced naturally in the body, the onus is on you to say where.
Nicotine is something your body needs, and actually produces itself.
I call bullshit. Nicotine is an alkaloid and a poison, and while there are drugs (hallucinogens even) that occur in the body, nicotine is not one of them. There is nicotinic acid (niacin or vitamin B-3) but that's a precursor to nicotine in tobacco plants. In humans it's a precursor for molecules like NADH. Nicotine acts at nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, but not at muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. Acetylcholine and nicotine have little else in common.
The Japanese have a very strange concept of politeness. The culture is completely dominated by it. Politeness even complicates the grammar of the language. It's a tool for scrupulously observing the details of social convention, and everyone is expected to play by the many rules. Foreigners in Japan are quickly immobilized by a net of condescending smiles and polite retorts that permit no escape.
I'm not Japanese, so what do I know? Here's my guess. Your friend was probably breaking a rule when he tried to speak Japanese to the people at the train station. He is a guest to the country and they are workers at a train station, which makes them servants. They are definitely at a lower point than he is in whatever social hierarchy determines these things, and so they were clearly expected to speak his native language, in deference. By placing them in a situation where he is speaking a non-native language for their benefit, he is forcing them to be impolite. They were trying to make everything polite and OK again by insisting on English. In fact he committed a grave social error when he forced the old man to admit they did understand his Japanese.
Just a few weeks ago at work a tantrum arrived via fax from a software distributor in Taiwan who had been recently fired by our sales employee in Japan for breach of contract of some sort. It was a copy of an email that the distributor had sent in response, and the guy was so livid he faxed a copy to us in California in an attempt to go over his head. In the first paragraph it says "You, being Japanese, should not have allowed this to happen." I thought that was a very strange remark.
OK, I looked into it and it doesn't actually work like I thought. The DoD constantly monitors the satellite positions and tells the satellites exactly where they are in reference to fixed landmarks. So the difference between UTC and UT1 is done away with in that step. In principle you could determine the earth's rotational position by looking at deviations from expected satellite positions but that isn't very practical. An atomic clock, a few astronomical instruments, and a star will do just fine for determining the time difference.
The length of each day has typically been 2-3 milliseconds longer than the day before. And the equatorial rotational velocity is 1670 km/hr. That means that at midnight, a point on the equator can be 90-130 cm away from where it was at midnight on the night before. After a week, the apparent motion is 7-10 meters, and after a year of this, you've moved 300-500 meters due to changes in rotational velocity. That's very noticeable.
The only thing that GPS directly measures is the exact location of a receiver relative to orbiting satellites. It doesn't know anything about the rotational position of the earth itself beneath your feet. So GPS has to be continually calibrated so that stationary receivers at fixed points on the earth's surface don't appear to be slowly drifting. The apparent position of a fixed reference receiver is uploaded to the satellites as a correction or else any stationary GPS receiver would show a very noticeable drift as the weeks went by and people would notice. It should be trivial to calculate the drift (and the necessity of a leap second) based on the necessary GPS corrections that had to be made during the year.
I thought the exact same thing and did a search for "NYT" to see if anyone already mentioned it.
"...and now the New York Times has run a column on what else your car is saying about you (free registration req'd)."
It's even abbreviated "req'd", like the submitter wants to quickly gloss over the irony of an article about how they're tracking you that is tracking you.
This might be an opportune time to mention the campaign to Do Something about the growing danger posed by dihydrogen monoxide in the environment and in our very bodies.
This substance (H2O) has an even more obscure name in the IUPAC chemical naming system: "ozane" (H-saturated oxygen). It is so rarely used you can't even find it in Google.
"Trihydrogen mononitride" (NH3) has its own IUPAC name too: "azane".
If you support the GPL, you should support the ideals behind it, which are that the concept of copyright is FLAWED, and should be removed.
Stop thinking of information as property. It isn't.
You know, it makes it a lot harder to accuse the other side (or the media) of making straw man arguments when people keep shooting off their mouths about how copyright law is wrong and shouldn't be obeyed or respected. Are you advocating the inclusion of an entire copyrighted article into Slashdot post 7821166 as a form of civil disobedience in protest of copyright law? If so, then you should say so. If you're just wanting to read copyrighted stuff here for free, you aren't doing us any favors by publicly encouraging people to break the law.
Slashdot Mirror
I think what you're describing is a Bose-Einstein condensate, which is something entirely different.
Not really. Helium-4 is a boson. Frozen helium-4 may not be a Bose-Einstein condensate per se but it derives its properties from Bose-Einstein statistics.
Note that these tricks will not work if all you have at home is liquid helium-3, which is made of fermions.
This whole story- printers, monks, computers- reminds me of the Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke, which you should read if you haven't. If only to chuckle at the quaint predictions for computer science he made back in 1967.
Hmmm, I work at HP, and when I go to their website, all I get is:
"Access to this server is forbidden from your client"
Not very friendly monks, now are they?
I'm in California. The site works fine when I go there with IE, but in Mozilla, I get "No web site is configured at this address."
They are sniffing user agent strings. Your client being in Asia has nothing to do with it.
The extra cost must be to cover the pharmaceuticals.
The detection of these waves could revolutionize physics! It would allow us to determine the existance of the graviton, and if we ever did that, the world as we know it would change. Because once we pin it down, we can start converting energy to it, and probably start research on a feasible "anti-graviton" of sorts. Warp Drives, here we come! (well, not likely, but a guy can hope)
What are you talking about? There is no such thing as an "anti-graviton" since the graviton is its own antiparticle, like the photon is. And how would detection of a gravitational wave help advance technology as opposed to pure science? Pure gravity research is not exactly known for its technological applications.
And it isn't obvious how we will start "converting energy" into gravitons once we've succeeded in "determining their existence". Except in a trivial sense, like when you push a rock up a hill. But you can do that now.
I wonder how many times these two neutron stars could bounce if they were to hit the water at an angle of 20 degrees.
It appears the RIAA is busting people under color of law. If this is true then it is a big deal. This means that the people they are busting believe they are police. Even if you're not a cop, if you present yourself as one, you are considered a state actor by the courts just like a real cop and can be held civilly liable for violations of civil rights. Private citizens acting in their private interests cannot be held liable under the civil rights statutes (primarily 42 USC 1984) but state actors can.
It won't "make life fun" since it isn't going to happen. The budget will not allow it.
For the past several days the president seems to have been announcing initiatives with no expectation or even desire that they pass. This is like the temporary work visa thing that was announced yesterday, which was an attempt for the Hispanic vote and which has little hope in Congress. This space initiative is a crowd pleaser for everybody. But with the budget like it is, an expense this large has no chance in hell of passing. Unless they ditch their precious ISS, and there's virtually no chance of that happening since they have spent so much money on it already.
In other news... the International Monetary Fund released a report yesterday that said U.S. deficits are threatening the world economy. They are worried that the unprecedented massive deficits and trade imbalances may cause the dollar to undergo a "disorderly plunge". Which makes this talk of space trips seem a little surreal.
A rat done bit my sister Nell with Dubya on the moon.
Her face and arms began to swell and Dubya's on the moon.
I can't pay no doctor bills but Dubya's on the moon.
Ten years from now I'll be paying still while Dubya's on the moon.
I think the fun of the game would be gone in GTA: Baghdad seeing as average citizens would be armed to the teeth, which would make it a bit of a slanted contest when trying to beat an extra $50 out of a passer by.
During gameplay in GTA III on the PS2, press R2, R1, Triangle, X, L2, L1, Up, and Down during gameplay. This is a cheat code that puts guns in the hands of all pedestrians in the game. Some will shoot you if you steal their car.
Whether or not these jobs are "America's God-given right" is besides the point, Carly, you miserable bitch. Of course they aren't a "God-given right". Nothing is. The real question here is whether the U.S. will act in its own self-interest, or continue to throw its labor force into a low wage bidding war with the Third World.
Here are the mirror links for the program and the data update in case telestra.org goes down again. There is nothing posted there besides this list anyway.
Maestro for Windows XP/2000/Me/98
Download from NASA Download from Freecache Download from USF FTP (Florida) (Internet II - university students start here) Download from LibertyOutreach Download from KNCL FTP (Texas) Download from Lakewebs (Oklahoma) Download from NJIT (New Jersey) Download from UALR (Arkansas) (Internet II - university students start here) Download from Emporia State Univ. (Kansas) (Internet II - university students start here) Download from TU-Budapest (Hungary) Download from TU-Berlin (Germany) Download via BitTorrent (what's this?) Download via ed2k (what's this?)
Maestro for Mac (requires Java3D)
Download from NASA Download from FreeCache Download from USF FTP (Florida) (Internet II - university students start here) Download from KNCL FTP (Texas) Download from Lakewebs (Oklahoma) Download from NJIT (New Jersey) Download from UALR (Arkansas) (Internet II - university students start here) Download from Emporia State Univ. (Kansas) (Internet II - university students start here) Download from TU-Budapest (Hungary) Download from TU-Berlin (Germany) Download via ed2k (what's this?)
Maestro for Linux
Download from NASA Download from Freecache Download from USF FTP (Florida) (Internet II - university students start here) Download from KNCL FTP (Texas) Download from Lakewebs (Oklahoma) Download from NJIT (New Jersey)
But the Solution to Spyware is fairly simple. Make the sender pay, like normail post. That is why I don't get hundreds of posts in my physical mailbox. (and the fact I don't participate in competitions every chance I get) Simply put, for somebody to send me email they have to perform a task. Say calculate the first five primes that end in five. For one persons computer this will be trivial. But for somebody mailing out millions of posts it becomes impossible. In fact I can increase the computation difficulty depending on what I want to filter out.
Your post advocates a
(x) technical ( ) legislative (x) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
(x) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(x) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
(x) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
(x) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
(x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
(x) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
(x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
(x) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Is the site's web server running on the lander, or the orbiter?
And could someone post a torrent file?
and secondly, commercial speech (they are selling a video game) can be highly regulated.
Bzzzt, wrong. The restrictions on commercial speech do not apply to the content of the game itself. Rockstar's commercials promoting the game, however, are subject to restrictions on commercial speech. Rockstar cannot claim, for example, that the game adds two inches to your penis, or helps you learn how to successfully deal with police.
Commercial speech has not appeared in many video games so far, and it's difficult to imagine how it really could. In Crazy Taxi, passengers get in the cab and always want to be taken to places like KFC (beautifully rendered, logo and all). If a game comes out where you have to go to KFC and gorge on buckets of greasy chicken to keep your health points from going to zero, then the game makers (along with KFC) might conceivably be playing with the possibility of commercial restrictions. But movies have been getting away with product placement payola for a while now, so I wouldn't bet on it.
Why doesn't the US do this?
Do what? Seize the oilfields? I thought we just did.
Acetone is naturally produced in the body when acetoacetate spontaneously decarboxylates to form it (instead of being enzymatically reduced by NADH to beta-hydroxybutyrate). When people go on that Atkins diet, the ketogenesis overflow pathway is very active and you can smell acetone on their breath. Plus it is present in dietary sources. So the body can handle its presence and you can ingest a tablespoon of acetone with no ill effect. But the OP wasn't talking about acetone. It was talking about nicotine, and claiming it is legitimately found in the body. It is not.
Whether or not it's called a "poison", if you're going to claim that nicotine is produced naturally in the body, the onus is on you to say where.
Nicotine is something your body needs, and actually produces itself.
I call bullshit. Nicotine is an alkaloid and a poison, and while there are drugs (hallucinogens even) that occur in the body, nicotine is not one of them. There is nicotinic acid (niacin or vitamin B-3) but that's a precursor to nicotine in tobacco plants. In humans it's a precursor for molecules like NADH. Nicotine acts at nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, but not at muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. Acetylcholine and nicotine have little else in common.
The Japanese have a very strange concept of politeness. The culture is completely dominated by it. Politeness even complicates the grammar of the language. It's a tool for scrupulously observing the details of social convention, and everyone is expected to play by the many rules. Foreigners in Japan are quickly immobilized by a net of condescending smiles and polite retorts that permit no escape.
I'm not Japanese, so what do I know? Here's my guess. Your friend was probably breaking a rule when he tried to speak Japanese to the people at the train station. He is a guest to the country and they are workers at a train station, which makes them servants. They are definitely at a lower point than he is in whatever social hierarchy determines these things, and so they were clearly expected to speak his native language, in deference. By placing them in a situation where he is speaking a non-native language for their benefit, he is forcing them to be impolite. They were trying to make everything polite and OK again by insisting on English. In fact he committed a grave social error when he forced the old man to admit they did understand his Japanese.
Just a few weeks ago at work a tantrum arrived via fax from a software distributor in Taiwan who had been recently fired by our sales employee in Japan for breach of contract of some sort. It was a copy of an email that the distributor had sent in response, and the guy was so livid he faxed a copy to us in California in an attempt to go over his head. In the first paragraph it says "You, being Japanese, should not have allowed this to happen." I thought that was a very strange remark.
OK, I looked into it and it doesn't actually work like I thought. The DoD constantly monitors the satellite positions and tells the satellites exactly where they are in reference to fixed landmarks. So the difference between UTC and UT1 is done away with in that step. In principle you could determine the earth's rotational position by looking at deviations from expected satellite positions but that isn't very practical. An atomic clock, a few astronomical instruments, and a star will do just fine for determining the time difference.
OK, that was a bad way of phrasing it. The 2-3 milliseconds is the rate at which the lag between UTC (earth) and UT1 (astronomical) time increases per day, not the change in length of each day relative to the last. The rest of what I said is still valid.
"Duh. They use GPS."
I really hope that was sarcasm...
Why? GPS is great for this.
The length of each day has typically been 2-3 milliseconds longer than the day before. And the equatorial rotational velocity is 1670 km/hr. That means that at midnight, a point on the equator can be 90-130 cm away from where it was at midnight on the night before. After a week, the apparent motion is 7-10 meters, and after a year of this, you've moved 300-500 meters due to changes in rotational velocity. That's very noticeable.
The only thing that GPS directly measures is the exact location of a receiver relative to orbiting satellites. It doesn't know anything about the rotational position of the earth itself beneath your feet. So GPS has to be continually calibrated so that stationary receivers at fixed points on the earth's surface don't appear to be slowly drifting. The apparent position of a fixed reference receiver is uploaded to the satellites as a correction or else any stationary GPS receiver would show a very noticeable drift as the weeks went by and people would notice. It should be trivial to calculate the drift (and the necessity of a leap second) based on the necessary GPS corrections that had to be made during the year.
I thought the exact same thing and did a search for "NYT" to see if anyone already mentioned it.
"...and now the New York Times has run a column on what else your car is saying about you (free registration req'd)."
It's even abbreviated "req'd", like the submitter wants to quickly gloss over the irony of an article about how they're tracking you that is tracking you.
This might be an opportune time to mention the campaign to Do Something about the growing danger posed by dihydrogen monoxide in the environment and in our very bodies.
This substance (H2O) has an even more obscure name in the IUPAC chemical naming system: "ozane" (H-saturated oxygen). It is so rarely used you can't even find it in Google.
"Trihydrogen mononitride" (NH3) has its own IUPAC name too: "azane".
If you support the GPL, you should support the ideals behind it, which are that the concept of copyright is FLAWED, and should be removed.
Stop thinking of information as property. It isn't.
You know, it makes it a lot harder to accuse the other side (or the media) of making straw man arguments when people keep shooting off their mouths about how copyright law is wrong and shouldn't be obeyed or respected. Are you advocating the inclusion of an entire copyrighted article into Slashdot post 7821166 as a form of civil disobedience in protest of copyright law? If so, then you should say so. If you're just wanting to read copyrighted stuff here for free, you aren't doing us any favors by publicly encouraging people to break the law.