As usual the NASA TV channel (well, the stream since that's all I can get from it here in Australia) provided me with the last three days and will provide me in the coming days with untouched unhyped `just the facts' 24x7 reality TV. Just the way I love it:-)
Normally I consider news like this "well nice to know, but it doesn't really affect me". This case is different, living in a country which is already mostly under sealevel, these 9.5 meters would have made a huge difference.
Can somebody recommend a website or an application which can be used to calculate the fly-over times of the spaceshuttle and/or the ISS from a certain location on this planet? I would love to show a special "star" to my little boy.
> But since Pluto can never truly be "overhead", does that mean the law never actually goes into effect?
I really really really wonder what the law enforcement is going to do when Pluto comes overhead in the skies of Illinois and people are saying "look at that non-planet!". Arrest them? Fine them? Take them to a dark alley and ask them to please not to make fun of the legislative system anymore?
The simple solution for this application to get its initial data is to, instead of getting it from the developer, is to spider it from the website itself and parse it.
Yes, if they change the format it will break until the application is fixed, but at least you have the data until then.
This is how I made my own rail-road table app on my webserver. Yes, for the CityRail lists.
It's dead in the consumer market, which is what this article was written for (or about).
The last time I used an RS-232 connectors were to configure switches and routers, which are not a consumer things. The last time I did use it to not configure switches and routers was to hook up a modem, that was 2001 when I came to Australia and had to go back from 1.5Mbps cable internet to 48k8 dial-up internet... That huuuuuuuuuuurted!
Why is censorship of illegal material bad? If the material is illegal, why shouldn't it be censored?
The legality of things is defined by law, enforced by the police and tested by the juridical system.
It isn't the opinion of a single person with his hands on the controls, either in the government or as a mass-media outlet. (For example the suspected paintings in the Henson case, the government and the media would like to have had Henson hanging on a rope at day one)
It is only changed after the facts and environments have changed dramatically. (For a long time it was illegal in Australia to make copies of your own CDs while the empty CD-Rs where available in every shop)
Different age groups have different rules. (You can go to TAFE and become a chef at the age of 15, but you are not able to buy the knives yourself because you are too young)
Peter Coleman wrote in his book "Obscenity, blasphemy, sedition - the rise and fall of literary censorship in Australia" that shipments of books from the UK were not allowed to be unloaded in Australia. The publishers and importers couldn't do anything in advance because the list of banned books was kept secret - How will you ever be able to verify this list?
There is a list of banner Usenet groups for Australian ISPs, but its contents are secret - How will you ever be able to verify this list?
Now where did I go with this again? No idea, but I have it out of my system and will get it right in a write-up later this week.
The "Do Not Fly List" is for people who are considered not too dangerous to be arrested for (whatever action), but are considered too dangerous to fly.
Here you have another kind of these lists.
Resolve the problem by the roots, take computers away from children:-)
NSW secondary school students could be issued with $56 million worth of Linux-based laptops as part of Kevin Rudd's digital education revolution.
The real reason behind this is that the federal government would supply the *hardware*, but that the schools would have to pay for the *software licenses* and the *support*. At least the price for software licenses would be greatly reduced now.
(Despite being a FreeBSD user,) I consider this is a good step forward: Give the children wooden blocks to play with, and they will build bridges with them.
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Then the next question is of course, how are the maintainers of whois-servers.net going to handle this?
I'll drop them an email I think!
Edwin
Who has any clarity / clue on how whois gets implemented for these domains?
It's funny how a two-three minute talk at a conference can be brought as news.
(I was at the AusNOG conference)
100 per day... Imagine 14 hours in a day being awake, that is 7 per hour.
I wouldn't have time to do other things anymore!
First off -- I applaud your use of open-note exams.
In my (Dutch) school we had a book called BINAS for the Physics, Biology and Chemistry exams.
With Maths we had a set of blue cards with formulas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BINAS
Have a chat with Mr Julian and Mr Gregorian.
I don't care being called a "saddo" by a webmonkey.
Fair enough. Linux users all probably don't use telstra anymore for years :)
As usual the NASA TV channel (well, the stream since that's all I can get from it here in Australia) provided me with the last three days and will provide me in the coming days with untouched unhyped `just the facts' 24x7 reality TV. Just the way I love it :-)
It's Thursday here already. When will the rest of the world catch up with us?
Normally I consider news like this "well nice to know, but it doesn't really affect me".
This case is different, living in a country which is already mostly under sealevel, these 9.5 meters would have made a huge difference.
For example see the map at http://www.rivm.nl/vtv/object_map/o1213n39037.html. If it hadn't happened, we would now have had the island "De Veluwe" :-)
> It is like me saying I can make a Web Browser using a shell script with 2 lines.
Besides your server / browser confusion:
Your implementation needs an external program to function, his does not.
It doesn't, but it has been done during the Berlin blockade for nearly a year. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Blockade for details.
Can somebody recommend a website or an application which can be used to calculate the fly-over times of the spaceshuttle and/or the ISS from a certain location on this planet? I would love to show a special "star" to my little boy.
> But since Pluto can never truly be "overhead", does that mean the law never actually goes into effect?
I really really really wonder what the law enforcement is going to do when Pluto comes overhead in the skies of Illinois and people are saying "look at that non-planet!". Arrest them? Fine them? Take them to a dark alley and ask them to please not to make fun of the legislative system anymore?
The simple solution for this application to get its initial data is to, instead of getting it from the developer, is to spider it from the website itself and parse it.
Yes, if they change the format it will break until the application is fixed, but at least you have the data until then.
This is how I made my own rail-road table app on my webserver. Yes, for the CityRail lists.
According to the picture at Flickr, you need these days that kind of hardware just to do your homework!
How did our parents (err... how did I?) ever manage to pass school?
Thanks for advertising the saline solution loophole, I'll remember it.
People might get suspicious when you start drinking from that bottle.
Of course that don't have to be the security people :-P
It's dead in the consumer market, which is what this article was written for (or about).
The last time I used an RS-232 connectors were to configure switches and routers, which are not a consumer things.
The last time I did use it to not configure switches and routers was to hook up a modem, that was 2001 when I came to Australia and had to go back from 1.5Mbps cable internet to 48k8 dial-up internet... That huuuuuuuuuuurted!
/ The Gestapo thought Anne Frank was a terrorist, producing illegal material.
Euhm... the diary wasn't published until 1947, by her father.
She and her family was arrested because they didn't voluntarily commit themselves to go to work in Germany.
Why is censorship of illegal material bad? If the material is illegal, why shouldn't it be censored?
The legality of things is defined by law, enforced by the police and tested by the juridical system.
It isn't the opinion of a single person with his hands on the controls, either in the government or as a mass-media outlet. (For example the suspected paintings in the Henson case, the government and the media would like to have had Henson hanging on a rope at day one)
It is only changed after the facts and environments have changed dramatically. (For a long time it was illegal in Australia to make copies of your own CDs while the empty CD-Rs where available in every shop)
Different age groups have different rules. (You can go to TAFE and become a chef at the age of 15, but you are not able to buy the knives yourself because you are too young)
Peter Coleman wrote in his book "Obscenity, blasphemy, sedition - the rise and fall of literary censorship in Australia" that shipments of books from the UK were not allowed to be unloaded in Australia. The publishers and importers couldn't do anything in advance because the list of banned books was kept secret - How will you ever be able to verify this list?
There is a list of banner Usenet groups for Australian ISPs, but its contents are secret - How will you ever be able to verify this list?
Now where did I go with this again? No idea, but I have it out of my system and will get it right in a write-up later this week.
The "Do Not Fly List" is for people who are considered not too dangerous to be arrested for (whatever action), but are considered too dangerous to fly.
Here you have another kind of these lists.
Resolve the problem by the roots, take computers away from children :-)
NSW secondary school students could be issued with $56 million worth of Linux-based laptops as part of Kevin Rudd's digital education revolution.
The real reason behind this is that the federal government would supply the *hardware*, but that the schools would have to pay for the *software licenses* and the *support*. At least the price for software licenses would be greatly reduced now.
(Despite being a FreeBSD user,) I consider this is a good step forward: Give the children wooden blocks to play with, and they will build bridges with them.
An international spam ring with ties to Australia, New Zealand, China, India, and the US is in the process of being shut down.
China: > 1 billion people.
India: > 1 billion people.
USA: > 300 million people.
Australia: > 21 million people.
New Zealand: > 4 million people.
But the most important thing, we got mentioned!
It's time to update my resume with ceil(4 * rand()) years of experience with the M programming language!