Apart from the trolling about pork barrel politics and which mine is an ancient indian burial ground (no offense), there is a definate need for a national underground physics lab. Many different experiments out there need the low background of deep sites for cutting edge physics. There are neutrino obsrvatories, a la SNO and Super-K, also Dark Matter searches, like CDMS, proton decay experiments, and plenty of other stuff. There is even non-physics related stuff that can be done there like biology and geology.
Sorry to be short on the links to these experiments, but I'm sure you could google for them. just came from a marathon session of class and my brain hurts, so i can't think well.;-)
Ok, this is sort of 3.1415962.... in the sky, but as long as you are transmitting your information classically, others can theoretically interrupt and observe the flow of information without your knowledge.
If you could somehow transmit the information quantum mechanically, as soon as some one intercepted the message, it would change state and you would know.
for more info check out www.qubit.org.
of couse this is all theoretical, since no hardware like this exists commercially yet. There are some researchers doing some basic research into this area, though, so maybe banks and other high security institutuions will be using this in ~10 years.
the other suggestions about fiber in a steel pipe along with a pressure differential as well as some capacitance measurement seem to be pretty good suggestions for data line integrety, though.
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Although I agree that the US should have gotten into WW2 alot earlier than it did, before Pearl Harbor, the US was doing everything short of sending men to fight to help Britain. Massive amounts of supplies, shipping and other logisitical help. basically, PH was the last event that broke the chain holding the US back.
I was at SIGGRAPH (www.siggraph.org) this year where they were showing this off, very cool. I talked to the people there, and they can't actually use bluetooth because the bluetooth specs have some lowlevel protocol that prevents them from using bluetooth for what they wanted, so they had to go with shortrange FM transmitters.
One of these days, we are going to have to have a radio observatory (and a visual observatory while we're at it) on the far side of the moon. Since the far side of the moon is always facing away from the earth, you've got thousands of kilometers of rock between the recievers and earthly interfereance. A visual observatory there would also be nice. There would be no atmosphere to distort the images and you could build a lot bigger telescope than Hubble.
I saw this art piece at the ACM SIGGRAPH conference this year in the art gallery. It was amazing. One of the most popular exhibits at the conference. Phisics + Art = Beautiful fun!!!
I find the author's arguments compelling, and IANAL, but he is! Anyway, my somewhat cynical side can't help but think that it would be extremely unlinkely that the Government would enforce "emminant domain" over music.
For one, the Music/Media companies, have been VERY succesfull in lobbying all branches of government to seeing their side. (Executive branch: restrictive FCC regs/FBI holding Sklyrov, Courts: DeCSS/Napster rulings, Legislative: DMCA)
Secondly, I would venture to think that the extensive _private_ music collections of many people would give the courts the impression that an emminant domain is not needed. An online emminant domain might be sutible for newspapers, since most people do not recieve or archive all newspapers, but not for musics, because people personally archive their music into collections.
However, i'm also unsure as to whether music would be as quick to be proclaimed emminant domain, since i'm not sure if musics is as an essential "protected speech" as the press.
Second, why is the Federal government funding education? That is a local/state issue. Federal funding takes more money from the states (in the form of less ability to tax their own citizens) and throws it into the government waste bin, out of which only some 27 cents on the dollar returns to actually be used in schools!
Jonathan Kozol is an education activist and has been a a teacher in some of the poorest schools in the country. What does he say?
"The reasons for these inequalities aren't hard to find. In this state of Ohio, as in New York and almost every other state within this land, public schools are financed chiefly on the basis of the value of the property and homes in a school district. It is an archaic, and divisive, and undemocratic system that protects the selfish interests of the privileged, and guarantees that we will never have an honest meritocracy in our society, until the day it is transformed."
By increasing pollutants (arsenic, CO2, etc.) and cutting science funding and education funding, GW Bush will make himself the most intelligent person in America via everyone's exposure to brain damaging chemicals, lack of oxygen, lack of science and lack of teachers!
THe company where I interned had a dress code, but being the young upstart college guy that I was, at the beginning of spring, I was like, "What the hell? It's the beginning of spring, I'm gonna DYE MY HAIR!!!" So the next day I came in with teal hair. People were shocked, and whenever I walked down the hall, people gave me weird looks. But that company needed a bit of shaking up, and no one really said too much to me because I still got the job done.
I wish there was a WRONG button in the moderator options, because this post's parent is wrong. Of course, never rely on/. to be correct on any techinical matter whatsoever.
The fact is plastic and all other hydrocarbon products are distilled from the stuff they drill up. Oil refineries are basically big still s for the hydrocarbons. You heat up your crude and the more volitile compounds rise to the top. Those tall towers at oil refineries are where this process takes place. You fraction off the stuff near the top to make jet fuel, then little lower down to make gasoline, then lower still to make lubricant type oils and at the bottom is the stuff for tar. Some where in there is the correct level to pull off material to make plastic from.
Long story short: plastic comes from a different part of the crude oil than the stuff you burn.
"Folks, if you're like me, you wake up in the middle of the night screaming, 'Where are all of those CORPSES!!!!!!!'" - Olly from the Precious Roy Home Shopping Network
from Sifl and Olly, the best TV show that MTV ever cancelled.
Tadpole is sort of what you are looking for. They make UltraSparc and HP PA-RISC based laptops. It doesn't look like they make Dual systems, but their stuff is definately worth drooling over.
On the other hand, I wonder how hard it would be to design a Dual PowerPC laptop, of either Apple or IBM workstation variety, since those chips run real cool.
Ahh, but all science _IS_ quantum physics, in that if you apply the rules of QM to your system, it will give the correct answer. Of course there are all sorts of shortcuts like Newton's Laws, or the Universal Gas Law or Ohm's law or what have you. Also it would take a LONG time to work out the biology of a human being from quantum physics, but it could be done.:-)
As for math on the other hand, it is true that nearly all science involves math, but if you just go by the math equations, you can sometimes get non-physical solutions.
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Apart from the trolling about pork barrel politics and which mine is an ancient indian burial ground (no offense), there is a definate need for a national underground physics lab. Many different experiments out there need the low background of deep sites for cutting edge physics. There are neutrino obsrvatories, a la SNO and Super-K, also Dark Matter searches, like CDMS, proton decay experiments, and plenty of other stuff. There is even non-physics related stuff that can be done there like biology and geology.
;-)
Sorry to be short on the links to these experiments, but I'm sure you could google for them. just came from a marathon session of class and my brain hurts, so i can't think well.
Dude!! wm2 RULES!!
It's chief bug is that "it has too many features" (from the manpage)
I used to go around on halloween as "Normal College Guy," but this year I decided to update my costume; I am now dressed as a grad student. :-P
Ok, this is sort of 3.1415962.... in the sky, but as long as you are transmitting your information classically, others can theoretically interrupt and observe the flow of information without your knowledge.
If you could somehow transmit the information quantum mechanically, as soon as some one intercepted the message, it would change state and you would know.
for more info check out www.qubit.org.
of couse this is all theoretical, since no hardware like this exists commercially yet. There are some researchers doing some basic research into this area, though, so maybe banks and other high security institutuions will be using this in ~10 years.
the other suggestions about fiber in a steel pipe along with a pressure differential as well as some capacitance measurement seem to be pretty good suggestions for data line integrety, though.
Pump up the Jam! Pump it Up! Pump it UP!!
Although I agree that the US should have gotten into WW2 alot earlier than it did, before Pearl Harbor, the US was doing everything short of sending men to fight to help Britain. Massive amounts of supplies, shipping and other logisitical help. basically, PH was the last event that broke the chain holding the US back.
There's palmVNC out there http://www.harakan.btinternet.co.uk/PalmVNC
Don't know if it runs on a Pro, though. It needs the palmOS IP stack.
I was at SIGGRAPH (www.siggraph.org) this year where they were showing this off, very cool. I talked to the people there, and they can't actually use bluetooth because the bluetooth specs have some lowlevel protocol that prevents them from using bluetooth for what they wanted, so they had to go with shortrange FM transmitters.
One of these days, we are going to have to have a radio observatory (and a visual observatory while we're at it) on the far side of the moon. Since the far side of the moon is always facing away from the earth, you've got thousands of kilometers of rock between the recievers and earthly interfereance. A visual observatory there would also be nice. There would be no atmosphere to distort the images and you could build a lot bigger telescope than Hubble.
I saw this art piece at the ACM SIGGRAPH conference this year in the art gallery. It was amazing. One of the most popular exhibits at the conference. Phisics + Art = Beautiful fun!!!
"Every pound of which [Dark Matter] weighs over TEN THOUSAND pounds!" - The Professor
I find the author's arguments compelling, and IANAL, but he is! Anyway, my somewhat cynical side can't help but think that it would be extremely unlinkely that the Government would enforce "emminant domain" over music.
For one, the Music/Media companies, have been VERY succesfull in lobbying all branches of government to seeing their side. (Executive branch: restrictive FCC regs/FBI holding Sklyrov, Courts: DeCSS/Napster rulings, Legislative: DMCA)
Secondly, I would venture to think that the extensive _private_ music collections of many people would give the courts the impression that an emminant domain is not needed. An online emminant domain might be sutible for newspapers, since most people do not recieve or archive all newspapers, but not for musics, because people personally archive their music into collections.
However, i'm also unsure as to whether music would be as quick to be proclaimed emminant domain, since i'm not sure if musics is as an essential "protected speech" as the press.
As Micro$oft has told us, since Debian is GPL, Aussies will only be able to vote COMMUNIST!!!!
Daaaiiiaaeee!!
Second, why is the Federal government funding education? That is a local/state issue. Federal funding takes more money from the states (in the form of less ability to tax their own citizens) and throws it into the government waste bin, out of which only some 27 cents on the dollar returns to actually be used in schools!
Jonathan Kozol is an education activist and has been a a teacher in some of the poorest schools in the country. What does he say?
More of this speech.OOOHHH!!! I've figured out GW's agenda!
By increasing pollutants (arsenic, CO2, etc.) and cutting science funding and education funding, GW Bush will make himself the most intelligent person in America via everyone's exposure to brain damaging chemicals, lack of oxygen, lack of science and lack of teachers!
GW will be a GENIUS among MORONS!!!!
Or did those answers give almost 0 info?
/. interviewed some M$ person. Their replies were full of Microspeak. :-P
Of course it's not nearly as bad an interview as the one time
THe company where I interned had a dress code, but being the young upstart college guy that I was, at the beginning of spring, I was like, "What the hell? It's the beginning of spring, I'm gonna DYE MY HAIR!!!" So the next day I came in with teal hair. People were shocked, and whenever I walked down the hall, people gave me weird looks. But that company needed a bit of shaking up, and no one really said too much to me because I still got the job done.
I wish there was a WRONG button in the moderator options, because this post's parent is wrong. Of course, never rely on /. to be correct on any techinical matter whatsoever.
The fact is plastic and all other hydrocarbon products are distilled from the stuff they drill up. Oil refineries are basically big still s for the hydrocarbons. You heat up your crude and the more volitile compounds rise to the top. Those tall towers at oil refineries are where this process takes place. You fraction off the stuff near the top to make jet fuel, then little lower down to make gasoline, then lower still to make lubricant type oils and at the bottom is the stuff for tar. Some where in there is the correct level to pull off material to make plastic from.
Long story short: plastic comes from a different part of the crude oil than the stuff you burn.
Huzzah!!! I second this. I lost around ~40 lbs. last winter. It wasn't all that fun, but I felt a LOT better about myself after doing it.
- Olly from the Precious Roy Home Shopping Network
from Sifl and Olly, the best TV show that MTV ever cancelled.
Tadpole is sort of what you are looking for. They make UltraSparc and HP PA-RISC based laptops. It doesn't look like they make Dual systems, but their stuff is definately worth drooling over.
On the other hand, I wonder how hard it would be to design a Dual PowerPC laptop, of either Apple or IBM workstation variety, since those chips run real cool.
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It will save the state of your machine to the swap space and on bootup recognize the saved state and restore it. No BIOS or fimware junk nessacary
Ahh, but all science _IS_ quantum physics, in that if you apply the rules of QM to your system, it will give the correct answer. Of course there are all sorts of shortcuts like Newton's Laws, or the Universal Gas Law or Ohm's law or what have you. Also it would take a LONG time to work out the biology of a human being from quantum physics, but it could be done. :-)
:-)
As for math on the other hand, it is true that nearly all science involves math, but if you just go by the math equations, you can sometimes get non-physical solutions.
Anyway IAAP (I am a physicist)
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