Dung beetles live in many different habitats, including desert, farmland, forest, and grasslands. They do not prefer extremely cold or dry weather. They are found on all continents except Antarctica.
Dung beetles eat dung excreted by herbivores and omnivores, and prefer that produced by the former. Many of them also feed on mushrooms and decaying leaves and fruits. One type living in Central America, Deltochilum valgum, is a carnivore preying upon millipedes. Those that eat dung do not need to eat or drink anything else, because the dung provides all the necessary nutrients.
Most dung beetles search for dung using their sensitive sense of smell. Some of the smaller species simply attach themselves to the dung-providers to wait for their reward. After capturing the dung, a dung beetle will roll it, following a straight line despite all obstacles. Sometimes dung beetles will try to steal the dung ball from another beetle, so the dung beetles have to move rapidly away from a dung pile once they have rolled their ball to prevent it from being stolen. Dung beetles can roll up to 10 times their weight. Male Onthophagus taurus beetles can pull 1,141 times their own body weight: the equivalent of an average person pulling six double-decker buses full of people. In 2003, researchers found one species of dung beetle (the African Scarabaeus zambesianus) navigates by using polarization patterns in moonlight. The discovery is the first proof any animal can use polarized moonlight for orientation. In 2013 a study was published revealing that dung beetles can navigate when only the Milky Way or clusters of bright stars are visible, the only animal known to orient themselves with the galaxy.
The "rollers" roll and bury a dung ball either for food storage or for making a brooding ball. In the latter case, two beetles, one male and one female, will be seen around the dung ball during the rolling process. Usually it is the male that rolls the ball, with the female hitch-hiking or simply following behind. In some cases the male and the female roll together. When a spot with soft soil is found, they stop and bury the dung ball. They will then mate underground. After the mating, both or one of them will prepare the brooding ball. When the ball is finished, the female lays eggs inside it, a form of mass provisioning. Some species do not leave after this stage, but remain to safeguard their offspring.
The dung beetle goes through a complete metamorphosis. The larvae live in brood balls made with dung prepared by their parents. During the larval stage, the beetle feeds on the dung surrounding it.
The behavior of the beetles was much misunderstood until the pioneering studies of Jean Henri Fabre. For example, Fabre corrected the myth that a dung beetle would seek aid from other dung beetles when confronted by obstacles. By painstaking observations and experiments, he found the seeming helpers were, in fact, robbers awaiting an opportunity to steal the roller's food source:
“I ask myself in vain what Proudhon introduced into Scarabaean morality the daring paradox that "property means plunder", or what diplomatist taught the Dung-beetle the savage maxim that "might is right".
African dung beetles orient to the starry sky to move along straight paths
The beetles do not orientate to the individual stars, but to the Milky Way
Summary
When the moon is absent from the night sky, stars remain as celestial visual cues. Nonetheless, only birds [1,2], seals [3], and humans [4] are known to use stars for orientation. African ball-rolling dung beetles exploit the sun, the moon, and the celestial polarization pattern to move along straight paths, away from the intense competition at the dung pile [5,6,7,8,9]. Even on clear moonless nights, many beetles still manage to orientate along straight paths [5]. This led us to hypothesize that dung beetles exploit the starry sky for orientation, a feat that has, to our knowledge, never been demonstrated in an insect. Here, we show that dung beetles transport their dung balls along straight paths under a starlit sky but lose this ability under overcast conditions. In a planetarium, the beetles orientate equally well when rolling under a full starlit sky as when only the Milky Way is present. The use of this bidirectional celestial cue for orientation has been proposed for vertebrates [10], spiders [11], and insects [5,12], but never proven. This finding represents the first convincing demonstration for the use of the starry sky for orientation in insects and provides the first documented use of the Milky Way for orientation in the animal kingdom.
Where's the implanted 'tooth phone' that the tech companies predicted would be around by now? Instead they want us to buy a phone for our phone? Stop the world, it's officialy gone mad, and I want to get off!
French car company Peugeot has unveiled an air powered hybrid car, the Hybrid Air Concept, with the goal to have the car on the road by 2016. The air engine has been in development for more than two years with over 100 leading scientists and engineers working on the air powered car in top secret conditions at Peugeot’s research and development center at Velizy, south of Paris. The air engine system works by using a normal internal combustion engine, special hydraulics and an adapted gearbox along with compressed air cylinders that store and release energy. This allows the car to run on gas or air or a combination of the two. Air power would be used below 43 mph. The air compresses and decompresses as the car speeds up and slows down. Peugeot predicts the cars could be achieving an average of 73 mpg by 2020.
What this air engine does is remove the electric engine component from hybrid vehicles. This eliminates the need for a large battery, which cuts down on cost, weight, and negative environmental impact. Plus, you will not get stranded looking for a charger on some back country road. While pure compressed air cars have been tried before, this is the first application of a gas-compressed air hybrid. The system will be able to be installed on any normal Peugeot car without altering its external shape, size or trunk space if the spare is removed. From the exterior the air powered Peugeot will look identical to a conventional Peugeot. Peugeot will be introducing the air powered engine in smaller models such as the model 208 to start.
The French couldn't even fix a car let alone build one!
Remember the French made "Le Car"?
Years ago in upstate N.Y. I saw a beater of a red 'Le Car' parked at a roadside. The owner must've had a good sense of humor about owning it. He had the side door lettering changed from "Le Car" to "Le Crap"!
Except when its a trap and you get robbed and killed
Well, there was that time when I was a teenager in Manhattan. I walked up on a guy who was hitting and kicking a woman who was on the ground. I yelled at him to ''cut it out'', and before anything else happened, the woman gets up all angry and comes towards me. She was yelling something like, "Who the hell are you to talk to him like that, I should kick your ass..."
I threw up my hands and say, "Fine! Kill each other, see if I care!" and walk away. Ever since then I'm real careful about getting between two people fighting each other, they may actually be enjoying it.
I truly believe in the 'pay it forward', random acts of kindness ideology. When I see someone obviously having difficulty somehow, I many times do stop and ask them if I can help. It usually doesn't cost me up anything but a little of my time, and it helps me feel better about myself afterwards. How coders can apply this to 'hacking' though, how can they do that?
If you get so little return on your time as that, you might want to find a job that pays a bit better than graveyard shift at the Quik-E Mart.
Translation: I am a stupid rich fuck who can't work out how to open a slashdot account. My daddy got me a job in his bank, and aren't you little people funny?
*If* I am an 'idiot', as your cowardly AC post is suggesting, than what does that say about a person who replies to an 'idiot'? It says that, you are a fool. HAND
Yeah, well, who needs that extra "noise" during an interview? "That's not me, I swear! There's another guy with my name going around, he's the child molester He went bankrupt, not me!"
Interviewer: "So, you are telling me you have an 'evil twin' in life? Right..."
Though I did live in a place where the talk was that the landlord was a child molester. I did a quick google search on my phone and his picture pops up, with all the lurid details on the creep. So googling ppeople does serve as a good tool for checking up on people.
With a $20 screen protector (U.S. Army developed it to protect their helicopter rotor blades)
I misread that as "U.S. Army developed to protect from helicopter rotor blades" which would be pretty awesome.
Heh, no it won't protect your device from running helicopter blades, but it is a damn good screen protector. I bought it at BestBuy (ugh) when I bought this phone. I know I treat my phones roughly, the screens would eventually become real hard to read through the scuff marks. I believe it's this 'InvisibleShield', applied with a supplied solution/squeegee, just make sure the "precut for your device" 'shield' is exactly aligned, it sets up fast, or you have to do it over or live with it being slightly mis-aligned. It works great!, any scratch wipes right off and it doesn't interfere with using the touchscreen. Highly reccomend getting one for a nice smartphone.:) http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Mobile-Phone-Accessories/Surface-Screen-Protectors/pcmcat171900050031.c?id=pcmcat171900050031
It can be libel and true at the same time if it invades privacy, but I don't think it applies in this case.
True.
But bankruptcy rulings are public info in Australia. The bankruptcy is to protect you from your creditors, you cant do this the ruling is secret.
So,
Is Guy Hingston bankrupt = Yes
Is this public knowledge = Yes
Will this get thrown out of court = Yes
Will other 'Guy Hingstons' be unfairly associated with this 'Guy Hingstons' bankruptcy? Yes. There's where the problem is.
My full name isn't a common one, but there are about 30 people in the U.S. with it. If one of them goes bankrupt or commits crimes, that comes up in auto-complete. Potential employers searching my name would see info about another person with my name, assume it's me, and move on to the next applicant. So, yes, since google's so widely used, there needs to be a removal process in place.
The nice (and originally intended) function of the case is that it is also a case, and so when I accidentally spike my tablet into the ground, there's a reasonable chance it survives.
Even your stand is more of a hack than those presented in the arti... uh, blog post.
That's a decent price, couldnt see spending higher for a case. Usually I keep my android tablet home, since I have the android smartphone. With a $20 screen protector (U.S. Army developed it to protect their helicopter rotor blades), I can treat it rougher (as a phone should be able to be treated), it can be pocketed without worrying about scratching the screen.
If I do take the tablet outdoors, it gets slipped into a bubblewrap bag, then into a cloth pouch. It's a year old now, still looks like new.
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Dung beetles live in many different habitats, including desert, farmland, forest, and grasslands. They do not prefer extremely cold or dry weather. They are found on all continents except Antarctica.
Dung beetles eat dung excreted by herbivores and omnivores, and prefer that produced by the former. Many of them also feed on mushrooms and decaying leaves and fruits. One type living in Central America, Deltochilum valgum, is a carnivore preying upon millipedes. Those that eat dung do not need to eat or drink anything else, because the dung provides all the necessary nutrients.
Most dung beetles search for dung using their sensitive sense of smell. Some of the smaller species simply attach themselves to the dung-providers to wait for their reward. After capturing the dung, a dung beetle will roll it, following a straight line despite all obstacles. Sometimes dung beetles will try to steal the dung ball from another beetle, so the dung beetles have to move rapidly away from a dung pile once they have rolled their ball to prevent it from being stolen. Dung beetles can roll up to 10 times their weight. Male Onthophagus taurus beetles can pull 1,141 times their own body weight: the equivalent of an average person pulling six double-decker buses full of people. In 2003, researchers found one species of dung beetle (the African Scarabaeus zambesianus) navigates by using polarization patterns in moonlight. The discovery is the first proof any animal can use polarized moonlight for orientation. In 2013 a study was published revealing that dung beetles can navigate when only the Milky Way or clusters of bright stars are visible, the only animal known to orient themselves with the galaxy.
The "rollers" roll and bury a dung ball either for food storage or for making a brooding ball. In the latter case, two beetles, one male and one female, will be seen around the dung ball during the rolling process. Usually it is the male that rolls the ball, with the female hitch-hiking or simply following behind. In some cases the male and the female roll together. When a spot with soft soil is found, they stop and bury the dung ball. They will then mate underground. After the mating, both or one of them will prepare the brooding ball. When the ball is finished, the female lays eggs inside it, a form of mass provisioning. Some species do not leave after this stage, but remain to safeguard their offspring.
The dung beetle goes through a complete metamorphosis. The larvae live in brood balls made with dung prepared by their parents. During the larval stage, the beetle feeds on the dung surrounding it.
The behavior of the beetles was much misunderstood until the pioneering studies of Jean Henri Fabre. For example, Fabre corrected the myth that a dung beetle would seek aid from other dung beetles when confronted by obstacles. By painstaking observations and experiments, he found the seeming helpers were, in fact, robbers awaiting an opportunity to steal the roller's food source:
“I ask myself in vain what Proudhon introduced into Scarabaean morality the daring paradox that "property means plunder", or what diplomatist taught the Dung-beetle the savage maxim that "might is right".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dung_beetle
And I do thank you for those links, please accept this smileyface as payment... :^)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57566024-71/the-ultimate-gall-of-a-heartless-iphone-thief/
http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/
http://www4.lu.se/o.o.i.s/32351
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/dung-beetle-astronomy/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21150721
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982212015072
African dung beetles orient to the starry sky to move along straight paths The beetles do not orientate to the individual stars, but to the Milky Way Summary When the moon is absent from the night sky, stars remain as celestial visual cues. Nonetheless, only birds [1,2], seals [3], and humans [4] are known to use stars for orientation. African ball-rolling dung beetles exploit the sun, the moon, and the celestial polarization pattern to move along straight paths, away from the intense competition at the dung pile [5,6,7,8,9]. Even on clear moonless nights, many beetles still manage to orientate along straight paths [5]. This led us to hypothesize that dung beetles exploit the starry sky for orientation, a feat that has, to our knowledge, never been demonstrated in an insect. Here, we show that dung beetles transport their dung balls along straight paths under a starlit sky but lose this ability under overcast conditions. In a planetarium, the beetles orientate equally well when rolling under a full starlit sky as when only the Milky Way is present. The use of this bidirectional celestial cue for orientation has been proposed for vertebrates [10], spiders [11], and insects [5,12], but never proven. This finding represents the first convincing demonstration for the use of the starry sky for orientation in insects and provides the first documented use of the Milky Way for orientation in the animal kingdom.
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982212015072
Where's the implanted 'tooth phone' that the tech companies predicted would be around by now? Instead they want us to buy a phone for our phone? Stop the world, it's officialy gone mad, and I want to get off!
What this air engine does is remove the electric engine component from hybrid vehicles. This eliminates the need for a large battery, which cuts down on cost, weight, and negative environmental impact. Plus, you will not get stranded looking for a charger on some back country road. While pure compressed air cars have been tried before, this is the first application of a gas-compressed air hybrid. The system will be able to be installed on any normal Peugeot car without altering its external shape, size or trunk space if the spare is removed. From the exterior the air powered Peugeot will look identical to a conventional Peugeot. Peugeot will be introducing the air powered engine in smaller models such as the model 208 to start.
http://gas2.org/2013/01/25/the-peugeot-air-powered-hybrid-car-could-hit-streets-by-2016/
The French couldn't even fix a car let alone build one!
Remember the French made "Le Car"?
Years ago in upstate N.Y. I saw a beater of a red 'Le Car' parked at a roadside. The owner must've had a good sense of humor about owning it. He had the side door lettering changed from "Le Car" to "Le Crap"!
Make all the ewoks talk like Seth McFarland's "Ted" and you've got something.
Dear God! Be prepared for time travel, alternative world storylines, and tons of ridiculous lens flare in every shot.
... and a good 10% of the visual involving violent shaking of the camera, while the actors stay perfectly still.
That was my first thought, though it sounds like the 'powers that be' have been making noises about moving those soldiers into the African continent.
Yeah, there are a few times you will get smacked down for helping people in life. Though the good events far outweigh the bad ones.
"Soylent Green" hard drives...
Except when its a trap and you get robbed and killed
Well, there was that time when I was a teenager in Manhattan. I walked up on a guy who was hitting and kicking a woman who was on the ground. I yelled at him to ''cut it out'', and before anything else happened, the woman gets up all angry and comes towards me. She was yelling something like, "Who the hell are you to talk to him like that, I should kick your ass..."
I threw up my hands and say, "Fine! Kill each other, see if I care!" and walk away. Ever since then I'm real careful about getting between two people fighting each other, they may actually be enjoying it.
I truly believe in the 'pay it forward', random acts of kindness ideology. When I see someone obviously having difficulty somehow, I many times do stop and ask them if I can help. It usually doesn't cost me up anything but a little of my time, and it helps me feel better about myself afterwards. How coders can apply this to 'hacking' though, how can they do that?
If you get so little return on your time as that, you might want to find a job that pays a bit better than graveyard shift at the Quik-E Mart.
Translation: I am a stupid rich fuck who can't work out how to open a slashdot account. My daddy got me a job in his bank, and aren't you little people funny?
Well said, and probably quite accurate. :^)
*If* I am an 'idiot', as your cowardly AC post is suggesting, than what does that say about a person who replies to an 'idiot'? It says that, you are a fool. HAND
Interviewer: "So, you are telling me you have an 'evil twin' in life? Right..."
Though I did live in a place where the talk was that the landlord was a child molester. I did a quick google search on my phone and his picture pops up, with all the lurid details on the creep. So googling ppeople does serve as a good tool for checking up on people.
With a $20 screen protector (U.S. Army developed it to protect their helicopter rotor blades)
I misread that as "U.S. Army developed to protect from helicopter rotor blades" which would be pretty awesome.
Heh, no it won't protect your device from running helicopter blades, but it is a damn good screen protector. I bought it at BestBuy (ugh) when I bought this phone. I know I treat my phones roughly, the screens would eventually become real hard to read through the scuff marks. I believe it's this 'InvisibleShield', applied with a supplied solution/squeegee, just make sure the "precut for your device" 'shield' is exactly aligned, it sets up fast, or you have to do it over or live with it being slightly mis-aligned. It works great!, any scratch wipes right off and it doesn't interfere with using the touchscreen. Highly reccomend getting one for a nice smartphone. :) http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Mobile-Phone-Accessories/Surface-Screen-Protectors/pcmcat171900050031.c?id=pcmcat171900050031
It can be libel and true at the same time if it invades privacy, but I don't think it applies in this case.
True. But bankruptcy rulings are public info in Australia. The bankruptcy is to protect you from your creditors, you cant do this the ruling is secret. So, Is Guy Hingston bankrupt = Yes Is this public knowledge = Yes Will this get thrown out of court = Yes
Will other 'Guy Hingstons' be unfairly associated with this 'Guy Hingstons' bankruptcy? Yes. There's where the problem is.
My full name isn't a common one, but there are about 30 people in the U.S. with it. If one of them goes bankrupt or commits crimes, that comes up in auto-complete. Potential employers searching my name would see info about another person with my name, assume it's me, and move on to the next applicant. So, yes, since google's so widely used, there needs to be a removal process in place.
What if someone with the same name as his loses business because people assume it's the same person?
The nice (and originally intended) function of the case is that it is also a case, and so when I accidentally spike my tablet into the ground, there's a reasonable chance it survives. Even your stand is more of a hack than those presented in the arti... uh, blog post.
That's a decent price, couldnt see spending higher for a case. Usually I keep my android tablet home, since I have the android smartphone. With a $20 screen protector (U.S. Army developed it to protect their helicopter rotor blades), I can treat it rougher (as a phone should be able to be treated), it can be pocketed without worrying about scratching the screen.
If I do take the tablet outdoors, it gets slipped into a bubblewrap bag, then into a cloth pouch. It's a year old now, still looks like new.
If you get so little return on your time as that, you might want to find a job that pays a bit better than graveyard shift at the Quik-E Mart.
Great, another idiot AC elitist with his little put down responds.