And (hopefully) your son will have a hard time getting his (grand)kids to, "Put down that damn replicator and fly me to my doctors appointment on Mars! We didn't have these fancy 'space cars' when I was your age, you know. We made do with sub-sonic travel, and we liked it!"
Some of the grains have "rounded edges", not sharp edges, very good 'evidence' Mars has had water in the past.
In a Jan. 15 press briefing, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory researchers showed close-up photographs of the shallow depression, dubbed Yellowknife Bay, where the rover is located, about 500 meters west of its landing site. High-resolution photos of sand and rocks taken by Curiosity show signs of the presence of water in the past. Individual grains of sand have rounded edges from being "knocked around, busted up by some process," said Aileen Yingst of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson and deputy principal investigator for the Mars Science Lab. "Because they're relatively large on the sand size spectrum, [that] indicates water."
My library in Long Island, N.Y., not only does ebook - ereader- laptop lending, they pay to have the Freegal music download service (the entire Sony catalog) for their patrons. I download 3 drm-free tracks every week to add to my collection. A giant selection of cd/dvd discs to borrow, internet access, books and ebooks, what isn't at my branch gets sent from other libraries within 3 days. Modern libraries aren't just paper books anymore.
50+ year old neckbeard here. If you took away all my tech devices, I'd be ok. Take my smartphone away, I know I'll adjust back to the way I used to live before they existed. Take away my Garmin/Google maps, I'll dig out my Hagstrom maps to find out how to get where I need to go, or ask someone if they know. Take away my computer/tablet/video games and lock me in a room with just a bouncy rubber ball for 3 days. When you open the door to let me out. I'll probably tell you, "I'll come out in a little while, I'm still having fun in here!"
Tech is cool, and I love what we have nowadays. But I don't let it control me, or my life, to the point where I'd be lost and crying without it.
And with what I just read about what people had to go through 'Clippy' (in the linked article), I didn't miss out on anything important. Sort of sounds like a mini-hell to me.
When you are in 'starvation mode', your body saves every calorie it gets so that it can be burned later. This is an evolutionay trait from when humans went for long periods between meals. You might not get to chase down and successfully kill another deer for months.
When your body has consistent meals for about thirty days or so, your body 'learns' that it is now 'okay' to begin burning extra calories again.
In civilized countries, a defendant is considered innocent until proven guilty. It is at the charge of the prosecutor to prove that he is guilty.
It is my understand that it is not the case in the US, and that it is at the charge of the defendant to prove that he is innocent.
Just want to say that no one has ever been "proven innocent" in a U.S. court. The best you can do is be acquitted or found not guilty.
From what very little I gleaned of this episode,the young man would have needed $1,000,000 to mount his defense, I have read. He believed that information paid for by tax dollars should be free, not costing 10 cents a page or whatever to download. He felt the weight of the world on his shoulders, and mistakenly believed that suicide was his best option. A very sad case indeed.
Sucide is never the answer to lifes problems. Never! Never give up! There's always hope that around the corner is a better tomorrow. If not tomorrow, then one day afterward, but do not give up, ever.
My sympathies go out to this young mans family and friends.
To be specific, I am referring to the fact that both Apple and Microsoft employ astroturfers to post material favorable to themselves on community sites. Just like morally bankrupt communists. Do you wish me to be more specific? (Just show up with some more spinmod points and I will oblige.)
Well, that's because Android is a thorn in the side of Apple, and Android on a desktop scares the crap out of Microsoft.
It's $60-$80 for the 'treatment'. I dropped my phone in a creek last year, a few days in a bag of white rice dried it out. There's lots of cool stuff at the CES that I won't be buying.
My local library sells quite decent sounding earbuds for its computer users for a buck. Thats it, one buck. And you know what, they sound quite good to this 50+ neckbeard. I buy a couple at a time, have a drawer filled with backups. I treat them careful so as to not stress the connections, but when they eventually break or get lost, I'm not upset, I grab another pair. Life's too short to be worrying about expensive earbuds, just my 2 cents.
I just want to remind / point out to anyone reading here that alcohol is a 'drug', and it is a dangerous one. It just happens to be a legal drug. There are good reasons for these laws that prohibit young people from using alcohol. It ruins more lives than illegal drugs.
Study: Alcohol 'most harmful drug,' followed by crack and heroin By the CNN Wire Staff November 1, 2010 1:14 p.m. EDTLondon, England (CNN) -- "Alcohol ranks "most harmful" among a list of 20 drugs, beating out crack and heroin when assessed for its potential harm to the individual imbibing and harm to others, according to study results released by a British medical journal. A panel of experts from the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs weighed the physical, psychological, and social problems caused by the drugs and determined that alcohol was the most harmful overall, according to an article on the study released by The Lancet on Sunday." http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/01/alcohol.harm/index.html
"PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA scientists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., effectively have ruled out the possibility the asteroid Apophis will impact Earth during a close flyby in 2036. The scientists used updated information obtained by NASA-supported telescopes in 2011 and 2012, as well as new data from the time leading up to Apophis' distant Earth flyby yesterday (Jan. 9).
Discovered in 2004, the asteroid, which is the size of three-and-a-half football fields, gathered the immediate attention of space scientists and the media when initial calculations of its orbit indicated a 2.7 percent possibility of an Earth impact during a close flyby in 2029. Data discovered during a search of old astronomical images provided the additional information required to rule out the 2029 impact scenario, but a remote possibility of one in 2036 remained - until yesterday.
"With the new data provided by the Magdalena Ridge [New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology] and the Pan-STARRS [Univ. of Hawaii] optical observatories, along with very recent data provided by the Goldstone Solar System Radar, we have effectively ruled out the possibility of an Earth impact by Apophis in 2036," said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at JPL. "The impact odds as they stand now are less than one in a million, which makes us comfortable saying we can effectively rule out an Earth impact in 2036. Our interest in asteroid Apophis will essentially be for its scientific interest for the foreseeable future."
The April 13, 2029, flyby of asteroid Apophis will be one for the record books. On that date, Apophis will become the closest flyby of an asteroid of its size when it comes no closer than 19, 400 miles (31,300 kilometers) above Earth's surface.
"But much sooner, a closer approach by a lesser-known asteroid is going to occur in the middle of next month when a 40-meter-sized asteroid, 2012 DA14, flies safely past Earth's surface at about 17,200 miles," said Yeomans. "With new telescopes coming online, the upgrade of existing telescopes and the continued refinement of our orbital determination process, there's never a dull moment working on near-Earth objects."
Yeah 50 years ago they said we'd be living on the moon by now.
I think you are overestimating how quickly our technology would advance in 23 years by a large margin. Nobody seriously considers that we'll have some awesome new power source that would allow us to lasso and pull anything close to this asteroid's mass.
You may be right. Even if this would hit us, it's not a planet destroyer by any stretch of the imagination. I just read that a land hit would equal 30 times the strength of our largest current h-bomb. Ground shaking, I wouldn't want to be in that area, to be sure. Odds would favor an ocean strike anyway. We are becoming more aware of what's beyond our little blue marble, which is great. That knowledge may end up saving the planet sometime down the line. I won't be making any end of the world predictions over this, though. The odds are far too astronomical against it.:-)
ZDNet story link below. Basically says it's more a p.r. nightmare for Nokia not disclosing their practice. Also, since Finland is part of the EU, Nokia would get bankrupted if they were found to be diverting data for nefarious reasons.
1. invade china
2. ask the UN to sanction china
3. ask the UN to write them a harshly worded letter
4. mine for our own resources
5. recycle existing rare earth stockpiles (aka your local landfill)
May I add... 6. Worldwide cooperation in the exploration / exploitation of nearby asteroids. One side benefit being: No need to conquer / control other lands & its people for their earth resources.
It seems to keep getting a little closer with each return orbit.
That is not how orbital mechanics works. In fact close approaches change the orbit rather drastically.
Yes, it was my 'opinion' when I stated that "it seems to be getting closer" (where's the "Edit Comment" button?). We won't know what the orbit path will be until after it passes us in 2029.
They're also saying that Apophis will pass within 36,000 km of Earth in 2029. Now that's not missing us by much.
And that'll be about the right time for our space-tech to have caught up enough for us to be able to 'lasso' it. If we miss it then, by it's expected return in 2036 we'd better be able to control it. It seems to keep getting a little closer with each return orbit.
From the above link:
" The asteroid will return to Earth's neighbourhood again in 2036, but quite how close it will come then is uncertain, as the 2029 approach is predicted to alter its orbit substantially. Obtaining improved physical parameters for Apophis and its orbit is thus of great importance in being able to make better predictions of its future trajectory."
Read more at:
Thanks for that, every field has their elite, the best of the best. I must admit that my head was spinning a bit after reading through all the posts here, seems serious gaming is not for the timid (picks up rectangular Super Nintendo joystick and sighs).
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.zdnet.com/new-android-malware-infects-100000-chinese-smartphones-7000000497/
Not in Google Play at all.
Thank you! These 7000 plus apps were 3rd party apps that were not downloaded from Google Play.
"Queue?"
"No, it's Q, just Q"
"Cue?"
"NO! Q! Just Q, dammit! Spell it right or I'll banish you to the farthest edge of the universe!!!"
"Okay! Jeez, you don't have to get all omnipotent about it."
And (hopefully) your son will have a hard time getting his (grand)kids to, "Put down that damn replicator and fly me to my doctors appointment on Mars! We didn't have these fancy 'space cars' when I was your age, you know. We made do with sub-sonic travel, and we liked it!"
In a Jan. 15 press briefing, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory researchers showed close-up photographs of the shallow depression, dubbed Yellowknife Bay, where the rover is located, about 500 meters west of its landing site. High-resolution photos of sand and rocks taken by Curiosity show signs of the presence of water in the past. Individual grains of sand have rounded edges from being "knocked around, busted up by some process," said Aileen Yingst of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson and deputy principal investigator for the Mars Science Lab. "Because they're relatively large on the sand size spectrum, [that] indicates water."
http://m.iwgov.com/264939/show/a1412b9dd084473569011d6612b77cf8/?
My library in Long Island, N.Y., not only does ebook - ereader- laptop lending, they pay to have the Freegal music download service (the entire Sony catalog) for their patrons. I download 3 drm-free tracks every week to add to my collection. A giant selection of cd/dvd discs to borrow, internet access, books and ebooks, what isn't at my branch gets sent from other libraries within 3 days. Modern libraries aren't just paper books anymore.
http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur
I used to go with friends and shoot at ranges for fun. I've grown up since then.
Tech is cool, and I love what we have nowadays. But I don't let it control me, or my life, to the point where I'd be lost and crying without it.
And with what I just read about what people had to go through 'Clippy' (in the linked article), I didn't miss out on anything important. Sort of sounds like a mini-hell to me.
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/mit_regrets_any_role_tragedy
When your body has consistent meals for about thirty days or so, your body 'learns' that it is now 'okay' to begin burning extra calories again.
In civilized countries, a defendant is considered innocent until proven guilty. It is at the charge of the prosecutor to prove that he is guilty. It is my understand that it is not the case in the US, and that it is at the charge of the defendant to prove that he is innocent.
Just want to say that no one has ever been "proven innocent" in a U.S. court. The best you can do is be acquitted or found not guilty.
http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/handheld/ces-2013-5-dumbest-ideas/240146154
Sucide is never the answer to lifes problems. Never! Never give up! There's always hope that around the corner is a better tomorrow. If not tomorrow, then one day afterward, but do not give up, ever.
My sympathies go out to this young mans family and friends.
To be specific, I am referring to the fact that both Apple and Microsoft employ astroturfers to post material favorable to themselves on community sites. Just like morally bankrupt communists. Do you wish me to be more specific? (Just show up with some more spinmod points and I will oblige.)
Well, that's because Android is a thorn in the side of Apple, and Android on a desktop scares the crap out of Microsoft.
It's $60-$80 for the 'treatment'. I dropped my phone in a creek last year, a few days in a bag of white rice dried it out. There's lots of cool stuff at the CES that I won't be buying.
You might want to waterproof your phone with 'Hz0', shown off at the CES. I saw a demo, it's a coating any device, inside and out, supposedly warranteed for 2 years. http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/01/12/ces-2012-hzo-waterblock-can-waterproof-your-phone-or-tablet/
My local library sells quite decent sounding earbuds for its computer users for a buck. Thats it, one buck. And you know what, they sound quite good to this 50+ neckbeard. I buy a couple at a time, have a drawer filled with backups. I treat them careful so as to not stress the connections, but when they eventually break or get lost, I'm not upset, I grab another pair. Life's too short to be worrying about expensive earbuds, just my 2 cents.
Study: Alcohol 'most harmful drug,' followed by crack and heroin By the CNN Wire Staff November 1, 2010 1:14 p.m. EDTLondon, England (CNN) -- "Alcohol ranks "most harmful" among a list of 20 drugs, beating out crack and heroin when assessed for its potential harm to the individual imbibing and harm to others, according to study results released by a British medical journal. A panel of experts from the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs weighed the physical, psychological, and social problems caused by the drugs and determined that alcohol was the most harmful overall, according to an article on the study released by The Lancet on Sunday." http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/01/alcohol.harm/index.html
"PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA scientists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., effectively have ruled out the possibility the asteroid Apophis will impact Earth during a close flyby in 2036. The scientists used updated information obtained by NASA-supported telescopes in 2011 and 2012, as well as new data from the time leading up to Apophis' distant Earth flyby yesterday (Jan. 9).
Discovered in 2004, the asteroid, which is the size of three-and-a-half football fields, gathered the immediate attention of space scientists and the media when initial calculations of its orbit indicated a 2.7 percent possibility of an Earth impact during a close flyby in 2029. Data discovered during a search of old astronomical images provided the additional information required to rule out the 2029 impact scenario, but a remote possibility of one in 2036 remained - until yesterday.
"With the new data provided by the Magdalena Ridge [New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology] and the Pan-STARRS [Univ. of Hawaii] optical observatories, along with very recent data provided by the Goldstone Solar System Radar, we have effectively ruled out the possibility of an Earth impact by Apophis in 2036," said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at JPL. "The impact odds as they stand now are less than one in a million, which makes us comfortable saying we can effectively rule out an Earth impact in 2036. Our interest in asteroid Apophis will essentially be for its scientific interest for the foreseeable future."
The April 13, 2029, flyby of asteroid Apophis will be one for the record books. On that date, Apophis will become the closest flyby of an asteroid of its size when it comes no closer than 19, 400 miles (31,300 kilometers) above Earth's surface.
"But much sooner, a closer approach by a lesser-known asteroid is going to occur in the middle of next month when a 40-meter-sized asteroid, 2012 DA14, flies safely past Earth's surface at about 17,200 miles," said Yeomans. "With new telescopes coming online, the upgrade of existing telescopes and the continued refinement of our orbital determination process, there's never a dull moment working on near-Earth objects."
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid20130110.html
*ducks*
Yeah 50 years ago they said we'd be living on the moon by now.
I think you are overestimating how quickly our technology would advance in 23 years by a large margin. Nobody seriously considers that we'll have some awesome new power source that would allow us to lasso and pull anything close to this asteroid's mass.
You may be right. Even if this would hit us, it's not a planet destroyer by any stretch of the imagination. I just read that a land hit would equal 30 times the strength of our largest current h-bomb. Ground shaking, I wouldn't want to be in that area, to be sure. Odds would favor an ocean strike anyway. We are becoming more aware of what's beyond our little blue marble, which is great. That knowledge may end up saving the planet sometime down the line. I won't be making any end of the world predictions over this, though. The odds are far too astronomical against it. :-)
http://www.zdnet.com/nokia-hijacks-mobile-browser-traffic-decrypts-https-data-7000009655/
possible solutions:
1. invade china 2. ask the UN to sanction china 3. ask the UN to write them a harshly worded letter 4. mine for our own resources 5. recycle existing rare earth stockpiles (aka your local landfill)
May I add... 6. Worldwide cooperation in the exploration / exploitation of nearby asteroids. One side benefit being: No need to conquer / control other lands & its people for their earth resources.
It seems to keep getting a little closer with each return orbit.
That is not how orbital mechanics works. In fact close approaches change the orbit rather drastically.
Yes, it was my 'opinion' when I stated that "it seems to be getting closer" (where's the "Edit Comment" button?). We won't know what the orbit path will be until after it passes us in 2029.
They're also saying that Apophis will pass within 36,000 km of Earth in 2029. Now that's not missing us by much.
And that'll be about the right time for our space-tech to have caught up enough for us to be able to 'lasso' it. If we miss it then, by it's expected return in 2036 we'd better be able to control it. It seems to keep getting a little closer with each return orbit.
From the above link:
" The asteroid will return to Earth's neighbourhood again in 2036, but quite how close it will come then is uncertain, as the 2029 approach is predicted to alter its orbit substantially. Obtaining improved physical parameters for Apophis and its orbit is thus of great importance in being able to make better predictions of its future trajectory." Read more at:
Thanks for that, every field has their elite, the best of the best. I must admit that my head was spinning a bit after reading through all the posts here, seems serious gaming is not for the timid (picks up rectangular Super Nintendo joystick and sighs).