"The researchers first levitated a young mouse, just three-week-old and weighing 10 grams. It appeared agitated and disoriented, seemingly trying to hold on to something. 'It actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin faster and faster, and we think that made it even more disoriented,' said researcher Yuanming Liu, a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. They decided to mildly sedate the next mouse they levitated, which seemed content with floating. "
I'm generally disoriented when spinning without friction. And generally content once mildly sedated.
My site of choice in recent weeks has been www.electoral-vote.com whose keeper had this to say before turning in at 0400hrs:
The site did extremely well. With three servers running lighttpd we were able to handle 300,000 visitors/hour and 2500 requests/sec at the peak. The total number of visitors yesterday was just over 3 million.
Perhaps not the scale of a Yahoo, but impressive nonetheless. Oh - it's a great site too!
Nice site! I found when I first moved to the developing world that people would drop off without provocation. I figured out that most people in really poor countries lack adequate privacy and comfort at home and are often sleep deprived. If they can put their heads down anywhere during the day, they will. And who'd blame them?
I ran a small computer lab in Sierra Leone that had three shifts of data entry of electoral data. I'd frequently hear beeping as some of the operators fell asleep on their keyboards!
I'd have to concur with this post and an earlier one that questioned Ian (no M) Banks' more recent non-SciFi work.
Consider Phlebas and Player of Games are Ian M. Banks' works that I keep coming back to.
One other fine one is Feersum Endjinn (spelling?).
I'd offer to reimburse anyone who bought any of these books and didn't think them excellent value for money, but I just know I'd be flooded with bogus claims from cheapskates...
I pay about US$0.20 per Megabyte here in Pakistan. For that I get HSPDA and, so long as I'm in a city, it work well, reliable and fast.
When I go home to Ireland, I put an Irish prepaid SIM card in my phone. I asked them (wisely) how much their 3G service costs. They told me it was Euro10.00 PER MEGABYTE. Needless to say, I disabled all the data functions on my Windows Mobile smartphone.
Why the phenomenal difference between the two data tariffs? Nobody could tell me. Some media stories surrounding the announcement by the European Union that they were looking at Roaming charges suggested that the high price of data services cross-subsidises lower voice and SMS costs. In any properly regulated telecoms market, that sort of cross-subsidy should be banned. It is no longer business customers who want data services - telcos who stack it high and sell it cheap will gain market share and should smell the coffee.
In fairness, a post-paid data-only 3G subscription is available in Ireland for Euro50 (for the dongle) and Euro15 per month (that will increase after three months and the service is capped at 5Gb per month). This is more reasonable. But 10 per day? No way Jose...
Mod Parent up - I buy the theory that they blocked YouTube because they were hosting some powerful video evidence of rigging in full flow. This, more than some blasphemous content, would motivate the authorities here IMHO (and I've lived here for 18 months) to block YouTube. But I doubt that they deliberately sought to take YouTube down. Still, stranger things have happened.
It (YT) is back working again from Pakistan this evening. Suspect the embarrassment caused by their hamfistedness forced a rethink. Time and time again, they block certain domains - for example- Blogspot was blocked during the state of emergency and in the run up to the Feb 18th Elections. Anyone with tuppence worth of skill can circumvent these restrictions by using anonymous proxies available out there. So it's a blunt instrument.
BTW as rummy as this story is, it's also a good sign that the Feds doesn't possess some magical method of factoring enormous primes that they're not telling anyone about.
If I were the Feds (and I'm not, honest), the first thing I'd do after discovering a method to factor enormous primes would be to slap a writ on several outfits like Hushmail, precisely to perpetuate the notion that I could not factor enormous primes.
A man who has the reputation of rising at dawn may sleep until noon.
I think it was Danny Baker, the UK DJ/talk radio/TV host who said that "we are the first generation who are hipper than our children". Those of us who lived through punk and new wave (70's and early 80's) in particular saw how "youf" culture was slowly but inevitably swallowed up by the brand giants.
The vast majority of young people are hoodwinked into buying stuff and thinking it and themselves cool/hip/trendy when they're simply meeting the projections of the corporate marketing suits.
Naturally, there's a minority who plough their own furrows, but it's tiny.
So, I'm not likely to use the sentence:
"Hey son, those are some rad tunes on your interblog site! What's that? It's got a good beat!"
And more likely to say something like: "you poor soak, why don't you stop listening to (enter name of hip young band) and try the original..."
Help A Youth - Expose them to Good Music. That's my motto.
"...the new stack is actually a much better ground to build drivers upon that the current mess)."
Now this is really telling. I have heard some voices in the storm complaining about how Linux wireless support really sucked. All too often, these voices were shouted down - "RTFM", "well, it worked fine for me" - you know the drill. To read the 2.6.22 release notes and see the current Linux wireless stack described as "the current mess" is heartening and acknowledges the elephant in the room.
I look forward to downloading and trying the first live-CD distro to incorporate the new kernel and some available new drivers. Out of the box WiFi support - bring it on!
In obvious breach of the privacy of sick people, doctors and nurses have been asking questions, observing vital signs and recording the data on charts. Some have been going so far as to take samples of blood and other body fluids and tissues and taking these away to unknown "labs" for analysis.
These behaviours were defended by doctors as "necessary to ensure accurate diagnosis and to allow proper theraputic responses".
But we're having NONE of it. LEAVE SICK PEOPLE ALONE, YOU SICK PEOPLE...
The turnout was reported at 84% - a post-war record and considerably higher than past elections. It could just be that capacity planning was to blame, rather than the voting machines.
All elections planning must assume 100% turnout - otherwise, you're planning for disenfranchisement. Typically, over 100% paper ballots will be allocated to polling stations, to allow for spoiled papers etc.
But, I've never, ever encountered an election where they only catered for some percentage above the previous election's turnout. And I work in elections support all over the world.
I will follow this story closely as the pattern (same vendor of e-voting machines) is worrying. Thanks for raising the poor planning issue as a possiblity - but I think that's not the problem here.
Slashdot Mirror
"The researchers first levitated a young mouse, just three-week-old and weighing 10 grams. It appeared agitated and disoriented, seemingly trying to hold on to something. 'It actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin faster and faster, and we think that made it even more disoriented,' said researcher Yuanming Liu, a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. They decided to mildly sedate the next mouse they levitated, which seemed content with floating. "
I'm generally disoriented when spinning without friction. And generally content once mildly sedated.
I agree completely. It's Apple and AT&T People - what did you expect??
As they say in Dublin in these situations "I'm bitin' me nails in an orgy of indifference"...
That is the best suggestion that has been made.
And that's a terrible indictment of this entire discussion...
My site of choice in recent weeks has been www.electoral-vote.com whose keeper had this to say before turning in at 0400hrs:
The site did extremely well. With three servers running lighttpd we were able to handle 300,000 visitors/hour and 2500 requests/sec at the peak. The total number of visitors yesterday was just over 3 million.
Perhaps not the scale of a Yahoo, but impressive nonetheless. Oh - it's a great site too!
Nice site! I found when I first moved to the developing world that people would drop off without provocation. I figured out that most people in really poor countries lack adequate privacy and comfort at home and are often sleep deprived. If they can put their heads down anywhere during the day, they will. And who'd blame them?
I ran a small computer lab in Sierra Leone that had three shifts of data entry of electoral data. I'd frequently hear beeping as some of the operators fell asleep on their keyboards!
If I post a few photos from a recent endoscopy, can this program guess where I had it done?
Or, at least, tell me if my piles are recovering?
Amen.
I like the elegant simplicity of this solution.
I'd have to concur with this post and an earlier one that questioned Ian (no M) Banks' more recent non-SciFi work.
Consider Phlebas and Player of Games are Ian M. Banks' works that I keep coming back to.
One other fine one is Feersum Endjinn (spelling?).
I'd offer to reimburse anyone who bought any of these books and didn't think them excellent value for money, but I just know I'd be flooded with bogus claims from cheapskates...
I pay about US$0.20 per Megabyte here in Pakistan. For that I get HSPDA and, so long as I'm in a city, it work well, reliable and fast.
When I go home to Ireland, I put an Irish prepaid SIM card in my phone. I asked them (wisely) how much their 3G service costs. They told me it was Euro10.00 PER MEGABYTE. Needless to say, I disabled all the data functions on my Windows Mobile smartphone.
Why the phenomenal difference between the two data tariffs? Nobody could tell me. Some media stories surrounding the announcement by the European Union that they were looking at Roaming charges suggested that the high price of data services cross-subsidises lower voice and SMS costs. In any properly regulated telecoms market, that sort of cross-subsidy should be banned. It is no longer business customers who want data services - telcos who stack it high and sell it cheap will gain market share and should smell the coffee.
In fairness, a post-paid data-only 3G subscription is available in Ireland for Euro50 (for the dongle) and Euro15 per month (that will increase after three months and the service is capped at 5Gb per month). This is more reasonable. But 10 per day? No way Jose...
Mod Parent up - I buy the theory that they blocked YouTube because they were hosting some powerful video evidence of rigging in full flow. This, more than some blasphemous content, would motivate the authorities here IMHO (and I've lived here for 18 months) to block YouTube. But I doubt that they deliberately sought to take YouTube down. Still, stranger things have happened.
It (YT) is back working again from Pakistan this evening. Suspect the embarrassment caused by their hamfistedness forced a rethink. Time and time again, they block certain domains - for example- Blogspot was blocked during the state of emergency and in the run up to the Feb 18th Elections. Anyone with tuppence worth of skill can circumvent these restrictions by using anonymous proxies available out there. So it's a blunt instrument.
But then, as we've read last week, you probably get a trojaned kit anyway. :)
What - Sony are selling Phishing Kits now?
PhS3 anyone?
BTW as rummy as this story is, it's also a good sign that the Feds doesn't possess some magical method of factoring enormous primes that they're not telling anyone about.
If I were the Feds (and I'm not, honest), the first thing I'd do after discovering a method to factor enormous primes would be to slap a writ on several outfits like Hushmail, precisely to perpetuate the notion that I could not factor enormous primes.
A man who has the reputation of rising at dawn may sleep until noon.
I think it was Danny Baker, the UK DJ/talk radio/TV host who said that "we are the first generation who are hipper than our children". Those of us who lived through punk and new wave (70's and early 80's) in particular saw how "youf" culture was slowly but inevitably swallowed up by the brand giants.
The vast majority of young people are hoodwinked into buying stuff and thinking it and themselves cool/hip/trendy when they're simply meeting the projections of the corporate marketing suits.
Naturally, there's a minority who plough their own furrows, but it's tiny.
So, I'm not likely to use the sentence:
"Hey son, those are some rad tunes on your interblog site! What's that? It's got a good beat!"
And more likely to say something like: "you poor soak, why don't you stop listening to (enter name of hip young band) and try the original..."
Help A Youth - Expose them to Good Music. That's my motto.
...is their commitment to stating the obvious. At length...
The 2,000,000 article is actually the last article to be part of the first 2,000,000 articles and the 2,000,001 is the first of the third million.
I'm glad they cleared that up - I wondered whether the 2,000,000 article might be actually the one millionth or perhaps the 4 millionth....
I tried turning my Oracle server on its side to get column-store access. Strangely, I didn't see any increase in performance.
No, no, no - you have to re-mount the disk drives at 90 degrees - turning the entire server won't work.
[CEO] Hmmm, sales of "Turd" have dropped off severely...
... ? ...
[Marketing Guy] Let's rebrand.
[CEO] Ok, what do you suggest?
[Marketing Guy] How about "Blossom"
[CEO] I love it. Lets run with that...
"...the new stack is actually a much better ground to build drivers upon that the current mess)."
Now this is really telling. I have heard some voices in the storm complaining about how Linux wireless support really sucked. All too often, these voices were shouted down - "RTFM", "well, it worked fine for me" - you know the drill. To read the 2.6.22 release notes and see the current Linux wireless stack described as "the current mess" is heartening and acknowledges the elephant in the room.
I look forward to downloading and trying the first live-CD distro to incorporate the new kernel and some available new drivers. Out of the box WiFi support - bring it on!
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Who is this DCMA of whom you speak?
Would she like to join us on the patio for drinks later?
Doctors And Nurses Spy on Patients
In obvious breach of the privacy of sick people, doctors and nurses have been asking questions, observing vital signs and recording the data on charts. Some have been going so far as to take samples of blood and other body fluids and tissues and taking these away to unknown "labs" for analysis.
These behaviours were defended by doctors as "necessary to ensure accurate diagnosis and to allow proper theraputic responses".
But we're having NONE of it. LEAVE SICK PEOPLE ALONE, YOU SICK PEOPLE...
Oh, wait a minute...
The turnout was reported at 84% - a post-war record and considerably higher than past elections. It could just be that capacity planning was to blame, rather than the voting machines.
All elections planning must assume 100% turnout - otherwise, you're planning for disenfranchisement. Typically, over 100% paper ballots will be allocated to polling stations, to allow for spoiled papers etc.
But, I've never, ever encountered an election where they only catered for some percentage above the previous election's turnout. And I work in elections support all over the world.
I will follow this story closely as the pattern (same vendor of e-voting machines) is worrying. Thanks for raising the poor planning issue as a possiblity - but I think that's not the problem here.
...falls off the bedside locker and rolls about aimlessly more like.
/. I was expecting some real smart features such as:
This being
o Learns the layout of your bedroom
o Jumps off the locker before it goes off
o Hides in the optimum place
o Doesn't hide in the same place twice
o Has a proximity sensor - runs away as you try to pick it up.
Based on the Yew-Toob clips, I reckon this gadget would last about 5 minuted in my house. It's simply too easy to hit with a stick.
Hurrah - Vista application # 1001 - edlin
Go Microsoft!
FTA:
Open source community can get very good at defending against patent
litigation very quickly.
Prior art claims, third-party reviews, using Internet to help "patent
busters" coordinate efforts.
Real possibility that 100% of Microsoft patents will be attacked in
initial counterstrike.
I can't wait!
I also love the Hyundai & Lamborghini "interface standard" comparison. Tres drole that one.
....on iTunes, no-one knows you're a dog....
So my house smells of the sea - reminding me of idyllic childhood holidays and endless summers.
But I have to pay a little man to beat off the sea birds who have come in search of plankton. I live 1,400km from the ocean.
Pros and cons...