If the crystals were not formed by bacteria, the most likely cause is natural geological or chemical processes. Those should be similar here and on Mars (although with different ratios of chemicals and differing gravity). Look at Chapter 3 of "Paleomagnetism: Magnetic Domains to Geologic Terranes" for details on formation of geologic magnetic materials.
When I read the headline, what I visualized was a system inside a clear plastic water bottle on top of a water cooler. Gee, there's even a chiller there to cool the water.
Hmm.. One RAID controller card costs less than a couple of cheap systems. The Escalade 12 can handle 12 ATA/133 drives. PCI. Hmm.. 6 PCI cards in one system has been done. 12*6=72 drives.
I wonder if it can handle old drives, and behave as a simple IDE controller with all drives different. (At least RAID 0 or RAID 1 only needs 2 disks of same size -- or maybe waste some space on the larger drive)
To make a movie instead of a slide show? To put bigger guns on the soldiers? To have a scene more interesting than bare ground with a couple of soldiers?
"pairs of women ("actresses and female models") at bars playing interactive Battleship"
I think this is calls for a DoS attack. A dozen people at the bar, or standing around the shills, playing Doom against each other. Is there a version with an oceanic map, and we're PT boats buzzing around blasting...um.. battleships?
"Problem is, you have to multiply the odds by the consequences."
A newspaper article today said the odds are only 1:250,000. As if those odds are acceptable.
So, what are acceptable odds on destruction of a continent? Is it OK to gamble on 1:100 odds within your lifetime? 1:1,000? 1:1,000,000? Is it OK if the odds are better or worse than those of one person being hit by lightning?
At what point is "keeping watch" but not taking action not a rational act?
No, astronomers probably would not see it coming. There have been several reports just in the last 2-3 years of asteroids which passed closer than the Moon but were not seen until after their closest approach.
"I bet if you had to lug a heavy laptop around in zero gravity for week..." you'd be calling it a massive laptop as it floated by. No weight.
There is another issue... No convection. Wearable computers need fans if they're not in a breeze and not being cooled by conduction to the wearer's body. But the fan design needs to minimize unbalanced thrust, so the wearer doesn't get an unwanted push.
OK, I was just wondering how useful an announced honeypot is...and what people might do with a known honeypot.
I don't know why they'd do anything when they know it is a honeypot, but at least if they get it stuck on their head we know what they are. Pooh
(Yes, I'm wondering about after they know it is a honeypot. Before that point, they're either wardriving or cracking, depending upon what they're doing.)
Darn, it's the weekend. I'll have to wait until Monday to turn on the soap operas and see how smoothly social skills are demonstrated by those who have years of experience in the dramatic arts...
Where in/proc can you see how many pixels you've painted since boot?
(Remember that if the number of keystrokes is globally visible on a machine, any program/user on that machine may be able to read what you are typing. The timing of keystrokes can be cryptographically attacked to produce the typed text.)
Sure, let's pull it into an L or Trojan position. It's coming this close, let's grab it and use all that stuff.
Actually, if it is made of stuff different than the Moon, let's drop it on the Moon. The Moon's orbit is decaying anyway, so we can give it a little boost...and create a rich mining area before the Moon gets occupied. How rich? A single metallic asteroid has more metals than we can reach in the Earth's crust.
Maybe when we capture the next asteroid we'll have enough stuff in space to be more confident in our handling of it. And a lot of that stuff in space may be made of this first rock.
You could create an RTF version. The current versions of MS-Word tend to understand that (search engine users: this is 2002, I can't avoid being wrong in the future).
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If the crystals were not formed by bacteria, the most likely cause is natural geological or chemical processes. Those should be similar here and on Mars (although with different ratios of chemicals and differing gravity). Look at Chapter 3 of "Paleomagnetism: Magnetic Domains to Geologic Terranes" for details on formation of geologic magnetic materials.
When I read the headline, what I visualized was a system inside a clear plastic water bottle on top of a water cooler. Gee, there's even a chiller there to cool the water.
I wonder if it can handle old drives, and behave as a simple IDE controller with all drives different. (At least RAID 0 or RAID 1 only needs 2 disks of same size -- or maybe waste some space on the larger drive)
Oh, here is more info in the FAQ.
To make a movie instead of a slide show?
To put bigger guns on the soldiers?
To have a scene more interesting than bare ground with a couple of soldiers?
If things can be fastened to it with bolts, welding, rope, or duct tape, it will carry weapons. It's a matter of what is needed and what can be done.
They obey the "three laws of robotics" just as much as your car does, and for the same reasons.
I think this is calls for a DoS attack.
A dozen people at the bar, or standing around the shills, playing Doom against each other.
Is there a version with an oceanic map, and we're PT boats buzzing around blasting...um.. battleships?
We are the Blog. Resistance is futile. You will be a-similie'd.
Is it a violation of the DMCA to attempt to circumvent the protection of the DMCA by damaging the DMCA?
Oh, then we definitely can't get hit by that asteroid. Good.
Hey, Wait!...
A newspaper article today said the odds are only 1:250,000. As if those odds are acceptable.
So, what are acceptable odds on destruction of a continent? Is it OK to gamble on 1:100 odds within your lifetime? 1:1,000? 1:1,000,000? Is it OK if the odds are better or worse than those of one person being hit by lightning?
At what point is "keeping watch" but not taking action not a rational act?
No, astronomers probably would not see it coming. There have been several reports just in the last 2-3 years of asteroids which passed closer than the Moon but were not seen until after their closest approach.
Literacy will increase by 2059!
There is another issue... No convection. Wearable computers need fans if they're not in a breeze and not being cooled by conduction to the wearer's body. But the fan design needs to minimize unbalanced thrust, so the wearer doesn't get an unwanted push.
I don't know why they'd do anything when they know it is a honeypot, but at least if they get it stuck on their head we know what they are. Pooh
(Yes, I'm wondering about after they know it is a honeypot. Before that point, they're either wardriving or cracking, depending upon what they're doing.)
Why does a shooter for the X-Box need to be developed?
Is it armored, so an ordinary gun can't destroy it properly?
I'll play Medieval Knight when the Virtual Trebuchet is available...
Darn, it's the weekend. I'll have to wait until Monday to turn on the soap operas and see how smoothly social skills are demonstrated by those who have years of experience in the dramatic arts...
Please direct your managers to me for all their purchases of open source products. I'll be glad to help.
Apparently Microsoft does not feel particularly threatened by the U.S. Department of Justice. Only by Snow White.
(Remember that if the number of keystrokes is globally visible on a machine, any program/user on that machine may be able to read what you are typing. The timing of keystrokes can be cryptographically attacked to produce the typed text.)
HTML should be fine for recipes. I don't know of tools to print HTML for a book...I can make a tool, but don't know of one already existing.
Actually, if it is made of stuff different than the Moon, let's drop it on the Moon. The Moon's orbit is decaying anyway, so we can give it a little boost...and create a rich mining area before the Moon gets occupied. How rich? A single metallic asteroid has more metals than we can reach in the Earth's crust.
Maybe when we capture the next asteroid we'll have enough stuff in space to be more confident in our handling of it. And a lot of that stuff in space may be made of this first rock.
For this purpose the non-geeky recipes will have to be filtered out... or they have to be geekified.
Maybe GeekRadio will donate The Bread of Frankenstein.
Make sure to invite Hemos the Iron Chef.
You could create an RTF version. The current versions of MS-Word tend to understand that (search engine users: this is 2002, I can't avoid being wrong in the future).