These CIA guys are people just like you and I. They happen to work for the US Government and they happen to do classified work. What possible motivation could a newspaper reporter have in uncovering covert agents, operations, and locations? The CIA is ON OUR SIDE guys.
I'm not sure why I'm bothering to reply to this since you obviously don't know a whole lot about real estate. The tax assessor's assessment is for tax purposes only. If the house were up for sale, a real assessment would likely be done and would hopefully come in somewhere near the selling price.
Because the original assessment was more than the value that we finally settled upon and I continued to pay the regular assessments (just not the supplemental ones).
I purchased a home and it was subsequently reassessed for $100,000.00 more than I paid for it. There was no way to reason with the assessor's office so I had to take my fight to city hall (assessment appeals board). It's very much like a courtroom environment where you are the defense attorney and the assessor is the prosecutor. I had prepared my case well and the "prosecutor" settled and gave me everything I was asking for just before the hearing. He didn't want the board to see how badly he had screwed up. It still took over a year for the proper assessment to take effect (retroactively) and for the tax lein to be removed (I refused to overpay). I eventually got several checks from the county for my overpayments.
I think there is a culture of corruption in some areas where they will deliberately overassess your property thinking that you will not bother to fight it. Obviously in this case it was taken to an extreme.
This reminds me of the old SUN3 workstations. There was almost no security. You could remotely log into another machine, do a "screendump" to an NFS shared partition, and then do a "screenload" on your local workstation to see what anyone was doing anywhere. We used it to look at the managment plan to outsource our entire division to another state and knew about the plan 2 weeks before it was announced.
"A second significant difference, according to Rosenthal, is that it should be considerably easier to use the magic-sized quantum dots to make an "electroluminescent device" - a light source powered directly by electricity - because they can be used with a wider selection of binding compounds without affecting their emissions characteristics. Other research groups have reported stimulating quantum dots to produce light by applying an electrical current. Of course, those produced colored light. So, one of the projects at the top of Rosenthal's list is to duplicate that feat with magic-sized nanocrystals to see if they will produce white light when electrically stimulated."
The PMSNBC article doesn't get into much detail. There's a better source here.
The manufacturer specifically says to only use these in a RAID-1 configuration (mirroring). They have a reason for this: The error recovery mechanisim is abbreviated. So what does Sal do... He connects two drives in a RAID-0 configuration. Now his data reliability has gone to about 1/4 of a regular drive.
If the speakers have an 8 Ohm impeadance, and the power rating is over 1800 Watts, simply plug the speaker into the nearest 120VAC outlet (7200 Watts for you 240VAC guys). (Double the numbers for 4 Ohm speakers.)
When the speakers explode in a violently loud manner, simply return them to the place of purchase.
From TFA: "You Too Can Exploit Windows' Bad Security My PC's firewall, antivirus scanner, spyware remover, pop-up blocker, and spam filter all agree: Windows is sorely lacking in PC security. That situation may not change until Windows Vista (formerly Longhorn) comes out sometime next year. Meanwhile here are a few ways to turn Windows' poor security to your advantage."
As most people here already know, Microsoft does not focus on bug fixes in their new releases. Their primary focus is on new features. Sure, some of the old bugs may be gone -- but some new ones will be sure to pop up with the new functionality. Just because Longhorn is newer, that doesn't make it better or more secure.
In my personal opinion, Microsoft deliberately ships shoddy software so everyone will flock to the new releases. It's human nature to believe that "newer is better" but that is not always the case. It has proven to be a highly successful business model for M$.
I misread the headline and at first glance, I saw: "IBM 360 to have HD-DVD, Eventually". My brain was churning around the possibilities and consequences of attaching such high density storage to such an ancient computer when I read the headline again and saw my error.
1) Why does it cost so much just to read a bunch of old tapes and store the data in a new format? (A single 500GB SATA drive ought to do it!)
2) There may be no plans to send any more SPIN STABILIZED spacecraft out that way, but there are plans to send 3 axis spacecraft. Why would the method of attitude control have anything at all to do with this phenomenon?
Earth has only existed for 4.5 billion years. The far side object is over twice that old so the short answer is no.
Also, just because the near and far objects appear to be lined up with our galaxy, it doesn't mean that our galaxy and the near object were in line with the far object 13 billion years ago. You must shed the notion of light traveling instainiously and in straight lines. The source object is nowhere near where it was then, and there is no such thing as "now".
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... "and you can put your hand on your computer case to see just how much energy is dissipated as heat"...
You seem to have forgotten that the heat loss in computers is due to the SEMICONDUCTORS inside. You know, those pesky little PN junctions made from doped silicon, germanium, or rust? Adding superconductors to the power subsystem in a computer would do nothing to reduce the radiated heat.
Fortunately Carly spun off the test and measurement instrument group into "Agilent". They have always produced the best instrumentation in the industry and continue to do so. It's a shame that they've lost the HP name, but they are still a top notch company.
Sorry I'm replying a few days late. Here are the details: I used Southwest's automated check-in kiosk so all I needed was a credit card. None of the security screeners (or anyone else) asked to see anything other than a boarding pass (printed by the kiosk).
This was the first time in many years that I did not need to produce an ID to board a flight. I had it ready the whole time and was really surprised that I did not need it.
I traveled from San Jose airport (SJC) last week and was surprised that I was not required to produce ID. The gate agent even specifically said that they no longer require ID at SJC.
I don't mean to intrude into your dialog, but you've both missed the point that the Ten Commandments are from the book of Exodus which is Old Testament. That means they pre-date Jesus by a long time. The commandments are recognized by religons other than Christianity.
Sorry but if it were an MTU problem, the first 8K would not have made it out OK. The maximum MTU is 1500 octets. MTU was the first thing I thought of so I reduced it to 200 with no positive effect.
I've taken a few trips to P.R.C. since my wife is from there. I had a few problems trying to upload photos from a digital camera to a server back home (yes, I used disposable passwords). First I attempted to FTP the files directly to the server. I found that the FTP connection was dropped after transferring about 8k bytes. Next, I tried http put to my web server with a similar result. Finally I tried to send each picture as an e-mail attachment. This also failed. It seems that China does not want any unauthorized information going OUT of the country. I finally tried running an FTP server locally on the dynamic IP (163.net) and connecting to it from outside (after telnetting to my US based server). Amazingly enough it worked! Files can be moved out of China from an internal server but not from a client.
As far as free access to information goes, good luck. They seem to have several layers of control. The first layer is DNS. Just about any US based radio or TV domain name will not resolve. You might be able to get to the site if you can get the IP address (perhaps using a method similar to above). Many sites use the hostname in the http query to determine which site to serve, in these cases you're out of luck. There may be DNS and web proxies that you can use but these are fleeting.
What's the next new technology in computers? That's right; it's MRAM (Magnetic RAM). How will MRAM function in the presence of these strong alternating magnetic fields? Answer: Not very well.
You could probably charge a laptop more effectively with light if its case were fabricated with quad junction GaAs cells (under clear plastic). Then there would be no need for any radiation sources other than ambient light.
Beleive it or not, it works fine. I've done this myself. The POTS interface is a standard. On-hook and off-hook voltages and currents are pretty much standardized. There's a "ringer equivalence" specification that indicates how much juice it takes to make the bell gong.
Motorola makes something called a "Cellular Connection". It's a box that plugs into the phone on one side, and provides an RJ-11 POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) connection on the other. It supports pulse dialing too so there's no need for any PIC firmware debugging.
I doubt that the channel A data recovered via radiotelescope will be of much value to the doppler wind experiment. Consider that the recovered signal will be doppler shifted by: 1) The rotation of Titan 2) The orbit of Titan around Saturn 3) The orbit of saturn around Sol 4) The rotation of Earth 5) The orbit of Earth around Sol
I'm not saying it's an impossible task, but it certainly is a challenging one. If Cassini did not process the Huygens probe data (but simply recorded it and played it back during transmission to earth), and the radiotelescopes recovered channel B data as well, it might be possible to correlate the RT channel B data with that downlinked from the repeater on board Cassini. Then they could apply the difference to the channel A RT data and recover the original. Lots of assumptions on my part here.
I haven't read anywhere about the quality of the recovered RT signal but I also doubt that anyone will be able to decode much of the modulated data on it.
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These CIA guys are people just like you and I. They happen to work for the US Government and they happen to do classified work. What possible motivation could a newspaper reporter have in uncovering covert agents, operations, and locations? The CIA is ON OUR SIDE guys.
I'm not sure why I'm bothering to reply to this since you obviously don't know a whole lot about real estate. The tax assessor's assessment is for tax purposes only. If the house were up for sale, a real assessment would likely be done and would hopefully come in somewhere near the selling price.
Because the original assessment was more than the value that we finally settled upon and I continued to pay the regular assessments (just not the supplemental ones).
I purchased a home and it was subsequently reassessed for $100,000.00 more than I paid for it. There was no way to reason with the assessor's office so I had to take my fight to city hall (assessment appeals board). It's very much like a courtroom environment where you are the defense attorney and the assessor is the prosecutor. I had prepared my case well and the "prosecutor" settled and gave me everything I was asking for just before the hearing. He didn't want the board to see how badly he had screwed up. It still took over a year for the proper assessment to take effect (retroactively) and for the tax lein to be removed (I refused to overpay). I eventually got several checks from the county for my overpayments.
I think there is a culture of corruption in some areas where they will deliberately overassess your property thinking that you will not bother to fight it. Obviously in this case it was taken to an extreme.
This reminds me of the old SUN3 workstations. There was almost no security. You could remotely log into another machine, do a "screendump" to an NFS shared partition, and then do a "screenload" on your local workstation to see what anyone was doing anywhere. We used it to look at the managment plan to outsource our entire division to another state and knew about the plan 2 weeks before it was announced.
From a different article:
"A second significant difference, according to Rosenthal, is that it should be considerably easier to use the magic-sized quantum dots to make an "electroluminescent device" - a light source powered directly by electricity - because they can be used with a wider selection of binding compounds without affecting their emissions characteristics. Other research groups have reported stimulating quantum dots to produce light by applying an electrical current. Of course, those produced colored light. So, one of the projects at the top of Rosenthal's list is to duplicate that feat with magic-sized nanocrystals to see if they will produce white light when electrically stimulated."
The PMSNBC article doesn't get into much detail. There's a better source here.
The manufacturer specifically says to only use these in a RAID-1 configuration (mirroring). They have a reason for this: The error recovery mechanisim is abbreviated. So what does Sal do... He connects two drives in a RAID-0 configuration. Now his data reliability has gone to about 1/4 of a regular drive.
If the speakers have an 8 Ohm impeadance, and the power rating is over 1800 Watts, simply plug the speaker into the nearest 120VAC outlet (7200 Watts for you 240VAC guys). (Double the numbers for 4 Ohm speakers.)
When the speakers explode in a violently loud manner, simply return them to the place of purchase.
From TFA: "You Too Can Exploit Windows' Bad Security
My PC's firewall, antivirus scanner, spyware remover, pop-up blocker, and spam filter all agree: Windows is sorely lacking in PC security. That situation may not change until Windows Vista (formerly Longhorn) comes out sometime next year. Meanwhile here are a few ways to turn Windows' poor security to your advantage."
As most people here already know, Microsoft does not focus on bug fixes in their new releases. Their primary focus is on new features. Sure, some of the old bugs may be gone -- but some new ones will be sure to pop up with the new functionality. Just because Longhorn is newer, that doesn't make it better or more secure.
In my personal opinion, Microsoft deliberately ships shoddy software so everyone will flock to the new releases. It's human nature to believe that "newer is better" but that is not always the case. It has proven to be a highly successful business model for M$.
Foobar is an abbreviation for "fscked out of order beyond all repair".
I misread the headline and at first glance, I saw: "IBM 360 to have HD-DVD, Eventually". My brain was churning around the possibilities and consequences of attaching such high density storage to such an ancient computer when I read the headline again and saw my error.
In this case, they are asking for 100% of the money since SCO was negligent in their administrative duties.
1) Why does it cost so much just to read a bunch of old tapes and store the data in a new format? (A single 500GB SATA drive ought to do it!)
2) There may be no plans to send any more SPIN STABILIZED spacecraft out that way, but there are plans to send 3 axis spacecraft. Why would the method of attitude control have anything at all to do with this phenomenon?
Earth has only existed for 4.5 billion years. The far side object is over twice that old so the short answer is no.
Also, just because the near and far objects appear to be lined up with our galaxy, it doesn't mean that our galaxy and the near object were in line with the far object 13 billion years ago. You must shed the notion of light traveling instainiously and in straight lines. The source object is nowhere near where it was then, and there is no such thing as "now".
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... "and you can put your hand on your computer case to see just how much energy is dissipated as heat" ...
You seem to have forgotten that the heat loss in computers is due to the SEMICONDUCTORS inside. You know, those pesky little PN junctions made from doped silicon, germanium, or rust? Adding superconductors to the power subsystem in a computer would do nothing to reduce the radiated heat.
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Fortunately Carly spun off the test and measurement instrument group into "Agilent". They have always produced the best instrumentation in the industry and continue to do so. It's a shame that they've lost the HP name, but they are still a top notch company.
Sorry I'm replying a few days late. Here are the details: I used Southwest's automated check-in kiosk so all I needed was a credit card. None of the security screeners (or anyone else) asked to see anything other than a boarding pass (printed by the kiosk).
This was the first time in many years that I did not need to produce an ID to board a flight. I had it ready the whole time and was really surprised that I did not need it.
I traveled from San Jose airport (SJC) last week and was surprised that I was not required to produce ID. The gate agent even specifically said that they no longer require ID at SJC.
I don't mean to intrude into your dialog, but you've both missed the point that the Ten Commandments are from the book of Exodus which is Old Testament. That means they pre-date Jesus by a long time. The commandments are recognized by religons other than Christianity.
Sorry but if it were an MTU problem, the first 8K would not have made it out OK. The maximum MTU is 1500 octets. MTU was the first thing I thought of so I reduced it to 200 with no positive effect.
I've taken a few trips to P.R.C. since my wife is from there. I had a few problems trying to upload photos from a digital camera to a server back home (yes, I used disposable passwords). First I attempted to FTP the files directly to the server. I found that the FTP connection was dropped after transferring about 8k bytes. Next, I tried http put to my web server with a similar result. Finally I tried to send each picture as an e-mail attachment. This also failed. It seems that China does not want any unauthorized information going OUT of the country. I finally tried running an FTP server locally on the dynamic IP (163.net) and connecting to it from outside (after telnetting to my US based server). Amazingly enough it worked! Files can be moved out of China from an internal server but not from a client.
As far as free access to information goes, good luck. They seem to have several layers of control. The first layer is DNS. Just about any US based radio or TV domain name will not resolve. You might be able to get to the site if you can get the IP address (perhaps using a method similar to above). Many sites use the hostname in the http query to determine which site to serve, in these cases you're out of luck. There may be DNS and web proxies that you can use but these are fleeting.
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Sigs are a waste of space
What's the next new technology in computers? That's right; it's MRAM (Magnetic RAM). How will MRAM function in the presence of these strong alternating magnetic fields? Answer: Not very well.
You could probably charge a laptop more effectively with light if its case were fabricated with quad junction GaAs cells (under clear plastic). Then there would be no need for any radiation sources other than ambient light.
--
sigs are a waste of space
Beleive it or not, it works fine. I've done this myself. The POTS interface is a standard. On-hook and off-hook voltages and currents are pretty much standardized. There's a "ringer equivalence" specification that indicates how much juice it takes to make the bell gong.
Motorola makes something called a "Cellular Connection". It's a box that plugs into the phone on one side, and provides an RJ-11 POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) connection on the other. It supports pulse dialing too so there's no need for any PIC firmware debugging.
--
Sigs are a waste of space
I doubt that the channel A data recovered via radiotelescope will be of much value to the doppler wind experiment. Consider that the recovered signal will be doppler shifted by:
1) The rotation of Titan
2) The orbit of Titan around Saturn
3) The orbit of saturn around Sol
4) The rotation of Earth
5) The orbit of Earth around Sol
I'm not saying it's an impossible task, but it certainly is a challenging one. If Cassini did not process the Huygens probe data (but simply recorded it and played it back during transmission to earth), and the radiotelescopes recovered channel B data as well, it might be possible to correlate the RT channel B data with that downlinked from the repeater on board Cassini. Then they could apply the difference to the channel A RT data and recover the original. Lots of assumptions on my part here.
I haven't read anywhere about the quality of the recovered RT signal but I also doubt that anyone will be able to decode much of the modulated data on it.
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sigs are a waste of space