I think it's kind of interesting that they would de-res the courtyards of the neighboring office buildings. I can understand the rooftops, but presumably the courtyards are visible to visitors. Besides - what would be interesting about what's in the courtyards?
The cloak-and-dagger stuff just makes it all the more interesting. The fact that they filled in trees over a tennis court sure makes it seem like maybe it isn't just a tennis court.:)
Well, until I saw this post, I was thinking that Bezos might be using Armadillo as their contractor. The combination of peroxide, vertical take-off/landing and a Texas locale sounds a lot like Armadillo's story.
Keep up the good work, John. There's nothing like tinkering to change the world...:-)
Anikin is the prophesied ender of the Sith - which he does. The Jedis just got the time frame wrong. He ends the sith - it just takes many more years and his own son about to be killed by the emperor to do it. (Of course, that begs the question: surely the Sith trained others?)
Our favorite Pennsylvanian elected official, Rick Santorum, wants to make basic weather information unavailable to the public - so companies in his state can profit off our tax dollars. Not a first, but definitely a fist.
Don't forget, Santorum is up for re-election in 2006. If you don't work for a weather company, tell all your Pennsylvanian friends to vote against this idiot.
It's pretty simple. If you get on a commercial aircraft, you're implicitely agreeing to whatever rules they tell you. So don't be a schmuck and do what you promised to do. Don't turn on your cell phone. Don't use your laptop, game boy, whatever until after you're in the air for 10 minutes.
You agreed to it, so do what you agreed to do.
Second guessing them doesn't get you anywhere, it's just being shitty.
By the way, the AOPA right now is working to get cell phone use from the air approved. If that's done then you'll probably be allowed to use your cell phone. Until then, keep it and your bluetooth and anything else that has a transmit function off.
I can't estimate that as any useful number. But the reason it takes photons so long to get to the surface of a star is because they keep hitting things. It takes about a million years for a photon from the center of the sun to get out. Here's a link: http://www.astronomynotes.com/starsun/s7.htm
The neutrino gets out pretty much at the speed of light.
The problem is, you're talking about a different reaction. It's dependent on whatever reaction is causing the gamma-ray burst. Ask a physist how long the collision takes.
If we really are talking a collision, though, I'd say there's also a possiblity of gravity waves getting out well before the gamma ray burst. Another indicator that somethings about to pop. And another technology that's on the verge of being possible.
Actually, there might be a way to get a little bit of warning, depending on the source of the gamma ray burst.
Photons (gamma rays) take a long time to get out of a star. But neutrinos, because of their physical properties, pass right through most of the star. Most nuclear reactions that generate photons also generate neutrinos. They're just very hard to detect (because of that same physical property).
It could, when it's complete, pinpoint the source of the neutrinos. Given the energy level of the neutrinos and the sudden, large burst of them, a whole lot of scientists are going to be woken up - and I mean that literally.
An earlier version of the project, AMANDA http://amanda.wisc.edu/, already has a supernova detector. It hasn't gone off yet, but when it does it will start a sequence of events that ultimately steers a lot of telescopes to point at that supernova.
what I want to know is why isn't this same thing happening with the national elections? Sure, the first recount was tripped automatically because of a close election, but all the shenigans that follow are a result of people thinking there's something wrong with the system.
Is there _anyone_ that doesn't think something is wrong with our national system?
Start->Run->regedit Select the SimonTatham key File->Export Save the section on your USB key
On a new machine you can just double click on the.reg file and import all keys into the new machine.
Does anyone see any problems with this? Perhaps, you should be sure to _not_ take the RandomSeed key, since you'd like to have more randomness...
Orn
From the FAQ:
A.5.2 Where does PuTTY store its data?
On Windows, PuTTY stores most of its data (saved sessions, SSH host keys) in the Registry. The precise location is
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY
and within that area, saved sessions are stored under Sessions while host keys are stored under SshHostKeys.
PuTTY also requires a random number seed file, to improve the unpredictability of randomly chosen data needed as part of the SSH cryptography. This is stored by default in your Windows home directory (%HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%), or in the actual Windows directory (such as C:\WINDOWS) if the home directory doesn't exist, for example if you're using Win95. If you want to change the location of the random number seed file, you can put your chosen pathname in the Registry, at
Silly question, but where are PuTTY's config files kept? I'd like to keep a copy of the config file on the same USB key as my putty executable, but I'm not sure where they are stored.
Make some neat tools for that and a zillion simmers (and lots of poor pilots like me) will love you forever. Check out X-Plane while you're at it. Or even better, the open-source Flight Gear could probably use your help!
I actually think it's the other way around. Right now, anyway, you need the theatrical release in order to drive the downloads on the P2P site. Since it released big and had lots of press, there's a lot more people looking to download a copy on the P2P networks.
I base this partly on the observation that many, many movies on supranova have one or two people at most on them. Only the ones made popular in other mediums have a large number of downloaders.
If Moore wants the widest possible distribution, he should keep doing what he's doing. Let the movie run its course. And he should occasionally try to drive it back into the news headlines by making incendiary (to the mass-media) comments about pirating. In a couple of weeks, hopefully he can drum up a controversy about whether some tid-bit in the movie was factual or not. A few weeks after, he might release a little teaser in the form of a "where are they now" highlighting some of the people he showed in the movie.
The most important thing though, is that the movie needs to keep coming up in the mass media in order to keep more eyes on the ball.
The phrase "stunning graphics" on the WizBall poster is especially hilarious since you could buy the game on cassette for the C64. I played those games. I was not stunned.:-) Even back then.
Now, Karateka and Prince of Persia on the apple stunned me. Wow.
The article doesn't give enough information to entertain the statement "Next Ice Age 15000 years away", especially with the certainty that the statement implies.
Perhaps they should have said "given no human intervention, and if past records are an indicator of future performance (generally a no-no, but what have we got instead?), then the next ice age probably won't happen for 15000 years." But that doesn't make for a very pithy headline.
I think the research is fantastic. This kind of stuff gives us the baseline that we need in order to understand how we are affecting the world. But unfortunately carbon dating and other forms of isotope dating are generally not accurate enough to show us what's happening over the course of the last 50 years. Perhaps you could do a "count the rings" approach - looking for new ice accumulation each year and its eventual heavy freezing at -100 degrees... probably wouldn't work... but basically we don't know what we're doing to the atmosphere.
You would need a record that shows the amazing increases in various atmospheric components that we're putting into it and no subsequent effects...
Actually the most interesting bit of information seems either overlooked by the reporter or intentionally left oblique.
There was a change in length and temperature of the cold and warm spells that the Earth underwent. Given the numbers the article suggests, that change was relatively coincident with the change in CO2 levels. Well, now we've put CO2 level back where they were before... so why don't they assume that temperatures (and lengths of time) will go back to how they were then? (big assumption, but no bigger than "you're safe for 15000 years."
But stay away from any tinned green slime you find. It'll just turn you into green slime too... unless you happen to be green slime resistant of course.:-)
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Yes, you can. But it's hard.
Here is an excellent book written by a friend that has been pushing for his own cure:
It's actually a very slashdot concept. You learn everything there is to know about the disease. You find researchers working on the disease. You critically evaluate their research and then either emulate them or convince them to use you as an experimental subject.
Very, very hard. I'd say it's worth it. If I'm diagnosed with a life threatening disease, I fully intend to take this route and fight it right to the end.
Rudy
(ps. the book link is an amazon associates link because I highly recommend the book.)
It continues to amaze me the amount of intellectual property that is lifted directly from the natural world. I see this pretty easily, I'm sure the corporate execs see it, I wish our government could see it.
There is so much yet that we have to learn about the world. It makes me wonder why protecting it isn't higher on the list of priorities for the human race.
I'm not saying that the users are trustworthy. That's why you have a cron script reimage the drive regularly. It's not a last resort, it happens always.
Look, this knocks out a bunch of issues all at once:
1. Keeps all machines up to date with the latest everything (so long as you keep your master copy up to date).
2. Frees up power users from having to hunt down a sysop when they want to do something unique.
4. You still have admins and master configurations, so non-power users won't even know the difference. They probably won't even know they have root!
Open your mind a little. Did you trash your machine when you got root? Probably. Probably once or twice. But in so doing, you also learned how the machine worked.
Give them a sandbox to play in and they'll build castles.
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I think it's kind of interesting that they would de-res the courtyards of the neighboring office buildings. I can understand the rooftops, but presumably the courtyards are visible to visitors. Besides - what would be interesting about what's in the courtyards?
:)
The cloak-and-dagger stuff just makes it all the more interesting. The fact that they filled in trees over a tennis court sure makes it seem like maybe it isn't just a tennis court.
R
Well, until I saw this post, I was thinking that Bezos might be using Armadillo as their contractor. The combination of peroxide, vertical take-off/landing and a Texas locale sounds a lot like Armadillo's story.
:-)
Keep up the good work, John. There's nothing like tinkering to change the world...
R
You post misses something.
Anikin is the prophesied ender of the Sith - which he does. The Jedis just got the time frame wrong. He ends the sith - it just takes many more years and his own son about to be killed by the emperor to do it. (Of course, that begs the question: surely the Sith trained others?)
Watch out for the NOAA too.
Our favorite Pennsylvanian elected official, Rick Santorum, wants to make basic weather information unavailable to the public - so companies in his state can profit off our tax dollars. Not a first, but definitely a fist.
Don't forget, Santorum is up for re-election in 2006. If you don't work for a weather company, tell all your Pennsylvanian friends to vote against this idiot.
R
More likely it'll be "Hello, World."
:-)
Won't you be freaked out when your bacteria starts talking to you.
It's pretty simple. If you get on a commercial aircraft, you're implicitely agreeing to whatever rules they tell you. So don't be a schmuck and do what you promised to do. Don't turn on your cell phone. Don't use your laptop, game boy, whatever until after you're in the air for 10 minutes.
You agreed to it, so do what you agreed to do.
Second guessing them doesn't get you anywhere, it's just being shitty.
By the way, the AOPA right now is working to get cell phone use from the air approved. If that's done then you'll probably be allowed to use your cell phone. Until then, keep it and your bluetooth and anything else that has a transmit function off.
I can't estimate that as any useful number. But the reason it takes photons so long to get to the surface of a star is because they keep hitting things. It takes about a million years for a photon from the center of the sun to get out. Here's a link: http://www.astronomynotes.com/starsun/s7.htm
The neutrino gets out pretty much at the speed of light.
The problem is, you're talking about a different reaction. It's dependent on whatever reaction is causing the gamma-ray burst. Ask a physist how long the collision takes.
If we really are talking a collision, though, I'd say there's also a possiblity of gravity waves getting out well before the gamma ray burst. Another indicator that somethings about to pop. And another technology that's on the verge of being possible.
Well, so far, there haven't been any false positives from the supernova detector. :-)
Actually, there might be a way to get a little bit of warning, depending on the source of the gamma ray burst.
Photons (gamma rays) take a long time to get out of a star. But neutrinos, because of their physical properties, pass right through most of the star. Most nuclear reactions that generate photons also generate neutrinos. They're just very hard to detect (because of that same physical property).
Well, I'm working on a neutrino detector at the South Pole right now. http://icecube.wisc.edu/
It could, when it's complete, pinpoint the source of the neutrinos. Given the energy level of the neutrinos and the sudden, large burst of them, a whole lot of scientists are going to be woken up - and I mean that literally.
An earlier version of the project, AMANDA http://amanda.wisc.edu/, already has a supernova detector. It hasn't gone off yet, but when it does it will start a sequence of events that ultimately steers a lot of telescopes to point at that supernova.
Orwell's not spinning in his grave, he knew it was coming.
Ministry of Love?
No, Ministry of Data Privacy. What a fucked up country we (some of us, anyway) have.
what I want to know is why isn't this same thing happening with the national elections? Sure, the first recount was tripped automatically because of a close election, but all the shenigans that follow are a result of people thinking there's something wrong with the system.
Is there _anyone_ that doesn't think something is wrong with our national system?
Blech.
Here's an application that I find incredibly useful on my 6820: an opensource spreadsheet.
MicroCalc
Other (free?) applications that people really like on the 6820?
Hmm.. further exploration found an alternative method for doing this here:
h tml#S4.21
http://www.tartarus.org/~simon/puttydoc/Chapter4.
Thanks for the link.
.reg file and import all keys into the new machine.
n dS eedFile
You can export the settings using RegEdit
Start->Run->regedit
Select the SimonTatham key
File->Export
Save the section on your USB key
On a new machine you can just double click on the
Does anyone see any problems with this? Perhaps, you should be sure to _not_ take the RandomSeed key, since you'd like to have more randomness...
Orn
From the FAQ:
A.5.2 Where does PuTTY store its data?
On Windows, PuTTY stores most of its data (saved sessions, SSH host keys) in the Registry. The precise location is
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY
and within that area, saved sessions are stored under Sessions while host keys are stored under SshHostKeys.
PuTTY also requires a random number seed file, to improve the unpredictability of randomly chosen data needed as part of the SSH cryptography. This is stored by default in your Windows home directory (%HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%), or in the actual Windows directory (such as C:\WINDOWS) if the home directory doesn't exist, for example if you're using Win95. If you want to change the location of the random number seed file, you can put your chosen pathname in the Registry, at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Ra
On Unix, PuTTY stores all of this data in a directory ~/.putty.
Silly question, but where are PuTTY's config files kept? I'd like to keep a copy of the config file on the same USB key as my putty executable, but I'm not sure where they are stored.
Thanks...
DAFIF data contains all sorts of aviation related airspace and airport information. Here's a link:
f m
https://164.214.2.62/products/digitalaero/index.c
Make some neat tools for that and a zillion simmers (and lots of poor pilots like me) will love you forever. Check out X-Plane while you're at it. Or even better, the open-source Flight Gear could probably use your help!
I don't agree with this.
I actually think it's the other way around. Right now, anyway, you need the theatrical release in order to drive the downloads on the P2P site. Since it released big and had lots of press, there's a lot more people looking to download a copy on the P2P networks.
I base this partly on the observation that many, many movies on supranova have one or two people at most on them. Only the ones made popular in other mediums have a large number of downloaders.
If Moore wants the widest possible distribution, he should keep doing what he's doing. Let the movie run its course. And he should occasionally try to drive it back into the news headlines by making incendiary (to the mass-media) comments about pirating. In a couple of weeks, hopefully he can drum up a controversy about whether some tid-bit in the movie was factual or not. A few weeks after, he might release a little teaser in the form of a "where are they now" highlighting some of the people he showed in the movie.
The most important thing though, is that the movie needs to keep coming up in the mass media in order to keep more eyes on the ball.
Hehhe. Hilarious. Thanks for the great link.
The phrase "stunning graphics" on the WizBall poster is especially hilarious since you could buy the game on cassette for the C64. I played those games. I was not stunned. :-) Even back then.
Now, Karateka and Prince of Persia on the apple stunned me. Wow.
The article doesn't give enough information to entertain the statement "Next Ice Age 15000 years away", especially with the certainty that the statement implies.
Perhaps they should have said "given no human intervention, and if past records are an indicator of future performance (generally a no-no, but what have we got instead?), then the next ice age probably won't happen for 15000 years." But that doesn't make for a very pithy headline.
I think the research is fantastic. This kind of stuff gives us the baseline that we need in order to understand how we are affecting the world. But unfortunately carbon dating and other forms of isotope dating are generally not accurate enough to show us what's happening over the course of the last 50 years. Perhaps you could do a "count the rings" approach - looking for new ice accumulation each year and its eventual heavy freezing at -100 degrees... probably wouldn't work... but basically we don't know what we're doing to the atmosphere.
You would need a record that shows the amazing increases in various atmospheric components that we're putting into it and no subsequent effects...
Actually the most interesting bit of information seems either overlooked by the reporter or intentionally left oblique.
There was a change in length and temperature of the cold and warm spells that the Earth underwent. Given the numbers the article suggests, that change was relatively coincident with the change in CO2 levels. Well, now we've put CO2 level back where they were before... so why don't they assume that temperatures (and lengths of time) will go back to how they were then? (big assumption, but no bigger than "you're safe for 15000 years."
Rudy
But stay away from any tinned green slime you find. It'll just turn you into green slime too... unless you happen to be green slime resistant of course. :-)
Yes, you can. But it's hard.
Here is an excellent book written by a friend that has been pushing for his own cure:
Racing to a Cure
And his web site:
Ruzic Research Foundation
It's actually a very slashdot concept. You learn everything there is to know about the disease. You find researchers working on the disease. You critically evaluate their research and then either emulate them or convince them to use you as an experimental subject.
Very, very hard. I'd say it's worth it. If I'm diagnosed with a life threatening disease, I fully intend to take this route and fight it right to the end.
Rudy
(ps. the book link is an amazon associates link because I highly recommend the book.)
It's said by some that the burning of the library set civilization back as much as a thousand years.
Which just goes to show the importance of doing your back-ups!
It continues to amaze me the amount of intellectual property that is lifted directly from the natural world. I see this pretty easily, I'm sure the corporate execs see it, I wish our government could see it.
There is so much yet that we have to learn about the world. It makes me wonder why protecting it isn't higher on the list of priorities for the human race.
I'm not saying that the users are trustworthy. That's why you have a cron script reimage the drive regularly. It's not a last resort, it happens always.
Look, this knocks out a bunch of issues all at once:
1. Keeps all machines up to date with the latest everything (so long as you keep your master copy up to date).
2. Frees up power users from having to hunt down a sysop when they want to do something unique.
3. Keeps machines cruft free - if they're rebuilt, they're clean.
4. You still have admins and master configurations, so non-power users won't even know the difference. They probably won't even know they have root!
Open your mind a little. Did you trash your machine when you got root? Probably. Probably once or twice. But in so doing, you also learned how the machine worked.
Give them a sandbox to play in and they'll build castles.