Well, professor Jim Woodward has been working on his Mach/Lorentz thruster for a while now and has a working setup in the lab, and multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals. With his theory it is in fact possible to build startrek-style impuls engines, warpdrives and wormholes. And it all fits in our existing theoretical knowledge. He has a book out, published by Springer-Verlag (they don't publish nonsense):
That is correct. That is why the Google DNS servers add your IP subnet (roughly) to the request they send to the authoritative DNS servers.
See for example Which CDNs support edns-client-subnet? on CDN Planet for more information.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/12/senior-fusion-researchers-give-major.html
In a major endorsement of the fusion energy research and development program of start-up Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP), a committee of senior fusion researchers, led by a former head of the US fusion program, has concluded that the innovative effort deserves “a much higher level of investment based on their considerable progress to date.” The report concludes that “In the committee’s view [LPP’s] approach to fusion power is worthy of a considerable expansion of effort.”
It's not that difficult. If they're driving and flashing their lights at you it means "I'm coming through". If they stop and flash it means "come on, go ahead". At least in.nl. YMMV.
actually, I think there's only one Autobahn now that has no speed limits. Everywhere else is pretty much Euro standard.
Really? Because just about everywhere that I can cross the dutch -> german border there is no speedlimit. That's all the same autobahn you say? Wow, so it must be 300 kilometers wide.. that's 60.000 lanes.. amazing German engineering.
The EU has a law from (2005-ish?) that requires all email headers for inbound/outbound users located in the EU be sent to EU-based law enforcement.
Nope. There is a requirement to log MAIL FROM / RCPT TO fields and keep those around for the "data-retention" time (differs between countries, 6 months to 2 years). It basically comes down to "set the rotate time for sendmail logs to 6 months". There is no information automatically sent to law enforcement. What's more, a lot of the EU countries have not implemented this directive in national law yet (unfortunately my country has).
Unless I am mistaken, Linux has a less stable (as in it change more, not crashes) API than FreeBSD. Having to adapt to this, multiple times, could ad to kludgy patch jobs in applications, making them run less and less efficiently
The internal linux kernel API is not set in stone, but the ABI for applications that run on the kernel is. You can start applications from 1998 on a 3.0 linux kernel from this year, and they will run.
As far as I can see the directive would require ISPs to record what sites I visit, not what I do on them. Isn’t this what they already do?
No, ISPs do not record what sites you visit. At least none that I know of (and I work in the industry). Why would they ? It would be outrageously expensive, for no gain.
Isn’t that information already available following a warrant anyway?
Well no, as ISPs do not record what sites you visit. They can put a tap on your line after a warrant though (Lawful Intercept), but that is for one user specifically, and nothing is recorded- a copy of the data that passes over the line is just sent in real-time to the justice department.
... let's see, If it were a child pornography site, then yes, I would agree with censorship.
Really ? I'd rather that the police just go and find the bastards that run the site, shut it down, and throw them in jail.
Blacklisting is just a "if we can't see it, it isn't there, great we're done" policy, which probably increases the very thing you're trying to prevent.
It's not going to happen. The police tried to run this scheme, and the ISPs almost fell for it. Then the minister of justice noticed what was going on, investigated it, and concluded that it was against the law (!).
Bit of a shame though. The agreement between ISPs and the police was much better then any future law will be.. which unfortunately is still just as likely as anywhere else in the world.
It had very good checks and balances built in. For example, the agreement was in the form of a contract, and it would become invalid the moment any non-child-porn site showed up on the list.
Oh well. All in all I'm happy it didn't go through. But I'm wondering what they will come up with next.
NetApp did something innovative with WAFL; Sun then came along, reimplemented everything, and called it ZFS
Well. Innovative? Around 2000, Daniel Phillips developed a linux filesystem called Tux2 that was based on the same ideas as WAFL, ZFS and maybe BTRFS. He knew about NetApps patents but believed there was enough prior art.
Unfortunately for filesystem innovation, it looks like he got bullied by netapp, so the project was abandoned.
It would be great if the WAFL patents could get invalidated, or at least their scope tightened, so that creative people can get on with innovative filesystem development once again.
Except for the recent and obvious example of Dr. Robert Bussard's Inertial Electro-static Confinment method
Indeed. Unfortunately Dr Bussard has passed away recently. However the project has funding again, and apparently they are builing a new prototype, WB7.
Bill Hilf, general manager of platform strategy for Microsoft, based in Redmond, Wash. :
"Look at it from my perspective. If I told customers we were working with open source and the OSI and they went to opensource.org and saw all the anti-Microsoft messages, what would they think? It just didn't make any sense".
In 2000, Daniel Phillips started developing a new Linux filesystem that would have many of the features netapps WAFL has, and ZFS has now.
This filesystem was called Tux2.
He was quite sure that the patents NetApp had on this weren't valid, because of prior art, and because his algorithm was quite different and quite a bit smarter:
Instead of asking the government for the source code of the app, why not ask that they publish the protocol used to talk to their servers ?
That way, every individual and/or company would be able to write a competing e-tax program for whatever platform.
I mean, the paper forms are "open" too right ? Everybody can read them and fill them out, it's not like they're written in Maori and only Maori tax-advisers can fill out your tax-form for you..
Slashdot Mirror
Wait what, the russian trolls are stil active on slashdot? Well, perhaps slashdot is not dead after all :)
So. What if you choose a passphrase that actually *is* testimonial in nature?
"Repeated studies have shown that in the Netherlands"
[citation needed]
Well, professor Jim Woodward has been working on his Mach/Lorentz thruster for a while now and has a working setup in the lab, and multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals. With his theory it is in fact possible to build startrek-style impuls engines, warpdrives and wormholes. And it all fits in our existing theoretical knowledge. He has a book out, published by Springer-Verlag (they don't publish nonsense):
http://www.springer.com/engineering/mechanical+engineering/book/978-1-4614-5622-3
Making Starships and Stargates
The Science of Interstellar Transport and Absurdly Benign Wormholes
Series: Springer Praxis Books Subseries: Space Exploration
Woodward, James F.
2013, XXVI, 279 p. 92 illus., 85 illus. in color.
That is correct. That is why the Google DNS servers add your IP subnet (roughly) to the request they send to the authoritative DNS servers. See for example Which CDNs support edns-client-subnet? on CDN Planet for more information.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/12/senior-fusion-researchers-give-major.html In a major endorsement of the fusion energy research and development program of start-up Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP), a committee of senior fusion researchers, led by a former head of the US fusion program, has concluded that the innovative effort deserves “a much higher level of investment based on their considerable progress to date.” The report concludes that “In the committee’s view [LPP’s] approach to fusion power is worthy of a considerable expansion of effort.”
Why isn't Paul Polman, CEO of Unox not on the list?
It's not that difficult. If they're driving and flashing their lights at you it means "I'm coming through". If they stop and flash it means "come on, go ahead". At least in .nl. YMMV.
actually, I think there's only one Autobahn now that has no speed limits. Everywhere else is pretty much Euro standard.
Really? Because just about everywhere that I can cross the dutch -> german border there is no speedlimit. That's all the same autobahn you say? Wow, so it must be 300 kilometers wide .. that's 60.000 lanes .. amazing German engineering.
The EU has a law from (2005-ish?) that requires all email headers for inbound/outbound users located in the EU be sent to EU-based law enforcement.
Nope. There is a requirement to log MAIL FROM / RCPT TO fields and keep those around for the "data-retention" time (differs between countries, 6 months to 2 years). It basically comes down to "set the rotate time for sendmail logs to 6 months". There is no information automatically sent to law enforcement. What's more, a lot of the EU countries have not implemented this directive in national law yet (unfortunately my country has).
Mike.
You can do the same with Android.
- I use my ISP's IMAP and SMTP servers
- I run my own calendar (caldav) and contacts (carddav) server, Davical right now.
You just need carddav-sync and caldav-sync for Android from http://dmfs.org/
Mike.
The internal linux kernel API is not set in stone, but the ABI for applications that run on the kernel is. You can start applications from 1998 on a 3.0 linux kernel from this year, and they will run.
Mike.
Irony .. isn't that like goldy and bronzy only made out of iron ?
Mike.
Woah that takes me back .. I think I still have that on single somewhere in the attic..
You forgot the youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qo1__kbwrA
(No this is not a rick-roll. It's worse. )
Mike.
You replace the menus with a single tiny menu, then put everything on the same line.
Tiny menu: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1455/
As far as I can see the directive would require ISPs to record what sites I visit, not what I do on them. Isn’t this what they already do?
No, ISPs do not record what sites you visit. At least none that I know of (and I work in the industry). Why would they ? It would be outrageously expensive, for no gain.
Isn’t that information already available following a warrant anyway?
Well no, as ISPs do not record what sites you visit. They can put a tap on your line after a warrant though (Lawful Intercept), but that is for one user specifically, and nothing is recorded- a copy of the data that passes over the line is just sent in real-time to the justice department.
Not just any woman.
Rember that Microsoft got fined hundreds of millions ?
Heard about the windows7 browser selection tool ?
That was all her work, actually.Until last year she was the European Competition Commissioner.
... let's see, If it were a child pornography site, then yes, I would agree with censorship.
Really ? I'd rather that the police just go and find the bastards that run the site, shut it down, and throw them in jail.
Blacklisting is just a "if we can't see it, it isn't there, great we're done" policy, which probably increases the very thing you're trying to prevent.
>could we harness this "force" and convert it into useable energy
Well, the Jovion corporation apparently has a method do do this- http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Jovion_Corporation_and_Zero_Point_Energy
Mike.
It's not going to happen. The police tried to run this scheme, and the ISPs almost fell for it. Then the minister of justice noticed what was going on, investigated it, and concluded that it was against the law (!).
Bit of a shame though. The agreement between ISPs and the police was much better then any future law will be .. which unfortunately is still just as likely as anywhere else in the world.
It had very good checks and balances built in. For example, the agreement was in the form of a contract, and it would become invalid the moment any non-child-porn site showed up on the list.
Oh well. All in all I'm happy it didn't go through. But I'm wondering what they will come up with next.
NetApp did something innovative with WAFL; Sun then came along, reimplemented everything, and called it ZFS
Well. Innovative? Around 2000, Daniel Phillips developed a linux filesystem called Tux2 that was based on the same ideas as WAFL, ZFS and maybe BTRFS. He knew about NetApps patents but believed there was enough prior art.
Unfortunately for filesystem innovation, it looks like he got
bullied
by netapp, so the project was abandoned.
It would be great if the WAFL patents could get invalidated, or at least their scope tightened, so that creative people can get on with innovative filesystem development once again.
Except for the recent and obvious example of Dr. Robert Bussard's Inertial Electro-static Confinment method
Indeed. Unfortunately Dr Bussard has passed away recently. However the project has funding again, and
apparently they are builing a new prototype, WB7.
There's a discussion site at http://www.talk-polywell.org/ .
Mike.
From the article:
Bill Hilf, general manager of platform strategy for Microsoft, based in Redmond, Wash. :
"Look at it from my perspective. If I told customers we were working with open source and the OSI and they went to opensource.org and saw all the anti-Microsoft messages, what would they think? It just didn't make any sense".
Yeah. I think this guy should get the facts. http://www.microsoft.com/canada/getthefacts/default.mspx
In 2000, Daniel Phillips started developing a new Linux filesystem that
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would have many of the features netapps WAFL has, and ZFS has now.
This filesystem was called Tux2.
He was quite sure that the patents NetApp had on this weren't valid,
because of prior art, and because his algorithm was quite
different and quite a bit smarter:
http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0010.0/
Yet somewhere in 2002, he gave up on Tux2, presumably due to pressure
from netapp: http://lkml.org/lkml/2002/8/26/138 .
I wonder what will happen to BTRFS in light of this new NetApp
legal action: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/btrfs/
Mike.
Instead of asking the government for the source code of the app, why not ask that they publish the protocol used to talk to their servers ?
..
That way, every individual and/or company would be able to write a competing e-tax program for whatever platform.
I mean, the paper forms are "open" too right ? Everybody can read them and fill them out, it's not like they're written in Maori and only Maori tax-advisers can fill out your tax-form for you
Mike.