On this page, they indicate that they purchased 20-22% efficient "space-grade" GaAs cells from an existing supplier, so it sounds like
they aren't doing their own geenration improvements, simply purchasing existing known
improvements. (Fine by me, just explaining
how I read this.)
Actually, seriously speaking the number is conveyed in the ET broadcast not as a decimal
epansion but as 2^NNNNNNN-1. This is a major hint to the ETs. (I forget what N is, it doesn't really matter.) Show that to someone familiar with number theory and the idea that it's a possible prime would come up before you had to start testing a lot of other properties of numbers. Then you have to test the idea, but that's not so hard.
Seems strange that the article was so sketchy on why the damage was done.
Doesn't to me. Premature guessing as to the
cause before investigation could be potentially
damaging to any funding sources. The funding
politics of large science projects can be quite
complex. Completely normal.
I Willis will hold up very well. Excellent writing quality, a unique vision, good characterization, and a lot of far-future ideas that aren't as likely to become anacrhonistic in the next 50 years. I love her work.
D'oh. You almost have to ding the FBI for not trying that one.:)
Still, if the FBI really went to that much trouble to do keylogging software that doesn't capture when the com ports are active, I have to admire their dedication to the letter of the law.
Read any history? Remember the embassy bombings
a few years back? Remember the US's diplomatic
efforts to extradite Bin Laden from Afghanistan
after that?
I see no reason to believe that the
Taliban ever had any intent of doing anything
except stalling for time after the 9/11 attacks.
Their duplicity is obvious from their statements
since 9/11 -- on one hand they say that they
have him under constant attention and know that
there is absolutely no way he could
have been involved, on the other hand they
lose him for days at a time.
Mind you--despite the media, the position of NATO et all was not that Bin Laden be handed over, but the entirity of the known Al Qaida network. While the Taliban continue to characterize US demands in regard only to Bin Laden, this does not accurately reflect the actual demands the US has made. So you're right when you say that handing over Bin Laden wouldn't have been enough--that was something that was clearly stated weeks ago.
As far as attacking the Taliban, I have claimed since before 9/11 that America might have a duty to displace the Taliban. If the Taliban treated members of some race the way they treat women, the world would have been at war with them long ago. So I will grant that I will shed no tears over their loss of power in Afghanistan. But I will shed a tear for every innocent life lost, here or there.
If I'm walking alone in a deserted area at night, and I come across a man forcibly assaulting and raping a woman in such a way as to probably kill her, and I feel I have the power to intervene,
I can't imagine being ever to sleep if I didn't step in and try to save her life.
It is shocking to me that intervention is so obviously right in this case, yet so wrong when we multiply it by the millions of oppressed women and religious minorities in Afghanistan.
Wages are apparently usually treated as claims that would be paid earlier out of whatever assets are left in the company, but that doesn't actually mean you have to get paid if there's no assets whatsoever.
No, tarpits are not honeynets. Honeynets attempt to catch infections and analyze them, tarpits attempt to immobilize them by keeping connections stuck to them. Entirely different things.
As an American, I can tell you that there
were offers of and reciept of assistance during
the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake from
countries all over
the world, many of them much poorer economically
than this one, and that many of the folks
here in the San Francisco Bay Area, such as
myself, remember that and are to this day
touched by it.
That having been said, I am proud of the country
I live in for a thousand reasons,
and I am touched
by the author of the text above. Thank you for sharing it.
Activating article 5 in NATO is probably Washingtons way of saying to their allies "we do not expect a peep about 'restraint' or 'respecting rights of poor middle eastern countries' if/when we decide to retalliate in any way we see fit".
Read the article, NATO member nations voted
unanimously to treat this attack under the
provisions of NATO Article 5. It's not
Washington's way of saying anything, it's NATO's
way of saying something.
What it does say, if you read the treaty
(which you can do at nato.int or the google
cache of the same pages), is that all members
of NATO consider this an attack against all
members of NATO, subject to future discussions
by the NATO Security Council. This is effectively
the NATO member nations (France, Germany, etc.)
saying "We will support and participate in reprisals against the perpetrators of this attack."
If any of the European countries disagree with this, they'll have to leave NATO.
I disagree.
If any of the European countries (or other members of NATO) had disagreed with this,
they would not have voted unanimously to support
the application of Article 5 of the NATO treaty
in this case.
I'm not sure you'd get the effect you want.
It sounds like you want to filter out comments
that are lacking information, not comments
that contain humor. The sets are not identical,
though, I see a reasonable number of comments
that are informative and humorous, and get
marked that way as well.
--j
I've been following the saga of volume 4
for twenty years or so now. In the early
1980s I got a math degree at Caltech, and
during my stay there I developed a deep
love of combinatorics and combinatorial
algorithms that stays with me to this day.
I even had the opportunity to ask Knuth
(who gave a talk there circa 1983) about
volume 4, and it was clear that he hadn't
given up on eventually returning to TAOCP.
The Knuth books have always had a treasured
place on my bookshelf, but I never stopped
hoping that I might someday see Volume 4.
Yes, yes, it's only the first fascile. I've
known about the fascile plan for the last
few years, but it's still something quite
different to see the first one. On my
screen. Not next millineum, not next year,
not next month or week or day, now.
but it seems to me that customers benefit from not being identifiable by a static IP...
Can't speak for you, but I don't consider it
a benefit to not be able to host a web server
at a static IP, I don't consider it a benefit
to have to buy a new router to hook up
"non-standard" machines, and I don't consider
it a benefit to lose my ability to run a
decent VPN into my home systems. I am not
a business, and having my existing systems
broken out from under me would p' me off big
time....
...had I not been battered enough by PacHell's
incompetency with ISDN a few years back to
figure out that my DSL provider should be
someone clueful, like speakeasy.
Let's see... A mail-based calendaring system requires a particular client to work?
Yes. It's an interesting, and I think poor,
design choice. Frustratingly,
it is almost usable with other clients
else, "new meeting"
requests are just funneled into what
appears as an IMAP4 "Calendar" folder,
which is something that's trivial to manage
with a filter. However, updates/cancellations
to existing meetings, etc., require a little
more "smarts" to do the right thing.
If your company puts up with apps that force you to use particular other apps to get generic functionality (like, say, MicroSquish Exchange), then it has a serious management problem.
Relax, dude, get a life.:)
This particular decision
was poor, but on the whole, it's a very high
quality organization, probably the most
talented managment team I've worked for in the
last twenty years. My personal
stuff is well-separated, my anti-virus protection
is updated quite often, and I have good
"attachment hygeine". I'll live.
I have Outlook running for my work email, even
though it is the viral target of choice, becuase having it run is
required for the Exchange Calendar system to
work, which my company seems to be stuck on.
More of the Microsoft "use one of our products,
use all of our products" strategy, I guess.
Slashdot Mirror
--j
Actually, seriously speaking the number is conveyed in the ET broadcast not as a decimal epansion but as 2^NNNNNNN-1. This is a major hint to the ETs. (I forget what N is, it doesn't really matter.) Show that to someone familiar with number theory and the idea that it's a possible prime would come up before you had to start testing a lot of other properties of numbers. Then you have to test the idea, but that's not so hard.
Doesn't to me. Premature guessing as to the cause before investigation could be potentially damaging to any funding sources. The funding politics of large science projects can be quite complex. Completely normal.
$164.85
Checking in bug fixes from the hot tub: priceless.
I Willis will hold up very well. Excellent writing quality, a unique vision, good characterization, and a lot of far-future ideas that aren't as likely to become anacrhonistic in the next 50 years. I love her work.
Still, if the FBI really went to that much trouble to do keylogging software that doesn't capture when the com ports are active, I have to admire their dedication to the letter of the law.
I see no reason to believe that the Taliban ever had any intent of doing anything except stalling for time after the 9/11 attacks. Their duplicity is obvious from their statements since 9/11 -- on one hand they say that they have him under constant attention and know that there is absolutely no way he could have been involved, on the other hand they lose him for days at a time.
See also: UK's summary of public evidence
Mind you--despite the media, the position of NATO et all was not that Bin Laden be handed over, but the entirity of the known Al Qaida network. While the Taliban continue to characterize US demands in regard only to Bin Laden, this does not accurately reflect the actual demands the US has made. So you're right when you say that handing over Bin Laden wouldn't have been enough--that was something that was clearly stated weeks ago.
As far as attacking the Taliban, I have claimed since before 9/11 that America might have a duty to displace the Taliban. If the Taliban treated members of some race the way they treat women, the world would have been at war with them long ago. So I will grant that I will shed no tears over their loss of power in Afghanistan. But I will shed a tear for every innocent life lost, here or there.
If I'm walking alone in a deserted area at night, and I come across a man forcibly assaulting and raping a woman in such a way as to probably kill her, and I feel I have the power to intervene, I can't imagine being ever to sleep if I didn't step in and try to save her life.
It is shocking to me that intervention is so obviously right in this case, yet so wrong when we multiply it by the millions of oppressed women and religious minorities in Afghanistan.
Clearly the next one needs to be QUUXGA.
--j
Here's a reference.
Warning: IANAL.
Wait until you see their next joint-venture with Starbucks...
Sounds like they've got 1000 microbrews already.
No, tarpits are not honeynets. Honeynets attempt to catch infections and analyze them, tarpits attempt to immobilize them by keeping connections stuck to them. Entirely different things.
I'm glad I'm not a moderator right now,
if I were I'd have a helluva time choosing
between "Funny" and "Informative" for that
comment!
That having been said, I am proud of the country I live in for a thousand reasons, and I am touched by the author of the text above. Thank you for sharing it.
Read the article, NATO member nations voted unanimously to treat this attack under the provisions of NATO Article 5. It's not Washington's way of saying anything, it's NATO's way of saying something.
What it does say, if you read the treaty (which you can do at nato.int or the google cache of the same pages), is that all members of NATO consider this an attack against all members of NATO, subject to future discussions by the NATO Security Council. This is effectively the NATO member nations (France, Germany, etc.) saying "We will support and participate in reprisals against the perpetrators of this attack."
If any of the European countries disagree with this, they'll have to leave NATO.
I disagree. If any of the European countries (or other members of NATO) had disagreed with this, they would not have voted unanimously to support the application of Article 5 of the NATO treaty in this case.
I'm not sure you'd get the effect you want. It sounds like you want to filter out comments that are lacking information, not comments that contain humor. The sets are not identical, though, I see a reasonable number of comments that are informative and humorous, and get marked that way as well.
--j
I've been following the saga of volume 4 for twenty years or so now. In the early 1980s I got a math degree at Caltech, and during my stay there I developed a deep love of combinatorics and combinatorial algorithms that stays with me to this day.
I even had the opportunity to ask Knuth (who gave a talk there circa 1983) about volume 4, and it was clear that he hadn't given up on eventually returning to TAOCP.
The Knuth books have always had a treasured place on my bookshelf, but I never stopped hoping that I might someday see Volume 4. Yes, yes, it's only the first fascile. I've known about the fascile plan for the last few years, but it's still something quite different to see the first one. On my screen. Not next millineum, not next year, not next month or week or day, now.
*sniff* It's enough to almost make a geek cry.
--j
--j
Can't speak for you, but I don't consider it a benefit to not be able to host a web server at a static IP, I don't consider it a benefit to have to buy a new router to hook up "non-standard" machines, and I don't consider it a benefit to lose my ability to run a decent VPN into my home systems. I am not a business, and having my existing systems broken out from under me would p' me off big time....
I cop to feeling smug.
--j
You know that for a fact, do you?
--j
Yes. It's an interesting, and I think poor, design choice. Frustratingly, it is almost usable with other clients else, "new meeting" requests are just funneled into what appears as an IMAP4 "Calendar" folder, which is something that's trivial to manage with a filter. However, updates/cancellations to existing meetings, etc., require a little more "smarts" to do the right thing.
If your company puts up with apps that force you to use particular other apps to get generic functionality (like, say, MicroSquish Exchange), then it has a serious management problem.
Relax, dude, get a life. :)
This particular decision
was poor, but on the whole, it's a very high
quality organization, probably the most
talented managment team I've worked for in the
last twenty years. My personal
stuff is well-separated, my anti-virus protection
is updated quite often, and I have good
"attachment hygeine". I'll live.
--j
Cheer up, it's better than that. It just means that the folks who have you on their contact lists are smart enough to use something besides Outlook. :)
--j
There've been distributed.net-installing trojans.
--j
Seems like folks using a "Trojan" should be safe from getting a "Virus". :-)
--j
For my own stuff, I'm a fan of Eudora.
--j