Been done already. The Soviet Vega probes deployed balloons into the Venus atmosphere. They were tracked from earth until they went behind the far side of the planet.
Time to reintroduce some wolves to the area. They were having similar issues in Yellowstone National Park. Once wolves were brought back into the park, the deer stopped browsing on the trees, causing the forests to regrow, bringing back bird habitat and so forth.
The types of Barley you use for beer making is completely different than animal feed. Animal feed is 6-row barley (ie on the grain head, there are six rows of seeds) while the barley used for beer is 2 row. (ie two rows of seed). This is mostly because 6 row has far more flavour involved chemicals in it, whereas 2 row is a much cleaner slate, suitable for things other than dark ales.
So one of the more surreal experiences of my life happened when I travelled to GTMO back in 2007 or so. I was standing in line at the NX at Marine Hill, when my mobile phone rang. I picked it up and answered, then looked around and realized that everyone was looking at me like I had grown antennae. That's when it dawned on me that my Canadian phone had happily roamed onto the Cuban cell network while none of them had a working phone.
Most of the problem here arose out of number portability. In the days of yore, when the telco owned the given block of numbers (and customers couldn't port them away), they could simply reject inbound calls with their own numbers set as the originating phone number. Think the same thing as source route verification for network packets in Linux. With the advent of number portability, when you could port your phone number to Bill And Ted's Excellent VOIP Co., all that went out the window.
In my old job, I was often getting support calls from overseas, often from people in "interesting" locales. If I got a call from an unknown number or +8816 (Iridium), I knew it was legit... except when it wasn't.
I run a (small) phone system, and you're absolutely right. We have 23 outbound lines (gotta love the PRI), and 100 DIDs (in our case, the whole 24xx block). When I generate an outbound call over the PRI, I can technically set the outbound number to whatever I want. The PSTN should reject that call if the ANI I generate is from a block that is not assigned to my PRI.
The flip side is that load-and-go causes extreme thermal and pressure transients to the rocket. So the question is what is riskier.. Being near a fully fuelled and reasonably static rocket, or sitting on one that you put through the stresses of fuelling.
So I work with a non-profit that is off the grid. As with any organization in the modern era, we have become extremely dependent on IT systems to conduct our day to day business. For our system, which is a campus network spread out over about 20 buildings, the electrical load is approximately 3.5 kilowatts or so. The trouble is that we're off grid, with our own private hydro-electric power plant. In the winter months, the output of our plant can drop as low as 30 to 40kw, meaning that the IT infrastructure is consuming upwards of 10% of the total output of our electrical system.
Now, we look at that power as an investment of sorts, as it allows us to use some pretty sophisticated load management systems to better make use of our limited resources. We've also put the gear into spaces that need to be kept from freezing in the winter, so the waste heat contributes to that, rather than running heaters.
One of the interesting bits I learned about Australian elections (don't know if it's true or not), is that the first member of the public who enters the polling station has the job of inspecting the ballot box to ensure that it's empty, then that it's properly sealed, and then signs an affidavit stating such.
Even better, in Canada, we count ballots by hand. In triplicate. With representatives from each of the involved parties fully supervising the count. The best part? results are available within an hour or two of the polls closing. Recounts are ordered automatically when results are closer than something like 1%, but rarely do the numbers change.
The DUPIC fuel cycle allows for the direct reuse of PWR fuel in CANDU heavy water reactors. The only thing required is mechanical modification of the PWR fuel bundles so that they fit into the CANDU fuel channels.
Beyond that, I was given no instructions on what to do with paper documents (shred them?), and nobody seemed to give two shits about what happened to any remaining assets.
Channel your inner Oliver North and have a shredding party...
So.. why not make tickets non-transferrable (like airline tickets) and also refundable? If you can't make it to the game/concert, return the ticket for a refund (less a nominal fee). Those returned tickets go back into the pool and can be sold again. On the day of, at least one person on the order must have appropriate ID to enter the venue.
This is why many sites are eliminating stars or percent or x/10 as a rating, and just giving users a choice of thumbs up or thumbs down. From what I've seen, except for a very few conscientious individuals, most users use 1-star to mean "I don't like it", and a five-star rating is "I like it".
However, no matter what, the ratings for "This is Spinal Tap" need to go up to 11.
Exactly this. Learning the language doesn't make you a programmer. Unless you have the right mindset, think through the logic, and so forth at best you're going to be a code monkey one step above flinging feces.
The election is observed at each polling station by representatives of each party involved. The ballots are counted on site, in triplicate, under the supervision of representatives of each candidate contesting the election. These results are then phoned into the central reporting system, and the scrutineers can verify that the correct numbers were transmitted.
Recounts rarely result in more than a change by one or two votes.
Ballot counting is something that is extremely available. In Canada, we count the paper ballots by had (in triplicate) and have our federal election results back within 4 hours of the polls closing. The same could easily be achieved in the US. Yes, the US has 10x the population, but that just means you use 10x the number of people to count the ballots, 10x the number of people from the parties to scrutinize the count process, and Bob's your uncle.
He was right then. At the time CPUs were slow. Now we have pretty fast CPUs, faster than most people need. The overhead for a microkernel isn't so bad now.
In a way, many people now are doing that. Running the kernel inside a virtual machine, on top of a hypervisor is likely less efficient than running against a microkernel.
Do you know how tiny most hearing aids are, and how little power is available? The ones my father and grandfather wear are like those little earwig things you see in the movies. Itty bitty little devices with tiny batteries. It's only recently that bluetooth radios have become low enough power to put into these things.
This isn't too unreasonable. The SpaceX Falcon 9 uses cork as part of the thermal protection system to protect the boosters as they re-enter. Going further, Engineered wood is often a very good structural material, and used properly isn't a terrible idea.
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Been done already. The Soviet Vega probes deployed balloons into the Venus atmosphere. They were tracked from earth until they went behind the far side of the planet.
Time to reintroduce some wolves to the area. They were having similar issues in Yellowstone National Park. Once wolves were brought back into the park, the deer stopped browsing on the trees, causing the forests to regrow, bringing back bird habitat and so forth.
The types of Barley you use for beer making is completely different than animal feed. Animal feed is 6-row barley (ie on the grain head, there are six rows of seeds) while the barley used for beer is 2 row. (ie two rows of seed). This is mostly because 6 row has far more flavour involved chemicals in it, whereas 2 row is a much cleaner slate, suitable for things other than dark ales.
So one of the more surreal experiences of my life happened when I travelled to GTMO back in 2007 or so. I was standing in line at the NX at Marine Hill, when my mobile phone rang. I picked it up and answered, then looked around and realized that everyone was looking at me like I had grown antennae. That's when it dawned on me that my Canadian phone had happily roamed onto the Cuban cell network while none of them had a working phone.
Most of the problem here arose out of number portability. In the days of yore, when the telco owned the given block of numbers (and customers couldn't port them away), they could simply reject inbound calls with their own numbers set as the originating phone number. Think the same thing as source route verification for network packets in Linux. With the advent of number portability, when you could port your phone number to Bill And Ted's Excellent VOIP Co., all that went out the window.
In my old job, I was often getting support calls from overseas, often from people in "interesting" locales. If I got a call from an unknown number or +8816 (Iridium), I knew it was legit... except when it wasn't.
I run a (small) phone system, and you're absolutely right. We have 23 outbound lines (gotta love the PRI), and 100 DIDs (in our case, the whole 24xx block). When I generate an outbound call over the PRI, I can technically set the outbound number to whatever I want. The PSTN should reject that call if the ANI I generate is from a block that is not assigned to my PRI.
The flip side is that load-and-go causes extreme thermal and pressure transients to the rocket. So the question is what is riskier.. Being near a fully fuelled and reasonably static rocket, or sitting on one that you put through the stresses of fuelling.
Yeah, but what if you are sitting on that edge and need that little bit more? It really should go to 11.
Fox "news" is never correct.
So I work with a non-profit that is off the grid. As with any organization in the modern era, we have become extremely dependent on IT systems to conduct our day to day business. For our system, which is a campus network spread out over about 20 buildings, the electrical load is approximately 3.5 kilowatts or so. The trouble is that we're off grid, with our own private hydro-electric power plant. In the winter months, the output of our plant can drop as low as 30 to 40kw, meaning that the IT infrastructure is consuming upwards of 10% of the total output of our electrical system.
Now, we look at that power as an investment of sorts, as it allows us to use some pretty sophisticated load management systems to better make use of our limited resources. We've also put the gear into spaces that need to be kept from freezing in the winter, so the waste heat contributes to that, rather than running heaters.
But yes, the internet isn't free (electrically).
One of the interesting bits I learned about Australian elections (don't know if it's true or not), is that the first member of the public who enters the polling station has the job of inspecting the ballot box to ensure that it's empty, then that it's properly sealed, and then signs an affidavit stating such.
Even better, in Canada, we count ballots by hand. In triplicate. With representatives from each of the involved parties fully supervising the count. The best part? results are available within an hour or two of the polls closing. Recounts are ordered automatically when results are closer than something like 1%, but rarely do the numbers change.
The DUPIC fuel cycle allows for the direct reuse of PWR fuel in CANDU heavy water reactors. The only thing required is mechanical modification of the PWR fuel bundles so that they fit into the CANDU fuel channels.
Beyond that, I was given no instructions on what to do with paper documents (shred them?), and nobody seemed to give two shits about what happened to any remaining assets.
Channel your inner Oliver North and have a shredding party...
So.. why not make tickets non-transferrable (like airline tickets) and also refundable? If you can't make it to the game/concert, return the ticket for a refund (less a nominal fee). Those returned tickets go back into the pool and can be sold again. On the day of, at least one person on the order must have appropriate ID to enter the venue.
This is why many sites are eliminating stars or percent or x/10 as a rating, and just giving users a choice of thumbs up or thumbs down. From what I've seen, except for a very few conscientious individuals, most users use 1-star to mean "I don't like it", and a five-star rating is "I like it".
However, no matter what, the ratings for "This is Spinal Tap" need to go up to 11.
Exactly this. Learning the language doesn't make you a programmer. Unless you have the right mindset, think through the logic, and so forth at best you're going to be a code monkey one step above flinging feces.
That can't happen.
The election is observed at each polling station by representatives of each party involved. The ballots are counted on site, in triplicate, under the supervision of representatives of each candidate contesting the election. These results are then phoned into the central reporting system, and the scrutineers can verify that the correct numbers were transmitted.
Recounts rarely result in more than a change by one or two votes.
Ballot counting is something that is extremely available. In Canada, we count the paper ballots by had (in triplicate) and have our federal election results back within 4 hours of the polls closing. The same could easily be achieved in the US. Yes, the US has 10x the population, but that just means you use 10x the number of people to count the ballots, 10x the number of people from the parties to scrutinize the count process, and Bob's your uncle.
Australia has jumped the Marxist shark.
This is much closer to fascist than anything else. Marxist is an economic ideology. Fascism is political/legal.
He was right then. At the time CPUs were slow. Now we have pretty fast CPUs, faster than most people need. The overhead for a microkernel isn't so bad now.
In a way, many people now are doing that. Running the kernel inside a virtual machine, on top of a hypervisor is likely less efficient than running against a microkernel.
Maybe Tanenbaum was right. 26 years isn't that long for this debate to come back around again.
Do you know how tiny most hearing aids are, and how little power is available? The ones my father and grandfather wear are like those little earwig things you see in the movies. Itty bitty little devices with tiny batteries. It's only recently that bluetooth radios have become low enough power to put into these things.
This isn't too unreasonable. The SpaceX Falcon 9 uses cork as part of the thermal protection system to protect the boosters as they re-enter. Going further, Engineered wood is often a very good structural material, and used properly isn't a terrible idea.