The character was named Willie Shorts. The devices were called Shortstacks. The story was one of a series that ran in Analog involving loony inventions by Willie Shorts. Can't recall the author, though.
They say they know it is hotter than the star because the light curve dips more during occultation than during transit, but how do they know which is which other than by which dips most?
Wait... I guess I see how they *might* be doing it.
But it won't work for an object hotter than the primary. Hmmm.
...because the dogbite was infected (as they usually are)? Oh, well. Prosthetics are pretty good these days. This very nearly happened to an acquaintance of mine. Fortunately three days in the hospital on an antibiotic drip saved the arm. Twenty years ago they would have given her antibiotics in the ER as a matter of course for an animal bite.
> How do stacked circuits do a better job of dissipating heat...
They don't, nor does the article claim that they do. The low power dissipation of carbon nanotubes allows the circuits to be stacked.
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> I know y'all are all proud about how fast it got fixed...
Where do you get that? I posted to inform people running Debian that they need not apply the patch. That's all. I expressed no opinion about the speed of the fix.
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toncho/~ sudo apt-get install spamassassin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages:
libmail-dkim-perl Recommended packages:
re2c The following packages will be upgraded:
spamassassin 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1086 not upgraded. Need to get 1097kB of archives. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/ unstable/main spamassassin 3.2.5-7 [1097kB] Fetched 1097kB in 13s (84.2kB/s) Reading changelogs... Done apt-listchanges: Mailing root: apt-listchanges: news for toncho.dhh.gt.org (Reading database... 163295 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace spamassassin 3.2.5-6 (using.../spamassassin_3.2.5-7_all.deb)... Stopping SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: spamd. Unpacking replacement spamassassin... Setting up spamassassin (3.2.5-7)... Starting SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: spamd.
Here is the apt-listchanges message:
spamassassin (3.2.5-7) unstable; urgency=high
This version of SpamAssassin fixes a bug which caused mails sent
in 2010 to be flagged as suspiciously spammy. If upgrading to this
version, you are recommended to update any per-user caches previously
created by sa-compile, and to check mail already in your spam folder
for false positives more carefully than usual.
-- Joey Hess Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:03:40 -0500
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The character was named Willie Shorts. The devices were called Shortstacks. The story was one of a series that ran in Analog involving loony inventions by Willie Shorts. Can't recall the author, though.
Right. Much better to delete a message just because it came from LinkedIn.
> ...at the very edge of universe...
The universe has no edge.
> We know that the universe started expanding from a single point.
Not "from". That implies a center. There is no center.
> The may, unwittingly, be in possession of material that breaks copyright :-)
> law!
Not USA copyright law. It is *COPY*right. Independent invention does not infringe.
Euler's identity: e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0. Also see e: Known Digits .
We all know that the "security" is crap (and now we have more evidence that those enforcing it are loons).
> Seriously? Someone from Slashdot wrote this?
Surely you realize that every Slashdot summary must include at least one howler. The editors insist.
Pretty well describes all of the security bullshit, doesn't it?
> Seems that they did in software what should have been done in the hardware.
Thereby shaving $.93 off their manufacturing costs.
As I understand it they aren't doing spectra: just light curves (on 145,000 stars at once!)
Kepler
Ok. I see it now.
They say they know it is hotter than the star because the light curve dips more during occultation than during transit, but how do they know which is which other than by which dips most?
Wait... I guess I see how they *might* be doing it.
But it won't work for an object hotter than the primary. Hmmm.
> My point is that our definition of habitable is going to change dramatically
> as we get more information.
In the meantime, however, we must work with what we have. How likely are we to find anything interesting if we just look around randomly?
Can the "phonebook" be far behind?
...is to go back to UUCP bang addresses. Pathalias can handle routing.
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ihnp4!stolaf!bungia!foundln!john
+5 funny.
...because the dogbite was infected (as they usually are)? Oh, well. Prosthetics are pretty good these days. This very nearly happened to an acquaintance of mine. Fortunately three days in the hospital on an antibiotic drip saved the arm. Twenty years ago they would have given her antibiotics in the ER as a matter of course for an animal bite.
> I have seen that "lockdown" so many times, and it never works.
It works quite well for demonstrating compliance with regulations, which is what it is for.
...In IT, of course.
> How do stacked circuits do a better job of dissipating heat...
They don't, nor does the article claim that they do. The low power dissipation of carbon nanotubes allows the circuits to be stacked.
> I know y'all are all proud about how fast it got fixed...
Where do you get that? I posted to inform people running Debian that they need not apply the patch. That's all. I expressed no opinion about the speed of the fix.
toncho/~ sudo apt-get install spamassassin ... 163295 files and directories currently installed.) .../spamassassin_3.2.5-7_all.deb) ... ... ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
libmail-dkim-perl
Recommended packages:
re2c
The following packages will be upgraded:
spamassassin
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1086 not upgraded.
Need to get 1097kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/ unstable/main spamassassin 3.2.5-7 [1097kB]
Fetched 1097kB in 13s (84.2kB/s)
Reading changelogs... Done
apt-listchanges: Mailing root: apt-listchanges: news for toncho.dhh.gt.org
(Reading database
Preparing to replace spamassassin 3.2.5-6 (using
Stopping SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: spamd.
Unpacking replacement spamassassin
Setting up spamassassin (3.2.5-7)
Starting SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: spamd.
Here is the apt-listchanges message:
spamassassin (3.2.5-7) unstable; urgency=high
This version of SpamAssassin fixes a bug which caused mails sent
in 2010 to be flagged as suspiciously spammy. If upgrading to this
version, you are recommended to update any per-user caches previously
created by sa-compile, and to check mail already in your spam folder
for false positives more carefully than usual.
-- Joey Hess Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:03:40 -0500
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> ...at least enough to post on slashdot.
Nothing to worry about, then.