There was the same thing with the oceans when they did testings under water. Would water molecules be torn apart, and then recombine (i.e., burn; the gases would have the right ratio)? And the energy set free would create a chain reaction, splitting even more water molecules?
Didn't happen, I believe:P
Still, I suppose scientists have to think about such matters. In this case, I'd say go for it! Mad science! Bwahaha!
Ah. I feel better now that I've signed the petition. But did they really have to make our phonenumbers and email adresses publicly readable? A dedicated spammer would have a field day with this.
We recently had ssh installed on some of our (brittle) boxes, but the version "agreed on" in France is somehow called "ssf". Quoth I: "huh?" So I did a little searching and found the following page. It's in French, but the upshot is that the keyspace is limited to 2^40 (and of course it is illegal to modify it). Curiously, most French people I talk to have no idea that strong encryption is illegal. I don't know the status of the 128-bit thing; is it allowed for anyone in France?
A similar thing happened with one of the missions to Jupiter (I forget which one, sorry. Haven't upgraded my neurons in years;) Anyway, NASA decided to save money by not sterilizing the probe (had been done every time until then), so there was some concern that it might carry microbes or other undesirable goodies from Earth. Of course, the thing would eventually get crushed in Jupiter's atmosphere, but any microbes *might* just by some fluke be able to survive, thus making a putative (however unlikely) discovery of life on Jupiter in the future raise the unscientific suspision that we put it there ourselves. While I tend to agree that we should not "export" nuclear waste (or reactors) or undesirable lifeforms from this planet, I'll have to admit, as someone else commented above, it seems a very fitting end for Eugene Shoemaker (i.e., that he gets one last try to discover water on the Moon, and an extraterrestrial burial).
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Another point is that many (Western) European countries are monarchies. So they always have some prestigious medals and order-of-the-blah-blahs that they can ceremoniously hand over to politicians and other dignitaries. Thus the people who really do get the honorary degrees from universities in these countries have usually done something to deserve it.
> why would you want to do business with people that > want to design, make and worse yet, USE chemical weapons and other biological warfare devices?
Interestingly enough, the Debian Free Software Guidelines (for example) stipulate that you cannot discriminate against fields of endeavour, so in principle these people could use/(GNU\/)?Linux/ when producing chemical weapons (not that I think they'd care much about the license anyway?) Some of the CERN libraries have a clause in their license that says that the library in question cannot be used in any kind of military research, and this actually makes the library non-free in the DFSG sense.
Of course, it doesn't answer your question. Sorry;)
IIRC, there was the pgcc project, an egcs derivative where they experimented with specific optimizations for the Pentia. I haven't checked up on them recently, though, and the URL I have is no longer valid. -jgj
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Didn't happen, I believe :P
Still, I suppose scientists have to think about such matters. In this case, I'd say go for it! Mad science! Bwahaha!
Linux note: HEPpc: Linux Resources f or High Energy Physics
I had a physics teacher in high school who insisted that it was called -273.15 degrees Celsius but zero Kelvin (i.e., no "degree").
I had some physics courses too at university, but I don't remember what they called it there.
Ah. I feel better now that I've signed the petition. But did they really have to make our phonenumbers and email adresses publicly readable? A dedicated spammer would have a field day with this.
We recently had ssh installed on some of our (brittle) boxes, but the version "agreed on" in France is somehow called "ssf". Quoth I: "huh?" So I did a little searching and found the following page. It's in French, but the upshot is that the keyspace is limited to 2^40 (and of course it is illegal to modify it). Curiously, most French people I talk to have no idea that strong encryption is illegal. I don't know the status of the 128-bit thing; is it allowed for anyone in France?
A similar thing happened with one of the missions to Jupiter (I forget which one, sorry. Haven't upgraded my neurons in years ;) Anyway, NASA decided to save money by not sterilizing the probe (had been done every time until then), so there was some concern that it might carry microbes or other undesirable goodies from Earth. Of course, the thing would eventually get crushed in Jupiter's atmosphere, but any microbes *might* just by some fluke be able to survive, thus making a putative (however unlikely) discovery of life on Jupiter in the future raise the unscientific suspision that we put it there ourselves.
/. Resubmitting...sorry if this appears more than once.)
While I tend to agree that we should not "export" nuclear waste (or reactors) or undesirable lifeforms from this planet, I'll have to admit, as someone else commented above, it seems a very fitting end for Eugene Shoemaker (i.e., that he gets one last try to discover water on the Moon, and an extraterrestrial burial).
(Yikes. Got an internal server error from
Another point is that many (Western) European countries are monarchies. So they always have some prestigious medals and order-of-the-blah-blahs that they can ceremoniously hand over to politicians and other dignitaries. Thus the people who really do get the honorary degrees from universities in these countries have usually done something to deserve it.
> why would you want to do business with people that
/(GNU\/)?Linux/ when producing chemical weapons (not that I think they'd care much about the license anyway?)
;)
> want to design, make and worse yet, USE chemical weapons and other biological warfare devices?
Interestingly enough, the Debian Free Software Guidelines (for example) stipulate that you cannot discriminate against fields of endeavour, so in principle these people could use
Some of the CERN libraries have a clause in their license that says that the library in question cannot be used in any kind of military research, and this actually makes the library non-free in the DFSG sense.
Of course, it doesn't answer your question. Sorry
IIRC, there was the pgcc project, an egcs derivative where they experimented with specific optimizations for the Pentia. I haven't checked up on them recently, though, and the URL I have is no longer valid.
-jgj