The modern Christian world has used the bible for its basis for many of the oldest laws. This borrowing the T-shirt analogy is much like the 9th commandment "don't covet your neighbors stuff". When that was written, the world didn't have mass prodcued stuff or a very successful economey based on mass consumerism. In todays world, wanting to get one CmdrTaco's latest toys is a Good Thing (TM)
Nope. If gravity pushes in a mostly uniform way in all directions but can be blocked slightly by mass, the observable results would be exactly the same.
The only reasonable proof is based on the fact that if gravity pushes, it would slow down everything which observing things in deep space appears isn't happening but space probes with very good clocks are slowing down. The GPS sats are slowing down and they are missing their predicted orbits by a few meters a day. Gravity probe-b should help quatitize these issues as well as adding a gps recivers on the new gps sats.
There is still the problem of how do you know gravity pulls and its not the result of something else pushing? All I'm asking for is a simple proof.
Take a simple example. A verticle pipe full of water that is caped on the bottom will push on the sides of the pipe and we say the water is applying pressure on the sides and that is base on the weight of the water because we know how gravity works with fuilds in the macroscopic world. Now if we didn't have thouse nice equations and the knowlege to back it up, how could you describe the pressure on the pipe? How would you know it pushes or isn't pulled by some magic force? Today we say gravity pulls on the water through the pipe but modern plumbing design is based on the concept that the water is pushing on the bottom of the pipe.
I see current gravity theory like the last stages of chemistry before Bohr came up with his idea about electron orbits. He wasn't quite right but he was much closer than the others in his day.
They are altering the context of the text and that can be slander. Newspapers have been sued because they put a period in a quote and changed the meaning. Dejanews can be implying that I'm talking about or endorsing a product when I'm not.
I give this feature about 3 months before some lawyers makes some money out of it.
Maybe the problem is that the force of gravity is a differential effect where em is a direct one?
So far I've never need a decent case presented that says gravity pulls and isn't a push effect. Of course that would be as hard to prove as the differnce between gravity and acceleration.
For example the early theory of gravity involves being puhsed from all sides. This has been proven to be infeasable (One of Fynmans books makes a good but flawed case of this) Think about a field pushing (like the wind), now imagine a wind from the other direction and then all directions. Where does an object get pushed? Now model it like you've got gravity particles moving at c that have a 1/bignum chance of hitting and interacting with something with "mass". Now go model that. If the things move at c you end up with a model that does a number of spooky thigns as v -> c. You get measurable time dialation in clocks. You also get the infinate mass problem, can equate acceleration to gravity and kill all the "true black holes" while explainging some strange activity out of massive objects. But its just a theory and has apparently been disproved.
I figure G isn't a constant because we have spiral galaxys and you can't do that if G is a constant.
There have been plenty of healty mice born in space. Mice have been studied for a long time by both the US and Russian space programs.
I like the bit about the supressed immune system. The the theory for that (in the 1960s) was that the astronauts were all issolated in a germ free areas for long periods before and after flights.
The world is full of people that are will take risks. It is like smoking, drinking and eating junk food since it has very little instant effect it will be ignored by the masses.
I've been looking into the Python/Zope as a "real world" development platform and so far I have not seen any inprovement over doing the stuff the hard way (not using any include CGI crud) and the results so far....
Its no better than giving a coder VB and saying "develop this...". In the end I've got nothing that can be maintained (assuming the coder leaves) and the load on the machine is about 100 times what my stuff (no include, pure perl or C or whatever-- no external modules) would do. The new system has 4 times more time involved reaching where we were and there is still 0 maintainability.
I'm FSCKing sick of the holy grail solution. Write the damn code the hard way and get over it!
I've been doing a bit of work putting linux on the N64 because they are the cheapest platform I can find. Most of the hard work is done since GCC for it is here but there is lots to do. I want to get the thigns to talk to each other over their high speed serial controller interface but I don't have any docs and all the sample code just isn't abuseing the hardware that way.
I figured that a cost of about AU$200 (thats about US $130) per machine, you could build a large cluster of 64 bit machines.
At least with dreamcast you won't need a custom cartrage but at least with a custom cart, there is room for a fast I/O device.
If you have cable TV in common, the arcnet cards work great and you won't even need to run the wires.
The real problem people keep talking about here under the guise of lighting protection is different grounds. In the US, they typicaly put a few houses on each transfomer and if your not on the same one, you will get some serious current flows on the ground of whatever cable you use. That ground link should set off your ground fault circut break (if you have one). You can get some isolation by using cheap hubs that have one of thosue cheap wall pack transfomers. If your brave you can test it by floating its ground up. Plug in just the hub (not the computer) and connect the metal ground to the hot lead of the 110AC (its the smaller blade on the left). You will either fry the thing completely (while testing your circut breaker) or find out the thing doesn't use an exteranl ground or you'll fry your self. Either way it can be fun. Once you've got your network hardware floating relative to ground, then you might want to pick up an isolating transfomer. These things are 110V in and 110V out but are isolated to keep service guys from frying themselves while working on TV's and power supplys. Once you have that, you will want to run about a 10K resistor between its isolated ground and your local ground. 10K will keep stuff from floating too much but limit the current should there be a problem. Measure it with a volt meter to be sure.
Pull the plug when there is thunder nearby. Thuderstomrs can induce large impulse currents in wires along the ground.
Other than tring to keep everything floating, you can also try using simple ballins. These are like the 300Ohm to 75Ohm adapters for TV's. They are just a simple transfomer and you used to be able to get them for 10baseT.
Or... Company X says Company Y is a spamer and Company Y sues Company X which isn't a real company anyway and has lots of friend that have permission to send route updates to the bigest badest routers on the net so... Compay Z starts routing Company Y's packets to hell and back because "its the most effective route at the time".
I've used a competeing device (sajin?) for a bit on a Win NT box. It was a pain to use since it added even longer to the three finger salute login. It worked ok in the house were several people used a common computer but if you knew someone elses password, you could still get in. The worst part about it is that the mouse had two buttons and no wheel so its not even in the realm of being a real mouse.
I found that the "finger print scanner" program could be fooled into to taking a picture of what was already on the glass and with the right combination of red and IR I expect you could build a keychain sized device to trip these things up.
Why does everyone mention ATM security as a good reason for top security. Its not my money... its the banks money if it gets ripped off and I'm not going to use a system that I can't instruct another person to use on my behalf.
What I want is decent security for my front door so I don't have to hold a collection of nice 1960's pickable keys and no real authentication. I basicly want my front to be unlocked for me and locked for everyone else.
Trial? That was a sham. So they were guilty and now they are going to get nailed....
What was their punishment? Break up into two (maybe three) companies that each will have a monopoly in their field. So much for "the worst offender since Standard Oil". Judge Jackson/Dept of inJustice are all a bunch of wankers with no guts.
As much as I hate M$ products, I've started buying their best product (their stock) again since they aren't going to be hurting anymore.
The goverment of Australia regulates broadcasting for the same reasons except that 1) there is a bunch more frequency bands per market (tv channles can't conflict, the cities are too far apart) 2) They have strict rules about content that relate to protecting children from the normal things. 3) They like having their hand in everything.
It would seem to me that bringing the regulations in will require streaming media to contain rating tags. To get "offical" rating tags, you have to pay the goverment about $4000 to rate things like video games.
Most books on Egyptology from before the 1970's are mostly crud. Theses are the sources of the "preciseness" of the stones -- out of the 3+ million, most were cut within about 3 inches of flat, only a few tens of thousands were fitted so well you can't put a razor between them.
After having seen about 80% of they pyraminds in Egypt and looking closely at the stonework that is still left, I don't think the great pyramid was ever completely cased.
As long as they use the same ad in two or more songs, then it won't matter if they run the ads over the start of the songs. Subtraction with clean digital sources can be quite good.
There is a theory that the casing stones from the Great Pyramid were used to build buildings in Cairo. So far there hasn't been a published case were a stone found looked like a casing stone which would have a very interesing angle encoded into it.
As far as preservation of works...no one beast the Egypteans. They used stone and there are millions of preserved documents on things other than stone.
I wonder how much more would be left of the great library at Alexandrea hadn't been the worlds greatest book burning party. For what its worth the librarys location is known because of other documentation survived saying it was at the corner of two streets that exist today.
If you want to read up on some interesting "edititing", look into the temple at Karnak and how its been edited a number of times. In one case a obilisk was edited by putting "footnotes" on the side while leaving the original text.
There seems to be lots of evidence in Oklahoma that manmade stuff effects the weather. For example tornados will follow highways. A picture taken on the founding day of Ponca City shows no trees at all. The land was thick grass at the time (the bufflo had not been clearing it for years) but that was cleared to farm. The result was the dustbowl. The solution to that problem was lots of trees. In Kansas now you can see lines of trees along the edge of the farms on the section line roads. Its amazing how well a few trees stop the wind from building up. The large number of man made lakes in Oklahoma have also increased the rainfall in the area.
As far as dropping something from a plane into a tornado, I don't like the idea of that. The tops of the cloud cells that make tornados in Oklahoma are offten 50,000 ft and have large amounts of windsheer. Flying in a huracane is one thing but a tornado is just too intense. When the F15s get retired nasa may try to adapt one to radio control for just this theory but I think the current plans involve the plane not getting back.
My solution to the stupid problem of needing to be root so you can bind to a low port is to fix the kernel. Its a one line change and then a program can bind to any port number that its in a group of so you put bind in group 53 and root exploits will not happen.
Yes the law is strict about infractions. Its just that the typical wavers let your doctor send that info to about 1/6 of the American population and still be legal. The other 5/6 could involve heavy fines.
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The modern Christian world has used the bible for its basis for many of the oldest laws. This borrowing the T-shirt analogy is much like the 9th commandment "don't covet your neighbors stuff". When that was written, the world didn't have mass prodcued stuff or a very successful economey based on mass consumerism. In todays world, wanting to get one CmdrTaco's latest toys is a Good Thing (TM)
Why not call this one Micky Mouse or Donald Duck?
Nope. If gravity pushes in a mostly uniform way in all directions but can be blocked slightly by mass, the observable results would be exactly the same.
The only reasonable proof is based on the fact that if gravity pushes, it would slow down everything which observing things in deep space appears isn't happening but space probes with very good clocks are slowing down. The GPS sats are slowing down and they are missing their predicted orbits by a few meters a day. Gravity probe-b should help quatitize these issues as well as adding a gps recivers on the new gps sats.
There is still the problem of how do you know gravity pulls and its not the result of something else pushing? All I'm asking for is a simple proof.
Take a simple example. A verticle pipe full of water that is caped on the bottom will push on the sides of the pipe and we say the water is applying pressure on the sides and that is base on the weight of the water because we know how gravity works with fuilds in the macroscopic world. Now if we didn't have thouse nice equations and the knowlege to back it up, how could you describe the pressure on the pipe? How would you know it pushes or isn't pulled by some magic force? Today we say gravity pulls on the water through the pipe but modern plumbing design is based on the concept that the water is pushing on the bottom of the pipe.
I see current gravity theory like the last stages of chemistry before Bohr came up with his idea about electron orbits. He wasn't quite right but he was much closer than the others in his day.
They are altering the context of the text and that can be slander. Newspapers have been sued because they put a period in a quote and changed the meaning. Dejanews can be implying that I'm talking about or endorsing a product when I'm not.
I give this feature about 3 months before some lawyers makes some money out of it.
Maybe the problem is that the force of gravity is a differential effect where em is a direct one?
So far I've never need a decent case presented that says gravity pulls and isn't a push effect. Of course that would be as hard to prove as the differnce between gravity and acceleration.
For example the early theory of gravity involves being puhsed from all sides. This has been proven to be infeasable (One of Fynmans books makes a good but flawed case of this) Think about a field pushing (like the wind), now imagine a wind from the other direction and then all directions. Where does an object get pushed? Now model it like you've got gravity particles moving at c that have a 1/bignum chance of hitting and interacting with something with "mass". Now go model that. If the things move at c you end up with a model that does a number of spooky thigns as v -> c. You get measurable time dialation in clocks. You also get the infinate mass problem, can equate acceleration to gravity and kill all the "true black holes" while explainging some strange activity out of massive objects. But its just a theory and has apparently been disproved.
I figure G isn't a constant because we have spiral galaxys and you can't do that if G is a constant.
There have been plenty of healty mice born in space. Mice have been studied for a long time by both the US and Russian space programs.
I like the bit about the supressed immune system. The the theory for that (in the 1960s) was that the astronauts were all issolated in a germ free areas for long periods before and after flights.
The world is full of people that are will take risks. It is like smoking, drinking and eating junk food since it has very little instant effect it will be ignored by the masses.
You used CERT to find out where the holes are. CERT is years behind bugtraq
Did the good guys win in then end?
I can't immagine a holywood movie that didn't end that way. Holywood would never upset me
I've been looking into the Python/Zope as a "real world" development platform and so far I have not seen any inprovement over doing the stuff the hard way (not using any include CGI crud) and the results so far....
Its no better than giving a coder VB and saying "develop this...". In the end I've got nothing that can be maintained (assuming the coder leaves) and the load on the machine is about 100 times what my stuff (no include, pure perl or C or whatever-- no external modules) would do. The new system has 4 times more time involved reaching where we were and there is still 0 maintainability.
I'm FSCKing sick of the holy grail solution. Write the damn code the hard way and get over it!
I've been doing a bit of work putting linux on the N64 because they are the cheapest platform I can find. Most of the hard work is done since GCC for it is here but there is lots to do. I want to get the thigns to talk to each other over their high speed serial controller interface but I don't have any docs and all the sample code just isn't abuseing the hardware that way.
I figured that a cost of about AU$200 (thats about US $130) per machine, you could build a large cluster of 64 bit machines.
At least with dreamcast you won't need a custom cartrage but at least with a custom cart, there is room for a fast I/O device.
If you have cable TV in common, the arcnet cards work great and you won't even need to run the wires.
The real problem people keep talking about here under the guise of lighting protection is different grounds. In the US, they typicaly put a few houses on each transfomer and if your not on the same one, you will get some serious current flows on the ground of whatever cable you use.
That ground link should set off your ground fault circut break (if you have one). You can get some isolation by using cheap hubs that have one of thosue cheap wall pack transfomers. If your brave you can test it by floating its ground up. Plug in just the hub (not the computer) and connect the metal ground to the hot lead of the 110AC (its the smaller blade on the left). You will either fry the thing completely (while testing your circut breaker) or find out the thing doesn't use an exteranl ground or you'll fry your self. Either way it can be fun.
Once you've got your network hardware floating relative to ground, then you might want to pick up an isolating transfomer. These things are 110V in and 110V out but are isolated to keep service guys from frying themselves while working on TV's and power supplys. Once you have that, you will want to run about a 10K resistor between its isolated ground and your local ground. 10K will keep stuff from floating too much but limit the current should there be a problem. Measure it with a volt meter to be sure.
Pull the plug when there is thunder nearby. Thuderstomrs can induce large impulse currents in wires along the ground.
Other than tring to keep everything floating, you can also try using simple ballins. These are like the 300Ohm to 75Ohm adapters for TV's. They are just a simple transfomer and you used to be able to get them for 10baseT.
Or...
Company X says Company Y is a spamer and Company Y sues Company X which isn't a real company anyway and has lots of friend that have permission to send route updates to the bigest badest routers on the net so... Compay Z starts routing Company Y's packets to hell and back because "its the most effective route at the time".
I've used a competeing device (sajin?) for a bit on a Win NT box. It was a pain to use since it added even longer to the three finger salute login. It worked ok in the house were several people used a common computer but if you knew someone elses password, you could still get in. The worst part about it is that the mouse had two buttons and no wheel so its not even in the realm of being a real mouse.
I found that the "finger print scanner" program could be fooled into to taking a picture of what was already on the glass and with the right combination of red and IR I expect you could build a keychain sized device to trip these things up.
No thinks, I'll use real security.
Why does everyone mention ATM security as a good reason for top security. Its not my money... its the banks money if it gets ripped off and I'm not going to use a system that I can't instruct another person to use on my behalf.
What I want is decent security for my front door so I don't have to hold a collection of nice 1960's pickable keys and no real authentication. I basicly want my front to be unlocked for me and locked for everyone else.
Trial? That was a sham.
So they were guilty and now they are going to get nailed....
What was their punishment? Break up into two (maybe three) companies that each will have a monopoly in their field. So much for "the worst offender since Standard Oil". Judge Jackson/Dept of inJustice are all a bunch of wankers with no guts.
As much as I hate M$ products, I've started buying their best product (their stock) again since they aren't going to be hurting anymore.
The goverment of Australia regulates broadcasting for the same reasons except that
1) there is a bunch more frequency bands per market (tv channles can't conflict, the cities are too far apart)
2) They have strict rules about content that relate to protecting children from the normal things.
3) They like having their hand in everything.
It would seem to me that bringing the regulations in will require streaming media to contain rating tags. To get "offical" rating tags, you have to pay the goverment about $4000 to rate things like video games.
Most books on Egyptology from before the 1970's are mostly crud. Theses are the sources of the "preciseness" of the stones -- out of the 3+ million, most were cut within about 3 inches of flat, only a few tens of thousands were fitted so well you can't put a razor between them.
After having seen about 80% of they pyraminds in Egypt and looking closely at the stonework that is still left, I don't think the great pyramid was ever completely cased.
As long as they use the same ad in two or more songs, then it won't matter if they run the ads over the start of the songs. Subtraction with clean digital sources can be quite good.
There is a theory that the casing stones from the Great Pyramid were used to build buildings in Cairo. So far there hasn't been a published case were a stone found looked like a casing stone which would have a very interesing angle encoded into it.
As far as preservation of works...no one beast the Egypteans. They used stone and there are millions of preserved documents on things other than stone.
I wonder how much more would be left of the great library at Alexandrea hadn't been the worlds greatest book burning party. For what its worth the librarys location is known because of other documentation survived saying it was at the corner of two streets that exist today.
If you want to read up on some interesting "edititing", look into the temple at Karnak and how its been edited a number of times. In one case a obilisk was edited by putting "footnotes" on the side while leaving the original text.
There seems to be lots of evidence in Oklahoma that manmade stuff effects the weather. For example tornados will follow highways. A picture taken on the founding day of Ponca City shows no trees at all. The land was thick grass at the time (the bufflo had not been clearing it for years) but that was cleared to farm. The result was the dustbowl. The solution to that problem was lots of trees. In Kansas now you can see lines of trees along the edge of the farms on the section line roads. Its amazing how well a few trees stop the wind from building up. The large number of man made lakes in Oklahoma have also increased the rainfall in the area.
As far as dropping something from a plane into a tornado, I don't like the idea of that. The tops of the cloud cells that make tornados in Oklahoma are offten 50,000 ft and have large amounts of windsheer. Flying in a huracane is one thing but a tornado is just too intense. When the F15s get retired nasa may try to adapt one to radio control for just this theory but I think the current plans involve the plane not getting back.
Is this thing related to the real cannons needed to do the 1812th correctly?
My solution to the stupid problem of needing to be root so you can bind to a low port is to fix the kernel. Its a one line change and then a program can bind to any port number that its in a group of so you put bind in group 53 and root exploits will not happen.
Yes the law is strict about infractions. Its just that the typical wavers let your doctor send that info to about 1/6 of the American population and still be legal. The other 5/6 could involve heavy fines.