The easiest way to grab the nightlies is to go to Mozilla.org, scroll down to the bottom, look on the right hand side where it says:
"Nightly Builds Created most weekdays from the previous day's work, these will probably work, but maybe not. Use them to verify whether a bug you're tracking has been fixed. MacOS 9, MacOS X, i386 Linux, Windows, Linux PPC, Solaris, FreeBSD, Irix, BeOS, HPUX, OS/2, BSD/OS, etc"
and click on the link for the OS you are using. Or, you can look straight at the ftp directory here[ http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/ ]
For the RC2 and Talkback enabled builds go to the releases page.[ http://www.mozilla.org/releases/ ]
Hmm... meteorites from Mars bring bacterial life to Earth -> astronauts form Earth bring bacterial life to Mars -> astronauts return to Earth with fresh bacteria from Mars... ad nauseam. These little guys have been around a lot longer than us and have more than proved their mettle. Perhaps one of the most impressive aspects about life on the small scale(bacteria, virus etc...) is this incredible ability to move between vastly differing environments and be successful in those new environments. Something humans and other higher order animals don't do so well.
Refusing the spacecraft to reenter Earth's atmosphere might work for quarantining hardware, but where do we put the astronauts who return with low level infections? Will we even be able to detect such an infection?
Hmm... perhaps I should have mentioned this in the story item, I suspected there might be some confusion around this.
The "broadband" in question is not for the transmission of data, but rather the range of the seismograph unit. Broadband seismometers can register sound waves with periods from one-tenth of a second to 100 seconds.
Seismologists get better data if their instruments can "listen" to a broad range of frequencies. This has always been problematic, in that their is a lot of noise in underwater settings, and that's why they go to the trouble of sticking the unit in a caisson imbedded in the seafloor.
In Northern California the only one which is on the other side of the fault is an instrument located on the Farallon Islands.
Well hopefully he ain't spending his nights with coonhounds. And he is probably not spending his evenings with some murderous English irregulars, who were known by their black hats and tan coats and fought on the side of the crown against the Irish Republicans.
What he is talking about is beer. Originally Black & Tans were a British pub concoction of Stout and IPA mixed in a pint pot(glass). So it is two beers mixed together - one is a dark(pretty much black) porter the other is a light lager(tan). Real Black and Tans are mixed on the spot, poured from two different taps. Depending on the bar's selection and the bartender's talent, every pint is a bit different.
In the US the term is also used refer to a dark amber to brown colored beer with a malt accent, relatively light in alcohol and low in hop character, sometimes bottled.
Black and Tan - she's the one on the left - and hey speaking of fun and Black and Tans, you might want to check out the Howling Monkey - he's on the top shelf in the fridge
Another article at Jane's can be found here. It provides a short report on some of the prototype technologies that may be deployed, such as the Predator, Global Hawk and the "Hairy Buffalo."
Perhaps of more interest to some slashdotters would be the "back end" of these systems. The forward deployed robots like the predator are most valuable when the data they collect is processed rapidly and distributed to other systems in the combat zone. This article touches on that a bit - as you can see in this quote:
"Working with stand off reconnaissance assets like the EC-135 Rivet Joint signals intelligence platform and the E-8D Joint STARS battlefield surveillance aircraft, Global Hawk would be able to fly deep into hostile territory and scan otherwise impenetrable terrain for terrorist activity. Through JEFX, the ability of UAVs to network their synthetic-aperture radar and electro-optic imagery with intelligence from Joint STARS and Rivet Joint has been successfully demonstrated. The 'fused' data, which offers a highly accurate picture of target locations, is transmitted within seconds to patrolling combat aircraft."
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Certainly, American support of the Afghani forces made a contribution to the outcome. But it was hardly a pivotal factor.
One could easily draw up a list of countries, regimes, counter-revolutionary forces etc. whose goals were hindered if not completely missed mainly because of the presence of American (or if you wish insert your own superpower here) military and intelligence support on their side.
The technology is not a critical factor. A small group of motivated people with a common cause can (and have countless times) change the world.
They won't be stopped if you hack their network.
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I agree with a lot of what Will has said in his post. Especially the opening: Just where does Jon Katz's expertise extend to? He seems able to come up with the most meally-mouthed wishy-washy articles about everything under the sun.
He ideas are like a bad Hollywood scriptwriter's leftovers.
High tech gadgetry is not going to do anyone a whole lot of good if your enemy isn't using it. The Afghans and the Chechens didn't rout the Russian Army with superior technology. It was their fierce determinaton, their knowledge of the land and the support they got in every tiny little village.
Most of these people have neither electricity nor telephony. Email? Hah! Yes, they may use some technology to communicate with agents further from home - but if you are going to take the war to them in the mountains and valleys don't expect your fancypants listening devices to give you an edge.
It will be dirty and nasty - or it won't be effective.
The Chechen example is worthy of consideration. The Russians eventually pulverized what little infrastructure existed in Chechnya, and yes they did reportedly home in on a mobile phone or radio signal in order to kill their leader. But the rebels, undaunted, brought it back home to Moscow. With a few lousy bucks they made their way into the russian capital and other cities and started blowing up apartment buildings.
That's the kind of thing that is incredibly hard to defend against without turning your home into a paranoid police state.
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Yamasaki *and associates* did the architecture you dumbass.
Well of course you are certainly right about that. However, in your post you referred to the person who was interviewed as: The architect of the buildings themselves - and - the architect of the trade towers themselves.
My reply to your post was only meant to clarify, as I found your choice of words somewhat misleading. You didn't identify your source material and twice reffered to the interview subject as "the architect" not an "associate" or part of a team. Perhaps you could be more helpful and let us know who you were quoting in your post.
And if I might paraphrase: So please make the connection--you weren't designed to take collaborative input. Maybe a propellor airplane up your dumbass, maybe not--I have no idea where you got that info from. Doesn't matter.
blowhards always blow hard
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The architect of the WTC is dead. Minoru Yamasaki died of cancer Feb. 7, 1986 at age 73.
rumours that a internet outage a few weeks ago that affected the @home network was the result of vandals
This was not the work of vandals, it was the work of thieves.
Unfortunately I have no evidence
A report at the time of the incident can be found here.
However the information in the article is not entirely accurate.
So far as I know the cops haven't caught the thieves yet, but their ilk has been seen before and their MO is no mystery.
This is what shakes:
utilities lay wire/fibre/cable in the rail beds - usually a couple of feet under and in conduits along the railway lines
for servicing purposes, every few clicks they let the conduit/wire come closer to the surface - sometimes it is laying exposed
along come the thieves
they find 2 exposed spots
cut the wire at both ends
tie one end to the back of their 4x4
haul off a large chunk of pipe.
Good thing most criminals are dumb
Unfortunately for the thieves in the story above, this proved too true. When they made the first cut they found they were dealing with fibre, which, in the eyes of thieves is useless and they left the scene.
Why would someone want to vandalize an internet line?
(It would be redundant to say here that these are not vandals but are in fact thieves). What the theives were after is good old copper wire. Copper wire theft is a problem world wide. In this case the thieves were after 1/4 inch copper cable which they can sell for about a 75 cents a pound at the junkyard. In other parts of the world thievs go after the thin, colourful wires used in telephony, because they are valued as material for weaving.
- Vandals are annoying; thieves change the way we live
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The easiest way to grab the nightlies is to go to Mozilla.org, scroll down to the bottom, look on the right hand side where it says:
and click on the link for the OS you are using. Or, you can look straight at the ftp directory here[ http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/ ]
For the RC2 and Talkback enabled builds go to the releases page.[ http://www.mozilla.org/releases/ ]
Hmm... meteorites from Mars bring bacterial life to Earth -> astronauts form Earth bring bacterial life to Mars -> astronauts return to Earth with fresh bacteria from Mars... ad nauseam. These little guys have been around a lot longer than us and have more than proved their mettle. Perhaps one of the most impressive aspects about life on the small scale(bacteria, virus etc...) is this incredible ability to move between vastly differing environments and be successful in those new environments. Something humans and other higher order animals don't do so well.
Refusing the spacecraft to reenter Earth's atmosphere might work for quarantining hardware, but where do we put the astronauts who return with low level infections? Will we even be able to detect such an infection?
As noted in this press release, similar hydrogen-consuming microbes may some day be discovered on Mars.
And if we ever did figure out a way of "mining" this trapped hydrogen, there would be a way to fill up your tank if you went planet hopping :)
Hmm... perhaps I should have mentioned this in the story item, I suspected there might be some confusion around this.
The "broadband" in question is not for the transmission of data, but rather the range of the seismograph unit. Broadband seismometers can register sound waves with periods from one-tenth of a second to 100 seconds.
Seismologists get better data if their instruments can "listen" to a broad range of frequencies. This has always been problematic, in that their is a lot of noise in underwater settings, and that's why they go to the trouble of sticking the unit in a caisson imbedded in the seafloor.
In Northern California the only one which is on the other side of the fault is an instrument located on the Farallon Islands.
...degrade my karma by responding to off topic posts.
Well hopefully he ain't spending his nights with coonhounds. And he is probably not spending his evenings with some murderous English irregulars, who were known by their black hats and tan coats and fought on the side of the crown against the Irish Republicans.
What he is talking about is beer. Originally Black & Tans were a British pub concoction of Stout and IPA mixed in a pint pot(glass). So it is two beers mixed together - one is a dark(pretty much black) porter the other is a light lager(tan). Real Black and Tans are mixed on the spot, poured from two different taps. Depending on the bar's selection and the bartender's talent, every pint is a bit different.
In the US the term is also used refer to a dark amber to brown colored beer with a malt accent, relatively light in alcohol and low in hop character, sometimes bottled.
Black and Tan - she's the one on the left - and hey speaking of fun and Black and Tans, you might want to check out the Howling Monkey - he's on the top shelf in the fridge
Oh yeah - don't forget the Black and Tan FAQ.
Cheers!
p.s. don't be ordering no Black and Tans in the company of Irish Catholics.
Off topic? am i off topic again? rats !Another article at Jane's can be found here. It provides a short report on some of the prototype technologies that may be deployed, such as the Predator, Global Hawk and the "Hairy Buffalo."
Perhaps of more interest to some slashdotters would be the "back end" of these systems. The forward deployed robots like the predator are most valuable when the data they collect is processed rapidly and distributed to other systems in the combat zone. This article touches on that a bit - as you can see in this quote:
"Working with stand off reconnaissance assets like the EC-135 Rivet Joint signals intelligence platform and the E-8D Joint STARS battlefield surveillance aircraft, Global Hawk would be able to fly deep into hostile territory and scan otherwise impenetrable terrain for terrorist activity. Through JEFX, the ability of UAVs to network their synthetic-aperture radar and electro-optic imagery with intelligence from Joint STARS and Rivet Joint has been successfully demonstrated. The 'fused' data, which offers a highly accurate picture of target locations, is transmitted within seconds to patrolling combat aircraft."
Certainly, American support of the Afghani forces made a contribution to the outcome. But it was hardly a pivotal factor.
One could easily draw up a list of countries, regimes, counter-revolutionary forces etc. whose goals were hindered if not completely missed mainly because of the presence of American (or if you wish insert your own superpower here) military and intelligence support on their side.
The technology is not a critical factor. A small group of motivated people with a common cause can (and have countless times) change the world.
They won't be stopped if you hack their network.
I agree with a lot of what Will has said in his post. Especially the opening: Just where does Jon Katz's expertise extend to? He seems able to come up with the most meally-mouthed wishy-washy articles about everything under the sun.
He ideas are like a bad Hollywood scriptwriter's leftovers.
High tech gadgetry is not going to do anyone a whole lot of good if your enemy isn't using it. The Afghans and the Chechens didn't rout the Russian Army with superior technology. It was their fierce determinaton, their knowledge of the land and the support they got in every tiny little village.
Most of these people have neither electricity nor telephony. Email? Hah! Yes, they may use some technology to communicate with agents further from home - but if you are going to take the war to them in the mountains and valleys don't expect your fancypants listening devices to give you an edge.
It will be dirty and nasty - or it won't be effective.
The Chechen example is worthy of consideration. The Russians eventually pulverized what little infrastructure existed in Chechnya, and yes they did reportedly home in on a mobile phone or radio signal in order to kill their leader. But the rebels, undaunted, brought it back home to Moscow. With a few lousy bucks they made their way into the russian capital and other cities and started blowing up apartment buildings.
That's the kind of thing that is incredibly hard to defend against without turning your home into a paranoid police state.
Yamasaki *and associates* did the architecture you dumbass.
Well of course you are certainly right about that. However, in your post you referred to the person who was interviewed as:
The architect of the buildings themselves - and -
the architect of the trade towers themselves.
My reply to your post was only meant to clarify, as I found your choice of words somewhat misleading. You didn't identify your source material and twice reffered to the interview subject as "the architect" not an "associate" or part of a team. Perhaps you could be more helpful and let us know who you were quoting in your post.
And if I might paraphrase: So please make the connection--you weren't designed to take collaborative input. Maybe a propellor airplane up your dumbass, maybe not--I have no idea where you got that info from. Doesn't matter.
blowhards always blow hardThe architect of the WTC is dead. Minoru Yamasaki died of cancer Feb. 7, 1986 at age 73.
I don't know where you got the information in your post, however CNN's Leon Harris did interview Aaron Swirsky, part of the architectural team.
I don't believe this...$0.75/pound
No.1 Copper Wire
you might as well go for one of the really big ones
Try thinking like a common thief for a minute. The *little ones* pay the bills and are not nearly as risky.
It's a lifestyle - not a movie.
rumours that a internet outage a few weeks ago that affected the @home network was the result of vandals
This was not the work of vandals, it was the work of thieves.
Unfortunately I have no evidence
A report at the time of the incident can be found here.
However the information in the article is not entirely accurate.
So far as I know the cops haven't caught the thieves yet, but their ilk has been seen before and their MO is no mystery.
This is what shakes:
Good thing most criminals are dumb
Unfortunately for the thieves in the story above, this proved too true. When they made the first cut they found they were dealing with fibre, which, in the eyes of thieves is useless and they left the scene.
Why would someone want to vandalize an internet line?
(It would be redundant to say here that these are not vandals but are in fact thieves). What the theives were after is good old copper wire. Copper wire theft is a problem world wide. In this case the thieves were after 1/4 inch copper cable which they can sell for about a 75 cents a pound at the junkyard. In other parts of the world thievs go after the thin, colourful wires used in telephony, because they are valued as material for weaving.
- Vandals are annoying; thieves change the way we live