I honestly can't figure out what makes this environmentalist propaganda. The only harm listed in the article was possible yield reductions at cranberry and orange farms. Not exactly the #1 environmentalist cause.
Maybe just the idea that humans have an effect on the weather is too much for some people.
What the article didn't even mention is the possiblity of changing airline routes to intentinally effect the weather. Seems like a great idea, even an environmentalist like me.
I'm just guessing, but I think that this has something to do with Microsoft's Digital Rights Management. The author says, "and there are some other reasons I don't want to write... "
What would be the problem he can't mention? I think the problem he found is an hole in mplayer's DRM. Just recently Microsoft argued before the courts that releasing a full API would let people do bad things.
Real Media has had this problem for a while.
Of course if Microsoft wrote code more professionally this wouldn't be a problem.
I guess I have until June 24th to figure out how to make my computer control the replay withb rtvremote. I wonder what they while think when I sometimes skip programs and only watch the comercials.
Sorry, but if I tried to pass off some of the crap that MS has in these trials, i'ld be in jail on contempt charges.
Sometimes judges just have to ignore contempt to avoid openning up an appeal based on bias. Microsoft was very contemptous to Jackson, he reacted, and look what happened. The new judge, Kollar-Kotelly, will just keep her cool, so this sentance might actually stick.
Look at what happened with Traficant. That quy was nuts. He went way beyond contempt, but the judge did little more than ask him to keep his voice down. Now he's been found guilty and doesn't have much hope for an appeal.
The process is called discovery and it's clearly a good thing. It's also important to remember that this is not a crimnal case, it's civil. Many rights don't apply to civil cases, because you can't go to jail.
Personally, I don't know what the judge was high on. Discovery should not cause harm to third parties, like me!
There's always the open source alternative called Octave. It doesn't even require a license server, something I hate about matlab.
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We use VoIP to geosynchronous satellites. Some places, McMurdo, have regular phone lines (via satellite), but in the field we use GOES, ATRS, or HF. In the field we can only reach geosynchronous satellites that have run out of fuel and wobble south once a day.
GOES is fast for data, but doesn't support voice.
ATRS supports voice, but for data it's about 100 baud. Yes, 10 characters per second. Still, slow e-mail is better than no e-mail.
HF radio is only voice and links us to McMurdo. From there, they can patch you into the phone system.
Back to the VoIP topic. . .
We've used Cisco's IP phones both at McMurdo and over GOES. There's a delay as the signal goes up to geosynchronous orbit and back, but you get that on the phone too. It's just like using the telephone. It works great. It's never gotten choppy or dropped out while I've been used it. We call it "The Bat Phone".
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There are places with data connections, but no voice connections. We use VoIP in Antarctica, although it's not a very big market. I'm sure there are other places with the same problem.
I looked at building my own DVR, but nothing comes close to TiVo and ReplayTV. I finally gave up and bought a ReplayTV. It's changed my life. I can't believe I didn't buy one sooner. I never watch live TV anymore.
Yes, I do watch TV on my computer. The Replay is in the living room, but I've run a cable from there to the office and I watch TV in a little window more often than I watch it in the living room.
It is really funny. When the car stalls and the doors all lock, they panic. Then they see the cops calmly walking over and they freak. One guy started kicking the windows hard, but they aren't normal glass, so they wouldn't break. These thieves are total scum and I hope they get post tramatic stress disorder from it.
Too bad the penalties for property crime are so small, we mostly use our jails for drug crime.
German Constitution Article 5: Everybody has the right to distribute and express his OPINION freely as well as to inform himself freely.
People do need to be know how terroism works, otherwise we just have trust some secret cabel to tell us what to do. That's what free speech is all about.
Now I'm really confused. If you want to give me a million dollars for a liter of oil, I can use some of that money to buy the extra 50J of energy.
Of course I don't know why you want to pay that much, but oil can be used for things other than energy. Many things are cheaper to make from oil, than from hydrogen.
Because of this, oil might still be pumped from the ground even after if it costs more to energy to extract it than it can provide.
Hydrogen isn't the same, since you can make it from water and energy, it's really just stored energy. You're never going to crush rock for it.
I can see the lights, therefore I can access the device.
It's often better to spy of people covertly. Break the window and you're not likely to get much information after the breakin is discovered. The "big frigging light detection" device could be a telescope in the building next door. The article should give you some idea of the range.
So many people commented on this article without reading it, then other who never read it modded them up. I can't wait to meta-moderate tonight.
If I hack a ReplayTV (I'd want the larger hard drive), what's to keep them from detecting the hack and remotely disabling it. Leaving me with a $1K brick.
The owners of the code can release the code under any license they want. No one else can change the license. Sometimes that means contacting hundreds of authors. I haven't looked into how WINE handles ownership issues.
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Maybe just the idea that humans have an effect on the weather is too much for some people.
What the article didn't even mention is the possiblity of changing airline routes to intentinally effect the weather. Seems like a great idea, even an environmentalist like me.
What would be the problem he can't mention? I think the problem he found is an hole in mplayer's DRM. Just recently Microsoft argued before the courts that releasing a full API would let people do bad things.
Real Media has had this problem for a while. Of course if Microsoft wrote code more professionally this wouldn't be a problem.
I guess I have until June 24th to figure out how to make my computer control the replay withb rtvremote. I wonder what they while think when I sometimes skip programs and only watch the comercials.
Sometimes judges just have to ignore contempt to avoid openning up an appeal based on bias. Microsoft was very contemptous to Jackson, he reacted, and look what happened. The new judge, Kollar-Kotelly, will just keep her cool, so this sentance might actually stick.
Look at what happened with Traficant. That quy was nuts. He went way beyond contempt, but the judge did little more than ask him to keep his voice down. Now he's been found guilty and doesn't have much hope for an appeal.
Personally, I don't know what the judge was high on. Discovery should not cause harm to third parties, like me!
There's always the open source alternative called Octave. It doesn't even require a license server, something I hate about matlab.
GOES is fast for data, but doesn't support voice.
ATRS supports voice, but for data it's about 100 baud. Yes, 10 characters per second. Still, slow e-mail is better than no e-mail.
HF radio is only voice and links us to McMurdo. From there, they can patch you into the phone system.
Back to the VoIP topic. . .
We've used Cisco's IP phones both at McMurdo and over GOES. There's a delay as the signal goes up to geosynchronous orbit and back, but you get that on the phone too. It's just like using the telephone. It works great. It's never gotten choppy or dropped out while I've been used it. We call it "The Bat Phone".
There are places with data connections, but no voice connections. We use VoIP in Antarctica, although it's not a very big market. I'm sure there are other places with the same problem.
I looked at building my own DVR, but nothing comes close to TiVo and ReplayTV. I finally gave up and bought a ReplayTV. It's changed my life. I can't believe I didn't buy one sooner. I never watch live TV anymore.
Yes, I do watch TV on my computer. The Replay is in the living room, but I've run a cable from there to the office and I watch TV in a little window more often than I watch it in the living room.
It is really funny. When the car stalls and the doors all lock, they panic. Then they see the cops calmly walking over and they freak. One guy started kicking the windows hard, but they aren't normal glass, so they wouldn't break. These thieves are total scum and I hope they get post tramatic stress disorder from it.
Too bad the penalties for property crime are so small, we mostly use our jails for drug crime.
German Constitution Article 5: Everybody has the right to distribute and express his OPINION freely as well as to inform himself freely.
People do need to be know how terroism works, otherwise we just have trust some secret cabel to tell us what to do. That's what free speech is all about.
Now I'm really confused. If you want to give me a million dollars for a liter of oil, I can use some of that money to buy the extra 50J of energy.
Of course I don't know why you want to pay that much, but oil can be used for things other than energy. Many things are cheaper to make from oil, than from hydrogen.
Because of this, oil might still be pumped from the ground even after if it costs more to energy to extract it than it can provide.
Hydrogen isn't the same, since you can make it from water and energy, it's really just stored energy. You're never going to crush rock for it.
A better title would have been "The End to Booting." Rebooting implies the machine is already booted, so NVRAM doesn't matter.
It's often better to spy of people covertly. Break the window and you're not likely to get much information after the breakin is discovered. The "big frigging light detection" device could be a telescope in the building next door. The article should give you some idea of the range.
So many people commented on this article without reading it, then other who never read it modded them up. I can't wait to meta-moderate tonight.
Too bad the space probe which would have answered some of these questions was cancelled in Bush's budget.
This ones going to be really hard to follow, unless they want to use freenet.
So much for privacy, since they just modified the policy. How long until they give up on security too?
When do you think X-files lost it's groove? Or as it's know, jump the shark?
I agree. I still haven't seen how the Segway beats rollerscates, skateboards, scooters, bikes, and other existing technologies.
I'm mean, sure it's cool, but I haven't seen any sign that it's going to change anything. It's just a toy for rich adults.
If I hack a ReplayTV (I'd want the larger hard drive), what's to keep them from detecting the hack and remotely disabling it. Leaving me with a $1K brick.
Thanks. I know I'm not elite for admiting it, but I had no clue what ASLA was. Why can't slashdot editor include a few words to explain?
The owners of the code can release the code under any license they want. No one else can change the license. Sometimes that means contacting hundreds of authors. I haven't looked into how WINE handles ownership issues.
By following the above link to rochesterastronomy.org, I was surprise to learn that this slashdot story isn't even news.
Acording to this site:
For the year 2002, 43 supernovae have been reported (282 last year).
So one more isn't much to write home about (or slashdot).
Which is slashdotted at the moment. I was able to get it from google's cache.
They seem to be calling it "1x", so I searched for that. I found a coverage map and some PR prediction.
It's in PDF, search for "1x" or flip to page 17 for the map.