There was the idea of selectively breeding cytoplankton that could absorb larger amounts of CO2 than at present. When it died, it would just sink to the bottom of the oceans.
Whose "glitch"? What was the "apparent miscommunication, exactly? Did the FBI tell the ISP to give them the total access that the court hadn't authorized, or did the ISP make the mistake and give them total access when asked for only limited access? Maybe the FBI is citing that totally ambiguous blame, but what is the real story?
Some companies (like dyndns.org) allow people to manage their own DNS records for dynamically assigned IP addresses from cable networks. You basically choose a generic domain like "homelinux.org" and then add your hostname and IP address eg. "mydothomelinux.homelinux.org". All E-mail to this full domain path will be sent to your selected IP address.
Now, if the FBI say to the ISP, 'monitor "mydothomelinux.homelinux.org" please', they get the E-mails of that recipient. But if they say to the ISP, 'monitor "homelinux.org" please', they get the whole bunch of E-mails to everyone in that domain...
From what I have seen in the UK, the good CS graduates are setting up their own companies and avoiding the politics of seniority, cronyism, bait-and-switching, and corporate wing nuts trying to get bright graduates working on their pet management theories.
... a site owner who receives one of these "worms" doesn't decide to replace the payload with something nastier. The data could of course be encrypted and checksummed, but this would need access to a central repository again, and would also mean that every machine would need a port wide open to Internet to receive and transmit such data.
I really meant "Joe average" who has just come home from work in the evening or is at home on the weekends. Viewing figures are always considerably higher for sports games and movies, than for anything scientific or technical.
Ironic. We condemn Afghanistan for sentencing a guy to death for reading women's rights literature, but at the same time we try to jail people for reading jihadist materials.
"Reading women's rights materials from the internet is one of the ways that ordinary people become Westernised. I'm sure your "information wants to be free" types will be out here defending it, but let's be honest, your average Muhammad isn't going to learn about women's rights so his wife can drive around by herself without reading instructions on how to do so."
What really gets to me is the construction of new playing fields which have huge stadium lights that remain on all night, even though the field is not being used or even undergoing maintenance. In cloudy weather, the clouds directly above are glowing white, while in fog, the entire block is covered in a brilliant white haze. How much electricity are the owners spending on the electricity bill?
The facts of the case, which caused a jury of six men and six women to find McDonald's coffee was unreasonably dangerous and had caused enough human misery and suffering that no one should be made to suffer exposure to such excessively hot coffee again, will shock and amaze you:
McFact No. 1: For years, McDonald's had known they had a problem with the way they make their coffee - that their coffee was served much hotter (at least 20 degrees more so) than at other restaurants.
McFact No. 2: McDonald's knew its coffee sometimes caused serious injuries - more than 700 incidents of scalding coffee burns in the past decade have been settled by the Corporation - and yet they never so much as consulted a burn expert regarding the issue.
McFact No. 3: The woman involved in this infamous case suffered very serious injuries - third degree burns on her groin, thighs and buttocks that required skin grafts and a seven-day hospital stay.
McFact No. 4: The woman, an 81-year old former department store clerk who had never before filed suit against anyone, said she wouldn't have brought the lawsuit against McDonald's had the Corporation not dismissed her request for compensation for medical bills.
McFact No. 5: A McDonald's quality assurance manager testified in the case that the Corporation was aware of the risk of serving dangerously hot coffee and had no plans to either turn down the heat or to post warning about the possibility of severe burns, even though most customers wouldn't think it was possible.
McFact No. 6: After careful deliberation, the jury found McDonald's was liable because the facts were overwhelmingly against the company. When it came to the punitive damages, the jury found that McDonald's had engaged in willful, reckless, malicious, or wanton conduct, and rendered a punitive damage award of 2.7 million dollars. (The equivalent of just two days of coffee sales, McDonalds Corporation generates revenues in excess of 1.3 million dollars daily from the sale of its coffee, selling 1 billion cups each year.)
McFact No. 7: On appeal, a judge lowered the award to $480,000, a fact not widely publicized in the media.
McFact No. 8: A report in Liability Week, September 29, 1997, indicated that Kathleen Gilliam, 73, suffered first degree burns when a cup of coffee spilled onto her lap. Reports also indicate that McDonald's consistently keeps its coffee at 185 degrees, still approximately 20 degrees hotter than at other restaurants. Third degree burns occur at this temperature in just two to seven seconds, requiring skin grafting, debridement and whirlpool treatments that cost tens of thousands of dollars and result in permanent disfigurement, extreme pain and disability to the victims for many months, and in some cases, years.
People are always willing to pay more to be entertained that to be educated.
Which explains why football players and movie stars will get paid more than the innovators that carried out the research to develop the broadcast technology that helped to make those stars famous.
That would make sense - the function calls in each layer are only suppposed to talk to the layers directly above and below.
You can tell when you are in a network protocol department when there are posters of the protocol layers all over the place, RFC's pinned to the walls and somebody has written APSTNDP along the side of a door.
I used to get those on my home system - it was really obvious that something was happening as both the hard-disk drive and the network lights on the cable model were thrashing away and the desktop slowed down to a snails pace. The only solution at the time was to disconnect the network table. The sysadmin logs showed that over 300 login attempts had been made within a minute. These would all come from the same address, and come in two or three waves, although these could be anywhere in the world (Europe or Aisa mainly).
It's obviously a ridiculous way of keeping as many users as possible. Anyone with just a few comments and photos will not bother. Anyone with thousands will obviously not have time to do it.
Looks like there is a market for a online web application that would allow you to delete/scramble an existing facebook entry.
A capsule-based launch system offers far greater simplicity, and also offers numerous modes of recovery in the event of a failure.
I always wondered why the control cabin of the space shuttle wasn't designed as a detachable capsule or mini-shuttle that could fall back to the surface.
That depends. Could the firmware be upgraded so that the player could work with the latest data format? If so, then the guy should be able to get the upgrade. If the player doesn't have a second decoder, could caching with a lower framebuffer size combined with a pixel zoom be used to emulate this functionality?
A lot of the times, the limitations of hardware are down to the way the firmware compiler is implemented. You can work around a lot of these compiler limitations by rearranging your code (loop unrolling if for-next loops aren't permitted, using the modulus operator if Boolean operations aren't permitted).
Call it short sighted but people really thought back then that TV and Radio were never going to catch on.
And the sad thing is that we are still losing past recordings, because many of the TV stations just don't have the space to store all of their previously recorded material, nor do many of the movie archive maintainers have the funds to convert the aging media into digital media before they become unusable.
The latest mobile phones use the same type of memory cards that other electronics use - the local phone shop has memory cards that go up to 4 Gigabytes in memory; just to store music tracks, images, videos, ring-tones and games. All you need to do is buy a spare memory card, and you get a small plastic carrying box for free. The memory cards are actually multi-adaptor, so the actual data portion is about the size of a fingernail. Extremely easy to hide, and just as easy to lose.
Me too, but so far I've only had success getting the system to work on downhill journeys. Uphill journeys are still unsolved. I've heard other people have had success using flywheels to capture the energy from braking, but the only solution seems to be to make the hills higher on one side than the other.
Last time I saw the prices of the arcades in the UK, it was around 1 pound/2$ for every 30 seconds of play. For an afternoon's entertainment, it is obviously cheaper buying a console system
You have a gutter below the solar panels on the roof. This collects the rain water and funnels it down a sprinkler onto the set of piezo-electric raindrop energy generators. This water then runs off down a couple of water-wheels before being collected into storage barrels, where it is gradually released and drives a micro-miniature water turbine.
Imagine all the energy that is going to be created!!!
Those early home computers were really easy to understand; flat memory model, easy to use API's, a single bus architecture, extremely compact device drivers (a whole OS + Basic interpreter fitted into less than 16K), all of which was documented down to the hardware settings, all in a single book (eg. De Re Atari).
With Windows, you have this obfuscation layer between much of the hardware, from the device drivers all the way up to the diagnostic windows in the GUI, and the API's. You have to frequently resort to using the local search engine just to find the actual dialog window you need to open. The only way that this could be simplified would be to have a photographic picture of the entire computer system, and just be able to click on the component that needs to be inspected/configured, or have an abstract picture of the kernel/device drivers in terms of function.
With Linux, you always have the device driver, a command line diagnostic utility for those users that hate GUI's, and a high-level GUI application for those who don't like command lines.
In medical research, the ultimate goal for any treatment is to treat the patient as quickly as possible with fewer side effects. In a perfect Star-Trek world, it shouldn't be anything more trickier than scanning a tricorder over someone's injuries.
In computer science research, you are looking for the most efficient algorithm that can solve a given problem in the least amount of time, using the least amount of computational resources (storage). Obviously, there is a trade off between these two.
In chemistry, it seems to be able to achieve a given chemical process using the least amount of energy, resources, catalysts in the least amount of time.
If you can find a solution to one of these problems, then you can capitalize on the results of that research and set up your own company. "Sensors-on-a-chip" for biology is an example field. Given that there are around 30,000 genes in human DNA, there is vast market to be explored, not counting virology, bacteriology and genomics.
And even if the research doesn't find anything new, you can use the lateral experience gained (eg. applications development) to set yourself up as a consultant in that field.
As far as Edinburgh airport goes, you have these annoying teenage "yellow-jackets" from Easyjet who hover between the duty-free shops and the security gates, who insist that everyone places all their items into one bag. Basic topology tells you that you can only put the smaller bag (the laptop) into the larger bag (the duty free gifts), although this completely guarantees that this will break the larger bag.
Then, just as you go through security, the customs people insist that you take the laptop out of the carrying bag so it can be inspected, thus taking more time that it would have if you hadn't placed everything in one bag in the first place. The only time I've been asked to completely empty all my bags was the time I bought a bottle of Irn bru, and stuffed it into one of the bags. I was given the choice if drinking it there on the spot or having it confiscated. Electronics, no problem, cables, no problem, disk drives, camera, flash cards, no problem. Attempting to smuggle a can of Irn Bru onto the airplane - major security alert...
Although Stansted is probably worse as everyone also has to go through the ritual of the "X-raying of the shoes".
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There was the idea of selectively breeding cytoplankton that could absorb larger amounts of CO2 than at present. When it died, it would just sink to the bottom of the oceans.
Whose "glitch"? What was the "apparent miscommunication, exactly? Did the FBI tell the ISP to give them the total access that the court hadn't authorized, or did the ISP make the mistake and give them total access when asked for only limited access? Maybe the FBI is citing that totally ambiguous blame, but what is the real story?
Some companies (like dyndns.org) allow people to manage their own DNS records for dynamically assigned IP addresses from cable networks. You basically choose a generic domain like "homelinux.org" and then add your hostname and IP address eg. "mydothomelinux.homelinux.org". All E-mail to this full domain path will be sent to your selected IP address.
Now, if the FBI say to the ISP, 'monitor "mydothomelinux.homelinux.org" please', they get the E-mails of that recipient. But if they say to the ISP, 'monitor "homelinux.org" please', they get the whole bunch of E-mails to everyone in that domain...
From what I have seen in the UK, the good CS graduates are setting up their own companies and avoiding the politics of seniority, cronyism, bait-and-switching, and corporate wing nuts trying to get bright graduates working on their pet management theories.
... a site owner who receives one of these "worms" doesn't decide to replace the payload with something nastier. The data could of course be encrypted and checksummed, but this would need access to a central repository again, and would also mean that every machine would need a port wide open to Internet to receive and transmit such data.
I really meant "Joe average" who has just come home from work in the evening or is at home on the weekends. Viewing figures are always considerably higher for sports games and movies, than for anything scientific or technical.
Ironic. We condemn Afghanistan for sentencing a guy to death for reading women's rights literature, but at the same time we try to jail people for reading jihadist materials.
"Reading women's rights materials from the internet is one of the ways that ordinary people become Westernised. I'm sure your "information wants to be free" types will be out here defending it, but let's be honest, your average Muhammad isn't going to learn about women's rights so his wife can drive around by herself without reading instructions on how to do so."
What really gets to me is the construction of new playing fields which have huge stadium lights that remain on all night, even though the field is not being used or even undergoing maintenance. In cloudy weather, the clouds directly above are glowing white, while in fog, the entire block is covered in a brilliant white haze.
How much electricity are the owners spending on the electricity bill?
The problem is, given some of the outrageous lawsuit amounts given (McD's coffee anyone?)
Read up on the Facts of the case
The facts of the case, which caused a jury of six men and six women to find McDonald's coffee was unreasonably dangerous and had caused enough human misery and suffering that no one should be made to suffer exposure to such excessively hot coffee again, will shock and amaze you:
McFact No. 1: For years, McDonald's had known they had a problem with the way they make their coffee - that their coffee was served much hotter (at least 20 degrees more so) than at other restaurants.
McFact No. 2: McDonald's knew its coffee sometimes caused serious injuries - more than 700 incidents of scalding coffee burns in the past decade have been settled by the Corporation - and yet they never so much as consulted a burn expert regarding the issue.
McFact No. 3: The woman involved in this infamous case suffered very serious injuries - third degree burns on her groin, thighs and buttocks that required skin grafts and a seven-day hospital stay.
McFact No. 4: The woman, an 81-year old former department store clerk who had never before filed suit against anyone, said she wouldn't have brought the lawsuit against McDonald's had the Corporation not dismissed her request for compensation for medical bills.
McFact No. 5: A McDonald's quality assurance manager testified in the case that the Corporation was aware of the risk of serving dangerously hot coffee and had no plans to either turn down the heat or to post warning about the possibility of severe burns, even though most customers wouldn't think it was possible.
McFact No. 6: After careful deliberation, the jury found McDonald's was liable because the facts were overwhelmingly against the company. When it came to the punitive damages, the jury found that McDonald's had engaged in willful, reckless, malicious, or wanton conduct, and rendered a punitive damage award of 2.7 million dollars. (The equivalent of just two days of coffee sales, McDonalds Corporation generates revenues in excess of 1.3 million dollars daily from the sale of its coffee, selling 1 billion cups each year.)
McFact No. 7: On appeal, a judge lowered the award to $480,000, a fact not widely publicized in the media.
McFact No. 8: A report in Liability Week, September 29, 1997, indicated that Kathleen Gilliam, 73, suffered first degree burns when a cup of coffee spilled onto her lap. Reports also indicate that McDonald's consistently keeps its coffee at 185 degrees, still approximately 20 degrees hotter than at other restaurants. Third degree burns occur at this temperature in just two to seven seconds, requiring skin grafting, debridement and whirlpool treatments that cost tens of thousands of dollars and result in permanent disfigurement, extreme pain and disability to the victims for many months, and in some cases, years.
And the patent will be titled: A method of creating a protective ozone layer around a oxygen-rich planetary atmosphere using natural cosmic radiation.
People are always willing to pay more to be entertained that to be educated.
Which explains why football players and movie stars will get paid more than the innovators that carried out the research to develop the broadcast technology that helped to make those stars famous.
That would make sense - the function calls in each layer are only suppposed to talk to the layers directly above and below.
You can tell when you are in a network protocol department when there are posters of the protocol layers all over the place, RFC's pinned to the walls and somebody has written APSTNDP along the side of a door.
I used to get those on my home system - it was really obvious that something was happening as both the hard-disk drive and the network lights on the cable model were thrashing away and the desktop slowed down to a snails pace. The only solution at the time was to disconnect the network table. The sysadmin logs showed that over 300 login attempts had been made within a minute. These would all come from the same address, and come in two or three waves, although these could be anywhere in the world (Europe or Aisa mainly).
It's obviously a ridiculous way of keeping as many users as possible. Anyone with just a few comments and photos will not bother. Anyone with thousands will obviously not have time to do it.
Looks like there is a market for a online web application that would allow you to delete/scramble an existing facebook entry.
A capsule-based launch system offers far greater simplicity, and also offers numerous modes of recovery in the event of a failure.
I always wondered why the control cabin of the space shuttle wasn't designed as a detachable capsule or mini-shuttle that could fall back to the surface.
That depends. Could the firmware be upgraded so that the player could work with the latest data format? If so, then the guy should be able to get the upgrade. If the player doesn't have a second decoder, could caching with a lower framebuffer size combined with a pixel zoom be used to emulate this functionality?
A lot of the times, the limitations of hardware are down to the way the firmware compiler is implemented. You can work around a lot of these compiler limitations by rearranging your code (loop unrolling if for-next loops aren't permitted, using the modulus operator if Boolean operations aren't permitted).
Call it short sighted but people really thought back then that TV and Radio were never going to catch on.
And the sad thing is that we are still losing past recordings, because many of the TV stations just don't have the space to store all of their previously recorded material, nor do many of the movie archive maintainers have the funds to convert the aging media into digital media before they become unusable.
The latest mobile phones use the same type of memory cards that other electronics use - the local phone shop has memory cards that go up to 4 Gigabytes in memory; just to store music tracks, images, videos, ring-tones and games. All you need to do is buy a spare memory card, and you get a small plastic carrying box for free. The memory cards are actually multi-adaptor, so the actual data portion is about the size of a fingernail. Extremely easy to hide, and just as easy to lose.
Me too, but so far I've only had success getting the system to work on downhill journeys. Uphill journeys are still unsolved. I've heard other people have had success using flywheels to capture the energy from braking, but the only solution seems to be to make the hills higher on one side than the other.
Last time I saw the prices of the arcades in the UK, it was around 1 pound/2$ for every 30 seconds of play. For an afternoon's entertainment, it is obviously cheaper buying a console system
You have a gutter below the solar panels on the roof. This collects the rain water and funnels it down a sprinkler onto the set of piezo-electric raindrop energy generators. This water then runs off down a couple of water-wheels before being collected into storage barrels, where it is gradually released and drives a micro-miniature water turbine.
Imagine all the energy that is going to be created!!!
Those early home computers were really easy to understand; flat memory model, easy to use API's, a single bus architecture, extremely compact device drivers (a whole OS + Basic interpreter fitted into less than 16K), all of which was documented down to the hardware settings, all in a single book (eg. De Re Atari).
With Windows, you have this obfuscation layer between much of the hardware, from the device drivers all the way up to the diagnostic windows in the GUI, and the API's. You have to frequently resort to using the local search engine just to find the actual dialog window you need to open. The only way that this could be simplified would be to have a photographic picture of the entire computer system, and just be able to click on the component that needs to be inspected/configured, or have an abstract picture of the kernel/device drivers in terms of function.
With Linux, you always have the device driver, a command line diagnostic utility for those users that hate GUI's, and a high-level GUI application for those who don't like command lines.
In medical research, the ultimate goal for any treatment is to treat the patient as quickly as possible with fewer side effects. In a perfect Star-Trek world, it shouldn't be anything more trickier than scanning a tricorder over someone's injuries.
In computer science research, you are looking for the most efficient algorithm that can solve a given problem in the least amount of time, using the least amount of computational resources (storage). Obviously, there is a trade off between these two.
In chemistry, it seems to be able to achieve a given chemical process using the least amount of energy, resources, catalysts in the least amount of time.
If you can find a solution to one of these problems, then you can capitalize on the results of that research and set up your own company. "Sensors-on-a-chip" for biology is an example field. Given that there are around 30,000 genes in human DNA, there is vast market to be explored, not counting virology, bacteriology and genomics.
And even if the research doesn't find anything new, you can use the lateral experience gained (eg. applications development) to set yourself up as a consultant in that field.
Here's a neat video - the guy has combined an indoor helicopter with an wireless camera
Indoor helicopter camera
As far as Edinburgh airport goes, you have these annoying teenage "yellow-jackets" from Easyjet who hover between the duty-free shops and the security gates, who insist that everyone places all their items into one bag. Basic topology tells you that you can only put the smaller bag (the laptop) into the larger bag (the duty free gifts), although this completely guarantees that this will break the larger bag.
Then, just as you go through security, the customs people insist that you take the laptop out of the carrying bag so it can be inspected, thus taking more time that it would have if you hadn't placed everything in one bag in the first place. The only time I've been asked to completely empty all my bags was the time I bought a bottle of Irn bru, and stuffed it into one of the bags. I was given the choice if drinking it there on the spot or having it confiscated. Electronics, no problem, cables, no problem, disk drives, camera, flash cards, no problem. Attempting to smuggle a can of Irn Bru onto the airplane - major security alert...
Although Stansted is probably worse as everyone also has to go through the ritual of the "X-raying of the shoes".
Mystery of Microsoft's automatic updates