The bubbles get their color from a lactone-ring, which is a natural organic molecule built from hydrogen and oxygen atoms. One of the problems he experience was that colored bubbles would leave stains on everything they touched (dogs, cats, wallpaper, carpets, cars, people). By using this unstable molecule, the dye will break down as soon as it is agitated, as it is protected by the soap molecules. By all accounts it would probably break down into water and oxygen, and a bit of methane.
By the way who is the criminal idiot who sent two unarmed, untrained women without body armour to investigate a reported armed robbery in progress?
The police officers were the nearest to a reported incident at a private currency exchange for Pakistani businessmen and their families. There was no way of the owners to indicate that this was an armed robbery although the location was a frequency location for armed raids due to the large sums of money being exchanged. The officers had basic body armour - enough to protect against knives but not bullets (cheapest kind costs £250. The body armour against bullets costs £450).
Several questions: Why they weren't wearing bulletproof armour, then this wouldn't have happened.
Or why the customers needed to exchange large amounts of money in cash, and not use banking accounts.
Or why couldn't the panic alarm system send photographs from the CCTV cameras directly to the police station, and they would have known what they were up against.
It was probably because of the topological concept of having a single spherical planet replaced by a ring completely encircling a star, thereby making a more efficient use of the energy output of that star, and at the same time preventing any problems of overcrowding. And both the problem of creating night-time and solar flares are solved by having an alternating ring of panels rotating around the star. Every problem solved by technology, except for the usual culture clashes caused by different alien species living next to each other.
I thought the "Ringworld" series by Larry Niven would have been worth a mention.. whatever happened to the movie that was supposed to be in production?
Most of the series was filmed in the Welsh village of Portmeirion, which has some incredible architecture. It was an excellent choice for filming the series, if for nothing else, all the scenery remains on site, and wasn't dismantled or auctioned off.
I hope they could build a new village or sets somewhere permanent, so that it could become a tourist attraction if the new series were to take off. Although, I think it's going to be hard to compete against such a classic series.
Scientific-Atlanta provide the systems required to run a complete digital-TV cable network. Everything from the video servers, the accounting systems, the set-top boxes and the digital modems required to connect PC's to the Internet. As an example, Telewest in the UK use their systems to provide telephone, digital cable TV and broadband access all through a single cable.
Given the way everything is moving over to Internet (VoIP telephones, downloadable movies/music, online services), Cisco have everything to gain by advancing the technology (ie. increasing the data transfer rates) to provide the services. ADSL/DSL rates are being limited by the incumbent telephone companies.
There were many science fiction short stories about this problem in the 1950's, before the mass migration to the suburbs.
One possibility was that everyone would be living at home with their grandparents, great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents, and "Eternitol", the pills that allowed you to live until you were 300 years old were rationed to the under-150's.
Then there was the story about how pedestrians and car-owners would literally be at war at each other, with the situation kept under control by the Department of Population Control".
My favourite was story where the government developed 'stargate' type technology to colonise new planets, but ran into problems where some planets were already found to be "occupied" by other civilisations doing the same thing. On the first occasion, the natives were fairly friendly the first time, but not so well the second time round.
Read "The Exploding Metropolis" for further details about this time.
The Mirage in las vegas had a minibar that was monitored by computer in my suite. I'm not sure if they'd have come and restocked it, but it stops you replacing that $4 bottle of aquafina you took with an inferior quality one from safeway.
You don't need a computer for that. The hotel I stayed at, actually sealed the tops of the drinks bottles/cans with some gold shrinkwrap plastic. I guess that way, they would know whether the minibar had been opened and nothing/something taken out.
According to the article they compared the following platforms:
Windows Server 2003 with SQL Server 2000 Red Hat Enterprise 3 with Oracle 10g Red Hat Enterprise 3 with MySQL 3.23
They measure two items:
(1) The number of vulnerabilites reported over a period of time and (2) The average number of days of risk
For each platform they record the number of security advisories reported for the kernel, libraries and all related applications. These include all low, medium and high risk reports.
The time period was between March 1 2004 and February 28, 2005, and only included those vulnerabilities fixed in this period.
Unfortunately, they don't go into the exact details of each advisory. But here is the summary count:
Windows = 63 (16 Internet Explorer) RHEL/Oracle = 207 (Linux kernel = 38, Oracle = 30) RHEL/SQL = 116
They then count the number of days until each security risk (low/medium/high) was fixed. These get accumulated and then divided by the number of reports filed to give the average number of days at risk:
Windows = 31.98 RHEL/Oracle = 38.73 RHEL/MySQL = 61.64
Obvious there is a bias here, as they don't explicitly list the security advisories listed, and this is based entirely on the number of components that are considered to be needed for each server.
There are many stories of people using vegetable oil to power their cars and trucks.
But if you use vegetable oil for this purpose, you have to pay additional "fuel duty tax", otherwise the customs and exise people will be after you like Sheriff Hogg.
Here's the article from The Times. Sony denies penalising internet shopping sites, arguing that it is rewarding stores that can demonstrate its products.
Internet traders will meet today to decide whether to "name and shame" the companies involved, which include the leading household names in home entertainment goods.
A standard tourist class camera obscura simply requires three things: a lens (large polished convex crystal glass), a parabolic screen near the floor, and a mirror. The light is focussed by the lens, reflected by the mirror downwards and projected onto the screen. Depending upon the sophistication it is possible to add a few gears/control rod to rotate/tilt the lens/mirror around and optionally move the lens away/towards the mirror.
To view a stereo scene, you would need two lenses separated horizontally by a convenient distance. Each lens would have a mirror to project the light horizontally towards the central mirror. Inbetween would be the polarizing mirror. Then the reflecting downwards mirror and screen would be the same as normal.
Now there's an idea... I've seen camera obscura's which project an image onto a large table, but in monovision only. Would it be possible to have a camera obscura with two camera lenses, each of which polarizes the light onto the table. Then the scene could be viewed with a pair of 3D cinema glasses.
That would be the delta32 variant of the CCR5 molecule.. Maybe he simply had a defective version of the virus or a mutant protein that the virus needs.
Actually, under Canadian law, to pursue a defense of Justification against a Libel suit, the defendant must prove that their words were true.
So long as she can reference the sources of her information, she is in the clear. Such sources might be firefighter reports, health and safety reports, environmental surveys and planning application. The company will then have to sue these sources as well.
There are some more here as well, as well as some interesting inventions, which include a coffee mug powered stirling invention, plus reviews of many more anti-gravity patents.
The danger is what happens if an innocent person is caught by accident. Say some business person is visiting the UK from abroad. All a competitor has to do is suggest that there is something dodgy on his laptop. Naturally, this "tip" will be kept confidential, but the person will be locked up for 90 days. In this amount of time, he may have lost his job and home.
Britain has already shot dead one innocent man, and arrested a peaceful protestor using anti-terrorism legislation.
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But... is this product even safe?
The bubbles get their color from a lactone-ring, which is a natural organic molecule built from hydrogen and oxygen atoms. One of the problems he experience was that colored bubbles would leave stains on everything they touched (dogs, cats, wallpaper, carpets, cars, people). By using this unstable molecule, the dye will break down as soon as it is agitated, as it is protected by the soap molecules. By all accounts it would probably break down into water and oxygen, and a bit of methane.
Are all the connectors of his stereo system gold plated as well?
According to the newspapers, the policewomen were wearing the Covert NIJ IIA vests from VestGuard, as they were the cheapest at 250 pounds, with the bulletproof ones at 4500 pounds. It's really sad that for the want of 200 pounds, a person might have lived with just some bruised ribs.
By the way who is the criminal idiot who sent two unarmed, untrained women without body armour to investigate a reported armed robbery in progress?
The police officers were the nearest to a reported incident at a private currency exchange for Pakistani businessmen and their families. There was no way of the owners to indicate that this was an armed robbery although the location was a frequency location for armed raids due to the large sums of money being exchanged. The officers had basic body armour - enough to protect
against knives but not bullets (cheapest kind costs £250. The body armour against bullets costs £450).
Several questions:
Why they weren't wearing bulletproof armour, then this wouldn't have happened.
Or why the customers needed to exchange large amounts of money in cash, and not use banking accounts.
Or why couldn't the panic alarm system send photographs from the CCTV cameras directly to the police station, and they would have known what they were up against.
It was probably because of the topological concept of having a single spherical planet replaced by a ring completely encircling a star, thereby making a more efficient use of the energy output of that star, and at the same time preventing any problems of overcrowding. And both the problem of creating night-time and solar flares are solved by having an alternating ring of panels rotating around the star.
Every problem solved by technology, except for the usual culture clashes caused by different alien species living next to each other.
I thought the "Ringworld" series by Larry Niven would have been worth a mention.. whatever happened to the movie that was supposed to be in production?
Problem solved (portable nuclear reactor).
Most of the series was filmed in the Welsh village of Portmeirion, which has some incredible architecture. It was an excellent choice for filming the series, if for nothing else, all the scenery remains on site, and wasn't dismantled or auctioned off.
I hope they could build a new village or sets somewhere permanent, so that it could become a tourist attraction if the new series were to take off. Although, I think it's going to be hard to compete against such a classic series.
Scientific-Atlanta provide the systems required to run a complete digital-TV cable network. Everything from the video servers, the accounting systems, the set-top boxes and the digital modems required to connect PC's to the Internet. As an example, Telewest in the UK use their systems to provide telephone, digital cable TV and broadband access all through a single cable.
Given the way everything is moving over to Internet (VoIP telephones, downloadable movies/music, online services), Cisco have everything to gain by advancing the technology (ie. increasing the data transfer rates) to provide the services. ADSL/DSL rates are being limited by the incumbent telephone companies.
There were many science fiction short stories about this problem in the 1950's, before the mass migration to the suburbs.
One possibility was that everyone would be living at home with their grandparents, great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents, and "Eternitol", the pills that allowed you to live until you were 300 years old were rationed to the under-150's.
Then there was the story about how pedestrians and car-owners would literally be at war at each other, with the situation kept under control by the Department of Population Control".
My favourite was story where the government developed 'stargate' type technology to colonise new planets, but ran into problems where some planets were already found to be "occupied" by other civilisations doing the same thing. On the first occasion, the natives were fairly friendly the first time, but not so well the second time round.
Read "The Exploding Metropolis" for further details about this time.
You haven't seen mercury rectifier in action. It's not a case mod - it's part of an elevator power system. They don't make 'em like they used to.
...give companies tax credits for performing research in his state/city....
The Mirage in las vegas had a minibar that was monitored by computer in my suite. I'm not sure if they'd have come and restocked it, but it stops you replacing that $4 bottle of aquafina you took with an inferior quality one from safeway.
You don't need a computer for that. The hotel I stayed at, actually sealed the tops of the drinks bottles/cans with some gold shrinkwrap plastic. I guess that way, they would know whether the minibar had been opened and nothing/something taken out.
Perhaps this would work. A Hauppauge satellite receiver card with cabling?
According to the article they compared the following platforms:
Windows Server 2003 with SQL Server 2000
Red Hat Enterprise 3 with Oracle 10g
Red Hat Enterprise 3 with MySQL 3.23
They measure two items:
(1) The number of vulnerabilites reported over a period of time and
(2) The average number of days of risk
For each platform they record the number of security advisories reported
for the kernel, libraries and all related applications. These include
all low, medium and high risk reports.
The time period was between March 1 2004 and February 28, 2005, and only
included those vulnerabilities fixed in this period.
Unfortunately, they don't go into the exact details of each advisory.
But here is the summary count:
Windows = 63 (16 Internet Explorer)
RHEL/Oracle = 207 (Linux kernel = 38, Oracle = 30)
RHEL/SQL = 116
They then count the number of days until each security risk (low/medium/high) was fixed.
These get accumulated and then divided by the number of reports filed to give the
average number of days at risk:
Windows = 31.98
RHEL/Oracle = 38.73
RHEL/MySQL = 61.64
Obvious there is a bias here, as they don't explicitly list the security advisories listed,
and this is based entirely on the number of components that are considered to be needed for
each server.
There are many stories of people using vegetable oil to power their cars and trucks.
But if you use vegetable oil for this purpose, you have to pay additional "fuel duty tax", otherwise the customs and exise people will be after you like Sheriff Hogg.
Here's the article from The Times.
Sony denies penalising internet shopping sites, arguing that it is rewarding stores that can demonstrate its products.
Internet traders will meet today to decide whether to "name and shame" the companies involved, which include the leading household names in home entertainment goods.
From the article:
But when Shain ground up ice worms and mixed them with an enzyme that lights up in response to ATP, he found the colder the worm, the more light.
The nightclub bar market has a new product on the drinks menu.
A standard tourist class camera obscura simply requires three things: a lens (large polished convex crystal glass), a parabolic screen near the floor, and a mirror. The light is focussed by the lens, reflected by the mirror downwards and projected onto the screen. Depending upon the sophistication it is possible to add a few gears/control rod to rotate/tilt the lens/mirror around and optionally move the lens away/towards the mirror.
To view a stereo scene, you would need two lenses separated horizontally by a convenient distance. Each lens would have a mirror to project the light horizontally towards the central mirror. Inbetween would be the polarizing mirror. Then the reflecting downwards mirror and screen would be the same as normal.
Now there's an idea ... I've seen camera obscura's which project an image onto a large table, but in monovision only. Would it be possible to have a camera obscura with two camera lenses, each of which polarizes the light onto the table. Then the scene could be viewed with a pair of 3D cinema glasses.
That would be the delta32 variant of the CCR5 molecule.. Maybe he simply had a defective version of the virus or a mutant protein that the virus needs.
Actually, under Canadian law, to pursue a defense of Justification against a Libel suit, the defendant must prove that their words were true.
So long as she can reference the sources of her information, she is in the clear. Such sources might be firefighter reports, health and safety reports, environmental surveys and planning application. The company will then have to sue these sources as well.
There are some more here as well, as well as some interesting inventions, which include a coffee mug powered stirling invention, plus reviews of many more anti-gravity patents.
Even worse,we can only determine where this legislation is in Congress, or how fast it is moving, but not both at the same time.
The danger is what happens if an innocent person is caught by accident. Say some business person is visiting the UK from abroad. All a competitor has to do is suggest that there is something dodgy on his laptop. Naturally, this "tip" will be kept confidential, but the person will be locked up for 90 days. In this amount of time, he may have lost his job and home.
Britain has already shot dead one innocent man, and arrested a peaceful protestor using anti-terrorism legislation.