There is absolutely no danger as long as the casing remains intact. Microwaves don't cause the object subjected to them to become radioactive. If they did, you would see a hell of a lot of people walking around glowing in the dark (cellphone users, people living by microwave towers).
Having said that, it is IMPERATIVE that you NEVER operate a microwave oven with the door open or even suspect that the casing may be damaged in any way. Otherwise, these little tricks are safe.
because in their not-too-bright minds they do a simplistic link between nuclear power and nuclear war so hence its verbotten.
No, actually people make the link between nuclear power and Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, not to mention the fact that we have yet to find a way to store radioactive waste for the required 100,000+ years until it decays enough to be considered somewhat safe.
Also, if the photos are not in rapid succession, expect the star trails to turn into multiple distinct stars...
If you mounted the camera so that it rotates around an axis along the north-south pole (equitorial mount) you would overcome this problem. You can buy such a mount for telescopes and could probably rig one up to mount a camera on it.
In short, not really. Unfortunately for Southern Hemispherites(?) there aren't many good showers, certainly none as good as what we get up here (with the exception of the rare Leonid storms of recent years). There should be some Geminids visible from that latitude (look to the north) but basically the higher the radiant (the point from which the meteors appear to come from) the better the display.
You can't really complain about not having good meteor showers though. You people way down there have a much richer sky from what I've been told and seen in pictures.
The annual Persied shower is one of the best showers of the year and the best summer shower. The peak is around Aug 12-13 with upwards to 80 or so meteors visible per hour from a dark sky site.
A good source of info for coming astronomical events is Sky and Telescope magazine. You can find online info from S&T here.
The only thing that Shaw is using @home for still is email and webspace. Right now they're encouraging people, with the help of a contest with $1,000,000 in prizes, to switch over their email addresses and webspace to the shaw.ca domain.
I got cable hooked up back in May just after the Rogers/Shaw territory swap. I was still on the Rogers backbone as they were still switching everyone over to the Shaw network. What a differnce that made!!! Whereas with Rogers I was getting 150-175kbps d/l, as soon as I went over to Shaw I got 250 kbps easily (these values are from the Shaw download test site). As well, Shaw has completely moved away from the @home network so if @home tanks, service will not be affected in the least.
I never have downtime (except the occasional middle-of-the-night servicing) and only occasionally do I lose email access (when I do it's not for longer than 5 minutes).
The only real problem with Shaw is the long wait for customer support, but supposedly they're working on that. I would rather they finish switching over to their own infrastructure before they worry about that anyway.
CO2 is responsible for global warming, not ozone depletion.
CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) and some other gases like halon(tm?) are responsible for the thinning ozone. Most of these gases have been banned under the Montreal protocol for some years now, but because they are largely inert they can rise far into the stratosphere (which takes them quite a few years) where they do their damage. What happens up there is that the suns intense UV rays break the CFC molecules up and the chlorine ends up binding with an oxygen atom from the ozone. The actual reaction is here
CO2, on the other hand, absorbs infrared radiation from the earth reradiated from sunlight and keeps the heat in the atmosphere. It basically acts like a big blanket. CO2 is what the Kyoto Protocol is trying to limit.
Do you have an even remotely common last name? You have to remember that there are low-life swine err...I mean people that dedicate their time to figuring out how to get as many email addresses as they can. I think that two initials plus a last name is probably the second worst choice of address (after _###). Think about it: How hard is it to get a listing of all somewhat common last names, import them into a database and then tack on every combination of 2 letter prefixes from aa to zz? You will end up with a very large number of possible addresses which you then validate by mailing them. Strip out all of the bounces and voila...you've just built a spam list.
Because when you go to sign up and find your selected username taken you get an option to tack a number on to the selected name.
The numbers go sequentially, so that if you try, for example, bob@hotmail.com you may get a message saying "the username bob is already taken. would you like bob_788 instead or choose a new username?"
So if the extensions are up to 778 that means that there are 777 bobs before you which means that there are 777 valid email addresses that can easily be mailed to using a simple x=x+1 script.
I set up a hotmail account for my mom a while back and made the mistake of using a numbered extension. The first time she went to check her email she had 4 pieces of spam in her inbox (this was only in a matter of a couple of days).
Does here actually have a hotmail account? All I get is spam
I have not 1 but 2 hotmail accounts. My main account has been active for over 2 years now and I have yet to receive one piece of spam in it. I find it funny that whenever hotmail is mentioned here everyone goes off about spam. Has it ever occurrred to you that the reason a lot of people get spam in web-based accounts (eg. hotmail, yahoo mail, etc.) is not from any flaw in the service but the fact that they pick a username with a numbered extension (eg. spammagnet_123@hotmail.com)?
In fact, the only countries are explicitly refer to themselves as non-democratic are the remaining semi-feudal monarchies or fundamentalist entities -- Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria
I don't know where Katz gets his information from (one would guess it's not from any knowledgeable sources) but Iran does have a working, albeit limited, democracy. Iran in fact refers to itself as an Islamic democracy. Although the mullahs do have the ultimate authority in Iranian society, the presidency, under Mohammed Khatami, has made great strides in extending its influence. Mr. Khatami has sought to limit the power of the conservative judiciary and the mullahs and bring real representation to the people with some success. To lump Iran in with Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia is simply wrong.
There are many other points of Katz's that I could refute but otheres have done a good job already (as usually happens when one of his uninformed essays gets posted).
At the risk of getting modded down, I would like to offer my opinion on why Katz even gets to use/. as a forum for his views (and get paid for it). I don't think the reason is that he offers any valid or informed views or that anyone (including the editors?) particularly likes his writings. I think the answer can be found by looking at the number of comments his articles generate (mostly by people lining up to slam him).
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Hewlett Packard Digital Entertainment System
10/27/2001 1:36:27 AM by Amir R. Pakdel - apakdel@ratedpc.com
Now you can introduce your home entertainment system to the multimedia advancements that had been available on PCs. Hewlett Packard has introduced the de100c Digital Entertainment Center, a one of a kind stand-alone product that combines Internet features and digital multimedia capabilities. The unit connects to the television and stereo, from where it allows for organizing and storing MP3 and CD music that can be stored on its 40GB hard drive. It also comes with a CD writer for burning CDs on the fly, and USB connections for transferring files from and to portable devices such as PDAs. Coolest of all is the ability to connect through the Internet (broadband and dial-up both supported) to download music. The de100c is expected to hit the stores around the holidays.
Record music to CDs with a built in CD-writer;
Transfer music to select MP3 players, handhelds and memory card readers;
Use its built-in connectivity to download music and artist information and access streaming video through dial-up, DSL or cable connections;
Easily store, manage and automatically catalog up to 750 CDs (approximately 9,000 tracks);
View music selections and other product features through an easy-to-use on-screen TV display and simple remote control;
Access RealNetworks' RealPlayer and RealJukebox services; and
Connect to stereo and TV components.
Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do -- rudolph giuliani
We also live under an elected parliamentary dictatorship. Which is worse...having a pseudo- democracy or letting the Supreme Court steal an election on behalf of the Real Powers(TM)?
I use IE5.5 on Win98 but block all user agent queries with my firewall (AtGuard). In my firewall settings for msn.com I inserted the following string to reply to user agent queries: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95). Works like a charm.
However, since I never lie, I just had to find it for you I guess
You started out with some really good points, slipped into generalizations, and then descended into self righteousness. You seem to be just as ignorant as the stereotypical American that you write about. I read indymedia.org and I see a few bad apples like you posting to the site. I think you should take other peoples views and experiences into consideration more often instead of relying solely on your own vastly superior intellect.
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There is absolutely no danger as long as the casing remains intact. Microwaves don't cause the object subjected to them to become radioactive. If they did, you would see a hell of a lot of people walking around glowing in the dark (cellphone users, people living by microwave towers).
Having said that, it is IMPERATIVE that you NEVER operate a microwave oven with the door open or even suspect that the casing may be damaged in any way. Otherwise, these little tricks are safe.
because in their not-too-bright minds they do a simplistic link between nuclear power and nuclear war so hence its verbotten.
No, actually people make the link between nuclear power and Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, not to mention the fact that we have yet to find a way to store radioactive waste for the required 100,000+ years until it decays enough to be considered somewhat safe.
Also, if the photos are not in rapid succession, expect the star trails to turn into multiple distinct stars...
If you mounted the camera so that it rotates around an axis along the north-south pole (equitorial mount) you would overcome this problem. You can buy such a mount for telescopes and could probably rig one up to mount a camera on it.
In short, not really. Unfortunately for Southern Hemispherites(?) there aren't many good showers, certainly none as good as what we get up here (with the exception of the rare Leonid storms of recent years). There should be some Geminids visible from that latitude (look to the north) but basically the higher the radiant (the point from which the meteors appear to come from) the better the display.
You can't really complain about not having good meteor showers though. You people way down there have a much richer sky from what I've been told and seen in pictures.
The annual Persied shower is one of the best showers of the year and the best summer shower. The peak is around Aug 12-13 with upwards to 80 or so meteors visible per hour from a dark sky site.
A good source of info for coming astronomical events is Sky and Telescope magazine. You can find online info from S&T here.
I see by your UID that you've been here a while. Haven't you figured out by now that most of the people here are ignorant twats?
Oh, not much really.
I'm sure some searching would reveal some details though.
The only thing that Shaw is using @home for still is email and webspace. Right now they're encouraging people, with the help of a contest with $1,000,000 in prizes, to switch over their email addresses and webspace to the shaw.ca domain.
Spoken like a true Rogers customer :)
I got cable hooked up back in May just after the Rogers/Shaw territory swap. I was still on the Rogers backbone as they were still switching everyone over to the Shaw network. What a differnce that made!!! Whereas with Rogers I was getting 150-175kbps d/l, as soon as I went over to Shaw I got 250 kbps easily (these values are from the Shaw download test site). As well, Shaw has completely moved away from the @home network so if @home tanks, service will not be affected in the least.
I never have downtime (except the occasional middle-of-the-night servicing) and only occasionally do I lose email access (when I do it's not for longer than 5 minutes).
The only real problem with Shaw is the long wait for customer support, but supposedly they're working on that. I would rather they finish switching over to their own infrastructure before they worry about that anyway.
CO2 is responsible for global warming, not ozone depletion.
CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) and some other gases like halon(tm?) are responsible for the thinning ozone. Most of these gases have been banned under the Montreal protocol for some years now, but because they are largely inert they can rise far into the stratosphere (which takes them quite a few years) where they do their damage. What happens up there is that the suns intense UV rays break the CFC molecules up and the chlorine ends up binding with an oxygen atom from the ozone. The actual reaction is here
CO2, on the other hand, absorbs infrared radiation from the earth reradiated from sunlight and keeps the heat in the atmosphere. It basically acts like a big blanket. CO2 is what the Kyoto Protocol is trying to limit.
Do you have an even remotely common last name? You have to remember that there are low-life swine err...I mean people that dedicate their time to figuring out how to get as many email addresses as they can. I think that two initials plus a last name is probably the second worst choice of address (after _###). Think about it: How hard is it to get a listing of all somewhat common last names, import them into a database and then tack on every combination of 2 letter prefixes from aa to zz? You will end up with a very large number of possible addresses which you then validate by mailing them. Strip out all of the bounces and voila...you've just built a spam list.
The numbers go sequentially, so that if you try, for example, bob@hotmail.com you may get a message saying "the username bob is already taken. would you like bob_788 instead or choose a new username?"
So if the extensions are up to 778 that means that there are 777 bobs before you which means that there are 777 valid email addresses that can easily be mailed to using a simple x=x+1 script.
I set up a hotmail account for my mom a while back and made the mistake of using a numbered extension. The first time she went to check her email she had 4 pieces of spam in her inbox (this was only in a matter of a couple of days).
I have not 1 but 2 hotmail accounts. My main account has been active for over 2 years now and I have yet to receive one piece of spam in it. I find it funny that whenever hotmail is mentioned here everyone goes off about spam. Has it ever occurrred to you that the reason a lot of people get spam in web-based accounts (eg. hotmail, yahoo mail, etc.) is not from any flaw in the service but the fact that they pick a username with a numbered extension (eg. spammagnet_123@hotmail.com)?
I don't know where Katz gets his information from (one would guess it's not from any knowledgeable sources) but Iran does have a working, albeit limited, democracy. Iran in fact refers to itself as an Islamic democracy. Although the mullahs do have the ultimate authority in Iranian society, the presidency, under Mohammed Khatami, has made great strides in extending its influence. Mr. Khatami has sought to limit the power of the conservative judiciary and the mullahs and bring real representation to the people with some success. To lump Iran in with Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia is simply wrong.
There are many other points of Katz's that I could refute but otheres have done a good job already (as usually happens when one of his uninformed essays gets posted).
At the risk of getting modded down, I would like to offer my opinion on why Katz even gets to use /. as a forum for his views (and get paid for it). I don't think the reason is that he offers any valid or informed views or that anyone (including the editors?) particularly likes his writings. I think the answer can be found by looking at the number of comments his articles generate (mostly by people lining up to slam him).
Each of these comments is a page view.
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Still wondering why Katz has a job here?
So here's the blurb:
Hewlett Packard Digital Entertainment System 10/27/2001 1:36:27 AM by Amir R. Pakdel - apakdel@ratedpc.com Now you can introduce your home entertainment system to the multimedia advancements that had been available on PCs. Hewlett Packard has introduced the de100c Digital Entertainment Center, a one of a kind stand-alone product that combines Internet features and digital multimedia capabilities. The unit connects to the television and stereo, from where it allows for organizing and storing MP3 and CD music that can be stored on its 40GB hard drive. It also comes with a CD writer for burning CDs on the fly, and USB connections for transferring files from and to portable devices such as PDAs. Coolest of all is the ability to connect through the Internet (broadband and dial-up both supported) to download music. The de100c is expected to hit the stores around the holidays. Record music to CDs with a built in CD-writer; Transfer music to select MP3 players, handhelds and memory card readers; Use its built-in connectivity to download music and artist information and access streaming video through dial-up, DSL or cable connections; Easily store, manage and automatically catalog up to 750 CDs (approximately 9,000 tracks); View music selections and other product features through an easy-to-use on-screen TV display and simple remote control; Access RealNetworks' RealPlayer and RealJukebox services; and Connect to stereo and TV components.
Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do -- rudolph giuliani
And they could also airdrop crates in for the snipers to hide behind.
We also live under an elected parliamentary dictatorship. Which is worse...having a pseudo- democracy or letting the Supreme Court steal an election on behalf of the Real Powers(TM)?
That's a lot truer than you may think.
Windows XP is for everyone, naked outcast and cheater included (?!)
56k | 100k | 300k
So says the little blurb on my media bar (just upgraded to IE6.0)
Is M$ finally giving in to pirates?
I use IE5.5 on Win98 but block all user agent queries with my firewall (AtGuard). In my firewall settings for msn.com I inserted the following string to reply to user agent queries: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95). Works like a charm.
You started out with some really good points, slipped into generalizations, and then descended into self righteousness. You seem to be just as ignorant as the stereotypical American that you write about. I read indymedia.org and I see a few bad apples like you posting to the site. I think you should take other peoples views and experiences into consideration more often instead of relying solely on your own vastly superior intellect.