Previously it was thought that dogs could only catagorize other dogs or people by the tried and true butt sniffing technique. This experiment shows that dogs, possibly due to their proximity to human DNA, have evolved more advanced ways to perceive others.
It's hotly debated whether mosquitos have transferred blood and DNA from humans to dogs to give them this power, as there are many other methods of transmission. Needless to say, the Bird Flu has helped that process greatly among many other species, but it has yet to be shown that is has factored into the human-dog element.
As for the dog to human question you posed... Have you seen furries?
Well, perhaps this is more reliable. It doesn't sound like it, as there seem to be way too many moving parts in a chaotic environment to be 100% reliable. In this case, any misfire or malfunction, and the plane blows up, not the target, so it's imperative to be rock solid.
Well, it's supposedly more mizerly (?) than the 512MB 8600m GT, which I have. With a 1.6 c2d, 2GB ram, XP Pro, and a 85WHr battery, I can get over 5 hours of battery life, which I think is dang good considering that I can play games quite well. That of course is not while gaming, only web browsing and using IM.
Of course, this will vary from laptop to laptop, YMMV.
When you find a company that allows people to use their copyrighted material however they want, and also takes responsibility (monetarily and apologetically both), for their own mistakes, let me know. And they have to still be in business, that is..
I do a lot of road work. As such I'm living off of a laptop. I have an "admin" account, as they call it. I can't change my own system time, or even view it, but I now need it for a work application, to syncronize some clocks.
This one little difficulty has delayed a project, pissed off a big big customer (one of the Big Three), and costs possibly thousands of dollars. Thanks IT!
I'm an American, currently working in Mexico for 2 months. I recently bought a brand new laptop with a 8600M GT 512MB video card, and I've been looking for games to buy and play, since I haven't played many games since BF1942 and Counter-Strike.
I've been seriously considering purchasing the Orange Box, and even signed up with Steam (they can check this fact against my unobscured email). I even watch some forum threads about TF2 and Portal, and played the Portal flash game. But, with a possible disconnection, they've just lost a sale unless they can absolutely prove otherwise. Ya hear that Valve? LOST SALE RIGHT HERE BUDDY.
After all, before global warming, no one had ever in history seen a moon being decimated like this. I estimate that by 2050 half of the moons will be destroyed by meteors and death stars. The moons of some planets and pseudo planets may be spared, but most will be devastated. Their rubble will fall upon our metropolitan areas and million dollar summer homes, leaving us homeless and starving for food.
We have all seen the horrific California wildfires this week. We've also seen the huge fireballs created by Schoemaker-Levy, which was near to this moon explosion. Obviously, something is going extremely wrong here!
I propose that we blow these moons before they get blown themselves. We can then control how and where the remnants fall. To do this, we need an old song that's still catchy, a bunch of nukes and some hillbillies with mental and drug disorders.
This program may very well hinder our economy. Because of this, any country that endeavors to be more advanced than any other country will be taxed into oblivion. We must have equality when taxing every single person for this project, after all. With enough hard work, we shall prevail over this imminent danger!
Um, looks like Medicine, Chemistry, Peace, Physics, Literature, Economics. Further digging in their site shows that the Economics Prize was started in 1968. Well, perhaps Nobel didn't originate it, but it is selected by the same method as the others. Not that I'd consider that spectacular; They gave Al Gore and Jimmy Carter Peace Prizes after all.
It's called NoScript. Unless it's explicitly authorized it cannot be done. However, there's a safely stored whitelist of scripts that are permitted, which we all hold dear.
Heh, sorry about that. I used to know how to spell it because of the most geekiest reason: in the old game Police Quest 2, you had to look in your "pidgeon hole" to find a message. That game came on three floppies we had to interchange when we went to different parts of the map, and ran on an 8088. Good times..
You're also assuming instantaneous transfer at each end. If you're sending your 4GB stick to someone with a cable modem running at 3Mbps/512kbps down/up, that's the max you'll get. And that's even assuming you keep him fed with enough memory sticks. Since they're somewhat cheap, I'd assume you would.
Second problem is pidgeon transfer. When you want to use birds to transfer messages, you have to first raise the birds in a rook. Then, you transport them to another place, possibly your ISP. When they release a bird with a message, it goes "home" to where it was raised. You'll need to transfer the birds back at intervals. The ISP will also need to host birds, but I'm assuming they won't have as many. After all, upload speeds are always lower.
How many birds will you need for this? Assuming one bird transfer per day, and maybe you use a bird every 30 minutes as above, you'll need approximately 50 birds per day. If you want error checking for duplicity, you'll need twice as many.
I wish people would be more realistic with the pidgeon data transfer methods. It has great promise.
1. There are more inter-system collisions than we realize. Example: Schoemaker-Levi
2. The Sun is bigger than Earth, and therefore would probably get hit 1000% (or more) more often. Example: eclipses show this quite easily
2.a Corollary: The Sun is the center of the Solar System, not Earth. Example: Copernicus
3. The big Yucatan collision happened millions of years ago, and since then things have moved a bit. We can't predict movement 10 years from now, much less 160 Million. Example: We still use Pork-Chop plots at NASA
4. They predict an impact 160 million years ago, 95 million years off the mark. Example: Dino fossils are as new as 65 million.
Overall, this isn't the most reliable of links and summaries in recent/. history. At least I haven't seen any Global Warming scarey articles in a while. Maybe the Firehose is working afterall?
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Previously it was thought that dogs could only catagorize other dogs or people by the tried and true butt sniffing technique. This experiment shows that dogs, possibly due to their proximity to human DNA, have evolved more advanced ways to perceive others.
It's hotly debated whether mosquitos have transferred blood and DNA from humans to dogs to give them this power, as there are many other methods of transmission. Needless to say, the Bird Flu has helped that process greatly among many other species, but it has yet to be shown that is has factored into the human-dog element.
As for the dog to human question you posed... Have you seen furries?
If I didn't browse at +1 for trolls, I'd never see my own post! Seriously, I do browse at +1 for trolls.
Viruses, backdoors, security holes, buffer overflows, trojans galore... and they get a room. Ooooh, they're so dedicated to security!
Well, plane damage at Mach2 can't be good at least. Maybe it kills the plane, maybe it doesn't. Either way, I'd hate to be the pilot.
Well, perhaps this is more reliable. It doesn't sound like it, as there seem to be way too many moving parts in a chaotic environment to be 100% reliable. In this case, any misfire or malfunction, and the plane blows up, not the target, so it's imperative to be rock solid.
Well, it's supposedly more mizerly (?) than the 512MB 8600m GT, which I have. With a 1.6 c2d, 2GB ram, XP Pro, and a 85WHr battery, I can get over 5 hours of battery life, which I think is dang good considering that I can play games quite well. That of course is not while gaming, only web browsing and using IM.
Of course, this will vary from laptop to laptop, YMMV.
When you find a company that allows people to use their copyrighted material however they want, and also takes responsibility (monetarily and apologetically both), for their own mistakes, let me know. And they have to still be in business, that is..
I do a lot of road work. As such I'm living off of a laptop. I have an "admin" account, as they call it. I can't change my own system time, or even view it, but I now need it for a work application, to syncronize some clocks.
This one little difficulty has delayed a project, pissed off a big big customer (one of the Big Three), and costs possibly thousands of dollars. Thanks IT!
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2007113333116.gif
I'm an American, currently working in Mexico for 2 months. I recently bought a brand new laptop with a 8600M GT 512MB video card, and I've been looking for games to buy and play, since I haven't played many games since BF1942 and Counter-Strike.
I've been seriously considering purchasing the Orange Box, and even signed up with Steam (they can check this fact against my unobscured email). I even watch some forum threads about TF2 and Portal, and played the Portal flash game. But, with a possible disconnection, they've just lost a sale unless they can absolutely prove otherwise. Ya hear that Valve? LOST SALE RIGHT HERE BUDDY.
I hope you realize what you've just said?
I blame this moon catastrophe on Global Warming.
After all, before global warming, no one had ever in history seen a moon being decimated like this. I estimate that by 2050 half of the moons will be destroyed by meteors and death stars. The moons of some planets and pseudo planets may be spared, but most will be devastated. Their rubble will fall upon our metropolitan areas and million dollar summer homes, leaving us homeless and starving for food.
We have all seen the horrific California wildfires this week. We've also seen the huge fireballs created by Schoemaker-Levy, which was near to this moon explosion. Obviously, something is going extremely wrong here!
I propose that we blow these moons before they get blown themselves. We can then control how and where the remnants fall. To do this, we need an old song that's still catchy, a bunch of nukes and some hillbillies with mental and drug disorders.
This program may very well hinder our economy. Because of this, any country that endeavors to be more advanced than any other country will be taxed into oblivion. We must have equality when taxing every single person for this project, after all. With enough hard work, we shall prevail over this imminent danger!
http://nobelprize.org/
Um, looks like Medicine, Chemistry, Peace, Physics, Literature, Economics. Further digging in their site shows that the Economics Prize was started in 1968. Well, perhaps Nobel didn't originate it, but it is selected by the same method as the others. Not that I'd consider that spectacular; They gave Al Gore and Jimmy Carter Peace Prizes after all.
You can throw some nasty little virus on there in the meantime :D
IANAL.. The thing is, the power to regulate gambling is a State right. Thus, Nevada allows it.
If the Federal Gov't is even allowed to legislate it (i.e. sign a treaty about it) is to me, questionable.
Thanks, as this was not explicitly said, I am confuzzed. It happens waaayyy too easily, I must say.
'incompetent people implementing security solutions are a real problem.'
Man, things like this make me want to NOT switch to Linux... Even though I had a better experience with Ubuntu that I did Vista.
Heck, I don't even know what chroot is, which must make me dried dog piss on a hot fire hydrant in this guy's eyes.
Yep, this is just one more help .doc for virus makers. "Remember, always unregister the .dll's, and you'll be good to go."
It's called NoScript. Unless it's explicitly authorized it cannot be done. However, there's a safely stored whitelist of scripts that are permitted, which we all hold dear.
Heh, sorry about that. I used to know how to spell it because of the most geekiest reason: in the old game Police Quest 2, you had to look in your "pidgeon hole" to find a message. That game came on three floppies we had to interchange when we went to different parts of the map, and ran on an 8088. Good times..
You're also assuming instantaneous transfer at each end. If you're sending your 4GB stick to someone with a cable modem running at 3Mbps/512kbps down/up, that's the max you'll get. And that's even assuming you keep him fed with enough memory sticks. Since they're somewhat cheap, I'd assume you would.
Second problem is pidgeon transfer. When you want to use birds to transfer messages, you have to first raise the birds in a rook. Then, you transport them to another place, possibly your ISP. When they release a bird with a message, it goes "home" to where it was raised. You'll need to transfer the birds back at intervals. The ISP will also need to host birds, but I'm assuming they won't have as many. After all, upload speeds are always lower.
How many birds will you need for this? Assuming one bird transfer per day, and maybe you use a bird every 30 minutes as above, you'll need approximately 50 birds per day. If you want error checking for duplicity, you'll need twice as many.
I wish people would be more realistic with the pidgeon data transfer methods. It has great promise.
Why do you think so many people who've heard his views are pro Ron Paul?
Speaking of which, why are you even on slashdot if you hadn't even heard of him? Something's not quite right..
Hey ya'll, I think we gots an imposter here. Git 'em!
Let's get some logic here:
1. There are more inter-system collisions than we realize. Example: Schoemaker-Levi
2. The Sun is bigger than Earth, and therefore would probably get hit 1000% (or more) more often. Example: eclipses show this quite easily
2.a Corollary: The Sun is the center of the Solar System, not Earth. Example: Copernicus
3. The big Yucatan collision happened millions of years ago, and since then things have moved a bit. We can't predict movement 10 years from now, much less 160 Million. Example: We still use Pork-Chop plots at NASA
4. They predict an impact 160 million years ago, 95 million years off the mark. Example: Dino fossils are as new as 65 million.
Overall, this isn't the most reliable of links and summaries in recent /. history. At least I haven't seen any Global Warming scarey articles in a while. Maybe the Firehose is working afterall?
STOP calling it "upgrading."
Imagine if they put this botnet to a real use, like Seti@Home. They'd be uber-points people in no time.
But noooo, they have to be all evilly criminal types, don't they.