*BSD supporters always claim that their system is more reliable, stable, secure and handles load better than Linux/ Windows XP.
But if this is true then any *BSD server should be immune to such hacker DOS attacks.
So why had the system to be shut down by the ISP ?
Every 2 or 3 years some "scientists" claim that they found the reason for sleep disorders and annouce a perfect cure. But this usually crap because there is no cure for sleep disorders due to sleep disorder being not an illness.
Sleep disorders are a simple physical phenomena which is caused by a wrond placed sleeping location. Sorry, I won't call a wrong placed bed an illness.
Most slashdotters come from an academic background and therefore know some simple fact about the human brain. Information processing in the human brain is done by electrical signals. These are rather weak signals with an energy about 0.27 mW. The part of the human brain which is responsible for movements and basic body states like "awake", "asleep", "aroused" is the cerebellum.
An important part of the cerebellum is it's main cortex which is coincidentally build like coil (from an electr-chemical point of view). This enables it to react very fast to changes of the surrounding but unfortuantely makes it work like an antenna, too. The neural structures of the brain are of course able to filter of most induced noise from the cerebral cortex, but some special signal get trough. That means especially:
Vertical slow frequency (0.0045 Hz) noice induce e.g. from the moon passing through earths magnetic field (moon has a metallic core like earth)
50 Hz left-right oscillations (for example if you have a power plug left to your ear when you are sleeping)
120 Hz radial oscillations (for example from a computer screen, therefore you should never sleep in front of your computer)
9485 Hz oscialltions at head height (therefore many people have problems relaxing at the dentist)
Note that most interferences are basically directional so just moving your bed might help alot. For the interferences caused by the moon the best thing would be prtective shielding like a nightcap made of wires (Faradays cage for the brain).
With more and more embedded systems are used in devices are over the world, more and more embedded chips find finally their way onto the garbage dump. But the big problem with these chips that they can't be neither termally recycled, i.e. burned -silicone is a metal after all - nor remelted for new chip - silicone dioxide is just sand therefore it would be too expensive.
So these chips accumulate in huge heaps on the garbage dumps.
However, these chip are never really destroyed the basic logic is still in them. Now the natural radiation which is much higher on garbage dumps than you would expect comes into play. It's struture altering effect creates basically a natural genetic algorithm on these chips which breads something which could be best described as silicone lifeform - it's slightly reproducing and adaptable. Currect simulations show that in about 20 years these heaps will have reached nano-fracmentation. This means that they will send of little silicone nano-lifeforms comparable to bacteria. These thing are not a direct threat to the normal lifeforms on this planet - all life is carbon/hydrogen/nitrogen-based and not silicone-based. However simulations show that these silicone bacteria will spread all over the hull of earth (70 % silicone) and will eventually "mutate" to incoporate iron. This means that 85% of the outher hull of earth will be destabilized.
Earth rotation and gravitation from moon will do the rest - our planet will slowly evaporate into silicone bacteria dust.
It's very important to do something about these problems, that mean either - shipping old computers to Mars for savety (radiation is lower there because Mars is older than earth), melting down all old embedded devices or sterilize them with underground nuclear explosions.
However G.W.Bush is more occupied to save America oil supply in the gulf region than to do something against evaporation of earth.
There is not a problem with support of large files in Unix system, there is a problem with incompetent people using too large files in Unix systems.
It's an old and well known problem that programmers and users tend to keep very large files for laziness and logical errors.
However it's also an old and well known fact that large files are bad for performance per se due to several reasons:
fragmentation: large files increase to fracmentation of most file systems, at least of any system with uses single indexed trees/B-trees and nonlinear hashes
entropy pollution: large files increase to overall entropy on the harddisk leading to worse compression ratios for backup and maintenance
data pollution: the use of large files tempts users to store all kinds of redundant, reducible, linear and irrelevant data wasting storage space and I/O time
So I don't see why admins should provide a "work-around" for the filesize limits. These limits are there for very good reasons and in my opinion they are even much to big. You should always remember that the original K&R Unix had only 12 bits for file size storage and was much faster than modern systems, in fact it did run on 2,2 MHz processors and 32 kB of RAM which wouldn't be sufficient for even a Linux of Windows XP bootloader.
Think about it.
Stop torturing animals for science !
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This is of these experiments where scientist make perverted experiments with animals which are totally useless and provide no advances for the problems of this worlds.
Most animal experiments can be done these days with artificial cell pads and simulations. There is definitely no need to use animals anymore.
Furthermore the above mentioned experiment doesn't provide any new information. And it covers a niche of science which is partially useless for real world application anyway like feeding the hungry, stopping wars or curing illnesses.
I think our society has come to a very bad point when scientists make sick experiments with animals just for curiosity or to feel power.
The whole security of the RSA algorithms depends on the assumtion that the discrete logarithm problem over finite fields is hard to solve.
But want most people ignore is the fact that this only makes sense for sufficiently large instances of the problem. It's a well known fact that up to a given limit instances of all PSPACE-complete problems can be solved extremely fast. The trick is to go to the analog domain and solve a suitable approximation. Up to a given limit this approximation is good enough to get a solution just by rounding. This limit mainly depends on the Heisenberg and the cosmic constant due to the uncertainity principle. Note that without the uncertainity principle all computational problems could be solved in O(n^2 log(log(n))).
In the case of the discrete logarithm we have to embed the field Z/2Z in the Lie group SU(2). The logarithm problem is to find a QO-representation of SU(2)x...xSU(2)=SU(2)^n where n is the key length and map it back onto Z/2Zx...xZ/2Z.
This can be done in finite time by a n-series of coupled hamiltonian systems. This can be implemented by a series of n coupled 2-harmonics oszillators (just enough resistors, independancies, capacities and some triacs).
The uncertainity principle comes into play to fuck up the results if n>1414. That means that we can break RSA-1024 keys in finite time.
If computer scientists would pay more attention to mathematics, then such thing wouldn't happen at all.
These guys want to weed out all code which is not perfectly flawless and fullfills 100 percent it's obejctives.
They want to use genetic meta-programming algorithms to create new code from the old one. But only the "pure code" is allowed to recoded, evolve and grow on. Code with even minor bugs is subjected to oblivion.
Besides the obvious fact that this "superior" code is an evolutionary cul-de-sac, it's also a crypto fascist agenda which should be not toleranted in the open source movement. Imagine yourself that the code would be humans that people like RMS or Linus Torvalds would never have been bred for their anchestors having a long beard and no shower or even wearing glasses. This is morally flawed, even it's just lines of C sources. And note that Linux would never have reached it's modern state for having lot's of bugs in this infancy.
A average TV-Set has a dot matrix with 0.12 inches dot distance. That means that it has a very bad resolution. It's one of the reasons why you should watch TV only from a larger distance 2 meters or so (the other is of course gamma radiation).
However this implies that you really can't see the very little details. But the point about DivX compression is in fact these details. All older compression schemes used to delete these due to lossy compression. So, a DivX player with a normal TV set is useless. You should connect it either to your computer screen or get one of these new plasma or LCD TV-sets.
The only problem is that most of responsible people are computer scientists and sometimes even only with a BS in CS and therefore have no clue of harmonic analysis and advanced probability theory.
If you project your network system in the C^n- space of markovian probability measures and with to the frequency domain, you can easily see that our system represents a compact manifold of superharmonic measures. And malign overflow is just a upper bound in this set, therefore harmonic. It's well known that the only harmonic functions on compact manifolds are constant. So going back into the time domain this means that you must just analyze the frequency of the packets. All packet streams with a constant frequency are malicious by the above calculation and therefore should be dropped. Of course there are some minor points with the frequency reflection on edges etc. but this is very basic stuff and can be easily solved.
If think there was a paper of Lorgajev and Starniktov in the 80ies about this, but I'm not really sure.
If you enable features on your card which have been disabled by the company you might run into serious trouble. These days graphics cards are very thightly designed in terms of heat and EMV distribution. Any significant change at the configuration might disbalance this unstable equilibrium.
It's a well known problem in EE design that this disbalancing might result in unstable, chaotic behavior. This is particulary problematic because the basic design of most electric circuit contains a large Kalman-Barsharotiwz feedback filter. Together with the missing stability this creates an undamped increasing oszillation which will basically blow up your entire set up. EE PhD's will surely known this as the Lillehammer effect.
So the only conclusion can be: Keep your hands off, bugger !
But it seems to me that this is an example for people using P2P to get things done which are illegal.
This deep-linking stuff the company did seems to be clearly illegal, ripping off other peoples creative work.
And now they are using P2P to do it again.
The RIAA will like this. It will give them ammunition for killing all P2P based apps.
If you take a close look at Marses ecliptic parameters, its size and speed, you'll come after some basic calculus to the result that either the average density of Mars is 0.2 or its rotation speed is about 20 angle minutes per second. The latter can be proven wrong by observation.
This lead to the fact that is body "Mars" is in fact a could of red gases with some solid rocks floating on the surface. This explains why Mars has no atmosphere - it is an atmosphere by itself.
You will know argue with the pictures from Viking/Mars Lander etc. But NASA usually uses "clean" wide open spots for landing. These (very few) sites on Mars are the above mentioned rock parts floating on the gas.
The "mountains" you see in the background of these pictures are in fact "hills" of frozen gas (temperatures on Mars are very low).
This strange structure explain also the "canals" on Mars watched in the 19th century. If you check Mars ecliptic you'll see an opposition with Saturn and Jupiter at this time. This lead Mars to be drawn nearer to the sun, heating it up and letting the frozen gas on the surface crack. That's why we don't see canals today. The "valleys" of Mars come from the different freezing temperatures of different gases carbonmonoxide has a higher freezing temp. than diheliumtrinitroamide (DHTNA, very common in space) and so craves out valleys like water in the frozen gas.
So I don't think you can land on Mars. A real grown spaceship is no small probe. Scientists exstimate the carrying capacity of the floating rock parts to be very low, they were surprised that not more probes just vanished (some did as you'll surely remember). Most people I know won't bet a dime that it's enough for a full grown spaceship. I think Bush must think of something else to demonstrate his national pride.
Venus, Merkur are not options due to the atmosphere resp. the heat and the moons of Saturn/Jupiter are already the goal of the Europeans. So you have to wander real far like Uranus of Pluto.
Despite the fact that the internet is already tained by flash and other multimedia rubbish, the W3C creates another graphics standard to increase to rubbishness and slughishness of the internet.
Why not a standard for bloating websites (BDF - bloated document format), unreadable graphics rubbish (BEDL - bleeding eye document language) and web browser incompatibility enforcing documents (HCML - hypercrash markup language) ?
I don't think that spam is the reason
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for shutting them down.
It's the fact that the advanced driving licences these guys sell enable free citizens to drive around freely, throwing down the chains of the goverment. All these driving restrictions are just irrational restrictions installed by the goverment to ban people form exercizing their human right the drive anywhere they want and how faster ever they want.
It's no coincidence that after 9/11 the number of driving restrictions raised by 236.7 percent, even after the increase of 37.89 percent when Bush became president.
Such laws are just there to get people used to a climate of restriction and oppression where the goverment can do anything they want. In Soviet Russia for example only 50 mph of the streets where allowed and for driving more then 80 miles any from your hometown you needed a special passport. Does this ring a bell ? Ashcuft anyone ?
Sorry, but this "spam" argument in this case is just another goverment scam to fool people like the moon landing and the SDI system.
All these applications with so much blinking lights might be bad for the eye.
It's a well known fact that blinking light sources with a blink frequency below 16 Hz can do much damage to the eye and the optic neural system. This is one reason why you should always play 3D games like Quake on fast computers - if the fps rate is below 15 this effect might damage your eyes.
Despite all critics from well scientific authorties the members of the Blinkenlights Project have refused to increase the default blink frequency to 25 Hz. Only at this frequency damages can be really ruled out. The only reaction they got was: "Plz shut up, wnkr. Thx."
However, at this point I must warn you the set they blinking frequency at the blinking applications too high. At frequencies above 143 Hz the Starnikov-Holderman effect comes into play which has effects on the visual cortex, too.
Note also that this has nothing to do with refresh frequency of computer monitors - the refresh of a screen is not really a blinking effect, it's a gradual intensity/spectrum shift were very different formulas apply.
This is a major setback for Linux.
The increasing distribution of Linux in the industry is mainly due to the fact that there are no decent games for Linux so that people play less and work more, increasing efficiency and profit.
If now such nerd companies develop better and better games for Linux most companies will switch to other powerful, game-free platforms like Solaris or OpenBSD.
In the long term this might be a very big setback in the competition with Microsoft. You might argue now that you will gain more distribution on private computers - but people are already using Windows for this task which is much better suited and a complicated unix system is not the right thing for non-professional private users. And the gaming industry (even MS) is moving more and more towards Playstation like boxes these days.
This playing thing was really a big problem until Linux, I remember an admin saying that they had to install Linux on electronic cashier systems (the big ones with a 15" monitor used in travel stores) because some secretaries found out how to install Doom on them.
for search etc. Otherwise people will stumble with attributes, use misspellings etc. Can happen with HFS, too. But people tend to stick to the old directories ("my files, my pictures, my porn") than creating new ones.
It sometimes seems to me that OSS developers are always chasing MS and other commercial software producers by copying the features of their products.
I doubt that they will ever overtake them by this strategy. They should develop something new. The whole P2P stuff showed that this is indeed possible.
Santa Claus is the icon of defiling one of the most holy events of the year with profanity and blasphemy. He was invented by Coca Cola - a company which mixed initally drugs (extract of coca leaves) into their lemonade. He is used the lure people from the initial holy meaning of christmas to the profanity of a consumption orgy.
It is no coincidence that Santa is an anagram for Satan and that he is dressed red and his animals have horns.
Well, this is no reason not to give gifts especially to the little ones at cristmas. Christmas is the event of peace and love and a good reason to make people happy.
But don't teach children that their gifts are brought by a heathen economics icon. Rightous people will always teach them, like it's tradition in Europe, that their gifts are brought by sweet little baby Jesus.
Christmas is not the place to celebrate filthy wealth and consumption.
As a mathematician I'm usually very spectical of everything physicists publish. Usually there is some problems with the firm mathematical fundamentals and their relation to incoherences with data and theory usually boils down to: "Hey we did another Laplace transform and it works all out now, really."
However, in the case of quark matter I'm more then just spectical. There is almost no experimental proofs for quantum field theory. And there is no reasonable argument for the choice of 11 dimensions (1 time, 10 space, 6 compactified).
Any beginning graduate mathematician can easily proof that the whole theory works out in any 11k+23m dimensions, k a natural number, m a positive integer. There topology of such spaces is less known of course, but that's no reason to reject it a priori. And it's a well known fact in the mathematical community that in the 11*3+23*3 case supersymmetry can by explained much easier due to the fact that several cohomology groups of the Yang-Chibara manifolds are simple and the remaining ones freely generated.
Due to the very weak theory I would reject such explanations beforehand without even brothing to check the data. It's just a waste of time. The other well known phenomena of earth core oszillations are a much better explanation, with a sound and firm theoretical background. Just because it's a chaotic system and you have to do some bifurcation analysis it doesn't that it's not true.
Perhaps on the other hand the earth has shaken because someone put his foot down hard.
This is a really stupid waste of money.
India's problem are not people who don't know how to use a computer, India's problem are people who can't read or write at all.
What use whould such people have for a computer ?
I doubt seriously that it had Hindi speech recognition (Hindi is much harder to do than French or English).
So these people would be able to buy for a 2 years wages a high-tech doorstopper.
That's classic wasted goverment effort. How about building schools instead ? Or creating decent taxes to distribute the enourmous wealth of the rich to the poor one so that they can efford education or even a real computer in some time ?
But as always technology without meaning.
10k drives are LESS reliable, since they move faster
This implies that you shouldn't store servers in high altitudes, because they move faster up there due to earth rotation.
Hmmm, I think we know now why these Mars missions tend to fail so often.
Why shouldn't Microsoft be allowed to enforce software licensing ?
Yes we all love free software blablabla... but MS Windows, MS Office & co are their intellectual property and they should be free to do with it what they want. If they want to charge zillions of bucks, then that's ok. They may. It's their software.
When you want other people to respect that you give software away for free via the GPL, then you must grant other people the right to charge money, too.
This open advocacy for pirate copies is a bad thing. Declaring crimes as "minor incidents" via public opinion dictatorship undermines to morale of the society and the goverment as a whole. Stuff like this is the reason for Enrons of this world.
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*BSD supporters always claim that their system is more reliable, stable, secure and handles load better than Linux/ Windows XP.
But if this is true then any *BSD server should be immune to such hacker DOS attacks.
So why had the system to be shut down by the ISP ?
Sleep disorders are a simple physical phenomena which is caused by a wrond placed sleeping location. Sorry, I won't call a wrong placed bed an illness.
Most slashdotters come from an academic background and therefore know some simple fact about the human brain. Information processing in the human brain is done by electrical signals. These are rather weak signals with an energy about 0.27 mW. The part of the human brain which is responsible for movements and basic body states like "awake", "asleep", "aroused" is the cerebellum.
An important part of the cerebellum is it's main cortex which is coincidentally build like coil (from an electr-chemical point of view). This enables it to react very fast to changes of the surrounding but unfortuantely makes it work like an antenna, too. The neural structures of the brain are of course able to filter of most induced noise from the cerebral cortex, but some special signal get trough. That means especially:
- Vertical slow frequency (0.0045 Hz) noice induce e.g. from the moon passing through earths magnetic field (moon has a metallic core like earth)
- 50 Hz left-right oscillations (for example if you have a power plug left to your ear when you are sleeping)
- 120 Hz radial oscillations (for example from a computer screen, therefore you should never sleep in front of your computer)
- 9485 Hz oscialltions at head height (therefore many people have problems relaxing at the dentist)
Note that most interferences are basically directional so just moving your bed might help alot. For the interferences caused by the moon the best thing would be prtective shielding like a nightcap made of wires (Faradays cage for the brain).However, these chip are never really destroyed the basic logic is still in them. Now the natural radiation which is much higher on garbage dumps than you would expect comes into play. It's struture altering effect creates basically a natural genetic algorithm on these chips which breads something which could be best described as silicone lifeform - it's slightly reproducing and adaptable.
Currect simulations show that in about 20 years these heaps will have reached nano-fracmentation. This means that they will send of little silicone nano-lifeforms comparable to bacteria. These thing are not a direct threat to the normal lifeforms on this planet - all life is carbon/hydrogen/nitrogen-based and not silicone-based. However simulations show that these silicone bacteria will spread all over the hull of earth (70 % silicone) and will eventually "mutate" to incoporate iron. This means that 85% of the outher hull of earth will be destabilized. Earth rotation and gravitation from moon will do the rest - our planet will slowly evaporate into silicone bacteria dust.
It's very important to do something about these problems, that mean either - shipping old computers to Mars for savety (radiation is lower there because Mars is older than earth), melting down all old embedded devices or sterilize them with underground nuclear explosions.
However G.W.Bush is more occupied to save America oil supply in the gulf region than to do something against evaporation of earth.
It's an old and well known problem that programmers and users tend to keep very large files for laziness and logical errors.
However it's also an old and well known fact that large files are bad for performance per se due to several reasons:
- fragmentation: large files increase to fracmentation of most file systems, at least of any system with uses single indexed trees/B-trees and nonlinear hashes
- entropy pollution: large files increase to overall entropy on the harddisk leading to worse compression ratios for backup and maintenance
- data pollution: the use of large files tempts users to store all kinds of redundant, reducible, linear and irrelevant data wasting storage space and I/O time
So I don't see why admins should provide a "work-around" for the filesize limits. These limits are there for very good reasons and in my opinion they are even much to big. You should always remember that the original K&R Unix had only 12 bits for file size storage and was much faster than modern systems, in fact it did run on 2,2 MHz processors and 32 kB of RAM which wouldn't be sufficient for even a Linux of Windows XP bootloader.Think about it.
This is of these experiments where scientist make perverted experiments with animals which are totally useless and provide no advances for the problems of this worlds.
Most animal experiments can be done these days with artificial cell pads and simulations. There is definitely no need to use animals anymore. Furthermore the above mentioned experiment doesn't provide any new information. And it covers a niche of science which is partially useless for real world application anyway like feeding the hungry, stopping wars or curing illnesses.
I think our society has come to a very bad point when scientists make sick experiments with animals just for curiosity or to feel power.
But want most people ignore is the fact that this only makes sense for sufficiently large instances of the problem. It's a well known fact that up to a given limit instances of all PSPACE-complete problems can be solved extremely fast. The trick is to go to the analog domain and solve a suitable approximation. Up to a given limit this approximation is good enough to get a solution just by rounding. This limit mainly depends on the Heisenberg and the cosmic constant due to the uncertainity principle. Note that without the uncertainity principle all computational problems could be solved in O(n^2 log(log(n))).
In the case of the discrete logarithm we have to embed the field Z/2Z in the Lie group SU(2). The logarithm problem is to find a QO-representation of SU(2)x...xSU(2)=SU(2)^n where n is the key length and map it back onto Z/2Zx...xZ/2Z. This can be done in finite time by a n-series of coupled hamiltonian systems. This can be implemented by a series of n coupled 2-harmonics oszillators (just enough resistors, independancies, capacities and some triacs). The uncertainity principle comes into play to fuck up the results if n>1414. That means that we can break RSA-1024 keys in finite time.
If computer scientists would pay more attention to mathematics, then such thing wouldn't happen at all.
These guys want to weed out all code which is not perfectly flawless and fullfills 100 percent it's obejctives.
They want to use genetic meta-programming algorithms to create new code from the old one. But only the "pure code" is allowed to recoded, evolve and grow on. Code with even minor bugs is subjected to oblivion.
Besides the obvious fact that this "superior" code is an evolutionary cul-de-sac, it's also a crypto fascist agenda which should be not toleranted in the open source movement. Imagine yourself that the code would be humans that people like RMS or Linus Torvalds would never have been bred for their anchestors having a long beard and no shower or even wearing glasses. This is morally flawed, even it's just lines of C sources. And note that Linux would never have reached it's modern state for having lot's of bugs in this infancy.
A average TV-Set has a dot matrix with 0.12 inches dot distance. That means that it has a very bad resolution. It's one of the reasons why you should watch TV only from a larger distance 2 meters or so (the other is of course gamma radiation). However this implies that you really can't see the very little details. But the point about DivX compression is in fact these details. All older compression schemes used to delete these due to lossy compression.
So, a DivX player with a normal TV set is useless. You should connect it either to your computer screen or get one of these new plasma or LCD TV-sets.
The only problem is that most of responsible people are computer scientists and sometimes even only with a BS in CS and therefore have no clue of harmonic analysis and advanced probability theory.
If you project your network system in the C^n- space of markovian probability measures and with to the frequency domain, you can easily see that our system represents a compact manifold of superharmonic measures. And malign overflow is just a upper bound in this set, therefore harmonic. It's well known that the only harmonic functions on compact manifolds are constant. So going back into the time domain this means that you must just analyze the frequency of the packets. All packet streams with a constant frequency are malicious by the above calculation and therefore should be dropped. Of course there are some minor points with the frequency reflection on edges etc. but this is very basic stuff and can be easily solved.
If think there was a paper of Lorgajev and Starniktov in the 80ies about this, but I'm not really sure.
It's a well known problem in EE design that this disbalancing might result in unstable, chaotic behavior. This is particulary problematic because the basic design of most electric circuit contains a large Kalman-Barsharotiwz feedback filter. Together with the missing stability this creates an undamped increasing oszillation which will basically blow up your entire set up. EE PhD's will surely known this as the Lillehammer effect.
So the only conclusion can be: Keep your hands off, bugger !
But it seems to me that this is an example for people using P2P to get things done which are illegal.
This deep-linking stuff the company did seems to be clearly illegal, ripping off other peoples creative work.
And now they are using P2P to do it again.
The RIAA will like this. It will give them ammunition for killing all P2P based apps.
This lead to the fact that is body "Mars" is in fact a could of red gases with some solid rocks floating on the surface. This explains why Mars has no atmosphere - it is an atmosphere by itself.
You will know argue with the pictures from Viking/Mars Lander etc. But NASA usually uses "clean" wide open spots for landing. These (very few) sites on Mars are the above mentioned rock parts floating on the gas. The "mountains" you see in the background of these pictures are in fact "hills" of frozen gas (temperatures on Mars are very low). This strange structure explain also the "canals" on Mars watched in the 19th century. If you check Mars ecliptic you'll see an opposition with Saturn and Jupiter at this time. This lead Mars to be drawn nearer to the sun, heating it up and letting the frozen gas on the surface crack. That's why we don't see canals today. The "valleys" of Mars come from the different freezing temperatures of different gases carbonmonoxide has a higher freezing temp. than diheliumtrinitroamide (DHTNA, very common in space) and so craves out valleys like water in the frozen gas.
So I don't think you can land on Mars. A real grown spaceship is no small probe. Scientists exstimate the carrying capacity of the floating rock parts to be very low, they were surprised that not more probes just vanished (some did as you'll surely remember). Most people I know won't bet a dime that it's enough for a full grown spaceship. I think Bush must think of something else to demonstrate his national pride.
Venus, Merkur are not options due to the atmosphere resp. the heat and the moons of Saturn/Jupiter are already the goal of the Europeans. So you have to wander real far like Uranus of Pluto.
Despite the fact that the internet is already tained by flash and other multimedia rubbish, the W3C creates another graphics standard to increase to rubbishness and slughishness of the internet.
Why not a standard for bloating websites (BDF - bloated document format), unreadable graphics rubbish (BEDL - bleeding eye document language) and web browser incompatibility enforcing documents (HCML - hypercrash markup language) ?
for shutting them down.
It's the fact that the advanced driving licences these guys sell enable free citizens to drive around freely, throwing down the chains of the goverment. All these driving restrictions are just irrational restrictions installed by the goverment to ban people form exercizing their human right the drive anywhere they want and how faster ever they want.
It's no coincidence that after 9/11 the number of driving restrictions raised by 236.7 percent, even after the increase of 37.89 percent when Bush became president.
Such laws are just there to get people used to a climate of restriction and oppression where the goverment can do anything they want. In Soviet Russia for example only 50 mph of the streets where allowed and for driving more then 80 miles any from your hometown you needed a special passport.
Does this ring a bell ? Ashcuft anyone ?
Sorry, but this "spam" argument in this case is just another goverment scam to fool people like the moon landing and the SDI system.
All these applications with so much blinking lights might be bad for the eye.
It's a well known fact that blinking light sources with a blink frequency below 16 Hz can do much damage to the eye and the optic neural system. This is one reason why you should always play 3D games like Quake on fast computers - if the fps rate is below 15 this effect might damage your eyes.
Despite all critics from well scientific authorties the members of the Blinkenlights Project have refused to increase the default blink frequency to 25 Hz. Only at this frequency damages can be really ruled out. The only reaction they got was: "Plz shut up, wnkr. Thx."
However, at this point I must warn you the set they blinking frequency at the blinking applications too high. At frequencies above 143 Hz the Starnikov-Holderman effect comes into play which has effects on the visual cortex, too.
Note also that this has nothing to do with refresh frequency of computer monitors - the refresh of a screen is not really a blinking effect, it's a gradual intensity/spectrum shift were very different formulas apply.
The increasing distribution of Linux in the industry is mainly due to the fact that there are no decent games for Linux so that people play less and work more, increasing efficiency and profit.
If now such nerd companies develop better and better games for Linux most companies will switch to other powerful, game-free platforms like Solaris or OpenBSD.
In the long term this might be a very big setback in the competition with Microsoft. You might argue now that you will gain more distribution on private computers - but people are already using Windows for this task which is much better suited and a complicated unix system is not the right thing for non-professional private users. And the gaming industry (even MS) is moving more and more towards Playstation like boxes these days.
This playing thing was really a big problem until Linux, I remember an admin saying that they had to install Linux on electronic cashier systems (the big ones with a 15" monitor used in travel stores) because some secretaries found out how to install Doom on them.
for search etc.
Otherwise people will stumble with attributes, use misspellings etc.
Can happen with HFS, too. But people tend to stick to the old directories ("my files, my pictures, my porn") than creating new ones.
Drill a hole in every wall so that the radio waves can float through.
It sometimes seems to me that OSS developers are always chasing MS and other commercial software producers by copying the features of their products.
I doubt that they will ever overtake them by this strategy. They should develop something new. The whole P2P stuff showed that this is indeed possible.
Santa Claus is the icon of defiling one of the most holy events of the year with profanity and blasphemy. He was invented by Coca Cola - a company which mixed initally drugs (extract of coca leaves) into their lemonade. He is used the lure people from the initial holy meaning of christmas to the profanity of a consumption orgy. It is no coincidence that Santa is an anagram for Satan and that he is dressed red and his animals have horns.
Well, this is no reason not to give gifts especially to the little ones at cristmas. Christmas is the event of peace and love and a good reason to make people happy. But don't teach children that their gifts are brought by a heathen economics icon. Rightous people will always teach them, like it's tradition in Europe, that their gifts are brought by sweet little baby Jesus.
Christmas is not the place to celebrate filthy wealth and consumption.
for 2002 was publishing articles with faked data.
Sch, Sch. Hehehehe.
Well, what this country needs is a 2 cent nano laser.
However, in the case of quark matter I'm more then just spectical. There is almost no experimental proofs for quantum field theory. And there is no reasonable argument for the choice of 11 dimensions (1 time, 10 space, 6 compactified). Any beginning graduate mathematician can easily proof that the whole theory works out in any 11k+23m dimensions, k a natural number, m a positive integer. There topology of such spaces is less known of course, but that's no reason to reject it a priori. And it's a well known fact in the mathematical community that in the 11*3+23*3 case supersymmetry can by explained much easier due to the fact that several cohomology groups of the Yang-Chibara manifolds are simple and the remaining ones freely generated.
Due to the very weak theory I would reject such explanations beforehand without even brothing to check the data. It's just a waste of time. The other well known phenomena of earth core oszillations are a much better explanation, with a sound and firm theoretical background. Just because it's a chaotic system and you have to do some bifurcation analysis it doesn't that it's not true.
Perhaps on the other hand the earth has shaken because someone put his foot down hard.
This is a really stupid waste of money.
India's problem are not people who don't know how to use a computer, India's problem are people who can't read or write at all.
What use whould such people have for a computer ?
I doubt seriously that it had Hindi speech recognition (Hindi is much harder to do than French or English).
So these people would be able to buy for a 2 years wages a high-tech doorstopper.
That's classic wasted goverment effort. How about building schools instead ? Or creating decent taxes to distribute the enourmous wealth of the rich to the poor one so that they can efford education or even a real computer in some time ?
But as always technology without meaning.
This implies that you shouldn't store servers in high altitudes, because they move faster up there due to earth rotation.
Hmmm, I think we know now why these Mars missions tend to fail so often.
Why shouldn't Microsoft be allowed to enforce software licensing ?
Yes we all love free software blablabla... but MS Windows, MS Office & co are their intellectual property and they should be free to do with it what they want. If they want to charge zillions of bucks, then that's ok. They may. It's their software.
When you want other people to respect that you give software away for free via the GPL, then you must grant other people the right to charge money, too.
This open advocacy for pirate copies is a bad thing. Declaring crimes as "minor incidents" via public opinion dictatorship undermines to morale of the society and the goverment as a whole. Stuff like this is the reason for Enrons of this world.