I understand that while it may sound comical to study the physics of toys, that it has real applications outside the realm of just toys. I considered adding that sentence to my previous post, but I figured that most readers would take my comment as a joke and not a serious critique of physics research anyway (especially given the link).
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So don't dismiss these great men so easily.
And thus I incur the wrath of the physics groupies...
Now if only they could solve the mystery of where the easter bunny gets his eggs.
My favorite quote from the article:
Nickel has analysed the physics of the 'tippe-top', a mushroom-shaped toy that flips from spinning on its round end to its stalk
It's good to know that our greatest minds are working on these things.
I thought they did that on Dragon Ball Z characters. I seem to recall a few episodes in which they trained in a hyper-gravity chamber.
Seriously, though, once the experiment terminates, it's got to be scary to feel your normal usual weight again. I would imagine that you would make all sorts of mistakes, such as trying to lift a spoon and flinging it halfway across the room (woops!). Given the length of the experiment, though, you would probably not have the opportunity to get used to the extra G too much.
It doesn't look like the information they gathered alone is really anything remarkable, but what they have is probably more than enough to obtain access to classified information via social hacking. It seems that some of the smartest hacks (and viruses too) have played on the shortcomings of people rather than breaking security systems.
This reminds me of a humourous day at work. I had done a bit of php programming in my spare time on a site where medical students could get sample problems (or entire quizzes) based on what class they were in. About a week after I handed it over to a medical student to maintain, he had emailed me that some people had been trying to access php pages that were non-existant (basically passing variables in the URL that weren't valid database entries). He was worried that somebody was trying to hack his system. He logged some offending IP addresses and sent them to me in an email.
This is where it gets sorta funny
So I headed over to network-tools.com and looked up the IPs. Each one of them resolved to a webcrawler for a search engine. So I emailed him back explaining that it was just the search engines indexing his pages. It took several more emails to convince him that it was harmless.
Now that I look back at this anecdote, it doesn't seem that humorous, but I guess at the time I was pretty amused by the fact that a medical student was panicking thinking that a webcrawler was 'hacking' his system (if you're wondering, btw, these online quizzes have absolutely no weight in the medical school courses -- it's just for practice).
I could be wrong, but I think that the tree is in the middle-to-left area just above the roof. It's sorta on the horizon (the lumpy dark blob). I can see why we want to find out by what process this picture was taken... it's so crystal clear!
analysts say the company is likely to pressure customers to make the move to the Longhorn release of Windows through licensing incentives or other means.
Other means, eh? Like, say, making future programs incompatible with their older operating systems, so that you are forced to upgrade if you wish to get the newest software. Is this really benefitting the customer, or is it just creating a demand for a new operating system by changing the playing field? As operating systems get more and more polished, it seems like there's less and less of a need to upgrade since typically new programs (especially radically new) tend to introduce new bugs and new security holes. The only reason TO upgrade would be if none of your old programs are supported any more, and your new programs all run ONLY on some flashy new OS. And for what... faster searching? I can honestly say that I haven't had much use for searching the entire filesystem to begin with, and in some applications where this would be helpful I'm almost certain there are other programs which will do this for you (and *gasp* on the current NTFS).
A problem I'd really like to be solved is the way that file extensions are registered (and then fought over by programs). Granted, this is in some part the fault of software companies (cough, real, cough), but if a more elegant solution existed to that sort of mess, then maybe it wouldn't be so annoying. I would equate that to if a program of mine that ran ".dum" files found and deleted shortcuts to other programs that ran ".dum" files -- and that's just unacceptable.
Down with MS? Nah, but the benefits listed here of an new FS don't seem to justify its cost (having to reprogram everything to take advantage of it... ouch!).
Place the wooden rabbit in front of the entrance to the bunker/cave/castle
They will be immediately fooled into taking your giant wooden rabbit into their fortified area
Wait until they're asleep... and then... hit them with a giant nuke anyway
That isn't where you thought I was going with this, was it? Honestly, though, it seems a big waste to spend time thinking of "clever ways to use a nuke on a fortified enemy" -- I am of the opinion that a nuke is not the best weapon for every situation. There's probably a better, and more cost effective way to achieve the same results without rearranging the mountains.
It was a joke. You could make the argument that business expenses incurred by an employee are essentially equivalent to 'using their credit cards' (yes, it's a stretch), but I was purposefully taking the phrase in the frontpage blurb to try and be funny. I didn't mean to offend anybody's sense of complete and utter accuracy concerning the situation.
Let me tell you, I have had the most mind-bending troubles setting up and administering WindowsNT and Windows2000 servers (I really am not a network admin, so admitedly much of this could be due to my inexperience), but I was able to set up a decent, reliable Mandrake server the first time I tried to. Keep in mind that the applications I'm speaking of are not under a heavy load, nor are they mission-critical (I leave those machines for the real network admins to work with).
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Sen. Hollings held the SSSCA over the industry like the Sword of Damecles
That's some great imagery. The only problem is that in my mind Sen. Hollings keeps toppling over from the weight of the sword.
It sounded pretty far-fetched to me at first glance, but judging from the article...
The SuperKamiokande site has already detected neutrinos from the KEK particle physics lab some 250 kilometres away, although the detector recently suffered an accident and is currently out of commission. There are also plans to send neutrino beams from the CERN particle physics lab in Geneva to the Gran Sasso underground lab 730 kilometres away in Italy, and from Fermilab near Chicago to the Soudan experiment, 710 kilometres away in Minnesota.
I guess it's just an extension of experiments that are already going on. Will different densities affect how the neutrinos travel (making aiming a difficulty)? Or is that pretty much what they're depending on?
And maybe a more importantly, what will happen if they miss? (insert wry grin here). I wouldn't hold my breath waiting to find out, though. The article says construction would have to begin by 2006, so there'll definitely be enough time for me to get out of the way.
Wow, you're making me feel guilty. Mandrake was the first Linux distro that I've stuck with (previously I had just tinkered with using Slackware and Redhat). On top of that I just installed Mandrake 8.2 on a machine at work for a staging server.
Surely there are 8,000 more people here on/. that use LM enough to fork over 60 bucks
I've been hearing about this sort of thing the last week or so in the news. Though with the amount my game-junkie friends and I play games you'd think it would have hit us by now. Anyway, here's a couple of other links to similar stories.
Here's a link to the manufacturer's site for the video card I was speaking of (should've thought to include this originally). In fact, while I'm here I guess I have a few Dual Head video card links to share, so pick and choose what you will.
I've been very happy with my Leadtek WinFast GeForce 2 MX DH Pro 32MB personally. I've set computers up both ways -- with a single dual head card, and with two separate video cards, and let me just say that it is SO much nicer to do it with a single Dual Head card. It works either way, but at least with the Leadtek card it comes with plenty of extra stuff that makes controlling your two displays a cinch.
Does anybody know if there are any GeForce3-based Dual Head cards out there? Or if any are in the works?
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And thus I incur the wrath of the physics groupies...
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It's good to know that our greatest minds are working on these things.
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I thought they did that on Dragon Ball Z characters. I seem to recall a few episodes in which they trained in a hyper-gravity chamber.
Seriously, though, once the experiment terminates, it's got to be scary to feel your normal usual weight again. I would imagine that you would make all sorts of mistakes, such as trying to lift a spoon and flinging it halfway across the room (woops!). Given the length of the experiment, though, you would probably not have the opportunity to get used to the extra G too much.
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It doesn't look like the information they gathered alone is really anything remarkable, but what they have is probably more than enough to obtain access to classified information via social hacking. It seems that some of the smartest hacks (and viruses too) have played on the shortcomings of people rather than breaking security systems.
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This reminds me of a humourous day at work. I had done a bit of php programming in my spare time on a site where medical students could get sample problems (or entire quizzes) based on what class they were in. About a week after I handed it over to a medical student to maintain, he had emailed me that some people had been trying to access php pages that were non-existant (basically passing variables in the URL that weren't valid database entries). He was worried that somebody was trying to hack his system. He logged some offending IP addresses and sent them to me in an email.
This is where it gets sorta funny
So I headed over to network-tools.com and looked up the IPs. Each one of them resolved to a webcrawler for a search engine. So I emailed him back explaining that it was just the search engines indexing his pages. It took several more emails to convince him that it was harmless.
Now that I look back at this anecdote, it doesn't seem that humorous, but I guess at the time I was pretty amused by the fact that a medical student was panicking thinking that a webcrawler was 'hacking' his system (if you're wondering, btw, these online quizzes have absolutely no weight in the medical school courses -- it's just for practice).
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I could be wrong, but I think that the tree is in the middle-to-left area just above the roof. It's sorta on the horizon (the lumpy dark blob). I can see why we want to find out by what process this picture was taken... it's so crystal clear!
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A problem I'd really like to be solved is the way that file extensions are registered (and then fought over by programs). Granted, this is in some part the fault of software companies (cough, real, cough), but if a more elegant solution existed to that sort of mess, then maybe it wouldn't be so annoying. I would equate that to if a program of mine that ran ".dum" files found and deleted shortcuts to other programs that ran ".dum" files -- and that's just unacceptable.
Down with MS? Nah, but the benefits listed here of an new FS don't seem to justify its cost (having to reprogram everything to take advantage of it... ouch!).
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- Build giant (hollow) wooden rabbit
- Place the wooden rabbit in front of the entrance to the bunker/cave/castle
- They will be immediately fooled into taking your giant wooden rabbit into their fortified area
- Wait until they're asleep... and then... hit them with a giant nuke anyway
That isn't where you thought I was going with this, was it? Honestly, though, it seems a big waste to spend time thinking of "clever ways to use a nuke on a fortified enemy" -- I am of the opinion that a nuke is not the best weapon for every situation. There's probably a better, and more cost effective way to achieve the same results without rearranging the mountains.-Sou|cuttr
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It was a joke. You could make the argument that business expenses incurred by an employee are essentially equivalent to 'using their credit cards' (yes, it's a stretch), but I was purposefully taking the phrase in the frontpage blurb to try and be funny. I didn't mean to offend anybody's sense of complete and utter accuracy concerning the situation.
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Yes.
Let me tell you, I have had the most mind-bending troubles setting up and administering WindowsNT and Windows2000 servers (I really am not a network admin, so admitedly much of this could be due to my inexperience), but I was able to set up a decent, reliable Mandrake server the first time I tried to. Keep in mind that the applications I'm speaking of are not under a heavy load, nor are they mission-critical (I leave those machines for the real network admins to work with).
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I guess it's just an extension of experiments that are already going on. Will different densities affect how the neutrinos travel (making aiming a difficulty)? Or is that pretty much what they're depending on?
And maybe a more importantly, what will happen if they miss? (insert wry grin here). I wouldn't hold my breath waiting to find out, though. The article says construction would have to begin by 2006, so there'll definitely be enough time for me to get out of the way.
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Count me in.
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No, no, you've got it all wrong. You have to start charging company expenses to employees' credit cards. That's the way to get out of a pinch!
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- Zdnet (weird link, I know)
- ThisIsLondon
But then if I know my health experts, and I think I do (cough...eggs...cough), next year they'll tell us how vibrating controllers are good for us.I've been very happy with my Leadtek WinFast GeForce 2 MX DH Pro 32MB personally. I've set computers up both ways -- with a single dual head card, and with two separate video cards, and let me just say that it is SO much nicer to do it with a single Dual Head card. It works either way, but at least with the Leadtek card it comes with plenty of extra stuff that makes controlling your two displays a cinch.
Does anybody know if there are any GeForce3-based Dual Head cards out there? Or if any are in the works?
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