And for some reason marijuana is an important issue?
Almost one million arrests per year ? 50 to 100,000 people or so in jail at any one time for possession ? A few dozen people killed each year while being arrested or while in jail ? Corruption all over the place ? Damn straight it's an important issue. And, unlike many issues, it is a purely government issue, that the government could solve in a week, if the government was interested in actually listening to what the people were saying.
That's all very true, but it is also true the legalization is one of those issues that gets brushed aside as not worthy of serious people. You can bet that the top 10 issues related to Iraq or Iran or Health Care are regarded as serious.
The ability to categorize opposing opinions as unworthy of serious attention is a powerful weapon of the old media (the saying was, it didn't tell you how to think, but it did a good job of telling you what to think about). I suspect that that will become impossible under the new media.
It's not theft, it's a disguised entrance fee. It would probably be considerably more energy efficient AND profitable to just charge 25 pence for parking (as that would encourage people not to drive to the stores, and save money on equipment).
If each opening of the door was really pumping 2 gallons (16 pounds, or lets say 8 kilograms) of water a significant distance (say 2 meters), the energy required was at least 160 joules, so I bet that door was hard to push indeed.
But there's another idea for Sainsbury - install revolving doors, and attach them to rotary electrical motors to generate electrical power (BTW, typically rotary motors are much more efficient that rocking motors as in the original article's plates). That way, they could extract energy from their customer's bodies, not their cars, and you couldn't escape this entrance tax (for that's what this is) by walking to the store. If you extracted 50 joules per customer that way, and you had one customer per door per second, that's 50 watts, enough to light a light bulb over the entrance.
About 15 years ago I was involved in several efforts to take old scientific analysis software packages and rewrite them in C++. Every one of those efforts failed. Code was produced, but it took so long to get it working right that the old package was upgraded with new features, so the new code was "born obsolete," never used that much, and allowed to die on the vine.
That almost all of the physicists I know program in Fortran. People trying to do better than "double precision" tend to be fairly conservative about such matters.
The IETF has been conducting code sprints for a few years now, typically just before an IETF meeting. The next one is July 25th in Stockholm.
These are used both to get some useful tool development, and to get programmers interested in the work of the IETF. My understanding is that they have worked out pretty well, with a dozen or so people showing up for the San Francisco code sprint.
The NASA budget is $ 17 billion, so this only represents about a day and a half of the NASA budget. Manned space flight may be reduced in the future, I don't know, but $ 77 million is small change compared to the ISS, Orion or Shuttle budget.
Psystar makes (made ?) computers. They may be a small company, but $ 250K doesn't go far if you are making computers. I bet their burn rate was > $ 250 / week. Let's say that they sold them for $ 2000 each. $ 250 K would represent an inventory of 125 machines. I would be surprised if their inventory wasn't many times that. If they have 100 people making computers, $ 250 K might be 1 week's payroll. Etc., etc.,
It may be that they had a debt of that level that just got reported because it was in the Court filing (say, a line of credit), but if I was told that they went under just because of a $ 250 K debt, I would flat out not believe it.
The soil itself won't catch fire. There just happens to be just enough perchlorate to combust the tiny amounts of organics at the right temperature. Heat the soil, it gives off a few wisps of smoke, maybe a sparkle or two.
And you know this, how ?
Yes, it is unlikely that any given Martian soil will outright burn, but I would make a long bet that there will be some soil somewhere that does.
Why would we expect comets or asteroids to carry organics?
Because we know that they do.
Some meteorites, the carbonaceous chondrites, are chock full of organic material. They came from some asteroid or asteroids. Organic materials seem especially common in the outer part of the main asteroid belt.
No-one thought that heating samples to 400 or 600 C would be good for any bacteria. The point is that they thought samples would outgas any organics. Now it seems they might be burned in the process. But in neither case were these tests designed to keep microbes alive.
Note that one implication here is that Martian soil will burn even under Martian conditions if you heat it properly - it has its own oxygen supply.
I don't understand either the reasoning here, or why they feel that blocking web service is either desirable or required under US law. (Obviously, it's different if you want to sell something there.)
We do Internet broadcasting (in English) and have a steady audience in Iran, Syria and Sudan (the largest of these being in Iran). It's early evening right now in all three places, and people there are watching TV from the US. Seems to me that that is a good thing.
Don't forget - these corporations make money by building spacecraft. They have (in my experience) great pride in their work, but the bottom line is that they want to build more.
Now, a lot of NASA hardware (the Hubble, for example) is modified military hardware, which is built and expended on a massive scale (there were supposedly launches of a Hubble type Keyhole once a month back when the Hubble was being built, for example). That must give rise to a rather different culture in the contracting corporations.
Unfortunately, much of NASA is focused on building things, not doing things. Look at the argument over the repair capabilities that made the Hubble a success : Nasa is letting go of those capabilities. The new Manned Space Flight System - Orion - will not have the capability to repair future Hubbles. In my opinion Hubble is the biggest success NASA has had since Apollo, and as before we are going to let the capability die.
The builder types of would respond "its cheaper to build new ones," except, of course, we more or less won't. The current paradigm means that we will launch a telescope, have it fail, and then wait 20-30 years until another of the same type can be orbited. And, there seems to be no real effort expended on new types of propulsion and certainly no effort on new types of manned propulsion.
The Russians, meanwhile, view everything they have ever launched as an asset. You bet that they are going to use their ISS modules as long as they can, and maybe just a little more.
"no data has been compromised but the type of virus and its origin is unknown"
That is an extraordinary statement. How would they know ?
If I was head of IT there I would assume that that was not true. Even if there was a completely different computer system for any sensitive information, data has a way of leaking to where it shouldn't be. Of thousands of people, not one put notes or passwords or whatever on the insecure side of the line ?
Regardless of what they tell the press, I hope that internally they are assuming that this is a breach, and acting accordingly.
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And for some reason marijuana is an important issue?
Almost one million arrests per year ? 50 to 100,000 people or so in jail at any one time for possession ? A few dozen people killed each year while being arrested or while in jail ?
Corruption all over the place ? Damn straight it's an important issue. And, unlike many issues, it is a purely government issue, that the government could solve in a week, if the government was interested in actually listening to what the people were saying.
That's all very true, but it is also true the legalization is one of those issues that gets brushed aside as not worthy of serious people. You can bet that the top 10 issues related to Iraq or Iran or Health Care are regarded as serious.
The ability to categorize opposing opinions as unworthy of serious attention is a powerful weapon of the old media (the saying was, it didn't tell you how to think, but
it did a good job of telling you what to think about). I suspect that that will become impossible under the new media.
Have you ever tried to push a shopping cart through a revolving door?
Well, I was thinking of the entrance, but I was also thinking of how much work this was to light a 50 watt bulb.
The old idea of turning all of the stationary bikes in exercise gyms into generators is a much better idea IMHO.
It's not theft, it's a disguised entrance fee. It would probably be considerably more energy efficient AND profitable to just charge 25 pence for parking (as that would encourage people not to drive to the stores, and save money on equipment).
If each opening of the door was really pumping 2 gallons (16 pounds, or lets say 8 kilograms) of water a significant distance (say 2 meters), the energy required was at least 160 joules, so I bet that door was hard to push indeed.
But there's another idea for Sainsbury - install revolving doors, and attach them to rotary electrical motors to generate electrical power (BTW, typically rotary motors are much more efficient that rocking motors as in the original article's plates). That way, they could extract energy from their customer's bodies, not their cars, and you couldn't escape this entrance tax (for that's what this is) by walking to the store. If you extracted 50 joules per customer that way, and you had one customer per door per second, that's 50 watts, enough to light a light bulb over the entrance.
You mean the ones that go through Japan ? Or the one that goes through Russia ? Yeah, that will go over well.
About 15 years ago I was involved in several efforts to take old scientific analysis software packages and rewrite them in C++. Every one of those efforts failed. Code was produced, but it took so long to get it working right that the old package was upgraded with new features, so the new code was "born obsolete," never used that much, and allowed to die on the vine.
Your milage, of course, may vary.
What do people in the Slashdot community think?"
That almost all of the physicists I know program in Fortran. People trying to do better than "double precision" tend to be fairly conservative about such matters.
The IETF has been conducting code sprints for a few years now, typically just before an IETF meeting. The next one is July 25th in Stockholm.
These are used both to get some useful tool development, and to get programmers interested in the work of the IETF. My understanding is that they have worked out pretty well, with a dozen or so people showing up for the San Francisco code sprint.
The NASA budget is $ 17 billion, so this only represents about a day and a half of the NASA budget. Manned space flight may be reduced in the future, I don't know, but $ 77 million is small change compared to the ISS, Orion or Shuttle budget.
Send them the Voynich Manuscript.
That should buy some time.
Companies don't pay for routers. Not really. They just pass those costs to their customers. Ultimately, it is the consumer that pays for routers.
Statements like this are true, but irrelevant.
See ya. Send us a post card once you get settled down.
US law applies on a US space vehicle, and on the US modules of the ISS.
Psystar makes (made ?) computers. They may be a small company, but $ 250K doesn't go far if you are making computers. I bet their burn rate was > $ 250 / week. Let's say that they sold them for $ 2000 each. $ 250 K would represent an inventory of 125 machines. I would be surprised if their inventory wasn't many times that. If they have 100 people making computers, $ 250 K might be 1 week's payroll. Etc., etc.,
It may be that they had a debt of that level that just got reported because it was in the Court filing (say, a line of credit), but if I was told that they went under just because of a $ 250 K debt, I would flat out not believe it.
The company apparently has over $250,000US in debt.
That must be a typo - could they mean $ 250 million USD ? Most companies would not
choke on $ 250,000 worth of debt.
The soil itself won't catch fire. There just happens to be just enough perchlorate to combust the tiny amounts of organics at the right temperature. Heat the soil, it gives off a few wisps of smoke, maybe a sparkle or two.
And you know this, how ?
Yes, it is unlikely that any given Martian soil will outright burn, but I would make a long bet that there will be some soil somewhere that does.
Why would we expect comets or asteroids to carry organics?
Because we know that they do.
Some meteorites, the carbonaceous chondrites, are chock full of organic material. They came from some asteroid or asteroids. Organic materials seem especially common in the outer part of the main asteroid belt.
Comets have been found to have all sorts of organic materials in them.
Note that organic just means that it contains carbon compounds, not that it was produced by living things.
The title is very misleading.
No-one thought that heating samples to 400 or 600 C would be good for any bacteria. The point is that they thought samples would outgas any organics. Now it seems they might be burned in the process. But in neither case were these tests designed to keep microbes alive.
Note that one implication here is that Martian soil will burn even under Martian conditions if you heat it properly - it has its own oxygen supply.
Martian bonfires anyone ?
I don't understand either the reasoning here, or why they feel that blocking web service is either desirable or required under US law. (Obviously, it's different if you want to sell something there.)
We do Internet broadcasting (in English) and have a steady audience in Iran, Syria and Sudan (the largest of these being in Iran). It's early evening right now in all three places, and people there are watching TV from the US. Seems to me that that is a good thing.
Don't forget - these corporations make money by building spacecraft. They have (in my experience) great pride in their work, but the bottom line is that they want to build more.
Now, a lot of NASA hardware (the Hubble, for example) is modified military hardware, which is built and expended on a massive scale (there were supposedly launches of a Hubble type Keyhole once a month back when the Hubble was being built, for example). That must give rise to a rather different culture in the contracting corporations.
Unfortunately, much of NASA is focused on building things, not doing things. Look at the argument over the repair capabilities that made the Hubble a success : Nasa is letting go of those capabilities. The new Manned Space Flight System - Orion - will not have the capability to repair future Hubbles. In my opinion Hubble is the biggest success NASA has had since Apollo, and as before we are going to let the capability die.
The builder types of would respond "its cheaper to build new ones," except, of course, we more or less won't. The current paradigm means that we will launch a telescope, have it fail, and then wait 20-30 years until another of the same type can be orbited. And, there seems to be no real effort expended on new types of propulsion and certainly no effort on new types of manned propulsion.
The Russians, meanwhile, view everything they have ever launched as an asset. You bet that they are going to use their ISS modules as long as they can, and maybe just a little more.
Security regs in the USG mandate this sort of stuff for Classified information.
The spokeswoman said :
"no data has been compromised but the type of virus and its origin is unknown"
That is an extraordinary statement. How would they know ?
If I was head of IT there I would assume that that was not true. Even if there was a completely different computer system for any sensitive information, data has a way of leaking to where it shouldn't be. Of thousands of people, not one put notes or passwords or whatever on the insecure side of the line ?
Regardless of what they tell the press, I hope that internally they are assuming that this is a breach, and acting accordingly.
I would assume that
1.) They claim copyright on the spec.
2.) They thus claim that whatever was done to reverse-engineer the spec violated the DMCA.