People should realize that this "dent" is in a heliopause with a density of maybe 1 atom per cubic centimeter - in other words, a much better vacuum than any on Earth. The solar wind blows up a huge "bubble" in galactic space, and Voyager is just getting to the edge of it.
It is interesting but hardly surprising that so tenuous a gas so far from the Sun is buffeted by the even more tenuous gas flowing in the galaxy.
Unlike Comcast, FiOS delivers the full range of bandwidth to each user, whereas Comcast users are forced to share bandwidth with other users on the same coaxial cable, causing speeds to fluctuate dramatically with usage.
This sounds like Verizon press puffery to me.
What is Verizon's provisioning on the FIOS back end ? How much do they underprovision ? It is a very safe bet that there is not 10 Mbps of Internet transit reserved for every FIOS customer, so there is still sharing of bandwidth, and still a likelihood of bandwidth reductions during heavy use periods. This could be better or worse than Comcast, but you don't know and can't tell just from the bandwidth of the edge circuit.
I suspect that one additional flight could be made without recertification. Imagine, for example, that the last flight has tile damage and gets stuck in orbit...
>The reality is that modern science requires faith. Faith in the scientific method.
Say what ? What does that mean, really ? The "scientific method" is a tool, for separating truth from error. It is used now because it has worked in the past. So, let's translate that sentance into another field :
"The reality is that modern carpentry requires faith. Faith in hammers."
I do have faith in the scienfitic method, and in my hammers, but it is not of a religious variety.
>The way ideally : I say that that this is true, but it may not be. Who knows, lets find out.
>The way in reality : Listen, you really really should believe us, look at all these published papers and what your collegues say and how many people's careers are at stake and what others who are much smarter/higher ranking than you say. If you want X (acceptance, research money, publication) then treat this theory as an axiom. Its too troublesome and inconvenient to do otherwise
You obviously have no real experience with science or scientists. The best scientists get that way because they don't treat anything as an axiom. The scientists I know would love to find evidence or other means to overturn accepted theories. But that is different from ignoring an entire huge body of evidence.
By the way, if you do not believe in evolution, then you had better not believe in physics or astronomy or geology either. You have your work cut out for you.
Take it to a service and have it shredded. In fact, since a lot of forensic data recovery is done with scratch files, etc., that may be stored separately, take the whole computer to a service and have it shredded. (Yes, at least here in DC, there are such services.)
Since this wasn't his computer, but his employeers' computer, I expect that he may find that his easure wasn't as effective as he would of liked, and that he may now be in a lot of trouble.
I don't know, it may have been earlier, but I do know that the first security checks (of people not involved in security work) at JPL were during the Reagan administration, and conveniently seemed to weed out those who had been active in the anti-Vietnam movement.
So, if you want a date, January 20, 1980 would probably do as a first approximation.
Back in the 1960's, Mao ignored Apollo entirely. Unlike the USSR (which reported on it and congratulated us), the PRC's position was that it never happened.
Of course, the real problem is that the rotation of the Earth is not constant (the leap seconds are mostly driven by fluid motions in the core).
Originally, back in the 1960's, instead of the leap seconds, they (the BIH at the time) adjusted the rate of the UTC seconds with respect to TAI. This was widely viewed as not a good thing once it was tried and was dropped, IIRC in 1972.
I must admit, my BS detector went off when I heard of this study. In my experience. the Internet backbones tend to be in the best shape, even in the US, and the most straightforward to extend. Our troubles tend to be on the edge.
While, I cannot find any real problems in a quick read, people should look at FIGURE 7: GLOBAL INCREMENTAL OPTICAL INVESTMENT, where the investment peaks in 2008 after exponential growth in both spending, capacity and use. It is not too surprising that a couple of years of exponential growth in usage later, and with flat spending, they predict problems. The real question to me is, how realistic is that that investment will peak next year ? I must admit that this sounds dubious to me.
Basically all bills are comparably long, and have been at least for my lifetime. And, yes, it is routinely abused, and, yes, bills are routinely passed
without being read in their entirety.
Venus had a habitable climate for billions of years. If you get the CO2 out of the air and back into the rocks, like on Earth, it could again, long length of day or not. BTW, there are lots of people who live in arctic areas with roughly similar day / night distributions.
However, if you really needed to, you could hit the planet with a carefully aimed ice rich asteroid or (better yet) a comet. This would both add water and change the spin, in principle to whatever you want.
The big space shuttle design flaw (the solid rocket boosters) was driven by a very stupid Air Force mission requirement (single orbit return to base reconnaissance missions) which to put it mildly was not thought out, and which was not challenged sufficiently by NASA.
At the time, reusable rockets were widely seen in the space establishment as the way to cut the cost of on-orbit delivery. What people hadn't thought through was the cost of ground support, which is very high for the Shuttle. Even if the Shuttle flight hardware was free, it still wouldn't be economical to operate compared to Soyez. Realistically, as soon as the shuttle launched we should have started designing the next version, taking into account what we had learned from the first attempt. We are now 20+ years behind the curve now, and it shows.
No, he can't. Nor can he pardon anyone else "in cases of impeachment." From Aricle II, Section 2 :
...and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.
Note that it doesn't say anywhere that impeachment cannot be done after the end of an administration.
Nor, in practice, can he pardon war crimes, as they are globally enforceable. It's the war crimes charges that will eventually put these clowns in jail.
Go see a lawyer. You can get a free initial consultation from many of them.
Here is some more free advice : Don't trust the free legal advice you get on slash dot. At lease half of the posters have no clue, and you have no idea which half.
Whenever I go from DC to Atlanta, I try to do it by overnight train (with a room). I get dinner and breakfast on the train, lots of space, and I get into northside Atlanta about 8:30 AM. There is no better way to get there early in the morning.
I have long thought that Amtrak should have "businessmen's hotels" for overnight trips between Atlanta and DC, New York and Chicago, etc., with lounges, WiFi access, etc. Either that, or go to the TGV type train and do it in 2 hours.
There is little about copyright that would not be substantially improved by a return to 28 year terms.
Under copyright, these works belong to the public, that is, all of us. To lock them away for multiple lifetimes is, simply put, stealing from the public. It is a corruption of the original intent, brought about by a few people beholden to industry negotiating international treaties largely in secret. Unless the rot at the center of the current copyright system is fixed, eventually the public will turn away from copyright, which will be a shame.
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People should realize that this "dent" is in a heliopause with a density of maybe 1 atom per cubic centimeter - in other words, a much
better vacuum than any on Earth. The solar wind blows up a huge "bubble" in galactic space, and Voyager is just getting to the edge of it.
It is interesting but hardly surprising that so tenuous a gas so far from the Sun is buffeted by the even more tenuous gas flowing in the galaxy.
Unlike Comcast, FiOS delivers the full range of bandwidth to each user, whereas Comcast users are forced to share bandwidth with other users on the same coaxial cable, causing speeds to fluctuate dramatically with usage.
This sounds like Verizon press puffery to me. What is Verizon's provisioning on the FIOS back end ? How much do they underprovision ? It is a very safe bet that there is not 10 Mbps of Internet transit reserved for every FIOS customer, so there is still sharing of bandwidth, and still a likelihood of bandwidth reductions during heavy use periods. This could be better or worse than Comcast, but you don't know and can't tell just from the bandwidth of the edge circuit.
I suspect that one additional flight could be made without recertification. Imagine, for example, that the last flight has tile damage and gets stuck in orbit...
>The reality is that modern science requires faith. Faith in the scientific method.
Say what ? What does that mean, really ? The "scientific method" is a tool, for separating truth from error. It is used now because it has worked in the past.
So, let's translate that sentance into another field :
"The reality is that modern carpentry requires faith. Faith in hammers."
I do have faith in the scienfitic method, and in my hammers, but it is not of a religious variety.
>The way ideally : I say that that this is true, but it may not be. Who knows, lets find out.
>The way in reality : Listen, you really really should believe us, look at all these published papers and what your collegues say and how many people's careers are at stake and what others who are much smarter/higher ranking than you say. If you want X (acceptance, research money, publication) then treat this theory as an axiom. Its too troublesome and inconvenient to do otherwise
You obviously have no real experience with science or scientists. The best scientists get that way because they don't treat anything as an axiom. The scientists I know would love to find evidence or other means to overturn accepted theories. But that is different from ignoring an entire huge body of evidence.
By the way, if you do not believe in evolution, then you had better not believe in physics or astronomy or geology either. You have your work cut out for you.
>And what to do with the old one?
Take it to a service and have it shredded. In fact, since a lot of forensic data recovery is done with scratch files, etc., that may be stored separately, take the whole computer to a service and have it shredded. (Yes, at least here in DC, there are such services.)
Since this wasn't his computer, but his employeers' computer, I expect that he may find that his easure wasn't as effective as he would of liked, and that he may now be in a lot of trouble.
I don't know, it may have been earlier, but I do know that the first security checks (of people not involved in security work) at JPL were during the Reagan administration, and conveniently seemed to weed out those who had been active in the anti-Vietnam movement.
So, if you want a date, January 20, 1980 would probably do as a first approximation.
We had landed men on the Moon.
Back in the 1960's, Mao ignored Apollo entirely. Unlike the USSR (which reported on it and congratulated us), the PRC's position was
that it never happened.
... don't fix it.
This is a bad idea, and my understanding is that it has not much chance of being adopted.
Of course, the real problem is that the rotation of the Earth is not constant (the leap seconds are mostly driven by fluid motions in the core).
Originally, back in the 1960's, instead of the leap seconds, they (the BIH at the time) adjusted the rate of the UTC seconds with respect to TAI. This was widely viewed as not a good thing once it was tried and was dropped, IIRC in 1972.
I must admit, my BS detector went off when I heard of this study. In my experience. the Internet backbones tend to be in the best shape, even in the US, and the most straightforward to extend. Our troubles tend to be on the edge.
While, I cannot find any real problems in a quick read, people should look at FIGURE 7: GLOBAL INCREMENTAL OPTICAL INVESTMENT, where the investment peaks in 2008 after exponential growth in both spending, capacity and use. It is not too surprising that a couple of years of exponential growth in usage later, and with flat spending, they predict problems. The real question to me is, how realistic is that that investment will peak next year ? I must admit that this sounds dubious to me.
... that they already do this for marijauana, through Section 438 of the Higher Education Act Amendments of 1998 ?
Here is a PDF legal brief on this.
If they can do it in one case they can do it in every case.
Basically all bills are comparably long, and have been at least for my lifetime. And, yes, it is routinely abused, and, yes, bills are routinely passed without being read in their entirety.
The length of day isn't really a problem.
Venus had a habitable climate for billions of years. If you get the CO2 out of the air and back into the rocks, like on Earth, it could again, long length of
day or not. BTW, there are lots of people who live in arctic areas with roughly similar day / night distributions.
However, if you really needed to, you could hit the planet with a carefully aimed ice rich asteroid or (better yet) a comet. This would both add water and change the spin, in principle to whatever you want.
The big space shuttle design flaw (the solid rocket boosters) was driven by a very stupid Air Force mission requirement (single orbit return to base
reconnaissance missions) which to put it mildly was not thought out, and which was not challenged sufficiently by NASA.
At the time, reusable rockets were widely seen in the space establishment as the way to cut the cost of on-orbit delivery. What people hadn't
thought through was the cost of ground support, which is very high for the Shuttle. Even if the Shuttle flight hardware was free, it still wouldn't be economical to operate compared to Soyez. Realistically, as soon as the shuttle launched we should have started designing the next version, taking into account what we had learned from the first attempt. We are now 20+ years behind the curve now, and it shows.
I do wonder though if Bush can pardon himself.
...and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.
No, he can't. Nor can he pardon anyone else "in cases of impeachment." From Aricle II, Section 2 :
Note that it doesn't say anywhere that impeachment cannot be done after the end of an administration.
Nor, in practice, can he pardon war crimes, as they are globally enforceable. It's the war crimes charges that will eventually put these clowns in jail.
... maybe.
Go see a lawyer. You can get a free initial consultation from many of them.
Here is some more free advice : Don't trust the free legal advice you get on slash dot. At
lease half of the posters have no clue, and you have no idea which half.
You really think they are launching it next year ?
"Political mastermind" does not imply "excellent military tactitian".
Quite true. And "excellent tactician" does not imply "excellent strategist." That's the mistake Hitler made...
Whenever I go from DC to Atlanta, I try to do it by overnight train (with a room). I get dinner and breakfast on
the train, lots of space, and I get into northside Atlanta about 8:30 AM. There is no better way to get there
early in the morning.
I have long thought that Amtrak should have "businessmen's hotels" for overnight trips
between Atlanta and DC, New York and Chicago, etc., with lounges, WiFi access, etc.
Either that, or go to the TGV type train and do it in 2 hours.
Way back when, flying was a rare novelty, so it was inherently fun.
You forget that back then it was regulated. Airlines competed on service, not price.
I generally try to be the last person on each flight I take. I take a lot of flights. I generally check a bag.
Trust me, it does not make your luggage come out first. Not even an appreciable fraction of the time.
There is little about copyright that would not be substantially improved by a return to 28 year terms.
Under copyright, these works belong to the public, that is, all of us. To lock them away for multiple lifetimes is, simply put, stealing
from the public. It is a corruption of the original intent, brought about by a few people beholden to industry negotiating international treaties
largely in secret. Unless the rot at the center of the current copyright system is fixed, eventually the public will turn away from copyright, which will be a shame.
Because they are compromised (either bought off, or blackmailed, or both).
We no longer have a Republic. Maybe we can win it back.
Buy a good calculus book, and read it. Work through all the proofs and derivations. Stay on each section until you understand it.
It helps a lot if you have a reason to use it.
If you don't have the discipline to do this, take a class.
(Well, it's always worked for me....)