Any person who says that you could steal a beach with a fork-lift is not qualified to comment on public events.
(A big grain of sand is maybe 0.5 mm in diameter, so 1000 grains of sand is maybe 1/2 a milligram, which isn't much of a beach, but I will give him that as a metaphor.)
The company that paid for the study, note, promises to "securely distribute business video simultaneously over multiple Edge routes," so they probably don't mind some workplace paranoia.
So, what, they are proposing that companies pay for the secure distribution of their employee's secret boss videos? A delicious thought, but I don't see that as a rapidly expanding enterprise market.
For instance the hotel I went to for my wedding had absolutely shitty connectivity and if you asked they would politely respond, aren't you here for your wedding sir? And they were right:)
Sorry, but I don't think you understand. Planning for IETF meetings now start 3 years in advance. We send people to every hotel months before the meeting, specifically to check out the network. We always ask for permission to modify the hotel network (and, generally we get it). (We just went through a long involved process to convince a future hotel of the benefits of doing this.) The NOC team moves into the hotel a full week before the meeting to set this up. But, even with all of this, shit happens. The IETF stresses really stresses the network, and has a history of uncovering problems.
The IETF basically re-engineers the Hotel's network every place they meet. The big difference is, sometimes they get permission to do this before the meeting, and sometimes (as here in Paris), they don't get this permission until after the Hotel's network melts down.
(By the way, I am at the meeting, and I heard that the Hotel's IT head has now been fired. This is not too surprising when one of the major fixes was to turn off the majority of the access points.)
These companies see themselves as gatekeepers, not service providers. In other words, they think that they will make money from their ability to control what you do or see, not by providing you with the ability to do something. Getting them to realize that their business model has, in fact, changed and that they now are, in fact, service providers is going to be a long and messy project.
When Mariner 9 (and 2 Soviet Mars orbiters) the planet was having the worst dust storm in decades. The entire surface was basically invisible from orbit, which hasn't happened since.
The reason I bring this is up is that this storm did not reach above the atmosphere. It was observed from Earth, but caused nothing like the pictures of the recent event - and that was more or less the biggest storm ever seen. So, if this is real, I don't think it's a dust storm.
He was only at the MPAA for a year, and from what I hear, that was no accident. I know people who know him, and they say that he understands the Internet and didn't agree with what the MPAA was doing, and was described to me as "one of the good guys." We shall see, but he won't last long at ISOC if he isn't.
If you want to cut latency, communicate through the Earth with neutrinos. If we could just get the bit rate up some (from the current 0.1 bps), you could communicate to anywhere on Earth with a one way time of 40 milliseconds.
What I find is that, when I get a business card, I generally get full contact info, including a phone number, web site, physical address, etc. When I don't, I get an email address, if I am lucky.
If it is someone hard to reach (i.e., a business executive), having full contact info is very useful. Because of this, I don't see business cards going away any time soon.
We will not turn this situation around until we do what our 19th-century ancestors did: confront our bosses, present them with the data, and make them understand that what they are doing amounts to employee abuse — and that abuse is based on assumptions that are directly costing them untold potential profits."
He left out the actual means used to do this - unionization.
What is wrong with the United Kingdom ? When did they go so far off the rails ?
(Yes, I know that you could ask the same question about the US, but this is not an article about the US and, if anything, things seem to be deteriorating faster there.)
Don't be stupid. Of course this will be abused. They abuse the existing cameras already, not to mention wasting a farcical amount of money on them.
This will give the state more power than the old internal passports of the Soviet Union. Anyone the state disapproves of could be easily made unable to travel. If you think that the British state is to be trusted with such powers, then you need to pay more attention.
No, they are not. There are nucleosynthesis limits that show that baryonic matter (us, stars, planets) are only a small fraction of the total dark matter (somewhere in the 4 to 10% range).
Now, there also is "missing" baryonic matter (about a 50% difference between what we can see and what nucleosynthesis indicates), so it must be part or even all of that. Note that stars etc are only about 10% of the baryonic matter, so I would be surprised if the planets were more than another 5% or 10% to that total, and thus maybe 1% to the total mass of the universe.
This rock has a fusion crust - i.e., it went through re-entry. That is a dead give-away that it is real. It doesn't happen otherwise in nature, and it would not be easy to hoax.
The way to be even more sure is through isotope analysis - meteorites have different isotope ratios than do any terrestrial material. That never happens in nature, and would be damn near impossible to hoax.
Fortunately, I never had to use it./it always seemed odd that anything involving radiation (e.g. ranging from radioactive contamination all the way up to a full-out nuclear explosion) was completely exempted from the policy. I presume that a nuclear explosion would be catastrophic to insurers (not to mention residents) covering that region which is why the exclude it (same thing with floods), but still...
Claims resulting from nuclear accidents are covered under Price-Anderson; for that reason, all property and liability insurance policies issued in the U.S. exclude nuclear accidents.”
How would you be able to tell the meteorite from other rocks? Assuming they didnt leave an impact crater.
Look for something that seems out of place.
If you see a rock on your lawn or in your flower bed, hopefully you would know if it was there last week, or not. Likewise, rocks don't tend to get on roofs by other means.
Also, this fall did have a nice fusion crust and most (but not all) meteorites are magnetic.
Looking in your yard for a meteorite would normally be a waste of time, except that it is a good assumption that there are other pieces of this out there that no one has recognized.
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Any person who says that you could steal a beach with a fork-lift is not qualified to comment on public events.
(A big grain of sand is maybe 0.5 mm in diameter, so 1000 grains of sand is maybe 1/2 a milligram, which isn't much of a beach, but I will give him that as a metaphor.)
The company that paid for the study, note, promises to "securely distribute business video simultaneously over multiple Edge routes," so they probably don't mind some workplace paranoia.
So, what, they are proposing that companies pay for the secure distribution of their employee's secret boss videos? A delicious thought, but I don't see that as a rapidly expanding enterprise market.
For instance the hotel I went to for my wedding had absolutely shitty connectivity and if you asked they would politely respond, aren't you here for your wedding sir? And they were right :)
Haven't been to many IETF weddings I guess.
Sorry, but I don't think you understand. Planning for IETF meetings now start 3 years in advance. We send people to every hotel months before the meeting, specifically to check out the network. We always ask for permission to modify the hotel network (and, generally we get it). (We just went through a long involved process to convince a future hotel of the benefits of doing this.) The NOC team moves into the hotel a full week before the meeting to set this up. But, even with all of this, shit happens. The IETF stresses really stresses the network, and has a history of uncovering problems.
Well, except for Peter Lothberg, whose Mom has better Internet connection.
ANA Crowne Plaza Hiroshima Hotel
Regardless of what they meant, the Hotel Concorde Lafayette ain't it.
The IETF basically re-engineers the Hotel's network every place they meet. The big difference is, sometimes they get permission to do this before the meeting, and sometimes (as here in Paris), they don't get this permission until after the Hotel's network melts down.
(By the way, I am at the meeting, and I heard that the Hotel's IT head has now been fired. This is not too surprising when one of the major fixes was to turn off
the majority of the access points.)
These companies see themselves as gatekeepers, not service providers. In other words, they think that they will make money from their ability to control what you do or see, not by providing you with the ability to do something. Getting them to realize that their business model has, in fact, changed and that they now are, in fact, service providers is going to be a long and messy project.
When Mariner 9 (and 2 Soviet Mars orbiters) the planet was having the worst dust storm in decades. The entire surface was basically invisible from orbit, which hasn't happened since.
The reason I bring this is up is that this storm did not reach above the atmosphere. It was observed from Earth, but caused nothing like the pictures of the recent event - and that was more or less the biggest storm ever seen. So, if this is real, I don't think it's a dust storm.
He was only at the MPAA for a year, .... didn't agree with what the MPAA was doing
and he didn't know what the mpaa was doing before he joined them? yeah right ...
Don't know. Maybe he was told he could change things, and found out different.
He was only at the MPAA for a year, and from what I hear, that was no accident. I know people who know him, and they say that he understands the Internet and didn't agree with what the MPAA was doing, and was described to me as "one of the good guys." We shall see, but he won't last long at ISOC if he isn't.
If you want to cut latency, communicate through the Earth with neutrinos. If we could just get the bit rate up some (from the current 0.1 bps), you could communicate to anywhere on Earth with a one way time of 40 milliseconds.
It'll be different the next time a spacecraft take a look.
What I find is that, when I get a business card, I generally get full contact info, including a phone number, web site, physical address, etc. When I don't, I get an email address, if I am lucky.
If it is someone hard to reach (i.e., a business executive), having full contact info is very useful. Because of this, I don't see business cards going away any time soon.
We will not turn this situation around until we do what our 19th-century ancestors did: confront our bosses, present them with the data, and make them understand that what they are doing amounts to employee abuse — and that abuse is based on assumptions that are directly costing them untold potential profits."
He left out the actual means used to do this - unionization.
What is wrong with the United Kingdom ? When did they go so far off the rails ?
(Yes, I know that you could ask the same question about the US, but this is not an article about the US and, if anything, things seem to be deteriorating faster there.)
Don't be stupid. Of course this will be abused. They abuse the existing cameras already, not to mention wasting a farcical amount of money on them.
This will give the state more power than the old internal passports of the Soviet Union. Anyone the state disapproves of could be easily made unable to travel. If you think that the British state is to be trusted with such powers, then you need to pay more attention.
No, they are not. There are nucleosynthesis limits that show that baryonic matter (us, stars, planets) are only a small fraction of the total dark matter (somewhere in the 4 to 10% range).
Now, there also is "missing" baryonic matter (about a 50% difference between what we can see and what nucleosynthesis indicates), so it must be part or even all of that. Note that stars etc are only about 10% of the baryonic matter, so I would be surprised if the planets were more than another 5% or 10% to that total, and thus maybe 1% to the total mass of the universe.
This rock has a fusion crust - i.e., it went through re-entry. That is a dead give-away that it is real. It doesn't happen otherwise in nature, and it would not be easy to hoax.
The way to be even more sure is through isotope analysis - meteorites have different isotope ratios than do any terrestrial material. That never happens in nature, and would be damn near impossible to hoax.
Depends a lot on the type. If it is shown this one is from Mars, for example, it's worth a lot.
Fortunately, I never had to use it. /it always seemed odd that anything involving radiation (e.g. ranging from radioactive contamination all the way up to a full-out nuclear explosion) was completely exempted from the policy. I presume that a nuclear explosion would be catastrophic to insurers (not to mention residents) covering that region which is why the exclude it (same thing with floods), but still...
They don't have to - you are covered by the 1957 Price-Anderson Act :
Claims resulting from nuclear accidents are covered under Price-Anderson; for that reason, all property and liability insurance policies issued in the U.S. exclude nuclear accidents.”
My housing insurance ... said that, "A nuclear detonation of any kind will be considered a war-like act, even if conducted during peace time."
Oddly, the US Government has pretty much the same opinion, at least if it is on US territory.
How would you be able to tell the meteorite from other rocks? Assuming they didnt leave an impact crater.
Look for something that seems out of place.
If you see a rock on your lawn or in your flower bed, hopefully you would know if it was there last week, or not. Likewise, rocks don't tend to get on roofs by other means.
Also, this fall did have a nice fusion crust and most (but not all) meteorites are magnetic.
Looking in your yard for a meteorite would normally be a waste of time, except that it is a good assumption that there are other pieces of this out there that no one has recognized.
The same. In law, at least, it's not a religious concept; in some jurisdictions it is called "force majeure."
IANAL, but these terms basically all seem to mean the same thing, events beyond your control. A war or even a strike can also qualify.