If you are aspiring for a PhD, you should already have a good grasp at researching papers and conference proceedings. Actually, should probably have already done that part... From these papers and conference proceedings, you can quickly identify those working in your field of interest and get a (partial) big picture of who's doing what where. Limiting you search to the last 36 months might be helpful.
This is obviously not a flawless method. It is time consuming and will only give you a partial picture (you'll probably not read every publication made in the last 3 years in all journals). You might also miss very interesting groups that publish in less known papers. That said, you have to choose wisely where you will focus your energy. Not working in your field, I can't help there, but as an aspiring PhD, you surly can find this information around you.
Peer contacts are also very helpful. PhD, post-docs and professors where you currently are are likely to have a good intuition on where to find this information, which papers to parse and, maybe, who to contact directly.
Forget about faculty websites. Forget about research grants (they are highly misleading).
I was under the impression this was a fairly common practice (in Europe, never seen it in North America). I do expect they send the pre-activated pin on a different shipment, on a different day. (The usual is about a week apart). TFA doesn't give any information on this crucial point. It doesn't make it totally secure (or acceptable), but somewhat less worse than presented here.
I think that pre-activated credit card are much worse for the system (and yes, this seems fairly common too). Although you are legally protected in that case, they are much easier to exploit in case of postal-theft. At that time you won't be monitoring it (because you did not receive it yet) and flags won't be raised because your usual buyer profile has not yet been identified.
On of the current main idea behind liquid mirrors is to make adaptative optics; that is optics that can be deformed to shape or correct a wavefront. That is in part why they moved from simple mirrors made from spinning mercury or mercury-like liquids around to ferromagnetic fluids that can be shaped at wish (within limits, of course).
So, even if the freezing idea could work, you’d loose one of the key advantages of this technology.
There are actually very few locations in the world suitable for this kind of launches. It requires special conditions and infrastructure. NASA launches from most of these sites. They share these launch locations with other organizations like CNES (France). Considering the low number of launch sites, it's only normal that NASA launches from as many of them as possible for their studies.
I've been with blau.de for 2 months now. Their internet access is, I think, on of the cheapests. But, as always, the devil is in the details. Blau.de prepaid provider is on the E+ network. Of all cellphone networks in Germany, eplus is probably the worst. Coverage is limited and performances in most areas are poor (my performance comparison point is Rogers in eastern Canada). Altough the network is 3G, most of the time you won't reach 3G speeds and you often lose 3G connection. Then it usually kicks down to EDGE or even GPRS. For some reasons, the E+ network seems to be very sensitive to interference from other nearby cell towers.
If you plan on travelling, don't expect reliable connexion in trains or on the road with blau/eplus. From my experience, I could even say don't expect a connexion at all in trains... For a better reliability, t-mobile or vodafone based providers are a better choice, but the prepaid carriers do not offer good data packages like blau and the network providers themselves are total ripoffs.
All my experience is with smartphones. Blau also provides so called surf-sticks, but I have no reason to think their performances is any different than with 3G smartphones.
Everyone knows that you hack a power grid system with a modem, weird command line interfaces using pseudo-english commands and some fast random typing on a keyboard.
I'd like to see you get it by a supersonic marble. Should be interesting to see how not hurt you'll get.
What I'd like to know is...
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who tagged this NSFW. Seriously.
It's nice to see the new solar cycle is flaring up. I miss those nice auroras we could this during the last solar peak. Haven't seen one in about 3 years now. Some were so bright that you could see them in the city, very early in the evening.(at 56ÂN Magnetic Latitude).
A better (car) analogy would have been the government deciding that after feb 2009, no more gas would be sold for cars, only a mix of gas and ethanol requiring either the buy of a new car with a flex fuel compatible engine or modifications to the engine.
Because you don't really have to have the driver on the right to drive on the left side of the road.
I wonder how good the artists royalties return would be if we took all the money the RIAA and MPAA "invested" in legal procedures and lawyers in the past years.
Maybe someone should do the math and tell the artists... I bet they could be surprised to see where the money they should receive actually goes.
Not career suicide, just a hilariously pointless hobby like squirrel eating... or Warcraft.
A career suicide indeed it is. We have had a good example here, in Canada. A scientist for the Defence Research and Development Canada, a DND department responsible for military research projects in Canada, lost his job a few years back.
During his free time, that scientist worked on the active SETI project. He was always meticulous about keeping is work separate from his hobby, but Radio-Canada was not. During a prime time interview, they captioned his name with the title "scientist for the Canadian defense" or something like that.
From what I heard, his career as a military scientist was promptly ended following that media "incident".
I agree. I would say this looks fake or very fishy. First the oscilloscope showing stopped images of some pulses is a typical make believe setup. On the second video, after the camera comes back to the eavesdropping setup, the oscillo did not trigger on any signal and is still stopped. Granted, this doesn't prove any wrong doing.
But the process terminating by itself immediately after decoding the last character is strange. Why would the process stop recording and start processing after the last typed letter?
Why do the process have different names in the two video? One is "decode" and the other is "decode8characters" or something like that. From a programming standpoint, if you are having difficulties triggering the acquisition start and stop, why build different hard coded processes for different numbers of characters? If knowing when to stop recording and start decoding is a problem (and I suspect it would be), why not use parameters on standard program?
If you are using full spectrum analysis, how can you know how many characters you received (hence, when to stop at x characters) before you decoded the acquired characters?
Too many incongruities to convince me. I'm ready to accepted the idea this might be real, but I'll need better proof of concept than that.
I was going to says "I'm not in the US so we I won't be voting anyway", but the I remembered that we are voting too in Canada next week. And although freedom hasn't been an issue here up to know, depending on the vote on the 14th, I may say otherwise in 4 years from now.
(hopefully I won't be put on any non-guilty-activist-terrorist-anti-anti-freedom-government-slashdot-poster list or something like that).
Yes. I doubt any of them laughs when they get turned away from the check-in counter next time they which to take an flight to somewhere. "Sorry sir, you are on a terrorist watch list. You can't fly with us today. Next!..."
Would be interesting to see if this can be reproduced artificially. Maybe it could lead to new ways of dealing with nuclear waste, by accelerating its decay rate. On the other hand, the effect seem to be so small that, even if artificially amplifying it, it would be of little use.
We're still very far from that point, but it opens up interesting new perspectives.
This is a sad trend that's continuously growing in popularity. Bell Labs is not the first to be hit by hit and probably not the last. Even at NASA, the aspects fundamental research and engineering have slowly decayed (or so it seems). Cutting into long term research and development and replacing it with straight-to-the-market development is getting so popular it even overcomes university faculties. Where I work, so-called "industrial" projects that are directly linked to new products of industrial partners or that are aiming at patent applications are the new standard. Those working on fundamental research often feel quite alone and forgotten.
I wonder if the whole north-east grid will fall like it did 2003 each time a cold front move through the region... The big blackout even showed that the conditions to create a cascade of overloads shutting down the whole grid are possible. Could the power surge caused by all wind turbine getting into action simultaneously create similar power pulses through the grid, jumping the safeties like it did in 2003?
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Most of these games try put you in the role of military professionals in combat situations.
You're mistaken in the same way you would mix up professional race cars with riced-up corollas.
A reference to infiltration! That old beast has not yet been forgotten. That made my day... thank you.
If you are aspiring for a PhD, you should already have a good grasp at researching papers and conference proceedings. Actually, should probably have already done that part... From these papers and conference proceedings, you can quickly identify those working in your field of interest and get a (partial) big picture of who's doing what where. Limiting you search to the last 36 months might be helpful.
This is obviously not a flawless method. It is time consuming and will only give you a partial picture (you'll probably not read every publication made in the last 3 years in all journals). You might also miss very interesting groups that publish in less known papers. That said, you have to choose wisely where you will focus your energy. Not working in your field, I can't help there, but as an aspiring PhD, you surly can find this information around you.
Peer contacts are also very helpful. PhD, post-docs and professors where you currently are are likely to have a good intuition on where to find this information, which papers to parse and, maybe, who to contact directly.
Forget about faculty websites. Forget about research grants (they are highly misleading).
I was under the impression this was a fairly common practice (in Europe, never seen it in North America). I do expect they send the pre-activated pin on a different shipment, on a different day. (The usual is about a week apart). TFA doesn't give any information on this crucial point. It doesn't make it totally secure (or acceptable), but somewhat less worse than presented here.
I think that pre-activated credit card are much worse for the system (and yes, this seems fairly common too). Although you are legally protected in that case, they are much easier to exploit in case of postal-theft. At that time you won't be monitoring it (because you did not receive it yet) and flags won't be raised because your usual buyer profile has not yet been identified.
Here's the link to website of the research group at Laval University.
http://wood.phy.ulaval.ca/
They've been publishing on liquid mirrors since the '80...
On of the current main idea behind liquid mirrors is to make adaptative optics; that is optics that can be deformed to shape or correct a wavefront. That is in part why they moved from simple mirrors made from spinning mercury or mercury-like liquids around to ferromagnetic fluids that can be shaped at wish (within limits, of course).
So, even if the freezing idea could work, you’d loose one of the key advantages of this technology.
There are actually very few locations in the world suitable for this kind of launches. It requires special conditions and infrastructure. NASA launches from most of these sites. They share these launch locations with other organizations like CNES (France). Considering the low number of launch sites, it's only normal that NASA launches from as many of them as possible for their studies.
True... getting this script that I didn't know existed before asap... then posting about it on Facebook.
Mostly likely misguided editorial marketing...
I've been with blau.de for 2 months now. Their internet access is, I think, on of the cheapests. But, as always, the devil is in the details. Blau.de prepaid provider is on the E+ network. Of all cellphone networks in Germany, eplus is probably the worst. Coverage is limited and performances in most areas are poor (my performance comparison point is Rogers in eastern Canada). Altough the network is 3G, most of the time you won't reach 3G speeds and you often lose 3G connection. Then it usually kicks down to EDGE or even GPRS. For some reasons, the E+ network seems to be very sensitive to interference from other nearby cell towers.
If you plan on travelling, don't expect reliable connexion in trains or on the road with blau/eplus. From my experience, I could even say don't expect a connexion at all in trains... For a better reliability, t-mobile or vodafone based providers are a better choice, but the prepaid carriers do not offer good data packages like blau and the network providers themselves are total ripoffs.
All my experience is with smartphones. Blau also provides so called surf-sticks, but I have no reason to think their performances is any different than with 3G smartphones.
I fail to see how this is a waste of money. Instead of building the silo (or digging a hole), they converted a structure already present.
Considering that the said silo housed a particle accelerator before housing a data center, you aren't that far off with your 'death ray' idea...
Everyone knows that you hack a power grid system with a modem, weird command line interfaces using pseudo-english commands and some fast random typing on a keyboard.
I'd like to see you get it by a supersonic marble. Should be interesting to see how not hurt you'll get.
who tagged this NSFW. Seriously.
It's nice to see the new solar cycle is flaring up. I miss those nice auroras we could this during the last solar peak. Haven't seen one in about 3 years now. Some were so bright that you could see them in the city, very early in the evening.(at 56ÂN Magnetic Latitude).
A better (car) analogy would have been the government deciding that after feb 2009, no more gas would be sold for cars, only a mix of gas and ethanol requiring either the buy of a new car with a flex fuel compatible engine or modifications to the engine.
Because you don't really have to have the driver on the right to drive on the left side of the road.
I wonder how good the artists royalties return would be if we took all the money the RIAA and MPAA "invested" in legal procedures and lawyers in the past years.
Maybe someone should do the math and tell the artists... I bet they could be surprised to see where the money they should receive actually goes.
Not career suicide, just a hilariously pointless hobby like squirrel eating ... or Warcraft.
A career suicide indeed it is. We have had a good example here, in Canada. A scientist for the Defence Research and Development Canada, a DND department responsible for military research projects in Canada, lost his job a few years back.
During his free time, that scientist worked on the active SETI project. He was always meticulous about keeping is work separate from his hobby, but Radio-Canada was not. During a prime time interview, they captioned his name with the title "scientist for the Canadian defense" or something like that.
From what I heard, his career as a military scientist was promptly ended following that media "incident".
Great! Maybe it's time to have another chat with Edgar Mitchell...
I agree. I would say this looks fake or very fishy. First the oscilloscope showing stopped images of some pulses is a typical make believe setup. On the second video, after the camera comes back to the eavesdropping setup, the oscillo did not trigger on any signal and is still stopped. Granted, this doesn't prove any wrong doing.
But the process terminating by itself immediately after decoding the last character is strange. Why would the process stop recording and start processing after the last typed letter?
Why do the process have different names in the two video? One is "decode" and the other is "decode8characters" or something like that. From a programming standpoint, if you are having difficulties triggering the acquisition start and stop, why build different hard coded processes for different numbers of characters? If knowing when to stop recording and start decoding is a problem (and I suspect it would be), why not use parameters on standard program?
If you are using full spectrum analysis, how can you know how many characters you received (hence, when to stop at x characters) before you decoded the acquired characters?
Too many incongruities to convince me. I'm ready to accepted the idea this might be real, but I'll need better proof of concept than that.
I was going to says "I'm not in the US so we I won't be voting anyway", but the I remembered that we are voting too in Canada next week. And although freedom hasn't been an issue here up to know, depending on the vote on the 14th, I may say otherwise in 4 years from now.
(hopefully I won't be put on any non-guilty-activist-terrorist-anti-anti-freedom-government-slashdot-poster list or something like that).
Yes. I doubt any of them laughs when they get turned away from the check-in counter next time they which to take an flight to somewhere. "Sorry sir, you are on a terrorist watch list. You can't fly with us today. Next!..."
The real joke nowadays, is freedom.
Would be interesting to see if this can be reproduced artificially. Maybe it could lead to new ways of dealing with nuclear waste, by accelerating its decay rate. On the other hand, the effect seem to be so small that, even if artificially amplifying it, it would be of little use.
We're still very far from that point, but it opens up interesting new perspectives.
This is a sad trend that's continuously growing in popularity. Bell Labs is not the first to be hit by hit and probably not the last. Even at NASA, the aspects fundamental research and engineering have slowly decayed (or so it seems). Cutting into long term research and development and replacing it with straight-to-the-market development is getting so popular it even overcomes university faculties. Where I work, so-called "industrial" projects that are directly linked to new products of industrial partners or that are aiming at patent applications are the new standard. Those working on fundamental research often feel quite alone and forgotten.
I wonder if the whole north-east grid will fall like it did 2003 each time a cold front move through the region... The big blackout even showed that the conditions to create a cascade of overloads shutting down the whole grid are possible. Could the power surge caused by all wind turbine getting into action simultaneously create similar power pulses through the grid, jumping the safeties like it did in 2003?