A sure way to knock down satellite are nuclear bombs carried by reconfigured ICBMs (see, test Starfish Prime). A significant portion of the nuclear club has this capability.
Of course, military satellites are designed to be radiation hardened, but this is intended as a way to survive to the effects of nuclear explosions not directly aimed at the satellite or at the cluster in question.
Or at least, this is Boeing's view on the matter. The Government Accountability Office has until mid-june to review the case. It is said to be an uphill battle. Hopefully, the truth (in either way) will be known.
That is a good catch. So, I was not as familiar as I thought of French law. What we are talking about is probably built on a pile of court precedents, such as this one. As all court decisions, it is not very easy to understand - especially if you do not speak french. But neverthless, notice this part:
Si l'atteinte à la vie privée des demanderesses n'est pas établie alors que les photographies ont été prises dans l'exercice de leur activité professionnelle, il n'en demeure pas moins que toute personne a sur son image et sur l'utilisation qui en est faite un droit absolu qui lui permet de s'opposer à sa reproduction et à sa diffusion sans son autorisation expresse et quelque soit le support utilisé.
Or basically: "even if it was not proven that the private life of the plaintiffs was hurt, everyone still detains an absolute right on his image and an absolute right to oppose to its diffusion or its reproduction without his express consent, whatever the support.
Maybe I didn't chose the best way to tackle on the subject - text laws are so obscure. The bottom line is that in France, the problem related to the image rights is widely known. TV and printed news often blur the faces of people. A very common joke when someone takes a picture of you is to ask them money, for your "image rights". There are always people sued all over the place for such causes. I would be very surprised if there was not a strong legal framework behind all of this. But again, I am not a lawyer.
I am not familiar with the laws of the other countries, but I'm a bit familiar with the laws of France.
What we are currently looking at is article 226-1 of the law texts.
Est puni d'un an d'emprisonnement et de 45000 euros d'amende le fait, au moyen d'un procédé quelconque, volontairement de porter atteinte à l'intimité de la vie privée d'autrui:
1 En captant, enregistrant ou transmettant, sans le consentement de leur auteur, des paroles prononcées à titre privé ou confidentiel;
2 En fixant, enregistrant ou transmettant, sans le consentement de celle-ci, l'image d'une personne se trouvant dans un lieu privé.
Lorsque les actes mentionnés au présent article ont été accomplis au vu et au su des intéressés sans qu'ils s'y soient opposés, alors qu'ils étaient en mesure de le faire, le consentement de ceux-ci est présumé.
Basically, it says that you do not have the right to take pictures of people or transmitting them without their consent. Their consent is implicit if they have seen you while you were doing the act.
As I understand it, you can take pictures of people, as long as they do not oppose to it and it is not stealthly. However, you still do not have the right to transmit the pictures you have taken, because they do not have agreed to that, explicitely or implicitely.
As far as I know, there is only one loophole - under certain circumstances, the media do not have to abide to some of these rules because of another set of laws on the liberty to inform. But of course, I am not a lawyer.
You know, people's rights to their image do not only exist in France.
Don't you remember the Australian Virgin mobile fiasco ? They had taken pictures from Flickr under the Creative Common license for their advertising campaign. So far, so good. However, they did not have the consent of the people on the pictures.
Now, the family of the girl on the picture got a little wild and sued both Virgin and Creative Commons. The latter case has been dropped, but I believe the former is still ongoing.
I wouldn't trust a 3.5" floppy that's been made in the past five years to hold its data for six months, but that's just shoddy quality control by whoever is still making them.
I'll second this. A great amount of my 3" Amstrad floppies can still be read. This is not (at all) the same situation with many of my 1.44 MB HD 3"1/2 floppies, especially the later ones.
I didn't like much Ressurection of Evil. I really found that the level design was not in the same league as the main game. This, along with the impression that the story and tension did not ramp up like in the main game. Maybe the artefact that allows you to slow down the time also made the game too easy.
However, the sections of the game where you are playing in bio-suit are very nicely done. They were very claustrophobic, and were a great addition to the game.
We have probably very different tastes in level design and atmosphere, as my favorite section of the game is when you get transported to hell, after the big dopefish-like portal.
I think it really depends on the culture and on the country. In France, many theaters have been installing jammers for a few years (their use in theaters was allowed by the governement around 2004, if I remember correctly).
At that time, polls had shown that about 85% of the population was favorable to such jammers. I doubt this has changed much.
If you have ever used FreeBSD and Mac OS X, you will have noticed they have a lot of differences under the hood. The fact they do not run the same kernel is not one of the least important differences. XNU, while it borrows a lot from FreeBSD, is a different beast. The particularity that the operating system does not run the same exectuable format (ELF vs Mach-O) is another thing you should not dismiss. Those are only two examples, but there are a lot of others.
This is this kind of code which caused the crash of the SRI (internal reference systems). Pay attention to the PRAGMA SUPPRESS statement.
--...
declare
vertical_veloc_sensor: float;
horizontal_veloc_sensor: float;
vertical_veloc_bias: integer;
horizontal_veloc_bias: integer;
--...
begin
declare
pragma suppress(numeric_error, horizontal_veloc_bias);
begin
sensor_get(vertical_veloc_sensor);
sensor_get(horizontal_veloc_sensor);
vertical_veloc_bias:= integer(vertical_veloc_sensor);
horizontal_veloc_bias:= integer(horizontal_veloc_sensor);
--...
exception
when numeric_error => calculate_vertical_veloc();
when others => use_irs1();
end;
end irs2;
Of course, as others pointed out, the "real" cause of the crash was bad design and software validation choices of the management.
If the situation is as bad as you describe, you should indeed be annoyed by the departement unwillingness to train one of you on Macintoshes. It would look like to be the most rational way to resolve those issues.
Real unix is not tied to the GUI the way OSX is - a GUI problem can easily lock or crash an OSX server while "real" unix or linux does not have this weakness.
Your comment is interesting, because from my own experience, the X-Window server is really the achille's heel of the free flavours of UNIX (Linux or FreeBSD).
If the kernel is rock stable, deadlocks are not unseen with the GUI, particularly on some "pecullar" configurations. Most of the times, you can restart the X-Window server by the magic CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, however you will still have lost most of your work (assuming you were working with a GUI). Harder freezes are more seldom, but can also happen. Sometimes, you can SSH into the machine to try to bring back the X-Window server up, but most likely the best you will be able to do is to perform a "clean" reboot. And sometimes, it's just locked.
In this respect, the OpenGL screensavers of XScreenSaver are sometimes particularly nasty.
Of course, you can always opt not to use a GUI on the free flavours of UNIX, what is not possible (as far as I know?) with Mac OS X.
We all know Windows market share dwarfs Linux market share. However, what we must really take into account are the number of users that only use Linux, and do not have Windows installed. I believe this figure is really small.
For instance, you cannot expect Macintosh users to have Windows installed. Therefore, you are expanding your number of potential buyers by producing a Mac OS X version. It was especially true at the time of the PowerPC, now it is less clearly cut at the time of Intel processors.
On the contrary, if you produce a Linux version, there are a lot of chances that people buying it would have bought the Windows version otherwise, since they have access to both operating systems. You are only cannibalizing your Windows sales.
There is a significant difference between the respective docking systems of the Progress docks and the ATV.
The Progress uses a multi-antenna radar system named KURS.
The ATV uses a specifically made video meter (PDF).
In December, one month before the Warner Bros. announcement, you could read such things:
"Both formats will be established and co-exist for the foreseeable future," said Helen Davis Jayalath, senior analyst at Screen Digest. "By 2012, U.S. high-def software will be evenly split between the two formats, where Blu-ray represents 55% of the market and HD DVD represents 45%. But high-def formats won't boost volume sales [for home entertainment] to the degree that DVD did [over VHS]. Backwards compatibility and upscaling reduces consumers' desire to replace existing DVDs."
Globally the software split will be 60% Blu-ray; 40% HD DVD, she added.
By 2012, standard DVD discs will total $10 billion in U.S. consumer sales, HD DVD $5 billion and Blu-ray $5 billion, estimates Adams Media Research, which recently became a subsidiary to Screen Media.
You may be an expert in your field, but that doesn't mean you can read into the future, as there is no such thing as a crystal ball. I am sure a lot of corporations would like experts to always make correct predictions on market trends. That would make their life much easier. But this is not really how it works out.
For now, it's indeed very hard to find Requiem on the internet. I would be very interested (along with a LOT of other people) if you could find a mirror of the sources. Thanks.
Mammon s'était endormi. Et la bête réincarnée se répandit sur la terre et son nombre se fit
légion. Et ils parlèrent au Temps et ils firent l'offrande de leur moisson
au feu, avec la ruse des renards. Et ils bâtirent un nouveau monde à leur
image comme le promettaient les paroles sacrées, et ils parlèrent de la bête avec leurs enfants. Lorsque Mammon se réveilla, voilà ! ce n'était plus rien qu'un disciple.
Slashdot Mirror
In the frame of the extended phenotype, is this distinction really having a meaning at all ?
A sure way to knock down satellite are nuclear bombs carried by reconfigured ICBMs (see, test Starfish Prime). A significant portion of the nuclear club has this capability.
Of course, military satellites are designed to be radiation hardened, but this is intended as a way to survive to the effects of nuclear explosions not directly aimed at the satellite or at the cluster in question.
Or at least, this is Boeing's view on the matter. The Government Accountability Office has until mid-june to review the case. It is said to be an uphill battle. Hopefully, the truth (in either way) will be known.
That is a good catch. So, I was not as familiar as I thought of French law. What we are talking about is probably built on a pile of court precedents, such as this one. As all court decisions, it is not very easy to understand - especially if you do not speak french. But neverthless, notice this part:
Si l'atteinte à la vie privée des demanderesses n'est pas établie alors que les photographies ont été prises dans l'exercice de leur activité professionnelle, il n'en demeure pas moins que toute personne a sur son image et sur l'utilisation qui en est faite un droit absolu qui lui permet de s'opposer à sa reproduction et à sa diffusion sans son autorisation expresse et quelque soit le support utilisé.
Or basically: "even if it was not proven that the private life of the plaintiffs was hurt, everyone still detains an absolute right on his image and an absolute right to oppose to its diffusion or its reproduction without his express consent, whatever the support.
Maybe I didn't chose the best way to tackle on the subject - text laws are so obscure. The bottom line is that in France, the problem related to the image rights is widely known. TV and printed news often blur the faces of people. A very common joke when someone takes a picture of you is to ask them money, for your "image rights". There are always people sued all over the place for such causes. I would be very surprised if there was not a strong legal framework behind all of this. But again, I am not a lawyer.
I am not familiar with the laws of the other countries, but I'm a bit familiar with the laws of France.
: ;
What we are currently looking at is article 226-1 of the law texts.
Est puni d'un an d'emprisonnement et de 45000 euros d'amende le fait, au moyen d'un procédé quelconque, volontairement de porter atteinte à l'intimité de la vie privée d'autrui
1 En captant, enregistrant ou transmettant, sans le consentement de leur auteur, des paroles prononcées à titre privé ou confidentiel
2 En fixant, enregistrant ou transmettant, sans le consentement de celle-ci, l'image d'une personne se trouvant dans un lieu privé.
Lorsque les actes mentionnés au présent article ont été accomplis au vu et au su des intéressés sans qu'ils s'y soient opposés, alors qu'ils étaient en mesure de le faire, le consentement de ceux-ci est présumé.
Basically, it says that you do not have the right to take pictures of people or transmitting them without their consent. Their consent is implicit if they have seen you while you were doing the act.
As I understand it, you can take pictures of people, as long as they do not oppose to it and it is not stealthly. However, you still do not have the right to transmit the pictures you have taken, because they do not have agreed to that, explicitely or implicitely.
As far as I know, there is only one loophole - under certain circumstances, the media do not have to abide to some of these rules because of another set of laws on the liberty to inform. But of course, I am not a lawyer.
Have you seen the resolution of these pictures ? Good luck recognizing someone...
You know, people's rights to their image do not only exist in France.
Don't you remember the Australian Virgin mobile fiasco ? They had taken pictures from Flickr under the Creative Common license for their advertising campaign. So far, so good. However, they did not have the consent of the people on the pictures.
Now, the family of the girl on the picture got a little wild and sued both Virgin and Creative Commons. The latter case has been dropped, but I believe the former is still ongoing.
I wouldn't trust a 3.5" floppy that's been made in the past five years to hold its data for six months, but that's just shoddy quality control by whoever is still making them.
I'll second this. A great amount of my 3" Amstrad floppies can still be read. This is not (at all) the same situation with many of my 1.44 MB HD 3"1/2 floppies, especially the later ones.
From my experience, hooking a 3"1/2 drive to the CPC itself is the best way to proceed.
I didn't like much Ressurection of Evil. I really found that the level design was not in the same league as the main game. This, along with the impression that the story and tension did not ramp up like in the main game. Maybe the artefact that allows you to slow down the time also made the game too easy.
However, the sections of the game where you are playing in bio-suit are very nicely done. They were very claustrophobic, and were a great addition to the game.
We have probably very different tastes in level design and atmosphere, as my favorite section of the game is when you get transported to hell, after the big dopefish-like portal.
I think it really depends on the culture and on the country. In France, many theaters have been installing jammers for a few years (their use in theaters was allowed by the governement around 2004, if I remember correctly).
At that time, polls had shown that about 85% of the population was favorable to such jammers. I doubt this has changed much.
If you have ever used FreeBSD and Mac OS X, you will have noticed they have a lot of differences under the hood. The fact they do not run the same kernel is not one of the least important differences. XNU, while it borrows a lot from FreeBSD, is a different beast. The particularity that the operating system does not run the same exectuable format (ELF vs Mach-O) is another thing you should not dismiss. Those are only two examples, but there are a lot of others.
I think everybody in the defense industry knows QinetiQ.
This is this kind of code which caused the crash of the SRI (internal reference systems). Pay attention to the PRAGMA SUPPRESS statement.
... ... := integer(vertical_veloc_sensor); := integer(horizontal_veloc_sensor); ...
--
declare
vertical_veloc_sensor: float;
horizontal_veloc_sensor: float;
vertical_veloc_bias: integer;
horizontal_veloc_bias: integer;
--
begin
declare
pragma suppress(numeric_error, horizontal_veloc_bias);
begin
sensor_get(vertical_veloc_sensor);
sensor_get(horizontal_veloc_sensor);
vertical_veloc_bias
horizontal_veloc_bias
--
exception
when numeric_error => calculate_vertical_veloc();
when others => use_irs1();
end;
end irs2;
Of course, as others pointed out, the "real" cause of the crash was bad design and software validation choices of the management.
He relented and offered a floppy on a USB cable. But it was so expensive that no one bought it.
You can find USB floppy drives everywhere, can't you ?
Hence, I get a little annoyed.
If the situation is as bad as you describe, you should indeed be annoyed by the departement unwillingness to train one of you on Macintoshes. It would look like to be the most rational way to resolve those issues.
Real unix is not tied to the GUI the way OSX is - a GUI problem can easily lock or crash an OSX server while "real" unix or linux does not have this weakness.
Your comment is interesting, because from my own experience, the X-Window server is really the achille's heel of the free flavours of UNIX (Linux or FreeBSD).
If the kernel is rock stable, deadlocks are not unseen with the GUI, particularly on some "pecullar" configurations. Most of the times, you can restart the X-Window server by the magic CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, however you will still have lost most of your work (assuming you were working with a GUI). Harder freezes are more seldom, but can also happen. Sometimes, you can SSH into the machine to try to bring back the X-Window server up, but most likely the best you will be able to do is to perform a "clean" reboot. And sometimes, it's just locked.
In this respect, the OpenGL screensavers of XScreenSaver are sometimes particularly nasty.
Of course, you can always opt not to use a GUI on the free flavours of UNIX, what is not possible (as far as I know?) with Mac OS X.
We all know Windows market share dwarfs Linux market share. However, what we must really take into account are the number of users that only use Linux, and do not have Windows installed. I believe this figure is really small.
For instance, you cannot expect Macintosh users to have Windows installed. Therefore, you are expanding your number of potential buyers by producing a Mac OS X version. It was especially true at the time of the PowerPC, now it is less clearly cut at the time of Intel processors.
On the contrary, if you produce a Linux version, there are a lot of chances that people buying it would have bought the Windows version otherwise, since they have access to both operating systems. You are only cannibalizing your Windows sales.
There is a significant difference between the respective docking systems of the Progress docks and the ATV.
The Progress uses a multi-antenna radar system named KURS.
The ATV uses a specifically made video meter (PDF).
In December, one month before the Warner Bros. announcement, you could read such things:
"Both formats will be established and co-exist for the foreseeable future," said Helen Davis Jayalath, senior analyst at Screen Digest. "By 2012, U.S. high-def software will be evenly split between the two formats, where Blu-ray represents 55% of the market and HD DVD represents 45%. But high-def formats won't boost volume sales [for home entertainment] to the degree that DVD did [over VHS]. Backwards compatibility and upscaling reduces consumers' desire to replace existing DVDs."
Globally the software split will be 60% Blu-ray; 40% HD DVD, she added.
By 2012, standard DVD discs will total $10 billion in U.S. consumer sales, HD DVD $5 billion and Blu-ray $5 billion, estimates Adams Media Research, which recently became a subsidiary to Screen Media.
You may be an expert in your field, but that doesn't mean you can read into the future, as there is no such thing as a crystal ball. I am sure a lot of corporations would like experts to always make correct predictions on market trends. That would make their life much easier. But this is not really how it works out.
If you still want to keep the status bar hidden in Safari, an alternative in Safari is to drag a link around.
The target URL will appear.
For now, it's indeed very hard to find Requiem on the internet. I would be very interested (along with a LOT of other people) if you could find a mirror of the sources. Thanks.
Wow... it's even localized (FF 3b3 on Mac OS X):
Mammon s'était endormi. Et la bête réincarnée se répandit sur la terre et son nombre se fit légion. Et ils parlèrent au Temps et ils firent l'offrande de leur moisson au feu, avec la ruse des renards. Et ils bâtirent un nouveau monde à leur image comme le promettaient les paroles sacrées, et ils parlèrent de la bête avec leurs enfants. Lorsque Mammon se réveilla, voilà ! ce n'était plus rien qu'un disciple.
d'après Le Livre de Mozilla, 11:9
(10e Édition)
I'm still waiting from Seeker, from The Logic Factory. It has been in development for more than 10 years. Who knows, maybe it will come out some day.
Kinetic energy equals mass times speed squared.
Deploying twice the energy should only send the projectile 1.4 (the square root of two) times faster.