So, it will be able to track those objects of such size or greater that would , unavoidably, sterilize our planet... yet be unable to track those ( dia 300m ) whose paths we actually might be able to deflect...
but it is a start and is to be applauded....
Thanks for the reply.. and for the info you provided me.. I didnt know it was a chinese-initiated group.. and the Falon Gong has enough problems to also have its whereabouts known!
My main point was to address the U.S.A.'s 'On a high-horse' attitude... Not to criticize GIFC. We here in the USA ought to do more to open our own citizens' eyes to the degrees to which we've come up short vis-a-vis our own alleged 'freedoms'
I visited this GIFC site. Noted that there is no way to contact anyone there! (freedom ??).. and its statements seem to be written
by some right-wingers who believe in some 'sanctity' of 'freedom of information' in these United States of America
Now, WERE there such 'freedom' , tell me this: Why did we need the "Freedom of Information Act" ? and having it, why must citizens jump thru hoops to get information about government behaviours???
And when you've answered THAT one... show me how our U.S. Customs agents can confiscate any computer or storage device, at any border, and retain it for any length of time for any reason, all without court 'interference' ??? Freedoms? That is not what i'd call it.
The 'Gravity Tractor' device was discussed somewhere on or off the net as it might relate to 'saving the earth'. As i recall, the topic was about the ultimate demise of our Sun.. in 5 billion years or so.. The process of the Sun's destruction will include its diameter expanding.. the Sun's surface approaching Earth's orbit.
LONG before that, of course, the heat would sterilize our world. The proposal was to navigate a large asteroid to 'lead the earth' in its orbit around the Sun.. accellerating Earth to a higher orbit, adding millions of years of biology to continue to exist.
I seem to recall that such an asteroid would need 64,000 years to accomplish its goal. At the time, i concluded that this would represent an engineering project of the largest possible scale..
In the meantime, our highways and bridges would continue to fail, of course.
excercise??? SCHMECKERcize! it doesnt work that wa
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You will find it difficult or impossible to lower your weight by excercising. Our bodies just dont work that way.. All your 'pressup's etc probably equate to the calories in a single piece of bread.
You gain weight cuz of many factors: the most important is that you eat more than your body need; it is also likely that you eat the wrong foods.
Note that its taken years for your to get into this 'lack of shape'.. so why not take an equally gradual change in lifestyle, to counter and even reverse the gains? Eg, eliminating butter, a single item, could. over years completely bring you back to your previous weight.
"Portion Control" seems to be the 'trick' these days... DONT EAT UNTIL YOIU FEEL STUFFED! and DONT SNACK ON WORTHLESS HIGH-CALORIE JUNK FOODS!
then: be PATIENT.. weigh yourself no more often than ever few weeks, at teh same time of day, say upon wakening.
Such simple changes can work wonders without inconveniencing you to the point where you give up the program!
It's worked wonders for me.. its taken over a year to lose 35 lbs.
sorry, but i just don't understand your point.
As i recall, you asked how to 'disinfect' a
laptop; i suggested using ethylene oxide, which
is a gas commonly used for that purpose, especially
when the device is sensitive to heat.
I dont get the connection to any 'thermometer', sorry... Care to explain?
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TrueCrypt 's home also shows off their 1-16Gig USB Flashdrives...
and i noticed a spec about them that surprised me..not being any Flashdrive expert:
It seems that it takes more current (5% more!) to READ a flashdrive than to WRITE to it!
eg:
Power Requirements:
Write: 5 VDC @ 100mA
Read: 5 VDC @ 105mA
Can anyone explain?? specially considering that as far as i know, WRITing requires 'heat', no?
Read up on Ethylene Oxide .
commonly used in hospital operating rooms to sterilize devices that are sensitive to high temperature.
just make sure it wont react with the plastic
But again, its not you who has to worry: most likely youre now immune to the bug.. its those whose hands you shake and those who might also use your puter that need worry! Why not ask them?
And try a wikipedia.org thing..
thing..
Yes, the quality of the coffee does matter, but its not hard nor is it physically burdensome to prepare, good ground coffee..
The trick, though, is in another direction entirely!...ie: how the coffee is made.. and unless one has tasted expresso coffee properly made, with frothed milk, then one has not experienced what good coffee can be.. The difference is not trivial! it is HUGE.. it will taste totally unlike anything that can possibly come out of a 'drip' or a 'percolator' or a 'french press'... THere is something about the pressure and temperatures of the coffee itself and the frothed milk that cause them both to undergo some chemical transformation... to become different molecules.. there's no other explanation. Hints: use any dark roasted coffee.. need not even be quite dark! Tamp it down in its holder..but not too much.. not too little!.. perhaps a dash of salt!
Then use an expresso machine (such as any of the Breville models http://www.breville.com/ that closely controls the water temperature.. You might put your favorite sweetener (sugar, or artificial..eg..'Equal' tabs.. 3 of them!) into the receiving cup.
Then, using again, a 'temperature controlled' device, froth the milk.. the frothing steam must be 'dry' , not 'wet with water droplets'.. Raise and lower the frothing cup into which has been poured perhaps 1/2 inch of milk, not cream!.. or even better: use that 'Fat Free' 'Half and Half' found in supermarkets. Have it cold! let the frothing steam work til it expands the volume of milk to expand to many times its size.. the point is to get the milk not only to be frothed , but to approach 140 deg.F. !! you dont need a thermometer.. Feeling the bottom of the steel frothing cup is enough 'technology'... at 140 you cant touch except for an instant without it hurting..
pour the LIQUID of the frothing cup into the now-brewed expresso.. then at the top you might want to spoon some of the 'bubbly foam' that's always formed....
then: taste what youve created! it will surprise you!
(my recipe: 3 'Equal tabs into the expresso receiving glass or cup.. a machine that can make 'double shots' , and the 'Fat Free' Half 'n Half.. makes for nearly zero calories, which is great, cuz you can then have it even more frequently!
Yes... eg, i, for one, really do not enjoy the New York City skyline.. it's an afront to nature.. Far better that NYC be under 10 or more meters of Atlantic Ocean.... enventually those tall spires will crumble, water-logged, to the bottom, and once again, voila' !! a new vista!
I reviewd the reference in this article http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife /article2449968.ece
to find that the 'Independent' is nothing more than a collection of unreferenced
and unsupported 'guess-work pseudo-science' of no value whatsoever other than to
laboriously try to chase down what sources the publication might be able to conjure up to support its many allegations.
See for yourself!
tkjtkj@gmail.com
The implications are staggering... and of course include the fact that ALL encryption schemes are now broken!
This is sO staggering an issue that it just has to be the case that secret projects are involved in the effort. The article states that this company alone has been working on this for 10 years...
Could it be that their step-wise fashion of 'progress' in their efforts are nothing more than actions taken to give time for the financial community, eg, to find ways to handle the matter, not to say governments?
When we remember that a quantum computer 'forcefully attacks' an encryption scheme by trying all possibilities at once (eg reducing a 10-million year key attack' to 10 minutes, we begin to see the enormity of the matter.
"Just because the 'nuts' out there make fools of themselves does not mean they are wrong" -tkjtkj , {Registered Copywrite)
Now friends..gather round for thIS one: Some scientists dream up a thing called 'Quantum Computing' , which includes "Totally SECURE' methods!!
so.. what to we find??? We find that the same sequence of events is occurring before our eyes in THIS field as hav occurrd in the DRM world!!
I didnt hear of any 'quantum vulnerability' before thiS lil announcement! Of course, they did manage to 'fix what was impossible to break' before telling us it was broken!!
Sooo.. naturally, we gotta wonder where is the nEXT 'security flaw' in the quantum world!
Anyone reading the article here on/. and comparing it to the 'Conclusions' as described on the linked site might have a problem wondering if they are talking about the same product!
Yes, ya get attention and prompt ppl to read when the/. article exhagerates its commentary.. but its at the cost of credibility.
Your conclusions suggest the product is at least very good for its intended purpose. The article here was , shall we say. considerably less positive!!
the content of students' papers has real monetary value. Not only from the point of view of being the foundation supporting the database company as well as the university, but also in the area of Patent Law, where such a huge database facilitates discovery of prior art.
The issues are huge and the students' rights need to be addressed here!
right..
i ran the 'tester'.. on this dual cpu (4 AMD 64 cores!!) with 4 gigs ram
RAID 0+1 , and an NVidia 7800 , running two ViewSonic 20" LCD's..
and it reported that its not enough...
Perhaps the tester needs to be tested?
So, i go to http://www.suse.com/ and find the SLED 10 'Pre-release Download' link. Naturally, i click it, and naturally, a screen full of 'personal info' fields pops up. Naturallly, there's this notice:
"Note: Questions marked with an asterisk, *, are required."
and , UNnaturally, NO field is marked with an asterisk. So i give them my name, anwayzzz.. and naturally, a pop up appears that requires me to enter my company name, address, phone, email, and on and on..!!!
Wake up, Novel!
nudge nudge!!
where have you guys been? Dont you recall the recent (within a few weeks)/. article describing that guy in UK whose vehicle got 8000 mpg??
c'mon! do some research!
If that is so, how arrogant! They believe they know the readership statistics of every reporter?? They know which of them might be writing some important book, or lecturing at a major tech show?? No, i dont think so.. and neither do you,im sure. They want good press, period.
And theirs is a self-serving approach to dealing with the public.
But then, again, corporate america isnt famous for truthfulness.
what kind of crap is that? Are they choosing the reporters who have been 'good lil boys and girls' and refrained from being critical of Intel?
Do they believe we're idiots??
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So, it will be able to track those objects of such size or greater that would , unavoidably, sterilize our planet ... yet be unable to track those ( dia 300m ) whose paths we actually might be able to deflect ...
but it is a start and is to be applauded....
agreed !
Thanks for the reply .. and for the info you provided me .. I didnt know it was a chinese-initiated group .. and the Falon Gong has enough problems to also have its whereabouts known!
My main point was to address the U.S.A.'s 'On a high-horse' attitude ... Not to criticize GIFC. We here in the USA ought to do more to open our own citizens' eyes to the degrees to which we've come up short vis-a-vis our own alleged 'freedoms'
I visited this GIFC site. Noted that there is no way to contact anyone there! (freedom ??) .. and its statements seem to be written
by some right-wingers who believe in some 'sanctity' of 'freedom of information' in these United States of America
Now, WERE there such 'freedom' , tell me this: Why did we need the "Freedom of Information Act" ? and having it, why must citizens jump thru hoops to get information about government behaviours???
And when you've answered THAT one ... show me how our U.S. Customs agents can confiscate any computer or storage device, at any border, and retain it for any length of time for any reason, all without court 'interference' ??? Freedoms? That is not what i'd call it.
The 'Gravity Tractor' device was discussed somewhere on or off the net as it might relate to 'saving the earth'. As i recall, the topic was about the ultimate demise of our Sun .. in 5 billion years or so .. The process of the Sun's destruction will include its diameter expanding .. the Sun's surface approaching Earth's orbit.
LONG before that, of course, the heat would sterilize our world. The proposal was to navigate a large asteroid to 'lead the earth' in its orbit around the Sun.. accellerating Earth to a higher orbit, adding millions of years of biology to continue to exist.
I seem to recall that such an asteroid would need 64,000 years to accomplish its goal. At the time, i concluded that this would represent an engineering project of the largest possible scale ..
In the meantime, our highways and bridges would continue to fail, of course.
You will find it difficult or impossible to lower your weight by excercising. Our bodies just dont work that way .. All your 'pressup's etc probably equate to the calories in a single piece of bread.
You gain weight cuz of many factors: the most important is that you eat more than your body need; it is also likely that you eat the wrong foods.
Note that its taken years for your to get into this 'lack of shape'..
so why not take an equally gradual change in lifestyle, to counter and even reverse the gains? Eg, eliminating butter, a single item, could. over years completely bring you back to your previous weight.
"Portion Control" seems to be the 'trick' these days ... DONT EAT UNTIL YOIU FEEL STUFFED! and DONT SNACK ON WORTHLESS HIGH-CALORIE JUNK FOODS!
then: be PATIENT .. weigh yourself no more often than ever few weeks, at teh same time of day, say upon wakening.
Such simple changes can work wonders without inconveniencing you to the point where you give up the program!
It's worked wonders for me .. its taken over a year to lose 35 lbs.
tkjtkj, md
sorry, but i just don't understand your point. As i recall, you asked how to 'disinfect' a laptop; i suggested using ethylene oxide, which is a gas commonly used for that purpose, especially when the device is sensitive to heat. I dont get the connection to any 'thermometer', sorry ... Care to explain?
TrueCrypt 's home also shows off their 1-16Gig USB Flashdrives ...
and i noticed a spec about them that surprised me ..not being any Flashdrive expert:
It seems that it takes more current (5% more!) to READ a flashdrive than to WRITE to it!
eg:
Power Requirements:
Write: 5 VDC @ 100mA
Read: 5 VDC @ 105mA
Can anyone explain?? specially considering that as far as i know, WRITing requires 'heat', no?
Read up on Ethylene Oxide . commonly used in hospital operating rooms to sterilize devices that are sensitive to high temperature. just make sure it wont react with the plastic But again, its not you who has to worry: most likely youre now immune to the bug .. its those whose hands you shake and those who might also use your puter that need worry! Why not ask them?
And try a wikipedia.org thing..
thing..
yup .. its in the original article "...transparent.." yet no pics were included at physorg.com
" ... which holds a patent on the idea of responding automatically to emails. "
no way. An 'idea' can not be patented. A patent is for an INVENTION, not a thought.
A patent requires a 'model' , it requires 'drawings and/or a working model of the DEVICE'...
baloney.
Yes, the quality of the coffee does matter, but its not hard nor is it physically burdensome to prepare, good ground coffee.. The trick, though, is in another direction entirely! ...ie: how the coffee is made.. and unless one has tasted expresso coffee properly made, with frothed milk, then one has not experienced what good coffee can be .. The difference is not trivial! it is HUGE .. it will taste totally unlike anything that can possibly come out of a 'drip' or a 'percolator' or a 'french press' ... THere is something about the pressure and temperatures of the coffee itself and the frothed milk that cause them both to undergo some chemical transformation... to become different molecules .. there's no other explanation. Hints: use any dark roasted coffee.. need not even be quite dark! Tamp it down in its holder ..but not too much .. not too little!.. perhaps a dash of salt!
Then use an expresso machine (such as any of the Breville models http://www.breville.com/ that closely controls the water temperature.. You might put your favorite sweetener (sugar, or artificial..eg..'Equal' tabs.. 3 of them!) into the receiving cup.
Then, using again, a 'temperature controlled' device, froth the milk.. the frothing steam must be 'dry' , not 'wet with water droplets' .. Raise and lower the frothing cup into which has been poured perhaps 1/2 inch of milk, not cream! .. or even better: use that 'Fat Free' 'Half and Half' found in supermarkets. Have it cold! let the frothing steam work til it expands the volume of milk to expand to many times its size.. the point is to get the milk not only to be frothed , but to approach 140 deg.F. !! you dont need a thermometer .. Feeling the bottom of the steel frothing cup is enough 'technology' ... at 140 you cant touch except for an instant without it hurting..
pour the LIQUID of the frothing cup into the now-brewed expresso .. then at the top you might want to spoon some of the 'bubbly foam' that's always formed....
then: taste what youve created! it will surprise you!
(my recipe: 3 'Equal tabs into the expresso receiving glass or cup.. a machine that can make 'double shots' , and the 'Fat Free' Half 'n Half .. makes for nearly zero calories, which is great, cuz you can then have it even more frequently!
Yes... eg, i, for one, really do not enjoy the New York City skyline .. it's an afront to nature .. Far better that NYC be under 10 or more meters of Atlantic Ocean .. .. enventually those tall spires will crumble, water-logged, to the bottom, and once again, voila' !! a new vista!
I reviewd the reference in this article http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife /article2449968.ece
to find that the 'Independent' is nothing more than a collection of unreferenced
and unsupported 'guess-work pseudo-science' of no value whatsoever other than to
laboriously try to chase down what sources the publication might be able to conjure up to support its many allegations.
See for yourself!
tkjtkj@gmail.com
The implications are staggering ... and of course include the fact that ALL encryption schemes are now broken!
...
This is sO staggering an issue that it just has to be the case that secret projects are involved in the effort. The article states that this company alone has been working on this for 10 years
Could it be that their step-wise fashion of 'progress' in their efforts are nothing more than actions taken to give time for the financial community, eg, to find ways to handle the matter, not to say governments?
When we remember that a quantum computer 'forcefully attacks' an encryption scheme by trying all possibilities at once (eg reducing a 10-million year key attack' to 10 minutes, we begin to see the enormity of the matter.
"Just because the 'nuts' out there make fools of themselves does not mean they are wrong" -tkjtkj , {Registered Copywrite)
Now friends ..gather round for thIS one: Some scientists dream up a thing called 'Quantum Computing' , which includes "Totally SECURE' methods!!
.. what to we find??? We find that the same sequence of events is occurring before our eyes in THIS field as hav occurrd in the DRM world!!
..as it always has!
so
I didnt hear of any 'quantum vulnerability' before thiS lil announcement! Of course, they did manage to 'fix what was impossible to break' before telling us it was broken!!
Sooo.. naturally, we gotta wonder where is the nEXT 'security flaw' in the quantum world!
time will tell
Anyone reading the article here on /. and comparing it to the 'Conclusions' as described on the linked site might have a problem wondering if they are talking about the same product!
Yes, ya get attention and prompt ppl to read when the /. article exhagerates its commentary.. but its at the cost of credibility.
Your conclusions suggest the product is at least very good for its intended purpose. The article here was , shall we say. considerably less positive!!
the content of students' papers has real monetary value. Not only from the point of view of being the foundation supporting the database company as well as the university, but also in the area of Patent Law, where such a huge database facilitates discovery of prior art. The issues are huge and the students' rights need to be addressed here!
right.. i ran the 'tester' .. on this dual cpu (4 AMD 64 cores!!) with 4 gigs ram
RAID 0+1 , and an NVidia 7800 , running two ViewSonic 20" LCD's ..
and it reported that its not enough...
Perhaps the tester needs to be tested?
hey thanks for the novell-suse SLED link
So, i go to http://www.suse.com/ and find the SLED 10 'Pre-release Download' link. Naturally, i click it, and naturally, a screen full of 'personal info' fields pops up. Naturallly, there's this notice: "Note: Questions marked with an asterisk, *, are required." and , UNnaturally, NO field is marked with an asterisk. So i give them my name, anwayzzz.. and naturally, a pop up appears that requires me to enter my company name, address, phone, email, and on and on ..!!!
Wake up, Novel!
nudge nudge!!
where have you guys been? Dont you recall the recent (within a few weeks) /. article describing that guy in UK whose vehicle got 8000 mpg??
c'mon! do some research!
If that is so, how arrogant! They believe they know the readership statistics of every reporter?? They know which of them might be writing some important book, or lecturing at a major tech show?? No, i dont think so.. and neither do you,im sure. They want good press, period. And theirs is a self-serving approach to dealing with the public. But then, again, corporate america isnt famous for truthfulness.
yup.
what kind of crap is that? Are they choosing the reporters who have been 'good lil boys and girls' and refrained from being critical of Intel? Do they believe we're idiots??