I've read it's best not to polish but to use a very fine grain sandpaper to rough the surface up just right. And don't tell me I don't know how much paste to apply. I'm a proper paste amount applier thank you very much.
I'll admit that I've Texted while driving on several occasions, but having a new little girl has changed my perspective on this issue greatly. I just don't do it anymore. I live next to a 2 lane 50mph highway that curves right where I walk with my girl to a park. I walk against traffic in order to see cars approaching me, and on most occasions when a car is swerving towards us, the driver is distracted by a mobile phone. I was almost hit recently walking my dog on the same highway buy a guy who had his face buried in his cell. And when I hear of the laws in London where they will pull you over for doing pretty much anything except driving, I have to wonder if the U.S. is due for a serious crackdown and on distracted drivers. Just last week a guy was killed on the 101 because he was fucking around on a laptop while driving. Not exactly the way I want to leave the world. Of course, enforcement is the issue, even if there is a law on the books (there's never a cop there when you need one anyway), there should definitely be more public awareness that using a mobile while driving is illegal. What harm would it be to put up signs that say, "Mobile device use while driving is illegal.", right next to the sign that says "Infractions in construction areas doubled."? And bumper stickers on government vehicles? And...
However I do think there should be exceptions such as hands free and GPS devices.
I am a geezer IT guy working for the State. My boss comes up to me and says, "Junior", after you change your Depends, I need you to convert these files into something we can read. "Hmm," I say "these files were made with MS Word 12. The current version of Word is 21." "Just do it old man!" Okay, so bust out my trusty nix box, start vi and start wading through the mounds of crap, and come back to my boss. "Well, what did you find?" He asks.
"Nothing." I say, "...except for a string of text...'Girly men'."
Say you have a sliver of very thin metal disk just several atoms thick that spins. At a reoccurring predetermined time, a photon or particle gun shoots energy at the disk at a very specific location and say every 1 ms rpm, it misses an atom and hits a detector. However, if on the last pass, it's time is changed by.5ms and at 9.5ms that energy is obstructed and doesn't hit the detector. If this continues could you reasonably determine that the photon has been obstructed by a nucleus? Then once you've mapped all the locations (times) of all the nuclei in the metal, you take another disk and spin it underneath it and map the locations of it's nuclei. Then maybe a third disk. Couldn't you build a kind of memory gate just by determining the location of nuclei, and the timing of those photons that reach the detector? Then you wouldn't have to build nanoscale structures, or magnetic pits at all, you just use the existing atomic structure of the material itself?
What are some specific examples of places where companies are lacking innovation? Can you think of any? And if you can, is your company's IT security and maintenance keeping that innovation from being implemented at a good pace? Areas like Scanning? Document collaboration? File sharing? Data backups/retention? Storage? Graphic Arts? Project planning? Billing? Finance? Operations? Marketing? and on and on...
Seems to me the most bubbles I see when I'm on a big boat are off the stern, created by the engines and hull displacement themselves. If there was a way to channel those bubbles to the bow of the ship, you may not need extra engines/bubble makers on the front. Perhaps something like an in-hull channel that forces the bubbly soup from the stern up and under the ship, and ejects in under the bow. Either that or find a way to make the ships "Front-wheel drive" so to speak, and have the engines under the bow of the ship. This way the engine's propellers are creating the bubbles, and naturally give lift. Or if it's just the displacement that creates most of the bubbles off the stern, have the ship push a suspended or rigid bubble-making displacer off the bow of the ship. As the ship starts to move, the displacer could be lowered into the sea. Bubble boom could also contain air jets that force streams of bubbles under the bow.
Come on we all know that just like pokemon or chimpokomon in that south park episode, all batteries will explode at a predetermined time; laying waste to all of the barbarian's oversided..err, laps. The Japanese government is furious it's plan may be exposed, and is giving Sony a backhanded slap to the incompetent fool's face.
Wow well I'm sure their intentions were to plug some serious holes in their browser. Unfortunately, it seems as though the patch they issued not only caused problems in older OS's but opened other serious holes. When the last release came out in August, I read that worms were already exploiting the patch, so I went ahead and rolled out via WSUS to error on the side of safety.
So what is worse? Roll out MS patches that could hose our machines, or wait 2 weeks for others to find out all the new problems the patches created thereby exposing us to worms? I'm almost to the point of taking my chances with the worms.
I had a Win2K box on our network who's Internet Explorer kept crashing when she visited websites with lots of stuff going on (Java and Flash). I read around and found a work-around from Microsoft. The workaround involved going into IE Options and unchecking "HTTP 1.1" MS Article ID: 923762:
Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 unexpectedly exits after you install the 918899 update
Additionally they go on to say in this article: A new version of security update 918899 is currently in development and will be released to all Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 customers by August 22, 2006.
This patch was NOT released today - they LIED!:-)
Since that change, the crashes stopped at least but now that this is out I have much move incentive to upgrade our last few W2K machines up to WinXPSP2.
When creating a new document, a popup dialog asks for the file name.
The default text is Verdana. They give you about 18 different fonts. The font dropdown menu does not provide a preview of the font.
Inserting an image is easy - a dialog pops up asking to browse, uploading was very fast. Clicking on the image gives you handles and when dragging to resize, the image shades and is re-sized easily and centers again. Numbering works as expected, bullets are not aliased circles, but small "diamonds". Keyboard shortcuts like cut and paste, bold, italicize and underline perform as expected.
"Right clicking" in empty pane brings up their menu with cut, copy, insert image, insert link and bookmark, select all etc and the ability to insert 196 special characters
Save as html, rtf, open office, word, and pdf. Also has tags and create RSS.
"Collaborate" looks interesting but did not have time to test it. I think this feature is Writely's biggest benefit. Also "Publish, blog, revisions, and HTML Preview menus".
Overall I'm impressed, the only problem I had was creating a colored background.
This type of thing gives me more reason to sign up with an anonymous proxy/vpn. Something like https://www.relakks.com/?lang=eng . I think the $5 to $10 a month would be worth it. No corporate reporting, no advertising scheming, and no identifying IP. Has anyone had luck with a private proxy/vpn?
Yeah you're right, we should've stuck with voodoo, amputations, and opium-based elixers. In fact, if we just let everyone die from any ailment, health insurance would be a lot cheaper.
Call me paranoid, but I swear twice when I flew out of the US (LAX), I am monitored by people with walkie-talkies. I get to the terminal, and after driving in the car, then the shuttle, I have to take a wiz and I'm followed into the pisser. Then, although I can check in as normal, I am put through secondary inspection at security. Maybe it's just coincidence, but just walking into the terminal makes me feel like I've done something wrong and don't want to look or act suspicious so I'm walking on egg shells.
I think next time I'm going to arrive 3 hours early, and get wasted in the airport bar to get the edge off...
So is it reasonable to assume that the services that were running: (cvs, ddtp, lintian, people, popcon, planet, ports, release), and are no longer available on debian's machines are to blame for the compromise? Can I feel safe if these services aren't running on my box and only port 80 is exposed?
Perhaps we can expect the bird populations to drop significantly in the areas around airports. Not that this is a bad thing because apparently birds hitting jet engines is bad.
And over 90% of my port scans and attempted ssh login scripts come from a script kiddie in China. Does sending an email to the domain authority ever actually do anything?
I'd like to see the electronic newspaper that people read in the Minority Report. You know, headlines appear on the front page as they happen. Advertisements are geared towards your interests, flashes and bulletins interrupt your reading and it's all done wirelessly. Who says you have to have an input device to read articles on the net?
So is dust and particulate matter in the atmosphere the cause of global warming or CO2?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide#Captur ing.2FExtracting_CO2 [wikipedia.org]
In the reference above, there are several ways to remove/adsorb/absorb CO2. The most productive remover of CO2 is the ocean, but not enough of it reaches the surface to interact with the atmosphere to reverse the trends. The second most productive is plants (so yes, plant a tree). However, I read on Slashdot of a third mechanical means of removing CO2, and that with a concerted effort we could do it ourselves. I can't recall the method, but I remember it produces a toxic by-product. Why not focus on getting the public involved in a solution? We can all bitch and complain until our trousers are soaked but if there's a solution to global warming, shouldn't we be focusing on that? Maybe we can convince a member of our congress that the toxic by-product will be benificial to the military machine and it would receive funding.
In the reference above, there are several ways to remove the CO2. The most productive remover of CO2 is the ocean, but not enough of it reaches the surface to interact with the atmosphere to reverse the trends. The second most productive is plants (so yes, do plant a tree). However, I read on Slashdot of a third mechanical means of removing CO2 that I can't recall, but produces a toxic by-product. Why not focus on getting the public involved in a solution? We can all bitch and complain until our trousers are soaked but if there's a solution to global warming, should we be focusing on that? Maybe we can convince a member of our congress that the toxic by-product will be benificial to the military machine.
"...researchers have now managed to squeeze more data into a single pulse by packing four, instead of the previous two, binary data states in a light pulse using phase modulation."
Is this similar to DDR memory where they pack info into the upward swing of the wave, and on the downward swing, as well as the troughs and peaks of the waves?
Sounds very good. Just 3 balloons taking the place of 1100 wireless towers sounds great. I would think they could provide wireless broadband. One question, if they're floating in the Stratosphere, wont there be a chance of mid-air collision with jets?
Slashdot Mirror
However I do think there should be exceptions such as hands free and GPS devices.
"Nothing." I say, "...except for a string of text...'Girly men'."
"Girly men?" He says.
"Yes," I repeat, "Girly men!".
"Well damn it!" he says, "In what context??"
"Number 134?"
"Yeah"
"It's just a door with a number?"
"Yeah like the last 133 units we've shot dumbass"
*Click*
"Okay got it"
Say you have a sliver of very thin metal disk just several atoms thick that spins. At a reoccurring predetermined time, a photon or particle gun shoots energy at the disk at a very specific location and say every 1 ms rpm, it misses an atom and hits a detector. However, if on the last pass, it's time is changed by .5ms and at 9.5ms that energy is obstructed and doesn't hit the detector. If this continues could you reasonably determine that the photon has been obstructed by a nucleus? Then once you've mapped all the locations (times) of all the nuclei in the metal, you take another disk and spin it underneath it and map the locations of it's nuclei. Then maybe a third disk. Couldn't you build a kind of memory gate just by determining the location of nuclei, and the timing of those photons that reach the detector? Then you wouldn't have to build nanoscale structures, or magnetic pits at all, you just use the existing atomic structure of the material itself?
Beezbot. This is Robot 35. Robot W34 detonated - Boop beep bop. Composition of asteroid is rock
This is Commander Robot. Robot W35 please detonate
This is W35. Why?
This is Commander Robot. We need to determine composition of asteroid
BOOOOM!
Beezbot. This is Robot 36. Robot W35 detonated - Boop beep bop. Composition of asteroid is rock
Seems to me the most bubbles I see when I'm on a big boat are off the stern, created by the engines and hull displacement themselves. If there was a way to channel those bubbles to the bow of the ship, you may not need extra engines/bubble makers on the front. Perhaps something like an in-hull channel that forces the bubbly soup from the stern up and under the ship, and ejects in under the bow. Either that or find a way to make the ships "Front-wheel drive" so to speak, and have the engines under the bow of the ship. This way the engine's propellers are creating the bubbles, and naturally give lift. Or if it's just the displacement that creates most of the bubbles off the stern, have the ship push a suspended or rigid bubble-making displacer off the bow of the ship. As the ship starts to move, the displacer could be lowered into the sea. Bubble boom could also contain air jets that force streams of bubbles under the bow.
So what is worse? Roll out MS patches that could hose our machines, or wait 2 weeks for others to find out all the new problems the patches created thereby exposing us to worms? I'm almost to the point of taking my chances with the worms.
Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 unexpectedly exits after you install the 918899 update
Additionally they go on to say in this article: A new version of security update 918899 is currently in development and will be released to all Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 customers by August 22, 2006.
This patch was NOT released today - they LIED! :-)
Since that change, the crashes stopped at least but now that this is out I have much move incentive to upgrade our last few W2K machines up to WinXPSP2.
Inserting an image is easy - a dialog pops up asking to browse, uploading was very fast. Clicking on the image gives you handles and when dragging to resize, the image shades and is re-sized easily and centers again. Numbering works as expected, bullets are not aliased circles, but small "diamonds". Keyboard shortcuts like cut and paste, bold, italicize and underline perform as expected.
"Right clicking" in empty pane brings up their menu with cut, copy, insert image, insert link and bookmark, select all etc and the ability to insert 196 special characters
Save as html, rtf, open office, word, and pdf. Also has tags and create RSS. "Collaborate" looks interesting but did not have time to test it. I think this feature is Writely's biggest benefit. Also "Publish, blog, revisions, and HTML Preview menus".
Overall I'm impressed, the only problem I had was creating a colored background.
I think next time I'm going to arrive 3 hours early, and get wasted in the airport bar to get the edge off...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide#Captur ing.2FExtracting_CO2 [wikipedia.org]
In the reference above, there are several ways to remove/adsorb/absorb CO2. The most productive remover of CO2 is the ocean, but not enough of it reaches the surface to interact with the atmosphere to reverse the trends. The second most productive is plants (so yes, plant a tree). However, I read on Slashdot of a third mechanical means of removing CO2, and that with a concerted effort we could do it ourselves. I can't recall the method, but I remember it produces a toxic by-product. Why not focus on getting the public involved in a solution? We can all bitch and complain until our trousers are soaked but if there's a solution to global warming, shouldn't we be focusing on that? Maybe we can convince a member of our congress that the toxic by-product will be benificial to the military machine and it would receive funding.
In the reference above, there are several ways to remove the CO2. The most productive remover of CO2 is the ocean, but not enough of it reaches the surface to interact with the atmosphere to reverse the trends. The second most productive is plants (so yes, do plant a tree). However, I read on Slashdot of a third mechanical means of removing CO2 that I can't recall, but produces a toxic by-product. Why not focus on getting the public involved in a solution? We can all bitch and complain until our trousers are soaked but if there's a solution to global warming, should we be focusing on that? Maybe we can convince a member of our congress that the toxic by-product will be benificial to the military machine.
Is this similar to DDR memory where they pack info into the upward swing of the wave, and on the downward swing, as well as the troughs and peaks of the waves?
Sounds very good. Just 3 balloons taking the place of 1100 wireless towers sounds great. I would think they could provide wireless broadband. One question, if they're floating in the Stratosphere, wont there be a chance of mid-air collision with jets?