Yes, please read the story. I'm glad someone else is familiar with dystopian fiction. It's important to keep books like these in mind in our increasingly technological world where the technology needed to implement the horrible fictions envisioned is available and could easily be implemented.
A front-page article on April 25 about seating options that airlines are considering to accommodate more passengers in economy class referred incorrectly to the concept of carrying passengers standing up with harnesses holding them in position. During preparation of the article, The Times's questions to one aircraft manufacturer, Airbus, were imprecise and did not make it clear that the reporter was interested in standing-room "seats." As a result, the article said the company would not specifically comment on the upright-seating proposal. The company now says that while it researched that idea in 2003, it has since abandoned it. A correction of the article appeared on this page on Tuesday. It should have acknowledged that if The Times had correctly understood the history of the proposal, the article would have qualified it, and would not have appeared on Page A1.
Perhaps a better link is here. The sole purpose of this site is cleaning up kernel code and has links to various projects that have tools that can scan kernel source files looking for common bugs.
If anyone's interested in patching the kernel, a good place to start learning how is here. They have HowTo's on getting started and have a list of bugs that need to be fixed and another list for bugs that should be fixed.
I don't know about that. They could have called it the A.S.S. and it would have got a lot of media attention as well. Doesn't mean they picked a good name.
What is this going to do to the power grid which has been known to collapse, famously with the northeast blackout and the rolling blackouts in California?
That 70% figure is totaly bogus. They might own 70% of the foreign debt, but certainly not the total debt. See this page for some ballpark info (it's a bit dated, but still reasonably accurate). The total foreign debt was roughly 23% back in 1998. I know the total amount of foreign debt has doubled over the last few years, but the total deficit just about has as well so I think the percentage is only marginally higher than before.
If you want to reduce the federal debt, you can always make a contribution! Come on, if we all chip in it will be gone in no time. If we each make a $30,000 contribution then will at least have payed off our share of the debt. No big deal, right?
That's assuming that the only source of extra carbon for the ocean is the atmosphere. If it were to absorb the measured increase of carbon from underwater sources then it wouldn't be a carbon sink for the atmosphere. At the very least it is a potential mitigating factor since not all of the carbon increase may be attributed to the increase of carbon in the atmosphere (unless volcanic activity has remained steady or decreased below the ocean over the past two hundred years).
That article is incomplete. Yes, there needs to be a conservation of carbon, but the carbon can be coming from below the surface of either the land or ocean via thermal vents and volcanoes (either above or below water). Then there's coal seam fires to consider (man-made to be sure, but very difficult to control).
One could argue that these other factors are steady-state and couldn't have substantially changed in the last two hundred years, but this isn't expressed in the article.
And what, exactly, is my return on investment on military spending? Since the advent of ARPANET, I'm not sure what benefits I've seen from military spending in the past couple of decades. Hummers? Cheaper oil -- no? More security -- no?
The military is ultimately controlled by somewhat clueless civilians in the Executive so I don't blame the military for what has happened. However, I am not at all happy in how that money has been spent or the results of this expense.
There is absolutely no strong evidence that the Chinese government is behind it. But even then, you're already speculating that the government is involved even when they say the government isn't.
Under what other circumstances (other than a hoax) would a major website have a page titled 'Due to unavoidable reasons with which everyone is familiar, this blog is temporarily closed.'? Well? I assume 'everyone' means everyone that visits the site (which in this case is a large number of people). What on earth could the author intend by stating 'reasons with which everyone is familiar' if not the Chinese government? This is an obvious attempt by the author to fool people into thinking that the Chinese government shut the site down.
When the Chinese government does something, everybody yells 'OMG those communist bastards are 3v1l!!!'. But when the US government does something, almost nobody says a word.
Where, exactly, have you seen either case? Not everyone in America watches Fox News (although way too many do I'll grant). As for the US government doing something without people saying anything, I take it you never watch CSPAN, CSPAN2, PBS or The Daily Show. Just because you aren't keeping an eye on the US house of representatives or the senate doesn't mean that people aren't saying anything about it.
Google claims they aren't storing any personal info though on the censored google.cn site. So while they would have to turn over anonymous search info (assuming they are storing it), they couldn't give personal information since there isn't any to give.
Privacy and Security. Google is committed to protecting consumer privacy and confidentiality. Prior to the launch of Google.cn, Google conducted intensive reviews of each of our services to assess the implications of offering it directly in China. We are always conscious of the fact that data may be subject to the jurisdiction of the country where it is physically stored. With that in mind, we concluded that, at least initially, only a handful of search engine services would be hosted in China.
We will not store data somewhere unless we are confident that we can meet our expectations for the privacy and security of users' sensitive information. As a practical matter, meeting this user interest means that we have no plans to host Gmail, Blogger, and a range of other such services in China.
I would like to see that number in context though. How much energy is lost due to fixed objects on the ground? (forests, buildings) It would be interesting to try adjusting the ground resistence in a weather model to see what the effect would be of having a large number of wind turbines. Any atmospheric science students/graduates out there willing to play with their weather models?
You can read them in context if you like. Go to here to browse the koran. It seems to go on and on in similar fashion (at least 9., I didn't check other sections).
Yes, a bullet fired straight up from the surface of Earth in a vacuum would reach about 23 miles up. However, the bullet is going supersonic at first which generates a huge amount of drag. After it is subsonic the drag would still be substantial. It's difficult to estimate accurately, but I bet the height a bullet would achieve with a muzzle velocity of 2800 ft/s would be about 3-7 miles.
The height the bullet achieves doesn't matter though. Once the bullet hits terminal velocity during the fall it won't accelerate further. I know bullets are aerodynamically stable so it should be able to achieve a pretty high terminal velocity (on the order of hundreds of feet per second I think).
As for orbiting the moon, no chance. While the speed of the bullet would be nearly fast enough (perhaps even fast enough with a high-powered rifle), it would be impossible to make a bullet orbit the moon since it would need a course correction (at least if it is to orbit at any altitude at all).
Seismometers are essentially very high precision accelerometers in that they record the local acceleration of the ground. The GPS receivers provide a total change in position caused by an earthquake which helps the tsunami models be more accurate.
Another way GPS receivers can be used is by placing one on a buoy a few miles off of the coast. When a tsunami passes the buoy, there will be an unusually long-period wave detected by the software monitoring the buoy's position. When this occures shortly after an earthquake a tsunami warning would be issued to the coast, giving the residents 5-10 minutes to head to higher ground. See this page for an example installation. This usage of GPS receivers has been around for at least 5 years.
Discussions die after a few days. I don't believe that argument is true when the dupe is over a week after the previous post. If anything, it adds to the discussion since people who may not have seen the previous post will now comment. Personally, I'm gratified that they posted this story again since I missed the original post and enjoyed the article.
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Well then you should like the Tom Clancey line of games. I like the unrealistic element of play because I'm better at shooting accurately while jumping than most. In realistic games, I tend to die after about 10 seconds and then have to wait for the game to end before trying again. As long as there's some variety of games out there I'm happy.
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Yes, please read the story. I'm glad someone else is familiar with dystopian fiction. It's important to keep books like these in mind in our increasingly technological world where the technology needed to implement the horrible fictions envisioned is available and could easily be implemented.
This is much closer to what happened in Farenheight 451. The only thing in common with 1984 is the genre.
There's some UNIX books that you could check out from a library that have good instruction on how to use vi. That's how I learned.
Perhaps a better link is here. The sole purpose of this site is cleaning up kernel code and has links to various projects that have tools that can scan kernel source files looking for common bugs.
The bug lists are out of date though.
If anyone's interested in patching the kernel, a good place to start learning how is here. They have HowTo's on getting started and have a list of bugs that need to be fixed and another list for bugs that should be fixed.
I don't know about that. They could have called it the A.S.S. and it would have got a lot of media attention as well. Doesn't mean they picked a good name.
You get yourself a backup diesel generator.
While that is very secure, I think it would be impracticle to use on a daily bases without the aid of a mechanical device or computer.
If you want to reduce the federal debt, you can always make a contribution! Come on, if we all chip in it will be gone in no time. If we each make a $30,000 contribution then will at least have payed off our share of the debt. No big deal, right?
That's assuming that the only source of extra carbon for the ocean is the atmosphere. If it were to absorb the measured increase of carbon from underwater sources then it wouldn't be a carbon sink for the atmosphere. At the very least it is a potential mitigating factor since not all of the carbon increase may be attributed to the increase of carbon in the atmosphere (unless volcanic activity has remained steady or decreased below the ocean over the past two hundred years).
One could argue that these other factors are steady-state and couldn't have substantially changed in the last two hundred years, but this isn't expressed in the article.
Got a link to a better article?
The military is ultimately controlled by somewhat clueless civilians in the Executive so I don't blame the military for what has happened. However, I am not at all happy in how that money has been spent or the results of this expense.
That's only with the presumption that the robot is self-aware, right? Otherwise that isn't necessary.
Under what other circumstances (other than a hoax) would a major website have a page titled 'Due to unavoidable reasons with which everyone is familiar, this blog is temporarily closed.'? Well? I assume 'everyone' means everyone that visits the site (which in this case is a large number of people). What on earth could the author intend by stating 'reasons with which everyone is familiar' if not the Chinese government? This is an obvious attempt by the author to fool people into thinking that the Chinese government shut the site down.
When the Chinese government does something, everybody yells 'OMG those communist bastards are 3v1l!!!'. But when the US government does something, almost nobody says a word.
Where, exactly, have you seen either case? Not everyone in America watches Fox News (although way too many do I'll grant). As for the US government doing something without people saying anything, I take it you never watch CSPAN, CSPAN2, PBS or The Daily Show. Just because you aren't keeping an eye on the US house of representatives or the senate doesn't mean that people aren't saying anything about it.
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At the equator?! I think not. Although, as a grandparent poster mentioned, the interaction with the ionosphere should be interesting.
I would like to see that number in context though. How much energy is lost due to fixed objects on the ground? (forests, buildings) It would be interesting to try adjusting the ground resistence in a weather model to see what the effect would be of having a large number of wind turbines. Any atmospheric science students/graduates out there willing to play with their weather models?
You can read them in context if you like. Go to here to browse the koran. It seems to go on and on in similar fashion (at least 9., I didn't check other sections).
The height the bullet achieves doesn't matter though. Once the bullet hits terminal velocity during the fall it won't accelerate further. I know bullets are aerodynamically stable so it should be able to achieve a pretty high terminal velocity (on the order of hundreds of feet per second I think).
As for orbiting the moon, no chance. While the speed of the bullet would be nearly fast enough (perhaps even fast enough with a high-powered rifle), it would be impossible to make a bullet orbit the moon since it would need a course correction (at least if it is to orbit at any altitude at all).
Another way GPS receivers can be used is by placing one on a buoy a few miles off of the coast. When a tsunami passes the buoy, there will be an unusually long-period wave detected by the software monitoring the buoy's position. When this occures shortly after an earthquake a tsunami warning would be issued to the coast, giving the residents 5-10 minutes to head to higher ground. See this page for an example installation. This usage of GPS receivers has been around for at least 5 years.
Discussions die after a few days. I don't believe that argument is true when the dupe is over a week after the previous post. If anything, it adds to the discussion since people who may not have seen the previous post will now comment. Personally, I'm gratified that they posted this story again since I missed the original post and enjoyed the article.
Well then you should like the Tom Clancey line of games. I like the unrealistic element of play because I'm better at shooting accurately while jumping than most. In realistic games, I tend to die after about 10 seconds and then have to wait for the game to end before trying again. As long as there's some variety of games out there I'm happy.
Did she ever get the opportunity?