...and don't forget, the day Great Grandad took a photo of himself and a goat, registered the GOATSE.CX domain, uploaded the picture, and then proceeded to tell everyone he knew about it. Yeah, those were the days...
This is a great one to hold in reserve for when the old bugger starts one of his endless 'the youth of today have no morals' rants
archive.org keeps people honest. Anyone with a desire for politics should have a care what they post online it may come back to haunt them
Sure, your 4 year old has some pretty drawings, but should they be put in a library someplace?
I would be fascinated to see my Great Grandad's first drawings, his school web page, his postings to USENET. I only knew him as on old man....
To a historian often the most interesting stuff is the ephemera, the diary of an ordanary person gives a view of every day life you will never get looking at 'formal' archives
(ie newspaper, film librarys etc etc) which only covers 'important' stuff
Wonder how much it would cost to remove and recover the metals in unused cables, and would it be offset by the sale of the metal?
Labour costs aside. I'd guess that (data) cabling is a pretty unattractive source of metals. Tons plastic would have to be burned to get to a useful amount of metal. Burning plastic produces all sorts of nasty compounds, which would have to be scrubbed from the emissions significantly boosting the costs.
Interesting concept they use a 'reverse hovercraft' to secure the ship to the ground
and the gasbag is (I recall) weighted to near neutral boynacy and it gets its lift from its
airfoil shape
Here are the numbers: Lebanon, 241 dead marines, Somalia, 18 soldiers, Iran, 54 US embassy workers kidnapped for 400 days.
So all these people died from suicide bomb attacks??? Including the ones kidnapped for 400 days??? I didn't see the Judean People's Front's, crack suicide squad in Black Hawk Down, but thats just a film
Fear of Iranian intervention and Arab disapproval kept George Bush from entering Iraq the first time. If you doubt this, then I'm not going to bother finding links. Wait two hours, and look at my journal.
Iranian intervention and Arab disapproval and not suicide bombers, In case you have not been reading this thread the original post was about suicide missions, my responces were about suicide bombing, Your responces were about suicide bombing
You have demonstrated that the US is casualty shy, but you still have to demonstrate the "the drooling fanatics are the most successful."
Suicide attackers got the US out of Iran. Suicide attackers got the US out of Lebanon. Suicide attackers got the US out of Somalia. Suicide attackers kept the US out of Iraq the first time around, and they're well on their way kicking the US out again. That's a successful record.
Could you provide a few references to these suicide attacks? The only thing that kept the US out of Iraq the first time was a desire to make the war last a nice round number of hours.
"In the driest part of the Atacama, we found that, if Viking had landed there instead of on Mars and done exactly the same experiments, we would also have been shut out,"
"...the team did discover a non-biological oxidative substance that appears to have reacted with the organics -- results that mimicked Viking's results."
Interestingly enough, the drooling fanatics are the most successful.
Are they? They have got a lot of headlines, but do suicide bombings actually achieve anything other than convince the target that the terrorists cannot be negotiated with, only eliminated?
Suicide attacks are an admission on the part of the terrorists that they have no other way to further their cause and an inditement on the target for putting the terrorists in that position
in the first place
Seriously? Probably not. You only need a pilotless drone when you can't get volunteers for suicide missions. Terrorists have no shortage of volunteers for those types of missions.
Not all terrorists are drooling fanatics in funny clothes. Most have a sense of self preservation.
So, if we set this probe down in the middle of the sahara desert, would it figure out that there is life on Earth?
pretty good actually the presence of oxygen is a dead giveaway:-):-). Seriously though there is a lot of microbial life even in the Sahara (which is actually quite wet compaired to some places esp the polar deserts)
If it could take a deep core sample that would be fabulous, (snip)
Once you've published something on the internet, it's very hard to remove it. There are too many 'bots beavering away in the background. If I do a search for my name on google, I get info going all the way back to my post-grad days at college some 12 years ago....
However most of these bots honor robots.txt, its pretty trivial to keep whole area's of one's website out of the offsite archives (like the Whitehouse does). Also only aware of one archive bot (The Wayback machine) which keeps perminant records (Google does not keep the cached pages for very long) and that honors robots.txt
If I do a search for my name on google, I get info going all the way back to my post-grad days at college some 12 years ago....
I bet all the data is still were it was put and not perminantly mirrored elsewhere (aside from the wayback machine), take that content offline and in a year or so you'll fade from view
only preserved in the Wayback Machine and to use that you need to know the orignal URL.
The only real way to get rid of something is to pull it quickly.. leave it around and you've no chance......
Cover most of the site with robots.txt and you will stay out of the public indexes. The only danger is someone who deleberatly sets out to mirror a site ignoring robots.txt
Good point. However, I rather suspect, that, while the G5 ads have been pulled, Microsoft's ads and "stupid claims in oversized truck and SUV ads, diet pills, etc" remain on the air in the UK. Why do you suppose that is?
What UK Channels are you watching?? I've never seen a "diet pill ads" (the closest we get are ads for Special K) Car adverts tend to be along the lines of look how pretty our car is. its very quiet/efficent/whatever. Microsoft is mostly along the lines of 'Were Microsoft we can solve your problems'
Its strange, under the useful links the Guradain didn't list the beagle 2 own web page.
Guradain is a (so called) humorous reference to the frequent typos in the Guardian's newspaper, something that has not been a problem for the last 15 years
But, unless you knew the right pH, salinity, and chemical composition that the Martian bacteria would like to eat, you would be more likely to drown (or explode by osmotic pressure) any bugs living in the soil.
This is very true, If you took a spoon full of earth soil you would not be able to grow 90% of the microbes (1) in it, as the correct growth conditions are not known. You could lob in some sort of generic nutrent broth, but this would not support the majority of bugs in the sample. When the Viking landers tried this there appeared to be some sort of reaction between the soil and the broth.
They're doing it with LOTR, the Hobbit will be released after the Trilogy is complete,
Where did you hear this? Last I heard PJ was going to take a rest from LOTR and his next movie was to be a remake of King Kong (not to say the Hobbit is not going to be made, but its not comming up back to back with LOTR). The only 'official' Hobbit stuff I'm aware of is that Ian Mckellen said he would like to play Gandalf again.
I'd dearly love to see PJ make the Hobbit I just hope he draws the line with the Silmarillion:-)
Can somebody describe what Han shoots first is all about?
OK. In the cinamatic release of StarWars, when Greedo had Han at gunpoint in the Canteena. Han escapes by shooting Greedo. In the Special Edition the scene was changed using CGI so that Greedo shoots at Han first, misses, from a range of 3 feet!, then Han shoots and kills Greedo in self defense.
Thats it
At best its a pointless little rewrite
At worst it changes Han's character from someone willing to kill in cold blood to someone willing to kill in self defense
>Do you really think spammers are going to install bluetooth devices every ten yards to acheive that...?
Do you really think spammers are going to follow FCC guidelines for signal strength?
I see 50,000 wat clear channel Bluetooth in our future.
The local Maplin already do a Bluetooth dongle with a 100m range, add a pringles cans etc and you could probably get a respectable range.
I don't think spammers are going to go for this in a big way, the cost per message is too high,
as well as shops I can see loonies with a message wandering up and down the city streets sending "Repent" and "Romans 10:9" bluejacks
That's odd. Some of the best theoretical and lab work has been done by scientists who didn't have PhDs. If you work in research (even as a grad student), why shouldn't you call yourself a scientist? Afraid of what your peers might say?
You can't go out and just call your self a scientist. Thats a judgement other people have to
make, in the case of the PhD thats by viva. (Even after that one is still considered to be a traniee until you apply and gain first grant/perminant postion). In casual conversation I'd call my self a scientist, in professional life, I only rarely mention I have a PhD and thats normally when I'm cold calling someone I need to work with.
In the case of the nonpostdoctoral workers. They have it tougher, it takes years of good work
before they start to make an imperssion. Its a bit like enlisted me being promoted to officer, not many make it but the ones who do are good
Now there are storys about company X looking at their patent list an realizing there mostly from non-PhD holders, and these storys may well be true, OTOH much of company research is a matter of banging through 100,000 chemicals looking for one with specific properties, you would not enploy a PhD to do that sort of work, supervise perhaps, not unless you want to keep them that is
in my experience, most scientists are much, much more interested in being right, it's an ego thing.
In my experience a scientist who is not interested in being right, is not a very good scientist. The ego comes in when scientists disagree what is right
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This is a great one to hold in reserve for when the old bugger starts one of his endless 'the youth of today have no morals' rants
archive.org keeps people honest. Anyone with a desire for politics should have a care what they post online it may come back to haunt them
I would be fascinated to see my Great Grandad's first drawings, his school web page, his postings to USENET. I only knew him as on old man ....
To a historian often the most interesting stuff is the ephemera, the diary of an ordanary person gives a view of every day life you will never get looking at 'formal' archives (ie newspaper, film librarys etc etc) which only covers 'important' stuff
Labour costs aside. I'd guess that (data) cabling is a pretty unattractive source of metals. Tons plastic would have to be burned to get to a useful amount of metal. Burning plastic produces all sorts of nasty compounds, which would have to be scrubbed from the emissions significantly boosting the costs.
Us it as scoring system for a genetic algorithm
Spammers are already using viruses and hacked accounts to send the email. They won't be paying the tax the victim will.
What a strange goal... to secure a revinue stream that will dry up within a month, as soon as the offending code is rewritten
Hmm it looks like SkyCat is still kicking
Interesting concept they use a 'reverse hovercraft' to secure the ship to the ground and the gasbag is (I recall) weighted to near neutral boynacy and it gets its lift from its airfoil shape
Spammers are not very nice people and I would not like to have my number in their little black book
So all these people died from suicide bomb attacks??? Including the ones kidnapped for 400 days??? I didn't see the Judean People's Front's, crack suicide squad in Black Hawk Down, but thats just a film
Fear of Iranian intervention and Arab disapproval kept George Bush from entering Iraq the first time. If you doubt this, then I'm not going to bother finding links. Wait two hours, and look at my journal.Iranian intervention and Arab disapproval and not suicide bombers, In case you have not been reading this thread the original post was about suicide missions, my responces were about suicide bombing, Your responces were about suicide bombing
You have demonstrated that the US is casualty shy, but you still have to demonstrate the "the drooling fanatics are the most successful."
Could you provide a few references to these suicide attacks? The only thing that kept the US out of Iraq the first time was a desire to make the war last a nice round number of hours.
Interesting article here is the full link
Are they? They have got a lot of headlines, but do suicide bombings actually achieve anything other than convince the target that the terrorists cannot be negotiated with, only eliminated?
Suicide attacks are an admission on the part of the terrorists that they have no other way to further their cause and an inditement on the target for putting the terrorists in that position in the first place
Not all terrorists are drooling fanatics in funny clothes. Most have a sense of self preservation.
pretty good actually the presence of oxygen is a dead giveaway :-) :-). Seriously though there is a lot of microbial life even in the Sahara (which is actually quite wet compaired to some places esp the polar deserts)
If it could take a deep core sample that would be fabulous, (snip)Beagle 2 has a mole to do just that!
However most of these bots honor robots.txt, its pretty trivial to keep whole area's of one's website out of the offsite archives (like the Whitehouse does). Also only aware of one archive bot (The Wayback machine) which keeps perminant records (Google does not keep the cached pages for very long) and that honors robots.txt
If I do a search for my name on google, I get info going all the way back to my post-grad days at college some 12 years ago....I bet all the data is still were it was put and not perminantly mirrored elsewhere (aside from the wayback machine), take that content offline and in a year or so you'll fade from view only preserved in the Wayback Machine and to use that you need to know the orignal URL.
The only real way to get rid of something is to pull it quickly.. leave it around and you've no chance......Cover most of the site with robots.txt and you will stay out of the public indexes. The only danger is someone who deleberatly sets out to mirror a site ignoring robots.txt
Not if their R&D is stuck somewhere in the 19th Centuary
What UK Channels are you watching?? I've never seen a "diet pill ads" (the closest we get are ads for Special K) Car adverts tend to be along the lines of look how pretty our car is. its very quiet/efficent/whatever. Microsoft is mostly along the lines of 'Were Microsoft we can solve your problems'
Guradain is a (so called) humorous reference to the frequent typos in the Guardian's newspaper, something that has not been a problem for the last 15 years
This is very true, If you took a spoon full of earth soil you would not be able to grow 90% of the microbes (1) in it, as the correct growth conditions are not known. You could lob in some sort of generic nutrent broth, but this would not support the majority of bugs in the sample. When the Viking landers tried this there appeared to be some sort of reaction between the soil and the broth.
(1) not just bactria, but yeast, fungus etc etc
Where did you hear this? Last I heard PJ was going to take a rest from LOTR and his next movie was to be a remake of King Kong (not to say the Hobbit is not going to be made, but its not comming up back to back with LOTR). The only 'official' Hobbit stuff I'm aware of is that Ian Mckellen said he would like to play Gandalf again.
I'd dearly love to see PJ make the Hobbit I just hope he draws the line with the Silmarillion :-)
OK. In the cinamatic release of StarWars, when Greedo had Han at gunpoint in the Canteena. Han escapes by shooting Greedo. In the Special Edition the scene was changed using CGI so that Greedo shoots at Han first, misses, from a range of 3 feet!, then Han shoots and kills Greedo in self defense.
Thats it
At best its a pointless little rewrite
At worst it changes Han's character from someone willing to kill in cold blood to someone willing to kill in self defense
Do you really think spammers are going to follow FCC guidelines for signal strength?
I see 50,000 wat clear channel Bluetooth in our future.
The local Maplin already do a Bluetooth dongle with a 100m range, add a pringles cans etc and you could probably get a respectable range.
I don't think spammers are going to go for this in a big way, the cost per message is too high, as well as shops I can see loonies with a message wandering up and down the city streets sending "Repent" and "Romans 10:9" bluejacks
You can't go out and just call your self a scientist. Thats a judgement other people have to make, in the case of the PhD thats by viva. (Even after that one is still considered to be a traniee until you apply and gain first grant/perminant postion). In casual conversation I'd call my self a scientist, in professional life, I only rarely mention I have a PhD and thats normally when I'm cold calling someone I need to work with.
In the case of the nonpostdoctoral workers. They have it tougher, it takes years of good work before they start to make an imperssion. Its a bit like enlisted me being promoted to officer, not many make it but the ones who do are good
Now there are storys about company X looking at their patent list an realizing there mostly from non-PhD holders, and these storys may well be true, OTOH much of company research is a matter of banging through 100,000 chemicals looking for one with specific properties, you would not enploy a PhD to do that sort of work, supervise perhaps, not unless you want to keep them that is
In my experience a scientist who is not interested in being right, is not a very good scientist. The ego comes in when scientists disagree what is right
I for one wish to be the first to welcome our floating joke overlords