I drive a bunch of kids to school.
They all have two accounts, one real and one fake.
-learn from them...
This is moderately effective against snooping parents and teachers, but its moot to the hosting company, in fact they probably like it as they get to sell two 'users' data for the price of one
The only safe options are:-
Don't put it on line
Run their own servers
For you schoolkids option 2. could be viable. There Apprear to be a number of free options. OTOH I could see a whole pit of trouble for the admin if things go sour.
Pumping stuff into the ground that isn't normally there tends to give me the willies anymore. "Stick it where the sun don't shine!" isn't such a great solution, IMO.
Exactly what could go wrong? I suppose the pressure cave could rupture and you get an air volcano, so don't build on top of it. Pockets of gas under pressure are nothing new in the earths crust.
If it were medical records 5 copies in 5 geographically distinct locations is asking for a whole stack of trouble. Medical Records are confidential. 5 locations multiplys the chances that some of the data goes astray. The consequences of data release are worse than data loss, (even if the data is encrypted the regulators will take a dim view if a tape gets lost in the post)
McFact No. 9. McDonalds wouldn't make their coffee that hot if people didn't want it that hot. If its hotter than other restaurants, presumably that is their competitive advantage.
This came up in the trial. Managers were encouraged to turn the heat up because the ultra-hot coffee wouldn't cool down enough for the customers to cash in on the free refill unless they loitered long after they'd finished eating the food they'd ordered.
I recall hearing the extra hot coffee was also somehow cheaper to make. (something like: hotter water -> more effecent extraction -> less beans per cup -> profit!
Don't buy, If your having doubts, anyone who you try and sell it to may have the same thoughts and avoid it.
If this is reflected in the price all well and good, but all you need is a really Juicy Scare story when you
put it on the market to really sour the deal.
If they track my wife's phone, they'll notice she spends 93% of the time in her desk drawer. Why the heck do I pay for her phone when she never has it on her!?
There is no such thing as the Star Wars Holiday Special. There is no such thing as the Star Wars Holiday Special. There is no such thing as the Star Wars Holiday Special.
I think just looking at the stars is not nearly as great as trying to find out how much you can infer from observations.
I was recently talking to an astronomy PhD working on planet finding, she said that detecting planets by looking for the wobble in the star was possible since the 1940s but noone thought to do it till recently
Interesting that we're talking about Sherlock Holmes and you refer to Disney's rodent (Mickey). Because Disney riffed on Sherlock Holmes with The Great Mouse Detective.
Speaking of light switches, all I can think of is the case of a cell phone company that put up a new tower, and all the advanced folks in the neighborhood by it complained that the tower was irritating their EM allergies and giving them headaches and whatnot.
The company's response to their complaints? "Gee, we can only imagine how bad it's going to get when we actually turn the tower on!"
I'm not calling you out or anything, but do you have any sort of cite for that story? Its a good story and a useful link to
have in the back pocket.:-)
Tip: best way to visit Japan: travel very light. Buy shaving supplies, soap, t-shirts, etc. at the local combini or 99 yen store. Instead of spend money at a single hotel, spend it traveling to different parts of the country: danjiri festival here, live music there, temple over there, robots over there, party over here. All without luggage to slow you down.
I'd second the traveling around (and point out the excellent Japan Rail Pass(1)) buying clothes out there only works well if your Japanese sized:-)
(1) There is also a pass (alas I forget the name) which gives a return ticket from Nareta Airport to Tokyo plus a 2-3000 yen worth of travel in Tokyo, this is useful as you can land, spend a few days in Tokyo then activate your railpass (which comes in 2 or 3 week sizes) so on your way back the Tokyo - Nareta trip is payed for.
Thats pretty good guide I'd just add that there are some quality budget scopes out there.
Celestron firstscope ($100) and the Galileoscope($20 though this excludes the tripod)
That said if I were buying for a young astronomer I'd get them binoculars. Because a) there compact and generate little bedroom clutter
and b) they can be used for Terrestrial observation;-)
Darths & Droids makes a much better job of making sense of 1 and 2
I've long thought that TPM played like an OK RPG campaign FX the whole podracing thing happened because the GM had picked up
some racing boardgame and was itching to use it.
I recall someone had his chest skin grafted to his fingertips... [FX]Google chest skin fingerprints[/FX]
Hmm back in 1941 one Robert J. Philipps
had his chest skin grafted onto his fingertips.... they got him because he had left a bit round the edges.
Well, I haven't made my mind with regards to the efficiency of this tool yet but I wander what will be the effects of the left overs on sea wildlife.
Its probably pretty benign to wildlife... its rope rather than netting so it won't trap, so long as it stays in big chunks
its not going to get eaten and over time seaweed will start to grow on it and it will form a tiny habitat.
I agree. When I take a trip for fun, I bring an ebook or regular book, a PSP with some extra movies/games, and a nearly empty suitcase for all the books/neat stuff.
Laptops are for work for the most part. You can't enjoy some other culture while lugging your laptop around. Besides, it's just making you more prone to theft.
The real worry is phones - if you have one that's going to cost you a fortune in long distance, leave it. If you have a real world phone, you can get a disposable SIM.
I'd agree with you slightly a lappy is heavy to lug round and prone to be stolen. However being able to find and book the
next hotel from your current hotel is a holiday saver it makes shiping out of a crud hotel that much simpler..
that and theres is using it for Skype, somewhere to backup photos, instant access to weather forecasts, time tables etc
So I'd suggest taking a cheap netbook. small, light and borderline expendable (esp if its secondhand).
One very big advantage of having a laptop is that you can upload you days photos to the internet (either a web service or NAS box at home)
far far away from the risks of theft and prying customs inspection. Upload can take some time if your even a mild shutterbug so doing it overnight
on the hotel wifi is very handy
On the matter of places to go I'll say again Oxford is worth a day trip just for the Pitt Rivers Museum (t
the small but perfectly formed Oxford natural history museum located on the same site is a nice bonus
and the nearby Museum of the History of Science. has great geek appeal. (.I suppose you could also go to the
Ashmolean if you have some spare time)
Also not that the Pitt rivers website does not do justice to the sheer random strangeness of the place here is an article about it.
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(In Chilie) By law, you have to build everything to withstand an 8.
In Chile I suspect it not so much a case of Law, its more akin to natural selection. :-)
I drive a bunch of kids to school. They all have two accounts, one real and one fake. -learn from them...
This is moderately effective against snooping parents and teachers, but its moot to the hosting company, in fact they probably like it as they get to sell two 'users' data for the price of one
The only safe options are:-
For you schoolkids option 2. could be viable. There Apprear to be a number of free options. OTOH I could see a whole pit of trouble for the admin if things go sour.
Pumping stuff into the ground that isn't normally there tends to give me the willies anymore. "Stick it where the sun don't shine!" isn't such a great solution, IMO.
Exactly what could go wrong? I suppose the pressure cave could rupture and you get an air volcano, so don't build on top of it. Pockets of gas under pressure are nothing new in the earths crust.
Besides which, why not just build Vanadium batteries or invest in carbon nanotube ultra-capacitors (which could have direct benefit to mobile energy storage)?
What is the duty cycle on Vanadium batteries, carbon nanotubes and ultra-capacitors? The battery in CAEF is just a big cave with little to wear out..
If it were medical records 5 copies in 5 geographically distinct locations is asking for a whole stack of trouble. Medical Records are confidential. 5 locations multiplys the chances that some of the data goes astray. The consequences of data release are worse than data loss, (even if the data is encrypted the regulators will take a dim view if a tape gets lost in the post)
McFact No. 9. McDonalds wouldn't make their coffee that hot if people didn't want it that hot. If its hotter than other restaurants, presumably that is their competitive advantage.
This came up in the trial. Managers were encouraged to turn the heat up because the ultra-hot coffee wouldn't cool down enough for the customers to cash in on the free refill unless they loitered long after they'd finished eating the food they'd ordered.
I recall hearing the extra hot coffee was also somehow cheaper to make. (something like: hotter water -> more effecent extraction -> less beans per cup -> profit!
Don't buy, If your having doubts, anyone who you try and sell it to may have the same thoughts and avoid it.
If this is reflected in the price all well and good, but all you need is a really Juicy Scare story when you put it on the market to really sour the deal.
If they track my wife's phone, they'll notice she spends 93% of the time in her desk drawer. Why the heck do I pay for her phone when she never has it on her!?
Switch her to a pay as you go contract?
There is no such thing as the Star Wars Holiday Special. There is no such thing as the Star Wars Holiday Special. There is no such thing as the Star Wars Holiday Special.
My god, the memory burns in my mind.
There is as ever an xkcd about that..... and because noone ever listens
I understand that using a Newt to project the sun can trash the optics. I guess the secondary mirror can crack under the thermal stess.
I think just looking at the stars is not nearly as great as trying to find out how much you can infer from observations.
I was recently talking to an astronomy PhD working on planet finding, she said that detecting planets by looking for the wobble in the star was possible since the 1940s but noone thought to do it till recently
Negative five!
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! haven't heard that one before!!!
Sorry. I originally heard the story in a /. post, and that poster had a link to a news article about it. I have nothin' though.
Found it here (unsurprisingly on fark :-)
Interesting that we're talking about Sherlock Holmes and you refer to Disney's rodent (Mickey). Because Disney riffed on Sherlock Holmes with The Great Mouse Detective.
Perhaps thats the turth behind the The Giant Rat of Sumatra>
Just knowing Windows is running in space kind of gives me the willies.
Would you open Windows on the ISS???
Speaking of light switches, all I can think of is the case of a cell phone company that put up a new tower, and all the advanced folks in the neighborhood by it complained that the tower was irritating their EM allergies and giving them headaches and whatnot.
The company's response to their complaints? "Gee, we can only imagine how bad it's going to get when we actually turn the tower on!"
I'm not calling you out or anything, but do you have any sort of cite for that story? Its a good story and a useful link to have in the back pocket. :-)
Tip: best way to visit Japan: travel very light. Buy shaving supplies, soap, t-shirts, etc. at the local combini or 99 yen store. Instead of spend money at a single hotel, spend it traveling to different parts of the country: danjiri festival here, live music there, temple over there, robots over there, party over here. All without luggage to slow you down.
I'd second the traveling around (and point out the excellent Japan Rail Pass(1)) buying clothes out there only works well if your Japanese sized :-)
(1) There is also a pass (alas I forget the name) which gives a return ticket from Nareta Airport to Tokyo plus a 2-3000 yen worth of travel in Tokyo, this is useful as you can land, spend a few days in Tokyo then activate your railpass (which comes in 2 or 3 week sizes) so on your way back the Tokyo - Nareta trip is payed for.
Thats pretty good guide I'd just add that there are some quality budget scopes out there. Celestron firstscope ($100) and the Galileoscope($20 though this excludes the tripod)
That said if I were buying for a young astronomer I'd get them binoculars. Because a) there compact and generate little bedroom clutter and b) they can be used for Terrestrial observation ;-)
Darths & Droids makes a much better job of making sense of 1 and 2 I've long thought that TPM played like an OK RPG campaign FX the whole podracing thing happened because the GM had picked up some racing boardgame and was itching to use it.
I recall someone had his chest skin grafted to his fingertips... [FX]Google chest skin fingerprints[/FX] Hmm back in 1941 one Robert J. Philipps had his chest skin grafted onto his fingertips.... they got him because he had left a bit round the edges.
Well, I haven't made my mind with regards to the efficiency of this tool yet but I wander what will be the effects of the left overs on sea wildlife.
Its probably pretty benign to wildlife... its rope rather than netting so it won't trap, so long as it stays in big chunks its not going to get eaten and over time seaweed will start to grow on it and it will form a tiny habitat.
No Cambridge is beter it is more sciency, has all the tourist stuff, and the chance to get away from it aswell.
Would you care to name any good 'sciency' in attractions in Cambridge? The Sedgwick Museum is nice but hardly worth a trip from London
I agree. When I take a trip for fun, I bring an ebook or regular book, a PSP with some extra movies/games, and a nearly empty suitcase for all the books/neat stuff.
Laptops are for work for the most part. You can't enjoy some other culture while lugging your laptop around. Besides, it's just making you more prone to theft.
The real worry is phones - if you have one that's going to cost you a fortune in long distance, leave it. If you have a real world phone, you can get a disposable SIM.
I'd agree with you slightly a lappy is heavy to lug round and prone to be stolen. However being able to find and book the next hotel from your current hotel is a holiday saver it makes shiping out of a crud hotel that much simpler.. that and theres is using it for Skype, somewhere to backup photos, instant access to weather forecasts, time tables etc
So I'd suggest taking a cheap netbook. small, light and borderline expendable (esp if its secondhand).
One very big advantage of having a laptop is that you can upload you days photos to the internet (either a web service or NAS box at home) far far away from the risks of theft and prying customs inspection. Upload can take some time if your even a mild shutterbug so doing it overnight on the hotel wifi is very handy
On the matter of places to go I'll say again Oxford is worth a day trip just for the Pitt Rivers Museum (t the small but perfectly formed Oxford natural history museum located on the same site is a nice bonus and the nearby Museum of the History of Science. has great geek appeal. (.I suppose you could also go to the Ashmolean if you have some spare time)
Also not that the Pitt rivers website does not do justice to the sheer random strangeness of the place here is an article about it.
Do NOT go to Oxford, or if you do, only go for an afternoon. Once you've seen the university, it is an extremely tedious place.
Go to Oxford and spend that afternoon in The Pitt Rivers Museum and the Museum of the History of Science