It was probably a halo. I've never seen one around the moon, but they do occasionally appear around the sun if it's cold enough. I guess the conditions in Finland are a little different from Houston.
Google for sun halo gives 155 000 hits compared to 91 000 for moon halo, so halos around the moon are apperently not entirely uncommon. On this page is a neat picture of a sun halo, and a short explanation of the phenomenon.
I too have no need to know where my incoming email originated. With one exception: I would really like to know the location of the Nigerian who wants to give me lots of money in exchange for some assistance.:)
Your analogy limps. It should go something like this:
You: my locks are insecure, please upgrade them.
Locksmith: Sorry, your house is built so that you cannot change the locks. You must bulldoze the entire house and rebuild it with a new version, which includes better locks.
Actually there may be a way to track him down. Set up a script that introduces a typo or two into the text for each download. Store these changes along with the username and IP for whoever looks at it. When a report pops up somewhere, compare typos to gathered data, and you should be very close to uncovering the leak.
OT: This could also be used to track leaks of beta version of software. Just set up a script that changes a few bytes in some of the files that don't alter functionality (images etc.). Ship to beta testers. If there is a leak, it's fairly easy to track down. Of course this could be circumvented if several testers combine their versions.
Mobile field artillery needs as good precision as possible. If you rely on GPS and fire dozens of huge grenades (or unguided rockets) hundreds of meters off the target, you'll probably wipe out more friendly forces than enemies.
If you think it is not hard, consider this: The howitzers and cannons move in a pretty much featureless landscape. Before shooting they are stabilized using shovels and sledgehammers, not exactly precision tools. You use a barrel of a few meters to aim a grenade that flies for 10-50 kilometers. If you mess up the settings by a few centimeters, the aim will be off by a lot in the other end. There's some fancy optics and a lot of mathematics involved to get it right.
I should know since I've fired maybe a hundred grenades using a 122mm field howitzer, very similar to the models used by Iraq: Finland uses some Soviet designs with small mods.
With the small addition that people working on open source projects choose projects that they have a passion for, and do the coding when they feel like it.
This must produce better quality code than the code done in cubicle paradise at 10AM on Monday morning for whatever project the PHBs think leverages the synergies this week.
I would imagine that the interaction would be minimal. The tiger is simply too small to challenge a mammoth, and the mammoth is too slow and clumsy to harm a tiger, unless the tiger attacks. Maybe a mammoth calf could be killed by a tiger, or possibly a bear, but not unless he is separated from the mother.
Pretty much like the African elephant and lions, I guess. How mammoths affect the vegetation and the habitat of other herbivores is a different matter.
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You mean like this:
1. Donate underpants
2. ???
3. Profit!
Sounds like a plan.
(I'll go hide now)
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> There are so many authors whose work just > blends in with others until their styles all > seem the same. Arquette's style, however, is > smart and blunt
Smart and blunt? That how I would describe Chuck Palahniuk's (hope I didn't butcher that) style. If the name doesn't ring a bell, I have two words for you: Fight Club.
This would probably work better in combination with other approaches mentioned here than by itself, but it can be it can be quite effective if delivered with confidence.
If you decide to talk to someone at the theater and you aren't getting anywhere, ask them for their name. You could write it down to make sure they have time to reflect what you are doing (for bonus points: ask how they spell it). This can be quite intimidating as it somehow makes the other person feel as though he is your focus, rather than his employer. If it doesn't shake them, or they ask why you want it, casually say something about lawsuit and fraud, as though it was not a big deal for you to go to court. Give it a moment to sink in. You could imply that they still have a few minutes to rectify the situation.
If it looks like they are about to cave in, say that giving you free tickets or something is a lot easier for them personally, as it comes out of the theater's pockets and does not cost the person anything. If you go to court it is a major inconvenience for them getting to the court house for several hours, even if they are only called as witnesses.
> that said, if you don't like the ads, turn up 10 minutes late for the movie, problem solved.
No, no, no. Once in a while there is a movie without ads, and there are few things more annoying then people showing up in the middle of the movie and walking in front of you to the other side. So you should show up and be seated at the advertised time in case the movie starts then.
Come to think of it; the reason that not all films have commercials is probably to force people to always come early and watch the ads.
... the robot-dog; a perfect product placement opportunity for Sony.
As a side note: with the number of product placements in some movies, like Die Another Day, they should be able to show me the movie for free. I'm practicly paying to see comercials these days.:(
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my only question (besides when can i get one in the u.s. and for how much) was about the use of magnesium for various components (including the fuel tank i believe). i thought magnesium was highly flammable or something... clearly i haven't retained anything from chem.
I'd say that magnesium is quite stable itself, and not very dangerous. But if it gets hot enough, from say a fuel fire, it can react and gets extremely hot. So hot that the rest of the car will pretty much melt. There have been a few racing vehicles that were beyond scrap metal after the magnesium reacted. Bikes mostly, since cars use carbon fibre and aluminium honey comb.
(Don't take my words for the truth, it's been years since i read any chemistry)
As I see it there are about 500 000 parties to a spam e-mail: the company that pays for it, the person that is payed for collecting adresses and sending the mail, 10 persons that are happy to get the unique offer and spend money on it, and about 499 988 victims. To stop spam, one group has to be removed from the equation.
The only way to remove the 499 988 innocent victim is for them to stop using e-mail: not a viable solution. Using e-mail filters may temporarily turn the flood into a stream, but mailers will refine their mail to avoid these sooner rather than later.
The persons getting payed are not going to stop. Legislation against spammers would only move the senders to other countries.
The entities paying will continue as long as it is profitable. Again: legislation would not be effective, IMHO.
The only remaining possibility is to remove the 10 morons paying. How to do that? Barring evolution (accelerated by selective violence >:) ), education of the these people seems the only possibility.
Making everyone understand that buying penile enlargement medicaiton online, is not the best of ideas is not as easy as it sounds. There'll always be someone who thinks it's the best invention since sliced bread. Can the percentage be pushed below the treshold of profitability? I don't think so.
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It was probably a halo. I've never seen one around the moon, but they do occasionally appear around the sun if it's cold enough. I guess the conditions in Finland are a little different from Houston.
Google for sun halo gives 155 000 hits compared to 91 000 for moon halo, so halos around the moon are apperently not entirely uncommon. On this page is a neat picture of a sun halo, and a short explanation of the phenomenon.
Lunans? The inhabitants of the moon are called Lunatics. Don't they teach kids anything in school anymore? *grumble*
I too have no need to know where my incoming email originated. With one exception: I would really like to know the location of the Nigerian who wants to give me lots of money in exchange for some assistance. :)
Your analogy limps. It should go something like this:
You: my locks are insecure, please upgrade them.
Locksmith: Sorry, your house is built so that you cannot change the locks. You must bulldoze the entire house and rebuild it with a new version, which includes better locks.
You: =(
I hope they call the batteries Bender.
Actually there may be a way to track him down. Set up a script that introduces a typo or two into the text for each download. Store these changes along with the username and IP for whoever looks at it. When a report pops up somewhere, compare typos to gathered data, and you should be very close to uncovering the leak.
OT: This could also be used to track leaks of beta version of software. Just set up a script that changes a few bytes in some of the files that don't alter functionality (images etc.). Ship to beta testers. If there is a leak, it's fairly easy to track down. Of course this could be circumvented if several testers combine their versions.
Mobile field artillery needs as good precision as possible. If you rely on GPS and fire dozens of huge grenades (or unguided rockets) hundreds of meters off the target, you'll probably wipe out more friendly forces than enemies.
If you think it is not hard, consider this: The howitzers and cannons move in a pretty much featureless landscape. Before shooting they are stabilized using shovels and sledgehammers, not exactly precision tools. You use a barrel of a few meters to aim a grenade that flies for 10-50 kilometers. If you mess up the settings by a few centimeters, the aim will be off by a lot in the other end. There's some fancy optics and a lot of mathematics involved to get it right.
I should know since I've fired maybe a hundred grenades using a 122mm field howitzer, very similar to the models used by Iraq: Finland uses some Soviet designs with small mods.
For those who don't get it: Monty Python
I was going to post it myself, but Requiem beat me to it.
So what they're saying is that anyone in my general vicinity can use up my battery because that's the best path for the data?
In that case: No, thank you. This is never going to take off.
Exactly.
With the small addition that people working on open source projects choose projects that they have a passion for, and do the coding when they feel like it.
This must produce better quality code than the code done in cubicle paradise at 10AM on Monday morning for whatever project the PHBs think leverages the synergies this week.
I would imagine that the interaction would be minimal. The tiger is simply too small to challenge a mammoth, and the mammoth is too slow and clumsy to harm a tiger, unless the tiger attacks. Maybe a mammoth calf could be killed by a tiger, or possibly a bear, but not unless he is separated from the mother.
Pretty much like the African elephant and lions, I guess. How mammoths affect the vegetation and the habitat of other herbivores is a different matter.
Not necessarily. I first heard about it in the fall of 2002. I think it was about the time that David Fincher got involved.
IMDb seems to agree with me.
> Kill two birds with one stone.
Stone? Surely you mean potato?
You mean like this: 1. Donate underpants 2. ??? 3. Profit! Sounds like a plan. (I'll go hide now)
> There are so many authors whose work just
> blends in with others until their styles all
> seem the same. Arquette's style, however, is
> smart and blunt
Smart and blunt? That how I would describe Chuck Palahniuk's (hope I didn't butcher that) style. If the name doesn't ring a bell, I have two words for you: Fight Club.
This would probably work better in combination with other approaches mentioned here than by itself, but it can be it can be quite effective if delivered with confidence.
If you decide to talk to someone at the theater and you aren't getting anywhere, ask them for their name. You could write it down to make sure they have time to reflect what you are doing (for bonus points: ask how they spell it). This can be quite intimidating as it somehow makes the other person feel as though he is your focus, rather than his employer. If it doesn't shake them, or they ask why you want it, casually say something about lawsuit and fraud, as though it was not a big deal for you to go to court. Give it a moment to sink in. You could imply that they still have a few minutes to rectify the situation.
If it looks like they are about to cave in, say that giving you free tickets or something is a lot easier for them personally, as it comes out of the theater's pockets and does not cost the person anything. If you go to court it is a major inconvenience for them getting to the court house for several hours, even if they are only called as witnesses.
> that said, if you don't like the ads, turn up 10 minutes late for the movie, problem solved.
No, no, no. Once in a while there is a movie without ads, and there are few things more annoying then people showing up in the middle of the movie and walking in front of you to the other side. So you should show up and be seated at the advertised time in case the movie starts then.
Come to think of it; the reason that not all films have commercials is probably to force people to always come early and watch the ads.
... the robot-dog; a perfect product placement opportunity for Sony.
:(
As a side note: with the number of product placements in some movies, like Die Another Day, they should be able to show me the movie for free. I'm practicly paying to see comercials these days.
my only question (besides when can i get one in the u.s. and for how much) was about the use of magnesium for various components (including the fuel tank i believe). i thought magnesium was highly flammable or something... clearly i haven't retained anything from chem.
I'd say that magnesium is quite stable itself, and not very dangerous. But if it gets hot enough, from say a fuel fire, it can react and gets extremely hot. So hot that the rest of the car will pretty much melt. There have been a few racing vehicles that were beyond scrap metal after the magnesium reacted. Bikes mostly, since cars use carbon fibre and aluminium honey comb.
(Don't take my words for the truth, it's been years since i read any chemistry)
Maybe all slashdotters could collectively search for "gnu" NOW!
Good luck to the people at Google trying to figure out why the wildebeest suddenly soars in popularity. =)
Am I the only one who doesn't have a subscription who can see the article perfectly well... ?
No, works fine for me too. (Mozilla, rejecting cookies)
As I see it there are about 500 000 parties to a spam e-mail: the company that pays for it, the person that is payed for collecting adresses and sending the mail, 10 persons that are happy to get the unique offer and spend money on it, and about 499 988 victims. To stop spam, one group has to be removed from the equation.
The only way to remove the 499 988 innocent victim is for them to stop using e-mail: not a viable solution. Using e-mail filters may temporarily turn the flood into a stream, but mailers will refine their mail to avoid these sooner rather than later.
The persons getting payed are not going to stop. Legislation against spammers would only move the senders to other countries.
The entities paying will continue as long as it is profitable. Again: legislation would not be effective, IMHO.
The only remaining possibility is to remove the 10 morons paying. How to do that? Barring evolution (accelerated by selective violence >:) ), education of the these people seems the only possibility.
Making everyone understand that buying penile enlargement medicaiton online, is not the best of ideas is not as easy as it sounds. There'll always be someone who thinks it's the best invention since sliced bread. Can the percentage be pushed below the treshold of profitability? I don't think so.
Yet Another Light Bulb Joke. Q. How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? A. One.
If Microsoft actually opened the source, how long until we see the Taiwanese operating system called Doors 200X or something?
Ant DTD. The link to the download is about halfway down the page. Took me almost 5 seconds with Google. =)