Since wind is driven by temperature differences within the atmosphere, wouldn't a faster spinning earth have more consistent temperatures across it due to a more even heating?
You have a point. That sounds a lot more plausible than my explanation. I tried to find sources to back up my initial claim, but the only one I did find compared Earth to the much-faster rotating Jupiter and concluded that a faster-rotating Earth would have stronger surface winds. Doesn't sound like a very valid comparison to me, what with the size difference and rock- vs. gas-planet.
Another reply here mentioned the Coriolis effect, but I think it's much too small to be the primary cause.
However, there are plenty of other reasons why the presence of the Moon is considered important. There's even a book about it: What If The Moon Didn't Exist?.
Does anyone know what the daytime / nighttime temperature variations are on Venus?
Wikipedia mentions min/mean/max surface temperatures of -45.15 degC, 463.85 degC and 499.85 degC (-49.27 degF, 866.93 degF and 931.73 degF) respectively.
Seems to me there might be some interesting possibilities for life on Venus due to it's slow rotation.
Only if you're interested in a semi-nomadic lifestyle.
There have been proposals to establish human colonies in the cloudtops of Venus, which are much more livable temperature- and pressure-wise. These would have the advantage of being relatively easily movable so as to remain optimally positioned.
I remember an old theory that the moon keeps Earth from boiling over by sweeping away much of the atmosphere over time.
No, but the Moon did slow down the rotation of the Earth by quite a bit. If Luna'd be lacking, Earth's surfaces would supposedly be battered by extremely strong winds.
It's theorised that Venus' climate isn't caused by its lack of a moon but because it's rotating way too slow (I got the climate-link from Stephen Baxter's Space, but I'm sure it's well documented in astronomic science). It takes about 243 days for Venus to rotate around its axis, and it's even rotating in the opposite direction as most of the rest of the (Sol system) planets.
What I'd be interested in is if this device does real-time packet reassembly and flow recovery. If not, what's to keep a terrorist from putting "BO" in one packet and "MB" in a following one? Or doing nasty stuff with fragmented IP packets?
Running a packet-oriented grep on a large datastream is not that hard (ie. easily solvable if you throw enough processing power at it). If the government's sniffers can reassemble packets and recover flows real-time, *then* worry.
Though it's probably impossible to recognise *all* d-link related requests for GPS.dix.dk, it's probably easy to catch 90-95% of them by just redirecting everything outside of Denmark to localhost.
That whould reduce illegitimate NTP queries quite a bit, maybe even making it possible to filter the rest of them through some other mechanism.
sadly this plan would screw other, legitimate users of this service.
Not if they're using multiple NTP servers, as any server reporting a time that's too far removed from what the other servers report is automatically removed from the list of time servers by a proper NTP client implementation.
The same goes for the d-link crap of course, but something tells me their NTP implementation probably isn't very "proper".
I thought the, "so fix it yourself newbie!" attitude was mostly confined to actual coding.
The OpenBSD/OpenSSH team usually gets people to participate because they want to hack on the source base. It's simply a waste of time and talent to have these people process the huge amount of paperwork a non-profit entails.
If you don't want to do it in your free time, why should they?
I guess they don't want to become a true non-profit org for some reason.
They don't want to because of the huge administrative overhead that incurs. Theo'd much rather work on the next feature or security audit than on handling that.
Of course, you're free to set up your own non-profit "Friends of OpenBSD" foundation if you want to.
After having read up on Swedish politics a bit, I now understand what you're saying. The election-floor is 4%, which amounts to 14 seats (of 349) in the Riksdag. So it'd be impossible for them to have just one seat.
My confusion originated from the fact that it is possible to have just one seat (of the 150) in the Dutch parliament.
But yeah, getting 14 seats is going to be quite difficult.
Even one seat in the swedish parliament would be a huge victory. Copyright and patent reform is probably going to take quite a while, but you got to start somewhere.
If this party gets the voter attention it (IMO) deserves, I'm seriously considering starting a similar party here in The Netherlands. Any other slashdotters interested in doing so?
The idea here is that it's all nicely integrated. On more recent OpenBSD releases you can use sensorsd(8) to monitor the hardware through this very same interface. No kernel patching required (and probably not even kernel compiling; GENERIC has most stable stuff enabled already), and no need to figure out which interface to use.
The new thing with 3.9 is support for more hardware monitoring interfaces, notably IPMI.
That's on my Epia VE5000 box btw, no need to fret about the 0 RPM fans:)
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It's funny because it's true.
Actually, you'll find both are manmade. Nature has neither concepts.
Until you learn how they actually make that (warning: you may never eat foie gras again).
You have a point. That sounds a lot more plausible than my explanation. I tried to find sources to back up my initial claim, but the only one I did find compared Earth to the much-faster rotating Jupiter and concluded that a faster-rotating Earth would have stronger surface winds. Doesn't sound like a very valid comparison to me, what with the size difference and rock- vs. gas-planet.
Another reply here mentioned the Coriolis effect, but I think it's much too small to be the primary cause.
However, there are plenty of other reasons why the presence of the Moon is considered important. There's even a book about it: What If The Moon Didn't Exist? .
Wikipedia mentions min/mean/max surface temperatures of -45.15 degC, 463.85 degC and 499.85 degC (-49.27 degF, 866.93 degF and 931.73 degF) respectively.
Only if you're interested in a semi-nomadic lifestyle.
There have been proposals to establish human colonies in the cloudtops of Venus, which are much more livable temperature- and pressure-wise. These would have the advantage of being relatively easily movable so as to remain optimally positioned.
No, but the Moon did slow down the rotation of the Earth by quite a bit. If Luna'd be lacking, Earth's surfaces would supposedly be battered by extremely strong winds.
It's theorised that Venus' climate isn't caused by its lack of a moon but because it's rotating way too slow (I got the climate-link from Stephen Baxter's Space, but I'm sure it's well documented in astronomic science). It takes about 243 days for Venus to rotate around its axis, and it's even rotating in the opposite direction as most of the rest of the (Sol system) planets.
What I'd be interested in is if this device does real-time packet reassembly and flow recovery. If not, what's to keep a terrorist from putting "BO" in one packet and "MB" in a following one? Or doing nasty stuff with fragmented IP packets?
Running a packet-oriented grep on a large datastream is not that hard (ie. easily solvable if you throw enough processing power at it). If the government's sniffers can reassemble packets and recover flows real-time, *then* worry.
Why rule out a split DNS so soon?
Though it's probably impossible to recognise *all* d-link related requests for GPS.dix.dk, it's probably easy to catch 90-95% of them by just redirecting everything outside of Denmark to localhost.
That whould reduce illegitimate NTP queries quite a bit, maybe even making it possible to filter the rest of them through some other mechanism.
Not if they're using multiple NTP servers, as any server reporting a time that's too far removed from what the other servers report is automatically removed from the list of time servers by a proper NTP client implementation.
The same goes for the d-link crap of course, but something tells me their NTP implementation probably isn't very "proper".
Or pay the electricity bill. It's about $5000 a year.
Well, there's kd85.com in Belgium, but that's probably not going to help much for aspiring donatees (sp?) in the US.
The OpenBSD/OpenSSH team usually gets people to participate because they want to hack on the source base. It's simply a waste of time and talent to have these people process the huge amount of paperwork a non-profit entails.
If you don't want to do it in your free time, why should they?
Nope, they just didn't donate.
Hell, IBM even wanted the OpenBSD team to handle end-user support for one of their high-paying customers for free.
Why don't you do so yourself? Establish a "Friends of OpenBSD" foundation and register it with the local authorities.
Talk is cheap...
They don't want to because of the huge administrative overhead that incurs. Theo'd much rather work on the next feature or security audit than on handling that.
Of course, you're free to set up your own non-profit "Friends of OpenBSD" foundation if you want to.
After having read up on Swedish politics a bit, I now understand what you're saying. The election-floor is 4%, which amounts to 14 seats (of 349) in the Riksdag. So it'd be impossible for them to have just one seat.
My confusion originated from the fact that it is possible to have just one seat (of the 150) in the Dutch parliament.
But yeah, getting 14 seats is going to be quite difficult.
You mean so they can keep the status quo wrt. copyrights and patents?
Even one seat in the swedish parliament would be a huge victory. Copyright and patent reform is probably going to take quite a while, but you got to start somewhere.
If this party gets the voter attention it (IMO) deserves, I'm seriously considering starting a similar party here in The Netherlands. Any other slashdotters interested in doing so?
Yeah, but the Slashdot editors turned the funny final paragraph of TFA into the whole subject of the story, and that just ain't funny on April 2nd.
TFA's cool though; I'll give you that.
April fools day is *so* yesterday.
Plus, I guess you changed your password to the 5001st prime or something prior to posting your challenge?
48611 you mean?
Now that was easy
Oh, and kudos to christopherfinke for this plugin; I love it.
The new thing with 3.9 is support for more hardware monitoring interfaces, notably IPMI.
That's on my Epia VE5000 box btw, no need to fret about the 0 RPM fans