Back in 1986, my school's (University of Saskatchewan) team won it's seventh consecutive title in the Marshall competition with a record of 3086 (US)mpg.
To clear up some general confusion that neither article has understood yet...
1) The most recent apple security update to Panther has nothing to do with the @stake-identified vulnerabilities. It fixes a flaw in Quicktime Java on 10.3 only.
2) True, the @stake vulnerabilities do not affect 10.3. However, this means you cannot say that apple is issueing sec. updates for 10.3 and not 10.2
3) The @stake vulnerabilities have not been patched yet, but this doesn't mean they won't be. I would expect that apple will have a patch out for these as soon as it's developed and tested.
Currently, the only thing confirmed to move faster than the speed of light (confirmed via the "alan aspect" experiments, if you want to google it), is the spin on a pair of electrons. Two elextrons in a pair alwats spin in reverse directions. Even if the two electrons are 1000 miles apart, if you polarize one (change the spin), then the other spin will reverse itself instaneously.
I think there is another effect confirmed to move faster than the speed of light, and that is the effect of gravity. If the sun were to disappear right now, we would immediately be flung out into the galaxy, rather than orbit nothing for eight minutes. However, we wouldn't be able to see that it had disappeared until about 8 minutes and twenty seconds after the fact. I wonder if this property of gravity could be employed for faster-that-light communication similarly to the electron-spin theory?
In reading up on vortex rings, I came across this page which has some interesting ideas for building vortex generators as well as some nifty (wierd?) applications. Most interesting is to power the vortex tube with a big loudspeaker, and control the size and spin of the smoke rings by sending it different shaped waveforms.
I actually designed and built a system like this last year for my high school production of "The Wizard of OZ". The wizard's (Flash-animated) image was projected onto this wall of vapor, which we created by piping fog from a commercial machine like you see in dance clubs through a piece of ABS pipe with a slit down the length of it. I wish I had pictures, it looked really spooky and almost as clear as what these guys have done. Too bad I didn't patent it;) However, we did have some problems with the fog filling up the stage and choking the actors, so we had to make the scenes quite short. It doesn't dissipate quite as well as you say it should.
RTFA, please. The "hackers" would prefer a legally signed bootloader, since it would not have the side effect of allowing pirated games to run on the Xbox. That's why they aren't releasing their mods right away - they're giving M$ the chance to do the right thing. And actually, you can already boot linux without a modchip; see here for details.
A guitarist can run a cable over 2000 meters with no loss of audio quality. (http://magic.gibson.com/digitalguitar.html)
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looks like regular Cat-5 UTP to me. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't UTP supposed to be limited to 100m unrepeated? Regardless, what would the use be for a 2km guitar cable?
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Back in 1986, my school's (University of Saskatchewan) team won it's seventh consecutive title in the Marshall competition with a record of 3086 (US)mpg.
10 years and 59 mpg later...
To clear up some general confusion that neither article has understood yet...
1) The most recent apple security update to Panther has nothing to do with the @stake-identified vulnerabilities. It fixes a flaw in Quicktime Java on 10.3 only.
2) True, the @stake vulnerabilities do not affect 10.3. However, this means you cannot say that apple is issueing sec. updates for 10.3 and not 10.2
3) The @stake vulnerabilities have not been patched yet, but this doesn't mean they won't be. I would expect that apple will have a patch out for these as soon as it's developed and tested.
And your new PoV could cause more 9-11's.
Currently, the only thing confirmed to move faster than the speed of light (confirmed via the "alan aspect" experiments, if you want to google it), is the spin on a pair of electrons. Two elextrons in a pair alwats spin in reverse directions. Even if the two electrons are 1000 miles apart, if you polarize one (change the spin), then the other spin will reverse itself instaneously.
I think there is another effect confirmed to move faster than the speed of light, and that is the effect of gravity. If the sun were to disappear right now, we would immediately be flung out into the galaxy, rather than orbit nothing for eight minutes. However, we wouldn't be able to see that it had disappeared until about 8 minutes and twenty seconds after the fact. I wonder if this property of gravity could be employed for faster-that-light communication similarly to the electron-spin theory?
In reading up on vortex rings, I came across this page which has some interesting ideas for building vortex generators as well as some nifty (wierd?) applications. Most interesting is to power the vortex tube with a big loudspeaker, and control the size and spin of the smoke rings by sending it different shaped waveforms.
I actually designed and built a system like this last year for my high school production of "The Wizard of OZ". The wizard's (Flash-animated) image was projected onto this wall of vapor, which we created by piping fog from a commercial machine like you see in dance clubs through a piece of ABS pipe with a slit down the length of it. I wish I had pictures, it looked really spooky and almost as clear as what these guys have done. Too bad I didn't patent it ;) However, we did have some problems with the fog filling up the stage and choking the actors, so we had to make the scenes quite short. It doesn't dissipate quite as well as you say it should.
RTFA, please. The "hackers" would prefer a legally signed bootloader, since it would not have the side effect of allowing pirated games to run on the Xbox. That's why they aren't releasing their mods right away - they're giving M$ the chance to do the right thing. And actually, you can already boot linux without a modchip; see here for details.
A guitarist can run a cable over 2000 meters with no loss of audio quality. (http://magic.gibson.com/digitalguitar.html)
That looks like regular Cat-5 UTP to me. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't UTP supposed to be limited to 100m unrepeated? Regardless, what would the use be for a 2km guitar cable?