In January 2011 they were given conditional approval, that if by June 2011, with monthly progress reports, they could form a working group with the GPS providers, and demonstrate that both parties are happy and there is no interference, then they could go ahead (after the MANDATORY 30 day comment period). LightSquared got an extension so their final report was filed June 30th, and the MANDATORY 30 day comment period was July 1-30th. What dates are you talking about? Because it seems to me that there was a full 30 day comment period, and that happened 6 months after the conditional approval was granted. (Conditional approval does NOT let them start, they have to wait until the very end, other than their testing stations).
The tests (that actually happened) showed that 75% of consumer GPS devices received harmful interference when within 100 meters of the base station, and that's what's sufficient. LightSquared tried to argue that "harmful interference doesn't mean total failure! The test should have been whether or not the devices failed completely, not whether their accuracy was degraded! This test was obviously rigged against us OMG!" Only, too bad.
They're called "statistical studies" and they are used as evidence that a real study should be done, not that there's an actual effect in play. The problem with such studies is that they try their best to select an identical control group, but it's hard to do so. In this case it means matching the 15,000 people on the drug with 15,000 people who also have been diagnosed with insomnia (and for similar reasons), but all elected not to be medicated for it. Then you hope that that decision isn't in any way correlated with other behaviors that might increase or decrease the death rate.
I doubt they really mean it in the way we think they mean it.
What do you think nerve repair means? If you think it means using very tiny thread to suture the nerve sheath, while being careful not to suture the inner portion, then that's exactly what it means. The nerve itself will knit on its own. It's been done for a long time. You can find surgical manuals from the 30s that document proper nerve suture techniques. The first documented nerve suture was performed in 600 AD (though I can't find reference to the effectiveness of it). Microsurgery techniques have made great strides since then. And I believe that the major nerves will be in a larger bundle for an above-elbow arm transplant compared with a hand transplant, so this situation is actually easier than the hand transplant cases (though peripheral nerves are another story altogether). At any rate, nerves also regrow all on their own, though for an arm it can take 2-3 years of slow progress. There have been several above-elbow arm transplants that resulted (after 2 years recovery) in full elbow mobility, limited but useful sensation, and extension and flexing of fingers and thumb. (Citation for one such transplant, full article may be behind paywall).
The problem with nerve regrowth in transplants is that sometimes they just don't, though in 2009 French doctors discovered that they can trigger regrowth by manual stimulation of the motor cortex using magnetic impulses. The theory being that nerves that aren't being used by the brain anymore won't regrow, so if the amputation was not recent, the nerves won't grow without a jump start straight to the brain.
Above elbow/knee transplants can also have the problem that that much vascular bone marrow greatly increases the chance of graft-versus-host. Though apparently it can also lead to the opposite result, with the host accepting the graft tissue more readily.
Interesting narrative. Except that in the 20th century, the Liberal party formed the government 69 out of 100 years. So, THEY are the corrupt old guard only recently dethroned (and only resoundingly defeated this last election). The narrative is more like, "far right rises up, merges with progressive right, and fights dirty to ensure majority after is kills and buries the old guard."
The chip in the passport is just one of the many security features of the new passport. If the chip fails, the passport remains a valid travel document until its expiration date. You will continue to be processed by the port-of-entry officer as if you had a passport without a chip.
If your RFID fails you do not have to get your passport re-issued. It is a valid document. Period.
Just like TFA, two months ago gmail started serving me nothing but breast pump, neonatal vitamin, and baby bottle ads. I'm a guy, but I am married so maybe they're trying to send a hint "why don't you have kids yet? Here we'll give you discount mail-order vitamins if you get busy!" But they also send me dating site ads. So if they do know I'm married, they don't have a high opinion of my marriage! Maybe that's why they want me to knock my wife up?;)
According to TFA, the scientists (in their defense) claim to have told the official that there was no increased or decreased risk because they cannot make a definite prediction. The official is the one who turned that into "no risk at all because little quakes release energy and prevent big ones, drink some wine and relax!" Maybe they're lying now to cover their asses. But the big news in TFA is that this official and his boss arranged this press conference to "reassure the public there is no risk" before they even consulted the accused scientists, so I'd tend to believe the scientists that this official twisted their words or outright lied.
No, it's like they got in several small accidents, and asked a mechanic "Do all these little accidents mean a big one is coming?" and then suing him because he said "no, that's crazy" but they DID get in a big accident later. They are on trial for saying that little earthquakes don't indicate a big one is coming. This is totally true, but because little earthquakes ALSO don't mean that a big one ISN'T coming people died that might have fled the city without that reassurance. Similar to how people die in earthquakes due to scientists not giving a similar warning "no earthquakes could mean a big one is coming" so you should stay fled at all times.
A typical Slashdot response "anybody who thinks that comments have any connection whatsoever, however loose, to the thing being commented on, is obviously totally retarded".
He won $521 million, had the amount upheld on appeal but had the verdict itself remanded due to the original trial not allowing Microsoft to present prior art in its defense. MS and Eolas settled rather than go to trial again, for an undisclosed amount that Eolas described to its shareholders as "substantial".
While they have agreed to take down the content in a civil suit, they still face criminal prosecution. In India you are criminally responsible for third party posts to your website, so Google India employees are still facing criminal charges. And agreeing to take it down has destroyed the Google employees' defense that they could not have preemptively taken it down because it is out of their control.
Even worse than that, it's a translation error in TFA (and presumably the police too). Babelfish turned "on va infinitive-verb subject" into "We will verb subject" when it should be "Subject will verb".
"ACN will explode" is a way better translation. "On" only means "we" in some contexts, and this is not one of them. In this case it means "Somebody will explode ACN" which one might interpret as a warning to this guy...or maybe it means what I just did in that very sentence? Who's "one?" That's right, it's avoiding the passive voice by putting in an anonymous actor! "on va exploser ACN" means the ACN will explode, with no information given about who or what is causing this to happen. And since "exploser" means "boom (economics)" and "soar (rocketry)" in addition to the obvious "explode"....yeah, he's saying the trade show is going to be big.
Our solar system has low levels of iron, carbon, and silicon too, but we still ended up with a big proportion of it. Basically, your rocks no matter what are going to be iron, nickel, and then oxides of silicon, aluminum, etc. I believe Earth is somewhere around 40% iron-nickel core, 60% silica and alumina rocks of various sorts, water and atmosphere not even worth a mention. They are surprised to find planets because they figured that there probably wouldn't be enough rock and dust to accrete planets. No matter how low the abundance, the rocky planets won't be mostly water because at that distance, water would not be dust and would not clump together with the rock and metal dusts. This suggests that either the starting protoplanetary halo around the star was much larger than the estimate of our own (so there would be enough rock and metal to form large rocky planets) or that this planet formed farther out, past the "frost line" where water would be ice dust, and so the planet would be almost entirely water. Then it would have migrated closer, possibly another planet nudged it like Jupiter did to so much stuff here at home. In that case, if it has an atmosphere it would quite possible be a giant ball of liquid water. Or ice, if there is enough pressure to keep ice solid at that temperature. But they have no idea! And it will take a long time to get an idea! A third, less likely, possibility is that the elemental abundance in the protoplanetary halo was different that what is observed in the star's spectral absorption lines. That could be because the star flew close to a lot of dust after forming, and most of it ended up in orbit rather than being sucked into the star itself.
At any rate, this is not the first very low metal (to an astronomer, anything that's not hydrogen or helium is a metal) star that has been found to have planets, so the old rule of "low metal, no planets possible" may be entirely incorrect, rather than having a few exceptional cases. But certainly if the models are quite wrong, their predictions about what such impossible planets are made of aren't very reliable;)
Increasing the mass of a planet increases its radius (if you keep the density the same), so assuming (probably incorrectly) equal density with Earth, you would have a planet 1.6 times the radius of Earth. So 4.5 times the force at an equal distance, but at 1.6 times the distance, so 1/2.56 the force (inverse square law) due to distance, 4.5 due to mass. 4.5/2.56 = 1.75 g. But it may have lower density.
If it takes two years to reach 95% light speed, 2 more to slow down, 23 at that speed to cover 22 ly, that's under 27 years (because I ignored the distance covered during those 4 years), 22 for the signal to go back, 49 years before earth gets the first messages from the other solar system. I sure hope it's not typical to die of old age before you hit 50...at any rate, the "real challenge" is that "just accelerate at 2g for 4 years" is "where the fuck is the next petrol station???". Like it's just that easy. The space shuttle's rockets use 1340 L of fuel per second. You'd need around 170,000,000 m^3 fuel tanks to keep those running for 4 years. Any idea how much 170 million cubic meters of rocket fuel weights? I bet it's a shitload, so the acceleration of that rocket is going to essentially be 0. So you'll need a lot of rockets. Now you'll need trillions of liters of fuel, and you still will have 0 acceleration. So that's why people talk about that speed being thousands of times more than what's possible with current rocket engines, because it's true. Things will change as we invent more fuel-mass efficient engines. Until then you may as well be suggesting we just use the TARDIS.
The key part isn't what shape it had, but that it kept its shape (with slight changes) over time and over multiple viewing angles, before leaving the area again. But the pictures are so grainy that I don't know that I would buy that bit, either. It certainly doesn't look scorpionish to me.
Considering the past history of ludicrously high damage claims and the huge amount of infringing content they probably actually have, I figured they'd be making up new words to describe the number they came up with...
Just because they only claim $500 million in lost revenues in no way prevents them from seeking $500 million trillion dollars in damages.
If something has to actually happen "so often that it works its way into the language" then there must be an AWFUL lot of foxes who can't reach grapes and so say "They were probably sour grapes anyways." Not to mention how very often wolves must put on sheepskin in order to sneak into flocks unnoticed, since such a common place occurrence has crept into language as a wolf in sheep's clothing. And then there is the sheer number of times a boy must have cried wolf for fun and then got his flock and/or family all eaten when they stop listening, since that's a phrase too! Or perhaps something can never actually happen even once, but still become a cautionary tale and an idiomatic expression?
The payout is higher than that because they don't give you anything in return! They pretend they'll replace it if it breaks, and lie to your face about what's covered, and then they don't cover it. The CBC did an under cover thing trying (and failing) to return damaged goods. "But your sales person says it covers accidental damage like being dropped" "No sir he did not, he would not say such things, it only covers manufacturing defects that you can prove were not exacerbated by your own actions in any way shape or form" "We taped him, actually" "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY STORE" Now I did manage to get my 1 year old Nomad Jukebox MP3 player replaced on extended warranty, because it just stopped turning on, but I understand that that was an exceptional case because on average they honour about 0 replacements per year;) But that was what, 2000? I'm sure things have gone downhill since then.
Yes or no, depending what you mean by "same reason". If you violate a law twice, you can be prosecuted twice. If you take a single action that violates multiple laws, you can be charged with two crimes for the "same reason". Most countries, Germany included, prevent "double jeopardy", being punished more than once for the same crime. But your question is not relevant to this article since they are being sued, not prosecuted, and double jeopardy does not apply. Though if you have had a suit withdrawn/thrown out "with prejudice" you can't bring it again. At any rate, even if you sue over Product A violating your patent #12345, you can still sue the same company over Product A violating patent #12346, or for Product B violating patent #12345 (unless you lost the first case by getting #12345 invalidated, in which case obviously you can't sue with it anymore).
And even though it's not really related to TFA, Germany's double jeopardy laws are weaker than the USA laws. In some cases the government can retry an acquittal. This only happens if, for example, it turns out that evidence was forged or otherwise not authentic, or a witness recants, things of that sort.
It's you who is confusing units. You can never compare watts and watt hours because they are measuring different things. You might as well have given the ratio between miles and miles/hour. Without a time to go along with the second figure, you can't compare them at all, ever. 1kWh on your bill means you used 3600 kJ, not kW. And a 10kW battery doesn't mean "this or this or this or this" it means "can produce 10,000 joules per second, with no given limit on how many seconds it can operate, at all". Batteries are measured in Watt-hours, not watts, because obviously there is a limit on how long they can operate at a given power level. My battery says it holds 56 Wh. It lasts like 3 hours, so my laptop must draw around 18.6 watts on average. 18.6 W * 3 h ~ 56 Wh.
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In January 2011 they were given conditional approval, that if by June 2011, with monthly progress reports, they could form a working group with the GPS providers, and demonstrate that both parties are happy and there is no interference, then they could go ahead (after the MANDATORY 30 day comment period). LightSquared got an extension so their final report was filed June 30th, and the MANDATORY 30 day comment period was July 1-30th. What dates are you talking about? Because it seems to me that there was a full 30 day comment period, and that happened 6 months after the conditional approval was granted. (Conditional approval does NOT let them start, they have to wait until the very end, other than their testing stations).
The tests (that actually happened) showed that 75% of consumer GPS devices received harmful interference when within 100 meters of the base station, and that's what's sufficient. LightSquared tried to argue that "harmful interference doesn't mean total failure! The test should have been whether or not the devices failed completely, not whether their accuracy was degraded! This test was obviously rigged against us OMG!" Only, too bad.
They're called "statistical studies" and they are used as evidence that a real study should be done, not that there's an actual effect in play. The problem with such studies is that they try their best to select an identical control group, but it's hard to do so. In this case it means matching the 15,000 people on the drug with 15,000 people who also have been diagnosed with insomnia (and for similar reasons), but all elected not to be medicated for it. Then you hope that that decision isn't in any way correlated with other behaviors that might increase or decrease the death rate.
What do you think nerve repair means? If you think it means using very tiny thread to suture the nerve sheath, while being careful not to suture the inner portion, then that's exactly what it means. The nerve itself will knit on its own. It's been done for a long time. You can find surgical manuals from the 30s that document proper nerve suture techniques. The first documented nerve suture was performed in 600 AD (though I can't find reference to the effectiveness of it). Microsurgery techniques have made great strides since then. And I believe that the major nerves will be in a larger bundle for an above-elbow arm transplant compared with a hand transplant, so this situation is actually easier than the hand transplant cases (though peripheral nerves are another story altogether). At any rate, nerves also regrow all on their own, though for an arm it can take 2-3 years of slow progress. There have been several above-elbow arm transplants that resulted (after 2 years recovery) in full elbow mobility, limited but useful sensation, and extension and flexing of fingers and thumb. (Citation for one such transplant, full article may be behind paywall).
The problem with nerve regrowth in transplants is that sometimes they just don't, though in 2009 French doctors discovered that they can trigger regrowth by manual stimulation of the motor cortex using magnetic impulses. The theory being that nerves that aren't being used by the brain anymore won't regrow, so if the amputation was not recent, the nerves won't grow without a jump start straight to the brain.
Above elbow/knee transplants can also have the problem that that much vascular bone marrow greatly increases the chance of graft-versus-host. Though apparently it can also lead to the opposite result, with the host accepting the graft tissue more readily.
Interesting narrative. Except that in the 20th century, the Liberal party formed the government 69 out of 100 years. So, THEY are the corrupt old guard only recently dethroned (and only resoundingly defeated this last election). The narrative is more like, "far right rises up, merges with progressive right, and fights dirty to ensure majority after is kills and buries the old guard."
Really? You're getting 8-10 total hours of sleep a night and have never felt so tired in your entire life?
If your RFID fails you do not have to get your passport re-issued. It is a valid document. Period.
Just like TFA, two months ago gmail started serving me nothing but breast pump, neonatal vitamin, and baby bottle ads. I'm a guy, but I am married so maybe they're trying to send a hint "why don't you have kids yet? Here we'll give you discount mail-order vitamins if you get busy!" But they also send me dating site ads. So if they do know I'm married, they don't have a high opinion of my marriage! Maybe that's why they want me to knock my wife up? ;)
According to TFA, the scientists (in their defense) claim to have told the official that there was no increased or decreased risk because they cannot make a definite prediction. The official is the one who turned that into "no risk at all because little quakes release energy and prevent big ones, drink some wine and relax!" Maybe they're lying now to cover their asses. But the big news in TFA is that this official and his boss arranged this press conference to "reassure the public there is no risk" before they even consulted the accused scientists, so I'd tend to believe the scientists that this official twisted their words or outright lied.
No, it's like they got in several small accidents, and asked a mechanic "Do all these little accidents mean a big one is coming?" and then suing him because he said "no, that's crazy" but they DID get in a big accident later. They are on trial for saying that little earthquakes don't indicate a big one is coming. This is totally true, but because little earthquakes ALSO don't mean that a big one ISN'T coming people died that might have fled the city without that reassurance. Similar to how people die in earthquakes due to scientists not giving a similar warning "no earthquakes could mean a big one is coming" so you should stay fled at all times.
A typical Slashdot response "anybody who thinks that comments have any connection whatsoever, however loose, to the thing being commented on, is obviously totally retarded".
He won $521 million, had the amount upheld on appeal but had the verdict itself remanded due to the original trial not allowing Microsoft to present prior art in its defense. MS and Eolas settled rather than go to trial again, for an undisclosed amount that Eolas described to its shareholders as "substantial".
While they have agreed to take down the content in a civil suit, they still face criminal prosecution. In India you are criminally responsible for third party posts to your website, so Google India employees are still facing criminal charges. And agreeing to take it down has destroyed the Google employees' defense that they could not have preemptively taken it down because it is out of their control.
Even worse than that, it's a translation error in TFA (and presumably the police too). Babelfish turned "on va infinitive-verb subject" into "We will verb subject" when it should be "Subject will verb".
"ACN will explode" is a way better translation. "On" only means "we" in some contexts, and this is not one of them. In this case it means "Somebody will explode ACN" which one might interpret as a warning to this guy...or maybe it means what I just did in that very sentence? Who's "one?" That's right, it's avoiding the passive voice by putting in an anonymous actor! "on va exploser ACN" means the ACN will explode, with no information given about who or what is causing this to happen. And since "exploser" means "boom (economics)" and "soar (rocketry)" in addition to the obvious "explode"....yeah, he's saying the trade show is going to be big.
Our solar system has low levels of iron, carbon, and silicon too, but we still ended up with a big proportion of it. Basically, your rocks no matter what are going to be iron, nickel, and then oxides of silicon, aluminum, etc. I believe Earth is somewhere around 40% iron-nickel core, 60% silica and alumina rocks of various sorts, water and atmosphere not even worth a mention. They are surprised to find planets because they figured that there probably wouldn't be enough rock and dust to accrete planets. No matter how low the abundance, the rocky planets won't be mostly water because at that distance, water would not be dust and would not clump together with the rock and metal dusts. This suggests that either the starting protoplanetary halo around the star was much larger than the estimate of our own (so there would be enough rock and metal to form large rocky planets) or that this planet formed farther out, past the "frost line" where water would be ice dust, and so the planet would be almost entirely water. Then it would have migrated closer, possibly another planet nudged it like Jupiter did to so much stuff here at home. In that case, if it has an atmosphere it would quite possible be a giant ball of liquid water. Or ice, if there is enough pressure to keep ice solid at that temperature. But they have no idea! And it will take a long time to get an idea! A third, less likely, possibility is that the elemental abundance in the protoplanetary halo was different that what is observed in the star's spectral absorption lines. That could be because the star flew close to a lot of dust after forming, and most of it ended up in orbit rather than being sucked into the star itself.
At any rate, this is not the first very low metal (to an astronomer, anything that's not hydrogen or helium is a metal) star that has been found to have planets, so the old rule of "low metal, no planets possible" may be entirely incorrect, rather than having a few exceptional cases. But certainly if the models are quite wrong, their predictions about what such impossible planets are made of aren't very reliable ;)
Increasing the mass of a planet increases its radius (if you keep the density the same), so assuming (probably incorrectly) equal density with Earth, you would have a planet 1.6 times the radius of Earth. So 4.5 times the force at an equal distance, but at 1.6 times the distance, so 1/2.56 the force (inverse square law) due to distance, 4.5 due to mass. 4.5/2.56 = 1.75 g. But it may have lower density.
If it takes two years to reach 95% light speed, 2 more to slow down, 23 at that speed to cover 22 ly, that's under 27 years (because I ignored the distance covered during those 4 years), 22 for the signal to go back, 49 years before earth gets the first messages from the other solar system. I sure hope it's not typical to die of old age before you hit 50...at any rate, the "real challenge" is that "just accelerate at 2g for 4 years" is "where the fuck is the next petrol station???". Like it's just that easy. The space shuttle's rockets use 1340 L of fuel per second. You'd need around 170,000,000 m^3 fuel tanks to keep those running for 4 years. Any idea how much 170 million cubic meters of rocket fuel weights? I bet it's a shitload, so the acceleration of that rocket is going to essentially be 0. So you'll need a lot of rockets. Now you'll need trillions of liters of fuel, and you still will have 0 acceleration. So that's why people talk about that speed being thousands of times more than what's possible with current rocket engines, because it's true. Things will change as we invent more fuel-mass efficient engines. Until then you may as well be suggesting we just use the TARDIS.
The key part isn't what shape it had, but that it kept its shape (with slight changes) over time and over multiple viewing angles, before leaving the area again. But the pictures are so grainy that I don't know that I would buy that bit, either. It certainly doesn't look scorpionish to me.
Just because they only claim $500 million in lost revenues in no way prevents them from seeking $500 million trillion dollars in damages.
If something has to actually happen "so often that it works its way into the language" then there must be an AWFUL lot of foxes who can't reach grapes and so say "They were probably sour grapes anyways." Not to mention how very often wolves must put on sheepskin in order to sneak into flocks unnoticed, since such a common place occurrence has crept into language as a wolf in sheep's clothing. And then there is the sheer number of times a boy must have cried wolf for fun and then got his flock and/or family all eaten when they stop listening, since that's a phrase too! Or perhaps something can never actually happen even once, but still become a cautionary tale and an idiomatic expression?
The payout is higher than that because they don't give you anything in return! They pretend they'll replace it if it breaks, and lie to your face about what's covered, and then they don't cover it. The CBC did an under cover thing trying (and failing) to return damaged goods. "But your sales person says it covers accidental damage like being dropped" "No sir he did not, he would not say such things, it only covers manufacturing defects that you can prove were not exacerbated by your own actions in any way shape or form" "We taped him, actually" "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY STORE" Now I did manage to get my 1 year old Nomad Jukebox MP3 player replaced on extended warranty, because it just stopped turning on, but I understand that that was an exceptional case because on average they honour about 0 replacements per year ;) But that was what, 2000? I'm sure things have gone downhill since then.
Editor is short for "Edit, or don't".
Yes or no, depending what you mean by "same reason". If you violate a law twice, you can be prosecuted twice. If you take a single action that violates multiple laws, you can be charged with two crimes for the "same reason". Most countries, Germany included, prevent "double jeopardy", being punished more than once for the same crime. But your question is not relevant to this article since they are being sued, not prosecuted, and double jeopardy does not apply. Though if you have had a suit withdrawn/thrown out "with prejudice" you can't bring it again. At any rate, even if you sue over Product A violating your patent #12345, you can still sue the same company over Product A violating patent #12346, or for Product B violating patent #12345 (unless you lost the first case by getting #12345 invalidated, in which case obviously you can't sue with it anymore).
And even though it's not really related to TFA, Germany's double jeopardy laws are weaker than the USA laws. In some cases the government can retry an acquittal. This only happens if, for example, it turns out that evidence was forged or otherwise not authentic, or a witness recants, things of that sort.
It's you who is confusing units. You can never compare watts and watt hours because they are measuring different things. You might as well have given the ratio between miles and miles/hour. Without a time to go along with the second figure, you can't compare them at all, ever. 1kWh on your bill means you used 3600 kJ, not kW. And a 10kW battery doesn't mean "this or this or this or this" it means "can produce 10,000 joules per second, with no given limit on how many seconds it can operate, at all". Batteries are measured in Watt-hours, not watts, because obviously there is a limit on how long they can operate at a given power level. My battery says it holds 56 Wh. It lasts like 3 hours, so my laptop must draw around 18.6 watts on average. 18.6 W * 3 h ~ 56 Wh.