Not only would the cycle last longer, it wouldn't be a steady curve. It would have the same characteristics as an eclipsing binary, such as Algol: ------v------v------v------v with the dips coming as the planet transits the star.
I doubt it. Terrestrial planets wouldn't block enough of a star's light to make a noticable difference. Consider that the Earth is about 8,000 miles in diameter and Sol about 865,000. That's roughly 108 times the diameter and the area (what's important here) is proportional to the square of the diameter making Sol's area on the order of 11664 times that of the Earth. Even with Jovian planets, the area covered is small, but apparently not too small.
Yes, with a good camera attached to the telescope, the dimming could have been detected decades ago, but nobody was looking. Even if they were, it would have been almost impossible to spot the difference. You'd have to use a blink comparator, like they did in finding Pluto, and trying to spot a small dimming and brightening is much harder than seeing that a spot's moved.
Yes; I found one later. However, I still think it's bad manners and I won't go back to that inconsiderate site. I might add that my letter to postmaster bounced!
I followed that link and got a nasty surprise: the idiot webmonster there resized my browser to full screen. If he'd set it to maximize, I could have set it back, but no. He reset it to un-maximized but taking up my entire screen. I don't like having my windows take up the full screen, I don't like having somebody else decide to change it and I'm going to tell that phule that I'll never visit that site again!
You make some excellent points. I'd just like to add that the right to say what you want doesn't include the right to an audience. Yes, you can say what you want, but I can always walk away, change the station or use the Back button on my browser.
I've come to the decision that to many of the moderators, any post they don't agree with is modded down as Troll or Flamebait. They seem to think that it's OK to use these mods to stifle all opinions except theirs. Shame, really, as Overrated would work just as well and be less likely to be meta-modded Unfair.
Courts do, at times, pay attention to precedents set in other nations. If they have no local precedents to follow, they can check other countries with similar laws for precedents. If they find them, they can decide it's appropriate to follow them. There's nothing binding, it's strictly voluntary, but it does happen.
Thanx for pointing me there, I'd never seen it. I may be showing my age, but I kept expecting him to say that the way to combat this was to start a Boy's Band, with instruments, uniforms and music purhased from Professor Harold Hill.
"We got trouble! Trouble in River City! Trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for Pool!"
This is a classic protection racket. You know, "Give me five dollars a month per student, and nobody gets sued." It doesn't matter if half the students never download anything, they still have to pay the $5/month. They should give the kids accounts and bill them, so that only those using the service have to pay.
Considering the number of complaints every time there's an article in this section, you'd think they'd change the color scheme. We shouldn't have to modify the url or go through other hacks to get a page it doesn't hurt to look at.
All you need to do is join a few mailing lists with people on it that use this. Then, you run you CD of email address through it, looking for hits. This gives you a much smaller list, but they're all confirmed, known good addresses. The cool thing, from the spammer's perspective is that you don't have to go out and harvest, people go out of their way to give you their friend's email addresses.
Exactly what I was thinking. If you use the definite article, you need to capitalize it. In that formation, its a proper noun. The term itself refers to the interconnection of several, distinct networks. If all military networks were connected together, but had no connection to any other network, they'd become a seperate internet of their own, as would something similar for banking. This isn't done simply because the ammount of infrastructure needed for support would be prohibitively expensive. There's also too many advantages to being connected for anybody to seriously consider building a parallel network. I suspect that over the long run, The Internet will be like The Highlander: There can be only one!
There may well be a difference. The suggested fee is a flat rate, charged automatically with no relation to the actual costs. Even if the costs are a small precentage of the money charged, the charges go on. If it comes out of income tax, all that goes to wiretap payments is the amount actually needed.
As several others have pointed out, all wiretapping, email snooping and other communications intercepting are inherently invasions of privacy, but are sometimes needed. If the police agency asking for it has to pay the costs out of their regular operating budget, then they have to ask themselves if the benefits are worth the cost. Having a fund like this means it's effectively free for them, making "fishing expeditions" more attractive, and invites abuse. Yes, I know they still have to persuade a judge to sign the warrant, but I'd still rather have the police reluctant to use them without good reason.
Close, but no cigar. What gives money its value is our collective agreement to accept it in payment. When you come down to it, we're really bartering, but instead of having to have goods to swap, we swap something easy to carry and of a known (if artificial) value. Money is just an abstract representation of goods that simplifies commerce.
I use Zone Alarm. When I update it, I get a message from it telling me that something's trying to shut it down. It tells me to click OK if I'm updating/upgrading, and to click NO if I didn't intend this. From what I gather, the XP firewall gives no warning when something kills it.
A router that does port filtering like the Linksys does is more than "just" a NAT device. Not only does it do filtering, my ADSL modem does it, and I use ZA because port filtering in and of itself isn't enough.
We can give them what they want, and more important, what they need. Alas, HR is so stuck on changing "It would be nice if he had..." Into "Must have..." and they're so focussed on making exact matches that they can't see how somebody can become a perfect fit with a little patience. In most companies, today, HR rejects dozens of resumes from people the managers would be glad to get simply because they don't have the right "magic word."
I see: instead of responding to what I wrote, you respond to what you wish I'd written and throw ad homonem attacks. Yes, the NVA came across the border in 72, we didn't go looking for them. When they did, we blew up their tanks, their half-tracks, their trucks, their ammo and them. They lost allmost all their materiel and suffered a high casuilty rate while doing little or no damage to us. Sounds like they came, we kicked their asses and they ran to me.
As far as the nampalm goes, I'm not making any excuses because there's no way to excuse that. Yes, people made mistakes, people got carried away, people did wrong. But what you're unwilling to accept is that those were exceptions, not the rule. That type of conduct was never considered acceptable and unlike the lies Kerry told it was never a matter of policy, or routine. Kerry used the tried-and-true big lie technique, and it worked.
No matter how good you are, you still have to get your foot in the door. If nobody's hiring in your field, or they're looking for qualifications you don't have, you're still screwed. Alas, the idea of hiring somebody that will learn new things and grow into the job never occurs to too many companies today. They want you to be skilled in everything they need before you get there. Of course, if you are that skilled, you're probably looking for a job that needs more than just those skills. What they seem to end up with is somebody that can just squeek by on the qualifications enough to BS their way through the interview. Once they've done that, they think they don't need to learn anything more, so the company ends up with staff that's on the edge of incompetence.
I doubt that any of the infected systems could be re-installed from floppy.
That reminds me of a case where a caller needed to extract files from floppies, but was missing one. He called back when he'd borrowed one, but he'd borrowed a 3.5" and the rest of his set were 5.25". Naturally, it didn't have the right files as the capacity was different and the disk in question was one in the middle.
Average users click on everything? Sure, and some so-called techs do too. Back when Mellissa came out, I was working at a tech shop. I got dozens of the message, all from internal addresses because of ID10Ts using Outlook. When the Love Bug came out, I got over 100, again, all internal because nobody learned the first time. Me? I was using Eudora, and laughed my head off because I wasn't using that mass of bugs and security holes.
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Not only would the cycle last longer, it wouldn't be a steady curve. It would have the same characteristics as an eclipsing binary, such as Algol: ------v------v------v------v with the dips coming as the planet transits the star.
I doubt it. Terrestrial planets wouldn't block enough of a star's light to make a noticable difference. Consider that the Earth is about 8,000 miles in diameter and Sol about 865,000. That's roughly 108 times the diameter and the area (what's important here) is proportional to the square of the diameter making Sol's area on the order of 11664 times that of the Earth. Even with Jovian planets, the area covered is small, but apparently not too small.
Yes, with a good camera attached to the telescope, the dimming could have been detected decades ago, but nobody was looking. Even if they were, it would have been almost impossible to spot the difference. You'd have to use a blink comparator, like they did in finding Pluto, and trying to spot a small dimming and brightening is much harder than seeing that a spot's moved.
Yes; I found one later. However, I still think it's bad manners and I won't go back to that inconsiderate site. I might add that my letter to postmaster bounced!
I followed that link and got a nasty surprise: the idiot webmonster there resized my browser to full screen. If he'd set it to maximize, I could have set it back, but no. He reset it to un-maximized but taking up my entire screen. I don't like having my windows take up the full screen, I don't like having somebody else decide to change it and I'm going to tell that phule that I'll never visit that site again!
You make some excellent points. I'd just like to add that the right to say what you want doesn't include the right to an audience. Yes, you can say what you want, but I can always walk away, change the station or use the Back button on my browser.
I've come to the decision that to many of the moderators, any post they don't agree with is modded down as Troll or Flamebait. They seem to think that it's OK to use these mods to stifle all opinions except theirs. Shame, really, as Overrated would work just as well and be less likely to be meta-modded Unfair.
Courts do, at times, pay attention to precedents set in other nations. If they have no local precedents to follow, they can check other countries with similar laws for precedents. If they find them, they can decide it's appropriate to follow them. There's nothing binding, it's strictly voluntary, but it does happen.
"We got trouble! Trouble in River City! Trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for Pool!"
This is a classic protection racket. You know, "Give me five dollars a month per student, and nobody gets sued." It doesn't matter if half the students never download anything, they still have to pay the $5/month. They should give the kids accounts and bill them, so that only those using the service have to pay.
Considering the number of complaints every time there's an article in this section, you'd think they'd change the color scheme. We shouldn't have to modify the url or go through other hacks to get a page it doesn't hurt to look at.
All you need to do is join a few mailing lists with people on it that use this. Then, you run you CD of email address through it, looking for hits. This gives you a much smaller list, but they're all confirmed, known good addresses. The cool thing, from the spammer's perspective is that you don't have to go out and harvest, people go out of their way to give you their friend's email addresses.
Exactly what I was thinking. If you use the definite article, you need to capitalize it. In that formation, its a proper noun. The term itself refers to the interconnection of several, distinct networks. If all military networks were connected together, but had no connection to any other network, they'd become a seperate internet of their own, as would something similar for banking. This isn't done simply because the ammount of infrastructure needed for support would be prohibitively expensive. There's also too many advantages to being connected for anybody to seriously consider building a parallel network. I suspect that over the long run, The Internet will be like The Highlander: There can be only one!
Yes, but if it comes out of income tax, they'll only be given as much as they need, rather than a big lump to do with as they wish.
There may well be a difference. The suggested fee is a flat rate, charged automatically with no relation to the actual costs. Even if the costs are a small precentage of the money charged, the charges go on. If it comes out of income tax, all that goes to wiretap payments is the amount actually needed.
As several others have pointed out, all wiretapping, email snooping and other communications intercepting are inherently invasions of privacy, but are sometimes needed. If the police agency asking for it has to pay the costs out of their regular operating budget, then they have to ask themselves if the benefits are worth the cost. Having a fund like this means it's effectively free for them, making "fishing expeditions" more attractive, and invites abuse. Yes, I know they still have to persuade a judge to sign the warrant, but I'd still rather have the police reluctant to use them without good reason.
Close, but no cigar. What gives money its value is our collective agreement to accept it in payment. When you come down to it, we're really bartering, but instead of having to have goods to swap, we swap something easy to carry and of a known (if artificial) value. Money is just an abstract representation of goods that simplifies commerce.
I use Zone Alarm. When I update it, I get a message from it telling me that something's trying to shut it down. It tells me to click OK if I'm updating/upgrading, and to click NO if I didn't intend this. From what I gather, the XP firewall gives no warning when something kills it.
A router that does port filtering like the Linksys does is more than "just" a NAT device. Not only does it do filtering, my ADSL modem does it, and I use ZA because port filtering in and of itself isn't enough.
We can give them what they want, and more important, what they need. Alas, HR is so stuck on changing "It would be nice if he had..." Into "Must have..." and they're so focussed on making exact matches that they can't see how somebody can become a perfect fit with a little patience. In most companies, today, HR rejects dozens of resumes from people the managers would be glad to get simply because they don't have the right "magic word."
As far as the nampalm goes, I'm not making any excuses because there's no way to excuse that. Yes, people made mistakes, people got carried away, people did wrong. But what you're unwilling to accept is that those were exceptions, not the rule. That type of conduct was never considered acceptable and unlike the lies Kerry told it was never a matter of policy, or routine. Kerry used the tried-and-true big lie technique, and it worked.
No matter how good you are, you still have to get your foot in the door. If nobody's hiring in your field, or they're looking for qualifications you don't have, you're still screwed. Alas, the idea of hiring somebody that will learn new things and grow into the job never occurs to too many companies today. They want you to be skilled in everything they need before you get there. Of course, if you are that skilled, you're probably looking for a job that needs more than just those skills. What they seem to end up with is somebody that can just squeek by on the qualifications enough to BS their way through the interview. Once they've done that, they think they don't need to learn anything more, so the company ends up with staff that's on the edge of incompetence.
Really? Let's see you reinstall Win2K or XP from floppies. I don't think they're sold on anything except CD.
That reminds me of a case where a caller needed to extract files from floppies, but was missing one. He called back when he'd borrowed one, but he'd borrowed a 3.5" and the rest of his set were 5.25". Naturally, it didn't have the right files as the capacity was different and the disk in question was one in the middle.
Average users click on everything? Sure, and some so-called techs do too. Back when Mellissa came out, I was working at a tech shop. I got dozens of the message, all from internal addresses because of ID10Ts using Outlook. When the Love Bug came out, I got over 100, again, all internal because nobody learned the first time. Me? I was using Eudora, and laughed my head off because I wasn't using that mass of bugs and security holes.