"The natural aurora is created when very high energy particles emitted by the sun, reach the Earth's vicinity, are swept toward the Earth's magnetic poles, and collide with gas molecules existing in the upper atmosphere. The energy involved in this process is enormous but is entirely natural and it has been a normal event throughout Earth's history."
"HAARP is so much weaker than these naturally occurring processes that it is completely incapable of producing any optical effects that can be seen without using very sensitive telescopes."
According to the website it is no where near the amount of energy needed to create SKY SPAM so don't start worrying anytime soon. But then again this is Slashdot where everything is blown way out of proportion.
If anyone is looking for a Unix alternative to Linux I definitely recommend trying FreeSBIE. You can learn the way of the BSD without messing with your current install.
It's funny how everyone assumes that anything bad must be the US government's doing even though the article clearly states that this is in France and in a French government issue. If your looking for reasons to hate the US atleast use stories that are actually ABOUT the US.
The weapons these things are carrying are the M249 SAW. They are chambered in the 5.56mm NATO round spec and carry a 200 round box which it feeds from, but it can also use the regular 30 round magazines that the M-16 uses. The gun was developed in the 70s and has been used by the US, UK, and Isreali forces. Although the original ones could accept the M-16 magazines the latest Mk.46 mod.0 version doesn't include this option as to save weight on an already hefty 6.8 kg gun.
"The government either needs to stop making moral issues legal issues."
Moral issues? You mean like murder, theft, and rape? All legal issues are based on moral issues. Where would the law come from if it wasn't originally from people morals? Making something law puts a official government stamp of approval on someone's set of morals.
"What really happened is that fear won. Fear of terrorism, fear of gay marriage, fear of a lot of things."
Fear of a draft, fear of loss of freedoms, fear that old people won't be able to afford their medicine. You know you can say it was fear that made people vote for Bush but an equal number of Democrats voted in fear as well. From my perspective it is rather clear why the Democrats lost this round: The Democratic party's own intolerance and mockery of religion is what caused their loss. Until they realise that the US is a very religious nation and fixes their lack of tolerance for them they will never win another election. Also making fun of people living in rural areas and calling them stupid isn't going to win their support IMHO.
"I find it particularly disturbing that the religious zelots on the right would outlaw late term abortions with no provision for protecting the life of the mother."
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute only 2.8% of all abortions are due to maternal health risks. You make it sound as though large amounts of women would be dieing if abortion was illegal. One of the facts you are missing is that even legal abortions are not totally safe for the mother. The CDC has recorded over 550 confirmed deaths from legal abortion and mothers with life threatening complications is in the hundreds of thousands.
"As a general computer geek, I don't trust anything that dosen't have a paper trail. You can kill a computer hardrive and do funky things to code in such a mallicous fashion as to say or do anything you want. If there isn't a carbon trail, it isn't secure."
Yeah if it was done with a paper trail people couldn't forge votes receipts or vote for dead people or....oh wait.
The video is is WMV format. So if you don't have something that plays WMV I recommend heading over here and grabbing a copy of Xine which will be able to play the video.
You do know that if you call up Sony and say anything about a "disk read error" that they will have you ship them your PS2 and send you back one with a new DVD-ROM and/or a new mobo with all the latest firmware updates and DVD player software right?
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to posses arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so." -Adolf Hitler
# They will lead to a fundamental restructuring of the world's communications satellite industry and lead to the development of global satellite operators with integrated L-band, C-band, Ku-band and Ka-band systems, using geostationary and low and middle earth orbits.
# This will reinforce the dominance of the United States in the provision of space and ground infrastructure, information technology and services.
# It looks likely that either low earth or middle earth orbiting satellite systems will have a major competitive advantage over geostationary systems. Such Ka-band networks will, in the long run, be integrated with Big LEO mobile satellite networks.
# Geostationary Ka-band satellites will be ineffective in providing a platform for ATM services because of the time delay in a signal being transmitted from one ground station to another through such a satellite. The problem is likely to be addressed by using low or medium earth orbit satellites.
# Current regional or major domestic satellite operators will only survive in this market if they tie closely to the dominant global operators. Use of inter-satellite links will facilitate this.
# If they do not cooperate, they are faced with the option of getting into the US marketplace or getting out of the satcoms business altogether.
# There is no one clearly identified "killer application" for Ka-band satellites but provision of high speed Internet and associated services is likely to be a major short to medium term lead market. Ka-band satellites can provide the cheapest and most quickly available of all options (high speed cable modems, ADSL and ISDN) in providing such high speed access.
# Ka-band satellites are likely to find a role in the mass consumer markets with "Home-use VSAT" sales running into, perhaps, millions per year. Consumers are also likely to be offered combined Ku-band/Ka-band dishes capable of receiving digital satellite television services and providing two-way services.
# Ka-band satellites will offer the best of 21st Century communications services to underdeveloped regions of the world.
# The policy and regulatory issues behind Ka-band satellites are far more complex and demanding than those that have hitherto faced any form of satellite communications including DTH and DBS TV, VSATs and PCS mobile communications satellites.
# The United States is arm twisting the rest of the world to open up the global telecommunications market place to allow Ka-band satellite operators to compete with local telecoms and satellite interests.
# The Ka-band Report contradicts the conventional wisdom that Ka-band satellites will come later rather than sooner. Behind closed door developments facilitating Ka-band communications are happening right now - with the satellite operators, the
# European Commission, the World Trade organisation and elsewhere.
# The first orders for broadband Ka-band satellites are likely to be placed this year.
# There will be a considerable shakeout of the current number of plans for Ka-band satellite systems with only the stronger or more entrepreneurial projects surviving. Even so, some major satellite operators remain woefully unprepared for the Ka-band era.
# The world's satellite operators should be looking to Ka-band services, not digital satellite television, as their next great market opportunity.
# They will need to develop new marketing policies and customer bases and cultivate new partners both amongst existing and new telecoms operators.
# Europe remains way behind the United States in developing the appropriate satellite technology (on-board processing, switching, antennas) and ground stations (phased array antennas) needed for the Ka-band environment.
" I totally agree, this is a huge issue. Phishing attacks, spyware, malware, viruses, and more are out there and probably the largest problem facing computer science today. This isn't a Microsoft, Linux, or Java issue - this is a "good guys" issue. Windows XP SP2 is probably the best response to Miguel's security concerns. The integrated firewall, security center, and dozens of other security related features are really the first line of defense.
After the basics are resolved there, I would say that the new enhancements to the security system in Avalon are a great step. Not only is Avalon built from the ground up to be secure, but we are enhancing the security system for better application level security, and simpler more understandable presentation of security decisions to the user (hopefully in most cases this means no decision).
As to the specific issue of Phishng that Miguel brings up, that is still mostly a research level issue, which I'd love to see creative solutions to. In Windows today there is the secure desktop, but you must press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to get to it first. "
"that doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't faithfully retyped copies of originals"
Yeah kind of like those symbols made in wheat fields...even though we know that people put them there that doesn't mean that they weren't just faithful copies of real alien works.
Slashdot Mirror
"The natural aurora is created when very high energy particles emitted by the sun, reach the Earth's vicinity, are swept toward the Earth's magnetic poles, and collide with gas molecules existing in the upper atmosphere. The energy involved in this process is enormous but is entirely natural and it has been a normal event throughout Earth's history."
"HAARP is so much weaker than these naturally occurring processes that it is completely incapable of producing any optical effects that can be seen without using very sensitive telescopes."
According to the website it is no where near the amount of energy needed to create SKY SPAM so don't start worrying anytime soon. But then again this is Slashdot where everything is blown way out of proportion.Actually if you check the mirrors it only has a G5 version. The Mini Mac comes in 1.25GHz, and and 1.42GHz G4 models.
They have versions for the G3, G4, G5, and other PPC chips.
Surf on over here for the torrent file.
Microsoft not opening their formats!? Shocker!!! Is anyone in the least bit surprized by this?
It's funny how everyone assumes that anything bad must be the US government's doing even though the article clearly states that this is in France and in a French government issue. If your looking for reasons to hate the US atleast use stories that are actually ABOUT the US.
This completely debunks the myth that is this Slashdot article.
The weapons these things are carrying are the M249 SAW. They are chambered in the 5.56mm NATO round spec and carry a 200 round box which it feeds from, but it can also use the regular 30 round magazines that the M-16 uses. The gun was developed in the 70s and has been used by the US, UK, and Isreali forces. Although the original ones could accept the M-16 magazines the latest Mk.46 mod.0 version doesn't include this option as to save weight on an already hefty 6.8 kg gun.
"The government either needs to stop making moral issues legal issues."
Moral issues? You mean like murder, theft, and rape? All legal issues are based on moral issues. Where would the law come from if it wasn't originally from people morals? Making something law puts a official government stamp of approval on someone's set of morals.
"What really happened is that fear won. Fear of terrorism, fear of gay marriage, fear of a lot of things."
Fear of a draft, fear of loss of freedoms, fear that old people won't be able to afford their medicine. You know you can say it was fear that made people vote for Bush but an equal number of Democrats voted in fear as well. From my perspective it is rather clear why the Democrats lost this round: The Democratic party's own intolerance and mockery of religion is what caused their loss. Until they realise that the US is a very religious nation and fixes their lack of tolerance for them they will never win another election. Also making fun of people living in rural areas and calling them stupid isn't going to win their support IMHO.
"I find it particularly disturbing that the religious zelots on the right would outlaw late term abortions with no provision for protecting the life of the mother."
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute only 2.8% of all abortions are due to maternal health risks. You make it sound as though large amounts of women would be dieing if abortion was illegal. One of the facts you are missing is that even legal abortions are not totally safe for the mother. The CDC has recorded over 550 confirmed deaths from legal abortion and mothers with life threatening complications is in the hundreds of thousands.
"As a general computer geek, I don't trust anything that dosen't have a paper trail. You can kill a computer hardrive and do funky things to code in such a mallicous fashion as to say or do anything you want. If there isn't a carbon trail, it isn't secure."
Yeah if it was done with a paper trail people couldn't forge votes receipts or vote for dead people or....oh wait.
That is the age you have to be to buy a mature rated game....He could have bought it himself legally.
"Germany could not forbid nazi-propaganda spread by german servers"
Who says that the UN will change Germany's law and not just outlaw nazi-propaganda anywhere on the internet?
"So, the DS can run in Ad-Hoc mode, and AP mode. This is groundbreaking because.......????"
Because no mainstream handheld gaming console has ever had this functionality...basically.
The video is is WMV format. So if you don't have something that plays WMV I recommend heading over here and grabbing a copy of Xine which will be able to play the video.
Serial Experiments Lain anyone?
You do know that if you call up Sony and say anything about a "disk read error" that they will have you ship them your PS2 and send you back one with a new DVD-ROM and/or a new mobo with all the latest firmware updates and DVD player software right?
"Marxist Hacker 42 writes"
-You don't think he could be biased do you?
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to posses arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so." -Adolf Hitler
# They will lead to a fundamental restructuring of the world's communications satellite industry and lead to the development of global satellite operators with integrated L-band, C-band, Ku-band and Ka-band systems, using geostationary and low and middle earth orbits.
# This will reinforce the dominance of the United States in the provision of space and ground infrastructure, information technology and services.
# It looks likely that either low earth or middle earth orbiting satellite systems will have a major competitive advantage over geostationary systems. Such Ka-band networks will, in the long run, be integrated with Big LEO mobile satellite networks.
# Geostationary Ka-band satellites will be ineffective in providing a platform for ATM services because of the time delay in a signal being transmitted from one ground station to another through such a satellite. The problem is likely to be addressed by using low or medium earth orbit satellites.
# Current regional or major domestic satellite operators will only survive in this market if they tie closely to the dominant global operators. Use of inter-satellite links will facilitate this.
# If they do not cooperate, they are faced with the option of getting into the US marketplace or getting out of the satcoms business altogether.
# There is no one clearly identified "killer application" for Ka-band satellites but provision of high speed Internet and associated services is likely to be a major short to medium term lead market. Ka-band satellites can provide the cheapest and most quickly available of all options (high speed cable modems, ADSL and ISDN) in providing such high speed access.
# Ka-band satellites are likely to find a role in the mass consumer markets with "Home-use VSAT" sales running into, perhaps, millions per year. Consumers are also likely to be offered combined Ku-band/Ka-band dishes capable of receiving digital satellite television services and providing two-way services.
# Ka-band satellites will offer the best of 21st Century communications services to underdeveloped regions of the world.
# The policy and regulatory issues behind Ka-band satellites are far more complex and demanding than those that have hitherto faced any form of satellite communications including DTH and DBS TV, VSATs and PCS mobile communications satellites.
# The United States is arm twisting the rest of the world to open up the global telecommunications market place to allow Ka-band satellite operators to compete with local telecoms and satellite interests.
# The Ka-band Report contradicts the conventional wisdom that Ka-band satellites will come later rather than sooner. Behind closed door developments facilitating Ka-band communications are happening right now - with the satellite operators, the
# European Commission, the World Trade organisation and elsewhere.
# The first orders for broadband Ka-band satellites are likely to be placed this year.
# There will be a considerable shakeout of the current number of plans for Ka-band satellite systems with only the stronger or more entrepreneurial projects surviving. Even so, some major satellite operators remain woefully unprepared for the Ka-band era.
# The world's satellite operators should be looking to Ka-band services, not digital satellite television, as their next great market opportunity.
# They will need to develop new marketing policies and customer bases and cultivate new partners both amongst existing and new telecoms operators.
# Europe remains way behind the United States in developing the appropriate satellite technology (on-board processing, switching, antennas) and ground stations (phased array antennas) needed for the Ka-band environment.
Source: http://www.mindbranch.com
Here is the official specifications of the OpenGL 2.0 in PDF format.
" I totally agree, this is a huge issue. Phishing attacks, spyware, malware, viruses, and more are out there and probably the largest problem facing computer science today. This isn't a Microsoft, Linux, or Java issue - this is a "good guys" issue. Windows XP SP2 is probably the best response to Miguel's security concerns. The integrated firewall, security center, and dozens of other security related features are really the first line of defense. After the basics are resolved there, I would say that the new enhancements to the security system in Avalon are a great step. Not only is Avalon built from the ground up to be secure, but we are enhancing the security system for better application level security, and simpler more understandable presentation of security decisions to the user (hopefully in most cases this means no decision). As to the specific issue of Phishng that Miguel brings up, that is still mostly a research level issue, which I'd love to see creative solutions to. In Windows today there is the secure desktop, but you must press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to get to it first. "
"that doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't faithfully retyped copies of originals"
Yeah kind of like those symbols made in wheat fields...even though we know that people put them there that doesn't mean that they weren't just faithful copies of real alien works.
The part where everyone "knowingly" has security flaws, because everyone knows that all software has flaws.