The only instance of a laptop affecting an aircrafts instruments occured with one of my previous managers. He was quite an interesting character and a decent manager/director. In this case he had his laptop powered on and was doing some work when he noticed the flight engineer walking into the cabin and checking the passengers. The engineer finally stopped by him as he had the only laptop on. It turned out he had left his ethernet dongle or modem dongle attached to his laptop. I forget which one. Anyway's it was acting as an antenna and causing a tick to register on the flight engineers indicators. After the removal of the dongle the ticking went away.
There is no way NASA can achieve those goals set with that budget appropriation. Look at the Space station NASA can barely keep that running with the $$$ they have.
If they want to dump major $$$ into NASA the goal should be building a Stanford Torus type station rather than a Mars Base. It would be a real stepping stone into space.
Case #1: Computers failing due to overheating. Turned out the AC vents were clogged. Reason? Wasp nest clogging the AC vents, needed to debug the vents. From a friend that had to do the debugging.
Case #2: Ants crawling into computer (Taught me not to eat while working on the insides of my PC) Had to clean out peanut butter & jelly from inside my keyboard once. Keys stuck too much.
Case #3: Rats nests inside the computers chewing on cables etc. Big problem at one Texas co-lo. Had to replace all the ethernet cabling. From a site I was consulting at.
Case #4: Little kid decides to feed the computer his milk. Milk stopped the computer from booting, but did not fry anything. Worked after we swabbed everything down with alcohol and washed the case off. A friend dropped off the computer for us to fix after finding out it did not work.
I thought Intel tried this with the serial number embeded in their CPU's. I think all it did was give AMD one a sales boost. After Intel put the serial number into their CPU's I stopped buying Intel. I have gone thru 12 Athlons so far and I doubt if I am the only extreme gamer out there that has done so.
More likely this will show up first from the PRC. I doubt very much if the Chinese goverment would like Western World spyware loaded into every single PC's BIOS there.
I can imagine the reaction of those kids. A long time ago when I was actually practicing martial arts a lot. I had a little encounter with Bugs Bunny at one of the amusement parks. Basically I was walking along with some friends and this big had came down on my shoulder from behind me. Out of sheer reflex I had him in a shoulder throw on his way into the ground when I realized just who/what I was throwing. I had him off his feet and balanced on me before I stopped. Turned out to be a guy in a Bugs Bunny costume going around slapping folks on the back and saying Hi. Needless to say there were a lot of shocked people and kids around me. Duh, I could imagine the headlines, guy beats up Bugs Bunny at amusement park.:p
Not a problem. My old air cooled 2100+ ran at 65C all the time. My current CPU, a 3200+ runs at 48C. I have it water cooled along with my FX5900, HD's and RAM. Way more quiet than my previous case which had some 8 fans in it.
Well walking out of a movie these days the general comments I overhear range from, "wow it did not suck as much as I thought it would suck." to "that really sucked". Few comments of, "Wow, that was great"
Are you thinking of Gamma Ray Beams? Grazers? There is also the possbility of using this as a source of spaceship propulsion. Put into Rods the energy density and controllable detonation would make it an ideal spaceship engine.
This would be very interesting for a few large companies. I worked as a consultant for a few years and as a result installed systems in a lot of companies. Sysadmins being a varied and onery lot the computers have been named for the 7 dwarfs in Snow White's cartoon, Loony toons chracters, Buffy's the vampire slayers characters, Snakes, spiders, Pop-stars, actors, Monsters etc.. I imagine interesting things happening as each of these companies send diagnostic information to their vendors support staff. eg, DaffyDuck.syslog.tar etc..
One person could potentially have a tag in his pants, underwear, shirt, wallet, belt, shoes, jacket, cellphone, pda, pager etc.. So 1 guy could have a minimum of 5-10 tags on him. The passive tags are small with very limited range. How are the scanners going to discriminate between him and the thousands of other people walking past the scanner?
I am sure someone will sell little hand held RFID detetctors that will locate the tags so you can remove them. If not I am sure a simple EMP type device can be constructed to fry the circuitry easilly.
There could be major problems with this. Can you imagine a unscrupulos GM basically printing electronic money? The US secret service would have to get involved in any case where a player was suspected of hacking or cheating because that electronic currency in the game is convertible to US dollars.
Sounds like the Canopy group is going to pump up SCO stock. cash out as much of its "stock" as possible and then let the whole house of cards burn down. What I do not understand is the DOJ and SEC sitting on their asses while all this is going on. The people who stand to be burned are any SCO stock holders who hold onto SCO stock too long and the people tricked into paying SCO's "license" fees.
Does not take much to learn how to make bombs, simple chemistry. Easy to make detonator caps and explosives. Materials for which you can buy at any Orchard supply store. Far simpler to just go buy explosives our controls of explosives were so lax people used to buy them to blow up tree stumps.
I do not know why he would want to advocate overthrowing our system of goverment. I thought that was what voting was all about. If you do not like our bums in office run yourself or kick them out. That is what California is doing. Kick out the bum you do not want and elect some other bum that will do as bad a job or worse.
What would be very interesting if the RedHat suit succeeds in crumbling the house of cards that McBride built.
i)SCO stockholders can probably file suit against the management of SCO for falsely raising their expectations and getting them to buy SCO stock.
ii) DOJ or SEC could investigate the management of SCO.
I hope all the other distributors of Linux will follow with their own lawsuits. Those Linux contributors who have been personally maligned by SCO with their false accusations should also file suits. The more the better. It would be best if the business community learns that a company whose business model is based only on litigation is unprofitable and unhealthy.
So when and how does the community strike back? Is SCO support going to be yanked out of all GPL'ed products? Any legal minds think they can build a case to sue SCO? So far all I have read in the news from the Linux community is a wait and see, kind of defensive posture. I think the best defense is a good offense.:)
http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-nde/lommas/eap/EAP- web.htm
Plastic muscles. If the 3D printer is be able to make it, you could make toys with muscles that move them.
If this takes off the one industry that will collapse is the toy industry. Imagine being able to print out hundreds of Barbie and Ken dolls. Personally I would use it to print out armies of miniatures for war-gaming. Kids would quickly learn to program their "mods". Right after a hit movie/game comes out hundreds if not thousands of blueprints created by kids will flood the net for creating the latest Gundam toy etc..
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Sigh, that should have been only instance that I personally knew off. :p
The only instance of a laptop affecting an aircrafts instruments occured with one of my previous managers. He was quite an interesting character and a decent manager/director. In this case he had his laptop powered on and was doing some work when he noticed the flight engineer walking into the cabin and checking the passengers. The engineer finally stopped by him as he had the only laptop on. It turned out he had left his ethernet dongle or modem dongle attached to his laptop. I forget which one. Anyway's it was acting as an antenna and causing a tick to register on the flight engineers indicators. After the removal of the dongle the ticking went away.
There is no way NASA can achieve those goals set with that budget appropriation. Look at the Space station NASA can barely keep that running with the $$$ they have. If they want to dump major $$$ into NASA the goal should be building a Stanford Torus type station rather than a Mars Base. It would be a real stepping stone into space.
Uhh, do it all the time with my palm.
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Case #1: Computers failing due to overheating. Turned out the AC vents were clogged. Reason? Wasp nest clogging the AC vents, needed to debug the vents. From a friend that had to do the debugging. Case #2: Ants crawling into computer (Taught me not to eat while working on the insides of my PC) Had to clean out peanut butter & jelly from inside my keyboard once. Keys stuck too much. Case #3: Rats nests inside the computers chewing on cables etc. Big problem at one Texas co-lo. Had to replace all the ethernet cabling. From a site I was consulting at. Case #4: Little kid decides to feed the computer his milk. Milk stopped the computer from booting, but did not fry anything. Worked after we swabbed everything down with alcohol and washed the case off. A friend dropped off the computer for us to fix after finding out it did not work.
I thought Intel tried this with the serial number embeded in their CPU's. I think all it did was give AMD one a sales boost. After Intel put the serial number into their CPU's I stopped buying Intel. I have gone thru 12 Athlons so far and I doubt if I am the only extreme gamer out there that has done so.
More likely this will show up first from the PRC. I doubt very much if the Chinese goverment would like Western World spyware loaded into every single PC's BIOS there.
He was in a big bunny suit. The reflex was probably triggered because he brushed my neck on the way to patting my right shoulder.
I can imagine the reaction of those kids. A long time ago when I was actually practicing martial arts a lot. I had a little encounter with Bugs Bunny at one of the amusement parks. Basically I was walking along with some friends and this big had came down on my shoulder from behind me. Out of sheer reflex I had him in a shoulder throw on his way into the ground when I realized just who/what I was throwing. I had him off his feet and balanced on me before I stopped. Turned out to be a guy in a Bugs Bunny costume going around slapping folks on the back and saying Hi. Needless to say there were a lot of shocked people and kids around me. Duh, I could imagine the headlines, guy beats up Bugs Bunny at amusement park. :p
Not a problem. My old air cooled 2100+ ran at 65C all the time. My current CPU, a 3200+ runs at 48C. I have it water cooled along with my FX5900, HD's and RAM. Way more quiet than my previous case which had some 8 fans in it.
Well walking out of a movie these days the general comments I overhear range from, "wow it did not suck as much as I thought it would suck." to "that really sucked". Few comments of, "Wow, that was great"
There was also apparently a code Green virus that went after the code Red virus.
http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae523 .cfm
Explanation of how a photon engine would work
Are you thinking of Gamma Ray Beams? Grazers? There is also the possbility of using this as a source of spaceship propulsion. Put into Rods the energy density and controllable detonation would make it an ideal spaceship engine.
The infringing code is probably be found with a simple grep of "^#$". :p
This would be very interesting for a few large companies. I worked as a consultant for a few years and as a result installed systems in a lot of companies. Sysadmins being a varied and onery lot the computers have been named for the 7 dwarfs in Snow White's cartoon, Loony toons chracters, Buffy's the vampire slayers characters, Snakes, spiders, Pop-stars, actors, Monsters etc.. I imagine interesting things happening as each of these companies send diagnostic information to their vendors support staff. eg, DaffyDuck.syslog.tar etc..
One person could potentially have a tag in his pants, underwear, shirt, wallet, belt, shoes, jacket, cellphone, pda, pager etc.. So 1 guy could have a minimum of 5-10 tags on him. The passive tags are small with very limited range. How are the scanners going to discriminate between him and the thousands of other people walking past the scanner?
I am sure someone will sell little hand held RFID detetctors that will locate the tags so you can remove them. If not I am sure a simple EMP type device can be constructed to fry the circuitry easilly.
There could be major problems with this. Can you imagine a unscrupulos GM basically printing electronic money? The US secret service would have to get involved in any case where a player was suspected of hacking or cheating because that electronic currency in the game is convertible to US dollars.
Sounds like the Canopy group is going to pump up SCO stock. cash out as much of its "stock" as possible and then let the whole house of cards burn down. What I do not understand is the DOJ and SEC sitting on their asses while all this is going on. The people who stand to be burned are any SCO stock holders who hold onto SCO stock too long and the people tricked into paying SCO's "license" fees.
Does not take much to learn how to make bombs, simple chemistry. Easy to make detonator caps and explosives. Materials for which you can buy at any Orchard supply store. Far simpler to just go buy explosives our controls of explosives were so lax people used to buy them to blow up tree stumps. I do not know why he would want to advocate overthrowing our system of goverment. I thought that was what voting was all about. If you do not like our bums in office run yourself or kick them out. That is what California is doing. Kick out the bum you do not want and elect some other bum that will do as bad a job or worse.
What would be very interesting if the RedHat suit succeeds in crumbling the house of cards that McBride built.
i)SCO stockholders can probably file suit against the management of SCO for falsely raising their expectations and getting them to buy SCO stock.
ii) DOJ or SEC could investigate the management of SCO.
I hope all the other distributors of Linux will follow with their own lawsuits. Those Linux contributors who have been personally maligned by SCO with their false accusations should also file suits. The more the better. It would be best if the business community learns that a company whose business model is based only on litigation is unprofitable and unhealthy.
So when and how does the community strike back? Is SCO support going to be yanked out of all GPL'ed products? Any legal minds think they can build a case to sue SCO? So far all I have read in the news from the Linux community is a wait and see, kind of defensive posture. I think the best defense is a good offense. :)
http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-nde/lommas/eap/EAP- web.htm
Plastic muscles. If the 3D printer is be able to make it, you could make toys with muscles that move them.
If this takes off the one industry that will collapse is the toy industry. Imagine being able to print out hundreds of Barbie and Ken dolls. Personally I would use it to print out armies of miniatures for war-gaming. Kids would quickly learn to program their "mods". Right after a hit movie/game comes out hundreds if not thousands of blueprints created by kids will flood the net for creating the latest Gundam toy etc..