The scuff mark is in the one where the rock appears. Scroll down to the bottom. The scuff could be a bounce mark, and the design of the rover wheel is such that it could trap and carry a rock some distance.
It means nothing of the sort. There was no shortage of protein leading to cannibalism, that myth has been debunked for over 20 years.
And Nat Geo never said the cliff dwellers were eaten by the Aztecs. There's not a shred of evidence that the Astecs ever made it as far north as new mexico.
The focus of that research is to allow operations on data that remain encrypted, and where the actual content of the manipulated data is not explicitly known.
That might work for something composed of tables of numbers, bank data, Phone call pen register logs, or passwords as the GP suggests, but not for text. Humans are very good at determining gibberish from prose, or fragments of color from images. Plausible, but bogus, is a tough nut to crack where human evaluation is involved.
need for a proper layout engine that's flexible and can achieve exactly what graphic designers want.... the closest thing the web had to offer magazine-quality layout
Magazine quality layout is exactly why I haven't subscribed to any magazine in years, and prefer to read it on the web, instead of turning to page 96, then page 102,...
Graphic designers my ass! Clutter-Mongers is a better term.
My gosh, you are right. The closer I zoom the more regular the pattern gets. Its a grid of various shaded squares, like people in a stadium holding up cardboard squares to build a huge image... Wait, zooming up more it says, "Sochi 2014" Ah, crap, Damn you Putin !!!
Yeah, working for NASA and JPL ten years on a 90 day mission has a lot of risk to their careers. Really? Nobody is "risking their careers" working on the single most prestigious off-world project in existence.
The 90 day mission has stretched to 10 years. They somehow found money to keep these guys employed all those years, they are on the payroll till the rover dies.
What other random thing in the drive-able vicinity is likely to be MORE interesting? This Rover has accomplished just about all it can possibly do with its worn out tools, aging batteries, lame wheels, etc. There is probably nothing more interesting than this rock, and spending the effort (which surely they must be very well practiced and efficient at, considering the ten years they have had to perfect their craft) to evaluate it and release the data is no big deal.
You won't be laughing when this guy wins his lawsuit, and we all find out that this "rock" is a piece of styrofoam
Actually, NASA would do well to drive the Rover back there and study the hell out of it, if nothing else than to put the whack-job conspiracy nuts to shame. Opportunity is probably less than a day's drive away by now, and after 10 years beyond its expected life it has probably done about all the science it needs to do.
If it is simply kicked up by the rover's wheels, lets find out why it is so bright/white. If it rolled in from a meteor strike, it might be useful to see what direction it rolled in from. But in no situation can I see it being helpful to start another conspiracy and just write it off as the ramblings of uneducated buffoons.
Some of the imagery does suggest that they put the instrument arm over the object for close-up observation, so maybe they should move it, turn it over, or drill it, just to shut these guys up.
Sure, mammoths are tasty, but my dogs won't even touch sabertooth meat. That stuff is nasty.
Seriously.
In general, herbivores are tasty. Carnivores and omnivores? No way. A friend of mine in Alaska had to kill the neighborhood grizzly bear, and, indeed, even his dogs wouldn't eat the meet. They ended up having to bury it (though I suppose burning would have worked, too).
Black bear is often eaten. And Grizzly Bear, (usually called Brown bears in Alaska) are mostly herbaceous except when the salmon are running.
People killed them. Either by direct means or global warming.
Or, I blame God.
There were never enough Paleoindians, or even Pre-Columbian indians in north america to have killed all of these animals. The indigenous populations of the Americas (north and south) was somewhere well under 112 million prior 1492. (Yup the Columbus gets the blame for native population collapse, even though far earlier arrivals could certainly have been the vector for deadly diseases).
I never believed the hunted to extinction nonsense. (Not that Native Americans were very good stewards of the land, they had been known to stampede entire herds of buffalo over cliffs just for their tongues, and a few hides, leaving the vast majority to rot.) But their population density simply was never great enough to exhaust the resources.
I don't find the idea that a steadily improving (more benign) climate over the time of these species demise seems likely either. With the retreat of the ice age glaciation opening more and more land the pressure on these species would have been less and less as time went on. We are always quick to blame man kind, (but apparently only western European man-kind) for every tragedy befalling the environment, (or the indians), without considering that disease could have been just as likely.
Because its firggin obvious no internal combustion engines have starting problems below freezing.
I guess you've never seen truck drivers having to start fires under their diesel fuel tanks in order to start when it gets really cold. I have. So you're wrong.
I guess you've never seen sarcasm on the internet.
Because its firggin obvious no internal combustion engines have starting problems below freezing.
It's not a 'starting problem', it's a 'refuelling problem'. I've refuelled my car at 40 below zero before, with no problems.
And it starts at 30 below zero if I forget to plug the heater in, though it's not very happy about that.
Yeah, and I've had gas line freeze at 10 below, 20 minutes after filling the tank, cars that simply refuse to start, fought for head block heater parking spaces at work, etc. Anyone who has lived in cold country who doesn't have a cold weather car horror story doesn't own a car.
most Slashdoter's would be quite pleased with the Tesla compared to their current ride, provided it continues to live up to expectations.
Its interesting that living up to the expectations is something the Tesla pretty much takes in stride, and all we hear about are the corner cases of Tesla glitches. Fires after devastating crashes, charger issues, etc.
Similar (and worse) problems in ICE vehicles are scarcely mentioned, Gas line freezes, gas tank ruptures, just refusing to start in cold weather. There seems to be a media preference for reporting problems, no doubt fueled by all the advertising done by the big auto makers. Of course nobody will admit this, or that advertising influences their story in any way, and yet they will sandwich this news between car ads from 4 or 5 different automakers.
So geek interest plus big-auto nay-saying to dealership hostility all conspire to make sure you hear every bad thing regardless of how small.
Because its firggin obvious no internal combustion engines have starting problems below freezing.
So its necessary to point out every liability about this new fangled electric car so that buyers put that silly idea out of their head. Besides, big auto will take advertisements in your newspaper, blog site, etc when you have Tesla failure stories. Now double check those jumper cables, then go crank it over while I spray some ether down the intake.
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The scuff mark is in the one where the rock appears. Scroll down to the bottom.
The scuff could be a bounce mark, and the design of the rover wheel is such that it could trap and carry a rock some distance.
It means nothing of the sort.
There was no shortage of protein leading to cannibalism, that myth has been debunked for over 20 years.
And Nat Geo never said the cliff dwellers were eaten by the Aztecs. There's not a shred of evidence that the Astecs ever made it as far north as new mexico.
So gas line freeze is a scientific impossibility?
Hint: for the totally clueless: Water in the gas freezes, blocking fuel. Even a fifth grader understands that.
No, the scuff mark is not in the Before image. You need to look again, and check the date stamps of the pictures.
The focus of that research is to allow operations on data that remain encrypted, and where the actual content of the manipulated data is not explicitly known.
That might work for something composed of tables of numbers, bank data, Phone call pen register logs, or passwords as the GP suggests, but not for text.
Humans are very good at determining gibberish from prose, or fragments of color from images. Plausible, but bogus, is a tough nut to crack
where human evaluation is involved.
need for a proper layout engine that's flexible and can achieve exactly what graphic designers want. ...
the closest thing the web had to offer magazine-quality layout
Magazine quality layout is exactly why I haven't subscribed to any magazine in years, and prefer to read it on the web, instead of turning to page 96, then page 102, ...
Graphic designers my ass! Clutter-Mongers is a better term.
My gosh, you are right. The closer I zoom the more regular the pattern gets.
Its a grid of various shaded squares, like people in a stadium holding up cardboard squares to build a huge image...
Wait, zooming up more it says, "Sochi 2014"
Ah, crap, Damn you Putin !!!
Yeah, working for NASA and JPL ten years on a 90 day mission has a lot of risk to their careers.
Really? Nobody is "risking their careers" working on the single most prestigious off-world project in existence.
The (many years worth of images), it takes time for all of them to be transmitted.
Other data may not so readily interpreted, but its not like it would be totally beyond other scientists to evaluate it.
They have been imaging the thing for days. So apparently they have plenty of time and money:
http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gall...
http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gall...
http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gall...
http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gall...
Costly and time consuming?
Really, you are going with that?
The 90 day mission has stretched to 10 years. They somehow found money to keep these guys employed all those years, they are on the payroll till the rover dies.
What other random thing in the drive-able vicinity is likely to be MORE interesting? This Rover has accomplished just about all it can possibly do with its worn out tools, aging batteries, lame wheels, etc. There is probably nothing more interesting than this rock, and spending the effort (which surely they must be very well practiced and efficient at, considering the ten years they have had to perfect their craft) to evaluate it and release the data is no big deal.
You can go to the JPL site and search all the photos, so its not like they don't have more to give.
You won't be laughing when this guy wins his lawsuit, and we all find out that this "rock" is a piece of styrofoam
Actually, NASA would do well to drive the Rover back there and study the hell out of it, if nothing else than to put the whack-job conspiracy nuts to shame. Opportunity is probably less than a day's drive away by now, and after 10 years beyond its expected life it has probably done about all the science it needs to do.
If it is simply kicked up by the rover's wheels, lets find out why it is so bright/white. If it rolled in from a meteor strike, it might be useful to see what direction it rolled in from. But in no situation can I see it being helpful to start another conspiracy and just write it off as the ramblings of uneducated buffoons.
Some of the imagery does suggest that they put the instrument arm over the object for close-up observation, so maybe they should move it, turn it over, or drill it, just to shut these guys up.
What's wrong with you?
Sure, mammoths are tasty, but my dogs won't even touch sabertooth meat. That stuff is nasty.
Seriously.
In general, herbivores are tasty. Carnivores and omnivores? No way. A friend of mine in Alaska had to kill the neighborhood grizzly bear, and, indeed, even his dogs wouldn't eat the meet. They ended up having to bury it (though I suppose burning would have worked, too).
Black bear is often eaten.
And Grizzly Bear, (usually called Brown bears in Alaska) are mostly herbaceous except when the salmon are running.
People killed them. Either by direct means or global warming.
Or, I blame God.
There were never enough Paleoindians, or even Pre-Columbian indians in north america to have killed all of these animals.
The indigenous populations of the Americas (north and south) was somewhere well under 112 million prior 1492.
(Yup the Columbus gets the blame for native population collapse, even though far earlier arrivals could certainly have been the vector for deadly diseases).
I never believed the hunted to extinction nonsense. (Not that Native Americans were very good stewards of the land, they had been known to stampede entire herds of buffalo over cliffs just for their tongues, and a few hides, leaving the vast majority to rot.) But their population density simply was never great enough to exhaust the resources.
I don't find the idea that a steadily improving (more benign) climate over the time of these species demise seems likely either. With the retreat of the ice age glaciation opening more and more land the pressure on these species would have been less and less as time went on. We are always quick to blame man kind, (but apparently only western European man-kind) for every tragedy befalling the environment, (or the indians), without considering that disease could have been just as likely.
Well DUH!
Come on, for pete sake, this has been known since the 20s.
Fairbanks AK ring any bells?
Because its firggin obvious no internal combustion engines have starting problems below freezing.
I guess you've never seen truck drivers having to start fires under their diesel fuel tanks in order to start when it gets really cold. I have. So you're wrong.
I guess you've never seen sarcasm on the internet.
Where did I say that EVERY trip included a horror story?
Because its firggin obvious no internal combustion engines have starting problems below freezing.
Someone haven't driven a diesel in sub zero temperatures without a block-heater.
Or someone doesn't recognize sarcasm when its cold outside?
Because its firggin obvious no internal combustion engines have starting problems below freezing.
It's not a 'starting problem', it's a 'refuelling problem'. I've refuelled my car at 40 below zero before, with no problems.
And it starts at 30 below zero if I forget to plug the heater in, though it's not very happy about that.
Yeah, and I've had gas line freeze at 10 below, 20 minutes after filling the tank, cars that simply refuse to start, fought for head block heater parking spaces at work, etc. Anyone who has lived in cold country who doesn't have a cold weather car horror story doesn't own a car.
most Slashdoter's would be quite pleased with the Tesla compared to their current ride, provided it continues to live up to expectations.
Its interesting that living up to the expectations is something the Tesla pretty much takes in stride, and all we hear about are the corner cases of Tesla glitches.
Fires after devastating crashes, charger issues, etc.
Similar (and worse) problems in ICE vehicles are scarcely mentioned, Gas line freezes, gas tank ruptures, just refusing to start in cold weather.
There seems to be a media preference for reporting problems, no doubt fueled by all the advertising done by the big auto makers. Of course nobody will admit this, or that advertising influences their story in any way, and yet they will sandwich this news between car ads from 4 or 5 different automakers.
So geek interest plus big-auto nay-saying to dealership hostility all conspire to make sure you hear every bad thing regardless of how small.
Why is every Tesla fart reported on ./?
Because its firggin obvious no internal combustion engines have starting problems below freezing.
So its necessary to point out every liability about this new fangled electric car so that buyers put that silly idea out of their head. Besides, big auto will take advertisements in your newspaper, blog site, etc when you have Tesla failure stories. Now double check those jumper cables, then go crank it over while I spray some ether down the intake.
With a pardon, there would be no fine.
Presidential Pardons can be issued in advance of a conviction. There is plenty of precedence for that.
The NSA's job is to protect the US from attack.
Reading Angel Merkel's email and listening to her phone calls is simply stupid an highly insulting.
None of this has proven effective.
Full Pardon, and Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Anything less is a travesty.
Yup, pretty sure we all understood that, and are all coming to agreement on that score.