If there are still invites floating about - ekasteng (at) gmail (dot) com
It's as if I don't have enough to screw around at work and clutter up my phone with with Facebook, Twitter, Slashdot, Fark...........
If I had mod points I'd give you one.
If my memory is correct, Earth's spinning liquid metal core is what gives us our magnetosphere, and protects our upper atmosphere from getting "sandblasted" away by the solar wind. Mars doesn't have a magnetoshpere, which is the reason why some astronomers think its core has cooled and is solid. Without that magnetosphere, the solar wind will just blast whatever atmosphere we put on it away.
I may be a little offtopic here, but I see since Microsoft has yet to win against Lindows for trademark infringement they decided to set precedence by picking an easier target? Microsoft claims that their customers would get confused by the name. Well, at my work computer, right on the front bigger than life it says "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP". Do a google search for Microsoft, the only place where mikerowesoft.com shows up is in the news portion. I do not see how they can claim brand confusion there.
I think the teen's only problem is going to be that since he is a minor, he cannot register a business yet.
They have been working on this, but on a much smaller scale. They had at one time something I can only describe as a "rotating bed" to rotate in circles as you lied down in it to simulate gravity in space. (This was to see if it would stem the rate of bone loss encountered in long stays in space)
The problem they had found with it was that although you were weightless, your inner ear (which controlls balance) can still detect the rotation, and made the people that used it dizzy and nauseous.
In order to make one almost undetectable, they had determined that the radius of the thing would have to be huge. Just to build it would be expensive as hell, and the energy required to get such a mass rotating made the whole thing unwokable currently.
It does if you are directly buying SCO shares, and not part of a mutual fund or 401(k) where you get a broad definition of the stock type, but not the specific stock. If I were a fund or 401(k) manager I would stay the hell away from SCO, but they are not geeks. All they will do is go look at the stock price charts and see it is going up. It is not the investors that knowingly buy SCO I feel sorry for. It is people like myself who have retirement money in a broad category like "Large Company Growth" and no clue as to how much, or how little SCO there may be in their plan.
Quite certainly they did, and either they found nothing or they found something that in a court of law (where sometimes reality is suspended) they found a sticking point.
Being a UNIX vendor themselves, "if" there were something questionable in there, by indemnifying users of HP Products running HP authorized software only, they are covering their asses.
If it comes down to a court fight, they can always use a fallback of "We released our authorized software on our authorized machines." Something similar to the SCO argument of why their Linux flavor is still being released. Either way zero risk for them, and good PR.
If you read the EULA on the back of the X-Box manual, you do indeed own the console, but you are licensed the software that runs it. So, they are within the EULA on patching it without telling you. Not that I like it, but there it is
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After Apollo 1 they did use a Nitrogen/Oxygen mix on the launch pad, after they got into space it was yet again a pure oxygen environment if memory serves.
"Remember that people rely on electricity, so stop to think about all of the emergency rooms that had no power. Stop to think about surgeons in the middle of surgery who had power zapped on them due to a virus."
Although a computer virus could potentially cut power to a Hospital or other facility, the senario of the lights going out in the middle of surgery is highly unlikely.
There are 3 power branches in a hospital, a Main branch, a critical branch, and a life safety branch. Whereas the main branch could go down, the critical and life safety branches are on generator backup. Although in time, given a long enough outage this too could fail (i.e. running out of fuel for the generator) The staff would have plenty of warning.
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Holy crap, about 10 seconds after I hit the submit button. Many Many Thanks!
If there are still invites floating about - ekasteng (at) gmail (dot) com It's as if I don't have enough to screw around at work and clutter up my phone with with Facebook, Twitter, Slashdot, Fark...........
Joel, why would anyone want to do this with Mitchell??
If I had mod points I'd give you one. If my memory is correct, Earth's spinning liquid metal core is what gives us our magnetosphere, and protects our upper atmosphere from getting "sandblasted" away by the solar wind. Mars doesn't have a magnetoshpere, which is the reason why some astronomers think its core has cooled and is solid. Without that magnetosphere, the solar wind will just blast whatever atmosphere we put on it away.
I suppose they could have thousands of CD's there, but if no one buys SCO's stuff is that distributing?
I may be a little offtopic here, but I see since Microsoft has yet to win against Lindows for trademark infringement they decided to set precedence by picking an easier target? Microsoft claims that their customers would get confused by the name. Well, at my work computer, right on the front bigger than life it says "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP". Do a google search for Microsoft, the only place where mikerowesoft.com shows up is in the news portion. I do not see how they can claim brand confusion there. I think the teen's only problem is going to be that since he is a minor, he cannot register a business yet.
They have been working on this, but on a much smaller scale. They had at one time something I can only describe as a "rotating bed" to rotate in circles as you lied down in it to simulate gravity in space. (This was to see if it would stem the rate of bone loss encountered in long stays in space) The problem they had found with it was that although you were weightless, your inner ear (which controlls balance) can still detect the rotation, and made the people that used it dizzy and nauseous. In order to make one almost undetectable, they had determined that the radius of the thing would have to be huge. Just to build it would be expensive as hell, and the energy required to get such a mass rotating made the whole thing unwokable currently.
It does if you are directly buying SCO shares, and not part of a mutual fund or 401(k) where you get a broad definition of the stock type, but not the specific stock. If I were a fund or 401(k) manager I would stay the hell away from SCO, but they are not geeks. All they will do is go look at the stock price charts and see it is going up. It is not the investors that knowingly buy SCO I feel sorry for. It is people like myself who have retirement money in a broad category like "Large Company Growth" and no clue as to how much, or how little SCO there may be in their plan.
Quite certainly they did, and either they found nothing or they found something that in a court of law (where sometimes reality is suspended) they found a sticking point. Being a UNIX vendor themselves, "if" there were something questionable in there, by indemnifying users of HP Products running HP authorized software only, they are covering their asses. If it comes down to a court fight, they can always use a fallback of "We released our authorized software on our authorized machines." Something similar to the SCO argument of why their Linux flavor is still being released. Either way zero risk for them, and good PR.
If you read the EULA on the back of the X-Box manual, you do indeed own the console, but you are licensed the software that runs it. So, they are within the EULA on patching it without telling you. Not that I like it, but there it is
After Apollo 1 they did use a Nitrogen/Oxygen mix on the launch pad, after they got into space it was yet again a pure oxygen environment if memory serves.
"Remember that people rely on electricity, so stop to think about all of the emergency rooms that had no power. Stop to think about surgeons in the middle of surgery who had power zapped on them due to a virus."
Although a computer virus could potentially cut power to a Hospital or other facility, the senario of the lights going out in the middle of surgery is highly unlikely.
There are 3 power branches in a hospital, a Main branch, a critical branch, and a life safety branch. Whereas the main branch could go down, the critical and life safety branches are on generator backup. Although in time, given a long enough outage this too could fail (i.e. running out of fuel for the generator) The staff would have plenty of warning.
Reference NEC 2002 Article 517