According to it's discoverer, Sedna never enters the region of the Kuiper belt(farthest distance Kuiper belt extends to is 50 AU) and sedna never comes closer than 76 AU. So it's not a KBO.
Dr.Brown one of sedna's discoverers gives out the following expanation at his site
We can think of 4 possibilities for why we do not see a moon around Sedna.
(1) Perhaps we got extremely unlucky and the moon is hiding directly behind Sedna. This possibility is unlikely (about 1 in 100 chance), but can't be ruled out completely.
(2) Perhaps the moon is fainter than expected. We think that the moon has to be quite large to explain the very slow rotation of Sedna, so we think that it should be bright. But it is possible that it is large but has a very dark surface and so is difficult to see. We believe that many objects (other than Sedna!) in the outer reaches of the solar system should be quite dark, so perhaps this suggestion is not unreasonable.
(3) Perhaps the moon is gone! It is possible that there once was a moon which slowed the rotation of Sedna but now the moon is gone. Moons can get destroyed by impacts with other large objects in space or they can be stripped away by close encounters with other planetoids. While we can't rule out this possibility, we do not think it is very likely.
(4) Perhaps our circumstantial evidence is misleading us. There are 2 ways that we can think of for this to have happened:
Perhaps the brightening and faintening that we think we see are not real. Measurements in science are never perfect, and perhaps some of these imperfections have, by bad luck, led us to believe that we are measuring Sedna's rotation when we are really not. From our understanding of the measurements, we can estimate that there is about a 1 in 20 chance of this type of bad luck. We thus think it is unlikely, but, again, we can't rule it out.
Perhaps the measurement is real, but we are being fooled. Imagine that you look at a clock once every twenty-five hours. How fast would you think the hands were turning? The first day the clock would say noon. The second day 1pm. The third day 2pm. You might think the clock only moved 1 hour per twenty-five hours. Perhaps the same thing is happening with Sedna: Our measurements were made approximately every 24 hours, so if Sedna rotates every 25 hours, then every time we look it appears to have only rotated a little, and we think it takes 24 days to make a full rotation. This possibility cannot be ruled out with the current data, though it would require the unusual coincidence that Sedna's rotation period would have to be unusually close to the earth's rotation period!
Probably they decided after seeing Microsoft declare peace with SCO. Heck..If a company with plenty of cash doesn't want to be entangled in dragging court cases, a smaller company shouldn't be caught in hopeless legal battles.
The entire case now stands as a silly affair. Both the parties could have avoided it in the very beginning and could have saved the money that was drained to the lawyers.
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens won't work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 C.
Do you honestly think EV1Servers paid the SCO tax?
I suspect..SCO would have just asked them to show up as their first licensee (to show the world that companies are taking them seriously) while actually letting them have it for free. I would not be surprised, if it was SCO which paid EV1Servers for the shoddy deal !!!
Even france telecom has developed something like this called 'Exhalia' last year.
Now, if these devices could generate any odour.. Imagine the possibility that hackers could use it generate pungent rotten egg odour just to prove their skills - something equivalent to defacing websites.
Unless the GPL is proved quickly in the courts, many other companies will tend to steal GPLed code claiming "GPL is a weak license which has never been tested in court".
Terminator(Nachi) has arrived to terminate the evil MSBlaster Worm.
"Removal of W32/Lovsan.worm.a
The worm also looks for and removes W32/Lovsan.worm.a from an infected system. It achieves this by targeting MSBLAST.EXE. (The process is
terminated if running on the victim machine.)"
Asta la vista baby !
"Self removal:
When the system clock reaches Jan 1, 2004, the worm will delete itself upon execution."
All the protocols POP,SMTP,IMAP are going to be the same. So I feel most people are not going to switch to another EMail client. They will just continue using Outlook Express 6.0. I have seen people still using OE 5.0 and who don't want to upgrade as they are satisfied with it.
They will still use Outlook Express for the next 4-5 years till they install a Microsoft OS that won't run OE.
But in 4-5 years, I wonder whether most people will still be using EMails for communication. I foresee Mobile Gadgets with Advanced Text Messaging facilities that will put Email Communication to shame.
Nutch - Not Understanding The Capitalist Hegemony (I am just making it up;)
Without a sound revenue model they can't operate for more than a month. Google has indexed billions of pages and to operate at that level they have to spend a lot of money (Google recently leased an entire campus from SGI). To meet the Infrastructure costs alone you need some form of commercial revenue stream.
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According to it's discoverer, Sedna never enters the region of the Kuiper belt(farthest distance Kuiper belt extends to is 50 AU) and sedna never comes closer than 76 AU. So it's not a KBO.
BTW, his site has more information on Sedna.
We can think of 4 possibilities for why we do not see a moon around Sedna.
May be this extensive list should help
Probably they decided after seeing Microsoft declare peace with SCO. Heck..If a company with plenty of cash doesn't want to be entangled in dragging court cases, a smaller company shouldn't be caught in hopeless legal battles.
The entire case now stands as a silly affair. Both the parties could have avoided it in the very beginning and could have saved the money that was drained to the lawyers.
There is this moblog which has much more interesting pictures of Blackout '03.
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens won't work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 C.
The Russians used a pencil.
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Do you honestly think EV1Servers paid the SCO tax? I suspect..SCO would have just asked them to show up as their first licensee (to show the world that companies are taking them seriously) while actually letting them have it for free. I would not be surprised, if it was SCO which paid EV1Servers for the shoddy deal !!!
Even france telecom has developed something like this called 'Exhalia' last year. Now, if these devices could generate any odour.. Imagine the possibility that hackers could use it generate pungent rotten egg odour just to prove their skills - something equivalent to defacing websites.
Why don't they auction it on ebay ?
What's the confusion with naming?
Better name it 'eyeE' so that it sounds like something popular.
Will the penguin get its due?
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~mjuric/universe
Unless the GPL is proved quickly in the courts, many other companies will tend to steal GPLed code claiming "GPL is a weak license which has never been tested in court".
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Why do you keep crying like they took away your candy ?
Donating to FSF will help FSF defend itself and us against SCO. Are you interested in paying the $699 tax ?
What if the worm author turns himself in.. to the cops? Will he be allowed to keep his bounty ?
WELLES SCARES NATION
Even if it's purely a personal project, nobody will like to see that stupid watermark in the background. It's not really free, it's just a free demo.
Oh,nice - now slashdot can reuse the Netscape icon.
GPS device thief caught by GPS
It Will be Back !
All the protocols POP,SMTP,IMAP are going to be the same. So I feel most people are not going to switch to another EMail client. They will just continue using Outlook Express 6.0. I have seen people still using OE 5.0 and who don't want to upgrade as they are satisfied with it.
They will still use Outlook Express for the next 4-5 years till they install a Microsoft OS that won't run OE.
But in 4-5 years, I wonder whether most people will still be using EMails for communication. I foresee Mobile Gadgets with Advanced Text Messaging facilities that will put Email Communication to shame.
Nutch - Not Understanding The Capitalist Hegemony (I am just making it up
Without a sound revenue model they can't operate for more than a month. Google has indexed billions of pages and to operate at that level they have to spend a lot of money (Google recently leased an entire campus from SGI). To meet the Infrastructure costs alone you need some form of commercial revenue stream.