I would expect the angular momentum of a star to be inherited from the shape/distribution/motion of the gas cloud that collapsed to form it. Given the variety of nebulas we see, I would not expect this to be consistent.
OK, it may be begging a Streisand effect to attempt to maintain discretion by way of the law, but I'm not wild about the cavalier attitude of suggesting American companies should ignore local laws. If we want one global agreement on rules of conduct, perhaps we should actually negotiate a common set of principles instead of "what America says is the law, is the law because there's nothing you can do about it".
Once you've released your UI, it's game over. Go away and design something else please. My experience in family tech support is that patches that try to tweak the UI inevitably result in long angry rants over the phone as if I was the one who decided to "mess it up".
A good deal of the vibrational energy of the quake eventually will end up as waste heat, so my first question would be whether there is normally a heat plume seen over the site of a quake (adjusting for wind patterns)? There had also been a significant quake already in the area a week earlier. Can it be ruled out that this heat signature could be the result of the earlier quake's energy?
By that definition, no planet outside the solar system could ever be habitable - you'd never reach it before dying of old age (cryogenics might work, but no matter what the shielding on your ship, 300,000 years is a long time for cosmic radiation to absorb while your DNA repair mechanism are inert).
If we are going to seriously talk about visiting planets outside our solar system, we're talking about timescales longer than the existance of our civilization, even bordering on the lifespan of our species. Unless the phsyics of the universe still has some magical effects waiting for us to discover them, microbes and a few obilisks might well be the most we could hope to send.
The rules of engagement are not the cause of the mismatch - it's asymmetric standards for victory. The west can only win if there is near-perfect security. All that an opponent needs to do is to sew enough chaos to frustrate the population. Our error is not being too civilized, it's positioning ourselves to be responsible for territory that we cannot realisticly hope to secure.
What exactly are you expecting to get from a bloody photo? It's done, it's over. Why not let it go and get on with your life?
(I have no doubt that you'll eventually win, that this will become a stupid partisan show-me-the-birth-certificate issue, force the issue and the world will be a worse place for it)
Could you design a MAD system that aims to make space effectively unusable? Essentially make a collection of ICBMs with warheads full of marbles. Spray assorted orbits with enough shrapnel and you increase the danger of catastrophe for any satellite to the point where they are no longer viable tools? Not directly offensiv
But credit rating agencies do this all the time - there are likely several companies, political parties and other organizations out there who have databases about me despite my never having done any business directly with them. If they have any authority to create such entries, it's only because of some deeply buried clause in some bank agreement allowing sharing. Given that Facebook is alreayd providing login management services and wants to be a database of how everyone's connected to each other, the logical role for them to grow into is a social credit agency for doing background checks on people.
On a similar topic, could Facebook create an account for you "on your behalf" using information acquired from other sources where the fine print said they were allowed to share it?
At what point do we just give up and say that if students can't see through the idocy themselves then we already failed at teaching them critical thinking.
Science is about focused skepticism, not general skepticism. It is very difficult to successfully peer review a paper that is deliberately attempting to decieve. Those usually need to wait until the experiments are repeated and fail to produce the expected results. Politics is a bitter, poisonous soup of lies and disingenuous spins where accurate models do not trump clever rhetoric and trolls will attempt to strike you down not in the search for truth, but just to see if they can do it. Science is hard enough to do without people deliberately attempting to set you up for failure.
Wikileaks: the election has been running for a month now. Waiting until four days before the election to start to release a tidal wave of revelant documents (and only the unclassified documents with mostly common sense stuff) feels like a bit of an ambush. We're a rational democracy (more or less), we'd like same time to digest and debate issues rather than being forced to assimilate everything in a weekend.
Also a good idea to not use real names and push credit card companies to develop a system of one-time tokens that are only good for a single buyer-seller relationship ( or even for a single translation ) so that the stolen information has little value.
Degree inflation. The problem is not the educational system, it's employers and job seekers who use the educational system as a filter on incoming resumes. If you get a PhD 'just cause and outcompete people without a PhD to get a job based on the letters alone, then effectively the job market has added an extra degree to the requirements for no good reason.
I've never been a fan of repurchasing libraries I already own. I've tried to avoid buying anything on DVD that I ever bought on VHS and Blu-ray seemed to be more about planned obsolescence rather than improved quality. The last straw for me was when DVDs started coming out with ads that essentially said "you should have bought this on Blu-ray!" Now I actively cheer for it to fail.
This is the polite first step in absorbing a server into central management. First IT gets an unprivilaged account, then they will ask to have a standard scanning tool be installed that requires root access, then a recommendation to move all priviliaged users to sudo root access and allow IT to do some basic tasks for you, then some process will be added to notify IT when you are making changes to the server and then slowly your authority and access to change your server will be diminished until you are a regular user of an IT server.
I'm not judging centralized IT vs local responsibility, just saying that these are the signposts to watch for as it happens.
One could argue that the dollar *is* what the US manufactures. Since it's been used as the world's reserve currency, printing dollars has behaved essentially like mining gold would have a hundred years ago.
When I look at slashdot and the way it gets moderated, I feel that either the culture of slashdot has changed a lot over the past decade or else I've changed a lot (it's sort of hard for me to tell objectively). I realize that communities and their biases are not a constant but there are a few topics where the slashdot moderation lately feels so alien to me that it has raised my internal astroturf alarm. Admittedly, I'm part of the problem for letting my mod points expire more often than I spend them, but I find when I force myself to spend them, I end up starting to moderate "+1 aligns with my biases" or "-1 I don't want to hear this point of view".
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I would expect the angular momentum of a star to be inherited from the shape/distribution/motion of the gas cloud that collapsed to form it. Given the variety of nebulas we see, I would not expect this to be consistent.
OK, it may be begging a Streisand effect to attempt to maintain discretion by way of the law, but I'm not wild about the cavalier attitude of suggesting American companies should ignore local laws. If we want one global agreement on rules of conduct, perhaps we should actually negotiate a common set of principles instead of "what America says is the law, is the law because there's nothing you can do about it".
Once you've released your UI, it's game over. Go away and design something else please. My experience in family tech support is that patches that try to tweak the UI inevitably result in long angry rants over the phone as if I was the one who decided to "mess it up".
A good deal of the vibrational energy of the quake eventually will end up as waste heat, so my first question would be whether there is normally a heat plume seen over the site of a quake (adjusting for wind patterns)? There had also been a significant quake already in the area a week earlier. Can it be ruled out that this heat signature could be the result of the earlier quake's energy?
s/smallpox/arbitrary-contangious-disease/
By that definition, no planet outside the solar system could ever be habitable - you'd never reach it before dying of old age (cryogenics might work, but no matter what the shielding on your ship, 300,000 years is a long time for cosmic radiation to absorb while your DNA repair mechanism are inert).
If we are going to seriously talk about visiting planets outside our solar system, we're talking about timescales longer than the existance of our civilization, even bordering on the lifespan of our species. Unless the phsyics of the universe still has some magical effects waiting for us to discover them, microbes and a few obilisks might well be the most we could hope to send.
Those aren't aliens, they're just the returning expedition we sent out to check if that system next door was habitable.
The rules of engagement are not the cause of the mismatch - it's asymmetric standards for victory. The west can only win if there is near-perfect security. All that an opponent needs to do is to sew enough chaos to frustrate the population. Our error is not being too civilized, it's positioning ourselves to be responsible for territory that we cannot realisticly hope to secure.
What exactly are you expecting to get from a bloody photo? It's done, it's over. Why not let it go and get on with your life? (I have no doubt that you'll eventually win, that this will become a stupid partisan show-me-the-birth-certificate issue, force the issue and the world will be a worse place for it)
Could you design a MAD system that aims to make space effectively unusable? Essentially make a collection of ICBMs with warheads full of marbles. Spray assorted orbits with enough shrapnel and you increase the danger of catastrophe for any satellite to the point where they are no longer viable tools? Not directly offensiv
But credit rating agencies do this all the time - there are likely several companies, political parties and other organizations out there who have databases about me despite my never having done any business directly with them. If they have any authority to create such entries, it's only because of some deeply buried clause in some bank agreement allowing sharing. Given that Facebook is alreayd providing login management services and wants to be a database of how everyone's connected to each other, the logical role for them to grow into is a social credit agency for doing background checks on people.
On a similar topic, could Facebook create an account for you "on your behalf" using information acquired from other sources where the fine print said they were allowed to share it?
At what point do we just give up and say that if students can't see through the idocy themselves then we already failed at teaching them critical thinking.
So does that make Debix a prime suspect for the hack? They are suddenly getting a large number of customers locked into their service.
It's a nice image, but do you have any proof? What does such a multiverse actually predict that we can measure?
Simply require all flights be fully insured (including liability for fallout and orbital debris) and let the insurance industry handle the rules.
Science is about focused skepticism, not general skepticism. It is very difficult to successfully peer review a paper that is deliberately attempting to decieve. Those usually need to wait until the experiments are repeated and fail to produce the expected results. Politics is a bitter, poisonous soup of lies and disingenuous spins where accurate models do not trump clever rhetoric and trolls will attempt to strike you down not in the search for truth, but just to see if they can do it. Science is hard enough to do without people deliberately attempting to set you up for failure.
Wikileaks: the election has been running for a month now. Waiting until four days before the election to start to release a tidal wave of revelant documents (and only the unclassified documents with mostly common sense stuff) feels like a bit of an ambush. We're a rational democracy (more or less), we'd like same time to digest and debate issues rather than being forced to assimilate everything in a weekend.
Also a good idea to not use real names and push credit card companies to develop a system of one-time tokens that are only good for a single buyer-seller relationship ( or even for a single translation ) so that the stolen information has little value.
Degree inflation. The problem is not the educational system, it's employers and job seekers who use the educational system as a filter on incoming resumes. If you get a PhD 'just cause and outcompete people without a PhD to get a job based on the letters alone, then effectively the job market has added an extra degree to the requirements for no good reason.
You know you've been following a show for a long time when you start to tune in for the obituaries
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Goodbye Sara Jane.
I've never been a fan of repurchasing libraries I already own. I've tried to avoid buying anything on DVD that I ever bought on VHS and Blu-ray seemed to be more about planned obsolescence rather than improved quality. The last straw for me was when DVDs started coming out with ads that essentially said "you should have bought this on Blu-ray!" Now I actively cheer for it to fail.
This is the polite first step in absorbing a server into central management. First IT gets an unprivilaged account, then they will ask to have a standard scanning tool be installed that requires root access, then a recommendation to move all priviliaged users to sudo root access and allow IT to do some basic tasks for you, then some process will be added to notify IT when you are making changes to the server and then slowly your authority and access to change your server will be diminished until you are a regular user of an IT server.
I'm not judging centralized IT vs local responsibility, just saying that these are the signposts to watch for as it happens.
One could argue that the dollar *is* what the US manufactures. Since it's been used as the world's reserve currency, printing dollars has behaved essentially like mining gold would have a hundred years ago.
When I look at slashdot and the way it gets moderated, I feel that either the culture of slashdot has changed a lot over the past decade or else I've changed a lot (it's sort of hard for me to tell objectively). I realize that communities and their biases are not a constant but there are a few topics where the slashdot moderation lately feels so alien to me that it has raised my internal astroturf alarm. Admittedly, I'm part of the problem for letting my mod points expire more often than I spend them, but I find when I force myself to spend them, I end up starting to moderate "+1 aligns with my biases" or "-1 I don't want to hear this point of view".