Scientific community thinks the Universe experienced first a big expansion. In the beginning, things where so energetic that light and matter where the same thing. Then, about 400,000 years after the beginning, the universe became "transparent". Light begun to flow.
Wherever you look far away, you look at light that traveled some long time, at the speed of light, before reaching your eye. Their is a cosmic microwave background from that epoch. It's like a big sphere the size of the universe. And you know what? It's centered on you! Because whenever you are, you look at the universe as it was when it became transparent.
So what kind of question "Where is the center" is ? It has no meaning.
For any human perspective, the center sure is on Earth. 80% of the population is probably wrong.
The funy thing is iron - the atom with 26 protons - is supposed to be the most stable. Atoms with less than 26 protons fusion into larger ones, and atoms with less than 26 tends to fission in smaller ones.
The cost to keep the Hubble in orbit and to maintain it is roughly 200 million a year.
You mean the cost of operations on the ground of course. Now it's launched, it does cost anything for it to turn around the planet. If Nasa don't want to use it anymore, I'm sure many space agencies around the world would agree to operate it.
People say it should be brought back for a museum, and that the study of micro-impacts on it would be usefull. I wonder if it's worth the cost. The cheapest solution is to let it fall. I bet there is no reentry shield on it and it would burn completly before reaching the ground.
I'm interested hearing what other Slashdot readers are running
I'm using Debian/testing, and I'm very happy about it.
Changing of distro means reinstalling everything, and it can be a pain if you have many computers. With less than 350 k$, I suggest you hire a linux expert providing support for your company, you'll save some money!
Hopefully, people can come to realise that no research is "bad" or "evil", it just depends upon how the research is applied.
I disagree. Modifying DNA is a dangeurous matter. Unless you do pure theorical research, you are actually creating modified living organisms. Since one of the most basic function of any organism is to reproduce, you can potentially lose control of your experiment.
I think research in that area needs to be heavilly controled, because risks are big ones.
Here's an exemple: There are some experiments going on with modified fishes that use a enhanced growing protein, a human one. If one of these were to be released in nature by accident, it could modify the while sea ecosystem balance, with unpredictable results.
This is bad enough. But what about research on viruses? You need to be really really carefull. I doubt one could erase the human race from earth, but the damages could be significative.
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Machines infected with the worm are programmed to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack against Microsoft's Windows Update website on the 16th of each month, starting in August 2003.
Lab testing has confirmed that the worm includes the ability to launch a TCP SYN flood denial-of-service attack against windowsupdate.com. We are investigating the conditions under which this attack might manifest itself.
However, this could become really nasty for windows users...
I think has a lot of years to go before it's actually important in any sense due to the slow growth of broadband in the U.S.
Luckilly, there are places outside the US where the brodband access is pretty good. My ISP offers me an asymetric bandwidth of 2.2M/384k for 29.99 euros ($33.99). France is not a bad place to live IMHO.
Latvia will be part of European Union next spring. Europeans laws are decent ones, and they will apply to Latvia as soon as it joins the EU. That case is not as desperate as it sounds. Don't give up!
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Wherever you look far away, you look at light that traveled some long time, at the speed of light, before reaching your eye. Their is a cosmic microwave background from that epoch. It's like a big sphere the size of the universe. And you know what? It's centered on you! Because whenever you are, you look at the universe as it was when it became transparent.
So what kind of question "Where is the center" is ? It has no meaning.
For any human perspective, the center sure is on Earth. 80% of the population is probably wrong.
The funy thing is iron - the atom with 26 protons - is supposed to be the most stable. Atoms with less than 26 protons fusion into larger ones, and atoms with less than 26 tends to fission in smaller ones.
DSL has been available in some cities of France since 1995.
Private copies are legal (Berne convention).
You have the right to record braodcasts, to copy CDs for your own use. Just do it more. And encourage it more.
You mean the cost of operations on the ground of course. Now it's launched, it does cost anything for it to turn around the planet. If Nasa don't want to use it anymore, I'm sure many space agencies around the world would agree to operate it.
People say it should be brought back for a museum, and that the study of micro-impacts on it would be usefull. I wonder if it's worth the cost. The cheapest solution is to let it fall. I bet there is no reentry shield on it and it would burn completly before reaching the ground.
I'm using Debian/testing, and I'm very happy about it.
Changing of distro means reinstalling everything, and it can be a pain if you have many computers. With less than 350 k$, I suggest you hire a linux expert providing support for your company, you'll save some money!
It's more than "several people", news now repport as much as 3,000 dead for France only...
I disagree. Modifying DNA is a dangeurous matter. Unless you do pure theorical research, you are actually creating modified living organisms. Since one of the most basic function of any organism is to reproduce, you can potentially lose control of your experiment.
I think research in that area needs to be heavilly controled, because risks are big ones.
Here's an exemple: There are some experiments going on with modified fishes that use a enhanced growing protein, a human one. If one of these were to be released in nature by accident, it could modify the while sea ecosystem balance, with unpredictable results.
This is bad enough. But what about research on viruses? You need to be really really carefull. I doubt one could erase the human race from earth, but the damages could be significative.
I hope these guys knows what they do.
Quote: Machines infected with the worm are programmed to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack against Microsoft's Windows Update website on the 16th of each month, starting in August 2003.
Cert says the SYN attack is not active, yet:
Lab testing has confirmed that the worm includes the ability to launch a TCP SYN flood denial-of-service attack against windowsupdate.com. We are investigating the conditions under which this attack might manifest itself.
However, this could become really nasty for windows users...
Luckilly, there are places outside the US where the brodband access is pretty good. My ISP offers me an asymetric bandwidth of 2.2M/384k for 29.99 euros ($33.99). France is not a bad place to live IMHO.
Latvia will be part of European Union next spring. Europeans laws are decent ones, and they will apply to Latvia as soon as it joins the EU. That case is not as desperate as it sounds. Don't give up!