Smoke can expand and fill up an entire room without vanishing into hyperspace, so higher dimensions, if they exist at all, must be smaller than an atom. If higher-dimensional space were larger than an atom, then we should see atoms mysteriously drifting and disappearing into a higher dimension, which we do not see in the laboratory.
2. Decide what exit policy you want. By default your server allows access to many popular services, but we restrict some (such as port 25) due to abuse potential. You might want an exit policy that is either less restrictive or more restrictive; edit your torrc appropriately. If you choose a particularly open exit policy, you might want to make sure your upstream or ISP is ok with that choice.
6.1. Can exit nodes eavesdrop on communications? Isn't that bad?
Yes, the guy running the exit node can read the bytes that come out there.
Our first answer is "then use end-to-end encryption such as SSL", which is great but not always practical. (The corollary to this answer is that if you are worried about somebody intercepting your traffic and you're *not* using end-to-end encryption at the application layer, then something has already gone wrong and you shouldn't be thinking that Tor is the problem.)
Our second answer is that in a future release, we plan to have Tor clients recognize when the destination is co-located with a Tor server, and exit from that Tor server. So for example, people using Tor to get to the EFF website would automatically exit from the EFF Tor server (assuming it's nearby in network geography), thus getting *better* encryption and authentication properties than just browsing there the normal way. But this has a variety of technical problems we need to overcome first (the main one being "how does the Tor client learn which servers are associated with which websites in a decentralized yet non-gamable way?"). Stay tuned.
Well, yes, definitely! I share your points of view about Western Europe, and after traveling 2 months I could say that I could be really happy living in Amsterdam or Barcelona (two cityes that I really enjoyed!).
btw, I from South America (not Brazil)
Well, if you like Europe, you will like Curitiba. Curitiba is one of those European islands that exist in Brazil, but they are perfectly integrated with the rest of the country (there are lot's of really closed cities made by inmigrants in the south of brazil, in some of them most people only speak german/etc).
Some Curitibans says that they found that people in Curitiba is too cold and distant, well, maybe they are if you compare against the rest of Brazil, but from my point of view, I found them really educated, nice and open to strangers.
If you like to see some fotos, you could check here: (yes, the site is awfull).
I have been in Curitiba, and I must say that it's a Wonderful, Incredible city. Amazing architecture, excelent transportation, lot's of things to do, and see.
They are heavely influenced by Centro European inmigration, I was surprised finding typical ucranian foods, etc. They also have parks representing the cultural carachteristics of each community (poland park, ucranian park, german park, etc.).
They really are the "Ecological Capital of Brazil"... they have a saying:
"If you cut a tree, and the police catch you, you better kill the policeman... you will spend less years in prison".
The only bad part is that, being a city at 850-1000 meters of altitud, it's not uncommon to have 25 Celsius degrees at midday and 6 degrees at 10 p.m. It's not really cold, but the difference between night and day is excesive.
Anyway, it's a really nice city, full of nice people!
If I remember well, the patent was something like "program that help other programms".
That's almost everything... including the kernel (any kernel). After all, a system call it's the way that programs use to ask the kernel (other program) for help.
It's personal information, but no private. See this excerpt from
this article.
The posting did not include threats but involved political speech fully protected by the First Amendment, said ACLU Associate Legal Director Ann Beeson.
"This type of investigation is really a form of intimidation and a message to activists that they will pay a price for speaking out," said Beeson. "The posting of publicly available information about people who are in the news should not trigger an investigation. Indeed, if the mere posting of the delegates' names is cause for alarm, then the Secret Service should be investigating the many Republican Web sites where the same kind of information is available."
Of course, maybe this time this collision gives more useful information than the collision studied in 2001 (see parent article).
Note: Apparently, the clusters involved in the collision studied in 2001 are not the same than the clusters involved in this collision (so, two different collisions:-) ).
Well... it seems this post is a bit confusing to read:(
The smaller cluster most likely contained about 300 galaxies, while its larger neighbor about 1,000 galaxies, researchers said. But when the two clusters collided with one another, they formed a still unsettled super cluster about 1 million light-years across that should take another billion years to settle down completely, researchers said.
I think that this guy has not only excelent skills, he has excellent "simple" ideas. This kind of "simple" ideas which nobody thaughts about. That's the essence of an inventor
I liked this part:
When he heard that unsanitary conditions promote the spread of bacteria and disease, he decided to invent an automatic hand washing system to promote cleanliness.
When someone steps on a contact located beneath a basin, it activates a stream of water from the tap and opens a drawer containing soap and a towel. When the person steps off the contact, the water stops and the drawer closes.
Could anybody tell me *why* we don't have "don't touch anything" bathrooms?. I know, there are optical sensors for the tap and a few more things, but I've never seen a public bathroom (i.e. restaurant, job, etc.) designed to be used without touching things. It's not so dificult, so... why not?
Do you Administer Debian servers in your job, or do you use some of the Distros that (by your own words) are more suitable for pragmatic use?
Well, maybe you should know that Debian is the ideal distribution to use in servers, thanks to his excelent package administration. The problem is that nowadays we have to use Testing or Unstable (!) in servers since the last stable release is too old to use, and not all is backported.
You also said that Debian is about Principle, that Debian seeks to avoid legal trouble, etc. That's, true, and I agree with that; that's one of the things that distingue Debian from other distros, and this was one of the reasons that made me a Debian User.
But I think that you are making a dangerous mistake when you say that "Debian is about Freedom first, and software second". No! Debian is about Freedom *in* Software. Debian will be of no value if its only a group were people meet to talk about Freedom (and do nothing), or if its so outdated that nobody uses it. Nobody said that you should be non-functional in order to be idealistic.
One of the good things about Free Software is not only that its morally correct, but that it *works* , and it works better than the (not so moral) propietary alternative.
So, congratulations to the Debian Team for the results of the voting!
What you've said is true only for the case of web sites with static or almost static content, where you could have the content in the local drives of each webservers, and use rsync to distribute new content (web site changes) to all the servers.
But it's a very different situation when your webservers handle very dinamic content, specially when the content is upload by the users. In this case, you have three alternatives:
1) Content in the database. Is up to you to use a clustered database to provide High Availability and Load Balancing
2) Content in a NAS (NFS, etc.). You have the same content for all the webservers, and with drbd you achieve High Availability... but you don't have Load Balancing.
3) You use GFS or other distributed File System (don't know the issues on this option).
btw, for load balancing at the IP level I would recommend Linux Virtual Server, and Heartbeat to achieve High Availability in the balancers.
And talking about ASCII, and (dead) keys, now I know that the ALT Key was pattented by IBM... who (apparently) lost a patent litigation on this issue.
Worth reading!
Yeah, and in five hundred years people will be ashamed of the "barbarians pre-space humans who exterminated bacterial diversity on Mars".
I'm talking seriously, we should try to avoid repeting errors... in Colon's time, nobody knew that European's diseases could be fatal for indians... and that *was* understandable given the lack of scientific knowledge of the era.
Nowadays we know the scientific, historic social, and ethical value of life and diversity, so, we should be more careful with our actions.
And remember that this bacteria could give us lot of insight about the beginings of life and evolution in general.
P.S. English is not my primary language... I'm doing my best effort;-)
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The climates models are computed using the BOINC platform (distributed computing in your PC, similar to SETI, etc.).
Please, help the project donating your idle CPU cycles, go to: the homesite of the project and download the client.
The client (BOINC) supports Linux, Windows, MAC OS, etc.
Well, here is a nice explanation from TFA:
Look the documentation
the faq responds your second questionWell, yes, definitely! I share your points of view about Western Europe, and after traveling 2 months I could say that I could be really happy living in Amsterdam or Barcelona (two cityes that I really enjoyed!). btw, I from South America (not Brazil)
Well, if you like Europe, you will like Curitiba. Curitiba is one of those European islands that exist in Brazil, but they are perfectly integrated with the rest of the country (there are lot's of really closed cities made by inmigrants in the south of brazil, in some of them most people only speak german/etc).
Some Curitibans says that they found that people in Curitiba is too cold and distant, well, maybe they are if you compare against the rest of Brazil, but from my point of view, I found them really educated, nice and open to strangers.
If you like to see some fotos, you could check here: (yes, the site is awfull).
Curitiba memorials Opera of wiresMore information here, but in portuguese only:
Prefeitura MunicipalI have been in Curitiba, and I must say that it's a Wonderful, Incredible city.
Amazing architecture, excelent transportation, lot's of things to do, and see.
They are heavely influenced by Centro European inmigration, I was surprised finding typical ucranian foods, etc. They also have parks representing the cultural carachteristics of each community (poland park, ucranian park, german park, etc.).
They really are the "Ecological Capital of Brazil"... they have a saying:
"If you cut a tree, and the police catch you, you better kill the policeman... you will spend less years in prison".
The only bad part is that, being a city at 850-1000 meters of altitud, it's not uncommon to have 25 Celsius degrees at midday and 6 degrees at 10 p.m. It's not really cold, but the difference between night and day is excesive.
Anyway, it's a really nice city, full of nice people!
Other languages?
If I remember well, the patent was something like "program that help other programms".
That's almost everything... including the kernel (any kernel). After all, a system call it's the way that programs use to ask the kernel (other program) for help.
It's personal information, but no private. See this excerpt from this article .
Of course, maybe this time this collision gives more useful information than the collision studied in 2001 (see parent article).
:-) ).
:(
Note: Apparently, the clusters involved in the collision studied in 2001 are not the same than the clusters involved in this collision (so, two different collisions
Well... it seems this post is a bit confusing to read
Obviusly, is not the first time it happens. Not so obvius, is not the first time this has been studied, either.
By the way, there's a slighty more detailed article in space.com., some other useful links in the article, also.
Excerpt from space.com:
Yes, definitively, we need more people like him.
I think that this guy has not only excelent skills, he has excellent "simple" ideas. This kind of "simple" ideas which nobody thaughts about. That's the essence of an inventor
I liked this part:Could anybody tell me *why* we don't have "don't touch anything" bathrooms?. I know, there are optical sensors for the tap and a few more things, but I've never seen a public bathroom (i.e. restaurant, job, etc.) designed to be used without touching things. It's not so dificult, so... why not?
Or I'm being excesively maniac? ;-)
Do you Administer Debian servers in your job, or do you use some of the Distros that (by your own words) are more suitable for pragmatic use?
Well, maybe you should know that Debian is the ideal distribution to use in servers, thanks to his excelent package administration. The problem is that nowadays we have to use Testing or Unstable (!) in servers since the last stable release is too old to use, and not all is backported.
You also said that Debian is about Principle, that Debian seeks to avoid legal trouble, etc. That's, true, and I agree with that; that's one of the things that distingue Debian from other distros, and this was one of the reasons that made me a Debian User.
But I think that you are making a dangerous mistake when you say that "Debian is about Freedom first, and software second". No! Debian is about Freedom *in* Software. Debian will be of no value if its only a group were people meet to talk about Freedom (and do nothing), or if its so outdated that nobody uses it. Nobody said that you should be non-functional in order to be idealistic.
One of the good things about Free Software is not only that its morally correct, but that it *works* , and it works better than the (not so moral) propietary alternative.
So, congratulations to the Debian Team for the results of the voting!
# dot and at least to chars: .??*
.a, or something like that).
chown -R root:root
Then check manually the few (probably none) files that are named with only one character after the dot (like
What you've said is true only for the case of web sites with static or almost static content, where you could have the content in the local drives of each webservers, and use rsync to distribute new content (web site changes) to all the servers.
But it's a very different situation when your webservers handle very dinamic content, specially when the content is upload by the users. In this case, you have three alternatives:
1) Content in the database. Is up to you to use a clustered database to provide High Availability and Load Balancing
2) Content in a NAS (NFS, etc.). You have the same content for all the webservers, and with drbd you achieve High Availability... but you don't have Load Balancing.
3) You use GFS or other distributed File System (don't know the issues on this option).
btw, for load balancing at the IP level I would recommend Linux Virtual Server, and Heartbeat to achieve High Availability in the balancers.
I have been reading some documents on his site, and this two are a must:
about managers in computer industry (it reminds me of my bosses) and
when it's to cheap for the government.
And talking about ASCII, and (dead) keys, now I know that the ALT Key was pattented by IBM... who (apparently) lost a patent litigation on this issue.
Worth reading!
Yeah, and in five hundred years people will be ashamed of the "barbarians pre-space humans who exterminated bacterial diversity on Mars". I'm talking seriously, we should try to avoid repeting errors... in Colon's time, nobody knew that European's diseases could be fatal for indians... and that *was* understandable given the lack of scientific knowledge of the era. Nowadays we know the scientific, historic social, and ethical value of life and diversity, so, we should be more careful with our actions. And remember that this bacteria could give us lot of insight about the beginings of life and evolution in general. P.S. English is not my primary language... I'm doing my best effort ;-)