because it means within 12 months I can do a MAJOR speed upgrade on my current A-bit AI7 from P4/2.6/800 to a P4/3.2 Extreme edition with 2 meg of cache which will have dropped from today's 670 quid to about 100 quid.
and in the real world of non true 64 bit applications that do not require memory address spaces in excess of 4 gigabytes my old cheap p4 will still beat their "unequal" system component specs.
oh yeah, when your poxy sata hard disks can compete in REAL (eg NOT burst mode for 512 bytes) I/O speed with my second hand and cheap U160 scuzzies you let me know huh.
no, sorry, the oxford "rector" (known as GLEEP for Graphite Low Energy Experimental Pile) was a medium sized house size "block" made up from individual bricks of graphite, and the maximum energy output of the whole thing wouldn't boil a kettle.
I'd rather beat the shit out of that graphite with a lump hammer than sit on an ammo box full of DU ammunition.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Graphite+Low+En er gy+Experimental+Pile&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Se arch&meta=
where one tectonic plate is being "slid" under another one, anything and everything dropped there will be carried right under the earth's crust and it will probably be hundreds of millions of years before *any* of it came within a few miles of the surface ecology of the planet again.
since this only requires casting the "waste" into scrap iron and dumping the same at sea with accuracy easily obtained by GPS it would be a *remarkably* cheap option, as well as being utterly permanent.
Plan B is to convert it all into depleted uranium ammunition and "dispose" of it in Iran, Syria, and anywhere else the american military industrial complex decides to mcarthur-ise next...
If you live in the UK, or know the postcode of someone who does. go to http://places.jump-around.com/closest/ which gives rude places names near to you...
You are of course correct, for some reason I always get Scunthorpe and Cleethorpes confused, also Tavistock and Tiverton... Scunthorpe is some 20 miles from cleethorpes, which is a seaside town, if you can consider anything in the same county as grimsby or hull being used in the same sentence as the word(s) "seaside"
than simply quoting the story as though it were fact.....
1/ the BBC article in question uses a graphic which shows an NNTP client displaying the group alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen http://newsimg .bbc.co.uk/media/images/39893000/jpg/_39893508_operationore_203.jpg
2/ the article CLAIMS the filters are blocking 10,000 attempted accesses to kiddie porn per day, without some specifics on these filters there numbers are LESS than worthless
3/ There is an english seaside town names scunthorpe, because it contains the word CUNT in the name it is routinely blocked by world + dog using cheap filters, again we need to know what these filters consist of, if it is merely "teen" then it's bullshit, 19 years old porn queens abound...
4/ if it is usenet then it isn't a case of filters, just BT having totally shit NNTP service which all by itself blocks 99.9% of usenet just because they are too cheap to provide the bandwidth and server spools for a decent usenet feed.
5/ The BBC website HABITUALLY has many stories per day that permit and encourace user feedback.. ok, this feedback is just as corrupt as slashdot editors, and just as invisible, neverthless it is notable that THESE types of "headlines" NEVER ask for feedback / comments from readers....
6/ since this sort of article is increasingly forming the staple output of slashdot editors, QED slashdot editors are by far the greatest trolls on slashdot and therefore the greatest contributors to slashdots ever decreasing relevance as it dissapears up its own UART
Re:so come this was rejected when I submitted it?
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Never thought it was a democracy, but lately forming the increasingly strong opinion that it is an oligarchy advertising itself as forum, wherein those in power parasite themselves upon the masses and claim commonly held ideas and submissions as their own...... ironic for such an allegedly pro open source ethos site.
OK, slashdot is US centric, the rest of the world is just an small annexe off the main corridor, US foreign policy is the rest of the world is just a small island off Florida, and US legal / IP law says the rest of the world is a couple of quaint and obsolete bye-laws.
What's going to happen?
Any person or company operating inside the continental united states is going to find themselves working less and less under an ever increasing burden of patent and IP legislation.
Anyone outside the US is going to stick 2 fingers up at the entire country and continue to produce generic viagra, GUI's with double clicks, and all the other shit.
You want to come over here and try and sue us in our own courts and cite YOUR FOREIGN and DOMESTIC laws as your case for the prosecution, you go right ahead...
Given that the Times (London) is now reporting that a senior insider in the Bush administration is stating that if dubya is re-elected Iran is on the official shit list for early military intervention to destroy it's budding nuclear tech... for the first time EVER I wouldn't actually want to get a green card and live in the States.
Unless you lot stop the tail (Israel) wagging the dog (USA) you're going to see an entire nation do to itself what Enron did to itself, the rest of the world is moving on while the united states, at the behest of its lawyers and political lobbying by pro israelis, is busy stabbing itself in an orgy of self worship
so come this was rejected when I submitted it?
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Tim Berners-Lee Knighted, arise Sir Tim Friday July 16, @05:19PM Rejected
and since mushkin has always been my personal benchmark of excellence I have to say that they products selected for review were based on fanboy junk that is heavily advertised and hyped rather than products that professionals (such as the slashdot readership hopefully) would select, eg based PURELY on fitness for use, value for money, performance in the real world etc
blocking with robots.txt doesn't work with the new and improved msn search, which simply ignores it and indexes EVERYTHING....
as a result I have edited my robots.txt on my genealogy site to the following.
User-agent: * Disallow:/
eg, fuck you msn search
there's quite a fuss going on about this quietly, msn tech's are claiming that they aren't doing anything wrong since robots.txt isn't an accepted standard anyway... hopefully if everyone bans msn search totally as I have done they will get the fucking message.
check out the replies from "msndude" the msn tech in the following forum. http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum97/73.h tm
quote My prediction? This is finally the thing where Microsoft misses the wrong boat and spells the end of Microsoft pounding everyone else as though they were a hammer. They missed the boat because they saw it as a fad which had no chance of passing the real-world chance. "Who (and why) would subscribe to 'free' software? This is ridiculous. In the meantime, we'll continual making software for sale and when they come crawling back to us, we'll be there, passing the hat, and collecting their money." end
I think you miss the point.
The point is simple enough, microsoft is a BUSINESS, from day one it has been in the business of writing code and licencing it to people (note, not selling) IN EXCHANGE FOR MONEY.
It is ridiculous to assume that Bill G and his crew cannot see or understand what Linux is, they probably have a deeper, more accurate and more profound understanding of Linux than eveyone on slashdot put together, fair enough since MS have probably spend millions of dollars analysing linux.
However, expecting MS to counter the Linux / open source movement is rather like expecting General Motors to do something about the fact that 500 cubic inch vee eight motors aren't going to be so pupular when a full tank of gas costs more than 5 dollars....
what you get is ever closer to the 100 dollar barrel of oil, and GM putting the bullet points about the motor itself further and further down the advertising material, because GM make cars, not pushbikes, walking shoes or horseshoes, they CANNOT change what they are, so all they can do is continue to do essentially what they have always done, while devoting ever more effort time and money into political power broking...
It's not GM's fault that a 2004 SUV gets worse mileage than a 1960 big block, oh no, it's osama bin laden's fault that you can't fill your tank up for 5 bucks any more...
see the parallels to MS?
IBM at least made physical products, so the shift from mechanical cash registers and type writers wasn't so bad, and IBM are still here today as a big and powerful company.
MS don't have that option, not unless ENTIRELY NEW markets open up that are essentially the same as the one they grew fat on, essentially meaning they do not have to re-tool too extensively.... oh wait, here's MS trying to get into everything from games consoles through media centres to mobile phones.... trouble is linux is there too....
No, unless something big comes around the corner, something totally new, but something that will work only with commercially written software, MS as a viable business is fucked.
if that thing comes in time for MS, watch out, that 50 billion war chest will move mountains in short order and all of a sudden everyone will be applauding BillG and MS for their incredible business acumen in cornering the market in hyperdrive jumpship AI's
quote myself so this object has as much energy as 73,249,299, let's call it 75 MILLION years of electricity production at TODAYS maximum total world capacity...... end
ah, think I made a boo-boo there, still works out at 2 or 3 years total human energy generation capacity though....
quote Energies involved? You can alter the delta-V of an asteroid by shooting it with a.22. And if it is far enough away, that could be enough alteration to avert a collision. end quote
without doing the math myself, I think you are hopelessly under estimating the energies involved...
hitting a 40 foot container sized asteroid 50 million miles out with several hundred rounds (finally a use for depleted uranium rounds??) of rifle ammunition might well be enough to alter its course from earth impact to an atmosphere grazer... but so what, such sized asteroids aren't going to do any damage on a global scale... too bad if they hit a city, no big deal if they smack down in mid pacific.
however, the real threats are mount everest sized lumps of rock, you could expend every bullet ever manufactured 50 million miles downrange and I suspect you will move ground zero by a few feet.
for such sized rocks you could theoretically fire every nuke warhead ever made, but since there is nothing for the explosions to "push" against in space I'd suspect that even this would only turn one big lump into a shotgun blast....
let's say it's light rock and ice, 1000 kilogrammes per cubic metre, let's say it's everest sized, 10,000 metres, let's say it's roughly spherical so that 10,000 metres is a diameter, 4/3rds of pi times radius cubed, which is (rounding down) 523,000,000,000 cubic metres, time mass and we get 523,000,000,000,000 kilogrammes, lets say it is moving slowly, at 5 kilometres a second, that's 5,000 metres a second, multiply that by our mass and we get...
2,615,000,000,000,000,000 kg-m/sec
divide by 0.102 to get watts
25,637,254,901,960,784,313 watts or 25,637,254,901,960 megawatts
total world electricity generation capacity is currently about 350,000 megawatts
so this object has as much energy as 73,249,299, let's call it 75 MILLION years of electricity production at TODAYS maximum total world capacity......
engineers know that the bottom line is usually energy, given enough energy you can do anything (give me a long enough lever etc) albeit having to deal with the waste heat etc...
now we have an object that will deliver as much energy as if we had been running every power plant on the planet TODAY flat out for 20 MILLION YEARS BEFORE the dinosaurs were extinct, except those power plants would have been destroyed by the "dinosaur killer"
no, sorry, until fusion energy becomes so cheap and common that you as an average human can go down to your local hardware store and buy a briggs and stratton micropile and fill the fuel tank up with a couple of gallons of seawater then the human race doesn't have enough energy at it's disposal to blay cosmic billiards....
long before then we will have orders of magnitude more energy than is required to get the genetic material off planet (out of the petri dish) and colonise space and the planets.
by and large (eg with the proviso that only non existent domains are used for this) I applaud such things as the best way to fight all these loons building ever larger and ever more interconnected databases of internet users and profiling and tracking and analysing them is by filling those databases with as much junk as possible...
I will commonly complete you-must-register-to-get-access forms with;
a nonsensical name, eg mickey_moose_99 a DOB circa 1900 the wrong sex an unlikely city and country, such as Krasnyy, Iran a 90210 area code an 0898 696969 telephone number
It would be nice to hear from someone with access to a large database, eg online newspaper, what proportion of registration data is bogus.
sorry, st malo doesn't have them, two or three places in the world can argue this one, there a place in canada I think, fundy / funday bay or something, bristol channel, etc... they all get about 16 metres at peak....
very close to st malo is the ras de sein, which can lay claim to having some of the fastest tidal currents on earth, eg 9+ knots (real fun in a 30 foot sailing boat with a max hull speed of 7 knots, even more fun when wind and tide oppose each other... lol
the bristol tides run up the severn, which narrows gradually over many miles, leading to something known as the "bore"... surfers have ridden this wave for several miles...
links to pix of the bore http://www.xmission.com/~dlweber/images/seve rn.jpg http://www.phy.bris.ac.uk/research/theory/Berry/ se vernbore.jpg
quote "Asteroid impacts are the only known, credible, avoidable event that could potentially wipe out humanity. This would seem to justify significant investment in protection." end quote
I disagree, due to the energies involved and ranges to target I would suggest that asteroid impacts most certainly are NOT avoidable, because to have a sufficient level of space tech (and energy budget) to afford to alter the delta vee of an asteroid suggests a technology level that already has the human race (and hopefully genetic material from the majority of the bioshpere) so well established OFF earth that the population of earth represents a MINORITY of the entire population.
Who knows, if the accountants, managers, lawyers and politicians are the ones who stay behind on earth (shades of douglas adams) maybe the human race as a whole will decide to say fuck it, and make no attempt whatsoever to avoid the collision....
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because it means within 12 months I can do a MAJOR speed upgrade on my current A-bit AI7 from P4/2.6/800 to a P4/3.2 Extreme edition with 2 meg of cache which will have dropped from today's 670 quid to about 100 quid.
and in the real world of non true 64 bit applications that do not require memory address spaces in excess of 4 gigabytes my old cheap p4 will still beat their "unequal" system component specs.
oh yeah, when your poxy sata hard disks can compete in REAL (eg NOT burst mode for 512 bytes) I/O speed with my second hand and cheap U160 scuzzies you let me know huh.
Try to spot a paragraph without a blatant plug for them, so this is bogus and not an article at all, just an advertisement for a job site.
no, sorry, the oxford "rector" (known as GLEEP for Graphite Low Energy Experimental Pile) was a medium sized house size "block" made up from individual bricks of graphite, and the maximum energy output of the whole thing wouldn't boil a kettle.
n er gy+Experimental+Pile&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Se arch&meta=
I'd rather beat the shit out of that graphite with a lump hammer than sit on an ammo box full of DU ammunition.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Graphite+Low+E
where one tectonic plate is being "slid" under another one, anything and everything dropped there will be carried right under the earth's crust and it will probably be hundreds of millions of years before *any* of it came within a few miles of the surface ecology of the planet again.
since this only requires casting the "waste" into scrap iron and dumping the same at sea with accuracy easily obtained by GPS it would be a *remarkably* cheap option, as well as being utterly permanent.
Plan B is to convert it all into depleted uranium ammunition and "dispose" of it in Iran, Syria, and anywhere else the american military industrial complex decides to mcarthur-ise next...
before posting dupe articles..........
If you live in the UK, or know the postcode of someone who does. go to http://places.jump-around.com/closest/ which gives rude places names near to you...
mine are
Bush Down (map)
16.1 miles
Lickham Bottom (map)
17.5 miles
Arshaton Wood (map)
22.9 miles
Lower Piles (map)
26.6 miles
Clitsome Farm (map)
29.2 miles
Crapstone (map)
30.2 miles
Burnt Bottom (map)
38.5 miles
Brown Willy (map)
47.3 miles
Crab Hole (map)
47.7 miles
Piddlehinton (map)
50.5 miles
You are of course correct, for some reason I always get Scunthorpe and Cleethorpes confused, also Tavistock and Tiverton... Scunthorpe is some 20 miles from cleethorpes, which is a seaside town, if you can consider anything in the same county as grimsby or hull being used in the same sentence as the word(s) "seaside"
u bl ic&X=500000.651711456&Y=400000.385991481&gride=489 168.651711456&gridn=411074.385991481&scale=500000& coordsys=gb&db=freegaz&lang=&inmap=&table=&ovtype= &localinfosel=&local=&kw=&srec=0&mapsize=big&db=fr eegaz&rt=
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=p
than simply quoting the story as though it were fact.....
g .bbc.co.uk/media/images/39893000/jpg /_39893508_operationore_203.jpg
1/ the BBC article in question uses a graphic which shows an NNTP client displaying the group alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen
http://newsim
2/ the article CLAIMS the filters are blocking 10,000 attempted accesses to kiddie porn per day, without some specifics on these filters there numbers are LESS than worthless
3/ There is an english seaside town names scunthorpe, because it contains the word CUNT in the name it is routinely blocked by world + dog using cheap filters, again we need to know what these filters consist of, if it is merely "teen" then it's bullshit, 19 years old porn queens abound...
4/ if it is usenet then it isn't a case of filters, just BT having totally shit NNTP service which all by itself blocks 99.9% of usenet just because they are too cheap to provide the bandwidth and server spools for a decent usenet feed.
5/ The BBC website HABITUALLY has many stories per day that permit and encourace user feedback.. ok, this feedback is just as corrupt as slashdot editors, and just as invisible, neverthless it is notable that THESE types of "headlines" NEVER ask for feedback / comments from readers....
6/ since this sort of article is increasingly forming the staple output of slashdot editors, QED slashdot editors are by far the greatest trolls on slashdot and therefore the greatest contributors to slashdots ever decreasing relevance as it dissapears up its own UART
Never thought it was a democracy, but lately forming the increasingly strong opinion that it is an oligarchy advertising itself as forum, wherein those in power parasite themselves upon the masses and claim commonly held ideas and submissions as their own.... .. ironic for such an allegedly pro open source ethos site.
http://forums.anti-slash.org/viewforum.php?f=8 looks increasingly relevant...
my prediction....
OK, slashdot is US centric, the rest of the world is just an small annexe off the main corridor, US foreign policy is the rest of the world is just a small island off Florida, and US legal / IP law says the rest of the world is a couple of quaint and obsolete bye-laws.
What's going to happen?
Any person or company operating inside the continental united states is going to find themselves working less and less under an ever increasing burden of patent and IP legislation.
Anyone outside the US is going to stick 2 fingers up at the entire country and continue to produce generic viagra, GUI's with double clicks, and all the other shit.
You want to come over here and try and sue us in our own courts and cite YOUR FOREIGN and DOMESTIC laws as your case for the prosecution, you go right ahead...
Given that the Times (London) is now reporting that a senior insider in the Bush administration is stating that if dubya is re-elected Iran is on the official shit list for early military intervention to destroy it's budding nuclear tech... for the first time EVER I wouldn't actually want to get a green card and live in the States.
Unless you lot stop the tail (Israel) wagging the dog (USA) you're going to see an entire nation do to itself what Enron did to itself, the rest of the world is moving on while the united states, at the behest of its lawyers and political lobbying by pro israelis, is busy stabbing itself in an orgy of self worship
Tim Berners-Lee Knighted, arise Sir Tim Friday July 16, @05:19PM Rejected
and since mushkin has always been my personal benchmark of excellence I have to say that they products selected for review were based on fanboy junk that is heavily advertised and hyped rather than products that professionals (such as the slashdot readership hopefully) would select, eg based PURELY on fitness for use, value for money, performance in the real world etc
my 2p worth anyway.
really cannot see the point in playing any of these games in anything other than God mode....
quote
For freight there's no doubt that diesel locomotives are the winner.
end quote
nope, for freight (weight) there is no doubt that canals kick ass....
User-Agent: msnbot
Disallow: /
blocking with robots.txt doesn't work with the new and improved msn search, which simply ignores it and indexes EVERYTHING....
/
h tm
as a result I have edited my robots.txt on my genealogy site to the following.
User-agent: *
Disallow:
eg, fuck you msn search
there's quite a fuss going on about this quietly, msn tech's are claiming that they aren't doing anything wrong since robots.txt isn't an accepted standard anyway... hopefully if everyone bans msn search totally as I have done they will get the fucking message.
check out the replies from "msndude" the msn tech in the following forum.
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum97/73.
what the fuck??
there sure are some grade A blinkered assholes on slashdot.
quote
So don't accuse Microsoft of being clueful. If they were, we would have seen some evidence of it by now.
end quote
MS not clueful, where did that 50 billion come from then?
Red hAt got that kind of money? or Linus? or llamasoft?
quote
My prediction?
This is finally the thing where Microsoft misses the wrong boat and spells the end of Microsoft pounding everyone else as though they were a hammer. They missed the boat because they saw it as a fad which had no chance of passing the real-world chance. "Who (and why) would subscribe to 'free' software? This is ridiculous. In the meantime, we'll continual making software for sale and when they come crawling back to us, we'll be there, passing the hat, and collecting their money."
end
I think you miss the point.
The point is simple enough, microsoft is a BUSINESS, from day one it has been in the business of writing code and licencing it to people (note, not selling) IN EXCHANGE FOR MONEY.
It is ridiculous to assume that Bill G and his crew cannot see or understand what Linux is, they probably have a deeper, more accurate and more profound understanding of Linux than eveyone on slashdot put together, fair enough since MS have probably spend millions of dollars analysing linux.
However, expecting MS to counter the Linux / open source movement is rather like expecting General Motors to do something about the fact that 500 cubic inch vee eight motors aren't going to be so pupular when a full tank of gas costs more than 5 dollars....
what you get is ever closer to the 100 dollar barrel of oil, and GM putting the bullet points about the motor itself further and further down the advertising material, because GM make cars, not pushbikes, walking shoes or horseshoes, they CANNOT change what they are, so all they can do is continue to do essentially what they have always done, while devoting ever more effort time and money into political power broking...
It's not GM's fault that a 2004 SUV gets worse mileage than a 1960 big block, oh no, it's osama bin laden's fault that you can't fill your tank up for 5 bucks any more...
see the parallels to MS?
IBM at least made physical products, so the shift from mechanical cash registers and type writers wasn't so bad, and IBM are still here today as a big and powerful company.
MS don't have that option, not unless ENTIRELY NEW markets open up that are essentially the same as the one they grew fat on, essentially meaning they do not have to re-tool too extensively.... oh wait, here's MS trying to get into everything from games consoles through media centres to mobile phones.... trouble is linux is there too....
No, unless something big comes around the corner, something totally new, but something that will work only with commercially written software, MS as a viable business is fucked.
if that thing comes in time for MS, watch out, that 50 billion war chest will move mountains in short order and all of a sudden everyone will be applauding BillG and MS for their incredible business acumen in cornering the market in hyperdrive jumpship AI's
quote myself
so this object has as much energy as 73,249,299, let's call it 75 MILLION years of electricity production at TODAYS maximum total world capacity......
end
ah, think I made a boo-boo there, still works out at 2 or 3 years total human energy generation capacity though....
quote .22. And if it is far enough away, that could be enough alteration to avert a collision.
Energies involved? You can alter the delta-V of an asteroid by shooting it with a
end quote
without doing the math myself, I think you are hopelessly under estimating the energies involved...
hitting a 40 foot container sized asteroid 50 million miles out with several hundred rounds (finally a use for depleted uranium rounds??) of rifle ammunition might well be enough to alter its course from earth impact to an atmosphere grazer... but so what, such sized asteroids aren't going to do any damage on a global scale... too bad if they hit a city, no big deal if they smack down in mid pacific.
however, the real threats are mount everest sized lumps of rock, you could expend every bullet ever manufactured 50 million miles downrange and I suspect you will move ground zero by a few feet.
for such sized rocks you could theoretically fire every nuke warhead ever made, but since there is nothing for the explosions to "push" against in space I'd suspect that even this would only turn one big lump into a shotgun blast....
let's say it's light rock and ice, 1000 kilogrammes per cubic metre, let's say it's everest sized, 10,000 metres, let's say it's roughly spherical so that 10,000 metres is a diameter, 4/3rds of pi times radius cubed, which is (rounding down) 523,000,000,000 cubic metres, time mass and we get 523,000,000,000,000 kilogrammes, lets say it is moving slowly, at 5 kilometres a second, that's 5,000 metres a second, multiply that by our mass and we get...
2,615,000,000,000,000,000 kg-m/sec
divide by 0.102 to get watts
25,637,254,901,960,784,313 watts or
25,637,254,901,960 megawatts
total world electricity generation capacity is currently about 350,000 megawatts
so this object has as much energy as 73,249,299, let's call it 75 MILLION years of electricity production at TODAYS maximum total world capacity......
engineers know that the bottom line is usually energy, given enough energy you can do anything (give me a long enough lever etc) albeit having to deal with the waste heat etc...
now we have an object that will deliver as much energy as if we had been running every power plant on the planet TODAY flat out for 20 MILLION YEARS BEFORE the dinosaurs were extinct, except those power plants would have been destroyed by the "dinosaur killer"
no, sorry, until fusion energy becomes so cheap and common that you as an average human can go down to your local hardware store and buy a briggs and stratton micropile and fill the fuel tank up with a couple of gallons of seawater then the human race doesn't have enough energy at it's disposal to blay cosmic billiards....
long before then we will have orders of magnitude more energy than is required to get the genetic material off planet (out of the petri dish) and colonise space and the planets.
sleep tight.
is a pretty common one here in england....
by and large (eg with the proviso that only non existent domains are used for this) I applaud such things as the best way to fight all these loons building ever larger and ever more interconnected databases of internet users and profiling and tracking and analysing them is by filling those databases with as much junk as possible...
I will commonly complete you-must-register-to-get-access forms with;
a nonsensical name, eg mickey_moose_99
a DOB circa 1900
the wrong sex
an unlikely city and country, such as Krasnyy, Iran
a 90210 area code
an 0898 696969 telephone number
It would be nice to hear from someone with access to a large database, eg online newspaper, what proportion of registration data is bogus.
sorry, st malo doesn't have them, two or three places in the world can argue this one, there a place in canada I think, fundy / funday bay or something, bristol channel, etc... they all get about 16 metres at peak....
e rn.jpg / se vernbore.jpg
very close to st malo is the ras de sein, which can lay claim to having some of the fastest tidal currents on earth, eg 9+ knots (real fun in a 30 foot sailing boat with a max hull speed of 7 knots, even more fun when wind and tide oppose each other... lol
the bristol tides run up the severn, which narrows gradually over many miles, leading to something known as the "bore"... surfers have ridden this wave for several miles...
links to pix of the bore
http://www.xmission.com/~dlweber/images/sev
http://www.phy.bris.ac.uk/research/theory/Berry
quote
"Asteroid impacts are the only known, credible, avoidable event that could potentially wipe out humanity. This would seem to justify significant investment in protection."
end quote
I disagree, due to the energies involved and ranges to target I would suggest that asteroid impacts most certainly are NOT avoidable, because to have a sufficient level of space tech (and energy budget) to afford to alter the delta vee of an asteroid suggests a technology level that already has the human race (and hopefully genetic material from the majority of the bioshpere) so well established OFF earth that the population of earth represents a MINORITY of the entire population.
Who knows, if the accountants, managers, lawyers and politicians are the ones who stay behind on earth (shades of douglas adams) maybe the human race as a whole will decide to say fuck it, and make no attempt whatsoever to avoid the collision....
yes, you're right, I put my error down to an allergic reaction that I get any time my brain has to deal with thinking about Nova Fisher