They're nothing to do with nuclear test monitoring, they just happened to use data from the monitoring network to count the number of kiloton scale events in the last decade or so.
The B612 Foundation is a non profit organization trying to raise money for a asteroid discovery spacecraft, a telescope that will sit down near Venus's orbit and look outwards, enabling it to see asteroids near earth without the sun dazzling the optics (half the asteroids passing near earth are invisible because they are too close to the sun). It's not an unreasonable goal when you consider that high profile museums and educational institutions regularly raise hundreds of millions of dollars in donations.
The problem is: Trading forums deliberately suppressing information on actual prices and alternatives. Package resellers on Amazon & Ebay charging large markups because the buyers don't know the mechanics. Star Citizen MODERATORS in charge of enforcing the trading bans on the official forum directing users to their own trading service.
In short, the problem is information asymmetry, which this article attempts to address.
I always like to point out that in Scotland a Bing is a spoil heap, it's the pile of dirt that you take out of the ground and discard to get at the minerals you actually want, worst name for a search engine ever.
In Britain a 'Bing' is a spoil heap, it's a pile of dirt taken from mining and discarded. i.e. it's all the worthless crap left behind after you've taken the good stuff out.
I bought it from Staples, but really it's not Google's responsibility to deal with the shortcomings in Asus hardware, I'm in the US so generally after 30 days the stores won't take back a broken device. Still hoping Asus stands by their product
It's a great tablet, but, the screen cracked when I pushed the power button and rendered the touchscreen inoperative, currently ASUS is telling me that any screen damage resulting from use is not covered under warranty.
Right youtube are happy to take the video down again if I spend money filing a court case against the infringing party. Which is what would happen if a single person submitted a counter claim against a major corporation's takedown.
I originally found out about this other video after Youtube's content identification system identified *my* video as infringing on *their* video and disabled revenue sharing, that took a month to sort out during which I was unable to monetize my work. (also, I suspect that this possible infringing status flagged my account and resulted in several of my other videos submitted during that period being denied monetization).
Anyway, yes, offended and it cost me a bit of revenue
Because until the US switches to Ranked Choice Voting only 2 parties can ever be competitive. and the 2 parties that are will have no incentive to change the system to let in 3rd parties.
(not to mention that the libertarians would probably shy away from RCV as being unconstitutional)
Anyone that's putting this much effort in will be aware of that and will be accounting for that in their scoring, topsy is driving this and they have a lot of spam experience.
I remember reading one news story where a property owner was saying he considered anyone coming onto his property to be a violation of his rights and might shoot someone from the power company if they tried to install a smart meter. I wish I could have asked him how the power company reads his meter right now?
my.mp3.com borrowed large parts of the myplay design but instead of uploading they used their CD verification system which was judged to be illegal, then.... later mr Robertson copied myplay's entire feature set for mp3tunes.
I'm an oft requested storyteller at school events because I make up voices for all the characters, and yes, I fall into the trap of giving most characters regional british accents. Bad guys frequently end up with some non-specific eastern european accent, and some more exotic characters get asian or scandinavian tilts.
But I never use american accents... not sure why, I just don't find enough characters that fit.
I take BART into work and sometimes got a ride home, and sometimes I'd forget to pick up my car. So , I realised that location based alarms were a technically feasable feature using GPS units or the newer cellphones that were location aware - so you'd be able to setup reminders to pick up your car when the bay bridge was crossed, or pick up milk when you entered a supermarket.
Back then there was no iPhone and getting the location info on most phones was just too much trouble so I abandoned the idea after a couple of weeks poking around.
I have a reputation for being hard on candidates, and I do like to push them way out of their comfort zone, I like to use red ink on their resumes when I think a skill they claim is unjustified.
But, I'm more interested in how they attempt to do things rather than whether they really solve the problem. Some people crank out code instantly which has bugs, others just freeze up and I have to go elsewhere, but it's all part of judging the person.
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It's Been an amazing ride.
They're nothing to do with nuclear test monitoring, they just happened to use data from the monitoring network to count the number of kiloton scale events in the last decade or so.
The B612 Foundation is a non profit organization trying to raise money for a asteroid discovery spacecraft, a telescope that will sit down near Venus's orbit and look outwards, enabling it to see asteroids near earth without the sun dazzling the optics (half the asteroids passing near earth are invisible because they are too close to the sun). It's not an unreasonable goal when you consider that high profile museums and educational institutions regularly raise hundreds of millions of dollars in donations.
No, I'm suggesting that the article explains all the things that buyers should be wary of and therefore makes an excellent guide for buyers.
"CAVEAT EMPTOR, BITCHES."
Good thing someone wrote a guide explaining all this then eh?
The problem is:
Trading forums deliberately suppressing information on actual prices and alternatives.
Package resellers on Amazon & Ebay charging large markups because the buyers don't know the mechanics.
Star Citizen MODERATORS in charge of enforcing the trading bans on the official forum directing users to their own trading service.
In short, the problem is information asymmetry, which this article attempts to address.
I always like to point out that in Scotland a Bing is a spoil heap, it's the pile of dirt that you take out of the ground and discard to get at the minerals you actually want, worst name for a search engine ever.
In Britain a 'Bing' is a spoil heap, it's a pile of dirt taken from mining and discarded.
i.e. it's all the worthless crap left behind after you've taken the good stuff out.
I bought it from Staples, but really it's not Google's responsibility to deal with the shortcomings in Asus hardware, I'm in the US so generally after 30 days the stores won't take back a broken device. Still hoping Asus stands by their product
It's a great tablet, but, the screen cracked when I pushed the power button and rendered the touchscreen inoperative, currently ASUS is telling me that any screen damage resulting from use is not covered under warranty.
Here's a video of the damage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3-nbnPyZYM
Forgot to login... and to link it Fly Safe Sean
I'm donating from my adsense earnings.
If I could have made legitimate isk donations I'd have 300billion to spare, that's maybe $10,000 in PLEX.
They have not responded to may e-mails, I have had contact with one person, but he was not directly resonsible for the content.
That's part of the problem sir, they've put my picture on their video and are implying that I'm endorsing their message.
Right youtube are happy to take the video down again if I spend money filing a court case against the infringing party. Which is what would happen if a single person submitted a counter claim against a major corporation's takedown.
The video used my name, and picture and implies that my research supports their creationist message.
I originally found out about this other video after Youtube's content identification system identified *my* video as infringing on *their* video and disabled revenue sharing, that took a month to sort out during which I was unable to monetize my work. (also, I suspect that this possible infringing status flagged my account and resulted in several of my other videos submitted during that period being denied monetization).
Anyway, yes, offended and it cost me a bit of revenue
Nah google is cool with this, if I take the other group to court then they'll remove the video. No point in suing google.
Yes, but that would cost money, and while I could probably get damages It would be practically impossible to collect on them.
Because until the US switches to Ranked Choice Voting only 2 parties can ever be competitive. and the 2 parties that are will have no incentive to change the system to let in 3rd parties.
(not to mention that the libertarians would probably shy away from RCV as being unconstitutional)
Anyone that's putting this much effort in will be aware of that and will be accounting for that in their scoring, topsy is driving this and they have a lot of spam experience.
I remember reading one news story where a property owner was saying he considered anyone coming onto his property to be a violation of his rights and might shoot someone from the power company if they tried to install a smart meter. I wish I could have asked him how the power company reads his meter right now?
Stupidest person ever.
Myplay.com back in 1999 was offering a digital music locker online.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000510123618/http://www.myplay.com/
my.mp3.com borrowed large parts of the myplay design but instead of uploading they used their CD verification system which was judged to be illegal, then.... later mr Robertson copied myplay's entire feature set for mp3tunes.
I'm an oft requested storyteller at school events because I make up voices for all the characters, and yes, I fall into the trap of giving most characters regional british accents. Bad guys frequently end up with some non-specific eastern european accent, and some more exotic characters get asian or scandinavian tilts.
But I never use american accents... not sure why, I just don't find enough characters that fit.
I take BART into work and sometimes got a ride home, and sometimes I'd forget to pick up my car. So , I realised that location based alarms were a technically feasable feature using GPS units or the newer cellphones that were location aware - so you'd be able to setup reminders to pick up your car when the bay bridge was crossed, or pick up milk when you entered a supermarket.
Back then there was no iPhone and getting the location info on most phones was just too much trouble so I abandoned the idea after a couple of weeks poking around.
I have a reputation for being hard on candidates, and I do like to push them way out of their comfort zone, I like to use red ink on their resumes when I think a skill they claim is unjustified.
But, I'm more interested in how they attempt to do things rather than whether they really solve the problem. Some people crank out code instantly which has bugs, others just freeze up and I have to go elsewhere, but it's all part of judging the person.