Less dense materials rise in a fluid. Didn't you read anything about buoyancy in 2nd grade?
The mixed state of the gases has a lower free energy than a strictly stratified state. Didn't you read anything about thermodynamics during your Ph.D studies in physics?
As a proportion of all gas, sure there's a bit more hydrogen at a higher altitude than a lower one. But it doesn't all rise above the oxygen and nitrogen -- any more than the nitrogen all rises above the oxygen. Up to 100km or so, there's very little variation in the proportions. Beyond 100km, all gas densities fall off at different exponential rates.
Exercise for you: why doesn't the salt in the ocean sink to the bottom? Perhaps it didn't read anything about bouyance in second grade.
If a smart crook were behind this, he'd not worry much about collecting the supposed ransom, but would pop his head up as a good guy saying he'd cracked the virus and would sell you a fix-it kit for $50.
Of course, this means any honest white knight is going to learn the hard way about 20 feds and a flashlight.
What I want to know is... why does the school have the students' social security numbers in the first place? There's no defensible reason for it. In fact a public school has to comply with 5USC552a before even asking for SSNs.
(When I hand out "more information" postcards for my alma mater, I black out the space that asks for the kids' SSNs.)
Those of you in the U$A and out of school may want to print and carry the piece of 5 USC 552a beginning at the words DISCLOSURE OF SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER when they next go to renew their driver's license.
and who, pray tell, is going to pay to fund the process of collecting papers, sending them off to the correct people to review, collecting those reviews, deciding whether or not the paper should be accepted, and editing the paper?
Imagine something akin to/., but involving smart people.
'm not in favor of the act, but there does need to exist some way to ensure that dangerous items don't go on a plane. Attempting to keep dangerous people off is one way. Better security of everything physically going on the plane may be preferable, but just how much can you screen before it becomes an invasion of privacy? Some say what's currently in place already does that.
You can try to discriminate based on something they have or something they intend, or both. Every major criminal once had a clean record. I believe there is a vast number of potential malefactors that still have clean records. So how do you want to keep them out? Reject every person who has ever met with a person who has associated with a suspected evildoer? There's your invasion of privacy, and worse - it's punishment without accusation or trial.
My money - and life - is on physical inspection rather than mental.
But I *really do* want to know that the person boarding the airplane with me is who they say they are and not on an expired visa with a fraudulantly obtained ID
I, on the other hand, don't give a flying expletive who they are or what their visa status is, as long as they don't have a weapon.
(It would be a distinct bonus to know that they also don't have a communicable disease!)
So thank you for the information, I will call/fax my senator to let him know that I want him to vote in favor of Real ID.
You've satisfied yourself that Yet Another ID card won't be issued and obtained fraudulently? To paraphrase the patron saint of the current administration, "I find your excess of faith disturbing."
I went to Fry's last weekend and looked at big screens. They ALL looked like CRAP! There was a basketball game on and the picture was coming through an analog processor with compression artifacts that were almost nauseating when the camera panned (the background sort of acccordion-pleated). This was not a way to show off their wares!
I asked to see a better picture and they hauled out a cheap little DVD player and a disc full of movie trailers, and connected it through the composite video connector! Again, not a way to make a sale.
Ever come out of Fry's wiithout spending a penny? I did, although I was prepared to spend a bundle.
OO.org could not correctly display ANY of my Word documents; I ddin't even bother trying to save as PDF at that point. And I'm not talking about minor display differences -- some documents were basically unreadable, as OO.org seemed to randomly flow the text.
Did you have all the same fonts available as were used in creating the document? Word files aren't "What-I-see-is-what-you-get" portable even between Windows machines with the same OS and version of Office, if they don't have the same fonts installed.
(Admittedly, it's rare to see different sets of fonts available in such a case, but it happens.)
the first 1000 times a student brings in a disk with their homework or report in a format that can't be read on the teachers' computer
Guess what?
If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 1.1. However, as you become used to OpenOffice.org 1.1, you'll start to appreciate the extras that make your life easier. You can of course continue to use your old Microsoft Office files without any problems - and if you need to exchange files with people still using Microsoft Office, that's no problem either.
http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.h tml
If the punk brings a wordstar file, to heck with him.
The only thing that Freeciv needs to come up to the standards of commercial Civ games is to port some of the nicer tile/unit graphics from some of the Civ 3 mods.
No, it also needs to implement the equivalent of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
The organizers of this stupid conference keep spamming me with emails about how their deadlines have been extended and how I am invited to submit a paper.
Ditto. Sometimes I'm asked to be a session organizer. Complaints to their upstream have no affect.
Real Genius was not filmed there, becasue the Caltech public affairs folks did not care for the way professor Hathaway was portrayed. Hoever, the film was researched there and at least one techer was hired as a consultant.
The indoor sets, particularly the dorm, are based on Caltech. The outdoor campus filming was done down the road at Occidental College.
Four fucking pages?!? The guy claims to comprehensively contradict some of the best known and most studied concepts in astro-physics, and his proof covers FOUR PAGES? And contains almost no equations?
If it's revolutionary, it's quite possible that it's short. However, I see nothing remotely resembling proof of anything in this paper. Just an argument by analogy with an utterly different system. I place no weight on this work, at this time.
I do note, however, that one Richard Battye of Jodrell Bank Observatory is making the rounds with a talk titled "Solid Dark Energy." He must be sane, because he makes his slides with OpenOffice.:-)
Personally, I am 27 years old and live in the US, and had never heard the acronym "TSA"...
So when I see those bumper stickers and t-shirts that say "Anyone who isn't outraged isn't paying attention," now I know that they are talking about you.
How can we be sure that the data we receive from galaxies 10 billion light years away has not been diluted or compromised in a way we could not detect?
I don't know what you're thinking when you say "data... diluted or compromised," but it's a lot more difficult than you may realize to come up with a scheme which has something funky happpening over long distances of space without us being able to detect side-effects.
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The mixed state of the gases has a lower free energy than a strictly stratified state. Didn't you read anything about thermodynamics during your Ph.D studies in physics?
As a proportion of all gas, sure there's a bit more hydrogen at a higher altitude than a lower one. But it doesn't all rise above the oxygen and nitrogen -- any more than the nitrogen all rises above the oxygen. Up to 100km or so, there's very little variation in the proportions. Beyond 100km, all gas densities fall off at different exponential rates.
Exercise for you: why doesn't the salt in the ocean sink to the bottom? Perhaps it didn't read anything about bouyance in second grade.
By that logic, all the oxygen would have settled down here and the nitrogen would be up at 20,000 ft.
It ain't like that.
Of course, this means any honest white knight is going to learn the hard way about 20 feds and a flashlight.
Only Nixon could go to China.
If these new diamonds are "transparent from infrared to ultraviolet," tell me more about this laser that was used to cut them!
(When I hand out "more information" postcards for my alma mater, I black out the space that asks for the kids' SSNs.)
Those of you in the U$A and out of school may want to print and carry the piece of 5 USC 552a beginning at the words DISCLOSURE OF SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER when they next go to renew their driver's license.
Imagine something akin to /., but involving smart people.
You can try to discriminate based on something they have or something they intend, or both. Every major criminal once had a clean record. I believe there is a vast number of potential malefactors that still have clean records. So how do you want to keep them out? Reject every person who has ever met with a person who has associated with a suspected evildoer? There's your invasion of privacy, and worse - it's punishment without accusation or trial.
My money - and life - is on physical inspection rather than mental.
I, on the other hand, don't give a flying expletive who they are or what their visa status is, as long as they don't have a weapon.
(It would be a distinct bonus to know that they also don't have a communicable disease!)
You've satisfied yourself that Yet Another ID card won't be issued and obtained fraudulently? To paraphrase the patron saint of the current administration, "I find your excess of faith disturbing."
Wouldn't you? Just try to find the origin of the May 1 workers' holiday in a US textbook.
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"Don't teach your grandmother to revise eggs."
That would have been a terrible grammatical error up with which neither of those persons would have put.
Are you saying the stoory about the DDoS-fighter got slashdotted?
I went to Fry's last weekend and looked at big screens. They ALL looked like CRAP! There was a basketball game on and the picture was coming through an analog processor with compression artifacts that were almost nauseating when the camera panned (the background sort of acccordion-pleated). This was not a way to show off their wares!
I asked to see a better picture and they hauled out a cheap little DVD player and a disc full of movie trailers, and connected it through the composite video connector! Again, not a way to make a sale.
Ever come out of Fry's wiithout spending a penny? I did, although I was prepared to spend a bundle.
This is old news to anyone who has ever operated a mailing list with a nontrivial number of AOL subscribers.
Did you have all the same fonts available as were used in creating the document? Word files aren't "What-I-see-is-what-you-get" portable even between Windows machines with the same OS and version of Office, if they don't have the same fonts installed.
(Admittedly, it's rare to see different sets of fonts available in such a case, but it happens.)
Guess what?
If the punk brings a wordstar file, to heck with him.
No, it also needs to implement the equivalent of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
Luckily, this seems to be under way, but it could use some help.
Try running a standard LED in liquid nitrogen once. It gets seriously brighter.
But it won't have the same effect on your friends.
Ditto. Sometimes I'm asked to be a session organizer. Complaints to their upstream have no affect.
I can "first-and-a-half-hand" report 2 hours to index about 55 GB on a powerbook. After that, it is indeed quite fast.
You mean a Caltech Girl?
Real Genius was not filmed there, becasue the Caltech public affairs folks did not care for the way professor Hathaway was portrayed. Hoever, the film was researched there and at least one techer was hired as a consultant. The indoor sets, particularly the dorm, are based on Caltech. The outdoor campus filming was done down the road at Occidental College.
If it's revolutionary, it's quite possible that it's short. However, I see nothing remotely resembling proof of anything in this paper. Just an argument by analogy with an utterly different system. I place no weight on this work, at this time.
I do note, however, that one Richard Battye of Jodrell Bank Observatory is making the rounds with a talk titled "Solid Dark Energy." He must be sane, because he makes his slides with OpenOffice. :-)
So when I see those bumper stickers and t-shirts that say "Anyone who isn't outraged isn't paying attention," now I know that they are talking about you.
I don't know what you're thinking when you say "data ... diluted or compromised," but it's a lot more difficult than you may realize to come up with a scheme which has something funky happpening over long distances of space without us being able to detect side-effects.