Reading this comment made me imagine the main file server getting up and walking out of the data center because it was tired of all the user errors.."Take your input and shove it!"
I totally agree with the parent comment: why not get paid for this work. Even if you already are a millionaire, you can just give us kibitzers delayed access to the information for free.
This interview was absolutely fascinating. The comment I found most interesting was McAlpin's opinion that 128-bit processing won't be coming to PC's any time soon.
Excellent choice...
Here is the text of the following link(www.iafastro-iisl.com/additional%20pages/Stat ement_Moon.htm)
which quotes the relevant part of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty:
Of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) On Claims to Property Rights Regarding
The Moon and Other Celestial Bodies
Claims to own the Moon or parts thereof by private parties have been made for many years, but so far such claims have not been taken very seriously. However, this could change, as "deeds to lunar property" have started to appear, raising the opportunity for individuals to be misled. In addition, the scope of such claims has been extended recently to other celestial bodies. Thus, the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) has concluded that there is a need for a statement regarding the current legal situation concerning claims to private property rights to the Moon and other celestial bodies or parts thereof. While this issue is only a small part of a much broader context surrounding private sector activities on the Moon and other celestial bodies, this statement is limited only to the topic of claims to private property rights to the Moon and other celestial bodies or parts thereof.
Article II of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty states that "Outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means." The object and purpose of this provision was to exclude all territorial claims to outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies. As of March 2004, the Outer Space Treaty has been ratified by 98 nations, and signed by an additional 27 countries.
Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty provides that "States bear international responsibility for national activities in outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, whether such activities are carried on by governmental agencies or by non-governmental entities", that is, private parties, and "for assuring that national activities are carried out in conformity with the provisions set forth in the present Treaty". Article VI further provides that "the activities of non-governmental entities in outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty."
Therefore, according to international law, and pursuant to Article VI, the activities of non-governmental entities (private parties) are national activities. The prohibition of national appropriation by Article II thus includes appropriation by non-governmental entities (i.e. private entities whether individuals or corporations) since that would be a national activity. The prohibition of national appropriation also precludes the application of any national legislation on a territorial basis to validate a 'private claim'. Hence, it is not sufficient for sellers of lunar deeds to point to national law, or the silence of national authorities, to justify their ostensible claims. The sellers of such deeds are unable to acquire legal title to their claims. Accordingly, the deeds they sell have no legal value or significance, and convey no recognized rights whatsoever.
According to international law, States party to a treaty are under a duty to implement the terms of that treaty within their national legal systems. Therefore, to comply with their obligations under Articles II and VI of the Outer Space Treaty, States Parties are under a duty to ensure that, in their legal systems, transactions regarding claims to property rights to the Moon and other celestial bodies or parts thereof, have no legal significance or recognised legal effect.
Note: Notwithstanding matters covered in the above Statement, the Board of Directors of the IISL recognises that other private activities on the Moon and other celestial bodies are permitted. Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty affirms that non-governmental entities, including private indivi
NO, the real issue is all of the morons that are willing to pay for the bootlegged movie in spite of the lousy quality of the product. People must get a thrill out of knowing that they are doing something illegal; that's the only explanation that I can think of. All of you slashdotters that buy bootlegged movies, is this your motivation?
The parent sounds exactly like a religious missionary when he(she?) says "Don't lose faith in science and scientists." Just replace science and scientists with your religion/cult of choice. The parent should give us a reason for this faith..
Also, everyone should be familiar with Thomas Kuhn's book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"; in this book he demonstrates convincingly that acceptance of new theories by scientists as a group has often been based more on social issues in the scientific community than on the experimental evidence.
As far as I'm concerned, parent's statement that "Science is a system that depends heavily on peer review and skeptical inquiry" is accurate but the fact is that currently accepted scientific doctrine is frequently based on the social status of the scientists who are the primary proponents of the currently accepted doctrine.
Here's the article:
Night sky spectacular
November 9, 2004 - 4:42PM
A spectacular light show is expected to play across Australia's southern skies as a major geomagnetic storm rages above the earth's atmosphere this week.
Many-hued shimmering and moving lights should appear in the night sky in the southern half of Australia over the next two nights, the Australian space weather agency, IPS Radio and Space Services, said.
Since November 3, a massive sunspot has caused several explosions on the sun's surface, which have hit the earth's geomagnetic field and caused a major geomagnetic storm.
"This storm is expected to continue for the next two to three days as material now in transit from the sun interacts with the geomagnetic field," IPS deputy general manager Phil Wilkinson said.
"Reports of aurora have already been received from as far north as the Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran in northern NSW."
As well as creating a spectacular light display, the storm is likely to disturb the earth's upper atmosphere and interfere with technological systems including short wave or high frequency (HF) radio.
"HF radio remains an important tool for communications and surveillance within Australia for defence, air and sea transport and emergency service groups," Dr Wilkinson said.
Satellites may be damaged and aeromagnetic surveys could be adversely affected, he said, but the activity posed no direct threat to people on earth.
I guess this means all the tinfoil hat wearers in the southern hemisphere can take them off for a couple of days.
Since all of their PDF's have this error they just programmed Echelon to ignore the message. All of the members of the "malcodeteam" were hired away from Microsoft so they are used to filtering out negative feedback about their products.
Perhaps a better solution to the stare into a little window would be a large screen with pointing device
such as in "Minority Report." This way when you spill your latte you don't crash the network
After reading the article, it appears that this software would be good for improving the performance of any *nix code rather than being limited to nuclear testing related apps. Theoretically, this could speed up development and improve the quality of all open source apps.
Here's a chunk of the press release FYI: "In a joint effort with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to make more sophisticated open-source performance tools available to government laboratories, universities and other researchers, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced it is developing an open-source version of the SGI® SpeedShop(TM) performance analysis tool. Aimed at accelerating research efforts on Linux® OS-based systems, the NNSA-funded project will provide the evolving open-source community with broad access to SpeedShop that for years has been a staple on IRIX®, the world's most technically advanced UNIX® high-performance computing environment.
"Cost-efficient Linux systems are becoming commonplace in the nation's research facilities, but the ecosystem of open-source tools and utilities hasn't matured as rapidly as the operating system itself, and this leaves researchers at a productivity disadvantage," said Thuc Hoang, Path Forward program manager, NNSA.
"With the development of an open-source version of SGI's SpeedShop tool, researchers can begin relying on the same class of open-source parallel performance tools that they have used for years in HPC environments. This will ensure that researchers working on Linux systems - not just at the NNSA but throughout the nation and the world - can accelerate their research efforts by continuously optimizing application and system performance," Hoang added.
Creating a Linux version of SpeedShop, named Open/SpeedShop, will make it easier for laboratory scientists and researchers to analyze the performance of applications and tasks while eliminating bottlenecks and bugs, maximizing overall application performance, and improving the quality of data and results. SGI is collaborating with the University of Wisconsin and the University of Maryland on the project. "
Actually, we don't have the capability to fully model the global weather system. The state of the art models that exist now can only predict with any accuracy at all out to about ten days. Check out the NOAA Climate Prediction Center's website...they have difficulty predicting whether an El Nino will occur in any given year even six months in advance.
Now for my soapbox: IMHO in general computer folks grossly underestimate the complexity of the human brain and brain researchers routinely exaggerate the level of their understanding of the brain to lay people.
The Pentagon buys its hardware based on the principle that it's better to have one fancy expensive war machine than a thousand cheap expendable machines. If we built a thousand of these things for $200 each enough would get through the enemy defenses to get the job done and we'd be ahead $50,000. The Soviets and Chinese took the opposite philosophy. Look at the design of the M-16 versus the AK-47 for example....
You are right on; but missed one thing. Half of the programming itself is a commercial disguised as a show. Think of "You've Got Mail"...one gigantically boring AOL pitch...
Why bother using real actors? It would be more interesting to watch the footage of the best player in the world play the game. The Rock's acting will be stiffer than the play of 85% of players.
Online registration should be important for a college of any size. Most students that attend small colleges probably come from places that are at least 50 miles away from campus; and chances are you change your mind about classes several times before you show up the first day. Being able to jump online and make changes would be at the top of my list.
The positives of these systems is there is no longer a 'prime time'. Once these systems are wide spread, you can schedule shows at any time, including the middle of the night, and people who want to watch them can.----I think that this is what the TV networks are most afraid of; if there is no prime time they can't charge higher prices for those prime time ads.
Who modded this to a 4? Regardless of whether there were any Iraqi troops at all massed at the Saudi-Iraqi border in 1990, there was a large Iraqi force in Kuwait which is very, very close to the Saudi border. Those Iraqis weren't on a road trip vacation...the inconvenient reality is that Catbeller appears just one of these knee-jerk leftists who doesn't understand where freedom comes from.
In September 1990, Saddam's track record was that he had attacked Iran years before, and had just conquered Kuwait. Clearly he was looking for victims and given that Saudi Arabia had a weak military at the time and Iraq's military was considered the fourth most powerful in the world, it is extremely reasonable to presume that if left the opportunity Saddam would have made a grab for the Saudi territory.
Get your freaking facts straight!!!
Eric Hensema says that Microsoft designed icon appearance to fool you into thinking that Windows is faster than it actually is. So they spent expensive programmer/designer time that could have been used to actually make Windows faster on psychological tricks. This is an outrage.
If all you wanted to do was crash the network without caring about passwords all you'd need is a simple RF transmitter broadcasting on the same frequency as the Linksys and jam it...to me this is the biggest problem with wireless networks.
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You are right on the mark; a comfortable home that is the same size as a 1950 standard US suburban home could be built very cheaply.
Iloved LOTR when it was just words on paper; even Jackson's fantastic production won't replace the images created in my mind when I read the books.
Also, a lot of fantastic story telling has been done where the backgrounds were just basically some paint and paper. It's called the theater...
Reading this comment made me imagine the main file server getting up and walking out of the data center because it was tired of all the user errors.."Take your input and shove it!"
I totally agree with the parent comment: why not get paid for this work. Even if you already are a millionaire, you can just give us kibitzers delayed access to the information for free.
I have definitely seen this story on Slashdot recently. How did this get through the edit process?
This interview was absolutely fascinating. The comment I found most interesting was McAlpin's opinion that 128-bit processing won't be coming to PC's any time soon. Excellent choice...
Here is the text of the following link(www.iafastro-iisl.com/additional%20pages/Stat ement_Moon.htm) which quotes the relevant part of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty: Of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) On Claims to Property Rights Regarding The Moon and Other Celestial Bodies Claims to own the Moon or parts thereof by private parties have been made for many years, but so far such claims have not been taken very seriously. However, this could change, as "deeds to lunar property" have started to appear, raising the opportunity for individuals to be misled. In addition, the scope of such claims has been extended recently to other celestial bodies. Thus, the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) has concluded that there is a need for a statement regarding the current legal situation concerning claims to private property rights to the Moon and other celestial bodies or parts thereof. While this issue is only a small part of a much broader context surrounding private sector activities on the Moon and other celestial bodies, this statement is limited only to the topic of claims to private property rights to the Moon and other celestial bodies or parts thereof. Article II of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty states that "Outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means." The object and purpose of this provision was to exclude all territorial claims to outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies. As of March 2004, the Outer Space Treaty has been ratified by 98 nations, and signed by an additional 27 countries. Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty provides that "States bear international responsibility for national activities in outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, whether such activities are carried on by governmental agencies or by non-governmental entities", that is, private parties, and "for assuring that national activities are carried out in conformity with the provisions set forth in the present Treaty". Article VI further provides that "the activities of non-governmental entities in outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty." Therefore, according to international law, and pursuant to Article VI, the activities of non-governmental entities (private parties) are national activities. The prohibition of national appropriation by Article II thus includes appropriation by non-governmental entities (i.e. private entities whether individuals or corporations) since that would be a national activity. The prohibition of national appropriation also precludes the application of any national legislation on a territorial basis to validate a 'private claim'. Hence, it is not sufficient for sellers of lunar deeds to point to national law, or the silence of national authorities, to justify their ostensible claims. The sellers of such deeds are unable to acquire legal title to their claims. Accordingly, the deeds they sell have no legal value or significance, and convey no recognized rights whatsoever. According to international law, States party to a treaty are under a duty to implement the terms of that treaty within their national legal systems. Therefore, to comply with their obligations under Articles II and VI of the Outer Space Treaty, States Parties are under a duty to ensure that, in their legal systems, transactions regarding claims to property rights to the Moon and other celestial bodies or parts thereof, have no legal significance or recognised legal effect. Note: Notwithstanding matters covered in the above Statement, the Board of Directors of the IISL recognises that other private activities on the Moon and other celestial bodies are permitted. Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty affirms that non-governmental entities, including private indivi
NO, the real issue is all of the morons that are willing to pay for the bootlegged movie in spite of the lousy quality of the product. People must get a thrill out of knowing that they are doing something illegal; that's the only explanation that I can think of. All of you slashdotters that buy bootlegged movies, is this your motivation?
The parent sounds exactly like a religious missionary when he(she?) says "Don't lose faith in science and scientists." Just replace science and scientists with your religion/cult of choice. The parent should give us a reason for this faith.. Also, everyone should be familiar with Thomas Kuhn's book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"; in this book he demonstrates convincingly that acceptance of new theories by scientists as a group has often been based more on social issues in the scientific community than on the experimental evidence. As far as I'm concerned, parent's statement that "Science is a system that depends heavily on peer review and skeptical inquiry" is accurate but the fact is that currently accepted scientific doctrine is frequently based on the social status of the scientists who are the primary proponents of the currently accepted doctrine.
Here's the article: Night sky spectacular November 9, 2004 - 4:42PM A spectacular light show is expected to play across Australia's southern skies as a major geomagnetic storm rages above the earth's atmosphere this week. Many-hued shimmering and moving lights should appear in the night sky in the southern half of Australia over the next two nights, the Australian space weather agency, IPS Radio and Space Services, said. Since November 3, a massive sunspot has caused several explosions on the sun's surface, which have hit the earth's geomagnetic field and caused a major geomagnetic storm. "This storm is expected to continue for the next two to three days as material now in transit from the sun interacts with the geomagnetic field," IPS deputy general manager Phil Wilkinson said. "Reports of aurora have already been received from as far north as the Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran in northern NSW." As well as creating a spectacular light display, the storm is likely to disturb the earth's upper atmosphere and interfere with technological systems including short wave or high frequency (HF) radio. "HF radio remains an important tool for communications and surveillance within Australia for defence, air and sea transport and emergency service groups," Dr Wilkinson said. Satellites may be damaged and aeromagnetic surveys could be adversely affected, he said, but the activity posed no direct threat to people on earth. I guess this means all the tinfoil hat wearers in the southern hemisphere can take them off for a couple of days.
I for one welcome our new robotic overlords....
Since all of their PDF's have this error they just programmed Echelon to ignore the message. All of the members of the "malcodeteam" were hired away from Microsoft so they are used to filtering out negative feedback about their products.
Perhaps a better solution to the stare into a little window would be a large screen with pointing device such as in "Minority Report." This way when you spill your latte you don't crash the network
After reading the article, it appears that this software would be good for improving the performance of any *nix code rather than being limited to nuclear testing related apps. Theoretically, this could speed up development and improve the quality of all open source apps. Here's a chunk of the press release FYI: "In a joint effort with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to make more sophisticated open-source performance tools available to government laboratories, universities and other researchers, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced it is developing an open-source version of the SGI® SpeedShop(TM) performance analysis tool. Aimed at accelerating research efforts on Linux® OS-based systems, the NNSA-funded project will provide the evolving open-source community with broad access to SpeedShop that for years has been a staple on IRIX®, the world's most technically advanced UNIX® high-performance computing environment. "Cost-efficient Linux systems are becoming commonplace in the nation's research facilities, but the ecosystem of open-source tools and utilities hasn't matured as rapidly as the operating system itself, and this leaves researchers at a productivity disadvantage," said Thuc Hoang, Path Forward program manager, NNSA. "With the development of an open-source version of SGI's SpeedShop tool, researchers can begin relying on the same class of open-source parallel performance tools that they have used for years in HPC environments. This will ensure that researchers working on Linux systems - not just at the NNSA but throughout the nation and the world - can accelerate their research efforts by continuously optimizing application and system performance," Hoang added. Creating a Linux version of SpeedShop, named Open/SpeedShop, will make it easier for laboratory scientists and researchers to analyze the performance of applications and tasks while eliminating bottlenecks and bugs, maximizing overall application performance, and improving the quality of data and results. SGI is collaborating with the University of Wisconsin and the University of Maryland on the project. "
I think I'll finally get serious about going for my doctorate now...I reaally need to get my hands on that kind of bandwitdth...
Actually, we don't have the capability to fully model the global weather system. The state of the art models that exist now can only predict with any accuracy at all out to about ten days. Check out the NOAA Climate Prediction Center's website...they have difficulty predicting whether an El Nino will occur in any given year even six months in advance. Now for my soapbox: IMHO in general computer folks grossly underestimate the complexity of the human brain and brain researchers routinely exaggerate the level of their understanding of the brain to lay people.
The Pentagon buys its hardware based on the principle that it's better to have one fancy expensive war machine than a thousand cheap expendable machines. If we built a thousand of these things for $200 each enough would get through the enemy defenses to get the job done and we'd be ahead $50,000. The Soviets and Chinese took the opposite philosophy. Look at the design of the M-16 versus the AK-47 for example....
What this means is that the Red Sox will win the series and break the curse. They had to do it during a lunar eclipse....
You are right on; but missed one thing. Half of the programming itself is a commercial disguised as a show. Think of "You've Got Mail"...one gigantically boring AOL pitch...
Why bother using real actors? It would be more interesting to watch the footage of the best player in the world play the game. The Rock's acting will be stiffer than the play of 85% of players.
Online registration should be important for a college of any size. Most students that attend small colleges probably come from places that are at least 50 miles away from campus; and chances are you change your mind about classes several times before you show up the first day. Being able to jump online and make changes would be at the top of my list.
The positives of these systems is there is no longer a 'prime time'. Once these systems are wide spread, you can schedule shows at any time, including the middle of the night, and people who want to watch them can.----I think that this is what the TV networks are most afraid of; if there is no prime time they can't charge higher prices for those prime time ads.
Who modded this to a 4? Regardless of whether there were any Iraqi troops at all massed at the Saudi-Iraqi border in 1990, there was a large Iraqi force in Kuwait which is very, very close to the Saudi border. Those Iraqis weren't on a road trip vacation...the inconvenient reality is that Catbeller appears just one of these knee-jerk leftists who doesn't understand where freedom comes from. In September 1990, Saddam's track record was that he had attacked Iran years before, and had just conquered Kuwait. Clearly he was looking for victims and given that Saudi Arabia had a weak military at the time and Iraq's military was considered the fourth most powerful in the world, it is extremely reasonable to presume that if left the opportunity Saddam would have made a grab for the Saudi territory. Get your freaking facts straight!!!
Eric Hensema says that Microsoft designed icon appearance to fool you into thinking that Windows is faster than it actually is. So they spent expensive programmer/designer time that could have been used to actually make Windows faster on psychological tricks. This is an outrage.
If all you wanted to do was crash the network without caring about passwords all you'd need is a simple RF transmitter broadcasting on the same frequency as the Linksys and jam it...to me this is the biggest problem with wireless networks.