Gurmant Grewal, a Canadian member of parliament, already edited a voice recording and released it to the media to embarass his opponents. (Not during an election campaign, though.)
When I first heard of the zero knowledge proof of knowledge, it really bent my mind. But DRM authors are trying something truly astounding: the zero knowledge transfer of knowledge. I wish them good luck.
This has got to be the first reasonable usage of the unit megawatts per year. TFA says that they can build a factory to produce "100 megawatts of solar panels a year".
The astute among us at slashdot always say, "Megawatts per year, eh? Does that mean they increase electric power production by 100 megawatts every year? Duh."
It's cool that a number of the pictures that Google comes up with have "G R" (Georgius Rex) on them. Some of them have "V R" (Victoria Regina). Built to last alright.
For optical satellites, it should be possible to use filters to prevent the light from the (frickin') laser from ever hitting the light detectors that digitize images on the satellites.
Obviously, if there are no filters on the existing satellites, they will have to launch some new ones. I envision a "colour wheel" of filters that are optimized for known laser frequencies, plus maybe another wheel of filters with broader notches to deal with the unexpected.
One reason why Firefox is not targetted is that it is not as commonly used, so malware has less chance of survival and distribution in a smaller population.
Another reason is that some users do not run Windows, which makes vulnerabilities harder to exploit. Though possible, it's hard to infect a Mac, Linux, HP, Solaris, AIX, or BSD box with a virus or trojan designed to infect Windows XP. Although the installed base of Firefox may rise over time, this heterogeneity will continue to diminish the incentive that malware authors have to attack Firefox.
The third reason Firefox gets attacked less is the short turnaround time for patches and fixes, as noted in the FA.
The only real reason to attack Firefox is that it's new(er), and under active development. This reason should fade as the software becomes more mature. Time will tell.
It's funny, Internet Explorer is the exact opposite on these four points: it's installed base is large, it's operating environment is homogeneous, it takes a long time for problems to be patched, and it's more mature.
In June, 2004, Canadians cast 13,683,570 ballots. Every one of them was counted by two people in a locked room, usually a gymnasium or a church basement. They each put their hands on the ballot, looked at the ballot, and said aloud which candidate the voter cast his ballot for. Another person kept a tally. They were volunteers. Paid public service workers oversaw the counting, as did scrutineers designated by candidates running in the election. After a ballot box's ballots were counted, the two tallys were compared. If the counts did not agree, another team recounted the ballots from that box. I've done this. It feels good to do it.
Within a few seats in the House of Commons (there are 308), I knew the results before I went to bed. Because the country spans many time zones, people in Newfoundland had to wait until they got up in the morning.
The way you ran an election in your high school scales up to run an election for an entire nation. So scale it up.
You are correct that the magnitude of the rotation vector is the same for any two circular orbits of the same diameter, however there are two things that you have not considered:
1) Orbits are elliptical, so orbiters can collide at non-zero relative speeds.
2) The direction of the rotation vector need not be the same between any two orbits. One orbit may be pole-to-pole, while another may track the equator. Or one may be a "left-hand" orbit around the equator, while another may be a "right-hand" orbit. The second case is the worst: the space junk could hit the station at a relative speed of twice the orbital speed of the station.
All the comments on this post about designing the station to withstand the impact of any untracked space junk still applies, though.
An anecdote does not make a case study, but I switched to Linux on the desktop because of the end of support for Windows 98.
I've been using Linux for over a decade, but never as my desktop OS. I admit that I was well behind on software, still using Office 95, but the cheapest Dell with OS and Office 2K3 is about C$800, whereas the "guy-in-a-storefront-on-Kingsway" computer plus Ubuntu & OO.o is C$400. (I re-used the old monitor, though).
I assume that most home users just pirate a copy of Windows and Office to keep costs down, but I wonder why. It's morally questionable, tortious, and unnecessary.
Man, I think he was just making a little joke by calling people interested in colonizing the moon, aka luna, "loonies". He doesn't actually think you're crazy.
I have always wondered if it would be feasible to simulate Earth's gravity with a kind of large merry-go-round. Put apartments at the end of rotating arms, on hinges, and then spin it fast enough to make the vector sum of the moon's gravity and the centrifugal force in your rotating frame equal to 9.81 N/kg. The hinges at the top of the apartments would make the apartment always line up with the "gravity". You could spend all your non-working hours in a human-friendly force field.
I wonder if the large (compared to Earth) delta between the force at your head and the force at your feet would cause an unsafe stretching of your spine.
Ah, yes, the zero knowledge transfer of knowledge.
Black hat: "Give me $500 for the password to decrypt your data." White hat posing as victim: "Okay." (gives $500) Black hat: "mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw" (gives private key) White hat: "Thanks, now I'm going to go tell the New York Times." Black hat: "Nuts."
The only way to travel free of possible terrorism is if everyone agrees to be schlepped around nude, drugged, and packed in Jello. Including the terrorists.
> > Are potential employers typically sensitive to the fact that I > > may not be able to interview during the week or during standard > > work hours?
> No.
I disagree. I have interviewed a lot of people outside "standard" work hours. It's pretty common for employed people to want to be interviewed after work. 6:00 is the most popular, 7:00 is number two. I've never interviewed someone on the weekend, but I'd be willing to do it.
Many development shops want to hire people who are already working, so anyone who asks for an after-hours interview time gets one. Not everybody requests one, and if you don't ask for it then you won't get it. I've never held it against an applicant, but I prefer the six o'clock time...
Uh, if you can stop a 50mm lens down to F16, and you put in a 50mm spacer, then the highest stop is now F32. You don't expect the markings on the lens tube to change automatically when you add a Pringles can, do you?
Low flow shower head @ 0.2 l/s
Water specific heat 1000 J/K/l
Heat water from 260K to 310K
10,000 J/s = 0.2 l/s * 1000 J/K/l * (310K - 260K)
So a 10KW heater will work for a low flow shower head. That's a pretty serious heater, but is it impossible?
Suppose the whole population takes a 6 minute shower between 6 and 8. So about 5% of the population is taking a shower at any given time. I don't think ConEd could supply an extra 5GW (more than two hoover dams) of power to NYC for two hours every morning.
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Gurmant Grewal, a Canadian member of parliament, already edited a voice recording and released it to the media to embarass his opponents. (Not during an election campaign, though.)
Fortunately, it did not go well for him.
Linky.
When I first heard of the zero knowledge proof of knowledge, it really bent my mind. But DRM authors are trying something truly astounding: the zero knowledge transfer of knowledge. I wish them good luck.
This has got to be the first reasonable usage of the unit megawatts per year. TFA says that they can build a factory to produce "100 megawatts of solar panels a year".
The astute among us at slashdot always say, "Megawatts per year, eh? Does that mean they increase electric power production by 100 megawatts every year? Duh."
Well, in this case, yes. Yes it does.
It's cool that a number of the pictures that Google comes up with have "G R" (Georgius Rex) on them. Some of them have "V R" (Victoria Regina). Built to last alright.
For optical satellites, it should be possible to use filters to prevent the light from the (frickin') laser from ever hitting the light detectors that digitize images on the satellites.
Obviously, if there are no filters on the existing satellites, they will have to launch some new ones. I envision a "colour wheel" of filters that are optimized for known laser frequencies, plus maybe another wheel of filters with broader notches to deal with the unexpected.
One reason why Firefox is not targetted is that it is not as commonly used, so malware has less chance of survival and distribution in a smaller population.
Another reason is that some users do not run Windows, which makes vulnerabilities harder to exploit. Though possible, it's hard to infect a Mac, Linux, HP, Solaris, AIX, or BSD box with a virus or trojan designed to infect Windows XP. Although the installed base of Firefox may rise over time, this heterogeneity will continue to diminish the incentive that malware authors have to attack Firefox.
The third reason Firefox gets attacked less is the short turnaround time for patches and fixes, as noted in the FA.
The only real reason to attack Firefox is that it's new(er), and under active development. This reason should fade as the software becomes more mature. Time will tell.
It's funny, Internet Explorer is the exact opposite on these four points: it's installed base is large, it's operating environment is homogeneous, it takes a long time for problems to be patched, and it's more mature.
Here is a link to the number of votes cast in every federal election in Canada since confederation: http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=pas&do cument=turnout&lang=e&textonly=false.
In June, 2004, Canadians cast 13,683,570 ballots. Every one of them was counted by two people in a locked room, usually a gymnasium or a church basement. They each put their hands on the ballot, looked at the ballot, and said aloud which candidate the voter cast his ballot for. Another person kept a tally. They were volunteers. Paid public service workers oversaw the counting, as did scrutineers designated by candidates running in the election. After a ballot box's ballots were counted, the two tallys were compared. If the counts did not agree, another team recounted the ballots from that box. I've done this. It feels good to do it.
Within a few seats in the House of Commons (there are 308), I knew the results before I went to bed. Because the country spans many time zones, people in Newfoundland had to wait until they got up in the morning.
The way you ran an election in your high school scales up to run an election for an entire nation. So scale it up.
TFA says that the plant will generate 120MW. The poster made the (common, moronic) error of writing 120MW per day.
You are correct that the magnitude of the rotation vector is the same for any two circular orbits of the same diameter, however there are two things that you have not considered:
1) Orbits are elliptical, so orbiters can collide at non-zero relative speeds.
2) The direction of the rotation vector need not be the same between any two orbits. One orbit may be pole-to-pole, while another may track the equator. Or one may be a "left-hand" orbit around the equator, while another may be a "right-hand" orbit. The second case is the worst: the space junk could hit the station at a relative speed of twice the orbital speed of the station.
All the comments on this post about designing the station to withstand the impact of any untracked space junk still applies, though.
An anecdote does not make a case study, but I switched to Linux on the desktop because of the end of support for Windows 98.
I've been using Linux for over a decade, but never as my desktop OS. I admit that I was well behind on software, still using Office 95, but the cheapest Dell with OS and Office 2K3 is about C$800, whereas the "guy-in-a-storefront-on-Kingsway" computer plus Ubuntu & OO.o is C$400. (I re-used the old monitor, though).
I assume that most home users just pirate a copy of Windows and Office to keep costs down, but I wonder why. It's morally questionable, tortious, and unnecessary.
Man, I think he was just making a little joke by calling people interested in colonizing the moon, aka luna, "loonies". He doesn't actually think you're crazy.
I have always wondered if it would be feasible to simulate Earth's gravity with a kind of large merry-go-round. Put apartments at the end of rotating arms, on hinges, and then spin it fast enough to make the vector sum of the moon's gravity and the centrifugal force in your rotating frame equal to 9.81 N/kg. The hinges at the top of the apartments would make the apartment always line up with the "gravity". You could spend all your non-working hours in a human-friendly force field. I wonder if the large (compared to Earth) delta between the force at your head and the force at your feet would cause an unsafe stretching of your spine.
Relative density of lead: 11.34 g/ml
Millilitres in a US gallon: 3785 ml/gal
Pound-mass per gram: 0.002204 lbs/g
Density of lead: 94.60 lbs/gal
A bit more than ten gallons. Say, two suitcases kind of bulky?
Ah, yes, the zero knowledge transfer of knowledge.
Black hat: "Give me $500 for the password to decrypt your data."
White hat posing as victim: "Okay." (gives $500)
Black hat: "mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw" (gives private key)
White hat: "Thanks, now I'm going to go tell the New York Times."
Black hat: "Nuts."
One international number that you can call is the BT Speaking Clock at +44 0871 789 3642. This is an automated service.
Mr. Savant's household has a higher collective IQ than his town. His town has a greater IQ than his state...
I like that prejudice :)
Marilyn is a woman.
Sign me up!
> > Are potential employers typically sensitive to the fact that I
> > may not be able to interview during the week or during standard
> > work hours?
> No.
I disagree. I have interviewed a lot of people outside "standard" work hours. It's pretty common for employed people to want to be interviewed after work. 6:00 is the most popular, 7:00 is number two. I've never interviewed someone on the weekend, but I'd be willing to do it.
Many development shops want to hire people who are already working, so anyone who asks for an after-hours interview time gets one. Not everybody requests one, and if you don't ask for it then you won't get it. I've never held it against an applicant, but I prefer the six o'clock time...
Too bad the site is down, I want to try putting a scanner in my camera obscura (http://members.shaw.ca/mhamilto).
Missed a step:
1) Burn oil fuels
2) Oil turn into CO2
2.5) Shine light on algae
3) Turn CO2 into oil.
Uh, if you can stop a 50mm lens down to F16, and you put in a 50mm spacer, then the highest stop is now F32. You don't expect the markings on the lens tube to change automatically when you add a Pringles can, do you?
Uh... I think you meant, "it's best not to know how laws and sausages are made in bed."
The "politics" hat should have been wrapped in tinfoil.
They mostly just cooked hams, though, so nobody cares.
Wahoo! Lets do the math:
Low flow shower head @ 0.2 l/sWater specific heat 1000 J/K/l
Heat water from 260K to 310K
10,000 J/s = 0.2 l/s * 1000 J/K/l * (310K - 260K)
So a 10KW heater will work for a low flow shower head. That's a pretty serious heater, but is it impossible?
Suppose the whole population takes a 6 minute shower between 6 and 8. So about 5% of the population is taking a shower at any given time. I don't think ConEd could supply an extra 5GW (more than two hoover dams) of power to NYC for two hours every morning.