TFA doesn't say but I suspect they are not actually looking at pictures of the object. More likely a spectrum. Perhaps the acretion disk of a black hole has a similar spectrum to a young galaxy when using these instruments.
I vaguely remember someone in the UK that was convicted of the computer equivalent of trespass for doing something like this: manually removing the trailing elements in a URL.
When the GST (tax) was launched here in 2000 the tax department had a web site where you could query something about your tax and the cgi script it used had an argument like ?tfn=nnnnnnn where the n's are your tax file number (9 digits).
So this guy tried a couple of combinations, got the details of others, and took it to the tax people with advice to change their security arrangements.
It's like there's an unwritten agreement that we'll never speak of VHS ever again, like it was an embarrassing mistake that it ever took off in the first place.
It was the tubes, no, not the ones the internet uses, the ones which people used to watch pictures on. If you make it wider you have to make it deeper so you may as well make it higher and then you have a square screen again.
If Shuttle achieved escape velocity it would be in a heap of trouble since (unlike apollo) it is incapable of aerobaking from more than the energy it gets from low earth orbit. It would have made more sense to refer directly to the Earths rotational velocity.
So, while I am sure heads are rolling at Chase, I am not horribly mad at them (I am a customer of theirs, but have not recieved a letter). I understand how things like this can happen.
At my previous job we had two degaussing devices. One mains powered unit like a large shaver, and a simple permanent magnet. Every tape which we got rid of was treated by one or both machines. Any competent organisation would do the same.
Well, if you have a hot jupiter, perhaps you could have earthlike conditions on the moons of the hot jupiter.
If those moons were at least as massive as Mars, and preferably Venus or Earth there might be a chance of this working. Titan has its volatiles because it is cold. Heat it up and you are left with a small rocky moon.
why, exactly, our country's spaceport is still located in a state known for nothing so much as lightning and storms?
Ummm because its in the extreme south east of the country. Launches to the north give you a high inclination orbit. Launches further west expose landmass to bits of spacecraft in the event of an abort.
I could suggest that they launch from Cape York but the weather is pretty bad in that general area as well.
As long as they test it properly after replacement, what's the problem?
One article I saw said the faulty pump is between the payload bay and the heat shield of the spacecraft. You would have to disassemble the whole stack and much of the orbiter to replace one little motor. That might be six months of work and if you think you can get by safely without this motor it may be worth the risk.
There really is no danger of getting cancer from using a cellular (more likely, as with over a billion connections, we have yet to hear of anyone who actually got cancer and died due to phone usage)
A phone might deliver a couple of watts of microwave radiation, but go up the spectrum to higher energy and we bathe ourselves in kilowatts of infrared all the time. If microwaves caused cancer what should radiated heat do to you?
We know that the worst you can get from IR is dry and possibly dead skin. No mutation, no tumors. Microwaves must be safer by comparison.
A system built on the Internet model might enable neighbors to help each other, which is basically required after a mass disaster, since any emergency response team will be overwhelmed. Do you know how you'd find your neighbors after a disaster? How would they find you?
By rights GSM phones should be able to work as point to point communicators over short ranges. In a disaster this would help, both when the cell goes down, and when the network is overloaded.
Unfortunately there is no way for the network operator to make money this way so the feature does not exist.
Part of the reason mobile phone ownership growing so fast in 3rd world countries is the lack of infrastructure
About ten years ago I was shown a factory here in Melbourne where analog cellular phones were being built into bulky units for sale in Chile. The idea is that it is cheaper to put a cellular phone in every house and a base station every 10km or so, than to trench all the way to every house.
fundies, in turn, seem to assume that the big bang was invented for the sole purpose of trying to support evolution
And if asked, would surely say that they would like their son to marry a pretty girl. I used to have a lot of fun baiting people like that but it just not the same these days. Its gone stale.
The kidnapper is dead. It's a little late to be looking for clues!
Its one of those "without a trace" scenarios. Maybe the dead kidnapper has girls buried in basements all over Austria. You have to crack the C64 file system before they starve to death.
Yeah, but how is it on lip-reading? That's when we really need to worry.
Given that my laptop has a microphone I was a bit worried about the recent article on google sampling sound on peoples computers. But my wife's laptop also has a webcam. Should I tell my wife not to google in bed? If the mic is off will they still catch what she is talking about?
Dave why don't you take a stress pill and lie down. If you are looking for something to read there is always google news.
This is a security model inversion which is better suited to Wikis than traditional security, and it's Good.
I wonder if it would work for code? Say I forked NetBSD and let absolutely anyone commit changes. One of these days I will just have to try that, its better than not knowing.
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start = search("= 0) && (search_string(tag, ">",0) == -1)) {
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# If this is a tag without content (like
or
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# essentially: do nothing
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Type-in:
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Its not mine, I didn't write it but I find I fantastic for working with html. Wish I could credit the writer.
I'm sorry, I just don't get the guy. Maybe its because I still remember Paul Hogan and am totally sick of people sending up Australians with these stupid caricatures. This afternoon I must have got five emails from people broadcasting the news.
After the first one I thought thats one less annoying thing on TV (100000 to go, maybe they can all go to FNQ). I'm sorry he's dead and I wish they had kept the news quiet until they tracked his wife down and told her properly. Now she is going to hear it from somebody on the overland walk and she is going to have to walk out. Thats really bad.
I'm beginning to suspect Comcast some sort of outsourced Vogon corporation and their offices are full of large green lumbering creatures, and anyone human is simply a hired shill, I mean, lobbyist.
Its funny. One of the companies (a bank,I think) here in.au used to run an advertisment which depicted their competitors call centres as being staffed with robots from old tv shows. They had the robot from Lost In Space, a Dalek, etc. The continual chant "You call is important to us, please hold the line" as the robots stuble arounds trying to hold on to phone handsets is punctuated with "terminate...terminate...".
I haven't used MS Office for decades but I could sit down and be productive with it in about 30 seconds flat
So could I but after two decades of working in good plain text editors the feel of Word drives me up the wall. I think its the little delays built into the UI, and the strange approach to selection.
We need to dull down our kids expectations of UI quality to keep them employable.
Of course in India none of that matters. Business and Government could deploy hundreds of millions of Linux desktop systems on the basis that it is cheaper and better and then it will be the norm.
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Actually I think he meant supernova. Some stars can go nova many times without ending their lives.
TFA doesn't say but I suspect they are not actually looking at pictures of the object. More likely a spectrum. Perhaps the acretion disk of a black hole has a similar spectrum to a young galaxy when using these instruments.
IANAA (I am not an astophysicist) but supernova explosions create most of the heavy elements. There should be a good writeup on wikipedia.
When the GST (tax) was launched here in 2000 the tax department had a web site where you could query something about your tax and the cgi script it used had an argument like ?tfn=nnnnnnn where the n's are your tax file number (9 digits).
So this guy tried a couple of combinations, got the details of others, and took it to the tax people with advice to change their security arrangements.
So they did, by locking him up.
It was the tubes, no, not the ones the internet uses, the ones which people used to watch pictures on. If you make it wider you have to make it deeper so you may as well make it higher and then you have a square screen again.
If Shuttle achieved escape velocity it would be in a heap of trouble since (unlike apollo) it is incapable of aerobaking from more than the energy it gets from low earth orbit. It would have made more sense to refer directly to the Earths rotational velocity.
Damn I wanted to know what kuro5hin would have had!
At my previous job we had two degaussing devices. One mains powered unit like a large shaver, and a simple permanent magnet. Every tape which we got rid of was treated by one or both machines. Any competent organisation would do the same.
If those moons were at least as massive as Mars, and preferably Venus or Earth there might be a chance of this working. Titan has its volatiles because it is cold. Heat it up and you are left with a small rocky moon.
Ummm because its in the extreme south east of the country. Launches to the north give you a high inclination orbit. Launches further west expose landmass to bits of spacecraft in the event of an abort.
I could suggest that they launch from Cape York but the weather is pretty bad in that general area as well.
One article I saw said the faulty pump is between the payload bay and the heat shield of the spacecraft. You would have to disassemble the whole stack and much of the orbiter to replace one little motor. That might be six months of work and if you think you can get by safely without this motor it may be worth the risk.
A phone might deliver a couple of watts of microwave radiation, but go up the spectrum to higher energy and we bathe ourselves in kilowatts of infrared all the time. If microwaves caused cancer what should radiated heat do to you?
We know that the worst you can get from IR is dry and possibly dead skin. No mutation, no tumors. Microwaves must be safer by comparison.
By rights GSM phones should be able to work as point to point communicators over short ranges. In a disaster this would help, both when the cell goes down, and when the network is overloaded.
Unfortunately there is no way for the network operator to make money this way so the feature does not exist.
About ten years ago I was shown a factory here in Melbourne where analog cellular phones were being built into bulky units for sale in Chile. The idea is that it is cheaper to put a cellular phone in every house and a base station every 10km or so, than to trench all the way to every house.
And if asked, would surely say that they would like their son to marry a pretty girl. I used to have a lot of fun baiting people like that but it just not the same these days. Its gone stale.
Its one of those "without a trace" scenarios. Maybe the dead kidnapper has girls buried in basements all over Austria. You have to crack the C64 file system before they starve to death.
Austrian coppers?
I thought you never see the wumpus. You smell it then you either move away or get eaten.
Last time I checked the green guy didn't have a category for ASCII art.
Given that my laptop has a microphone I was a bit worried about the recent article on google sampling sound on peoples computers. But my wife's laptop also has a webcam. Should I tell my wife not to google in bed? If the mic is off will they still catch what she is talking about?
Dave why don't you take a stress pill and lie down. If you are looking for something to read there is always google news.
I wonder if it would work for code? Say I forked NetBSD and let absolutely anyone commit changes. One of these days I will just have to try that, its better than not knowing.
Programming smart indent:
/") /p or /table
Initialisation:
$XHTML_COMPATIBILITY = 1
# set to 0 if you don't want XHTML like "
" (simply "
" instead)
define TagEnd {
start = search("= 0) && (search_string(tag, ">",0) == -1)) {
# it really looks like an HTML tag: " (otherwise, comparison operators in PHP are hard to type)
newtag = replace_in_string(tag, "^\\= 0) {
# If this is a tag without content (like
or
if ($XHTML_COMPATIBILITY && (length(newtag) > 0 )) {
# if we want XHTML compatibility AND there really is a tag
replace_selection(tag "
# insert the XHTML end-of-tag
gotoPos = $1 + 2
# as something was inserted, the cursor needs to be moved
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# no XHTML compatibility or no tag
gotoPos = $1
# essentially: do nothing
}
select(gotoPos, gotoPos)
set_cursor_pos(gotoPos)
# reset the selection and put the cursor to where the user expects it
} else {
# a normal tag with a content
replace_selection(tag "")
# insert closing tag - the matched tag (e.g. p or table) ends with
select($1, $1)
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select($1,$1)
set_cursor_pos($1)
}
}
Newline:
return -1
Type-in:
if ($2 == ">") {
TagEnd($1, ">")
}
Its not mine, I didn't write it but I find I fantastic for working with html. Wish I could credit the writer.
I'm sorry, I just don't get the guy. Maybe its because I still remember Paul Hogan and am totally sick of people sending up Australians with these stupid caricatures. This afternoon I must have got five emails from people broadcasting the news.
After the first one I thought thats one less annoying thing on TV (100000 to go, maybe they can all go to FNQ). I'm sorry he's dead and I wish they had kept the news quiet until they tracked his wife down and told her properly. Now she is going to hear it from somebody on the overland walk and she is going to have to walk out. Thats really bad.
Its funny. One of the companies (a bank,I think) here in .au used to run an advertisment which depicted their competitors call centres as being staffed with robots from old tv shows. They had the robot from Lost In Space, a Dalek, etc. The continual chant "You call is important to us, please hold the line" as the robots stuble arounds trying to hold on to phone handsets is punctuated with "terminate...terminate...".
So could I but after two decades of working in good plain text editors the feel of Word drives me up the wall. I think its the little delays built into the UI, and the strange approach to selection.
We need to dull down our kids expectations of UI quality to keep them employable.
Of course in India none of that matters. Business and Government could deploy hundreds of millions of Linux desktop systems on the basis that it is cheaper and better and then it will be the norm.