The first things I want to know are not the distance, but its size and velocity.
Velocity is easy. Its 11 km/s plus five or (at the very most) 10 km/s for the speed the asteroid is passing us at. IIRC many of the asteroids which are in resonance with Earth have just a few km/s of velocity when they pass close. If there is going to be an impact then the most important bit of information will be where will it hit?. For anything smaller than Lucifers Hammer, it will suffice to evacuate the impact site for a while.
Okay so for you a netbook is my eeepc 701. I use it all the time but the keyboard is cramped and its solid state storage was ahead of its time. It was killed by being a little bit too small to be practical for most people.
Is Australia really so fortunate that the users have the ability to switch?.
Sort of. The local copper loop to the home is generally owned by Telstra, but the federal government mandates that they must lease access to other service providers. The price is fixed and both sides complain more or less continually that it is either too high or too low. My internet service comes from comcen through telstra wires which must be 30 or 40 years old. Optus and Telstra both have co-axial cable to many homes but the cable services are more expensive than ADSL through copper, possibly due to there being less competition and regulation.
So they filter a URL. The same service can be accessed from different host names, some of them obtained from public domain name servers, some of then not. The users could use an alternate DNS root with a totally different idea of the names given to web sites, as long as the servers are configured appropriately. So say Telstra thinks a particular site is called a.cp.com but my DNS which sits between me and the internet calls it b.pc.com and the server knows this name as well. Telstra never heard of it so they won't filter it. Eventually authorities will access the feed of alternate host names but by then the market will have moved on.
I pay for a static IP address on my ADSL service. Its the address in my/. profile web page as well as my MX targets and DNS services. Thats the same IP address I browse from when at home, or when using a VPN from elsewhere. That IP address most definitely does identify my home.
Its pretty normal in Australia to pay for ADSL at home. Wifi is scarce, particularly if you want to sit down for any length of time. An organisation with the backing of a Government could retrieve the DHCP logs from a wifi AP any way. I am just saying that you aren't really anonymous if you pick a random handle for online forums. If you post something suggesting you are a member of LULZSec then the cops will more than likely be knocking at your door.
You don't really know what you're talking about, do you?
aussie_a's IP address is easy to get if a government has the ability to spy on internet infrastructure in the country where slashdot is hosted. The IP address gives you his ISP. The IP and the time of the post give you his account details.
Celsius is problematic because the degrees are too large
Seriously? The thermometer on my bike reads in integer degrees celcius. I have never once wanted to know if the temperature is actually 4.2 instead of 4 during my morning commute. I can't tell the difference between 4 and 5 by feel, so why would it be important for me to measure to that precision?
I wonder what they will look like... If someone hasn't thought of it before, someone should start drawing up plans for futuristic libraries where instead of checking out paper books you can check out books for your kindle or some other device... on top of that, I think it would be cool for it to look like a traditional library, but server racks instead of bookshelves.. (this probably just seems cool to me because I'm a nerd, I have a lot of friends who are 'conservative' when it comes to paper books.. A lot of the English majors I know treat technology like the anti-christ.
I think your electronic library will look like this and the server racks will be located somewhere with cheap power and air conditioning.
In 1974 I was sitting in a fast food joint in Panama city. A VW beetle in the car park burst into flames. My dad reckons it was the steel springs in the back seat. If you sit down too hard the springs get pushed down on to the battery terminals.
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The first things I want to know are not the distance, but its size and velocity.
Velocity is easy. Its 11 km/s plus five or (at the very most) 10 km/s for the speed the asteroid is passing us at. IIRC many of the asteroids which are in resonance with Earth have just a few km/s of velocity when they pass close. If there is going to be an impact then the most important bit of information will be where will it hit?. For anything smaller than Lucifers Hammer, it will suffice to evacuate the impact site for a while.
This guy lugs his desktop around: How to publish a Hindu newspaper in Pakistan
Well okay its Pakistan, not Afghanistan, but I suspect the poorer parts of both countries have similar challenges.
Potential revenue from cash in has exceeded projected forecast revenue from the game as it is.
You don't browse the web with sysctl?
Okay so for you a netbook is my eeepc 701. I use it all the time but the keyboard is cramped and its solid state storage was ahead of its time. It was killed by being a little bit too small to be practical for most people.
Is Australia really so fortunate that the users have the ability to switch?.
Sort of. The local copper loop to the home is generally owned by Telstra, but the federal government mandates that they must lease access to other service providers. The price is fixed and both sides complain more or less continually that it is either too high or too low. My internet service comes from comcen through telstra wires which must be 30 or 40 years old. Optus and Telstra both have co-axial cable to many homes but the cable services are more expensive than ADSL through copper, possibly due to there being less competition and regulation.
So they filter a URL. The same service can be accessed from different host names, some of them obtained from public domain name servers, some of then not. The users could use an alternate DNS root with a totally different idea of the names given to web sites, as long as the servers are configured appropriately. So say Telstra thinks a particular site is called a.cp.com but my DNS which sits between me and the internet calls it b.pc.com and the server knows this name as well. Telstra never heard of it so they won't filter it. Eventually authorities will access the feed of alternate host names but by then the market will have moved on.
I can't see this accomplishing anything.
I've bought two in the last year, the second to replace the first that was stolen. The second was stolen too
Geez man. To lose one could be called carelessness....
Shops near me have five or six netbooks on sale.
A television with a decent user interface! Thats a novel idea.
Google street view would make a great MMO, particularly with augumented reality through android phones.
I pay for a static IP address on my ADSL service. Its the address in my /. profile web page as well as my MX targets and DNS services. Thats the same IP address I browse from when at home, or when using a VPN from elsewhere. That IP address most definitely does identify my home.
Its pretty normal in Australia to pay for ADSL at home. Wifi is scarce, particularly if you want to sit down for any length of time. An organisation with the backing of a Government could retrieve the DHCP logs from a wifi AP any way. I am just saying that you aren't really anonymous if you pick a random handle for online forums. If you post something suggesting you are a member of LULZSec then the cops will more than likely be knocking at your door.
Very good except I forgot to update my resume.
You don't really know what you're talking about, do you?
aussie_a's IP address is easy to get if a government has the ability to spy on internet infrastructure in the country where slashdot is hosted. The IP address gives you his ISP. The IP and the time of the post give you his account details.
Seems simple to me.
That narrows it down to about 20 million, minus one because I know he is not me.
I would challenge people to find out where I live or work. I think anonymity is still alive for those who care.
I doubt I could identify you, but I am sure that many Governments have the capability to get the IP address you posted from and map that to a name.
Celsius is problematic because the degrees are too large
Seriously? The thermometer on my bike reads in integer degrees celcius. I have never once wanted to know if the temperature is actually 4.2 instead of 4 during my morning commute. I can't tell the difference between 4 and 5 by feel, so why would it be important for me to measure to that precision?
ALLEGATIONS of bribery involving Australian-based banknote firm Securency International have led to three arrests in Malaysia.
Unless its the proverbial
echo ENABLE_AUTH=YES >> /etc/rc.conf
We discovered this at 5:41pm and a fix was live at 5:46pm
My guess is they updated to a working version. It would be unsafe to deploy a fix in five minutes anyway. Potentially making the problem worse.
I wonder what they will look like... If someone hasn't thought of it before, someone should start drawing up plans for futuristic libraries where instead of checking out paper books you can check out books for your kindle or some other device... on top of that, I think it would be cool for it to look like a traditional library, but server racks instead of bookshelves.. (this probably just seems cool to me because I'm a nerd, I have a lot of friends who are 'conservative' when it comes to paper books.. A lot of the English majors I know treat technology like the anti-christ.
I think your electronic library will look like this and the server racks will be located somewhere with cheap power and air conditioning.
In 1974 I was sitting in a fast food joint in Panama city. A VW beetle in the car park burst into flames. My dad reckons it was the steel springs in the back seat. If you sit down too hard the springs get pushed down on to the battery terminals.
People hardly ever use the fine grained security in sudo anyway.
Maybe it was the chieftain's wife. Though I don't see why it couldn't have been the daughter, or the daughter and the wife, and the livestock too.