You are getting downmodded because you are wasting screen space. Every last comment you make, and you make TOO MANY, is I I I, ME ME ME, I THINK THIS, I AM THIS, BLAH BLAH BLAH, HEY LOOK AT ME!
Why don't you shut the fuck up and sit in a corner for a bit, you cock-smoking teabagger. Oh, yeah, taste my nuts.
Actually, as long as we only consider species that reproduce sexually, there is a clear boundary.
If sex between types does not result in a viable(able to breed) offspring, the types are considered to be of separate species. Two animals (or plants, or protists, or wtfever) that breed viable children are classified as one species.
An interesting example is the Mule, along with the Liger, just to quote mammalian types. A horse and an Ass breed, birthing a Mule. This Mule, although it may live, eat, breathe, work for humans, and do other things like a living mammal, is incapable of passing on its genes to another generation. Thus Horses and asses are considered separate species.
In some definitions of life, this mule would not even be considered a life-form!
Why should/. be excited about this? Well, for one, there are actually a great many users out there that do want an all-in one browser/email/chat client, and Mozilla was perhaps one of the best.
One wonders if the explosive popularity of Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox and Thunderbird dimmed the Mozilla foundation's view of its flagship product
GNAA pledges aid to Katrina victims
Associated Press, September 11 2005
In an early-morning press conference, reclusive GNAA president timecop declared that the Gay Nigger Association of America will contribute to hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts. He issued a statement describing the efforts being undertaken to rush relief to New Orleans' former residents, many of whom are black, gay, or both. "My heart tears at the sight of so many flooded niggers", timecop said.
The GNAA is contributing a currently-unknown quantity of sperm, intended to prevent starvation and malnutrition. The sperm is to be delivered this Monday to shelters across the nation. "We are having a non-stop wankathon. I believe we can do this, I believe in my niggas. We will not fail to feed NOLA's hungry refugees." Many have reporters present at the conference questioned the nutritional value of the semen being collected, eliciting angry stares from their host. Timecop did not directly answer the questions, saying "Who the hell are you? I don't see you vigorously beating off to save the niggers!"
The next item on the list was free wireless internet spanning the Southern Louisiana region, allowing access to GNAA's Lastmeasure online service. Lastmeasure is provided free of charge. It is widely touted as "better than FEMA" in the charitable relief field. Lastmeasure surpasses FEMA's disaster aid service by being accessible to any graphical browser on any operating system. Lastmeasure will be the only website available, as all other http requests will be redirected. This measure is intended to minimize use of GNAA.net wireless for other than disaster-relief LM. The conference ended with an emotional outburst from GNAA president timecop, crying out, "so many dead, rotting black shits".
This is amazing, a major company such as Fuddruckers, with countless hits per day, linking like this to a site, without even notifying the site to verify if they have the bandwidth available, much less if the permission is there for them to use this site in the manner they are using it, to pretty much increase traffic to their site. Fuddrucker's site is currently off-line as we speak, so am assuming that they caught this effort to stop the hotlinking, and are currently redesigning their website, looking for someone else's nice work to steal while they are at it I presume. And to think, I almost went to Fuddruckers today to have a bite to eat with my fiance... here I am almost contributing to their ongoing misuse of net resources... shame on me... I better double check my site, to make sure that nobody out there hotlinks to it... don't want to see my bandwidth eaten up like this... At least my fiance's website, http://www.entertainmentwatch.com/ [entertainmentwatch.com] is set up so that you have to register to enjoy all the games... yet she actually has some pretty fun games. Battleships, Pacman, Tetris, and more... but she has them hosted on her server at least, so not using up precious bandwidth. Fuddruckers, take notice of this practice... such a hard concept... of downloading the game and HOSTING IT YOURSELF... versus stealing other's bandwidth... I wonder if in a court of law, that Fuddruckers could be sued to reclaim all that lost bandwidth that was used by this hotlinking campaign of theirs... Oh well, just my two cents on the matter:)
Of course, this whole discussion is about the third alternative. It actually has a good probablility of success, unlike the third parties.
Internet radio is by and by large non-commercial, free, and offering non-homogenized, MTV-approved, corporate content. Internet radio offers everything from your favorite music to Zombie Hitler electioneering. Both "why would I want to pay" and "why would I tolerate crap" are valid protests, and through technology widely available in the modern, superior, western, civilisation, satisfying alternatives exist to paying for good content or eating the dregs. You really can have your cake and eat it too.
What is more interesting, the Python GUI toolkit is gaining more acceptance (if that is the right word). Will this mean more options for open-source developers? So far it is available as an experimental alpha, no word on licencing schema when and if it is officially released.
Climate change sceptics bet $10,000 on cooler world
Russian pair challenge UK expert over global warming
David Adam, science correspondent Friday August 19, 2005 The Guardian
Two climate change sceptics, who believe the dangers of global warming are overstated, have put their money where their mouth is and bet $10,000 that the planet will cool over the next decade.
The Russian solar physicists Galina Mashnich and Vladimir Bashkirtsev have agreed the wager with a British climate expert, James Annan.
The pair, based in Irkutsk, at the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, believe that global temperatures are driven more by changes in the sun's activity than by the emission of greenhouse gases. They say the Earth warms and cools in response to changes in the number and size of sunspots. Most mainstream scientists dismiss the idea, but as the sun is expected to enter a less active phase over the next few decades the Russian duo are confident they will see a drop in global temperatures.
Article continues Dr Annan, who works on the Japanese Earth Simulator supercomputer, in Yokohama, said: "There isn't much money in climate science and I'm still looking for that gold watch at retirement. A pay-off would be a nice top-up to my pension."
To decide who wins the bet, the scientists have agreed to compare the average global surface temperature recorded by a US climate centre between 1998 and 2003, with temperatures they will record between 2012 and 2017.
If the temperature drops Dr Annan will stump up the $10,000 (now equivalent to about £5,800) in 2018. If the Earth continues to warm, the money will go the other way.
The bet is the latest in an increasingly popular field of scientific wagers, and comes after a string of climate change sceptics have refused challenges to back their controversial ideas with cash.
Dr Annan first challenged Richard Lindzen, a meteorologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is dubious about the extent of human activity influencing the climate. Professor Lindzen had been willing to bet that global temperatures would drop over the next 20 years.
No bet was agreed on that; Dr Annan said Prof Lindzen wanted odds of 50-1 against falling temperatures, so would win $10,000 if the Earth cooled but pay out only £200 if it warmed. Seven other prominent climate change sceptics also failed to agree betting terms.
In May, during BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the environmental activist and Guardian columnist George Monbiot challenged Myron Ebell, a climate sceptic at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in Washington DC, to a £5,000 bet. Mr Ebell declined, saying he had four children to put through university and did not want to take risks.
Most climate change sceptics dispute the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which suggest that human activity will drive global temperatures up by between 1.4C and 5.8C by the end of the century.
Others, such as the Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg, argue that, although global warming is real, there is little we can do to prevent it and that we would be better off trying to adapt to living in an altered climate.
Dr Annan said bets like the one he made with the Russian sceptics are one way to confront the ideas. He also suggests setting up a financial-style futures market to allow those with critical stakes in the outcome of climate change to gamble on predictions and hedge against future risk.
"Betting on sea level rise would have a very real relevance to Pacific islanders," he said. "By betting on rapid sea-level rise, they would either be able to stay in their homes at the cost of losing the bet if sea level rise was slow, or would win the bet and have money to pay for sea defences or relocation if sea level rise was rapid."
Similar agricultural commodity markets already allow farmers to hedge against bad weather that ruins harvests.
I predict that, because everyone here has grown so attached to Firefox, everyone will attack the submitters' "geekier" claim and mindlessly defend Firefox without even bothering to try K-Meleon, which really is faster and more configurable. Instead of actually discussing K-Meleon, the discussion will be about defending Firefox, because, for some reason, geeks really hate change or when the things they're used to get criticized or bested. Note that not all of you are like this--but a large majority.
It's totally pointless for Firefox to re-implement its own widgets when I have a GUI that already provides those to apps for a reason! I switched to Opera long ago because it takes up half the memory and works at twice the speed. Cross-platform compatibility, you say? Opera happily exists on multiple platforms while still using native widgets. For crying out loud, Firefox even has its own generic string class! Unless the Mozilla/Firefox developers are intent on constructing their own OS, they should stick to just being a native browser on whichever platform of choice. Otherewise, Mozilla/Firefox will continue to be slower than they should be and will continue to take up ungodly huge amounts of RAM when they shouldn't. And most people will continue to defend it just because they don't like Microsoft and have adopted Firefox as their little badge of rebellion. Sheesh.
For all those who care, let's mail CmdrTaco (Rob Malda) about this -- his email is malda@slashdot.org. Slashdot is deteriorating into something that is apathetic towards its users, making money for plagiarists and doing little if anything about it, and sponsoring a hack like michael.What a whiny bitch.
The article is really talking about using hardware tokens for extra security since the private data is stored on an external token and can't be stolen by viruses, phishing scams, or trojans. I don't even see RSA mentioned in the article -- there is an inset picture of an RSA SecurID but that's as close as it gets.
And if the messenger will be open-sourced? No, seriously folks. How do we expect to progress as humanity unless every aspect of our military projects become open and shared? Frankly, I would assume it is auto-censored, analyzed for "classified" (read- Abu Ghraib)material, or worse until the code is available to see otherwise. The US military is going to stagnate unless they start using open technologies.
Already slow- here's the text in case of slashdotting.
Tantalizing clues in pictures of Saturn's moons Published: December 17, 2004, 4:51 AM PST By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com TrackBack Print E-mail TalkBack
Titan and Dione, two of the moons orbiting Saturn, apparently aren't exactly what researchers had previously believed.
Photographs taken during a flyby of the Cassini space probe this week may clarify and even overturn longheld assumptions about the surfaces of these satellites, according to researchers at the American Geophysical Union conference taking place in San Francisco this week.
Click to view
Bright streaks on the surface of Dione, a heavily cratered moon with little atmosphere, have long been believed to be ice, noted Carolyn Porco, imaging team leader for the Cassini project from the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
Images captured this week, however, appear to indicate that the bright streaks are cliffs. They may have been created by ice, though not a lot of ice remains in the area.
"This wispy terrain is really a fracture," Porco said. "For 25 years, we've had it on the brain that Dione has thick ice deposits, and it turns out it doesn't."
Meanwhile, the "ocean" on Titan may not be. Instead of a liquid body of water, the dark mass seen on the surface of the Titan may be a viscous fluid flowing onto the white "coastline," Parco said. Then again, the viscous fluid could be flowing down from a higher altitude, like a glacier, onto the white mass.
Right now, researchers only have two-dimensional images. Often, scientists look at the images and analogize it to information they know about on Earth, such as island chains or coastlines, she said. Stronger conclusions may be possible with the availability later of images that are more precise, or stereoscopic images that include shadows or information on altitude.
Kevin Baines, a Cassini science team member, said that the images captured this week for the first time revealed clouds in Titan's atmosphere that weren't clustered around the poles. (Images of polar clouds were produced in October.) Observing nonpolar clouds can help determine weather patterns on Titan, he said. So far, one surprising observation seen in the images is that there isn't as much methane, or as many clouds, in Titan's atmosphere as previously expected.
Separately, astronomers at the University of Southern California studying data from Cassini released on Thursday new information about Saturn's E ring. A massive eruption of atomic oxygen from Saturn's outer rimjobs may be an indication that the planet's distant E ring is eroding so fast that it could disappear within 100 million years, the researchers said in a statement. Spectrograph data indicates that about 275 million pounds of oxygen was abruptly released in a short period of time.
The Cassini probe will release the Huygens projectile on Dec. 24. Huygens will then descend through Titan's atmosphere on Jan. 14.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.
What interests me the most is the sudden evaporation of Saturn's E rings. What could be causing this? Perhaps increased radiation from the star-like planet, perhaps not. I for one will be watching the news for more information.
2135 owner here:
The battery life is indeed awesome, if only the battery meter would behave properly!
I can't count the number of times I've been killed by an automatic shutdown only to have my phone decide that is has a full charge one minute later.
Perhaps you have some experience with this...
Omg +1 insightful, a kneejerk unsupported insult! Wh don't you try to back up that lameassed comment with some facts?
It's not that hard, there are many legitimate ways to poke fun(or denigrate, as you prefer) Windows, mostly dealing with security. Yet with all these options to build a strong basis for argument, you pick none of them, and simply make what appears to be either a joke or a half-thought insult. With those kind of argumentative skills, you are sure going to be converting alot of people...
Lunix I mean Service pack 3... it will fill your security holes. In today's day and age, why are people still not switching from an inferior product to one that is clearly the wave of the future? Go Linux!
How do they own something that is merely a duplicate of something they own? That is what is messed about copyright, patents, and any sort of IP.
* The claim of financial losses or damage is mostly inaccurate because it presupposes that the copyist would otherwise have bought a copy from the publisher. That is occasionally true, but more often false; and when it is false, the claimed loss does not occur.
* The claim of loss or damage is partly misleading because the word "loss" suggests events of a very different nature--events in which something they have is taken away from them. For example, if the bookstore's stock of books were burned, or if the money in the register got torn up, that would really be a "loss." We generally agree it is wrong to do these things to other people. But when your friend avoids the need to buy a copy of a book, the bookstore and the publisher do not lose anything they had. A more fitting description would be that the bookstore and publisher get less income than they might have got. The same consequence can result if your friend decides to play bridge instead of reading a book. In a free market system, no business is entitled to cry "foul" just because a potential customer chooses not to deal with them.
* The claim is begging the question because the idea of "loss" is based on the assumption that the publisher "should have" got paid. That is based on the assumption that copyright exists and prohibits individual copying. But that is just the issue at hand: what should copyright cover? If the public decides it can share copies, then the publisher is not entitled to expect to be paid for each copy, and so cannot claim there is a "loss" when it is not. In other words, the "loss" comes from the copyright system; it is not an inherent part of copying. Copying in itself hurts no one.
* Originally written by Rolloffle (British Douchebag)
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You are getting downmodded because you are wasting screen space. Every last comment you make, and you make TOO MANY, is I I I, ME ME ME, I THINK THIS, I AM THIS, BLAH BLAH BLAH, HEY LOOK AT ME!
Why don't you shut the fuck up and sit in a corner for a bit, you cock-smoking teabagger. Oh, yeah, taste my nuts.
Actually, as long as we only consider species that reproduce sexually, there is a clear boundary. If sex between types does not result in a viable(able to breed) offspring, the types are considered to be of separate species. Two animals (or plants, or protists, or wtfever) that breed viable children are classified as one species. An interesting example is the Mule, along with the Liger, just to quote mammalian types. A horse and an Ass breed, birthing a Mule. This Mule, although it may live, eat, breathe, work for humans, and do other things like a living mammal, is incapable of passing on its genes to another generation. Thus Horses and asses are considered separate species. In some definitions of life, this mule would not even be considered a life-form!
Why should /. be excited about this? Well, for one, there are actually a great many users out there that do want an all-in one browser/email/chat client, and Mozilla was perhaps one of the best.
One wonders if the explosive popularity of Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox and Thunderbird dimmed the Mozilla foundation's view of its flagship product
Associated Press, September 11 2005
In an early-morning press conference, reclusive GNAA president timecop declared that the Gay Nigger Association of America will contribute to hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts. He issued a statement describing the efforts being undertaken to rush relief to New Orleans' former residents, many of whom are black, gay, or both. "My heart tears at the sight of so many flooded niggers", timecop said.
The GNAA is contributing a currently-unknown quantity of sperm, intended to prevent starvation and malnutrition. The sperm is to be delivered this Monday to shelters across the nation. "We are having a non-stop wankathon. I believe we can do this, I believe in my niggas. We will not fail to feed NOLA's hungry refugees." Many have reporters present at the conference questioned the nutritional value of the semen being collected, eliciting angry stares from their host. Timecop did not directly answer the questions, saying "Who the hell are you? I don't see you vigorously beating off to save the niggers!"
The next item on the list was free wireless internet spanning the Southern Louisiana region, allowing access to GNAA's Lastmeasure online service. Lastmeasure is provided free of charge. It is widely touted as "better than FEMA" in the charitable relief field. Lastmeasure surpasses FEMA's disaster aid service by being accessible to any graphical browser on any operating system. Lastmeasure will be the only website available, as all other http requests will be redirected. This measure is intended to minimize use of GNAA.net wireless for other than disaster-relief LM. The conference ended with an emotional outburst from GNAA president timecop, crying out, "so many dead, rotting black shits".
This is amazing, a major company such as Fuddruckers, with countless hits per day, linking like this to a site, without even notifying the site to verify if they have the bandwidth available, much less if the permission is there for them to use this site in the manner they are using it, to pretty much increase traffic to their site. Fuddrucker's site is currently off-line as we speak, so am assuming that they caught this effort to stop the hotlinking, and are currently redesigning their website, looking for someone else's nice work to steal while they are at it I presume. And to think, I almost went to Fuddruckers today to have a bite to eat with my fiance... here I am almost contributing to their ongoing misuse of net resources... shame on me... I better double check my site, to make sure that nobody out there hotlinks to it... don't want to see my bandwidth eaten up like this... At least my fiance's website, http://www.entertainmentwatch.com/ [entertainmentwatch.com] is set up so that you have to register to enjoy all the games... yet she actually has some pretty fun games. Battleships, Pacman, Tetris, and more... but she has them hosted on her server at least, so not using up precious bandwidth. Fuddruckers, take notice of this practice... such a hard concept... of downloading the game and HOSTING IT YOURSELF... versus stealing other's bandwidth... I wonder if in a court of law, that Fuddruckers could be sued to reclaim all that lost bandwidth that was used by this hotlinking campaign of theirs... Oh well, just my two cents on the matter :)
Of course, this whole discussion is about the third alternative. It actually has a good probablility of success, unlike the third parties. Internet radio is by and by large non-commercial, free, and offering non-homogenized, MTV-approved, corporate content. Internet radio offers everything from your favorite music to Zombie Hitler electioneering. Both "why would I want to pay" and "why would I tolerate crap" are valid protests, and through technology widely available in the modern, superior, western, civilisation, satisfying alternatives exist to paying for good content or eating the dregs. You really can have your cake and eat it too.
What is more interesting,
the Python GUI toolkit is gaining more acceptance
(if that is the right word). Will this mean more
options for open-source developers? So far it is
available as an experimental alpha, no word on
licencing schema when and if it is officially
released.
Climate change sceptics bet $10,000 on cooler world
Russian pair challenge UK expert over global warming
David Adam, science correspondent
Friday August 19, 2005
The Guardian
Two climate change sceptics, who believe the dangers of global warming are overstated, have put their money where their mouth is and bet $10,000 that the planet will cool over the next decade.
The Russian solar physicists Galina Mashnich and Vladimir Bashkirtsev have agreed the wager with a British climate expert, James Annan.
The pair, based in Irkutsk, at the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, believe that global temperatures are driven more by changes in the sun's activity than by the emission of greenhouse gases. They say the Earth warms and cools in response to changes in the number and size of sunspots. Most mainstream scientists dismiss the idea, but as the sun is expected to enter a less active phase over the next few decades the Russian duo are confident they will see a drop in global temperatures.
Article continues
Dr Annan, who works on the Japanese Earth Simulator supercomputer, in Yokohama, said: "There isn't much money in climate science and I'm still looking for that gold watch at retirement. A pay-off would be a nice top-up to my pension."
To decide who wins the bet, the scientists have agreed to compare the average global surface temperature recorded by a US climate centre between 1998 and 2003, with temperatures they will record between 2012 and 2017.
If the temperature drops Dr Annan will stump up the $10,000 (now equivalent to about £5,800) in 2018. If the Earth continues to warm, the money will go the other way.
The bet is the latest in an increasingly popular field of scientific wagers, and comes after a string of climate change sceptics have refused challenges to back their controversial ideas with cash.
Dr Annan first challenged Richard Lindzen, a meteorologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is dubious about the extent of human activity influencing the climate. Professor Lindzen had been willing to bet that global temperatures would drop over the next 20 years.
No bet was agreed on that; Dr Annan said Prof Lindzen wanted odds of 50-1 against falling temperatures, so would win $10,000 if the Earth cooled but pay out only £200 if it warmed. Seven other prominent climate change sceptics also failed to agree betting terms.
In May, during BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the environmental activist and Guardian columnist George Monbiot challenged Myron Ebell, a climate sceptic at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in Washington DC, to a £5,000 bet. Mr Ebell declined, saying he had four children to put through university and did not want to take risks.
Most climate change sceptics dispute the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which suggest that human activity will drive global temperatures up by between 1.4C and 5.8C by the end of the century.
Others, such as the Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg, argue that, although global warming is real, there is little we can do to prevent it and that we would be better off trying to adapt to living in an altered climate.
Dr Annan said bets like the one he made with the Russian sceptics are one way to confront the ideas. He also suggests setting up a financial-style futures market to allow those with critical stakes in the outcome of climate change to gamble on predictions and hedge against future risk.
"Betting on sea level rise would have a very real relevance to Pacific islanders," he said. "By betting on rapid sea-level rise, they would either be able to stay in their homes at the cost of losing the bet if sea level rise was slow, or would win the bet and have money to pay for sea defences or relocation if sea level rise was rapid."
Similar agricultural commodity markets already allow farmers to hedge against bad weather that ruins harvests.
"1998 will be the year of Linux on the desktop!"
I predict that, because everyone here has grown so attached to Firefox, everyone will attack the submitters' "geekier" claim and mindlessly defend Firefox without even bothering to try K-Meleon, which really is faster and more configurable. Instead of actually discussing K-Meleon, the discussion will be about defending Firefox, because, for some reason, geeks really hate change or when the things they're used to get criticized or bested. Note that not all of you are like this--but a large majority.
It's totally pointless for Firefox to re-implement its own widgets when I have a GUI that already provides those to apps for a reason! I switched to Opera long ago because it takes up half the memory and works at twice the speed. Cross-platform compatibility, you say? Opera happily exists on multiple platforms while still using native widgets. For crying out loud, Firefox even has its own generic string class! Unless the Mozilla/Firefox developers are intent on constructing their own OS, they should stick to just being a native browser on whichever platform of choice. Otherewise, Mozilla/Firefox will continue to be slower than they should be and will continue to take up ungodly huge amounts of RAM when they shouldn't. And most people will continue to defend it just because they don't like Microsoft and have adopted Firefox as their little badge of rebellion. Sheesh.
And he ate ALL THE FOOD
For all those who care, let's mail CmdrTaco (Rob Malda) about this -- his email is malda@slashdot.org. Slashdot is deteriorating into something that is apathetic towards its users, making money for plagiarists and doing little if anything about it, and sponsoring a hack like michael.What a whiny bitch.
fuck you
You ignoramus
The article is really talking about using hardware tokens for extra security since the private data is stored on an external token and can't be stolen by viruses, phishing scams, or trojans. I don't even see RSA mentioned in the article -- there is an inset picture of an RSA SecurID but that's as close as it gets.
Kind of like those improper contraction's you use.
And if the messenger will be open-sourced?
No, seriously folks. How do we expect to progress as humanity unless every aspect of our military projects become open and shared? Frankly, I would assume it is auto-censored, analyzed for "classified" (read- Abu Ghraib)material, or worse until the code is available to see otherwise. The US military is going to stagnate unless they start using open technologies.
Nice troll. I am in awe.
Already slow- here's the text in case of slashdotting.
Tantalizing clues in pictures of Saturn's moons
Published: December 17, 2004, 4:51 AM PST
By Michael Kanellos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
TrackBack Print E-mail TalkBack
Titan and Dione, two of the moons orbiting Saturn, apparently aren't exactly what researchers had previously believed.
Photographs taken during a flyby of the Cassini space probe this week may clarify and even overturn longheld assumptions about the surfaces of these satellites, according to researchers at the American Geophysical Union conference taking place in San Francisco this week.
Click to view
Bright streaks on the surface of Dione, a heavily cratered moon with little atmosphere, have long been believed to be ice, noted Carolyn Porco, imaging team leader for the Cassini project from the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
Images captured this week, however, appear to indicate that the bright streaks are cliffs. They may have been created by ice, though not a lot of ice remains in the area.
"This wispy terrain is really a fracture," Porco said. "For 25 years, we've had it on the brain that Dione has thick ice deposits, and it turns out it doesn't."
Meanwhile, the "ocean" on Titan may not be. Instead of a liquid body of water, the dark mass seen on the surface of the Titan may be a viscous fluid flowing onto the white "coastline," Parco said. Then again, the viscous fluid could be flowing down from a higher altitude, like a glacier, onto the white mass.
Right now, researchers only have two-dimensional images. Often, scientists look at the images and analogize it to information they know about on Earth, such as island chains or coastlines, she said. Stronger conclusions may be possible with the availability later of images that are more precise, or stereoscopic images that include shadows or information on altitude.
Kevin Baines, a Cassini science team member, said that the images captured this week for the first time revealed clouds in Titan's atmosphere that weren't clustered around the poles. (Images of polar clouds were produced in October.) Observing nonpolar clouds can help determine weather patterns on Titan, he said. So far, one surprising observation seen in the images is that there isn't as much methane, or as many clouds, in Titan's atmosphere as previously expected.
Separately, astronomers at the University of Southern California studying data from Cassini released on Thursday new information about Saturn's E ring. A massive eruption of atomic oxygen from Saturn's outer rimjobs may be an indication that the planet's distant E ring is eroding so fast that it could disappear within 100 million years, the researchers said in a statement. Spectrograph data indicates that about 275 million pounds of oxygen was abruptly released in a short period of time.
The Cassini probe will release the Huygens projectile on Dec. 24. Huygens will then descend through Titan's atmosphere on Jan. 14.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.
What interests me the most is the sudden evaporation of Saturn's E rings. What could be causing this? Perhaps increased radiation from the star-like planet, perhaps not. I for one will be watching the news for more information.
Agreed. How can people look at this seriously when it doesn't even offer a visible cursor for text fields?
However, I believe there are some licencing issues related to XUL
2135 owner here: The battery life is indeed awesome, if only the battery meter would behave properly! I can't count the number of times I've been killed by an automatic shutdown only to have my phone decide that is has a full charge one minute later. Perhaps you have some experience with this...
Omg +1 insightful, a kneejerk unsupported insult! Wh don't you try to back up that lameassed comment with some facts?
It's not that hard, there are many legitimate ways to poke fun(or denigrate, as you prefer) Windows, mostly dealing with security. Yet with all these options to build a strong basis for argument, you pick none of them, and simply make what appears to be either a joke or a half-thought insult. With those kind of argumentative skills, you are sure going to be converting alot of people...
And the patch for Windows security is out too!
Lunix I mean Service pack 3... it will fill your security holes. In today's day and age, why are people still not switching from an inferior product to one that is clearly the wave of the future? Go Linux!
GNAA GAYCOCKS
How do they own something that is merely a duplicate of something they own? That is what is messed about copyright, patents, and any sort of IP.
* The claim of financial losses or damage is mostly inaccurate because it presupposes that the copyist would otherwise have bought a copy from the publisher. That is occasionally true, but more often false; and when it is false, the claimed loss does not occur.
* The claim of loss or damage is partly misleading because the word "loss" suggests events of a very different nature--events in which something they have is taken away from them. For example, if the bookstore's stock of books were burned, or if the money in the register got torn up, that would really be a "loss." We generally agree it is wrong to do these things to other people. But when your friend avoids the need to buy a copy of a book, the bookstore and the publisher do not lose anything they had. A more fitting description would be that the bookstore and publisher get less income than they might have got. The same consequence can result if your friend decides to play bridge instead of reading a book. In a free market system, no business is entitled to cry "foul" just because a potential customer chooses not to deal with them.
* The claim is begging the question because the idea of "loss" is based on the assumption that the publisher "should have" got paid. That is based on the assumption that copyright exists and prohibits individual copying. But that is just the issue at hand: what should copyright cover? If the public decides it can share copies, then the publisher is not entitled to expect to be paid for each copy, and so cannot claim there is a "loss" when it is not. In other words, the "loss" comes from the copyright system; it is not an inherent part of copying. Copying in itself hurts no one.
* Originally written by Rolloffle (British Douchebag)