Voting in Virginia this morning I was pleased to discover that they offered the option of paper voting for those that did not want to use (or trust) the electronic machines. They were actually very encouraging of folks like me that wanted the paper. I'd say at least two-thirds chose paper (by-eye estimate).
This poster is correct and should be modded up. Redaction != classified. It means that the court accidentally published information that was priviledged/private/under seal. It happens pretty frequently. Every law case has a gazillion pieces of priviledged info, some of which sometimes accidentally slips out in productions, etc (and in most cases accidentally released info can not legally be used by the opposition party, though that's not necesarily directly applicable to this situation). The court is supposed to take back all of the unredacted copies and put out the correct version, which indeed they did or tried to do (though in this case, the pee is already in the pool, to quote an earlier poster). No smoking gun here, I'm afraid. [IANAL]
Please bear with me -- I'm still on the Ubuntu learning curve... If I do as you suggest there, will that upgrade my "Feisty" to "Gutsy Gibbon" without losing my files, accounts, directory structure, etc? Will I need to reinstall video drivers and reconfigure my screen resolution settings again? (The latter was a real headache the first time around...) I can't find a straight-forward answer anywhere.
Yeah, except is doesn't seem to work. I Google for my name (an uncommon name) -- the little bar charts indicate that most hits are under "web" (that's correct), followed by "news", "froogle" and "groups". BUT... when I go to "news", "froogle" or "groups" I get "Your search - "{my name}" - did not match any documents." I never have any Google hits under those subsections, so why the misleading bars?
I assume this is why this search page only available if you 'cheat'.
The findings support the argument for global warming as a result of human interference rather than natural climate change.
No they don't. What about the Little Ice-Age? That was a major gloabl climate change that was certainly not induced by man. Fact is, we're looking at a ~2000 year snapshot of an incredibly comlex system that's a few billion years old. I'm not saying that there isn't claimte change -- of course there is. I'm also not saying that man doesn't affect it -- of course we do. But what I'm saying is that we don't know how we are affecting it. Maybe the "Little Ice-Age" ended because of man. Perhaps we saved ourselves from freezing to death by creating a cozy CO2 blanket? My 2c...
Here's a thought though: Does it matter how much people give, or is it the reason that they give?
Matter to who? The 'rich' westerners such as ourselves who are able to sit comfortably on the sidelines and pass comment, or the third-world populace who're dying of these diseases? I'm quite sure the latter care little of how or why they're getting medicines/vaccines/etc.
My personal opinion is that regardless of Gates' motives, what he is doing will benefit people who need the help. (FWIW, I think he does it because he knowns he can make a difference -- not because of some nefarious money-making plot. I'm sure he partakes in underhand schemes significantly more profitable than those that involve him giving away $600m...)
I learned something interesting last week from friends of my wife and I. When their daughters were born (now 4 and 6yrs old, respectively), they had stem cells taken from their umbilical cords and sent off to a facility in (I think) Texas, where they're safely stored and frozen. Apparently the thinking is that (hopefully never, but...) maybe one day one of the girls will have some kind of ailment that requires the re-growth of an organ (for example), or similar. So they will pull the stem cells out of storage and use the 'current' medical advances to hopefully cure them.
I was amazed to find out that it is possible to do this and that people are doing it already! I think that is so cool! I meant to ask them if it cost anything, but I forgot. Anyone know?
Just thought I'd share, since we're on the subject...
The whole point of looking at failure is to work out *why* it happend, and *how* you can prevent it.
In general I fully agree with you but in this instance I think you're a little off the mark. There's no way the Beagle 2 team will be able to determine exactly what went wrong just by analyzing images. All an image -- however high the resolution -- is going to do is confirm that yes, it did crash or yes, it landed properly but failed to communicate. To determine the why and how of their failure would require a mission to investigate the crash site.
I'm repeating myself from another post but I'm sure no one will notice nor care... "Window Washer" takes care of slack space and does a whole lot extra too.
I recently found "Window Washer", which does an awesome job of cleaning up a whole slew of crap from my computer including all the stupid little traces that IE leaves, and any unecessary logs from the apps I have installed. Additionally, there an option called "bleach" where you can get it to sweeep over unused disk space and write random 1's and 0's. You can choose the number of sweeps, from 1 to whatever. The more sweeps you do, the "cleaner" your drive is. (The DoD standard for "cleaning" hard drives is seven sweeps)
Actually, going back to the article in question, it wouldn't suprise me if the dude didn't use some sort of hard-drive cleaner to wipe all 'undesirables' off his computer. That would be more fitting with his "four-computers tech-savvy" appearance...
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Good idea?
No!! That would give your boss and your Significant Other (assuming you give your S.O. such priviledges) access to your email/bank/whatever accounts! They're the last people you want accessing them!
FTFA: "The new study suggests water may still bubble to the surface of Mars now and then, flow for a short stretch, then boil away in the thin, cold air.
So, based on that alone, no the climate would not sustains humans. On parts of Mars, the day-time temps can reach ~20C, but the night-time is still too cold for life. Also, the atmosphere is only ~0.1% oxygen, compared to ~21% on Earth, and ~95% carbon dioxide compared to Earth's So bottom line is... glass domes!
Here's what concerns me about this. Offering free wireless is going to cost money (obviously). Is this really how low-income families would like that money to be spent? Wouldn't they prefer cheaper health care? Better accomodation? Nicer schools? Nicer communities? Did someone actually poll these people and say "we've got $XXXX to spend on you guys -- what do you want?" and the low-income people say "ooh free-wireles would make our lives so much better!"
I'm not trolling -- honest! I just wonder if this isn't, as the blurb suggests, more about PR for the mayor than actually helping people.
OK, this must mean that about 95% of politicians are psychopaths:
- glib and superficially charming
- grandiose sense of self-worth
- pathological liar
- master manipulator
- lack of remorse or guilt
- shallow
- callous and lacking in empathy
- fail to accept responsibility for his own actions
While it would be a lot more convenient to have someone else taking care of your backups, I daren't think of how much it will cost you! I don't know how small you are, and how much data you are looking to backup, but unless it's on the order of multiple terabytes, you should consider setting up your own remote mirroring. "Empty" (ie OS free) RAID boxes really are surprisingly cheap, especially for a Tb or two. If the mirror is purely for backup purposes, you could just keep it in the room next door. If you were thinking more along the lines of disaster recovery, you'd need to locate it in a separate building at the very least. Worthwhile doing, especially if you're in a hurricane affected area...
But then this is something they should have had all along.
Yes it is. And cars should have had seatbelts all along. And airbags. Commercial pilots should have flown in locked cabins. Airport security should've been tighter, etc, etc, ad nauseum. The sad truth is that sometimes we learn more from the "bad" lesson than the "good" ones. The real danger is when we get too scared to stop trying any more. Full credit to the shuttle team for doing their best to patch the leak and get back out there again.
Why would this vehicle be allowed to plunge into the ocean if severely damaged ? Why can't it be used to increase useful space in the ISS ? Typical short sightedness...
Why is this shortsighted? What do you know that hundreds of NASA experts don't? Do you know if it is possible to modify a space shuttle so it can be a useful attachment to the ISS? Is the ISS equipped with the necessary tools to do this, or do we need to send up another mission to supply them? Do you know if it is safe to have the shuttle attached permanently to the ISS?
I don't mean to be mean, and I'm not trolling, but surely if the shuttle experts have deemed that the best option is to plunge it back to Earth, then maybe that is the best option. In the end you have to trust their judgement, regardless of any blemishes on their track record. I'm sure they have weighed up their options with what to do with a broken shuttle.
I see in their disclaimers that "Google retains the right to put advertising on the map in the future.". I can't help but wonder if this is a sign of things to come. They'll let everyone and anyone use their maps, spread them around the web, maybe until Google maps are the only maps to use, and then WHAM! Adverts appear on Google maps everywhere.
OK, it's a tin-foil hat theory but I can see it happening...
I'm curious -- does anyone know roughly how much of profits from games goes to the console manufacturer? I wouldn't have thought it'd be much because the retailer/game producers/distributers/etc would want their cut first. Would revenue from the games be enough to make up Sony's shortfall?
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I think the major thing of interest here is that Titan is so different to any body in our solar system (other than Earth, of course). The fact that liquid of any kind exists is quite remarkable. It means it has been able to retain pretty much all of it's initial components, unlike most other rocky bodies that heat up and lose a lot of their original constituents. Titan is, I believe, a kind of mini proto-planet. It's similar to how Earth would've been when it was young. The difference, however, is that Earth was in a position to heat up and eveolve, whereas Titan is perpetually frozen. There's a lot of fascinating science there.
As for methane-based life, I think it's unlikely just because of the extraordinarily low temperatures on there.
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Voting in Virginia this morning I was pleased to discover that they offered the option of paper voting for those that did not want to use (or trust) the electronic machines. They were actually very encouraging of folks like me that wanted the paper. I'd say at least two-thirds chose paper (by-eye estimate).
This poster is correct and should be modded up. Redaction != classified. It means that the court accidentally published information that was priviledged/private/under seal. It happens pretty frequently. Every law case has a gazillion pieces of priviledged info, some of which sometimes accidentally slips out in productions, etc (and in most cases accidentally released info can not legally be used by the opposition party, though that's not necesarily directly applicable to this situation). The court is supposed to take back all of the unredacted copies and put out the correct version, which indeed they did or tried to do (though in this case, the pee is already in the pool, to quote an earlier poster). No smoking gun here, I'm afraid. [IANAL]
Please bear with me -- I'm still on the Ubuntu learning curve... If I do as you suggest there, will that upgrade my "Feisty" to "Gutsy Gibbon" without losing my files, accounts, directory structure, etc? Will I need to reinstall video drivers and reconfigure my screen resolution settings again? (The latter was a real headache the first time around...) I can't find a straight-forward answer anywhere.
Ramen, Brother!
Arrr....
CompUSA are now offering a variety of BluRay Products for pre-order.
I got an email (genuine, not spam) from EBay this morning encouraging users to write to congress about this. It links you to this page: http://www.ebaymainstreet.com/takeaction/?campaign _id=neutrality1
Yeah, except is doesn't seem to work. I Google for my name (an uncommon name) -- the little bar charts indicate that most hits are under "web" (that's correct), followed by "news", "froogle" and "groups". BUT... when I go to "news", "froogle" or "groups" I get "Your search - "{my name}" - did not match any documents." I never have any Google hits under those subsections, so why the misleading bars?
I assume this is why this search page only available if you 'cheat'.
Fact is, we're looking at a ~2000 year snapshot of an incredibly comlex system that's a few billion years old.
I'm not saying that there isn't claimte change -- of course there is. I'm also not saying that man doesn't affect it -- of course we do. But what I'm saying is that we don't know how we are affecting it. Maybe the "Little Ice-Age" ended because of man. Perhaps we saved ourselves from freezing to death by creating a cozy CO2 blanket?
My 2c...
Matter to who? The 'rich' westerners such as ourselves who are able to sit comfortably on the sidelines and pass comment, or the third-world populace who're dying of these diseases? I'm quite sure the latter care little of how or why they're getting medicines/vaccines/etc.
My personal opinion is that regardless of Gates' motives, what he is doing will benefit people who need the help. (FWIW, I think he does it because he knowns he can make a difference -- not because of some nefarious money-making plot. I'm sure he partakes in underhand schemes significantly more profitable than those that involve him giving away $600m...)
I learned something interesting last week from friends of my wife and I. When their daughters were born (now 4 and 6yrs old, respectively), they had stem cells taken from their umbilical cords and sent off to a facility in (I think) Texas, where they're safely stored and frozen. Apparently the thinking is that (hopefully never, but...) maybe one day one of the girls will have some kind of ailment that requires the re-growth of an organ (for example), or similar. So they will pull the stem cells out of storage and use the 'current' medical advances to hopefully cure them.
I was amazed to find out that it is possible to do this and that people are doing it already! I think that is so cool! I meant to ask them if it cost anything, but I forgot. Anyone know?
Just thought I'd share, since we're on the subject...
In general I fully agree with you but in this instance I think you're a little off the mark. There's no way the Beagle 2 team will be able to determine exactly what went wrong just by analyzing images. All an image -- however high the resolution -- is going to do is confirm that yes, it did crash or yes, it landed properly but failed to communicate. To determine the why and how of their failure would require a mission to investigate the crash site.
I'm repeating myself from another post but I'm sure no one will notice nor care... "Window Washer" takes care of slack space and does a whole lot extra too.
I recently found "Window Washer", which does an awesome job of cleaning up a whole slew of crap from my computer including all the stupid little traces that IE leaves, and any unecessary logs from the apps I have installed. Additionally, there an option called "bleach" where you can get it to sweeep over unused disk space and write random 1's and 0's. You can choose the number of sweeps, from 1 to whatever. The more sweeps you do, the "cleaner" your drive is. (The DoD standard for "cleaning" hard drives is seven sweeps)
Actually, going back to the article in question, it wouldn't suprise me if the dude didn't use some sort of hard-drive cleaner to wipe all 'undesirables' off his computer. That would be more fitting with his "four-computers tech-savvy" appearance...
Good idea?
No!! That would give your boss and your Significant Other (assuming you give your S.O. such priviledges) access to your email/bank/whatever accounts! They're the last people you want accessing them!
FTFA: "The new study suggests water may still bubble to the surface of Mars now and then, flow for a short stretch, then boil away in the thin, cold air.
So, based on that alone, no the climate would not sustains humans. On parts of Mars, the day-time temps can reach ~20C, but the night-time is still too cold for life. Also, the atmosphere is only ~0.1% oxygen, compared to ~21% on Earth, and ~95% carbon dioxide compared to Earth's So bottom line is... glass domes!
Here's what concerns me about this. Offering free wireless is going to cost money (obviously). Is this really how low-income families would like that money to be spent? Wouldn't they prefer cheaper health care? Better accomodation? Nicer schools? Nicer communities? Did someone actually poll these people and say "we've got $XXXX to spend on you guys -- what do you want?" and the low-income people say "ooh free-wireles would make our lives so much better!"
I'm not trolling -- honest! I just wonder if this isn't, as the blurb suggests, more about PR for the mayor than actually helping people.
OK, this must mean that about 95% of politicians are psychopaths:
- glib and superficially charming
- grandiose sense of self-worth
- pathological liar
- master manipulator
- lack of remorse or guilt
- shallow
- callous and lacking in empathy
- fail to accept responsibility for his own actions
Yep, that's a politician alright.
While it would be a lot more convenient to have someone else taking care of your backups, I daren't think of how much it will cost you! I don't know how small you are, and how much data you are looking to backup, but unless it's on the order of multiple terabytes, you should consider setting up your own remote mirroring. "Empty" (ie OS free) RAID boxes really are surprisingly cheap, especially for a Tb or two. If the mirror is purely for backup purposes, you could just keep it in the room next door. If you were thinking more along the lines of disaster recovery, you'd need to locate it in a separate building at the very least. Worthwhile doing, especially if you're in a hurricane affected area...
But then this is something they should have had all along.
Yes it is. And cars should have had seatbelts all along. And airbags. Commercial pilots should have flown in locked cabins. Airport security should've been tighter, etc, etc, ad nauseum. The sad truth is that sometimes we learn more from the "bad" lesson than the "good" ones. The real danger is when we get too scared to stop trying any more. Full credit to the shuttle team for doing their best to patch the leak and get back out there again.
Why is this shortsighted? What do you know that hundreds of NASA experts don't? Do you know if it is possible to modify a space shuttle so it can be a useful attachment to the ISS? Is the ISS equipped with the necessary tools to do this, or do we need to send up another mission to supply them? Do you know if it is safe to have the shuttle attached permanently to the ISS?
I don't mean to be mean, and I'm not trolling, but surely if the shuttle experts have deemed that the best option is to plunge it back to Earth, then maybe that is the best option. In the end you have to trust their judgement, regardless of any blemishes on their track record. I'm sure they have weighed up their options with what to do with a broken shuttle.
I see in their disclaimers that "Google retains the right to put advertising on the map in the future.". I can't help but wonder if this is a sign of things to come. They'll let everyone and anyone use their maps, spread them around the web, maybe until Google maps are the only maps to use, and then WHAM! Adverts appear on Google maps everywhere.
OK, it's a tin-foil hat theory but I can see it happening...
No, Titan surface temperatures are on the order of -180C (-290F). You won't find that occurring naturally anywhere on Earth.
I'm curious -- does anyone know roughly how much of profits from games goes to the console manufacturer? I wouldn't have thought it'd be much because the retailer/game producers/distributers/etc would want their cut first. Would revenue from the games be enough to make up Sony's shortfall?
I think the major thing of interest here is that Titan is so different to any body in our solar system (other than Earth, of course). The fact that liquid of any kind exists is quite remarkable. It means it has been able to retain pretty much all of it's initial components, unlike most other rocky bodies that heat up and lose a lot of their original constituents. Titan is, I believe, a kind of mini proto-planet. It's similar to how Earth would've been when it was young. The difference, however, is that Earth was in a position to heat up and eveolve, whereas Titan is perpetually frozen. There's a lot of fascinating science there.
As for methane-based life, I think it's unlikely just because of the extraordinarily low temperatures on there.
Squeeze and strain too much and you'll need to hope they're really as "stain resistant" as they're claimed to be...