I guess NASA's budget is more important after all. It would be nice to know this type of stuff before we have to que Bruce Willis. Does Hubble or Chandra provide some of this orbital data necessary to calculate the orbit of this rock. I would think so (someone correct me if I'm wrong), but it would be nice to send a probe with a nuke on it to blast it before it has a chance to hit us (or the pieces after the blast). It is much easier to deal with before it in headed straight for us.
I can steal my neighbors ISP line now!!! Anyway, networking chips have been a good boost for Intel lately. As CPUs become more of a commodity, they have expanded into other chipsets (alot of other chipsets) and this is just one of them. But this isn't practical for home networking which is what they hope. Too many leaches when you have a 20 mile range. But it is good for businesses that need to coordinate mobile people in this type of range. I just don't know how big a market this is. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Whoes standard do they use. Decency laws are supposed to be set by community standard, but a rest stop isn't a community. Whoes standard will they use. And isn't it the parent's responsibility to make those decisions, not the state? This sounds more like China than the US, wait Texas, nevermind. But it is a free hotspot, but since it is provided by the government this is subject to the laws 1st amendment. The problem with this is that it will never make it to court because it isn't important enough to go to jail for so it won't be struck down in court.
AOL monitor. Seriously, don't they do background checks for this type of job. I understand not doing them for most jobs, but this type of job, you would think it would be par for the course. But I guess if he doesn't have a record and she was only 17 at the time and if he was like 21-24 its not that bad (illegal, but not like he was 45). But what is really sad is that she is the one sueing. She made the decision to meet someone from a chat room and now is sueing because she was allowed to meet the guy. Sounds like sueing for dollars more than anything. Isn't America great...
So does the PBX connect to a normal net line (T1) or can this do VOIP too? Also, what would the GUI do for monitoring, or is it just for configuration? Can you tap lines with it or reroute calls? Sounds like this could be fun.
yawn, someone has some time on their hands. Seriously, maybe better scheduling, or better recomendations would be nice. I sometimes miss a show I really like b/c I'm watching something else. That ability to put a type of show on some priority listing that allows you to be notified if one of these types of shows is playing would be cool. But why would you want to see the schedule as a pie chart?
This is impressive. Solar powered, but are there weather problems at this altitude? I guess not, but can we put cameras on this thing too. Better maps for google maps, yea. When does it fly by SF again?
So it should be available for free/cheap. The money is there for quality assurance. Given the poor quality of many papers (including randomly generated ones), it is necessary to peer review papers. But other profs should be doing this in exchange for reviews of their own papers. So there is a tradeoff between quality of peer reviews and cost (just like most goods). But the work in the journels is generally paid for by public funds so it seems wrong to have to pay for these papers. In addition, there isn't much incentive to peer review papers because of the publish or perish rule of academia. Maybe there should be some kind of requirement that you must review three papers for each one you submit (so each paper is reviewed by three people). But I have a problem paying for something my tax dollar already paid for.
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Considering how low it takes to get a probe beyond Pluto and the strange pull on the spacecraft (it is off where it should be) and the low cost of continuing to monitor the probes, the voyeger missions should be continued too. Cutting them saves very little money but the budget is so tight that to save one or two mil, we are cutting these very important programs.
People are clever. They figure out ways to do things that seem impossible. While the physical laws of the atom will be a barrier, I have faith that we will work around them (so to speak). Perhaps getting atoms to do multiple things at once (who knows). But don't bet against a breakthough with economic gain at steak.
IP is very difficult to protect. There are patent laws (I don't know how strong they are in India). But you're employees know what they know and I assume they have access to the net so encryption and email can bypass any other procedures. Generally, the code isn't as valuable as the business contracts you hold anyway. Are you sure the employee was trying to steal the code? Maybe they just wanted to work from home. I don't know, but if your business is so flimsey that someone can steal the code and take your business then maybe you should reevaluate your business strategy.
Finally, the first US factory was built from plans a person memorized in Europe and wrote down once in the US. So if your employee is very smart, you can't stop him/her anyway. Hire truthworthy people and make it in their best interest to day. It is the only way to protect your business if IP alone can topple you company.
why does NASA and the ESA (and other space agencies) have to each send their own probes. Due to the cost of space missions, wouldn't a more sharing of resources be useful. For instance, one agency pays for the ground control, another for the rockets, another for the actual probe. Sharing of costs and resources would allow for more missions and less parnoia about how one nation uses space.
You have just figured out that the FSF is anti-business?
This is a fair statement, but not all opensource people are anti-business (including me). There is an entire range of people in FOSS and I wish the zelots didn't get all the attention all the time. Linux has had such a positive influence on small software businesses and increased the competition in the software market to the benifit of the consumer. There was a slashdot discussion on this a couple of days ago. But this type of measure will slow/stop this benefit b/c which is sad.
Is opensource about preventing business? Or is it about making software that comes with the source so bugs can be fixed by smart people? This seems like sour grapes to me. Opensource began b/c people had problems with pieces of software and wanted to fix them. Well what is the difference between someone at google and RMS in the 70's? In my mind, nothing b/c RMS was getting paid (McArthur schoolarship I think) and the guy at google, who is just trying to get his work done, is getting paid by google. This seems simply anti-business to me. It will hurt projects that decide to use this license.
"I went to CMU and have never heard of this competition."
Maybe that's because "the brightest and most talented thinker/programmer students did these competitions"?
Never has the phrase anonymous coward applied more perfectly than to you. I scored a perfect 800 on my SAT math, SAT math II and graduated with honors near the top of the #1 rated school of computer science in the entire world. What have you ever done that even remotely compares with that. Fuck off asshat and get ready for a troll mod (on both of our posts). Mods (I know I'm trolling, just ignore me)...
When I was in CS, it seemed like the brightest and most talented thinker/programmer students did these competitions, at least in my program.
Well, I went to CMU and have never heard of this competition. I think a competition like this isn't a good measure of CS program quality until is becomes a mark of status among elite CS schools. And even then it isn't a good measure. For instance, MIT has an execellent CS program and almost never places in any type of programming or robotics competition. I for one, would rather the CS students work on pure research and real-world applications than programming competitions with preset answers. Very rarely are these types of preset questions applicable in the real world where creative solutions are more valuable.
If the manufacturers determined that the crack is unlikely to cause a problem, I wouldn't be surprised if it was pretty minor. NASA knows, at this point, that the launch is going to be under intense scrutiny. I seriously doubt they'd put the mission in dager if they were anything less than 100% certain it wouldn't be a problem.
An Apollo 12 was struck by lighting and still survived to complete its mission successfully (it went to the moon)! The most famous call in NASA history was made by the electronics engineer when he told them to reset the system using 'SCE to aux' which the astronauts found after some searching. And the electronics still worked. Now that is reliable engineering. Now the space shuttle can't withstand foam. But NASA was better funded then, you get what you pay for. Maybe if Bush wants to go to Mars, he should cut the budget. Just a thought...
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To distribute a file with bittorrent requires a tracker that isn't really anonymous (the downloaders can be except for their IP address). But the trackers aren't. Bram never meant for people to use Bittorrent for distributing music or movies. It is for mitigating the slashdot effect for large software packages and security patches (like Linux distros). So when people use it to share music and movies they have a huge painted target on them. Older filesharing networks like Napster were much better (or worst depending on your point of view) for sharing copywrited stuff b/c you just shared a directory and could disappear just by logging off.
Does this mean that x-ray, and other non-visible lightwave sight is possible? Or does the visual cortex of the brain prevent such input? Can't these wavelengths be represented as weird colors or textures? This opens up alot of interesting possiblities. But it is amazing that they can restore someones vision now. Does this work for people born blind, or only for people who have lost their sight. I'm not sure but I think the visual cortex needs to learn how to see and this is only possible during youth, but I'm not sure about that. I assume this only replaces a damaged eye and not a damaged visual cortex. But it is very impressive and important technology. Congrats to the researchers.
What happens if you are copying music you have bought to yourself (say from home to work), or music that is "opensource" (i.e. smaller bands than encourage mp3 distributions). Does this law allow loopholes for these circumstances? If Canadian politicans are anything like American ones, there will be a script that autosues file traders even if the file is only named after a song (and doesn't actually contain the music, i.e. song lyrics).
I somehow doubt that this will fly in SF. Her district includes SOMA (I think, it is hard to figure it out from the map) and most of the areas of the city that protest the most. It includes a lot of bloggers and political active members. But I think this is really an attempt to restrict the amount of politics sludge coming from some bloggers. At least require them to register so they can't slander and run. I don't know if this is necessary but something needs to be done about 527s and bloggers who slander and run so we don't have a repeat of the swift boat affair.
If you can get a company going for five figures, you have my respect. I am trying to get a startup going and after doing alot of analysis, the cheapest I think I can do it is for just over 7. Each business if different but getting one running for 90K is just about impossible. That won't even cover two people for six months. I guess you would need a product already written and a customer already signed up to even think about this. But FOSS does make running a software business alot cheaper. If you have five developers, it would save probably 5K a year at least and that is assuming you don't need anything special that can be replaced with a FOSS alternative. Good luck.
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I guess NASA's budget is more important after all. It would be nice to know this type of stuff before we have to que Bruce Willis. Does Hubble or Chandra provide some of this orbital data necessary to calculate the orbit of this rock. I would think so (someone correct me if I'm wrong), but it would be nice to send a probe with a nuke on it to blast it before it has a chance to hit us (or the pieces after the blast). It is much easier to deal with before it in headed straight for us.
I can steal my neighbors ISP line now!!! Anyway, networking chips have been a good boost for Intel lately. As CPUs become more of a commodity, they have expanded into other chipsets (alot of other chipsets) and this is just one of them. But this isn't practical for home networking which is what they hope. Too many leaches when you have a 20 mile range. But it is good for businesses that need to coordinate mobile people in this type of range. I just don't know how big a market this is. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Whoes standard do they use. Decency laws are supposed to be set by community standard, but a rest stop isn't a community. Whoes standard will they use. And isn't it the parent's responsibility to make those decisions, not the state? This sounds more like China than the US, wait Texas, nevermind. But it is a free hotspot, but since it is provided by the government this is subject to the laws 1st amendment. The problem with this is that it will never make it to court because it isn't important enough to go to jail for so it won't be struck down in court.
Okay, so she was 17 (or 15, its not really clear) and he was 23. Illegal but not that bad. Case closed, this law suit is frivolous
AOL monitor. Seriously, don't they do background checks for this type of job. I understand not doing them for most jobs, but this type of job, you would think it would be par for the course. But I guess if he doesn't have a record and she was only 17 at the time and if he was like 21-24 its not that bad (illegal, but not like he was 45). But what is really sad is that she is the one sueing. She made the decision to meet someone from a chat room and now is sueing because she was allowed to meet the guy. Sounds like sueing for dollars more than anything. Isn't America great...
So does the PBX connect to a normal net line (T1) or can this do VOIP too? Also, what would the GUI do for monitoring, or is it just for configuration? Can you tap lines with it or reroute calls? Sounds like this could be fun.
yawn, someone has some time on their hands. Seriously, maybe better scheduling, or better recomendations would be nice. I sometimes miss a show I really like b/c I'm watching something else. That ability to put a type of show on some priority listing that allows you to be notified if one of these types of shows is playing would be cool. But why would you want to see the schedule as a pie chart?
This is impressive. Solar powered, but are there weather problems at this altitude? I guess not, but can we put cameras on this thing too. Better maps for google maps, yea. When does it fly by SF again?
So it should be available for free/cheap. The money is there for quality assurance. Given the poor quality of many papers (including randomly generated ones), it is necessary to peer review papers. But other profs should be doing this in exchange for reviews of their own papers. So there is a tradeoff between quality of peer reviews and cost (just like most goods). But the work in the journels is generally paid for by public funds so it seems wrong to have to pay for these papers. In addition, there isn't much incentive to peer review papers because of the publish or perish rule of academia. Maybe there should be some kind of requirement that you must review three papers for each one you submit (so each paper is reviewed by three people). But I have a problem paying for something my tax dollar already paid for.
Considering how low it takes to get a probe beyond Pluto and the strange pull on the spacecraft (it is off where it should be) and the low cost of continuing to monitor the probes, the voyeger missions should be continued too. Cutting them saves very little money but the budget is so tight that to save one or two mil, we are cutting these very important programs.
People are clever. They figure out ways to do things that seem impossible. While the physical laws of the atom will be a barrier, I have faith that we will work around them (so to speak). Perhaps getting atoms to do multiple things at once (who knows). But don't bet against a breakthough with economic gain at steak.
Finally, the first US factory was built from plans a person memorized in Europe and wrote down once in the US. So if your employee is very smart, you can't stop him/her anyway. Hire truthworthy people and make it in their best interest to day. It is the only way to protect your business if IP alone can topple you company.
He didn't keep a copy. I guess he used a typewriter, it was written in 1965 after all.
why does NASA and the ESA (and other space agencies) have to each send their own probes. Due to the cost of space missions, wouldn't a more sharing of resources be useful. For instance, one agency pays for the ground control, another for the rockets, another for the actual probe. Sharing of costs and resources would allow for more missions and less parnoia about how one nation uses space.
This is a fair statement, but not all opensource people are anti-business (including me). There is an entire range of people in FOSS and I wish the zelots didn't get all the attention all the time. Linux has had such a positive influence on small software businesses and increased the competition in the software market to the benifit of the consumer. There was a slashdot discussion on this a couple of days ago. But this type of measure will slow/stop this benefit b/c which is sad.
Is opensource about preventing business? Or is it about making software that comes with the source so bugs can be fixed by smart people? This seems like sour grapes to me. Opensource began b/c people had problems with pieces of software and wanted to fix them. Well what is the difference between someone at google and RMS in the 70's? In my mind, nothing b/c RMS was getting paid (McArthur schoolarship I think) and the guy at google, who is just trying to get his work done, is getting paid by google. This seems simply anti-business to me. It will hurt projects that decide to use this license.
Maybe that's because "the brightest and most talented thinker/programmer students did these competitions"?
Never has the phrase anonymous coward applied more perfectly than to you. I scored a perfect 800 on my SAT math, SAT math II and graduated with honors near the top of the #1 rated school of computer science in the entire world. What have you ever done that even remotely compares with that. Fuck off asshat and get ready for a troll mod (on both of our posts). Mods (I know I'm trolling, just ignore me)...
Well, I went to CMU and have never heard of this competition. I think a competition like this isn't a good measure of CS program quality until is becomes a mark of status among elite CS schools. And even then it isn't a good measure. For instance, MIT has an execellent CS program and almost never places in any type of programming or robotics competition. I for one, would rather the CS students work on pure research and real-world applications than programming competitions with preset answers. Very rarely are these types of preset questions applicable in the real world where creative solutions are more valuable.
that this was reported on April Fools Day.
An Apollo 12 was struck by lighting and still survived to complete its mission successfully (it went to the moon)! The most famous call in NASA history was made by the electronics engineer when he told them to reset the system using 'SCE to aux' which the astronauts found after some searching. And the electronics still worked. Now that is reliable engineering. Now the space shuttle can't withstand foam. But NASA was better funded then, you get what you pay for. Maybe if Bush wants to go to Mars, he should cut the budget. Just a thought...
To distribute a file with bittorrent requires a tracker that isn't really anonymous (the downloaders can be except for their IP address). But the trackers aren't. Bram never meant for people to use Bittorrent for distributing music or movies. It is for mitigating the slashdot effect for large software packages and security patches (like Linux distros). So when people use it to share music and movies they have a huge painted target on them. Older filesharing networks like Napster were much better (or worst depending on your point of view) for sharing copywrited stuff b/c you just shared a directory and could disappear just by logging off.
Does this mean that x-ray, and other non-visible lightwave sight is possible? Or does the visual cortex of the brain prevent such input? Can't these wavelengths be represented as weird colors or textures? This opens up alot of interesting possiblities. But it is amazing that they can restore someones vision now. Does this work for people born blind, or only for people who have lost their sight. I'm not sure but I think the visual cortex needs to learn how to see and this is only possible during youth, but I'm not sure about that. I assume this only replaces a damaged eye and not a damaged visual cortex. But it is very impressive and important technology. Congrats to the researchers.
What happens if you are copying music you have bought to yourself (say from home to work), or music that is "opensource" (i.e. smaller bands than encourage mp3 distributions). Does this law allow loopholes for these circumstances? If Canadian politicans are anything like American ones, there will be a script that autosues file traders even if the file is only named after a song (and doesn't actually contain the music, i.e. song lyrics).
I somehow doubt that this will fly in SF. Her district includes SOMA (I think, it is hard to figure it out from the map) and most of the areas of the city that protest the most. It includes a lot of bloggers and political active members. But I think this is really an attempt to restrict the amount of politics sludge coming from some bloggers. At least require them to register so they can't slander and run. I don't know if this is necessary but something needs to be done about 527s and bloggers who slander and run so we don't have a repeat of the swift boat affair.
If you can get a company going for five figures, you have my respect. I am trying to get a startup going and after doing alot of analysis, the cheapest I think I can do it is for just over 7. Each business if different but getting one running for 90K is just about impossible. That won't even cover two people for six months. I guess you would need a product already written and a customer already signed up to even think about this. But FOSS does make running a software business alot cheaper. If you have five developers, it would save probably 5K a year at least and that is assuming you don't need anything special that can be replaced with a FOSS alternative. Good luck.