Wired seem to be a better solution for a plane anyhow, I wouldn't expect the need for moving around the plane with your laptop to be that massive, I mean people are usually pretty tied to their seats when going with a Boeing. The problem probably is that different airline companies want different seating positions, but the article says that they should have solved this issue.
The article says nothing about how the LAN on the plane connects to the internet though. I think that is where the state of the art comes in, the only possible solution I see is through satellite connection, but with a moving plane I imagine that is going to give some problems. Another problem in this is the bandwidth given by a satellite connection, if there are 20 passengers surfing the net that isn't going to give a lot of bandwidth pr. user.
I wonder who the British police hired to do this, according to the article they used "computer experts" to do the job. But now that these "computer experts" have done this once with police blessing, had a nice look at the systems I wouldn't wonder if they could do it again without the blessing or knowledge of the police.
From the article it doesn't look like the sys-admins at Downing Street have been all that involved in this, I sure hope they have now been notified of how this was done and whatever way was used to get into the systems have been closed.
One could suspect that with the police having known these/this "computer expert(s)" it might be an indication that it wasn't a white hat they got hold of, but really that is just speculation, it might also have been a white hat person.
Anyhow I know nothing but what it says in TFA, which really isn't a lot, but for the sake of british security I sure hope this has been done in a sensible way.
I bet many or maybe even most of the people who start buying the stocks being spammed, buy them in the expectancy that the spamming will make the value of that stock rise. Thereby they reinforce this strange mafia way of making money and worst of all they make sure that loads of spam will keep on putting even more pressure on the internet.
The only sensible conclusion I am able to draw from this is that it probably will pay of to invest in the spam-filter companies;)
I would guess you can buy something like 150 good protective body armors for the price of this thing.
If I was a soldier sent to an area with snipers I think I would prefer first to have plenty of Kevlar, this thing would then come second.
I think it is some time ago, but I seem to recall some kind of news about the soldiers not having enough body armor in Iraq, if this really is true, I think this should be put first on the budget instead of buying this kind of fancy equipment that might be helpful to the soldiers in hunting down snipers, but also maybe would slow their progress down. In a fast retreat (even just a short one) you would probable have to leave these 150K$ slowly moving along slowly on it's own in enemy territory. The article doesn't say much about the weight of this thing though.
I foresee quite a few problems if it the license going to be in some kind of digital format, what then when the hard disk that has this downloaded version of windoze on it crashes? As far as I read the articles there is going to be some kind of encrypted key as a license on the server, I am not sure I understand how they intend this to work?
Usually if ever I need an installation of windoze today (which I haven't needed for my own purposes for a long time, wine has really improved lately) I check one of the old laptops I have around for a license sticker and then go find a bit torrent or something else and download the suitable kind of windoze for the license and install it. As far as I know that is all legal and these stickers are quite common when you, like I do, buy used hardware often.
Another interesting problem with this is what situation you are left in with a corrupted download? I guess other downloadable paid for products have somehow solved this, I don't have a clue how though.
I am not going to remove flashblock from firefox any time soon, I don't expect for flash to become any less annoying and inefficient because of this new release.
Yeah maybe it was put in a somewhat harsh way. But really if you want to keep on saying that global warming is not happening or not caused by humans, then you don't want the scientist to get to much data to tell you otherwise if you can keep them from it do you?
I haven't RTFA but I would think the main use of but I would guess climate science is one of the main uses of these data acquired from NASA.
Now I guess I just said it even harsher, so you can mod me "-1 troll" instead if you feel like it;)
Thanks, I had already forgotten the era of stable in even numbers and ubstable version in uneven numbers, I guess that just shows that I have already gotten used to only stable versions existing, not that I ever really have been working a lot with the uneven numbered kernels.
Maybe Linus has to big a workload on his shoulders? Seems he would rather stay with making and has plenty to do with keeping the stable version of the kernel stable, maybe he should ask/find someone else do his work on the uneven numbered kernels. But then again that leaves behind the question what are we then going to do when 2.7 is starting to move towards being stable with all the experiments done, some of them having turned out successful and the 2.6 kernel having gone in a different direction.
I can't watch the video due on that site, but I really am not certain what he is trying to say from the text I can read.
Does he want to sacrifice stability for innovativeness in kernel 2.7 or does he think that things are going fine the way they are right now with a stable and an unstable kernel?
I am far from an expert on this, but if I was to build a system like this I would keep the pool water out of the cooling system and just put some kind of radiator in the pool, that way you keep the water going into the piping and cooling systems clean and you still get the heat transferred into the pool like you want.
On one hand of course this doesn't look good on M$, "bribing bloggers" like this. That's the obvious part.
The other part, I wonder if this doesn't just make a lot of bloggers start being even more pro-microsoft in the hope of a little something might fall off. Let's face it you really have to have a lot of visitors to make the adsense money add up to what you can sell such a laptop for on ebay.
I haven't been doing calculations on this, but I imagine you need to bring a lot more weight to send someone to Mars than to the moon, so if you could somehow get the weighty parts you need to the moon in small bits (or even better extract it from the moon or make it on the moon, for example the fuel through solar panels) then I think you could save a substantial amount of fuel doing so. Also with the moon rotation around the earth you probably would be able to get an extra starting speed that you wouldn't have to spend fuel to get. There are probably other factors involved in this that I haven't considered... this is just what came to mind.
As far as I figure this is just a heat pump, they put lines through sewage that is heating because it is decomposing.
It is a nice idea for sure, I wonder if this hasn't been done already though.
People here in Denmark are having heat pumps installed all over the place and people place these water/air lines all over the place to get air for their heat pump a little hotter than otherwise, burying the lines in the earth below frost depth seems to be a normal choice, but if you anyhow do have a dunghill or something like that why not let the pipes run through there.
Anyhow heat pumps sure is one of the many things that we need to use a lot more in the future, no one technology will be able to replace our use of hydrocarbons, but if we combine all the technologies we have a shot of actually significantly reduce our CO2 emissions.
Thank you for this explanation I was a bit lost as to how snowball earth (global ice age as I understand the idea) was linked to magnetic data from the rocks. I am not an expert on this so I guess I will have to buy the idea that one is able to see that rocks have formed in an arctic climate even though I remain sceptic
Another thing that makes me wonder about this theory is that as far as I know we only have good data of the earths magnetic data from something like 120 million years after which there is no more oceanic plate left.
Sure there is information from the continental plates, but really this information is very messy and in general based on a lot of speculation. The movements of the continental plates is to a big degree already based on this data, which this idea again relies on (or does it?).
The resume (which is all that seems available to me, of new information anyhow) says this idea depends on the idea that the earths magnetic field having been dipolar for this period too.
From the resume:
But if the early Earth's magnetic field was markedly different to today's axial dipolar field, some of those interpretations could be off the mark.
I guess all I am trying to say that this new article seems to be a lot of guesswork, we are left with nothing better when going that far back in time. To me this thing about Ice Ages that far back isn't something that is all that important in most cases being a geologist and not all that interested in the idea about evolution, I gladly leave that kind of even worse speculation to biologist.
I have this friend who I have been been trying to convince to try out Linux.
She is quite skilled at working in Windows, knows the ins and out of it much better than I do (I haven't really been working in Window for some years now). When we have been talking about her trying out Linux she a few times mentioned that it is just too ugly. I guess that is no wonder when she is seeing screenshots from my minimalistic fluxbox gentoo X system here, I hate the for the X-system to be taking up unnecesary system resources, as long as it works I don't care much how it looks, the less fancy looking stuff there the better.
Anyhow so far I have not been able convince my friend to try out Linux, but looking at one of the links from Shuttleworth's blog to the Ubunty Artwork team I was thinking this might be a way to get her involved with Linux. She is extremely skilled at editing and working with images in jasc Pain Shop Pro (PSP). I think maybe she would be interested in doing some work on that team, but I am wondering if it would be acceptable that the work be done in PSP, being commercial software?
If she were to work on the Ubuntu project she would have to install Ubuntu on one of her computers, I don't think that will cause her many problems and if she then also works on that distro she might even start using it.
Anyhow would love any feedback from folks here on this.
A bit on the same subject (and then again not), anyone out there with experiences about runnning PSP in Linux through Wine or something like that?
Just to add a little to CorSci81's very fine post here other possible triggers not mentioned in his post as I remember them from my classes in this is things like:
- Vulcanism which might both create lot's of dust in the athmosphere in the atmosphere, having mostly a cooling effect while the vulcanic activity might also cause local heating. This is also to some degree linked to plate tectonics.
- Swamps becoming frozen which is a kind is a big reserve of metane and CO2 which might is "held in store" once the swamps become permafrost.
- If there are continents on the poles which makes it "easier" to create the ice caps that is needed to start the Ice age (also very closely linked to plate tectonics) once there is an ice sheet, this sheet reflects more light than other kinds of surface thereby cooling down further
- The ocean stream have a lot to say too, there are diffrent cycles here that are not well understood, but they are visible in the deep ice drillings measurement of CO2 content. This is both linked to plate tectonics, where the closure of the gap between and north America for example is very clear, but is also linked to undersea vulcanism, the Ice sheets and of course where the possible deep sea pumps are.
- Geotermic heat coming from the earth itself, which is a constantly declining function and which is one of the main reasons why there was a time when there were no ice ages on earth before around 3 billion years ago.
- Changes in the suns output of energy over time, both long time variations and short term variations.
There are more lots of other possible factors, which as the parent to this comment so nicely says is the reason why climate research is such a blasted difficult thing to do, there are so many factors to take into account and many of them are linked in less than obvios ways, so it's all about creating models which take as many factors into account as possible and get them to fit the data from ice cores and other data and maybe such a model will then also be able to say things about the future (which also needs to include the human interference where it is even harder to know what is the right way to fit your model to the past as we have very few years (on a geologic timescale) of data there).
I have the same problem, I really don't understand what AOL is.
Until lately I really didn't care, but I now have a good friend in the USA who thinks highly of AOL, but so far I have not been able to really understand what AOL is.
Living in Denmark I don't think there is such a thing as AOL in our part of the world, I can get my internet connection through a number of ISP's who offers little else but the ISP and what you usually get along with that (email adresses, a little room for a homepage maybe and a "startpage" of some kind, maybe even some simple pieces of useles software), but somehow AOL seems to be something diffrent than an ISP, or at least providing the internet connection is only a little part of what they do.
I am not aware of AOL providing any content on the internet that I have used so far, so that can't be what they offer (or is it?).
AOL seems to provide some kind of software that my friend really likes, it should be very user friendly according to her.
She is skilled at many things using a computer, so I do think that what she says has a point.
This article did provide some more information on what AOL is, but still I am a little confused, so I would be grateful if anyone could point me to a place where I can learn more or explain to me what it is AOL provides.
This is truly troubeling news
Of course there is the chance that we have some James Bond plot underway and that it is some of the really bad guys that have cracked their way to this information. Chances are that this is not the case, but I'll bet this information is now for sale for whoever would be willing to pay the right price.
Saudi Arabian wealthy people and others might be willing to sponsor those that should not get their hands on information of this kind.
Sure having information on workers does not directly give access to the nuclear warheads, but it brings you one step closer.
I don't understand why the articles focus on why the notification didn't get to whatever comitee fast enough. Unless I get something wrong this is a matter of national security (and since the nation in question is the US that also means worldwide safety) and then those that needs to be notified ASAP is the some military people and the president, which probably has happened.
At my home desk computer I have on very old worn chair with where the back rest is pretty much unuseable.
It has been with me for the last 6 years, in which I have been sitting at the computer many hours every day in this chair.
I have often been thinking about replacing this chair and often people tell me to do so. So far I have not done this. Somehow I have an idea that this miserable chair helps me to avoid injuries.
One obvious things about this chair is that with me not sitting comfortable I often rise and move around for a little while before getting back at the computer, one thing that the article emphasises as being a good thing.
Another good thing is that this chair makes me change seatnig position all the time, without really thinking abuot it, the chair is not much diffrent than a stool I have a variety of ways of sitting at the chair that put the strain on diffrent places in my body.
I think I will stick with this worn chair until it totally falls apart after which I will go look for a similar old worn chair.
After all the countries where people sleep directly on the floor without soft mattresses like India back injuries were curiosly enough almost unknown until they started getting civilized sleeping in soft beds.
Well I am not from Sweden but I can tell as much as this has made it to some of the big radio stations here in Denmark (P3 which I am listening to right now), which means that things are pretty big in Sweden for them to make the headlines in Denmark.
So far a quick overlook over the big media here tells me what attracts the most attention in Danish media is the demonstration that is on it's way right now in Stockholm and the talks abuot the Swedish government acting after orders from the USA with politicans bypassing Swedish laws.
Drilling through ice is a difficult process with lot's of problems.
One of the problems is that the ice is not lying still during the time that you are drilling, the ice creeps. That is once of the reasons why all the major drillings through ice are done on the top of the ice sheets where the movements are the least there.
The problem with Ice creep is pretty big, it is for example not possible for scientist to come back to the hole's they drilled before, like you do with holes in the earth, the holes shut pretty fast, depending on the speed of the ice crawl.
So I geuss it would be possible to drill the hole, but you would have to be pretty fast to get down there after you drilled the hole and get up some material of the underlying rock.
You would get very little material up and I think that present some problems also, how would you know if the rock sample you get up is alien to the enviroment from where it came when you don't have the rock in the vicinity of the sample to compare with and look for patterns etc. on.
I am jut a bit lost here, how do they use gravimetric data to say with the certainty the article seems to suggest that this is an impact crater?
As far as I know from my the few classes I have had on gravimetric data without the help of other data you are usually pretty lost. It would be very difficult to say how deep, what size and what weight anamoly the gravimetric anomily has and even more make out it's shape.
Furthermore with these gravimetric data taken from a satelite and not from the surface you get even more "meaned data" (less precise) being further away from the anamoly I can figure, of course they probably have a huge data set and also extremely precise instrumentation at the satelite in space, maybe that makes up for the distance in some ways, but for now I remain very sceptical.
Another thing that makes me wonder is why they don't talk about doing seismic or seismologic checks to confirm their theory. I actually thought that there was a few seismic stations places in this region, if this anamoly is as huge as the article suggests then I would think it should be pretty clearly visible in the seismic data.
Anyhow gravimetrics is certainly not my area of expertise. I would if someone out there is able to show me where I go wrong if that is the case, then I'd be grateful.
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Wired seem to be a better solution for a plane anyhow, I wouldn't expect the need for moving around the plane with your laptop to be that massive, I mean people are usually pretty tied to their seats when going with a Boeing.
The problem probably is that different airline companies want different seating positions, but the article says that they should have solved this issue.
The article says nothing about how the LAN on the plane connects to the internet though. I think that is where the state of the art comes in, the only possible solution I see is through satellite connection, but with a moving plane I imagine that is going to give some problems.
Another problem in this is the bandwidth given by a satellite connection, if there are 20 passengers surfing the net that isn't going to give a lot of bandwidth pr. user.
I wonder who the British police hired to do this, according to the article they used "computer experts" to do the job.
But now that these "computer experts" have done this once with police blessing, had a nice look at the systems I wouldn't wonder if they could do it again without the blessing or knowledge of the police.
From the article it doesn't look like the sys-admins at Downing Street have been all that involved in this, I sure hope they have now been notified of how this was done and whatever way was used to get into the systems have been closed.
One could suspect that with the police having known these/this "computer expert(s)" it might be an indication that it wasn't a white hat they got hold of, but really that is just speculation, it might also have been a white hat person.
Anyhow I know nothing but what it says in TFA, which really isn't a lot, but for the sake of british security I sure hope this has been done in a sensible way.
I bet many or maybe even most of the people who start buying the stocks being spammed, buy them in the expectancy that the spamming will make the value of that stock rise.
;)
Thereby they reinforce this strange mafia way of making money and worst of all they make sure that loads of spam will keep on putting even more pressure on the internet.
The only sensible conclusion I am able to draw from this is that it probably will pay of to invest in the spam-filter companies
You comment sure makes sense.
But isn't it harder to make a head shot than a heart shot?
A helmet does provide some kind of protection too I would guess.
I have no clue about these things really, I never fired a firearm, this is just what I would guess with the head being smaller than the chest.
I would guess you can buy something like 150 good protective body armors for the price of this thing.
If I was a soldier sent to an area with snipers I think I would prefer first to have plenty of Kevlar, this thing would then come second.
I think it is some time ago, but I seem to recall some kind of news about the soldiers not having enough body armor in Iraq, if this really is true, I think this should be put first on the budget instead of buying this kind of fancy equipment that might be helpful to the soldiers in hunting down snipers, but also maybe would slow their progress down. In a fast retreat (even just a short one) you would probable have to leave these 150K$ slowly moving along slowly on it's own in enemy territory.
The article doesn't say much about the weight of this thing though.
I foresee quite a few problems if it the license going to be in some kind of digital format, what then when the hard disk that has this downloaded version of windoze on it crashes?
As far as I read the articles there is going to be some kind of encrypted key as a license on the server, I am not sure I understand how they intend this to work?
Usually if ever I need an installation of windoze today (which I haven't needed for my own purposes for a long time, wine has really improved lately) I check one of the old laptops I have around for a license sticker and then go find a bit torrent or something else and download the suitable kind of windoze for the license and install it.
As far as I know that is all legal and these stickers are quite common when you, like I do, buy used hardware often.
Another interesting problem with this is what situation you are left in with a corrupted download?
I guess other downloadable paid for products have somehow solved this, I don't have a clue how though.
I am not going to remove flashblock from firefox any time soon, I don't expect for flash to become any less annoying and inefficient because of this new release.
Yeah maybe it was put in a somewhat harsh way.
;)
But really if you want to keep on saying that global warming is not happening or not caused by humans, then you don't want the scientist to get to much data to tell you otherwise if you can keep them from it do you?
I haven't RTFA but I would think the main use of but I would guess climate science is one of the main uses of these data acquired from NASA.
Now I guess I just said it even harsher, so you can mod me "-1 troll" instead if you feel like it
Thanks, I had already forgotten the era of stable in even numbers and ubstable version in uneven numbers, I guess that just shows that I have already gotten used to only stable versions existing, not that I ever really have been working a lot with the uneven numbered kernels.
Maybe Linus has to big a workload on his shoulders? Seems he would rather stay with making and has plenty to do with keeping the stable version of the kernel stable, maybe he should ask/find someone else do his work on the uneven numbered kernels.
But then again that leaves behind the question what are we then going to do when 2.7 is starting to move towards being stable with all the experiments done, some of them having turned out successful and the 2.6 kernel having gone in a different direction.
I can't watch the video due on that site, but I really am not certain what he is trying to say from the text I can read.
Does he want to sacrifice stability for innovativeness in kernel 2.7 or does he think that things are going fine the way they are right now with a stable and an unstable kernel?
Why does this post not come from any department?
;)
How am I able to see how trustworthy posts like this are when I don't know where they are from?
I am far from an expert on this, but if I was to build a system like this I would keep the pool water out of the cooling system and just put some kind of radiator in the pool, that way you keep the water going into the piping and cooling systems clean and you still get the heat transferred into the pool like you want.
On one hand of course this doesn't look good on M$, "bribing bloggers" like this. That's the obvious part.
The other part, I wonder if this doesn't just make a lot of bloggers start being even more pro-microsoft in the hope of a little something might fall off. Let's face it you really have to have a lot of visitors to make the adsense money add up to what you can sell such a laptop for on ebay.
I haven't been doing calculations on this, but I imagine you need to bring a lot more weight to send someone to Mars than to the moon, so if you could somehow get the weighty parts you need to the moon in small bits (or even better extract it from the moon or make it on the moon, for example the fuel through solar panels) then I think you could save a substantial amount of fuel doing so. ... this is just what came to mind.
Also with the moon rotation around the earth you probably would be able to get an extra starting speed that you wouldn't have to spend fuel to get.
There are probably other factors involved in this that I haven't considered
emerge -s democracy
;)
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So it's not for me yet (or maybe rather, my interest in this is too little for me to install it around portage)
Too bad, maybe another time
As far as I figure this is just a heat pump, they put lines through sewage that is heating because it is decomposing.
It is a nice idea for sure, I wonder if this hasn't been done already though.
People here in Denmark are having heat pumps installed all over the place and people place these water/air lines all over the place to get air for their heat pump a little hotter than otherwise, burying the lines in the earth below frost depth seems to be a normal choice, but if you anyhow do have a dunghill or something like that why not let the pipes run through there.
Anyhow heat pumps sure is one of the many things that we need to use a lot more in the future, no one technology will be able to replace our use of hydrocarbons, but if we combine all the technologies we have a shot of actually significantly reduce our CO2 emissions.
Another thing that makes me wonder about this theory is that as far as I know we only have good data of the earths magnetic data from something like 120 million years after which there is no more oceanic plate left.
Sure there is information from the continental plates, but really this information is very messy and in general based on a lot of speculation. The movements of the continental plates is to a big degree already based on this data, which this idea again relies on (or does it?).
The resume (which is all that seems available to me, of new information anyhow) says this idea depends on the idea that the earths magnetic field having been dipolar for this period too.
From the resume:
I guess all I am trying to say that this new article seems to be a lot of guesswork, we are left with nothing better when going that far back in time.
To me this thing about Ice Ages that far back isn't something that is all that important in most cases being a geologist and not all that interested in the idea about evolution, I gladly leave that kind of even worse speculation to biologist.
I have this friend who I have been been trying to convince to try out Linux.
She is quite skilled at working in Windows, knows the ins and out of it much better than I do (I haven't really been working in Window for some years now). When we have been talking about her trying out Linux she a few times mentioned that it is just too ugly. I guess that is no wonder when she is seeing screenshots from my minimalistic fluxbox gentoo X system here, I hate the for the X-system to be taking up unnecesary system resources, as long as it works I don't care much how it looks, the less fancy looking stuff there the better.
Anyhow so far I have not been able convince my friend to try out Linux, but looking at one of the links from Shuttleworth's blog to the Ubunty Artwork team I was thinking this might be a way to get her involved with Linux. She is extremely skilled at editing and working with images in jasc Pain Shop Pro (PSP). I think maybe she would be interested in doing some work on that team, but I am wondering if it would be acceptable that the work be done in PSP, being commercial software?
If she were to work on the Ubuntu project she would have to install Ubuntu on one of her computers, I don't think that will cause her many problems and if she then also works on that distro she might even start using it.
Anyhow would love any feedback from folks here on this.
A bit on the same subject (and then again not), anyone out there with experiences about runnning PSP in Linux through Wine or something like that?
Just to add a little to CorSci81's very fine post here other possible triggers not mentioned in his post as I remember them from my classes in this is things like: - Vulcanism which might both create lot's of dust in the athmosphere in the atmosphere, having mostly a cooling effect while the vulcanic activity might also cause local heating. This is also to some degree linked to plate tectonics.
- Swamps becoming frozen which is a kind is a big reserve of metane and CO2 which might is "held in store" once the swamps become permafrost.
- If there are continents on the poles which makes it "easier" to create the ice caps that is needed to start the Ice age (also very closely linked to plate tectonics) once there is an ice sheet, this sheet reflects more light than other kinds of surface thereby cooling down further
- The ocean stream have a lot to say too, there are diffrent cycles here that are not well understood, but they are visible in the deep ice drillings measurement of CO2 content. This is both linked to plate tectonics, where the closure of the gap between and north America for example is very clear, but is also linked to undersea vulcanism, the Ice sheets and of course where the possible deep sea pumps are.
- Geotermic heat coming from the earth itself, which is a constantly declining function and which is one of the main reasons why there was a time when there were no ice ages on earth before around 3 billion years ago.
- Changes in the suns output of energy over time, both long time variations and short term variations.
There are more lots of other possible factors, which as the parent to this comment so nicely says is the reason why climate research is such a blasted difficult thing to do, there are so many factors to take into account and many of them are linked in less than obvios ways, so it's all about creating models which take as many factors into account as possible and get them to fit the data from ice cores and other data and maybe such a model will then also be able to say things about the future (which also needs to include the human interference where it is even harder to know what is the right way to fit your model to the past as we have very few years (on a geologic timescale) of data there).
I have the same problem, I really don't understand what AOL is.
Until lately I really didn't care, but I now have a good friend in the USA who thinks highly of AOL, but so far I have not been able to really understand what AOL is.
Living in Denmark I don't think there is such a thing as AOL in our part of the world, I can get my internet connection through a number of ISP's who offers little else but the ISP and what you usually get along with that (email adresses, a little room for a homepage maybe and a "startpage" of some kind, maybe even some simple pieces of useles software), but somehow AOL seems to be something diffrent than an ISP, or at least providing the internet connection is only a little part of what they do.
I am not aware of AOL providing any content on the internet that I have used so far, so that can't be what they offer (or is it?).
AOL seems to provide some kind of software that my friend really likes, it should be very user friendly according to her.
She is skilled at many things using a computer, so I do think that what she says has a point.
This article did provide some more information on what AOL is, but still I am a little confused, so I would be grateful if anyone could point me to a place where I can learn more or explain to me what it is AOL provides.
This is truly troubeling news
Of course there is the chance that we have some James Bond plot underway and that it is some of the really bad guys that have cracked their way to this information. Chances are that this is not the case, but I'll bet this information is now for sale for whoever would be willing to pay the right price.
Saudi Arabian wealthy people and others might be willing to sponsor those that should not get their hands on information of this kind.
Sure having information on workers does not directly give access to the nuclear warheads, but it brings you one step closer.
I don't understand why the articles focus on why the notification didn't get to whatever comitee fast enough. Unless I get something wrong this is a matter of national security (and since the nation in question is the US that also means worldwide safety) and then those that needs to be notified ASAP is the some military people and the president, which probably has happened.
At my home desk computer I have on very old worn chair with where the back rest is pretty much unuseable.
It has been with me for the last 6 years, in which I have been sitting at the computer many hours every day in this chair.
I have often been thinking about replacing this chair and often people tell me to do so. So far I have not done this. Somehow I have an idea that this miserable chair helps me to avoid injuries.
One obvious things about this chair is that with me not sitting comfortable I often rise and move around for a little while before getting back at the computer, one thing that the article emphasises as being a good thing.
Another good thing is that this chair makes me change seatnig position all the time, without really thinking abuot it, the chair is not much diffrent than a stool I have a variety of ways of sitting at the chair that put the strain on diffrent places in my body.
I think I will stick with this worn chair until it totally falls apart after which I will go look for a similar old worn chair.
After all the countries where people sleep directly on the floor without soft mattresses like India back injuries were curiosly enough almost unknown until they started getting civilized sleeping in soft beds.
Well I am not from Sweden but I can tell as much as this has made it to some of the big radio stations here in Denmark (P3 which I am listening to right now), which means that things are pretty big in Sweden for them to make the headlines in Denmark.
So far a quick overlook over the big media here tells me what attracts the most attention in Danish media is the demonstration that is on it's way right now in Stockholm and the talks abuot the Swedish government acting after orders from the USA with politicans bypassing Swedish laws.
Drilling through ice is a difficult process with lot's of problems.
One of the problems is that the ice is not lying still during the time that you are drilling, the ice creeps. That is once of the reasons why all the major drillings through ice are done on the top of the ice sheets where the movements are the least there.
The problem with Ice creep is pretty big, it is for example not possible for scientist to come back to the hole's they drilled before, like you do with holes in the earth, the holes shut pretty fast, depending on the speed of the ice crawl.
So I geuss it would be possible to drill the hole, but you would have to be pretty fast to get down there after you drilled the hole and get up some material of the underlying rock.
You would get very little material up and I think that present some problems also, how would you know if the rock sample you get up is alien to the enviroment from where it came when you don't have the rock in the vicinity of the sample to compare with and look for patterns etc. on.
I am jut a bit lost here, how do they use gravimetric data to say with the certainty the article seems to suggest that this is an impact crater?
As far as I know from my the few classes I have had on gravimetric data without the help of other data you are usually pretty lost. It would be very difficult to say how deep, what size and what weight anamoly the gravimetric anomily has and even more make out it's shape.
Furthermore with these gravimetric data taken from a satelite and not from the surface you get even more "meaned data" (less precise) being further away from the anamoly I can figure, of course they probably have a huge data set and also extremely precise instrumentation at the satelite in space, maybe that makes up for the distance in some ways, but for now I remain very sceptical.
Another thing that makes me wonder is why they don't talk about doing seismic or seismologic checks to confirm their theory. I actually thought that there was a few seismic stations places in this region, if this anamoly is as huge as the article suggests then I would think it should be pretty clearly visible in the seismic data.
Anyhow gravimetrics is certainly not my area of expertise. I would if someone out there is able to show me where I go wrong if that is the case, then I'd be grateful.