Could we not try vapour phase deposition? I dunno, I've not looked at the numbers but I think that may help if we cannot zone refine.
Alternatively for a thin layer you could lay it down by sputtering a coat on with a mass spectrograph to precisely select the ions you wanted - slow and doesnt make a very thick layer but that seems to be a bonus from what I read..
Many other elements are critical trace elements, but I dont see people complaining about using nickel for things like steelmaking....
Simple stating this is dumb without telling people why doesnt help. It's been shown that Mo is used in lubricatanrs for a century or so without problems. Simply saying that a few extra kT is suddently going to cause a problem without saying why doesnt cut ice.
After all, we use a lot of moly - no issues so far. We use a lot of copper as well - another trace but that's not a problem, and we even recycle most of it stopping it from entering the biosphere. But the Amazon is still there... ditto zinc, boron, manganese....
So unless you have reason why - other than shouting DUMB - I fail to see why using a small amount compared to current use is such a problem.
You are aware that we've been using moly disulphide in lubricants for a hundred years or so - I hardly think that this will cause a problem since we are already in fact mining and using the stuff. Simply taking it out of a mine, cycling it through some components that then get discarded and recycled will if anything increase the soil availability of molybdenum.
I could sign in any of my capacities of company director, Chartered Chemist or as a member of the BCS - most people belonging to organisations that grant postnominals by letters patent will be able to countersign.
The British people have never tolerated a register of where they live open to all officialdom - only in WW2 was it tolerated and it got kicked out shortly afterwards. Identity (of which there is a national birth register) is a totally different thing to address which is why passports have never had your address on them.
It is checked - I'm one of the people on the list of those who can countersign and I guess that about 20% of them are verified, might only be a phone call but they do check. For one guy who was coming from shall we say a country of interest they turned up with the application and wanted me to examine and confirm I had filled it all out.
BTW My "idea" is not hilariously backwards as I never claimed that Microsoft was valueless because it doesnt make stuff. I pointed out that however other people can perceive it like that which is the point of the argument. Many people will not invest in something that appears intangible and ephemeral, regardless of how good or useful a software house can be.
South sea bubble, the Dutch Tulip craze, Railway mania, the Posiden bubble, 2007 Uranium bubble, and of course the NASDAQ in March 2000....
Wanna bet on how dumb investors really can be sometimes?
You mean in the eyes of the market, which in terms of evaluating what a company is "worth" is what counts. I never made such a claim at all - I proposed it as a theory... Software and IP etc while obviously valuable isn't something that you can get hold of.. it seems ephemeral, just ones and zeros. A company that is generally percevied to make "stuff" even if it is outsourced, is often held to be intrinsically more valuable than one that doesnt - the rights and wrongs of that are another entire debate. However I still think that people like Apple to some extent as they "make" things - there is a series of big shiny, well received boxes bought by high income people regularly. Against that Microsoft makes a few games consoles (that overheat) and a thing called the Zune that no-one really knows what it's for, apart from the fact it's a high priced failure. Now is that worth more than the deep penetration Microsoft has into the enterprise server market, the database market, the email and collaboration market, and lets not forget Office... well it's the markets... Reality is always playing second fiddle to peoples perception - that's why you get bank runs after all - not for any real reason but because herd mentality takes over.
Microsoft doesnt make anything... not real stuff. You can buy an Apple computer, but not a Microsoft one. Perhaps that has some bearing on the perceived value and owrht of the company - I'm just throwing the idea out there....
Actually the crime is committed the moment that you throw the brick provided it meets the tests in the Criminal Damage act. (assuming UK law here). By the time the glass is smashed then you have committed the offence.
UK law defines a crime as being the actual act "actus reus" and the intent "mens rea". Since he did both of those whilst in the UK, I'd say we have reason to prosecute quite legitimatly. The target is immaterial really - and for the purposes of the law to some extent it is irrelevant. People have been for example convicted of attempted murder in the UK when there was no possibility of any harm even occuring as the "person" wasnt even real so to that extent the target in the USA could be considered an abstraction.
Whilst it's undeniable I think that he did actual do it, there are a lot of people that cannot see why he should be extradited. The UK already has adaquate laws for the prosecution of the crime, and the crime was committed in the UK so it has always seemed odd to a lot of people that he should have been extradited, especially with the massive imbalance in potential sentence between the UK and US for this. I rather suspect that that imbalance is what causes many people much disquiet.
Cameron is not going to be too concerned either way one suspects, although he will probably lean towards not extraditing him. Clegg however as a hard and a fast Liberal is almost certainly going to move all that he can to ensure he is not extradited. The one person to consider though in all this is Kenneth Clarke, whos is the Justice Secretary. He has interesting views - he once called Camerons plans for a British Bill of Rights "Xenophobic and a legal nonsensity". Quite what his feelings are on the extradition - and he gets the ultimate say as Justice Minister are as yet unknown. From what little I know of him personally I suspect he would favour prosecution in the UK but for all that his views are relatively unknown.
The Nazi's were also nationalists... National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbieterpartei. The were nationalist in that they beleived in their inherent national supremacy but were socialist within that particualr group. A mix of both ends of the political spectrum lead to a very unhappy merging of the worst excesses of each.
Like almost any chemistry or physics graduate in the UK I'm effectively a walking compilation of "information likely to be of use to a terrorist". I mean it's not hard - any competent physics grad can be assured of making a really big crater with 100% reliability if you actually got given the raw material. Chemists can make smaller, but still impressive craters and can make the raw materiel themselves from a variety of sources.
Just thinking off the top of my head I could probably synthesise a good half dozen chemical agents from stuff in the house and car. I suspect I'm not the only one.
So what do I do now the UK govt has decided that for us to be legal we should get a lobotomy? Well we firstly voted in a more sensible Govt than the hideously invasive and illiberal mob that we used to have. Secondly - I don't go round with the intent to actually use this knowledge, at least not for bad stuff. These white supremacists were not jailed for owning/downloading the anarchists cook books - they were not really jailed for making a piss poor chemical weapon (please - enough ricin to kill just *nine* people? You could do much more damage with a burning cross and firebombing the church).
They were jailed for desiring and starting to carry out acts to commit terror - the anarchists cookbook is a mere sideshow, a bagateulle, it's nothing. The intent, proved by the actions was what got these people nailed - everything esle is just froth and oam
But what was just described wasnt at all implausible. In the early 1930's the Jews of Germany were happy to complete the cencus that had a box marked for religion. in 1933 some Austrian managed to get himself installed as Chancellor. Within five years we had had Kristellnacht and then those same census forms were used to start rounding up and ghettoising the Jewish, and other "undesirable" populations.
Go back to 1999 and the new milennium - would anyone in the West have imagined that within 2 years we would be figthing a pair of major bush wars in 2 other countries, and be missing a couple of skyscrapers just 2 years later on? If I'd had some official document floating about that marked me as "Muslim" accessible to a lot of people I'd be worried for myself as well even though I had done nothing wrong.
Not since a while back it isn't - Elizabeth Windsor holds her regnancies seperately and Canada hasn't been subject to anything like British rule for about a century. All that there was, and which was abolished in the late 20c was the recourse to the House of Lords for certain esoteric legal appeals.
Personally I hope the EU loses this one - Canada has a lot better IP laws than the EU or US.
Sadly they don't know - the people in question hardly kept accurate records, and Tmobile obviously ener audited their systems correctly.
Beside I don't want to sue them. I cannot easily quantify the monetary loss, and I dont want to substitute my time for money, which is ultmatley what it's about. The ICO and DPP are the people to go after them to stop them in future.
You could say that keeping my acocunt with them is the safest of all since they will be uber hot on being secure now, but I dont like to reward mediocrity and ineptness. I just hope that the company that gets my business pays attention and realises if they are not careful they will be next.
Let me see - millions of records stolen. I'm sure that they didnt need access to all of them and the mechanism to stop them is not exactly difficult. Sorry you find it so. To use the waiter analogy, I dont expect them after taking my order to tell me whate veryone else has ordered now do I?
As for some cracker getting in yes I would blame them. The same way I'd expect to be blamed if someone get in my systems. But then again I'm in the security and storing information securely business myself, so I have somewhat high standards. I'm sorry you have lower ones.
A waiter getting an order wrong is no big deal. It's easily corrected. Mind you if he included peanuts in the order then I'd be rightly annoyed as well. Can you tell me how I take my data back from the people it was sold to? Do you know who they are?
I want to stop T-mobile from having such lax systems that someone can take millions of records out in the first place. What did they do have access to CD roms and memory sticks? Does anyone not see the problem with this? Or they dont care? Or that someone doing what amounts to a SELECT ALL FROM on a database may be like possibly a bad thing?
T mobile screwed the pooch and they did it bad. You do not screw about with personal data like this and just expect your customers to forgive you. The sooner that companies learn this and start actually treating personal data as it should be treated the better.
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Well it will according to John Titor anyway.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
Could we not try vapour phase deposition? I dunno, I've not looked at the numbers but I think that may help if we cannot zone refine. Alternatively for a thin layer you could lay it down by sputtering a coat on with a mass spectrograph to precisely select the ions you wanted - slow and doesnt make a very thick layer but that seems to be a bonus from what I read..
Many other elements are critical trace elements, but I dont see people complaining about using nickel for things like steelmaking.... Simple stating this is dumb without telling people why doesnt help. It's been shown that Mo is used in lubricatanrs for a century or so without problems. Simply saying that a few extra kT is suddently going to cause a problem without saying why doesnt cut ice. After all, we use a lot of moly - no issues so far. We use a lot of copper as well - another trace but that's not a problem, and we even recycle most of it stopping it from entering the biosphere. But the Amazon is still there... ditto zinc, boron, manganese.... So unless you have reason why - other than shouting DUMB - I fail to see why using a small amount compared to current use is such a problem.
You are aware that we've been using moly disulphide in lubricants for a hundred years or so - I hardly think that this will cause a problem since we are already in fact mining and using the stuff. Simply taking it out of a mine, cycling it through some components that then get discarded and recycled will if anything increase the soil availability of molybdenum.
Since they are still north of the Equator they will be - they only become the aurora austrialis if you are viewing them looking southwards.
Partly. The Criminal Justice Act 1994 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1994/ukpga_19940033_en_7#pt4-pb2-l1g60 provides for example in s60 the right to temporarily search anyone or any vehicle without suspicion if violent disorder is anticipated. The main search laws etc are in PACE, and these generally do require reasonable grounds. http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?parentActiveTextDocId=1871554&ActiveTextDocId=1871558
I could sign in any of my capacities of company director, Chartered Chemist or as a member of the BCS - most people belonging to organisations that grant postnominals by letters patent will be able to countersign.
The British people have never tolerated a register of where they live open to all officialdom - only in WW2 was it tolerated and it got kicked out shortly afterwards. Identity (of which there is a national birth register) is a totally different thing to address which is why passports have never had your address on them.
It is checked - I'm one of the people on the list of those who can countersign and I guess that about 20% of them are verified, might only be a phone call but they do check. For one guy who was coming from shall we say a country of interest they turned up with the application and wanted me to examine and confirm I had filled it all out.
You most certainly can. French national ID cards are perfectly valid and I know someone who travels on those documents regularly.
BTW My "idea" is not hilariously backwards as I never claimed that Microsoft was valueless because it doesnt make stuff. I pointed out that however other people can perceive it like that which is the point of the argument. Many people will not invest in something that appears intangible and ephemeral, regardless of how good or useful a software house can be.
South sea bubble, the Dutch Tulip craze, Railway mania, the Posiden bubble, 2007 Uranium bubble, and of course the NASDAQ in March 2000.... Wanna bet on how dumb investors really can be sometimes?
You mean in the eyes of the market, which in terms of evaluating what a company is "worth" is what counts. I never made such a claim at all - I proposed it as a theory... Software and IP etc while obviously valuable isn't something that you can get hold of.. it seems ephemeral, just ones and zeros. A company that is generally percevied to make "stuff" even if it is outsourced, is often held to be intrinsically more valuable than one that doesnt - the rights and wrongs of that are another entire debate. However I still think that people like Apple to some extent as they "make" things - there is a series of big shiny, well received boxes bought by high income people regularly. Against that Microsoft makes a few games consoles (that overheat) and a thing called the Zune that no-one really knows what it's for, apart from the fact it's a high priced failure. Now is that worth more than the deep penetration Microsoft has into the enterprise server market, the database market, the email and collaboration market, and lets not forget Office... well it's the markets... Reality is always playing second fiddle to peoples perception - that's why you get bank runs after all - not for any real reason but because herd mentality takes over.
Microsoft doesnt make anything... not real stuff. You can buy an Apple computer, but not a Microsoft one. Perhaps that has some bearing on the perceived value and owrht of the company - I'm just throwing the idea out there....
Actually the crime is committed the moment that you throw the brick provided it meets the tests in the Criminal Damage act. (assuming UK law here). By the time the glass is smashed then you have committed the offence.
UK law defines a crime as being the actual act "actus reus" and the intent "mens rea". Since he did both of those whilst in the UK, I'd say we have reason to prosecute quite legitimatly. The target is immaterial really - and for the purposes of the law to some extent it is irrelevant. People have been for example convicted of attempted murder in the UK when there was no possibility of any harm even occuring as the "person" wasnt even real so to that extent the target in the USA could be considered an abstraction.
Whilst it's undeniable I think that he did actual do it, there are a lot of people that cannot see why he should be extradited. The UK already has adaquate laws for the prosecution of the crime, and the crime was committed in the UK so it has always seemed odd to a lot of people that he should have been extradited, especially with the massive imbalance in potential sentence between the UK and US for this. I rather suspect that that imbalance is what causes many people much disquiet.
Cameron is not going to be too concerned either way one suspects, although he will probably lean towards not extraditing him. Clegg however as a hard and a fast Liberal is almost certainly going to move all that he can to ensure he is not extradited. The one person to consider though in all this is Kenneth Clarke, whos is the Justice Secretary. He has interesting views - he once called Camerons plans for a British Bill of Rights "Xenophobic and a legal nonsensity". Quite what his feelings are on the extradition - and he gets the ultimate say as Justice Minister are as yet unknown. From what little I know of him personally I suspect he would favour prosecution in the UK but for all that his views are relatively unknown.
The Nazi's were also nationalists... National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbieterpartei. The were nationalist in that they beleived in their inherent national supremacy but were socialist within that particualr group. A mix of both ends of the political spectrum lead to a very unhappy merging of the worst excesses of each.
Like almost any chemistry or physics graduate in the UK I'm effectively a walking compilation of "information likely to be of use to a terrorist". I mean it's not hard - any competent physics grad can be assured of making a really big crater with 100% reliability if you actually got given the raw material. Chemists can make smaller, but still impressive craters and can make the raw materiel themselves from a variety of sources. Just thinking off the top of my head I could probably synthesise a good half dozen chemical agents from stuff in the house and car. I suspect I'm not the only one. So what do I do now the UK govt has decided that for us to be legal we should get a lobotomy? Well we firstly voted in a more sensible Govt than the hideously invasive and illiberal mob that we used to have. Secondly - I don't go round with the intent to actually use this knowledge, at least not for bad stuff. These white supremacists were not jailed for owning/downloading the anarchists cook books - they were not really jailed for making a piss poor chemical weapon (please - enough ricin to kill just *nine* people? You could do much more damage with a burning cross and firebombing the church). They were jailed for desiring and starting to carry out acts to commit terror - the anarchists cookbook is a mere sideshow, a bagateulle, it's nothing. The intent, proved by the actions was what got these people nailed - everything esle is just froth and oam
But what was just described wasnt at all implausible. In the early 1930's the Jews of Germany were happy to complete the cencus that had a box marked for religion. in 1933 some Austrian managed to get himself installed as Chancellor. Within five years we had had Kristellnacht and then those same census forms were used to start rounding up and ghettoising the Jewish, and other "undesirable" populations. Go back to 1999 and the new milennium - would anyone in the West have imagined that within 2 years we would be figthing a pair of major bush wars in 2 other countries, and be missing a couple of skyscrapers just 2 years later on? If I'd had some official document floating about that marked me as "Muslim" accessible to a lot of people I'd be worried for myself as well even though I had done nothing wrong.
Not since a while back it isn't - Elizabeth Windsor holds her regnancies seperately and Canada hasn't been subject to anything like British rule for about a century. All that there was, and which was abolished in the late 20c was the recourse to the House of Lords for certain esoteric legal appeals. Personally I hope the EU loses this one - Canada has a lot better IP laws than the EU or US.
HE never made Parliament sadly. At least this one entered it with honest intentions... http://order-order.com/
Sadly they don't know - the people in question hardly kept accurate records, and Tmobile obviously ener audited their systems correctly. Beside I don't want to sue them. I cannot easily quantify the monetary loss, and I dont want to substitute my time for money, which is ultmatley what it's about. The ICO and DPP are the people to go after them to stop them in future. You could say that keeping my acocunt with them is the safest of all since they will be uber hot on being secure now, but I dont like to reward mediocrity and ineptness. I just hope that the company that gets my business pays attention and realises if they are not careful they will be next.
Let me see - millions of records stolen. I'm sure that they didnt need access to all of them and the mechanism to stop them is not exactly difficult. Sorry you find it so. To use the waiter analogy, I dont expect them after taking my order to tell me whate veryone else has ordered now do I? As for some cracker getting in yes I would blame them. The same way I'd expect to be blamed if someone get in my systems. But then again I'm in the security and storing information securely business myself, so I have somewhat high standards. I'm sorry you have lower ones.
A waiter getting an order wrong is no big deal. It's easily corrected. Mind you if he included peanuts in the order then I'd be rightly annoyed as well. Can you tell me how I take my data back from the people it was sold to? Do you know who they are? I want to stop T-mobile from having such lax systems that someone can take millions of records out in the first place. What did they do have access to CD roms and memory sticks? Does anyone not see the problem with this? Or they dont care? Or that someone doing what amounts to a SELECT ALL FROM on a database may be like possibly a bad thing? T mobile screwed the pooch and they did it bad. You do not screw about with personal data like this and just expect your customers to forgive you. The sooner that companies learn this and start actually treating personal data as it should be treated the better.