Sounds like you never boarded a plane pre 9/11. Duh..
Domestic flights in USA had zero security until after the event. You could literally walk to the airport, show your ID once at the check-in (if even then), proceed to walk to the gate, casually flash the boarding pass (no it was not ran through any machines) and board the plane. There were no metal detectors, no security personnell on the lookout, nothing. It was literally like getting on a bus (which nowadays has probably more security than airplanes back then).
Most shockingly, once you had a boarding pass, nobody cared about your id nor did they want to check you further. You could've given the boarding pass to anyone and they could've just walked in and boarded the plane. Of course as with everything, this varied depending on the location, but that was how things worked at the Philadelphia International Airport, among few other ones back then. Had they made an even half assed attempt at running people through metal detectors and x-raying their belongings, chances are that few of them would've gotten caught and rest might have given up.
International flights from USA, however, had standard security. By standard I mean having your baggage x-rayed, walking through a metal detector, etc. However, people were really casual about it and anyone clever enough could have gotten past them as well. So absolutely the hijackers used domestic flights because of this very reason. Chances of getting caught with international flights were just that much greater.
As an interesting parallel in Europe, it was at this very time when European countries were working on abolishing passport checks and talking about even not requiring an ID to get on a plane or having to walk through a metal detector. Not surprisingly those plans were quickly reversed.
Apparently YOU haven't heard that MIT is one of the few schools that actually gives full need based financial support for foreign students also!
You can apply in as a foreign national, and if you get admitted in, have your visa processed with relative ease, get all your expenses paid for (if necessary) and be in the country legally attending one of the best schools around.
Pretty much any investment bank on Wall St. is going to hire you straight off and give you about 3 years head start on the salary curve compared to BS and MBAs. Phd with knowledge of stochastic calculus of variations is exactly the kind of mathematical background that these people are looking at. Expect a six figure starting salary before bonus. Hours may be a little long (but so would they be in academia) but given your background you should be able to get in the research side translating to a less stressfull job. Especially in company like G-S this would be close to an academic environment (well as close to it as you can get in wall st. anyway).
Yeh. The reports I heard from se-asia were that the quake there was around 8.9. Vertical movement in the bottom of the sea was on the order of 10-30 meters. Displacing such a huge mass of water has rather far reaching effects. The curious aspect of a tidal wave such as this is that it can be literally less than foot in amplitude while in deep sea (thus being virtually undetectable on its own) and only once it reaches more shallow waters it starts rising.
Another nasty side-effect of a meteor crashing on earth is that it might trigger earthquakes elsewhere around earth. Faultlines with tension already built up might just be triggered. Nevertheless, ocean is literally the worst place on earth for a meteor to hit. Somewhere in the middle of nowhere in siberia, sahara, gobi, australia or alaska would have the least effects.
You seem to have no clue of the kind of destruction that tidal waves are capable of. Maybe a quick glance at what is going on around Indian ocean right now would provide some frame of reference. Widespread destruction around a region spanning thousands of miles.
Today's quake right outside of sumatra essentially leveled all the coastal areas around the indian ocean with water causing massive destruction several miles inland. And the resulting tidal waves were "only" 5 meters high as they reached the shore. (there is a direct mathematical relation as a function of the depth of ocean outside the shore). Good luck living few minutes off the coast of the affected water body.
It is quite possible that an earthquake off the coast of Africa could cause huge tidal waves and massive destruction in south america. A direct hit in the middle of atlantic would devastate a lot of the coastal cities around eastern coast of u.s. and western europe. Of course the size of meteor would matter a lot but even something that is comparable to an earthquake around 9-10 on richter scale would change the world as you know it.
Well Microsoft has about $60B, $16B of which is directly in cash or cash equivalent. Dunno if they have some sort of vault back in Redmond, but that money has got to reside somewhere. Check here for more details.
Maybe it would make sense to use internal non-routed addresses for managing the access points..
Oh well, I tend to just ask for an ip-address for just about anything since we have a whole A-class to choose from at my school.. Nice having something like 1/250 of the whole world's ip addresses essentially for pick (well, they do segment it around campus).
Like I said.. "unless they start disrupting the network operations." Windows worms fall under this category.
In my experience, unless you're running kazaa with a high volume of uploads (some people still don't disable the uploads) or are spreading worms from your computer, they do not care. In either of these cases they generally tend to disable the network drop in your room (works for I/S ran places like most of the dorms, but not fraternities).
Generic worm patterns are relatively easy to detect but anything more complicated will go unnoticed for sure.. If somebody roots your linux box nothing is going to happen unless that particular box begins to misbehave in disruptive ways.
Umm.. most of the.mit.edu computers are students' own dorm room computers. Mit doesn't care what people do with them unless they start disrupting the network operations.
It is a pretty good deal with a fixed ip address, your own mit-domain name and a direct hookup without any extra firewalls or nats. I know I like mine. However, smarter than average kids do not necessarily good sys admins make. A hack on an "mit"-computer seems to enjoy questionable prestige especially in asia even though nobody ever hacks the university's computers.. just random people's personal ones. What's so great about defacing some bio-major's laptop..
Moving parts within the car can generate a potential difference for the car shell with respect to the ground. Generally cars would have anything metallic connected together so that this would neutralize itself but it is still a possibility. Since cars are on rubber tires, this generally does not discharge very well (ever touched a car and gotten a shock?).
Now, suppose you open the gas door and bring in the hose with the metallic and grounded nozzle. Within a split-second any excess charge will disappear and if the potential difference between ground and car shell was big enough there might be a spark. Not necessarily a huge problem with an empty tank, but suppose that you have the engine running all the time and you pull the grounded nozzle off it after fueling when there are all sorts of fumes around and the tank is full. A spark might occur for similar reasons(if the potential difference builds up quick enough as you're pulling the nozzle away). Chances are that with modern cars this is not a problem but you do not want to chance it.
Yes, cell-phones are quite likely not dangerous at gas stations but turning your car off is still a good idea.
You do know that USA is quite a bit more densely populated than Sweden, don't you? As a matter of fact the population density in USA is 45% greater than Sweden!
Btw.. What you are describing is a monopoly (which is the case in usa) and not a free market. In a truly free market we would have prices that are no higher than the actual cost of providing the service, anything else is reflective of monopoly power.
So ironically we have a fundamentally socialist country here providing a more economically sensible alternative than the home of capitalism can..
You should try vertu then. These are cell-phones with military-quality components that really only concentrate on making phone calls (no extra bells and whistles).
For instance, instead of using a crappy 10c filter they would use a $5 filter, other components similarily. You're gonna be paying $8K for their cheapest offerings but quality is definitely there.
Target group is mostly people who buy rolexes but at least you can't complain that there isn't a such a phone. Can I have the kingdom now?
Heheh.. and imagine when the first write-speed is 1x, measured similarily as with cd's (realtime music playback) or dvd's (realtime video playback). It will take a lifetime just to record it..:-)
And then you can also consider that Bush is asking for $401.7 billion in defense spending for 2005... puts things into perspective doesn't it. That, btw. accounts for abt. 3.6% of US GDP.
It doesn't much matter what branch of the govt uses it. At the end of the day the Gov't controls around 1/4 of the nation GDP. It controls how and where that's spent.
Close, but not quite. In 2001 government spending accounted for 18% of the GDP. It is true that by choices of fiscal policy it can affect a significantly greater portion of that but just as direct spending it really is less than a fifth. But maybe the recent increases in offense^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H defense spending have increased this portion and you're closer to reality..
It is all a matter of definitions.. The usual definition is that weight is the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity. For instance, when drawing free body diagrams you do not take into account things like buoyance when marking the weight. Those are marked separately and then the overall force, more appropriately the apparent weight, will be lesser.. Also, molding the steel into a form that displaces an equal amount of air as feathers wouldn't be too hard either. It would just need to have a vacuum inside..
This should actually be modded funny.. for those of you who don't get it, type "convert -40c to f" in google. in other news, a lot of people consider a pound of steel to weigh more than a pound of feathers..
In the name of being fair and balanced I'll agree to that phrase working both ways. And there are a lot of really nice girls at mit too. It just so happens that a lot of them are very much academically focused.
Btw. Wellesley-MIT Frat connection is further strengthened by the fact that all frats rent rooms out to Wellesley girls over the summer - almost exclusively.
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Sounds like you never boarded a plane pre 9/11. Duh..
Domestic flights in USA had zero security until after the event. You could literally walk to the airport, show your ID once at the check-in (if even then), proceed to walk to the gate, casually flash the boarding pass (no it was not ran through any machines) and board the plane. There were no metal detectors, no security personnell on the lookout, nothing. It was literally like getting on a bus (which nowadays has probably more security than airplanes back then).
Most shockingly, once you had a boarding pass, nobody cared about your id nor did they want to check you further. You could've given the boarding pass to anyone and they could've just walked in and boarded the plane. Of course as with everything, this varied depending on the location, but that was how things worked at the Philadelphia International Airport, among few other ones back then. Had they made an even half assed attempt at running people through metal detectors and x-raying their belongings, chances are that few of them would've gotten caught and rest might have given up.
International flights from USA, however, had standard security. By standard I mean having your baggage x-rayed, walking through a metal detector, etc. However, people were really casual about it and anyone clever enough could have gotten past them as well. So absolutely the hijackers used domestic flights because of this very reason. Chances of getting caught with international flights were just that much greater.
As an interesting parallel in Europe, it was at this very time when European countries were working on abolishing passport checks and talking about even not requiring an ID to get on a plane or having to walk through a metal detector. Not surprisingly those plans were quickly reversed.
Not only that, but top feed is slashdot. This is surreal!
Apparently YOU haven't heard that MIT is one of the few schools that actually gives full need based financial support for foreign students also!
You can apply in as a foreign national, and if you get admitted in, have your visa processed with relative ease, get all your expenses paid for (if necessary) and be in the country legally attending one of the best schools around.
Pretty much any investment bank on Wall St. is going to hire you straight off and give you about 3 years head start on the salary curve compared to BS and MBAs. Phd with knowledge of stochastic calculus of variations is exactly the kind of mathematical background that these people are looking at. Expect a six figure starting salary before bonus. Hours may be a little long (but so would they be in academia) but given your background you should be able to get in the research side translating to a less stressfull job. Especially in company like G-S this would be close to an academic environment (well as close to it as you can get in wall st. anyway).
Yeh. The reports I heard from se-asia were that the quake there was around 8.9. Vertical movement in the bottom of the sea was on the order of 10-30 meters. Displacing such a huge mass of water has rather far reaching effects. The curious aspect of a tidal wave such as this is that it can be literally less than foot in amplitude while in deep sea (thus being virtually undetectable on its own) and only once it reaches more shallow waters it starts rising.
Another nasty side-effect of a meteor crashing on earth is that it might trigger earthquakes elsewhere around earth. Faultlines with tension already built up might just be triggered. Nevertheless, ocean is literally the worst place on earth for a meteor to hit. Somewhere in the middle of nowhere in siberia, sahara, gobi, australia or alaska would have the least effects.
You seem to have no clue of the kind of destruction that tidal waves are capable of. Maybe a quick glance at what is going on around Indian ocean right now would provide some frame of reference. Widespread destruction around a region spanning thousands of miles.
Today's quake right outside of sumatra essentially leveled all the coastal areas around the indian ocean with water causing massive destruction several miles inland. And the resulting tidal waves were "only" 5 meters high as they reached the shore. (there is a direct mathematical relation as a function of the depth of ocean outside the shore). Good luck living few minutes off the coast of the affected water body.
It is quite possible that an earthquake off the coast of Africa could cause huge tidal waves and massive destruction in south america. A direct hit in the middle of atlantic would devastate a lot of the coastal cities around eastern coast of u.s. and western europe. Of course the size of meteor would matter a lot but even something that is comparable to an earthquake around 9-10 on richter scale would change the world as you know it.
Well Microsoft has about $60B, $16B of which is directly in cash or cash equivalent. Dunno if they have some sort of vault back in Redmond, but that money has got to reside somewhere. Check here for more details.
Three words: half.com
Only fools pay full price and/or buy new. I saved something like over 60% on my textbooks this year. Some of them were international editions etc.
Maybe it would make sense to use internal non-routed addresses for managing the access points..
Oh well, I tend to just ask for an ip-address for just about anything since we have a whole A-class to choose from at my school.. Nice having something like 1/250 of the whole world's ip addresses essentially for pick (well, they do segment it around campus).
No, you got it wrong..
..conjecture proves you.
In Soviet Russia..
Like I said.. "unless they start disrupting the network operations." Windows worms fall under this category.
In my experience, unless you're running kazaa with a high volume of uploads (some people still don't disable the uploads) or are spreading worms from your computer, they do not care. In either of these cases they generally tend to disable the network drop in your room (works for I/S ran places like most of the dorms, but not fraternities).
Generic worm patterns are relatively easy to detect but anything more complicated will go unnoticed for sure.. If somebody roots your linux box nothing is going to happen unless that particular box begins to misbehave in disruptive ways.
Umm.. most of the .mit.edu computers are students' own dorm room computers. Mit doesn't care what people do with them unless they start disrupting the network operations.
It is a pretty good deal with a fixed ip address, your own mit-domain name and a direct hookup without any extra firewalls or nats. I know I like mine. However, smarter than average kids do not necessarily good sys admins make. A hack on an "mit"-computer seems to enjoy questionable prestige especially in asia even though nobody ever hacks the university's computers.. just random people's personal ones. What's so great about defacing some bio-major's laptop..
Moving parts within the car can generate a potential difference for the car shell with respect to the ground. Generally cars would have anything metallic connected together so that this would neutralize itself but it is still a possibility. Since cars are on rubber tires, this generally does not discharge very well (ever touched a car and gotten a shock?).
Now, suppose you open the gas door and bring in the hose with the metallic and grounded nozzle. Within a split-second any excess charge will disappear and if the potential difference between ground and car shell was big enough there might be a spark. Not necessarily a huge problem with an empty tank, but suppose that you have the engine running all the time and you pull the grounded nozzle off it after fueling when there are all sorts of fumes around and the tank is full. A spark might occur for similar reasons(if the potential difference builds up quick enough as you're pulling the nozzle away). Chances are that with modern cars this is not a problem but you do not want to chance it.
Yes, cell-phones are quite likely not dangerous at gas stations but turning your car off is still a good idea.
You do know that USA is quite a bit more densely populated than Sweden, don't you? As a matter of fact the population density in USA is 45% greater than Sweden!
Btw.. What you are describing is a monopoly (which is the case in usa) and not a free market. In a truly free market we would have prices that are no higher than the actual cost of providing the service, anything else is reflective of monopoly power.
So ironically we have a fundamentally socialist country here providing a more economically sensible alternative than the home of capitalism can..
You should try vertu then. These are cell-phones with military-quality components that really only concentrate on making phone calls (no extra bells and whistles).
For instance, instead of using a crappy 10c filter they would use a $5 filter, other components similarily. You're gonna be paying $8K for their cheapest offerings but quality is definitely there.
Target group is mostly people who buy rolexes but at least you can't complain that there isn't a such a phone. Can I have the kingdom now?
Heheh.. and imagine when the first write-speed is 1x, measured similarily as with cd's (realtime music playback) or dvd's (realtime video playback). It will take a lifetime just to record it.. :-)
And then you can also consider that Bush is asking for $401.7 billion in defense spending for 2005... puts things into perspective doesn't it. That, btw. accounts for abt. 3.6% of US GDP.
It doesn't much matter what branch of the govt uses it. At the end of the day the Gov't controls around 1/4 of the nation GDP. It controls how and where that's spent.
Close, but not quite. In 2001 government spending accounted for 18% of the GDP. It is true that by choices of fiscal policy it can affect a significantly greater portion of that but just as direct spending it really is less than a fifth. But maybe the recent increases in offense^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H defense spending have increased this portion and you're closer to reality..
It is all a matter of definitions.. The usual definition is that weight is the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity. For instance, when drawing free body diagrams you do not take into account things like buoyance when marking the weight. Those are marked separately and then the overall force, more appropriately the apparent weight, will be lesser.. Also, molding the steel into a form that displaces an equal amount of air as feathers wouldn't be too hard either. It would just need to have a vacuum inside..
This should actually be modded funny.. for those of you who don't get it, type "convert -40c to f" in google. in other news, a lot of people consider a pound of steel to weigh more than a pound of feathers..
Wow. If your grandma is suggesting you viagra I think your problems go way deeper than Bayesian misfirings..
In the name of being fair and balanced I'll agree to that phrase working both ways. And there are a lot of really nice girls at mit too. It just so happens that a lot of them are very much academically focused.
Btw. Wellesley-MIT Frat connection is further strengthened by the fact that all frats rent rooms out to Wellesley girls over the summer - almost exclusively.
Yes, odds are good, but the goods are odd.. Hence, Mit guys generally go for Wellesley girls.
At least Hahvahd's dorm looks kind of normal... This is the infamous retarded sponge at MIT.
Uh. In order to get a visa to say Russia you have to show a proof of insurance..