I've never tried mixing explosives before, but I know peroxide is easier to get than these articles let on. Sure you can't buy it at the drug store, but walk into the local hair salon supply store and buy developer. 40vol% hydrogen peroxide - sure it's not as pure as the stuff sitting in my lab, but I bet it'll do for your homemade explosives.
I've actually played with some of this stuff (I know the people who developed this, and by the way, there's no hyphen in Delaware, despite what BusinessWeek thinks) and yes, I don't see why they couldn't make butchers' gloves out of it. One of the easy demos they do is give you an ice pick and two pieces of kevlar and ask you to puncture each sheet. You can stab the ice pick through the normal kevlar but not through the shear-thickening fluid treated one. That should provide some protection against sudden knife slips that butchers might experience.
No this is just what happens on those horribly slow days before a Tuesday holiday (for us in the US). Most of the people are on vacation already, making it a 4 day weekend, and the rest are just wasting time until they can skip out early (to watch the new Superman movie).
You say the story has been surfacing periodically before... any examples of that in a peer-reviewed journal?
I skimmed the actual article (in Astrophysics and Space Science which is 13 pages long so won't be copied here) and he basically suggests a couple hypothesis that don't work, i.e. dust, pollen, fungal spores etc. The fact that the cells look like biological cells but have no trace of DNA/RNA is the oddity. If it is terrestrial in origin, then it's something never seen before. Or his tests are wrong. Others are working to verify his results.
From the BBC article the max sentence would be 70 years in jail. Big difference between 5 years and 70. Hopefully the BBC is wrong in this case; nosing around an unprotected network doesn't deserve more time than killing some one.
It was originally 1:3000 but "further observations and calculations have prompted the risk on that day to be upgraded to 'a bit less than 1 in 1,000.'"
Great reading of TFA
Let us not even get into the issues with software such as photoshop licenses, since you are now no longer in control of the license due to the student being the owner of the computer. You will effectively be requiring the students to need to purchase a full license of photoshop or AutoCAD or Mathmatica for their own use since there will no longer be any school operated systems which they can gain access to the programs. This is adding several thousands of dollars of cost burden onto all students, many of who may decide that they do not like graphics art and change to become an english major or some other major that will never use a full version of photoshop, which means they just wasted all that money.
Not quite right. It's still very possible for the university to have a site license, removing the need for the students to purchase all software. My undergraduate college (RPI) switched to laptops in 1999 (trial program in the 98-99 year) and they supplied access to the CAD program (ProEngineer or SolidWorks, they switched at some point). No student had to spend several hundred dollars for it, you just had to have access to the school's network to run the program. I'm sure similar things could be done with graphic software.
So we have toxic sludge as an output, but I'm wondering about the stuff that gets vaporized along with the water. Vaporizing water isn't going to remove many chemicals, especially not those that are more volatile than water.
I don't know about you, but at the airport my wallet & keys generally go into the handy plastic basket that goes around the metal detector. I don't foresee any problems with metal detectors. Now being labelled a huge nerd... I can't argue with that.
Creative's patent was applied for in 2001, before the iPod's debut later that same year. Creative says they used that system in earlier mp3 players as well. So no, there is no prior art from Apple.
The professors and students were unnamed, according to the article, so that would mitigate some severity in my book. Saying "Professor XXX is an ass" is worse than saying "I have a professor who's an ass", at least in my mind.
Also, the "co-director of Marquette's Ethics and Professionalism curriculum, determined that the postings did not justify disciplinary action". So if the person in charge of ethics and professionalism said it was "imprudent, immature and oftentimes distasteful" but "it doesn't make these entries unethical or immoral" then who said it did violate professionalism? When a co-director of ethics's opinion on a matter of ethics is brushed aside, it sounds more like the matter has little to do with ethics and more that some one at the univerisity was looking for an excuse to punish the student.
Users will be able to view the material for 24 hours once they begin playback on their computers; once downloaded, the material will be stored on the user's computer for 30 days to act as a resource in the Peer Impact network
Let me get this straight. I can only watch it for 24 hours but it'll remain on my harddrive for 30 days, 29 of which it is inaccessible to me? Sounds like I should be charging NBC a rental fee.
Do these guys need to work on their copy, or what? 3.2 GHz is impressive, but hardly "three desktop computers"
That seems pretty powerful to me. The desktop I'm currently sitting at has only one 2.6GHz processor. Three 3.2GHz processors would be more than three times the power of what I'm using.
A Clockwork Orange is often mentioned in references to "ultra-violence" and some could say it started the idea of ultra-violence, yet no one talks of regulating it. Nor should they. Most games that fall under the proposed guidelines aren't that bad and shouldn't be regulated as if they were spawn of the devil.
PA and New Jersey have the same deal worked out. I worked one summer in NJ but PA taxed me. Now, however, I work in Delaware, to which I pay taxes but still have PA residence. I end up paying non-resident tax to DE but then claiming those taxes as a deduction on my PA return, so the money isn't taxed twice.
This makes sense to me and I figured it was applied elsewhere. I guess it's not.
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I've never tried mixing explosives before, but I know peroxide is easier to get than these articles let on. Sure you can't buy it at the drug store, but walk into the local hair salon supply store and buy developer. 40vol% hydrogen peroxide - sure it's not as pure as the stuff sitting in my lab, but I bet it'll do for your homemade explosives.
I've actually played with some of this stuff (I know the people who developed this, and by the way, there's no hyphen in Delaware, despite what BusinessWeek thinks) and yes, I don't see why they couldn't make butchers' gloves out of it. One of the easy demos they do is give you an ice pick and two pieces of kevlar and ask you to puncture each sheet. You can stab the ice pick through the normal kevlar but not through the shear-thickening fluid treated one. That should provide some protection against sudden knife slips that butchers might experience.
No this is just what happens on those horribly slow days before a Tuesday holiday (for us in the US). Most of the people are on vacation already, making it a 4 day weekend, and the rest are just wasting time until they can skip out early (to watch the new Superman movie).
You say the story has been surfacing periodically before... any examples of that in a peer-reviewed journal? I skimmed the actual article (in Astrophysics and Space Science which is 13 pages long so won't be copied here) and he basically suggests a couple hypothesis that don't work, i.e. dust, pollen, fungal spores etc. The fact that the cells look like biological cells but have no trace of DNA/RNA is the oddity. If it is terrestrial in origin, then it's something never seen before. Or his tests are wrong. Others are working to verify his results.
That would be the Johnstown Flood tax and it was passed in 1936. Here's the PA Restaurants lobbying for a better alcohol taxes and giving a bit more info.
From the BBC article the max sentence would be 70 years in jail. Big difference between 5 years and 70. Hopefully the BBC is wrong in this case; nosing around an unprotected network doesn't deserve more time than killing some one.
Are they referring to their server? 5 minutes after the link arrived on /. and I already get a timeout error.
It was originally 1:3000 but "further observations and calculations have prompted the risk on that day to be upgraded to 'a bit less than 1 in 1,000.'"
Great reading of TFA
Not quite right. It's still very possible for the university to have a site license, removing the need for the students to purchase all software. My undergraduate college (RPI) switched to laptops in 1999 (trial program in the 98-99 year) and they supplied access to the CAD program (ProEngineer or SolidWorks, they switched at some point). No student had to spend several hundred dollars for it, you just had to have access to the school's network to run the program. I'm sure similar things could be done with graphic software.
So we have toxic sludge as an output, but I'm wondering about the stuff that gets vaporized along with the water. Vaporizing water isn't going to remove many chemicals, especially not those that are more volatile than water.
I don't know about you, but at the airport my wallet & keys generally go into the handy plastic basket that goes around the metal detector. I don't foresee any problems with metal detectors. Now being labelled a huge nerd... I can't argue with that.
Creative's patent was applied for in 2001, before the iPod's debut later that same year. Creative says they used that system in earlier mp3 players as well. So no, there is no prior art from Apple.
Also, the "co-director of Marquette's Ethics and Professionalism curriculum, determined that the postings did not justify disciplinary action". So if the person in charge of ethics and professionalism said it was "imprudent, immature and oftentimes distasteful" but "it doesn't make these entries unethical or immoral" then who said it did violate professionalism? When a co-director of ethics's opinion on a matter of ethics is brushed aside, it sounds more like the matter has little to do with ethics and more that some one at the univerisity was looking for an excuse to punish the student.
Let me get this straight. I can only watch it for 24 hours but it'll remain on my harddrive for 30 days, 29 of which it is inaccessible to me? Sounds like I should be charging NBC a rental fee.
That seems pretty powerful to me. The desktop I'm currently sitting at has only one 2.6GHz processor. Three 3.2GHz processors would be more than three times the power of what I'm using.
A Clockwork Orange is often mentioned in references to "ultra-violence" and some could say it started the idea of ultra-violence, yet no one talks of regulating it. Nor should they. Most games that fall under the proposed guidelines aren't that bad and shouldn't be regulated as if they were spawn of the devil.
PA and New Jersey have the same deal worked out. I worked one summer in NJ but PA taxed me. Now, however, I work in Delaware, to which I pay taxes but still have PA residence. I end up paying non-resident tax to DE but then claiming those taxes as a deduction on my PA return, so the money isn't taxed twice.
This makes sense to me and I figured it was applied elsewhere. I guess it's not.