I believe it was tagged "censorship", not because this exhibit is being censored, but because the existence of the satellites themselves is denied. He is lifting the 'veil of censorship' to show that, yes they do. The government is not yanking his photos, but they are replying "I don't know what you are talking about" when asked about the subject of each picture.
The screenshot at http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9965381-7.html?tag=nefd.top says that the victim pays to download a 'decryptor'. Either the decryptor contacts, in real time, the extortionist (at a server location that can be linked to them), or the private key is included in the decryptor program, and should be able to be sussed out...
I'm participating in a StarOffice beta at my current company to see if we can avoid updating our Office2000 installation to Office2007 next year. Everyone I've roped into the beta has uninstalled it within 48 hours. (including me, but I re-installed it to see if I could find ways to workaround what really bugs people). The biggest headache is Excel files with charts (why the hell can't I have a chart on a separate tab in Star by default? Without having to reset background fill and size?), and extensive Visual Basic macros (will those work in 2007 anyway?). The documents and presentation stuff work fine, but the files 'look different' when first opened (although they print fine) - I think Star needs a default 'looks like MS' option for viewing mode when opening a.doc or.ppt
Bottom line is I don't see companies switching, and so individuals likely won't either
True, but if Antigua sets up the equivalent of allofmp3.com and ThePirateBay, with legitamate sounding names, is the real "Public Opinion" going to turn against them, or strongly for them?
By 'allowing to violate copyright' does that give them carte blanche to distribute said content outside their borders?
and it's getting harder and harder to find PS2 connectors on computers.
It's not hard to find a PS/2 to USB adapter. Most of the ones I have seen cost less than $20 and typically funnel 2 PS/2 connectors (mouse + keyboard) into a single USB port.
It has a large ball, multiple buttons, and can be used for long periods of time comfortably. I have used mine for years and love it. I found one on amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-TrackMan-Marble-FX- Trackball/dp/B00000JBUI, although I can't imagine the prices they are asking for it - mine cost far less than $100 when I bought it. My wife and kids don't have a problem with it either - highly recommend.
Everyone is focussing on the *removal* of fear here. TFA also mentions that when the Cdk5 is *increased* the fear reaction is increased. Can anyone see the benefits to interrogation techniques here? Do something mildly painful while jacking up the enzyme, and then you have a terrified subject cringing at the threat of a repeat action who will tell you what you ask.
the show now runs the risk of having all that RDM wanted to happen over two seasons occur in the short span of one.
Ron has said that the longer (20+ episode) seasons are a drain, and that they (the writers) lose focus in the middle somewhere. I think that he agreed to one more 22 ep season on the proviso that he had a longer time to make it, hence the extended hiatus until 2008. He is really doing 2 more 11-episode seasons, which is pretty much what he wanted... Sci-Fi channel is just not showing us the first season until much later. We will hopefully get a really tightly written, gripping, hold-onto-your-frakkin-hats ride to the end, without letdown in the middle. At least that's what I'm hoping for - we'll see in 2008 (although we'll get some sort of 2-hour 'event' 4th quarter this year...)
The town is already connected to the airport by ferry.
He wants the equivalent of "$15,849 per person in the Ketchikan Gateway Borough" to replace a seven minute ferry ride with a bridge almost as long as the Golden Gate and higher than the Brooklyn Bridge. That's a lot of ferry tolls they want us to pay for them to save 10 minutes every time they go there and back. Plus maintenance on the bridge. Maintenance on the ferry is probably done by the ferry owner (no idea if the ferry is publicly or privately operated).
I like the idea of making the primaries go one at a time in order from most to least % (of total elegable pop, not just regestered voters) turnout in the last election
No. You want the other way around, the least % turnout should go first - it will encourage participation. If the lowest turnout doesn't vote until the decision has already been made, then turnout will be even less next time around. Feedback goes the wrong way.
Imagine a world where your senator voted for what your STATE really wanted, and not for what their party line said they should
Unfortunately, then you get senators like that asshat from Alaska. He is really good at getting stuff for *his* state. The rest of the country be damned. There needs to be a balance (unfortunately I don't think that there is such a thing as a stable equilibrium in democratic politics (little d)).
It's not patenting breakpoints, per se that I can determine. It's a software breakpoint put into code pre-compile, and then you can attach a debugger later to take advantage of the hook points put into the code as void functions, but the program can run normally without a debugger attached and not crash the system (which fixes a problem evident from one of the referenced patents (Carter)). Dunno about prior art for this implementation, but breakpoints in general are not claimed in this application.
Try Space.com on the same story (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070502_mars _ice.html). for a slightly more meaty version. Evidently using data from a new bird with higher resolution combined with assumptions on effectiveness of soil insulation.
Repeating the number is fine...but not the issue
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That hex sequence has *got* to be somewhere in the hundreds of gigabytes of binary files on my workstation (none of which have anything to do with media of any kind, scientific calculations generate a *lot* of binary data). How can so short a sequence be suject to copyright? That is the "C" in DMCA, no? How can that sequence, which occurs many completely unrelated places be enforcable?
...The problem becomes when you have one of these tokens for each bank / account. The SecureID tokens are not small enough to carry more than one (I don't even like to carry the one I have). It sounds as if these may be embedded in the card, but multiple SecureID tokens would be a pain in the ass.
...can do weird things - The Jungle episode of Planet Earth the other week showed fungi infecting insects, *making them seek higher ground*, and then growing out of their dead bodies to spore anew. The behavior controlling bit was the freakiest to me - might explain the mass evacuations if it is something similar to that. I also seem to recall something a while back on/. linking to a study showing parasites 'remote controlling' host insects...
The old quote about never assigning to conspiracy that which can adequately be explained by incompetance comes to mind (Machievelli?). People are doing stupid things all the time. That being said... there is no reason that someone with deviousness in mind could not *find* the stupidity and decide to advance and take advantage of it. Use what is available - and stupidity is in rampant abundance.
Wouldn't the rotation interfere with the Benard cell formation process?
Yes. The classical derivation for Bernard cells assumes a rigid/rigid or rigid/free boundary condition. I was just assuming that there could be some interaction between the rotational period and wavenumber / horizontal wavelength (which could also explain the lack of additional cells mentioned by Goway in another reply - the cells are collapsed onto each other by the rotation. Is this truly possible? Dunno - haven't even done the back of the envelope numbers) Perhaps some interaction with the instabilities inherent in Taylor/Couette flow...It's really been too long since my last hydrodynamic stability course...
The Saturn thing Looks like a Benard cell... although they are normally seen in thin layers, not 100km deep regions - I guess 'thin' could be subjective - don't know how far across that feature is. A high thermal diffusivity or kinematic viscosity would compensate for that (look up Rayleigh number for why).
Benard cells form in a horizontal layer of fluid with warmer fluid below cooler fluid. The instability can be seen in different shapes dependent on the wave number of the most excited mode. The hexagonal cell solution was found by Christopherson (1940) 'Note on the Vibration of Membranes' - Quarterly J of Mathematics 11, 63-5, but many others exist.
...School boards make decisions on what reference materials to provide for their students all the time. They appear to be attempting to bias towards primary sources, rather than secondary/tertiary. Primary sources are generally the better place to go (unfortunately there is no primary source link in the article...so I'm stuck with rather unsatisfying hearsay...point made?).
People are generally up in arms over banned books because they limit exposure of the students to someone else's idea of 'dangerous ideas'. This, on the other hand appears to be encouraging students to know the source of their knowlege first, which is commendable - although I think that a policy of allowing access, but prohibiting reference in a paper to Wikipedia would be more effective. I often use Wikipedia as a good starting point to drill back to the primary sources.
The kneejerk 'blocking is bad' reaction may be justified, but they do have a point...just fell down on implementation
500MW will cost you about one billion dollars (can you hear the pinky?). 200MW is likely not half the cost, so we are talking several hundred million dollars. Up front. Not including fuel and maintenance costs. There are some customers that have smaller generating capacity on site, but they generally have need for more than power, say for example, chemical refineries that can use the waste heat or steam, pressure for pumping a pipeline, or other uses.
You think it's an accident that they picked the state with the lowest high school graduation rate in the country?
OK, I'll bite, not enough people know anyway. South Carolina has some horrible school districts, but I write this from the location in SC with the highest per capita concentration of engineers in the country, and home to installations or headquarters to more Fortune 500 companies than areas 5 times it's size. SC is bringing in technology and knowledge based industry to dig itself out of the hole it's found itself in, and Google is taking advantage of the likely tax breaks, and a nearby pool of talent.
Happier here than up North. (but my kids still go to private school...)
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I believe it was tagged "censorship", not because this exhibit is being censored, but because the existence of the satellites themselves is denied. He is lifting the 'veil of censorship' to show that, yes they do. The government is not yanking his photos, but they are replying "I don't know what you are talking about" when asked about the subject of each picture.
The screenshot at http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9965381-7.html?tag=nefd.top says that the victim pays to download a 'decryptor'. Either the decryptor contacts, in real time, the extortionist (at a server location that can be linked to them), or the private key is included in the decryptor program, and should be able to be sussed out...
Bottom line is I don't see companies switching, and so individuals likely won't either
By 'allowing to violate copyright' does that give them carte blanche to distribute said content outside their borders?
It's not hard to find a PS/2 to USB adapter. Most of the ones I have seen cost less than $20 and typically funnel 2 PS/2 connectors (mouse + keyboard) into a single USB port.
It has a large ball, multiple buttons, and can be used for long periods of time comfortably. I have used mine for years and love it. I found one on amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-TrackMan-Marble-FX- Trackball/dp/B00000JBUI, although I can't imagine the prices they are asking for it - mine cost far less than $100 when I bought it. My wife and kids don't have a problem with it either - highly recommend.
Everyone is focussing on the *removal* of fear here. TFA also mentions that when the Cdk5 is *increased* the fear reaction is increased. Can anyone see the benefits to interrogation techniques here? Do something mildly painful while jacking up the enzyme, and then you have a terrified subject cringing at the threat of a repeat action who will tell you what you ask.
Ron has said that the longer (20+ episode) seasons are a drain, and that they (the writers) lose focus in the middle somewhere. I think that he agreed to one more 22 ep season on the proviso that he had a longer time to make it, hence the extended hiatus until 2008. He is really doing 2 more 11-episode seasons, which is pretty much what he wanted... Sci-Fi channel is just not showing us the first season until much later. We will hopefully get a really tightly written, gripping, hold-onto-your-frakkin-hats ride to the end, without letdown in the middle. At least that's what I'm hoping for - we'll see in 2008 (although we'll get some sort of 2-hour 'event' 4th quarter this year...)
He wants the equivalent of "$15,849 per person in the Ketchikan Gateway Borough" to replace a seven minute ferry ride with a bridge almost as long as the Golden Gate and higher than the Brooklyn Bridge. That's a lot of ferry tolls they want us to pay for them to save 10 minutes every time they go there and back. Plus maintenance on the bridge. Maintenance on the ferry is probably done by the ferry owner (no idea if the ferry is publicly or privately operated).
No. You want the other way around, the least % turnout should go first - it will encourage participation. If the lowest turnout doesn't vote until the decision has already been made, then turnout will be even less next time around. Feedback goes the wrong way.
Unfortunately, then you get senators like that asshat from Alaska. He is really good at getting stuff for *his* state. The rest of the country be damned. There needs to be a balance (unfortunately I don't think that there is such a thing as a stable equilibrium in democratic politics (little d)).
I still have the nanosecond length wire she gave out at a conference years ago somewhere in the office. A spectacular woman who is missed.
It's not patenting breakpoints, per se that I can determine. It's a software breakpoint put into code pre-compile, and then you can attach a debugger later to take advantage of the hook points put into the code as void functions, but the program can run normally without a debugger attached and not crash the system (which fixes a problem evident from one of the referenced patents (Carter)). Dunno about prior art for this implementation, but breakpoints in general are not claimed in this application.
Try Space.com on the same story (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070502_mars _ice.html). for a slightly more meaty version. Evidently using data from a new bird with higher resolution combined with assumptions on effectiveness of soil insulation.
That hex sequence has *got* to be somewhere in the hundreds of gigabytes of binary files on my workstation (none of which have anything to do with media of any kind, scientific calculations generate a *lot* of binary data). How can so short a sequence be suject to copyright? That is the "C" in DMCA, no? How can that sequence, which occurs many completely unrelated places be enforcable?
...The problem becomes when you have one of these tokens for each bank / account. The SecureID tokens are not small enough to carry more than one (I don't even like to carry the one I have). It sounds as if these may be embedded in the card, but multiple SecureID tokens would be a pain in the ass.
...can do weird things - The Jungle episode of Planet Earth the other week showed fungi infecting insects, *making them seek higher ground*, and then growing out of their dead bodies to spore anew. The behavior controlling bit was the freakiest to me - might explain the mass evacuations if it is something similar to that. I also seem to recall something a while back on /. linking to a study showing parasites 'remote controlling' host insects...
Correction: Napolean (mea culpa): http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/2308
The old quote about never assigning to conspiracy that which can adequately be explained by incompetance comes to mind (Machievelli?). People are doing stupid things all the time. That being said... there is no reason that someone with deviousness in mind could not *find* the stupidity and decide to advance and take advantage of it. Use what is available - and stupidity is in rampant abundance.
Yes. The classical derivation for Bernard cells assumes a rigid/rigid or rigid/free boundary condition. I was just assuming that there could be some interaction between the rotational period and wavenumber / horizontal wavelength (which could also explain the lack of additional cells mentioned by Goway in another reply - the cells are collapsed onto each other by the rotation. Is this truly possible? Dunno - haven't even done the back of the envelope numbers) Perhaps some interaction with the instabilities inherent in Taylor/Couette flow...It's really been too long since my last hydrodynamic stability course...
Benard cells form in a horizontal layer of fluid with warmer fluid below cooler fluid. The instability can be seen in different shapes dependent on the wave number of the most excited mode. The hexagonal cell solution was found by Christopherson (1940) 'Note on the Vibration of Membranes' - Quarterly J of Mathematics 11, 63-5, but many others exist.
People are generally up in arms over banned books because they limit exposure of the students to someone else's idea of 'dangerous ideas'. This, on the other hand appears to be encouraging students to know the source of their knowlege first, which is commendable - although I think that a policy of allowing access, but prohibiting reference in a paper to Wikipedia would be more effective. I often use Wikipedia as a good starting point to drill back to the primary sources.
The kneejerk 'blocking is bad' reaction may be justified, but they do have a point...just fell down on implementation
Geolocation can get you close...
500MW will cost you about one billion dollars (can you hear the pinky?). 200MW is likely not half the cost, so we are talking several hundred million dollars. Up front. Not including fuel and maintenance costs. There are some customers that have smaller generating capacity on site, but they generally have need for more than power, say for example, chemical refineries that can use the waste heat or steam, pressure for pumping a pipeline, or other uses.
OK, I'll bite, not enough people know anyway. South Carolina has some horrible school districts, but I write this from the location in SC with the highest per capita concentration of engineers in the country, and home to installations or headquarters to more Fortune 500 companies than areas 5 times it's size. SC is bringing in technology and knowledge based industry to dig itself out of the hole it's found itself in, and Google is taking advantage of the likely tax breaks, and a nearby pool of talent.
Happier here than up North. (but my kids still go to private school...)