The article discusses this option, and actually finds it the most satisfying explanation. -
A third scenario says the pulsar may be part of a triple, not a double, star system. In this case, the pulsar's 95-day orbit is around a neutron star or white dwarf, not the Sun-like star seen in the infrared image. The Sun-like star would then be in a more-distant orbit around the pulsar and its close companion Most certainly a quite intriguing possibility.
Why precisely would you need to clear land to grow algae? Ok, corn, switchgrass - yea you gotta clear land to grow those things - but algae doesn't quite work the same way.
Alright, good point. I do believe my friends would send me some genuinely horrible stuff. I think i wouldn't let them in on the email address for the thing.
But, in the end, the Air Force wants to see all kinds of "techniques and technologies" to "Deceive, Deny, Disrupt, Degrade, [or] Destroy" hostile systems. And "in addition to these main concepts," the Research Lab would like to see studies into "Proactive Botnet Defense Technology Development," the "reinvent[ion of] the network protocol stack" and new antennas, based on carbon nanotubes. To me it sounds like somebody thought they were extra smart over at the AF - came up with a metric assload of buzzwords to tell their management and asked for money. It looks like they got 11 mil out of it and nothing will ever be heard from this again. - worst than a money sink this is more likely to be a black hole for money.
Moreover this is a monumentally idiotic idea - 1) there is virtually 0 chance of implimentation 2) there are too many people out here who are smart enough to code there way out of anything the AirForce might attempt to implement 3) just how do they plan on getting root access to my box? I mean honestly - 11 Million dollars isn't going to cover the cost of getting to root on my little home computer - how precisely do they plan on getting root on every single server and home PC?
They are going to have to put in a chip in every single piece of hardware shipping out of every single manufacturer. That would be the only way to get something of this magnitude to work. Somehow I don't see all the manufactures and consumers getting on board with this. Any software solution to this would face too much trouble - I for one am not willing to let the government take cycles away for good or evil use. Its just not a good idea. 11 Million could probably go to better use elsewhere.
This is an excellent point - I got an email recently that a lost laptop in our company generally has > 80k in IP and stuff on it that we don't want falling into the wrong hands. I would most certainly need a water tight NDA signed before I could let customs go through what I have on my work laptop. Of course - it seems that the best solution would be a hardware encrypted HDD - asking for a password before it will boot into any OS or read anything from the HDD with some sort of RSA on it so you wouldn't know the password without the RSA key - ship the key before you go.
Somehow I still don't think those over 65 would know what the internet without government control would be like. You mean, no goatse? On another note, i bet thats how they did this survey - they showed 100 random people on the street goatse, then asked if they thought the government should keep that off the internet. On a related note - at least 15% of chinese should seek help.
booting faster. Instant on desktop is hard to beat in boot times! Which raises a question - How are we going to compare boot times with 0 boot time? How long does this splashtop actually take to load? Is it really instant on or just really fast? What can we expect coming down the pipeline? I would like to see a hybrid where most of what you need for an OS is stored in flash but if you need access to a program on the disk, you can get it.
Because even though people will now have the option of booting into an instant on linux desktop - 99% will wait 10 minutes to get into vista just to check their email and play on the internet anyway.
a number of people leaving a Tunbridge Wells pub one night reported seeing a strange craft "with red and green" lights, according to the released documents.
Asked by police where the object seemed to be traveling, the pub crawlers said it appeared to be heading for London's Gatwick Airport. It didn't take a scientist to figure out it was a commercial plane making a routine approach.
No need to flame, the french like their small independent booksellers and they moved to protect them. I don't think anyone really believes that any document standard is evil, it was the process of getting everyone to agree on one or the other that bothered me. It looked to me like MS just bought the commission so it could continue its monopoly.
Microsoft insisted that it is "deeply committed" to education and interoperability. More schools are upgrading to Windows Vista and Office 2007 as they recognize the benefit of "embracing technology to transform teaching and learning," I'm not sure I want teaching to get transformed like this. It doesn't sound pleasant.
Building crap just because selfish rich people are wasteful enough to make you wealthy providing them with useless toys is nothing to be proud of. - But it is the American way!
A brief note on transfer functions and linearity - yes if you had access to the visual transform they are using to blur the faces you most certainly could un-blur them - assuming the transform is linear or could be roughly estimated to be linear. Of course to do that - you would need to find all the faces and the while facial recognition software has come a long way I don't think there is anything out there good enough to pick up blurred faces
The Article is mostly about how yes, you can opt out, but you have to go to their site, send them an unencrypted form with all your personal information, and download and keep a "privacy cookie" so that the company knows not to track you, and not to insert ads. My question - If anyone other than an ISP did this, it would be illegal right? Can I start going around injecting ads to make me revenue from other peoples original works? Being an ISP doesn't give them any special privilege to infringe on copyright laws right? If they go through with this, and it stands, I'm going to do it too.
What makes you think that the phone is the primary market for this - intel makes the WiMax chips, they are part of this too. I bet we start to see peripherals for laptops and desktops to get this into the home as well as mobile. hell, get some of these in your car / navigation device - its broadband access to your music on the road. Put em anywhere you want broadband access - the infrastructure is expensive but the chips aren't.
(whereas they, especially as a group, pay a higher percentage of taxes on their income and pay for a majority of government spending) Well, for 1) Capital gains is ~ 15% - I pay > 25% and I am far from the top quintile. Additionally, the argument breaks down eventually because it is in the high income earners best interest to bear the vast majority of the tax burden. 1) They can generally afford it 2) It is most definitely in their best interest to maintain a healthy, mobile workforce in the country they live in - in order to maintain that workforce, there must be social safety nets, and the workforce needs to be educated. Perhaps the tax burden is unduly hard on the rich, do you suggest further taxing the poor/middle class to balance the budget?
Pretax and Aftertax - the numbers posted there are not even close to accurate - at least not for last year or this year. I payed taxes on my income both years, and net after federal before state tax was vastly different than stated in the table (my income happens to be one of the quintile marks). There is > 10% discrepancy between the stated tax % and what I had withheld. That's without including Social Security, or Medicare tax too.
I'm waiting for the first company to put a data center a few hundred feet under water, - thats just silly, It would be far more efficient to pump water to cool the servers, pump it through a heat exchanger then use the hot water for, well hot water. Even server farms need hot running water.
teh Matrix. The marketing guys told us the matrix sounded scary and suspiciously close to something people heard in math class. It has been renamed the cloud - fluffy, pretty, sometimes looking like ducks or the virgin mary - for the public benifit.
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Why precisely would you need to clear land to grow algae? Ok, corn, switchgrass - yea you gotta clear land to grow those things - but algae doesn't quite work the same way.
Alright, good point. I do believe my friends would send me some genuinely horrible stuff. I think i wouldn't let them in on the email address for the thing.
Um, mind if I ask why that doesn't sound like a good idea? You email your chumby a picture, and it displays it. Am I missing something?
Moreover this is a monumentally idiotic idea -
1) there is virtually 0 chance of implimentation
2) there are too many people out here who are smart enough to code there way out of anything the AirForce might attempt to implement
3) just how do they plan on getting root access to my box? I mean honestly - 11 Million dollars isn't going to cover the cost of getting to root on my little home computer - how precisely do they plan on getting root on every single server and home PC?
They are going to have to put in a chip in every single piece of hardware shipping out of every single manufacturer. That would be the only way to get something of this magnitude to work. Somehow I don't see all the manufactures and consumers getting on board with this. Any software solution to this would face too much trouble - I for one am not willing to let the government take cycles away for good or evil use. Its just not a good idea. 11 Million could probably go to better use elsewhere.
This is an excellent point - I got an email recently that a lost laptop in our company generally has > 80k in IP and stuff on it that we don't want falling into the wrong hands. I would most certainly need a water tight NDA signed before I could let customs go through what I have on my work laptop. Of course - it seems that the best solution would be a hardware encrypted HDD - asking for a password before it will boot into any OS or read anything from the HDD with some sort of RSA on it so you wouldn't know the password without the RSA key - ship the key before you go.
On another note, i bet thats how they did this survey - they showed 100 random people on the street goatse, then asked if they thought the government should keep that off the internet. On a related note - at least 15% of chinese should seek help.
Someone has grossly misinformed you about the nature of my bubbles sir.
Because even though people will now have the option of booting into an instant on linux desktop - 99% will wait 10 minutes to get into vista just to check their email and play on the internet anyway.
No need to flame, the french like their small independent booksellers and they moved to protect them.
I don't think anyone really believes that any document standard is evil, it was the process of getting everyone to agree on one or the other that bothered me. It looked to me like MS just bought the commission so it could continue its monopoly.
A brief note on transfer functions and linearity - yes if you had access to the visual transform they are using to blur the faces you most certainly could un-blur them - assuming the transform is linear or could be roughly estimated to be linear. Of course to do that - you would need to find all the faces and the while facial recognition software has come a long way I don't think there is anything out there good enough to pick up blurred faces
The Article is mostly about how yes, you can opt out, but you have to go to their site, send them an unencrypted form with all your personal information, and download and keep a "privacy cookie" so that the company knows not to track you, and not to insert ads. My question - If anyone other than an ISP did this, it would be illegal right? Can I start going around injecting ads to make me revenue from other peoples original works? Being an ISP doesn't give them any special privilege to infringe on copyright laws right? If they go through with this, and it stands, I'm going to do it too.
What makes you think that the phone is the primary market for this - intel makes the WiMax chips, they are part of this too. I bet we start to see peripherals for laptops and desktops to get this into the home as well as mobile. hell, get some of these in your car / navigation device - its broadband access to your music on the road. Put em anywhere you want broadband access - the infrastructure is expensive but the chips aren't.
I just don't see how were ever going to eat this much Soylent Green!
Additionally, the argument breaks down eventually because it is in the high income earners best interest to bear the vast majority of the tax burden. 1) They can generally afford it
2) It is most definitely in their best interest to maintain a healthy, mobile workforce in the country they live in - in order to maintain that workforce, there must be social safety nets, and the workforce needs to be educated.
Perhaps the tax burden is unduly hard on the rich, do you suggest further taxing the poor/middle class to balance the budget?
Pretax and Aftertax - the numbers posted there are not even close to accurate - at least not for last year or this year. I payed taxes on my income both years, and net after federal before state tax was vastly different than stated in the table (my income happens to be one of the quintile marks). There is > 10% discrepancy between the stated tax % and what I had withheld. That's without including Social Security, or Medicare tax too.