Using the ISS to hold the crew while waiting for a couple of soyouz was already in the plan for a long time. Since the shuttle has not many more flights to execute anyway, why risk valuable ground facilities (plus, of course, people) by risking to crash an already seriously damaged shuttle on them?
You forgot the part where they give you the imporved IP stack that allow them (or any any pirate in a couple of days) to spy your PC. Rootkit plague is back...
"i know that several theories... may very well have demystified the triangle"
There are a couple of facts about the triangles: -It holds a dense trafic (most of the boats from US to europe take that route because the gulf stream boosts their speed). -In that area, the gulf stream can cause fast and extreme weather changes and an unlucky crew can be trapped in a violent storm without warning. -Considering these two facts, the casualty in that area is more or less at a normal level and insurance companies do not ask sailors to avoid the area. -Most of the accident that build the myth have very few observed facts (they all predate radar and satelite coverage of the area) and the myth was built by unscrupulous reporters around the idea that we know far too well: unexplained=unexplainable=God of the gaps/aliens...
From an external point of view, the US doesn't seem to have made the good choice: *Almost anyone has "self-defense" handweapons so many children are killed by their parents' gun (and the risk of being shot is about 100 times bigger than in my country). *Any sexual reference is taboo, and then you see all those average drunk student in Cancun doing things that many pornstars here would be ashamed of. Maybe if they had a proper sexual education instead of just puritanism and hardcore...
Not accept public funding? So your're saying it's better to do reserch only on corporate funds. Everyone has his agenda, but at least research public funding primary goal was to serve common good, not the corporations who managed to have their minions elected.
Moreover, a "scientist" who do reserch only to please the one who funded him is nothing more than a mercenary, and I think the ones doing that on public funding should be sacked.
I think that in case of big disaster and the ones in the bunker are the last civilized persons around, anyone over 45 is a waste of bunker space even if he is the brighest in a critical field.
I'm a christian west european citizen and my perception is that the US administration is trying hard to get me and everyone I know killed by organizing WW3. So although I don't approve them, I can understand why so many people living in countries the US bombed, invaded or directly threatened in the last 20 years want to fight back.
There are only two efficient ways of reducing terrorism: -Stop acting as if US can always be right against everyone and can always use the lies when threat didn't work. -Totally nuke every other countries at once.
"Are you saying that's what major label musician's lives are like?"
Absolutely not, at least not for those who are not the "one in a million" I was refering to and who is the one you see on all TV to lure disposable superstar wannabes.
My uncle's band is not wanting to sign with any label because they consider it a highly probable bad move on both artistic and financial sides. Just like playing all your money on one lottery ticket that was chosen for you and still have the lottery manager keep 80% of the gain if you ever win.
Record compagnies are only good for the one in a million singer that becomes millionaire, for the other ones, the interest is far from evident.
My uncle is a professional musician in an indie rock band, they never signed any contract with a record compagny. -They keep their copyright and would kill for it, but give away a couple of songs from each album on their web page. -They work with a generic CD creation workshop (it's really cheap). -They have distribution agreements with a few groups of music stores and sell on the web and pocket more than half the retail price. -They tour a lot. In the end, their life is not endless party with coke and top models, but they make a realy decent living out of their work and still have their soul.
If suddently all the FBI agents are overwhelmed with an incredibly huge list of apparently unrelated suspicious (but ultimately bogus) call sequences to investigate, it might be the sign that the terrorists are on something and don't want any good guy around their sneakernet.
Absolutely, the world will be a happier place to live in for all us nerds without all those emo guys around. Some girls could even notice the less introvert of us.
Fusion is not a pipe dream but it won't be available as a major power source until at least 50 years, so we'll probably have to build another two generations of fission plants. To misuse a common analogy, electricity was discovered centuries before the electric bulb was invented. Trying to improve candlelight in the meantime was far from a bad idea.
Collecting relatively old USB HD to give one with 10-20 of those laptops will be usefull. 512MB of storage can be OK, but only if backed up by a shared storage (that they also could use as a public library).
can't this be done much more easily with suction instead?
Probably, but suction has also some drawbacks: *Pumping air at each step needs some energy and is probably either slow or noisy. *It doesn't work that well on porous surfaces (concrete).
The other isn't perfect either, but it's a new tech field and it sure deserve reserch, even if in the end it doesn't match the good old way for this particular hype application.
128 kbit can be a very good security, in particular if one key only protects only few data. A GSM voice com is less than 100kB/min of com, far less than Wifi and not enough to be able to guess the key for a com of a "normal" duration (less than a few monthes). In such a case, the security issue is not the key length, but wether it can be exchanged safely.
Maybe not if you are the only one buying it (in that case, you're just the average paranoid geek), but anyone buying a dozen of those will sure be interesting.
Correct me if I'm wrong (It's not my field), but the initial problem looks like the superweapon in stargate atlantis which has a field that is supposed to be strong enough but suffers random (quantic?) unstabilities at some level. And the additional signal is actually making it more stable, right?
The technique is not about preventing the gas from causing damages, but just to avoid the magnetic field leaking it in the first place. Kinda cool improvement anyway.
"Mutations are random which means evolution is random which means it isn't predictable"
It's not entirely true. Evolution is random mutation plus enviromental filtering. With weak filtering, evolution is mostly random, but here, they used a strong filter and so kept only the bacteria that matched the filter.
Natural evolution is composed of alternative phases of weak and strong filtering. In the first ones, mutations create a lot of diversity and in the second one, some mutations help their owner to be slightly less killed and are therefore more broadly spreaded to the survivors offspring.
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Using the ISS to hold the crew while waiting for a couple of soyouz was already in the plan for a long time.
Since the shuttle has not many more flights to execute anyway, why risk valuable ground facilities (plus, of course, people) by risking to crash an already seriously damaged shuttle on them?
Does any ./er read local news?
You forgot the part where they give you the imporved IP stack that allow them (or any any pirate in a couple of days) to spy your PC. Rootkit plague is back...
"i know that several theories ... may very well have demystified the triangle"
There are a couple of facts about the triangles:
-It holds a dense trafic (most of the boats from US to europe take that route because the gulf stream boosts their speed).
-In that area, the gulf stream can cause fast and extreme weather changes and an unlucky crew can be trapped in a violent storm without warning.
-Considering these two facts, the casualty in that area is more or less at a normal level and insurance companies do not ask sailors to avoid the area.
-Most of the accident that build the myth have very few observed facts (they all predate radar and satelite coverage of the area) and the myth was built by unscrupulous reporters around the idea that we know far too well: unexplained=unexplainable=God of the gaps/aliens...
From an external point of view, the US doesn't seem to have made the good choice:
*Almost anyone has "self-defense" handweapons so many children are killed by their parents' gun (and the risk of being shot is about 100 times bigger than in my country).
*Any sexual reference is taboo, and then you see all those average drunk student in Cancun doing things that many pornstars here would be ashamed of. Maybe if they had a proper sexual education instead of just puritanism and hardcore...
Not accept public funding? So your're saying it's better to do reserch only on corporate funds. Everyone has his agenda, but at least research public funding primary goal was to serve common good, not the corporations who managed to have their minions elected.
Moreover, a "scientist" who do reserch only to please the one who funded him is nothing more than a mercenary, and I think the ones doing that on public funding should be sacked.
You mean breading ability?
I think that in case of big disaster and the ones in the bunker are the last civilized persons around, anyone over 45 is a waste of bunker space even if he is the brighest in a critical field.
What safeguard are you talking about?
I'm a christian west european citizen and my perception is that the US administration is trying hard to get me and everyone I know killed by organizing WW3. So although I don't approve them, I can understand why so many people living in countries the US bombed, invaded or directly threatened in the last 20 years want to fight back.
There are only two efficient ways of reducing terrorism:
-Stop acting as if US can always be right against everyone and can always use the lies when threat didn't work.
-Totally nuke every other countries at once.
"Are you saying that's what major label musician's lives are like?"
Absolutely not, at least not for those who are not the "one in a million" I was refering to and who is the one you see on all TV to lure disposable superstar wannabes.
My uncle's band is not wanting to sign with any label because they consider it a highly probable bad move on both artistic and financial sides. Just like playing all your money on one lottery ticket that was chosen for you and still have the lottery manager keep 80% of the gain if you ever win.
Record compagnies are only good for the one in a million singer that becomes millionaire, for the other ones, the interest is far from evident.
My uncle is a professional musician in an indie rock band, they never signed any contract with a record compagny.
-They keep their copyright and would kill for it, but give away a couple of songs from each album on their web page.
-They work with a generic CD creation workshop (it's really cheap).
-They have distribution agreements with a few groups of music stores and sell on the web and pocket more than half the retail price.
-They tour a lot.
In the end, their life is not endless party with coke and top models, but they make a realy decent living out of their work and still have their soul.
If suddently all the FBI agents are overwhelmed with an incredibly huge list of apparently unrelated suspicious (but ultimately bogus) call sequences to investigate, it might be the sign that the terrorists are on something and don't want any good guy around their sneakernet.
Absolutely, the world will be a happier place to live in for all us nerds without all those emo guys around. Some girls could even notice the less introvert of us.
Fusion is not a pipe dream but it won't be available as a major power source until at least 50 years, so we'll probably have to build another two generations of fission plants.
To misuse a common analogy, electricity was discovered centuries before the electric bulb was invented. Trying to improve candlelight in the meantime was far from a bad idea.
Collecting relatively old USB HD to give one with 10-20 of those laptops will be usefull. 512MB of storage can be OK, but only if backed up by a shared storage (that they also could use as a public library).
I really agree, beside dignity issues, there truly are states worse than death. Too bad most doctors consider one more day of agony a great victory.
can't this be done much more easily with suction instead?
Probably, but suction has also some drawbacks:
*Pumping air at each step needs some energy and is probably either slow or noisy.
*It doesn't work that well on porous surfaces (concrete).
The other isn't perfect either, but it's a new tech field and it sure deserve reserch, even if in the end it doesn't match the good old way for this particular hype application.
128 kbit can be a very good security, in particular if one key only protects only few data.
A GSM voice com is less than 100kB/min of com, far less than Wifi and not enough to be able to guess the key for a com of a "normal" duration (less than a few monthes).
In such a case, the security issue is not the key length, but wether it can be exchanged safely.
Maybe not if you are the only one buying it (in that case, you're just the average paranoid geek), but anyone buying a dozen of those will sure be interesting.
Correct me if I'm wrong (It's not my field), but the initial problem looks like the superweapon in stargate atlantis which has a field that is supposed to be strong enough but suffers random (quantic?) unstabilities at some level. And the additional signal is actually making it more stable, right?
The technique is not about preventing the gas from causing damages, but just to avoid the magnetic field leaking it in the first place. Kinda cool improvement anyway.
There was a Lenovo desktop ad on top of the page. Do they want to bug /.ers too?
"There's no ceremony, no initiation, no certification, license, or birthright to become a member of the press"
So this is the ceremony that gives the White House team the right to ignore constitution?
No, actually, there is a typo in the summary.
Not only they will pirate windows, but they will pirate the HW too.
"Mutations are random which means evolution is random which means it isn't predictable"
It's not entirely true. Evolution is random mutation plus enviromental filtering. With weak filtering, evolution is mostly random, but here, they used a strong filter and so kept only the bacteria that matched the filter.
Natural evolution is composed of alternative phases of weak and strong filtering. In the first ones, mutations create a lot of diversity and in the second one, some mutations help their owner to be slightly less killed and are therefore more broadly spreaded to the survivors offspring.