Comment Re:google maps have topography data? (Score 1) 115
You click on the "Terrain" option. It is not available at the highest zoom levels, "go back" a little if it stays grayed out.
Submission + - STS-135 ET to Transmit Video During Re-Entry
k6mfw writes: STS-135 External Tank to Transmit Video During Re-Entry
http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?303039-Space-Shuttle-s-ET138-Video-downlink
M0ODV on QRZ.com writes:
âNASA engineers have installed a camera on the external fuel tank (ET) which will transmit live pictures of its destructive burn up on re-entry. The live FM transmitted signal will be on 2272.5 MHz at 10 watts. The camera captures images at (NTSC) frame rate of 30 frames per second and will burn up over the Pacifc Ocean over the east coast of New Zealand, entry interface (EI) will begin at 400,000 ft over southern Australia and can be seen with the naked eye.”
STS-135: External Tank death camera ready
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/06/sts-135-atlantis-tcdt-external-tank-death-camera-ready/
“We have not yet been able to analytically confirm if a plasma blackout condition will present a TV reception problem prior to breakup.”
STS-135: Tank Camera modification aimed at filming footage of ET-138’s death
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/06/sts-135-camera-modification-aimed-filming-footage-et-138s-death/
“The prospect of footage from the tank itself — as it vents and starts to disintegrate — on the final ever shuttle mission, may not be up to the high standards of the Soyuz ‘Flyabout’ footage of Endeavour and the ISS, but it would provide a potentially stunning viewpoint of the final Shuttle ET, prior to its demise.”
http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?303039-Space-Shuttle-s-ET138-Video-downlink
M0ODV on QRZ.com writes:
âNASA engineers have installed a camera on the external fuel tank (ET) which will transmit live pictures of its destructive burn up on re-entry. The live FM transmitted signal will be on 2272.5 MHz at 10 watts. The camera captures images at (NTSC) frame rate of 30 frames per second and will burn up over the Pacifc Ocean over the east coast of New Zealand, entry interface (EI) will begin at 400,000 ft over southern Australia and can be seen with the naked eye.”
STS-135: External Tank death camera ready
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/06/sts-135-atlantis-tcdt-external-tank-death-camera-ready/
“We have not yet been able to analytically confirm if a plasma blackout condition will present a TV reception problem prior to breakup.”
STS-135: Tank Camera modification aimed at filming footage of ET-138’s death
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/06/sts-135-camera-modification-aimed-filming-footage-et-138s-death/
“The prospect of footage from the tank itself — as it vents and starts to disintegrate — on the final ever shuttle mission, may not be up to the high standards of the Soyuz ‘Flyabout’ footage of Endeavour and the ISS, but it would provide a potentially stunning viewpoint of the final Shuttle ET, prior to its demise.”
Submission + - Dutch ISP Hacked in Retaliation for Censorship (zeropaid.com)
Dangerous_Minds writes: ZeroPaid is reporting on the latest hack involving Dutch ISP Nimbuzz. Anonymous said that the hack is in retaliation for it's cooperation with the government to block certain forms of traffic. They have also threatened to release over 120GB of source code at a later time. This latest development is particularly interesting given that when LulzSec was hacking away at various entities, it, along with Anonymous' existence, scared an Australian ISP to the point of hesitating on government mandated censorship.
Submission + - Is the Free Software JVM fit for the big time? (wordpress.com)
00_NOP writes: "I have had some serious memory management problems with the free software version of the Java Virtual Machine when trying to manage arrays of many millions of items.
When n > too_many items are appended to the array performance appears to collapse — probably due to excessive memory fragmentation: an age old computer science problem but very real in my case.
Is the free version of the JVM up to the job? Or would I have been forced to use an alternative algorithm with my problem no matter what JVM I was deploying?"
When n > too_many items are appended to the array performance appears to collapse — probably due to excessive memory fragmentation: an age old computer science problem but very real in my case.
Is the free version of the JVM up to the job? Or would I have been forced to use an alternative algorithm with my problem no matter what JVM I was deploying?"
Submission + - Ultimate energy efficiency: Magnetic microprocesso (sciencedaily.com)
redwolfe7707 writes: Computers today move electrons, using lots of energy in the process. A new report
out of UC Berkely shows that doing computing with nano magnetic domains could
reduce the energy consumption by a large (million) factor.
out of UC Berkely shows that doing computing with nano magnetic domains could
reduce the energy consumption by a large (million) factor.
Submission + - Germany Considers Banning Wild Facebook Parties
An anonymous reader writes: Wild Facebook parties tend to occur when a Facebook Event invitation to a typical small gathering is mistakenly posted publicly, and then goes viral. This results in injuries and arrests as hundreds or even thousands show up for a party meant for a handful of people. A recent wave of these out-of-control Facebook parties has left German officials and politicians trying to figure how to deal with the trend.
Submission + - New Threat To Internet Freedom In Italy (google.com)
empty mind writes: "From next week, the Communications Authority (AgCom) will have the right to block access to websites suspected of illegally hosting copyrighted material, without a trial. A rule which does not exist in any free country, strongly supported by Berlusconi and Mediaset."
This is what started the recent Anonymous attacks to institutional sites.
This is what started the recent Anonymous attacks to institutional sites.
Submission + - World Shortest Man Junrey Balawing, just two feet (blogspot.com)
mansoor25 writes: Filipino Junrey Balawing, who unofficially measures about 24 1/4 inches (61cm), poses for photographs at a health centre in Sindangan town Zamboanga Del Norte in the southern Philippines on June 11, 2011. Junrey, who turns 18 on June 12, is due to be measured by the Guinness Book of World's Records when he becomes eligible to be considered the world's shortest living man. PHOTO: AFP
Submission + - Is this ethical and or legal?
RFIDJAck writes: Goggle has some cool functionality that we have been playing with for some time and we would like to use it in application. Goggle has promised to issue an API for the functionality in the future.
We are currently using put and get statements to access the functionality and I know that other start-ups are already using the functionality in their application.
Is it legal and or ethical to use this functionality before Goggle has issued an API?
We are currently using put and get statements to access the functionality and I know that other start-ups are already using the functionality in their application.
Is it legal and or ethical to use this functionality before Goggle has issued an API?
Submission + - How America Can Get Its Tech Mojo Back (itworld.com) 1
jfruhlinger writes: "The American tech industry is hobbled by a poor education system, misguided spending priorities, and a byzantine patent system. But America can still come out on top, not least because of its longstanding tradition of individuality and private R&D investment."
Submission + - News Corp Under Fire for Hacking Dead Girl's Phone 1
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. came under pressure from UK Prime Minister David Cameron to respond to "really appalling" allegations that its News of the World tabloid hacked into the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and printed a story based on a voicemail left on Dowler's mobile phone on April 14, 2002, when she had been missing from her home in Surrey, southwest of London, for more than three weeks. According to a Guardian newspaper report, a private detective working for the tabloid gained access to Milly Dowler's phone messages after she was abducted in March 2002 and the detective, Glenn Mulcaire, is alleged to have deleted voicemail messages on Dowler's phone, giving her parents "false hope" she might still be alive and thereby complicating the police investigation. According to one source, when her friends and family discovered that her voicemail had been cleared, they concluded that this must have been done by Dowler herself and, therefore, that she must still be alive. "Doing something illegal, the phone hacking in the first place, was bad enough," says Charlie Beckett, director of the media institute Polis at the London School of Economics. "But if you're doing it and then interfering with the course of justice, that's a double crime." Labour's Chris Bryant says the News of the World was "not just a paper out of control, that's not just a paper believing it's above the law, it's a national newspaper playing God with a family's emotions.""
Submission + - Climate Skeptics More Scientifically Literate? (ssrn.com)
medcalf writes: A new study by Yale's Dan Kahan, et al, suggests that people with more scientific and technical literacy are less likely to see CAGW as a threat. From the abstract:
The conventional explanation for controversy over climate change emphasizes impediments to public understanding: Limited popular knowledge of science, the inability of ordinary citizens to assess technical information, and the resulting widespread use of unreliable cognitive heuristics to assess risk. A large survey of U.S. adults (N = 1540) found little support for this account. On the whole, the most scientifically literate and numerate subjects were slightly less likely, not more, to see climate change as a serious threat than the least scientifically literate and numerate ones.
Submission + - Chinese Coal Stopped Global Warming? (ibtimes.com)
thebchuckster writes: The Chinese burning of coal may explain why global warming has halted in the last 10 years. A study claims that the coal burning, in addition to releasing carbon dioxide (which contributes to global warming), also releases sulphate aerosol particles, which dims the effects of global warming by reflect the light and heat coming from the sun back into space. The effect of the sulphate aerosol particles, asserted the study, outweighs the carbon dioxide emission of coal burning and was enough to outweigh all other human activities that generated global warming.
Comment Re:Italians building it? (Score 1) 61
Apparently anyway Thales is "good enough" for NASA as it has provided over half of the pressurized volume on the US side of the ISS:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12614262
http://www.thalesaleniaspace-issmodules.com/
Comment Re:Oh please (Score 2) 253
Exactly; this is an interesting analysis that proves the point:
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/FtpMustDie
