When it gets to the top.

http://www.dyesol.com/ . It's not often that you see a tech announcement that is realized so soon, but this seems to be real.

Put those cows on land that also has windmills or solar, and you start to benefit from bigger efficiencies.
But what they are talking about is using manure that is already being created now that might be wasted or used inefficiently otherwise. You're going to have the dairies and feed lots anyway, why not put it all to use?

Actually, years ago I worked at one of the NASA offices that hosted one of the servers into which he hacked. It was (if I recall correctly) a server hosting a browsable space image library. Breaking into that box? No big deal, really. It wasn't connected to anything sensitive. None of their webservers are.

I have also worked on DoD projects with systems holding highly valuable and sensitive information. If he broke into one of those, then some damage might have been done. But of course he didn't, because they are not on the Internet!

But if your office fails to cleanly separate internal servers from Internet-facing webservers, then it is just as much your (manager, admin, etc) fault as the hacker. Webservers should be considered 'throwaway,' meaning that if they get hacked or damaged, then all you should need is failover and reprovisioning.

In the future you might give the poster the benefit of a doubt. :-)

That was so long ago. And he never hacked into any important or valuable computers, only webservers.

Its entire purpose is to fit into the producer/consumer model, and provide yet another carbon-based audience member to Big Media. Why else would Rupert Murdoch love it? The PC will remain as a more populist, creative device.

What irritates me is that Hollywood is scripting story after story based on his writings, to the almost total abandonment of the rest of the science fiction field. I would -love- to see something by Theodore Sturgeon or Ursula K LeGuin. (note the 'K')

Also, Mr. Dick's dystopian futures fit too well into the "dark" theme that seems to rule at the box office. Everything must be dark, hopeless and brooding. And it's a fake, forced emotion. Too comic book-like. Enough, already!

This means that there will be a JDK 1.6u20 out soon.

"Watts arrested for resistance"

There seems to be this angry pushback from a core of dedicated SQL programmers, acting as if someone had insulted their tin god and wanted to invalidate their lives' work. Not at all. All that has been developing is the realization that RDBMS's are not the best fit for all applications, and that other storage schemes might have a better impedance match with the needs of a particular design. RDBMS's are still robust and reliable and useful for (maybe most) applications. Only some apps' data does not fit nicely into rows and columns. And you should design your code around the data, not try to morph the data to your software.

Does the country really need yet another list like this? How much more of the shun/banish behaviour must we exhibit in our increasingly shrill nation?

But they can't eat you. That's illegal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VentureStar That was an excellent example of private industry dropping the ball without a guaranteed flow of money from the government. Yes, I can see private industry handling low earth orbit. But the moon or Mars? There is no way that they will pay so much risk money ahead of time without promise of near-term profits. American corporations have forgotten how to invest in the future and only concern themselves with quarterly reports. Lockheed wouldn't even fund its share of 50%, or even a single year of development.

Use these -first- to get the design at least partially congealed in your mind. Only when you have a clear idea what it's supposed to do, and what it's supposed to look like, should you move ahead into code.

If you are doing still shots or landscape, then that is more than sufficient. I have a collection somewhere of a bunch of stereo pairs I took during a vacation that way. They seem to be as good as any more expensive method. And if the 3d-ness isn't what you had hoped for, then you still have two shots.