no NSA project here, unless Digital Pine is a subsidiary? small world, isn't it?

... only hypothetically, via Pine Digital's business which prominently displays in wikileaks: https://www.wikileaks.org/spyf...

...the impact of this would be profound in energy distribution since it can potentially decouple real-time supply-demand constraints.

...for the rest of us who can only afford a 200$ project to hear the beeping sounds from all that craft above 30.000 feet!

http://satnogs.org/

Well, this makes for an interesting observation:
* If someone knows in advance the herd immunity of a specific ethnic group and happen to be able to calculate differentiated susceptibility rates, then that would count well as deliberate act, regardless even if the calculations were correct or not.

It would still be genocide if an alternative ethnic group was hit hard, as a result of deliberate attempt.

And even if it is not genocide, it is still a criminal act by needlessly exposing members of the public at risk, in a way which is totally avoidable.

And if so, what would stop people doing the same?

Live from the field: Octopus just barely escaped being in our menu today, while ordering seafood in a right-next-to-the-sea tavern, outside of Nafplion, Greece.

Well, fact is, octopus IS really admirable animal, among other reasons for passing the mirror test. For the record, dogs typically do not pass the mirror test, ie. cannot consistently recognise themselves in a mirror. Octopus is surprisingly intelligent for an animal that is apparently primitive!

That being said, it's very tasty, too. I'll spare you the details of the great ways to cook it and prepare delicious dishes in the greek cuisine; for one, I have been catching octopuses, even before I was a teenager, in a traditional millenium-old underwater manner using just a harpoon. Big thrill for any young child.

However, there IS a problem with how we catch octopus and much other marine life: it is seriously important to avoid catching/capturing the young animals and only collect the individuals of some age, after having passed from breeding cycle. This is an increasing concern with many fishes, also, and we should all frown upon the practice of catching really really young fish, which is considered a delicacy in some places (Yes, I'm looking at you, South Italy). The sea needs to be respected and cultivated with more seriousness than it is currently done. Human population and technical know-how for fishing have increased in a way that is unsustainable: the sooner we understand it, the better. The sea could and would provide, yet not for the greedy...

+1

Having been an avid bash user for almost as long as the bug existed, and written countless shell scripts in it for that matter, I cannot avoid agreeing with parent. Fact is, shell language definition is nowhere near high-quality BNF-defined syntactical structure, therefor it is unknown how many more fancy bugs are hidden in the parser. What worries me even more are the famous bashisms, of which we all fall victims sooner or later: *users* and subsequent sysadmins of our produced software may fall victims of such code, suffering from unneeded compatibility issues. Shell scripting is certainly a very kludgy area of modern unix systems and it takes great effort to keep things tidy and maintainable.

RedHat is far more economical than Windows, when you need a big population of nodes, because you can use fi. free Scientific Linux on your many compute nodes and just keep one or two for validation of bugs and formal support. Best of all, it is all legal as long as you don't misrepresent the facts!

...I suspect Confluence together with plugin CYO Create-Your-Own would do the job.

As an extra bonus, it might, just might, allow your office documents to be reasonably integrated within the wiki (fi. search box).
Although, I try to stray away of not open source software, I had overall good experience with Confluence a couple years ago.
Also, Apache Software Foundation has also been relying on it for years (after all, that's how they got hacked ;-).
Let us know how it would or would not fit your bill.

...imagine if all hackerspaces built on the cheap one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... # SatNOGS is for satellite tracking & communication

calrification: they rather should pick the 1st letter from each word of the poem/song they already remember; example:
"I'm gonna swing from the chandelier" -> "I'mgsftc" #pick 1st word letter -> "2I'mgsftc" # added 2 as salt -> "2I'mg5ftc" # replaced s for 5
password is now possible to memorize by a child and seriously secure

btw. one more point of attention: this exercise should rather be done together with parents, for both pedagogical and technical reasons:
* the child has a fall-back when it forgets the password
* parents will ensure that the *habbit* of doing it right gets passed on; in fact, that's the only one true think the child should memorise

If all the services they use are *online*, then using lastpass as password manager is a very sensible choice:

• * no cost
• * good security
• * good integration within online activity (browsers etc)
• * the only one to come within 24hrs of heartbleed giving a tool checking sites' vulnerability

You still need to remember one password though; what I would with children is the following: ask them to say a poem/song they remember; pick a line of the lyrics that they are likely to recall clearly; tweak slightly the letters with *them* driving the process (e->3, o->0 etc); add a little salt in the beginning (one or two characters); use that for the password manager. Proposed solution is not of exotic entropy, yet will do the job with flying colours, for most children.

In fact, they would be in good enough shape to start teaching the adults around how to do the job :-P

... ha ha, still LOL about it!

nope; that's wrong; 50 tonne pieces are known to be possible to carry around, in fact it was a regular service in antiquity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

Given that Egyptians were providing for "negative incentives" on their population, as opposed to "positive incentives", it was a pretty cheap theater overall, too...

Carrying 1500 tons would not be out of reach with means of the time, if techniques were adequately developed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
If you are into sailing, you can well understand that flotation, ballast, ropes, levers and forces of nature can do really much for you!