Comment Check the source?! (Score 1) 465
Oh, Ethisphere Institute, who claim to be a research based institute, yet seem to be a for-profit business selling certification and a magazine. Obviously an authoritative source.
Oh, Ethisphere Institute, who claim to be a research based institute, yet seem to be a for-profit business selling certification and a magazine. Obviously an authoritative source.
While entirely possible that there are illicit drug usage at the Kennedy Space Center, it is also entirely possible that it was a false positive given that it was a field tests by law enforcement officials, it does not confirm anything. AFAIK there are a number of substances that produce false positives for most illicit drug field tests (which are merely quick and simple tests). And if you want a work place with possible mundane usage of unusual chemical substances that most street thugs don't have in their kitchen, then KSC is the place to be.
While the initial report is newsworthy, it isn't particularly interesting until the substance is at least confirmed in an analytic laboratory.
Maybe I'm going to have to write a math test module for the Slash code, testing basic statistical knowledge before to post stories and comments.
I would expect US NIST Time & Frequency division or US Naval Observatory Time department would be more than willing and able to host the zoneinfo database. Otherwise the time-nuts would likely step in and offer their support. A number of them being long time Unix folk, they wouldn't be total strangers to IANA or various national time authorities.
Offsetting the two transmit signals by half of the wavelength...
Wait, does is this over-the-air "same frequency", which would imply that they are merely trading off bandwidth to achieve full-duplex?
Two transmitters (transceivers) on the "same" frequency normally implies two transmitters / transceivers using the same frequency and the same bandwidth (and modulation), otherwise you are merely doubling the signal bandwidth used as this seems to suggest.
I can imagine that it could mean that is merely an offset (or delay) used for filtering, not over the air, but this is not clear from the brief statement. As the technology focuses on antenna cancellation, I'm not sure without studying (i.e. reading not skimming) the paper.
While John Horgan (author of the Sci Am blog piece) is not a crank, he does appear to be on thin ice, given his past works, of Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality in 2003, and The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Science in the Twilight of the Scientific Age in 1996.
Horgan does have a B.A. (as in Arts) from Columbia University (1982), and an M.S. from Columbia's School of Journalism (1983). I take it that is a Masters of Science, except how you can manage to get a graduate Masters degree in Science from a school of Journalism in a single year is an interesting concept in its own right.
"Come to think of it there are a lot of state LEOs that carry cellphones
I don't know about APCO-25, but I suspect that most LEO 2-way radio systems are like their unencrypted analog grandfathers, and not uniform or perfect in coverage / density compared to most mobile telecom networks.
That said, I do agree in that I suspect the majority of the cell phone usage is either concealment or personal nature (i.e. personal phone calls).
I hope that criminal charges are pressed by the federal Crown (government) prosecutor, such massive scale for-profit (criminal) infringement cannot be tolerated. (Section 42 of the Copyright Act)
I helps to show how viscous those "pirates" who abuse copyright really are. Now that people might realize that pre-school children are being labelled pirates, people might start to think that the RIAA and friends (GEMA, CIRA, etc.) are really mobsters. Though a fresh case of the industry screwing the actual artists would help too. Maybe screwing over the now ancient Tina Turner or Leonard Cohen out of their royalties. Hopefully they go after unlicensed performances of music at senior centres next.
There is some additional background material at Lottolab Studio on related research conducted by Dr. Beau Lotto.
Kudos to all involved.
or 3) Slow down the development of a native cross-platform FF H.264 solution by making it less people depending on it. Effectively making windows a requirement to watch H.264 video's.
Also it is another benefit for Microsoft users who upgrade (from Windows XP primarily) to Windows 7. With Windows 7 Microsoft is truly competing with itself, in so much as they are having trouble with previous customers (ie. coporate IT departments) not embracing an major OS upgrade to Microsoft's bread and butter desktop (& laptop) Operating System. The home users will be "forced" through the upgrade hassle simply by the churning of home PC hardware, and the predominance of pre-installed OSes.
If a home user is savy enough to install a different OS on their home system, then they are 75% likely to go with an alternative OS (MacinHack, Linux, *BSD) as upgrade OS versions. (My purely speculative estimate)
But if upgrading to Windows 7 is forced by corporate IT's slow embrace of PC video (tele-conferencing and distance education / training are the two major areas I've personally seen it be a factor) means that is one more reason for IT departments to justify the cost of upgrading to Windows 7 (well, if the C-levels want desktop HD video conferencing, "we need to upgrade our desktop infrastructure to get the best streaming / live video experience without overloading our networking infrastructure") that is one of the few visual justification to the C-levels of return on investment.
. Just like nearly everything currently finds its way under the "national security" umbrella
National security, in particular how it is viewed in the US (and similarly throughout the "Western" world), economic stability and prosperity plays a key role in the modern definition. That is because money, i.e. economic influence and power is the most global resource, that knows and respects basically no boundaries, whereas a foreign military occupation / control is less tolerated in many countries around the world.
Fowler's attack on the company's firewall, which had caused a "lockout", took Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) three months to resolve.
What? Seriously. What? What the hell is a lockout and why would it take anyone three months to solve a firewall issue?
That's how long the FBI spent running all the staff through ICE (Immigrations) before they replaced it. And you thought your last doctor's appointment was a long wait...
At the speed of government.
whether you can get approval for soldering, which still takes a decent fireproof bench and some ventilation.
Electronics soldering is quite safe. Most standard office furniture (e.g. particle board with melamine) should be fire resistant enough by nature to be safe enough, and any sane workbench would be a non-issue. A small square of hardboard (high-density fibreboard) as a temporary tabletop protection is an approach I've used with no problem in locations without a workbench.
An small to medium wattage soldering iron with a stand is quite safe.
While the soldering fumes can provoke and may cause to asthma (due to rosin fumes) and can contain lead oxide (in lead based solders), the health risk can be managed through ventilation such as an activated carbon filtered fume extraction fan, which you can make yourself.
Oh, and wear pants, soldering in shorts is dangerous.
I was thinking more or less the same thing.
The point is that a good domain name system implementation needs to be secure against protocol attacks. DNSSEC secures it against hackers, but makes it more vulnerable to political attacks.
You do know that DNS root servers are located (and co-located) around the world (20+ countries I believe off the top of my head), and they are all equal. The only US-centric part is that the designated maintainers (ICANN and IANA) are US based organizations, in large part due to historically originating in the US, and this does have the benefit being one of the best legal protection for free-speech in the world.
If you want an alternate system, edit your DNS root hints file.
Join the Internet Society, ICANN, and your national domain registrar if you want to make difference.
Certainly possible. Compact arc-welding units (available for 120Vac AC mains) are pretty small, and if the pieces of metal you are welding are as well, then with proper ventilation, and isolation from flammable materials, then sure it is possible in small degrees.
Inadvertently triggering a fire alarm and/or suppression system in an office environment could be an issue too.
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