Comment For the record (Score 1) 84
The 2011 paper can be read here: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1110/1110.2798.pdf
Bonilla's 1885 paper can be read here: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2096403/f351
Comment The original paper (Score 1) 265
The original paper, published in 1885 in L'Astronomie can be read online here: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2096403
Comment The Bird Theory (Score 1) 265
For those interested, here is a drawing of a swarm of cranes, observed on the solar disk with "slow motion": http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k209642v/f72 (this is from the same journal, L'Astronomie, which is on line on the Gallica web site)
It is reported that people suspected the earth atmosphere to be responsable for many sights of objects seen across the solar disk. In this paper, the author believed at first he was observing metors. From the size of the birds (assumed to be 1 meter), he calculated they were flying at a height of 9 km.
Submission + - Samsung will try to block the iPhone 4S in France (lefigaro.fr)
KingofSpades writes: Samsung has announced that they will be attacking Apple in French and italian courts for summary judgments. Samsung believes that Apple, with its iPhone 4S, is "severely violating" some of their patents. To be specific, these three patents about W-CDMA technology. The linked article notes that Apple is Samsung's second largest customer, providing 4% of their revenue.
Submission + - How often do you put pen to paper?
doconnor writes: "Throughout the day
Once a day
Once a week
Once a month
Once a year
Pen? I haven't used a stylus since the iPhone came out."
Once a day
Once a week
Once a month
Once a year
Pen? I haven't used a stylus since the iPhone came out."
Submission + - Phone operator sues brothers for releasing app (gazette-ariegeoise.fr)
KingofSpades writes: French brothers Michael and Sébastien M., unable to watch television on their new cell phone — despite paying the corresponding "unlimited TV" phone plan — wrote an app to automate changes of user parameters, including user agent, in order of accessing the TV feed of their cell operator, SFR. They released a free app and a donate version (1.99 euros) of the app (likely named "G.Player TV"). They have been sued by operator SFR in the court of the sunny region of Ariège (France). Their lawyer stated that "that there is no evidence that non-subscribers have been able to use the app. Therefore there it did not provide a free access to a paying service".
Both have been convicted and must pay a 800 euros fine (suspended) and 192 euros to operator SFR.
Both have been convicted and must pay a 800 euros fine (suspended) and 192 euros to operator SFR.
Comment Re:Error in measuring distance perhaps ? (Score 5, Informative) 1088
They claim they are confident about the distance to within 20 cm.
Comment Re:What speed? (Score 1) 1088
It is claimed that the paper is on arxiv but I can't find it.
Submission + - Garden anamorphose perks up Paris city hall (pariscotejardin.fr)
KingofSpades writes: The Paris city hall has been fitted with a 3D anamorphic garden (no glasses required !). This exhibit, by artist and architect François Abélanet, is 100 meters long and looks very nice as it provides a welcomed patch of nature at the center of the city.
Attention visitors: the garden will be folded back on july 16th.
Attention visitors: the garden will be folded back on july 16th.
Comment Keepass' answer to brute force attacks (Score 1) 615
Paroting the KeePass website:
'You can't really prevent these [brute force] attacks: nothing prevents an attacker to just try all possible keys and look if the database decrypts. But what we can do (and KeePass does) is to make it harder: by adding a constant work factor to the key initialization, we can make them as hard as we want."
To protect its database (of passwords), the program actually performs N rounds of AES encryption, with N being a large number of your choice, chosen so that these rounds take "a lot of time", say 1 second. This way, the attacker will only test 1 password per second.
Does this make sense ?
Comment Re:Would GPS have helped ? (Score 1) 449
The last time I checked, the error on GPS altitude was significantly larger than the horizontal error. However here you're writing about vertical speed, which could be more accurate than the altitude. Since it is not used for measuring the descent rate, my guess is that is is not reliable enough when other instruments are available.
Comment Re:Would GPS have helped ? (Score 1) 449
Not at all.
What matters is airspeed. GPS just doesn't provide it.
Comment What about cameras ? (Score 1) 310
I sometimes wonder about this with digital cameras.
How many photos will people actually take during the lifetime of their device ? Usually very little,right ?
Comment Another one (Score 1) 248
Another occurence of this type of error happened before in the Calipari Report
Comment Re:Not new (Score 2) 64
I remember seing a german paper record player like this one in the eighties. It was voice only and I was amazed. The sound on this one isn't that great.
There is an other design with a paper-cone.
