Posts by Michael Chester 71 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Nov 2006
That would be general relativity. E=mc^2 comes from special relativity, for which the positulates are:
- The laws of physics are the same in all inertial reference frames
- The speed of light is constant in all inertial reference frames (or equivalently, Maxwell's Equations)
It could have an emissivity of 0, meaning it also absorbs no light, and so is totally transparent to all wavelengths, or totally reflective at all wavelengths (unlikely, since it's "invisible to radar"). A team of navy seals flying with no visible support would certainly have a low radar signature.
Spectral lines are one, the other major one is finding some stellar object with a consistent spectrum, finding lots of examples of it, then comparing the shift of the entire spectral profile.
I would also presume that the shift in the lines is one that cannot be accounted for by redshift alone (i.e. it scales differently). Too late in the evening to have a look at the paper though.
"MetaCert makes a free browser plug-in that can block sites and insert mouseover warnings into search engine results, based on its hosted database of known porn sites.
Under its deal with ICM, every .xxx site will be automatically labelled as adults-only in this database."
Surely just add *.xxx to the database? Doesn't need a commercial agreement. Isn't that rather the point of .xxx in the first place?
It's a shortened form of omnibus (for everyone) in Latin.
And the -ii form is wrong for everything (it happens when replacing the -us with -i in a word ending -ius e.g. radius-radii)
Also, technically octopus/platypus - octopodes/platypodes since these come from the Greek, but hardly anyone uses those.
I half-remember a poem about the plural of rhinoceros, but cant find a link to it
/pendant
Would be interesting to work out how long one of these would take to reach some ludicrously fast speed, if you just bolted it to a power source and let it go.
Makes for a much more interesting bit of relativity revision than the standard problems I've been given...
Would also need the ejection rate of the fuel
On a side note, look at the second video from the bottom here: http://www.adastrarocket.com/aarc/VX200 , it even SOUNDS like something straight out of a science fiction movie!
Specifically the piece holding up a brick, and the section: "Despite the fact that it is prone to shattering, it is very strong structurally. Its impressive load bearing abilities are due to the dendritic microstructure, in which spherical particles of average size 2–5 nm are fused together into clusters. "
Just because it looks fragile, doesn't mean it is. Things start to behave oddly when they have meaningful nanoscale structure
The exact specification of materials is making this more restrictive if anything, and the diagram of the layering is for the fact that they are exposed at the corners (not read it in detail, but would presume something to do with how it wraps around/is attached at the corners of the case).
It's like complaining that with a new motherboard design someone was trying to patent copper tracks, just because the materials are specified, doesn't mean apple will own the rights to the materials, for fairly obvious reasons.
In fact, you could make something the exact same shape and method, from a non-layered material, and this patent wouldn't cover it, or you could still use the same materials apple are proposing, but make the frame out of something else* (though it could in theory cover papier maché given the wording of claim 1, but only if you make a frame and it's cover separately, then glue them together (e.g., not if you build the layers up on the frame itself, or if the frame is made from anything other than more papier maché))
*which they presumably can't patent since this is how most of the other stuff made of this kind of material works.
Anyone with an android phone (and presumably others), can get the facebook app. An undocumented feature of this is the "facebook phonebook", which will give you the phone numbers of all your facebook friends who have theirs up on their profile.
Personally, I'd much rather someone had my (easily filterable) e-mail, than my phone number (my e-mail is visible friends only, my number isn't on there at all).
That's an experiment demonstrating oxidation. The difference in oxidation energies between the iron and aluminium means that the aluminium violently takes the oxygen from the iron oxide, hence the fierce reaction.
The magnesium is there for 2 reasons: firstly, the activation energy for the thermite is quite large, so having something easily lit that burns hot enough to ignite the reaction is a plus. Secondly, the magnesium ribbon burning down gives the teacher time to get away from the reaction before it starts
Was on /links on B3ta when it was happening, and someone posted a link to the thread as it started
It was a trivial SQL vulnerability, from (rough) memory, typing
') OR ('1' = '1
(quotes may be in the wrong place, don't know any SQL) into the password field was said to allow access (didn't try it myself)
Various defacements, from the subtle (a couple words added in to completely change the meaning of a paragraph) to the.... less so (putting nazi logos up everywhere and having a large bit of text saying **** you). Mainly the latter once someone posted the vuln on /b/.
Unfortunately, this being the internet, where things are easy to fake, and the Conservatives unlikely to be forthcoming on this (would have been more public if 4Chan had done it middle of the UK day), posts like this and the screen caps above are likely to be the best you'll get.
"Budget to definitely cost 600,000 jobs, lack of certainty from treasury over private sector* means that the actual impact could be double this in either direction: Official"
*and quite rightly so, it is, by definition, not government controlled
Not quite as snappy, I'll admit
Google: Make something fairly good, subsidise it heavily (through the advertising you can put on it later), price the rest out of the market.
Apple: Make something at best alright, price it as if it's the second coming, rely on the hype machine to ensure it sells like the second coming too.
no evil google icon yet?
Leave them a radio in case they change their mind though, once the first one succumbs to the waves, the other may well see sense.
Reminds me of the joke about the preacher in the flood:
"Oh lord, why did you not save me?"
"I sent 3 boats and a helicopter, what more do you bloody want?"
Most of what was north of the sahara was part of the Roman empire, so there definitely would have been trade well before 6th C. Plus the existence of Africa would have become rather obvious by the 8th century when the Moors (from modern day Morocco) took over Spain.
Personally, I was shocked and appalled by the use of the very historically inaccurate dragons, which is obviously just pandering to allegations of anti-draconic bias in BBC programming.
Simple(ish) solution:
1. Go to bank (management if possible), or, if they don't co-operate, lawyer (who will be able to sort it in such a way that it's admissible evidence).
2. Put money on card,
3. give card to bank/lawyer, ensure that no replacement is issued.
4.a) If money disappears, then you can show that its not you doing it (unless you clone cards yourself...)
4.b) If the money is only going just after you visit the pub, take banker/lawyer out drinking, using your card but with them taking it before and after
5. ????
6. PROFIT
Either great or terrible news for those looking for gravity waves. On the plus side something like this should kick out a ton of them (from my limited understanding, I will be sure to confuse a tutor with this later), on the down side, something like this should kick out a ton of them and we haven't found any yet (unless uni life has kept me further away from the news than I think)
I was going to start with the number of demonic references missed, got up to 4 (starting from the bottom going up on the full list), before i got to: "Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers"
....
O.O
(Got to 9 for deminic references in the end, though i didnt know some games, and let a few off)
Also, Oblivion is on there twice (as Elder scrolls IV: Oblivion, the. and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion) and scores differently (7 and 8, aparrently picking up a point for drugs somewhere),
When Chrome first went public, if you typed in %evil into the command line it would crash the entire browser. One of my friends rigged up a page on hi site to see if this could be done just by visiting a page, and it could. So of course he did the responsible thing and put it on an "about Chrome" page in his site, which just displayed "goodbye"
"connected through the prison's network to the internet solely so that it could obtain updates to its Windows operating system"
Surely if it wasnt connected to the internet there would be no reason to need most of the updates (which generally fix network security flaws)..... Once an OS is stable enough to run, it can be left unupdated on a non-networked computer, especially one just used by the inmates.
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