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Posts by Willy Messerschmitt
60 posts • joined 13 Jul 2010
Ellison wrestles Google to strangle 'unofficial' Java
Google's Retaliation Plan
Looks like this:
1.) GSQL Server: Announce that all MySQL work within Google is being stopped. Instead announce a PostGresql Enhancement Project that will scale from one PC to hundreds of thousands of PCs. A lightweight layer above the PSQL engine will do the trick. Name it GSQL and release with BSD license. Announce it with a list of fortune 500s who are part of the beta.
2.) Rip out Dalvik, replace it with http://golang.org/. Fits the bill, hurts Oracle.
3.) Block all Oracle IP addresses for Google Services. That is going to shock all of Larry's minions.
All of that is certainly only a Maskirovka and needs to be implemented only to scare the nice Mr Ellison until he stops the legal bitching. SDI was never near completion, yet it destroyed the Soviet Union and thereby achieved its objectives.
OpenSolaris axed by Ellison
You are so funny. Could you please throw more salt into the wounds of the Slowaris Greybeards ?
The tombstone is in reality a Salt Dispenser.
Oracle outlines Ellisonized Sparc roadmap
No - Sentimentality
Oracle thrived on being a "horizontal" company like Intel, MS or Seagate. Their RDBMS would run on virtually every commercial Unix and a number of mainframe operating systems in the 1980s, when DB/2 ran only on expensive IBM hardware (S/390 and AS/400).
Had IBM made DB/2 available on all major platforms, Oracle would probably not be in the IT conscience. Larry would fly a MS flight simulator.
So the "rationale" that they "need" to vertically integrate is not plausible at all. They have excellent relations with HP and many other hardware vendors. Every IBM sales rep is happy to push POWER boxes to run Oracle.
MySQL is also not a good reason, as it is GPLed as much as Postgresql is BSD licensed. What next ? Hire all PSQL developers and put them on a pointless dud project ??
Airbus does not buy Cessna because the latter are "highly successful" (in selling 100 Hp Piston-Engine planes). They might buy them because the Airbus CEO is a chummy of the Cessna CEO and does not want to see them fail. Especially if Cessna has made some key components for Airbus.
Larry has a sentimental attachment to the Stanford University Network and he thought buying them will count as a Good Deed whenever he knocks at Petrus' door in 30 years. "See, I helped my chummies who were losers and soon would be unemployed. Please reduce my time in hell to 10^15 years. 10^155555 years is clearly doing injustice to a nice American Criminal Tycoon like me !"
Fire burning in The Eternal Hell.
Economics Will Kill SPARC
Since the mass production of the 80486 processor, SPARC has been largely pointless. SPARC never had a performance edge over x86 since then (it was actually slower for long periods of time). The only remaining argument could be "enterprise" features in SPARC which x86 does not have.
I seriously doubt these features could not be delivered with a custom chipset "around" the CPU.
The core problem is that SPARC R&D expenditure has to be amortized over a small number (less than 500 000/year) of CPUs and a limited business of a few billion dollars per year. AMD and Intel CPUs are a component of a market which generates well above 100 billion dollars revenue.
A much more rational strategy for Oracle would be to negotiate with Intel and AMD to get all required enterprise features added to the high performance x86 CPU cores of these two suppliers. AMD is currently cash-strapped and buying a 30% stake would be easily possible for Oracle. They could then virtually dictate AMD all the enterprise features they needed for a "Enterprise-x86".
Oracle just donned the millstone and now jumped into the water for a long, long swim.
Google finally pulls Gmail contacts tool into line
Can you say "National Security Letter"
See this:
Google CEO Schmidt:
I suggest this here:
It is no coincidence that Obama's minions recently stopped and questioned a TOR developer for a few hours when ingressing to the Land Of Merkins. They also confiscated his cellphones without court order.
Stopping using Google without TOR. Clean your browsing history often and early. Don't forget to remove the Adobe Flash cookies.
Message written from a firefox communicating via TOR.
Elon Musk plans new Mars rockets bigger than Saturn Vs
Elon "PORKBARREL" Musk
Mr Musk styles himself as an entrepreneur "taking spacelift into the private sector", when in reality he is just the next generation of US government contractor.
Here is a real Commercial Space Lift Service Provider:
Compare this
to that:
You are going to see that spacex is a receiver of USGOV PORKBARREL, mainly. All the non-USGOV launches are from chummies of USGOV and probably subsidised by a USGOV backdoor. Arianespace is actually doing commercial launches besides some minor Eurogov launches like ComSatBw.
Can you say "Beltway Soap Opera" ?
Unpatched kernel-level vuln affects all Windows versions
I suggest
..you first get yourself a proper education and then check back in three years time.
FAT / Windows Process Rights: Google Chrome tries to remove virtually all privileges from an html rendering process or a Flash plugin process. This works for NTFS, but not for FAT, because of an MS implementation quirk. Consequentially, your harddisk is safe, but a virus may suck data from your USB stick.
You are talking about security of a system when the attacker has physical access, which virus writers normally do not have. And even if you encrypt your file system, it must be accessible in unencrypted form during computer runtime to be useful, which potentially means a virus can read it.
And YES, running as a non-Admin or non-Root when reading documents is a very basic security measure. Because thereby only the currently executing process can be affected. Of course also files residing on the harddrive can be read, changed or deleted. A system like SE Linux or AppArmor can even remove that threat to a large degree - for a normal user of course.
BUT the virus cannot fiddle with the operating system nor can it change IExplore.exe, Firefox.exe or any system-installed dlls. It CANNOT INSTALL A ROOTKIT. Maybe you can remember this phrase for your future life as a "system administrator".
Running as a *normal* user, browsing http://sweetgirlswithbigboobs.ru, clearing history, logging off, logging on again and doing https://bankofamerica.com will give you a fresh browser instance where you can have high confidence it is not owned by some Russkie Criminal. If you don't understand this, maybe you should apply with McDonald's.
That viruses can indeed destroy documents is true. IE8 was supposed to sandbox that can of worms called Flash, but apparently the sandbox and UAC is more a kind of Box With Many Ratholes.
The only proper security thing Windows contains is the privilege reduction of a norma user. UAC and the IE8 sandbox are apparently not stopping criminals.
MS Fanbois, UAC FAIL
Maybe the MS fanbois can simply admit Windows is much less secure *in the real world* than Linux, BSD and MacOS X ? Zero virus/botnet problems with the latter group seem to indicate exactly that.
Microsoft screws up *conceptually* all the time. For example, their process permissions concept would be very good if it also worked with the FAT filesystem (which is "just" used for USB memory sticks). All the time they compromise on security if the slightest inconvenience can be expected for their lUsers.
A friend of mine is a windows expert who maintains internet cafes, including SHELL32.DLL hacks. He recently discovered the glorious IE8 cannot defend against Flash Exploits. IE8 is supposed to be "heavily fortified" and to contain the Flash player crap and all of its exploits. Instead, a process called "Skypenames2.exe" shows up when you look at sites like viporn.com. And that process will do a royal screwup of your Windows XP machine, which no virusscanner can detect right now.
Of course, this only works if you run in Admin mode - which most lUsers and internet cafes do. Because they are lazy suckers, certainly.
MS is botching it because they are lying at their customers when they claim IE8 can "secure" a system. Browsing with a locked-down, normal user account can do that, but apparently not the much-hyped IE8 sandbox.
UK.gov finally kills ContactPoint
Yeah, But
..they have wasted 230 millions on IT consultants, project managers and a bunch of 100 other drones.
Instead, they could have paid 1000 social workers for one year to look into broken familie's houses, but never mind. At least they tried to do something !!
You know, at least BMW benefited from that because the IT drones could buy shiny new cars from the 230 MILLION POUND PORKBARREL.
Classic Case Of European Waste
Indeed someone from Brussels distracted Gordo so much he confused 230 000 with 230 000 000 Pounds. Heinous french-communist-napoleonic-bastards !
Seriously, this demonstrates fully that local governments are much more wasteful than anyone in Brussels can ever be.
I have more than ten years of enterprise systems development experience and 230 MILLIONS are just outrageous for this kind of system. What they basically need is a systeom of entering a report, assign that to a person and manage access of social workers, police etc to this person's records. Slap in an open-source fulltext search engine and DONE.
I guess one could even implement the basic functionality with the Google Search Appliance and ActiveDirectory. Cost: 10000 Pounds for consulting, 100 000 Pounds for the servers. DONE. FINITO.
If they really need a relational database, my most expensive consulting cost estimate would be 1 man-year and that's 150 000 Euros for an experienced enterprise developer. Then add 1 million for a servers running Postgres, a fulltext search engine (Lucene ?) and Apache. DONE.
Users of the system would just use their offical PC and log in by webbrowser to https://cansomeonethinkaboutthesweetkiddies.gov.uk. If they want to secure it, print one-time login numbers on paper and send it to the social workers. No electronic tokens required whatsoever.
This demonstrates the waste in national and local governments and secondly I doubt this kind of monster database is required at all !
Inflated billions hide cloud's cash potential
Economics: GO !
As with any new technology or method, the naysayers are at the ready to explain why the Cloud will never fly - especially pointing out the security risks.
I would like you to step back a little and ask yourself
* When was the last time you filled up your Diesel generator that provides "secure" electricity ?
* When did you hand a letter to your own mailboy to deliver a letter to your other office 700kms away ?
* When did you put your own fibers into the ground to have the assurance you have a "secure" telecoms network to that 700km-distance office ?
* When did you last time dig up a well to have "secure" water supplies ? Ya know, the commies at the water utility could Poison You Bodily Fluids !!!!!!
I could go on with police, firebrigade, schooling and many more.
Fact is, we rely on a large number of externally-provided services to function nearly perfectly and we are happy to entrust it our deepest secrets. The same Economics will make the Cloud a raging success. Why hire&manage sysadmins if you can just buy an Email, Groupware, ERP, File Storage SERVICE over the internet ??
We all know the current state of IT is messed up so much because sysadmins must be Jack Of All Trades in most shops. The quality of their service is consequentially shoddy and has an extremely bad price/performance ratio. The free enterprise system will drag all of us into a Cloudy Future, regardless of all the people who scream and kick.
Stealth fighter in Canadian Wikipedia brouhaha
Not True
"Catapults need steam, which means reactors, which means:"
Please Google for my previous posts: "Willy Messerschmitt USS Kitty Hawk".
No, I am doing it for you:
"The Brits claim they haven't and Rolls-Royce tells the illiterates of the Royal Navy that this means you need pseudo-VTOL. That the Kitty Hawk class launched F14s, which are the heaviest naval fighters of all, invalidates that argument completely. USS Kitty Hawk is also named Carrier Vessel 63 (CV-63). A nuclear carrier would be a "CVN-XX".
I venture to say that The Royal Navy would operate a cheaper and three times more powerful carrier force if they dumped the three midget carriers and simply bought USS Kitty Hawk and the FA 18E/Fs. And then five frigates of the size of USS Vincennes, rip out the weaponry and convert them to fast oilers. They would also serve the role of "Exocet Decoy Target"."
If there were a single competent Engineering Officer left at the Royal Navy, he would cut through that Rolls Royce Jumpjet Bullshit and call "USS Kitty Hawk". Apparently the time of Nelson and properly schooled British Naval officers is long over and the MBAs have taken over this organization, too.
My Gymnasium-level physics demonstrates the "Catapult means Nuclear Reactor" argument is simply WRONG. Look it up.
13kgs of Kerosene burning. That's what you need AT MAX to launch a fully armed, fully fuelled Rafale with a catapult. Probably just two kgs, if the steam generator is efficient..
Stealth Fighters Protecting Estonian Airspace
See Here:
Oh wait, it's a Luftwaffe Eurofighter. Sorry. The F-22 will show up in 2017, I am sure.
F-35 can do Catapult launches
Here is the video:
(It's the french F-35 variant)
Why don't the British and the Canadians just talk to Mr Sarko and Dassault ? I am sure a nice package of nuclear carrier&Rafale are on sale *right now*.
Most work could certainly be done at various BAE sites. And the result would be much more cost effective than F35&midget carrier. But it would certainly cost the pride and carreer of some jumpjet guys.
Then france has some real industry left and makes their own SLBM and the corresponding submarine. More scope for Entente Cordiale industrial cooperation.
Adobe confirms remote code-execution flaw in Reader (again)
Not Entirely True
Buffer overflows can happen even in C-type programming languages even if you have a program which is only supposed to be a "viewer". Even vi, less and more could theoretically have buffer overflows.
On the other hand, it IS possible to run untrusted executable code securely, IF you have a proper sandbox around that. Javascript, Java and .Net prove that (through user-level software mechanisms). In addition to that, mechanisms like SE Linux, AppArmor, BSD Jails or the Google Chrome Security Architecture intercept and validate system calls using the Memory Management Unit and the Operating System. IE8 is doing something similar.
One could also argue that proper Operating Systems like Unix, the WNT Kernel and things like VMware or Xen have proven that secure execution of untrusted code is indeed possible.
The problem of numerous buffer and integer overflows will persist, though. That means sandboxes are exactly the right thing to do.
For me, it is Ok
I am not in the printing or graphics business and PDF is totally OK with me. There is a PDF standard explicitly chosen for long-term preservation of documents (think of aircraft manuals, building documentation etc). As far as I know this is the major standard for this kind of application.
I don't care if it is not 100%, pixel-by-pixel the same on different PDF renderers, I care that my brain thinks it is the same. And I also don't care about the kind of criminal abuse you describe.
What would be the alternative ? GIF ? TIFF ? JPEG ? Rather memory-intensive, I would say.
All Future Acrobat Reader Patches In One Package
This procedure wil make sure:
1.) Uninstall Acrobat Reader
2.) Download the Develper's version of Chrom
3.) Enable the built-in PDF plugin
4.) Right-click on a PDF document and set Chrome as the default viewer
The result is secure and very, very fast. No difference to viewing html at all.
To all those who don't like PDF I suggest to differentiate between Adobe Acrobat Reader (clearly a pile of poo) and the PDF format itself. It is well-documented and in my opinion one of the few formats computers will be able to render correctly in 50 years time.
Conficker's 6m strong botnet confounds security probes
Not really Conjecture
TheReg reported that a USGOV contractor is taking over botnets and exploits them for intel gathering. The next step would be to actively create botnets, if the existing ones are no longer sufficient.
Why Don't They
..use facebook, myspace, wired.com, youtube and all the other sites that allow for unmoderated comments to perform command and control ?
That would take away the need to set up domains and the consequential C&C vulnerability.
The messages would be gpg-signed commands, obfuscated through some sort of steganography.
IBM launches zEnterprise 196 'data center in a box'
That would imply they can perform some sort of translation inside the CPU. Transmeta did this, but they could apparently not compete with "real" x86 processors. Also, their technology included some very sophisticated software performing the translation and I have never heard of that with Power or S/390 CPUs which are part of production systems.
My guess is that IBM reuses ALUs, caches, branch predicition logic etc from Power CPUs in S/390 CPUs and the other way around. Microcode can only be used for infrequently used instructions, as that makes them *really* slow.
What I suggest is very similar to Apple's CPU transition strategies. The successfully supported 68K code on Power and the Power code on x86 with acceptable performance penalties.
I/O, Emulation
Indeed I/O performance is one of the major strong aspects of the mainframe. CPU throughput has never been impressive; the "Seymour Cray One Man Show" beat the hoardes of IBM engineers on a regular basis in terms of CPU performance.
But I/O is actually the easiest to virtualize/ translate. A POWER system can have exactly the same I/O facilites (I/O Processors/Channels, DASD, Fibrechannel, Infiniband, 10G ethernet, DMA etc) as a current mainframe. What I am suggesting is to just remove the S/390 CPU but not necessarily all other mainframe hardware components.
My point was that it does not make sense to develop a POWER and an S/390 CPU at the same time. As POWER is the fastest CPU architecture around, even translated CISC programs would have excellent performance. Various projects at HP, DEC, Apple, Transmeta and now QEMU proved this. Some even argue that Translation can optimze code "on demand" and based on a real workload and achieve higher throughput than a statically optimized program. It is well-known that profile-driven optimizers achieve best results.
DEC achieved competitive performance with their Alphas emulating (actually dynamically translating) x86 CPUs using FX!32 technology.
Why Don't They
..use/adapt QEMU and emulate S/390, x86, SPARC, PA-RISC, Itanic and all that on POWER. Emulation/Translation now approaches Native Speed.
The S/390 CPUs are artificially overpriced to pay for total system R&D costs anyway. They are a kind of dongle for the mainframe software. Just adapt the POWER/QEMU pricing so that it results in a competitive MIPS/$ rate.
IBM could then say
"We run ANY operating system (zOS, AIX, OS/400, VM, Windows Server, Linux, Solaris, HPUX, BSD, MacOS X*, Haiku,...) on our hardware."
"You can use each and every processor for any operating system and workload".
The current solution is the typical kind of hodgepodge which only The Pointy-Haired invent.
*at least technically. Legally they would have to talk to His Royal Highness, The Steve of California before doing that.
Illumos sporks OpenSolaris
At least the SUNWspro debugger has an alpha-quality GUI made in Java. dbx itself is great, but the GUI is just killing a developer's time and increasing the cleaner's workload because of all the torn-out hair that must be wiped away (around the places where SUNWspro is used).
I have also heard about something called "Java Desktop System" and from the name alone I imagine it is used by Merkin Intel in Gitmo to torture inmates who have stated their profession as being programmers.
According to
it actually does not contain Java in anything critical, rather it seems to be a kind of Gnome Desktop. So that's all perfect, but if they have slipped in the Java cancer - don't touch it if you care about the cleaner !
Solaris, Linux, x86, GNU tools, Croos-Polination
I have several years of experience developing in C++ (and minor Java) on Solaris, Linux and Windows. Recently I worked on a C++&Solaris-based system which is a rather critical part of German Finance.
In general, Solaris is considered a very good platform by everyone involved. The institution currently operates their systems on Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86 and VMS. They are very happy with that, except that the VMS solution does not scale and the next generation system will be completely based on C++&Linux. No Java or .Net, except for demo clients.
My personal experience is that the Solaris dbx debuggr is excellent, but the Java-based GUI is utter crap. I simply used dbx only. Also, the Sun tools like grep and find are vastly inferior to GNU grep, find.
Also, x86 is very fast and SPARC is a slug.
I suggest the OpenSolaris people use as many GNU userland tools as possible, as the Sun equivalents are simply ten years behind. Maybe other stuff like NFS and file systems could be adapted, too.
Certainly the Java-based crap should be removed completely, as it is not just slow and memory-devouring, but also extremely buggy.
In general, my feeling as a developer is that Solaris is a very good OS and that was also the consensus with my colleagues there. It just has to be rescued from the pointy-haired at Oracle/SUN.
Pay-off or lay-off: HP calls on 700 staff to heed redundo plea
HR drone speak ?
"in India cheaper than you, they are better too."
They are definitely cheaper to perform routine tasks, but most of them have zero creativity when it comes to develop new ideas and technologies.
Countries like Denmark (MySQL) and Norway (Qt) contribute more to the IT world than India, at least intellectually, despite India having about 300 times more inhabitants. That's of course if you don't take into account the routine work specified by western customers. There are much less codemonkeys in Norway than in India, so if you have a ton of routine work to be done at the lowest acceptable quality standards, India is "bestshore".
If you need the best solution to a new problem, go to Norway. Or Denmark. Or Finland.
Suggestion to HP Employees
First a little bit of historic perspective: HP was founded soon after the Great Depression with the clear objectives to do something innovative and to respect employees. This meant that hire&fire were unacceptable and the company went great lengths to find work for employees who were at one point redundant. During the oil crisis, HP reducing working hours and pay by 20% but did not lay off people.
HP was a great innovator in measurement and IT doing things like microwave measurement instruments, medical devices, portable atomic clocks, one of the early RISC processors, one of the early Unixes, invented inkjet printing, a pioneer in laser printers etc.
Bill Hewlett was with the Army Signal Corps during WW2 and Dave Packard was at one point deputy Secretary of Defense.
But after the death of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard the MBA types took over and firmly destroyed this Great Company. First they split off Agilent, which further disintegrated into Philips Medical, Avago and more funny plastic-names.
Then Super-Saleswoman Fiorina gave the remaining HP computer/printer business a royal beating, but failed to be financially successful. After that Hurd continued the strategy to messing up the remaining HP by treating people like dirt, but at least he delivered good numbers.
Now HP is a boring company with zero innovation, something like XEROX. They still have a lot of elite engineers and scientists, but their ideas are routinely binned by the MBA drones.
To retaliate, I suggest the best HP engineers simply send their C.V. directly to Google:
stevengrant AT google.com
Steven is always grateful for receiving applications by good engineers who can do more than just the MBA blabla. Be prepared to know the complexity of quicksort and Matrix multiplication along with counting words, doing histograms etc in the most efficient way.
And please do it through HPs own email system, so that the drones wake up to their incompetence.
Googe is a great company where innovation and people are still valued. I am not affilated with them or have financial interest, but I once was an HP employee and I hate the guys who have taken over.
EC launches formal probes into IBM's mainframe biz
Superdome is a Mainframe
I do think an HP Superdome can be considered a mainframe, as you can run large databases from Oracle or IBM, have virtualization and a lot of management tools.
An S/390 system might have even better reliability/availability statistics, but if you use all available tools like HP Serviceguard and Fiber-attached disks, you have an excellent alternative to S/390. HP has a "mainframe alternative program" for a very long time now and Serviceguard/DASD-like disks is also an old (and probably rocksolid) product now.
I have never worked as an S/390 or as a Superdome admin, though.
I am sure Oracle, Fujtsu and NEC can come up with something similar.
WTF ? Ever Heard Of The Term "Free Enterprise" ?
IBM does have the right to make product pricing and licensing decisions as they see fit. Apple exercises exactly the same right by requesting you to run MacOS only on Apple PCs.
Running it inside VMWare is illegal, though technically possible, as I verified personally.
IBM is totally correct in saying that they spent huge sums into the whole system and according to the commonly accepted rules of the Western World it is completely their property, so they have the right to determine how this property is used by other parties.
The Hercules people are just economic parasites who want to exploit the particular structure of IBMs pricing scheme. IBM has the legal and ethical right to deny this, as they employ thousands of highly skilled and paid people to develop the Marvel that is OS/390 and the S/390 system (I hate the meaningless a/b/c/z/i/k/mOS labels). Hercules only created an S/390 CPU emulator and now they want to use IBM software on that, which is vastly more expensive to develop.
The only exception to this rule would kick in if IBM were in a market-dominating position, which they are clearly not. Nobody is forced to buy a S/390 system - HP (e.g. a Superdome server), Oracle, Unisys, Teradata, Fujitsu, Groupe Bull, NEC and others provide very credible alternatives to IBM products.
Others like Google have proved that, given the right software architecture, one does not need a mainframe at all. Just a large set of cheap PCs can handle enormous workloads (say all of Europe's flight reservations) as reliable as a mainframe at 1/10th of cost. It does not matter that PCs have a much higher failure rate.
The basic idea is to split up a large problem and "map" the individual slices to the PCs. For example, each PC would handle just five aircrafts and the system would automatically route users to the correct PCs to make reservations. Harddisks would be mirrored with something like the Google File System and another PC would automatically take over and use on of the three mirror disks to continue operations. The GFS would also run on a PC cluster. All of those PCs are networked using standard 1GBit Ethernet switches and routers.
For a moderately sized mainframe, you can buy more than 500 High-End PCs, including all networking and run a much larger workload, assuming your software supports this system model.
Wikileaks creaks under demand for Afghan war logs
Now The War Is Completely Unwinnable !
Before, it was only "simply unwinnable".
Face it - the Vast Majority of the Population supports the "Taleban" as much as they can. Supplying food, providing shelter, intelligence and weapons/ammo from caches.
Short of a policy of Torched Earth and Ulimited Fear this war is unwinnable. And because we cannot stand the pictures of hundreds of villages burned to the ground with their population killed (because they haven't warned us of a planted IED or of enemy combatants), this option is only theoretical.
Get out of the land of crack and secure your borders properly. Much cheaper and very effective. I am sure the German Ministry of International Cooperation can provide courses to train American Police in Effective Security.
And all the money dumped into this war could be spent to pay American policemen properly, so that people with more than three brain cells would be attracted to become a merkin policeman.
Google Apps rubber-stamped for use by US gov
Why Would People Entrust Their Secrets
..to the Telephone Cloud (aka "Public Switched Telephone System") ?
Apparently all sorts of business and private secrets are happily communicated IN THE CLEAR over the telephone system. Mobiles only encrypt until the signal reaches the next tower.
Cloud Computing has so many economic advantages attached to it - think of getting rid of lots of sysadmins and a ton of management headaches - that it must succeed. Hundreds of thousands of sysadmins currently perform the same complex tasks, make the same mistakes and create the same problems in tens of thousands of IT departments.
All of that is much more economically performed by a 1/100 of those people working in centralized Cloud Service Providers. Companies need Email, ERP and Website services, they don't really want to know the nuts and bolts of Exchange, AIX HCMP or the twists of ORANET. Neither do they really want to employ and manage an Oracle DB admin.
Google tests (semi) HTML5 YouTube embed code
Just as people have discounted many Google "Beta" projects I am sure it will eventually turn out to be a big thing, despite the naysaying.
Adobe is a bunch of people who have missed the flight to their retirement homes in Florida. All their "security" is rooted in the hacks of the 1980s, when they created things like Postscript. It didn't matter when a printer burped on a bad PS file, but it does matter now when a browser is subverted by a malicious Flash ad.
I already removed Acrobat Reader from my PC and use the developer version of Chrome with the Chrome PDF viewer instead. Flash will be the next thing to be axed, as soon as all of youtube can be viewed with HTML5.
All the HTML5 videos on youtube run very well with Chrome, so I expect this to be a great success.
Raptor over Blighty: Watch the stealth fighter in infrared
Austria, Saudi-Arabia, Greece all bought the EFA. This makes the Eurofighter the biggest commercial success in fighter sales for the last few years. Much like these other Wicked Euro Projects like the Airbus (now 50% marketshare in everything as large or bigger than an A319), Ariane V, EuroLeopard; Type 212 submarine, Panzerhaubitze 2000, Mirage, IRIS-T, CERN.
Instead of always thinking "NAPOLEON !" when hearing the term "euro", you Brits should start to look into the future an Smell The Chinese Coffee.
Or maybe choose to be bossed around by the CHICOMs.
Quote Correctly
"If stealth is not required, additional missiles can also be carried externally on underwing pylons. The F-22 can be equipped with four external pylons, two beneath each wing. These extra hardpoints are intended primarily for ferry missions, but each can be configured to carry two AIM-120 or AIM-9 missiles on a LAU-128/A launcher. This extra carriage capacity provides room for an additional eight air-to-air missiles, allowing a maximum of 16 between the internal and external loadouts."
Note the "These extra hardpoints are intended primarily for ferry missions".
What this means is that these hardpoints can be installed, but this takes time and is probably one of the exotic features everybody hates because it has never been properly developed. Like the C-17 landing on a grass field. Theoretically possible, practically to be avoided at great cost.
All the stealthiness goes away if you mount (unstealthy) big missiles and bombs externally. If the whole system (plane and weapons) had been designed for stealthy external-carriage, they might have reached the objective off high load and stealthiness.
They never tried and now it is way too late to do that. So the F-22 is definitely just a air-dominance weapon and only a minor ground-attack plane, if stealthiness is required.
Definitely what Lewis needs when he is stuck in the mud Trying To Enlighten People At Gunpoint.
Check Su34
And then think again about the F15 "dominating" airspace. The Mig29 (much less capable than the Sukhoi) is clearly much better in dogfights than the F15. Excercises proved that. Plus they have the thrust-vector Vympel AAM, which can only be matched by weapons like the IRIS-T.
In the meantime I am sure the Russkies have developed a proper long-range RADAR and the corresponding missile.
As a historic note, the German Army was under the stupid impression that they were not just Übermenschen, but that they also had Über-Panzer. It turned out the Russians had successfully developed (and hid) the best tank of the world - the T34. The Vympel AAM is a very similar story.
Only because Stalin had killed the majority of his senior officers (colonel and above), the German Army could advance so far. In WW2, the Russians simply had to train a new generation of senior officers; they got a very, very realistic training. If it hadn't been for that Russkie madman, the German madman would have seen a T34 knocking at the door in 1942.
Actually, How Many Raptors Are There In Afghanistan ?
The F-22 does not have hardpoints (as they would diminish Stealthiness) and that is exactly what you need in the land of Crack: Lots of ammo hanging on a long-enudurance plane with a proper targeting system.
The most economic solution would probably be an sensors-beefed-up Mig23 (IAI could help with that), as the opposition has zero technology to attack a fast-moving plane. Or maybe an A320 with sensors and a bomb bay ?
Anyway, the Eurofighter is definitely better suited to help in Afghanistan than the F-22.
Also, if you would like to see how the Merkin Miltiary Industry is doing Delays and Cost Overruns, read this:
"In April 1994, the C-17 program was still experiencing cost overruns, and did not meet weight, fuel burn, payload and range specifications. It also failed several key criteria and tests that had been conducted to evaluate its air-worthiness.[22][23][24] Airflow issues caused problems with parachutes and there were other technical problems with mission software, landing gear, etc.[25] In May 1994 a proposal to cut the aircraft's production numbers to as low as 32 planes emerged, but was rescinded.[26] A July 1994 GAO document revealed that to justify investing in the C-17 rather than in the C-5, Air Force and DoD studies from 1986 and 1991 had claimed that the C-17 could use 6,400 more runways outside the US than the C-5; it was later discovered that this study had only considered the runway dimensions, but not their strength or Load Classification Numbers (LCN)"
Mozilla prepares second Firefox 4 beta launch
URL To Final Firefox Version
It got much faster and is way more secure !
IBM wrings more profit from revived IT market
GooglePC / POWER Strategy
My plan would be
1.) create a Reference PCB Board Design which is free for all, including the Initial Program Loader
2.) Adapt the Google Linux to the Reference Design
3.) Contract with TSMC to build low-cost entry-level Power CPUs. Pricing must be competitive with AMD, including the chipset (also to be made by TSMC).
4.) Higher-end CPUs to be manufactured by IBM
5.) Invite World&Dog to copy the Reference Design and to purchase the CPUs from IBM/TSMC.
6.) Hire a competent marketing company to hype it up along the lines of the first Google Phone.
PowerPC For Google PC !
"IBM's Microelectronics division, which makes and sells chips as well as intellectual property, had a 23 per cent sales increase in Q2."
Now that ARM is attacking Intel from below, IBM should team up with Google to provide a PC using the POWER architecture. IBM should let Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co produce the entry-level chips (upt to 2 GHz) and make the high-end stuff (2-4GHz) in their own fabs.
With Linux there is no reason to use x86 - with Javascript even less so. Also, Google engineers can certainly come up with a good solution for a multi-ISA build and code distribution system.
Continuing development solely for AIX, AS/400 and gaming does not proide the revenue streams the need.
Adobe to fortify widely exploited Reader with security sandbox
Not True
Google Chrome and IE8 use the Windos NT permissions in their sandboxes. Adobe is a follower.
Unfortunately Microsoft hasn't done the job properly - there is no way to deny a process accessing FAT file systems. You know, all those USB memory sticks use FAT.
Also, Linux and BSD have very strong mechanisms like LSM and Jails. AppArmor and SE Linux use it. And they also work with FAT, btw.
And The Ultimate Fix Is
After installing Chrome (can be done on corporate PCs w/o admin rights, too), go to
and enable the PDF viewer.
Then go to a PDF file, right-click and go to "open using" and select Chrome as the default PDF viewer.
The result is a lightning-fast PDF viewer which also renders HTML. And it has the same "airbags" Adobe has now bolted on.
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I agree with other people here that We The Commenters spend a lot of time to write comments - and many of them are clearly contributing very good information. Some of them are pretty nasty, that's true.
What I find completely inconsistent is that is permitted to dump as much excrement on Steve Jobs or Steve Ballmer as possible, but a certain religion is virtually untouchable. And I do think this is a real issue, as Freedom Of Speech and Human Rights (of women for example) are at stake with quite a few religious extremists. Steve Ballmer might be a stupid guy, but he does not inhibit the human rights of women any way !
I do think you could have five buttons below each submitted message, like "OK", "libel", "religious feeling", "personal details" or so and use them for moderation. Other sites like Economist.com do exactly this.
Secret sub tech hints at spooks' TEMPEST-busting bugs
A Glorified DSL Modem Hooked To a Transducer
...that's what is.
DSL modems have successfully solved the problem of transmitting high data rates through crap channels with lots of impedance mismatch. This occurs when there are cheap connectors, coils etc in the channel.
If you go into the ultrasound domain, two different materials adjacent to each other can be thought of as an impedance mismatch.
All they most probably did was to hook a DSL modem to a power amplifier and that to a piezo transducer. On the other side there is just a piezo transducer which will make the ultrasound an electric signal again. The DSL modem wil handle all the signalling and bitrate distribution to the individual frequencies and the transmission characteristics of that specific frequency.
For power transmission, they probably use a more narrowband peizo crystal that accepts lots of amplitude. Ultrasound is already used in industry and medicine to project lots of power into small volumes. One application is ultrasound-powered welding (!).
The BAE guys just hooked up some of their sonar transducers to a modem.
Firefox joins Microsoft in uncool kids class
Chrome PDF viewer
Google also kicks Adobe's butt by integrating a PDF viewer into Chrome that allows for a html-like viewing experience.
No more stupid error messages and all the Adobe-Security-Fails. Remove Arobat Reader and use the builtin PDF viewer of Chrome. Currently only available in Chrome developer versions.
Go Chrome, Go !
First, those who complain about Google collecting urls on them should monitor Firefox traffic at a firewall/proxy in between FF and the internet.
They will see that FF also contacts Google for each and every URL you type "in order to make sure it is not a malware URL". That information is exactly the same as Chrome delivers to Google.
All of that can be removed both from FF and Chrome, as they are both open source.
Technologically, Chrome is a huge improvement in terms of speed and security. Google engineers are almost always top-notch and it shows in their products and services. The Chrome security architecture is conceptually much better than FF and on par with IE8.
Javascript performance of FF is hilarious; Chrome is at least three times faster. Which matters to all the people doing big JS applications to perform serious tasks.
..will bring you secure and native-speed NPAPI applets with the Native Client technology.
..will bring you secure and native-speed applets of a third-party technology that is currently under development
Email hack Labour councillor stays after suspension
Deviants Who Betray The Proletariat
...must be fought by whatever means appear appropriate !
Feliks Dzerzhinsky would be proud of the modern-day British Labour Party
You know, the Worker's Paradise must be established at the cost of eliminating those who are blind to the benefits of this utopia.
Communists all around the world are the same - totalitarian bastards addicted to all sorts of nasty methods to get rid of those who could pose a problem. In this case the "suspect" was acting 100% legal - he informed a member of the British government (the labour MP) about some political news- but he was suspended of the Labour Party for doing that. One of the exemplary cases of the Ulgy Face Of Collectivism.
Futurologist warns of malevolent dust menace
For any antenna to be effective it must be dimensioned in the range of 10*WL to 0,1*WL, with WL being the Wavelength.
In the air
with c=300000000m/s (speed of light)
and f being the frequency
That means
f= c/WL
f=300000000m/s / 0.00005m == 600 GHz
Mobiles have just 2 GHz, satcom less than 80 GHz. I doubt there is much RF power "in the office air" between 60 an 6000 GHz. So the only option you have is to put a tiny battery on the "dust" (which might be OK for a few minutes) or flood the space with your sophisticated 600GHz gear.
And you don't get a 600GHz transistor at Radio shack...
"Arrange to have a listening point outside (or even inside) the building using a WAN network technology such as 3G to pass the information on."
WL=c/f== 300000000m/s / 2000000000Hz == 0,15m
That means an effective antenna must be between 1.5 and 150cms. Hint: look at the size of your cellphone. They don't shrink the antenna to below 2cms. (about one inch for the Land Of The Merkins People)
Blighty's stealth robojet rolls out a year late
Sarkozy ??
I know of the arch-enemy syndrome that continues to poison Franco-British relations, so that implies some hatred towards the french president.
But last time I checked he was busily trying to appease the Russians who were furious because one of Americas Little Dictators had started an offensive war against their territory. They were determined to root out that little bastard and his Merkin-Trained minions and it was Mr Sarkozy who saved their backsides and the Americans from a major embarrassment.
I do not remember Mr Sarkozy to randomly start a war based on forged intelligence, either.
..nuclear carriers are the the cheapest and most flexible option IF you have the reactor design and the money for the material etc.
The Brits claim they haven't and Rolls-Royce tells the illiterates of the Royal Navy that this means you need pseudo-VTOL. That the Kitty Hawk class launched F14s, which are the heaviest naval fighters of all, invalidates that argument completely. USS Kitty Hawk is also named Carrier Vessel 63 (CV-63). A nuclear carrier would be a "CVN-XX".
I venture to say that The Royal Navy would operate a cheaper and three times more powerful carrier force if they dumped the three midget carriers and simply bought USS Kitty Hawk and the FA 18E/Fs. And then five frigates of the size of USS Vincennes, rip out the weaponry and convert them to fast oilers. They would also serve the role of "Exocet Decoy Target".
Does not cut it
"for in flight refueling. you don't generally launch an aircraft fully fueled and armed from a carrier"
So a Rafale might be loaded with just 1500 kgs of fuel because the mission will not require more. That does by no means invalidate the observation that the 2-13kgs of Kerosene for the catapult operation are negligible.
I guess even the midget Harrier does not launch with less than 1000kg of fuel for any kind of real mission.
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The favorite band, no doubt, of phrenologists everywhere, Sweden's the Skull Defekts exist on the experimental frontier of rock, where psychedelia, the roots of metal, punk, minimalism, and drone intersect. Massed guitars à la Sonic Youth create a dense mat that undulates, throbs, and whips about as it's pummeled by blistering percussion while Daniel Higgs's prickly vocals try to pierce its mysteries. Zomes, the alter-ego of guitarist Asa Osborne, similarly probes repetitive, cyclical figures that buck and sway in paroxysms of sonic excess, where drone and distortion is the architecture of fresh expression. Incidentally, Higgs and Osborne were half of the influential, cult-fave band Lungfish. With Danial Higgs, Whitesand/Badlands. (Photo by Johan Döden Dahlroth)
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Spider cupcakes
A devilishly delicious treat for Halloween. Turn these chocolate cup cakes into spooky spiders with liquorice legs. We recommend using Rachel's Organic Greek Style Bio Live Yoghurt.
Makes: 12
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
You will need
100g plain chocolate
150g unsalted butter, softened
150g caster sugar
20g cocoa, sifted
3 eggs, beaten
3 tbsp yoghurt
125g self raising flour
1 ½tsp baking powder
For the frosting:
4 tbsp golden syrup
80ml double cream
100g milk chocolate
100g plain chocolate
3 tbsp natural bio live yogurt
For the decoration:
Chocolate sugar strands
Smarties or similar sweets (for the eyes)
Liquorice laces or Catherine wheels
1. Pre-heat the oven 180°C/gas mark 4 and line a muffin tray with paper cases.
2. Put the chocolate in a heatproof bowl and microwave on medium power for one minute until melted, alternatively place over a pan of simmering water.
3. In a mixing bowl beat the butter, caster sugar, cocoa powder and eggs, until soft and creamy. Add the flour and baking powder. Lastly add in the yogurt and ensure the mixture is well combined.
4. Spoon the mixture into the cases and bake for 20 minutes until risen and firm to touch. Leave to cool.
5. Meanwhile in a small bowl gently heat the icing ingredients, except the yogurt. Either do this in a microwave, medium power or over a pan of simmering water until the chocolate has melted, leave to cool then add the yogurt. The frosting should be soft but not runny.
6. Spoon the frosting onto each cake and carefully spread with the back of a knife. Dip each cake into chocolate sugar strands then place the Smarties for eyes, cut the liquorice laces into eight equal pieces and push into the icing – work quickly before the frosting sets.
7. To make the eyes stand out and a mouth simply place some of the frosting in a piping bag with a small plain nozzle and pipe for the desired effect.
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Real Mummies Don't Bleed: Friendly Tales For October Nights
By Susan Whitcher
Lauren thinks she so smart. She painted stupid blood on her mummy outfit and won the costume contest. Rachel's sarcophagus costume is better; its magic carries the girls back in time for a chilling Egyptian adventure. Five stories in all.


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During en route cruise, there was a failure of a number two system elevator hydraulic line. This resulted in a loss of hydraulic fluid and loss of pressurization in the number two system. The loss of this system resulted in the rudder being dependent upon the sole remaining activation system (hydraulic system number one) for its operation. After the landing gear was lowered manually, the aircraft landed without further incident, but because the loss of the number two system rendered the nose wheel steering inoperative, the aircraft had to be towed from the runway. The reason for the failure of the hydraulic line could not be positively determined.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this incident to be:
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My game crashes when I get Haer'Dalis in the party - well, not right away. It crashes when I click on his avatar or I try to relieve him of one of his weapons.
I have installed him as a monk, and I suspect the issue is that monks can't normally have two weapons equipped. Well, Haer'Dalis does.
If this is indeed the cause (nothing more than an educated guess, I admit), how would I go about solving it? Can a fix in which Haer'Dalis starts with his weapons unequipped be produced?
NB. Dunno if alignment requirements can crash the game... He is not lawful as he "should" be after all.
EDIT: Indeed. Deleted his items with Shadow Keeper and the game worked as it should. Dunno if you want to introduce a fix for it anyways but there it is
(thanks for this mod btw, it improves the replaying experience by a ton)
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Annual Return
File your annual return online
What is an annual return?
An annual return is a snapshot of certain company information at the made-up date. It is a separate document from a company's annual accounts. For further information see our guide on the Annual Return.
Which companies must send an annual return to Companies House?
Every company must deliver an annual return to Companies House at least once every 12 months. The company's director(s) and the secretary (where applicable), are responsible for ensuring that the Annual Return is filed on time.
The annual return must be delivered to Companies House within 28 days of:
Where can I get an annual return?
Companies House will send a letter to each company's registered office to remind them when their annual return is due. It advises on how to file the form electronically by using our Software Filing or WebFiling services, as this is the easiest and cheapest option.
However, if you do not have the facility to file online you can download a blank form AR01 of the annual return or order a blank paper copy form via our Contact Centre on 0303 1234 500.
What is the return period?
"return period" , in relation to an annual return, means the period beginning immediately after the date to which the last return was made up (or, in the case of the first return, with the incorporation of the company) and ending with the date to which the return is made up.
What is the made-up date?
This is the date at which all the information in an annual return must be correct. The made-up date is usually the anniversary of:
Why did the Annual Return change in 2011?
Due to amendments to regulations there are different requirements regarding shareholder details and principal business activities (SIC codes) for an annual return with a made-up date of 30/09/2011 or earlier and an annual return with a made-up date of 1/10/2011 or later.
For further information about these changes see our guide on the Annual Return.
What information does Companies House require about share capital?
Every company with a share capital must complete a statement of capital as part of the annual return. This includes:
a) the total number of shares of the company;
d) the amount paid up and the amount (if any) unpaid on each share (whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium).
If a company has converted shares into stock, it must give the corresponding information in relation to that stock, stating the amount of stock instead of the number and nominal value of the shares.
How often do you require a full list of members (shareholders) on the return / AR01?
A full list of members (shareholders) is required on:
The intervening 2 annual returns need only report changes to shareholder information that have taken place during that year.
Are there alternative ways of providing shareholder details?
Companies that file paper annual returns may provide shareholder information on a CD-ROM if the list is 50 pages or more. Private companies and non-traded public companies, or companies whose shares have not been admitted to trading on a relevant market but with a large number of shareholders, may find it more convenient to provide a full list of shareholders with each annual return – but the list must not include the shareholders' addresses.
If you wish to supply the list of a company's shareholders on a CD-ROM, please see the registrar's rules on our website for further information.
What do the terms non-traded company, traded company, and regulated market mean?
For returns made up to 30 September 2011 or earlier:
What do the terms relevant market, PLUS- listed market, PLUS quoted, and AIM mean?
For returns made up to 1 October 2011 or later:
What is DTR5?
"DTR5" Is the Vote Holder and Issuer Notification Rules contained in Chapter 5 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules source book issued by the Financial Services Authority.
SIC stands for 'standard industrial classification'; they are the codes by which the nature of a company's business can be identified. There are several generic codes that can be used if a more specific code is not listed i.e. "other business activities".
When filing an Annual Return you may use up to 4 codes to identify the nature of your business. You do not have to be exact and can write a description if you can't find a code.
In 2011 Companies House moved from using the 4 digit SIC 2003 codes to the 5 digit SIC 2007 codes. A list of both types of codes, along with a conversion table, can be found on our website.
Is there a fee for filing the annual return?
Yes. There is an annual document-processing fee of £40 for paper documents or £13 for users of our Software Filing or WebFiling services which is payable when you file the annual return. Companies that file a paper annual return should make the cheque payable to 'Companies House' and write the company number on the reverse.
Where can I find more information on the Annual Return?
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text: Unto all the readers here, from Lady Zahra Zena Theanos, I send greetings and ask that you all abstain from chastising Michael Alan Greayme (sp? ),MKA Litch any furthur. It was my post that started all this and I wish it to end here and now. As one of the founding members of this Kingdom and the Barony, as well as having known almost everyone of you since you were rank newbies, I can truthfully say that I have seen and heard most of you on a bad day at least once. We are not a group of perfect people by any standards. Litch apologized and so did I. I have noticed a severe problem growing within our ranks that involves the evolution of "Lynch Mob" mentality. We seem to have a need for a " BAD GUY", whether it be Litch, the BOD, Pagans, Cops, Peers, Nobility, or just take your pick...And everyone has to add their two cents worth. I am not saying that we don't have real problems, because we do. What I am trying to say, is that unless you have something constructive to say, or a solution, don't just keep parroting someone elses ideas. From what I have read, Litch has some very valuable ideas, some that I have espoused for a long time. Unfortunately, we are all limited as to our time, money, and energy when it comes to doing a job properly. Exercise a little courtesy and chivalry, even here when you can. That includes accepting an apology when you are given one. Always in Service to the Society, Lady Zahra Zena


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Take a look at your bones. Did you know you have 206 total bones in your body?
The following sections will help you understand the functions of bones and how space travel affects them. Don't take the quiz until you get all the facts!
Think about why your skeleton is important to you.
Some of the skeleton's major functions are:
Bones bear the weight of the body and work with muscles to hold it upright.
You would be a messy puddle of skin without your bones to support you.
Bones shield the delicate internal organs and the spinal cord.
Your skull is like a helmet for your brain.
Your spine surrounds many nerves.
Your ribs are armor for your heart and lungs.
Bones store minerals for your body.
99% of the calcium in your body is stored in bones!
Bones need calcium in order to be strong. Muscles and nerves also depend on calcium to function properly. Blood carries calcium throughout your body and delivers it where it is needed.
Joints are places where two bones come together. There are 68 joints in your body! What joints would need to work properly if you stood up right now?
The main joints would be your knee, hip, and ankle.
The bones don't direct the motion, however; they rely on muscles. When muscles contract, the force is transmitted from muscles to bones through tendons.
When you were born, you had 270 bones. Some of those bones fuse (connect and solidify) to form the adult skeleton containing 206 main bones. The last bones fuse around age 20!
There are also tiny, uncounted bones in the tendons of your thumb, big toe, and other pressure points. Did you know that your hands contain 19 bones each?
Microgravity experienced during space flight causes loss of some bones' density.
Bone density is a measure of how solid and strong your bones are on the inside.
Decreases in bone density can cause increased calcium in the blood, which can contribute to painful and harmful kidney stones.
Osteoporosis, a bone thinning disease, weakens bones and increases their risk of fracture. Astronauts show symptoms similar to osteoporosis, or porous bone, after periods of time in space.
Like osteoporosis on Earth, the weight-bearing bones of astronauts on long missions are left weak and less able to support the body's weight.
When astronauts return to Earth, their risk of fracture increases.
Astronauts lose bone mass from bones in their pelvis, lower legs, and lower spine. Why do you think these bones become weaker in space?
These bones are used to support your weight on Earth. They grow strong when they are exercised because they work against gravity to hold you up. Because there is very little gravity in space, the bones don't have to support astronauts' weight. Therefore, weight-bearing bones don't stay as strong as they do when they're exercised on Earth.
Since loss of bone density begins within the first few days in space, we need to figure out how to keep astronauts' bones strong.
What do you do to help your bones?
Do you exercise? Drink milk or eat foods high in calcium? Take a vitamin? Wear helmets and knee pads when you ride a bike or skateboard?
Did you know that some astronauts lose up to 12% of their weight-bearing bone mass on the space station?
The spine, hip and leg bones lose an average of about 1% of their mass each month.
They regain most of their bone mass in the months following their return from space, but not all of it.
We may have to limit spaceflight if:
Loss of bone density in space is a lot like osteoporosis. Solving the problem in space could certainly help many people back here on Earth.
We are also learning more about how to keep our bones healthy on Earth.


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Point Loma Restaurant Questions
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- stevewag23 Mar 1, 2009 03:42 PM
Every time I go to Point Loma I eat at Point Loma Seafoods.
My question is how are these spots?
Umi Sushi
Hudson Bay Seafood
Pizza Nova
Club Marina (do they have food? Looks like a legit spot for a drink)
Old Venice (heard good things, how does it compare to other Italian in San Diego?)
The restaurant at The Pearl Hotel.
I have not been to the Pt Loma location for Pizza Nova. However, if it is the same chain as the one in Solana Beach, their food is good for the price point. It kind of reminds me of a variation of Sammy's Woodfired Pizza meets CPK. Their garlic rolls are very buttery and garlicky, if you like that kind of thing.
My one visit to Old Venice was bad enough that I'd have to be dragged back there. There is better Italian food at La Scala, though it's more the Americanized, red checkered tablecloth version. Still, their tortellini alfredo is quite tasty and very rich.
Umi Sushi is a very popular sushi place. I'm not a big sushi person, but I've heard nothing but good things about it. I personally love thier California Rolls and thier eel sauce. The tempura is also yummy, especially the shrimp. The only thing I'm not a fan of is the Teryaki.
Pizza Nova is a good restaurant with a great view. It was remodeled a couple of years ago and looks great. Friendly staff too.
Hudson Bay Seafood is horrible. If you're going to do casual seafood, you might as well stick wtih Point Loma Seafoods.
Old Venice has its good dishes and not so good dishes. It's not traditional Italian and it can be a bit expensive for what it is but it has nice ambiance in the main dining room and the bar. The back patio is in serious need of remodeling.
The Pearl Hotel is an interesting place. The remodel is amazing and the chef is trying to be innovative. Not all of the dishes work for me, but there are some really good dishese on the menu and they use local and season ingredients.
Two other places to consider that you did not mention are Roseville and Con Pane Bakery. They are accross the street from each other. Roseville is an upscale French restaurant that is quickly becoming one of my favorite restaurants in San Diego (Cafe Chloe is still my go to place). The food is interesting and good. I've heard some people complain about the prices, which are definately not cheap, but they seem on par with the pricing of other similar restaurants and only slightly higher than Old Venice.
Con Pane is the nieghborhood go to place for sandwiches and bread. On the weekends, friends and I will walk down for incredible cinnamon rolls and people watching.
Pomodoro just opened on Scott street. I wasn't impressed with my first visit but it did have some high points. I will give it another try before i form a definate opinion.
re: stevewag23
we'll walk over from the SWYC on the weekends for breakfast at the Red Sails and its ok for breakfast or lunch but no way for dinner..
make sure you have a mai tai over at the Bali Hai..
Brig in Shelter Island is my fav in the bar for the seafood happy hour.
re: Beach Chick
How is Red Sails for a dinner cocktail?
re: stevewag23
its fine for cocktails..but not a lot of room.
I feel like I am going to see the guy on the box of Gordon's Fisherman fish sticks when I'm in there..start singing sea shanty's..hee hee
re: Beach Chick
Sorry Beach Chick, I have to disagree with you about Red Sails. In my opinion, it is horrible all around. A couple of months ago, I thought I'd give it a try again and it was horrible. It started out with those $.50 per bag rolls I rememer the family buying in the grocery store as a kid. My steak was fatty and chewy, the sauce tasted funny and my friends fish tasted like it was left over after everyone picked out thier fish.
Bali hai has great views and is a good choice for lunch or dinner as is the Brig. Also, not to far from Bali Hai is Humphreys. I've had a couple of good meals there as well. The other two restaurants on Shelter Island, whose names I'm drawing a blank on, have good views but mediocre food.
re: sdnosh
hey sdnosh..
breakfast and lunch I wrote are ok..but no way for dinner..even when we are doing our dinghy pub crawls, we can't stomach eating there for dinner.
It pretty much blows but have had a couple of ok breakfasts there.
I always draw blanks on the other restaurants on the island as well. ; )
re: Beach Chick
I've never had lunch there but had one horrible breakfast there. It's really too bad though because of the location. The patio would be a great spot to hand out, have some good food and watch the boat go by.
re: sdnosh
We go for lunch every once in awhile to soak up the bayside atmosphere. Stick with simplicity - decent burgers, club sandwich, fresh and crisp crab or shrimp louie salad.
Umi Sushi is my fave in SD, they have great quality seafood and some interesting combos, family friendly, which can be a pain on date night with the unattended children running free.
Pizza Nova is ok - like mentioned below, it's a take on CPK but pretty good quality, nothing exciting.
Club Marina - total dive bar, but cheap and dirty, if you are down with strong drinks.
Hudson Bay has pretty good clam chowder and fish and chips, not as pricey as Pt Loma Seafoods but not the variety either. Fun to sit outside with clam chowder and a salad for lunch. Not a dinner place.
re: sdnativa
A strong second to both of those, sdnativa!
re: nessy
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The Longitude introduces twin Snecma Silvercrest® SC-2C FADEC-controlled engines into the Citation family. Providing over 22,000 pounds of thrust, these extremely efficient machines make the Longitude greener with 15 percent lower fuel burn than comparable thrust engines. Add the lower emissions and reduced noise, well below Stage 4, and you have a powerplant that outperforms emissions standards by an average of 50 percent.
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From President Robert L. Head, Ph.D.
Stimulus bill, accreditation two current hot topics
Last week was a busy time for the U.S. Senate as it debated the merits of an economic stimulus package. As late as last Thursday, it appeared that much of what was included in the House version for higher education, including an increase in Pell grants, would be eliminated in the Senate version. The good news is that Senate leaders announced a compromise on Friday and the $14 billion covering an increase for Pell grants remains in the bill. That is good news for our students and their families. The compromise was not without losses for higher education. Among other things, a $3.5 billion reserve for higher education construction projects was eliminated. The next step in the process is a conference between the House and Senate to negotiate the differences in their respective bills.
For your information, the HLC team consists of the following individuals:
· Dr. Lee Bash (Team Chair) – Dean, College of Working Adults, William Penn University
· Dr. J. Richard Ellis – Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies, John Brown University
· Dr. Nancy L. Erickson – Vice President for Academic Affairs, Iowa Wesleyan College
· Dr. William J. Shustowski, Jr. – Vice President of University Advancement, University of St. Francis.
· Dr. J. Burton Kirkwood, Associate Professor of History/Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Evansville
· Dr. Scott D. Miller, President, Bethany College
While I wanted to share with you the composition of the team, contacting team members prior to their arrival on campus is not appropriate. I look forward to the team's visit and their assessment of Rockford College.
Have a great day!
Robert L. Head, Ph.D.President
The Corporation for National and Community Service honored Rockford College today with a place on the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction for exemplary service efforts and service to America's communities.
"This is truly an honor for Rockford College and underscores our commitment to civic engagement," says Robert L. Head, college president. "The college has a long history of not only providing students with an outstanding education but also teaching them how to be good citizens."
Rockford College was in the second tier of colleges added to the honor roll with distinction, joining only 82 other colleges around the U.S. Only one other college in Illinois—DePaul University—was also included in the second tier along with Marquette University and UW-Eau Claire in Wisconsin. Six colleges were named for top honors (none in Illinois or Wisconsin), and some 546 were in the lower or third tier.
Launched in 2006, the Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement. Honorees for the award were chosen based on a series of selection factors including scope and innovation of service projects, percentage of student participation in service activities, incentives for service, and the extent to which the school offers academic service-learning courses.
Among the projects submitted by the college for the award were "The Plunge," a day-long event in which 75 students, faculty and staff did work at eight area nonprofit agencies; an ongoing outreach effort to homeless clients at Rockford Rescue Mission and other agencies serving the homeless; and the Alan Hutchcroft Alternative Spring Break in which almost 50 students, staff, and alumni built homes for Habitat for Humanity in Starkville, Miss. Altogether, some 320 students at the 1,200-student college devoted 6,700 hours to volunteer activities on behalf of 20 non-profit agencies in 2008.
In addition to the volunteer efforts, the college is active in making service a part of coursework. Some 50 courses have incorporated some community-based learning as part of the curriculum. Students have been involved in everything from volunteering at a drop-in center for the mentally ill as part of a psychological disorders class to tutoring fifth graders in an economically depressed area of Rockford as part of a rhetoric class.
"We're obviously proud of this achievement because community involvement and civic engagement is at the heart of everything we do," says Lindsay Kent, coordinator of the college's Jane Addams Center for Civic Engagement, which serves as clearinghouse for campus volunteer activities.
The Honor Roll is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service in collaboration with the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll is presented during the annual conference of the American Council on Education.
"In this time of economic distress, we need volunteers more than ever," says Stephen Goldsmith, vice chair of the board of directors of the corporation. "College students represent an enormous pool of idealism and energy to help tackle some of our toughest challenges. We salute Rockford College for making community service a campus priority, and thank the students who are helping to renew America through service to others."
Recent studies have underlined the importance of service-learning and volunteering to college students. In 2006, 2.8 million college students gave more than 297 million hours of volunteer service, according to the corporation's "Volunteering in America 2007" study. Expanding campus incentives for service is part of a larger initiative to spur higher levels of volunteering by America's college students. The corporation is working with a coalition of federal agencies, higher education and student associations, and nonprofit organizations to achieve this goal.
To see a complete list of the honorees, go to www.nationalservice.gov/honorroll.
· Martin Luther King, Civil Rights & African American History Museum Walk-Through. Display includes photos, newspaper articles, and other artifacts of the civil rights movement. Located on the 2nd floor hallway in the Burpee Center. Ongoing through February.
· Black History Month speaker, William S. Rhoden, author of "Forty Million Dollar Slavery." February 18, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. in the college's Maddox Theatre. Rhoden is a sports columnist for the New York Times who chronicles the challenges of black athletes in our society. His talk will be preceded at 6 p.m. by a one-act play based on Rhoden's book called "The Slaves" performed by the Auburn High School CAPA students. It was written by Rockford College alumnae Charlyne Blatcher Martin. The entire evening is free.
Q. Where are you from originally?
A. My last position was that of a Visiting Professor of International Business at Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS, where I taught both undergraduate students and students in the MBA program. However, I also run my own consulting organization known as the Institute for Research on Global Business.
11/21/2014 » 12/12/2014PULLED: Art & Design of the Screen Printed Image
12/1/2014Student Music Recital
12/4/2014EDP: Seminar #6 - Conflict Management and Resolution
12/4/2014NICNE Customer Service Workshop
12/4/2014FORUM: Sports Management Symposium
11/20/2014Senior Development Officer and former mayor John McNamara honored with Hero of Homeless Award
11/20/2014'PULLED: Art & Design of the Screen Printed Image' art exhibit opens Nov. 21
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solipsismSyllabification: sol·ip·sism
Pronunciation: /ˈsälipˌsizəm /
Definition of solipsism in English:
The view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.
Example sentences
- It seems that transcendental phenomenology inevitably involves solipsism.
- As Heidegger puts it, anxiety testifies to a kind of 'existential solipsism.'
- This conclusion, however, is valid only if Searle is right in claiming that collective intentionality conforms to methodological solipsism.
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solipsist noun
- Example sentences
- Hey, I'm thinking of establishing a bulletin board for solipsists.
- I'm impressed by the solitary intensity of the gamblers, and the way these solipsists at the slots form a community of obsession.
- The manufacturers must be some kind of solipsists, or in any case unsure that the cream cheese really exists.
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- Example sentences
- Some things they say may be ugly: We are excessive, solipsistic, wasteful, indulgent, egotistical.
- Circumstances can encourage such a solipsistic approach.
- Levi was well-known for his impatience with long-winded, solipsistic or obscurantist prose.
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- Fractious division, corruption and the misuse of power rob the people of national hope, a loss which leaves them to survive solipsistically in an all-too-familiar despair.
- Up until this final scene, the father has experienced landscape solipsistically, but, in his attempt to ascend the final hill, the landscape takes on social dimension.
- Artists are a not-negligible factor in the globalization of culture that is, solipsistically, such a big theme in contemporary art.
Pronunciation: /ˌsälipˈsistik/adjective
Pronunciation: /ˌsälipˈsistik(ə)lē/adverb
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Voice Platform and Support Network for Families of Missing and Victims of Crime
So many loved ones missing
Dear Father how can it be
So many loved ones missing some killed
Who God who are they that do this…Continue
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Hi guys. I had this thought and wanted to share it in prose. Written for my Christy who has turned into quiet the young woman and truly is a blessing to her mother and me.
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Between 1973-4 before my Uncle Gary Anderson Rescued me, Delmar and Dorothy Hunker where taking me to Dalton Hunkers home in Loveland Colorado. Dalton Hunker is Delmar Hunker's father, who has now died.
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By the grace of GOD, Hashem, I survived being kidnapped and used in the MK-Ultra CIA covert -illegal government operation of human research on mind control. The CIA, FBI, Military-air force , doctors, officers of the law and many others were involved.
The published evidence indicates that Project MKULTRA involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate individual mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs and other…Continue
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I have Cindy Lee Mellin on every web site every blog I could when I started to research
her file. No one ever contacted me, yet in the darkness there was someone, just wanting
information so they can go and put it on there chat room.
People are having enough hard times that they do not need to be hounded by idiots who
think they know everything about the crime. I gave out information only because I knew
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Advocating for Change for the Missing in Illinois
Five years ago, when I moved from Missouri to Illinois, I remembered hearing a story about 'a kid visiting Chicago from Kansas City, MO' that went missing. This caught my attention, of course, because this boy was from my home state. I remembered hearing about the missing young man a few times, my husband and I even discussed it. Then we never heard anything again. He was found, I assumed.
Two years ago, in…Continue
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I turned on the news this morning to hear that a young man who had been missing for a couple of weeks was found in a trash can behind someone's house. The media then zoomed in on a flyer that the family had been handing out during this time in attempt to find him. They then covered the family pleaing for information about the murder of this young man.
I then googled his name to see if I had simply missed the news coverage about his disappearance and the only place I found his name…Continue
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A number of years ago I came to know Shari. Hers is one of the saddest stories I have ever come across, in the tragic deaths of her 3 children.
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Mmmmmm it appears, no I am certain that I have repeated some of my poems in my blogs. So sorry, that's what happens when the mind slows down and gets a bit confused.
Nevertheless I pray that as you may reread or read them for the first time, that they would be meaningful to you.
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It was 3 years ago today that the "Momma" of Amber Simmons was last seen.
Amber's Mom, Rachel Conger, should be every part of a part of being able to firsthand watch and experience the many life changing moments of her now teenager daughter, Amber.
But instead, Rachel Conger is technically classified as a missing person, her stolen from us life has now become…Continue
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A while back I designed a website called God's Perfect Sight - www.godsperfectsight.com.
During my Victim Service Years doing crisis intervention, when it got too much and during a time I crashed I would write the occasional poem. It was only through my darkest…
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Kansas has this passed and it may have just recently saved a life. Please do not just sign this petition and stop there as far better would be to contact your Congressmen and Senators and tell them you want this law in your state and you want their co-sponsorship!
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This is an update on some of the newly establised inquiry on the Pickton serial Murders in Vancouver BC and the Highway of Tears, located in North Central BC, Canada. You can see a map I made below to give you an idea of location.
As these are .Jpeg images, please look for details on my websites, www.highwayoftears.com and www.iammissing.ca.
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We will never know what has happened to many people that just go missing.
But we never want to give up hope and let the negative come into our minds.
How hard is that statement.
So tonight, as the clouds roll in and the fog hits my town I once again lite a candle
For Cindy Lee Mellin, I place Jasmine, Lavender next to it. Sometimes I think she is
watching me.
She's comes to me in a dream and…Continue
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Hard, gentle, long, curves,
Winding with each
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Ash Wednesday is today. For Christians around the world it is the beginning of Lent. A somber time as we await the holiest day of the year, Easter Sunday.
I write this blog after returning from Ash Wednesday Mass as I sit here with the mark of the ashes on my forehead quietly reflecting. I attended Mass not where I work (I work in a parish office) but at the parish where Jon and I were parishioners before the first time we moved to Vegas in the 80's. It was a parish where…Continue
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